Baby Shower and getting closer.....

So I know I have been super horrible about updating this blog since I have been pregnant - I admit it totally and completely! But ya know what? When preparing for a baby there is just SO much on your mind - yikes! Then of course I hit 34 weeks (I am now 36w3d) and it was like I ran into a brick wall - just NO energy! Geesh!

So here is the long awaited baby shower photos :) Mainly this post will be pictures because in all honesty I don't have the energy to come up with a word filled post (sad I know). The bigger Logan gets the less useful I become LOL!

This group of photos was from the first shower that was at the end of Feb. - the theme was pirate - as that is Logan's nursery theme :)

A dear friend made this to hang at the shower!

Logan's chest I painted was used for cards :)

His letters for his room were also decoration

My little sis, me. and my mom :)

Some of the presents :)

Some of the guests :)

Super cute cakes!

His room theme is pirates - how cute it this onesie?

AWESOME Rug for Logan's room!

His bouncer :) It vibrates and has a heartbeat sound - very cool 

The baby einstein jumper - my friends baby was fascinated by it LOL

Ornament that says "It's a boy!" SO CUTE!

These next few photos are from my second shower that was March 10th at my cousin's house - it was mainly family members (from my dad's side of the family) and a few close friends :)

Cake my cousin made - it was amazingly yummy as always!

Me with the cake :)

My cousin who threw the shower (to the left of me) and my sister to my right - playing a game :)

the beautiful blanket my aunt made!

Yea so I LOVE frogs so this blanket ROCKS :) hehe!

More frogs! SCORE! Love it! Even a cute little hat!

This is a fabulous floor gym thing - Logan can kick the piano hehe :)

Both my showers were lovely and I was EXTREMELY BLESSED! Logan now has all the items he needs - we did just order his take home onesie but that should be here in time I hope :)


Here are all the alphabet paintings :) They are done - now I am just waiting on my dad to stain a huge board so that we can screw all the canvases to it (and by we I mean him LOL). Once that and the shelf (to hang Logan's letters on) are done we can hang the last couple decorations and his room will be complete!

A-L that I posted back around Halloween!

Moon & Nest

Owl & Penguin

Queen & Robot

Snail & Turtle

Umbrella & Viper

Watermelon & Xylophone

Yellow Jacket & Zebra

The entire group - this is how they will be laid out on the board :)


My last ultrasound was March 15th when I was 34w3d and Logan was estimated to weight almost 6 lbs. - he's a big boy!
I CAN'T WAIT TO HOLD HIM!

He is getting to the point now where he is making mama VERY uncomfortable! Soooo I am hoping that since I am full term on Monday that he will choose to be ready a bit early! That would be nice!


Riley, Peyton, & Cameron,

Mommy and Daddy love you so very much :) We will tell Logan all about you! Please take care of each other and tell Nana we miss her so much too! So glad she can be with you and that one day we will all be together. We will never forget you my loves! <3

More Logan love

As promised a LONG time ago (sorry) here is Logan's crib but also how much I have done with his room in about a week :)

I hung up the curtains (there is tin foil on the windows to block out light)  and made up the crib and hung the decorations

Logan's dresser (it was painted years ago - doesn't match perfectly but oh well), storage for toys and the large thing to the right is my husband's closet that he shares with Logan now ;) 

Close up of the top of the dresser - Pirate Mr. Potato Head, pirate ship I painted, soon to be used frame, etc. 

Quilt hanging up and the 3 wall hangings that came with the bedroom set

Shelf to represent Riley, Peyton, and Cameron - with angels from Mary (thank you so much again!) I plan to add their Heaven's Doves photos soon :)

The FABULOUS rug in Logan's room - I LOVE it!

Not much to say at the moment as I am SO tired - pregnancy fatigue mixed with stupid daylight savings time messing me up.... I will post sometime soon about my baby showers (which were GREAT) and the sonogram I have coming up on THURSDAY! Yippeee.... to hold you over check out this AWESOME video I made!

Logan has been VERY active today - this was his movements during Lullabelly time (it's a belt you wear with a speaker that plays the music loud enough for him to hear it but not TOO loud) - He was listening to Baby Einstein - though all you can hear is what I was watching - House Hunters ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-BMiW1BCp0&feature=youtu.be

Riley, Peyton, and Cameron - Mommy and Daddy love you SO very much! Please watch over us and tell Nana how much I love her and how much your grandma (my mommy) misses her too! <3 

My angels plaques are now all up on the living room wall :)

On a different note: A YUMMY RECIPE!

