36 weeks

I had a doctor's appointment today with my OB. She said I am not dilated at all (which is good, I have four weeks until my due date!) and we did a quick ultrasound to make sure that Jillian's head is in the right spot (it is). She said I was measuring right on so expect an announcement from the Galland Family around December 28th. This was my first of my every week appointments with the doctor. We're getting close!!! This picture is for my mom. She wanted to see my big belly. Here you go, Mom...

Sweatpants

It's official. I'm at that stage of pregnancy where nothing fits. I am currently wearing my husband's sweat pants (mind you, my husband is a big boy) and a shirt that my sister gave to me that her sister-in-law gave to her that was too big (my sister is a size small/medium, the shirt is an XXL, apparently it was such a good price her sister-in-law couldn't resist buying it even though it was 3 or 4 sizes too large for my tiny sister. Good thing I'm closer to an XXL). No, I am not posting pictures of me in my husband's sweats and a giant t-shirt. I just thought everyone should know how uncomfortable I am.

Our First Thanksgiving

Ok, that's technically wrong. This year marks the 5th Thanksgiving that Sean and I have had together. Although the last two years both of us have been working and before that we lived in Washington so went over to our parents' homes to eat there. This year was the first that we made our own Thanksgiving dinner. I even made pie and although I butchered the pie crust it still tasted pretty good. We are thankful for so many things in our life. Good family and friends come pretty close to the top. Thanks for all you do!

The Golden Compass

A series of books that I love are His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. The first book in the trilogy is coming out as a movie next month. I'm pretty excited to go see it. The book is set in a parellel universe where people's souls are manifested in animal shapes called daemons. There is much more to the books and I highly recommend them. If you take a questionaire about yourself you can see what your daemon looks like. This is mine.



Find yours at www.goldencompassmovie.com

Baby Shower Take Two

My work threw me a baby shower today. I've included a picture of just a few of the items I received. If you can tell, I have two bathtubs, two baby monitor sets, and two of the exact same flowered blanket. These were all items from my registry. The funny part about the whole thing is two different people bought the same three things to give to me at the exact same time at two different Targets. That's why they didn't get taken off the registry in time to show up that they had already been purchased. I guess we will be taking one of the sets of doubles back and buying something else. Thank goodness for gift receipts!

Mommy Haircut

It was time. Time for the mommy haircut. My hair was driving me crazy and so I cut it off. A lot of it. But that's ok. I like it shorter. And it grows fast. And I'm hoping it will take me less time to do now that it's short (we'll have to see about that, I've only had one day with this 'do). Because with a baby coming who has time to do their hair? Also, I am 33 weeks along. Only 7 more to my due date.

Jillian's Room

This weekend we've been in the process of moving the computer desk out to the living room and trying to put together the baby's room a little bit. We've got a crib and changing table, although they look a little bare with no mattress or changing pad, and a rocker. All we need now is the baby...and a few million more things! The first two pictures are of the room with the desk still in it. This is one gigantic desk. It's a 6 foot "L" shaped desk so it takes up a lot of room. I was worried we wouldn't be able to find a home for it anywhere else in our apartment but we did although the living room is kinda messy at the present. But the baby's room is looking good. Bare, but good.