31-34 Weeks

It has been a while since I have been able to get on blogspot and update you guys on how we are doing. Joe and I have been so busy! Pretty much for the last four weeks we have been saying our goodbyes in Gainesville and preparing for our move to Atlanta.

Before we left Florida the guys and gals from my salon had me (and Joe) a baby shower/going away brunch. We had so much fun! The food was yummy and everyone gave us really nice gifts! I will for sure miss my Salon 716 family. I am so thankful that I had the pleasure of working with all of them for the eight months that I did. I wish it could have been longer!

The following weeks we just hung out with our best buds as much as possible. It was incredibly hard to say goodbye when that time came....I definitely shed some tears.

A couple of days before we moved our friend Kim took some maternity pictures for us. She did an amazing job! Thanks again Kim!!

Our little family

First pair of shoes for B-Gift from Lauren and Leslie (former coworkers of mine)

We loaded up last Thursday and headed to Atlanta. Thanks to Chris Kaiser, Dad, Mom and Autumn the move was pretty easy. After taking a couple of days to settle in (with the continued help from Mom and Autumn) we then drove back to my home town for the baby shower our family had us. We had a blast spending time with family and friends. We got some really great gifts! Thanks again to everyone who put together the shower for us!

What kind of chocolate is in the diaper? Yum!

Shannon is due any day now! Thank you so much Shannon for hosting such a nice shower for us!!

We have now been in our new place for a week. We love our new home!! AND so does miss May. Just around the corner from us is a dog park for May to play at almost every day. Joe and I have had a few Ikea trips and our place is starting to look more like home. We purchased a new bedroom suit. It was time for a king size bed! The full size bed we were sleeping on was a bit too small for us and the dresser we were using was mine when I was in elementary school (had my name carved into the top and everything!)!

New bed!! Yippee!!!

New dresser!! Just have to hang some art and pictures on the wall and it will be complete! Will put pictures of that up once we are done.

All of our other rooms look pretty good too. The nursery is still a work in progress, but hopefully I will have it done in the next couple of weeks.

Hard at work

We are getting the crib mattress this weekend and should have the guest bed frame next weekend. Joe will be refinishing a chifferobe and dad is turning his old desk from his childhood bedroom suit into a changing table for us.

We went to our first Doctor's appointment as residents of Atlanta. We actually rode our bikes there. The route is very pretty! All went well at the appointment. Our doctor says that I am an easy patient (no problems and healthy). I hope that means easy labor!!! HAHA!

Weeeeeeeeee!!!

This weekend coming up we are going to visit our friends John and Anna in Charlotte. We are super excited to visit them because: 1. They just welcomed baby boy number two into the world 2. We haven't seen them since November and 3. We love them and always have fun visiting! It should be a great weekend hanging out with the Ennis family.

Next weekend Kelly and Chris are coming to visit us!!!!! We can not wait to show them our new home! We are planning to go to a Braves game and go out to see the city a bit. Fun fun!

Six more weeks (give or take) till baby B is here!! Wow! Time has flown by.... Now that we have a nursery with baby stuff everywhere reality is setting in big time. We are going to have a baby in less than two months.... how exciting?!!! and scary!! HAHA!

May wanted to feel the baby kick

This was the night before we moved. Dad was there to help out. I accidentally packed the tank top I usually wear AND paper (had to use part of a card board box-haha)

30 Weeks

Last week and weekend were awesome! Saturday, one of my clients that I have been styling for a few years now had her last appointment with me. She gave a $100 tip as a farewell gift to me!! How sweet of her! Saying goodbye to all of my lovely clients is tough. When I was done with work I came home and took a little nap before we went to meet up with Kelly and Chris for a nice dinner down town. Joe and I got all dressed up after my nap then headed over to Kellys'. Little did I know that there was a crowd waiting there for me. I walked in their front door and all of my best buds were standing there and yelled "Surprise!! Happy Baby Shower!". I was so surprised, but confused when I first walked in. My reaction to it all was weird (as usual with me) and it lead people to believe that I was aware of the surprise baby shower. I really had no clue! I act like a weirdo when all the attention is on me unexpectedly. Joe knew the whole time! I thought we were just having a little going away party in a few weeks not a baby shower.

