10 weeks to go!

Wow. It's all starting to hit me. On Monday our birthing classes start and on Tuesday we have an appointment to meet with the pediatrician we're hoping to use. Time is going by so fast. In (hopefully) less than 10 weeks we'll have a baby.

We went on a shopping spree last week to BRU to try to get some more things we need. Ended up saving $45 with all the coupons we had! That store has become my new home. We've been busy setting everything up and I've been working my butt off on organizing the house. I have about 5 garbage bags of junk that I have to have Chris take outside. I think I'm going to have to take a break until garbage day on Tuesday because there won't be anymore room in the can. It will be nice once everything's all organized though. In a small house it's very easy for things to get cluttered. Luckily the nesting phase has started to kick in so I should be able to get things in order before the baby comes.

My friend Heather is due November 30th. We took pictures together back in the beginning of July and then again at my shower. It's funny we even thought we had bumps back in July.

Baby Shower

I had a GREAT baby shower yesterday. Everyone was so generous and we just have the cutest things for our little one. All three Grandma's were the hostesses and they did a great job with everything. I was so happy to be able to spend the afternoon with friends and family. Now if only everything could be magically put away.

Thanks everyone for making it such a special day! Here are some pictures:

My MIL made this for us- isn't it so cute!
My mom made chocolates...yumm

When we got home I took everything I could inside and started going through it. Hopefully Chris will take the big stuff in today! Now I just need to figure out where to put everything. The challenges of a small house.

I put the mobile together all by myself!

The Nursery!

The nursery is just about done! It's nothing fancy but I love it! All we need now is to put some decorations up (not too many the room is very tiny), get bedding and other baby accessories. I think I might hang one or two chocolate frames up and I want to do wall letters. Those will have to be done after the baby's born since we don't know what we're having and we still haven't decided on any names.

When you first walk in the room. We'll be getting new bedding once the baby is here (want something gender specific since everything else in neutral).

Dresser - will be putting a changing pad on top. Something will be going on the wall above, not sure what yet.

The closet. I'm so glad Chris re-did it! It's tiny but it'll work.

The crib!

Chris did such a great job putting it together yesterday. It's a Munire Essex in Cherry. I can't wait to put the mattress and bedding in it!

I'll post more pictures when everything is decorated!

Hello 3rd Tri!

I am officially in my third trimester. I still can't believe it. In (hopefully) less than 12 weeks we'll be meeting our baby for the first time. We have been really busy working on the house.


Two years ago we painted the outside of our house, but only did one coat. The second coat has been finally put on and it looks great! The nursery is almost all done (we're picking the crib up today!) The room was painted, the closet was ripped out and re-done, trim and baseboards were put in and painted and the room is now carpeted! For those that don't know, we live in a little fixer upper that needs a lot of fixing! Over the past three years walls have been knocked done, kitchen and bathroom gutted, new doors, new windows. It's always a construction zone here. The nursery is the first room to be COMPLETELY finished! The rest of the rooms are basically done, but they have at least one or two things that are needed to be finished. I can honestly say the nursery is my favorite room in the house (and the dogs too - She goes in there all the time to lay on the carpet or sleep on the bed)


Here are some of the construction pictures. Once we get the crib up I'll put pictures of the completed nursery.

The closet all ripped apartCloset Door & trim is donePaint is done and carpet is going down!

The guys are bringing in the crib right now! Hopefully it will get put together today too :)

99 days to go!

That also means 99 days till Christmas. Scary, huh? I think I've just entered panic mode. Maybe I'll start getting into nesting mode soon. I feel like nothing is going to be done as I stare at our guest room that has to be turned into a nursery. Selling the furniture has been unsuccesful so far. My plan is to have it out of here this weekend. Then next weekend Chris is going to paint, fix the trim, and re-do the closet. After that we can set up the crib (it's waiting for us at the baby store...we just don't have anywhere to put it right now). I think I'll be able to not be as stressed once that's all done. Now if only someone will buy our furniture!!


I've been lazy about uploading new belly pictures. Here's the most recent one I have on the computer (besides the pic from my dad's wedding) from when I was 22 weeks.

p.s. Next week I enter the third trimester!

Baby Kicks

I have been able to feel the baby kicking since around 22 weeks. I've been impatiently waiting for the kicks to get harder so that Chris could feel it. He wasn't always patient with leaving his hand on my belly so even when I thought he might be able to feel it, he never did. As soon as he put his hand on my belly the baby would stop kicking.

This past Thursday when I was lying down watching tv I saw my belly move out the corner of my eye. I knew that Chris would be able to finally feel the kicking. On Friday I was determined that he was going to feel the kicks that day. I told him that even if he had to keep his hand on me all day he was going to so he could feel the kicks. We were watching tv and I told him where to put his hand. I played some music to the baby and next thing you know Chris is asking, "Was that one?" So excited he could finally feel it and baby is getting stronger!

I feel bad because I've been putting off on having other people feel the baby kicking. I wanted Chris to be the first one (besides me obviously) to feel the baby kick. I guess my belly is no longer off limits. Just try not to have 10 pairs of hands coming towards me at once, that might freak me out. :)

Blessed with good news at 24 weeks

A week after our 20w u/s we got a phone call from the OBs office. They said one of the results from the ultrasound were abnormal and they were sending us to another facility for a closer look. It took us three weeks to get an appointment at the new place. They were on vacation the week we got our results and then their next available appointment was 2 weeks out. September 3rd we had our visit and it went really well. Everything is fine and baby is measuring just where it should. We are so blessed and grateful to be expecting a healthy baby.

We were never planning on doing 3D/4D pictures. We figured we weren't finding out the sex, why find out what the baby will look like. We were so surprised and completely in awe when the Doctor switched over to 4D during the exam. I can not even describe how amazing it was to be able to see our baby's facial features. Can you tell if baby looks like Mom or Dad yet?