I have had a few people ask about this, so that is why I am posting this. Please do not in any take this as us asking for gifts! This is just to get the information out there to the people that are interested!

We do have a baby registry, and here is the link.

Or you could search Babies R' Us for Chris and Katie Kelly, and the location will be Connecticut still.

Just as an update though, if you plan on sending gifts, our last day in Connecticut will be July 2. After that, we will no longer be receiving mail here. If you want our new address, we have it, so feel free to ask. I'd post it on here, but I'm not sure I want everyone having access to my new address : )

Again, this is just for the people who have inquired, or are interested, please do not take this the wrong way!

C-Section date: June 23
Moving Truck arrives: July 2

It's a little stressful, but mostly good, and completely crazy. I cannot wait to be home!

So it's officially ours!

Chris had the opportunity to get the inspection done his last morning there, and that went incredibly smoothly. Our closing date is going to be on June 25. Crazy, and no we are not planning on being there for it : )

Here is a link to see pictures of it:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=40585&l=ed455&id=503538528

So we have a house, yeah! More updates and pictures coming soon!

So, I must admit that I have been a little distracted and have virtually forgotten about the fact that we are having a baby in about a little over a month. So for those who check this for our family updates, and have been wondering why I have failed to update on the pregnancy, I apologize. I literally forgot!

As of right now I am scheduled for a c-section June 23. Since I have a history of CPD (the baby's head being too large for my pelvis) they don't want me to go any further than that. To be honest, we really cannot afford to have the baby any later than that date anyways, so it kind of works out. If I go into labor before the scheduled c-section then they will let me try to have a VBAC. We're hoping that is the case, both for a sooner delivery date, and for ease in recovery. However if I stop progressing, or show any signs of fetal distress than on with a c-section it will be. Although I think having one of those needles put in your back is much easier when you are having contractions to distract you. All that to say, by June 23 we will have a new baby boy.

Hopefully that is a sufficient update for all on the pregnancy status!

Our house is on the market, and we are being run out of it several times a day. Just in case any of you are interested in seeing some of the updates and changes we have made since last year, here is a link with all updates that we have done:

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0JZM27lmxZOIg

So we are listing our house on the market this week! Yeah! Hopefully things will slow down a little after that. Chris leaves for ATL in a week and a half to get us a house. Madness.

In other news, my grandparents celebrated their 50th anniversary this weekend. It was kind of hard to not be there and celebrate with, and see all the family. My sister did a great job of giving me a sufficient play by play of the weekend action though.

Chris and I are incredibly blessed to have all 4 of our grandparents still with us, and even more fortunate to have such a legacy left by having all 4 of the couple having made it to the 50 year mark.

I think so many people have the naivete to think that it's just a generational thing to stay together that long. I don't care who you are, marriage takes work, and if it is (which in none of these is this the case) nothing more than determination and perseverance, having that for 50 years should be applauded!

All of that to say, I made a video for my grandparents for their anniversary party, and thought I would post the link here in case anyone wanted to view it:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=y1nSCZPvxqE

All right, an update on what the new start date means for us. It means that we have been crazy! Everything has been moved up at least a couple of weeks, if not a month. We will be leaving Connecticut, one way or another, worst case mid July.

Chris goes down to Atlanta to find us a house (and no I'm not crazy, just incredibly confident in my husband, and I don't want to travel), so once he makes that trip, and we get our house here sold, we will have more of an exact date in mind.

Best case scenario it looks as though we will be moving with a month old baby.

So that is the general move update. As far as other updates go, I am going to be reformatting this blog a little bit. I will still do updates, but I want to expand it to include more of my food findings also. So don't be surprised if you start seeing more postings, most of them being food related!

Just a quick update, Chris's start date has been moved from August 1 to July 1, so instead of moving at the end of July, we will be moving at the beginning.

More details to come soon!

So we will be moving at the end of July or right around the first of August, depending on when our closing date is. We (and by we, it may mean just Chris) hope to go down to Atlanta to look for houses at the end of May. We've already looked a lot online and are really excited about what we see.

We finally had our full ultrasound done today and found out that we still have a boy, who is healthy and weighs two and a half pounds. Here are some pictures of him:

This is his profile, with his foot up by his face. When you could see the movement on the ultrasound screen it looked like he was sucking on his toes.

His foot.

I've also uploaded some of our pictures from Easter, so if you would like to see some of those, you can go here:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=34452&l=05993&id=503538528

I've also uploaded a few more videos, if you want to check those out. Here is that link:

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=KtSue510

In other news we are super excited for our vacation to St. Louis. We leave next week, and are very much looking forward to a break, and to be able to spend some good quality time with friends without being so rushed!

