Date Night: Lonestar Taqueria

We've been hearing about how great Lonestar Taqueria is for months and months. Now we live within walking distance, so we decided to walk over for our date night tonight (well I waddled, Jordan walked). I think we tried the whole menu because we wanted a fair sample of most everything. We got a fish taco, a chicken taco, a carne asada burrito, and chips with their bean, cheese, and sour cream dip. Everything was SOOO good. My favorite was definitely the burrito though. I haven't had a burrito that good in a long time.

Then we headed over to Best Buy to purchase an Apple TV, and have ended our date night exploring our new toy and thoroughly loving it!

36 Weeks

Updates for the week: I will be full term on Saturday! and I tested negative for Group B Strep, so I'm glad I don't have to worry about that. Other than that, nothing new!

That is all.

Bows

I have a pretty huge list of stuff I need to/ want to do before this baby arrives. You know, stuff like, put away all of her clothes, set up her crib...etc. One of the smaller things on that list was to make some bows. Thanks to a few friends, I already had some really cute ones, but I still wanted to actually make some myself. Yesterday, I went to my friend Jessica's house and she taught me how to make a few different kinds. I know that this baby will come whenever she wants to come, but every time I check something off my list, I'm considering myself one step closer to being ready for her. I still want to make lots more bows, but for now I'm considering this crossed off my list! 

Round 2

Remember this picture? Well, here is round 2! On April 21st, cute little baby Nixon was born, so here is the update: Jessica (with 11 month old Phoebe), Laura (with 3 week old Nixon), me (35 weeks), and Elle (25 weeks).

Burley, Idaho

Yesterday we took a quick trip up to Burley. One of Jordan's former roommates, Sam, recently got married and was having a reception there last night. It's about a 3 hour drive, so we hopped in the car with Matt and Lauren at about 2 and headed up to Idaho. We got there just in time for the reception to start.

We had such a fun time catching up with old friends. Devin and Claire drove down from Boise, so it was fun to spend some time with them, especially since Jordan hadn't met cute baby Ava yet. We were also able to see Jamie and Cole. I hadn't seen Jamie in so long! It was so fun to catch up. We will forever have a neat connection with Jamie and Cole, because we were roommates, who married roommates.



In fact, Devin, Jordan, Cole, and Matt all lived together when they were meeting/ dating their future wives. It's fun to think back on that time and remember everything that was going in our lives. Jordan and I were trying to figure out the last time all of us were in the same room. We think it was before I went to Jerusalem, which is crazy!



After the reception we went to Upper Crust for some dinner before we hit the road. I wish we could have stayed a little bit longer, but it sure was a fun little trip!

35 Weeks

Another week down, 5 weeks to go! I can't believe how fast time is flying these days. The beginning of this pregnancy was ULTRA slow, but that is no longer the case. She's going be be here before we know it!

I've been really tired lately, and have just been letting myself sleep a lot, which has really helped. I don't sleep very well at night, but do sleep great in the morning. So lately I've been getting up with Jordan in the morning, and then after he leaves for work going back to bed for a few more hours. I think one of the reasons I've been so tired is because I've been unpacking, and trying to get us settled, which might be a bit much for me these days.

I'm now at weekly doctor's appointments. I had one yesterday. I was checked for Group B Strep, and will find out the results next week. The doctor also checked my cervix, to see if I was progressing at all and to see if the baby is head down. He told me that I'm already dilated to a 1.5 and that I'm 75% effaced. He also said that she is very much head down, in fact she's very far down. He asked me if I often feel a lot of pressure to which the answer is definitely yes. Because I'm already dilated a bit, I asked if that meant that she'd come a little bit early, but he said most likely not. He said I could be where I am now for weeks. It just depends.

My ankles still aren't swollen, but my feet are a little bit. My belly button is still very out, as you can see in the picture (and the last 4 pictures as well...). I'm pretty sure I'm a waddler now, but like I said, there is definitely a lot of pressure happening, so you can't exactly blame me.

I'm a little bit sad because even my maternity jeans don't fit me very well anymore... :( but I think I'm going to blame that on the fact that she's sitting so low (in one of my pregnancy books it said that your clothes would start fitting differently near the end, as the baby moved downward, I'm not just justifying myself here...these are some true facts). It's skirts and dresses or my yoga pants these days, which is definitely ok, because it has been BLAZING hot. SO HOT. ALL. THE. TIME. I'm so happy that I don't have to be pregnant through the entire summer. I'm not sure I would survive.

We still have a few things to do before I'm ready for her to come. I would like to buy a crib and some kind of a dresser (kind of saving the big stuff for last, oops). I have organized and re-organized all of the cute baby clothes we have, and I'm ready to put it somewhere.

Anyway, that's enough updating for today. I'm a bit bored with my pregnancy photos (because I feel like that's all I post about these days), but I just don't have anything else to post right now. Looking forward to the day when my blog will get taken over with photos of a new little someone. Until then...5 more weeks :)

Moved

We moved this past weekend. Moving while 8 months pregnant, now that's fun! I'm sure I could find one of those memes that says, "I sure love moving! -Said no one ever" but I don't want to search for it right now. (I'll admit that after being at home with no internet or TV, and only boxes to unpack, I got a bit tired/ bored. I'm currently in the McD's parking lot using some free wifi!)

We have been living with Jordan's parents for the past 13 months and are so thankful that they willingly let us invade their space. We were able to pay off a lot of student loans and save a lot of money. It also allowed us to start our housing search. But today I'm sad to report that phase one of our housing search is officially over, and we were unfortunately unsuccessful. After 7 months of searching and 10 rejected offers, we decided it was time to take a little break and find ourselves an apartment, our own place where we could bring our little girl home from the hospital. We found a great little apartment with a 6 month lease, in hopes that we will have a house by October (keeping our fingers and toes crossed, rubbing our lucky rabbit feet, and wishing on every shooting star we see!).

So far we are loving it and are slowly getting unpacked. Our first night at the new place was Saturday night, and I told Jordan that I felt like we were newlyweds again, because we hadn't lived alone for so long. Here's to the next phase in not only our housing search but our life! Yipee!