No Pics this Time....

Well I didn't get any pictures today but we had a lot of fun watching Little Bean's belly jump with hiccups while they measured her and checked my fluid levels. At this point (almost 37 weeks) they want my fluids levels at the very least at a 5 and I was at a 10, so doing great! And per their measurements Little Bean is approximately 6 pounds 3 ounces. So we're glad things are on track. The ultrasound technician informed me that her head is quite low down which explains all the lovely pressure and pain I've been feeling these days. She has definitely dropped. Not so much up in my ribs anymore, not sure which I prefer. : ) So anyway glad she's doing well and staying put, now I better get back to work getting things done around here!! : )

I'm a little groggy......

Phew. Had a rough night with the kiddos last night. I was having a hard time falling asleep last night and was up late doing nothing, replacing pics on my blog, etc. I finally got in to bed and drifted off about 1:45-2. Well at 2:30 Brynn came out of her room crying and wanting to snuggle. So I took her back to bed to snuggle and she preceded to throw up in her bed. : ( In all the commotion Bella also woke up and was a little freaked out seeing her sister sick. I think we all got back to bed around 3:30 and I finally fell asleep around 4:30, only to be awoken at 7:30 when the hubs got up. Ugh, its days like this I wish I liked napping. Guess I'm getting prepared for little one, huh? Speaking of little one- 3 weeks from this very moment she will be here already!!

This Saturday I asked the hubs to capture some pics of me with my 3 girls. : ) Bella was NOT in the mood for pics so they're not great, but I'll cherish them.

I have such great friends! Already coming to the rescue with some of my wish list items! Thanks ladies.

So I had my 36 week check up today.

Little Bean is doing good. I'm still measuring 2 weeks behind so they'll be doing an ultrasound next Thursday. Other than that I'm up 21 pounds, feeling huge, back is aching, feet are killing me, but baby girl is looking good! : )

I'm beginning to feel a bit anxious about things. As sleeping gets harder and harder for me I'm really not looking forward to many sleepless nights coming my way. I'm really freaked out about breast-feeding. I had a terrible time with both Bella and Brynn and I'm just not looking forward to going through it again. Up until now its seemed so for off in the distance, but now that I'm looking at 3 weeks, I'm starting to freak!

I'm praying, praying, praying she is an amazing sleeper and calm tempered baby. How will Brynnie adjust to this, will Bella need more attention too, why can my mom only stay a week, etc....

Ok, enough, I am going to try to enjoy these 3 weeks and soak up every ounce of beautiful weather and time with my two beautiful girls that I can!!

Here is my big, lovely self with 3 weeks to go!

My Wish/Check List.....

Oh my goodness, oh my goodness. My time is dwindling away! There's still so much I wanted to get in......

So there are some things I would like/need to get or do before Little Bean makes her arrival.

* We really want to have one last summer bash with all our friends before Little Bean comes, but who knows if that will happen with our time running out....

*I need to get baby girl a baby book, yikes! So much for getting some of it filled out beforehand.

* I need to get our bags packed (I did pack up baby girl's things today : ) )

* We need some baby swings. We have one that doesn't work anymore. I like to have two so you don't have to lug it up and down the stairs if you have a swing lovin' baby. May need to see if hubs can get our one working at least....

* And maybe a spare bouncie- but that's what friends are for right? : )

* I'd love to get a Itzbeen! Although perhaps there's an app for that, there's a app for everything these days right? How about one that gets your newborn to sleep through the night.

* Locate our video camera and make sure we've got a blank tape.

* I'd liked to get my nails done with the girls before the birth. I did this with Bella before Brynn was born and she just loved it and it was a special time for us.

* I need to get newborn diapers!

* I need to get and put batteries in all of our baby gear!

* Get the baby car seat positioned in the car so the girls can get use to the new seating arrangement- we did this a couple days ago and so far so good!

* I need to barrow some baby bottles from friends! : )

* I think I need new bibs, mine sure have seen better days! I had some spitty babies!

* Speaking of spitty babies. I need to invest in some new crib sheets! They've been through two little ones and its time to move on. : )

* I want this diaper bag- in daisy pink of course. : )

* I'd like to get some maternity pics, nothing crazy or anything, just a couple sweet pics of me with my two big girls and maybe some with the hubs.

* Am I forgetting anything!?

* Oh yeah, I still need the perfect name for my sweet baby girl!!

Take the Plunge Part 2!!!

So the last couple of weeks the hubs and I have been busy planning for a very exciting event at our church. Last year were also asked to help put together this event. Here is my post from last year.

