let me brag on a friend for a minute

before i go posting shower pics, i want to plug a friend's business!

(click on the logo to go to her site)

lindsey is the wife of jim, one of brandt's buddies from the aggie band, and she is very talented! her mad skills, paired with jim's stellar cake delivery service provided the yumminess at the shower!

so super cute!
top layer was strawberry cake, bottom was yellow

i can't even write in dashes like that with a pen. and she did it in icing!

happy trees


so what's the cake based on? if you don't remember, here's something to refresh your memory...
its the invitation, but edible!
yes, she made those teeny tiny birds out of fondant! they even had itty beaks and eyes.

sorry about all the shine, its from the flash. if she puts up pics on her site, i'll swap these out.

great job lindsey! we all loved it!

*edit*
now it's my turn... the logo up there, with the cake coming out of a flower, those are my mad skills. i really should post more of my work...

sorry!

i've been neglecting my blog lately. its been slow at work lately, so you would think i would have more time to play on here. actually though, it just means i've been at my desk less.


i missed my 28 week post :(

i had the stomach flu and couldn't even keep down water, so that friday i didn't do much other than sleep. but i will make it up by posting some pictures from my first baby shower!


i had a dr's appt on tues, and i got the results back from my gestational diabetes test. (for everyone who doesn't know, every pregnant person has to take the test, you get a very sugary drink and you have to drink it and then wait an hour, then they take your blood and test it to make sure your body processes sugar correctly. if it goes undiagnosed, it can cause complications farther along.) anyways, i passed! yay! so i can continue on with my love affair of dr. pepper.

don't judge me. its the only vice i am allowed to have.

however, the test did tell us that i am anemic. which, really, is no surprise b/c i was told that in high school too. so now i get to add iron supplements to my daily dose of pills. (up to 4!)
but i'll do what it takes to keep our baby healthy :)


next ultrasound will be on the 30th! so a few more weeks till we get to see our little one again!

houston, we have a face

this morning was another ultrasound, and our baby's face is no longer just bones, we have a definite face! so exciting!

at the last u/s we got a face shot, but it was creepy. well, it was a skull! so it was fun this time to see lips, nose, etc. we even got to see him (this week, boy) open his mouth a few times. we saw his tiny bladder, his heart beating (140 bpm) and a few other things. but no money shot, we looked away when she did measurements of the legs :)

the head though, big! 7 cm already! based on the tech's measurements, he is a little big, i believe he's measuring 9 days ahead. at the last u/s it was just 3 days. so we may not be making it till aug 23rd!

26 weeks

so depending on what schedule you go on, i'm officially in my third trimester!

(some say 26 weeks, some say 26w, 6d since that is what 40 weeks divided by 3 would be)

but i'll take it, yay 3rd tri! so that means i'm also starting my 7th month! wow, time is flying!

so now for the belly pics...


i'm posting both the bare belly and the covered-by-my-shirt ones... i'm sure at some point i will not feel like posting the bare belly ones anymore, but for now i am good. are they distrubing? b/c i can quit posting them now... i know the preggo belly isn't a thing of beauty to everyone. thoughts?

the dr gave me a new medicine, its a 24 hr pill, and it is a miracle worker! i am barely coughing now. thank you thank you thank you! certain foods (casa ole) still give me annoying i'm-about-to-pee-my-pants coughing fits, but overall, i am happy!

i noticed that i am feeling the most movements when i am driving. my theory is that it is b/c of the music! (i keep it loud) so we have busted out the giant headphones (think the ones for hearing tests in elemetary school) and put em on my belly. i'll keep you posted with the results!

How far along? 26 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: same as the appt 4 weeks ago. i feel bigger though!
Maternity clothes? permanently!
Stretch marks? not yet...
Sleep: good if i don't drink anything after 7pm lol
Best moment this week: playing music to the baby
Movement: a bunch. and you can see it too! creepy!
Food cravings: nope. and my appetite as dissapeared too
Gender: we took a poll, its a tie
Labor Signs: nada
Belly Button in or out? innie but its fading fast...
What I miss: having more than 2 prs of jeans to wear
What I am looking forward to: jen feeling the baby. she's dying
Weekly Wisdom: starbursts make me cough. i don't get it
Milestones: 3rd tri! double digits! seeing the baby move!

double digits!

here's me on thurs... i didn't even realize that i was down to double digits!
99 days left!
wow!!!

i took it b/c i liked my shirt and had just dyed my hair to fix a botched highlighting job and wanted to see what it looked like in natural light as opposed to my bathroom. apparently there's some truth to that "pregnancy hormones mess with your hair" theory.

i'm gonna brag on my sis

check out the supercute invites she made for my shower!

(scanner at work isn't the best, apparently. but trust me, its really cute!)

thank you Kohl's

so i was browsing kohl's website looking at their baby stuff when i came across some of those letters that you hang on the wall, usually spelling out the baby's name.

pink ones for a girl:

blue ones for a boy:

but i guess if you don't know the sex you are having a:

pregnancy makes me miss...

*disclaimer: i am sooooo happy that we are having a baby. please don't take this as complaining, i realize that we are blessed and we are very thankful. this is more of a joke post than anything*

1. i miss the motorcycle. i LOVE riding on it, maybe more than brandt. did i mention, i picked it out and made him go look at it?

2. i miss NOT coughing
i miss having a conversation where i'm not hacking up a lung every few minutes. or being able to sleep without coughing everytime i wake up. which happens alot. ask my wonderful husband who has on several occasions, gotten up to sleep on the couch.


3. i miss sleeping all night long
speaking of not sleeping all night... i swear i'm up 5 times. at least.


4. i miss holding my puppies!
they weigh a tad over 10 lbs...


5. oh, i miss going out!
not so much drinking, haven't missed that at all. but i do miss going out. i'm just too tired now!

but yeah, number 1 is def the bike.
BUT, i get to have a baby, so all is well :)

for katie:

my friend is raising money for the Alzheimer's Association in memory of her grandfathers, help her out! just click the banner above!

bedding!

another post that's been sitting in my drafts for almost 2 weeks... my bedding!

i couldn't decide on what to pick... everything seemed so overpriced. i wasn't crazy about a "theme" i wanted more of a pattern or certain colors to go off of. so i decided to ask my mom, who sews. she had made the bedding for my sister when she was born, so it was something she's done before.

here's the pattern that we picked:

but since we don't know the sex, we aren't going to do the flowers, just regular ties for the bumpers.

and here's the fabric! its actually a quilt from target in the regular bedding section. (should have been $40 but my target had it marked wrong at $20! score!)

and thanks to my camera, the dark blue looks like royal blue. its actually more of a dark teal. we also got the sheets in solid lime, solid turquoise (the dot color, not the background) and in the stripes.

i meant to take a picture of the bedding in progress when we were at my parent's last weekend, but of course i forgot. technically, its a shower gift though, so i won't see it all finished till june.

not that i have a crib to put it on yet! we did order the furniture though! i'm sure excited! we picked it out a few weeks ago (and by "we" i mean my mom and jen. what about brandt? in a baby store? in his defense, he would have gone, he just mentioned that i would have more fun with them) so now its ordered, but its unfortunately back ordered, so 10-12 weeks to get it in. which is anytime late june to early july. so we've got the time.
its the 2000 series from cocoon
pictured is "paprika" but we ordered it in "espresso"
and we didn't get the armoire thingie either.
the furniture is a gift from brandt's wonderful grandparents! so thank you!

and that means i need to get the room emptied and painted!