Baby Update: 32 Weeks

Chris wanted a picture next to his truck

How Far Along: 32 weeks

Size of Baby: About 17 inches long and 4lbs.

Total Weight Gain: 27 lbs

Maternity Clothes: lots of leggings and shirts and fall cardigans
Gender: Boy - Nash Christopher

Movement: He is not kicking as hard but more rolling and pushing

Food Cravings: Mexican Food

What I Miss: Bending over and being able to breathe
Symptoms: Braxton Hicks, more difficult breathing, not being able to see my feet, snoring, and the swelling of my feet and hands is back

Sleep: Starting to wake up every few hours:)

Best Moment This Week: Seeing my Mom and family and their reaction to my pregnant belly.....(they were shocked) but my Mom told me I looked great

What I Am Looking Forward To: My baby shower next weekend

Mom and I

Chris and I

Halloween Festivities

We are in San Diego for Halloween! Happy Halloween!

Micah Mae and Her pumpkins

Maddie and Chris hanging lights

Funny, Funny Chris

Dad carving pumpkins

Micah Mae cleaning out her pumpkin

The three girls

Friends

Yesterday, Chris and I had some visitors stop by. One of my best friends Lindsay, over at Lee La La, and her little daughter Landyn came over to see me and our new little place. It is so much fun to be home and see our friends and family

Baby Update: 31 Weeks

How Far Along: 31 weeks

Size of Baby: About 16.4 inches long and 3.6 lbs.

Total Weight Gain: 29 lbs (I have a horrible feeling I am on my way to gaining 40+ lbs)

Maternity Clothes: lots of leggings and shirts and fall cardigans....had to buy maternity work slacks because I have to go into the office this coming week
Gender: Boy - Nash Christopher
Movement: Found out that his little feet and knees are what has been hitting my ribs and lungs..he is head down

Food Cravings: Mexican Food

What I Miss: Bending over and just feeling comfortable
Symptoms: Braxton Hicks, more difficult breathing, not being able to see my feet, and my husband informed me that I have started snoring...hopefully it does not get too loud

Sleep: We borrowed my in laws extra king bed and Chris and I have been sleeping amazingly!!! Thanks Bev and Tom. Just a side note, I counted last night the number of pillows we sleep with and the total came to a whopping 8 pillows....crazy

Best Moment This Week: Seeing Nash's little face and seeing the doctor that will deliver Nash. Our Appointment had a lot of funny saying's. Here is a little tid bit of some of the phrases that came out of our Doctor: "What a melon", "Huge Hands", "He won't even need a mitt", "This is a Beefy Kid"......as you can tell our doctor was a little shocked at how big baby Nash is. Oh man I hope I can deliver him;)

What I Am Looking Forward To: Seeing my family this weekend...We get to watch Micah's last soccer game

Has big hands like his Dad

and his nose and hair!!!

but he has my cheeks

We made it!

Chris and I arrived back to California on Tuesday evening and the movers arrived in our new apartment yesterday. It is exciting to be in the place where we will bring home Nash! In the lifestyle we live, I never feel like I am settled. Chris and I are trying to make this apartment as homey as possible for only living here for three months. Please enjoy some pictures....I only have some rooms ready which are the ones you get to see:)

Kitchen

Dinning Room

Living Room

Yes you are seeing correctly....that is a Christmas Tree up in our house with a Happy Halloween sign on it. What can I say...I am preparing early and combining my holidays right now.

Baby Update:30 Weeks

How Far Along: 30 weeks
Size of Baby: About 16.4 inches long and 3.6 lbs.
Total Weight Gain: 24 lbs
Maternity Clothes: lots of leggings and shirts and fall cardigans

Gender: Boy - Nash Christopher

Movement: The kicking has now progressed to organs and ribs....not sure I am enjoying these movements that much

Food Cravings: Fruity Hard Candy
What I Miss: Bending over

Symptoms: Braxton Hicks, more difficult breathing, not being able to see my feet
Sleep: My sleep has been very limited. It does not help that in the past few nights I have had to sleep on an air mattress and crappy hotel beds
Best Moment This Week: Looking at houses with my husband and dreaming of the day we are settled with our little family

What I Am Looking Forward To: Seeing Family and Friends and getting settled into the apartment

Road Trip Home

We made it! It only took 4 full days of traveling along the 1-70 and a wonderful weekend spent in Denver. Please enjoy some of the pictures from our drive.

