Moving right along…

Happy Thanksgiving (a little late….)! I hope you all had a wonderful day and cherished the time spent with family and loved ones. I wanted you all to know how very thankful I am for each and every one of you. It really does mean so much to me that you continue to read my blog despite the fact that in the past 7 months I have not been a very good blogger. I wish I had some amazing excuse to offer as to why my updates and posts are so sporadic, but the truth is that blogging has had to take a backseat to work, pregnancy, household chores, nursery projects, and the other aspects of life. I do love my readers, and I am visiting your blogs… I’m just not doing a very good job with leaving comments.

A few updates….

My shower was in early November, and it was fabulous! Cooper is fully outfitted. Seriously – my Target and Babies R Us registries were completely cleaned out. I’m so incredibly thankful and grateful for all the blessing my friends and family have provided. Here’s a few pictures of the big event:

A close up of the cake my aunt made… isn’t it gorgeous?

 

 

 

Dessert table and table decor

 

 

 

 

Here I am, posing with Jason and my mother

If you happened to send me a gift and I have not thanked you, could you please email me? I got a gift from Amazon (a book) that had no packing slip. I have no idea who it was from. It was addressed “To the parents of Cooper ____ ____” and had no enclosures other than the book. If it was from you, I want to thank you! Please let me know.

I’ve had a few interesting experiences over the past few weeks. The other day I was sitting on the bed, folding laundry, when some clothes fell off the side of the bed. I bent over to pick it up and had a sharp, stabbing pain in my stomach. It was so severe that it took my breath away but it passed once I sat up. Right after that, I started coughing, gagged, and ended up throwing up blood. Y’all, I was FREAKED OUT. I immediately called the doctor and while I was talking to the nurse, realized my nose was dripping blood. Color me embarrassed – the blood must have went down my throat when I bent down. I had no idea nosebleeds were common during pregnancy.

This weekend I started to feel an incredible amount of pain in my groin area – like the bones of my vajayjay hurt. It seriously feels like I’ve been riding a horse for a week. I don’t know what the dealio is, but trust me – it isn’t pleasant. It hurts to walk at this point.

In general I’m just starting to feel very uncomfortable. The baby is moving and kicking up a storm, and my stomach feels very heavy. My back is starting to hurt and I experienced swelling for the first time this weekend (hello, cankles!).

Cankles defense would like me to mention that I was on my feet, shopping, from 9:30 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. on Friday and 10:30 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. on Saturday. Bite me, cankles. Black Friday happens once a year, darn it.

While I was in Augusta, shopping it up with my mom, Jason was home painting the nursery. He’s been working so very hard and the nursery looks amazing! It’s a work in progress, of course, but we’ve got one thing crossed off our to-do list.

One wall is stripes

The other walls are green

Well, readers, that’s about it for now. I would promise to post more often but I’m a little incapable of promises right now. If you are on Facebook, add me! I’m updating that pretty frequently because I can do that from my phone. My email is andrearhouse at yahoo dot com. Please just send me a note to let me know you are coming from my blog. I’m also trying to update Twitter as well so follow me there as well if you have an account (the info is in my sidebar).

Have a great week!