Life has been very busy and at the same time standing still lately. Its weird. Honestly I am feeling huge, disabled and quite uncomfortable these days. I, very much enjoy when I have something planned for the day to make the time pass quicker and keep my mind occupied. The days home alone while Kev is at work are getting a little harder and harder. I would have gone back to school this week which is also a little hard to swallow. It’s a little more real now that I wasn’t just on summer break but that I actually quit the job I loved. I want this baby to come so I can remember why and know that it was the right decision. I know as soon as she is here I wont be thinking I wish I was back in my classroom getting stuff ready for the 1st day. I am so anxious for her arrival!

Dear Baby Girl,
Mommy and Daddy are ready for you to come!! Please come and play with us. As I write this week 38 letter we are already closer to week 39 now than 38. The midwife told us you were head down but flipped backwards at our last visit which isn’t really the best way to deliver. It means a lot more discomfort for mommy. I have been doing yoga a lot and praying that you will make the flip. Come on little one- you know you want too!! Mommy and Daddy were talking the other day and realizing how many places you have already been thru this pregnancy. You are already a little traveler and you aren’t even here yet. You have been to Florida, San Francisco (for a few hours), Hawaii, New York City, Boston, Maine, New Hampshire, Baltimore, Cape Cod, Vermont, New Jersey, Washington DC. Ooh it will be so much more fun when you are here and we can show you these places in real life!
We are ready and waiting little one!
Love,
Your momma

Ok! The baby is coming soon and we are thrilled and so excited!!! So what better way to celebrate her arrival then a little GUESSING GAME GIVEAWAY!!!
Let’s make some bets!

This will be a 3 in 1 giveaway. There will be 3 lucky winners.
You are guessing…

1. Her Name (remember its a girl and I gave a slight hint last week in a post with some pictures)

2. Her Birth Weight

3. Her Birthday (remember my actually due date is Sept. 3rd)

To enter all you have to do is click the banner below and vote for us (takes just 2 clicks) for topbabyblogs and then leave a comment below giving your thoughts on 1. a name, 2. the birth weight and 3. her birth date. Anyone with the right answer for one of those will be put into a random drawing for a winner to be picked (you do not have to have all 3 right- just one to be placed in the drawing). There will be a winner chosen for correct Name, Weight and Birthdate. (if no one guesses her name, there will be 2 winners of birth date chosen instead)

Winners will receive a special care package from jenloveskev filled with surprise handmade goodies from Me!!! It might include something like this, or this, or this, or maybe even this, PLUS LOTS MORE!!!! Yay!!!

Let the guessing begin! Giveaway will run until baby is born!
Remember to Vote HERE first!

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Well nothing says “extremely pregnant lady” like a pair of stretchy pants. haha! ok, ok Leggings. I just like saying stretchy pants because it reminds me of Nacho Libre, which by the way is one of my favorite movies. I never wear leggings. I mean I do of course but they are mostly restricted to: yoga, pjs, and late night walks with Kev. I do not really like them as an everyday wardrobe staple. I guess when you are 38 weeks pregnant you have to let go of somethings. I am feeling huge!

The lovely Megan Nielsen was nice enough to donate one of her dresses to the Delightful Dozen to pass around and style. I was excited because it was something I could actually wear while being this pregnant. I have had to take a little bit of a back seat with signing up for swap items the past few months. I don’t know if I am just monstrously tall compared to the other DD girls but there was no way this dress was a dress for me. I had to wear it with something and well my bottoms selection are very small these days. It consists of jeans shorts, like 2 skirts and well these leggings. So leggings it was. I decided if I was going to wear leggings I should at least try to make myself look a little dressed up to even out that I was wearing what I think of as pjs. So I added an animal print belt, a really pretty necklace and my little cropped jacket from LOFT. I actually really liked how the whole outfit looked together.

Dress: Megan Nielsen via the Delightful Dozen
Jacket: LOFT
Necklace: NY&Co.
Belt: I cant remember
Maternity Leggings: Target
Flats: Target

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I wanted to share some of my favorite things from my sponsors this afternoon… Wanna come a long for the ride?

