Thankful

Well it has been a busy but great past week. I went and visited my family last weekend which was wonderful. It had been a couple months since I had been able to get up there and see them. I sure did miss them! I actually was able to see everyone in my extended family while there too which was awesome. My Mom and I tackled Affair of the Heart on Saturday - which was rather disappointing. A lot of the booths we wanted to visit again (since the last one) weren't there anymore, and there just wasn't as much good stuff to see. Maybe this is a good thing - less money spent. I had a good time walking around with my Mom though and we both found cute scarves to purchase! It was so nice to spend time with family last weekend. I know we are only a couple hours away, but I miss them so much and wish I could see them more often! Oh! and my Dad gave me a glider rocking chair for when the baby comes! So we now have a piece of baby furniture in the house. The fabric on it though is not the best, so my mother-in-law is going to help me recover it!

For Thanksgiving, we got together with Brian's parents and his sister and family. I ate lots (probably too much because my belly felt really tight and full for a while!) of good food! It was so nice to spend some time with all of them as well because it had been a little while since I had seen them. My sister-in-law brought my a couple bags of her maternity clothes for me to borrow since I am outgrowing all of my clothes and haven't really bought anything recently.

The cousins on my Mom's side of the family drew names earlier in the year and we were supposed to make a homemade ornament for them and send by Thanksgiving. It worked out that Nancy and I both drew each other's names and I just got my ornament in the mail yesterday. I love it!!! Here is a picture. She did such a great job!

Here is what I made her. I painted an ornament and then made a standing decoration out of a washcloth! It was fun getting to be crafty. This is the first one of many I made, so they actually got better than this one in the picture, but you get the idea. On the latter ones I used real buttons rather than the pom poms and I used an orange pipe cleaner for the nose instead of just painting on on there and felt works much better than ribbon for the scarf! 

Getting to make these ornaments has made me really want to be crafty now. There are a few things on my list that I plan to make and hopefully make time to do them before Christmas as gifts! :)

I have also begun the de-cluttering of the room that will soon be made into a nursery. There are a few pieces of furniture that we have to get rid of or find another place in the house for it and go through the closets and organize all that stuff that we have stored in there. We have this fairly big entertainment center in there that I planned to get rid of, but my Aunt Debbie gave me a great idea! She said I should paint it and then hang a curtain on the open areas, and buy cute little baskets to store the baby's things in there and there are a few drawers I could use for clothes. I told Brian about this and we both think it is a good idea, so we may see what we can do with it and hope that we enough room to have that, the crib, and changing table and everything in there. We shall see!! Only a couple more days until we find out if we are having a boy or girl!!! I am SO anxious. Then begins the baby names, nursery themes/colors, and lots of other fun things! I have started to kind of feel the baby moving around in there which is really awesome but also really weird, in a good way though. My sister-in-law described it best I think, it's like a fish swimming around in there. It does feel like a little wave in my belly. I am looking forward to when I can feel it more and when Brian can see and feel it as well. I can't believe it is going by so fast - already almost 17 weeks. 

Here is a random picture Brian took of my view of the ever growing belly!

Yes I think it is getting pretty big real fast! Even my boss noticed on Friday that it looked slightly bigger than it was just a couple days before. :)

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!! I will post Tuesday with the exciting news! Feel free to predict or guess what it could be...