Visit from Mom and Updated Nursery

So, can I just say how much I LOVE my mother!? A wonderful friend of our offered to give us their rocker/ glider. When we went over there to have a night of Wii playing and pick up the chair, Camille was mortified that while trying to clean the cushions for us, she managed to ruin them! We felt grateful to even get the chair, so we tried to reassure her all we could that we were just thankful and we would figure something out with the cushions. My mom is quite the handy woman and when I told her the cushions were ruined, she sent us out to pick out fabric, told me to send her pictures of the cushions and told me that one way or another, we would get them fixed. A few days later, she told me she was going to come out to Salt Lake, bring her sewing machine (what!?) and re-do them all for us! And that she did!

I tried to get a couple more pictures on here including one of her working her little tail off, but I can apparently only put this many. I wasn't feeling very well while she was here, so I got a couple more hours with her while laying on the couch holding my belly, but she worked hard from the night she got here until the night before she left! She did all of the cushions and even though we told her not to worry about the arm rests since she couldn't do them quite the way they were, she went with a couple options, so now we have a couple to chose from... one with a pocket and one without! She is very cute! Below is the finished product. It was originally blue and as mentioned before, had torn, stained cushions, so it's come a LONG way!

When my parents were here the last time, we went out to Salt Lake Pizza and Pasta and my mom thought it was pretty great pizza for the price, so we took her there again to treat her for being so wonderful to us for a few days. I mean, who comes all the way out here with a sewing machine in their carry-on bag (only bag she could bring!) to reupholster cushions! We had a wonderful time and got to spend a couple hours chatting. Gregg ended up getting a bad headache after dinner, but with some of his meds, he was able to hang out pretty late on her last night here.

There was a window valance that came with the bedding set that we brought, but with the "fancy" student apartment windows, we weren't quite sure how we were going to get it up, but with my genius husband and creative mother, they came up with a plan and it couldn't have turned out better! Below is Gregg painting the paint portion of their project.

They did so good and the nursery is coming along SO well! The picture below shows the valance they put up. It took some creativity, but as my mom said, it takes some of the "industrial" look away from the window. It is VERY cute! The only things left we have to do in the nursery is do some stenciling and painting on the closet doors. Again, I haven't been feeling very well the last few days, but we're going to try to work on it a little tonight. I'm not really able to go out to eat today and we're poor so we're going to eat here and hopefully work on that a bit.

My mom left this morning and other than the fact that TSA took the heavy duty stapler away from her (yep, the same one they let her fly with from Minnesota), it was a wonderful trip. We made out with a pretty chair, a new valance, sloppy joes and rice krispy bars! We were very lucky to have her help. It was nice of her to come out so quick so it's one less thing for us to worry about. Gregg has been super excited to get the finishing touches done on the nursery!

Gregg's family (minus JJ) will be in town tomorrow night to stay with us for the night as they're leaving for Disney World Monday morning! My mom helped us put together some lasagna for the occasion since I don't know how to cook much of anything! It will be nice to spend a night with them before they take off for a week in one of the best places on earth!

It's been a while since I updated, so I'll try to get better. I'll be 30 weeks on Monday and the OB said everything looked good when we were there yesterday! We're rounding the final leg of this! We'll get a 32 week ultrasound on the 17th of April, so we're looking forward to our one last chance to get a look at her before she's really here!

Minnesota and Baby Shower

Well, last weekend, I went home from March 5-8th and it was so nice to go! I got there on my Mom's birthday, the 5th and got to spend the first part of the day with her! We did a little shopping and I treated her to a pedicure, at which time, I also treated myself! So, it was very nice. My brother got a job just recently with a 2 hour commute each way, so we waited until he got home from work and all went out to a very nice dinner which was on my Dad and brother! What gents! We were able to go to lunch with one of my cousins, his wife and daughter, who we haven't seen in a long time and hadn't even met their daughter Emma! It was so nice to see them! That's everyone below, my Mom, Jeff, Me, my Dad, Ryan, Emma and Stacy!

I had my very first baby shower on Saturday and it was so nice! My Mom's friend, Carol (the woman on the right in the picture above), threw the shower for me and she did great! I realize I'm not huge on being the center of attention, but I think it went wonderfully! It was so hard to get to try to talk to everyone as much as I would've liked as I don't get to see many of them often. But the baby is one very spoiled little girl! We are very grateful for everyone's generosity! It is so nice to have the help of family and friends.

Again, as you can see from the picture above, very spoiled little girl! But so are we for getting all the help! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

My Mom tried to make us swear that when I got home at midnight on Sunday night from my flight that we wouldn't go through all the gifts to show Gregg, but we figured, could we really wait until the following weekend? Um, no! And he gets home from work at midnight during the week, so it would've happened another night that week if it didn't that night! He loved looking through all the presents and this one was made just for him! It was from my family to him. It was a tool belt full of all things Daddy would need: all the necessities along with tongs for the dirty diapers, a medical mask to avoid the smell of the dirty diapers, goggles to avoid all the flying mess, etc. Gregg mentioned that little did everyone know that it is going to be me that has a harder time with all the "messy" stuff than he will be! He's the medical guy, I'm the wimp! He liked it so much, he doesn't want to take it apart! Thanks Mom and Dad! He was shocked to see how much could fit in the duffel bag my Dad gave me to bring everything home. It was obvious how lucky we were.

It was a great trip home! It was very short but wonderful! We are truly blessed for the friends and family that continues to care for us in Minnesota and are apart of this big adventure of ours!

Officially Moved!

Well, with the help of my amazing husband who did oh-so-much work, my parents and friends, Jason, Kat and Mark, everything was moved into the new 3 bedroom apartment on Friday! It was such a relief! It was so nice to have my parents here who made SO many trips back and forth with some of the smaller stuff and my Dad was a big help painting! They helped us clean the old apartment so we wouldn't lose money on our original security deposit and Gregg and I finished up the cleaning on Sunday. And we're happy to say, No Charges! Woo hoo!

The apartment is substantially bigger, at least for us! In our old apartment, we couldn't really use the 2nd bedroom because it was full of so much storage! So, it had our computer and Gregg's clothes, but other than that, it was an awful room! In THIS apartment, we have THREE fully usable rooms! It's great! We were able to fit all of the storage bins for ALL of the CRAP we have in all the closets! Everything has found a home (except for the books that have to make their way to the bookshelf) and we're officially in! The guys did such a great job on the painting and the baby's room is green, green, green! :-) We also got a call last weekend that the bedding set we wanted was finally in, so we went straight there and bought it! I know my Mom was not ecstatic about us spending so much on the set, but it didn't take long to realize, my heart was set on it. It's in the picture above! You can even see the green walls! So, we're working on it all. With more space, we've needed a few more things and we're working on putting on finishing touches, but I think we'll work on that slowly! My lovely sis-in-law pointed out that we are now in the double digits in the countdown... eek! Three months until baby is here! Oh so crazy!

I am SO excited to go to Minnesota tomorrow! It's my Mom's birthday tomorrow, so we're going to go get pedicures together and do dinner as a family tomorrow night. The shower is on Saturday and it will be so much fun to celebrate! It will be too short of a trip, but it will be so nice to go! And Gregg will be thoroughly entertained by his Dad and brother, the Jazz game and skiing! Minus the fact that we'll be apart, it should be a great weekend!