Yep-she is spoiled!

My sister in law Kara and niece Olivia threw a wonderful family baby shower for us this past weekend. Joel even came to celebrate! It was such a great day filled with family and of course the happy cake-no party would be complete without the happy cake! Baby girl Speral is so blessed to have so many great aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins and second cousins that love her so much already! I can't wait for her to be here so she can meet everyone in person, only 6 more weeks now!

Here are a few pictures from the shower!

32 weeks and Baby Shower

On Wednesday we had our 32 week Dr. appointment. Everything is looking good and right on track, gained a few more pounds and got to hear the babies heartbeat. We were excited to hear that she most likely has flipped from breech to head down! yay! We go every two weeks now so I'm sure I will have plenty of updates to come!

We also had our first birthing class this week-something I was sure was going to freak Joel out and that I was totally prepared for. HAHA I was totally wrong-although I'm sure Joel is completely terrified I was the one sweating and thinking I was going to faint watching the birthing videos! I can't even tell you how many times I turned to Joel and said "I don't think I can do this" his response "it's a little late for that now don't you think?!" It was a crash course on labor and delivery-I'm sure at the time I'm in labor I will appreciate knowing that stuff but for now I'm scared out of my mind!

Today my good friends Darla and Emily threw baby girl Speral a "fun girls" baby shower! It was so nice to see all the girls from college again and talk all about babies and old times! It was a prefect day with wonderful friends and family-thank you so much everyone! I'm thinking we already need to punt an "addition" onto the babies room-wow she has a lot of stuff! We are also going to have dinner with some good friends tonight-The Netlands, Mike and Lisa, Corey and Laura and Andrew. I'm sure the boys will be sitting at one end of the table watching sports and drinking beers and the girls will be at the other end talking and laughing! We are so excited that Mike and Lisa will be moving to Fargo soon and we will get to spend more time with them and their little girl who is due at the end of May!

Baby Shower

We had our fist baby shower on Saturday in Brainerd, my cousin Jessica and her mom Debbie threw it for me and baby girl. It was such a fun day! We played a few games, ate some yummy food, opened gifts and had "happy" cake of course! (that's what my niece Olivia calls it) The day could not have been more perfect, thanks Jessica and Debbie for such a fun day!

I have come to the conclusion that this little girl is spoiled already! Her closet is full of adorable clothes and gifts, and if she doesn't have an obsession with shoes already she will as soon as she sees her little shoe collection! The girl has more shoes than me already!!! Thanks everyone for all the great baby gifts and for coming to the shower, it was so wonderful!

30 weeks

30 weeks! It feels like a milestone, only 10 more to go!!! Wow, it amazes me everyday that this little baby is growing like a weed and will be here so soon! This weekend is my first baby shower, I cannot wait to see all my family and show them how big this belly has gotten! I will be a great day! Lynn, Kara and Miss Olivia and I will be heading to Brainerd for the day it should be a nice little girls road trip! I think big cousin Olivia will be my little helper all day opening the gifts for her new baby cousin!

I got home from today and had a fun little surprise waiting for me...a package from my aunt in California! Inside a fab pair of silver flats adorn with silver and gold sparklies! I love them and they fit perfectly! My feet and back thank her!!! (she loves shoes just as much as me if that's possible!) They are really going to dress up this boring pregnancy wardrobe! THANKS DONNA!

Baby Update 29+ weeks

Well I never ended up taking a 28 week baby bump picture...the weeks (besides the hours at work) have been going by so fast-less than 11 weeks now! We are feeling the crunch now and have had moments of pure panic! I wake up at night worrying about everything these days, diapers, car seats, do we need this or do we have that, are we ready for this little girl to be here, and my many many dreams that "she" is born a "he" and all we have is pink stuff!

We had purchased a car seat/stroller system a few weeks ago as I wrote about in a previous entry. After getting it all put together we realized it was not what we wanted, so we took it apart and put it back in the box-NOT an easy task! I have no idea how all of that fit in that box in the first place-we worked on getting it all back in the box for what felt like hours...many many frustrating hours where we exchanged some choice words. But we Finally won and got it all back in the box and returned it. The next challenging task we faced was finding the one we wanted-just a front adjusting car seat not too much to ask for I think-but we found it is a rare thing, at least at the limited stores we had to choose from! After a day full of shopping we finally went home and found one online that we liked-agreeing on one we both liked was also not an easy task, but we did it! Hopefully once it gets here it will be everything we wanted, I don't think either of us could handle another day of car seat shopping! haha!

Next weekend my cousin Jessica is throwing us a baby shower, my first baby shower! I am so excited to see everyone!

Other than that, I have been feeling well. Getting bigger for sure by the day! She gets the hiccups a lot and I think it is so funny-Joel even got to feel them the other day.

28 weeks-only 12 more to go!

We had our 28 week appointment yesterday, the babies heartrate was in the 150's and she had the hiccups while we were listening to the heart beat-so cute! Everything is moving right along and going great. I also took my much talked about glucous test-and the orange stuff is just as sugary as everyone says! I just chugged it and tried not to taste it too much, then it was off to labs where I got to have my blood drawn. Usually a quick and painless experience....not yesterday! I left with 2 black and blue and very sore arms. Oh well small price to pay for this little girl! I also had a rohgam shot for my negative blood type, something I was surprised to find out and good to know!

Pictures soon to follow of the ever expanding bump-just gotta get Joel to take some for me! 12 more weeks!!!!!

we are, we are, we are the fun girl thetas......

Friday all of the girls from UND and the infamous Kappa Fun Girl Thetas got together for a little reunion, although most of us live in Fargo we never see each other due to conflicting schedules-and the fact that most us are moms are almost moms! Kristi hosted the get together and we had so much fun, no matter how much time passes we seem to pick up right where we left off. We ate lots of yummy food of course and caught up and each others lives, and there was lots of baby talk of course since many of us are expecting! My how our get together have changed-we are definitely not as wild and crazy as our college days, instead of glitter and halter tops and glitter we were sporting maternity clothes, instead of alcoholic beverages like "skip and go's" and mixed drinks with karkov vodka (ick) we sipped sprite, sparkling cider and wine but we still had a great time and shared many laughes! I love them all so much and wish that we got to do this more often.