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So so many changes in the last few weeks! I've obviously gotten bigger and I think things are headed south and when I say south I mean that it feels like she is dropping. I have been feeling a lot of downward pressure so I am assuming that's whats going on.  (Things may also be going south in the respect that everything will be getting more and more uncomfortable from here on out)  

I can feel those lower pelvic/abdominal muscles are starting to stretch out and I have to be careful to not stand up too fast because they can't uncontract fast enough.

Whenever I stand I have to go to the bathroom, apparently my bladder is running out of space down there.  

She is still kicking away and sometimes I can see it through my belly, or I can feel her head pushed up against my abdominal wall, very cool!

I accidentally sleep on my back a lot and I've heard that's a bad thing for either me or the baby? Or both of us?

Only been working out a couple days a week and I could just kick myself! I feel so much better when I do.  The colder temps make it more difficult to get up early in the morning and the fact that none of my workout clothes fit isn't motivating either.  I WILL turn that all around this week.   

I tried to paint my toenails the other day and THAT was interesting, couldn't quite reach.

Been doing some shopping for the little one! Not pictured is a buch of cute outfits my MIL sent me home with on our last visit.  Baby jeggings have got to be the cutest things ever invented!

    

Had a great experience at my last appointment.  I took my glucose test for gestational diabetes the day before the appointment, and the doctor walks in to our room to inform us that I BIG FAT FAILED IT! So off I went to the hospital to do the 3hour follow-up test, which I luckily passed (Dr said only 1 of 4 will fail the second attempt).  But still, what a downer it was.  For that whole day I felt like a failure at life and motherhood and school and work and wifery, all because of one stupid little test.  Just goes to show that I need to get better at handling little blips in the road because I've heard that motherhood can present those to you quite frequently. 

 On a happier note I ordered some crib bedding(the turquoise polka sheets below) ! Let the decorating begin (in 5-7 business days)! And I have my eye out for a rocker like the one below for the nursery.

 Devin has been busy busy in the garage refinishing some of the furniture that my parents were so nice to give us!  The nightstand is the one I had in my room growing up that Devin painted turquoise and distressed, LOVE how it turned out.  The changing table is the same one that my own messy bum was changed on when I was a babe! My mom is having a comeapart over the baskets on the shelves and how impractical they are, but the baskets are here to stay! Some Halloween decor...

We went to Moab for a long weekend at the cabin for the deer hunt...here is Otto helping me pack..

While in Moab we got to spend some time in my MIL's store, Forget Me Knot Flowers, all decked out for Halloween! If you can imagine it is even cuter inside...

We got to watch her in action and this was one of her creations!

 

As luck would have it Aunty Courtney was visiting Moab the same time we were there so we grabbed breakfast and talked for a bit before she drove back toTelluride.  (We retook this picture due to the sun in my eyes and I accidentally erased the retaken picture so this is the only one I have)We also got to see Devin's old friend Steven who has been back east playing baseball for the Twins!

I got to help out with some cookie frosting, and the text conversation shows that husband of mine knows me all too well...

  

For the week before the hunt Devin had been growing out his beard and it was the longest I had ever seen it! Unfortunately I do not have a better picture of it, and I also don't have a picture of everyone in their orange. But I do have a picture of the cookies, and that is WAY more important...

Covered in grout from finishing his sister's bathroom for her birthday present.  Hopefully our little girl takes some lessons from her pops and grows up to be handywoman!