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!

Funny....

34 Weeks

Getting closer, getting bigger, and getting scared. :) I must say.. it was quite chilly today. I was telling my sister yesterday that I kind of miss the snow. I loved wearing all of my turtle necks and scarves when it was snowy outside. It hasn't been extremely cold out here, but today it definitely was! Hopefully... maybe... it might just snow a little bit here in Oklahoma this winter? ;) The trees always look so pretty when it does, and I don't mind just a LITTLE bit! (But I don't like a lot either!) Nick loves the snow too, so he would probably like that. Utah and Colorado, I've heard, have received quite a bit.. and I never thought I would say this, but I'm a little jealous! Oh well.

Anyways, 6 more weeks for us. We've bought a few more items for our little girl recently, they all say I love daddy, or daddy's little angel. Haha, guess who picks those out? My baby shower is coming up, so I'm excited for that. Thanksgiving is coming up.. excited for that too :) I can't believe it's next week.. crazy!

Ok, well, take care!

Wow. I just saw our little baby countdown. I was thinking we still had 50 something days left, but it's now less than 50. I can't believe it. The days are going by so quickly and things are coming up fast.

I'm 33 weeks. Now seeing the doctor every two weeks. We have a lot to do. Things are winding down and sometimes I feel like it's going by too quickly! Weird right? Most girls are dying to be done and I often hear it goes by really slow at the end. Maybe that will happen in the next month, but as of right now.... aaah! We need to get on the ball!

Although it's going by quickly, I can't wait until she is finally here! :) But.. I can wait a little longer.. until December 29th if that's when it finally happens.. she can keep growing and be a healthy little girl as long as she needs!

Think about it though... what if she did come early? 38..39 weeks? You never know... That just means less time for us and we won't even know it!

This is for you Isaac.. :)

This is for my little brother. I told him we dressed up for Nick's dental school Halloween party and that I would show him a picture.. so here it is. :) I don't think my costume was that great, Nick looked great, but I could have passed for just being lazy and pregnant and just wanting to wear sweats and a t-shirt to the party. ha..

Nick chose our costumes. He was a soccer player and I was his coach :) I know.. how cute huh? The best part of my costume was my whistle.. I finally found it after moving! :) Anytime I lost Nick throughout the night I just started blowing my whistle for him.... just kidding, but I should have. Ok Isaac, I love you!! I wish I could have seen you on Halloween too :)