Maternity Pictures

Here are just a few of the amazing pictures my talented sister in law Heather took for our little family! The pictures where I'm wearing pink I'm 37 weeks and the purple ones I'm 38 weeks. Enjoy!

Penny is our first little furbaby so of course she had to be part of our family pictures!

We're almost there!

This week is an exciting week. I am 37 weeks which makes me officially full term. So this means Baby J can come any day now! I'm just going with my gut feeling here but I don't think she has any plans of making her grand entrance any time soon. I think she's nice and snug in my belly and she will be sticking around in there for a little while longer. Which is fine with me. I still want an October baby and I don't think I'm prepared yet mentally or physically. I'm also not ready to be done using being pregnant as an excuse to eat whatever I want and to be lazy. lol. Since I'm getting closer I decided to make a list of things I will miss about being pregnant and things I will not miss.

What I will miss about being pregnant:

-Feeling my baby girl rolling around and kicking and getting hiccups in my tummy.

-People being extra nice and always asking how I am feeling.

- Nobody thinking it's weird to eat as much as I want and what I want.

-Having an excuse to be lazy

-Growing a little human inside my belly.

-The excitement and anticipation of waiting for our baby.

Things I will not miss about being pregnant:

- Feeling my baby girl move when I have a full bladder.

-Peoples comments about how huge I look. Really? When is it ever okay to comment about someones weight telling them they look huge?! Never.

-Waking up literally 5 or more times a night to pee.

-Only being able to sleep on one side or the other and switching sides because the pain on that side was hurting too much.

-Being out of breath easily and waddling like a penguin.

-All the aches and pains.

Well, here's to the last three weeks or so! I can't believe how close we are to meeting our little Baby J!

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The 10th!

So today is exactly one month from my due date! Wow! I feel like we would never make it this far. But there are still 4 more weeks. I think these are going to be the longest 4 weeks of my life. And who knows if she decides to come a little earlier or decides to she is too comfy and wants to stay a little longer.

I keep thinking that we are almost ready and that we have almost everything we need then another thing pops up. I have been slowly working on her nursery and everything is pretty much done. It just needs all the little finishing touches.

I have actually been feeling pretty good. My feet haven't been hurting quite as bad since I'm not working as much anymore and try to stay off of them as much as I can through out the day. I have been swelling a little bit. My little feet and hands are looking a little chubby these days. Just like the cartoon shows up there...my poor bladder feels like it's the size of penny. lol. Which makes for very sleepless uncomfortable nights. Baby J has been a very active little one lately. I'm not exactly sure what she is doing in there but I think she's either having a lot of fun or trying to get comfortable because she is running out of room! My next dr. appointment is on Thursday and then I'm on one week appointments.

Well, here's to the last 4 weeks! October here we come!

Baby Moon!

Jordan and I took a three day trip out to the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. This was our last trip as just a married couple so we wanted to make the best of it and enjoy it being just the two of us.

Here I am at 34 weeks going on 35 weeks.

I got this shirt from my awesome friend Rebecca. I got a few laughs and compliments on it from some random people. lol.

This is the view we had from our patio. We felt like we were out in the wilderness. It was so green and beautiful and we could see the lake in the distance.

I'm not sure if you can tell how big this spider is but it was pretty gigantic. It crawled across my leg when we were sitting in the grass at the lake. My only reaction was a gasp. lol. I think Jordan freaked out more than I did. But I'm really not that afraid of spiders so it wasn't too bad. It was just freaky looking down and seeing a gigantic spider on me. Haha.

A lot of people were swimming out in the lake but we aren't fans of the lake water. I don't like when you can't see what's floating around inside. So we just stuck our feet in.

We went to the pool at our hotel but the water was too cold to actually go in. Jordan went in by himself and I just stuck my feet in. I figured I would give my gigantic belly a little bit of sun.

This is the view right outside our window. It's so beautiful and peaceful out there.

Here is our little hotel room or estate. We were pleasantly surprised. We were just expecting to have a regular hotel room in a hotel but we drove through a windy road to what felt like the middle of the wilderness. You share these little estates with about 4 other rooms but we were the only ones this time so we had a lot of privacy.

This is the road right outside our room.

We drove out to see the Dam on our way back home. It wasn't too exciting but there was a cute little town we drove through to get to it. It had a frozen custard place named Dam Fresh Frozen Custard and also a Dam Flea Market. lol.

Penny spent the weekend at her little pet hotel. We wanted her to know that we were thinking about her so we bought her this cookie at a little pet store at the lake. Yes the cookie is actually for dogs and not humans. It looked delicious and ate every last crumb.

It was a very relaxing weekend and we enjoyed spending time with each other and eating to our hearts content. lol. We ate breakfast at a really cute bakery that served the most delicious breakfast I have ever had. Then I was craving mexican food but what was I to expect trying to find an authentic mexican restaurant in Missouri. lol. It was good but the salsa literally tasted like tomato sauce and the tacos were something you could get at taco bell. We ate some good BBQ sandwiches while we watched fireworks at our resort. That was really exciting because the fireworks were right in front of our faces. Sometimes we felt like they were going to fall on us. And then we enjoyed some really good frozen custard that we waited in a really long line for. But it was worth it. There were two custard places in the town but this one had a longer line so that's how we decided which one to go to.

Now we are back to reality and have about 5 more weeks left until Baby J makes her appearance. We are so ready to meet our daughter!