A Great Day to Wear Cowboy Boots!!

It's finally starting to feel like fall here!! The weather this last week has been SO beautiful!! Overnight lows in the 40s, highs mid day in the 70s! SO SO NICE!! The only thing that would make it better would be if the leaves would change to beautiful reds, yellows and oranges. But, I'll take the small reminders of Ohio whenever we can get 'em! In other exciting news, Starbucks has brought back their Peppermint Mochas and are now serving them in their CHRISTMAS CUPS!!! I know, I know...I was so excited I about teared up when the barista handed me my first cup of Christmas goodness!! I will have you all know that baby bean loves the mocha just as much! :)

Before I forget... for those of you who are dying to know what Nate was for Halloween - drum roll - he went as a refrigerator magnet. ...... next year we'll try to start costume preparations prior to 45 minutes before we walk out the door. :)

We have had a wonderful, wonderful week here! Yesterday we were overwhelmed by the love and generosity of our OneLife family at a baby shower my good friends Brenae, Ashlee and Rachel threw for me. God has lavishly poured out his goodness on us by surrounding us with a group of people who love us, adopt us in as family and walk side-by-side through life with us. We are so blessed!! Here are some of the pictures from the morning.

Me and Brenae

Ashlee, Rachel, me and Brenae - All of the hostesses

Terrible pic of me, but Lisa did the applique on these onesies and made the burp cloths in the next picture.

 

Video Monitor

Holly crocheted this beautiful blanket!

Diaper Cake, made by Shirley, and Baby Miller prediction cards. Most people said his birthday would be February 1st, weighing less than 6.5 pounds, looking mostly like Nate, and he will be a teacher when he grows up. :)

Carolyn is known for her awesome knitting skills...She knit the bean an Ohio State football helmet hat and found a onesie and booties to match. Nate could hardly contain his excitement! Nate is now having constant conversations with my belly, trying to convince baby to come in time for Ohio State's bowl game.

We've decided to get buckeye leaves to sew on the sides - maybe to match the date of his birth.

Here's some belly pics from week 28:
While you can't see them in these pictures, I am wearing my cowboy boots...

With Nate and I busy in preparation, making ready our house for baby, the dogs maybe feeling a little left out. I walked into the office today to find this:

He hasn't moved from the bouncer since I started working on the blog post. Ha ha! I'm just waiting for Daisy to try to fit in it too...oh well...it was a $5 garage sale find.

Our next appointment was moved to this week Wednesday. We'll find out the lab results for the diabetes test. Love you all! Can't wait to see our Ohio family and friends in a few weeks!!

Happy Halloween!!

With this weekend being Halloween and hospital classes, I didn't get around to updating the blog on Saturday. We had a really great weekend, though...in spite of being so busy! Saturday we went to "Saturday Blitz" at the hospital where I learned how to "breath in the relaxing colors of blue and green, while breathing out the harsh, stressful colors of red and orange..." Yep, Lamaze is one big laugh. But, we got a tour of the hospital and learned about all the accommodations the hospital provides (like giant jacuzzi tubs in each room)! I'm glad we went. One of our friends at church used to work at the hospital with a midwife, she said she would come over and answer additional questions and talk about some of the more reality stuff they don't tell you about in classes. It's so wonderful having such a great support system of people here!

Yesterday we went over to our friends' house for a Halloween caramel apple party.They live in a neighborhood where trick-or-treating is a huge event. We're talking like shuts down entire streets for the kids to go house to house. It was lots of fun watching all the kids come to the door in their costumes. Here's the Miller family celebrating Halloween with our babe together! (Next year we'll have a 10 mos. old!!)

Can anyone guess what Nate's costume is?

We're going in this week for our next baby check up. I went today for the gestational diabetes blood test. No matter how many times I go through it, I hate hate HATE being pricked in the arm. 

Here's something that happened to me today and thought it was funny enough to share...

I come back from a meeting at school today to find this gift on my desk... while other teachers get swarmed by candy, gift cards, etc....my students are way more thoughtful and creative!! Check it out...

Please notice how I'm pregnant in every picture. And while she didn't know Nate's name, wanted to make sure he knew that he was highlighted by a different color. "Mrs. Miller and bady, Dad!!!??? I love you happy" That's me dreaming in a thought bubble about my family (Nate and the dogs with the baby in my belly, wishing Nate would say "I love you") ...her words, not mine. She wanted people to know that it was my shirt so she wrote my initials on the sleeve ("you know, because your sign name - AM- you know") again, her words...

 

The back: I love you love!!! Your I our baby sleep house you. Miller, baby and Dad. I love you (students' names) see your baby happy. The pictures are of the students are all bringing me gifts for the baby in my belly. The second line is just the boys bringing me gifts (they had to give 2 because they didn't help to make the shirt) ... again her words, not mine. The squiggly lines on the right of the shirt are to represent the party happening at school. Then, that's me laying in the hospital bed watching T.V. (because that's what you do in the hospital when the baby is born) and there are fireworks, rainbows and pretty flowers growing outside.


Yep...completely awesome! I'm afraid to wash it because I'm sure she used Crayola markers, but I'm afraid to wear it before washing... catch 22.