Just the two of us... for a couple more days.

Well, I just realized this will probably be the last time I post before our baby gets here. We do have tomorrow morning and afternoon, but my family is coming into town so I probably won't get time to write anything tomorrow.

You've probably read over and over on my blog and know that tomorrow is the day that we go in to the hospital for my induction. We go in around 8 p.m. so the baby will probably come the following day (Wednesday the 30th), if not the day after (Thursday the 31st- I'm hoping it won't take that long!)

Tonight is the last night, however, that we get to sleep in our own house/bed.... just the two of us. After tonight the next time we come home there will be THREE of us.

I really can't believe this time has finally come. We are VERY, VERY, excited and can't wait to see our little girl. You can imagine I will probably be a bit more (ok, quite a bit more) nervous than Nicholas as we go in, but as of right now I feel good and I am just happy that we are finally getting to this point.

I guess I know somewhat of what to expect for the delivery.. I mostly just expect the pain.. ha, but I of course have never been through this process before so there's a lot I don't know, or maybe don't expect. I will probably be extremely nervous though because that's just how I am. Whether if it's for the pain, or just being nervous that everything goes alright.

Well, until she's here this is the last post for now. We will try to get something up as soon as possible though. :) We're finally going to have our baby girl!!

Merry Christmas!!! 

And a Happy New Year!

We hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and New Years Eve when it comes :)

Things just keep coming...

Yesterday, Nicholas and I were out doing a little yard work. We were expecting a package that we had missed from the day before and I (I also thought Nicholas) had no idea what it was that was coming. Well, the UPS guy drove by and stopped right in front of our house. He opened up the back and Nick went over to help him. They pulled out a HUGE box... and on the front it said Europa Baby... yup, our crib! :)

I don't remember what I said.. I think I just sat there looking confused and excited at the same time. Nick turned to me and said, "Did you know this was coming?" Then he just laughed... he had it planned out this whole time! I guess him and his mom had already bought it (I thought we were going to go with her to get it when she came out here) and so he knew it was coming this whole time.

I was so happy and I love it. Take a look:

 

 

 

 

 It may not look like I helped out at all.. but I promise I did ;)

Nick is so great. He always does these kinds of things.. :) And I love surprises. Now on to buying the bedding....

I wanted to show a few little projects I've done...

There is this girl in my ward who makes all of these bows! I was so thrilled when she called me to see if I wanted to come make some for our little girl :) YES. I of course loved doing this, and our little girl will be wearing plenty of these around because I think they are just so cute and adorable on baby girls!

Most of them you make the flower with a little clip, then you make the headbands and you can clip on any flower you want to it, so it's nice to mix and match with different outfits. Others are bows- which you can also clip on to the headbands, or when the baby is older with more hair you can clip into the hair. Then the small little flowers are the cutest tiniest little barrettes I have ever seen and they just clip right into the hair. I saved a few from the picture because those are going to go with her outfits that I've picked out :) So pictures of the whole thing will come later.

Thank goodness for little girls that we can dress up and make things for!

See that little baby ticker up there? It's now in the single digits... :)

I had my last doctor appointment today. This 9 month journey is really coming to an end. We are all set to go on the 29th of December for our induction. I will plan on taking long walks and doing my jumps in my work out video this week though to maybe get things going a little quicker ;)

We went to babies r us the other night to get the final essentials for the baby and boy was that an AWESOME shopping experience! I got my new glider (the other one that came in was broken) and the manager gave us a 75 dollar gift card because of it! So we were able to use that for our shopping plus a coupon for 10% off your entire purchase, so basically we saved 50% on everything we bought that day. After we had everything in the basket Nick looked at me and said "Is this really all we need to have a baby?" Haha. I think the shopping and getting everything ready has taken some time, but when you love doing it and doing it with someone you love (Nick) it's a breeze.

There are a few more things we need to finish up, but most is ready to go. I have some adorable little outfits already picked out for her... pictures of those will come once she is born! :) I can't wait to dress her up.

Alright.. well, it's all winding down!! We are really excited! Goodbye for now.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Nicholas and I put our Christmas tree up awhile ago and I love it :) I can't believe this will be our third Christmas together. Last night we were trying to remember each one and what we did for them. This one will sure be one to remember, however.

