30 Weeks

Here I am, gettin' all huge. I promise there really is a separation between my chest and my belly... shirts just aren't very good at showing it. The fact that I have 10 weeks left is kind of crazy to me (i.e. I'm not excited to get 10 weeks bigger, but very happy to have a few more months to prepare), so I'm just trying to focus on taking it week by week. Time always seems to go faster that way.

In reality, my biggest complaint isn't that bending over is difficult, or that I wake up about 5 times every night because I'm uncomfortable. It's that I'm supremely jealous my husband gets to play volleyball this year and I don't.

The dresser/changing table we ordered for the nursery arrived on Friday, so I put it together last night while Spencer "studied"* for a test he has on Monday. I have a few crafty ideas up my sleeve for decor in there as well, so I'll be sure to post ample pictures when it's done.

*Note: "Studied" in this sentence actually refers to playing computer games while procrastinating work that needed to be done, and is not to be confused with actual studying. We are both pretty good at doing this.

Clarke's Visit

Spencer's brother Clarke came to visit us this past weekend while his wife and kids were in Utah. We had a great time playing lots of games with him and showing him around Cleveland. We drove downtown and took a tour of the USS Cod, a Navy submarine from WWII that's docked in Lake Erie.

Getting ready to go below deck. Clarke thought it was really funny that Spencer wore his Navy shirt that day.

The sleeping quarters were insanely small. I can't imagine living on one of these for very long.

One of the huge guns on deck. Spencer side moved us left and right, and mine moved the gun up and down.

On Saturday, we went to Kirtland to see the church sites. It was a really good experience, and especially neat to do it so soon after Palmyra so we could put all of the history together.

Here we are just after our tour of the Kirtland Temple.

We had a great time with you Clarke- thanks for coming to see us!

Getting Ready for Baby

Spencer's last week of summer break has been a busy one, mainly because we're in the process of transforming our former "office" into a nursery for our little girl.

Step #1- Convince our landlords to let us paint. I'm pretty sure they love us, so that didn't take as much coaxing as I had anticipated.

It looks brown in this picture, but it was really kind of a camouflage greenish brown... not very fitting for a baby's room.

Step #2- Choose a paint color. I bought a really cute cream & sage bedding set, so we decided to paint the room cream to match.

Step #3- Prime (pain in the butt) and paint.

It makes the room so much brighter! I really like it.

Step #4- Add furniture. We picked up the crib yesterday, so we put it together and I put on all the bedding.

The sad thing is, this little girl isn't going to give a rip about the fact that it took me 20 minutes to get all of those bows tied, but I'm still excited to see her in it. I've even hung some little pictures of her on the wall. They make me smile.