36 weeks brings a Midwife Appointment, a Baby Shower, and an Empathy Belly!

To kick off week 36 I had my weekly appointment with our midwife. Everything is looking fantastic :) I had my strep B test, and will get those results back this week. Baby boy is head down and has dropped (THANK GOD I CAN BREATH AGAIN). I am not dilated or effaced at all, and Baby's heart beat is 140. It looks like I will be pregnant for at least a week longer.

Then I went into work for my awesome team to throw me a baby shower! It was such a great afternoon getting even the guys involved in baby talk and diaper decorating :)

I got some awesome gifts, and my management team gave us a gift card to get the last big item that we need from our registry before baby gets here!

Thank you again to everyone who came and who made it special!

Oh and outside of gifts my AMAZING supervisor Carolyn got me a snow cone machine! John was a trooper and made snow cones for the shower... if he ever doesn't make it as a caseworker the Snow Shack would be lucky to have him ;)

I only had 2... well 3, but the 3rd one was small ;)



My sweet friend Nicole has been such a blessing of support through my whole pregnancy, and she was the one to take charge of planning the shower. Her creativity shined in the cute decor and fun food and games

That evening was our 4th Birthing class! It was the best class so far, because this week Michael got the pleasure of being pregnant too :) Our teacher wrapped his chest in a tight band to make it hard to breath, then put a heated belly with an attachment to squish his bladder on him. Then he got to pick things up, lay down then get back up, and other fun pregnancy trials :)

I ended the day cuddled up watching the lighting storm (which is one of my favorite things)

 with my baby daddy! It really was a wonderful day!

 I am glad everything is staying so happy through this pregnancy I feel very blessed!

Baby Shower Family Lunch

My sweet mother and sister in law took us to lunch today for some of Mike's family to spoil Baby Reece! They picked my favorite restaurant which alone would have made my day, but they also got us so much stuff that we needed I can't tell you how happy I am!  

  Outside of all the sweet things Mike's sister Mandi, cousin Corri, and our friend Erin gave Mike's mom and grandma made Baby lots of spit cloths, swaddle blankets, and an amazing Teddy Bear quilt!

We had a great afternoon catching up, and I think the kids like opening presents for their brother just as much as they do for themselves! :)

Baby Shower #1

My great friends Amanda, Sara, and Megan threw us a "You are my Sunshine" BBQ for dinner Sunday night! It was so much fun! Thank you to everyone who came, helped, sent gifts, and spoiled our baby boy! 



Our BBQ Invites made by
Reigning Parties

My perfect little family at our Baby Shower

Mike and I with our
You are my Sunshine Cake
&
Grey and Yellow Cupcakes
Make by the Amazing Jammie with Think Cake Bakery 

We got lots of incredible gifts from
 our wonderful family and friends

And instead of cards Baby Reece received
lots of books signed with love to build his library!

For Center pieces Amanda made bouquets in mason jars
And for Favors we gave our friends mini mason jars filled with candy!

We asked that our friends leave us their address
to help sending
Thank you Cards and Birth Announcements

Our friends left Baby Reece wishes for his Future
to put in his baby book! 

Our friends made Baby Reece adorable bibs and onesies 

With lots of small ones coming to our shower
we planned something for them to do
other than the bibs and onesies station!

We made a board of ideas,
so that if our guests were feeling uncreative!

And seeing we are at a park in the summer
we brought Sunscreen and Bug spray
just in people forgot 

And the cutest babygirl in the world was at our party :) 

My sweet friend Jessie is due the day after me with her 2nd baby Remy!

My Girls! 



My Boy! 

The Dugans made the trip from
Mt. Home just for us! 

Cate and Kaylee 

Eva and Kaiden 

Dave and Eva with their onesies! 

Uncle Bobby being a Cop
decided to play his onesie off that!

Star Spangled Baby Shower

So I am going to brag a little :) I love being a military wife, and know that I was made to be one. With all the good there is the hard parts too... like my husband missing my 2nd trimester and that he will end up leaving again before our baby boy is a year old. But it is because military wives have to deal with stuff that other wife's don't that there is amazing support out there. One of the great support teams is Operation Homefront. They do fun things for families all year, but this last Sunday they had an event just for pregnant military mommies! I didn't know what to expect, but I had a blast! They had an awesome speaker Janet Jackson (not the singer) who was an RN for the Air force, a military wife, and then a nurse for St. Luke’s Maternity. She is now a speaker for all things pregnancy and new baby related. She is so funny, very knowledgeable, and full good tips. If you ever are taking a class through St. Luke's with her I promise you will love it!
They had lots of food and snacks to keep all the growing mommies happy :) There were games, raffles, and all the moms got a ton of free gifts!
Here are some of the pictures of the event and gifts that I brought home! It was a good day to be a military wifey ;)