I cannot believe it has been two months since I last announced to my blog followers that Baby R is a boy! Time sure is flying by and I need to catch up! Since my last update my wardrobe has shrunk, my hours at work have almost been cut in half, and Baby R officially has a comfy place to sleep once he arrives.
My mom and one of her good friends Erin threw me the most lovely shower while we were home in Colorado. I am truly blessed to have all of the people who came in my life. We had so many gifts to haul back to Montana that we ended up renting a U-Haul! I was so excited about them all that I nearly forgot to write thank-yous! So if you haven't received one...it's coming! I'm having so much fun creating a space for just this little guy.
Some of the gifts I am most excited about are his crib and bedding. His bedding is the Skip, Hop, Mod dot set and his bed is the Babyletto Modo :)
I have my parents to thank for a serious chunk of his furniture and my grandparents to thank for the bedding. I really wanted to go for a more modern, less matchy/theme-like room and these have really hit the spot!
I'm also super excited for our stroller! I literally fell in love when I saw it at a store in Cherry Creek. And when anyone hears me say Cherry Creek that lives in Colorado, they know it was a pretty penny. However, we were very lucky to be close friends with a current employee of Mountain Buggy! They offer a very generous family/friends discount. My mother in law ended up paying the same price as she would have for a Bob ( which everyone and their mom has on this base ). We went with the navy and white terrain buggy and I cannot wait to take that thing out with Baby R in it to get my pre baby
body back!
Some things I have really enjoyed doing lately ( with my time off work) is crafting for his room. Follow me on Instagram to see all of the most recent changes to his nursery! I also love to take a break from moving around to watch my belly shift and jerk with all of his movements. It's all so surreal once you really think about what is causing all the rumbling in your tummy. I'm still keeping pretty active. I stopped running in the last week or two due to severe calf muscle pain. I was nearly in tears after my last run. So now I stick to long walks and a lot of work with my new favorite athletic equiptment...kettlebells! I was introduced to kettlebells at crossfit, and after a lot of research, found how beneficial and versatile they are. It's so easy to mix cardio with weighted lifts using kettlebells. I never leave a workout feeling as though I may not have accomplished anything! So for preggos, and non-preggos, I highly recommend looking into using them.
Ethan and I have been trying to get in a lot of alone time before baby gets here. We recently took a trip to whitefish, MT. It was a really beautiful mountain type town with great restaurants and shops. We also plan on making at least one trip to the cabin in west glacier before the end of the summer. It's definitely the most beautiful national park I've ever seen. There is also a tiny little restaurant called the northern lights saloon that serves up the best huckleberry pie!
We have a lot of big things happening in the next few weeks! Ethan's birthday is the end of this month, our 3D ultrasound is scheduled for the first, our anniversary is the 5th, and my birthday is the 14th! Holy cow! Everything is so exciting!
As much as I love being pregnant, I really miss my body and my wardrobe. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping I'm one of those crazy women who loses all the weight in the first three months :) Eek! It's bearable at the moment because I know I'm nurturing a little baby inside of me. I'm not sure I will be as accepting of this weight once he is on the outside! That's why for my birthday and with my final pay check I'm asking for and purchasing myself motivational Lululemon workout attire for the winter!!! Haha that store is a slight obsession, but it gets me in the body busting mood the second I put it on!
Well, that's it for today! I'll do my best to update after the next couple weeks.
