34 Weeks, Happy Veterans Day!!!

How far along? 34 Weeks - oh em gee, it's feeling real close

Maternity clothes? Can we talk about how adorable this sweater is?! I mean it's kind of perfect for the holidays...

Sleep: I'm falling asleep real easily at night and then wake up a few times to go to the bathroom.  But here's the kicker, I've been waking up at 6 and been AWAKE, like I can't fall back asleep awake. I'm hoping it's a phase because I want to soak up all the sleep I can get in these next few weeks!
Best moment this week: I was given another baby shower by my wonderful aunts and grandma last Saturday.  They went above and beyond and it was SO adorable.  Also we played the cutest baby shower games.  My favorite was an Alphabet book game - my aunt passed out pieces of paper with a capital-letter and lower-case letter for each letter of the alphabet.  She gave everyone markers and each person decorated a letter of the alphabet.  She is going to take all the pages that were decorated and make the baby his very own personalized Alphabet book!  I thought it was the cutest idea ever.  Oh and of course there was a winner, I chose the letter I thought was decorated the best, if you know my family you know there's always a tense competition. :)
Food cravings: I am trying to tell my body to crave healthy foods but it just doesn't always listen to me.  I still get excited to eat cereal every morning.
Looking forward to: Thursday night - it's our date night (Tim's days off are weird).  This week we actually have our hospital tour on Thursday night so we'll be checking that out and then I'm looking forward to a good dinner in Santa Monica! 
Baby item of the week: I've made some major progress this week in the nursery and I owe it to Tim for hanging and putting together the crib and moving furniture all around and my SIL who helped me decide what goes where. THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!  On that note, I've been looking at more decor and I love all the sweet signs that have cute sayings on them.  Here are a few of my favorites.

Love You To The Moon and Back

or there's this one

Can you tell I like the moon signs?

This is so cute, I think it'd be adorable in the bathroom.

Here's a few pictures from the Baby Shower on Saturday, I'll post more once I get all the pictures from my Grandma, she's the best photographer! :)

My dad has 3 sisters, I'm so lucky to have these wonderful women.

 
My sweet cousins

 And my favorite momma who had a baby 3 weeks ago - BEAUTIFUL!

This might be the cutest cake I've ever seen, I'm sorry I don't have a picture that is bigger, but I LOVE all the animals on it!

My grandma is one of seven girls, they were all at the shower. I adore them!

And because it's Veterans Day I have to give a shout out to my amazing Veteran husband who served in the Marines for 4 years.  I'm so grateful to him and all the other men and women who sacrifice so much for our country.  

33 Weeks

How far along? 33 Weeks

Monthly Check in: 21 lbs gained, Baby & I are a-growin!
Maternity clothes? Trying to hold off on buying anything else since I only have 6.5 weeks left!  But I will be getting a pair of comfy black yoga style pants.  Ruined mine last weekend when we attempted to give our dogs a haircut.  Let's just say we now know why we take them to get groomed instead of doing it ourselves. 
Sleep: Still sleeping pretty good.  It's definitely been harder to get up in the mornings but I wake up SOOO hungry so that pretty much is my motivation to get out of bed.
Best moment this week: I have the best friends and family.  They threw me a shower last Saturday and it was gorgeous and perfect.  The baby and I were incredibly spoiled and now I feel like we're ready for him to arrive!  We have the crib set up and the nursery is becoming my favorite room in the house.
Food cravings: Pomegranates... I love love love them.  I just bought the small package from Trader Joe's (the ones that are ready to eat) the other day and sat with a spoon and ate it. So delicious and juicy.  
Looking forward to: I get to see a bunch of family from my Dad's side this weekend for another family shower.  I am so excited to see everyone and to celebrate this squirmy babe inside of me.
Baby item of the week: I still have a small list of things to get done before baby gets here.  On the list is a sound machine.  Does this really matter, did any of you mamas get one for your kids?

Okay now I want to share a bunch of great pictures from the shower, SO cute!

This is one of my best friends, Miss Kimmie, she is incredible and I often refer to her as Martha since she is so stinkin crafty and everything she touches turns out perfect.  She, along with my mom and MIL planned and did the shower and I am so grateful to them! Thank you! :)

Some of the decor from the tables

The cake and dessert table were to die for - all my favorite sweets in one place!

They had set up an area for people to leave Baby B and I a note.  I loved looking through these after the shower.  We will definitely treasure this book.

One of my oldest and best friends completely surprised me and flew in from Utah.  It was one of the highlights of the day.  Her and B are sharing a moment below. And another pic of more friends.  

These are just a few of the pictures that some friends had forwarded.  I wasn't able to get pictures yet of all the wonderful food that was prepared or of everyone who attended so if anyone has more pictures feel free to send my way!  Thank you everyone for coming and for making Baby B & I feel so special!

32 Weeks

How far along? 32 Weeks, entering my eighth month, ALMOST THERE!

