3rd Year Wedding Anniversary, part II

These past 3 days off, starting with Thursday, were pretty busy! The first day off I got up early and straightened up the house for my vanpool friends to come over. These are the girls who I ride to work with and they wanted to give me a mini baby shower. We had it at my house so they could see the nursery. It actually turned out really well. They all came over and brought some yummy take out Chinese food and a delicious cake. We visited for a long while and they got the tour of my entire house since they have not been here. After the shower luncheon I ran some errands for Baby G.





Friday consisted of going to my 35-week appointment at my ob/gyn's office. I had the Group B Strep Test done and was checked to see if I am dialated. I am 1 cm dialated, 30% effaced. Whoa! It was a reality check again that this baby is going to be here before you know it. Actually, I asked if 1 cm meant anything about delivering anytime soon and the doc said that there are women who are dialated 3-4 cm and don't deliver until 40 weeks. But he now wants to see me every Friday from here on out. After the doc's appointment I went downtown to my friend Sarah's house where we went shopping and ate at Red Onion--YUM! It was great to visit and catch up with her. I got home early that afternoon and relaxed. When Ryan got home from work that evening, we watched the movie I Love You, Man--which I would definitely recommend. Very funny!

Today, Saturday, we celebrated our anniversary, finally. Since Ryan and I both worked on Wednesday, August 19th, we decided to celebrate it today by going to eat at a place called Ouisie's Table. Usually Ryan and I always go out to eat for our anniversary at a sushi place since that is where we went on our first date and since we love sushi. Because I still am a little scared to eat raw fish while preggers, we went to Ouisie's instead. It is a cute/romantic Southern food place in the galleria area of Houston. We have been there once for a wedding reception of our great friends, Aaron and Sarah, but wanted to go back to actually dine at the restaurant. Ryan got their famous chicken fried steak and I got their shrimp and grits. Both were delicious! We got some sort of fruit bread a la mode for dessert and it was great too. It was a nice leisure lunch and a little cheaper than eating there for dinner, plus I have to work tomorrow.







I hope that you had a great weekend. Next weekend is chalked full of activities with family in town and baby shower #2, so stayed tuned...

Three Years Ago Today....

I married the man of my dreams! Happy Anniversary Ryan. I love you more and more each day. Me

Getting Ready for Baby

Ryan and I refer to this kid inside me as, "Baby." Ryan and I wonder when this kid is like 16 if we will still say, "Baby, take out the trash," or, "Baby, you need to do your homework." My only complaint I have about not knowing the gender is not about the silly "theme" for the nursery or what color clothes I need to buy, but that we can't refer to it by one of the names we have picked out .

Anywho, I have not written in awhile cause last weekend we were so busy. Busy, of course, getting ready for Baby. Ryan and I both had a three-day weekend that started with Friday. We went to borrow Ryan's sister's truck to get some more hand-me-down furniture from my NICE NICE friend Julie. Props to Julie here!!! She not only gave us her crib but the dresser/changing table, rocker, side table and shelf that all match as well. We are so lucky to have these generous hand-me-downs.

After going all the way to Julie's house and then back to our house to unload everything, we headed off to the Woodlands and went to the Pottery Barn store to finally get an adult bed to go in the bedroom with Baby. The plan is for the person who is on maternity/paternity leave will sleep in that room with Baby to tend to he/she during the night, so the other person that has to get up and go to work can get a good night's sleep without a screaming baby in our bedroom. That is the plan; we will see what happens.

Regardless there is a bed finally in that bedroom for when the kid grows up--a freakin, NICE, EXPENSIVE POTTERY BARN BED. Luckily we used up all of our GC's from our wedding to buy this bed plus a little extra more. On the way home we stopped at Mattress Firm and got some Tempurpedic mattresses. I don't think I will ever want to sleep in our bedroom again with our regular mattress after sleeping in Baby's room on the adult bed. We spent a lot of money that day and that makes me nervous, so we got home around 7pm and chilled. Our bed and mattresses should be delivered at the end of this month, hence why I have not put the "after pictures" of Baby's room on the blog. I want it to be completely done before we take pics.

Saturday, I got up and went walking and went to the grocery store to get some fajitas. The Homers, Sarah and Aaron and Aaron's brother Chris, came over for dinner that night. Sarah, my seamstress friend who made all my bedding for the crib, saved the day and fixed the bumper that I ruined in the wash. She brought over her little sewing kit and unstitched everything and unfolded the foam pad and sewed it back up. I know it seems simple but to me, with no sewing skills whatsoever, she saved the day! Props to Sarah! We visited and ate and ate and ate. Sunday was our day of rest. I don't quite remember what we did but I know it was not nearly as busy as the Friday and Saturday.

Baby Shower #1 in San Marcos

This past weekend included my first baby shower. So officially, we have baby stuff in our house now. It is weird for me to look at that and know that it is only going to get bigger. The shower was in San Marcos, hosted by my sisters and mom. Fifteen people came and it was a nice time. Lots of great prezzies! When I got home from the shower Sunday afternoon, I was pumped about organizing the baby room. So while I made Ryan put together the crib, I organized all the baby gifts and started washing all my handmade bedding from Sarah in my new Dreft detergent to place in the crib that was now put together. When I pulled the fresh smelling bumper out of the washing machine, it had twisted and seemed like it was ruined. On top of that, my sister and dad sent me the pictures they took from the baby shower that evening (my camera battery died so they took all the pics) and almost all the pictures were fuzzy because it was on the wrong speed. That is when my pregnancy hormone induced meltdown occurred. I cried because of the pictures. I sobbed because of the bumper. I cried because there is so much to do and so little time. I boo-hoo'd because Ryan did not get enough vegetables at the grocery store. All of these tears came rolling and Ryan hugged, kissed and comforted me and said, "It is time for you to go to bed." He was right! I needed sleep. And I went to bed at 8pm that evening and all was better the next day. Here are some of the nonfuzzy shower photos for you to NOT cry over.