39 Weeks and Impatiently Waiting

39 weeks and 4 days pregnant today and I've decided to start a blog.  Well, I decided to start one a while ago, but I am finally getting around to actually doing it.  Hopefully this will be a good way to update family and friends on our adventures in parenting without spamming people on Facebook with a million pictures, videos, and status updates once baby James finally decides to make his appearance.  Honestly, that will happen anyway, but at least here everything will be collected in one place and will be somewhat organized for our loved ones to navigate as they please.

I thought I would kick off this first post with a few "highlights" from the past 9 months:

In May Charlie and I were officially confirmed into the Episcopal Church.  I was in the fun puffy stage of early pregnancy and felt nauseated for the entire first 12 weeks.  Good times.

We also flew out to San Diego in May to hang out with Charlie's parents.  Charlie, his brother, and his father went sailing and we all took a trip to the Wild Animal Park.

In June, my grandmother and I took a trip with my church to do some work in Navajoland.

In July we officially announced our pregnancy and I took my first tiny baby bump bathroom selfie

A few days later, Charlie and I flew to Germany for three weeks to visit his cousins and to celebrate our first wedding anniversary.  We visited Berlin, Prague, Vienna, and Salzburg to name a few.

I then flew out by myself to Thailand and spent another three weeks traveling with my brother through Thailand and Vietnam.

When I got back to the states, we found out we were having a BOY!!  and then I went crazy decorating the nursery and sewing everything in sight - but I will give that insanity its very own post.  In October I had a baby shower in Texas where I made everybody decorate onesies because I'm nice like that.

In November, I went and had a 3D/4D ultrasound done and had a baby shower in Georgia where nobody was subjected to crafts.

December rolled around and I worked in the yard, took some more pregnant selfies, and...oh yeah...broke my right foot.  Merry Christmas!

So now it's FINALLY January and I cannot wait for James Vaden Saunders to be born!  I am impatient and uncomfortable and so ready to enter the next phase of my life with Charlie and our baby.  I have a feeling he will be more stubborn than both of his parents put together and will come in his own good time.  In the meantime, I took another bathroom selfie.