Baby Shower!

We had a great time last weekend in Oregon! Jeremy stayed in Lincoln City for the weekend with his family as they went to the Chinook Winds Casino car show and had the Nova there...he said it rained pretty good all weekend there!

I stayed with my mom and we had a great weekend! Dan, her and I went to Cornerstone in Forest Grove for dinner and then Saturday was the baby shower which was at Mazatlan Mexican Restaurant - one of my favorite places! We had such a wonderful time with friends and family and got spoiled! We got a lot of clothes - which I hadn't bought any yet and I think we'll be set for a while.  We also got a lot of things we need along with gift cards too! We just need to pick up a crib mattress, Pack N Play and extra base for the car seat.  I also got a bunch of Babies R Us 20% coupons so that'll be nice when we get those last few items.  Now I just need to start decorating the nursery - find some framed pictures to hang and get it set up! :) I'm so thankful of all of the generousity from friends and family!

My Mom  & I

 

Spoiled already!

Yummy cake!

 First pair of Nike's!

Saturday evening my mom took me to a great restaurant called Hall Street Grill! We had delicious salmon for dinner!  Jeremy's grandparents came to Idaho on Sunday and brought all the shower gifts over since we flew and just left this morning.  Grandma made us one of her amazing apple pies and Grandpa assembled the crib!

I can't believe how fast time is flying by! My ticket at the top of the page says about 58 days to go - I know that is a give or take figure but sheesh...that's not much longer! :)

So now I need to get started and writing all those thank you cards!!

31 weeks

Here I am at 31 weeks! I can't believe we already 9 weeks away from my due date! I'm still feeling pretty good overall! I am noticing she's doing a lot more moving around and can feel the movement way more lately! It's funny sometimes if I watch my belly I can see these random movements on the outisde! I'm feeling a bit under the weather like a sore throat is coming on...so I've been taking those Emergen-C packets since there's not much else I can take and going to try to get to bed early again.

Jeremy finished painting the nursery! I had a hard time getting a good picture to where you could see the pink good.  I would say its brighter than this picture but you get the idea.  It's a bubble gum pink tone a bit brighter than I expected it to be but I think it'll work :)  Our crib is a dark espresso so I think that'll help tone the color down a bit, especially after we get stuff on the walls and the new blinds hung.

We're off to Oregon tomorrow for the weekend for my baby shower which I'm really excited for and to see friends and family!

My mom and her boyfriend Dan just got back from Cancun and are engaged! I'm so happy for them :)

Childbirth class and doctor's appointment

We did our childbirth classes this past weekend.  We decided to do a weekend class because Jeremy's really busy with work and his schedule will be all over the next month or two.  We had our class Friday from 7-9pm and 10am-3pm on Saturday.  I thought it  would be really long because it was crammed into such a short period of time.  We ended up taking a class at the other hospital in town because where I'm delivering was booked up for Saturday classes and the next one available was around the end of October - that'd be pushing it too close.  Our instructor was great, she kept us doing activities and moving around so the time actually flew by.  I found the class to be very informative and helpful.

I had a doctor's appointment yesterday, everything is looking good.  The doctor said everything is perfect, I'm measuring right on track.  I now have to start going every 2 weeks! I can't believe how fast time is flying by.

Jeremy started painting the nursery, we picked a light pink color.  We've only got 1 coat of paint on the walls but it's a tad bright when the natural light comes through the window.  I think we'll get the second coat on and see how it looks.

30 weeks

Here I am at 30 weeks! I'm still feeling pretty good, I've had some soreness here and there but has gone away quickly.  I honestly thought by now I'd be feeling pretty crappy and not sleeping well ::knocks on wood::  I went to a breast feeding class last night that was free with the birthing class, it was really interesting and educational.  We are doing our childbirth classes this weekend - it's Friday evening and Saturday.  I'm hoping we can start working on getting the nursery painted this week.  We bought paint last weekend since Home Depot was doing a sale, we ended up getting a soft pink, which is funny because it would be what Jeremy would call an "Easter color" basically a pastel but he liked it!

We are still tossing names around, we're keeping the name a surprise and of course each have our favorite - which aren't the same.  I guess we'll still keep looking for ideas, we have quite a list going - at least we have time to decide still :)

I have my next doctor's appointment on Monday - then I start going every 2 weeks! I can't believe we have 70 days to go...give or take! Geeze, it's going by so fast!

