Baby Shower!

Last Saturday my friend Alexandra threw me a really wonderful baby shower! Thank you all again for coming and all the great gifts! Alexandra had a really good idea of instead of a greeting card to go with the present, to give your favorite children's book for little Gavin with a message inside, and I got a lot of great classics to start his library! We played the guess how big Jessica's belly is game... 39 inches as of right now. Nellie did the memory game where you have to try to remember all the goodies on a tray, and we played a nursery rhyme game. My friend Justyn brought a chocolate fountain with all kinds of goodies and fruit to go in it... LOVED it! You can tell cause in most of my pictures I'm shoving my face with food! It was a really good shower! I got a ton of clothes, some essentials like bottles, blankets and a 4 tier diaper cake! It was all very appreciated and needed... thank you all again!

The 8 month picture!

Holy Cow! I feel like a cow! I have officially POPPED! I keep thinking, I have 8 more weeks... where is he gonna go, I already feel ginormous! Its now hard to bend over... I still get wicked butt cheek cramps at night and I can feel every little move he makes... and that is a lot. The other night i felt him push on my spine I think. My legs went numb and I had to sit up real fast and shake them out... then they did that tingling thing... woof. Makes me happy to know he is healthy and active at least. Ren is so good to me, he always rubs my feet at night cause my arches KILL by the end of the day! He is so excited that Gavin is almost here! He is sucha good man!!!

San Fransisco

This past weekend Ren and I went to San Fransisco with some friends of ours Tom & Alexandra! We wanted to take a quick trip before Gavin came, and San Fransisco was one place where most of us had never been and was quick enough that we could drive there. So we were there from Friday to Sunday, and crammed in as much sight seeing we could in 3 days... with me being almost 8 months pregnant... it was tiring, but well worth it. So Friday we did the Jelly Belly factory tour and got ourselves a ton of belly flops... then made our way into the city and ate lunch at this restaurant called The Stinking Rose, which was pretty much everything on the menu completely smothered in garlic... I think we had the smell of garlic seeping out of our pores the entire weekend! They even offered us garlic wine... We walked around Pier 39 at Fisherman's Wharf and went to the Alcatraz tour, which was pretty intense. Those people were pretty dang wicked, and had it pretty rough. Ugh! It was cool though. And the people working there let me take the handicap carts up the hill since I was pregnant! We ate dinner on the wharf and went back to our hotel after that cause we were pretty pooped. Saturday we did a lot of just sight seeing. We drove over the Golden Gate bridge and went to Sausalito, went to China town and ate lunch with Brandon and Laurie... and I thought China town was really cool... crowded... but cool. We drove down Lombard St, went and saw the Painted ladies (the row of famous Victorian homes... where Full House took place!) Oh... how could I forget Ghirardelli Square! That is a fantastic place! So the one bummer thing about the trip was I had to pee all the time... I don't think I have been in that many public restrooms in one weekend in my life! And I gotta say... I think gas station bathrooms are getting cleaner... just something I noticed since I used so many! We had a ton of fun! It was the perfect little mini trip away!

Fun Video!

So 2 weeks ago I didnt get any pictures, but today I got a fun video of Gavin. The picture we got was kinda hard to make out, but its of his face when he was yawning... or yelling how much he loves me! I bet it was the second of the two! The picture didnt make it on the computer though... just the video. The video doesnt really start till like 35 seconds in... but I thought I'd try posting it since I get them every time. So its cool to see his foot press against the sonogram. And the doctor keeps going back and forth from regular ultrasound to the 3D kind of view... so once when he switches over to 3D its right on a bum shot and his balls are right there! (kinda big looking...) Ren thought that was really funny!

So other than melting in my house everything has been going well still. The record high at our house today was 104. Eww. Our house is at a current temp. of 89 degrees and its still in the eighties outside so doesnt really cool off till like 2 in the morning. I feel bad for Makenna living in Texas... i cant imagine how hot it is there. To top it all off the air conditioning went out at my office today, so there is no escape!!!! Its just bloody hott!!!

The 7 Month Photo

Monday was my 28 week mark, 3 more months to go!!! I didnt get any pictures from my appt. last Tuesday because the printer was broken, but I go in every two weeks now so I go again on Tuesday the 21st. He said everything looks really good! He kept saying "everything is so textbook with you..." so thats pretty comforting! I gained another 4 pounds from last months appt, so that puts me at a total of 14 pounds. Its been pretty hott here lately and pretty uncomfortable. We dont have AC, and our house has been getting up to like 84- 87 degrees.... barf! Im afraid cause its only the middle of July and its just gonna get worse. Yesterday I came home for lunch and Ren had bought a little blow up 3 feet deep wadding pool that was set up in the back yard so I could just sit in it. I think he did it because he's scared of me... (hott and sweaty mixed with emotionally unbalanced... poor Renny)

Okay, maybe I will post ultrasound pictures next week!

The Ultimate Rock Band 4th of July!

Yesterday for the 4th we decided to stay home and have a Rock Band party. We had our friends Jeff and Justyn over on drums and guitar and Nate came to be the vocalist for the event! Ren and I switched off on the other guitar! So Ren set up his projector out in our backyard with one of our white bed sheets as the screen and we had a serious jam session! It was funny cause our neighbors on all sides of us were watching us... so the pressure us on! We didnt plan on watching fireworks last night, but it turns out we could see the perfect from our patio! I even sat in our living room and watched them from our couch out the window for a little bit! Kinda fun! The band called it quits around 10:30, the bugs were kinda eating us alive... but totally worth it! I think next weekend will be an outdoor movie night!

Puppy Pictures

Falcors eyes finally opened on Tuesday! They look so creepy... did you know dogs have 2 eyelids? Good thing I have friends that know things about dogs to educate me! So he is one big fat ball of fur! He is sooo much bigger now, just two weeks after he was born. I think something changes on him every 12 hours. He definitely is getting fatter by the day. As much as Ren will deny it, he is totally attached to this puppy! I think that will last only until he starts walking around and stuff! We'll see...