Bad Blogger

Okay okay, I'm a bad blogger. Sorry.

I've been...shall we say...distracted!? :) Only 3 weeks left of work (with every week being a shortened week due to the necessity of using up vacation days before I take mat leave)...only 4 weeks left until Baby-Bean's "guess date" (a more appropriate term than "due date"...I mean, how often do babies actually decide to arrive on their due date!?)...life's been busy!

Quick updates on things that I've neglected to blog about. Last Saturday (as in October 2), the girls hosted a baby shower for me! It was so much fun! So many cute decorations (in both hot pink AND ladybugs -- yay!)...(this is the ladybug that they used for a bunch of the decorations and game cards!)...



...so much delicious food (Greek -- one of my absolute favorites...do you think my friends know me well!?)...such great company...such fun games (really -- I normally am not a fan of cheesy shower games, but these ones were actually quite fun!)...and such generous gifts! I was totally overwhelmed! Baby-Bean is almost totally set now (the list of "things we still have to buy" is getting shorter and shorter -- which is a good thing because so are the days left in the countdown!).

This weekend we got the last of Baby-Bean's furniture (gorgeous white leather glider/recliner) and her stroller and basinette/rocker. Her room is looking gorgeous (if I do say so myself!). We are using a shelf that my "Uncle" Glen made for my parents several years ago. I painted it white and then added some hot pink and lime green paint to the carved daisies on the supports...it looks like the shelf was made for the room! I've got plenty of pictures (before, during and after)...but I haven't pulled them off the camera yet (will try to get to that tonight).

Yesterday we went for our maternity photography session. I decided to go ahead and get pictures done for a couple of reasons: (1) I haven't been diligent at all with taking progress pictures of the bump, and (2) I've seen the finished products that our photographer puts out -- and her work is gorgeous! We got a package that includes both maternity and newborn pictures. My favorite work of hers is the newborn pictures...but we figured that it was a good idea to capture the maternity shots as well.

Here's a link to our sneak preview (there are tons more shots taken, some more dramatic etc...but these are the ones that she posted). We get access to the remaining shots once she's done with them in a couple of weeks.

If you end up looking through the rest of the shots on her blog, please don't comment on how amazing and dramatic the shots are of the lady that got her maternity pics done the same day as me! I just saw them this morning, and they totally took the wind out of my sails! I mean, they're not our style...but they're absolutely freakin' gorgeous and dramatic...and so much fancier and more interesting than my/our maternity shots. Oh well...I loved ours last night, so I'll get over it! :)