A Little Pregnancy Calendar

So I know this is going a little backwards and I am not showing the most amazing thing that has ever happened to us, but I thought it just made sense to post my pregnancy calender and a little about my pregnancy before I show you our little beauty. Also I have heard that at the end of the year you can have your blog turned into a book, or something, and I am terrible at journaling, so this blog is my excuse for a journal! Jon and I found out we were pregnant on August 18, 2008 the day after my birthday and two days before Jon's what a gift. Jon did not believe the pregnancy test, he made me take three tests before he realized it was real. We had tons of fun telling our family at our combined birthday dinner via a prayer. PS telling someone you are pregnant in a prayer is perfect, they have to hold in their reaction until "amen," though know one really did!! I felt the little one move for the first time on November 22nd and on the 25th we found out we were having a girl! Jon did not feel her move until December 18th, I know this date because we were snowed in, in one of the biggest snow storms Spokane has ever had, over 2 feet in 24hours. There is lots of stuff in between those dates but I think those are the milestones. My pregnancy was amazing, I was hardly ever sick, in fact I only got sick if I was too tired not if I got hungry, weird! I was a little bit quicker to anger but I was not super emotional, which is good and bad I guess. I loved every second of being pregnant except the frequent, frequent trips to the bathroom! To tell you the truth I miss being pregnant and feeling her every-move, it is truly a miracle and what an amazing blessing it is to be pregnant...I loved it, every bit of, I guess I am a lucky one. Now for the calendar, this is a lot of pictures of me, but it is fun to see my belly grow.

This is days after we found out...5 weeks

Not much change, we are at the Oregon Coast...8 weeks

Weird looking? We forgot to take some pics...almost 23 weeks

This is me at almost 27 weeks

30 weeks and counting

Sorry I am not modest, but I love this picture...35weeks

This is me at my baby shower...36 weeks...I look round all over!

This is my dad and I at 38 weeks...I win I think!

Here we are on our last Saturday baby free, this is at Twigs,one of our favorite restaurants. No belly here! This was the perfect ending to a perfect pregnancy.

This is Jon and I at 39 and a half weeks...we took a picture like this together when we were engaged but Jon was pretending to be pregnant and I was listening!

This is us, literally on our way down to the hospital...39.5 weeks

That is it! 9, actually 10 months of our lives!

It hit me...

Well tomorrow night at this time I will be in the hospital probably settled in my room with and IV hooked up to me. My doctor decided to induce me tomorrow night, which seems weird but she offered the morning and to tell you the truth I did not want our baby to be born on April 20th...420...I know I am terrible but that is not a way to enter the world, so she is inducing me in the evening in hopes I wont have her until the 21st. We are nervous, well I am, and Jon is keeping his cool. I am not that nervous about the labor and delivery, I know I can do it, or I have to do it, but either way we are going to have a beautiful little girl in a day and a half. No I am nervous about being a parent, we are going to be parents, WE ARE GOING TO BE PARENTS. Seems weird that this is just really hitting me but it is. Who is this little person I have been carrying for nine months, what will she do, who will she be, how are we going to teach her. This is the scary nerve racking part for me and I think it is safe to say, for us. So for now, the shock is setting, the nerves are running high in and we hope to get some sleep tonight because who knows when the next "good" sleep will be? This is it for our two-some, parenthood here we come, ready or not.

Her Nursery

Last weekend we finished this little girls nursery. I was too picky to just go and buy something, or I could not find anything that I really loved, so I took on the task of making her nursery bedding and decor...what was I thinking. I did learn one thing for sure the rest of our kids will get a cute store bought nursery. I spent so much time on it I am not even sure I really like it anymore...I mean I love it but after I have seen it for so long I am sick of it. It is bright, not the usual nursery look, with its colors... hot pink, coral, spring green, chocolate and turquoise. When I was buying the fabric I think everyone thought I was crazy when I told them the fabric was for a nursery. It is sort of retro, I designed after a few Potterybarn designs, just with different colors. I guess you can see her name on the wall, so I guess we are letting you know that her name is Liv, I was not too sure about Liv at first but Jon loves it, and because he loves it I have learned to love it even more, it has grown on me the past couple of weeks. Oh the best part about her nursery is that I was trying to make it not super girly, I mean it is girly of course, I just did not want everything pink. But then I got these grapefruit colored curtains and when the sun shines through the window the whole room glows pink...Jon was like I think maybe there is enough pink now...oops! Looking at these pictures make me wish I could paint the walls in our apartment...
Well we had a little excitement on Monday not that we thought I was going into labor at all, but there were some signs that it could be happening soon...so I got my house all clean, really clean and then nothing, nothing happened. This waiting game is not that much fun. I have made some progress so that is exciting, but I am due in exactly one week and don't really feel like this is going to happen any time soon. I have an appointment tomorrow so we will see if anything has happened!

35 Weeks

OK so it is not Sunday, but I am doing it, I did not want to post until I received some of my maternity pictures I had taken a few weeks ago. It was so fun, my sister the "stylist" did my hair and make-up so that she could use some of the photos for her portfolio. The pictures were taken by one of my mom's friends who is getting her photography studio up and running. I am 38 weeks now, so I am much bigger! To tell you the truth I feel great, which is sort of a bummer because I figure when I start feeling terrible it means she is on her way, but for now no complaints. In fact last night Jon and I were getting ready for bed and I even commented on how great I was feeling. It also might be the fact that it was 75 degrees yesterday and today is my last day of being a nanny!!! We finally finished her nursery this week and I feel like we could have her now and be prepared, or at least as prepared as we could be. Jon on the other hand is denying the fact that I am due in two weeks, he is really excited it is just going to be such a change! Jon is doing really well at his job, he is still training, but he loves it and the people he works with. By the way I feel a little weird posting pictures of me by myself...I guess I might have more to come?

Just one more...

Why are there tools on the right side of the screen, and a pencil near our posts, will those go away...I will get this figured out I promise.

Question?

How do I add friends or links to other blogs on our blog? I have tried to figure it out by myself, but I figured why not ask...Anything helps.

Confessions

Here is my big confession...the day that I started our blog I hated it. I am not good with the computer, in fact it took me hours to set up our blog and then I hated the way it looked. I would look at other blogs and think our blog, "sucks." I like things cute and trendy and our first post was far from that, so I was frustrated and gave up, but not really, I was checking our blog like once a week! Confession two...I used our blog to stay updated on all of our friends but was not updating you about us, lame I know, but I got a few pointers or one at least so that I could attempt to make our blog cute, so this is a step in the right direction, I guess. Well what's new with the Norris'

• We don't live with my parents... this happened about two months ago but it is still new!


• Jon has a new job that he loves. It was such a blessing to get a real career type job at a time like this, I don't know what we did or if we did anything to deserve it, but it is such a blessing


• And because of the job, I only have two more weeks left at my two jobs, being and nanny...worst job ever, and working at Pier 1


• Oh I only have two more weeks left because I am due with our little girl in three and a half weeks...maybe sooner, hopefully not later

So a few things have changed, not much, we are the same old Norris'. Jon is crazy and I still just laugh at who he is

(No Joke it took me twenty minutes to upload this picture!) This was two months ago so she is huge now and so am I, all of my recent pictures are on my camera. But here is a goal, I will try once a week to post, maybe it will be a Sunday thing, I don't know life is about to get really crazy!