Crib Bedding

My mom has generously offered to make the crib bedding, and she is almost finished.

Here is a sneak preview of the comforter, bumper pads, and window valence to go in Baby P's room!

I love it and she has done a great job!!!!

Thanks MOM!

Updated Nursery Pictures

Since we needed to fit the bookshelf into the room we had to do a little rearranging.

Here is the updated pictures since we have added some new features including curtains, some baskets for storage, a change pad and obviously the bookshelf and all the books and things we have put onto it.

Curtis' dad enjoys making wooden toys and has passed quite a few onto Curtis. Now Curtis wants to pass them onto his little one, so he is proudly displaying them. Also as a teacher, you can tell I own a lot of books. This child will be well read... you can make sure of it! My last project is to re-upholster the cushions of my rocker. After I finish report cards they will get done. I also thought about maybe adding some paper lanterns above the glider, and maybe a canopy above the crib..... let me know what you think!!!! Hope you enjoy!

New Bookshelf

The last piece of furniture we needed for the nursery was some sort of bookshelf for storage. We don't have a lot of room to put a large bookshelf in the nursery since it is a little bit of a weird layout, but we thought this would be a good solution. Just a small 3x3 bookshelf, so later down the road we could possibly also fit in a toy chest or something else to hold Baby P's things.

Here are some pictures of Curtis putting it together and his little helpers!!!! It's been awhile since I put up some pictures of our little babies so here they are!

New Playpen

One of the last things on our list of baby things to get was a playpen. We have been looking at them for awhile now, but they always seems to be missing one component that we like/need.

Our search came to an end yesterday when we found the PERFECT travel playpen. It is Eddie Bauer and has everything we need. Plus WE GOT IN ON SALE!!!!!! How much better does it get?

As you can see, the playpen comes complete with a bassinet attachment, change table attachment, sun/mosquito shade, the sides roll down to make the playpen completely sunproof, and best of all it is INCREDIBLY easy to set up! We practiced quite a few times today!

We are very happy with it and if there is anyone who needs a playpen we would HIGHLY recommend this one. Can't wait to use it!!

Maternity Photos

Curtis and I had some Maternity Photos taken last Saturday!

The photographer was great and we had a good time.

She was able to get the photos back to us today which is great and incredibly fast!!!!

I love the photos soooo much. We wanted them to capture us before we change our carefree single lives to involve a baby LOL! I think the photographer did an AWESOME job and we got quite a few good photos!

I feel like I look a lot bigger in some of them than I feel in person, but I am sticking with the adage that "the camera adds 10lbs"!!!

Anyways to see them go to this website: http://kgammel.photobiz.com/cart/

and here is the password: 47Peef1027.

Hope you enjoy them as much as I do and feel free to leave some comments about them if you want!

Lots of love and hope all is well with all of you!

Thanksgiving!!!!!

It has been quite the year! We have a lot to be thankful for this year. Another puppy to add to our family and a baby on the way, we definitely have our hands full.
We had a large family Thanksgiving dinner with Curtis' family a couple of weeks ago so it was just the two of us for dinner this year. We bought an 8 lb turkey, and did stuffing, squash, mashed potatoes, cranberries and gravy to go along with it. Although I have made a few turkeys each time I get nervous that I will botch it somehow. However, this turkey was easy and came out beautifully. We both had our fill and tons of leftovers. I also made pumpkin cheesecake tarts instead of the regular pumpkin pie. They were DELICIOUS! We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and are now full of turkey and deliciousness!!

32 WEEKS!!!!!!

Hi Everyone!
Thank you to everyone for being so patient in my lack of putting up pictures. Things have been super duper busy around here. School is in full force and we are busy with baby classes and getting last minute things ready.
It is hard to believe that 32 weeks is here already. I know I can't believe it!!!! Soon we will be getting to meet our little one. That is both exciting and terrifying!
I have more pictures to put up. I have a picture at 30 weeks and some of the recent Calgary Flames game Curtis and I went to. I will have some time to put them up this weekend!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! We wish we could be there to spend it with you all, but we hope you have a good long weekend and eat lots of turkey!
P.S This is the first picture I have taken with my shirt up. I have always felt too self conscious. But I am big now and wanted to show it off LOL!