Our church, The Chapel, has several baptisms throughout the year. Every summer they like to make a big celebration around one in particular to encourage inviting others to experience a baptism and to show support to our church family. The last two years the hubs and I have had the wonderful privilege of being asked to help plan this event. Last year, we had the blessing of watching 30 people make the decision to let Jesus Christ be the ruler of their lives. When asked again this year to help coordinate we were hoping to continue our activity we created last year and make it an annual tradition. Unfortunately, another event at our church decided to use our boat race idea and it took place two weeks before our event. So the hubs and I went back to the drawing board to come up with something new and fun for this year. We had to laugh when we saw the brochure for the event this year and across the top it said: From the creators of Floatentag (the name of our boat race activity) comes the Water-Athalon! : ) We felt like we had a lot to live up to. We kept our theme of Take the Plunge and went with a water themed event. The hubs is oober creative and I like to organize and plan, so together we can pull together an ok event. : ) The hubs came up with the idea of a Water-Athalon and came up with 3 fun water activities. The three activities were: A Bog Dive- this was a search in the church's lovely "pond" for brightly painted pop liters and milk gallons. The one with the most found won a $10 itunes card and the one that found the special gold bottle got two free movie tickets. Second event was water archery- which just consisted of throwing water balloons at a target, simple for anyone to do. Person with the most accurate shot got a itunes card and the person with a good try but worst result also got an itunes card. The third event was a belly flop/ splash contest- the church acquired a water trampoline from a local rental company at no cost for the contestants to leap from. We volunteered 3 well known people in our church as our celebrity judges and asked them to grade each jumper. We gave prizes for best belly flop, biggest splash, and looked like it hurt the most!

It was a smaller crowd this year since we only had a few weeks notice to begin advertising for the event and making announcements about it and at first we were very nervous people weren't going to participate. But soon enough people started coming out of the woodwork and volunteering. It was really great when a bunch of the high schoolers got involved and got people pumped up about it!

Before the Water-Athalon, there were fun water activities for the kids and bouncies. And everyone was asked to bring out their own food and tailgate a bit before everything started up. It is such a nice feeling of community and great way to get to know our church family. Following the Water-Athalon were the actual baptisms. I absolutely LOVE this part of the event. Each baptizee either reads, or has read, their testimony and how they came to make the decision to accept Christ. They are humbling, inspiring, and moving. There was a family- mom, dad, and daughter- that got baptized. After losing their son/brother they knew Jesus was the only way they could carry on and now as mom struggles with brain cancer they know Jesus will be by their side. There was a 12 year old girl who said she was not a nice person and was even mean to her friends and wanted to be more like Jesus. A man that struggled with drug and alcohol addiction that credited Jesus for helping him clean up his life. Oh and so many more. Altogether we had 17 people get baptised and afterwards two more came forward because they felt the Lord telling them to take this step. Just amazing. Sorry to be so wordy and picture overload but I wanted to share this amazing event with all of you!

Here is the hubs setting up for the Bog Dive, placing the painted liters/gallons all over and under the water:

The girls were SUCH GREAT troopers. They were out from 12:30-7 with no naps and not a whole lot of attention from the hubs and me, and over all were so well behaved!

Pausing for a snack.

Ah, such a precious girl! She is quite obsessed with her new Phineas and Ferb dolls.

Here are the contestants jumping in for the bog dive!

The girls loved cheering them all on.

What a great, and handsome, MC we had for the event. ; )

I think everyone really enjoyed the festivities!

Time for water archery!

Here are our celebrity judges getting ready for the belly flop/splash contest!

(associate campus pastor, wife of our worship leader, and the campus pastor)

Looks pretty good....

Apparently the judges weren't impressed. : )

Hard to see this one but if you look close you can see his feet straight out, a definite straight belly flop!

Check out this form!

And our last contestant, winner of "Look like it hurt most" award!

And then we had the special time of hearing 17 people (and then 2 more) and their amazing stories of how they came to know the Lord!

I hope the girls will enjoy this event with us for years to come!

Good and Bad......

Well I just can't get my act together enough on Mondays to post something fun with pictures. Just wanted to hop on and mention, 4 weeks from today we will be welcoming our newest baby girl into the world!! I'm starting to feel more and more nervous about things now that things are approaching so quickly. 4 weeks?!

I was quite sad today. Having had two February babies, I never experienced retaining water or swollen feet (any suggestions on ways to help with these things?). Well with this lovely baby, I have learned about both of these things. It gets especially bad when I am extra active- like running a garage sale for 3 days or coordinating a baptism event at our church like we did yesterday. So today, just as a precaution, I took my wedding rings off. I'd hate to have to have them cut off or something. This made me very sad. I've got them on my necklace but still, sniff.

Anyway, baby coming soon and I'll eventually get my body back right?! I have an appointment Friday so be sure to check back and see how things are going.