39 weeks 1 day

Well, I have completed my first week of no work, which was great, it was a very productive and fun week, and I loved being off because it was a holiday week and actually felt like a holiday week. NOt, "oh hey, there's a holiday tomorrow, and I get a day off", so that was fun too! I had fun baking and cooking with my mom. Also worked on some small things around the house.

Jeremy and I (well, basically Jeremy) got our Christmas decorations up this weekend. We wanted to get it done this weekend, not knowing what the next couple of weeks could look like, however I was so exhausted and lethargic almost, that I became the manager of the operation, which he didn't so much appreciate, so I would jsut fall back asleep. :) I did get ornaments on the tree today though, so I did do something. We had to rearrange our living room again, and I like how it has turned out. If I had thought about it, I would've taken pictures of the tree, but I didn't, so those will come at a later time.

WE went to my parents for dinner tonight, which was alot of fun, Robby and Kara were back from Penn (went to visit her extended family for the holiday) and Kelly was still home from break, so it was fun the whole family being up at my parents hanging out and having dinner. I have been so blessed to have such an awesome family, parents, siblings and sisters-in-law. I love hanging out with all of them! Well, here are the most recent pictures, I had JEremy take a couple pictures of me tonight, so these are as current as they get! Amazing to think that hopefully not too soon this little one will be on the outside and I will actually be able to hold him/her!!

38 wks 5 days

After three days of cooking I was exhausted - waiting at my parents house until Jeremy got home from the Shootout games. - 38 1/2 weeks

Baby shower - opening gifts

How big is Brandy game - I really don't feel this huge, but this picture makes me feel huge i think. - this is 36 weeks!

Well, i am still here and pregnant - mostly just in the uncomfortable stage and ready to meet this little one more than anything. i would be perfectly content to go into labor at any point, but also trying to not be too anxious, and still try to keep my sights set on at least another week or more, but who knows. I'm mostly just updating this post some pics from my mom's camera that we just got on the computer. Not a whole lot new to report. I am done working, which is such a wonderful feeling!! I love it! I spent Monday and Tuesday cooking and freezing meals, which i am super pleased with having gotten done. I went grocery shopping with my mom on Sunday (weekend before Thanksgiving, not a great day to go, but we made it fun!) then cooked mostly all day Mon and Tues. Then on Wed helped my mom some with Thanksgiving stuff, she did the majority of it, but I got to hang out and help some. We also went for manicures yesterday, which was so wonderful to get done! Hmmm....that's about all that I can think of for now - all of my baby to do lists are pretty well crossed off, maybe a few minor things, but the big things are done!!

35 weeks

OK, this is going to be super quick, purely for the purpose of posting pics tonight. Things are going well here, I am very anxious to meet this little one. I love all the movement, but am getting more uncomfortable day by day it seems. keeping up with walking and some pool time, btu also lots of rest. Staying at my parents house right now, and keeping up with all the animals is keeping me busy enough. (2 dogs and a cat). i went over to Laura's tonight with Natalie and we did some quilting and hung out which was fun, and all the dogs got to play, which they loved! Included is a picture of the three of us, with the dogs and our pregnant bellies! Well, here are the pictures! More later!

32 weeks!!!!

Well, I am now in the single digit weeks of the countdown! And I'm starting to feel more and more like it is a countdown! I love having a baby growing inside of me and the feeling of this baby kicking, but I'm definately starting to feel the uncomfortableness setting in. I have a hard time sitting for too long - not on the couch, I can be on the couch all day if I could, but sitting in a normal chair, for too long gets uncomfortable. The hardest has been going to church and sitting in the pews and then Sunday School after that, I get really restless. I am finding that I am so grateful for the fact that I do have a job that keeps me on my feet and not at a desk all day. Which I think has been really good for me to keep going and moving and to not get too lazy. I am definately tired at the end of the day, and Jeremy continues to be so wonderful about letting me have my lazy time at home.

32 weeks Belly

The last couple of weeks we have been trying to finish off the little projects we want finished around the house. My favorite one was getting a new kitchen sink. Which really shouldn't seem too exciting, but I was/am super excited about it. We had just a basic old stainless steel sink that I just thought was gross. So we went and picked out a new porcelain sink and even got a new faucet, the sink is much deeper and just looks prettier in my kitchen. Yep, who knew I would be so happy about a kitchen sink! Don't get me wrong, it still doesn't encourage me to do too many more dishes by hand or at all for that matter. :)

I think Jeremy took this picture as proof that I still do cook some! :)

Baby Payne is moving around alot and I can see my stomach doing crazy wave motions at times, which is really fun. We were eating dinner last night and I had my plate on my stomach and the plate was moving all over the place from the kicking, which was fun to see! I went to the Dr. this last week and baby is still growing strong, nd measuring two weeks larege, so we'll see what that means. Now I start going to the Dr. every two weeks and then every week in about a month, and then it's baby time!!

The new kitchen sink and the new shower curtain for the baby bathroom.

