29 Weeks Belly Picture...

Side View...

Now there's a front view. She hangs out pretty much on the right side all the time and I think you can see my belly is a little lopsided to the right. My belly button is almost gone now.

At 29 Weeks the book says she is almost 17 inches from head to toe and weighs about 2.5 lbs. I'm still feeling a lot of kicking although not quite as often or as hard. The doctor says this is normal because the space is getting kind of cramped in there. If I take time to sit down and relax at night and have some food I definitely feel the 10 per hour. The other night Tom and I were sitting on the couch and watching my stomach jump. That was the first time that Tom was able to see her move but of course he has been able to feel her for several weeks now. The scary thing is; is that I stayed up and waited for Tom to get home from class on Friday night. He went out for a couple of drinks with a friend and got home at midnight. We stayed up till about 1am and that was the most I felt her move in so long. She was practicing her gymnastics in there. I have a feeling that she is going to be a naucturnal baby. Ugh Oh!!

Go Bears!!!

Over the past few days we have gotten a couple packages in the mail. Mom and Dad sent us all of the bedding and lady bug decor for the baby's room. It came in a couple of different shipments... All the stuff is so cute, I can't wait to get Kennedy's room started. I think that we are going to wait until the middle of December to do that though. We also got a package from Mike and Lisa yesterday with a couple of outfits and a little musical bear. Tom saw this one and fell in love!!! He thinks it is the best present Kennedy could ever get and he can't wait to put it on her...


Daddy's little Bears fan in the making.

Baby Shower!

This morning Tom and I got motivated, especially since we thought we were sleeping in only to wake up and realize that it was an hour earlier than we thought it was. Thank You daylight savings time!!! I got a lot of last weeks laundry folded and a good start on this weeks. We also started cleaning out the closet in the office/soon to be baby's room and the closet in the spare bedroom. Tom got an extra clothes rod up in the office closet and I got everything all organized, for the most part. Tom headed off to the gym and I finished cleaning then we got ready to head over to Mindy's house for the shower.

Our friends; Jeanie, Mindy and Jen threw the shower for us with all of the athletic trainer girls that I work with. There was a really good showing and they did such a great job with the shower. I was very impressed and Tom even had a good time being that he was the only boy there. We played a few games. My favorite was a game where they blind folded me and I had to guess the baby toys that they handed me. I got 8/10 right!! I rock!


The cake... It was sooo cute. Look at the little lady bugs on it. I love it!! And the cake was really good too. My favorite, white with chocolate frosting! YUM!!!

Me and Tom with the cake. This was Tom's first shower, he really didn't know what was going on. He thought it was weird to get a picture with the cake, but he did good and he caught on pretty quick.

Me and my girls!!! Jen to the far left, then me, Mindy and Jeanie!!! What a great group of friends. They have really made it easier on me being down here. When I first got here, I didn't want to make any new friends because I didn't want it to be hard to leave any more good friends behind, but I went ahead and did it anyway. If/when we end up leaving Tennessee it's going to be tough to say goodbye to these girls!! I can't thank them enough for such a great shower, they really went above and beyond anything I expected!
We had a really good time.

Happy Halloween!!!

We had a decently uneventful week this week. I worked a lot. Tom worked on school work and worked at night. We tried to get little things done around the house, but not much really got done. I had my usual Friday night football game, which by the way was a monsoon! It rained buckets and the guys were pretty much playing on a mud slip and slide. I only had one kid really get hurt so I guess it wasn't that bad and my Gortex kept me pretty dry. The soccer game that was schedule for Saturday did get rained out due to how muddy and tore up the field was. That meant for the first time this month, I had a two day weekend!!!! Saturday was a complete lazy recovery day. We got up and watched The Biggest Loser and then a movie, Sunshine Cleaning. We took the dogs for a walk, went to the store to get candy for the trick or treaters and then carved our pumpkin. Then back to laying around watching TV. We did light a fire in the fireplace though.


Tom getting his hands dirty. We picked out all the seeds and I made Tom toasted pumpkin seeds. It's his favorite time of year just for that.

Riley kept wanting to steal the pumpkin guts. She got away with a couple of hunks of it. Here she is eyeing the topper... :)

I drew the scary face and Tom carved it. It took a long time because of all the little curves and detail, but it turned out really cool.

The finished product!!! All lit up and spooky!!!

We only had about 5 sets of kids come to the door. The first group was two little girls and their mom. The little girl was telling Tom how cool his pumpkin was and that she thought he should be a professional and next year she is coming to our house before Halloween and paying him $50 for a pumpkin! She was soooo cute!!!

Demolition Derby

Last Saturday when I got done with my soccer game I headed up to Ashland City to see a friend of ours compete in a demolition derby. Tom had helped him strip the car out a couple of months ago so all of us wanted to go up and cheer him on! Tom was really disapointed that he couldn't make it up to see it; he had reserves that weekend so he was down in Birmingham. Kendal's was the only bright shiny "new" car in his heat. So unfortunately he got picked on. He was the first one done in his heat.


Here's the "before." Kendal is the Green car just under the center spot light.

Here he is... all done...poor Kendal! :( He had a lot of fun though and we had a lot of fun cheering him on!

The back end was so smashed in they had to have the back hoe come in and lift him up and push him while he steered it out. It was kinda funny. Congratulations Kendal, it was a great first run... Now we will see if you are able to get that thing going for a second run...