Let the count down begin

Before I had a chance to blog, my 10 week count down came and went and now I am at 8 weeks and 5 days before Ava Marie arrives!  I am beyond excited but nervous about all that I have left to do before her arrival!  Travis and I have four different new parenting classes starting in August that will include Labor of Love, Breast Feeding Basics, and Infant CPR, so this will hopefully make me feel more prepared.  My staff hosted a baby shower for me at work last week, and we also have a couple of showers in August that is being thrown by our family and co-workers that we are looking forward to.  I have a feeling if I am ready or not, Ava will still come regardless.

I had a checkup last week, and Ava is continuing to do well and has a healthy heart beat and is measuring where she should be.  She becomes more and more active everyday and I have a feeling that she is going to be leggy because it feels like she is continuing to try and kick her way out of me.

I almost have her nursery complete and thanks to her second cousin, Jared, she has a nice mattress to sleep on, and her Mimi has provided her with all of her beautiful, antique nursery furniture.  I picked up the chandelier for her nursery and next weekend we will go and pick up her glider that I ordered last month.  I do not have any recent belly shots to post, but I will tell you that she is growing and I am not sure if I will be able walk if she grows much bigger =)

Below are some pictures of her nursery, and I will continue to post more of the nursery and my growing belly in the upcoming weeks!

Remember, this is how Ava's nursery looked last year before we renovated it.

And now the after

All of the beautiful furniture that Mimi refinished for Ava

Ava has some friends waiting to welcome her!

Mimi also finished the window seat cushion, I love how well it goes with the shower curtain!

Third Trimester!

This pregnancy is going a lot faster than I imagined that it would, and this past Friday marked the start of my third trimester!  I am officially in baby mode and trying to finish everything up for Ava's arrival in September.  

We have been busy and will be busy up until the end of August where I hope that we have a couple of weekends to relax before the big day.  I am seeing my doctor every three weeks now, but it will soon move to every two weeks, and then every week.  Everything looks great and Ava is measuring where she should be and has a strong heart beat.  She continues to be more active each day and I find her kicking me for up to five minutes at a time a couple of times a day. 

Our family has been a big help in getting ready for Ava and Travis has been a sweetheart doing anything that I ask of him.   Travis almost has the Nursery painted, and should be finished by the end of this week.  This coming weekend we are going to visit my Mother in East Tennessee and to bring home a crib, dresser, night stand, and high chair that she has been working on.  I also sent her some fabric a week ago and she will be making the curtains for the Nursery, and a bench cushion for Ava's bathroom.

July is going to be busy with Birthday's and finishing the Nursery.  Then August is when we start all of our classes at the hospital to get us ready for parenting.  I am also transitioning into a new job at Skyline Medical Center.  I am going to be splitting my time between StoneCrest and Skyline until they have filled my position at StoneCrest. There are so many changes going on, but one change that we are looking forward to is being parents and welcoming Ava to our family.

Here are some pictures to show you what we have been up to.

 Steeplechase was cold and rainy this year.  We did not realize that we did not have the top to our tent, so we had to make a make shift top out of the sides of the tent.

We spent a week at the end of May in Charleston with the Honeycutt's and Krumdieck's

We spent the following weekend at the Collignon Family's Lake House with Nathan and Ashley

Mom and Amanda came to Nashville and helped me to pick out paint and fabric for the Nursery.

The end of my Second Trimester

4th of July Weekend at the Collignon's Lake House

This is why I am not doing water sports during my pregnancy.