Our First Baby Shower

Some very sweet friends of ours threw a baby shower for us last Sunday....

Gifts for the Hostesses

Yummy cupcakes

Gifts

The hostesses Amber, Jamie & Heather w/ me (& giant belly!)

We got lots of cute clothes

And all of our baby gear

As you can see, we are still working with the puppies to prepare them for their baby brother.

So far the cabbage patch baby is still in one piece

Hope you all have a great weekend & WOO PIG SOOIE!!!

32 1/2 week update

Really there is nothing new to report! Heartburn & fatigue continue & this belly of mine keeps growing. People keep saying "you are not gonna make it to November with that baby" or "are you sure there is only 1 baby in there?" I'm sure all pregnant women hear those comments at this stage of pregnancy. Today at the doctor, I measured 33 weeks, so we are right on track. I definitely recognize that this belly is big but I really don't feel that big. What I do feel though is this active litte baby in there! I LOVE LOVE LOVE feeling him wiggle & kick around! He really gets to moving in the evening & at night...I guess he is preparing me for being up all night in the near future!

We have not been doing much lately. Our lives are pretty routine & probably considered boring to some people. We both work long hours during the week. Our evenings usually consist of dinner, watching tv or doing housework for an hour or so & in bed by 9! Ok so we are definitely boring =) We have taken the dogs for a walk around the block a couple times since the weather has been so nice. Weekends lately are spent watching football of course, shopping & getting Sawyer's nursery ready.

We won't talk about last Saturday's Razorback game, although we had fun watching it @ Blake's parents, the game was such a disappointment =(

And just so I can post a picture for ya'll...we have been trying to prepare the dogs for having a baby brother...

The Cabbage Patch doll is still intact so I guess that's a good thing!

Wednesday Randoms...

Well it's Wednesday night so we are on the downhill slope of another week! Right now I'm watching the finale of Big Brother, my FAVORITE reality show of all time! I have a feeling Rachel is going to win this year, & as much as I can't stand her, I'd rather her win over the other two "floater" finalist.

I've seen a couple commercials tonight that I'm pretty excited about. Bridesmaids comes out on DVD next Tuesday! I saw this in theaters & it is so dang funny! I can't wait for Blake to see it! Also, I saw an advertisement for the new season of Amazing Race, my 2nd FAVORITE reality show. If I ever had the nerve to try out for a reality show Amazing Race would be it ;) I love it!!

I'm on call this coming weekend so we don't have too much planned. I, as always, am looking forward to sleeping in, or at least not waking up to an alarm. Blake is going golfing on Saturday morning & I may go do a little shopping. My mom & sister are coming over Saturday afternoon to finish painting Sawyer's nursery which I am soooo excited about. I can't wait to share pics with ya'll when it's all finished!

This past weekend we tailgated in Little Rock before coming home to watch the Razorback game on tv. Tailgating is a whole new experience when you are the only sober one ;) but it was still so much fun!
Our tailgating neighbor had a 2 week old baby squirrel that he rescued after it fell out of a tree. He let us babysit 'Mikey' for a while...

Mikey especially liked napping on my baby bump :)

Speaking of baby bump, as you can see it is getting bigger & bigger. I am going to the doctor every 2 weeks now & he has told me that I have had the "model pregnancy". I went yesterday & surprisingly had not gained any weight since my last visit 2 weeks ago but my doc was not concerned so I guess I'm thankful for that! Nothing has really changed with my pregnancy other than that bigger belly, more shortness of breath & fatigue, & more frequent trips to the bathroom. I think if given the chance I could sleep for 2 days straight! Overall though, I feel great & everyday I get more & more excited about having this active little boy here to hold.

I've been wanting to share a couple things that happened right before we found out we were pregnant (other than my stupid broken wrist). I'm not really superstitious, but these 2 little coincidences are kinda special I think...

I found the baby in our Mardi Gras king cake this year!

And I got this fortune in a cookie about a week before we found out we were expecting!

Hope you all have a great rest of the week!

Football Season...

I am SO happy football season is finally here! I can easily say that this is my favorite, favorite, favorite time of year. We went to to the first Razorback game yesterday in Fayetteville. We haven't ever really tailgated @ a Fayetteville game, but we found a pretty cool place close to the stadium with some other fans, and even though it was freaking hot, we had a good time.

We should have taken a picture yesterday morning before we got all hot & sweaty. I probably wouldn't have even posed for a picture but I had to have one of Sawyer @ his first Razorback game. =) I think it turned out pretty cute.

While the boys were tailgating yesterday, I walked over the Hog Heaven store on campus and got Sawyer a couple of things...

A guy sitting next to us at the game said that our baby either had to play golf or be the kicker for the Razorbacks. Both of those options sound pretty good to me. =)

The Hogs played great! I have a feeling this is going to be a very exciting season!

Our puppy girls stayed with their grandparents yesterday & last nite. They also have two boxer puppies so the 4 of them played hard all day. It was the first time our babies had stayed the night away from home & my MIL said they were restless & cried all nite. They were so happy to see us when we picked them up this morning but they crashed as soon as we got home & that is pretty much how we have all spent our day...lounging around & napping! So glad to have an extra day off tomorrow! Here is a pic of the girls my in-laws sent me yesterday...

Happy Labor Day Everybody!!

Weekend Recap...

We had a very fun, but very busy weekend. Blake's 30th birthday was this past week & we had a party to celebrate on Saturday night. Blake had to work on Saturday from 5-1 & I spent the day cleaning house, grocery shopping & getting ready for the party. Thankfully my sisters came over & helped my get some stuff done that I couldn't do being 7 months pregnant & all. My in-laws cooked a ton of food for the party, it was all sooo good! I'm terrible about getting the camera out & taking pics but here are a couple that I got...

 I ordered this cake from a local bakery. It was way cute & tasted delicious!

These two cuties were the hit of the party...

Noah's daddy is Blake's best friend & Bianca's mommy is one of my best friends. It was so much fun to watch them play!

We were all worn out from the party & I was so looking forward to sleeping in Sunday morning but Blake is not capable of sleeping past 7am for some reason so when he got up, the dogs woke up & they all woke me up! Blake went & got us some breakfast & we just lounged around until about 10 then we got ready to go to Beebe to eat lunch at Blake's grandparents & visit with his cousin who is visiting from Kentucky. As soon as we got home, we changed clothes & went to our friends/neighbors pool where we spent the rest of the afternoon & evening hanging out.

I can't believe tomorrow is Monday! We are sooo looking forward to next weekend though, a 3 day weekend & Razorback football!!! Have a great week everybody =)

3rd Trimester...

So I opened my pregnancy app on my ipod this morning and it said " Welcome to the 3rd trimester...the home stretch". I then had a mild anxiety attack! The past 28 weeks have FLOWN by and I'm sure the next 12 weeks will as well. We still have LOTS to do to prepare for Sawyer's arrival at home & I have LOTS to do at work to prepare for being off for 12 weeks. I feel like that "nesting hormone" is starting to kick in! I'm sure everything will get done in time & oh well if it doesn't...the mile long "to do" list I have won't matter once our sweet boy is here! =)

Happy Friday! I hope everybody has a great weekend!!

Gender Reveal Party

We had our 20 week ultrasound on July 12th. The tech was able to tell the sex of the baby, but rather than her telling us, we had her to write it on a card & place it in an envelope & give it to my sister Jamie. Jamie went home to make a cake with blue or pink icing in the middle to reveal the answer! We invited all of our family & friends over that night to find out together if Baby B was going to be a girl or a boy...

IT'S A BOY!!!!

Sawyer Blake Barnett will be here in November!!