you know your THAT pregnant when...

I went into Home Depot yesterday to get a set of two sawhorses for my Dad's birthday present - a quick task, I thought.  Oh, but so much faster than I could have imagined - I think I must have been in and out within 3 minutes without lifting a finger, except to sign for my credit card.  Here's what happened:

I was greeted by a friendly lady at the entrance and she quickly directed me to aisle 10 to aisle 15.  Before I turned the corner to 10, a guy asked me "sawhorses?" as if he read my mind (or, I think the lady at the front alerted him that I was probably going to need some help all before I was able to mozy down to that end of the store).  And, the sawhorses were on the top shelf and he kindly let me try to grab them, but quickly stepped in to pull them down and carry them up to the register.  Then he insisted to let him carry them to the car and put them in the trunk.  Now that's customer service!

So with me just asking where the sawhorses were at and being obviously that pregnant to the first person who saw me, the folks at Home Depot made sure I wasn't going to be doing any heavy lifting.  And, I'm quite thankful for that.  Now someone just needs to come take them out of the trunk!

our virtual shower!

What a week!  Kalin's mom flew in last Sunday evening to spend some time with us and to be here for when we celebrated our Virtual Shower for Elsa!  Kalin's wonderful Aunties came up with the idea to throw us a shower long-distance and had all the gifts arrive at a specific time then we'd open them all on a certain day.  But it was so so so much more than that!

I had been getting a little bit of work done before the shower and came out to the living room decorated in all shades of pink ~ there were even pink MnM's and Kisses in little bottles!  It was so much fun to see all the fun decorations that the Aunties sent!  We had a small little group of people over to the house - my parents, Kalin's mom, my grandma and grandpa (his first baby shower!) and my cousin Ashly.  We picked up some pizza and then started opening our piles and piles of gifts!  It was such a wonderful evening with our little virtual shower.  I have a stack of papers with great advice & fun stories about myself & Kalin and can't wait to share them with Elsa later on...plus there were some pictures of little Kalin sent too, which I just love so much!  I can't say how thankful we were for this incredible shower and we just feel so blessed to be loved by so many people and that makes us feel confident that Elsa's going to be growing up surrounded by so much love, even states away!  Thank you Aunties!!!

Here's some pictures from our celebration night

And now we have our new books put away and the first load of laundry done...we certainly are getting close!

one month...and counting!

Just a quick post to say we are exactly at one month to our December 17th due date!

WHOA!  WOW!  CRAZY!  YAY!

+1 in 888: dads are great!

Perhaps I should have called this post 'grandpas-to-be are great!'

This past weekend, Kalin's dad came out to spend some time with us and go skiing with Kalin.  We had a great time and there were even some house projects completed, including one for Elsa's room!  We'd been working to figure out how to separate the office area from the nursery and our solution was a row of curtains hanging by cable from one wall to the opposite.  No real idea how the turnout would be, but it was going to be necessary...and I couldn't be happier with the turnout...this room is starting to feel like it's about ready for a baby to live in it!

Then there's my dad, who spotted a diaper-change-area dilemma on the dresser we had with just thinking we'd use a changing pad on top (not acceptable I suppose).  Apparently, we needed a legit changing area, so dad crafted up a box to hold our changing pad with a little area for all the changing essentials.  It's securely fastened to the dresser, so this baby isn't going anywhere!

THANKS DADS!

Oh, and this momma needed something to add to the project list, so I sewed up this little swaddle blanket with a hood - pretty excited about it.  

ok, now I'm ready!

A few weeks ago, I may have been fine with leaving this little girl in for many more weeks, but oh my, let's get her here!

All of the sudden, I'm ready to be without heartburn, not feeling uber heavy and to not have to endure being sick and being pregnant at that same time.  Last week I caught some sort of flu and I don't even know the last time I had the flu, but simply to say, it was terrible.  Ugh.  Thankfully Kalin is super wonderful and got me Gatorade, saltines and noodle soup once my stomach let me keep something in and put up with my miserableness.  And my little Mochi dog made sure he was by my side all the time while I was restlessly trying to kick this thing.  Snacking on ice chips got me through the worst of it and I believe I'm just about 90% now with a big side of nausea (huh?  I thought I was done with that in the 1st trimester?), so on to the 6 weeks-to-go countdown and hopefully less sicky-ness!

This girl must be growing because she is taking over!  Her movements are that more pronounced and her energy is undeniable!

In more fun news, here's a few shots of my nursery projects...a few more things to hang and organize, but we're almost there.

a little project in the works

These little letters will soon be cut out to go on some bunting that will hang near Elsa's crib!  I have some free time this week from work so I have a few projects that I'd love to get done for our little lundy.  8 more weeks!

elsa update: 31 weeks

It's amazing that we are now in the single-digit week countdown until we get to meet Elsa!  We're at 60 days away!

We had an appointment this week and everything is looking great.  Elsa's big accomplishment was that she flipped over, so now she's head down (a huge relief!!).  For now, we just keep checking in knowing that her arrival is quickly approaching.

She's definitely more active since she flipped over and it's crazy to see her roll around on my stomach!  Mochi doesn't seem to mind snuggling up with Elsa & me, I'm sure he's been kicked a few times.

probably the only belly shot you'll see!