Shopping SPREE!!

There are two people in my life that I would NEVER choose to go on a shopping spree with, my husband and my dad. We all know Ryan doesn't like to spend money (unless he is the one spending it) and if you are shopping he is hovering wondering when we are going to be done. And Dad, well he just doesn't like to shop, ever. That all changes for both of the them when a shopping trip includes IKEA! and the apple store.

Ryan and I along with my parents made the 6.5 hour drive down to Salt Lake City over President's day weekend. I've heard sitting for that long while pregnant isn't fun, but I though "heck I sit on my butt all day at work this should be fine." Six months pregnant and I was not fine. My back hurt, my feet were swollen (a first so far) and I was exhausted, I even walked around every time we stopped.

We spent the first 2+ hours of our Saturday in the apple store. I thought these guys didn't like shopping? We hit up Mimi Maternity (expensive, but nice) the California Pizza Kitchen and of course the apple store again. :-) Ryan then found a Nordstom's Rack via his blackberry and decided he wanted to go there too (I promise he really doesn't like to shop). We then made our way over the the Cheesecake Factory for the three hour dinner wait! Yikes! We broke up the three hours with a trip to Babies R Us, but it was a long day. After dinner we were beyond stuffed and exhausted.

Then on Sunday we got to go to IKEA! Our plan was to spend 2 hours in IKEA and get on the road by noon because Ryan wanted to hit up the Patagonia sale in Dillion (I really really swear he doesn't like to shop!). 4 hours later, 1 shopping cart and 3 flat carts later we walked out of IKEA. I guess Ryan and my dad do like to shop! We loaded up the back of the truck and headed home with empty wallets and exhausted bodies.
As you can see we got a TON of boxes. Only two...yes two of those boxes are for the baby!

Stay tuned for photos of our new bedroom (hence all of the boxes) and hopefully project pictures of the nursery.

Thanks to anyone who is still actually reading this really really long post :-)

little kicks...

There has been a lot of action in my belly lately, but last night Ryan was able to feel baby kicks. It was pretty cool. During our ultrasound the tech poked my belly to try to get baby to move, so I gave baby a few pokes (or jiggles) last night to induce some kicking and baby came through and gave Ryan two big kicks right where he had his hand. The gymnastics continued throughout the night. How do you sleep with a crazy baby in your belly?

Note to self, let the baby kick on its own...and don't wake up a sleeping baby...even if it is in your belly :-)

the belly - 24 weeks

This is me...6 months pregnant. Anytime this kid decides to get out of my pelvis I'd really appreciate it. Some days I feel like baby is moving up, but then I jinx myself and it plops right back down. We are off to IKEA this weekend for a nursery shopping spree! Hoorraayy

crafty nesting

I've always been a little bit crafty (I have 5+ unfinished quilts in the closet upstairs to prove that is just "a little" crafty) but being pregnant sparks up your craftiness. I started knitting last spring when Carli and Stephanie were pregnant, but they got the "just starting" hats and they needed some improvement. Thanks to youtube I was able to figure out my errors and gave it a try for our baby. Its my best one yet and it only took a little over 3 hours. I knitted it back in December when I was screaming for something to take me away from the computer and proofing during the Christmas rush.

Last night I finished sewing a sock monkey receiving blanket that took longer than 3 hours! It was pretty frustrating for a simple blanket, but I'm a perfectionist when it comes to sewing and I was trying really really hard to make it perfect. Its not perfect, but its done and I hope baby loves it. It is a flannel blanket and brown inside is made to look just like a sock monkey. Christy and I found the fabric at Reproduction Fabrics, an online store based in Bozeman. I have enough fabric to make a second blanket, but I need a break... hopefully the next one will be better :-)

baby's first picture

and not the last! It was pretty interesting. Baby is head down and low. During the ultrasound baby kept its hands up on its face and played with its toes. :-) A little more flexible than me!

This is the best picture, it baby's lips, nose, chin and arms. We weren't able to get a profile shot, but this one is pretty cool. We almost didn't get it either the radiologist came back in after the tech for a few minutes and randomly got this shot.

if you need help seeing it click here.

baby's face...this scares Ryan
need more detail click here

and the little foot, the little toes would disappear and reappear as the baby wiggled its toes.more detail click here

No we didn't find out what we're having and the ultrasound tech didn't even look so we can't ask if we wanted to...not that we do :-)

Blue Man Group!

The Blue Man Group rolled into Bozeman last Wednesday (yeah I'm slow at blogging) and we went with John and Jen (Ryan's sister and brother-in-law). It was part of Ryan's Christmas present to me. I'd been begging to go...when we were in Chicago...in Las Vegas...so we had to go if they were in Bozeman.

It was so fun! Much better than I had expected. Baby really enjoyed it too and spent the whole concert jumping around in my belly. The funniest part of the whole thing had to be when one of the Blue men opened up a cell phone to the audience. The whole audience answered back with a sea of blue glowing light LOL I think the day of the lighter is dead.

If you ever get a chance to go to Blue Man do it, but if you're in Vegas go to Cirque Du Soleil first :-)

Stay tuned for Sonogram pictures...