Round 1 of maternity pics!

We drove to Memphis for a friend of mine to do our maternity pictures because I told her while she was taking my wedding dress pics last summer, that once I got pregnant, she could do some of our maternity pics. I didn't expect that to be this soon though! I wanted some outdoor pictures of trees and flowers that were just starting to bloom so she suggested Botannical Gardens. I had never been there but it was EVERYTHING I expected it to be. They had bonzai trees, bamboo, buttercups, tulips, dogwoods, bradford pears, and Japanese trees that I can't even pronounce or spell. It was soo beautiful. The weather was perfect too, a little windy, but perfect. My eyes were killing me by the end of the shoot but you can only tell in a few pics that my eyes were getting red. We have only seen a few of them, so I am waiting anxiously to see the rest of them! I still want Colby's Mom to do pics of us of course because she's so creative and it means more when she does them because they are more personalized to us. Colby has some great ideas of course that have to do with sports, but I'm up for anything. I am just ready to hold my little man! I'll leave some pics from our shoot and will add more when we get them :)

Baby showers are just around the corner!

Our invites for our Memphis shower have been sent out and it is in less than 3 weeks away! I am so excited to see my family and friends back home! I miss everyone so much being here and not being able to just go to lunch or meet up at the park. I am looking forward to relaxing and seeing everyone, the gifts are just a bonus. We are doing a safari theme that I found online at a party website. The theme happened to be 50% on sale the week I found it, then it went back to the normal price when I went back later to add more plates, so I got lucky with the price! Here they are..I love the colors.

I think that we are going to do cupcakes instead of a cake at the shower because I like cupcakes more and they are easier to eat. Plus, I LOVE homemade cupcakes and icing. The icing from bakeries are so sweet to me and they always put too much. I haven't quite decided yet though what we are going to do. We are also having a "wishing tree" for people to sign a card and write best wishes to us and hang on the tree. It's a creative way to do a guest book without the book and when it's over I will just keep the cards. Our baby shower here in Murfreesboro is a coed shower, even though the one in Memphis will have my family there including the brothers and possibly some boyfriends. I want to do everything with Colby, I want no part of doing anything alone because we're in this together. I love our invites for our shower here..they are creative and different, and plus they fit Colby perfectly. They couldn't be any cuter.

I finally ordered a crib blanket and we pieced together his crib!! I love the design so much and love how it all came together..I still have to iron the bed ruffle though.

We are having maternity pictures done this Tuesday in Memphis by the same girl who did my wedding dress pictures last summer, A. Whitmore Photography who is amazing by the way! I am looking forward to them. Jeannie is going to take pictures of us too, which I'm more excited about because she's so creative and plus Lanie and Noah get to be in those pictures. Have a good night everyone!

My growing big boy at 29 weeks! :)

sick, sick and more sick!

I think the bug is finally out of my system! Thank goodness! Lanie got sick last saturday while in Memphis, I pulled my first all nighter with her, at least until I took a nap; but it was awful. We stayed in Memphis an extra day just because I didn't want to drive back with her. She missed school Monday, then Tuesday she got sick in class and had to be picked up. Luckily, Colby got off work early and picked her up around 1245, because by 130, I was feeling super sick. Needless to say, I got sick and had to take a trip the the hospital for dehydration. I am not one to freak out about things, or worry, but I couldn't take any chances with Kellan. I had never been so sick before. I thought I was better on Friday, then after eating Jim n Nick's, I got sick all over again. All night and sick all the next day until about 3. my doctor said if I got sick again then I needed to go back to the hospital. I easily could have, but I didn't want to go back so I held in all the throw up I could. I took a Phenergan at 930 and passed out until 11 today, well, 10 am, but the hour ahead threw me off. I feel great today so I hope my cereal I ate stays down. It's been beautiful outside the past two days so I forced myself to sit outside with Lanie yesterday and I got a sunburn! a whole hour outside, and I have tan lines.  I really need to get a tan. I was on spring break this week and didn't have a break at all! So I am needing that break right about now.I do get a prenatal massage on Tuesday, which is also my 2nd time having to change the appt time bc of the dang stomach bug. I have some major catching up to do with school since I didn't get to this week that I had planned but it's okay. We have a baby shower to go to today and I'm looking forward to the food, yummm. Speaking of the shower, I need to get ready since we lost an hour last night. I need to stay up to date with this so I will be back later!