Merry Christmas to us!!

Today begins a new journey in our family, baby LaMacchia number two is on the way!!

We are so unbelievably excited as we prepare and await for the arrival of our little peanut.  Of course I didn't trust the pregnancy test, so I took it 2 times (EDIT: a third time after I wrote this post, just in case the first 2 were wrong?!)  I should have trusted the results, the pink positive line was so dark it was hard to dispute.
                                            
 

Our anticipated due date is December 26, 2013!!  We very well may have our own Christmas miracle this year :)

We truly are thrilled, over the moon excited as we add one more to our family of 3!

Girls night out!

Some of my friends from work and I went out in East Lansing to celebrate Stacey's birthday and me leaving Mother Baby at the hospital.  We had a delicious dinner at Bravo then attempted to be 21 year olds at El Az and Dublin on a Saturday night.  Clearly, we just can't hang like we used to...

I made the switch to working in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Sparrow.  It was a very hard decision to make leaving mother baby, I love working with newborn babies and helping in those first few days of life.  But I was ready for the move to working with a more critical newborn.  It has been a great change so far, I have learned an unbelievable amount of information in a short amount of time.  And I look forward to continuing to help families with their new babies, just in a different capacity now.  

Easter Sunday

We went to a very lovely Easter morning mass.  Surprisingly mass was not terribly crowded and we could sit in the cry area as Hannah was feeling rather active this morning.  We came back home for Hannah to discover her Easter egg and treats inside.  I think she has a sweet tooth just like her daddy!  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

After a very delicious dinner of ham, pineapple stuffing, veggies, and rolls, we had a little egg hunt for Hannah in the basement.  It was too cold to do it outside, so we tried our best!  She didn't quite understand what was going on at first.  John and my dad put coins in the plastic eggs so Hannah was opening every one up when she picked them up.  We had to steal them from her quick and put them in the basket.  She did enjoy finding the hidden eggs.  Once she was finished she put all the coins into her "piggy".  What a fun egg hunt!  

  

  

  

                                                     Happy Easter from the LaMacchia family!!  

                                              

Parents Visit for Easter

We had the pleasure of having my parents fly into town and celebrate Easter with our family.  They arrived late Wednesday night into Lansing which is a quick 10 mins drive to our house.  Thankfully no delays or issues with the travels.

We spent Thursday relaxing and just taking it easy, well trying to take it easy with a very active child.  Hannah loved up her MomMom and Poppy and I'm sure they had a pretty great time with her as well.
  

During the day, my parents and I took Hannah to visit the Easter Bunny at the mall.  While standing in line, she seemed to not mind the bunny as she was waving and looking happy.  But once we got up there closer, she did not want anything to do with that bunny.  Needless to say, Hannah is sitting next to the bunny while her momma tries to hide behind her. Hopefully one of these years she will decide that the Easter bunny and/or Santa are pretty cool dudes.  Until then we will have quality pictures to laugh at over the years!  Later in the evening, we went out to dinner with the in-laws and enjoyed a fish fry at our favorite spot, the Westgate.
  
 


Saturday was a nicer day that we could spend some time outside.  Hannah and MomMom played with some bubbles, those were lots of fun!!
 
  

And some fun play time inside:
 
 

We had a great time with my parents, I love that they were able to come out and spend a long weekend with us.  (and no hospital trips this year too)  I'm so glad that Hannah doesn't have stranger anxiety around my family.  Even though we don't see each other "in person", we skype and facetime almost every week so she "sees" them and knows who everyone is.  I love watching my family interact with Hannah, they love her so much and certainly make good use of every minute that we can spend together.

Big Ten's- Women's Gymnastics Championships

MSU hosted Big10's gymnastics championships this season.  It was nice that it was super close and I was able to watch some pretty amazing gymnastics.

I took Hannah with me to the first session which was MSU, Illinois, Iowa, and Ohio State.  I met up with the Williamson family who traveled from both PA and Iowa to watch the meet.  Kortny and Kiva are two of my former teammates at Berks in PA.  Kort and I used to see each other at meets as she competed for Iowa, but we haven't seen each other in a few years now.  Her parents also came into town, and I haven't seen them since like 2005 or so!  It was very nice to spend time with them and go out to lunch together.  What fun  memories we had back in the Berks' days!

John picked Hannah up near the end of the first session which allowed me to have lunch with the Williamson's and also go back and watch the second session which was UofM, PennState, Nebraska, and Minnesota.  Session 2 was a great session with some pretty amazing gymnastics.  It is always a treat to watch gymnastics, but even better to watch live gymnastics.

The Big10 channel was live broadcasting the meet.  When Hannah was there for the first session, she got some air time waving and blowing kisses!  My mom was watching the tv and was so excited to see Hannah (and me hiding behind her little body).  One of our friends took a screen picture of Hannah on tv, her first big screen appearance, haha!
                                

                                                                                   GO SPARTANS!!!!!