My First Baby Shower

This past weekend I traveled to Pittsburgh to visit my family and experience my very first baby shower. It was fantastic. My mom hosted the party at Atria's. They did a beautiful job with our little room and the food was great. Of course you had to save room because we had more dessert then we could possibly finish. My Aunt Chris baked some delicious cupcakes, we had a cute little Baby Rahne candy bars, Lorraine sent baby blue smiley cookies and of course there was ice cream cake!! There were splashes of baby blue all around and my dad surprised me with one of his handmade toy trains which we had out on display.

It was great seeing so many people and opening the cute little baby presents. I received some great outfits and books and a ton of gift cards. I was so happy that along with the Pittsburgh crew, Amy Crone made the trek from Maryland. It was great having her there.

I posted a couple pictures, I have to admit, I was scared to post since you can officially see how huge I am now!! I guess that is what comes with being pregnant!

RIP our friend the bird

For about one week, we had a feather friend knocking at our glass around the house. I admit, it was annoying, but since it was relatively quiet and it entertained Yogi...I was cool with it. I took the video early this week.



I came to the conclusion that the bird made its nest with Yogi fur last year or maybe it was a young bird and was born in a nest of Yogi fur. Either way, the bird was constantly throwing himself/herself at our glass to get to Yogi.

Unfortunately on Thursday I found the bird laying dead at the back door. The bird had died trying to get to Yogi. Clearly the love and admiration that bird had for Yogi was not returned as Yogi proceeded to snatch the dead bird up and play ball with it for a while only stopping when I finally grabbed the dead bird from him with a gloved hand. Disgusting!

This brings us back to bird reality...even birds we think are our friends are horrible disgusting feathered rats that end up trouble in the end!

The Ice Man

I guess Yogi is getting worried about this whole baby thing and has decided to start taking care of himself. See attached video of our self sufficient Yogi Bear. Note: I am fully aware that I run the risk of no one using the ice at our house ever again, but I thought it was far too funny not to share.



This is not the video I wanted to post, but i have no idea how to get the edited one up here. Sorry. Just turn your head to the side and enjoy.

Baby Boy Rahne

OK, we had a 3D sonogram today. Normally you get some great pictures out of this day, but our little man was being a bit difficult. While we were in there trying to see his cute little face, he was bringing his hands in front of his face, his feet up there, anything to avoid the picture. He takes after his dad.

If you have never seen a sonogram and can't tell what you are looking at don't worry, there will be plenty of cuter pictures in less than 10 weeks!

Face


Face

Feet


Covering his eyes, but cute little chubby cheeks and pouty lips.

Morgan Claire Neuberger

There have been many wonderful additions this week. We had another one yesterday. My brother, Tom and his wife Traci gave birth to a little girl. Yah!! I knew it was going to be a girl.

Morgan Claire Neuberger joined the world yesterday afternoon at 2:15 PM. She was 19.5 inches long and 7 lbs 8 oz. Momma and Morgan are doing just great. Jackson stopped by to see his new little sister and actually gave her a kiss. I cannot wait to have my own little bundle of joy!!

My favorite little Steelers Fan!

OK, I am stealing my brother's thunder, but I had to post some pictures from his site of my nephew Jackson.

You can see all of them at http://neubergerfamily.blogspot.com/

But here are a couple I just could not resist sticking on our site. What can I say...I'm a proud godmother.



He has not quite mastered the use of the terrible towel.

World Champion Pittsburgh Steelers

Congratulations to the Pittsburgh Steelers on a record 6 Super Bowl wins!

Last night was amazing. It was stressful, but fun. I was happy that our party was very small, just Ricky and I (and of course…the dogs).

The day started off early and I just could not get back to sleep. I was too excited. I spent the morning watching ESPN and switched over the NBC when coverage was over. I was glad to see the fun stories on the terrible towel and the nice tribute to Myron Cope. It was also great to see Obama out there supporting the Steelers. Way to go Pres!

I was a little let down by Rod Woodson who picked Arizona, but the reporters, former Steelers and all the Steelers fans were there to support. My dad was among the many Steelers fan that made the trek to Tampa. Way to Go Dad!!

Although, we did not make it to Tampa. We had Steelers' balloons up outside the house and a Steelers’ victory cake ready to go. We were dressed by 10am with excitement building.


Picture taking started early. The dogs were pretty annoyed before the game even started. Yogi does not fit into any Steelers stuff I own, so we resorted to him just having a terrible towel. It worked. Great for his drooling.



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Ricky was at work till about 4, made it home in time to take a nap ad get up for game time. Yogi did the wake up call.



Special shout out to the NYC crew who we cheered with during the game. Wish we could have been there. Also, an extra special shout out to the Crone's who had Iron City at their Super Bowl party! Nicely done!

The game was off to an awesome start and we spent the rest of the night cheering. Enjoy the pictures. By the way, check out my sweet shirt!