23 Weeks and Beyond!

This post is a little deceiving. I am actually past 24 weeks now, but I had this picture lying around, so I thought I would let you see what I looked like somewhere close to 23 weeks.



ps-the belt makes my tummy look bigger:)

I'm wearing maternity pants in this picture. I love them. Sadly they don't have very cute pockets, but they are dark (a.k.a. slimming) and long and they fit really, really nice, so I have put them in the "love it" pile.

Speaking of pants.....

I have this lovely pair of black pants (I think they are also slimming!) that I bought from Motherhood Maternity. They are divine. I think my butt looks less pregnant when I wear them. Anyway....I washed them this weekend. They faded big time! They also shrunk, so now I need to find someone that can let out the hem and make them longer. I'm so sad. I followed all the directions. Cold water, mild detergent, hang to dry.....I think the laundry witch has cursed me.

I hate the laundry witch.

It is okay though. Let out the hem and occasionally re-dye them in some RIT dye and they will be just like new. Hopefully.

Enough about clothes. Lets move on.

Ryan and I went to Salt Lake last weekend and I bought fabric for 2 baby quilts. I have been working overtime on them (if I don't do it now, I will lose the energy to ever finish them) and I have everything cut out for both of them. I am about half-way done with sewing the first. I started with the most difficult because I figured if I kept the drive to finish it, the second flannel rag quilt will be a piece of cake.

I also went to the doctor for my monthly check-up on Tuesday, May 31st. He didn't say anything about moving my due date up, but I still hope it happens. He just said that everything is looking good and that we will have 1 more monthly appointment, and then we start going every 2 weeks! Kind of weird that it has happened so fast! We also get to do our 3-D ultrasound at our next appointment, so I'm very excited for that.

I have a ton of stuff to do before we can have this baby! I procrastinate all the time (I think I should tell you a story about procrastinating....maybe farther down.....) and I can just imagine myself finishing up the baby nursery after we get home from the hospital. Babies can sleep in their car seats until the crib is set up right? Just kidding! But here is what I want to get done/work on:

• 2 baby blankets afore mentioned


• Nursery set up (I still have to either paint or buy colorful curtains...)


• Baby journal caught up-I'm writing this kind of as a foreword to our baby's scrapbook. Just tells the story of my pregnancy.


• Entire house gone through and get rid of the stuff we don't need. Gotta make room for the baby!


• Schedule in those little baby showers. I better do this soon or the moment will just pass me by! It is hard to work full-time, do hair, and get everything organized on a schedule for the baby.


• Get caught up on my work at the UBATC so I'm not leaving time-sensitive items undone while I am gone.


• BUY BABY STUFF!!!!! I'm excited about this one:)

Maybe that is it, but it feels like a lot.

And now for my procrastination story:

A long time ago, in a very near middle school, there was a little girl sitting in her P.E. class. Her entire class was busy being tortured into a state of physical fitness, but this little girl was calmly sitting on the stage steps. She was working on her "procrastination packet" because she had procrastinated having her parents sign her progress report. She had discovered early into the school year that if she didn't tell her parents to sign her progress report, she didn't have to be yelled at while running around the gym. Instead, she got to quietly sit and write. The P.E. teacher saw this as torture. She saw it as awesome.

I win again.

The End.