Welcome to Kolton's Room!

We are finally 99% done with Kolton's room.  Here are some pictures:

Welcome to Kolton's room!

Standing in the doorway.

From another corner of the room.  Hey Liz, there is the picture you gave us! We love it! :)

Standing in front of the changing table.

There is no closet in this room so Kris found this shelf idea online.  It turned out great!

The recliner where I imagine I will be spending many nights with Kolton.

We still want to put in a white ceiling fan and there is one last picture frame that we need to get and hang.  Other than those two things, Kolton's room is all set!  His clothes and blankets are all clean and now we are just waiting for him to make his arrival! :)

I'm 37 weeks today.  Kolton's due date is exactly 3 weeks away.  He is considered full-term now though so he can come out anytime!  We have a doctor appointment tomorrow so I will be sure to update everyone if anything exciting is going on!

Next week, hopefully I'll be able to post some of the cute preggo pictures Laura took of us earlier this week. :)



Baby Shower #3!

Kris' mom threw us wonderful baby shower #3 on November 13th.  Here are some pictures from that shower:

Red Velvet cupcakes!  Yummmm! :)

Me and my mom :)

Holy crap present table! :)

Me and Kris' mom :)

Presents for Kolton :)

Adorable wall art from Liz. :)  It's hanging in Kolton's room right now!

Kris brought a gift for me!  It was everything I need for my hospital bag, including some really cute Pink lounge clothes to wear!  So sweet! <3

Thank you to everyone who made it to this shower, especially Liz, who came all the way from Cincinnati!

BIG "Thank you" to Kris' mom, Mary, for putting the shower together for us!  Thanks to Tia for helping with the shower games and to anyone else who helped!  We are so blessed to have such great friends and family!

BTW, we finally remembered to take another belly picture when I was 32 weeks along, on November 6th.

And you get a sneak peak at Kolton's room in the background!

I'm 36 weeks today!  Ahhh!!!  4 more weeks until Kolton's due date!  I'm actually hoping he comes in 2 or 3 weeks....CRAZY!

Next week's blog will have pictures of Kolton's room and probably some updated ones of me and my giant belly.  Stay tuned! :)

Shower # 2!

On October 23rd Haley, Amber and my mom threw us a fabulous baby shower!  Here are some pictures from that day:

Amber, my mom, me and Haley

Meghan and I have known each other since we were babies.  I'm so glad that we are still a part of each others' lives after all of these years!

Ditto with Claudia.  We have known each other since the third grade and its been so awesome to be pregnant together!  She is due only 2 weeks after me! :)

Playing a game.

Our awesome cake!  Isn't it adorable?!

Presents for Kolton!

My beautiful mother and me.

Kris' beautiful mother and Kris.

Kolton's mommy and daddy. :)

Thank you to everyone who was able to make it to this shower!  It was so nice to see everyone!  We are so thankful to have you all in our lives!

BIG "Thank you" to Amber, Haley and my mom for throwing such a special shower!  We love you all!

Well, that's all for now.  I'll post pictures from shower #3 next weekend and then we will reveal how Kolton's room is turning out!  :)  5 more weeks until his due date!!!



Baby Shower Time!

Oh my!  I'm so sorry I haven't posted in so long!  Needless to say, it has been an extremely busy past 2 months.  Kris and I have had a lot going on lately but we are chugging right along and trying to get ready for the Holidays and for Kolton.

We are so blessed that we have so many amazing people in our lives!  We have had 3 baby showers for Kolton over the past 2 months!  There are so many pictures and details from each one that I don't want to combine them into one super-long post so I am going to post about one each week for the next 3 weeks.

My wonderful co-workers at USABlueBook surprised me with our first baby shower.  The shower was on October 13.  We were so lucky to have gotten some really cute clothes and bibs, an activity jumper as well as our car seat and the extra base we needed for the car seat!

Here are some photos taken by USABlueBook's photographer, Jay Stephen:

THANK YOU to my USABlueBook family!  Kris, Kolton and I are so thankful to have such great people in our lives!



Pictures!

So I finally picked up our engagement pictures!  We took them back in July but with all of the baby stuff going on I just kept forgetting to pick them up!  Here are a few of the ones that I like:

So which one is worthy of the newspaper announcement??

Speaking of pictures, I thought I would post some "belly shots" so far.  I am 25 weeks now; almost 6 months!  I have to admit that we kind of forgot to take pictures as my belly has grown but we have a few that are about 4-5 weeks apart and they show the differences better anyway.

15 Weeks - July 10 (sorry so blurry, taken with my phone)

21 weeks - August 21

25 weeks - September 18

When I saw the pictures from my dad's wedding (25 weeks) I was shocked to see how pregnant I look!  lol!  I didn't think I looked THAT pregnant! :)

Well, that's all for now.  My next doctor appointment is next Wednesday so I'm sure I'll have some new pictures of Kolton for everyone to see!  :)