Another Week

Now that I'm 36 weeks I'm finally nesting! It feels like I have mostly just been exhausted this whole pregnancy. The nursery felt too overwhelming to tackle, but now that the dresser is cleared out and I have fun girl clothes to put inside it I have been feeling like getting it ready is really urgent. Plus, Thanksgiving is right around the corner and that means "any day now." I went to the doctor on Wednesday morning and I was measuring between 37 and 38 centimeters, which surprised my doctor, but the baby hadn't dropped yet, so we still have a few weeks to go.
Wednesday night I had a combined YM/YW planning meeting that I was in charge of. I felt like it was a little chaotic, but we did get lots of ideas for each month's combined activity for next year. Right when I was getting to the last month or two I realized I hadn't planned anything else for the evening. When I was finished the YM president came in and said he had set up chairs in the cultural hall so the YW could go in there and pick the actual activities we wanted to do for our months of the year and the YM would stay in that room and figure out their months' activities then we would get the calendar nailed down. I was so grateful he had thought of doing that!

The YW filed into the cultural hall and I held the door for them to make sure they all made it in (they tend to disappear to the bathroom sometimes), then when I came in I saw all my friends and some family there for a surprise shower! I really had zero idea it was happening. I was so touched. It was great fun to see friends and my aunt and cousins who drove down from Ogden. There were ward members there too, and, of course, the young women. It was pretty low key. We ate the cute rattle cupcake cake, visited, and opened presents. I got so many adorable little girly clothes, a couple blankets, a couple packs of diapers and wipes, and a car seat cover. It was so fun of my friend, Janelle, to put the whole thing together and even make it a surprise! Thanks everyone who helped and came. It meant so much to me. :)

Me and my friend, Tara, who thankfully took some pictures and sent them to me.
Opening presents. My friend, Janelle, who threw the shower is the one taking pictures right behind me.
Yesterday after I picked up Weston from his short day at school we went to Babies R Us to register. I know that's kind of weird since I already had a shower and my baby is due in just a few short weeks, but I did it because they gave me a $10 gift card for registering. Why not, for a free $10? Anyway, it was good because it helped my organize in my head what things I still need to get. I went ahead a bought a couple things too. Then I went home and started getting my nursery organized!
The giant CD case I ordered from Amazon came yesterday too, so last night I stayed up and put our entire DVD collection into it. We had run out of room on our DVD shelf and had quite a few hidden in the cupboard. It was getting harder to know what we had to watch. It was kind of fun going through all our movies and seeing ones I hadn't watched in a long time. I also enjoyed organizing them into genres. I don't think I did the best job though. I didn't leave enough blanks spaces between sections, so we'll see how long they stay nicely organized. In the meantime Ian and I are still debating what to do with all the cases. Do we store them in the garage or just toss them?

Goodbye empty DVD shelf cluttering up my living room corner!
Can you believe all that got consolidated into the one case with plenty of pages leftover?
Yesterday morning while Weston was at school Davin decided to make his own little ball pit. He put all the balls into his fire truck and threw them around while he watched Cars. When I went in to sneak a picture he wanted me to take more and more. When I realized he was going to want me to take his picture with every single ball in there I said no. It was pretty funny how excited he was to have just HIS picture taken though. I sure love this adorable two year old!
Unfortunately Ian has been working late late nights this week and hadn't slept in 48 hours, so last night he mostly dozed on the couch while I talked at him until he officially had to go to bed. :) I am excited for our anniversary coming up and our fun date we have planned. Also the long Thanksgiving weekend will be nice. Hooray for November!