Kansas fun and the adventure continues...

I feel like life has been a bit of a whirlwind lately, so it was nice to finally get away. Matt and I traveled the amazing 13 hours back to Kansas to visit friends and family. We managed to fit in all of our favorite things, such as time on the KU campus, Valentino's buffet (yum!), and all of our amazing friends and family. It was a super long drive, but it didn't seem like it took as long this time as last (probably because we were looking forward to it!) The main reason we went back was because my mom, sisters, and friends decided to throw me baby showers!!

My sisters and mom threw the first shower on Saturday. We played a couple of games, including the one where you melt candybars in diapers and then you guess which ones they are, and opened presents. The candybar game was a blast, even though I wasn't nearly as good at guessing candy as I thought!! I also got some pretty fantastic presents, but I really enjoyed seeing my family.



Here I am enjoying the cake and punch. Look at how adorable that punch is!



I love this picture. It looks like my mom and aunt are super confused!


We traveled to Lawrence on Sunday where some of our good friends threw us a co-ed baby shower. We enjoyed TONS of amazing food and opened up some more adorable presents! It was great to see all of our best friends, just wish our visit had lasted longer. We have some amazing friends and it's sad that we can't see them more often!

Here are a few pictures from the second shower!







I'm also into my third trimester. I can not believe how fast time has gone. It seems like just yesterday I found out I was pregnant and now I'm 11 weeks from being done! We are both anxious for David to make his appearance! Matt's dad and brother came into town this weekend and helped us move some stuff around. We moved the guestroom into the front office and started on David's room. Matt and his dad assembled the crib while Matt's brother assembled the rocker. They also helped us put together the car seat and stroller. Now all we need is a changing table/dresser and some decorations on the wall and we'll almost be ready for him!

I'll post some pictures on the next blog of where we're at with the room so far! Look forward to those!

Baby Kicks and Utter Awesomeness!

It has been quite an interesting couple of weeks with some new and interesting developments. First- I have started to feel actual kicks! At first I just felt flutters, which were fun, but not as great as the real thing. One night I was lying in bed and all of a sudden *kick* *kick.* I texted Matt and made him come feel too! And now I feel it all of the time. It's not really time specific, but it kind of tickles so it makes me giggle. It's probably the best thing about being pregnant so far!

Second- Matt won some awards for his work at the newspaper! I'm probably going to butcher these, but there are two organizations which offer these awards. One is the Colorado Associated Press and one is the Colorado Press Assoc. (I think!) Matt won first place for best sports story (YAY!) and also won first place for best SPOT news coverage with another reporter because of their awesome coverage on a missing DJ. Matt was obviously excited about both awards, but ecstatic about the sports coverage! After all of the hard work he has been putting in, it's good to know he's being recognized for it! It's also been nice to meet some of the people Matt deals wtih. I met one of the coaches the other day at Bresnan and he couldn't say any nicer things about Matt. It's good to know that people do actually see all of the long nights and weekends he puts in. I mean, the guy works pretty much 7 days a week. There is no such thing as a day off for him.

Third- TWO WEEKS UNTIL KANSAS!!!!!!!!!! I'm not sure I've ever been this excited about a vacation. Work has been killing me recently and I could definitely use a break. The only downfall is we have to board the dogs for a week. We figured that the money we're paying is definitely worth the piece of mind we'll be getting by letting our vet take care of them. Hopefully they will be smart enough to let them stay together because they HATE being apart!! There are so many reasons I'm looking forward to this trip! 1) Baby showers (CAN'T WAIT!!!) 2) Seeing my sisters and family 3) Seeing friends, hopefully. 4) Seeing my parents. I've learned to miss my parents much more now than I live so far away and only get to see them once a year. Neither of us are really looking forward to the drive, but we've already decided that people are going to have to come visit us! Driving 13 hours to Kansas will not be happening in 2012, especially with a newborn! I'm especially not excited because I found out I have a test to take sometime between Wednesday night-Saturday night, which means I'll have to work on it while I'm at home trying to vacation in Kansas. The plan is to work on as much as I can during the drive and hopefully finish a majority of it before we hit Seneca Wednesday evening.

I don't have any fun photos for this one because I'm still trying to catch Buster and Bella "bobbing" for ice cubes in their water bowl. Yes, it's hilarious but no, I can't seem to catch it on camera.