weekend shenanigans

Hello, Thanksgiving Week!!! What??? Still in disbelief about it. This month is just going way too fast, just like the past weekend. I have no clue how it is Monday morning already, but let’s get to it. Or try to, because I honestly don’t even remember Friday night. We stayed in and I guess I watched TV? Can’t remember!

Saturday we ended up helping a friend with something for a few hours, and then came home and I cleaned the house and started on the laundry. Exciting things, right? We watched part of the Alabama game with a friend of Chris’s but then came back home because I wasn’t feeling so great. Another could this be happening evening that turned in to a great deal of pain but no baby. Don’t know what it is with Saturdays? I guess she wants to come to the party too.

Yesterday morning I got up and hung everything on the walls in the nursery. I am so happy with how it turned out!!! I wanted to do a nursery reveal this week, but Chris hasn’t gotten around to hanging the curtains yet. Soon, hopefully. After that, I headed over to the outlets to look for some pajamas to wear to the hospital. Couldn’t find anything I liked, but I did get these super cute clothes at Gap for baby girl!! They seriously have the cutest stuff there and I want to go back and get more!!! Those jeans??? I die!!!

I went to TJ Maxx and got a really cute side table to go next to the glider in her room too. Literally everything is done in there now except the curtains!

I then got our grocery shopping done, came home and meal prepped and made some chicken fettuccine alfredo for dinner while we caught up on a few of our shows. And just like that the weekend was over. I never got around to getting our Christmas stuff up. Again. I am so disappointed, but hopefully I can do that on Thursday morning or something. I really want it up before baby gets here or it will never get done.  I just didn’t have the energy after all the hanging things in the room and running around this weekend.

Someone has been spending a lot of time napping in the blanket basket lately. I think he gets tired of getting kicked off my chair so I can get up and go to the restroom. Such a rough life. The bottom left picture cracks me up because he was glaring at me from the basket for like 10 minutes.

Linking up with Biana. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

This weekend I had plans to do all of the things and well…I did none of those things. Oops? It started out innocently enough on Friday at lunch. My goal? Finish at least one person on my Christmas list. I did that and shopped the Sephora VIB sale. Total win. The store didn’t have my foundation so I had to place an online order too. I really needed that now because I have been scraping bottom for weeks. Oh well, what can you do?

Saturday morning I finished reading Trophy Wife, cleaned the house, did some laundry, put together the Pack ‘n Play, and put batteries in any baby items that needed batteries. Mac supervised my assembly of the Pack and Play among a pile of Chris’s shoes in our room. He is a weird one. All hail King of the Nikes.

Then we headed out to watch some football! We started out at Chris’s parents house for the Alabama game and then headed to World of Beer to catch the Georgia vs Auburn game because it was a friend’s birthday and they were there to celebrate. I was happily surprised that Georgia pulled out a win!!! I really thought everything was going to come down to the Iron Bowl…but nope. Then after seeing some more games, I realized that all three of the other top four teams would fall. I can’t say that I am mad about that either…

I found it funny that Washington was chanting “We want Bama” before their game. Ummm you lost to a team that we won 52-6….no you don’t.

Saturday night we didn’t get home until nearly 8pm and I was exhausted from being out all day so nothing else was accomplished. Around 11 or 12 I started to get some pretty strong contractions and they lasted most of the night. I thought we might have to go to the hospital but they quit early morning. I have a feeling I am just going to be on edge a lot over the next two and a half weeks!!!

Yesterday I got up and got out early to run our errands. I have been looking for a robe and some pajamas to wear to the hospital and around the house after baby and I just haven’t been having any luck. I finally found a robe at Kohl’s yesterday and decided to just go to Motherhood for some nursing sleep wear and tops. I got our grocery shopping done and headed back home to get the homemade sauce going for our lasagna for dinner. Every year for our anniversary I make lasagna from scratch. Yum!!!

We caught up on a few of our TV shows and I never got around to hanging all of the decor in the nursery or getting our Christmas stuff out. Chris went to bed pretty early and I stayed up full of anxiety. I should have made more of an effort to at least accomplish one of those things I kept thinking!!! So I stayed up to midnight watching Miracle on 34th Street and writing out some thank you cards. At least I can cross those of my list.