Our first stop was in Lawrence, KS. At the time of booking the hotel, I did not know this little town was home to University of Kansas. So it was a big a surprise when we pulled into town and it was the Kansas/Kansas St. football game. The college town was out and about and Chris and I decided to go to a local restaurant. The restaurant had amazing onion rings as you can see below and the view from our hotel room was gorgeous.

The next stop was in Denver. This was my favorite time of the drive. We decided to spend the weekend in Denver and see the sites. The weather was beautiful and fall was in full swing. Our first morning we ate breakfast at a golf club and enjoyed the views.

Then we went on a mini hike to a beautiful overlook of the area that we hope to venture to a lot in coming years.

It was wonderful staying in Denver and Chris and I really enjoyed our time there. As we started our drive to St. George, Utah(our next stop) we drove through the mountains. They were outstanding. Snow was starting to form on the peaks and it even snowed on us for little bit of the drive. I was in heaven. I love the cold weather and the snow.

While we were at our last stop of the trip, there happened to be one of Chris's favorite restaurants. Wingers. I happen to love their BBQ sauce, so we ate dinner there and then bought three bottles of sauce to tie us over for the year.

Yesterday around 3:15, we finally made it home. We had a big surprise waiting for us when we arrived at Chris's parents house. Our niece Joella and nephew Leyton were at the house to greet us!

It is so nice to be back in CA. The movers will arrive on Sunday afternoon and we will be able to move into the apartment a few days early. Hope everyone is having a great week!

Baby Update: 29 Weeks

How Far Along: 29 weeks

Size of Baby: About 16.4 inches long and 3.6 lbs.

Total Weight Gain: 23 lbs

Maternity Clothes: lots of leggings and shirts(good thing they are in style)
Gender: Boy - Nash Christopher
Movement: Lots of kicking and fun movements (Braxton Hicks started this week also)

Food Cravings: Fruity Hard Candy

What I Miss: Fitting into my cute fall jackets (oh well there is next year)

Symptoms: Braxton Hicks, gums bleeding, and peeing all the time (I only last 15 minutes while working out and then I have to go pee)

Sleep: My sleep has been very limited. It does not help that in the past few nights I have had to sleep on an air mattress and crappy hotel beds

Best Moment This Week: Spending the evenings walking with my husband enjoying the fall leaves and smells

What I Am Looking Forward To: Looking at houses in Denver, our move back to CA and seeing all friends and family

Moving Day

Moving takes on a whole new meaning when you are 30 weeks pregnant. I cannot do everything that I am use to doing: Packing the dishes, wrapping the furniture, making sure all the small things get in the tubs and cleaning.

I do have to say....it has been wonderful to have my husband around for this move. He ended up doing all the packing while I sat on the floor and told him where things went. I doubted him, but he prevailed and made me proud. The only time he got really frustrated was when he realized that we have a whole tub dedicated to hangers. A girl has got to have her clothes! Everything was done by 1am and we even had time to watch our dvr'd shows.

The movers arrived at 9 am this morning and have started to pack up the big moving truck to carry our possessions back to CA. What is crazy to Chris and I is that the majority of our family have never seen our furniture. We have almost bought all of it once we left CA! I guess it will be an exciting time.
What am I doing while the movers are here, you ask? I am hidden away in a closet working and attending meetings. (and blogging)

Tomorrow is the day...Chris and I will start the 36 hour drive back to Cali. I am actually looking forward to it. Fall is in the air and I am sure parts of the drive are going to be spectacular. We will spend the weekend in Denver. Looking around, meeting with a realtor to look at neighborhoods to see if we possibly want to move out there once baseball is over. While we are in Denver the weather is supposed to be high 60's! I have to say, perfect fall weather. I might even get to wear my uggs:)

Then we will make our final leg home.

I will make sure I take lots of pictures.

Duggars

Chris and I had the privilege of being able to hear Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar speak at Church last night. If you are not familiar with the Duggar Family, they have a show on TLC called "19 kids and Counting".

Honestly, I had to drag my husband to go with me. He is not the biggest fan of the show, but he tolerates it. Chris kept saying why did you buy tickets (they were $5) up in the balcony, we are going to be the only ones there. We had a huge surprise when we arrived and there were another 5,000 people there to hear them also(Our church seats 18,000)! Needless to say we were not the only ones.

