33 Weeks

Last weekend, my mom decided to come visit semi-last minute. It was awesome. We had such a great weekend! We got some great deals on some of the baby things that we still needed. I'm feeling like we are almost ready to go, with just a few more things that we still need. We got baskets and a hamper for the baby's room, a bouncy seat, and some other smaller things. My mom is awesome at getting deals. We went to a used store and ended up getting the bouncy seat brand new for $2 more than it was at the used store! I am feeling huge. My belly is getting harder and I think it's sticking out a lot more too. The baby is filling up all that space! This weekend, we got to relax, we did a lot of shopping, took some pictures, and my mom even made me pumpkin bread! I LOVE her pumpkin bread. We are so thankful to be blessed with such a wonderful family and have so many great friends.

I have tried to be on top of things for school. I have been getting my lesson plans done each Tuesday (so, yes...my lesson plans are done today for next week!) and I am also staying pretty caught up with my grades. This is a big deal because grades are due soon and it's the first time I haven't freaked out because I was so far behind. Today I felt (what I think was) Braxton Hicks a lot. The top and middle of my belly got REALLY hard and stayed that way for quite a while. This makes me feel like the baby will be coming so soon and makes me try even harder to stay on top of things. But, honestly...like I'm going to care when I'm in labor/have the baby. Still, it's nice not to have to worry about it.

We saw some really great costumes yesterday and some adorable kids when they came around trick-or-treating for Halloween. Chris and I sat out on the porch and passed out candy, which was enjoyable. I love passing out candy. Now, I'm really looking forward to Thanksgiving! (I know, already...) Family is coming down and I am very excited to have it at our new house and have some great time with some of the family too!

Here are some pictures from this past weekend.



Relaxing with the baby!







Chris listening to baby!



So excited for the baby to come! On the left is our new bouncy seat!



A big belly is rough on my back!

Look how big my belly is getting!

Woah! Look at that thing!



She will be such a good big sister! She is being so gentle with my belly!



Pumpkins and Baby Room!

This was at 31 weeks. I got a huge pumpkin!

Last weekend, Chris and I went to a pumpkin patch. I love fall! I love the colored leaves, picking apples, and carving pumpkins! We even got a baby pumpkin for the little one!

This weekend, our friends Brittany and Caleb came over and we all carved pumpkins. We had a great time!



Here are the final products! Mine is the bat and pumpkin on the left, Chris made the ghost, and the baby pumpkin is in the middle!



Putting the dresser together!

Paris was VERY helpful. When our wrists hurt, she took over. :)

Chris sitting inside the dresser after working hard!

Yay! We have put together the crib and dresser! The room is coming together!

The finished dresser/changing table with changing pad and decals on the wall!

The sign that Chris was SUPER excited about, with decals above the bed.

Crib wall with diaper stacker and blanket.

 I am feeling so much better knowing that the room is almost done! We put the dresser together, put the decals on the wall, hung the sign, got the crib set out, and organized some of the baby stuff. I am so excited! We have to wash all of the clothes that we have so far, but we will probably wait a little while before we do that or we will just feel like we should do it again! Getting VERY excited about this little one coming! :)

32 Weeks

Today marks 32 weeks into the pregnancy. This means that we only have 8 weeks left. I'm conflicted when I think about these numbers because they are not necessarily accurate. 8 weeks could really be anywhere from 4 to 10 weeks (hopefully no less than 4) and everything is so up in the air. The baby room is not even close to finished yet and there are still many things that we want/need for when this little baby shows up. I'm not freaking out yet, but just acknowledging the things that need to be completed in the near future. I don't know when it happened, but I became a planner. I like to make lists, have a schedule, and know what to expect. This makes it difficult when trying to plan the holidays when I don't know when this wonderful baby will grace us with his/her presence. I think that this is God's way of getting me prepared for being a mom. You can't always plan things and have it all be so structured when you have kids...so I guess I have to get used to that.