Artichoke Pasta

Ingredients:

2 cans MARINATED artichoke hearts

2 garlic cloves 

1/4 olive oil 

1/4 cup butter

1 cup sour cream

1 cup cottage cheese

oregano 

basil

linguini noodles

lemon juice

parm cheese

(I personally cut the olive oil down by about 1/2 and I use a large container of small curd cottage cheese and a regular size container of sour cream which helps thicken the sauce - it will NOT hurt the flavor to add more sour cream or cottage cheese! Do what makes the consistency nice for you!)

I always use a wok when cooking this. Start with the olive oil and melt all the butter. Then add the garlic. Be careful to make sure it doesn't burn!

Add the cottage cheese. Let it warm up some and then add the sour cream. 

REMEMBER: It is important to use MARINATED artichoke hearts. You need the marination in the recipe.

Add the cans of artichoke hearts. You can use both entire cans but given the oil is unhealthy you only NEED the marination from ONE can to get the flavor!

Mix everything together. Sprinkle on a bunch of basil and oregano.

Your noodles can be cooking during all of this. Strain them....

Once the mixture is thoroughly heated add some lemon juice to taste.

Trust me the lemon juice really makes a difference. I personally add quite a bit.

Use a big ladle to serve up the mixture onto the noodles.

Add parm cheese to the top of pasta and ENJOY!!

Hope you enjoy the pasta! I know I do!! :)

Decorations for Logan's room

In this post you can see the alphabet art that I am making for Logan's room. I got massively sidetracked over the holidays so I have yet to complete more on that project. LUCKILY I was much more motivated to finish my pirate ship items given they are being used as decorations for my baby shower in a couple weeks :) I painted a pirate ship AND Logan's name :)

Pirate ship I hand painted for Logan's room

These letters that I hand painted match "Pirate Party" by Kidsline which is the nursery bedding for Logan's room :)

In the coming weeks I will certainly be taking pictures of everything in the babies' room :) We are vacuuming all the Gabby hair (my cat) out of there this weekend and setting the crib up :) I am VERY excited about it :)
When that post comes I will tell you the amazing story of the lovely items a dear sweet BLM sent me!

Riley, Peyton, and Cameron:

Mommy loves you. Your grandpa stained the shelf that will be for your items in Logan's room :) I will ALWAYS make sure that he knows all about you and how important you are to this family! Give Nana a big hug and kiss for me!

Life has been anything but uneventful. There has been much to do and yet my lazy butt has not had the will to get nearly enough accomplished. I'm sure "nesting" will kick in but it sure hasn't lately! I'm content to chill with Gabby (my cat) in the recliner and watch endless seasons of House (I wish the were endless as I am now almost caught up)...

I have accomplished our baby registries which was a necessity with the mailing out of invitations. Nonetheless it was a great thing to be able to check off the list :) We have one at Babies R Us  (registry# 47863349) and Amazon :)

So now that the invites are sent out and all that it's just been fun to (yes I admit it) watch things slowly get purchased off the registry hehe! Baby Logan has been super active the past few days and I can tell some of these movements of his are going to HURT in a few weeks when he's bigger! This morning he was pushing on both sides of my stomach and I was like oh my that will not be good in a couple weeks!! But I love every movement and can't wait to hold him in my arms! OH and I passed my gestational diabetes glucose test with "flying colors" (the nurses words not mine)! I was THRILLED!!

My MIL has been annoying the crap out of me since I have been pregnant and well, let's be honest, pretty much 90% of the time I have been with my husband. She is a SEVERELY huge PITA and I've had just about enough! I have not seen her in LITERALLY over a year (not that I am complaining by any means) and yet she texts (yes TEXTS) my husband that she wants to be a part in everything! OH PLEASE! She told him she had the what to expect when expecting book for me and I'm going ummm YEA I have that! Why would you give that to someone who is SIX MONTHS pregnant!?! At Christmas time she was trying to get Nate to tell her my maternity shirt size - like I just go around giving that information out to people. Hello I am self conscience enough! GEESH! And then she has a fit when he wouldn't tell her the info - I swear I could just punch the woman! As if that wasn't annoying enough the past week she has been asking him if we ever did a amino or if I applied for WIC - so one and so forth... I'm like really? SHUT UP! I'm not an idiot I KNOW what WIC is and while I wish we qualified, sadly we do not. As for amnio - I KNOW she was asking because she thinks it's something that shouldn't be done and while I happen to be against doing them for my own reasons I certainly don't need HER judging ME! This may seem like I'm taking it too personally but ALL she did after our wedding was judge every little thing she thought could have been better and I feel she's doing the same thing with this pregnancy!