Modcloth has the most unbelievably beautiful blouses right now. They are so perfect for fall! Can you imaging wearing these richly colored tops on a lovely fall stroll? I sure can. I think I would have a Hot Carmel Apple Cider in one hand and Kev’s hand in the other and I would be wearing some very pretty patterned tights.

1. Tea’s on Top $59.99
2. High Plains Thrifter Top $42.99
3. Carmel Ripple Top $87.99

I am starting to look for dresses that can be worn in these last weeks of summer and then carry right on into fall. I think these dresses from Ruche would be a perfect fit! Adding tights and cardigans are a perfect way to make a summery dress feel ready for fall.

1. Odette’s Enchanted Tulle Dress $42.99
2. Written in the Sky One Shoulder Dress $36.99
3. Black and White Affair Dress $60.99

Have you popped over to Roll and Tumble lately? Well you should!! They have some great new prints in the shop!! I am totally loving this Harmony Print as well as the Fetch one. Super cute and a great addition to your home decor.

1. Fetch Handprinted Letterpress Poster $25
2. Harmony Handprinted Letterpress Poster $25

Enjoy your evening!

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The winner of the Spotted Moth Giveaway is…. Plummy!

Thanks to all the entered!

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Look at me go. I may actually get in 4 outfit pics this week! Remember when I use to take 5? Oh the good ol’ days. How is everyone’s week going? I can’t believe how fast this week is going by. Its already time again for my weekly midwife appointment. I feel like I have them everyday. It has been really humid this week and my hair is driving me CRAZY! I want to keep growing it out but it is just so blah and my bangs are getting in my face. I have been trying to grow them out because I keep seeing these super cute pictures of girls with middle parted hair and grown out bangs and I love it. My bangs are getting pretty long but they are at the awkward length that is to short to make it back when I put my hair up but way to long to just be left down. Whats a girl to do? I am not very experimental with my hair which maybe I should be? Today I tried some little prairie girl braids and its cute but I have a hard time looking at these pictures and feeling like myself because I never wear my hair like that. Its funny how one new hair style can make you feel so not like yourself.

Isn’t this dress from modcloth super cute? I love the little lace detail in the center. The fabric is super soft as well. I kinda felt like I am wearing my pjs, which I think is an excellent characteristic of a dress. If you can look nice and be that comfortable than thats a winner to me.

Happy Thursday!

Navy, Navy Not Dress: c/o Modcloth
White Ruffle Blouse: Target
Belt: Ribbon from my craft room
Red Boat Shoes: c/o TImberland

p.s I am 38 weeks today!

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First off let me just say I just had a bowl of Capt’n Crunch with Crunch Berries and it was DELICIOUS!!! haha I normally eat very healthy cereal but I couldn’t resist yesterday at the store and it was worth every extra calorie and gram of sugar in the bowl. Mmmm

Ok, back to outfit post.

On Sunday, I had the pleasure of meeting up with the very lovely and genuine Jenny Feldman. Her family was in tow and it was great to meet everyone and spend some time getting to know each other. I had a fabulous time and an amazing brunch of Raspberry oatmeal pancakes. Can’t wait for our next hang out!

Last week in the mail I received my new Carpenter Bee bag from Spotted Moth. Isn’t it freakin’ awesome? It was packaged so beautifully I had to wait till Kev got home to open it because I wanted him to see the packaging for himself (we are nerdy like that). I was so excited when I finally torn it all open, its got so much room in it. I love the contrasting stripped fabric on the inside. For now it is just being used as my every day killer purse but when the baby is born I have decided this will be my new bad ass mommy diaper bag/purse. haha. How cool will I be? Nobody will want to mess with us.

This lace tunic is so not maternity. The lining is half way up my belly but at least the lace part I can pull way down. I sure do love this shirt though, I cant wait to wear it during the Fall. I love the lace paired with the chunkiness of this necklace. Its like the perfect match to me. I love all the different parts of the necklace intertwined.

