Preparing for Baby!

 As we are approaching Baby Girl's due date, which is Saturday, Aug 27, we have finally taken some of the necessary steps to get ready for her arrival! I washed all the newborn clothes, installed the car seat base in the Yukon and we picked a name! 

Here are a few monthly pics of her development. The ultrasound pictures are from our 20-week ultrasound- for some reason, I couldn't caption those pictures!

16 weeks

17 weeks 

18 weeks

21 weeks

28 weeks

32 1/2 weeks

35 weeks (from Annaliese's angle!)

36 weeks

37 1/2 weeks

39 weeks

Here is a quick peek at her room. There are still a few finishing touches that need to happen, but overall, it is a much nicer room now than it was before!

I'm making a sign with her name on it to go above the crib...it's a work in progress at this point!

A few weeks ago, I also had a baby shower here at my house. Kim and two other friends got together and planned it for me! Everyone brought diapers or gift cards and we spent the evening talking about babies, eating good food, and celebrating this baby girl! It was so nice to have a relaxing evening surrounded by good friends! 

They must know I like sugar:)

Megan (one of the planners)

Admiring the flowers (which I take no credit for...the just keep growing!)

Mandi, Jen S., Mom, Kim, me, Jen A., Megan

Mandi and I (Mandi was the other planner, along with Kim and Megan)

I took a few personal days at work this week, simply because I was getting too uncomfortable and too slow to be much help to anyone! Annaliese and Haleigh still went to the baby-sitter's house so I was able to accomplish a few things around the house and relax a bit as well. On Tuesday, my mom came over and we spent a few hours putting together a few freezer meals. I now have 9 meals in the freezer and have come to the conclusion that if I plan to continue making freezer meals, I probably need another freezer! It was a bit of a challenge to fit them all in:)

And now we are just waiting, rather impatiently, I might add. I am very ready to be done being pregnant. It has actually been a fairly easy pregnancy, with the exception of not being able to exercise much since about 25 weeks.  Things are usually good between about 8am and 5pm; after that, it becomes a lot of work to get up off the couch, move around, or get the girls ready for bed!