Nursery

Today we decided to put the crib together and organize the nursery now that the painting is all done. The crib is BEAUTIFUL! My mom got it at Target on clearance (it was supposed to be gone months ago, but got lost in the back). It was $250 crib she paid $30 for. It is cherry wood with sleigh sides & turns into the toddler bed/day bed/full bed head & footboard. I love it! We put our $10 garage sale nursery bedding and decor in there and it is really starting to look like a nursery!
The closet is started to get some clothes and baby stuff in it. We have some diapers, outfits, a snowsuit, blankets, a nursing pillow, etc... and of course it was all on clearance. It will be nice to have a baby to go with all the stuff!

It's a BOY!!!

We had our big ultrasound today, and as you can tell from the title of this... it's a boy! He is measuring perfect and already being very stubborn! He wouldn't stop holding his feet so the ultrasound tech could count his fingers and toes. She finally got his fingers but not the toes. He is laying on his side (butt back, head/tummy forward) which I guess is typically with my uterus shape, but harder to see stuff so she had to keep poking him to make him roll over. He would do it for about 30 seconds before he would roll right back, LOL!

Everything looks good though. My uterus is stretching better than they expected, so hopefully no issues there! My blood pressure (which has been boarderline everytime) was really high this time, so they took it again at the end of my appt. and it was perfect, so it must just be the stress of the Dr's! They took some bloodwork so they can have a baseline (yay... my favorite part. No wonder my bloodpressure is high!) and I am supposed to start taking baby aspirin to help keep me from getting preeclampsia. Other than that I have to try and take it easy on my back and all is good!

Now we have to come up with a name for our little one. We were set on a girl's name, but cannot agree on a boy's (atleast a middle one). Hopefully now that we are sure it's a boy and have seen him we can be a little more decisive. Now we get to paint the baby's room this weekend and hopefully start registering for baby stuff. Let the fun begin! :-)

Happy New Year!

Well, we survived Christmas. We luckily didn't get as much snow as they were saying we would get, but we got some rain that turned into ice... so that stunk! Brian's parents came out on Sat to help us dig out after being gone for 3 days, so that was a help.

For New Year's we went out to lunch at Champps and then saw Avatar in 3D. It was fun to go out, and we were home early (like 6:30) so we didn't have to deal with all the drunks and got to watch the ball drop (at least that was the plan, but I fell asleep by 10:30!).

Tonight we get to go to my parent's house for a party. They have lots of people coming over that we have not seen in a while, so it will be nice to hang out. There will be appetizers and games (some Wii Karaokee anybody?) so it should be fun.

We are also still counting down the days until our big ultrasound (6 more!!!). So hopefully next Friday we know it we are having a boy or a girl (I think I will be very disapointed if the baby doesn't cooperate!).

We are looking forward to a wonderful 2010 and all that it brings us! Happy New Year!

Staying at home and lots of snow!

Well I started this week with my last official day of work. They needed to lay somebody off and I volunteered since our plan was for me to hopefully not work after the baby was born. I will still be going back to sub on and off if my Dr's allow it (we will see the progress of my pregnancy at my next appt/US and hopefully know if bedrest/preterm labor is in the picture or not). I will miss seeing the kids everyday, but am a little glad to have some rest for my aching back.

We are preparing to leave for all of our Christmas activities tomorrow, but they are talking about a hue storm. Brian was supposed to work 1/2 a day, but hopefully he wont have to go in so we can get on the road earlier. We are supposed to get 12-20", so we may be delaying plans to go to my parents for a day, so we miss driving in the main part of the storm. It should be an interesting Christmas, that is for sure!

We hope you all have a safe and happpy holidays! Enjoy all of the snow if you are in the midwest!

Merry Christmas!

One week until Christmas! I am so excited for the holidays! It is weird to think that next year we will be parents and "Santa" will be coming to our house, LOL. I have a feeling it is going to be a crazy couple of days, just like Thanksgving we have a million places to go. We are going to Brian's parents on Christmas Eve for church and opening gifts with them. After spending the night there we are heading to his Aunt & Uncle's at 11am, then to my Grandparents on my mom's side at around 1pm, and my Grandparents on my dad's side at 4ish. Then off to spend the night at my parent's house and open gifts with them the next morning. All in all it will be nice to see everyone this year (we cut out a few stops the last few years) even with all the craziness... but next year we will be downsizing! I don't think we are doing all that driving, spending nights and other people's houses and having "Santa" come there instead of our house, with the baby.

I am also excited it is only 3 more weeks (21 days!!!) until our ultrasound! I have started knitting an adorable blanket, but the only colors I had we pink and purple. I figured pretty much everyone I know is having a girl right now, so if we end up with a boy it will make a nice baby shower gift (although Brian thinks I am jumping the gun just a little by starting a girly blanket now, LOL).

I also got some more big news at work this week... more to come on that next week though. Yay for the holidays and time with family/friends. Hope you all have a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Work and Cookies!

This week was a really long one. I started preparing for maternity leave at work. I am now a float teacher, instead of a preschool teacher with my own class. They promoted my assistant to be the teacher and put another assistant in there so they could run the room before I leave. It is nice to get to float to all of the classes and fill in, but a little stressful for someone who likes plans.

Brian has had a long week at work as well, staying late for the big order he went to work on last weekend. But even with the stress, we are just glad we have employment in this tough economy.

I am excited, tomorrow we are going to my parent's house to make/decorate Christmas cookies. I love frosting the sugar cookies and getting to use the sprinkles to make them pretty! It has always been my favorite part (I think even more so than eatting them!)

Hopefully next week goes better and faster than this one. I am counting the days until our big ultrasound (28 if you were wondering!) and hoping that the time goes quickly!

A little bit of everything week...

Last Friday we got to go see "New Moon". It was a good movie, but we both still liked "Twilight" better (although to be fair, I like that book better too...). It was nice to get to spend a day out relaxing. We also had lots of fun this past Sat. at my parents house for our second Thanksgiving. The food was good, it was nice to see family, and we stayed late to play some games with my parents (Wii resort sports).

This past week we got all of our Christmas cards out, the tree up and most of our presents bought/wrapped. I am excited to be done and even more excited for Christmas to come! It is weird to think this is our last holiday without kids! I am sure next Christmas will be a blast!

On Monday we both had the day off and got to hang around the house for Brian's b-day. He ended up putting a cable/internet hook-up in the kitchen so we can finally start moving the office out of the nursery.

Yesterday we got to go to another appt. We heard the heartbeat again (this time 150 bpm) and got to make our appt for the big ultrasound!!! We will find out if we're having a boy or a girl on Jan 8th. I am sad it isn't in time for Christmas, but excited we finally have a timeline!


Today we are going to Brian's parents to celebrate his and his dad's b-days. Brian had to go into work for a few hours, so we are there right now before we head to Eagan. I am going to spend the morning at the mall while he builds some giant servers... LOL.