Showered with Love

Joy, Mary, Shawna and Julie had a baby shower for me on Tuesday and it was so sweet! It was at Mary's house and on the invite Joy requested in lieu of cards people bring a children's book. What a great idea! We now have a pretty awesome library of children's books.

This shower was a lot of friends from work and Sunday school. My mom and Mamo came, too.
My mom kept saying over and over to me how blessed I was to have such sweet friends. I agreed! Speaking of Mamo, she reminded me that this is the 12th great grandchild for her. I think I mentioned that in my last post. She had a nice time!

All the gifts were so amazing and thoughtful, each with a specific and special purpose and we love them all. What a blessing showers are! Babies need so much stuff and it's overwhelming to look at the long suggested list of "MUST HAVES". Nathan and I are so thankful for each treasure baby Carmines received but we're even more thankful for the special people in our lives.

Here's the gift that got the most "Oooo's and Ahhhhh's".
It was from my friend Darlene from work......
Here's a picture of the loot in my car. Mistie, Mary's daughter, packed my car and I have to say the girl is talented! I couldn't believe she got it all in there!
Thanks to more sweet friends in my life I'm excited to say I do have more shower fun coming in the next few weeks. Stay tuned!

34 weeks

Nathan and Joy took some pics of for me the other day. Now that this pregnancy is almost over (boo!) I'm trying to capture and savor more precious moments. It's been so nice. I realize that there are two different categories for expectant moms....those who LOVE being pregnant and those that don't. I fall into the LOVE group. Is it true what I hear? Smooth pregnancy= not so smooth delivery and vice versa? If so, "oh no!" I guess worrying will accomplish nothing so I'm trying not to.

The baby has had the hiccups 3 times now. Maybe more. I'm not sure. The middle of the night bathroom trips haven't been as bad as I thought. In fact, on average I don't even get up every night. I've been waiting for the multiple trips for a while now but it hasn't happened yet. I'm probably not drinking enough water. Not a big surprise for me. On the subject of bladder, sometimes when I sneeze I have to be careful to make sure a little pee doesn't come out. TMI, I know! Sorry! I'm just really trying to journal my memories.

Well, I'm off to bed now! We have a doctor appt tomorrow morning. Not looking forward to the scale especially after our 9:30 pm Las Palapas dinner tonight. Good night, all!

baby room in progress...

Now that summer has finally begun for me (because VBS is over), Nathan and I have had time to get cracking on the baby room. Dad and Ludi bought us our crib and we added a few pieces of furniture to make the room complete. First things first, though. We have been talking about having hardwood floors installed and last Monday we had Lowe's come out. Here they are laying down the underlayment.
The entire time we've been planning to do this we've gone back and forth.
"Let's hire someone..."

"No, we can do it on our own"

"I know we can but it will be so nice to have it done fast and professionally. We can watch them do this one room and then later, down the road, we can do the rest of the house on our own."


Due to the fact the Aug. 16th is quickly approaching and also because I was so sick of having 2 HUGE boxes right in the entryway of our house we decided to go with having Lowe's do the installation. Geez, I'm SO glad we did! We opted to put down natural bamboo hardwood and it's a really stubborn floor. Bamboo is the hardest wood used for hardwood flooring and the pros from Lowe's had the toughest time installing it! They originally thought it would take about 2 hours max to complete the job. They arrived at 9am and didn't finish until 3pm. Nathan stood in the hallway the entire time and watched. The poor guys were so frustrated. At one point they thought they were going to have to stop and get different material. They called for reinforcement. We had not just the 2 installers in our house but 4 more Lowe's guys came out to offer guidance. Turns out that the flooring we bought isn't the most common and they just haven't had much experience with it. Once they got going the wood started to cooperate. I love it and wish we could afford to do the whole house right now!

So, floor is down. Whew! Now to opening the big boxes in the living room...







This is the chest of drawers. I love that there are five drawers and that it's tall and more narrow. Our house isn't big and neither are the rooms so we had to be intentional in our furniture selections.

Setting up the crib

Crib assembled and ready for baby Carmines....

We are having so much fun together getting ready for our baby! It's all overwhelming but we're trying to take it in stride. Who'd have thought that a little baby would need so much stuff!
More to come tomorrow.....