Bismarck Blizzard

Sunday evening it started to snow quite a bit and by the time we woke up this morning, we'd gotten 10 1/2 inches! It kept on snowing all day long and I think we ended up with about 18 inches. Our deck was cleared off yesterday afternoon but this is what the railing looked like at 9 a.m. this morning.

All the schools in Bismarck called off classes today so Martin and I spent the day at home. Of course, he had to take the diesel out to drive through all the snow drifts. It's hard to believe that we could see our lawn on Sunday morning - it'll be awhile before we see it again!

Here's a picture of Buck and Meiko enjoying an afternoon nap. Buck has realized that Meiko is a warm cuddle-buddy in the cold winter months.

Meiko? Separation anxiety? No.......

31 Weeks and Counting.....

Well, there's less than nine weeks to go before Baby Brash's due date! Here's a picture of me on March 27, 2009 - 31 weeks and 1 day.

One of my best friends, Lisa, made this beautiful quilt for Baby Brash! Although you can't see it in the picture, she stitched an outline of a rubber ducky in all the yellow pentagons. I can't wait to start using it!

On Saturday we went to a craft fair and Martin found this burp cloth/bib set - of course he had to buy it!

Nursery!

The nursery is starting to come together! The Jacobsons were kind enough to let us borrow their crib so we picked that up last night when we went to their house for dinner to celebrate both my and Travis' birthday.

I couldn't find a crib set that only has sheep (it has chickens and cows on it too) but I like this one a lot.
I bet you "Bemidjians" out there can guess where the sheep on the picture above came from.....it was mine when I was a baby!

I love the crib that Beth and Travis used for Sarah and Thomas - it works really well in our nursery!

29 Week Update

Yesterday I went in for my gestational diabetes test and monthly check-up. All went well and Baby Brash is doing great. His/her heart rate was 148 bpm this time, so a little lower than in months past. For the next 6 weeks I'll be going in every 3 weeks, then down to every other week/every week as the due date approaches.

Martin painted the nursery last weekend, the new blinds have been ordered, the crib set arrived today, and we're picking up the crib from Beth and Travis this weekend so it is starting to all come together! We'll start to put together everything in the nursery this weekend so I'll post pictures soon.

27 weeks

Here's my 27-week picture....Baby Brash is growing and growing! It's a little more uncomfortable to sleep now but compared to what some people have to go through with their pregnancies, I consider myself very lucky.

Arizona!

Sadye loved her birthday cupcakes! She had a great 5th Dora-themed birthday party.

Martin's aunt Sue and uncle Tom spend the winters in Apache Junction so I was happy to see them during my trip too!

We spent some girl time getting pedicures - it was great!

We did a drive-by of our AZ home...it was a bit weird to drive by and not go inside.

Both Beth and Sarah loved holding Braden!

Baby Brash Update and Valentine's Day

I went in for my monthly check-up on Friday (the 13th!) and everything looks great with Baby Brash. He/she is moving around a lot and I'm needing more and more calories to keep me going (or at least I'm telling myself that so I can eat more), so everything is right on track! I saw our neighbor while I was in the waiting room and she is due July 2nd so it's nice to know that there will be another child that's about the same age as Baby Brash just down the block from us.

We had a great Valentine's Day - it was very low-key and Martin and I enjoyed a quiet day together. It started out with a trip to the city dump (romantic, huh?!?) and then we took a drive around the outskirts of Bismarck. After that we saw the movie Gran Torino, stopped at Barnes & Noble, and then grabbed a quick bite to eat. It was a great time. Martin even made composed a poem for me! It started out with "Roses are red, violets are blue. There is a baby growing inside of you...." Yes, he has a way with words.