Thursday, May 19, 2011

Nursery Decorations!


When I bought my bed set I also purchased some vinyl wall pieces too. When I put them up on the wall I just thought that they look way too tacky and cheap so I tried to figure out how else I could use them. I decided to decoupage them onto cute bright colors of canvas that I painted. Now, if you know me well enough you will know that I have trouble with "over" decorating items. This project was very difficult to keep it simple. I had tons of more sticker things but I kept it to only 2 decorative stickers on each canvas besides the animal. That was a hard task for me! Normally I would have so over decorated. You should all be proud of me. I think my crafty, style side is starting to develop! The above picture shows them in progress and the bottom pictures show them mounted on the wall! I went with an uneven line so that I didn't have to try so hard to line it all up perfect cause it would drive me crazy if they were all a little off.

I added a picture of the bed set at the bottom so that you could see how it all goes together!






Tuesday, May 17, 2011

36 Weeks!

I'm not sure why buy every picture I took this week I really look like I'm struggling to smile! 

So..... I went to my doctors appointment today and everything is looking pretty good. He said that I have to watch out for preeclampsia because my blood pressure was a little higher than normal. Preeclampsia is a first time baby thing. Your blood pressure just gets really high and the only cure for it is birth. So, if it does get too high we will be inducing labor a little early. He also told me (now, I'm not sure if this will be TMI for the guys but) i'm 50% effaced and 1cm dilated! He said that for a first baby I was very ripe, or farther along than most at 36 weeks. I've been having a lot of contractions which is probably why I'm farther along than 'normal'. Ryan and I also went to our first prepared childbirth class last night. It was kinda boring. They didn't really go over anything that was new or unusual. Everything that they talked about I had heard before or read about. We have one more next Monday and I hope that it covers some more information that I haven't learned about yet. 
The count down for baby walker says 26 DAYS!!!! I can't believe it. That just seems so soon! 

Also, I wanted to show off my 'new' baby bouncer. I registered for this one at babies r' us and they cost about $60. I went to other mothers with Mom and Nicole the other day though and saw this there for only $24!! Can you believe that!? It is they exact one that I wanted, in really good shape, at less than half the price! I was so proud of myself I had to show it off. 




Wednesday, May 11, 2011

A Baby Shower, 2 Weeks, and Jury Duty


Last Saturday my sister Nicole and my Mom threw a baby shower for me. It was very fun and exciting.  Nicole made the above sign for the shower so I took a picture to forever remember it. I was totally lame though and didn't take any actual pictures at the shower. Boo. 






I have been kinda of slacking on my posting belly pics so I have 2 weeks for you this time! Not much difference and I actually look bigger in the 34 week pic than I do in the 35 week pic. I think it has to do with the shirt that I am wearing. Either way though, I'm getting huge! My belly is sticking way out, stretch marks are just beautiful, not, and rolling over is kind of difficult. Some mornings I actually require assistance from Ryan to sit up out of bed. At my 34 week appointment the doc said everything is looking good. He did say that I've gained a lot a weight quickly but my last 2 appointments were right after getting back from vacay in Utah. When I'm in Utah I guess I eat a lot more food and probably a lot worse food! I know that the vacay's are responsible for the weight gain because once I get back I go a week or two without gaining any weight, so I figure I make up for the gaining a lot by not gaining any the following week! Anyways, enough about my getting fatter. 





Can you believe that I'm at 35 weeks!!!! I can't. I seems like I still have so long to go but really I could deliver in like 2-4 weeks anytime. I've been obsessed with reading other women's birth stories on blogs lately. I think I only read on blog where they went past to 41 weeks but all the others were around 36 weeks! I would love to have a little baby boy in my arms next week but I just get the feeling that is not going to happen. I tried to up the walking, hoping that it will help him to drop and down and get things going. It would also be nice with the wedding coming up to be prego free for like 3 weeks before. I feel like I would be somewhat back to myself by then, hopefully. 




