More Baby Talk, Of Course

It seems that our lives have already been taken over with baby gear, baby thoughts, and of course blogging, and she isn't even here yet! But it seems like just about all my free time these days has been preparing mentally and physically for baby green. Her room is almost done, a few more things to go. Pics to come.

I am feeling more pregnant than ever! I actually feel fine, minor aches here and there, but nothing to complain about. I just don't even notice how big I really am until I take a picture and see it! Whew, good thing there's only 2 weeks left, i'm about to pop.

Josh and I putting the stroller/car seat combo together.

Here is the finished product, can't wait to use it! I feel like an official mom with the stroller ready to go, ha.

More Baby Showers!

Two more showers, the last two. With the holidays happening and lots of great friends I was spoiled with lots of showers this pregnancy. I am so grateful for everyone's support and love for me and Josh. Thankfully, we didn't have much to spend on baby gear thanks to amazing friends and family!!

Shiloh Hills Ward Shower:

Heather with her amazing skills made a "Baby Jeopardy" with Developmental, Celebrity Babies, and Misc. as topics and we won candy bars for the right answer. So cute and fun!

I got lots of great gifts, one in particular that made me tear up, which is hard to do if you know me well, was made by my friend Brittney. She makes these awesome books, and made one for me to write about the baby each week for the first year. I love it and will be so much fun if I can discipline myself to do it!

Heather put the shower together for me. She has been a great friend here in Spokane and she did a great job and made some delicious cupcakes and chocolate dipped pretzels also. Thanks Heather! :)

Here is everyone who came, except Robin Bishoff who had to leave early.

North Wall Schools Shower:

This was my biggest shower by far, there was about 25-26 people there! It included my coworkers and some of the mothers of the children I care for. Rachel Shoop threw the shower for me, we work together in the Toddler Class, the 2-3 year olds.

Here is one half of the women there, watching me open presents

Here is the other half, except Jennifer Miner, Melissa and Karen Kennedy didn't make it into either picture but were there

Dianna, who I worked with last year made this diaper cake, she did a great job!

Tiffany, who I work with, and her daughter Carly is in my class, made this cake for me

Here is my personal helper Carly who brought me every present and helped me open them. She felt very special doing this, it was so cute.

We played a game to see who could drink some pink lemonade out of a bottle the fastest. It was surprisingly hard they said! This is Kelli, Anne Marie (who both work in preschool) and Dalene, the mom of Bailey in my class.

We also played the string game like at my family shower in CA to see who could get the closest size of string to how big my belly was. Nicole won, she is due the day before me and used her own belly :)

Prego Pics

I haven't updated a picture of the belly lately, but my amazing photographer/friend Jennifer Clark took some awesome pictures of me when I went home. If you would like to see some of them they are at: http://sweetdisorderphotography.blogspot.com/2010/01/babies-babies-babies.html

Colorado Baby Shower

My Mom and best friend Jenn threw a baby shower for me while I was at home. I grew up in the same house in CO since I was 7 so there are still a ton of people there that I know well and miss!

Me and the shower throwers who did a great job!

Some of the decos in the dining room where food was brought out later. Great job mom on making it look so cute!

Jenn made some baby head pops from the Bakerella blog. They were made out of chocolate cake and frosting and were super cute and yummy! And displayed so perfectly on a fake cake!

Me, Jenn, and Alicia. Alicia just got back from her mission this past fall, it was great to see her again. The three of us hung out a lot together in high school and it's crazy to see us get older and do things we thought were so far away before.

Jalair Hoff, Carol Jeppson, and Cathy Emmelkamp telling stories

Cindy Hamilton, Tracie Scott, Jalair

Brooke-lynn Cottam, Carol, Mom and Me

As a group gift I got my baby bedding so I promptly came home and had Josh help me put up the crib so I could set it all up. More pics of the room to come. Thanks to my cousin Petra she got this crib from her husband's (Ed) cousin who was moving. She gave it to us for free when we were in CA for thanksgiving and Josh's dad brought it up with him on a snowboarding trip to Spokane this week!

Christmas in Colorado

Christmas was great this year! We went to CO for about 9 days and they flew by super fast. It was just Josh and I this year, Wally and family were in the middle of adoption stuff so they stayed home. But since it was just us we got super spoiled and had fun together.

It snowed several inches the day we got there and lasted the whole time so we got our white Christmas I am always wanting. It was cold, but we took Louie for walks to get outside.

Dad, Josh, and Lou- my 3 favorite boys in the world!

Christmas Eve tradition- to always drive around and see the lights. This is downtown Littleton, the picture doesn't do it much justice but it was cool. The best one was a house who had lights synchronized to music on the radio, and i've seen this several times, but this house was amazing and had lights changing colors and going all over, it reminded me of the Bellagio water fountain only with Christmas lights! I told Josh I so want that some day, ha.

Here is Santa himself, waiting for us to go to bed so he can put the presents out :) He is so patient with fulfilling our favorite tradition, to not put any gifts out until Christmas Eve after we are sleeping.

Christmas morning came, and with no kids we had to rely on entertainment and excitement from the dog. He loves to unwrap gifts, I know, crazy, but here he is helping dad get his unwrapped.

Louie also gets his own presents to unwrap, but was jealous of mom and dad's socks, his favorite thing to chew up.

We got tons of stuff! My coolest gift was a new mini laptop from Josh so I can have my own computer for when I start being a stay at home mom! Josh's favorite was guitar hero for the Wii, thanks to the rents.

After presents in the living room we go into the family room and do the socks. We get fun little gifts in them and of course candy.

Here is Louie trying to get on his "spot" which is the white blanket, but the presents were in the way. He was pooped after not being able to take his 10 naps a day because we were there making too much noise, poor puppy.

December Activities

At the beginning of the month we went to the "Nativities Around the World" exhibit at the stake center, they had 700+ nativities from all over the world. They also have concerts in the chapel from different groups around Spokane, we saw a gospel choir that was loud, boisterous and full of Amens and Hallelujahs. I felt like I was in a movie or something, they were fun and great singers!

One of the cute nativities

We got in the second row, so not a great pic, but shows part of the choir

Another December festive fun event was touring the lights around town like we always do, and took a free carriage ride around down town! It was my first carriage ride and I loved it, it was a lot of fun.

In the back of the carriage. They handed out candy canes and all the people on the ride (like 15 people) sang Jingle Bells

Tried to get the huge horses in the picture but it was raining a little so we were trying to be quick