Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year. It started with our annual Friend Christmas party at Lindsay and Tyler's house. We had dinner, watched Elf and made gingerbread houses. We had a great time! Then we had a Christmas party with each of our families. I had to work on Christmas day this year so our day was a little rushed. We had to visit with everyone that we could by 2 PM so that I could get to work on time. Work actually wasn't that bad, it was just a normal day at work. Although, I was a little disappointed that there wasn't any dinner or dessert provided for the staff. I thought that the administration would show some sort of appreciation for the staff for working on Christmas! That was pretty lame. I'm not sure why, but I didn't end up taking any pictures this year. The only pictures were of Presley's cute Mrs. Claus outfit! She looked adorable :)

One thing that bummed me out is that when I was looking through pictures that other people took of me over the holiday, I noticed that my face is getting wider!! Ugh. I knew it would happen when I got into the third trimester, but I hadn't noticed it until I saw pictures of myself. I'm also bummed that my belly button has become an outie, which I'm super self conscious about, and people keep pointing it out! Who does that? I'm not sure why, but that was one pregnancy thing that I was dreading. lol I hate that you can see my belly button through all of my clothes, even my scrubs! Also, my stomach is getting so big that I can't wear certain scrubs anymore. I never thought that would happen. Hopefully I don't have to buy new ones :(

Pregnancy update:

I am now 31 weeks and 6 days pregnant, I have about 56 days or 8 weeks to go! It freaks me out to see Valentines decorations at the store because that means my baby will be here soon! I can't believe it! The discomforts of pregnancy have definitely set in, my ribs hurt sooo bad!! I wish they would just separate already! I have a hard time bending down, getting up from a sitting or laying position, I have to pee a lot, I get frequent heartburn, I get the occassional painful kick and I hate that I can't find comfortable pants. Maternity pants don't fit me, so I'm pretty much stuck wearing prepregnancy jeans with a rubber band. And yes, I do feel like I'm getting to the complainy stage of pregnancy. lol  

Even though I complain about all the discomforts of pregnancy, I am still super excited to meet my little Dominic. There are times I wish that he would just come already, but I really don't want him to be too early and have to stay in the NICU for any amount of time. So I try to not be selfish and think like that. But if he wants to come around 37-38 weeks, that would be ok with me ;)

Here is the most recent pic of my belly, I'm 30 weeks and 3 days in this picture.

What we've been up to!

We've been keeping ourselves pretty busy lately. We've been adding personal touches to our family room to make it more 'us', we finally printed out and framed some pictures from our wedding and hung them up. We also bought a Love Sac and Sactional couch from Love Sac, which we've been eyeing for quite some time now! We love them!

We've also been turning our downstairs bedroom into the nursery, the walls and doorframes were pretty beat up, we need new closet doors and we need to paint and it needs carpet. My dad volunteered to help us turn it into the perfect nursery! So far we have replaced a door frame, changed the light fixture, and patched up holes on the walls. It looks a ton better already! Here is a before picture

Then yesterday Spencer and I started washing the walls and painted the lower half of the room blue! The nursery is going to have a whale and boat theme :) So cute!

Here is Spencer taping the walls

Here he is painting the first coat! I can't wait til the room is all done and hopefully it will be finished later this month or early January.

In November, Spencer and I went on our 'babymoon'. Which is just a final getaway before the baby comes. We spent the whole weekend together, first we went up to his family's cabin at Bear Lake, where we got snowed in, then we stayed at the Alaskan Inn. The Alaskan Inn is like theAnniversary Inn where their rooms are different themes, but here the rooms are wilderness themed. We stayed in the Kenai Lodge, which was a moose theme. Here is a picture of our cute little cabin we stayed in!

Here is Spencer inside the cabin, we got Mcgrath's Fish House for dinner and ate it at the cabin. It was a nice, relaxing little getaway.

We are now 28 and a half weeks pregnant! In this picture I'm 27 weeks and 6 days. The pregnancy is still going well, I am definitely getting more uncomfortable these days though. I mostly have a lot of rib pain, my ribs just aren't wide enough for this! I also pulled a muscle just below my ribs recently when I was stretching for something :( So no more far reaching for me! Since the third trimester started I have definitely been going to the bathroom more frequently too. It's like you're sitting around and you're fine, then BAM you have to pee right now! lol There's no holding it. I've also been really tired, the fatigue went away for the most part in the second trimester, but it's definitely back now. I even told my work that I can't work 12 hour shifts anymore, only 8 hour shifts. The long shifts just completely wipe me out!

So last week, little Dominic decided to play a trick on me. I started freaking out because I hadn't felt him move much in the last few days and then one day I didn't feel him at all. So I called and made an appointment with my midwife to get it checked out. Then when I was sitting in the waiting room I was looking at my stomach and it started moving! He decided to start being active as soon as we get to the doctors office lol So we had an ultrasound, and he was fine. And ever since the appointment he has been super active. I just have a hard time feeling him move because I have an anterior placenta (the placenta lines the front of my uterus), which cushions most of his movements so that I don't feel anything unless it's on my sides. It's very frustrating.