Easter Bunny Love

Hadley adored the Easter bunny this year. It was so great!

25 Weeks

How far along? 25 weeks

Total weight gain/loss: Up 8 pounds per the appointment we just had this afternoon. I've lost a tiny bit (0.3 lbs) since our appointment last month but the baby is measuring perfectly on schedule so no worries.

Maternity clothes? Yes! Baby girl is growing so my belly is getting too big for most regular clothes.

Stretch marks? No new ones yet.

Symptoms: Stretching cramps and growing pains in my sides with all of the growth going on.

Sleep:  Getting some when the tiny gymnast isn't keeping me up.

Best moment this week: The snow started melting- THANK GOODNESS! Winter needs to be over.

Have you told family and friends: Yes

Miss Anything? Would love a glass of wine.

Movement: Lots of kicks/punches, rolls and hiccups.

Food cravings: THAI noodles sound divine :)

Anything making you queasy or sick:  Nothing is too terrible right now. Thank goodness for some relief!

Have you started to show yet: Yes

Baby is a: Girl

Belly Button in or out? In

Wedding rings on or off? On

Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy

Looking forward to: the Easter bunny and enjoying a few more matzah pizzas this week. ;) I'm also getting super excited to share baby girl's name after my birthday but I'm not exactly thrilled to turn the dirty 30 next month.

24 Weeks

How far along? 24 weeks

Total weight gain/loss: Up 8.5 pounds

Maternity clothes? Yes but I'm still mixing in a lot of my regular clothes also.

Stretch marks? No new ones yet.

Symptoms:  Feeling good....

Sleep:  Having a hard time staying asleep at night but otherwise things are good so I'll take it.

Best moment this week: Sweet Hadley turned TWO and was the high point of this week.

Have you told family and friends: Yes

Miss Anything? Would love a glass of wine.

Movement: Lots of kicks/punches, rolls and hiccups.

Food cravings: Oreo Cheesecake Blizzard from DQ

Anything making you queasy or sick:  Nothing is too terrible right now. Thank goodness for some relief!

Have you started to show yet: Yes

Baby is a: Girl

Belly Button in or out? In

Wedding rings on or off? On

Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy

Looking forward to: Spring coming soon! The winter is really getting me down at this point. It was 7 degrees this morning when I woke up :( which is so not what I would prefer, especially at the end of March.

Happy 2nd Birthday Hadley!

It's our little girl's 2nd birthday! Two years ago on March 19th at 8:07pm our sweet baby was born and we've been loving every day with her since then! :)
We celebrated on Saturday at the Mall of America and today at the Minnesota Zoo. I hope she had as much fun as we did.
Also want to wish our sisters Peggy and Mackenzie a very happy birthday!!

Foodie Friday Southwest Sweet Potato

This week I decided to make our version of The Biggest Loser's South of the Border Loaded Sweet Potato. It's basically your favorite taco toppings plus super low fat ground turkey on a baked sweet potato. I changed it up just a bit by adding to the toppings sautéed chopped veggie mix (from Trader Joe's prepped to cook produce).

Here's the original recipe:
http://www.biggestloser.com/nutrition/recipes/south-border-loaded-sweet-potato

I also added sriracha hot sauce ;)

Happy birthday to my mom today!

23 Weeks

How far along? 23 weeks (17 weeks to go!)

Total weight gain/loss: Up 8 pounds

Maternity clothes? Yes but I'm still mixing in a lot of my regular clothes also. I love my lululemon and Target long and lean tanks that I regularly wear because they are still working. ;)

Stretch marks? No new ones yet.

Symptoms:  Feeling good except for a little cold. ;)

Sleep:  Some nights I am too exhausted to toss and turn but other nights I'm constantly waking up.

Best moment this week: We hosted a baby shower for my friend Crystal last Saturday. I had been anticipating giving her a shower since last August when we found out that they were expecting so it's great that it went so well!

Have you told family and friends: Yes

Miss Anything? Beer, wine, {raw}sushi

Movement: Lots of kicks/punches, rolls and hiccups

Food cravings: Oreo Cheesecake Blizzard from DQ

Anything making you queasy or sick: Raw meat

Have you started to show yet: Yes

Baby is a: Girl

Belly Button in or out? In

Wedding rings on or off? On

Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy

Looking forward to: Tonight there is a big sale called Just Between Friends in Eagan and I am going to buy.buy.buy for baby M because it's always such awesome deals.

I'm also looking forward to celebrating sweet Hadley's birthday next Tuesday... my baby will be TWO YEARS OLD! Oh goodness, time really flies. My mom's birthday is this Friday, then Peggy, Mackenzie AND Hadley share 3.19 as their birthday plus Parker's birthday is the 3.22 so we have a lot of birthdays to celebrate in the next week.

Crystal's Baby Shower

The baby shower that we hosted on Saturday was so fun! Here are the pictures that I took... I didn't get any back from any of the ladies yet so once I get one that we are all in I will add it to the bottom. I promise I was there (it was at our house!) but I was just behind the camera in these. ;)

This is the appetizer and desserts table. Thanks to my co-hostess Niki for cooking so much of the food! Baking the cake, the hot pepper jelly with cream cheese app and krispie treat making was my contribution.

Here are the treat bags. They were homemade carmel corn in bags that said "About to Pop" which was so funny!

Some of the ladies chatting and then playing games.

Everyone brought a book for the baby and we put them in my vintage baby carriage. My mom bought the carriage for us for Hadley's baby shower. :)

The ombre cake~ loved it.