The count down is on!!

Well first of all I just have to say that it is SOOO nice having Brandon done with his Boards. He took it June 18 and it is so nice to have him home! Although we do not do much it is still really nice to actually have him around all the time! :-) Well anyways... so today I hit 36 weeks! I am on the final stretch of this pregnancy and I am so glad! I cannot wait to be done being pregnant! It is going to be so nice to have this little guy out of me finally!! So today I had my doctors appointment and the nurse practitioner said that the babies head is really low in my pelvis and he sounded healthy on the Doppler so that is good! :-) I thought he had to be really low because I feel a lot of pressure down there so I figured he had to be. So hopefully that just means that he is getting really ready to come out! They will check me next week to see if I am dilating yet and I will be getting another ultrasound so that they can check and see if the fluid levels are good and make sure he is head down and see how big he is! So that will be exciting! Hopefully everything looks good and hopefully I have started dilating, that would be really awesome! Also I tested positive for GBS so I will have to go into the hospital sooner than I thought when I am in labor! Oh well, I really do not care I just want this little guy out of me! haha I think I came to a conclusion on why it takes 9 months for a baby to be born. Its so that the moms feel like they are totally ready to have a baby even if it means sleepless nights and frustrating times. I do not think that we would feel that way if it did not take so long, but, that is just my opinion! haha So now the count down is on. We have pretty much everything ready for this little guy to come and now we must wait and see when he decides he is ready to come! Lets just hope he wants to come out a little sooner than my due date. That would be really nice! haha So that is it for tonight I will update more later!

Shower Time!!

So in the past week and a half I have had the fun opportunity to attend 2 baby showers for our little boy. We had one here in Arizona and one in California. Thanks to Shauna for throwing such a great and fun shower here in Arizona and for kallee letting it be hosted at her house! :-) It was so much fun to get together with friends and this little boy of mine got the cutest things ever. :-) He is one lucky little boy. :-) It was so much fun and I am so blessed to have such great friends in my life. Oh I also have to give a shout out to my friend Whitney who helped throw the shower but was not able to make it. Anyways so we had this shower on June 2nd and my mom was able to be there for it which was really nice. Then the next day my mom and I drove down to good ol' California! Brandon has his boards he is studying for so he could not come which was sad. So anyways we got to my parents house Thursday evening and my little sister and my sister in-law flew in the night as well. It was so much fun to see my family and to hangout with them for the time I was down there. So then on Saturday we had the shower in California. It was a lot of fun too and I have to say with our little boy was hooked up by all of our family and friends. We really do not have much left to get, which is really nice. It was good to see a lot of the people that I grew up with, well their parents since all of my friends are away at school! haha I would put pictures up but my mom has all of them so I do not have any pictures from my showers sadly. Hopefully I can put some up soon. It was a lot of fun to be in California, except it was weird to be away from Brandon for almost a week. We have never been apart for that long in almost 2 years so that was hard. Luckily he got to come down that Tuesday night and we were able to hangout on Wednesday together and then drive home on Thursday. While he was down we went to this place called Scandia. It is a little amusement park kind of place. It has mini golf and some rides and an arcade. I had 2 VIP passes to there that I had gotten from my 16th birthday from my friend whose dad owns the place. They did not have expiration dates on them so we were able to use them which was hillarious. So we took my little brother with us and went and played in the arcade for an hour or so because the tickets got us 30 dollars worth of tokens for the arcade. It was fun to just goof off and try and win as many tickets as we could. We ended up getting a lot of candy out of it haha so it was fun! Anyways, now there is only a week left until Brandon takes his boards so I think I can make it. It was nice to be around people all day everyday when I was in California so I think I can manage to be alone for one more week. I can now get stuff organized in the babies room and get all ready for this little guy to come. So at least I have some things to keep me occupied. :-) 7 more weeks!

Oh and my sister took maternity pictures of me while I was down in California so I will post some pictures soon! :-)

We made it!!!!