This guy didn’t seem to mind some of the down time either…

And just like that, another weekend has come and gone and I still have lots to do! This weekend was the first weekend I really thought, could this be the last weekend before baby? Who knows?! I have a lot to do at work this week. My pipeline has gotten long again and I need to do as much as I can to stay caught up before I go on leave. One night after work, I might have a hanging party in the nursery to at least knock that out. The Christmas stuff can wait until next Saturday. What have you got going on?

Linking up with Biana.

Happy Halloween! Do kids in your area trick or treat on Halloween or are the parents lame and they do it on Saturdays? I’m sorry, but when I was a kid we did Halloween on Halloween. And I lived in Pittsburgh and it got dark early and some years it even snowed and we were still out there walking from house to house…not being driven in a car on a Saturday at 5pm. People have gotten so lame! I see I am going off on a rant and I am going to stop myself. It’s time for some weekend shenanigans!

Laura and I kicked off Friday with a lunch date at Cocina Superior for Mexican. It has been months since I have had a good enchilada and chips and salsa. This meal was so delicious and what better company than your bestie, am I right? Speaking of besties….she stopped by my office with her adorable T-Rex after his Halloween parade and basically made my afternoon. Kid dinosaurs are the cutest. Just saying.

Friday evening I came home and started washing allllll the baby clothes!!! And then I started hanging them in the closet the way I have my closet organized, by type of top then by color. Well hers is also organized by size too. It was so much fun going through everything again and trying to picture her in them.

Saturday morning I put together the crib mobile and Chris put together the chair. We did a few other nursery related things and then headed out in search of the rest of the have to have now baby items. But first, lunch! We went to Twin Peaks for the first time in Hoover and I have to say I was very impressed with how nice it was inside and how amazing the food was. Taco Mac was one of my favorite Atlanta hang outs and we don’t have one here. I was obsessed with their boneless wings and I think I finally found my favorite Birmingham boneless wings!!! And some amazing Chipotle Queso! Chris cheated on his diet just a tad to share that with me. It was the best!!!

Off to Buy Buy Baby! And Babies R Us. And three Bargain Hunts. We got a crib mattress, sheets, changing pad, changing pad cover, swing and a few other things that have slipped my mind. A successful shopping day for sure! I was freaking exhausted after all that walking around and we basically came home and crashed in front of the TV for the rest of the evening.

Sunday morning I got all the, bedding, sheets and changing pad cover washed and put on and a few other small things done. We headed to try a new restaurant in our area, Casa Fiesta. It was delicious and very well priced! My entire plate was $5.99. Mexican twice in one weekend? Yes, please!!!

We hit up Best Buy and Royal Furniture. We are in search for new furniture for our living room. We found a few things we liked but I think we are going to go out again next weekend to a few other places just to be sure it is what we want and the best deal. I did find a dresser for the nursery there for a very reasonable price though and I think we might be ordering it soon. That and an ottoman for the glider I am about to order will be the final pieces to go in! We picked up a cube shelf for her closet while we were at Target grocery shopping. Everything is finally starting to come together!

Sunday evening I moved the car seat and stroller to my car, made sure the swing was working properly and chilled the efffff out with this guy the rest of the night. I am pretty sure I was passed out in the chair at like 8pm. Party hard.

Look at that strong mohawk he has going on in the top right. Someone needs groomed soon.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!! Happy Halloween! Tomorrow we can resume playing Christmas music.

Linking up with Biana.

Is it just me, or is October in a hurry to get on up out of here?!?! I swear the month just started and here we are in the last week already. Not that the days are going by fast though. Good grief, I thought 5pm was never going to come on Friday!

This weekend we…..

–Washed three loads of baby laundry! I washed every last sock, towel and blanket with Dreft and breathed that stuff in like a drug. I love that smell! Even Mac loves it because when I was fold blankets he kept trying to curl up in them. Next week will be the clothes! Thankfully we only got 2-3 newborn pieces and everything else was 0-3 months, 3 months, 3-6 months and up so I think we are safe to fit in everything.

