Quick Update...

Well it has been a more eventful week for us. The biggest drama was that Rob got stung be a scorpion Thursday night! It was horrible! I guess that is our official welcome to the desert! Rob was just walking through the family room and must have stepped on it and it go his foot. He said it was painful and the poison was even making his leg twitch! The worst part was he felt it for two days! Needless to say we had the exterminators out on Sat. to spray the place down. We also went and bought a black light because for some reason you can see scorpions with a black light, they glow, it is gross. So Rob has been obsessed with checking the house every night. He even got up at 4:30 Sat. night when I got up to feed the baby to check the house again! We have not found anymore so far. We are starting to think it was a fluke he even got stung. We have told so many people who have lived here 20 yrs. and they have never been stung. It is crazy! So hopefully that problem is resolved! It gives me the willies still when I think about it.

We have been venturing out more. We took Taylor to church for the first time yesterday. It was fun to put her in a dress, she looked so cute (thanks Melissa)! Of course we only stayed through the second hour because she pooped everywhere and I did not have a change of clothes. I am learning that a change of clothes is an essential, I really need to be packing a change of clothes for myself too for when she spits up all over me! After church we even ran to a Christmas dinner Rob's office was having. It turned out to be a lot of fun. On Saturday my parents offered to watch Taylor for a bit so Rob and I could get out. So we went to dinner just the two of us. It was so nice, but we were both so tired that we were half asleep!

We also got our first Christmas tree. I am so excited. This is our first Christmas ever that we will be at home and not traveling. We have had so much fun setting the tree up and decorating the house. We hope the tree stays alive till Christmas though, it is already dropping so many needles! Rob swears we are getting a fake one next year. He had a hard time getting it in the base, which wasn't fun. It smells so good though!!

Rob took this picture of Taylor and I napping. I was just so tired, as always, I decided it wasn't worth it to try and get her go back to sleep in her bed. I am trying not to get into a habit of doing this though even though it is so much easier :)

Learning as we go!

Well I finally feel like we are getting somewhat of a routine down. I am learning how to take care of Taylor and manage to eat and shower myself! The lack of sleep is probably the hardest, but I think that I am even figuring out how to run without much of it. Taylor has already changed so much we feel like. Part of me wants her to stay this small forever.

We had a nice quiet Thanksgiving at my parents house. It was just what we wanted to do, relax, hang out with the family a little bit and eat some really good food.

Other than that we are still tryibg to get the house organized, it is getting there. We gave Taylor her first bath last night. She seemed to likt it even though she looks irritated in all of the pictures!

Everyone thinks she looks just like Rob! It is hard for me to tell.

They are always cute when they are asleep, huh!?!

Rob's Birthday Present...

Our little girl has arrived! She came one week early right on her daddy's birthday. Rob was so excited, he said it was the present he could ahve gotten. I started having contractions Sunday morning and they continued all day. Well by 11:00 they were about 3 min. apart and pretty uncomfortable. So we thought I guess we should go to the hospital! We get there and get all hooked up and the nurse said that my contractions weren't very strong. They had us walk around the hospital for about 30 min. and checked again and nothing was happening. I was about 3 cm. and almost 100% effaced, but I had been about 2 cm. for two weeks already so it wasn't a big jump. They told us we could keep walking or go home. So we decided to go home and try to get some sleep. At this point it was like 2 in the morning so we were pretty beat. I was able to get a couple of hourse, but the contactions were too uncomfortable so I got up and decided to unpack a bunch of boxes,because we just moved into our house, and they were just getting worse and worse. Well I wasn't sure ow long to wait because I didn't want to go back to the hospital and have them tell me I still wasn't progressing! I had a scheduled dr.'s appt. at 10:20 and we were going to try to wait and go to that. Well at 10:00 I told Rob we had to just go to the hospital, I could't take it anymore! We went to the hospital, which luckily was just 5 min. away, and the rest was a whirlwind! I was 8 cm. and they said the baby was ready to go! They were hooking me up and wheeling me into labor and delivery so fast. I got my epidural, which was wonderful! It was less than an hour later I was 10 cm. and ready to push! An hour and a half later she was here!

Her name is Taylor Diana Seymour

She was 7 lbs. 6 oz. and 19 in. long

Rob just adores her already...

We are so excited, we feel very blessed that everything went ok and that she is healthy. We have so much going on, we had just moved into our house on Thursday. So life is a little crazy, but we are already starting to adjust. We have had a lot of help, it has been nice!

Halloween

Hope we don't offend any one with these pictures!! Rob and I were going to a Halloween party with some people from his office. We could not decide what to dress up as, there are only so many things you can wear when your about 9 months pregnant! So we got the idea of the pregnant nun and then somebody suggested Rob should be a priest. We thought it was pretty funny!

