baby shower**

This afternoon, Tami and Liz gave me a baby shower!! So much fun! and 8 of my friends came to join the party!! lots of yummy snacks and fun games. i was a little worried about the games...usually not my cup of tea...but the girls did a good job choosing games!!
miss liz made this adorable diaper cake!! love the colour of ribbon!! and in the middle is a bottle of champagne.

the gift table...thank you to everyone for all the gifts!!

having lots of fun sharing stories about kids!

liz got ahold of my camera and took a few photos of me opening gifts...

tons of great gifts for little oliver...everyone was super generous and i absolutely love everything!!
can't wait to write out thank you cards!!

BINGO

This afternoon Bruce and i played radio bingo!
Brandon's grandma asked me if i would play her cards because she had to go play cards at the senior center...so i said "sure"! So at 1:30 Bruce turned on the radio and we listened for 1/2 an hour as they called out numbers!!
Can you tell that it's a slow day here at work?? Earlier, while Brandon was here over lunch, Brandon and Bruce were on computers checking out their facebook pages and i was on the third computer playing with photos!! We put in long hard days at work!!

he's just pretending that he won!!

my 2 cards...missing about 6-8 numbers on each card!

Bruce's 2 cards...

Here's the real look after we had lost!!

(remember...next week are the purple cards!)

scrapbook for little oliver...

for the past week i've been slowly working on this little scrapbook for oliver. i printed off some of my favourite photos of oliver's room, my ever-growing tummy and the photos jenny took of brandon and i. some of the photos are wallet sized, but for the most part they are 3 1/2x 5 in size. the perfect size for this little book! and i had sooo much fun using the new paper and epoxy stickers and ribbons and whatnot that i got in at the store for baby boys!! (and of course i had to do a little shopping at some other scrapbook stores...i just can't carry all the adorable things!!)

i added just a few of my fav pages...the rest of the book is posted at the Scrappy's blog.

words

i may have mentioned awhile back that i was going to a party at Jenny's house. the party was all about wall words...love them! Here are the words i chose...

i thought this little saying was *perfect* for little Oliver's room!
Brandon and i put the words up on the wall, above the crib and under the shelf, on saturday...so of course i just had to take a photo and share it!!

soon there will be 3

Alright...here are a couple of photos!
Jenny did a wonderful job of taking our maternity photos!! i was sooo excited to finally have some photos taken of brandon and i with our baby bump. before it was always just of me...taken by brandon, but i wanted brandon to get in on the photos too! we are going to cherish these photos forever!! i have a couple of frames in little oliver's room that these photos will go in. i will probably print a couple of them off at work tomorrow and then mat and frame them up!! i also have a scrapbook for little ollie...i've printed a few photos already, but now i will even more!! plus, i have the most adorable baby boy paper that i can't wait to use!!

(the above photo might be my absolute favourite!!)

and these outdoor photos are a close second favourite!!

Thank you, Jenny for taking our photos!!

maternity photos...

This afternoon, Brandon and i went over to miss Jenny's house and had our photos taken!!

She did an awesome job with them...i can't wait to post a few! i have put them up on my flickr page for viewing...
go here

Perhaps this evening i will post a couple of the photos on the blog!

mr. scruffy

My silly hubby.
He has decided to let his hair grow and his beard grow.
Just because.

He asks me if i would like him to cut it short again...but i tell him that i won't tell him what to do, since he wanted me to keep my hair long and i chopped it off! So, the decision is up to him! He's really enjoying how long it is getting!! And he says it's less time in the bathroom, because he doesn't have to trim up his beard!!

Although this weekend my friend, Jenny, is going to take photos of Brandon and i with my preggo tummy...so i think he is going to cut his hair and trim his beard! i guess we'll see just how short he gets it!!

love you, hun!

A new little bundle...

Congratulations to our friends Jon and Nichole on the birth of their baby boy...Mason!! This morning around 9:30a!! If Nichole posts photos...i might be able to link them...we'll see!

34 weeks...and counting!

oh, my goodness...we're already 34 weeks into our pregnancy!! so about 5-7 weeks left!! just because you never know if you will go a week late...or early.
It is very noticeable from last week's photo to this week's photo, that i am starting to drop already!! When i sit down, i feel like the little guy is sitting on my lap!! and it is becoming easier for me to breath too...walking up and down the stairs for the laundry isn't such a struggle anymore!! And our little guy is "always" on the move!! The other night Brandon and i were laying in bed watching my tummy move...at times it looked like a bowl full of jello, just wiggling all around!! Little Oliver is definitely doing cartwheels and flips...i'm quite sure of it!!

i thought a couple more self-portraits in the entryway mirror were in order this morning! i've been neglecting to add photos to the blog lately...mainly because nothing new has been going on...or else i just forgot to bring my camera along!

Lets see...what's new:
Last Wednesday: Brandon's band played at the Country Club here in Blue Earth. It was only a 2 hour show...but they did an awesome job and sounded great!! Brandon said he had a really fun time playing...so it was all worth it!! and he sang his new song by Dwight Yoakam!
(i forgot to bring my camera...oops!)

Brandon's 28th birthday was last Thursday! He and his boss came up to the coffee shoppe in the morning and had a latte and birthday cake...and all of the coffee ladies got to sing him "happy birthday"! (you've never heard anything like it before...they try their hardest to be off-tune...but it makes you laugh everytime you hear it!!) and then we had reubens that night for dinner! He got to choose his dinner since it was his day!!

