Great start to the 3rd trimester

We have had a fabulous weekend, I must say. The carpets were clean and dry when I woke up (early) on Saturday morning. I picked up Eric from his sleepover and we went to breakfast at Frank's diner. Then we came home, ran the vacuum one last time and got to work putting the upstairs back together. Actually, Eric and Ruff put the upstairs together while I put the CRIB together:


Yay! I love it so much! So now we have a stroller/carseat AND a crib. We can officially take the baby home from the hospital and put him to bed. I guess we better get a mattress first, but anyway we're getting closer! Here I am at 27 weeks:



In the afternoon we went on a Costco run, and stopped by the mall to pick me up one more bra. 36DD. That's right, I am officially the same size as Pamela Anderson. Yikes. Saturday night we watched Gran Torino, which was surprisingly entertaining. I was very amused by Clint Eastwood snarling throughout the movie pretty much every racial slur in the book. Which was ironic given the relationships he ultimately develops with his neighbors. Anyway, good movie.

Today I got up and made blueberry muffins and put a chuck roast in the crock pot to stew all day. Eric just brought me a taste and it turned out very good! Yukon gold potatoes, leeks, celery, baby carrots, and Lipton onion soup mix. Yum (and so easy)! Then I got my computer set up in the new office, finally. I had time to upload a few pictures before I had to hop in the shower to get ready for our trip to Green Bluff! Grandma and Grandpa Haynes picked us up and we headed to get Auntie Jen before stopping off at Babies R Us so I could check the price on the dresser I've been eying. Still not on sale :( However, while we were there, we managed to score.... our GLIDER!!!! G&G decided to buy it for us for Christmas!!!! SOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited!!!!! I can't even freaking explain how happy that makes me. Thank you thank you thank you THANK YOU Ted and Marci! Eric and I went ahead and ordered the matching ottoman too since it was on sale. Yay! YAY! YAY! So that will be here in 1-3 weeks.

Then we went to Green Bluff, got some salted caramels, mmmm, some pumpkin doughnuts, mmmm, and a caramel apple. Delicious! On the way home we went to "not" Qdoba and had a very mediocre burrito. We tried to go to Qdoba but their power was out so they were CLOSED! It was devastating.

Tonight I did some major work cleaning and organizing our little storage space under the stairs. I think we might actually have room to put all of our junk, er, I mean STUFF away. I consolidated several boxes of Eric's random stuff into just a couple (one of which contains a big stack of letters from his old girlfriend Traci -- hee hee, more on that later). I still have a LOT of work to do down there but I feel really good about the progress we're making. Serious nesting going on around here and it feels awesome! My house will have never been so clean and organized. The prospect of which I find so comforting. Something tells me that once Seth arrives it is going to be pretty sweet to know exactly where everything is.

Well, time for bed. I'm sad to see this weekend come to an end. Next weekend I have to work, so Saturday won't be nearly as productive since I'll be very short on sleep I imagine. Then to Seattle the weekend after that, and THEN *hopefully* Mandy will be coming to visit the weekend after THAT! Can't wait!!