So this last Wednesday Brandon officially finished his very first year of Dental School!! I can't believe it is over. This past year has truly gone by so fast. I am so proud of Brandon for doing so well in his first year of Dental School. Especially when he really did not want to study and was super sick of it all, but he stuck to it and pulled of good grades and learned a lot. Although he is done it does not really feel like it. He has to study for his Boards now which will feel like he is still in school anyways. He takes his Boards June 18th. So until then he will be going to the library everyday for a good 6 to 8 hours to study probably. So it really does not feel like he is done because he really is not, except for the fact that he has finished his first year. Once these Boards are over than it will really feel like he is done and we will actually be able to do things together. Although, I am not much fun because it is too hot to do to much outside while I am hugely pregnant it will still be nice to have him home, and for him to be able to truly relax and do whatever he wants to. So here are the things that we have going on in the near future. Well first of all Brandon studying for his Boards like I just said. :-) Also Brandon's sister and brother-in-law are coming down to visit for a couple of days! :-) After that I will be going down to California to have a baby shower down there the very beginning of June. I will be gone for about a week which means that when I get back there will only be a week and a half before Brandon takes his Boards. So that will be nice for me to get away and be able to do something while he is studying hard core. Then he will take his Boards and then FREEDOM!!!! Then we have our Anniversary and (depending on when this baby of ours decides to come) my birthday and having our baby or vice versa. So it is going to be a packed couple of months! :-) But VERY exciting! :-)

The long hall

So now that I am in my third and final trimester I am totally wanting to be done! haha I am so ready to have this little guy here. I know I still have like 3 months left but still I am ready to have this little boy here. Although having this little boy here will mean sleepless nights and frustration and whatever else may come, I think I am ready for it. I think I am ready to actually have something to do everyday! haha I think that I am officially past the phase of enjoying being a "lazy butt". haha I am excited for life to change. I have also realized that I am definitely not one of those girls that enjoys being pregnant. Whenever I hear of a girl that says she thinks she is going to miss being pregnant I think, "NOT ME!" I have had such an easy pregnancy that is for sure, and I am truly blessed to have had such. However, that does not change the fact that I am not a huge fan of being pregnant. Of coarse in the beginning of pregnancy it was exciting for a little while. It was fun to feel the baby move in the beginning. However, I always complained to Brandon about how I felt so fat and ugh.. haha! I do count my many blessing though. This little boy of ours moves ALL the time. Which although I complain sometimes because my body needs a rest from the constant pushes and punches, it is a blessing to me that I do not have to worry about how much he is moving. I don't have to worry about counting how many times he moves during the day because there is no way I could keep track with how much he does move! haha So that is a blessing, even if it is hard to say that when I am tired of him going crazy. I am also so ready to get back to being myself. I feel like I WANT to go on a diet haha and start working out hard core. I want to feel skinny again and have more energy to want to do things. I am also super anxious to see what our little boy looks like. Something that I find funny is anytime I tell Brandon that I want to be done, he tries to help put that at ease by saying something about how I have to push him out and other things that would scare me out of wanting to be done now. It does not help. Of coarse I am not looking forward to the pains of labor, but I am SO done with being pregnant. Maybe I will think differently when he is here, but as for now I am ready to start my life as a mom and get back to my old self. Hopefully! haha I guess I will just have to hold out for the 11 more weeks or so that I have left, and try to enjoy the time that I do have to just be lazy and not do anything or do anything I want. :-)