We're going to Oregon next weekend for my baby shower which I'm excited for :)

We recently found out from the lady we got our dog Dixie from who passed away last October that she just bread her dog...hopefully means puppies in late October.  We get 2nd pick of the litter since she is keeping one. If all goes well we'd be able to get the puppy at the beginning of the year.  I'm really excited since Dixie who was an Australian Shepherd taught us how special the breed is! I know we'll have our hands full with a newborn and a puppy but I have no doubt in my mind we can handle it! :) I can't wait to have another dog again, won't be able to replace Dixie but will be exciting1

29 weeks

Here I am at 29 weeks! Still feeling pretty good and sleeping comfortably! ::knock on wood::

I helped Jeremy paint the edges of the ceiling in our bedroom. We have 10' ceilings (at the lowest point) and vaulted ceilings in the master - all the ceilings are the same colors as the walls - brown which is fine but we decided to paint our bedroom and had to paint the ceiling. The trim is a cream and initially we were going to just paint the ceiling white but it didn't look good with cream trim, so we ended up with going with a cream color for the ceiling. I ended up painting along the edge where I could reach as most of the painting had to be done on the ladder. I felt like I needed to help do something! We're going to paint our bedroom this weekend. I think we settled on a slate blue color. Construction is done on the balcony so we can move our bed in there which is currently in the nursery. Once we finish that we'll be painting the nursery. I think I wanted to do a soft pink but we haven't settled on a color yet. We're staying in town this weekend and will probably do stuff around the house. I want to go ride the greenbelt and hit up the Farmers Market too...should be a relaxing weekend :)

Oregon

We had a nice visit this past weekend in Oregon!

We flew in on Friday and met my mom & Dan and Jeremy's parents for dinner at Helvetia Tavern! Yum! Jeremy's dad got the cutest Onesie and bib for our baby! Helvetia Tavern is one of Jeremy's favorite places to eat and is only in Oregon - so it was neat that they had baby stuff with their name on it! We stayed with our friend's Matt & Julie for the weekend

Saturday I went to the Farmer's Market in Hillsboro with my mom, Dan & Scott. They had awesome flowers so I bought some for Grandma Daisy since she loves flowers! I also got a pint of strawberries which I ate while we walked around. Then I went and got Travis & Darcie's wedding gift, Christal and Grandpa's birthday gifts since we were going to celebrate their birthdays on Sunday.

Saturday evening was Travis & Darcie's wedding - it was so good to see all our friends and others which I hadn't seen in a while! I found a super cute dress at Kohl's right before we left. Everyone was excited to see the baby bump and many people couldn't get over how 'small' I was - I took it as a compliment. The wedding was beautiful and the weather was great - wasn't too hot! We had a great time celebrating with the bride and groom! I was obviously the designated driver for Jeremy, Matt & Julie - so after the reception was over we made a stop at Taco Bell on the way home! LOL

Mr. & Mrs!

Julie & I

Jeremy & I

Sunday we met up with Jeremy's family, grandparents and Aunt Marcy, Uncle Greg and cousins Kaelee and Danielle who were in town for a family reuinion. We celebrated Grandpa Dave & my sister-in-law Christal's birthdays at Prime Time for brunch.

All in all it was a nice weekend! It was nice that the flight to Portland is only 1 hour!

We'll be headed back in 3 weeks for my baby shower....I cannot believe how fast time is flying by! We're in the third trimester and time to get stuff done! I got a call that the crib arrived so we're going to pick it up tonight. I think we'll wait until Grandma & Grandpa come to visit so Grandpa can help Jeremy put it together :)

In other news, I'm betting there are going to be a whole lot of babies arriving next year! It was interesting to hear how many people are going to start trying - and that they're telling everyone! I hope they all get pregnant fast since they're all so excited to become parents! :)

28 weeks

Wow! I can't believe I'm already 28 weeks! I'm still feeling good, not too many aches and pain....yet...I know they're coming - I've heard that I should expect to hit a wall in a few weeks where my body is achy, can't sleep well, etc. Until then I'll enjoy feeling good!

After my last doctor's appointment I tried registering for a childbirth class at the hospital I will deliver at - umm...all full till late October. I found another local hospital that had some classes and by the time I called theirs were full too, thankfully the lady said she'd be willing to make an exception and let me into a class next month. Jeremy's schedule is really busy so we wanted to do a Friday/Saturday or Saturday class and there's lots but they are over a 4 week period. I'm glad to have got registered for that and the other hospital has the breastfeeding class at no extra charge!

Here's the 28 week belly shot:

We're heading to Oregon tomorrow for our good friend's Travis & Darcie's wedding which is on Saturday! I'm excited since their ceremony & reception venue is at McMenamins Cornelius Pass Roadhouse - which is where we had our reception. Luckily they won't experience the record breaking heat that we had in May 2008 - 95 degrees! Instead it looks like it'll be in the 70's - not too hot, probably just right! It'll be great to see our friends too!

I booked airline tickets for September 17-19 - my best friend Julie and my mom are throwing me a baby shower! :)