Baby Shower fun

Today was my friend Liz' baby shower. I met Liz at the gym where she teaches a boot camp class that I love. Our friendship blossomed and we began spending more time outside the gym getting to know each other. She is an incredibly strong (mentally and physically) woman with a positive attitude and a heart of gold. She's a true friend and I'm so lucky to have her in my life!

Here are some pictures (primarily of the food - you know my affection for all things edible!) of the lovely day.

I made my standard fare - lasagna, Cristina made a delicious Orzo pasta salad and brie and fig appetizers, Laura made a hearty salad chock full of veggies, and Suzanne made the cupcakes which were red velvet with cream cheese frosting - yum! In summary - delicious!

Liz and I are already planning on getting BOB strollers so we can run the Stanford Dish with kids in tow.

Can't wait to meet baby Drew and go running with our babies!

Big news on the homefront

It's official.
We're having a baby!
Crazy! Exciting! Scary! Does this mean we have to finally grow up?

We've been keeping a blog about the baby's progress but didn't officially publish it until the other day.
Check it out http://littlemackblog.blogspot.com/

Now, to answer the obvious questions:

1. I'm feeling ok - not bad, not good. Sort of "eehh". Headaches and insomnia have been brutal. No real food cravings but I'm hungry all the time. The first few weeks I couldn't even look at meat but I'm ok now.

2. We are NOT finding out the gender of the baby. Some of you find this disappointing but we decided that there aren't many things in this world that can genuinely surprise you at this level. And we aren't partial to one gender over another; we just want a healthy baby. Oh yeah, and I'm not a fan of the color pink so even it it's a girl, don't expect to see her in a lot of pink outfits. It's ok to dress babies in all black, right? It's slimming...

3. We don't have names picked out - not even close! We are however, toying with the idea of naming "the kid" something Irish/Scottish or Italian or a combination of the two (we never were able to get a straight answer from Brian's Dad if they are Irish or Scottish. We claim Irish in pubs and of course on St. Patrick's Day. But his mother is 100% Italian - no doubt about it. I am a mix of Scottish, Italian, and Norwegian).

4. Yes, we will post updates! Even pictures if you promise not to gasp at the weight gain.