Jonathan's Work Shower

We had our first shower last Friday!  Jonathan's work gave him a shower/going away party before he leaves the department this week.  The ladies (and a couple guys, but I'm willing to bet it was only the ladies) that Jonathan works with planned a full pink shower!

They had some serious decorations throughout the entire office.

They had a great spread of food!

There was even a precious cupcake-cake!

One of the stipulations in the invitation was that everyone in the office had to wear pink shirts.  Good thing my man is all about wearing pink!  I think it's sweet that the whole office got into it!

The office went together and bought Adalyn's highchair!  How exciting!  Our first piece of baby gear!  Wasn't that soo sweet?

And one of Jonathan's coworkers bought us the most precious sundress for next summer!  What I would have given to watch Jonathan open up a cutsie little pink sundress and bloomers:)

I was told that they even played games!  (No pictures to prove it!)

Of course as soon as we got home Friday night Jonathan had to do the daddy thing and put together the new high chair!  It was so fun to watch him put it together! It's fun to picture Adalyn using it one day:)

I think it was so sweet of his office to go all out for our little baby girl! 

Beth, a birthday and some decorating

This has been another crazy busy weekend.  I have a feeling that I will be typing that after every weekend from now on!  I have so much to share and I'm so exhausted that I can barely think straight to type a sentence.  I told my mom that I think I push myself extra hard to do things when they are in town visiting so that we can squeeze everything that we need to get done into the short time they are visiting us.

The reason my parents came to visit us this weekend was so my mom could go to see Beth Moore with Billie and me.  None of us had ever seen her in person so we were extremely excited to go to the conference!  She packed out the lower arena at Rupp.  There were over 11,000 women from 29 states!  CRAZY seeing that many women in one place!  Beth did not disappoint.  She spoke on "Eat, Pray, Love" from Jeremiah and it was great!  Saturday morning somehow we were running early!?! and we got to the arena before the doors were opened so we had awesome seats for the Saturday session!  We were only about 8 rows up into the bleachers.  It was worth waking up at 5:30!  We had a great time and learned a lot!

My dad's birthday was last weekend so we celebrated his birthday while he was here.  He liked his cute golf cake!

The other items this weekend were a baby shower given by Jonathan's work, painting the nursery, assembling furniture, installing a chair rail and a ceiling fan!  I have so many pictures from those events that they will have to be their own posts.  I'm worried if I try to do one post with that many pictures it might be the longest post ever!  So you'll just have to wait.  But just know that I'm loving the nursery so far and cannot wait to start decorating and accessorizing the room!!

27 Weeks

Yesterday was the end of week 27!  So you know what that means!!!  I am now in my 3rd trimester!  SO crazy to think about!  I cannot believe that I only have 90 days left until my due date!  I'm a little in a state of shock about it all! I don't think there is much difference in my picture from last week and this week, but I feel like my belly has taken on a new shape.  It seems less all around-round and more straight out from my body-round.  If that makes any sense:)

According to What to Expect, Adalyn is about 16 inches and 2.5 lbs.  She's about the size of a head of cauliflower.  She should now be blinking, coughing, sucking and breathing better.  Usually babies born this early can survive with lots of medical attention.  (Adalyn, you can stay put for another 12 weeks!  We don't need that kind of scare!)

I'm still deciding on colors for the nursery (why do I have to be such a perfectionist??) and that will be this weekend's project for Jonathan and my dad!  I can't wait to see it all completed!  Once we get the furniture in the room, then I can start envisioning decorations... my favorite part!!! :)

Jonathan's work is throwing him a baby shower this Friday before he moves departments.  Isn't that sweet!  This will be our first shower!!  How exciting.  Don't think that I won't be sending the camera along with him to work that day to get a picture of everyone in the office wearing pink and him opening gifts! :)

Taking Over...

Boxes of baby furniture...

have taken over our guest room...

until the nursery is painted this weekend. 

Mom and dad, I hope you don't mind living among boxes this weekend... at least there is a path to the bed.?! :)  The good part is that as soon as the guys are finished painting, these can go into the nursery and then decorating can begin!!!

