39 weeks..

and counting!

i was not anxious to deliver at all, until last week, when they (doctor) said, "it'll be any day now. i'll be surprised if you make it through the weekend."

so that does absolutely nothing for me, except make me start counting days (or hours) and wondering if every little twinge might be the start of labor.

well, i'm still pregnant.

i'm walking. a lot. i would be much more prone to walk more if it wasn't freezing outside. and i'm not sure why kyle and i always end up waiting till like 11 pm to walk. (that might have something to do with the freezing.)

tonight, we had to cut our walk short, because i thought i would surely wet my pants if we didn't make it back to the house. so we came back, i went to the bathroom, but after going i didn't feel like going back out into the cold.

so i walked around the living room while he watched tv.

oh, and while drinking raspberry tea. apparently that is supposed to make you go into labor. we're definitely drinking that. i made up a whole pitcher and drink it iced because hot tea is "ugh". with a little sugar (and ice), i actually really like it!

people ask if i've been craving weird stuff, and i usually say no, not really..i've just been eating a lot more. i usually don't make it through the night without getting up and eating a snack. usually a bowl of cereal. i was not a cereal person before pregnancy, so i guess that's weird for me.

this week, i got up about 4 am and had wheat thins, crackers, pepperoni, diced peaches, and a banana.

I DON'T CRAVE WEIRD THINGS?!

so now, i'm going to have to answer "yes, i eat random crap".

i bought a cute set of pj's to wear while in the hospital, and i've been saving them for that time. well, i put the pants on tonight and they don't fit anymore!! well, they're just definitely "snug"!

that's medium depressing!

ah, pregnancy.

i actually do love it. i'm just thinking i'm ready to love the end result.

now i'm gonna go walk some more laps around the living room. while wearing these snug pajama pants. maybe i'll get them stretched out!

38 weeks!

yes, we're still alive over here at the nelsons!

yes, we're still pregnant!

38 weeks (and 3 days) to be exact!



this is what we're looking like these days! (kyle takes these pictures from odd angles, maybe we'll get it down by the time we deliver!) we're really bad at remembering to take pictures of the ever growing belly! every couple of weeks, i'm like, oh wow, i've grown, we should document this!

things i've learned as we near the end of our first pregnancy:

-- take a very deep breath before bending over to do anything
-- opt for shoes with no laces, ultimately flip flops (thank you warmer weather!)
-- i have to go to the bathroom more than you thought would be humanly possible!
-- keep tums close by!
-- rolling over is much harder than one would think
-- maternity jeans are the greatest creation ever
-- i didn't know my toes would swell! much less every other part of my body!
-- and it's really sad when a bath robe doesn't fit anymore (a BATH ROBE!! aren't those like one size fits all!? nope!)

we had a doctor's appointment today and everything is still going wonderfully!
--blood pressure is in check.
--still gaining weight, but it has leveled off quite a bit. i've gained 32 lbs =/. sounds like quite a bit to me, but it's right where doc wants us.
--jillian's heartbeat still sounds great. it's been in the 130's like 4 appt's in a row. maybe she'll be a chill baby!? (one can hope!)
--and we're at a 3! (tmi?)
--doctor mentioned we might go this weekend (which sounds very soon!)

and so you remember what the cute jilli-bean we're waiting on looks like, here she is!

so sweet! look at those little lips! can't wait to see her little face in person!

jillian's room

we've been working on jillian's room for awhile now, just whenever we get the chance. it's pretty much finished, although i'd like to add a few details here and there.

i'm pretty happy with how it turned out. a baby girl's room, but not over the top, everything pink frills girly.
this is the view from the doorway into the room.



and here's the other side of the room. we still need to stain the rocking chair. that's a project for this weekend. we'll see how it goes!


here's the inside of the bed. i love the bumper pad! my mom made all the bedding. you can see the quilt hanging on the rocking chair in the previous pic. i guess i need to get a better picture of it.


we painted the room khaki and i drew a tree on the wall in chalk. i read this technique for painting things ("murals") on walls and it definitely sounded the easiest! you just have a wet paper towel and wipe the lines off to erase.


here's the tree after the first coat. it took 3 coats of acryllic to get it as bright as i wanted. (that's 3 different colors of off white)


i had this white lamp and wanted to "cute it up" a little, so i started tying ribbons around it. well, i think you could tie ribbons forever and never be quite perfectly happy with how it looks, so i just stopped!


here's how it looks for now. i may go and tie a few more on, but not today!


like i said, we're still working on the little things here and there..and considering she probably won't even sleep in here for quite some time, i think we're close enough to being ready!

baby showers!

we were beyond blessed this past week by friends and family to have 2 baby showers!

on thursday, we had a shower given by my friends at work, and i was blown away by the generosity. i love working with these girls!

here i am in our little break room, where the showers are held. the girls did a great job making all things pink!


mandy made this cute little diaper cake.


kyle came up after the shower to help me load up all our goods! (he wasn't too pumped about spending the entire shower with all those females, so he just makes an appearance at the end)


tammy, me and mandy. thanks yall--everything was so cute!


kyle making a get away with all our girly goodies!!


then just 2 short days later, on saturday morning, we had another shower at church, and were blessed once again with all things pink!!

me and the moms!


