Feelin the baby blues..

I guess you could say its just the pregnancy hormones running rampant in my system, but I feel completely overwhelmed, stressed and depressed today.. I have NO idea why I feel this way!
*I'm already a stay-at-home mom to be!

*I only babysit 3 days out of the week, plus I get to take naps while they're here!

*Even though Isaac has started studying for his FSA exam, I still get to eat dinner with him and talk for an hour afterward!

What in the world am I so worked up about?! I seriously just cried for the past half hour for what seems to be no reason at all! I really need to get over this so I can finish up with the nursery! and clean up the house before family comes up this weekend.. I think my nesting instincts are driving me crazy because I just don't have the energy to do very much of the stuff that I REALLY want to get done. I think I feel better now that I've gotten it off my chest! I guess I'll give in to some of the nesting instincts for now.. but then its TV and ice cream time! I think a day of crazy mood swings deserves it, right?! haha!

Fun in the Nursery!

Cockapoo and I had fun playing in the Nursery yesterday! We ended up spending about 3 hours sorting through all the gifts from both baby showers and taking fun little pictures! Cockapoo absolutely adores all the baby stuff! Its cute because she's so curious about everything, including my belly! She LOVES to just sit on my belly and have me pet her!


I couldn't help but have some fun with the belly pictures! I look WAY huge in these! haha!

Cockapoo loves getting her picture taken! She'll look right at the camera!

The aftermath of trying to go through and organize all the shower gifts! This little dude has plenty of clothes! Also, he ended up with 20 blankets! Wow! Do I really need that many?!

I just LOVE this little bath robe!! Even if its not very useful for a baby.. its WAY too cute!! I can't wait to take pictures of the little dude in it!!

Look at all the cute little shoes and booties!! These are just the newborn sizes! I just can't wait to dress up my little dude!

Cockapoo, Queen of the Diaper Cake! I told you she loves all things baby!! She was just chillin on top of the cake while I was putting some stuff away! haha! I can't wait to see how she reacts to the little one!

Baby Shower #2

My mom and mother-in-law threw me a baby shower back home (southern IN) this past weekend. It turned out really well! We ended up with about 30 people there and still more people were bringing gifts later that couldn't make it to the shower! This little dude will want for nothing! haha! I'll just post pictures and make comments so this doesn't just ramble on forever!

The Pooh blanket was made by my amazingly talented mother-in-law! I absolutely adore this blanket! Can't you tell by that expression on my face! I think they caught me in the middle of an "Aww!!" haha!

I got a diaper cake!! I just think these are sooo cute!! I almost don't want to take it apart!

The many gifts for the baby!! It was so much fun to open all of them and get to play with all the cute baby stuff!!

Here's one view of some of the guests at my shower.

These are some of my aunts, cousins, and my grandma on my mom's side of the family. They came in from 3 hours away in KY, which was amazing and totally unexpected for me! This picture was taken shortly before the shower was supposed to start (at 2:00), but at 2:05, my grandma yelled across the room to my mom, "Hey Cricket, I thought this was supposed to start at 2." She then proceeds to get herself a snack from the table while my mom was saying that we were going to bless the food so we could get started.. My grandma then says, "Well, I'm getting me some nuts, so you can wait a minute." She cracks me up!!

My cute little 7 year old cousins! The one on the left got a little too excited about wanting to "feel" the baby in my belly and I about threw up on her! Part of that was probably also from me eating so much yummy cake! Now that I think about it, I'm sure the heat played a part in that as well.. We couldn't adjust the temperature for the building, so it was 78 degrees in there.. I was melting!

My mom-in-law made this!! How cute is that!! It was homemade icing, too, which was sooo yummy!!

I have to add a picture of our baby on the trip back home! Cockapoo really does LOVE air conditioning! This time, she would tuck her head under her wings while she spread them out! She still did the "flying" thing too, but I had to post this one!

My only regret from the shower is that I didn't get my picture taken with anyone! How could I forget to do that!?! That was one of my favorite things about Kelly's pictures at my first baby shower! I'm just not in a photographer mindset I guess!

Quick Update!

Just to let you know, Kelly posted pictures from the baby shower on her blog. To see the pictures, click here. She did an excellent job with the shower and of course the pictures turned out great!! I feel so blessed to have her as a friend and also to have all the friends that came to my shower up here! I love all of you so much!!

I also wanted to say that I PASSED MY GLUCOSE TEST!! Yay! I was really nervous about it because my mom had gestational diabetes with all of her kids.

Baby Shower #2 is tomorrow back in southern Indiana with all the family and family friends! Hopefully the baby kicks a lot for everyone! He's been SO active lately and it's starting to hurt! I went on the Relief Society Temple trip yesterday, and during the session, he kept kicking me so hard that I would jump out of my seat a little bit! I think the people around me found it a bit amusing! :)

Baby Shower #1!!

Saturday was my first baby shower for friends up here in the Lafayette area. My friend, Kelly, threw a wonderful shower for me at her new house, even though she has a 4 month old! I just can't thank her enough! She even took lots of amazing pictures for me (sorry, can't post any yet!) which is terrific, since I totally forgot to get my camera out at the shower! We had a lovely little Brunch of muffins, fruit & yogurt cups, and strawberry shortcakes out on their screened in porch. It was such a beautiful day outside too! Just perfect! It was a small gathering of some friends in the area so it was a lot of fun to be able to just hang out with friends for a couple hours!

THANKS to Kelly, most of all, and to everyone that came! The gifts are adorable!

On a side note, I should hear back about my glucose test sometime this week.. Hopefully, I passed! :)

Cockapoo in "flight"

We went down to visit family this weekend and on the car ride down, Cockapoo discovered air conditioning!

It was so funny! At first, we couldn't figure out what she was doing, because she would just rub up on Isaac's face and then she would kind of spread her wings. Eventually, though, she was "flying" with the air beneath her wings! haha!

She also discovered the smaller vent blowing at me, but was definitely not impressed and hopped back over to Isaac. Too funny!

Just for a little update.. It's not the best picture, but here's my belly at 27 weeks!