34 weeks & a Surprise Shower!

34 weeks...ok...so on Monday it was 34 weeks...THIRTY FOUR weeks!! Three weeks until I am considered full term! woah.

This morning I woke up with a feeling that the baby is way too big for my stomach...when it moves so does the shape of my stomach, it is weird. I plan on working up until the baby comes...but we'll see how that goes. I mean I really have to in order to get paid and all, but I might try and swing four 10 hour days and take Friday's off until then. I am just so beat when I get home from work.

I had a Dr's appt on Tuesday and she said all looks good. I got a prescription for another ultrasound to check the baby's size. I am not supposed to go until 37 weeks, but made it about 2 days before I hit 37 because of work. I am sure that will be fine.

After my next appointment I go every week until the baby is here. On Tuesday she said that next time they start the internal exams and as she put it...she will find out then if I am 'in it for the long haul' or if she thinks the baby will come early. My friend Kelly who is due the 9th went today (we have the same Dr) she is 36 weeks and the Dr told her she is already 1.5cm dialated!! She had her son Jack a week early, so we'll see.

There could be a new baby here any time!! (Kelly's that is!) That excites me very much, because it has been a really long time since I have been around a very very new newborn and never for an extended period of time, so it will be nice to hang around her as much as she will let me (since we are neighbors too :)) and learn.

My friends threw me a surprise shower on Saturday!! It was great!! oh and it was at MY HOUSE!! Who has a surprise party thrown for them at their own house!! My best friend Meghan planned the whole thing and had it at my house, because her place is small and she and Jimmy thought that our basement would be finished (it should have been) by then. But oh well...there were like 25 people there, crammed, but everyone came!! We got almost everything we needed...well of course some multiples and some stuff we aren't sure why we got :) but all we needed to get after the shower was another car seat base, a seat protector for the car seat, our stroller, and a few other small odds and ends.

I already ordered the car seat base and seat protector from Target, because we got 2 gift cards from there and I had to return some duplicates to there...don't get me started on them and their return policy, I was there for over an hour fighting with them to return stuff that I got more then one of THAT WAS ON MY REGISTRY! They have a new policy that without a receipt they can't give you your money back or a credit at all. You can use your drivers license twice in one year for up to $20 in items back without a receipt...and that is it. I finally got a store credit and had to use my license only once. But mark my word, I will never register there ever again for anything and I am spreading the word to everyone I know about it and telling them to not do it either. It was unreal and they definitely are not out to make the customer happy.

Anyways...we have a few things to return to Babies-R-Us and then we will use that credit and a gift card we got from there to order our stroller and we'll be all set! I need to start thinking about packing a hospital bag sometime in the next 3 weeks or so too. I need to figure out what all I will need or not need to bring with me.

Here are some pictures from the shower...

The yummiest cake...yellow cake with Mint Chocolate Chip Filling!! (my Dad came up with the saying...funny funny man!)

A quilt my Mom made...hand embroidered!

Me and my Mom

Me and my Girlfriends from College (non-bball)

Me and my bball girls from college (we still all play together...except I am sitting this season out! :))

I will have some exciting news...well to me and Jeannie :) exciting...either tomorrow or Saturday night to post. I have had so much to post about...but between work and being so tired I just have no motivation to sit down in front of the computer when I get home after I sit in front of it all day at work. But I will do my best to post again before Monday. I hope everyone is doing well!! I am going to try now and go to make some long over due comments to all of your blogs!!

Adios :)