single digits!

single digits meaning only 9 weeks to go! 31 weeks down, time is really flying. yesterday my good friends maya and sara (one of chad's bosses actually!) threw me a baby shower here in portland, it was fabulous! lots of wonderful ladies were there, and were very generous! as i have said before, baby A is already very loved! i'm pretty sure we have everything we need (and more!) so really, he can come anytime now! i know it's best for him to stay in there as long as possible, but seriously, i am SO ready to not be preggers anymore! haha

work has been super busy lately which is a good problem to have (except for the fact that i am just a little bit (a lot!) tired pretty much all the time again. i'm really looking forward to having the summer off! no work, new baby, lots of visitors... sounds to me like the summer might be awesome!

another awesome thing: we just found out that chad's sister amanda and her boyfriend ben are moving to corvallis, oregon in the fall! amanda was accepted to oregon state for grad school, yay! we are so incredibly excited to have family close to us! i'm already planning future get togethers, holidays, and visits to OSU!!! i think it's about an hour and a half from portland. yipeeeeeee!

baby on the brain...

so i guess i'm not super good at blogging... it has been a month since i last posted. since then, we were fortunate enough to meet chad's family in florida for a week's vacation on the beach in palm coast... ahhhh it was amazing. literally i hardly did ANYthing but it was amazing. did i say how amazing it was? spending time with chad's family is fabulous, and of course the sunshine, beachfront condo, warm weather, good food, and time off work weren't half bad either. it is now my recommendation to EVERY preggo out there to go on vacation while expecting. especially if you get super stressed out and busy part way through (as i was right before we left). it was a total rejuvenation, relaxing wonderful week.

for mother's day chad asked me if i wanted anything. i was a little weirded out since i'm not quite a mom yet, but then realized that this baby is pretty real growing inside me, so yes, i did want something. i wanted to get the baby's room painted!! so, my fabulous husband worked all day long at the restaurant, and then came home and painted the room with my help (i didn't do the hard parts, chad was awesome and did the edges of the walls... not only b/c i'm preggers but also because i have a very difficult time rolling close to the edge of a wall without getting paint everywhere it shouldn't be!) :-)

not only did we paint... but we put together the crib! and now the furniture is all in there. we still need to find a rug and possibly some curtains, but for the most part things are in place. it is very exciting. i have spent probably a total of 2 hours since last night when we finished moving everything back in there, just sitting on the glider staring at everything! (and yes, i did work all day today, i just have been sitting in there a lot!) i am definitely beginning to realize just how real this whole thing is! sure, i will get to dress him up all cute and stuff, but we also have to care for him (not to mention the fact that i have to BIRTH him first, yikes! sidenote: we also started our childbirth prep classes, double yikes and holy eye opener!!). in all seriousness though, it is unreal how much he means to me already and i still haven't even met him. (shed a tear, i know.)

so... needless to say this last month has been all about the little dude (still remains nameless). i can't believe it's practically mid-may! where does the time go?