Getting ready for baby

I was looking through the pictures on our camera and I realized it has been a while since I wrote anything on our blog. I'm not really going to write much about Christmas or Christmas Eve, but I thought this was a pretty sweet picture.

Christmas Eve was spent with my mom's side of the family and we had fun doing our traditional Christmas Eve stuff: Pinata, Nativity (I was Mary- pretty sure it was type casting on that one), drinking frappe, and white elephant gift exchange (we ended up with the flat-D flatulence filter and a plunger bedazzled with plastic jewels). Christmas morning we did our own presents then went over to my parents to do more presents and then had lunch at my grandparents. After that we headed up to Draper and had Christmas with the Ware side of the family and had a lot of fun eating, opening our stockings, searching for the pickle (sadly we were not the winners this year), and playing some games. That is all I'm going to say about Christmas.

With my due date rapidly approaching (one week from today) we have been trying to wrap our minds around the fact that we are really going to have a baby. It is still a little crazy to me that in less than two weeks I will have birthed a child. I'm not very dilated, so the doctor told me last week that they would let me go a week past my due date before inducing me if everything was ok with the baby and I. I'm hoping that I don't go a week over, but I'm trying not to get my hopes up too high just in case I do. In the past two weeks I have had 3 baby showers and have felt very spoiled. On the 15th my sister-in-law Julia threw a baby shower for me, and I got a bunch of fun stuff. Then on the 20th after work we had a little baby-shower with the girls there and my favorite friend at work, Rachel, organized that. Then on the 22nd Jennifer, Melinda, and Karen had a baby shower for me up at Melinda's with the Wares, McKellars, and some close friends of Karen. After three baby showers I am feeling very spoiled and pretty set with bunches of stuff for this unborn child.

I feel like I have a pretty good stockpile of diapers, wipes, and butt paste with the ones I have bought and the ones I have been given. I have been told that a newborn goes through diapers like crazy, so I guess I'll see how long my stack lasts.

This is a pile of some of the other stuff that I got from the baby showers. In this heap of bags and such are a bunch of clothes, a bathtub, a gate, blankets, burp cloths, a boppy, a bumbo, a moby wrap, and all sorts of other things both cute and practical.

Along with all of the baby stuff I got something else I have never had before- a pedicure. Last night I had a girls night with Jon's mom and sisters. It was super fun and fabulous. This being my first pedicure I wasn't quite sure how it would be, but it was nice. I sat in a massaging chair and had my feet in a little hot tub and the lady washed and scrubbed and lotioned and massaged my legs and feet. They also clipped and painted my toenails. Parts were a little painful like when she was clipping the excess skin and cuticles around my nails and when she put on some warming lotion stuff after scrubbing my legs with an exfoliant, that kinda burned in a few places. It tickled quite a bit when they took their little sand paper block to the bottom of my foot, but after the foot massage I had in Taiwan the little bits of pain and tickling with the pedicure were nothing and I was able to maintain my composure. When I got home from work today I wanted to take off my shoes and socks and walk around barefoot because my toes are all cute and painted. So I did even though it is kinda cold.


Just FYI taking a close up picture of your foot while pregnant is kind of difficult. I probably should have got out the bigger lens because that might have been easier, but I didn't think of that until just now. After the pedicures we went to Wendy's and chatted and had a good time. I was just thinking that Jonathan and I got pretty lucky because we both like the others family and get along well with them.

We still have a few more things that we could do to get ready for the baby to come, like get his room ready, but those are things that can wait. I am really excited to meet this little boy when he is finally outside of my guts and am curious to see what he will look like. I have been pretty lucky and have had a good pregnancy overall and I am hoping that the next little while until he is born and the delivery part goes good too.

Fantastico!

So, I've been waiting on a good RAM deal for quite some time now and just the other day I found it... two 4GB sticks of ram for my lappy toppy. I Installed them on Saturday and was really upset because after installing it I booted up and it kept giving me this screen.

I was all bummed out and worried that I had bought some crummy ram but I decided I was going to troubleshoot the problem the next day (when I wasn't so frustrated that it wasn't working) So today I cracked the laptop open again and tried plan #1, take it out and put it back in. To mix things up a bit I swapped the location of the two sticks. I turned it around, fired it up... and no error! I've been running it all day and no error. Just some really really fast loading stuff.

8GB of RAM... you're so good to me.

Trimming the tree

Saturday we went up to Draper and borrowed some decorations from Jon's parents. Karen had told us they weren't decorating this year because the back half of the house is currently torn up and we could borrow some stuff if we wanted. I didn't really think we needed much for our house, but we did need stuff for our tree. We ended up coming home with a bunch of giant pine cones, rusty jingle bells, an assortment of rusty metal stars, and some white berry things. Jon and I decided we would do the tree in rust and red with accents of white from the berries. I wanted some red berries, so we decided that we should just buy some at one of the many craft stores around. Unfortunately I was very particular about the red berries I wanted. I wanted them to be the same style as the white berries we had borrowed from the Wares. We stopped by the Joann's and Michael's up in Draper, but neither of them had what we were looking for. We decided we would stop by a few places a little closer to home that might have them. We tried Hobby Lobby, Taipan, and Roberts and didn't find what I was looking for. We decided we would stop by Kmart to get some red balls, so we could still have some red on the tree and looked for berries there too with no luck. We got our red glass balls and decided we might as well try the Quilted Bear by the Kmart as one last attempt at finding the red berries. After wandering around a bit I spotted a little area that looked promising. It had wreaths with the right type of berries, but nothing like the picks with the berries we had got from Karen. Jonathan noticed one long garland of the berries in what seemed to be a little deeper red than I was originally thinking, but they matched pretty good with the glass balls. I decided that I could just cut the garland up into pieces and that would work. After driving all over and going to what felt like a million places we finally found what we were after.

Sunday after church we decorated the tree. It was fun. Stringing the rusty bells on the wire and wrapping that around the tree was kind of a pain and my hands got super dirty, but I think our tree ended up looking really neat. We set up our camera (a Christmas present to ourselves that we opened early) to take a picture every 2 minutes as we were decorating. The battery died not long after we started, so I strung most of the bells while the battery was charging. Jon put the pictures together into a little video. For some reason I can't figure out how to put the video in the middle of the post, so it is down at the bottom.

After the tree was done I had fun playing with the camera and taking the close-up pictures of the tree.

Here is my self portrait :)

The tree turned out good and Jon takes every chance he gets to turn on the lights so we can enjoys its full grandeur.