"Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside." --Rita Rudner --

Ok so it's actually been two weeks since my baby shower so this is a little behind the times but oh well! :) Whit "threw" it for me and it turned out pretty dang good! We had it at my house (so much easier for me to transport gifts :) and had quite a few people show up. I had some friends from my freshmen year of college (Whit, Emma, Heidi, and Natalie), some friends from my second year of college from the Glenwood (Chelsea, Randi, Amanda, and Jenny), and then some friends/family from random places since I've been here in Utah (Reni, Amy, Sis. Alder, and Davilynn). We all spent most of the time just eating and chatting/catching up (I haven't seem some of these girls forever!) and we played a couple of decently un-lame games, opened presents and chatted some more. It was so great! I think I was more excited just to see people for once :) Anyway, it was a wonderful shower. Thanks again Whit for putting it on for me!

The week after the shower Mark and I did quite a bit of shopping for baby stuff (they were having some nice sales for Labor day :) which was pretty fun for me, but Mark wasn't as excited...boys...He's not very baby savvy and doesn't really understand/know what all a baby needs but he'll learn quick enough! (so will I for that matter...) We've pretty much got just about everything for the essentials though, just waiting for the baby now! And that's a bit off yet, although sooooooo close at the same time!

Other than "getting ready for baby" we've just been working and Mark's been busy with school. Last Saturday was Mark's last day at Sear's though which was very, very exciting! He's very glad he doesn't have to work there anymore, although glad he got to work and learn so much about cars, very useful! But now he can focus more time on classes and be home more! yay for me! Today was my last scheduled day "official" day at my work although I might pick up a few hours next week since I pretty much have nothing else to do...just waiting for this baby now. I have a feeling the next couple of weeks are going to be a bit long...although it'll be so worth the wait!

This week has been busy birthday-wise for the Erwin family, starting off on Wednesday with JoAnn's, today's with Jessica's, and tomorrow's with Mark's! Along with that my aunt Kim's birthday was yesterday and my grandpa's is tomorrow...crazy stuff right there. :) I'm kinda glad my due date changed cuz there's enough b-day's this week anyway! We started Mark's b-day celebration on Tuesday by going to Tucano's (the Brazilian restaurant we went to for my b-day, they give out coupons for your b-day month where you get a free meal, which is pretty much the only way you can go there cuz it's expensive!!! but SOOO good!). We had a delightful dinner there, pretty much couldn't move after we were done. So yummy... Tomorrow we'll do the real celebrating since it's his actual b-day so I'll write more on that after.

The last thing I have for today is some pictures! I had Whit take some pics of me and Mark and my big belly so we could have a couple "nice" ones to commemorate the pregnancy :) I'm not such a huge fan of seeing myself in pics like this but I'm only pregnant for the first time once, right? :) So here's some of those for you to enjoy...pardon my goofy husband, I don't know what to do with him sometimes... :)

(This is the spot where Mark proposed :)


(Umm...I don't know what exactly he's scolding her for...I just he's just "practicing"...although I don't think he's going to be able to be very tough on our kids, he's gonna be so wrapped up by them!)

(Practicing peek-a-boo!)



(Here's my usual prego pic, 37 weeks, although all the above are 37 weeks too)

(So this isn't a prego pic but this is just to show that fall is on its way! I looked at the mountains the other day and all of a sudden there were fall colors on it that weren't there the day before...goodness gracious, it is pretty though!)