moms and grandmas


hannah and me. she was an official hostess - listed on the invite! (she'd want you to know that)


dellie helped me open presents, which was nice because bending over has become quite difficult! she liked this shirt, in particular. and she took her job very seriously! hannah did too -- she was back there writing poems!


the baby daddy came at the end once again!


we got this cute painting from carrie, one of beth's friends.


and here's all our baby gear at home! we are ready for jillian now, we're just not sure where we'll put her!


i was tired just looking at it all!


thank you so much to all our friends and family!! we were so blessed by everyone, and so appreciate it!!

now if our jillie girl will just get here!! we only have a few short weeks!! unfortunately, i'm afraid these "few short weeks" will be the longest yet!!

weekend wrap-up

it's funny how it takes me till the next weekend, to wrap up the previous. but we are at least making way with our weekly posts!

the snow all melted (quite quickly, i might add) and we are back to just normal old texas. i can't complain too much though, i do not know how people live with that much snow several months each year! i love going to colorado and all that jazz just as much as anyone, but once it started to melt, all that nasty slush was getting kinda old!

we decided to keep valentines pretty low key (after the snow changed our original plans). we decided that we would do no tangible gifts, because about a week earlier, we renewed our...

BOAT SHOES!


haha. we are "those people" that wear boat shoes year round, with everything. don't judge. everyone should own a pair! both of our boat shoes were a couple years old quite/very worn out, so we just decided to go and pick out the ones we wanted and happy valentine's to us! (we felt our wedding vows are still in good shape, so the boat shoes were what really needed to be renewed)

kyle then broke the "we're not getting gifts" rule, and got me flowers and a big bag of skittles! (this rule breaking is pretty consistent!) and the skittles..he knows me well enough not to get me chocolate. skittles have been the candy of choice for the past several months.



i felt bad that he had gotten me flowers and skittles, so while we were grocery shopping that night, i said "you want me to get you some candy?"
"nah"
"how bout sour patch kids and sour worms"
"yes"

so here ya go, happy v-day!


we are now that couple that just picks up gifts while grocery shopping, together!

and while we were taking pictures, decided to get a belly shot, (kind of an odd angle, but kyle is working on his skills!)



here we are at 33 weeks!

this weekend we also had our second 3D sonogram! we didn't get many pictures of her whole face, because she was a little squished up! she is definitely running out of room in there! those pictures will follow in another post, but here is a 2D sono of her sweet face!



her little nose and lips are too cute! (actually, not so little nose and lips, if you can tell from the sono!) getting to see what she actually looks like was amazing, even though we didn't get the perfect pictures! it makes me so much more anxious/excited to meet her in just a few short weeks!!

that is all for now!

have a happy week!
(or hey, we're at the weekend already, time for another update!)

valentine's snow day

as most people know, texas recently got snow! like real snow.

not the slushy, icy, dirty mess.

10 something inches of real lush snow.

the snow started falling on thursday morning and kept coming till friday morning.

all this is usually great, but on this thursday night, we had big plans to go out for valentine's day (a couple days early) and go re-do our 3D sonogram. (miss jillian didn't quite cooperate the first time.) so when it started snowing, i didn't really expect it to be enough to hinder our plans.

well, sure enough was i wrong!! the 3D sono office actually called and said they were closing due to weather, so it made our decision quite easy whether to go or not!

the funny thing is, 6 years ago, on our very first valentine's day together, we of course had big plans to go out and it snowed and iced. our parents decided it would probably be better if we (16 year old drivers) didn't go out in the bad weather. so we stayed at home and played in the snow and helped my mom watch andrew (who was 1 month old!), so heidi and brent could go out.

wow, times change fast!

here we are 6 years ago on valentine's..

6 years later

so our plans changed quite a bit thursday night and we ended up going to my parent's house and playing in the snow with the whole family. it ended up being more fun than going to some fancy restaurant anyways, i'm sure.

here are a few pictures from the night..

snowball fight. i stayed out of it. notice the golf cart in the background, that's what we use to "sled". we did it when we were kids, now it's the grandkids turn!


cute baby addition to the "playground" that will probably be used a lot more in the spring!


i love the snowball plastered to his forehead!


this is the "sled" (aka..mortar bucket) that was pulled behind the golf cart. adelle loved it! she didn't get out the whole time. notice it filling up with snow!


happy snow day!

last weekend

we celebrated kyle's mom's birthday by spending the weekend in college station and going to the a&m vs. baylor basketball game. it made it a little interesting since there is a little family feud going on there between these two particular schools =)

i have it easy and it's win win for me.

a&m wins - kyle is happy, and that makes me happy.
baylor wins - i like baylor and cheer for them in most of the their games.

so what color to wear?

i decided to be a good wife and support my dear husband and his beloved school. haha..he's not really one of those psycho aggies -- you know who you are!!

it really was a close game..neck and neck the whole time. the aggies came through victorious. although i think they only won on good luck and a 90% free throw average (not their norm!)

beth and sara were good sports and claimed that it was better for the aggies to win and the boys be in a good mood. i agree =)

and to top the weekend off, on sunday we got to have lunch with a real life blue grass band! they were friends of kirk's (kyle's brother). and the lead singer was named "digger".

you can't make this stuff up people.

all in all it was a great family fun filled weekend. and our first time back in college station since we moved from there so it was a nice trip down memory lane. and how we're glad we don't live there anymore! =)