All moved in.

So it has been a week since closing on our house and man has it been a busy week! Saturday we moved it and it was a crazy day. We definitely could not have done it without our friends. We are truly blessed.

I love our new house. It is so amazing having our own place. I have been a laundry fiend. I have done probably 10 loads of laundry since moving in. It is so nice doing laundry when I feel like it and not having to deal with quarters and washers/dryers that don't work.

Nate finished up painting our bedroom this week. I love it. We painted it a neutral brown/greenish color it wasn't supposed to be green, but it dried that way. I still really like it. We bought some black-out curtains to accommodate my need to sleep during the day, and they are amazing.

I am loving our new furniture. We have a huge bay window in our living room and I love sitting in our new couch and basking in the sunshine during the afternoon. Our new table was definitely a great purchase as well. We weren't sure if it would fit, but I think that it works just right. It is so nice to have a place to sit and eat rather than sitting on a couch in front of a television.

The next projects are the bathroom and the baby's room. We bought the bedding for the nursery, so when that comes we will do some color matching and do some painting.

I have a baby appointment next week. He still has been moving and kicking like crazy. I have definitely noticed that he seems to like soda and chocolate. He starts moving like crazy. I have been trying to take it easy with the moving because I really don't want to risk putting myself into any pre-term labor, but it is really hard when all I want to do is clean and organize. It has started to hit me a little more lately that eventually I am going to have to actually have to give birth to this little man. Even as a labor and delivery nurse this scares me. It just goes to show it doesn't matter how much you know. Giving birth is still terrifying.

Minnesota...here we come!

So this morning Nate and I officially purchased our new, first house! We are so excited! We will move in tomorrow morning. (that is if the river decides to behave itself) It is still hard to believe. As I sit in our apartment that we have occupied for the last 2 years, I am astonished by all the memories and fondness that I have. I am, however, quite excited to start the next chapter in our lives as Minnesotans! Good by North Dakota. We will miss you. You have been a great home state.

No new baby updates, other than my belly is getting huge. Well it feels huge anyway. 21 weeks down, only 19 to go! I hope this little man decides to behave himself and stay put for the next 4 months. I feel so blessed with this pregnancy already. Everything has really gone quite smoothly so far. God has truly blessed us. I look forward to what is to come!

Boxes, Pizza Rolls, and sunshine

So almost to moving day! Saturday is the big day that we move in to the new house. Currently our apartment is in complete disarray. We have boxes on top of boxes on top of what was once furniture. Today we went to go and do the final walk through of the house. It's hard to believe that in a few short days it is going to be ours! YIKES! We realized today that there may be a little more work that we need to do in the house than we originally anticipated, but i suppose that is to be expected sometimes. I am just getting excited to move in and have it be ours. I am especially excited about having our own washer and dryer. I am so tired of using quarters in machines that work 25% of the time. I have been stock piling my laundry so that this weekend I can do it all at the new house. Needless to say I am running short on a few essential elements of one's wardrobe.

So I have discovered that the baby really seems to like pizza rolls :) Every time I eat them he seems to start doing a happy dance in my belly. I tried to have Nate feel this afternoon, but I think he was just placating me when he said he could feel the circus going on inside my belly. Baby continues to be quite active though, especially when I come home from a long, busy night at work.

The sun has somewhat started to make it's appearance. The snow is starting to melt at least. I am happy about this as moving with 10 foot drifts in one's yard is not exactly ideal :) I am also happy for the first year ever for daylight savings. I am so excited to see the sun more often! I come home in the mornings at 8:00am and I sleep until usually 4:00 in the afternoon, which was leaving me only a little over an hour of sunlight (most of the time I didn't get to enjoy it) At least now I have a little more of an opportunity to let the sun shine down on my pasty white legs. This is the first winter if probably 6 years that I haven't done at least some light tanning to keep the scary albino skin at bay. Needless to say, If I stand too close to a wall, I tend to blend in a little too well. Hopefully that will change some this summer. I am hoping to spend oodles of time outside during my maternity leave.

Well I should finish my pizza rolls and tend to the mountains of stuff that still needs to be packed.

Shopping Day

So today i went to Fargo to do some much needed retail therapy. I got some really cute maternity cloths and baby boy clothes. It felt good to get out and do some real shopping.

