I'M SO EXCITED!!

I just got this in the mail...
and I can't wait to get home to set it up! I know I know, we won't be using it for a while, but since we won't be getting his crib for another month or so I need to have something up to make me feel like it's the nursery and not just another room in the house :)

28 Weeks

Here I am at 28 weeks pregnant.

This isn't a very good picture of me, but it'll do.

I'm getting more and more excited for him to arrive, especially since it means that he'll be out of me :) I haven't been a huge fan of being pregnant. I use to love to feel him kick and move around, but now since he does it so often and it can kinda hurt, I'm not so much a fan anymore. It is very comforting to know that he's active and ok in there though.

I'm starting to have some trouble sleeping (which I know is only going to get worse). I've been sleeping with a pillow for the past few weeks and there have been a few times when I've woken up and I can't seem to find it. It's not on the floor...not by my feet...where else could it be you might ask...Oh no worries, Jon has stolen it from me! haha. One night he even tried to be sneaky about it. He put his arm around me (and the pillow since I was facing him), then his leg up on the pillow next to mine, then all of a sudden he pushes me away and snatches the pillow! Mind you he's sleeping the whole time and he doesn't remember doing any of this. haha. We both got a pretty good kick out of it when I told him about it in the morning. I've learned I can only keep the pillow on my left side so he can't "secretly" try to steal it from me.

We've started taking Bradley classes. Our first one was yesterday and we both really liked it. I'm excited for all the things we're gonna learn, but I'm really excited for the envolvement that Jon's going to have during labor because of these classes. Can't wait!

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday to my amazing husband! I love you so so much! I know you're going to be such an amazing dad. Thanks for all the many things you do for me.

I LOVE YOU!!!

This picture isn't the best one of us, I had to take atleast one of him on his special day. I'll try to take more tonight and post them soon.

Christmas 2009

Christmas this year was wonderful. Since our families live so close together we get to spend the holidays with both of them, which is great. Christmas Eve we started out over at my dads, had the traditional Danish Christmas Eve dinner, danced around the Christmas tree and opened presents. (And yes I did say 'dance around the Christmas Tree'. It's one of the Danish traditions and it's not so much dancing as it is walking around it holding hands and singing danish/english Christmas songs).While everyone else stayed and played games, we headed over to Jon's parents. We opened a few presents and had a great Christ centered presentation by JaRene. We spent the night there (since driving home would have been a complete waste of time), woke up around 8 and opened more presents. Later that day we went to see Sherlock Holmes, which we both really enjoyed. I have a few pictures, but not a ton...I was slacking just a bit.

New Years wasn't too eventful. You'd think that since it was our last year of being just the two of us we would have gone all out, but that just didn't happen. We did have fun though. We went to dinner with my family at my dad's favorite place, Golden Corral. Then we went over to Zeffie's house and played some games till about 11 or so when everyone got really tired and decided to call it a night. So we again slept in town and were in bed by 11:45. Waited the 15 minutes till midnight, had our new years kiss, listened to the fireworks for a minute, then went to bed. Haha, man we're pretty lame. :)

Pregnancy is going pretty good. I'm now 26 weeks. I had some pretty bad cramps again last week. I've been told by a few people they are Braxton Hicks, but I dunno. My midwife checked me to make sure I wasn't dialating or anything and thank heavens I wasn't. But she wanted to be sure since the cramping was really strong and lasting for about 12 hours or so, which apparently isn't normal. But since there wasn't any problems, it looks like they might just be something that I randomly have during the remainder of my pregnancy. :( Lucky Me!

Other than that, things are going really good. He's moving/kicking a ton which is so much fun. It's really weird to randomly be sitting there and then all of a sudden actually see my whole stomach move... So much fun

Me and Jon

Aja with her Christmas present

Dancing around the Christmas Tree

Grandma and Grandpa Whitaker

Our Danish Tree

JaRene and Berkley opening presents