Hey all! I haven't posted in quite some time now. Due to being crazy busy, exhausted, trying to get things in order, projects, state assessments for school and so on. I've been swamped. This past month (month 9 and now month 10) have gone great. I definitely started getting exhausted right after our state assessments which was that first week of April. So week 38 and 39 were exhausting. I did work up until my due date April 20th. I could have kept working and could still be working now but it was better for me to have an end date. And with it being the end of the year I only had to take off the last 4 weeks, not bad! So week 40 and 41 the LONGEST weeks of my life! I realize with children you cannot plan. I have kind of wrapped my brain around all this, mostly. Most of you that know me know that I am a planner, I'm organized and I'm all about dates & times. Sooooo the entire pregnancy you've got this little date called your due date and everything and I mean EVERYTHING is center around that date. Although they tell you it's just a date and guess. BLAH. You think well the baby could come early so you want to plan and organize so you are ready for that. Then you really plan and get organized when the due date rolls around. Well let me tell you when that due date passes, WOAHZA! Poor Brian. I mean seriously, Poor Brian.
Let me start off by saying this pregnancy has been easy, fast and I've felt extremely great the entire time! Not to mention I'm really a positive person and always look at the bright side of things! Well I've never been SO GRUMPY when that due date rolled around with NO baby or signs of labor. For a few reasons. I'm not miserable, I still feel GREAT!
The first reason is that I was BORED out of my mind! I've cleaned everything, frozen meals, washed and did every piece of laundry imaginable, baked, redecorated the house, finished projects (except for the ones that require repainting) and so on! I've been going insane trying to find things to do. I am always on the go, so not working has KILLED ME. But it has been nice to not work because my poor elephant feet have finally gotten smaller and I've been able to see my ankle bone (woohoo). I didn't even know what to do with myself. I don't really watch that much TV, so I can't lounge on the couch too long. So I was dying to get out of the house, trying not to spend too much money, and trying to find things to do! So that's been the first challenge.
The second challenge is "HAVE YOU HAD YOUR BABY YET?", "WHEN ARE YOU DUE?", "OH MY GOSH YOUR STILL PREGNANT?", "WOW YOU LOOK MISERABLE?", "ARE YOU SURE YOU AREN'T HAVING TWINS?", "WHEN ARE YOU HAVING THAT BABY", "LOOKS LIKE YOUR ABOUT TO HAVE A BABY?" (NO SHIT?) blah blah blah. I could go on and on. It doesn't hurt my feelings at all because i'm not really that sensitive. But just kills me and makes me laugh at some of the STUPID things people say to pregnant women. If I knew when I was going to have this baby I'd be GOD. I mean seriously! And it really surprises me that strangers say these things. I would never walk up to a random lady and say those things. Crazy!! I kept telling Brian that the next person that says "Wow looks like your going to have a baby." I was going to respond with "Oh yes I already had her a month ago." Just to make them feel awkward! ha! But I never did. Ironically no one else asked me after I was planning on saying that which is probably for the best!
Third reason is people were being way to nice in the sense that "Ohhh hunnie it's okay you haven't had your baby you will have her when she's ready." Well shout out to my WORK FRIENDS (HOLLA) I told Brian, "Can't everyone be like my work friends and be on my side?" Meaning can't they just not sugar coat things and joke with me by saying "WOW that sucks, I bet it feels like you are going to be pregnant for the rest of your life!" Or "Well maybe your baby will come out walking!" Or "Hopefully you will have her by next school year!" Or "Maybe you should consider entering yourself into the Guinness Book or World Records for being pregnant the longest!" HA! I love my coworkers and their sense of humor!!!! SO THANK YOU for being REAL and on my side! :)
Last reason, people trying to tell me ALL the things that will induce labor. DRIVES ME NUTS. On one of my angriest days, ha! (sounds so serious) I told Brian the next person that freaking tells me to EAT SOMETHINGS SPICY, I'm going to SHOVE A FREAKING TAMALE DOWN THEIR THROAT! It's amazing to me that people tell me these things that help labor, like I've NEVER heard of them before! Now we did try lots of things, don't get me wrong and NONE of them worked. Hence why I'm 41 weeks and 4 days pregnant!
