JC Penny's Portraits

Daniel Ray Nickolich, 2 weeks 3 days
Jacob Nathaniel Nickolich, 5 years

Vegas Wedding Video

So I just realized I never posted our wedding video. It's only about 10 minutes long so, here it is! ENJOY! :)

Oh, and the pink caddy was a total surprise...to everyone!! Even Tom!! No one had any idea that my dad and I were planning that. It was so much fun :)

Getting Settled

Well, we've all made it out here to Arizona and are working on getting settled in. Jake started Kindergarten at Tartesso Elementary and he loves it. We will also be getting him signed up for soccer soon.

Daniel had already gained a pound and a half an inch by his two week checkup, it's no wonder though cause all that boy does is EAT!

Hopefully we will be closing on our house soon and can get to work over there. There's so much to do as far as unpacking alone goes! Not to mention the paint and the landscaping that needs to be tended to. Oh well....it will all come together one day :)

Jake is happy to have his daddy here finally, although, it is very apparent that he knows who he can get stuff (and get away with stuff) from! Work it Jacob, work it, lol.

I'm working on starting Dad on a diet again. He seems motivated, I just hope I can keep up. Preparing and researching someone's every meal is very time consuming! He has finally agreed to get a lap band. We should hear back from his doctor for the referral tomorrow. His weight is dangerously high. Hopefully between Tom wanting to work out with him, me cooking for him, and the lap band controlling his appetite, we can get something done about it and get him out of the woods. The doctor said he needs to lose 100 lbs! So wish us all luck!

So here's a few pictures from the last few weeks....

Our New Addition

Well, the new man has finally made his arrival! It was a long, hard pregnancy but it's over now, thank goodness. He made his appearance August 15th, @ 2:17PM weighing 7lbs 7oz and 20 3/4in long. The labor and delivery were surprisingly easy though. I couldn't believe how fast and pain free it was, thanks to the technology of epidurals of course :) I didn't even sweat!! Now I get to have sleepless nights for another reason other than the tube that was coming out of my back. Although, I still have some pretty bad back pain frequently, at least it's not CONSTANTLY and I can do many more things now without it. I feel much better, but still have some healing to do. We are leaving for dad's Saturday morning, I hope the trip is good to me. I'm ready to get out there and start getting things in order. Tom will join me around labor day. It's a huge new chapter in our lives, we are looking forward to it and ready to embrace whatever it brings! I will miss everyone here, but those who know us best know that this is probably the best opportunity we could ask for. We are thankful for it.

On another note, Jake has his 5th birthday party tonight. Since Daniel has been born it has made me look at Jacob so differently. He is just SOO big to me now! I can't look at him as "my baby" anymore. He's now officially the big boy, the big brother, and he definately lets you know it. He will start kindergarten on Monday, which is his actual birthday. *Sniff Sniff* Can you believe it?! He's excited though. He's also very ready to see his cousins, he misses them bunches! There's so much to do today....not sure how it's going to get all done, but things have a tendency to work out. So enough babbling, here are some pics of the newest baby man, the daddies (mine and the boys', lol), the big brother, some friends, and of course, Mommy. Even though the labor was pretty simple, I still look rough.....I was admitted the day before for the severe back pain...that's my excuse :) ENJOY!

Baby Nickolich

So, as most of you know, we're expecting another boy! It's been a long haul, but we're approaching the home stretch. I was extremely sick my first trimester all the way up to about 16 weeks. Then there were the killer headaches. Then came what we thought was a UTI, treated it, a week went by and I ended up in the ER with severe pain. Turns out I have a pinched ureter, causing urine to back up into my kidneys and infection. So, they had to put a stent in to straighten out my ureter and allow my kidneys to drain. Had that one about a week, but it was causing severe pain so the urologist took it out, had me wait a week, and then recheck my kidneys and make sure it wasn't doing the same thing again. Well, it was. So he had to put another one in, but this one is smaller. It still hurts, some days more than others, but doc said this one HAS to stay in until the baby's born. Also said I have about a 50/50 shot that this same sort of thing would happen in future pregnancies, it's just the way my body is :( Oh well, we're pushing through. So on a better note, we had a 4D ultrasound today and everything is checking out perfectly with the baby. I'll post some belly and ultrasound pics. Also, we have names narrowed down to a few, but I'm giving Tom the final decion. Here's the few we're tossing around:
Daniel Ray (Ray after dad's name)
Thomas Ray
Daniel Thomas
Thomas Daniel
Daniel Ray Thomas
Thomas Ray Daniel

Let me know what you think, and if you have any others we may not have considered. Anyhow, enjoy the pictures! Have a great day!

Old Married Woman

Yes, that's what I am now! LOL I've only managed a couple of posts this semester but that's all almost over with.

Let's see, we got back from Vegas/Phoenix/Los Angeles last Tuesday. I came home sick, again. Tom and I had both just gotten over a cold on our honeymoon (Tom was sick on our wedding night!) and then I fly home and get strep! Finally feeling better though. Time to watch some SEC football.....Roll Tide??

Thanks to my SIL we were able to get my house back in order last night so I am taking a CHILL PILL this weekend! Jake stayed at my dad's in Phoenix. They'll be coming back out here in 2 weeks for graduation then we'll head back out there for Christmas.

So, I'm really jus ton here to post some pics, but first, if you missed the wedding online live, you can still catch it for 2 more months. Just go to www.vivalasvegasweddings.com. On the right there is a tab that says Internet Archives, click that, then go to November 2009 weddings. Just scroll down until you see TNickolich Wedding. You'll have to install Real Player to watch it but it will prompt you to do that. Enjoy! And for now, here's just A FEW of the wedding pictures! There were tons! (In no particular order apparantly, this uploading thing puts them in there in reverse order from what I choose and I got confused!)