35 Week Check Up

There aren't any pictures to post, since I am on bed rest. Not much to photograph. We went to the doctor today and the baby looked great! Her estimated weight right now is 6 lbs. 2 oz. I am also 2 centimeters dilated, which could mean nothing for a while. We go back on Friday to have another check up to see our progress and continue to monitor my blood pressure, which is still high when I get there, but goes down as soon as I lay on my side. They reminded me today that if she wants to arrive any day they will not stop her. Continue to pray for our health!

34 Weeks and Bed Rest

We are now at 34 weeks and feeling good. Unfortunately I am now on bed rest for the next few weeks. The baby is doing great and I feel great, but twice this week I went to the doctor straight from work and my blood pressure was too high for me. My doctor said that it meant I was done with work. I am now allowed to get up to shower and fix a meal and I get to drive myself to the doctor twice a week. Ben now has to do all the cleaning, cooking and work. He is doing a wonderful job and is definitely always making sure I am resting. Unfortunately, it meant cancelling our baby shower and I am unable to be the matron of honor in one of my best friend's wedding coming up this weekend and can not even attend. However, it also great to see all the prayers and love from family and friends. We are on many prayer lists and have gotten many offers for help with cleaning and cooking. My family visited this weekend and made meals, cleaned and did grocery shopping and laundry for us as well as helped me pack my bag and wash baby clothes. Ben's mom has also offered to come down and help us every week if we need and so I am definitely grateful that they live so close and we will be taking her up on her offer. We also have great friends that have offered to make us a meal during the week and lots of offers to come visit me as many people know I am not someone who just sits around, thus probably the cause of the high blood pressure.
Ben has a busy week with his fall retreat this weekend, but he is still finding the time to make sure I am well taken care of. Even with all this going on we did manage to have our yearly pumpkin carving (3 years and counting) and dinner with our awesome friends Katie and Andy. Katie and Kellie also brought some of the shower to our family and I this Saturday and brought cupcakes and made a great necklace for me with charms from family and friends for me to have during delivery.
Ben and his dad did some work on quieting the garage for the baby while the ladies opened gifts. Ben's mom took some pictures of the weekend, which was great since I forgot.

The Nursery

Ben has worked very hard to prepare the nursery for the baby. He will say it was a joint effort, but he truly had most of the ideas. He came up with the idea of wainscotting and I just agreed. We did pick the paint color together and the accessories, but he really did all the research and found all the ideas. It is very cute and Ben with the help of his friend Steve did the wainscotting and it is amazing. It is very cute and I can't wait to put the finishing details on it. Ben has some more plans and will get to those as soon as the fall retreat is over next weekend. This is the nursery so far and I will post the finished product with all the details in a couple weeks.

Trip to Washington D.C.

At the end of September we went to Washington D.C. with Ben's parents. We go on a yearly trip with them every fall and this year we went to D.C. It is a great time to travel and Ben and I always look forward to it every year. This was our last year going just the four of us for quite sometime and our children will now begin going with us for a while. We had a great time and also got to spend Paulette's birthday weekend with her! Enjoy the slide show!