I am kinda mad at myself right now because the crib and bedding from JC Penny was 40% off the other day and I waited to buy it to be sure and now the promo is over :( I guess it just means it wasn't the right timing, but I am still kind of bummed.

I am getting so excited to move

in to the house! Only a week left

now! I realized today with working, I only have 2 full days left to pack. YIKES! We will be in our new home before we know it! I am so ready to be out of this apartment. It has been a great home for us for 2 years, but it was definitely time to move on. Not that the mold and crazy managers weren't a great way to spend the 2 years.

well I am off to sleep. I am exhausted after a long day of shopping. Here is a preview of one of the super cute things I got today :)

Meltdown Monday

So I have no officially succumbed to the pregnancy hormones. I had a slight meltdown this morning (if you ask Nate, he would probably say I am under-dramatizing it a bit) I felt perfectly fine after a foot massage and lunch and then all of a sudden it was like my body was being overtake by a crazed monster and my emotions took over. Before I knew it I was yelling and crying and I had no conscious idea why. After a 30 minute tantrum I calmed down and realized I was being a tad crazy.

I am trying to make decisions concerning buying a crib and and I think I have changed my mind about a million times. I think all the decisions are making me a little crazy...

It hit me that there are only 4ish months left until this little man makes his appearance. Nate and I have started throwing out some names. We have a few in mind that We both really like, it's so hard to decided. This is a name that our child will have to live with for the rest of his life. No pressure or anything :)

Well I am off to the store. I have been trying to find pregnancy cloths but grand forks seems to be plum out. I may make at trip to Fargo tomorrow to see if I have any luck there.

...and he kicked me out of my chair

So I think I am actually starting to feel like I am going to have a baby now. it's so crazy. I think knowing that he is a HE has really helped reality set it. It is so weird to think there is a little 10 ounce boy growing inside of me.

Last night at work I mentioned to one of my patients that I was pregnant and he said, "Well I wondered, but I didn't want to say anything..." I really don't think that I have started to look pregnant in my scrubs yet, but apparently I was wrong :) My belly is starting to take shape a little more and I feel that I should start the traditional belly pics now that I don't just look like I'm carrying a few extra pounds.

I have been doing some Internet browsing looking for ideas for the nursery. HGTV has been one source of inspiration, but everything that people have done on there is so intricately done that I feel I couldn't do half of ideas on it. JC Penny has a crib and bedding set that I have been

eyeing, that I am leaning toward...

I just don't know if they dark wood will clash with the lighter wood of the trim in the nursery. I really think the overall look is really cute though, so will have to wait and see.

SO I have definitely been feeling baby move. Friday while pushing with a patient the baby started doing what felt like back flips in my belly. It was the weirdest feeling and then last night after eating a giant piece of chocolate ice cream cake he kicked me so hard in my belly that it startled me and I almost fell out of my chair. It is truly a miraculous feeling.

Boy, oh Boy...

So we had our ultrasound today....It's a BOY!

I maybe should say that I am shocked, but truly I'm not. I really had a hunch that it would be a Boy. Nate was so sure that I think he had convinced me of it as well

Now the fun begins... SHOPPING!

I think I have found a crib and bedding I like from JC Penny, we will see if nate will let me spend the money to buy it :) Two more weeks until we move in to our house, and then we can really get serious about decorating.

Not a whole lot else to report. Everything looked great on the ultrasound (except baby was breech, but I will have a good long talk with him about flipping around :) Dr. Howick said everything looks right on track, so 4 moths from now we should be having a happy, healthy baby boy :)

4 more days!!!

On Friday of this week we have our ultrasound, and I am so excited. I can not wait to start shopping for this little one. Clothes, Crib, Bedding, Toys....oh, how our checkbook is going to suffer this month :)

JC Penny has a good sale going on right now on one of it's crib sets that I am thinking about purchasing...not sure yet, still trying to weigh the pros and cons. It is a crib, dresser and changing table for $700. We are planning to use my "smurf" dresser that I am currently using for the baby's room (it was the dresser my parents used for me when I was an infant) so we would put the dresser that came with the set in Nate and my bedroom as the closet space is limited and I am thinking we are going to need one.

Still feeling some little blips that may be baby moving. It's so hard to know. It's hard to believe I will be 19 weeks this week! Slowly approaching that half way mark.

More to come on Friday when we know if our lives will be clad in pink or blue :)