Symphony

Saturday night Megan, Heidi and myself went to the Symphony. It was a lot of fun and our seats were great, even at only $23/ea! The baby didn't do much during the 1st half, but was going crazy after intermission. I wonder if he could hear it. It was my 2nd time, Heidi's 1st and Megs has been a lot. I am definitely hooked and I think we got Heidi hooked too. :-] The baby is moving more and now I am starting to feel his head, or feet or who knows what just resting/pushing in certain places. He must be out growing his space! The nursery is coming along nicely. I am continuing the sewing projects but have hit a wall. Tamara and I took a sewing class last week and it helped, but not enough- reading patterns is hard! I have most of my stuff cut and at Thanksgiving at Shaun’s dads house, Shaun's Aunt Candy will have to fill the gaps in my projects. Since I have been reading SOOOOO much my biggest concern is keeping the baby asleep in our 1100 sqft home with hardwood floors that makes the sounds in the house travel, and a lab with a big bark. Now I am wondering if we should move the nursery to the back of the house......Shaun is NOT going to like this epiphany since he worked so hard at remodeling the nursery. So many things to decide on and only 13 weeks to go!!! Here are some pics from the symphony and a pic of the fabric I am using for the nursery........YES, I took pictures of my fabric. Lol

Happy Monday!

So, I've figured it out....the baby moves a bunch after I eat. I am feeling him much more now, and now it's not just a tap tap tap, but he's running his foot? hand? something! along the walls of his little space. =] It's fun to feel! Shaun can feel him a lot more now, it's so exciting! I don't have any new pics to post, and I hate posting without pics, so I thought I would post a pic of the house I just sold. I have another one available with this same floor plan listed at $489,950, but it's still under construction so no pics yet. Happy Monday!!!!

Prego Pictures!!!

Alas....someone finally got a pic of my belly. :-)

Heidi, Me and Leslie @ Heidi's 11/08/08

Curtain Pics

Here are some pics of the babies curtains!!! I finished them late last night and decided I may just keep on sewing everything for the nursery. I honorably accept all criticism that I am a total NERD. :-)

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Hood Canal

Since I have committed to work weekends (people buy houses on the weekends) Shaun and I decided to venture out to the Hood Canal this last week. It was a peaceful mini vaca that was needed! We packed up the wagon and headed out Wednesday. Most of our time was spent napping, watching the news (post election hooopla), eating, cooking, napping, eating some more and sewing. We were planning to go mushroom hunting for Chanterelle’s but got rained out!!! Poor Gus was SOOOO disappointed.

Shaun's Aunt Candy and myself made curtains for the nursery. They turned out so cute!!! The fabric was really nice to begin with and the pattern we used just made them look great. I don't know if I will ever spend $$$ on curtains again, when you can make something just as nice, if not something you like more because you are in complete creative control. The curtains are a pale blue. I have to get ribbon for the top. I am thinking of a green ribbon with dots of some sort and possibly getting some little brown puff balls (like what use to be on the back of our socks in the 80's- gotta love the 80's!) and scatter them on the curtains. Mmmmm....can't wait to go shopping! So far my project list is: Re-Covering the rocker cushions, making a cushion for the top of the blanket chest, throw pillows for the blanket chest, and a diaper stacker. We will see how far along I actually get in the next 4 months (less Christmas vaca, less parties galore and less extra sleep for my getting fatter by the minute butt). Shaun called me an oompa loompa this morning...........SAD!!!!! No new pics this time, so here is an oldie from our tree hunt in the mountains near their house.

On to Turkey Day!

I feel like such a bad blogger! I have been so busy lately, I am wondering if it ever ends? When do I get a break? Everything is going great! We had our 24 week appointment on Friday and all is well! Our next appointment is in 4 weeks (30 week apt) and then it's down to every other week, and then once a week----wow! I can't believe how fast 30 weeks has come! It feels like I just bought all my baby books yesterday ;-]

Here are some pics of our pumpkins....Shaun did the scarry face, the spider and I did the (according to Shaun) "not so festive" crab.

