Evelyn Mae Johnson has arrived!

I never did get a 38 or 39 week photo. Woops. But here is one to complete the little photo project Jessica and I did.

Hard to believe this little cutie was inside me for 9 months and now she is here! 

I ended up having to go into the hospital on Thursday March 22 to get cervidil to help get me ready to be induced. My amniotic fluid was low and the baby wasn't moving around as much as my doctor would have liked. I was supposed to have the cervidil in for 12 hours. My body had other plans since my water broke at like 9 am and I went into labor on my own. Labor pains sucked. It is the kind of pain that I have already forgotten but I know it was just plain awful. I was about 5 centimeters dialated by around 12:30 or 1 and had the epidural by 1:30 or 2. I was so set on getting that epidural,  I was determined to stay still and deal with the pain until that needle was in. It took about 20 minutes before the pain was pretty much gone entirely but the relief was near instant.  I finally had a little pitocin to help me continue dialating and by 4 I was ready to push. I swear after I had that epidural I was good to go. When it came to pushing I was super excited and ready to get her out. I started pushing at 4:15 and  she was born at 4:34 pm. I think there were only about 10 pushes total, it all happened really fast. There was meconium and she had to have her stomach pumped, so I had to wait for what felt like an eternity before I could hold my baby. All in all I think I lucked out I had a pretty short labor and Evie is healthy and perfect.

37 Weeks

I just realized I never posted last weeks photo. Oops. 

I have a doctors appointment this afternoon and Thursday morning I have another ultrasound to check on the babies size. We shall see if she is still big or just normal and on track. It is crazy to think that at this point she could come at any time. At work everyone has put in their guesses on when the baby is going to come and how big she will be. The soonest guess is the 20th which is right around the corner! I think Zach is finally getting nervous about actually having a baby, another little person to care for. I just feel pretty anxious about everything. The birth and after. Though I am pretty sure everyone feels that way. I feel like I am going to get home with this little nugget and be like, now what do I do!? At the same time I am super excited to finally meet the little acrobat that has been hanging out in my belly for the past 9 months. Not to mention I will be glad to head back to my normal self without constant aches and pains. Only time will tell when she will get here. I still feel like we have a lot to get done and clean up before she gets here. Zach has been dragging his feet with doing some of the tasks. Not sure if he realizes that after she is here we won't have time to get it done. I wonder how many more weekly pictures I will have at this point. 

35 Weeks

One more week and I will be full term! So crazy. My bestie Ashley came over and took my weekly pictures with me! So excited.

Jessica also made an instagram with the pic... love it.

Mobile is complete!

The nursery actually looks like it is baby ready! I had my baby shower yesterday and got a lot of goodies! I am going to have a super fashionista baby. Alyssa and Jessica threw me a super awesome shower, sadly I don't really have any pictures from it.
Afterwards Alyssa helped me put away and organize all the things I got, which took quite a while. Today I went to Target and got a few more things plus some baskets for the changing table. My mom also helped me make my mobile which was slightly more tricky than expected. However it turned out perfect.

It was most definitely a 2 man job since someone needed to be holding the branch while the fishing line tying and bird gluing was going on. I hot glued the birds to the branches. For anyone attempting to make this themselves make sure that if your branch is at all curved you want it making a U otherwise no matter what it will be flipping upside down and you will have some acrobat birds on your hands. I used some eye hooks which we screwed directly into the branches and just tied the fishing line on securing it with a tiny bit of glue in other spots. Here are some pictures of the super fab mobile. I am in love with it!

Here you can see the fishing line a bit better:

This is the only wall I haven't hung the artwork on yet. I am putting these little animal artworks I did for the office a while back up here, plus a little shelf that I am going to paint the pink color of the closet.

I love Shea's painting on the wall.

My Grandma cross stitched the blanket draped over the crib. I love it!

33 Weeks!

Holy cow! My baby shower is tomorrow and I am super excited! Can't believe how I am already 33 weeks. If you look close you can see my nice popping out bellybutton... Now if I could just get that bestie of mine to take a belly pic with me!

32 Weeks

This week Lurina got to pose with me.

31 Weeks

The nursery looks like...well a nursery!

We have made a tremendous amount of progress in the past week on our baby girl's room! I got the rug, then the crib and crib mattress within a 3 day period. Plus Zach and Janet painted the room, so finally it was ready to start adding everything in. The crib was super easy to put together. Zach and I accomplished it in like an hour. I recovered the glider's cushions on Sunday with the help of my mom. Sadly I did not get a before picture. Just know they were hideous. We wrapped the cushions with some 1/2" foam as well to make them more comfortable. We finally hung the curtain and I spent today stenciling the closet wall. I am super happy with how everything is turning out! The room is super small only 8' x 8' 6" so it is really hard to get photos. The only furniture we are missing is the changing table which Janet is repainting this weekend. The hardest thing is going to be arranging everything to fit.


First up here is a peak at the quilt my mom has been working on for the baby.

This is the backing fabric and the trim. She has all the squares sewn together now.

My wall stenciling wasn't too hard, just time consuming. It went faster as I went. This is my nice little plan measuring how far apart I needed to do the stencils to keep them even. 

There was 2 1/2 " between each stencil horizontally and 3" between the small and large stencils vertically. I used a little level to make sure each one was taped on the wall straight. I also used a little canvas board I had tested a stencil on to mark my 2 1/2" and 3" marks to make it a little easier than using a ruler. A little ghetto but it worked fabulous for me! 

 I didn't have any painters tape so i just used some white artist tape I had. I also marked the center of the stencil on each of the tape pieces so that it was easier to line the stencil's up when I was moving them.

Any one who knows me knows that I love glitter. When I found this at Lowe's I knew I had to use it.

I was using the lids to the paint as my paint tray. I just added some of the glitter each time I needed more paint.

I just continued these steps one at a time until I got to the bottom of the wall. I didn't do the top where the shelves go. Also that eyesore of an electrical box will be covered with this piece of wood painted the wall color. We just haven't rigged it up yet.

Here is a close up of the stencil. It was really hard to try and get a picture of the glitter. Also my stencils are not perfect. The textured wall does not make the process easy.

Here is the finished wall:

Here is the rest of the room!

For the ties we used some left over quilt fabric.

This close up is more accurate with the curtain's actual color.

Here is the dresser Janet found on craigslist and refinished.

Before:

After:

The chandelier:

The rug is perfect!

Still have to get the changing table in here, finish the mobile, and put all the artwork I have collected up on the walls.  Most of the hard stuff is done! I finally feel like I am getting closer to being ready for this little nugget to arrive.