I tried to get motivation for nesting today :)

I have been thinking a lot lately about how close we are getting to my due date and how NOT ready we are for her to be here yet. The house is definately still set up for a couple with dogs; not a couple with dogs and a baby! We have so much work to do and it seems when you look at the calendar that days are just slipping away from us now. We still have to move all of the office furniture into the spare room, get the baby furniture, put it together and decorate the room. We also have to figure out everything we still need to buy. There are a few necessities we need to purchase and some things that would just be nice to have.

I was supposed to meet my friend Ashley this weekend in Paducah to have a nice relaxing, pampered weekend out of town; that wasn't really that far out of town. But, things changed and we weren't able to meet up. She is going to be coming down here to Nashville in about 2 weeks so that we can hang out while Tom is at his Reserves weekend in Birmingham... I decided to use this day as a catch up day for rest and also to try to get some of the motivation for that "nesting instinct" that pregnant women are supposed to have. I suppose I have the nesting feelings but no desire to actually accomplish them right now. What I did today I consider a huge feat! I opened all the bedding and blankets and everything we have gotten so far including the clothes and spent the day doing laundry and folding. I wanted to make sure that everything was clean and washed in the baby Dreft soap that is supposed to be good for their skin. Other than that I just layed around watching my DVR'd shows. I don't even have the energy to cook so I just ordered my first pizza online. I hope it gets delivered correctly because I am not so sure I trust my technology skills!!!

Tomorrow I plan on getting up and making my way back to church. We haven't been in a long time because the air circulation is so bad in our church that the last 2 times we went I almost passed out. I guess the rest of the weekend I will get the house cleaned up and work on the adult laundry that needs to be done. At least I will be able to eat left over pizza for my next couple of meals!!!

31 Week Belly Pictures!!!

She's getting big now. I can't believe there is still 9 wks left to grow!

The pregnancy week by week says that she is now 18 inches from head to toe and weighs about 3.5 lbs. She still does a lot of shifting but instead of just feeling her on the right side now I am feeling her on the left as well. I think that she is starting to get cramped in there because I don't feel as many movements as I have in the past few weeks.

The front view!!! My belly button is barely hanging in there and I am starting to notice a very faint line down the middle. Still no stretch marks and I have just broke the 20 lb mark on weight gain according to the scale at the vets office today! Sleeping is getting a lot harder. I think my mommy senses are really kicking in because I have become the lightest sleeper. Everything seems to wake me up and every time I wake up I have to use the bathroom so I am peeing about 4-6 times per night. It's also getting harder to bend over and put my socks and shoes on and to get up off the floor. Turning from sided to side in the middle of the night has also become and enormous feat but it will all be worth it soon!

The puppy cousins!

Mazie, Shirley and Riley had such a good time playing with each other all weekend. They were such good girls. Riley especially liked Mazie being here because Mazie still likes to play like a puppy. She can hang for a little while but she is defiantly starting to show her age. Alan sent us a picture message on the way home last night and she was out. The poor puppy will probably have to sleep for 3 days to recover but I know she had fun at Aunt Amanda's!

Alan and Cate visit Nashville

Alan and Cate decided to come down and visit us this weekend which was unexpected but fantastic news! They got into town about 12:30am Saturday and we headed to bed. In the morning we got up and I cooked some bacon and eggs and then Alan played Mr. Fixit around the house.


First he fixed our stereo which hasn't worked for about a month and a half. Shirley and Riley loved helping him out. It turns out after he took the thing apart that randomly somehow the knob that switches the speakers on and off was turned off and all he had to do was click it back on to speakers on. That made us feel kind of dumb but at least its fixed. He also fixed our scanner and our Microsoft Office. He is very electronically inclined as Tom and I are obviously not! Thanks Alan!!

For lunch we headed into Nashville which ended up being quite the adventure. We wanted to take them to Monell's which is a meat and three traditional Nashville place but they don't serve lunch on Saturdays. We then decided to go to the Loveless Cafe which is also a Nashville landmark but they had an hour and a half wait. We also tried a burger place which I messed up the directions and then to the Tin Angel which also wasn't open for lunch! By this time the pregnant lady was getting really hungry and cranky! We finally gave up and went downtown to eat at a BBQ place. We sat right down and the waiter took our order and an hour and 15 min later we ate. Horrible service!!!!! He even admitted that he forgot to turn our ticket in and didn't do anything to make it better like take some of the money off the bill!!! Not going back there anytime soon!!!

After lunch we took some time to walk around downtown and went to a couple of the bars to listen to some music. They are smoke free now so I was able to tolerate them just fine. We walked up on the pedestrian bridge to see the view and that was a challenge for me. I thought I wasn't going to make it up all the stairs and then the walk to the lookout!! Holy Cow I am getting big and out of shape! It was a really pretty day, a little over 70 degrees. They couldn't have picked a better weekend to come down.

We got home about 5 o'clock and it felt like midnight to me but we decided to start a fire in the back and just hang out. We had a late dinner and then went inside to watch a movie. Cate barely made it through the opening credits before she fell asleep and I made it about 10 min in. The boys woke us up when it was over, about 10:30 and we headed off to bed.

Sunday morning I got up and made everyone breakfast again... Biscuits and Gravy, Scrambled Eggs and Hash browns... Yummy however, by the time I was done cooking it I got really hot and didn't feel good so I didn't get to eat any of it... I had it this morning for breakfast though and it was really good! We layed around the house all morning and then they headed out for home about 12:30. It was so nice to have them here and especially to get to know Cate a little better. They say they are coming back after the baby is born so we will see. I hope they do!!!!