25 Weeks!

So I am officially 25 weeks as of yesterday. Only 3 more weeks until the 3rd trimester!

This past week has been pretty busy. John and I have gone into full blown nesting mode. We have organized pretty much every closet in our house. Then last Thursday, John's brother came over and helped him put all of our stuff that we are not using up in our attic so we have plenty of room in the baby's giant walk in closet (which is bigger than ours by the way). Our house is looking more organized than ever...wonder how long that will last once the baby comes.

Friday and Saturday were nice. We spent the weekend at my parent's house in Riverside and I helped my Mom with baby shower stuff. The invites went out, so now it's just countdown time! She is also almost done making the centerpieces! She is very ahead since the shower isn't until the beginning of September. Her and I are very much alike in that we do not like to procrastinate! I am so excited, I cannot wait!

On Sunday, I went to my friend Dena's babyshower. It was the most beautiful baby shower I have ever been to. There was not one detail that was left untouched and they had a great turnout. I wouldn't expect any less from my friend Katie (her sister) and their mom Maureen! They are event planners and they helped with our wedding. They do an amazing job! It was also so nice to see so many of my girlfriend's from high school! I've missed them so much!

Monday through today were pretty uneventful, same ole weekly work stuff. I have however, decided that I'm going to take a better attitude about the whole weight gain thing though. Well, I am not sure if it's a better attitude or a better approach. I figure, I am not going to allow myself to whine if I am not doing anything to make it better. So I have started eating much much healthier and have given myself a goal of doing my pregnancy workout DVD at least 3 times a week and walking with John on the days he doesn't have to work. My inspiration is the baby shower for now...I don't want to be a giant blob at my shower, so I have 6.5 weeks to get it together!

On another note, I have noticed that being pregnant makes me extremely indecisive. I bought that pink Petunia Pickle Bottom bag a couple weeks ago and I liked it... for about 1 day. Then as I looked at it more and more, I realized that something with that much pink is probably not going to match with a lot of my outfits and since I bought it with the intention of using it as a purse too, that would somewhat defeat the purpose. So I returned it and got this one instead...

I figured black and white go with a lot more things and red is my favorite color so its perfect! I really do love this one and I've had it for over a week now so I think I won't change my mind again lol.
 
Our exciting thing for this upcoming week is that we are getting our carpet replaced tomorrow! You have no idea what a big deal this is to us. When we bought our house, we had some work done to our kitchen and bathroom and the workers completely ruined the brand new carpet with their work boots. Our lovely dog Charlie has also done a number on it with his chewing. We have been wanting to do this for a while now but figured now was a perfect time since we don't want the baby crawling on gross carpet. We plan to enforce a no shoes rule once the carpet is replaced, no matter how crazy we look lol. Now we just have to figure out a way to keep Charlie from getting it dirty with his paws since he follows the no shoes rule as part of his lifestyle that includes going outside. (Thank goodness he is well past the chewing stage now.)



This is also exciting because it means that we finally get to put the crib together and in her room! We figured there was no point in building it just so the carpet installers would have to take it out again and risk damaging it. But after tomorrow, we can! The dresser and changing table are still on back order so we will have to wait for those. For anyone who hasn't seen the set. It is the Simmons Vancouver set. We got it at Bergstrom's. They have beautiful baby furniture there! Here are some pics:

Anyway, thanks to those of you who read this! Hope I am not too boring...or annoying lol.

I'm Back...and hopefully better about blogging than last time

So I decided to start blogging again...I am hoping that I'll be better about it than last time I attempted this since I only made 2 posts before. I figured this would be a good time to start because of all the exciting things that are happening to us right now. I don't really expect anyone to be that interested in what I have to say so I guess that is where you have the option of not reading lol. This first post may be a little long since I feel like I have a lot of updating to do.

