Happy Thanksgiving!!

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!! Ryan and I had a fun couple of days in Battle Creek. Lots of really good food, a little game playing, we bought our crib (yay!!) and dresser (thanks so much mem and dad!), and we went to a Mannheim Steamroller concert to wrap up our weekend. Wish it would stop raining so we could go get our Christmas tree today and our holiday weekend would be complete!!

Beautiful looking turkey...dad doing the honors...



Getting ready to eat...



Speedo (our little Devon Rex cat) decided he wanted to play Scrabble with mem and grandma Betty...


29 weeks!!


Dinner before the concert...


It was a fun weekend!! :-)

28 weeks and still going strong!

I love this time of year. But it also makes me feel apprehensive as well.. I look forward to it so much that I am always afraid it is going to go too quickly and before we know it we will all be heading back to work after New Year's weekend and heading into the long, long month of January.

I think it is safe to say that we are fully into the holiday season. It has officially begun over at the Slagh house. Last night we went downtown to the Holiday Open House on 8th street. It is one of our favorite traditions each year. We accomplished some Christmas shopping...as well as unnecessary, but fun shopping as well!!

Here is a picture of me and Ryan on 8th street...

A couple of our "just for fun" purchases...

I LOVE this little monkey rug from Tip Toes!! So soft...

And it seems impossible that this could actually be big enough to fit on a little person's head! It is so tiny in person!
Our 28 week appointment was good, good, good all around! I passed my glucose tolerance test, baby's heartbeat was strong and beautiful (~145bpm), and I just need to make sure that I eat a little more red meat and all will be well! I was originally scheduled to start going in every two weeks for check-ups, but Dr. Z says everything is going well enough he doesn't need to see me for another four. I have scheduled all my appointments out to week 36 - it seems amazing that it is not that far away! Less than 12 weeks now! I was thinking in church this morning that it is possible that we will only be attending 11 or 12 more services before Ryan and I will have a little one with us!

Not a fan of this picture...but we will post more after Thanksgiving. (I didn't realize how much my shirt gapped at the bottom today.... :-P)

Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!!! I am counting the hours till I get to see the fam in B.C.!!

(P.S. Ryan and I are headed out to hang some lights...then some indoor decorating..the boxes have come up from the basement...fun!! :-))

A few nice things from this week...

First....




Second...
(Yay for mem visits!!)


Third...
Yay for sunny days!


Fourth...
Big grad project pretty much DONE...very ready for this semester to be over!!


Fifth...
95.7 W-Lite



Sixth...
40 days until Christmas!!
86 days until Baby Slagh!!

A work in progress...

Goodbye old, yellowy, peachy walls....
Step one in Baby Slagh's nursery... :-) Thanks, Ry!!!
Next step? Furniture!!!

Had to buy it...

Our only purchase at Babies 'R Us...but I couldn't imagine our Christmas tree without it! :-)



58 Days until Christmas!!

24 weeks and counting!!

Another fast four weeks!

Life at the Slagh household has not slowed down in the past month. Ryan and I are constantly working on grad school projects, exams or papers (is it December yet?!). Ryan is putting a crazy amount of work into budgets for next year at work, and has not come to bed before 11:30 in a week! I have been trying to get ready for parent-teacher conferences next week, which is proving more difficult this year with this flu outbreak! Frequent absences are making it difficult to assess everyone, and I only have a couple days left to try to get everything done! Crossing my fingers that we can avoid an actual H1N1 case in my classroom - it is in my school, but has stayed confined to the upper elementary kids so far! I am also trying to start getting organized for my maternity leave, and feeling like the clock is ticking with each day that goes by! And then, with all that is going on, we have been trying to plan out and find the time to start getting ready for baby Slagh's arrival in less than 4 months! Before we know it, Thanksgiving is going to be here, then Christmas and New Years, then we are only a few weeks away!!
Ryan and I did take last Saturday to start the process of getting ready for baby Slagh, and ventured up to Babies 'R Us. It was overwhelming, as everyone said it would be, but also gave us kind of a reality check of all that needs to be done in the next couple of months!

Speaking of baby Slagh.... :-)
Our little one is doing great!! The two of us had a great 24 week appointment, and everything is on track! He/she is measuring exactly at 24 weeks. When we found out we were pregnant, our little one was only the size of a blueberry, but now, he/she weighs about a pound and a half, and is about 8 1/2 to 10 inches long! And this is one ACTIVE baby. When I finally get a chance to sit quietly at school during lunch or when the students are at specials, I always feel movements and kicks. Most of the movements are strong enough that I can see my belly move when he/she is active. It is a little weird to watch, but also completely fascinating and heart warming. If someone walked into my room while this was going on, they would probably think I was nuts as I sit there with a big smile on my face. :-P

And again, for all my relatives who live far away and I don't see very often (which is pretty much everyone!), here is an updated pic taken this week.


And a picture of a cute little onesie that was given as a really thoughtful gift...thanks, Lisa!

A couple of my favorites this past week....

It seems amazing that it was already a week and a half ago that we had our ultrasound - and I still look at the pictures, amazed.

Favorite MUTTS this past week....I have LOVED some of the Mutts comics this week, and had to share them. I figure anything that makes a person smile is a good thing. :-)

(This is what I feel like sometimes when I am teaching - the students have that same look. :-))



And this just makes me feel happy....

I love mooch....


Favorite thing that happened this past week....I got a FUN, unexpected, very sweet gift from a wonderful friend (thanks, Jana!!!)...and I can't wait to meet the toes that will go into these fuzzy things...


Favorite nursery ideas this past week....after doing a little "baby shopping" with my mem, I realized how much I was drawn to anything with MONKEYS on it! So cute! But I still like a "pastel-y-Life-is-Good" neutral colors theme....so the question is, is there a way to incorporate both of them...hmmm....good thing we still have a few months. :-)


Baby S. is supposedly the length of a banana now....and kicking like a monkey sometimes. :-) 21 weeks and going strong!

Here is a little foot. Love it.