When you get four pregnant ladies together

You get a line-up:

 Sky (16 weeks), Phanango (22 weeks), Sandy (24 weeks) and me (30 weeks)

Phanango and Sandy were both visiting with their husbands.  It was so nice to just take a walk with everyone and then chat with the girls. 

Hehe and our friends Sally and Justin came over with their little one (who's not so little any more!!! He's a big 2 year old).  After we got done taking all of these photos.  The little man decided to use our friend's phone to take photos of me, but I had to be standing against the wall.  I played a long for a little while but then was just too tired of standing. 

What a fun weekend! :) 

Love, 
Amanda

P.S. Did you check out these new clutches? Elegant Pine and Classy Pine

They are one of a kind (and aren't made yet so can be changed slightly if needed).  I mailed some out for a charity raffle and really liked them so decided I'd be able to make one of each for the shop if anyone is interested. 

P.P.S. I still need to right a Duggar post.  I've been so encouraged by them lately!

P.P.P.S.  We start up youth group tomorrow.  If you could be praying God would have His way there we'd GREATLY appreciate it! 

Our third Trimester! WHAT?

That's right.  As of Saturday we've entered our third trimester!  Woohoo!!! We are officially 28 weeks and in the last third of our pregnancy.  It goes by so quickly!  Even though pregnancy has not been super easy for me (between morning sickness and gall bladder attacks), I'm so thankful to be pregnant and really it's a great experience period.  I just enjoy having this little one growing inside of me.  However I can't wait to meet our little one. 

This morning, hubby had tutoring from 7:30-8:30 so I got up and had a quite time and got ready. When he got back we went outside to shoot a few baby bump pictures.  Unfortunately it was pretty cold so we stayed outside for all of oh, 5 minutes =P.  I still love our pictures anyway! And hubby was so sweet to take some time out of his day to do something special for me.  He had tutoring this morning, is now subbing for the afternoon until 3, and then he has an interview for more subbing opportunities at 4, and work at the dollar store at 5.  He'll be home around 11.  Yes, I am so super blessed to have this man as my husband.  I love him very much.  He's trying to work so hard so that I can stay home with our little one.  Praise God.

It is fall in Erie!  And this is the only tree we have left in our "yard" (it's technically beside our driveway, but we went from 5 to 1 recently).  We rent so it wasn't really our choice, but it looks nice in our backyard and they're doing it to add more parking. YAY!

Everyone say hello to our little one!

My husband kept saying goofy things to make me laugh. This was one of those times. (I should totally start a series called, things Aaron says.)

Our pretty little lonely tree! 

How was your weekend?  Aaron and I did a lot of laundry yesterday and I got to watch the Steelers win WOOT!  Saturday I crafted much of the day as Aaron had a lot of tutoring.  We're keeping busy!

Oh and happy reformation day! :) 

25.5 Weeks

This last week we celebrated my Mother-in-Love's birthday.  We visited her and took her some nice wool slippers.  YAY!  We also bought donuts and cider to have for breakfast the next morning.  We also celebrated my sister-in-love's birthday that day since we hadn't seen her on her birthday. 

On Thursday we went to Mead Park (a favorite place of mine) and took some bump pictures.  How EXCITING!!! I loved having my MIL take them so Aaron could be in the pictures with me.  Here they are.

Like our prop??? Her name is Meg or Blue or Crazy Eyes or MEGMEGMEGMEGMEG! HAHA she's a sweet dog, just slightly crazy. She tries so hard to be good! :) 

I think this one may be my favorite.  I love this little place in Mead Park.  It's a little outdoor amphitheater.

Do you see that bump??? I love it.  It's so fun!  It's growing so much!  Everyone says I'm still tiny, but I feel like I'm growing a ton :).

How was your week?

Would you look at that bump???

Can you believe it, this past Saturday was the 20 week mark which means we're halfway done with our pregnancy (unless our little one comes late like daddy did).  The morning sickness is gone!  Praise our sweet Lord for that one.  I didn't know how much longer I could stand it.  I can finally cook again!  I even made dinner last night and a couple of times this week.  

On Sunday after church, I had my dear friend Sky take some bump pictures for me and they turned out great!

20 weeks in my favorite shirt :) 

I know you are there even though I can't feel you yet. 

Can't wait to meet this precious little jewel growing inside. 

Then yesterday, I went to visit my family so my sister could help model some of the new products for the shop.  I wore a belt that will be going in the shop soon so she took some pictures too.  Check out that cute little bump!

Definitely a baby in there (or a watermelon)!

I hope you had a terrific holiday weekend!  

16 weeks

Yesterday was a busy day (isn't it always though).  We got ready for church in the morning after having been to a wedding and playing Settlers until at least midnight the night before.  Then we ate lunch with a visitor of our church and one of friends who was visiting for the wedding.  That was soooooo nice.  It's always a good thing to make people feel comfortable and I hope we were able to do that.  Unfortunately I couldn't even eat all of my meal (nausea is back).

After that we were off to get a gift card for our cousin, Chad's surprise party and then arrived at the party.  It was so nice to spend time with the Wood clan again.  It's fun because one of our cousin's is 2 months farther along than I am so it's neat seeing where I will be in 2 months.  They served a taco bar which was great because I can do tacos!

Upon saying goodbye to everyone, we traveled to my father-in-love's to do some laundry and so Aaron could mow the lawn.  We are so thankful he allows us to do our laundry there because if not, we'd be spending a lot of money a month at the laundromat.  I decided I needed to take some belly bump pictures before the sun went down, but Aaron was still mowing the lawn, so I took some pictures of him on the lawn mower also.  Oh, I forgot we also picked some apples from the Yellow Transparent tree that I was hoping to turn into some applesauce/pies, this week.  I hope tomorrow I feel better and can do that.

Anyway, here are our 16-week pictures.  Aaron didn't take too many because he wanted to get back to mowing.  =P Silly boy, there are pictures to be taken! Just kidding, it was already 8:00 when I asked to take the pictures. Silly wife for waiting so long!

 Oh and we had to wait another 10 minutes because my camera kept doing this!

 Dear Baby, that's your handsome daddy working hard!

 I like the rusty wheels what can I say! :) 

 It's a little bump!

I just realized you can't see my headband when I stand that way.  Oh well, look at the bump, not the hair, bump, not hair! 

So that's how we're doing at 16 weeks.  Well this morning I thought I was doing better, but then got sick.  So we'll take it one day at a time still.  I took a nap and so far my snack has stayed down, might even try to eat an apple.  Woohoo for food in the belly. 

How are you doing this week??

The 12 Week Bump

Well, even though I really don't feel like I have a baby bump yet, I can feel that my clothing is getting tighter more and more.  I can't believe that we are already 12 weeks along already.  At our next appointment we get to hear our baby's heartbeat.  I can't wait. We've also spent a lot of time yard saling lately for clothes for mommy and baby.  We have had some great luck getting cheap clothing and are way excited about that.  God has been looking out for us sooooooo much in allowing us to purchase items that are inexpensive.  Without further ado, here are the pictures from yesterday! 

 Can you believe there's a baby the size of a lime in there??? I can't! It's a little miracle in the making!

And that means we only have 28 weeks left in our pregnancy, that is still a long time but considering we have 12 weeks under our belts that feels like nothing!