My version of nesting...

Isn't this about the time when "nesting" starts to occur in pregnancy?


With only 6 weeks to go (or so) I should be starting the nesting process......no?


Do we have the cribs set up? No


Do we even have 1 crib set up? Nope

Do we have 2 car seats and a stroller so we can at least bring these boys home with us? No...and No

What is wrong with me? I should be shopping, cleaning, prepping meals to freeze, getting organized for the hospital, isn't that normal nesting stuff?


My version of nesting has been this....

Purchasing a 58 inch plasma TV...... for all of the TV we will be watching in the next year!!! HA!

Next on my nesting list? A 32 inch plasma for my home gym. Did you know finding one with a built-in DVD player is very tough work! This will be for all the working out I'll be doing in the first few months after delivery....double HA!

Also on my list is an area rug for Cole's play area (any suggestions?) as well as getting a few more pictures hung up and figuring out our steam shower in the basement bath (for all of the nice loooooong showers I will be having in a few months.....triple HA!)

See? Totally absurd and will likely bite me in the butt in a few weeks...mobility these days is slowing down....I keep saying I need to put my feet up....I can only imagine what another 4 weeks of growth will do to me!

I am done work as of the end of the week, I'll be off until February so I am making a promise in the next 2 weeks to get everything set up! No more excuses!

Kami, by the time you come out to visit I WILL have both nursery rooms ready to go, all cute and neat....with pictures to post!

Sneak Peek!

Last weekend a friend of ours (who just quit her day job to do photography professionally!)met us at this fantastic Corn Maze just outside the city for a photo shoot. She was scouting locations and I had not done professional shots of my "boys" in years! When she asked to take our picture, I was eager to say YES!

I did get a few of just me too...no worries....we will see how those turn out! Touch and go if ya know what I mean when you're sporting heels and a belly in 30 degree weather (gosh I hope she can photoshop pit stains out!!). Anyways, thought I would share a sneak peak of 2 pics....the rest should arrive in a few weeks. We were there for 2 hours, MANY photos were taken...it'll be neat to see how many are useable, thank god for digital.

Here's Cole.....we had a good laugh as the night before he tripped on the stairs of our deck (note to self: make sure his towel is not longer than he is!) and he cut the inside of his top lip...poor monkey had a tough time smiling but pulled through (maybe it was my ice cream bribe?)

And, here we are in a fantastic farmers field. I'm sure no one minded us tramping through the crop (it was already cut, no damage done!)

I think my friend has a great career ahead of her.......

Pool, Pool and more Pool

We are having the BEST September weather, it feels like July around here.

Today, Cole and I ventured to the zoo....after 1 hour we looked at eachother and decided to head home and swim...it's hot, the animals were all hibernating in the shade and I was tired of toting this belly around in the heat.

The pool makes me feel boyant....like I have no belly! I have been swimming laps most days. Cole tells me (as he sits and eats his popsicle!) what stroke to do for 10 laps at a time...for some reason he insists on the butterfly stroke. I kindly told him that mommy needs some better ab muscles to do any more than 1 lap at a time for that stroke. I have been managing to get in 100 laps...with lots of breaks.

The pool was a huge deciding factor for Tim and I when we bought the house. I grew up with an inground pool. Weekends were spent creating obstacle courses in the pool, having friends come over, or just lounging the day away.... All of this on top of the competitive swim practices I endured 5 days a week. Split ends, faded hair coloring and itchy skin were clear signs that we LIVED in chlorine and loved it!

Tim played water polo growing up and loved to swim, but he did not have a pool. Instead he had a nicely grassed back yard! He loved having grass to cut and a lawn to kick around a soccer ball or play catch in.

This house has NO grass in the backyard. Pool and stamped concrete. BUT the pool is a salt water pool and I can attest that there is minimal maintenance required. A water sample once a week determines if we need to adjust the salt (ie: throw a bag of pool salt in the water). It took Tim 15 minutes to vacuum the pool, and this was after 3 weeks of swimming.

Cole has made huge progress with his swimming this summer and we've been able to take the water wings off and watch him doggy paddle his way across the shallow end. Zipping down the slide and doing cannonballs off the diving board are routine now...I can even relax poolside with a book while he swims...can you imagine the luxury I will be taking advantage of over the next few weeks!!!! Weather dude...keep it nice outside...for me!

It's a personal choice, but I truly believe we purchased the best home for our little family....I will likely have these twins in the water next summer...I just may need to grow another arm to manage everyone!