Wow, this is quite the record of non-blogging for me, almost 2 months! I feel like life has been a whirlwind since Christmastime... which is at least partly true ;). One word for my life right now is: BUSY. February brought me two long weekends; one was spent on catching up on schoolwork, and my parents came to visit for the other. I love, love, love, having people come visit and getting to relax and enjoy seeing them. We just had Matt's mom and sister here this past weekend as well. We don't get visitors very often, and the re are so many people that we are constantly missing that we really treasure getting to see them. However, I do NOT like how much work/time it is for me to get schoolwork and plans done for 2 weeks done and out of the way to make that happen. Oh well, it is very much worth it in the end anyways. We didn't really do a whole lot with either of our visitors, mostly hung out and visited. We went one day to the Monterey Bay Aquarium with my parents while they were here so I could check it out before taking my class.
That field trip was actually just this week... all in all, a very fun trip, but a very long day for a tired pregnant woman, phew! Anyways, with Kathy and Amy we did a little art project to decorate letters for Annabelle's name in her room (yep, Baby J has a name! No middle yet). We also went down to Visalia where Kathy's fam threw us a very nice little shower :).
I can hardly think of anything else that has gone on in the last 2 months aside from school. Um, we have been extremely blessed with all of the hand-me-down and new baby clothes and gear we have and will continue to receive in the coming months! Annabelle's room is coming together a bit more... we have the bedding, a vinyl cling tree for the wall, and are working out which shade of light blue to paint it at the moment. I will post pics when it is finally painted and everything. I am having fun with artsy projects and ideas for her room. The letters for her name turned out great. I have 3 wood canvasses that I am going to deco-podge with scrapbook materials, and I am hoping to find a cheap or used crib mobile that i can use the clip-on base of and make my own little birdies to hang from it. I am not sure where the time will come from for all of that, but eventually it will get done :).
I am definitely in count-down to spring break mode for school right now. 4 more weeks! Even though spring break will mean finishing end of the year things and getting plans in place for a sub at some point in May, it will still be a welcomed change of pace. And hopefully we'll have time for finishing up baby details also.
Well, that's all I've got for now... hopefully I'll post on here before 2 months go by again.... but if not, that's right about when Annabelle is due! I can't wait for her to come and summer to be here!
This pic is at 30 weeks