Friday: We went to Mankato! Finally!! We amazingly accomplished quite a bit of shopping! Brandon got a set of screwdrivers at Lowe's (with his birthday money!!)...and we got to stop in to Old Navy too!! (my favourite store!!) and then we registered for baby "stuff" at Target! Now, that was interesting!! Brandon got to be in charge of the "beeper-gun"...i would take things off the shelf and point the bar-code in his direction and he would beep it!! At one point i called Liz to ask which bottle nipples to get (they have a very large selection at Target!!)...and he took off down the aisle and started beeping pacifiers!! It will be interesting to see what comes up on the registry!! No, i'm sure he behaved himself!!

Saturday: not too much...worked.

Sunday: a lazy day at home...i slept for 13 hours that night!! boy, did that feel good!! and then we went for a nice long walk...the weather was gorgeous!!

and Monday-Wednesday: pretty much non-eventfull! Brandon did receive the game Blokus from my folks for his birthday...and we played 4 games last night!!

7 weeks to go

Here are a couple of quick photos. Already at 33 weeks!! So only 7 weeks to go...well i like to say 6-8 weeks!! You never know if the little one will come a week early (hopefully) or a week late (preferably not...but i don't have control over that!).

It's really starting to pop out nicely now! i love it...

lounging around day...

lounging around day...
well, it's not all fun...i went to bed sick last night and woke up the same way this morning. i'm catching a cold...headache, sore throat, cough, burning eyes...feels like a train hit me! so i decided i should just rest for a day. maybe that will magically make me feel better! so i thought i would take a photo where i'm not dressed nicely with make-up no and hair done! i don't think i ever post any of these photos!!

in my comfy pants and a tee-shirt from my hubby's side of the closet!! wet hair and no make-up!!

now i'm off to go doze for a little while!!

on the countdown...

Brandon and i are on the countdown now! we're at 30 weeks...well about 30 1/2 weeks really!! it seems like the time has flown by! i think we are ready for little Oliver to join us at home...i guess as ready as we can be!!

Last night Brandon took a few photos of my baby bump...

my belly is certainly sticking out there now!! for the longest time everyone was telling me that i was so small for how far along i was...but they can see my ever-growing-tummy now!!
i love it!

our weekend trip...

Thought i would share a couple photos from our little visit to Sioux Falls last weekend! Jon and Nichole live there and we were invited out for a little visit before our babies are due! It was a rather quick visit...we left on Saturday afternoon and were back home by Sunday late afternoon...but we had a fun time shopping in Sioux Falls and visiting with them! Nichole and i went to a couple baby consignment stores and the guys went to a couple guitar stores!! On Sunday, after church, i got to take photos of Nichole's baby bump!! Here are a couple...

the rest of her photos are here

Brandon wanted to take a photo of Nichole and i...so that we could remember how we were pregnant at the same time!! Nichole is at 34 weeks and i am at 30 weeks!!

ohhh...just look at our two little bumps!!

i change my hair a lot...

Well, on Tuesday i got my hair cut again! i wasn't sure what i wanted...so i brought in a few photos to Jenny and told her the things i liked and didn't like about them all. and she gave me a new do! i was thinking about it and i've had lots of different hair styles in the past couple years! Here is a quick run-through...

i had the longest hair when Brandon first met me...and i kept this long hair for the longest. i don't think i had it cut for a year!! but, it was getting super long and extremely thick...so i started going shorter and shorter.

nice and long and wavy
(miss aimee in the back seat!!)

After moving to Blue Earth, i wanted a change for my hair...so i got it chopped off!! and had the ends flipped out most of the time...i liked this one, but i'm not sure it was the best for my face shape...

for our wedding, i let my flipped out hair grow out a little bit and then i had a perm put in!! talk about an extreme change!! Brandon called me a poodle for the first couple of days after getting it!! and i have to agree with him...but it relaxed quite a bit!! the photo for our wedding makes my hair look really good...since i had it professionally fixed right before the photos!!

and my goal was to let it grow it out again...this photo i have it pulled back so it looks shorter than it really was! but i loved being able to do a few different styles with it...and curl the ends!

Then miss Jenny came to town and started doing my hair!! we've put some lighter highlights in and added bangs! loved the bangs while they lasted!!
(just a bad photo of me!!)

i think this one is my all time favourite...after the perm, my hair was not healthy anymore...so i told miss Jenny just to cut off all the bad stuff! it was getting to the point that when i would go to flat-iron my hair in the morning it would actually squeak!! so, this one was longer on the sides and shorter in the back...and we coloured it much lighter this time!!

Okay...here is my new style!!
Super short...this is the shortest i have ever gone!! a little pixie really...but i think i like it! super easy to take care of! perhaps it's just my pregancy hormones that is making me go shorter and shorter...not quite sure!!
after this one i think i am going to try to grow it out a little more...but i guess we'll see just how far that goes!!

OMGoodness

it's here...it's here!!
i had ordered the most adorable baby boy (and girl, but i'm only excited about the boy stuff!!) paper and embellishments for at the scrapbook store...and it came in on tuesday!!
super super cute things...i can't wait to start making a book for little Oliver!!
As soon as i opened the box and saw that it was 10 times cuter than the photos online...i just had to send Liz and Brandon an email saying that "it's here...it's here...i think i'm going to cry it's just soooo cute"!! it made Brandon laugh when came to the store that afternoon!!

Liz is going to come over to my house, i think next weekend, and scrapbook!! Even though i have a smaller house...i also invited Jenny and Tami!! i'm sure we'll all fit!! Not quite sure on the date...but whenever it will be...we are going to have lots of fun!!