36 weeks

How far along? 36 Weeks, I love how it says Happy Thanksgiving and you can see the Christmas tree we just put up in the background.  Gotta get a head start on my Christmas decor!
Maternity clothes? I laughed when I saw this shirt, it feels very appropriate.  I can't wait for Thanksgiving this year.  I love getting together with family and eating my most favorite meal of the year.

Sleep: Ughh... I am lucky, don't get me wrong, but I cannot wait to not have to get up 6 times in the night to go pee.    
Best moment this week: My coworkers surprised me this last week and threw me a baby shower.  It was so nice, with the best food (Porto's) and sweets, balloons, flowers and gifts.  It was so nice and I'm so lucky to work with such great people.  :)  My last day at work before MAT leave is today! I can't believe how fast the time has gone.
Food cravings: I have been craving Thanksgiving food, not sure if it's just because I know it's coming and my palette is preparing for it, but I really can not wait. Mashed potatoes and turkey and gravy and yams and pies.... :)
Looking forward to: THANKSGIVING!!! Family time, shopping and food.
Baby item of the week: I ordered this mirror for the nursery. It arrives next week, I'll post a picture when we get it.  Hopefully it looks as good in person as I think it does online!

35 Weeks

How far along? 35 Weeks

Maternity clothes? I know I'm almost there but I couldn't resist this comfy dress from Motherhood Maternity.  

Sleep: I'm getting a lot of sleep but it's just interrupted with many bathroom trips, I guess it's good that I'll be getting used to waking up multiple times during the night!
Best moment this week: We got our chair for the nursery.  As I mentioned in a previous post, we got my Grandma Hazel's old chair reupholstered for the nursery.  She passed away just this last year and I'm so glad that we have something to remind us of her in the nursery.  Here is the before and after. I'm in love with it.  It turned out perfectly.

Food cravings: Thanksgiving food!!! 
Looking forward to: Thanksgiving next week!!! can't wait to get together with all my family and feast on one of my favorite meals.  I'm in charge of yams this year so I've been looking up recipes for that.  I'm thinking one candied and one that's not so sweet.  Anyone have a good recipe?
Baby item of the week: Not so much an item but I'm thinking of making one of these little banners for Baby B's room. They are so cute!

From Project Nursery

From Spearmint Baby

From Handmade Charlottle

From decoracion facilisimo

Hope everyone is having a great week! I'm going to see Hunger Games: Catching Fire tonight, I'll let you all know how it is! :)

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!