Busy Weekend!

Our weekend has been jam packed full of go go go!  Yesterday I looked at Jonathan and asked him if every single weekend until November 9th was going to be this crazy!  I miss normal hang around the house weekends.  But there is just too much to do to hang around the house!  Our poor house and yard are seeing the effect of this.

Friday started out my fun weekend.  I had a birthday dinner with Billie and Lindsy at Regatta Seafood!  You all... I did it again...No, I didn't wear that same tank top for the third time...

I just cannot resist a pair of pumps.  And unfortunately Regatta has little to no parking so walking to and from the restaurant was not so fun.  But the food was amazing!!!  And it was so much fun to have a girl's night with my two favorite girls!  We didn't get a picture of us in the restaurant so this is a picture from outside the restaurant.  I had a wonderful night!  Thanks girls!!! I love you!

My girlfriends know me so well and are both so generous.  Please look at these fun gifts they gave me!!

Billie got me this apothecary jar!  I love it!!!  Now I need to figure out what to put in it:)  It looks soo great on my buffet!

Lindsy clued me in to the Tervis Tumbler craze that I hadn't heard about and gave me this fun tervis tumbler with my initial. I need to stay hydrated!  And she gave Adalyn her first giant hair bow!  I LOVE it!!!  I cannot wait to see it on her precious little head!

Saturday morning Billie and I woke up bright and early to go to the Lil Lambs consignment sale.  It only comes around twice a year and since it was Saturday most of the stuff was 50% off!  This was my first baby consignment sale and it was soo much fun.  I filled up my laundry basket (they don't have carts) to overflowing and got some amazing deals.  I got the same Bundle Me (in the same color) that I had registered for at Babies R Us for only $4!!!  And Adalyn scored some great name brand clothes for under $5 each!  They also had some new items to buy that were donated to the sale... bows and hats.  I went a bit crazy because the prices were so great!  See for yourself...

(They came 3 to a pack so I wasn't completely insane:))  The UK hair band is Jonathan's favorite!  I bought it just for him!  Adalyn's going to be a precious little UK cheerleader this football/basketball season! 

When I got home, Jonathan and I went to buy the nursery furniture.  The store had the crib and changing table/dresser in stock so after a crazy afternoon of trying to borrow then rent and then find a friend with a truck and two trips to the other side of town, we now have the furniture in our house!  We do have a chest of drawers that is on order but I'm so excited that we got to take the two pieces with us!  We will not be taking them out of the boxes until the painting is finished, but you can bet that as soon as the paint is dried the crib will be put together with all of the bedding:)  I'm so excited!

...Which brings us to the four different colors of sample pinks that are on the nursery walls.  Do you remember how many colors of green I had in my kitchen/living room?  I have issues deciding on the Perfect Color!  I have been told by my precious husband that I will be making a decision before the end of the week so he can get started.

Those things along with a ton of other stuff kept us hopping all weekend but we were able to get a lot finished!  I think we even found a fun chandelier for Adalyn's room...

26 Weeks

Yesterday ended my 26th week!  I think I say this every week, but seriously the weeks are flying by!!  Everything is going well.  I'm happy to report that I really think my aqua fitness class is helping with my muscle and ligament pains!  My next appointment is in two weeks so I should have lots of fun stuff to report after that appointment since we'll get to see Adalyn!!!  I can't believe that I am this close to my 3rd trimester! wow!  I thought these 10 months would crawl by but they really haven't!

According to What to Expect, Adalyn is now measured from her head to her toes (instead of her rump) so she should be around 15 inches and about 2.2lbs!  Her weight has doubled from four weeks ago!  She can hear better now, which is probably why sometimes when Jonathan talks to her she kicks back.  It is so precious!  The other night I really think she was trying to talk to him!  Back and forth!  Her taste buds are developed now and did you know that she has more taste buds now than she will have outside the womb?  Crazy!  I think she really enjoyed my yummy birthday cake:)  She is extremely active now at certain times of the day/evening and I love feeling her do her acrobatics! 