Alright well that's a wrap for the most negative post I've ever written! ha! I am really not mad just wanted to share my recent feelings of being 10 MONTHS PREGNANT! lol! I told Brian that the hard part of me being really hormonal is over. I think now for the laboring I'm going to be happy just because I know it will be worth it and result in a sweet little baby in our arms!! :) All in all we know she is WORTH the wait and I'd already do this over a million times because having a baby is such a miracle and we do feel extremely blessed to have been given the opportunity to experience such an amazing event!
On to GREAT NEWS:
This is my last post of being pregnant! WHAT WHAT! Yup that's right we are going in tonight to the hospital and hopefully having a baby tomorrow. (Wednesday) We are beyond excited, ready and thrilled to meet our little one. We did a sonogram yesterday since I'm past 41 weeks to make sure everything is okay with the baby and myself. Everything looks awesome and healthy. The baby's measurements are about 38-39 weeks. So either she is small or my due date is off. They are guessing around 7lbs. Give or take a pound. Her heart and lungs look awesome and she is already practicing breathing. She also has a few rolls of fat on her back already, ha! LOVE IT! So stinkin' adorable. After seeing our baby on the monitor it helped completely and made me realize that the end is SO NEAR! I've been on cloud 9 since yesterday and am truly ecstatic to meet her!
We greatly appreciate everyone who has checked in on us the past few weeks and the entire pregnancy! We are blessed to be surrounded by great family and friends. Not to mention we appreciate all the thoughts and prayers that have been headed our way. We are praying for a healthy delivery and baby tomorrow! We are so excited to be parents and to hold our little girl for the first time! Much love!!!
Last PREGGO PICS until baby #2!
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Baby Shower Galore!
Our Little Miss is one lucky girl! She's got so many people already that love her and are just as excited as we are for her arrival! My school threw Brian & I a Baby Shower. It was so sweet, fun and perfect. I love my coworkers!!! I only have a few pictures because my phone died, of course! Take a peak.....
The first thing I will start off with is the adorable invite my mom had made on Etsy.
My amazing 3rd grade team who I adore!!
We got lots of fun gifts! They were all much needed and so thoughtful!! :)
Some of my coworkers eating dessert!
The next baby shower we had was thrown by my sweet mother, sister and sister-in-law. They went above & beyond to say the least. It was absolutely perfect, the decor was amazing, and everyone was drooling over all the yummie treats, drinks, and crafts! They were able to reuse a lot of items from our wedding including all the vintage dishes!
The first thing I will start off with is the adorable invite my mom had made on Etsy.
Cute huh!
Here are the rest of the pictures!
It was a brunch shower so they had a variety of breakfast treats!
These vintage milk glasses are not actual old milk glasses. They are the glass Starbucks frappuccino bottles. There were only 70 of them. Yup which means our WHOLE family had to drink these for a month. If I see another Starbucks frappuccino I will vomit. haha! But it was worth it because they turned out oh so adorable!
After opening gifts, we had craft time. Everyone got to make little miss a headband, bows, or sweet little booties! So FUN!
Thank-You favors! Coral lollipops & of course delicious coffee from my parents business!
My mama made these Baby frames! So sweet. In fact I love them so much they are hanging our nursery now!
This was one of my favorites. Everyone got to fill out Wishes for the Baby! I am going to make a book out of them. They were so thoughtful and quite funny!
Two of my besties! Heather Feather and Gina!
Auntie Gee & I !
Big Grandma & I !
My sister La !
My sister Little Sara !
My pretty Mama & I !
All of us girls!
Baby Bump!
