7/21/12 was the date of this beautiful wedding. Congrats to the newlyweds!

I am in the home stretch of this pregnancy – the last trimester.  I can’t wait to meet baby Dean!  He’s been kicking and punching so much more now a days.  It’s so crazy.  He’s totally poking out more on the surface of my belly and we can actually see my belly move as he moves around. I call him an alien baby.

There’s this cool video that shows stuff on the baby in the 3rd trimester:

http://www.babycenter.com/fetal-development-images-29-weeks

I am now 29 weeks.  He’s approximately 2.5 Lbs (about the size of a butternut squash) and about 15 inches long.  They say I will triple in size in this last trimester.  I’m starting to slow down a lot more now.  Harder for me to rollover from the left side to the right side in bed, hard to get up from bed, waking up in the middle of the night from major leg cramps – poor Jonas always gets woken up to help me kneed it out. The other night was so bad I was in tears b/c it just wouldn’t stop hurting.  Jonas has been really helpful throughout this pregnancy and just really cautious on everything that surrounds me.  He’s going to be a really great dad.

I can’t believe I made it to and from Jacksonville, FL for work.  I was a little concerned at first b/c I was 27 weeks.  I did get a Dr’s clearance so I felt more confident to go.  I’m glad I went.  I got to meet the leadership team and i feel it put me in a good position with Pat (the executive).  Baby Dean was such a good boy and although he moved a lot he was such a trooper and didn’t give me any trouble.  He did grow while I was there i could feel it in my clothes all of a sudden they were super tight! lol.  Glad to know he’s growing.

Nas and I went to Babie’s R Us to get Jane a baby shower gift and he ended up walking out with this belly cast thingy. Kinda funny but we ended up doing it.  Here’s the finished product of my belly!  Nas did a good job

The talented Tam Lontok was so kind to do a maternity photo shoot for us.  She did such an awesome job capturing the moments of our new milestone. Thank you so much tamsters!! we love you!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22570665@N07/sets/72157630485363214/show/

Here are a few of my favs:

The past two weekends have been lot of QT with Nas. Its been really great to really spend some good QT. Last weekend we randomly went to Ikea to look around and ended up going to universal studios and getting an annual pass! ahaha I only made it on one ride the tram tour. Then I was ready to go home. Good thing we have annual passes and we can go back and check out the transformer thingy.

This past weekend we spent Saturday hanging out with KB / Stac and the boys.  They are so much fun to be around.  They got super big!!  they totally crack me up with tier lil personalities.  Gosh I love them soo much.. How am I gonna handle Dean when he gets here?  Jonas and I are in for it… I wont be able to say no to Dean ever!! ahaha

Speaking of Baby Dean he is going to be 27 weeks tomorrow!  this guy is really kicking / punching soo much more and so much harder now a days.  Also his limbs are starting to poke out more on the surface of my belly!

Sunday we had a home improvement day.  Went to Lowes, got a bbq and some paint to start nesting Dean’s room.. So exciting.  Nas working on setting up the BBQ while i fixed the guest room and finished working on our room rearranging it and going through boxes.  It was a really productive day.  I felt really good.  So good we treated ourselves to dinner at Cheesecake.. ok well Jonas treated me.  It was a really good dinner.  We got to talking and realized how far we’ve come in these past 12 yrs.  I can’t believe how lucky I am to have found such a perfect match.  Everything about him / us makes me feel so grateful for life itself.  Like when they say life has meaning or life is fulfilling… I know what the really mean by that.  its really a great feeling and I pray that everyone experiences this at least once in their lifetime.

Totally scared of the gardeners every time they come so he hides under my desk right next to me. What a guy!