More Belly pics and baby stuff

Here I am at 26 Weeks!

Here is the most recent shot! This is 27 weeks--I feel pretty large and in charge already, so it is hard to imagine how much more growth the next 13 weeks will be! We go to Hawaii in a week and I have my next appt Monday when we get back and will officially be entering my 3rd trimester! We're really looking forward to this last big trip together just the 2 of us and especially to have an extra-laid back trip since we'll be a bit limited on the physically demanding stuff given my *delicate* state. :) We have a lot of site-seeing planned as well as just laying on the beach and swimming! So exciting! We are getting more excited every day to meet this guy! We've started to figure out what we we're getting for most of the major things he'll need so that's exciting! We've enjoyed bargain hunting for a lot of these and have found some great deals. Thanks to all our friends and family who've offered boy clothes especially since it seems everyone's recently had baby boys! He'll definitely be well-dressed!

Here's our votes on baby stuff so far--please feel free to offer your thoughts too--this is all based on reading/reviews/friends and family recommendations so far!

Stroller: Bob revolution with the adaptor for the Graco Snugride

Carseat: Graco Snugride 35 (Hathaway is the print--so cute! Only at BuyBuyBaby.com, but since this is one of the few things we'll definitely buy new, price is pretty much the same everywhere. :)

Infant Carrier: Debating still between the Ergo and Baby Trekker: The Ergo has the infant insert which is a huge plus, however the Trekker lets the baby face out as well, which is also a big plus.... Leaning toward the Trekker based on the majority of reviews we've read.

Pump: Universally my resident/working Mom friends have all recommended the Medela Freestyle and thanks to Liz I have a great website to get it $100 less than everywhere else!

Bedding: We found this cute fabric at Target and LOVE it!

Carolyn is also making us an awesome minky and flannel blanket with baby blue minky on one side and this super cute animal print on the other:

Diaper Genie: doing the real deal to hold the stink in :) Less of an issue until he starts solids, but seemed worth the extra cost even though those refills aren't too cheap.

On that classy note, we're excited for this little guy to come! It's felt so far away the whole time but now it's starting to feel closer, especially as I get bigger and bigger each day! We'll keep you all posted!

New Year's Eve Fun.... with human pyramids!

I started on a big Christmas post to catch up and it's in progress but really big so I'll finish it in some other day! In the meantime, here are some stolen pics from Mandy's blog from our super fun New Year's! It was great fun to see Cristy and Nathaniel and Troy too! These are all from the Poteet's camera which does a timer with 10 pics at a time, which totally beats our 3 at a time which I always thought was pretty neat. :)

We 're all making 11's for 2011!

Even more 11's!

George and I tried to make a 2011 together but you need a mirror to fully appreciate it... were tricky like that ;)

Show off your socks!

Some awesome High 5's

We're a pretty burly group--I especially like Georgey's massive guns! :)

The next obvious pose would be to eat each other's heads, right? :)

Pure crazy fun :)

That's some classy group nose-picking!

Now it's PYRAMID TIME! If you don't know this about me, I really love a human pyramid. I feel there aren't enough of these in regular life and seek out opportunities for them when possible! One of the most memorable human pyramids was when Mandy and I were on a softball team the summer after 8th grade with BRIGHT pink shirts. I will have to look through and find that pic and scan it into this post someday because that pyramid was awesome! The whole team is a pyramid, and there is a LOT of bright pink. :) My thanks to my husband for allowing this to come to fruition despite my *delicate* state--you'll note I was on the bottom with no risk of abdominal injury at his request. :)

Here we are getting set up!

Grayam is so tall!

Getting closer!

Now this is looking like a pyramid!

Grayam loved being the top!

Georgey's loving being up top too!

Goofy pyramid!

Leaning pyramid!

And.... collapse :)

Good fun was had on this pyramid!

Recovering from pyramid fun

Georgey and Grayam love rough-housing!

That was some good fun!

I hope you all had a great New Year's Eve too! We were so glad to be home and see some great friends and family and especially appreciated our awesome New Year's with the Poteets! We sure miss them and have lived far from them our whole married lives so we appreciate the time we do get to spend with them so much! Hopefully we'll see them again soon and their boys will get to meet our own little guy!

24.5 Weeks

This is a little late, but here's the belly last week at 24.5 weeks! I'm still feeling well with only minimal complaints, so I'm thankful for that! Work is going well and we've had a bit more time recently to relax together which is great. :) Bob has been very helpful as always and takes good care of me so I just relax on the couch most nights after I get home--probably the reason why I've not had too much swelling yet of my feet yet!

