Baby Showers and Thanksgiving

Back in the first week of November, Andy and I headed home to Illinois for the week. Andy went hunting while I went up to Herscher to spend time with family and friends. While home, my family and Andy's family both had a baby shower. It was great catching up with everyone and was a lot of fun. We got a lot of great stuff that we really needed and a lot of gift cards so we can go and get everything that we need. I never realized how much stuff a baby actually needs!! This past weekend, my friend Emily threw myself and our friend Erin a joint shower. She is due exactly 1 month ahead of me, so it was fun having a little shower together in the neighborhood. I don't have any pics from my showers in Illinois (hopefully someone will send them to me asap), but here is some from this past weekend. While in Illinois, I also got to meet Gwennie and catch up with Molly. I stopped by her parents house in Morton when I first got to town and then we drove up to Oak Brook together at the end of the week to have dinner with Andrea and Megs. I hope my little girl is as cute and good as Gwen...she is so sweet!! It was so great to catch up with all my girlfriends! I can't wait until Christmas week when I we all get together again + Katie and some other friends for another little joint shower for Katie and I. I can't wait to see Katie's belly...she is exactly 1 month behind me!

We are making good progress on her room I will have an official unveiling after this weekend. So far we just have to put the crib together and hang up all the wall decorations. We've been very productive around the house the last 2 weekends, so a majority of the furniture is done!

I'm hoping that by Saturday we have that finished so that I can get moving on the Christmas decorating. We are having a little Holiday party December 4th so the house has to be ready to go. I also plan on making all of my Christmas cookies this weekend and hitting up some Black Friday sales....its great to be home for 4 days straight with no where to go/nothing I have to do. We do so much traveling around the holiday's its great to just relax at home this year. I just love Christmas time, so its going to be a great weekend.

Baby Update

Time for an update...Things are going very well here. For everyone that complained that I don't look very pregnant in my last pictures, that is no longer the case. As you can see here, I'm for sure showing, no question about it. It hasn't been too bad getting bigger, I'm still comfortable and can sleep well, so that's good. I can feel the baby moving around a lot more now. I can't wait until you can feel her kicks on the outside (and either can Andy). We have just been hanging out the past month. There is a lot we need to do yet, so we've started putting a game plan together. Luckily, we have all of Thanksgiving weekend to paint the nursery and get that room organized!

Next Friday we are leaving for a week long trip to Illinois. We can't wait!! Andy will be hunting the entire week and I will be relaxing at home and of course shopping for my week off. I actually have to work on Monday and make a trip to Peoria, but thats not too bad. Also, I'm so excited that I will get to see Molly and Gwen!! They just moved back to Champaign, so it will be great to finally meet little Gwennie. Seeing friends is really the theme of this trip home as I will get to see Amy, Megs, Andrea and a ton of friends/family at my baby shower. My family is hosting a baby shower the first Sunday we are home and then Andy's family is having one in Springfield the 2nd Saturday. It will be so good to catch up with everyone at one time!