Baby Shower

This weekend I had my first baby shower for Hudson given by my sweet sister-in-law, Erica. Hudson's room is going to be grey, yellow, with some splashes of navy and I'm incorporating elephants where ever I can because I think they're so cute! She did such a good job of adding those details to her decorations.

We got a good start on things for Hudson! In just 2 weeks we'll finally be able to start putting his nursery (and the rest of our house) together! 

I took lots of pictures yesterday so I'll let them do the rest of the talking :) 

 

This is mine and Cliff's baby pictures. I'm on the left Cliff is on the right. I think we can all pretty much guess what Hudson will look like!

Cliff's mom is a very talented seamstress. She made the cutest little smocked bubble outfit but she also made him a quilt that matches his room perfectly!  

Hudson's grandmothers 

Two of his great-grandmother's 

It was such a nice day and I feel so blessed to have had everyone come celebrate with us. Also, I feel incredibly lucky to have had two of Hudson's great-grandmothers come in town to celebrate him with us. Thank you Mom-mom and Mimi! 

And a huge thank you to Erica (and Barbara!) who put this shower together for me. 

What's on your plate?

Two blog posts in one day? Don't get used to it! 

I love finding new recipes especially when they actually turn out the way the pictures look and taste delicious too and I thought i'd share any I find. I am all about some  Pinterest and have found many recipes on there; some good, some would probably be considered a pinterest fail. I used to just pin a bunch of food that I would never actually try. Most of which was super healthy like an avocado pizza or a quinoa (gross that word again) burger which I would have never even dream of cooking let alone eating. So, I deleted my food board and now only pin recipes that I've actually made and have been successful. Which leads me to tonight's dinner; Mexican Stuffed Shells. Ah-ma-zing! When it comes to Cliff I could tell him we're having mexican stuffed broccoli and he would automatically like it but I'm a little more picky and this was definitely pin-worthy.

Anyway, I thought I'd share this delish recipe with you all incase you like mexican as much as we do and are in to cooking pretty simple recipes! I didn't follow the recipe exactly how it's written. I added black beans and corn to the beef mixture and instead of ground beef I used ground turkey because for some reason ground beef grosses me out these days. 
Recipe

Try it out, I'll bet you'll like it! 

Closing Time

Finally, after what's felt like an eternity we have a closing date! We have our walk thru scheduled for Aug 8th and our closing on Aug 15th. Unfortunately, the timing is not going to be ideal with work and other things going on that week but with the 4 weeks we have to plan it out I'm sure, knowing my husband it will be planned to the T. Complete with lists, multiple lists! 

We go by the house once a week and this past weekend it finally felt like a house which was so exciting! It is however, a little depressing to go back to our apartment after leaving the house. As bad as I've talked about our Player's Club apartment and believe me, I've complained about it to family, friends and the lady at Dunkin Donuts (we go there WAY too much) the apartment hasn't really been that bad and it's served it's purpose. Cliff and I will be able to tell Hudson one day about those 6 months we stayed here while he was growing in my belly. Missi she has enjoyed our walking trail behind the apartments that she's mistaken for her own personal backyard, and is in for a rude awakening once we get to our new house that does not have a creek running through it. 

I've added a few picture I took over the weekend. A lot will be happening this week though so I'll have many more next week. 

28 weeks :)

It's here, I'm finally in the 3rd trimester!

 

I've seen this little thing on a couple of different blogs and I wish I had started it much sooner but I decided to go ahead and start now, better late than never! I just think it's such a neat way to look back on your pregnancy and see what you were feeling when. Also, you're supposed to put a belly shot on here but I'm not really in to sharing those on social media so..sorry! Last weeks picture by the creek was basically 28 weeks so there ya go!

 

 

 

How far? 28 weeks as of 7/3/13

 

Size of baby: Baby is the size of a small cabbage. Measuring approximately 17 in and weighing about 3 lbs (all of these are based off my whattoexpect app on my phone so obviously just a guesstimate)

 

Sleep: Sleep changes for me every night. Some nights I get up once to pee some nights its upwards of 10 times, no joke. My back will hurt some nights and sometimes it's not that bad. Over the last month or so I've started waking up by 5:30 with no signs of being able to fall back asleep. Missi has picked up on that so now most mornings by the time I open my eyes there's big brown eyes already staring at me.

 

Strech Marks: I wanted to delete this question but I decided to keep it and stick to the original questionnaire. No. No strech marks as of yet. I am one of the most supersticious peolpe though so I figure after typing this I'll find strech marks all over me tonight. I've been using Palmer's Cocoa Lotion and Bio Oil, not religiously, just as I remember.

 

Best moment of the week: Seeing our cabinets put in our house and it painted. I'm SO ready to be in the house and start the whole 'nesting' process it's about to drive me crazy. Also, any time Cliff gets to feel Hudson really kick is the best feeling. He's been hard for others to feel but he's finally getting big enough that Cliff can feel and know it's him kicking. It makes my heart smile. I can't wait to see him hold him.

 

Movement: Oh yeah, tons of it! Usually during the day if I'm up and moving around I don't feel him as much but once I sit down or settle in for the night he throws his own little dance party in my belly. I love it :)

 

Gender: All boy!

 

Belly Button In or Out? In and I hope it stays that way! Something about your belly button turning inside out freaks me out

 

Wedding rings off or on? On and they're still pretty loose so hopefully that's a good sign. However, when we go on walks my hands will swell and they get a little tight then. I just walk with my hands straight up in the air..Cliff loves it.

 

Cravings: Lemonade. I absolutely love lemonade these days. I found that Minute Maid makes a much lighter version of pink lemonade and regular that's only 15 calories with 2 grams of sugar so I feel better about the gallons I go through. The only other cravings have been sparatic and not constant. Just a milkshake here, or a brownie there. I craved grilled food for a long time but I think that was mainly because we don't have our grill to be able to grill out and let me tell you Cliff is a grill master. He has a Big Green Egg and makes the BEST anything on that thing! Now I'm hungry.

 

Anything making you queasy or sick?  Nope. Nothing really ever has except quinoa. BLEH! I can't even type, say, or look at that word still. It's going to erk me just knowing its on this post. Some smells make me nauseated but I only know them when I get around them not off the top of my head. I had to type the last sentence elsewhere and cut and paste it here because of that horrible word above. Grossgrossgross.

 

What I miss: Being able to just hop up from the couch/bed, putting my clothes on without almost falling over. Being able to paint my toenails comfortably. I can still reach them but if he's kicking me it's very uncomfortable. So, yesterday Cliff painted them for me. We almost didn't make it through the first toe we were both laughing so hard. I wish I had gotten a picture but he would have killed me. I've always thought it comical when men do things a woman normally would. Also, SUSHI! I have never wanted sushi so bad in all my life. I've already told Cliff I want Peter's Sushi in the hospital after he's born.

 

What I'm looking forward to: Getting into our house and getting his nursery in order. Although it doesn't look like this will be happening for at least another month, most likely longer.

 

Labor Signs: No, not at all.

 

Nursery: Currently non existent.

 

Emotions: Ha! This question should probably have a double side where you can see Cliff's response. I feel like my mood has been pretty stable but if something small happens like Chick Fil A forgetting my polynesian sauce then forget it. Prepare for water works. I've noticed I get annoyed with people much easier than I used to and since 4 days a week I'm answering our office phones I have to control that and try not to hang up on people. It's quite hard sometimes. Also, I've stopped weighing myself at home because really there's no need so when I went to my doctors appointment this past week I cried. She assured me she's really happy with my weight but I just wasn't feeling it that day I guess.