36 Weeks + 6 Days

I've really been meaning to carve out some time for a blog post.  There's so much about this pregnancy that I've already forgotten when I promised I was going to document more this time around.  When I was pregnant with Garrett I picked up a pregnancy journal that was awesome.  There was a little blurb to read each day about how the baby was growing and every few days there were a few lines to update how I was feeling, how much I weighed, etc.  It's been fun to go back and compare to where I was with Garrett compared to this pregnancy and I'm bummed out that I haven't kept similar records this time around.

Part of my problems is that I've wanted pictures for the post and I just can't seem to remember to take pictures of this ever growing belly.  I think the majority of the problem has been that life is just much more full than when I was pregnant with Garrett.  When I was pregnant with Garrett I didn't have a lot going on in my life.  I went to work, went to school and planned for baby, that was it.  I felt like my whole life revolved around getting ready for the baby.  This time around my life is just busy with.... well, life.  

I have to say that I've really gotten off relatively easy this time around.  My first trimester was a breeze with the exception of some extreme moodiness and heading to bed around 8:30 most nights.  The second trimester was equally as easy and I still managed to make it to the gym at 6am a lot of mornings.  By the time the 3rd trimester rolled around I was mostly just praying that the calendar would slow down because holy cow, we were not ready!!!!  Thankfully we have managed to get the nursery completely together in the last few weeks, clothes have been washed and cloth diapers have been prepped.  Things started getting uncomfortable around 35 weeks.  I had terrible swelling in my feet with Garrett and thought I might skate by without it this time but no such luck!  My feet look like they might pop by about 5 o'clock most evenings.  Mike tries to get me to sit on the couch and keep my feet up but all the laying around on the couch just makes my back hurt.  It's funny, I feel better on the days when we are up and around all day then I do after 8 hours of sitting at my desk.  So far I'm up about 36lbs which I think has helped keep the back pain under control.  All in all, I am still feeling pretty good but would like a bit longer to get some deep cleaning done at home and get to a place at work where I don't feel like I'm dumping a ton of work on my co-workers.

Girls Camping Trip 2014

Last September we spent a weekend at the beach for my bachelorette party and promised to make an annual girls trip each year.  Funds were tight for a lot of us this year so we decided to try camping in order to keep the cost down and keep me close enough to a hospital in case something happened.  

A few of the girls needed a little convincing and I won't lie, after hearing my friend Tori scream the 15th time in the first hour because she is not a fan of bugs, I started to worry about what I had gotten us into.  Thankfully Tori's bug sensitivity seemed to get better (paired with A LOT of bug spray) and we had a really awesome weekend.  Abby and I managed to pitch both tents in under 15 minutes.  I was pretty proud of our accomplishment.

Friday we spent the evening making dinner and sitting around the campfire.  It was great to just sit around a laugh in the dark.  It felt a little like being back in high school for a sleep over.  For being 34 weeks pregnant, I slept surprisingly well on my air ma tress.  Everyone who heard I was camping while pregnant seemed to think I was a super hero but all in all it really wasn't too bad.  It probably helped that I had a group of girls ready to jump up and grab me something anytime I needed it.

Saturday morning we took a stroll before breakfast and then took what turned out to be at least a mile long walk to the lake to do some canoeing.  We found a shortcut on the way back and managed to get back in probably 1/3 of a mile.  Saturday afternoon was spent playing cards around the picnic table until we all got a little too competitive with the 4 hour card game.

Sunday we all packed up relatively early and I was able to get home in time to catch the second half of Garrett's lacrosse tournament in Westminster which his team managed to win!