In other news, I was summoned to jury duty a few months back for this week and next week. So, I don't know if any of you have had jury duty but I actually think that it would be cool to serve on a jury. I knew though that being in my current state that I was not going to be selected for a jury. However, knowing that I would not get selected, I still had to go the court house and wait. I was called to be in a jury selection pool. There were 55 people in the selection pool. We all had to go sit in a courtroom and answer some questions that the judge asked and then each and every one of the  55 people had to introduce them selves, give a little background and answer a few questions. That doesn't seem so bad but when you have 55 people to go through it is. It took us about 4 hours to go through this process. When it was my turn, I was number 48, one of the questions was could you serve on this jury for 4 weeks? When I stood up and said that 4 weeks would be difficult because I could have a baby at any time everyone in the room just cracked up laughing so hard. I'm guessing everyone was pretty bored because it wasn't too funny but I think it was the funniest thing that anyone there had heard in about 6 hours.  During the time that I wasn't talking I just sat there. You can't do anything. No phone, no books, nothing. SOOOO boring!!! After being in this room from 10:00am-4:00pm with a 1.5 hour lunch break they selected 12 people from this group and the rest of us were free to leave. For the rest of the 2 weeks I just have to call in every night after 5:30 to see if my call group is required to come in. So far I haven't had to go in. Hopefully next week I'm just as lucky too because I have an OB appointment on Tuesday at 10! 


Tuesday, April 19, 2011

32 weeks and a Happy Birthday to ME!!!


On Sunday I reached 32 weeks! I can't believe that we only have 8 weeks left! I've started to go to the doctors every 2 weeks now. I'm also pretty sure that I've started to experience some small contractions. I wasn't sure what they were but at my doctors appointment he said that when my stomach becomes really tight it's most likely a small "practice" contraction. Sleeping at night is also becoming a little more of a challenge. Don't get me wrong, I'm still loving being pregnant but I am also very excited to have this baby out of my belly and in my arms. 


 Today was my 23rd birthday! I had a ton of fun. My mom took me to lunch with some good friends Amber, her two adorable kids, and Kristy. We went to Red Robin and I think it's become a tradition since we did the same thing last year too! We had a ton of fun. Lunch was kind of a birthday lunch for all of us since we all had a birthday within the last month so we told our waitress that we were celebrating 5 birthdays. She looked at us kind of suspicious but still brought us all a delicious ice cream! After lunch my mom spoiled me and took me to a nail salon to get a pedicure. It was a-m-a-z-i-n-g!!! Usually my feet are way too ticklish but I did ok today and enjoyed it. It may have been the super comfy massage chair that I got to sit and relax in that helped. The pedicure also turned out to be way cheaper than we had expected so we decided that it may have to become a monthly thing that we do! 


Later that night Ryan and I headed over to my parents for dinner. As long as I can remember my mom has always decorated the kitchen for our birthdays. When we all lived at home she would get up super early, sometimes as early as like 4:30 in the morning, to decorate the kitchen so that when we came down for breakfast it would be the first thing we saw! She is the best mom ever!!! 

After a delicious dinner of salmon, salad and potatoes we headed out for some yummy froyo! A new place opened up a few weekends ago that is literally 2 blocks from our house. They have a delicious peanut butter froyo that is amazing when topped with delicious chocolate candies. I can already see this being a favorite stop on my summer walks. It may counter everything that I do on the walk but it is so good that I probably won't care :)
Overall, today was a great day! Thanks everyone for an 
amazing
23rd birthday!!!

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Nursery Update!!!


Hello everybody!!! 

I finally got my crib set up and some blankets put in it! I was missing 5 screws for the crib so I've been driving around town everywhere trying to find the right ones. I finally decided to just get any screws that were the same size but had a different top to them. It turned out to work just fine.

 I finally got all registered at babies r us. Click here if your interested in seeing what I've registered for! Feel free to add suggestions in the comments too! Especially all you mom's out there! What did you find that you loved or wished that you had but didn't?






Sunday, February 20, 2011

24 Weeks & Sunday Dessert!

 If you didn't already know...I'm pregnant! I am 24 weeks today. I had a doctors appointment on Friday and everything is looking good. He (it's a boy!) is just over 1 pound and about the length of an ear of corn. 


I haven't had any weird cravings. I hear about women having strange cravings or any sort of cravings. I don't think that I have had any. I enjoy eating food but nothing in particular. Today I was excited to bake. I have wanted to bake some cookies for quite some time and I finally did it! I made oatmeal cookies and chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. They almost taste like carmel oatmeal cookies though because of all the sugar. They are D.E.L.I.C.I.O.U.S!

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

New Traditions...

This year for Valentine's I was kind of obsessed with creating a tradition that we could do every year for Valentine's Day from now on. I think that I was successful and I'm excited for next year to try out our tradition. What is that tradition you might ask? Well, don't get to excited because it's nothing fancy but it was fun....
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HOMEMADE PIZZA!!

We decided to make a margarita pizza, delicious!