As soon as I hugged everyone and checked out all of the decorations the boys left (almost in a rush-haha!) and us girls hung out. The place was decorated so beautifully, there were lots of all of my favorite yummy foods/drinks (MOMtinis-hehe), and we played some fun games.

After hanging out for a couple hours the boys came back and Joe and I opened our gifts.We got such wonderful gifts!! Which included: bibs, onesies, blankets, pacifiers, a diaper genie, bottle cleaning tools, spoons, art work for Bristan's nursery, and a Petunia Pickle Bottom diaper bag (which I had been looking at on Amazon.com and had no idea my friends knew about the name brand/they had no idea I was looking at the diaper bags!) After gift opening, we just hung out with all of our friends till later in the evening. We had such an incredible time. We just cannot say it enough, how truly blessed we are to have such wonderful people in our lives. Because of our Gainesville family, the past three years have been the best! It is going to be difficult to say goodbye to everyone :(

The J is cut out of a California (LA) map and the N is cut out of a Georgia (Perry) map. Kelly made this for us. It's going to look so great in B's nursery!

People put different parts of our faces on the face in the middle to show what B will look like.

We are going to have one good looking kid! Aren't we??!! HAHA!

Baby N

Kelly and I Finished some projects this past week. She helped me with the sewing and I painted the canvases for the nursery. While I am sad to leave Gainesville, I am a little anxious to get this nursery all set up for our baby boy. THANK YOU for all your help Kelly!!!! We have one more pillow to make (striped one for the guest bed to go with the other two). Once all that is done I will just need to get curtains, a rug, lamp, and frame all of the pictures/prints/art that will be hanging in the nursery.

Pillows that will go on the guest bed that will be in the nursery.

Crib blanket. I LOVE it!!

Here are the first two paintings I made for B's room. The canvas on the right is the chorus from mine and Joe's first dance song- "I cross my heart" by George Straight. Yellow is such a happy color! It's my favorite.

Burp clothes and a swaddle blanket made of flannel

Well, only 10 more weeks to go!! We have one more doctor appointment here then we start meeting with our new doctor in Atlanta. At our appointment Wednesday the nurse said my belly was measuring at 31 or 32 weeks. Maybe I'll go a little early! Haha! It could have been the way B was positioned though.

We finally finished registering...Wow! I did not realize how much you need to care for a baby! There are so many choices and it is a bit stressful to figure out what is going to be the best for your baby. The nice thing is, both Target and Amazon allow you to add/delete things online- keeps me from running out every time I change my mind. We did our research though and received some helpful advice from family and friends.

We have someone coming to look at our place on Monday (hopefully-she has cancelled on us once already) that may potentially want to sub-lease our apartment. Happy thoughts!!!!!! We really need to get someone in our place so we do not have to pay multiple rents! Wish us luck guys!

Our "What to Expect" book says that our little guy is around 15 inches long! I definitely feel/see him! I am certain he already has Joe's calves because of some of the kicks he does throughout the day (he is a strong man). I think he is going to be one active child!

29 Weeks

We found a place to live!! Unfortunately, it is not a house. The place we found to live in is a town home. We just did not have any luck finding a house that was in our budget and up to our expectations. Joe and I are really excited about the place we found though! The name of the complex is Williamsburg Apartment Homes. The town home is 1150 square feet, 2 big bedrooms (upstairs), 1 1/2 bathrooms, and has a nice size back patio. The property is 37 acres, right across from where Joe will be working, close to tons of shopping, has an Olympic size pool, lots of trails, a gym, a creek running through it (which is actually right behind our unit), and a great dog park (where May can meet lots of new friends!). This will be a nice place for us to start out in a new city. After a year or so we will consider looking at houses to buy. Joe and I will for sure have the lovely real estate agent that showed us houses on Saturday help us find a house to buy.

We had a great time visiting family and friends on our brief trip to Georgia. Now we are counting down the days till our big move. Only one month away!! Since we have tackled the living situation for Atlanta our new concentration is to find someone to sub-lease our apartment down here in Florida for three months. Hope we find someone!! We really do not want to pay two rents for three months!! We are staying positive and feeling confident we will find someone to take over the lease.

This will be a pretty laid back week and weekend for us coming up. Joe and I will have the pleasure of hanging out with our best buds here in Gainesville. I am hoping to accomplish some sewing projects. Will post pictures of what I get done next week!

Baby boy will double in weight in the next few weeks! Ahhh! Getting big!