–Watched Alabama beat Texas A&M! Roll Tide!!! Have you seen the Jermaine Funnymaine Johnson videos highlighting each week of the SEC as a Bama fan? Those videos crack me up!!! You can find them here. My favorite line this week? “Boy the Gus Bus got an oil change and new rotors.”

–Saturday night we hit up one of our favorite spots, Crazy Horse, for a late dinner. I ordered the Southern Burger and it was delicious!! It had fried green tomatoes on it. Southern and fabulous indeed. If you live in the Birmingham area, I promise you this place is worth the drive! Best steaks you will find in town too!

I got the latest Allure box in the mail. I am going to discontinue my membership. I am tired of getting same brands over and over again. I haven’t reviewed a box since being pregnant because I cant use all of the skin items I get right now but thinking about doing one last post on things I liked and didn’t like from the last several boxes.

Sunday was meal planning, grocery shopping and food prep as always. The rest of the day was spent catching up on reading, catching up on shows and a whole lot of this…

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Wow, Monday sure does roll around mighty quick! This weekend was jam packed with nesting, purging, cleaning, family time and baby fun! I walked in the nursery this morning and looked at the stacks of baby stuff that we now have everywhere just to make sure this weekend wasn’t just a dream.

Since I was working from home on Friday, I stayed up a little later on Thursday evening to start purging some things and then instead of having to get ready and drive to work Friday morning, I purged some more and cleaned instead! I got rid of TONS of clothes. I would say probably 40 pieces? I also went through the ridiculous amount of cookbooks I have and got rid of a huge stack of the ones I never touch. Then I was super productive with work since I didn’t have to listen to people in cubes around me. This guy was a great assistant.

A tisket, a tasket, a Mac in a basket! He randomly crawls in there from time time. So sweet.

I read an entire book between Friday night and Saturday morning, and then Chris and I headed to the store to get our grocery shopping knocked out. We came back and watched the Alabama vs Tennessee game (ROLL TIDE!!!) until it was time for me to head out to meet up with my mom and sister for dinner. To my surprise, my godmother (my mom’s best friend) flew all the way down here from Pennsylvania for my shower this weekend and surprised me at dinner Saturday night! After dinner, we shopped around Trussville just to get some extra time together. What an awesome surprise!!!

Sunday was baby shower day!!!! My sister and sister-in-law hosted the shower at my SIL’s house. They did such an amazing job on the decorations and all the food!!! Most of the decor was multi-purposed items for the nursery that I will get to see daily and a great reminder of this special day. My sister made ham salad sandwiches (my favorite) and my godmother had shipped down my favorite chips that you can only find up north AND smiley cookies from Eat n Park!!!! (A staple in the area I am from.) Not to mention the beautiful gold foil sprinkled cupcakes and all the other amazing food they had spread out.

My sister-in-law made the ribbon banner that I am going to hang above the crib!!! She also had white and pink painted pumpkins all over and they were so sweet.

I am so blessed with amazing family and friends that are already so in love with Baby because they sure did spoil us with a lot of stuff!!! Baby girl will not be without blankets, towels, essentials and LOTS of clothes. I had such a great time just getting to hang out with everyone.

My sister made this ribbon holder, height ruler and this cute little elephant print with the guests names.

My godmother made the beautiful diaper cake that I don’t want to dismantle because it is so pretty!!!

My mom crocheted this beautiful hat and blanket!!!

Laura put together this pinterest worthy basket of goodies. How cute are those socks?!

Again, words can’t express how thankful and blessed I feel to be surrounded with such amazing people. I had a wonderful time at my shower, and I hope everyone else did too.

My sister, mom and Casi came back to my house after the shower to help unload all the goodies. My sister hung around and was the one who hung up all her clothes and filled the laundry basket with all the towels and blankets I need to wash. It was fun sitting in there and going through everything again.

And just like that, the weekend was over and I was exhausted! Chris and I settled in for some Chicago PD and Grey’s Anatomy before passing out on the couch. I hope you all had a fabulous weekend!!!

Linking up with Biana.