Last weekend we went to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point with Jared and had a lot of fun. We've never been there but always heard it was impressive, and it was pretty cool! We started the day at a nice breakfast place down in Provo called Magleby's and had all you can eat French toast which was delicious! Then we enjoyed the museum, then had a yummy lunch at JCW's and went to a movie, the Adjustment Bureau, which was great. On our way home we hit Ikea and picked up a few things including some pillows for our new couch, a cute hippo rattle for the baby, and some frames for his room. :) A good Saturday overall and we had a nice time relaxing on Sunday.

Not a lot else new here! Hope all is well with you and we'll post a new belly pic soon--Bob took one today, but it was a tentish shirt so it really accentuates my growing bump!

23 Weeks

Here's an update on my growing belly for all interested parties:

21 weeks

22.5 weeks--I am kind of slouching a bit so it exaggerates the growing pooch!

23 weeks--Bob felt the sweater hid the bump

23 weeks without the sweater--now you get the full glory of the growing bump :)

This weekend we went to Kid to Kid, an awesome kid's consignment store here and got some great deals! I'm sure we'll get a lot of action out of this place while we're here! There are 12 stores around the SLC valley, so pretty much wherever we're headed there's one nearby. We went to a movie at our fave theater, Jordan Commons, and had a little time before our movie started, so we headed to Kid to Kid looking for maternity capris/shorts for me.

We have really tried to resist buying our little guy too much since we know we'll be getting so much from friends and family who've had boys before, but some things are too cute to resist! I found 2 pairs of capris for me and restrained myself to just these 2 things for him, but all this was only $16! :)

We also had a 30% off coupon to Kohls, so here are our finds there. Bob also found a jacket and some shirts for him, but they had a ton of cute baby stuff which I resisted and only bought these

This blue and white animal print was my favorite!

Hope you all had a great weekend! We had fun and didn't do too much which is always nice. :) And I'm off today! Yay for President's Day! Hence time for blogging! Maybe I'll even get caught up on Christmas--I don't think I ever posted those pics and I have a LOT... Have a great day!

Ooh, and my current question of the week is: What's your fave baby carrier for all you mamas? From what I've researched and heard from friends so far, the Ergo Baby looks like the winner. We're only going to get ONE, not a sling, Baby Bjorn, backpack, Moby wrap, etc. so let me know if you have strong thoughts on this!

Halfway there!

We are so excited to be at 20 weeks! The halfway mark is here! I definitely expect the next half to be much tougher physically, but emotionally the first half was much more draining, so here's hoping this is a very uneventful finish to the pregnancy! We really can't wait to meet this little guy! We drove around to a ton of fabric stores yesterday trying to figure out what to use for his room. We got a LOT of ideas, and are narrowing it down. Hopefully we'll finalize things this week, but no rush since he's not coming for a LONG time still! Thanks to all who've offered to contribute stuff--we're so blessed to have so many wonderful friends and family who want to help and share their cute stuff! We're also extra lucky we know so many with little boys!! We have a busy week ahead of us but had a restful Sunday after a busy Friday and Saturday, so hopefully we're ready for it!

On Friday I did some scrapbooking with a friend--we're working on do it yourself baby books she found a cute template for on another blog. They're turning out really cute! We went to a scrapbooking store called Archivers down in Orem, which is pretty far, but a great store with a huge room in the back where they do crop nights for free, so we checked out their stuff, bought a few things, and had a great time working on our projects.

Ok, here's the latest view of Baby Sampert's ever-increasing home--I feel like it's much bigger in person, but clearly my perspective is not a flattering view--from above I have a shelf! :) I know I've got a long ways to go and am trying to appreciate how not large-and-in-charge I am now! I can still tie my shoes and do a lot of things that I know are going to get less comfy each day.

Hope you all have a good week! Thanks for any advice and all I've received so far! My question for this week is, what are your favorite parenting books? I know a ton of people like The Happiest Baby on the Block, so that's on my list, but let me know your favorites and why!

Also, anyone else ready for winter to be done? It's not been a terrible one here, but I'm ready for warmer weather, especially since I'm not snowboarding this year anyway!

19 Weeks and it's a......!!!!

We had our ultrasound on Tuesday and we're having a BOY! We're very excited to know what we're having and that he looks great! We got a one hour tour of his whole anatomy because he's was quite wiggly and made the tech really work for it!

Our other exciting event of the week is that I felt him move for sure for the first time today! I know everyone feels it at different points, but I only had flutters that were "maybes" until today so we were pretty excited! In honor of his boyness, here is my growing bump in blue! Hope you're all having a good week!

Thinking of themes for baby... drooling over many things on Etsy, including lots of mod elephant and giraffe items... thinking a jungle type theme featuring those may be the winner!

This is the cute fabric:

This is one of the adorable onesies:

These are vinyl stickers for each month that you put on a onesie for photos--cute!

I like how he can be a fancy baby for a big night out in this one!