Updates from the land of fog

Well, we are leaving for our epic road-trip babymoon holiday in 2 sleeps! Thought I should get a quick little update in before then...

(In case you can't remember, we are driving across NL, then taking the ferry to NS- exploring Nova Scotia for a few days, then PEI and New Brunswick, a day in Maine.. and then Brian's conference in Portsmouth, New Hampshire where I will relax and get to be the leisurely engineer's wife.)

Some recent events...

We went sea kayaking a couple weeks ago... a wedding gift from our friends Dave and Danielle. The weather was cloudy, but it was still fun!

Getting all fit into the boat

Out on the water

I only took a couple pics on the water because it wasn't the greatest spot for an SLR camera! Salty, wet, splashy... luckily they gave us drybags to put our cameras in, but I didn't want to bring mine out after all.

 It's not as easy as we thought. Turns out that kayaking is a whole lot different from canoeing, especially on the open ocean. But we had a great morning trying it out and then had a nice picnic lunch on the east coast trail afterwards.

These two good friends picked Newfoundland for their honeymoon! Rebecca is my old roommate from Vancouver, and Dan lived in the basement at the time. But he waited until we all moved out to profess his love. :) They just got married on July 30 and I am so happy for them. It is also a testimony to their sense of joy and adventurous-ness that they survived the week of our worst weather yet this summer and still came out all smiles... and loving it! Though they are honeymooners after all I suppose.. ;)

the newlyweds Introducing Mr and Mrs Daniel and Rebecca Poelman! Looking radiant.

Awkward arms length-fit-everyone-in shot... but still fun.

And now the baby update. Things are coming along quite nicely. Here is my little mango...

19 weeks! I promise I will get ones with my face in them soon.. when we move and I get a new picture spot probably.

 I also had my mid-pregnancy ultrasound this morning. We don't get official results until tomorrow but preliminary looks say everything is just fine. The only thing was... usually people get a nice strip of detailed pictures from these things. I, on the other hand, have a small shy squirmer inside there who was absolutely refusing to cooperate. It was pretty funny. The tech got me to go empty my bladder (in small amounts) twice just to see if things would shift a bit so little Button would move a bit better! But he or she would just not stop squirming and was all curled up into a ball. So he or she either has their mother's "I'm so antsy, I can't always sit still!" or their father's "I'm trying to sleep, leave me alone as I curl up in bed" traits.

Face! Kind of creepy looking, haha... but you can see eyes, nose, mouth and brain-space :)

 We also do not know if the little one is a boy or a girl.. by choice, though I wonder if we could have even found out if we wanted to due to baby's stubborn streak. So the big reveal will have to wait... but I think that's more fun anyway. :)

The best side profile she could get of little Squirmy!

Another face shot.. sort of.

Something else pretty awesome...

a few weeks ago I had a quick ultrasound done at work- hurray connections in the ER! I got a couple video clips on a USB to take home.. see below:

Baby Claus at 16 weeks Part 1

and

Baby Claus at 16 weeks Part 2