Oh Joy

So the other day my ribs were hurting a bit and I thought, "I think the baby is at my rib cage now because they hurt." It only hurt a little bit and it was the first time having that happen. Now, today I was doing a lot of cleaning and while I was doing so I kept getting this feeling at the bottom of my rib cage. It felt like I had a bug squirming around my ribs. It felt sooo... weird. So I would stretch out a bit and then my ribs would feel a little bit sore. So I really think that this little guy is now located at my ribs. My ribs have been sore now like all day. I am not excited about this because I am still a day away from 25 weeks and if I am already having sore ribs I can't imagine how bad it will get in the up coming months.
This little boy of mine is such a mover!! He is so strong and he must really like my hip bones because he likes to kick them or punch them and hurt me. Oh and tonight while I was reading I swear he body slammed my bladder! haha Seriously I thought I was going to pee my pants he hit me so hard. haha So not only does he hurt me by hitting my hips just perfectly to give me a sharp pain. Now he is going to start with my ribs. Man, I am soo excited haha! Oh well I guess it comes with the territory of having a baby growing inside of you. Hopefully he will be nice to me and not hurt me too badly! I would really appreciate it if he would be a good little boy and be nice to his mommy! :-)

Getting ready!

So this past weekend was such a crazy weekend. Getting our new carpet which I will have to upload the pictures I took and put some up. It looks BEAUTIFUL and feels amazing. It is sooo nice to have new carpet and our house smells so good haha! Anyways so right after getting our carpet in my family got here. It was a lot of fun to just hangout with them. I love my family!! I talked to my mom a lot about having this little baby. It was fun to talk to her about it since she went through having all 5 of us kids in the family naturally. It was good to get her thoughts on it. We also went and played raquetball twice, well I did not play my mom and I played ping pong while the boys played raquetball. I would have loved to play but I have not played in so long that I did not think it would be such a good idea. Brandon and I also finally put up the crib!! Yay..... I have been wanting to put up the crib ever since we got it but we could not put it up because we were waiting to get carpet. So we finally were able to put it up this weekend. So Brandon and I put up the crib Friday night, and it looks SO cute!! Oh and my parents brought with them a dresser that we are using as a changing table. So we are pretty much set now haha! We just need to get a pack-n-play and all of the little odds and ends. However, for the big things that we need we pretty much are set. So here are just some of the pictures of Brandon and I putting up the babies crib. Which by the way we put some of the things on backwards so we had to take apart some things after screwing them in and finally got it right. It was pretty funny. So the first 4 pictures are ones that my mom took and edited! She is so good at photography. Maybe someday I will be like her! :-)

Brandon and I working to get the crib put together!

Brandon working on tyeing bows from the strings on the bumper pads.

He did such a great job!! What a perfect little bow.

Nothing but the best for his little boy! :-)

So this is our crib all done!! :-) I love it, it is so cute!

This is the big picture of the babies room!

We are getting so excited for this little guy to be here!

Hit me baby!

So this little boy of mine is crazy!! The last couple of days he has been moving non-stop! I seriously sit there and just watch as he moves my whole belly all over the place. The other day it seriously felt like he was stretching out and pushing against the left side of my belly. As if to say, "Ugh mom, I do not like it in here I want more room!" haha He should not feel that way because he should be fine in there but I just could not help but think that he was thinking that he is tired of being in there already. haha He is such a mover. My parents and brother were down here this last weekend and it was a lot of fun although I was getting a little worried because the baby was not moving much at all. Which is really weird because he is always going crazy. So anyways the day they left he decided to be active again and wake up haha! I think he was being really shy while my parents and brother were here. It is funny to watch him move around inside of me and make my belly do the wave. haha Or when he pushes up against my belly on one side and it just sticks up and is super firm and then slowly goes back down haha and then back up again. It is seriously suck a crazy experience. It is so funny when Brandon will dance his fingers on my stomach and once he stops the baby will kick or move all over. So who knows if it is just a coincidence of if he feels it and reacts! haha It is so weird to think that there is a living human being in my stomach. Although I know he is in there it still just does not seem realistic to think that I have a baby in my stomach and that in 4 months he will be here. It is just so weird and although I am super excited, I get scared for the change that this will bring. I know it will be a good change but sometimes it scares the heck out of me. But, there is no stopping it now and I am so excited to be able to meet this little boy. For now I will just have to enjoy him kicking the heck out of me haha. I must say though it is much better to have him move all the time than for him to not be moving and get me all worried about whether he is doing ok! So bring it on baby!!