"Sew" in love with the curtains!

For any of you who have not seen some of the fabulous works of art my mom has sewn, take a look at these curtains! I literally explained the look I was going for with the curtains, and whalah...they came to life! My mom and I had such a great time over spring break getting the curtains done and just being together. Having my mom and sister here for spring break was such a nice treat! Not only was it great having them around as company, but they both helped me out tremendously around the house as well at school getting some of my materials ready for my long term substitute. What would I do in my life without these peeps?

Spring Break Fun

What a great time Spring Break was! My mom was here for about a week and Andrea, Andrew, Olivia were here about 5 days. We really took advantage of our time together making sure we had a least one fun activity per day! My cousin Carlos and his family stopped by one night for a pizza party, how fun! We went swimming one day, and boy are Andrew and Olivia quite the little fish!! They love the water and it was just so much fun watching them having a blast. We also planted some flowers in our front yard another day. Although on this day, I think the kids were more interested in finding as many acorns around our yard as they could instead of planting flowers (thanks for taking control, Andrea)! We hit up the book store and found a really cool pop-up Cinderella book for Olivia and a Sunken Ship book for Andrew. The last day that the kids were here, Andrew was not too excited about having to get ready for bed as he said "It feels like the whole day was only 15 minutes long!" I guess time really does fly when you're having fun! I'm already counting down the days until July when we'll be able to hang out again! :)

Belly Pics

A super sweet parent of a student in my class volunteered to come over and take some pregnancy photographs for us today. We had such a blast, and the pictures turned out really nice too! These are some samples that she sent us via e-mail.

Jaime's got skills!

We're one step closer to the nursery being finished! This week Jaime painted this 'Q' above the crib. He is so talented! I am so surprised at how excited and involved Jaime has been in this whole process. I just know that once Quinn is here she is truly going to be a Daddy's Girl! We're in the homestretch now as we are less than two months away. As my friend Meagan says, Quinn is about to cross that finish line, literally. :)

Ultrasound

I finally learned how to download our ultrasound pictures to our computer!! We had our 20 week ultrasound quite a while back (December 5 to be exact) so I'm sure our little girl is even bigger and chubbier now. This day was when we found out we were having a girl-such a pleasant surprise!

Childbirth Class

Last Monday was Session I of II of our Childbirth class. We showed up toting our pillows and ready to learn some breathing techniques, which we did get. What we didn't know is that we were going to watch a video showing 3 ladies bearing their children the natural way. Can we say YIKES?!! Jaime said that after the video was over, all of the girls had a look or complete terror on their faces. I was right there with the rest of them thinking 'how in the world am I gonna do this?'. This coming Monday we'll get to see some births with epidurals. I'm really hoping that these look a little less horrifying, especially since there's no turning back now!

Registry Heaven

Jaime and I set up our baby registry at Target yesterday, how fun was that!?! We literally walked down the aisles and registered for whatever we thought we might be needing. Some of the items that we added we had no idea what they were for until doing further investigations (reading the box). Most of the items were mainly new to Jaime, especially in the feeding arena. Our next stop will be Babies-R-Us next weekend. That place can be a little overwhelming as they seem to be the mecca of anything baby, yikes. Jaime really enjoys the registry process. He says he feels like he's spending a lot of money without actually spending. He says the next time we get an itch to buy something, we should just register for it instead of buying it! :)