My super awesome husband!!

Before the baby comes there was one more room in our house that we hated and wanted to do something about. That would be our (formerly) ugly front hall bathroom. It was peach with white tile and a vanity made the year I was born. Yuck!

So last week while I was in Michigan my Dave decided to redo the bathroom for me! We had already picked out the tile, wall color before I left though. He ripped out the old ugliness and got to work making a throne room to be proud about.

He is so cool!

The old ugly bathroom

Ewww.

New tile!

New Vanity

New low flow toilet

Wall art

New mirror and towel holder

Beautiful Rainbow

Here is a picture of the most beautiful rainbow I have seen in awhile. Maybe it was our reward for a weekend of thunderstorms and overcast days. Enjoy!

Baby Registry

It is so much harder putting together a registry for a baby then it was to register for our wedding. I spent hours yesterday researching car seats, strollers, breast pumps, bottles, bedding, clothing, etc... You want to make sure that your child has the safest, most efficient, best items available. So if anyone cares to look at the fruits of my labor, look no further!!

Little Baby R's Babies "R" Us registry

Maine/Massachusetts Trip

Last week we took our first trip of a very busy summer. We flew into Boston, rented a car and drove up to Portland, ME for our good friend Alex's wedding. I discovered that flying gives my pregnant self a mean case of heartburn. I cannot wait for my flight on Monday!

Anyway, our rental car was a Toyota Corolla, which is actually a really nice car. We used only 1 tank of gas the entire 5 days and we drove a lot. I love fuel efficient cars! That first day we ate dinner at a restaurant right on the harbour then we saw a gorgeous sunset from a park just about a mile away from downtown. The next day we went to Portland Head Lighthouse on a perfect June day. We met up with our friends for lunch and then napped until the rehearsal and dinner that night.

The wedding was on Friday, but we had all morning and afternoon to wander. We ate breakfast at a little dive diner where literally everyone knew everybody else. It was pretty neat. We walked around downtown with Natalie and Andy and then headed back to get ready for the wedding. All the college men were in the wedding so us ladies (Natalie, Christy, Elizabeth and myself) were left to our own devices. It was really nice to spend time with the girls. Since moving to Colorado I have sorely lacked in the female friendship department so girl time is always appreciated!

Alex & Mary had their ceremony at a beautiful cathedral and Mary had the most gorgeous dress. My favorite though was really watching Alex's face throughout the ceremony. He looked like a little kid in a candy shop! He has always been a happy guy, but marrying Mary has upped the ante and now is downright jovial. The reception was held back at the hotel, which is great for tired, old lady like myself. I stuck it our pretty long though. Long enough at least to get a great picture of Dave dancing. I am so showing this one to our kids!

The next morning we went for a walk/hike at Bradbury Mountain State Park with Natalie and Andy. It was really just a walk, but these days walking in like a hike for me! The view from the top was magnificent. Forests of deciduous trees all the way to the ocean. You don't realize how much you miss trees until you live in a mountain desert terrain. Later that day, Dave & I went to Kennebunkport, ME and then off to Cape Ann in Massachusetts. We visited Halibut Point State Park, which had like 200 degree views of the Atlantic. Then it was off to stay at Mark & El's in Boston for 2 nights.

On Sunday we walked around Boston with Mark for a few hours. We visited the Boston Commons, walked on the freedom trail for a bit and had cannoli's from Mike's Pastries in the North End. I love cannoli's! Then it was back home on Monday morning. Vacations are great, but it is always so nice to sleep in your own bed with your own cats smothering you!

Sunset in Portland, ME

Portland Head Lighthouse

Most of the gang at the rehearsal dinner

They are married!!

Dave tearing up the dance floor

Bradbury Mountain

Halibut Point

Mark admiring a tree in the Boston Commons

Best commercial ever!

If our child were to be in a nursery after his/her birth, this would have to be me!!

So annoyed

On Monday, after weeks of searching, I finally found an affordable and nice dress to wear to a wedding that I am going to a week from today. Most maternity clothes are found on-line only and are either way too expensive or of poor quality. Anyway, I ordered the dress and they said they would send me an e-mail when it shipped. Today is Friday and I still hadn't received an e-mail even though I paid for express shipping. I give the company a call and they tell me that my order was cancelled because the dress wasn't in stock. This is information that would have been useful on MONDAY. I am leaving for this wedding on Wednesday morning so I have no time to find another dress on-line, order it and wait for it to be shipped.

Needless to say, today will be spent going to every store in Colorado Springs and trying on dresses to find one that looks nice and fits. I've tried on every dress that I own and my belly has just gotten too big to fit into any of them. I am super excited for this wedding, but I wish that there was a better selection of nice, affordable dresses for pregnant women.

Bummer.

19 week ultrasound

Today was the ultrasound that everyone refers to as the "big one". Usually people find out if they are having a boy or a girl during this "big" event. From the get go, Dave & I have been ambivalent about the gender. As of right now he is saying girl and I am saying boy. Not that we really care either way.

Aside from gender this ultrasound really was exciting! First of all, it had been 4 weeks since we last saw our little one. For most people this is normal, but because of my blood clot I have gotten used to having weekly/fortnightly ultrasounds. 4 weeks seemed like an eternity. Our lab tech measured the length of the bones, the heart, the head, the waist, etc... We got to see the stomach, kidneys, all 4 chambers of the heart, the brain and the multiple kicks. With as many times as he/she kicked during the ultrasound you would think that I would feel them by now.

True to our word, we are still clueless to the gender of little Baby R. and that is exactly the way we want it! Stay tuned until mid to late October and then we can all find out together.

P.S. If you are trying to dissect these pictures to see if you can tell the gender, the umbilical cord was between the legs so even the lab tech couldn't see. Better luck next time.....Becky.