We have finally chosen furniture for the nursery!  YAY!  I knew it would all start to come together.  We haven't purchased it yet, but hopefully this weekend we will be doing that!  I also have about 4 different sets of pink paint chips that I'm trying to choose from to paint her nursery.  Painting will begin next week so that will be exciting!!  We also registered this past weekend because Jonathan's office is throwing him a baby shower before he leaves the department (which is why it's so early).  It was more fun to register than I thought it would be.  Don't get me wrong...it was exhausting and so many decisions, but it was fun to picture Adalyn using all of the stuff!  Everything we do lately just keeps making it more and more real!

My 29th

Today is my 29th birthday!  I am well aware that I only have one more year in my 20's.  When I used to think about being in my 30's it seemed like it was sooo old.  Now, most all of my friends are 30 and here I am, one year away.  So crazy how fast time moves.  I can only imagine once Adalyn comes along, how fast time will fly then!  I did have one thing I wanted to do before I turned 30 and that was to be a mommy! 

My wonderful husband took me out to a new to us restaurant called Rossi's.  It was delicious and we were in a round booth and had the place to ourselves.  (He had tried to make reservations here for our anniversary and had called two weeks in advance and they were booked up.  Guess people don't eat at fancy restaurants on Monday nights! HA!)

Here is a picture in the car before we went inside.  My poor husband had been to the eye specialist and his eyes were dilated (they must have used the strong stuff because after dinner he still had issues seeing from a 2:00 appointment!) so a couple pictures we took looked like his eyes were shut:)

At our table.  I'm just going to go ahead and say it... Yes, that is the same shirt that I wore out last week to Billie's birthday at PF Changs.  Do you know how hard it is to find cute "going out" shirts in maternity?  Well it's pretty much impossible which is why that shirt is from Loft and not a maternity store.  I saw it and just had to have it!  I love ruffles and embellishments and those are few and far between in maternity.  Now I have a problem because I'm going out with the girls Friday night for my birthday and I CANNOT wear that same shirt for a third time out.  Maybe I'll go back to Loft and buy it in another color! HA! 

Here is the "view from here".  My precious husband bought me these shoes last year for a wedding and I never have the opportunity to wear them.  So yes, I did it.  I wore another pair of 4 inch heels.  You all, I have issues feeling dressed up unless I have serious high heels on.  And I mean serious.  And for some reason, even though my feet ache from all this extra weight, I cannot kick the feeling that going out to a nice restaurant means some sexy pumps!

Here's a better view of the actual shoes:)  It was actually J's idea for me to wear them tonight.  I had red pumps on and he thought I should wear pink and I'm glad I did.  Even if I did walk from the car into the house after dinner in my bare feet:)

Last year we had a bit of an issue with my birthday cake.  I'm not going to get into it.  So this year I was soo excited that he got me a VERY cute and VERY delicious cake!!!  How cute is this?

And a belly shot with the cake!  That way I can always remember just how huge I was on my 29th!  Let's just hope I'm not this same size by my 30th:) Hahaha!  Notice that the shoes are long gone.  Dakota really wanted a lick of that chocolate.  Right before J snapped this picture Dakota jumped up and almost reached that cake.  (He jumps like he has springs in his feet!)  I was laughing so hard!

My birthday present was my Canon Rebel a couple weeks ago but J got me a little something to open!  He got me a new case for my iphone which I've needed for months but just haven't gone out to buy one!  And it's cute!  Thanks J!!  And J's mom and sister gave me a certificate for a massage at The Baby Belly.  I'm sooo thoroughly excited to take full advantage of that!!  It's pretty much a dream come true to this fat lady with an aching back!  My parents are bringing my gift in a couple weeks when they come to go to Beth Moore (mom) and paint (dad) but they did send me a certificate for a pedicure!!!  What more could a pregnant girl ask for on her birthday?  A little technology and a lot of pampering!  Just what the doctor ordered:)