Maternity clothes? Still sportin them.  This week I tried to find a costume for Halloween this Thursday. I'll be dressing up at work.  It is a HUGE deal in my office.  There will be plenty of pictures to come.

Sleep: Feeling pretty lucky that I am still sleeping good, I've heard it gets pretty bad at the end.

Best moment this week: The weekend!  Work has been so busy lately that I'm reminded how grateful I am for the weekends.  Also it gives me time to do more baby prep.

Food cravings: I've been craving eggs over medium, you know where the yolk is all runny.  And that's a no no so for now I've been sticking with scrambled but daydreaming about my sourdough toast and runny yolk eggs on top... 8 weeks.

Looking forward to: Halloween!  We are hoping the weather cools down enough so that we can have a little firepit going in the driveway and pass out candy to all the kids in the neighborhood.  And if we have a firepit you know what that means, S'mores :)

Baby item of the week: I've been looking at blankets for the crib this week and am having kind of a tough time finding the one.  Here are a few I like.

Diamond White Quilt

Sergeant Pepper Triangle Quilt

Modern Baby Quilt Blue & Green

Grey & White Herringbone Quilt

I'm kind of all over the place with the styles I'm looking at, but I do like the more subtle ones and will probably go with a solid color blanket... we shall see.

Have a great week!

31 Weeks!

How far along? 31 WEEKS!!! Wowza

Maternity clothes? Yup, was enjoying wearing my new long sleeve maternity shirts but then it's back to warm weather again. Fall, please come back. 

Sleep: Slept pretty good this week, finally feeling like this cold has gone away!

Best moment this week: Meeting my sweet nephew William Henry.  He is such a dream.  He just couldn't wait to get here and came 3 weeks early.  My SIL is a champ and both her and the baby are home and doing great.  Here he is...

I'm obsessed with those chubby lips, perfection.

Food cravings: Cereal. Cold cereal.  Could eat it 2 out of 3 meals a day. 

Looking forward to: Introducing Will to Baby B!  Now that Will is here it's getting more real.  It used to seem so far away but only two months now!

Baby item of the week: I've been looking at mobiles for above the baby's crib and I am loving these Restoration Hardware ones.  Here are my favorites: vintage airplane mobile, animal mobile or this elephant mobile.

With the new baby here I got a chance to spend some time with my niece and nephew (Will's older brother and sister, Nate + Paige).  We had lots of play time and Auntie spoiling happening.

We braided hair.

And Auntie brought them doughnuts for breakfast. :)

 

And Uncle Timmy roughed up Nate.

Tim and I went to the pumpkin patch today to pick out some pumpkins for carving this week.

I found the perfect one! ;)

Oh and here's one of the pups while I was cooking this week, keeping their eyes on me should anything fall on the floor.  Cuteness.

Have a great week!!!

30 Weeks

How far along? 30 Weeks, only 10 weeks left! Woah.

Maternity clothes? Just got a couple dresses for the shower from ASOS, still trying to decide which one to go with..

Sleep: Slept great this week (minus a few back aches) as long as I had all my pillows

Best moment this week: We had our 4D ultrasound! It was AWESOME.  Our parents came along and the place was like a theater.  There was a huge projector and tons of room so both of our parents could sit.  Baby was active the whole time! I felt like he was showing off for us.  He kept snuggling his feet, he sucked on his toes, he yawned, he was sticking his tongue out... it was crazy to see that he can do all those things right now.  It's making me even more anxious for him to be here.

 

That would be a foot he is snuggling (above left), look how happy it makes him. Sigh.
Bottom left pic is one of my favorites, such a deep thinker my son is.

 

Food cravings: I made some pumpkin chocolate chip bread.  For this rookie right here, I'm going to say it turned out bomb.  I will definitely be making it again.

Looking forward to: Meeting my new nephew, William :)  My sister in law is most likely going to have him next weekend.  Can't wait to snuggle up on him. 

Baby item of the week: My SIL was telling me about the Miracle Swaddling Blanket.  It is supposed to be the best swaddle blanket and help with colic, essentially it's supposed to live up to its name.  She got one and is going to try it out on Baby Will and then let me know.  Anyone else heard anything about this blanket?... Also does anyone else have a 28-year-old husband who is obsessed with this song?  So much so, that he downloaded an app that he can play the "fox noises" at any time.  Yeah... I think I might be the only one.  Anyways, it reminded me of this cute little fox, even if it does make me think of that song.

This week I was finally feeling better enough to go walking so I had to document it of course.  Here I am ready to go! Woot woot! (I promise our bed does not always look like this, it was sheet/duvet washing day ;)

Today I am off work for Columbus Day!  Me and all the bankers, so random, but I'll take it.  I'll be picking up some dark wood stain so that Tim can get the arms of our rocker stained today and then we can drop it off to get reupholstered. Have a great Columbus day and week!!!