29 weeks gone = 11 weeks to go

baby room with crib, glider, corner of changing table, curtains




29 week and 3 day belly






the monkey bathroom







monkey bathroom - we saw this bathroom stuff and thought it was so cute so decided to do the downstairs bathroom with it - and yes realizing that the baby really won't be using this bathroom for a couple of years (esp since there isn't a bathtub, unfortunately, in there), so really it was our grown up excuse for a cute bathroom! :)







shelving and baskets

baby room - changing table, crib

Jeremy painting

WE got the baby room done this weekend! Yay! I got to help out and my job was to paint the dots on which was fun. I am so happy with how it all turned out it feels so warm and relaxing in there I'm jsut excited to have the baby in there now and to make use of the room!! Jeremy did an awesome job with the paint and was so great about doing basically all of it on his own, since I had a hard time handling the smell of the paint. THanks to his classic college football recordings that he watched! :) Baby is continuing to grow - I think I'm hititng the phase of constant desire to eat!! I am starving all the time right now! I had to do the 3 hour glucose tolerance test last Monday because I didn't pass the first one, so I was very excited to find out that I passed this one! I have to watch my concentrated sweets intake, but everything else should be good, so I was grateful to hear that! well, time to get on with dinner and rest. I've been coming down with a sore throat, so I'm going to try and get some extra rest!

28 weeks = 3rd Trimester

Jeremy complained that there weren't any pictures of him on here, so here we go! HIm being amazing and helping out with household stuff!!

Baby room, the white boards laying there are the chair railing stuff that will go around the room later this week.

Baskets with liners that I made to match the room.

Baby belly - 28 weeks

Baby belly - 28 weeks - game day ready

28 weeks!! HArd to believe that I am now in my 3rd trimester and only 12 weeks away from meeting our new addition!

Well, I wanted to show y'all some of our progress from this weekend. We (as in Jeremy), got the baby room totally painted, and are now just waiting to get up the chair railing later this week. It was not our original plan for the room, but I think that I like it alot better than what we started with. :) I also worked on sewing the liners for my baskets, fixed/shortened the bumper pads (too long to go around our round crib), hemmed the bed skirt, etc. All the little things (and some big) that I keep looking at and thinking about getting done.

I had taken Fri off from work (I worked last Sunday instead, so it worked out well), which my mom and I spent the entire day mostly shopping. We had a lot of fun. I was able to find curtains for the baby room that I really liked and also some new maternity clothes, more fallish clothing. :) And just other errands that don't always seem to happen now that I actually have real weekends off (as weird as that is, I miss shopping on weekdays, because it is less crowded, and then I'm not missing out on time with Jeremy - who doesn't always love shopping with me).

NOt alot else going on - I was excited because this last week my mom and I purchased tickets to go down and visit my grandparents and family in Wyoming in February with the baby, so it was exciting to be making plans that included the baby! Now we are looking at tickets for Jeremy and I and baby to visit his family in Colorado in March. We have some companion tickets and miles that have to be purchased by a certain date, hence the planning so far out.

Well, Jeremy informed me that I am rambling and it is time to get to bed, so I will get these pictures up of our progress and hoepfully we will have the completed room on here later this week!

27 weeks - Last week of second trimester

Just a quick update - no pics this time (for real) I don't have any current ones taken, but will hopefully soon!

Baby Payne has been doing lots of moving and I've been definately feeling the baby hiccups recently, which is sort of a weird feeling but kindof fun!! I really have loved being pregnant. There is something so amazing about carrying and growing a baby that is absolutely amazing to me! Thankfully it has been helped by the fact that I haven't been too uncomfortable or sick, and am hoping that the next few months don't bring any of that on. I do understand that you get more uncomfortable towards the end, but I'm hoping that it isn't too bad! :) The only new thing I've been experiencing recently is the joys of heartburn. But I've been narrowing down the big culprits, and unfortunately that seems to be chocolate. However I've been having the biggest cravings for chocolate recently, good thing for TUMS!

IN the last week I think we've had our first "pregnancy midnight runs" for food. One wasn't horrible, but I really wanted to make this soup that basically is a combination of chicken noodle soup, cream of chicken soup, ro-tel tomatoes, corn and cheese. I had come home from swimming and that was the only thing I could think of to eat, so I got a hold of Jeremy and on his way home from class and convinced him to go to the store for me, it was about 10:00. Not a big deal, but decided it was my first time I had my mind set on something until I had it! A couple of nights later, the big issue was the heartburn and I had a hard time getting comfortable and Jeremy went out at midnight to get me some Tums, which was great of him!

I have been doing some prenatal swim classes. I am currently going twice a week, and it has been wonderful. There is a wonderful siwm place here with a couple of pools that are at 92 degrees and it is just a small class with streching and walking and some swimming in the pools, and it feels so amazing to be in the water and to strech some of my muscles.

This week and weekend we are working on the painting of the baby room so hopefully I will post some pictures once that is all done.

I also got to go see the Lion King production this weekend which was absolutely amazing!! The costumes and puppetry and music was all so much fun to take part in and I was so glad that I was able to go!

All right, well it's time to go to bed. Pictures to be posted hopefully by the end of this week!