calling all (previously & currently) pregnant mommies

WHERE DO YOU POSITION PILLOWS TO GET THE MOST COMFORT?!?!?

My back kills. Most all the time. Especially when I sleep on my left side, which is what you're supposed to do. Seth tried to position a pillow under me to hold up what needed support and tried to explain to me that that's where my spine wasn't straight. I'm sure he's right, but it just didn't do the trick at the moment and it's probably because I wanted instant relief. I'll take any suggestions of what you guys do to help with the back pain. I've tried the pillow between the legs, (it get's too hot & drives me crazy) I've tried putting it just right under my belly, but it never seems to stay put. So sometimes I end up sleeping on my back for a short period to try to relieve. I'm willing to try all suggestions, even if you've never been pregnant ;).....

the latest & greatest

This will be a mutli-post.

1. THANK YOU, thank you for all your ideas. It actually did help me come up with one and I will post pictures of what it is, when I'm done!!

2. My hubby hub.He's quite comical actually. Monday night I wanted to go to Fro Yo. (a frozen yogurt place) I had a hoodie on and as we're about to leave Seth asks me if it's cold enough for a jacket and I told him he might want to grab one just in case. Then he walks out of our bedroom in this. A church suit coat... laughing, he says, what about this?? Actually doesnt look too bad, but it was too nice of a suit coat to go with the rest of his outfit. I'm grateful for his funny ways and his putting up with my pregnant hormones. He's a good helper and very patient with me and my easy-to-get-irritated-by-the-stupidest-things hormone, and still tells me he loves me after those episodes;) He rubs my feet and back when they hurt, and boy have they been hurting a TON lately. I love this man.

3. Baby's first General Conference Center experience. He seemed to enjoy it and was pretty calm the whole time besides a few jungle gym moves here and there and forcing his rear as hard as he could against my belly button and his daily 5-10 minute hiccup session. Other than that I think he enjoyed it:) As did Seth and I. We got some tickets from my old roomie and her hub and enjoyed the 1st Saturday session in the Conference Center. Just a few things that really came to my attention and that I took with me was teaching and learning,(I need to continually strive to learn) loving unconditionally,(everyone I come in contact with, especially loving and SHOWING my love to husband and family) and knowing we're all children of our Heavenly Father and he will always love us and be there for us NO MATTER WHAT.

come on you slackers..

i have this magic little thing that tells me how many times my blog has been looked at each day, and NO ONE left ANY ideas! I'm serious about this, I need some ideas! Or is it because you don't want me to steal your idea?? haha. Really though ANYTHING will help. I'm leaning more toward sport themed or just decorated "boy" cute. So please comment on the blog post below with your ideas ;)

ideas??

I've had our lil man's room painted for about 2 months now. The only problem is, I can't decide or come up with any way I want to decorate it!!! I've thrown around a few different ideas, but when you're pregnant, at least it seems this way, you find something you like but if you don't take a picture of it or write it down, you forget it; it's inevitable. So I'm open to any decoration ideas, themes, etc. I've got 9 weeks till this lil one comes and I'm going into nesting mode.here's a picture of how I painted it.
(One wall blue, the rest that brown color)


and now... let the creative juices FLOW............

a shout out

To a couple of my favoritest Country Mercantile homegirls:) Monique & Bethany. There's a little bit of a story to explain this shout out and the answer it was to my prayers :) haha.

Seth went to my hometown last week and while he was there, had to do some work at the Country Mercantile. I worked there for about 5 summers during high school. My first summer, I gained AT LEAST 10 pounds in the 1st two months there. Check out the link to the store on the right of my blog or in this post in the first sentence to find out how. (chocolate and goodies)

I knew Seth would be going there and was trying to find some way that I could convince him to bring me home some of the goodness, because... 1. he doesnt like chocolate and doesn't like me to eat a lot. 2. I'm supposed to be cutting down on sweets at this point in time.
BUT I couldnt think of a convincing enough reason why, so I decided to just let the opportunity go.

Well Seth comes home from work and I come inside and he says, "oh, you have some stuff from Monique and Bethany." MY DREAM CAME TRUE!!!! They had sent him back with a bag of chocolate covered gummy bears and strawberry kookabara licorice!! in a cute lil basket. They made Seth PROMISE to get it to me and he did, he didn't even try to hide it! I'm so glad they made him promise, or it would have been hidden for sure! I seriously could not have been happier.

THANK YOU SOOO SOOO SOOO much Monique and Beth! You both are awesome! and not just because of that.

Dreams DO come true :)

requests granted

here it is... Chubilicious, myself at 30 weeks.

broken streak

1 year and 2 months coming.
Tomorrow will be the first day that I don't see Seth since 1 year and 2 months ago. To me that doesnt seem that long, but some couples make it 3 yrs or more before they don't see each other! I thought I could handle it. I knew I would miss him and be completely freaked out at night (i'm kind of a scaredy cat in the dark) but I didn't realize I would feel like HALF of my entire being was missing. It's a weird, strange, hurtful feeling. I don't like it. He left me after sacrament meeting today and right when I sat down in Sunday School I had to get up and leave to go the bathroom because I couldn't hold in the tears! I blame it mostly on my crazy pregnant hormones :) I miss my man.

And to make the water works worse, I got home and saw a bunch of sticky notes everywhere. It was def sweet and I was grateful for it. Especially my goodnight kiss one:) Thanks love.
Here's a few: