A shower for baby

I can not say thank you enough to Jennifer for the wonderful baby shower today. Everything was great...great food, great friends/family, and great gifts! I really haven't gotten much for the baby yet- some of that has to do with not knowing the sex of the baby and some of it has to do with procracination. :) However, after getting home from my baby shower today i had alot of fun relooking at all the fun stuff. We got a baby jogger (which will be the key to getting back into bathing suit shape...i actually have been having the itch to run again, so this is a good thing!), a baby swing, lots of cute little outfits/jamies, diapers, wipes, baby toys, baby monitors, blankets,and so much more! One gift that will be treasured forever is a newborn photo session with Tonya Marie Photography. (Thanks Jen!!!) I can't wait to have these done...but i guess i first need to have a baby right?!
I feel blessed to have such great family and friends...thanks for loving on this baby even before he/she is born! Only a few more weeks and you will get to meet him/her!

Busy, Busy, Busy.

When i left the doctors office today i left with these words from my doctor..."I've measured and listen to lots of babies today, and yours in one of the busiest i've seen yet!" All i am thinking is...OH BOY! This child of ours must get that from me...growing up I was always busy...and couldn't sit still. My mom might have said i was a bit hyper-active- I do recall her "threatening" me with Ritalin if i didn't settle down haha. Oh well, i guess there are worse things than a busy baby...at least the heart beat is good and strong (128 again this time). My doctor did say that when i do into early labor i will probably have a hard time realizing that i am actually in labor, because those early labor pains feel like the movements that i am feeling all the time with this busy baby. So...we'll see how that all goes! Currently she said she thinks the baby is about 4lbs..but over the next few weeks he/she will put on most of it's weight. Everything looked good. I am happy to say that it is head down! That was the first thing she checked for me today :) she knows how i am worried about that haha. I didn't want to have to have her turn that baby in my belly! But, as long as it doesn't decide to change positions we should be all set.
I think it's kinda crazy that i begin my 34th week tomorrow....it seems to be flying by. I guess i should probably go buy some diapers and such in the next couple of weeks. The nursery is still a work in progress, but it's ok. It will get done eventually!

Oh Baby...

This weekend i have grown MUCH more uncomfortable. Either the baby has moved much lower or my stomach has been streching constantly. Either way, i am very uncomfortable. Maybe this is how it will be until the end, i am not sure. He/she moves constantly now...sometimes it's painful. I'm getting to the point where i am ready to be done with it and meet this little baby. However, i know a few more weeks in the belly will do this baby good.
On another note...Kylee leaves for Australlia this week. She will be gone until July sometime. It is kinda bitter sweet, because she will not be here when this baby is born, but going to study abroad has been something she's always wanted to do. Kylee, we hope you have a great time, be safe, and when you come back you'll have a new nephew/neice to snuggle with. :) (and babysit hehe...you know i will be hitting you up to be the little babysitter when you get back!)
This warmer weather has be WONDERFUL! It is making me anxious for spring/summer to come. Soon enough, soon enough. :)

What's a girl to do?!

So...i often wonder why guys act like they are dying when they get a stupid little cold?! It drives me nuts...when Jake gets a little bit sick he pulls out all the stops: he's a medicine junky (where i am not), he has to gargle warm salt water, take hot hot showers to "clean out his nasal passage" haha, and on top of that complain that he has such a bad cold, or is so sick.
It makes me sick listening to him whine :) Why are guys such sissies?!

Grandma: I remember...

Here are just a select few of my favoirte memories of my Grandma Koning:
- Sitting with you on the piano bench while you played and sang out of that old piano book. I always loved the song with the picture of the bird on the page.
- I too, like Brad, remember drinking coffee out of the tiny coffee cups! This is something that I will always remember. I don't think i really even liked the taste, but i thought it was so cool to be drinking from those little cups.
- Making cookies with you when we slept over.
- Your kissess... you always made a kissing sound while kissing us.
- Playing "SORRY" against you and grandpa.
- Putting on your make up...i can still smell the powder smell in your bathroom.
- Going school clothes shopping each year...we could always pick out 1 new outfit.
- Playing miniture golf at Yogi Bear with you and grandpa.
- Kim and i playing dress up in your clothes, and then walking around your neighborhood with baby dolls prentending we were moms.
- I too, remember watching Psalty...those were my faovite movies and tapes to listen to.

Thanks for the ALL the great memories...we will miss you!
Love,
Betsy

Changes...

As many of you know...we didn't finish out upstairs when we built our house. We figured that at the time we didn't need it, and we might as well save some money and just leave it unfinsihed. Because we chose to not finish it, we had to put a door at the top of our stairs...however we are now in need of another bedroom. Jake began working on it a couple months ago...framed in the closets and the bathroom. He then drywalled the whole thing (with a little help from some friends), and now we are having someone come in and tape/mud the drywall. I always knew that when we finished the upstairs, i wanted to take part of the wall down to open it up a little bit (get rid of the door, add a railing, etc...) The wall finally came down yesterday and i am so happy about it! I love how it looks (well, how it will look haha), and i can't wait until it is completed! We still aren't sure if the whole ordeal will be 100% complete when the baby arrives, but that's OK...he/she will be sleeping with us for a while anyways.
Here are some fun pictures of the progress.

This before we took the wall down...

This is after the wall is down. It's kinda hard to tell, but in person it looks much more open.

There isn't much to report on baby w...everything is about the same. He/she is now sitting like a "u" shape with the head up, butt down, and then the legs up on the other side. The doctor said not to worry about it...the baby has plenty of time to flip over. I however am secretly worried it won't. It all started a few months back when i was watching "A Baby Story". The lady on there was getting ready to delivery, but the baby was breach. The doctor decided he wanted to try to turn the baby...let's just say that that image has forever been engraved in my head!!! haha...i have heard of this before, but obviously, never seen it. This poor lady was screaming in pain as two doctors pushed her stomach in the weirdest way to turn the baby 90 degrees. It worked, but my gosh...i wouldn't wish that on anyone. SOOOO needless to say, when my doctor said my baby is not yet "head down"....i secretly think back to that horrible image!!! Here is a 30 week pictures.

Blog Background...

I have been wondering how some of you get those really cute backgrounds for your blogs?