Ava Kate's nursery

I love the way Ava Kate's nursery turned out.  It is totally different from Anna Riley's and I like that.  There are still a few things I will add later. I would like to get a shelf to go on the wall on the right when you come in and also I will hang one or two of the maternity pictures up as soon as I find frames I like.   

Yes, the frame has Anna Riley's picture in it...it was left over from AR's birthday party and I forgot to take the picture out. 

Football Saturdays

Oh how we love Football Saturdays!!   I have to admit though, we have kind of enjoyed doing things low key this year.  We LOVE tailgaiting but it is a lot of work. We have really enjoyed tailgaiting at home this year.  Bama played a night game this weekend so we decided at the last minute to just go to campus and walk around and eat lunch.  The weather felt great and  I really felt good so we walked quite a bit.  We took Anna Riley to see the statues, had lunch on the quad and let Anna Riley play on the blow-ups for a while.   She and I were both worn out by the time we got back to the car.  She fell asleep on the way home and slept for 3 hours!  We spent the rest of the day being lazy and watching football all day!  It was a great day in football too:  Auburn lost, Tennese lost and Bama won! :) 

I tried to get her to stand on the National Chapionship we won 2 years ago

when I was pregnant with her but no such luck!

Giving Coach Saban high five



36 weeks

Symptoms:  I feel great somedays and not so great the other.  I have had a lot of ligament pains on the right side this week, especially after going walking Tuesday morning.  I am not quite as tired as I have been so that helps a lot.  I still have trouble breathing and I have to take really deep breaths sometimes...this usually happens when I am sitting.  I have had more pain in my back this week.  My belly button is almost completely out.  With Anna Riley, my belly button looked more like a crater or deep hole but its a lot different this time. 

Weight gain: 27 lbs.
Maternity Clothes:  The options are getting very slim
Sleep:  Sleep is not the best.  I have to pee quite a bit and I am literally rolling out of bed.  Also, around 4 or so most mornings, I wake up to go to the bathroom and can't go back to sleep for like an hour.  So, if you get a blog or facebook comment from me in the early morning hours you know why! :)

Movement:  Movement has slowed down a good bit and now when she moves around it usually doesn't feel so great.  I am sure she has ran out of room!

Cravings:  Anything with cream cheese ( I don't think I can really blame that one on pregnancy!!)  I am eating the caramel apple cream cheese dip I talked about earlier in the week as we speak. 

Dr. Appointment:  Everything looked great at my Dr. appointment today.  The group B was negative, iron looked good, weight gain still about a lb, baby measured great so we were all good to go!  Cant believe we are only 3 weeks away!  :)  I am BEYOND ready to meet my sweet Ava Kate!

New Toys...

Or that's what she thinks anyway!!
We have brought home all the baby stuff (except for the swing) from my Father-in-laws basement this week.  Anna Riley thinks she has just gotten lots of new toys to play with.  She carries them all over the house, puts her babies in them, gets in the herself.  It will be interesting to see how she shares these "new toys" with her baby sister.

I'll be good...

For a cookie (or two)!!

These pajamas describe her so well!

Big Sister Practice

Laying with her baby in the bouncy seat

She had to bring her blanket and bunnies for the baby to "nite nite"

We found one of her pacis that had her name on it at Papa Dougs so she loved giving it to the baby.

(Its amazing to me how attached she was to her paci and now she doesn't even think about putting it in her mouth...its for the baby!)

Yes, the baby's head is backwards!

Let's just hope she doesn't do this with her new baby sister!

RTR!!

We had a great time watching football all day Saturday.  We got to see Bama bring home another win! :)  

We had 3 other couples and their kids come over Saturday to watch the game.  The kids had a blast playing together while we stuffed our faces and watched football.  We had quite the spread (and most of it was recipes we all got from Pintrest...gotta love it!)  My favorite was Apple Cheesecake Dip!!!  YUM...you have to try it.  Click here for the recipe.  Its perfect for fall too!

ROLL TIDE! 

This was actually Friday (in Tuscaloosa, we typically wear bama clothes all weekend! haha)

"ROOOOOLLLL Tide Roll!"

My sweet little cheerleader

Talon...is he not ADORABLE?!?

I have already claimed him for one of my girls to marry! :)

Cooper and AR playing during the game

Anna Riley is saying "CHEEESE"

Fischer and Tucker were not interested in pictures