shower cookie making day

Today mars one week till our baby shower.  So today also starts my week of last minute shower prep and baking.  I started my day off with picking up my sister and heading to my grams house to meet two of my aunts so that we could make cookies for the shower... not plain old regular cookies but cute creative cookies.  After lots of research we settled on foot cookies with blue frosting and baby face cookies that aloud us to be a little more creative.  Here are a bunch of pictures of our fun day with cookies.

 My brother and sister decorating feet cookies...  my brother figures hed stopped by to judge our cookie work and help a little.

                                             Here is how the blue cookies turned out, Cute i'd say!

                                                                   Me and the cookies.

                                                            All my cookie helpers = )
                                                                               

                                                     I love how the face cookies turned out.

           And after decorating about 75 plus cookies we were all a little silly... guess who's belly is real??

                                                            Yay for cookie favors!

31 weeks

Today marks 31 weeks for me and my little guy... Thinking he will be here in 9 weeks or less seems so much closer than 10 weeks away.  I'm going to make a prediction here and now about his possible due date.  He is due to join us on January 11th but I think he will join us on December 29th.  I know its a bit early but the 29th is an important number to me.  My grandma that past away last year had a Sept 29th b-day and left us on August 29th and I really think her being in heaven was a huge part in us having this little guy.  I think he will share a lot of her qualities.
So in the last week my hubby finally got the crib and other baby furniture put together and we also got new carpet for our living room and bedrooms (its so nice and soft).  so my pictures this week will feature the baby furniture in the background. 

In this picture I'm showing an owl hat my mother-in-law made for the baby.  I really hope she makes all kinds of cute stuff for him to wear.

This picture is funny because my  dog max came and sat right next to me while i was getting ready for the camera timer to count down... he wouldn't leave my side until the flash went off = )

Baby's dresser, I can't wait to fill it with tons of cute baby boy clothes.

Changing table with storage, for now it just hold a few of the baby's stuffed animals.







I've still been feeling pretty good.  I get a little nauseated at night sometimes but it's never really that bad.  I think I'm up about 16 lb's in total... I unfortunately didn't gain any weight from my 28 week appt to my 30 week.  I've been trying to add a few extra snacks so hopefully next weeks at my 32 weeks visit I will have put on a  pound or two.

holly cow my little guy could be here in less than 10 weeks

Wow I'm 30 weeks along today.  It's amazing after everything we have been through in just 10 short weeks (or less) we will have our little boy in our arms.  I can't wait to see who's eyes he has and if he will have my lips and my hubby's ears. 
Today I had my 30 week checkup and all is great.  Doc says i measure well and everything looks good.  I feel so blessed that I've had such an amazing pregnancy thus far. 
My baby shower is 2 weeks away... I'm so excited to get stuff for the baby and to finally be able to decorate his room and start my nesting process.  As of right now we have the crib, dresser, and changer built but it will be nice to get his bedding and fill the drawers with little guy clothes.  I can't wait to share all the pictures when we have the shower.  A friend of the family offered to take pictures of the event, so hopefully we will have a lot of nice pics.

Here is a picture of me taken by my friend with my brand new camera... we were playing around taking pics at the park.
and another picture of me being silly.

We are going to go out this weekend and take some more pictures that will hopefully involve the hubby... It's been really cold outside so we probably wouldn't get too many.

Oh one more thing to add... I went this week to a cute little mothering store near my house that sells natural items.  I'm planning on using cloth diapers and having a natural birth, this store carries a lot of different cloth diapers and lots of natural toys and things that will be great for the baby and for me.  We plan on stocking up on a combo of all in one diapers and pre-folds with cute covers.  I also can't wait to get them and share pics, there are so many different cute styles to chose from.