Lace Tunic: Forever 21
Maternity Denim Skirt: H&M
Chunky Twist Necklace w. Cord: c/o LOFT
Peep Toe Flats: Thrifted in Hawaii
Carpenter Bee Bag: c/o Spotted Moth
Sunglasses: Ray-Ban Clubmasters

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I have been keeping myself busy lately sewing some little goodies, making a mobile for baby, redoing the Pram and sewing pretty pillow cases. I wanted to share some of the finished projects with you…

First off, our friends had their brand new beautiful baby boy last week and when I went to the hospital I brought along these 2 sewn animals for little Milo to play with. I like them both but I think the dino is my favorite. They both had felt backs in different colors with hand sewn details.

Next up was the Pram. I really hated the ugly design that was around the top of it. It was very dated and not very baby like at all. I decided to hack it off and redo it with some pretty lace. All I did was cut the trim, bind it with some white binding tape and hot glue some new cute lace around it. I love it! It looks so much better now!

Alright keeping it short and sweet. I am all the sudden so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open. Nap TIme!

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There is something really refreshing about eating a fresh tomato and Mozzarella salad and a fresh pesto sauce in the summer. My mom brought me a bunch of tomatoes from her garden when she came to visit last week so I knew exactly what I wanted to make. Such a super delicious meal for summer.

Ingredients:
Tomatoes
Mozzarella
Spinach
Balsamic VInegar

Fake Chick’n (or I made Steak for Kev)
2 cups baby spinach leaves
1/4 cup pine nuts
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 to 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
1/3 cup olive oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/3 cup freshly grated Parmesan

1. For the salad you just need to cut everything up and lay it on plate. I drizzled Balsamic vinegar over top of mine.
2. For pesto combine the spinach, pine nuts, lemon juice, and lemon peel in a processor. Pulse. With the machine running, add 1/3 cup of the oil, blend until creamy. Add salt and pepper. Pulse.
3. Scrap pesto into a bowl and gently mix in Parm. Cheese. Add more salt and pepper if you want.
4. Cook Meat however you chose.
5. Plate with salad and spoon pesto over the chick’n.
Mmmmm.

I have some art and craft related things to share later today. So check back!

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Ever have a dress you sometimes like and sometimes not so much? That is kinda how I feel about this dress. I have had it about 2 years. I do not wear it very often but when I put it on the other day it fit. So really I didn’t care how I was feeling about it. Although because it did fit, I felt good and thought it was a good choice for my dear friend Suzi’s bridal shower on Saturday. I am starting to not fit into anything anymore. Even my maternity shorts are getting super tight around my stomach. I refuse to buy anything else until this baby comes. I am so excited to get some new fall clothes that won’t have to fit over a giant pregnant belly. I have been drooling over the JCrew catalog for weeks.

Dress: Johnny Martin
Bracelets: Forever 21
Love Birds Necklace: Figs&Ginger
Espadrilles: Nine West (thrifted from Clothes Mentor)

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I am making a bad habit of not posting these when I am suppose too. At least I get them up sometime. I hope you all got a chance to read the “Talk is Cheap” post last week. I really appreciated everyones sweet comments and personal emails you sent after that. Well this weekend was really no exception. We ended up packing up and leaving our place at 9:30 on friday night to drive out to central Mass. We stayed up visiting with my parents till almost 2am. Then fell asleep got up at 7:30 and headed to the Cape for the day. It was exactly what I described before, in the element, music up, wind in our hair, holding hands as we went off on another adventure. It was a great day. We laid on the beach, talked about the baby, and really enjoyed each others company. Yes, the baby is coming really soon but I am trying to not get all sad that, that means the end of just the 2 of us. I know the “2″ of us will always be there. Now we will just have another awesome addition. Yesterday, was a very grey almost early fall like day. It made me so freakin’ excited. I LOVE FALL!! It is my favorite season. All day yesterday we were thinking of all the adventures we like to do in the fall and how amazing they will be to do this year with the baby in tow with us!! Ahh Apple picking, pumpkin patches, hayrides, fall hikes, Halloween, fall nights cuddled on the couch, I could go on and on. The thought of the 3 of us doing all this together makes me so happy I want to explode. haha that is a little dramatic but still it makes me so excited. We unpacked our new baby carrier the other day and Kev tried it on. I may or may not have put one of my childhood stuffed animals in it when he was wearing it to see what it would be like. haha. Our first thought was can we get the cat in there? Anyways, Kev looked so cute. I really can not wait for our little family adventures.