We're going to be a little crazy over the next couple of months, with our trip, getting the house ready to go on the market, all 3 of our birthdays (plus like half of our families!), buying a new house and having a baby, but I will try to keep everyone posted as regularly as I can!

We're moving to Atlanta! At the latest right at the beginning of August, but we're hoping for mid to late July, we'll have to see how this baby and the home buyers want to co-operate.

I'm pretty much falling in love with the city, there is so much to see and do, along with a lot of culture and history. The area we're looking at buying is beautiful, and compared to where we are at here, I imagine it will feel like we are living in a mansion!

We're excited!

So in work related news, as of right now it sounds as though we will be being transfered to the Atlanta or Dallas area. We're hoping to know for sure within the next week or so. We're still not sure about timing, that will probably take a couple of more weeks to figure out, but we'll keep you all posted!

In other news, I put some new pictures up of Josh, and of us, here is the link:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=31672&l=44465&id=503538528

You can also still view some pretty recent pictures at the link a couple of posts down.

Well we have finally heard some news. We now know that we will for sure be living in one of five cities in six months or less.

GMAC is doing some restructuring, and is cutting 16 nationwide branches down to 4. The four branches are Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas. I say five cities, because we are still considering St. Louis our fall back option.

Within the next couple of weeks we will have some decisions to make based off the offers the company has made to us. So hopefully by mid March we will know where we are going and about when we can expect to be there.

So more information will be coming soon, but that's the news for right now.

An update:

As many of you have been inquiring, we still do not know anything about moving. We are expecting to hear something at the beginning of March, or Chris will start inquiring there after. There have been some rumors floating around GMAC of some changes, and between catching wind of some of those, and being prepared for the possibility they won't move us to a place we want to go, we're still keeping our STL options and possibilities open.

So we're trusting God that He's got a plan and just waiting for Him to show us what it is.

In baby news, we go in at the beginning of February to find out what it is (we're hoping for a girl, but any child is a blessing!). I've also been feeling the baby kick for a while, and there have been a couple of times it's been strong enough for Chris to feel. Josh thinks he feels something no matter what, so he doesn't count just yet, although I can't wait until it gets strong enough he really can feel it. After much explaining on my part he's starting to understand that he does not, and cannot have a baby in his belly. However, he does think he has a dinosaur in there. I don't even know how to begin to deal with that.

So that is pretty much what is going on with us right now, lots of waiting. Waiting to find out where we will be living, what Chris will be doing, what our baby is, and waiting for the horrible month of January to be over!

We'll keep you posted on any news about any of it!

New pictures!

Here are two links where you can see pictures of us:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=23908&l=2028e&id=503538528

http://picasaweb.google.com/arnoldrkelly

So, we're pregnant!

About 2 1/2 months along, due at the end of June.

Here are some 7 week ultrasound pictures:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=13907&l=42c17&id=503538528

This is a link to an online photo album that has pictures of Josh from this fall, including him in his Halloween costume. He had a great time, and was so cute, I'm already excited for next year!

Hope you enjoy the pictures.

So we just got a call from Chris's doctor, who called to let us know that he got the test results back. (Drumroll please), he is cancer free! Woot woot!

Things are already looking up. No more cancer, and our car is all better and safely in our driveway.

It is a good day.

Our car was stolen, and yes we have had a pretty crazy month.

We had gone down to NYC for the weekend, having a bunch of people come in from Chris's old STINT (short term international) team. It was a fabulous time. We drove back up to our house and thought we were losing our minds when we didn't see the Honda. Chris asked "I drove home right?"

So we called the cops, and to make a long story short they actually found our car like 3 blocks away, with the key hole stripped, and the stereo ripped out, but laying on the front seat. The cops said they think the people must of gotten spooked or something to leave it all there and that close. Well we're sure thankful that they did. So now we just have to have the ignition fixed and the stereo reinstalled, thankfully there are no other damages.

Scary things is, we actually live in a really nice area of town, all the neighbors are kind of freaked out.

I realize that STL is supposedly the most dangerous city in America, but all I have to say is that in STL, our car never got stolen.

A quick update for those who are wondering, but today was the day Chris got like half his arm cut off.

I'll do more of an update later, we're getting ready to leave out of town for a long weekend, but here's the gist of it.

There was a lot of pain, the numbing didn't take all the way. There are two layers of stitches on each spot. The top layer on his arm has about 30 stitches in it, and the one on his back has about 15 on it's top layer. It's not pretty. If they didn't get all the cancer out with that, well, we won't go there...

So please keep praying for him, as I am sure he is still in pain. He also can't really stretch his arm all the way out or do too much with his shoulder. Also they are on opposite sides so it makes sleeping somewhat challenging. So please keep praying for my husband!