36 Weeks

So, it shouldn't be much of a surprise, but I've realized that I'm really bad at posting all about our lives on social media. I mean, I do my best to keep friends and family updated on the important things, but today I was going through pictures on my phone and I realized that there are some things that I am forgetting to share. So, I'm gonna try to be better. 

My Mother's Day present this year was a raised garden. Sadly on Mother's Day is snowed 15 inches and I had to wait until the following weekend for Chris to build it. Now I started all of the plants inside first and I'm hoping that they will survive in the garden. It doesn't help that I am in a new place where I know nothing about the weather, or what the growing seasons are like. But I'm learning and so far what I've planted has germed (is that a word?) and so I'm very pleased!

Chris was finally able to build the raised garden last weekend and on Monday we finished putting in the dirt. It is so pretty and I love it so much. I really hope that it actually bears some fruits and veggies for us!

So owning a house has been really great. Chris has loved working on things and fixing stuff and I have really loved designing the interior. Now that it is nice enough outside, I've really gotten into gardening and planting flowers, thus the raised garden. So far I've learned that I know nothing..... sadly a few plants haven't survived, but I blame that on Cheyenne's crazy weather. Having flowers outside just makes me so happy!! I'm so glad that it is FINALLY spring!

I wanted to share another little tid-bit of information that I've learned from trying to find my green thumb.... You can chop off the celery tops and then put it in water and it will grow back!! And it grows back so fast!! I took this picture one day after putting the celery in water!! I've also heard of doing it with romaine lettuce. I'm going to try that out next!

Now, I just had to post this picture, because as I was taking other pictures around the house, Winston would follow me everywhere I went. Finally he got fed up with me going back and forth so he just found a good spot to curl up that would be close.... He just made the guest bed his own. He's just so cute!!

 I owe a huge thank you to my father in-law for making me this "L" for Lila. I've seen so many cute ones on Pinterest, but I really wanted a cursive "L" and I knew I wasn't going to be able to find one at Michaels that I could decorate. I showed him what I wanted and then he cute it out for me! It is so perfect and I love it so much!!

 Now, I wasn't totally sure what I was going to do to decorate it at first. I had a few ideas... wrap it in ribbon, paint it, glue some flowers on it etc.... But I didn't totally love any of the ideas. Then, I realized that I had all of the left over scrapbook paper from the blocks we did at the Baby Shower. So I traced the "L" and cute it out with an xacto knife. I couldn't be happier with how it turned out! Then I put some felt pads on the back so that it wouldn't bang on her wood door.

 Once, I started working with all of the scrapbook paper I realized that I totally had enough to make Lila a baby book. I've looked at a whole bunch in the stores, but I just can't bring myself to pay for them. I had all the supplies I needed at home though and so I got started. I spent a few hours on the computer getting some pages ready and then the fun part.... scrapbooking!

 Now, it is certainly not complete yet, but here are a few of my favorite pages to start with.... On the top picture of the book, the three squares are going to have pictures in them, once I get a chance to take them.

I'm really in love with how it is turning out so far, and I know that as I get more time and pictures to go inside it it will be even cuter!!



Next up, week 36! Just one more month to go and she is welcome to come any time she wants.... once we get to 37 weeks, then we will be full term. Sometimes I feel like she is more active than babies are supposed to be. I feel like everything I read says that they are awake for 20-30 minutes at a time and are active then. Well, Little Miss Lila is up for like an hour straight or more and she moves like crazy. She is getting bigger and stronger too. As she pushes and kicks against my insides it is getting to be more painful. She is a stubborn little girl too. She has her favorite spot to jam her foot and she just won't be satisfied with anything else. Oh, but I love her! Feeling her kicks, as painful as some may be, makes me smile. It lets me know that she is still doing okay in there.

This week we had a little trip to the hospital. I knew I wasn't in labor, but I didn't feel right. I was just so much more exhausted than usual, and I was dizzy, which I haven't been at all. I just felt like I wanted to be on the safe side to make sure that everything was okay with me and with Lila. I was hooked up to the monitors for 3 hours and it was so nice to hear Lila's heartbeat during that time.

They ran all kinds of tests to make sure I was okay and it turns out that I was just low on sodium and having some minor contractions. Some of the contractions I could feel, but for the most part they just showed up on the monitor. As you can see Chris was a big help..... no really it was pretty boring because I was just hooked up and they would come in every few minutes to check on things, but I wasn't in any pain, which was nice.

Well, there is 36 weeks. Now we continue the waiting game. Update to come at 37 weeks!! :-)