so i can't help it

... i need to blog about the lakers!
everyone knows i'm a laker fan - heck, our wedding was purple and gold! (this was purely coincidence, promise :)
but it's so fun to watch them nowadays! i was watching the game yesterday and was telling joey that they weren't playing well (even though they were up by 15 at the time!) but the way they play, especially that game against phoenix - it was so good. yeah defense may have been a problem considering they scored over 250 points between the 2 of them but still! it was an awesome game! even the commentators were like "please let these two teams meet in the playoffs because they are so exciting to watch!" i was so bummed when bynum went out, it was like, oh no! we're out of a big man for 8 weeks! but that turned out to be a blessing in disguise. kupchak said bynum going down was the reason they picked up gasol. wow. what a turn of events! and then the whole western conference went crazy trying to trade someone before the deadline. our trade was still the best because we essentially lost no "big names" for it. but anyway, so i love the lakers. but right now, i love them even more =)

there's only one ...

look ... there's only one.. and all ours =)

the baby was doing somersaults and backflips while trying to do the ultrasound and finally settled down for this shot. if you look above the head, baby was trying to wave =) crazy huh?

so i guess i should update a little. we're 15 weeks pregnant today. wow. 15 weeks. we found out on november 30th - brian's birthday actually. i volunteered to drive the girls to the liwanag banquet the next day so i would be the dd. they just thought that i wanted to be the dd, but i had other reasons. i was super hungry at banquet and francia asked if i was pregnant. i had to say no because i hadn't gone to the doctor yet. so that monday, i went to the doctor and they confirmed our pregnancy. i told my sister, my parents and his parents that week. i talked to my mom the next day (after the doctor's appt) and she said she had seen one of our ninongs from our wedding at Church and he was asking if i was pregnant and she said not yet. then she asked me if i was and i hesitated and i told her i would tell her next month. joey and i went to my parents for dinner the following day and we gave both sets of parents these pillows from hallmark that said "babies are precious gifts from God." my mom opened it and said "I knew it!" because i had hesitated in the conversation just the day before. i'm such a bad liar. We then went to Joey's parents' house. He said we were going to pick up mail. His mom's funny. We gave them the bag with the pillow in it. She opened and was like "oh, how cute - how come you guys didn't wait until Christmas to give it to me?" because she thought it was for Asher, Joey's baby nephew. Joey and I both kind of looked at her and then she said "Is this for you guys?" and we both started to laugh. Joey said "it wasn't THAT subtle." haha.

we wanted to try to tell everyone in person so we waited until we saw people to tell them instead of over the phone. We wanted to wait until our Christmas party to tell our circle of friends. But the week before our friends' Christmas party, Joey's sister, Cassie, Teresa, Rob, Lauren, Cel and Vincent came over. at that time, cassie, teresa and vince were the only ones who knew. so joey even asked me before they came over, what if someone says something? and i said, they won't. later in the evening, lauren was going to teach teresa how to stitch. i was sitting on the couch and lauren wanted teresa to sit next to her so she could see. so i moved to sit on the floor. so teresa says "you can't sit on the floor in your pregnant state." and i sat there ... on the floor ... with a pomegranate in my mouth as lauren and cel asked "WHAT? You're pregnant?" Joey was outside putting up Christmas lights so i didn't know where to look. so i sat there. on the floor. pomegranate in my mouth. and silence. so they repeated the question "You're pregnant?" and at that time, Joey walked back in the house and so they asked him "Kay's pregnant?" and he looks around and was like "who slipped?" teresa felt so bad. she's agreed to buy the baby's stroller since she slipped. she's so funny. anyway, so we still wanted to tell everyone at the Christmas party since that was the original agenda. so we asked them not to say anything and actually made them part of our plan. we all knew cel had me - thanks rich! and the plan was to describe 3 things about the Kris Kringle you had before you gave them your present so everyone could try to guess who you had by your clues. we told cel that her last clue had to be that "she's pregnant." everyone knew steph was pregnant so they would automatically think it was steph. so at the Christmas party, it was time to exchange presents. So cel gave some clues that would make sense for both me and steph:
1) this person has changed addresses this year
2) had a wedding at a country club
3) has a bun in the oven
steph was sitting right next to cel and was like oh - that's me! meanwhile ray, who really did have steph, was like, what the heck? did steph's name get put in twice?
but cel got up and took her present to me. and that's how everyone else found out. it was kind of funny.
again, we wanted to try to tell everyone in person. when i told joan, she almost fell down the stairs. we were at a dress shop and she wanted to get coffee. i said i can't get coffee but i can get tea. and she said 'why? are you pregnant?" as she proceeded to walk down the stairs. and i followed and nonchalantly said, 'yeah." and that's when she almost fell. she turned around and was like "are you serious?" and i said yeah. and she said at least it would make for a good story - her falling down the stairs when she found out i was pregnant.
anyway, this is really long. so i'll post more later. have a good one!