Life Lately

I have gone on a few trips and done a few things this summer that deserve their own full posts (don't worry those are coming) but I have also done some fun little stuff too! This is all the fun stuff that doesn't quite need its own post.

After she finished law school in May my sister moved back with my parents for a few months to study for and take The Bar. Since she is only an hour away and obviously she can't study all day every day she came up for a Brad Paisley concert in June. Obviously being pregnant I couldn't enjoy a nice cold beer so I settled for a nice cold ice cream taco instead.

At the end of June my husband and I went down to Southern California for my sister-in-laws baby shower and the hotel we stayed at has a pool. I have always been a water baby so I couldn't pass up the opportunity to swim even it it was only for about 45 minutes! I think the baby enjoyed the swim and there will be lots of swimming in her future.

My husband and I have two wedding anniversaries but we tend to celebrate the first one (in November) a little bit more than our Hawaii one but my husband know how much I like celebrating anything for any reason so while I was at breastfeeding class he went out and bought me flowers for our Hawaii anniversary.  Another reason I love him!

One day I decided I really wanted to make some our frozen berries that I picked last year into a milkshake so I went out and bought ice cream for just that purpose. It was soooo good!

I don't have a fully explainable theme for the baby's room but my plan is to put up a mix of Impressionist prints that I have collected from my travel over the years along with a few little Disney prints. One weekend I went through and got out all the possibilities so I could see which ones I wanted to use.  I didn't make all the final decisions but I did decide that as much as I love Van Gough I needed to limit the crazy I put up on her walls!

In years past I have ordered meal prep boxes fairly regularly but this year I have been pregnant all year and my sense of smell and stomach have been super sensitive so we haven't ordered many.  This zucchini and grain bowl is from one of the boxes we did order and we liked it so much I have made it more than once.

Last week my husband's office threw a little shower for us and two other couples in the office that are having babies this summer/fall.  It was our first shower and it was so fun! They gave us a few things off our registry and a gift card. They also made this adorable diaper cake! It was too cute to take apart so it is currently sitting in the baby's room but eventually I will take it apart so we can actually use the diapers (and the cute shoes) for the baby.

On a totally random way to end this random post: I saw this box of Legos at Costco the other day and I just had to take a picture of it to show my husband because the rainbow colors and because it made me so excited to get something like this for our daughter someday.  I know it like 5 years off before she is old enough to play with Legos but it is still something I am looking forward to doing with her (and any other kids we have) though I hear stepping on a Lego is very painful!