Getting Ready to Explode!

I thought you all might enjoy a new tummy pic since I'm getting so huge now! I can't wait for Jace to come. I just want to hold him!

I made the mistake of telling Steven that I can't wait for Jace to come so I can sleep! He laughed at me =) Seriously though it is so hard to sleep when you have this huge belly weighing you down. You aren't allowed to sleep on your back or stomache, like I normally sleep so that only leaves sleeping on your side, which isn't the most comfortable position in the world.

So you finally get comfy enough to fall asleep on your side and then the arm you are laying on falls asleep just after you do so that means you have to swich sides... Which is extremely difficult with the big belly in the way and just after you finally drag your belly over to the other side and get into a comfortable position guess what happens... your other arm falls asleep so you have to switch sides again! AAARRRGGG! At least when the baby is here what little sleep I do get will be on my back dang it! You have no idea how comfortable sleeping on your back is until you can't do it any more!

*Sigh* They say it will all be worth it in the end. Well the only thing I have to say to that is the end isn't here yet so i can't tell if that is actually true! Ok I'm done ranting this baby just needs to hurry up and get here!

Steven... Super Dad!

So I was just sitting at the computer when Steven comes up behind me and asks me how to tell which side of the diaper is the front. A little confused... I told him it was the side that had the designs on it was the front. So now I have to find out what in the world he is doing with the diapers and low and behold I found him practicing putting the diaper on our stuffed animal. It was so dang cute I had to take a picture! He did it perfectly with out any help from me! (well except to find out which was the front) He's going to be such a great dad!

Getting Closer to Baby

I just realized today that in 4 more weeks (March 1st) It will be safe to have baby Jace. All the books I've read say that by 36 weeks their lungs are fully developed and it is safe for them to be born. Not that I'm hoping he'll come that early, I want him to be really ready to come, it's just a scarry thought. Steven and I could be parents in about month. Yikes!

Speaking of planning for baby it's Baby Shower time! I am so excited for my baby shower. I think I could be even more excited for it than I was for my wedding shower. How does that work? My own personal opinion is that the stuff you get at a baby shower is way cuter that the stuff you get at a wedding shower. Even though the stuff you get isn't technically for you it's still fun to get.

I went to my friend April Hale's baby shower on Saturday. She's about a month ahead of me and having a little girl. But I really liked her shower and better yet it gave me some good ideas. I do have to say that I am so glad I didn't wait as long as she did to have my shower. She was HUGE! In a good baby way of course but still. I fealt like I was 1/2 her size and I'm only a month behind her.

Any way my awesome sister Lindsey and super excited grandma Marilyn are putting it on for me. It's going to be great. I even made my own super cute invitations! Oh I just love my baby! I can't wait to meet him and then spoil him rotten!



PS For anyone coming to the shower. I'm registered at Target but they have a special deal that everything you don't get off of your registry you get %15 off! So I've been telling everyone to get me gift cards so we can get the extra discount =)

Ever Expanding Belly!

Just thought everyone would like to see just how big I'm getting. With the baby getting bigger and bigger so does the belly. It is actually really fun as he gets too big for my stomache he gets easier and easier to see and feel. Steven loves it when we sit on the couch after dinner (you know when mom and baby are both fat and happy) and every time he shifts position you can see my whole stomache move with him. Steven even thinks his favorite past time is kicking him in the face. Every time Steven rests his head on my tummy to talk to Jace, he always kicks him right in the face. Go Jace go! Only 2 more months until he can actually kick him in the face.

Fire in the Kitchen!

My Mother was in the kitchen last Tuesday or Wednesday, you know slaving over the stove to feed the masses, and she had all 4 burners of the stove running at the same time. Now, you would think that having all 4 burners on at the same time wouldn't be a problem, and it shouldn't be a problem, that is for a regular Mom. Well my mom is no regular mom. You see legend has it, that certain unfortunate moms, through no fault of their own, are to be haunted by a evil curse. A curse where all household appliances secretly band together against that mom to make all of her household efforts futile. It is the curse of the malfunctioning appliances! OOOOOhhhhh! (That was for dramatic effect, I hope you got that) Any way my poor mom just so happens to be a sufferer of this appliance curse therefore making her vulnerable in ways that other normal mom's, with all 4 burners on the stove running at the same time, could never dream of.

So we continue our story where we left off... with all 4 burners on at once. As you can probably guess sparks start to fly from the cursed stove. Mom, being the great heroin I know her to be, and also being aware of her appliance curse, is cunning enough not to reach across the sparking stove to turn some of the burners down or off. She tries to outwit the evil stove and the appliance curse by cutting them off at the source. The breaker! She runs out the front door to cut power to the blood thirsty stove and teach it a lesson it would not soon forget. Unfortunately my Mom isn't the fastest mom in the world and she didn't get to the breaker in the nick of time like the story books would like you to believe. Actually the exact opposite happened, she got to the breaker just after the nick of time had already passed and the cursed stove was able to start a fire in our heroin's kitchen.

Now Mom returns to the kitchen and discovers the fire started by the evil stove but never fear! Mom is not so easily outsmarted. She races to the kitchen cabinet in search of her secret weapon; the all powerful box of baking soda. Now that she has her secret weapon it is time to battle. The evil stove has had far too much time to reek havoc and fire on mom's kitchen and it's time has come. Back and forth they battle as baking soda, flames and thick black smoke fill the kitchen and then spread to the rest of the house. Finally our heroin, soot stained and weary realizes this battle can not be won if fought alone. So she calls for the trusty fire department to come to her aid and finally end the cursed stoves reign of fire. 4 fire trucks 3 police cars and 1 fire extinguisher later the battle is finally over the stove has been beaten. Hey, even the best heroes need to call for back up every now and again.

New Baby Pictures!

Ok we got a really fun suprise today. When I went in for my ultrasound they told me my Amniotic fluid was a little low. So at my last doctors visit she told me she wanted to run some tests to make sure that everything was normal. When we got to the testing center today we got a fun suprise we were getting another ustrasound. Our tech was really nice (and we shop at the same underware store) so she printed us off a ton of pictures to take home and share!

Here are some really cool face pictures in 3D! He was a little stinker and wouldn't show us his face so here it is from the side. He knows he is a stinker that's why he is smiling in the first one. Look at those huge cute cheeks!


These ones are kind of hard to tell what you are looking at but they are more of his face. You can't see it in the pictures but he has lots of hair too.


More face pictures. I like the one where his face is smashed up against my uterus.


Last but not least it is definately a BOY! and he has HUGE FEET! The bottom left is a little big foot. He definately gets those feet from his dad!

Looking for a house

It is official we are looking for a house. Actually we are looking for a townhouse to buy. We have decided that we are no longer happy with living in such a bad neighborhood especially with our baby on the way so we are looking to relocate. With the market the way it is we are hoping we can get a really good deal. Actually we are hoping to find a foreclosure townhouse to buy. If anyone knows someone that has a townhouse/house going into foreclosure please let us know! We could buy it from whoever needs to get rid of their property before it goes to foreclosure and everybody wins!! Steven wants to live closer to school and work so we are thinking Tempe, Chandler area. We'll see what we can find.