it is my gentle-mans birthday today! hooray! i love celebrating him, because…well…hes pretty much my favorite person in the entire universe!
Happy birthday my love! Life is so much fun with you in it. It’s never a dull moment with us and I love every minute of it! I can’t wait for Penny to meet you, you are going to be the best dad! You are definitely already the best husband! I love your sweet face! Cheers to another year of pure awesome : ).
1. a little lunch and munch and some hobbit reading with the bump.
2. oh this man. THIS man. makin me feel like the luckiest girl in the world…all day…urrday.
3. brett and i have this joke that we are secretly an old elderly married couple. our friday night consisted of us at a coffee shop eating sandwiches (listening to the vocal stylings of the lovely faith shaw) and playing an intense game of scrabble. we were at the coffee shop for a few hours and we were home and IN bed by 830pm. it. was. awesome. on our way home we kept talking about how much fun we had and how we should do this more often. fogies.
4. done did it. went ahead and just cut the hair. to some this may seem drastic. but to me…its called going back to normal. im a short haired girl. i have this love hate relationship with long hair…i want it so badly, but when it starts getting long i feel weird and immediately wanna cut it off again. post pregnancy there is talk of a pixie cut. im VERY excited about this.
This weekend was jam packed! We got to celebrate with some of my dearest friends at a shower for baby jeter and got to meet one of my best friends new baby boy Jadson! Brett held his first new baby (which was very exciting!). He didnt hold our niece until she was a good solid 5 or 6 months. new borns freak him out…haha. then we got to have dinner with one of our favorite couples that we NEVER get to see. All in all it was good…but still…too short.
Back to work.
This weekend was a bit chaotic, and also a bit wonderful at the same time. My work had a huge event that required nearly all of my energy. Brett and I were up at 8am helping set up everything and left around noon to begin our trek to bakersfield for a friends wedding. We made it up there at about 2, went to the wedding at 330 and were out with his friends until 1am. Needless to say…i was quite the tuckered out pregnant lady.
We do enjoy when we get to get fancy though. We don’t do it very often…but I think us Lemsters clean up pretty well.
Sunday was a family day and we were able to go to church with everyone and see the bako side. There were lots of belly rubs and excited conversation and it was fun to be around more people that are just as excited about our growing family as we are : ). There are some good ones up there.
Post lunch we did a little shoppin and bretts mom bought penny some pretty adorable outfits. My favorite was this little overall stripey shirt combo, that coincidentally enough matched one of bretts t shirts exactly. I die. The thought of them matching was about the cutest thing ever to me, and i giggled as i looked at all her little tiny clothes spread out on the floor.
(sidenote: how fun is the new a beautiful mess app?!…ive been playing with it a ton and its fun to see everyone adding little details to their photos here and there. the ladies over there did a wonderful job with this thing…i highly recommend it!)
We also scoped out a “totally bad ass” (bretts words) stroller at babys r us. Its an epic jogging stroller with some pretty sweet bonus features and we are all about it. Baby gear is still completely overwhelming to me, but i think having brett there makes it a little less scary. Plus it was super helpful to have mama carolyn walk us around and tell us what everything was…ha!
Then we got to go to dinner with bretts dad and step mom before heading home. Its so cute to see how excited his dad is about this little one.
All in all it was a very action packed weekend but it was super fun to see some faces that we dont get to see often and to celebrate the marriage of some pretty awesome peeps! I wish we could make it up there more often.
Happy Monday and Cheers to another week!
This last weekend was probably the best weekend we have had since this little one joined the picture. It was the first time in a very long time that I actually had full on energy. When things like this happen, we tend to jump on it real fast because we never know how long itll last. We slept in on Saturday and decided to finally cash in an ArcLight gift card we got before Christmas. A little early afternoon movie time! This may seem SUPER elderly of us, but we love going to the movies early in the day. It’s nice to come out of a dark theatre and realize that you have an entire day left to do whatever.
After much debating we went and saw Oz the great and powerful. Which I actually enjoyed a lot, and totally cried a few times (hormones). My lovely husband agreed to share popcorn with me AND let me get a hot dog : ) (pregnancycravings) When the movie was over we walked around in the sunshine a bit, poking our heads in shops here and there, and then headed to lunch at The Counter. Which, by the way, if you live in Pasadena and have not been to this place yet…go…build your burger! Taste and see that it is good! Ooo, and split a pile of regular and sweet potato fries.
(good lord i love this man…i have never felt more taken care of in my life…and even when im being totally irrationally pregnant…hes super supportive, helpful beyond measure, and extra loving…sothankfulindeed)
We wrapped up our little outing and went home and partly napped – partly snuggled, while we watched Harry Potter and I did crafty things in bed.
And then the real exciting thing happened. I got up and completely cleaned up our room, got things on the wall, and organized it how I wanted to.
I’m not sure exactly when this nesting thing hits, but it has hit me hard. With the thought of this little one coming along, somehow the hand me down things we’ve acquired and were perfectly fine for the two of us, are not cutting it. I want to redo everything and make sure every part of our home is ours. Our room was just the beginning. I have great plans for each little space in our little apartment and I cant wait to get to the next room : ).
I’m so in love with our room now that its done (mostly) that I only really want to hang out in there. On Sunday morning I ate breakfast and watched tv, and read in bed. I didn’t really move until I had to leave to go grab coffee with a friend.
So all in all, it was a pretty solid weekend, of relaxing, fun little outings, and getting things done.
Just a quick little side note as well…tomorrow is our doctors appointment and we’ll be 17 weeks! We’re are REALLY hoping that we’ll get a good look at our little babes and find out whether its a he or a she! I keep talking to my belly and asking our baby to make sure to lay in a position where we can see what their workin with, so hopefully tomorrows little letter from M will include a name : )
We are the Lemsters, made up of one Brett and one Katie.
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