These pictures this week we took hanging out on the Cape.

Dear Baby Girl:
Mommy has been sharing a lot of pictures lately of Daddy and her and some of the things they have done over the last 4 years. I have been talking a lot about being adventurous and not letting life slow you down. I just wanted to say though that if you ever read those post not to mistake it for sadness that I thought it was coming to an end or that I was trying to force this new parenthood life into an old life that I didn’t want to let go of. That is not the case. I only get so excited about adventures with you because I want you to be able to experience so much. I want you to love life as much as we do. When you are grown, I want you to look back and think wow, what an amazing childhood I had. Daddy and me could not be more excited for you to come. We just want to share with you all the things we love in life. The thought of you experiencing something with us that means so much makes me get all teary. Its really easy to let life get you down. I don’t want that to be something you learn to let happen a lot. Yeah, everyone has bad days but there is always so much beautiful around to be grateful for and to enjoy. Even if its something small. I hope if there is one thing you learn from Mommy and Daddy it is to enjoy and love life. It is so short not to!

Lots of Love,
Your Mommy

p.s. Yes, your Daddy is wearing a Tank Top and No, he is not trying to eat you in the first picture. lol.

I’d sure appreciate if you could help me get to #3 again. It just takes 2 clicks. Thanks so much!!!

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Get ready for a post full of pictures. I don’t know why but this morning I decided to log into some old photobucket accounts. We have 2 full accounts that we used before we decided to upgrade to flickr pro. I feel like those 2 photobucket accounts hold the treasures from the last 4 years of our life. I started looking thru them page by page. I love looking thru old photos. I don’t know why but this morning I couldn’t stop. I was getting so nostalgic about everything. We really have done a lot over the last 4 years of being married. Looking back to you don’t remember the hard or tough times, you just see the joy and happiness- there was so much. We have really had an amazing life together so far. Kev is truly my best friend. I can not imagine going thru this life with out him. We have really shared so many memories together. I guess maybe when you are about to go thru a major life change you get all sentimental about things. Thats how I am feeling today.

Since we started dating we have always had a little motto that was “talk is cheap.” We have always been the couple that hasn’t let things get in the way of going on adventure. I love that about us. I feel sad for people who just let life pass them by because things might be difficult or wait around for everything to be planned out to a T. Fact is, nothing will ever be planned out perfect, you might as well just get up and go try. I get really discouraged when people say things to me like “when you have a baby things will be different.” Yes, I agree things are going to be different. I do understand that but I am not going to let people burst my bubble either. I am excited for her to come and to join in on these adventures with us. I believe that you can make things work and that is what we are going to do. So, although I am feeling all sentimental about the past 4 years, it makes me even more excited about the next 4, the next 10, the next 20. Can you imagine all the adventures we will have gone on then?

I feel extremely blessed to have Kev as my husband. When I was looking at these pictures this morning my heart was full. We keep joking about how old we are lately. It’s like all of a sudden it started to hit us that we are a lot older than we think we are (not a bad thing of course) but if I close my eyes and think of the two of us. This is the picture that I see…

Wind blown hair, sun kissed skin, Sweatshirts, smiles, some sort of inside joke being laughed at and ready for anything. Usually it would be some very late night drive home from somewhere that we just had to go to that day. The windows are down in the car, the music is up real loud, I am curled up on the passenger seat of the Element and we are holding hands. It is a very vivid image. It has happened just like that on so many different occasions. No matter what age we are, I think that will always be my image of us when I close my eyes. Maybe now, it will include a little munchkin in the backseat, sound asleep from a day of fun with mommy and daddy?

I love our life.

Remember to enjoy the small things, to roll with the punches and to go out and live life!

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