Sunday, June 6, 2010

woes and toes

the woes of pregnancy...
not only can i not touch my toes or tie my shoes, but i can't paint my "tonies" anymore either!
(as our neices maddie and cosi would say...)

my wonderful husband lovely offered to try his hand at this - it was his first nail painting experience!
he did an excellent job with the hot pink (shout out to my alabama merkle ladies with this color!)

























Thursday, June 3, 2010

per request

This is mommy and baby at 35 1/2 weeks!
To put things in perspective, our oldest neice, Maddie, was born when Jill was 35 1/2 weeks along...

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

the time is coming near...

we are one month away from our due date - whew!
a few weeks ago my response to 'how are you feeling?!' changed from 'really great, i can't complain, i've really enjoyed being pregnant!' to, 'i'm starting to get a little uncomfortable, but i really can't complain, i've been blessed with a great pregnancy!'
and now...these few weeks later i want to laugh at myself last month!
i was feeling uncomfortable then?!
the past 5-6 days are throwing me for a loop!
i am exhausted, my feet began to swell, and i literally cannot pick something up that is on the ground unless i am also on the ground and then i can't pick myself up!

i didn't write this to complain - but to give us all a laugh about how much pregnancy changes what you are capable of!
for the last few months i have been pretty much able to keep up my pace and activity and independence - i am recently realizing the joys of letting other people pick up my pen that i dropped, help me carry groceries in and fetch me a refill of water :)
i am still able to stay active and be busy, but this basketball that i am smuggling under my shirt is taking a toll on me!

i can't wait to meet our little bundle and be able to paint my own toes again :)

Monday, May 17, 2010

blog life

so. i need a blog tutorial
my friend kim has graciously accepted this challenge (for some undetermined time in the future...)
this is why i need one...my last post, about our anniversary, took me over an hour!
i couldn't get the pictures in the right order - they didn't upload where my cursor was, they uploaded wherever they wanted to!
in the meantime huge amounts of space was added between each line i had written and each picture i uploaded...
so i erased and began again with smaller pictures - this seemed to do the trick if i uploaded them in reverse order...and then i put cute captions to the side of some of the pictures
then i published it.
and the captions were beside random pictures!
SO FRUSTRATING!
but i just wanted to put up pictures from our fun getaway so i left it like it was.

thank you for reading my vent.
any ideas?!?!

Friday, May 14, 2010

anniversary!!!

Joel and I retreated to Brown County in Becca's cabin from May 7th-May 9th to celebrate our 2nd anniversary!
We spent nearly all the time at the cabin...with a few detours to the local country store (where there was a sign 'register your wild turkey's here...) into Nashville for a fun lunch, over-priced tourist knick-knack browsing, and a stop at a candy store for some yummy caramels
We enjoyed hiking, reading, relaxing, loving, snacking, hot-tubbing, laughing, talking about baby Draper, and watching an entire season of FRIENDS
This weekend away was exactly what we needed!!!!!