Third trimester!

Holy Moley, the count down is on like donkey kong! I am 28 weeks, about 7 months! She will be here before we know it, especially since we have something planned every single weekend from now till the end of August! Lots of fun trips we are trying to squeeze in before my "do not travel far" 32 week suggestion- in which I will be laying on the beach in Port Aransas at 32 weeks. Yeah, I'm such a rebel ;) So I just wanted to update of getting ready for little Miss Ruby (finally picked a name!)...

She is a dancing queen and I can feel her move all throughout the day, which has still not lost it's novelty. Best.thing.ever. Now she is kicking strong enough that you can see movement on the outside of my stomach which is freeeaky and reminds me a little too much of a certain scene from Aliens...

Bump shot!


The nursery is coming along. Got the crib ready and everything else is close enough I feel good about it. Still have to finish the art work, figure out what I'm going to do for a changing table, and organize the closet. The room will be pretty empty because the closet is ginormous so I'm just going to have most everything in there.
It's not done, but here's what we got so far...



One if the pieces of art I made her, the other wall has a bunch of frames on it with some art we are working on slowly but surely. It's been really fun to come up with stuff and work on it together.


We talk about Ruby every single day and how excited we are to meet her. It has been so fun just fantasizing about what she will look like and her personality. We've been feeling like uber responsible adults lately, bought a super practical family car (yeah, that 1 car family business made me nervous-in case of emergency Andy needs more than his bike), got ourselves some life insurance, and lots of research on like every baby product out there. Whew! Lots of preparation to keep us busy but we are also trying to do lots of fun stuff and hang out with our friends a lot and soak up our last child-less summer.

Can't wait to love on our sweet little girl.

Weirdness

So I doubted I would ever be able to say these words but I say them with great pleasure- We are a one car family.

Now for most people that wouldn't be a big deal but our drive way has basically been a car lot since we moved here. At one point we were up to 5 cars. Yes, we are those trashy neighbors that you hate and are junking up the neighborhood. I always felt bad about it. Well, one by one we sold the cars. Now we are down to my Mazda! Now, we do still have the Nova, but I am not counting it since it is barely even recognizable as a car. No floor, motor, suspension, steering, seats, it is a metal shell. And with our baby girl coming the Nova probably won't get much attention for awhile.
Poor neglected Nova...


We were down to the Mazda and the truck. The truck was ginormous, old, and not much to look at but boy how we loved that truck. It made many a project possible, it helped move more people than I can count, and was just an awesome reliable truck. We felt okay about selling it though because we don't have any more big house projects planned any time soon, gas is so expensive, and Andy sold it for more than he bought it for 4 years ago which is pretty awesome.

Good bye truck, you will truly be missed!


So eventually Andy will buy a more family friendly car but for now he has been taking the bus and riding his bike to work which he oddly loves. Times are a changin that's for sure and I'm loving it!

Visit from the fam!

What a fun weekend we had hanging out with my whole family. My brother came down early and spent the week with us. It was really nice because I hardly ever get to spend time with him. Then Friday my parents drove down so we were all together and did lots of fun activities.

Saturday morning we rented a boat and spent some time of Lake Travis, it was perfect.




Even Miss Molly came with us!

This was with two applications of sun screen too! Eek! We both got burned pretty badly. Totally worth it though....


Then Sunday we went bowling!




So it was a great weekend and I always love spending any time I can with my family since they are so far away. Love you guys!

Friday Night Anniversary Date

So I don't think I've been too crazy emotional from the pregnancy (Andy may tell you a different story though) but I do think I may be a little needy. Okay, a lot. There's been a whole bunch of "Honey, tell me about your love for me...my love bank is low". (As a side note, if you ever want to see an Engineer freeze up, tell them to pour their heart out and articulate their feelings ;) ) So anyways, I told him I wanted to do something special for our anniversary. He delivered. A few days before I got an Evite from him inviting me on a date and an awesome itinerary of what we would be doing Friday night to celebrate. It included taking the bus downtown and walking around to all my favorite places. I was a stinker and went for a three mile hike that morning and so I asked if we could tweek the itinerary a little bit. So we ended up driving downtown and eating at Romeo's and playing miniature golf and then getting a big Icee and coming home and watching Swamp People. Yeah, first two things were Andy's ideas and the last two were this trashy reality show-lovin, sugar-fiening pregnant lady's ideas!

Leaving for our date!


Dinner at Romeo's

Brushetta= one of my favorite things in the world

We shared lasagna and it was GINORMOUS and oh so tasty


Then went to Peter Pan mini golf for a very hot game of golf that Andy rigged the score card and let me win.



It was a perfect date and we had fun reminiscing on how fast and amazing the past five years have been. I will spare you all the husband doting, because I do my fair share of it one here and hopefully it is obviously how much I adore my amazing husband. I will say this though, I made thr best decision of my life five years ago when I married my best friend.