The Nursery

I decided early on in this child-growing sojourn that if there was something I could get really excited about, then I would let myself run wild and hold on to that excitement, because there are plenty of things I am definitely not excited about (like childbirth and anything leading up unto it).  One such exciting thing is designing a nursery.  I'm a sucker for a good house overhaul and this one was probably the most fun one we've ever done. (Hallelujah for reasonable budgets for once.)

Our child will be inhabiting that weird blue room in our house and of course that meant that it could no longer be the weird blue room.

Before...

During:

After:

Next came the even more exciting part and that was throwing my wallet to the wind and buying so many "necessary" things.  The baby's little fake-out gender reveal certainly put that on hold for a while, but once we finally knew the gender I shopped and color-schemed it up.

We bought the furniture and assembled it together which was oddly super enjoyable.  Also I am so relieved we did this months ago and not now.

Here are all the finished details!

"He He Hooooo"

Scott and I completed our hospital's childbirth class yesterday, and I feel like this was totally one of those things straight out of a TV show.  You know, the whole sitting around in a dark room practicing breathing and sitting on pillows thing?  This does happen in real life it turns out.  Reality got a lot weirder to me just now.

It was a good use of time since neither Scott nor I have been motivated to really want to learn about such things.  I would love to say that I'm one of those women who wants to watch Call the Midwife, but heck no.  Never ever.  So forced birth learning was perfect for us.  I think the only thing that almost made Scott sick was the talk of the placenta (which, by the way, no one needs to see...in a class...in real life...in any situation...unless you're the placenta examiner).  The rest of the class was good though.  I can't say it really put us at ease or anything, but it was informative!

Other things we learned...

*LDS Hospital has some pretty nice stone-work inside which Scott told me he'd point out to me in detail next time we're there...mhmm...

*My birth plan is still to avoid pain and to pray a lot.

*Many details about other class members' bodies and pregnancies that we wish we did not know.

I asked Scott what was most surprising to him, and he said, "I learned I'll probably be more involved in this than I hoped I would be."  You and me both, Scott.  You and me both.

3 Day Weekend

This weekend we went to a wedding reception in Logan which was a grand excuse to take a 3-day weekend because Logan is just...too far away obviously.  I didn't even mix up the invitation date this time!

Unfortunately almost all of the photos we took were weird in some way or another but a few turned out (ok maybe just the one of the tulips...) and a few made me laugh out loud, so I'll have to include them anyway.

We ate some amazing freshly made sweet potato ravioli, which was made from PURPLE sweet potatoes no less.  I have a less than awesome relationship with food these days, but this took me back to the normal days of wanting to eat food and then enjoying it.  

We also stayed at a fancy hotel complete with this sword as part of the decor, which Scott felt the need to hold in front of my neck for a photo...?  Haha I don't even know, but this plus my over sized stomach makes me laugh every time I see it.  Awkward family photos...

I think the bar for my Mother's Day breakfast is set unfortunately high for Scott...  

And that is basically all there is to say about this entire trip...  Haha we did have a lot of fun, but we also slept for an extreme amount of time because we're always tired these days.  Sometimes you have to take time off of work to sleep??  There is some truth to this.