Mele Kalikimaka....

Don’t get me wrong, I love Halloween. Shaun and I will have our best dressed pumpkins on display, scary music playing through the front window and honor our reputation of handing out the biggest handful of candy in the neighborhood. I love love love Thanksgiving dinner. So much I actually do a dinner at our house just for us, and sometimes some lucky guests ;-] Thanksgiving is always fun and a great kick off to Christmas. I will make my traditional Pumpkin Soup (which for the 1st few years the comment was always "Pumpkin Soup again?" and then one year I didn't make it everyone complained- of COURSE!). So now I make it every year. :) Normally the day after Thanksgiving we would get our Christmas tree in the mountains, but this year we are short on time so I think we will get it early.........YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! So....in short LET THE HOLIDAYS BEGIN!!!! :)

Happy Birthday to me!!!

Even though the day you turn 29 isn't so exciting, I had a pretty darn good birthday. My dad surprised me on the big day (he was in town for his baby Bear (me) and a good friend's memorial service was the same weekend). He stayed with us for 3 nights and it was nice to share "everything baby" with someone from my family, since they all live in Florida, California and Illinois. :( Poo! He came with presents and, like I requested, they were all for the baby. YESSS!! Shaun and I went out to the Garage on my actual birthday for a friend's birthday party. Why would I go to someone else's party on my birthday you might ask??? Well, I can't explain it but the thought of going to someone else’s party sounded better than having my own!!! If I wanted to stay home at the last "Preggers" minute I could and if I wanted to leave early I could. I thought it was a great idea!!! Shaun and I celebrated just the 2 of us with my traditional Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cake.....which I have been getting for as long as I can remember, and when my family moved away Shaun has whole heartedly kept up the tradition. I love him so much. :) Wednesday Becca planned a girls dinner for me (love her) at Zeke’s Pizza in Kirkland......Pizza has become my favorite thing in the world!!! It was SOOOOOO good!!! Here are some pics. It was a great time. I am truly thankful for my friends, they are the best.

Am I cheap?

I have to admit, I have an addiction to the sweet satisfaction of "saving money" and having a baby has opened up a whole new world to satisfy my craving! I have become quite the consignment shop fanatic. I had no idea there was such a huge market of mother’s selling their (generally) 3 months used baby goods in conjunction at these wonderful little stores. I have so far visited 4 shops from Redmond to Everett and to my delight spent minimal dollars for some great stuff! My favorite find is a complete Janie and Jack Outfit (head to toe coverage and accessories) for less than $10, I have had such luck 3 times! I found the babies bedding at Ashleigh’s Attic in Downtown Redmond (it’s adorable, I will post some pics). (Ashleigh’s Attic seems to always have a few Pottery Barn sets in almost new condition for about $40). I found the same bassinet I registered for for 1/3 the price and yesterday I picked up my GREATEST find EVER for Dad! I got this jogger (retails for $375-$400) for $69.99. It’s a TRUE Husky Purple and I have started the search for Gold UW Patches to sew onto it. I scrubbed the canvas last night and the frame and it looks NEW! I love it! I know (he that will soon be named) will love it too.  That’s all for now, have a great weekend! PS the Armoire behind the jogger is apart of the nursery furniture set but it is too big (or our house is to small) to fit through the door frame.

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Baby Moved!

Shaun and I went to the Husky/Stanford game last night and I could start to feel the baby- finally! I read that at about 19 weeks the baby can start to hear, so maybe the stadium woke the little bugger up ;-] It feels like a little tap, not much happening there. Yesterday I started to feel little twitches that made me itch.....today Leslie said "Don't Itch!". She said the itching is caused by the stretching and if you itch you will get stretch marks....good to know!!! Today I am sort of in pain. I read it's like growing pains, I don't ever remember growing pains. Now I can really emphathize with Shaun since he is 6'5" and had awful growing pains growing up. Bummer! This kind of sucks.