catch up...

so, i've been MIA for the entire month of May. i've had good intentions of posting, but i keep wanting to add pictures and they are all on the home computer, so i've been procrastinating. this is probably going to be a long post, so feel free to skim... :)

Glucose Test

Apparently I passed, but barely. I once again failed the 1st hour, barely passed the 2nd hour, and was fine for the 3rd hour. Not sure what that says about my pancreas, but apparently I can continue eating chipwiches (which I have been enjoying over the past month). It also turns out that I'm anemic, so I've been chowing down on red meat.

Birthday

We celebrated my birthday in May. Husband was a rockstar and went to the guy who made our wedding cake to get a birthday cake made for me with the same chocolate filling that was literally the best cake that I have ever tasted. I should mention that it was everything that I could have hoped for and more... :) And so pretty! He also took me to Nava to eat some yummy steak!

Baby Shower

My mom threw me a baby shower the day with about 60 of her friends. I thought it would be totally overwhelming, but it was actually quite fun. We painted bibs for baby, played bingo, and measured my belly. Good times...

Other Celebrations

My mom celebrated a birthday the same week that Oliver accepted a real job. Yes, that's right - as of mid-June or early-July, Oliver will be employed again - getting a steady paycheck week after week. 401k, medical and dental benefits... it's AMAZING!!! So, to celebrate all of this, a co-worker baked this fabulous cake for us and we went to Bacchanalia for a 4-course dinner. The food was spectacular, but way too much!

Key Biscayne

So, for those of you who don't know, Oliver and I were planning on spending almost a full week in Mexico over memorial day weekend for our Babymoon, but more importantly, to celebrate Tui and Ryan's wedding. I say planning to do this, because after all of this swine flu nonsense, my doctor said no way. She had been pretty supportive all along, but finally made me feel like the worst parent-to-be because she was concerned with pre-term labor. I was seriously sad (still am), but decided that Oliver should still go to represent us. This meant that we needed a new Babymoon destination. Since we only had 3 days, we decided to splurge and stay at the Ritz in Key Biscayne (fancy term for Miami). It was spectacular. We literally layed by the pool all day long, took long naps, walked on the beach, and ate fancy food. It was heavenly! :)

Mexico
while I didn't get to go, Oliver was still able to attend the wedding and had a great weekend with our friends. From the pictures that I've seen, Tui made a beautiful bride (not that it's hard when you look like her) and according to Oliver, it was one of the best wedding weekends he has experienced! His expectations of all future weddings include swings, beer during the ceremony, no suits, and shoes optional. I really wish I had been there...

Nesting

If you had asked me a month ago, I would have said this isn't real. That nesting wouldn't really affect me in the way that I've heard other women are affected. The whole idea seemed crazy to me. Well, welcome to crazy land, because that's where I live these days. All I do is make lists, clean, pick things up, and give husband new projects. I actually swept the deck last week when my parents, husband and I were having dinner outside. I made family members move to get to all of the crap under the table. It's ridiculous. But, the upside is that since my 'nesting' is not limited to only baby stuff, we're finally starting to feel settled in the house. We've hung pictures, built bookshelves, unpacked all of our boxes, and just put things in their rightful place. Husband said he'd like to keep this 'new me' around after the baby comes and get rid of the 'tv watching, couch laying me'. I'm not sure what to make of this...

Belly Pics

So, I've been pretty bad at posting pictures of the belly. So, here are a couple from the last few weeks... I think week 30, 31, and 32.