Everyone probably knows that we are expecting our first baby girl, due November 8th. I am 24 weeks today! We are so incredibly excited, it feels like November is taking forever to get here. We have been quite busy trying to get the nursery prepared, organizing our house and attempting to pick a name (a much more difficult task than we ever anticipated). Thank goodness, we have finally made a decision on the name. We are telling people if they ask, however, I am not announcing it on Facebook or anything. It took us long enough to finally agree on a name we both love so I kind of don't want to hear/ see disapproving comments. Don't worry, it's nothing weird lol...the one thing John and I agreed on from the beginning is that we would not do that to our child.

So basically our lives have been revolving around the pregnancy the past few months.

I guess I will start at the beginning. John has wanted a baby from basically the day we got married. I am the one who wanted to wait. This past year I started an MBA program and I kept saying that I wanted to wait until I graduated to start trying. I'm not sure exactly what started to change my mind, although I suspect that my brother's very sudden death last November had a lot to do with it. I started thinking about the things that were more important to me.

It was on Valentine's Day, John and I were out to dinner and I told him that I wanted to start trying for a baby. As I suspected, that literally took zero convincing. According to my due date, it seems that we conceived later that week, if not that same day. We were extremely shocked when a week before I even missed my period, we got a positive pregnancy test. We both realize how lucky we are for it to have been that easy. In fact, because I am a worrier, I was paranoid that something was going to go wrong pretty much the entire first trimester. To me, it was just too easy to be true. I did start to feel slightly better after our first ultrasound. It was the most amazing feeling to see that little heart beating.

We didn't announce it on Facebook until after the ultrasound, however, we did tell close family (which means that it didn't remain a secret for long). The best part was telling my parents and sister. My sister was in Santa Barbara at school so we had to get creative. We had 3 onesie's made. 1 said "I <3 Grandpa", 1 said "I <3 Grandma, and the one for my sister said "I <3 Auntie Nique." We mailed my sister's to her roommate Nikole and asked her not to open the package until we called and told my sister to go on Skype. She then opened it while we watched. It was so exciting. Telling my parents was even better. We met them out in Riverside (where they live now) for breakfast. We put the onesie's and a picture of the positive pregnancy test in a box and had them open it. They had absolutely no clue. In fact, even after looking at the onesie and the picture, they both looked confused. For two pretty smart people, John and I could not understand why they didn't get it, but I guess they were just too shocked. I don't know how I kept my mouth shut for over a week because I tell my mother everything! But it was worth the wait. They couldn't believe it. They were over the moon excited! They both started crying. My Dad (like John) has been wanting us to have a baby since we got married too. He just cannot wait to be a Grandpa. Despite the fact that we asked them to keep it a secret until after we had our ultrasound, they basically told us that they were sorry but that was just going to be "too hard." They started calling people on the way home from breakfast. By Monday morning, everyone at the Riverside Police Department knew that he was going to be a Grandpa. So much for keeping it a secret lol...

My Dad said from the beginning that it was going to be girl. John and I were both absolutely convinced it was going to be a boy. We also thought my Dad was just wishing a girl on me as some sort of twisted payback for being mouthy to my mother. Apparently his intuition was better than mine because I was so wrong lol...I didn't even want to call him after we had the ultrasound at 14 weeks...but I did anyway...

From then on, things have been going extremely smoothly; I had very little morning sickness and all of our doctor's appointments, bloodwork and ultrasounds have come back perfectly. Many times I have to remind myself how blessed I truly am...in so many ways. Despite the fact that I've had a pretty easy pregnancy thusfar, I am not particularly enjoying it. For someone who recently lost a good amount of weight, it is really difficult to see it coming back on. Luckily I have a wonderful husband who still tells me how beautiful he thinks I am every single day and reminds me that it will all come off after the baby is born.

I also have to say that I am extremely grateful for my Mom. She is recovering from a pretty intense foot surgery, but that is not stopping her from going into full fledged baby shower planning mode. She is already working on games, favors, invitations and centerpieces even though the shower is more than a month and a half away. I know it will turn out beautifully.

Anyway, I will end it there for today because I will run out of things to say and then I will end up writing only 2 blog entries like last time.