34 weeks. How is it possible for me to get any bigger, sheesh!! I'm sure it's possible! :)
Friday, March 16, 2012
34 Weeks & a Sneak Peak of the Nursery!
This week has been my spring break so as you can imagine I decided to do WAY too many projects/crafts this week. Although, I've been moving and grooving through them with the help of my wonderful hubbie and sweet family! They have been keeping me motivated and sure helping out a lot. All I want is for it to be done so I can cross it off my list. After the nursery I will be doing a slight redecorating/reorganizing to our guest bedroom/craft room which Brian is painting and fixing up right now. I also have old furniture that I can't WAIT to get rid of. Most of you that know me know that I love to keep things super clean, organized and I am slightly obsessed with getting rid of things! I just love the feeling of cleaning out things and getting rid of things we don't need or use! My husband would disagree with this, we somehow have opposite opinions on this! ha! Love ya babe! After I get that guest room done, who knows what I will do after that probably the guest/baby's bathroom and then loft area. Yes I'm crazy. I'm gonna keep on going until this baby gets here! It helps the time pass and I've gotta be constantly doing something.
Are you ready? Now keep in mind the nursery is no where near done I've got to do lots of little things. But I am just so excited that is coming along finally! YAY! Remember one of my last posts, it had all of our inspiration on there. Well I slightly changed somethings for the best!
Are you ready? Now keep in mind the nursery is no where near done I've got to do lots of little things. But I am just so excited that is coming along finally! YAY! Remember one of my last posts, it had all of our inspiration on there. Well I slightly changed somethings for the best!
Changing Table Wall
Love this frame, old drawers, jars, some first Friday finds and something that belonged to my great grandma Jean!
Crib Skirt
Ruffle Curtains. Without the help of my mom and sister I would still be working on these darn things. I hate them, I hate everything about them. BUT I LOVE how they turned out. SOO cute. Next time I will pay the price and just buy them even though I saved almost $60 by making them my own.
Lamp shades, not finished yet but will be today hopefully!
Made this coat/towel rack. We used an old vintage window from Brian's old house. Some of you may notice it from our wedding too. I bought the cute knobs at Hobby Lobby at 50%. Then I added these vintage skeleton keys that were from my Great Grandmothers house! Turned out great!
This banner I will be adding some stuff too. I was going to make a new one but I found this banner my sister made for our wedding! I reused it! One less thing to make!
On to baby bump pictures week 34:
How far along: Finishing week 34!
Total weight gain: 25 pounds
Maternity clothes: Work pants and jeans. The bigger I get the harder it's getting to stretch my shirts, lol! I am having a harder time going shopping and not being able to buy adorable spring dresses, swimsuits, cover ups, etc. UGH! I can't wait to be a normal size so I can get my Summer shopping on!
Stretch marks: I'm getting a few little red lines here and there.
Sleep: It's been okay. I still wake up around 2:30 or 4:00. My allergies have been bad so Benadryl has helped with that and helped knock me out!
Best moment: Our Baby showers last week, working on the nursery with Brian!
Miss anything: My brain! I miss sleeping awesome! I miss dancing full out. I did a clinic this week and couldn't dance full out which was frustrating. I'm ready to be able to move again! I also miss my ribs not hurting! I miss not being able to get off the couch without a push from my husband! ha! I'm so not complaining by any means, just miss the little things. However, it's totally WORTH it!
Movement: tons and she is getting quite cramped in there!
Food cravings: Ice!
Queasy or sick: nope
Showing: Oh yes!
Gender: Girl
Labor signs: Braxton Hicks
Belly button: Is in. Finally took my belly button ring out. Guess I'm growing up or something?
Wedding rings: On
Mood: Exhausted but happy!
Looking forward to: finishing the nursery and for this little girl to arrive healthy!!!
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Maternity Pics
We have been working hard on the nursery and the house. Stay tuned for inspiration photos and some photos of projects I will be doing for the nursery!
I have a quick photo of a project I finished two weeks ago. It's a Menu board for our kitchen. We seem to do better when we are organized and plan our meals out! Not to mention Brian loves dry erase boards and wanted me to somehow incorporate one into our everyday life. So I did a dry erase Menu Board. My hubbie hung it in our kitchen today. Yipppee! First, I will show you my inspiration:
Here is mine that I created. It cost me under $5.00. The door my wonderful mommy found in the trash some where. I got the scrapbook paper and letters to put on it. The cute vintage teal knob my mom got at Hobby Lobby awhile ago. Tada!