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We will be staying here in Oklahoma for Christmas. Then soon after that.. in fact, four days after Christmas day we will be heading to the hospital (that is, if she hasn't come by then already). I can't believe Christmas is coming so fast as well as our due date. I'm so excited! Each day I've been getting more and more anxious. These last couple of weeks may be hard for me to wait, but Nick has the whole week off next week and we will enjoy spending our time together. He keeps me busy and entertained that's for sure :) 

 

I'm am 38 weeks today. Exactly 2 weeks away from my due date. I can't believe it. I get to see my family in 12 days! Then we get to see Nick's parents and little sister in 16 days! I'm very excited for them to come and to see our little girl.

 

38 weeks with our Christmas tree :)

I'm feeling pretty good right now. Other than a few recent aches and pains. I tried going on a REALLY long walk yesterday. I would say it was pretty decent. I do have to say, however, that I very much dislike dogs. Especially dogs in back yards that run up to the fence and bark at you. I just wanted a nice peaceful walk and there were like 10 dogs barking at me on each side of the pond. So I had to change my course to a much shorter route by the park and walk around that about 30 times instead of being able to walk around the large pond area close by. Oh well. Just for future though ;) If you have a dog.. save the pregnant lady from being extremely upset and don't put them outside next to a park area where they run and bark at people all day.

The lovely pond I wanted to walk around (see the houses on both sides? They all have dogs.)

Next week I have my last doctors appointment. I finally get to take Nick again with me because he will have school off :) I like it when he can come and we always go out to lunch after.. that's the best part! Ha. This appointment will also be the first time I find out how I'm progressing. I really hope the doctor has good news. Up until now he hasn't checked my progression at all, apparently he just doesn't do that for some reason, so I have no idea how my progression is as of right now.
 
We have a place for baby to sleep.. at least for the first few weeks :) We got a pack n play! And.. it has monkeys all over it! (My favorite) Nick chose it and he loves it too! We even have her some little stuffed animal monkeys that we had previously.. yes I brought them with me after we got married. Ha

We also got our stroller/carseat! If you can't tell, getting all of these things just makes me so excited. We both love this travel system, and I absolutely love having the base in my car (we put it in a couple weeks ago) sometimes we'll put the carseat in too just for the fun of it. It's so exciting :)

Well, just 2 more weeks before we get to see this adorable little girl:

If she comes before then.. then, we will try our best to keep you posted :) Chau for now.

So, this post won't let me put a title I don't know why, but I guess I just won't have a title.. I couldn't really think of a good one anyways.

Well... I must say I am very proud of myself. I've been saving up coupons for a few weeks now and every Sunday night Nicholas and I like to sit down and look through the huge stack of coupons we get from the newspaper. I bet he never thought I would use them, ha.

Today though, for the FIRST time EVER in my whole grocery shopping history, I used some of my coupons! :) I went through the self check out because 1) I felt a little embarrased- I don't know why and 2) I always think the worst of things like... "what if they don't accept them?" "or what if the coupons don't work or I got the wrong item?" then the lady might look at me weird. So instead of going to a cashier I just went to the self check out. I scanned all my items then I pushed that little do you have any coupons button, and I scanned my coupons and put them in the little dispenser thing... and they worked!

I saved a whopping total of $1.55. Ok, so it wasn't that much, but still! It saves and imagine saving something every time. So there is my little self congratulation to myself for saving my coupons, using them, and saving some (even if not a lot) of money. :)

Oh and while looking through coupons I saw a great ad for the perfect little Christmas present for a family member so I went to ULTA and saved some money there too and got a cute little gift!

Update

BABY INFO:

Well, next week is 38 weeks for us. The weeks are winding down so fast. Each day I think about my baby and lately I've been wanting her to come more and more. I think it's because now I know she is full term and actually could come anytime. Watch though, with all my wishing she will just wait it out until the 29th. :) That's alright.


Here is what I've been reading lately from the daily/weekly pregnancy e-mails I get:

"Only three more weeks to go (can you believe it?). Actually, now that you're 37 weeks pregnant, your pregnancy is technically considered full-term — which means you can safely go into labor any day now."