She swore that she didn't get the Christmas card we sent (I don't believe her) and I KNOW she is going to lie and say she didn't get the shower invite either. It's maddening! Honestly I don't want her to come but lying and saying she wasn't invited is NOT a reason! She's a manipulative lunatic and I will seriously be having nightmares towards the end of this pregnancy just thinking of her holding Logan! It's terrifying! Sad - but true! My husband knows all this - so I am in no way keeping my feelings to myself. His mother has been quite awful to me (behind my back) for YEARS so she has it coming. I refuse to be treated this way around my son whether it's her talking behind my back of not if it happens then that's it! We're going to have her over to talk to her about her insanity (she is bi-polar and unmedicated so I am not being dramatic) and tell her if it continues then she will not be able to be around Logan. I would rather him have one grandma then two grandmas with the knowledge that my MIL is crazy! That's not healthy and my child is FAR more important then hurting her feelings! Sorry if you can't take care of yourself and be a sane individual - I don't care WHO you are - you will NOT be influencing my baby!

No matter how well that talk goes she will also not get to know when I am at the hospital - I told Nate I just can't do it! She is one of those people that will stay FOREVER if you let her - so I could easily see her coming at the beginning of visiting hours and then literally not leaving till they kicked her out! And the thought of her holding Logan at all - let alone for long periods of time - makes me sick to my stomach. It's just far too much to worry about with all the other worries in my head. I just can't take the stress - so talking to my husband about that far ahead of time was just necessary.

WOW God Bless you if you made it through the MIL rant! Sorry about that but I really had to get that out!

Things are starting to progress with the apartment this week. I have been SLOWLY organizing the living room and we took the tree down (yea I know LOL finally haha) to make room for the computer desk that is currently in Logan's room. Once that is moved out we can get that room all Gabby hair free and put a door in the hallway to block kitty and all her fur from getting into the other half of the apartment. She'll hate it but OH WELL! Need her to get used to that door before Logan is born. Gabby has this lovely (*note sarcasm) whining meow that literally sounds like a baby crying. It's awful! So she needs to get that bs out of her system before baby boy is born and both rooms have the doors open at night.

Logan's room will be Pirate themed and I am painting the letters to his name to match the bedding set (see Pirate themed link). I also bought a wooden chest from Joann's that I am painting to look like and old Pirate's chest - even gluing jewels on it so it looks like necklaces are coming out of the chest when it's closed :) Both those things will be done by the first shower (which is Feb. 25th) because they will be decorations at the party :) Don't worry I will certainly post pictures! I am still planning on finishing the alphabet art but Christmas crafts threw me off my game so I need to get back on track and finish L-Z :)

Here is the invite my fabulous BLM friend Melissa made me (of course the original doesn't contain the blurry parts LOL)! I LOVE IT! Subtly pirate themed and super duper cute! Cost $15 for 120 invites and Wally Mart even GAVE us envelopes too when we picked the photos up! Can't beat that!

Latest Doctor update: Now he tells me I should be gaining more weight! UGH! I give up a month ago I weighed to much now not enough even though my uterus is measuring big. I don't know what the man wants from me LOL! At 26 weeks I had gained 13 lbs. but given I "had more there to begin with" as he so kindly put it he says that's probably okay. I go to see the doctor every 2 weeks now. I'll see him again a week from tomorrow. Everything is looking great though but oh how I wish i was getting a sono before 34 weeks!

Sooo it is insanely late or early depending on how you look at it - so I should head off to bed. My husband's new schedule has really thrown my sleep patterns for a loop!

I am singing "Held" by Natalie Grant at chuch on Sunday - I will try to post a video of it on my blog if I remember.

Thanks to all who made it through this post - it makes my heart smile to know you all care <3

Riley, Peyton, Cameron,

Momma loves you and I am ALSO making a special shelf for the three of you in your brother's room :) I will ALWAYS tell him about you so that he never ever forgets his guardian angel siblings :) Hug each other tight my loves until I can hug you all myself one day. You are always in my heart. I miss you deeply. Give Nana hugs and kisses for me!

Logan moving - VIDEO :)

After yesterdays post it seemed like a nice video would be fun - this shows Logan make my belly move all over the place - the first big movement is at 25 seconds but there are a lots of movements for the first minute or so. :)