Nursery fit for a Prince!

The nursery is finished! It has been a work in progress for quite sometime and it is so nice to have it all completed! All we need now is a baby! View of William's nursery
Closet, changing table/dresser

I love his bed!!!!!! Cant wait to see a sweet sleeping little baby boy in there!

Wall with windows and chest of drawers. Frames are not all filled in yet, waiting for those precious first pictures!

Reading and feeding corner!

Forth wall!

Hope you like your room Will and cant wait for you to meet us and see how excited we are for you!

Jessie's Wedding, last one while expecting!

THIS momma can still get down!
Jess with her dad, so precious!

Yup, the last wedding while expecting!

The stunning bride and I

Saturday one of my best friends got married, we have been through SO much together and so much to lead her to this point in her life. Honestly at some points I didnt know if she was ever going to find Mr. Right, just one of those girls that did not have the best luck in that department, but she did and he is great!

I read the scripture in her wedding and can not think of a better way to show her how I care, I am so glad I got to be a part of their day, everything was perfect....Their wedding was straight out of a fairy tale and she looked just that, like a princess! The best part? Jessie does not want to wait long to make lots of friends for William!

34 weeks and bump pics

My perfect cantaloupe baby!

It is a love/hate relationship, but I think I will miss my bump.

34 weeks: Your baby now weighs about 4 3/4 pounds (like your average cantaloupe) and is almost 18 inches long. Her fat layers — which she'll need to regulate her body temperature once she's born — are filling her out, making her rounder. Her skin is also smoother than ever. Her central nervous system is maturing and her lungs are continuing to mature as well. If you've been nervous about preterm labor, you'll be happy to know that babies born between 34 and 37 weeks who have no other health problems generally do fine.

By this week, fatigue has probably set in again, though maybe not with the same coma-like intensity of your first trimester. Your tiredness is perfectly understandable, given the physical strain you're under and the restless nights of frequent pee breaks and tossing and turning, while trying to get comfortable. Now's the time to slow down and save up your energy for labor day (and beyond).

Boy, they aren't kidding about the fatigue! I sure am feeling it these days, by the time I get home, as much as I want to just lay down for a minute I have to keep going and stay busy till about 9 so I can attempt to get a full nights rest.... which I am lucky if I get! The wrist pain is still pretty bad, but still mostly at night so that is good I guess!

Shower with my favorite Girls!

This past Saturday some of my best girlfriends threw me my last and final baby shower. Everything was so perfect, from the handmade (AMAZING TASTING) cake from my friend Michelle, to the decorations, and all the laughs that were had. It was a day I will remember for a long time. I am so blessed to have them in my life, they are always there for me whether it be to bitch and moan about a problem, or to celebrate an exciting day we are all family and I love that.

I also love how excited the girls are about little William! Some of my friends already have kids of their own, and the fact that they are still so excited for us and to meet him makes me feel very special and loved, I tell Will about his cool aunts all the time and I cant wait until he is a little older and really realizes that he has not one, but eight mommies who love him dearly.

Meghan also did a POST about my shower, with some details I may have left out. Some of the girls went in and got ME a gift! I get to have a beautiful robe for the hospital and at home, some comfy slippers and a gift card to get a pedicure, just what this mommy needed! What a great idea they had ;)

Opening Gifts


Will got some Nike shocks! Pretty cool kicks for a kid! I know my sister is eyeing them up because they are Bennett sized so he might get to try them out for a bit till Will is ready!

Froggie hooded towel from pottery barn, too darn cute!

Of course Jim came to my shower, he IS just one of the girls!

Cake and cupcakes made by Michelle, the cake was like 5 layers tall and has some yummy raspberry in between each layer, and Meghan made this awesome diaper cake! SO cute!!!!

The girls.

Crystal, Me, Mom, and Nana

It's getting hot in here....

Sorry if my posts have been a little complainy lately, but I am in the home stretch of pregnancy in the dead heat of one of the hottest summers we've had for a while... I'm allowed.

At my work I wear many different hats, one of them being a sales person.

I don't have a lot of accounts just a few, one is a pretty big one.

Today I had a meeting at the big customer. They are only about 5 minutes away so of course my car couldn't completely cool down by the time I got there. It is well over 100 out today including heat index I think it is about 115, tack on over 20 pounds of baby bump and everything seems to be harder to do... even getting in and out of the car. The good thing here is, I don't care what people think of me, nor do I get embarrassed easily, so me looking like a complete fool is a daily happening.

Back to my story:
I go in; I am hot but fine... go to meet with my guy and we go in a conference room with windows all along one wall, it is HOT in there, I don't know if the door was closed and it acted as a sauna or what but it was HOT! He asks if I am going to be ok, of course I say sure, one thing I do not want is special treatment of any kind just for being pregnant.

Half way through our meeting I completely stop listening and talking and all my attention is brought down to my legs which have been crossed.
Humm...Why in the hell are my legs all wet? I felt like I was in a bath tub.... I crossed them the other way to try and figure out what is going on under there (while still pretending to listen and nod).... I am sure you could of heard the swish from my legs moving. With my incredibly shrinking bladder of course the first thing I think is the worst... but thankfully I was dripping from my legs with sweat! I managed through the rest of the meeting agreeing with everything they said, all I could think about was how wet my dress was going to be when I stood up.... or if when I stood up I would stay up because I have a tendency to get light headed these days!

I survived and I am back in my cool office eating lunch, lets just say my underwear has seen drier days.... Is it Fall yet?

Maternity Photos

Here are some maternity photos I had taken, she puts 15 one facebook and sent me a link to more, if you want to view them all go HERE click on proofing and type in ashley1

We had set up some packages with my wedding photographer to do Williams newborn shoots and possibly a maternity shoot for me, then an old friend on facebook saw some of my "bump" pics and messaged me telling me she is doing photography but still trying to get her portfolio going, so I went ahead and scheduled a session with her. I figured if they didn't turn out good we could always still do another one, if I get pregnant again who knows if the belly will look this good the second time around ;)

Monday was a crazy day, I felt nauseous in the afternoon at work and ended up throwing up at my desk, I went home shortly after and debated canceling with Jackie but I didn't know when I would reschedule so I had a 1/2 hour (which I was supposed to be doing my hair and makeup) and I layed my head on the couch. Well I passed out and woke up to Boomer barking because Jackie was at the door! I quickly got ready, Luke got home and we got started. About 15 minutes in I had to keep sitting down I was so light headed and the room was spinning (not exactly the maternal nurturing picture setting) Then all of the sudden I had the urge again and was on the bathroom floor, mostly naked. Again I powered through thinking well, these pictures are definitely going to suck but whatever....

I didn't have time to get ready, I am sure I was pale etc from getting sick, it was hot out, I was hungry. But to my surprise they turned out really good, I wish we would of gotten a few more, and I wish Boomer would of cooperated more, but all in all we got some really good ones!

I get to pick ten to have on a cd that I can print from, anyone have any favorites to help me choose these ten?

We were also thinking of doing one for a blank wall in our bathroom, and a small one for William's room.