Lobsters!

So Rob has this patient that owns some kind of lobster company. Well he came in to see Rob yesterday and brought Rob two two pound lobsters! They we just in this box with an ice pack and they were totally alive. The guy told Rob how to cook them so he was in charge of that. Besides I started to feel bad killing them!

It is crazy looking, huh! I have decided I really don't like to see my food alive right before I eat it!

Maybe I just got too attached to them because I was lugging them around with me all day. I thought my neices and nephew would like to see them so I took them over to my sisters house for most the day. She was trying to get the kids to name them but luckily they didn't! It was bad enough when my neice started saying she loved the lobster and my sister, Chrystal, started explaining to her that Aunt Ashley was going to eat it!! She was probably horrified!

Here is Rob with his final product. He actually cooked them really well and they were tasty. It was fun because it was something I would never buy on my own.

Projects

Since we moved to AZ I have been able to hang out with my Mom a lot which has been so fun. Except we are bad when we shop together because we talk eachother into everything. We have recently vowed to be better! Anyways, Mom wanted a new picture for over her bed so we decided to make one. It was fun and I think she really liked how it turned out. We were also proud because we had no help from our husbands. We did everthing from buying the wood and all of the sawing by ourselves!

Just another belly pic. update

33 weeks

Ready for fall...

Rob and I are so ready for the weather to cool off here in AZ. It is weird because it is October now, football is on, all the fall and Halloween stuff is in the stores but it still feels like summer! I am ready to get out my sweaters! We are still adjusting, everyone here promises us that the nice weather is just around the corner. Let's hope. I have been really home sick for Pittsburgh lately. I miss this time of year when the trees are changing color and going to the farms and the fall festival. I think we also feel like life was a little simpler for us in Pittsburgh. Mostly for Rob, the stress of working full time is still hard on him. I think that we are always going to look back though and whatever we were doing before we will think that it was easier!
Everything else is still the same. No news in the house department. I feel like I am getting bigger and bigger, but I feel great still. It is getting really uncomfortable to sleep, but that is about it! I went for a Dr.'s appt. yesterday and they had me schedule the rest of my appointments and I only have like five left. Crazy! Sometimes I feel so ready for her to come and other times I am not at all ready!

My Loves...

Just a picture of my two favorites

29 Weeks

I feel like this picture makes my belly look even bigger than I realized! I can feel her move around so much now, she is VERY active. I love it though, I think I find it comforting when she moves because then I know she is doing good. We are slowly accumulating baby stuff. There is SO much we need though and it can really add up. I am sure there are a ton of things I am not thinking to buy!

Not much going on...

I know I need to post a new picture of my BIG belly, but Rob and I are so bad about taking pictures. Rob is just busy working like a crazy man. He is already convinced that he is ready to go to four days a week! We are still looking for a house. The the thing is we have made at least four offers by now. There are just so many foreclosed and short sale homes here, which is what we've been biding on, and they are like an auction and you have to just make your highest offer and hope that no one out bids you. It is stressful, especially because I can't help but to fall in love with these houses and then we don't get them. So then I mope and think I won't like another one, but there always seems to be another out there. I just pray we find one before the baby comes!

Baby Bump

Here are a few pictures from graduation...

It was so exciting to see Rob walk across that stage and here them call him Dr. Seymour for the first time...

We have a blog?

Rob had informed me awhile ago that he had created this blog. I just found it through someone elses blog actually! He is so funny. I have been debating on starting the whole blog thing because I am not sure that our lives are quite entertaining enough to write about! I love reading everyone's blog's though so maybe we'll give it a try.
A little up date for now: We are in Arizona now and Rob has gotten a real job as a real dentist. It is all still weird and a bit of an adjustment for both of us. Although it is very nice to be out of school in some ways it is hard too. Rob has been working so hard and such long hours. We just used to see eachother so much since we worked in the same building it is hard for me to be away from him for so long! I am currently unemployed and trying to decide what to do with myself! Our baby is due in November( we found out it is a girl by the way!), and I am not sure what kind of work I would do for four months. We have been spending a lot of time looking at houses, which we still have not been able to find one we like. Hopefully we will find one soon so we can feel settled already!

Start of a New Era......

Ashley and I have finally made it to the end of Dental School. We will be leaving Pittsburgh for Gilbert AZ around the middle of June. We are so excited to start a new chapter in our lives. I can't believe school is over. I finally have to get a real job. In more exciting news Ashley and I are expecting a little one. Ashley is 14 weeks along and just had her ultrasound. I are really looking forward to having this little baby in our home. We will have to post pictures of the ultrasound and graduation. We would love to hear about what is going on in your lives so drop us a line anytime. Rob and Ashley