Just a little bit of Halloween fun

Halloween is absolutely my favorite holiday of the year! I just love dressing up in goofy costumes. I am a little sad that this year I didn't dress up. Being pregnant and going out to parties is just too exhausting, plus hanging around a bunch of drunk college kids is not exactly my idea of fun.. So instead Ted just painted my belly in celebration! And I still got to have some fun putting makeup on Ted in order to make him look like a zombie! I am so looking forward to next Halloween when I have my son and I get to take him trick or treating. Although the candy will pretty much just be for me!

Stole this from a good friend

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2. What is your #1 bucket list to-do item? meet my son!
3. What is the worst injury/illness you’ve ever had?  I have actually never been sick enough to go the hospital or had any major injury. I guess the worst thing thing that I could consider was the summer after my freshman year of college when i got a 2nd degree sunburn on my legs. I was on Dr ordered bed rest for a week.
4. Do you collect anything? when I was younger I collected Madame Alexander dolls, and trinket boxes. Both collections I still have. Now I just collect shoes and purses
5. What is your guilty pleasure TV show? I watch the worst TV ever. Teen Mom and 16 & Pregnant might be the worst ones I watch though.
6. What is the most special thing your spouse has ever done for you? I have an amazing husband so its hard to pick. I think the most special thing he has ever done is getting me pregnant with our son!!!ha ha
7. Do you believe in ghosts? that's just silly
8. What does your exercise routine look like? Right now it looks like an exhausted pregnant stretching in the living room.
9. If you could witness an event past, present or future, what would it be? I think I would have liked to be apart of the march on Washington with MLK Jr.
10. If you could change anything about your high school/college experience what would it be? High school, I think I would have paid more attention my senior year rather than partying and for college I wish I had majored in social work and gerontology rather than history and gerontology. I Mean seriously what i am going to do with my history degree
11. What season do you enjoy most? I love the fact t hat we have four seasons, but I would have to say I love summer the most. Summer nights are just the best time to be outside!
12. What celebrity do you most look like? I don't think i look like any celebrity
13. What band/singer are you enjoying most right now? I know i am a bit behind the times but i am really starting to get into Adele.
14. Do you implement any of the things your parents taught you into your parenting style? I think I am going to implement a lot of the things that my parents taught me. I think it was important that they let me make my own decisions and thus my own mistakes. I think its important for children/ people of all ages to recognize that actions have consequences. I think that is something that Ted and I will try to instill in our son.
15. What is/are your family traditions? We have so many fun ones. Now that Ted is apart of our family we enjoy the giant caramel apple that his cousins send us every year for Christmas. I also love playing board games every family holiday. Roasting peeps on Easter is another favorite.
16. What is the best parenting advice you’ve ever received? I don't think i have gotten to that point yet where i will actually be able to put any of the advise i have received into practice.
17. What was the best gift ever given to you/that you gave?The best gift that I ever received...I think would be the money that my grandmother gave me to pay for a good chunk of my college education. That is something that I will never be able to thank her enough for or repay her for. The best gift that I ever gave would be in high school when we collected books for students at an under funded school in Denver and i got to hand each child in the elementary school
18. Have you and your spouse written a will? No we don't have one yet but we want to have one in place before our son arrives, so that if anything were ever to happen to us that our son would be taken care of by the people that would raise him the best. We have nothing valuable to give
19. If you could change one thing about your wedding day what would it be? Not drinking so much. I was so nervous so i got a little tipsy before the ceremony....ha ha bad idea.
20. What have you done that you said you’d never do as a parent? Again i haven't gotten to that point. I will answer this question again in 6 months!!
21. How long have you been married? Just over 3 years!
22. Do you want more children? yes we have always wanted 2 children, but we have always wanted to adopt so our next child will be adopted in probably about 5 years or so.

Almost third trimester???Really!!!

I just realized how long it has been since I have updated my blog. I started this blog as a place to document my journey through motherhood and so far I am doing a horrible job. I am going to blame it on the fact that I have been truly exhausted... so here is an update:

- Baby boy is doing great, he weighs about 2 lbs already and is very healthy
- I was in urgent care about a week ago for some abdominal cramps but it was just a simple infection that a dose of antibiotics cured right up
- I passed my glucose test meaning that I DO NOT have gestational diabetes which is absolutly wonderful.
- this is my last week in my 2nd trimester. I can't believe that in three months I am actually going to meet  our son!
- I have been sleeping like crap, but I hear that I will miss this sleep once the baby arrives
- Ted's cousin came into town a few weeks ago and brought us so many wonderful baby items including : clothes enough for this boy until he is 2, strollers, car seat, bouncy chair, a nice crib, rocking chair, and a cradle. Its just so amazing that they have been so genrous. Now I just need to set the room up!!!
- Our families have been so amazingly supportive for us, its just great to know that our families and friends are behind us 100%.  Its refreshing to know that our son is going to have so many people who love him.
- we are thinking to have a will put together before he arrives, not because we have anything of value but because we want to make sure that if anything happens to us both that the people we want will be the ones raising our son (more on that later)

thats just a quick update of everything that is going on right now. Ill try to better about keeping every one udpated.