Now, I know a lot people disagree with the Duggars and how many kids they have and their lifestyle. I have to say that I would not personally choose some of the things that they have chosen for their family but they do have a great family foundation and truly walk what they believe.

Chris and I both thoroughly enjoyed hearing them speak. 16 of their 19 kids were there. The Family opened up the 2 hours with singing and the kids performed some of their favorite songs. (This was a lot of fun for me because they were songs that my mom use to sing with Hunter and I on road trips or just around the house).

Then Michelle and Jim Bob spoke for about 45 minutes. They opened up by saying the are not professional parents and they do not have all the answers and parenthood is an ever learning process. Then continued to discuss their life and how God has worked in their lives. They discussed some hard questions that viewers always ask them. It was a wonderful to hear. As soon to be parents, Chris and I were all ears. My husband even liked it and said that he really admired their faith and has a great respect for being able to keep their faith strong and walking the walk.

At the end, our pastor came out and did a little interview with them. Then we finished by praying for them.

In the end, it was a great night and Chris and I came out of it starting to really think about parenthood. We are beyond words excited for the gift that God has given us and just pray that we can raise him to grow up and be a Man of God and love the Lord.

Good Bye Old Blue Truck

As Chris and I start to prepare for little Nash to arrive, we had to make a big decision. Chris's truck cannot fit a car seat. It is a single cab and it is just not practical for our growing little family.

So we made the decision to sell the Old Blue Truck. This truck has been with us from the beginning. Our whole relationship, through college, all the states baseball has taken us to.....plenty of road trips. It was part of our family.

As we dropped the truck off, memories flooded my brain and everything we have experienced with the truck rushed in. Once all the paper work was done and the truck was driven away, tears rolled down my face( it does not help that I have pregnancy hormones). I know it sounds silly, but so much change is happening in this Denove household.....the little things are turning out to be the hardest.

Now all we have left are our license plates, which my Husband is taking after my Dad and keeping them for sentimental reasons. (My dad has kept all the license plates that he has had over his marriage.....more than 6 states)

On the back of the plates it now reads in permanent marker; what car it was, when and where it was bought and when and where it was sold.

I guess the changes are beginning. A new and bigger truck will be purchased when we get back to CA. But the old truck will be missed dearly!

Baby Update: 28 Weeks

How Far Along: 28 weeks

Size of Baby: About 15 inches long and 3 lbs.

Total Weight Gain: 24 lbs

Maternity Clothes: lots of leggings and shirts(good thing they are in style)
Gender: Boy - Nash Christopher
Movement: Lots of kicking and fun movements (Braxton Hicks started this week also)

Food Cravings: Hot Chocolate - It is cold in Louisville and I am loving it

What I Miss: Fitting into my cute fall jackets (oh well there is next year)

Symptoms: Braxton Hicks, gums bleeding, and peeing all the time (I only last 15 minutes while working out and then I have to go pee)

Sleep: Slept great the past few days....it has been wonderful to sleep with the windows open and the fresh brisk fall air filling the room

Best Moment This Week: Coming home to 55 degree weather and buying fall food and no air conditioning!

What I Am Looking Forward To: Our move back to CA and seeing all friends and family

And his name will be......

Nash Christopher Denove

It has taken us awhile to get here, but we did it! The first item that we had to agree upon as parents. I loved the name Nash from the very beginning, however my wonderful husband did not like it. So we tried other names Grady, Gaberial, Charley, William, Riggins(that was my other name) and finally back to Nash.

Once Nash was decided on, we had to come up with the full name. This was harder than I thought. I wanted a family name to be part of our son's name. The family names that we chose to work with were Timothy and William(after my Dad), Thomas(after Chris's Dad), and Christopher and Scott(after my husband). We mixed and matched all of them with Nash and finally decided that our favorite was Nash Christopher.

He has a name....finally. I feel so much more relaxed and ready for his arrival in 84 days!

Havasu

We just spent the past week in Havasu....it was a much needed break

Chris loved kissing the ever growing baby

and riding the wave runner

I loved watching him from the boat

We had an unexpected guest(rattlesnake) show up in the driveway.....I hate critters

Horseshoes were played

Chicken Wings were eaten

I mostly sat in the water and sunbathed

Sunset Cruises were amazing....we had an amazing time!!!