Our current status:

I went to the doctor yesterday and was very disappointed to hear that I have not started dilating at all.  I know my due date isn't until the 25th, but I was just bummed to not be making any progress at all.  I am still effaced about 50% he says.  I thought it was more last time I was in, but I might have misheard him.  All that to say, no baby yet.

On a positive note, I have been walking the malls like a crazy woman and should be in tip top shape to actually delivery her when she decides to come.  I pretty much walk Chandler Mall every morning and Fiesta Mall every night.  I think my fav is Fiesta since it is ghetto and very few people go there anymore.  Therefore, no one stares at me walking up and down the stairs a million times.  It does smell funky some days though...  I do look forward to the buns and thighs of steel I will have once the swelling goes down. :o)

Also, Josh and I went to lunch yesterday with Mark and Sarah at PF Chang's.  Surprisingly, out of 8 different numbers, Josh and I both had a 23 in our fortune.  So maybe you will be reading a much different blog entry on Thursday.  Who knows??  The chinese also said I was having a boy and if that happens at this point, he better like pink!

Nursery is finished. Now where is my baby?!?!?

Okay.  So I know I put the whole room design together, and am a little bias, but these pictures do not do the room justice.  I am no photographer, but I feel like I can make a room pretty cozy.  I just want to rock my baby to sleep all day long in this room.  I love it!  Now I just need to have this baby!!

Pretty Belly

So I swear I have the best friends ever! I seriously feel like I can go out and compete against Heidi Klum at a Victoria's Secret show after all your amazing comments. Thanks everyone!

That being said, I just got my maternity pictures in the mail, compliments of Jennifer Bowen. We took them at the Royal Palms Resort when it was 111. I was so uncomfortable, but I think they turned out pretty nice. Good thing Jennifer is am amazing photographer! To see them all visit her website HERE, go to proofs, click on my maternity session and the password is Madeline09 (she didn't know her name is spelled Madelyn ;o).

Thanks again Jennifer for such amazing photos!!

This is what 200 pounds looks like. :o)

So I wish that I could lie (like some people), but I tend to be almost too honest. So yes, I have gained way too much weight.  This is what I look like 55 pounds heavier than I was when I got pregnant in November.  And with 15 days to go, my doctor has stopped giving me tips on eating right and has just starting laughing at me.  At least he is laughing!  Anyway, I wanted to certainly document this momentous occasion.  Here's to never being 200 pounds again though...

37 weeks, and counting down...

Well here is what I am supposed to look like (if my baby wasn't huge like her mommy who has gained over 50 pounds). Anyway, we are counting down until little Madelyn is here. Josh comes home on Monday from Europe, and honestly I am cool if she comes Tuesday! They say babies are completely full term at 37 weeks. (Yay! We made it!!) Her lungs are developed to a point where she can function on her own outside of the womb and she is big enough, and long enough, to avoid the NICU. So with as hot and as uncomfortable as I have been the past couple of days, I am ready. Now we just have to wait for her to be ready, and this future fashionista (as Pauline called her) better not be fashionably late. :o)

Madelyn attends her last wedding in mommy's belly.

Since Josh and I got preggers with Madelyn on November 4th, she has attended over a dozen weddings. But last night was really a blast! My good friend Emily and her husband Santiago got hitched in Mexico on November 1st, 2008. To celebrate with all their family and friends who could not make the trek down to the wedding, they held a reception in their honor at Cezar's in Scottsdale. It was really a fun night, despite my husband not being their to have fun with me. But the best part of the night, besides the amazing food and super fun dancing, was the photo booth. I use this company a lot for my weddings. You take 6 pictures total, place three of them in a scrap book for the happy couple, and then keep the other three for yourself as a party favor. Emily helped me out at one of my weddings in May and saw how fun it was so she hired them to come to her reception too. Here is us in May.



For Emily's wedding though, I took my pictures with Julia and Melissa. We gave the best three to Emily and Santiago, but I was crying I was laughing so hard after we took these. My Madelyn belly barely fit in the booth with two other grown woman, but boy was it fun!!

Getting Closer

I can hardly believe it but, ready or not, four weeks from today I will have Miss Madelyn in my arms. WOW! Just had to share since I am getting so excited!!!