I think they call it... "Nesting"

Yeah, pretty sure I've hit the "nesting" phase of pregnancy. I don't know if everyone has one or not, but i'm pretty sure that if i'm having mine, it's manifesting itself through cooking. I'm loving making tons of recipes lately and trying different dinners. I wish it was manifesting by way of not getting enough of cleaning and organizing, but i'm afraid I feel the same way about those fun little things as I always have.... But seriously. Tonight we're having Teriayki Chicken kabobs, which are marinating in the fridge right now. So excited to try them! Who knew making your own teriyaki sauce was so easy... my hands still smell of garlic, though.

Today I made these little beauties...

Peanut butter bars! I stumbled upon the recipe on pinterest. They're supposedly the bars that you'd get at lunch in elementary school... I loved those. So we'll see how they turn out! Waiting for them to cool, while waiting for a fun wave of baby heartburn to pass...

By way of other "news", my baby "bump" is now big enough to do THIS....

Yeah, I can use that "bump" as a shelf now. My cup is literally sitting there. It also makes a nice arm rest. ;)

Only 9 more weeks to go! Wow! It's seems so far away, yet so close at the same time. I am currently 31 weeks and 3 days along. Only 61 more days to go!

Alrighty, until next time.

Happy Tuesday!

Startin' this new goal off right.... I'm already posting another post! Yippee skips!

Lorne started some new classes today. His schedule includes a lunch break, so I get to see him half-way through the day! We get to eat lunch together, and that's awesome. Today when he came home for lunch I got THIS surprise....

Beautiful roses! I'm such a lucky girl....
I get to joy these little beauties for a little while. I'm one of those girls that would take flowers over chocolate ANY day. Don't get me wrong. I love to eat, and I do love chocolate. But, I really love flowers. Especially roses. What can I say? My man knows me.

I know Christmas is over, but thought i'd post a picture of our cute Christmas tree... I've gotta have one on file somewhere, right? We love our little tree. Bought it on sale last black Friday.

Hard to believe how fast Christmas went by! While I DID just post this pic, we've already taken our tree and everything down. Time is just FLYIN'!

Hopefully i'll be posting more pics now... i'm getting more tech savvy everyday, AND my parents gave us a way awesome camera for Christmas. We love it, and i'm eager to fill up many SD cards with pics of our Little Nelson in March!

K, that's all I've got today... enjoy your Tuesday night!

Long time, no blog!

I've never been very good at keeping up a journal.... so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that i'm not awesome at keeping this blog up, either. But, it IS a new year, and we DO make new goals at this time of year. So, I'm gonna try and do much better. I'm going to get all caught up with this post... i'll even post a few videos! Feelin' so "on top of it" right now...

So, thought i'd finally share the video we took at the "find out the gender of baby nelson" party we had. I'll fill you in on the "back" story of the party. The day before the party, we had "the big ultrasound" where the ultrasound tech determined the sex of the baby. This was NOT easy to do... so if anyone else out there want to use this idea, you've gotta have some strong will power! So, during the ultrasound, we had to look away when she saw if baby was a boy or girl. I brought a little note card for her to write on, and she sealed it up with the ultrasound picture along with it. After my appointment, I went to the store to order the cake. I asked the baker to put a filling in the cake with the color that went along with the gender. We waited for a full, painful day! The next night we got together and shared the moment with our family and friends.... So that's what you see on the video. We really are finding out for the first time in this video... It was a lot of fun. Probably, the last time we'll do it that way, though. It was rough to wait!

It was such a relief to finally know what we were having... needless to say, the nursery decor plans include a lot of blue. :) We're pretty set on a name, but we're not going to call it "official" yet. You never know if you'll hear something else that you'll like.

We made the move out of our first apartment and are living in Lorne's parents old house until it sells... It's been wonderful staying here, but we're trying not to get too attached.

Christmas was great! We had a lot of fun and tried to take it all in as much as we could, enjoying our last Christmas as non-parents! We're very excited for next Christmas, though... at that point we'll have a 9-month old.

Hard to think we only have 10 weeks left until this little baby boy comes... I think at least once a day either Lorne or I say, "I can't believe he'll be here in 'this' amount of time. It'll be so different".

SO! Let the 10-week count-down begin! Here's to hoping it goes by fast... and slow at the same time so we can be well-prepared.

For fun, thought i'd post the video we took RIGHT after we found out we're having a baby... This is not the prettiest, it was super early and i'd just woken up. But it's fun to look back on.

Until next time!