Determined

I am determined to finish things today!!!

After a crazy Monday with School (as usual) I am going to use my Tuesday to do the following:

Walk

Update the Budget

Clean our living area

Make a list of the baby things we still need

GO TO BABIES R US WITH SHAW AFTER WORK AND GET EVERYTHING WE NEED! (Luckily, Shaw knows about this one and is mentally prepared for it)

If I have time I will do some St. Ann work as well.

Maybe I'll even get in a little nap!

It is going to be a beautiful, overcast, windy day. Out on my walk I go! :)

Baby Update!

Yesterday we had another sonogram. We may have to have them every week now thanks to our perinatologist who is concerned about stillbirth. Not concerned about us specifically, but with the blood stuff he is just being very careful. Our high risk doc thinks it is overkill because we haven't had any problems with the pregnancy and I haven't had any personal problems with clotting - so we may just do fetal kick counts and do biweekly sonograms or Non-stress tests (but I haven't done enough reading about that yet). We only got two pictures out of the deal, and only one of them were any good. She is weighing 6 lbs 5 oz right now (wow!) and I am measuring 37Weeks3dayish!! I am only at 35 weeks 3 days, so that illustrates that the baby is growing very well. She is huge! Apparently there are many factors that can go into the measurements being skewed etc., but wow. She is very large! Perhaps I am eating too much sugar?

We interviewed a fantastic lady that we may be hiring to be our Doula. She is super experienced, laid back, would be a great help, and agrees with us on the important issues. It is very exciting!! Things are coming together!

I've been working on the nursery alot the past few days. It too is coming together!! Totes, totes and more totes!! :) How I love them!! I don't know if this is exactly 'nesting', but it sure is organizing!

Here are a few pictures that our dear friends Nate and Nila took of our little family! :)

Weston Red Barn Farm

Here are a few pics from our trip to the Weston Red Barn Farm with the family as well as the little charges my sister was 'in charge of' for the weekend! What a perfect day for the trip!

Looking at the Hens:

Resting after a long trip:

Beautiful Z

G was a great help with the pumpkins!!!

So many different kinds!

Hair Air Shot:

What seemed like millions of different types of pumpkins, but this was one of my favs:

What Shaw Has Been Up To!

Squash has been on his mind!! My mother always sends Shaw's way the 2% Milk from her CSA along with any random thing she finds in there. Whenever mom brings over the bag, Shaw's face lights up and his mind starts turning a mile a minute.

He has been enjoying all the fruits (and vegetables haha) of Fall. Apples, figs, sweet potatoes and squash have all graced our kitchen table of late. He does lots of research on the foods he would like to use, and then creates his own recipes. Below are a few of his creations. Unfortunately I have not been as good about pictures as I would like to be, but here is what I have this time around!

Great thanks to Nila and Nate for usually being out taste testers!!!!!

This is a squash and apple puree/soup with apple crisps.

Shaw creating the fixings for the arugula and goat cheese ravioli with the new pasta maker her won from the Kansas City Culinary Center. It was delicious!

The squash and apples before the soup:

This picture was from a while ago - the first round of squash soup with prosciutto and little shrimpies.

The final Baby shower.

This weekend, my dear friend Nila threw me a beautiful baby shower! The decorations were super cute, the food incredible, her lemon and raspberry cupcakes delicious and the company infectious. What a wonderful friend!

Here are a few of my good friends from high school, Whitney, Katie, Grace and Kat:

Here is my beautiful sister Elizabeth admiring my new fabulous diaper bag with pictures of Shaw and I flipping across the TV screen. This specific pictures just happened to land on one of my baby pics.

Here is Nila's little sister Anna (who is not so little anymore!) and myself admiring Nila's fantastic newborn diaper cake that was decorated with super cute baby toys, and built around a bottle of wonderful rose champagne. I think we will take this bottle to the hospital with us when the time comes (in 46 days~)

And a wonderful group picture in Nila's backyard complete with my better-than-a-girl-could-wish for sister-in-law Tessa holding her beautiful daughter Emma, friends from high school, and two of my beautiful sisters Emily and Elizabeth.

A wonderful time was had by all! Thank you so much to everyone - esp Nila Kay and all of her hard work, time and effort that went into this fabulous afternoon!