Man what a
busy few weeks it has been. Time
continues to fly by and I continue to be amazed with how fast this pregnancy is
going. The last weekend in July, Charlie
and I got away to the cities (Minneapolis)
to spend some time together. Charlie
rarely gets weekends off and it just so happened that he had Friday, Saturday
& Sunday off this specific weekend so I told him I didn’t care what we did
or where we went, but we were going to leave town. We decided to head up to Minneapolis to just relax and do some
shopping at our favorite place-the Albertville Outlet. We were hoping to watch a baseball game too,
but they didn’t have any home games that weekend. So, we sent to the Medford Outlet and of
course Cabela’s on our way up, tried a new stir-fry restaurant which was
awesome (oh that was a rule for this trip by the way, we couldn’t eat anywhere
we had eaten before we had to try a new place), then we quick hit IKEA that
night yet before they closed. The next
morning we woke up and drove to the Albertville Outlet where we spent most of
our day. To be honest, neither of us are
big shoppers, but we had so much fun as we spent most of our time “baby
shopping”. We picked out a few outfits
for a girl, a few outfits for a boy, some that could go either way and then
some of the essentials like onsies, bibs, blankets, etc. I now have a new store…Carters! They have the cutest baby clothes and they
had great deals going on too! Charlie
decided he can see why people find out whether they are having a girl or boy now
because he said it would make shopping way easier and cheaper. Other than that we hit a few other stores and
got a few things for ourselves and then headed out for the day. On our way back to the hotel, we stopped and
ate at a really cool Mexican Restaurant called Ol’ Mexican. The architecture both inside and out of the
restaurant was really cool. It had the
old brick looks with wrought iron fencing inside and little water falls. We aren’t real fancy eaters, we tend to go
for more of the fast food/grill and sports bar type of restaurants, but this
was something fun for a change. We had a
nice meal and spent a lot of time just talking and catching up with each
other. With our schedules it gets hard
sometimes to keep up with what’s going on with each other’s lives as we often
only get maybe 30 minutes over a lunch break or so, so to be able to sit down
and eat together for as long as we want was great! After supper we made our way back to the
hotel and threw on our suits quick to make it down to the hot tub (no I did not
sit in it, just put my legs in J).
The next morning we slept in, enjoyed continental breakfast and a hit
Babies R Us where we spent a couple hours putting together a baby
registry. Who knew there were so many baby
items out there. It was a little
overwhelming, but it feels nice to have it done. We should be set now as we have registered at
Target, Wal-Mart & Babies R Us.
After Babies R Us we just picked up some pizza at a little to-go Italian
place and made our way home. I love little
getaways with the hubby. They always
seem to go by way to quickly, but I think it’s good for a marriage when you
take time to just get away just the two of you.
The Monday we
got back from the cities we had our 22 week ultrasound with Dr. Anderson. Once again everything looked great. Dr. Anderson reviewed our ultrasound report
and said everything was still measuring on time so our due date of November 28,
2013 should stay the same. It’s crazy
how much over the past few weeks we have been feeling this little one move now. It was when I was about 20 weeks along or so
when I first could feel little flutter like feelings but wasn’t quite sure if
it was baby or not until we had our ultrasound and when I could feel the
movements we were seeing on the screen I then knew that what I had been feeling
was our little one. We were at a wedding
a few days after our ultrasound and Baby Z. was really kicking or moving pretty
good, so I grabbed Charlie’s hand quick and put it over my stomach. He was pretty excited and amazed at what he
was able to feel. Some people may have
wondered what was going on or why I was having him touch my stomach but I
didn’t care, it was too exciting. I often
catch myself just staring at my belly for a bit to watch it move or just hold
my hands over it because I love the feel of all the little movements. It’s truly amazing how God creates a child in
the womb from being so microscopic that you couldn’t even see it if you tried
to eventually feeling and seeing all that he has developed over the 9-10 months
while in the womb.
Last week was
an extremely busy at work for me as we had a three day Jury Trial. I love trials as it’s a change from the
normal routine and it’s fun to see the case all come together in the end, but
boy are they a lot of work and they create long days. This mama found out that a 15 hour day is
plenty long for her. I was shot by the
end of the week and just ready to relax.
When I got home from work one night last week, I had the coolest
surprise to come home to. I got home
from work just a few hours late this specific night and when I pulled up I
noticed all of my sisters’ and parents vehicles parked behind the house near
the grove (they were obviously trying to hide them J).
We were to have singing practice that night so I knew they were going to
be in town, but practice was going to be at Kasondra’s house so why they were
all at our house confused me. I was so
shocked when I walked in and there in our nursery was my family and hubby
hiding. While I was in trial that day
they all surprised me and pretty much completely put together our baby
room. From only having the sheet rock up
and a layer of mud on the night before to them finishing mudding, sanding,
texturing, painting, putting together the baby crib and furniture and
decorating the room it was literally put together in pretty much a day. I was pretty stressed that week with all the
hectic trial prep. going on and when I saw this I honestly just had to hold
back tears. I was so happy and thankful. I couldn’t believe that they did that for
me. It was just a relief. I know we still have a few months, but I have
been dying to get in that room and get the drawers organized with the clothes
and diapers and all that fun stuff and now I can! I feel blessed to have such an amazing
family.