This week at our class, we got to take a tour of the hospital birthing center. The rooms were much bigger than we expected and actually look very nice. I was excited when we left, but also a little nervous. There are so many unknowns when it comes to pregnancy and childbirth. I feel like the baby won't be way late, but I think that's just me trying to plan again. It's weird to know that your life is going to change so drastically soon, but not know when this will actually happen. That's ok though. We are along for the ride.

How have I been feeling? Well, pretty good. My hips haven't been popping when I walk up the stairs as much recently. I do not wake up quite as often from shooting pain down my hip/legs either. The baby is still moving like crazy, which feels much different than it used to.

On Monday, I didn't know how I was going to get through another 9 weeks. I got up every day and went into work and just took it a day at a time and this week flew by. I'm hoping the same happens for the next however many weeks until the baby is born. Chris and I are so excited to expand our family with this little one. Oh, and I am excited to carve our little pumpkin family tonight. :)

31 Weeks!

Well, we are 31 weeks in, with only 9 weeks left to go. I had a baby shower up in Michigan thrown by my aunts and lots of friends and family were able to celebrate with me. We are overwhelmed by all of the "must-haves" and are trying to weed through to figure out what we really must have.

As for baby Boerner, he/she is good! Kicking like crazy and making me feel all sorts of weird things I've never felt before. At my last appointment, the doctor said that everything looks good. The baby got very excited and had a healthy heartbeat. We have started classes at the hospital. They have been very helpful for both of us. Plus, I got a massage from Chris last time, BONUS! People still keep saying that I'm not very big, but I feel like a giant. I can no longer put shoes on/tie them unless I told my breath. When I breathe out, I can't reach them anymore. Right. Not big at all. :)

School is going well. It's getting harder to get up with less sleeping through the night. I wake up constantly from this hip pain and have to flip over, until it hurts on both sides enough that I have to get out of bed. Chris has been a wonderful support though through it all.

I'm getting anxious to know if it's a boy or a girl! We have put up our crib and are waiting for the dresser to come in later this week or early next week. Chris painted the bedroom a while ago now and everything is slowly coming together. I am so thankful for the love and support people have shown us recently. We are very excited to meet this little one! We know he/she will also feel very loved!

Geez!

Ok, so life is like a whirlwind. Everytime I look at what I last wrote, I can't believe how much has changed since then. Well, that was over a year ago now. We did move into the apartment and RIGHT after we moved in, I got three interviews right in a row. I went to all three and the final interview went really well. I was offered the job and thrown right into things and had to start very quickly! Praise God for His timing and faithfulness. We lived in our apartment for 6 months, until we bought a house! For the past 6 months, we have been trying to adjust to our new jobs still, the new area, and get our house in order. I LOVE our house. We still would like to do some things to it, but we got a great deal and it's awesome. :) I also really love my job. I start back up with kids on Aug. 29 and I am excited. Chris starts tomorrow with kids!

Let's see...what else? Well, as I'm sure you know if you're reading this...we are pregnant! I am 22 weeks now, which is crazy. The pregnancy has been going well. It started out with me being VERY tired. Like, me coming home from school, eating dinner, and passing out on the couch by 5:30 or 6 and sleeping until 5 or 5:30 when I got up for work (except getting up to go to bed in there). Then, I began feeling sick. I didn't really GET sick...I just felt like I was going to...constantly. I got really mad at this "morning sickness" idea because it was definetely not just in the morning, it was ALL day and night. Next, I got the hives. That was HORRIBLE. Oatmeal baths and benadryl saved me as I have never itched so much in my life. I pushed through and did not miss one day of work through it all. :) People kept telling me that I would feel better by the 2nd trimester. Lies. Don't believe people. hehe. I heard that if you didn't feel better by then, it would last the whole pregnancy. Also lies. A few weeks later (prob about wk 16 or so) I finally started feeling better. My stomach went on some angry spells, but over all was better. As for now? I still have to eat constantly if I don't want to feel sick. I still have days where my stomach bothers me, but am doing much better. I have the most ridiculous dreams that are SO vivid and intense I wake up exhausted...like every night. Oh, and I was having this horrible hip pain, which has calmed down. My knees crack everytime I bend them and my lower back hurts...but that's no surprise. But overall I feel great. I am getting very excited and it is becoming real! July 29 we went to the ultrasound, which was amazing. We got to see the brain activity, the blood flow and beating heart, and our baby moved it's hand to suck it's thumb...or fingers. Very cool. We also decided not to find out the gender. I have started to feel it kick recently too, which is fun. Today in church baby was going crazy. Chris said that he/she must like the music. :) That makes sense with us as parents.

