28 Weeks

Here's an updated picture of what I'm looking like these days (at least what I looked like last week) :)

First Baby Shower

Eric's sisters threw me my first baby shower yesterday! All of Eric's aunts were there, along with all 4 of our grandmas, our moms and sisters. Our niece Allison even made it! Some of Eric's mom's friends were there as well. We had a lot of fun and everything turned out really nice...we also were blessed to receive so many wonderful gifts!

We received bath items, little outfits, blankets, toys, books, bottles, diaper bags, stuffed animals, and even our high chair and a jumperoo for the baby! I couldn't believe everything we got! We almost couldn't fit it all in my mom's Trailblazer, but we got it all in! Eric seemed surprised at how much stuff there when I got home!

We played a couple of games as well...the first was to name the baby using the letters from Eric and my names. There were a lot of different names people came up with but I'm not sayng if any are the ones we're considering :) For the second game, everyone got a thing of Play-Doh and had to sculpt a baby out of it. I then had to decide on who's baby was the best...I chose my mom's...she put hair on it and even gave it little Play-Doh buns!

Having this shower made it feel even more real that we'll soon be meeting our little one...and it made us realize how much more we have to do to get ready for our baby! Thanks to everyone who helped make yesterday such a fun and special day for us!

Weekend Fun

Friday I got to leave work a little early to head out to Holland to see my baby sister before her senior prom! She had wanted me to come out and take some pictures of her and her friends before the prom. She looked absolutely beautiful in her dress (and Nick cleaned up pretty good too)!

On Saturday morning I went to Frederick Meijer Gardens with Eric's mom, sisters, and Grandma M. It was the last Saturday for the Butterfly exhibit, so it was incredibly busy, but it was fun to walk around and see the butterflies and some of the other gardens! Thankfully we were able to be outside for a little while before the rain started!

Ashley, Heather, and me before getting in to see the butterflies!

Heather, Ashley, Grandma M, and me right ready to see the butterflies.

And some of the butterflies...

Setting up the Nursery

This past weekend, besides enjoying the beautiful weather, Eric and I set up the crib in the nursery! Getting all the pieces out of the box made a huge mess in the room, but once we got it all cleaned out again, we were able to put the crib together fairly quickly!

I'm very happy with the way the crib looks in the room and am very excited to actually have the crib and dresser/changing table both in the room! Saturday afternoon I decided to put the bedskirt and bumper pads in the crib even though we don't have the mattress yet. I put the comforter in the bed as well and put together the mobile! I'm excited to start getting other items for the room and to start putting things up on the walls, but at least it's starting to look ready for the baby!

25 Week Update

I went to the doctor this week and everything is continuing to look great! Our little one's heart rate was in the 150's, so sorry for anyone who is trying to guess the sex by the heart rate...this one's kind of in the middle :o) My next appointment I get to do the lovely glucose test that I hear is so much fun (or not)!

Back in Michigan

We got home from Florida late Saturday night. Our week went by way too fast, but that always seems to be the case with vacations! We had some rain on Monday, so Eric and I explored the island and did a little shopping. Tuesday was cool and windy, so we headed to St. Armands Circle to do some shopping. The rest of the week the weather was nice again, so we spent lots of time on the beach relaxing!

I also reached 24 weeks on Wednesday while we were in Florida, so Eric had to take my pictures at the condo :)

The nice thing was that my family was around, so Eric could be in a picture with me!

Here's our "family picture" with over half the family missing!

We were able to watch the sunset Thursday night and it was beautiful!

On Friday, the wind was strong enough that it broke the umbrella that I had been using for shade, so in order to cool off we went in the ocean for a while. The good thing about the wind is that there were decent sized waves to play in!

We're in Florida!

We made it to Florida without any problems! We drove to Flint on Friday morning and flew to Atlanta around noon. In Atlanta, we had an hour layover and then were on to Tampa. We had no issues on the plane at all. My doctor had made me slightly worried about getting motion sickness on the plane and had even said experiencing contractions was a possibility, so I was thrilled to not have any problems!

We drove to Ellenton (near Bradenton/Sarasota) Friday night where we checked into our hotel and went to the outlet mall. I found a Motherhood outlet, so that made me excited :) This is the same outlet mall I shopped at in college when I came to Ellenton on the GVSU Sarasota Spring Break trip!!! We shopped for a little while and then got dinner and went back to the hotel.

The view from our hotel in Ellenton.

Saturday we headed back to the outlet mall for a little while and then went to a farmer's market. We couldn't get into our condo on Anna Maria Island until after 3, so it was nice to kill some time! Our condo is really nice and across the street from the beach!

Eric and I at the outlet mall.

Today we slept in (I was exhausted from all the walking around yesterday) and then headed to the beach. The weather was beautiful with sunshine, mid-80's, and a nice breeze so we didn't get too hot at the beach! Eric and I got fried so we'll see how much time we spend at the beach tomorrow.

I don't have my laptop with me, so I'm using my sister's Mac...which means I have NO idea how to get my pictures on here. If I can figure out how to get some pictures off my camera and on to the computer, I'll post some!