Lately I have been under the weather. I have been battling this horrible cold for over a week and a half. This has literally kicked my butt. I have ZERO energy and it really stinks cause all I want to do is lay on the couch. The last thing I wanna do is chase around my whack-a-do 3rd graders! I finally took a day off Friday and went to the dr. This head cold turned into a horrible ear infection, my luck! So the dr did give me medicine thank GOODNESS and it's slowly working. I did a little more today as far as running errands but I'm perfect content with relaxing on the couch.
Here are our Maternity Pics that we had my friend Amy take at The Rye Studio! We got in for one of her mini sessions and turned it into maternity pics! We love them, they turned out great. Very simple, yet creative and capture the moment. We didn't want anything over the top and we didn't want a million pics of me pregnant. Just enough to capture the moment for our little miss! They turned out great. Here they are!
I have a quick photo of a project I finished two weeks ago. It's a Menu board for our kitchen. We seem to do better when we are organized and plan our meals out! Not to mention Brian loves dry erase boards and wanted me to somehow incorporate one into our everyday life. So I did a dry erase Menu Board. My hubbie hung it in our kitchen today. Yipppee! First, I will show you my inspiration:
Here is mine that I created. It cost me under $5.00. The door my wonderful mommy found in the trash some where. I got the scrapbook paper and letters to put on it. The cute vintage teal knob my mom got at Hobby Lobby awhile ago. Tada!
The glare on the window is not allowing me to show how CUTE this Menu really turned out, but hey you get the idea!
Lately I have been under the weather. I have been battling this horrible cold for over a week and a half. This has literally kicked my butt. I have ZERO energy and it really stinks cause all I want to do is lay on the couch. The last thing I wanna do is chase around my whack-a-do 3rd graders! I finally took a day off Friday and went to the dr. This head cold turned into a horrible ear infection, my luck! So the dr did give me medicine thank GOODNESS and it's slowly working. I did a little more today as far as running errands but I'm perfect content with relaxing on the couch.
Here are our Maternity Pics that we had my friend Amy take at The Rye Studio! We got in for one of her mini sessions and turned it into maternity pics! We love them, they turned out great. Very simple, yet creative and capture the moment. We didn't want anything over the top and we didn't want a million pics of me pregnant. Just enough to capture the moment for our little miss! They turned out great. Here they are!
How far along: 32 weeks
Total weight gain: 23 pounds
Maternity clothes: Work pants and jeans. The bigger I get the harder it's getting to stretch my shirts, lol! I am having a harder time going shopping and not being able to buy adorable spring dresses, swimsuits, cover ups, etc. UGH! I can't wait to be a normal size so I can get my Summer shopping on!
Stretch marks: I'm getting a few little red lines here and there.
Sleep: Not so great since I've been sick. I am seeming to wake up every single night at 2:30 and cannot go back to sleep. It's not because I'm uncomfortable from being pregnant. For some reason I wake up at the same time and cannot go back to sleep! I miss my uninterrupted sleep nights. Guess I'm gearing up for parenthood, yippee!
Best moment: Getting the nursing/rocking chair, crib, changing dresser and dresser up in the nursery! All furniture is set! YAY!
Miss anything: Sleep
Movement: Lots
Food cravings: apples, peanut butter, pineapple, sharp cheddar cheese and salads still. I started loving ICE and captain crunch cereal!
Queasy or sick: nope
Showing: Oh yes!
Gender: Girl
Labor signs: just Braxton Hicks
Belly button: Is in. Finally took my belly button ring out. Guess I'm growing up or something?
Wedding rings: On
Mood: Exhausted but happy!
Looking forward to: Getting the KS Reading Assessment over with this week with my 3rd graders. Also our after school Boost Program is OVER which means I get to leave work everyday at 3:30. AAHHHHMAZING! Also, excited to start on some nursery projects this week like the curtains!
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