I will try to update about how things are going with the pregnancy and baby. I know a lot more people are interested in our lives now that we are bringing a baby into the mix! :) We are so blessed and excited about what God is doing in our lives. We will be the best parents that we know how to be and pray that it's good enough!

Kentucky bound!

Well, it's official. We are moving to Kentucky! I'm a bit stressed about everything that we need to do, namely me getting a job. Chris got a job at a high school in northern Kentucky and we are moving into an apartment in Florence. A one bedroom. From a three bedroom house. Ha. Should be interesting! I'm excited though.

I just read my last post and realized what I had said. My principal called me in to her office and told her that I was going to teach 5th grade next year because she knows that I can handle it and I have strong classroom management. So this was very nice and I would have been with my kids for another year! But I feel like with all the change going on anyway, it is a good time to go.

On another note, this summer has been CRAZY! I've loved it though...I go crazy just sitting around which is another good reason I need to find a job! We got out of school in June and I had a week of meetings to improve things for next year. Well, they finished early which worked out well because Chris got an interview in KY. So we left and stayed there overnight and headed to Michigan after that. While we were at his mom and dad's house, he got a call to offer him the position. We stayed at his parents for a few days and then headed to my mom's. We were there for a few days and then flew out to Colorado to go to my sister's wedding. We got to go swimming in the hot springs and had a good time. Then it was back to Michigan and after two days, Chris headed up north with her parents while I went to California to stay with Jenny for her birthday. Surprise! :) I had a great time. I got to see my dad and go golfing and spend time with him. I also got to see Wendy and Nicole and spend lots of time with Jenny and everyone at her house. We did lots of shopping, went to a baseball game, ate Jamba Juice, and lots more. I had a great time. I flew back and we stayed with my mom for a few days and then back to Perry with his parents. Then, we headed to KY and stopped by to see Mark's family which was nice on the way. We found a new place to live and got back to NC this past week. I found out some crappy news about applications that I fixed and we have been hanging out with people to say our goodbyes and starting to pack up. It's crazy. Bittersweet, for sure. I will really miss people here, especially my kids and some good friends I have made, but I feel like we need to move on.

Haha. Crazy NC weather..it's now storming. I love summer.

Life.

Is it sad that I feel like I need to add this to my to-do list? 1. Post on blog. Now I wish I had, just so I could have crossed something off. I am so obsessed with to-do lists, I'm surprised I didn't.

I'm officially 25. That's crazy. I feel old now. My birthday was awesome, though....even though I turned 25. Chris surprised me with Jenny coming to visit. If you don't know Jenny...she's only my best friend since I was 3. I'm surprised you didn't know that. haha. Sometimes I think I'm funny...sorry. We got to hang out and go shopping and play games and take pictures. It was sweet. I just like hanging out with her and it had been almost 3 yrs since we had seen each other. Best. birthday. present. ever.

Well, it is June. Chris is out of school and I'm almost finished. I have 6 1/2 days with students, then some meetings and workdays. My kids take their retest for reading tomorrow. I'm really ready to get out of here. I love my kids, I will definitely miss them. However, it's not like I'll have them again next year or anything. Oh well. We are looking into Kentucky and Michigan for the job search. Pray that we find something, because we sure are. Part of me loves North Carolina, but I feel like our life is standing still while we're here. I hope we get jobs.

Well, dinner is ready. Love to you all! :)