Last Day Surprise

Friday the 24th was my last day at the Operating Engineers JAC as a temp.  It's been an awesome experience working there with amazing people and plenty of learning opportunities. The staff there is my glimmer of hope that GOOD PEOPLE STILL VERY MUCH EXIST IN THIS WORLD. Never was I left out because of my lowly status of "just a temp," and Friday was a PRIME example.

Iwa, who had a baby back in February and I was temping for, asked me if I wanted to run office errands with her. I almost said no that's ok, because I knew how much stuff I had to do that day, but decided sure WHY NOT!

When we got back sometime later Coleen the office manager and Mitchell the boss were waiting for me with looks on their faces like something bad happened, REAL BAD. They told me to come to the back office and that one of the other instructors was really upset (someone that I do a lot of projects for) and all I'm thinking is OMG what did I DO!?! We got to his back office, I said, "Ummmm do I need a pen and paper or something?" They said no no, but lets go into the conference room in case someone comes in. Like it was all serious and private! (coming from a boss who's door is always open, this was a bit concerning) At this point I'm freaking out a little bit.

Coleen wrestles with the lock for a second then busts through the door.....SURPRISE!!!!! I turn bright red and freeze. They had set up a full blown baby shower for me!  Dez and his friend  were there, all the mechanics from the shop and the rest of the office staff. I pretty much went into shock, and it didn't help that after everyone said surprise, they all just sat and stared at me. I'm not very good at reacting in these situations.

I put all the pieces together of how they made this happen. I even spend the whole night before with my Co-worker Jerica at Walmart as she bought everything for the cupcakes and display! They got me good though.

The crew

Never ending clothes line decorations

steak and chicken, rice and mac salad, what else are you suppose to eat at baby shower?

CUPCAKES!! 

delish! 

Favors

not so baby sized, baby clothesline!

trying to figure out what the heck all this stuff is that I needed!

Me and Coleen

Mitchell and Baby Hayley

Mama to be!

I'm so grateful for the family and friends in my life. We are truly blessed! Thank you EVERYONE! Now lets meet the baby!

Beachin at 31 Weeks

We have different expectations of where sand belongs

SO grateful for the holiday to spend together at the beach! 

Besides the shortness of breath and MEAN leg cramps we're doing swell! We attended a basic child birth class at the hospital where I will be delivering. It was a one time class (usually they last 6 weeks or so) but we did it all in 5 hours. Dez was not thrilled that I divulged that detail when we were already half way there, but I knew that was the only way I could get him there. =) The teacher was an interesting character but I did enjoy her attitude about birth.... IT'S A NATURAL PROCESS.  I've come to the point where I'm excited to trust my body and see what we can do! As of now I want to go all natural (but I've never felt a contraction before...)  Each room at the hospital where I will deliver has a big tub, so I plan to spend a lot of time in there. I'm working on my birthing plan now before I go see my Dr on Wednesday for my week 31 check up.  Knowledge is power, the more I'm learning, the better I feel about labor and delivery. 

I have been having weird dreams about the baby.  Last night I had I dream that I woke up and I was in the hospital and then a nurse brought me a baby. Supposedly it was mine, but I had no recollection of even going in to labor let alone giving birth. The baby didn't really connect and recognize with me because we never had our skin to skin contact after birth! I was so upset and thought I was drugged by the hospital! Then all of a sudden the baby was looked 2... but was still a newborn and I was sad she grew so fast.

Can you tell what my subconscious is focused on?

In other news, I will be working until the 24th and we learned we get to move into our 1 bedroom on the 27th! 

May DAY- MAY DAY

25 weeks

Happy May Day!

I'd been wanting this for the longest time and finally saw it at Ross! It's a silicone cake mold to make a giant cupcake. Now all I need is for a cake mix to go on sale to try it out! 

Not a whole lot to say right now but I know once I post everything will come to mind that I wanted to say. Until then.... 

24 weeks and 4 Days

People always ask me how I am doing, and I realized that I always seem to find something negative to say when really I'M PERFECTLY FINE.  I hate that I reinforce the pregnancy stereotypes that really don't phase me day to day. Yeah life a is a little more uncomfortable when sleeping or bending, I'm always hungry and I'm a little slow to rise, but I really have nothing to complain about honestly. Our bed was never really comfortable and I was never super flexible.  I always liked to eat a lot (hence my nickname Snax) and random food at that...  it's just more accepted and encouraged at this point in my life.  I threw up ONCE and was more sick when I was on birth control than I am now.   I love going to bed early and waking up to the kicking and growling of my tummy.  I've been either walking or doing my mama yoga almost everyday and I even better about wearing my seat belt in the car!! I do miss participating in certain activities like surfing and play fighting and stuff, but I'll be back in action in a few months.  Basically I've been blessed tremendously and need to start acknowledging that when people ask me how I'm doing. 

Catch Up

 I never posted these when I first got them, and as a result I lost the 2nd one that we got. So here is 1,3,4 of ultra sounds. Don't hate, we all looked like this at one point in our lives. 

face up profile

face down, you can see the spine

I've been debating if I should do the high tech 3D ultra sound.... All babies look pretty similar in my opinion, but will I regret it if I don't drive the extra hour and maybe pay some extra money to be able to see our baby just a few months earlier? 

GAME ON!

After another Dr appointment in April, it has been confirmed that Baby Biggie is a GIRL! So naturally I bought her some shoes on the way home. I've been holding off as long as I could because I know the damage I can do with shoes (having owned over 80 pairs of sneakers at one point). Now that I bought the first pair, let the games begin!

Purple and white Nikes. Cupcake Art work by Breezy

I wish I was better documenting my bump but here's a picture from a few weeks ago. I, I mean WE are growing daily it seems like.  We love watching her move and cruise inside of me and offset my belly button. I'm so grateful how well this pregnancy has been going so far. I don't know what it's suppose to be like, if there is such a thing, but I'm very blessed for the health and energy I've been able to maintain the past 5 and a half months despite the colossal changes my body going through. 

Traditions are HARD!

 One thing I never gave too much thought was what family traditions I would try and carry on with my own growing family.  Holidays seem to sneak up on me and then the day of I'm frantic to find or make something somewhat resembling my own family traditions.  It's been much easier to just adapt what Dez's family usually does because they are all right here and we're invited to do whatever they're doing.

This beautiful Easter morning I woke up realizing I had nothing special prepped or even planned for the day! So I grabbed what few eggs we had and forced Dez to decorate at least one. He has never carved a pumpkin (which I will insist on this year) or dyed and easter egg!  After boiling, cooling, coloring, dipping, and dunking dunking they were complete! Only to be de-shelled, smashed and eaten in one egg sandwich session less than 5 minutes later.... Oh well, at least I hadn't grown attached to any of the decorations I'd done (or the lack there of).  I just left plenty room to improve for next year!  

Hopefully with time we can establish our families traditions with a nice mixture from both our sides of the family. We'll see what sticks!