Belly Pictures and NC Shower

I said I would post some more belly pics...so here they are.  I have also included some really REALLY sexy pictures of my feet!  Nobody ever told me pregnancy could be this incredibly hot! :)  I hope it doesn't really gross you out and you will still be my friend.  

I also had my NC baby shower that my friends Amanda, Laura, and Lindsey put on for me.  It was great.  They measured my belly...and we played bingo with the gifts people gave me.  I had about 5 people from work come and the rest were fellow ortho wives.  I am really spoiled...a shower in Denver, one here, and I have another one this coming week that the girls at work are hosting.  WOW!  It is a bit overwhelming.  Bret and I are lucky we have made so many good friends here :)

There are also a couple pictures from Bret's Duke Ortho Christmas Party.  I had to wear scandals...bc...well...just look at the feet pictures!  It was great hanging out with our friends and meeting some of the people bret works with.  

So I am starting to get very uncomfortable with being pregnant and am ready to meet my little one.  I have been having lots of Braxton Hicks contractions for the past two weeks and some are even about 5 minutes apart.  My OB says this is good...and this "prepares" my uterus for labor.  It could be any day now...or another 4 weeks.  The sooner the better sounds good to me right now-as long as she is healthy!

Sorry so short- i really wish i could write more, but i am exhausted and off to bed (even though i will probably sit there awake!  sleep has not been easy).

Baby Shower and Kaia's room

Hmm...i dont know what happened to the last month!  I was planning on posting some baby shower pictures right when i got home-but obviously that didnt happen.  So here are some now!  The Shower was awesome and overwhelming all at the same time.  I mean look at all those wonderful gifts for our baby girl.  I also felt really strapped for time- there was so many people i wanted to catch up with and i only had a limited amount of time.  Sad day. :(  

It was great being in denver.  Steph and Rach both flew in from San Fran...so it was just like old times for a bit- Steph, Rach, Cass, Mandy and I all got to go to our favorite restaurant- Old C's and pigged out on junk food.  I miss everyone so much.  Denver and San Fran are just TOO FAR AWAY!!!  There are a couple pics from that night as well.  

I also got to enjoy some much needed time with my family.  Look at how cute my sister and i are together.  It is pretty crazy that we are only 4 weeks apart in our pregnancies and both are having girls!  If only....i know...you guessed it....we lived closer together :)

Okay...I am sure much more has happened in this last month- but i am not sure exactly what else to say.  I put up a couple more pictures of the nursery ( a little more decorated this time).  Bret was a big help.  He even put up all the little monkey decals and dots up.  He was much more creative then i would have been and made a cute design going across the wall.  

I am so ready for her to come at this point.  No one ever really explained just how miserable things go feel when you are so close to the end.  I feel like a huge whale.  I have big elephant cankles (sp?), swollen fat sausage-fingers, stretch marks on my ass (too much info???- sorry), i cant sleep bc my hips are shooting pains all the way into my feet, i have heartburn that makes me want to puke...and ....ewww...the list goes on.  Anyone want to get knocked up now!!!???

I have a couple more belly pics to put up, but i have not uploaded them off my camera yet...so they will have to wait until next post (which hopefully wont be another month).  At that rate we might be able to post some baby pics.  I am hopeful...bc i am so over THIS!

Love you all