A very long post...

So I finally took some pictures of the house and the nursery. Both of which are not completed, but I figured I would show them to you anyways. Here are some pictures of the house. I only included a few rooms. It is all still a work in progress, so I'll be sure to post more pictures as we get more done in the house.

Here is the front of the house


Here is the Den


Here is standing in the Den looking into the kitchen


Here is the Sunroom off the kitchen


Here is the Guest Room all ready for it's first visitors


Here is the guest on suite bath


Here is the loft area upstairs


Here is James' Crib


Here's his changing table


Where I will be spending lots of time


I'm pretty sure he has more clothes than I do!


Here's the Dining Room


I'll post more pictures when I can. But for now that should hold you over. We still have a lot of things to hang on the walls but slowly we are getting there. It feels like home and we are really enjoying it.

As far as Sweet Baby James goes, he seems to be doing well. We thought we might have a hospital run on Saturday. I was having contractions every 3 minutes. They were pretty intense but then they just stopped. That's pretty much how it has been since. Everyone keeps saying it's just my body getting ready, which is nice and all, but I'm ready! :) We head to the doctor tomorrow. Hopefully there will be some progression. We are getting down to the wire that's for sure. We are so excited to meet this sweet boy! I can't wait to see what he looks like and to just kiss those cheeks. In the meantime we are just staying busy. Now that I have everything complete (as much as it will be) around here we are venturing out and spending time with friends. Anything to make the time go by! Here is a picture of me that I took last night. You can't see my face which I may or may not have done on purpose, but at least you can see the massive belly! ENJOY!

Baby Updates

Yesterday we went to the doctor. Overall it was a great visit. James is doing just great! They had to do some routine tests and then she "checked" me for the first time. Surprisingly she told me that I have started to dialate! Granted not very much! She called it a dimple! Ha! She said it was a little less than a finger tip. You would have thought she told me I won the lottery. I was overjoyed. Hey progress is progress. She was very pleased though that my body is progressing like it should and beginning the process.

On the way home though I remembered how many of my friends stayed dialated for weeks before having their babies. So I am trying no to get too excited. I have graduated though and will now be seeing the doctor every week until James gets here. It's nice cause it's something to look forward to each week.

The doctor doesn't think that he is going to be too big. We'll see though. Her guess was just shy of 7lbs, I'm thinking he'll be around 7lbs. Whatever weight he is will be just perfect!

It is so hard waiting these last few weeks. I can't wait to see our son. I am just dying to hold him and love on him. It'll all be here soon enough! Pray for me to have patience. :)

I guess here's to the next couples of weeks! May they fly by and not be too painful! Ha!

My Apologies

I have been a bad blogger, but I honestly have reasons as to why. Let me update you on the past month in our world. Almost a month ago, the weekend after I stopped working we packed up our old house in literally 48 hours. Crazy right? But we did it. On this side of things I'm glad we did it that way, but at the time I was thinking my husband was crazy! So after 48 hours of packing up our house we moved into my parents house and then set off for a week at the beach with my side of the family. We went to St. Simons Island and had a great time just relaxing and enjoying one another. Here are some pics from that trip:




We got back from that trip and lived with my parents for 2 weeks. Manny and I are both so thankful to them for letting us stay there and invade their home. We pretty much had stuff everywhere! It was fun living at home again even if only for a few weeks! :)
This past Friday though we closed on our new house. It's been quite the whirlwind since. We worked our tails off all weekend with lots of help from family and friends and managed to get us all moved in. Sunday night was our first night staying in the house. I must say as I sit here now and look around, we have gotten quite a lot done. With major help from my sisters we managed to decorate and make it feel much more homey and today we even tackled the nursery. It has been so hard for me to not be able to nest, so now that we are in I am in heaven. Just call me the nesting queen! We are almost done with the nursery so I'll post pictures when we are! As well as pics of the house!
As far as my sweet little one goes he is doing great! It's hard to believe that next week I will be full term and he could come at any point! I would be totally fine for him to come early. I am getting quite uncomfortable just doing day to day things. My legs look like tree trunks as well which is oh so nice! Ever since moving this past weekend I can't seem to get the swelling down. But he seems to be quite content in there. He still moves a good amount. We head to the doctor tomorrow so I'll be sure to post updates after that.
I promise to be a better blogger from now on. I'll be sure to keep everyone posted on the baby status.