I can't believe we've come this far. Not to say that I will go into labor anytime soon, but just knowing that my baby is now considered full term and can come anytime is such an exciting and reassuring feeling.

It is also somewhat nerve racking knowing that I can go into labor anytime in the next three weeks, but I'm shooting for about a week before my due date.. that would be nice :) If not, we will go into the hospital to be induced on December 29th.

BABY SHOWER: 

I had my baby shower last week. It was wonderful! There are so many sweet girls out here who have been so nice to me and become good friends. I'm really thankful for them.

Here are a few of the pictures I got from it:

I don't have a recent photo of our baby girl (or my belly you might say), but I will try to get one. Nick and I still need to take our Christmas picture by the tree (yes, we got it up and I LOVE IT!) so I will put that up later and get a good shot of how big our girl has grown :)

CHRISTMAS INFO: 

I love Christmas time so much. I really, really do. We haven't done any Christmas shopping, but we need to. We mostly just need to get family gifts and the rest of the things for the baby. Christmas will of course be special, but won't be too big because it will just be Nick and I here in our home and we aren't thinking about doing gifts. He did get me a nice gift though already which I looove :) My glider for the baby room. So I guess I will have to sneak some shopping in sometime to get him something ;)

SCHOOL:

Nick has had finals everyday this week continuing on into next week until Friday. I really feel bad for him, he studies so hard. I am proud of him though and I'm so grateful I have a husband who is such a hard worker. He is done with his second semester though next Friday! So tell him good job if you see him.. or talk to him.. since we don't see most of you! Poor kid will get done with finals just in time to have a little girl to take care of. That's alright though. You should see how excited he is for her to come. I can already see how happy he'll be and how much he loves her and wants her to be here. He will do so great with her and I won't be surprised if all she wants is her daddy.

Well, that's a little bit about what's going on in our lives right now, just school for nick, work for me (still just doing substituting), waiting anxiously for our little girl, and trying to get ready for Christmas!

I ♥ Christmas music

It makes me happy, so you will have to hear it every time you come to our blog from now on until the end of December... maybe even a little bit after. :)

I love the Christmas season, the lights, the snow on the trees (oh wait, no snow here in OK), hot chocolate, happy smiling faces, giving to others, everything is great, so I hope you enjoy it while it lasts!

Thanksgiving

There are so many things that I am thankful for and I really don't even know where to start. I'll begin with my top five, which are probably the most basic for most of you, but they really are the best things in my life.

1. My husband
2. Our little girl
3. Family
4. The Gospel
5. Our home

Don't mind the cropping job I had to do on both family pictures... :) I'm not that talented in that area..and I now figured out that we need more family pictures on both sides of everyone!

Anyways, this Thanksgiving was wonderful, as always. We didn't really know what are plans were going to be for Thanksgiving up until a few days before the break. We ended up deciding to drive out to Colorado to surprise Nick's family for Thanksgiving. It worked :) I'm really glad we were able to get out one last time before our little girl comes and enjoy some time off together with family.

The dinner was delicious..

Nicholas and Sydney had a lot of fun together, as always, and were constantly keeping us entertained... you should have seen their "parkouring" skills. You can get a brief idea of what it is from this video...the office parkour
hahahaha I think it's hilarious.

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We took a walk nearby and had fun skipping ice... on ice... Nick was risky enough to actually jump over the ledge onto a little rock and break ice off so that we could entertain ourselves by throwing it on the frozen water and hearing it break.. ha.

On our ten hour drive to Colorado (yes, I made it with two bathroom breaks on the way there, and ONLY ONE on the way back home :).. ) Anyways, on the long stretch through Kansas there are probably about 500+ windmills stretched out along the highway. I tried counting them, but only got to 130ish. There were so many all in one spot and they just kept going and going.

We also passed through PARK CITY!... Park City, Kansas that is..

If you can't read that.. the water tower says Park City on it.

Unfortunately, like many of you might know, you forget to take pictures when you are having so much fun. So those are most of what we have.

It was great to get out though and the weather in Colorado was AMAZING.

This next month we will be at home for Christmas, just me, nick, and our little girl. I can't wait until my family comes out right after, and following their visit Nick's parents and Sydney will come out. It should be great :) 28 more days people!