Life!

So, I am just sitting here at my computer. One final down. Two more to go. Waiting for a call back about whether or not I got the Resident Assistant job for the apartments where we live, and I figured that it was about time for a good old fashioned blog post.

Life really has been good since I last wrote. In fact, I feel that this semester my attitude and life in general has made a complete turn around. I am cheerier than I have been in the past, and I have really enjoyed certain parts of school this semester. I am feeling so grateful and so truly blessed. I am disappointed in myself that in the past I have been less than grateful and less than optimistic about things, so I am trying to change that. 

Above you will notice a picture of a bunch of beautiful lilies. Lilies are my favorite flower. I love them so very much. I love the way they smell and their simple elegance without any other fluff. I just find them unique and interesting and beautiful. I am not a big flowers person; in fact, I can think of three times in the entirety of our marriage that Parker has gotten me flower (always lilies), but I was ever so grateful this day. I needed a surprise and a pick me up. Thank goodness for my sweet husband. 

He also took me on a surprise date. Surprises are quite possibly my most favorite thing in the entire world. I love them so very much. They can be anything. I don't care much about what we do or what the surprise is, I just love not know that something wonderful is going to happen and then voila. There it is. I love that. 

The funny part about the picture below is we took it, because Parker and I are trying ever so hard to become better picture takers. Then we went inside and realized there were like 300 people on the waiting list ahead of us, so we didn't end up eating here after all, but you get the idea. 

I think that I am 29 weeks in this picture. I believe it was taken on St. Patrick's day. 

This is at my Wightman family baby shower. This is my sister-in-law Becca. She is married to my brother Aaron and she is due with a little boy also just three and a half weeks after us. How fun! Our little guy is just going to have so many fun cousins. It will be terrific. Anyway, I don't know what my face is all about. I look concerned or unprepared, but Becca looks hot. So that is terrific. Anyway, that is me at about 31 weeks. So, finally I look like there is a child in there and not just chubby. 

This last weekend, we went to the tulip festival at Thanksgiving Point. We were so excited when we saw this cut out board, as we have many a fond memory from the Norwegian cut out board that we posed in previously. I am hoping that in time, we will take a picture of us being cut outs from every country in the world. 

It was such a hot day. Probably 85 or 86 degrees but it was beautiful. The tulips were gorgeous. I really enjoyed looking at them. I think had it not been so hot, and had my feet not been swelling a long with my hands, we would have stayed longer and explored more. But I don't think too many people frowned on me being the only adult putting my hands and feet in the kid fountains. I tried not to knock any children over as I ran to the spouts for relief from my swollen body, but I mean children are small...and I have a large belly... so, I am sure they will all recover in time. 

Here I am at about 34 weeks. I really thought that I had put the picture of us smiling in, but I guess not. So, here we are in our traditional unhappy marital pose, but it is just a big lie, because we are actually quite happy and rarely serious, so I suppose this is our attempt at Hollywood. The garden was beautiful and the way they had it set up, it reminded me a lot of Paris and the gardens there. This part in the background especially. I thought to myself. I could spend hours exploring this place, but another time I suppose.


Anyway, all in all, life is great! Things are really coming together for us. We are getting so much done, and I am ever so glad about it. I have no idea when the nesting vibe will kick in, because that certainly hasn't happened yet. I am so tired all the time still, and school doesn't really help alleviate that, but only a week and half left to go this semester, and then all of summer break.

I have the whole month of May to just wait for the baby essentially. I am sure that I will be preparing and cleaning and doing all those motherly things, but my number one plan currently is to invest in a kiddie pool, fill it with water each day, sit outside of my apartment, and read books. Delicious, delightful and altogether wonderful books.

Also, I am really looking forward to labor. That probably sounds odd, and I am certain it is because I haven't experienced it before, kind of like getting that elusive period your first time, and then you realize what it is, and don't care for it too much anymore...but it's true. Call me pre-pubescent if you like, but I am excited. I will join the ranks of so many amazing women who have gone before and sacrificed much to bring these beautiful spirits into the world. How could I not be excited about that?

Anyway, now that life is settling into a different kind of storm, one where I think of day to day things more often, I am looking forward to really documenting these last several weeks of this pregnancy well, but suffice it to say that aside from being impatient for this little fellow to come out and join the party, I have been so blessed and so lucky this pregnancy. I really can't complain about a single thing. My sister in law said that I must be born to breed. Perhaps she is right, but either way, I am glad for this experience. It has truly been instructive and inspiring.