the beginnings of baby b's nursery...

so...this past weekend was seriously awesome.

in addition to our wonderful baby shower, i found an awesome changing table and crib on craigslist to complete the furniture for the nursery!!! the best part...i found the changing table and crib for under $100!!! AMAZING!! we were so lucky to have found both. and in addition to all that great news, we found them both in white...which means we don't have to re-finish the rocker & glider we bought a few weeks ago from children's orchard. i'm pretty stoked that our entire nursery was furnished for under $150, as myka and i are trying to be as thrifty as possible. and now all that money we budgeted for more expensive things, can go to other necessities!!

originally we had planned to go with oak and/or black for all the baby's furniture, but i'm so glad it worked out differently. the room looks so light and baby-ish. myka and i are going this weekend

to pick up a mattress and hopefully finalize the bedding/colors for the room. wooooohoo!!

here's a "before" shot of the room that we used as a guest bedroom:

and here's an "after" shot with the baby furnishings 

(pardon the mess, we are in the process of organizing/washing everything!)

as you can see, she has lots of goodies already!! =)

in addition, tonight after myka's big birthday feast, we went down to "babies r us" to purchase some more fun necessities for baby. we got a first aid kit, a set of bpa-free bottles for her, and a boppy breastfeeding pillow. 

then, we headed down to big lots...which may easily be one of my new favorite stores. there we found her brand-name crib mattress for $45, a brand-name changing table pad for $15 and the same boppy we bought at BRU for $15!!! woooo-hoo!!

soooo, everything is almost in order. we only need to find her bedding this weekend, find some extra sheets, receiving blankets, lap/burp pads and some other small things and we're all set.

today marks 30 weeks...10 weeks/70 days til baby's due date. YAY! we're so excited.

to myka...

dear husband,

it's hard to believe that a whole year has gone by. seems like only yesterday we were getting massages and eating dinner with family at Dots for birthday #28. [ yummmm sizzling hamburger steak ;) ]

as each of our birthdays, holidays and special celebrations throughout the year come and go, i am more and more excited with the fast passing of our life together. you are my best friend, my rock, my soulmate and i consider myself lucky and honored to have ever met you, nonetheless to have fallen in love and married you. 

time goes and years fly by, as everyone keeps telling us, and i'm so excited to see how the road winds and turns as together, we face the adventures ahead.

so happy, happy 29th birthday. here's to another year down and many, many more to come =)

i love you,

your wife

the baby shower.

this past saturday, my mom and gramma hosted an awesome shower for baby b, myka and i. we felt so blessed to have so many family and friends attend and share with us the impending joy of our little one. we're really lucky to have so many great people in our lives that love us and who are just as excited as we are to be welcoming her into our lives.

and with no further delay, here is a short video i made of the pictures from our shower, photos courtesy of my dear old friend bob kunihiro at rkphotography

poor sport

i'll admit, i'm a huge poor sport. i'm not sure why exactly and no matter how much i try and control it, for some reason, it always creeps up on me. and seeing as how i married one of the most competitive people i have ever met in my life, my husband doesn't help the situation. i remember one night while dating, we played the board game risk into the wee hours of the night because i was determined to win. we must have played 3 rounds of the game and he, of course, won all three games. i finally got so frustrated, i threw my little army men on the bed and stormed out of the room.

well bless his little heart, because tonight he decided to pull out monopoly for a little family fun. and i have to say, with the blend of his competitiveness and my poor sportsmanship, PLUS all these wacky baby hormones...we were doomed from the start. and monopoly was no different than times past, especially when luck always seems to be in myka's hands and he ends up racking up houses and hotels within a few turns. it makes me mad! and throw in these wacky hormones, and i swear, we were lucky i didn't tear my fake little money in half and shove the house/hotels in places that are not appropriate for the blog.

so unfortunately, game night didn't end up as fun as it could have been...with me pouting and myka gloating. (he'll swear he didn't gloat, but he always does, which just adds to the frustration!) but thankfully my husband still loves me despite this horrible trait and i'm praying that baby b has his competitiveness and not my sportsmanship!

28 weeks.

so we're officially in our third trimester. the other day we realized that baby will be here in less than 12 weeks. we were a little overwhelmed when we thought about how big and far along we were thought we were back at 12 weeks!!

i feel like the belly has definitely ballooned and each day it sits a little differently....high, low, pushed out, hidden. it cracks me up.  

my mom and i started measuring around the belly every weekend. we were shocked when we realized that i have grown 3 inches in a week!!