St Lukes Baby Shower 7-25-10

For our last Sunday working at St Luke's nursery, Cindy threw us a shower during church and Sunday school time. People just dropped in and I was surprised at the gifts we got! Liz hung out with us too! The next Wednesday was out last night with the Hispanic kids, who made a cute poster for us!

CFA Baby Shower 7-23-10

On Friday, July 23rd, my work had a baby shower for us at the Catawba Country Club for lunch! We really enjoyed all the gifts. I'm still waiting on a few pictures from my co worker, since I didn't realize my camera battery had died until I got there! We got some clothes, rattles, onesies, and below is a burp cloth that my co worker Mitize cross stitched for us!

The cake had little pink booties and blue booties on it! They did lots of table decorations too!

A little vacation!

I have some nursery pics below this posting, so check those out too!



Last week, we got to go to Florida for a few days! We got to the beach on Wednesday afternoon and later that evening, Jason, Dean, Karen, and Lee went on a kayak trip near Merritt Island. The chemicals in the water make it glow! They also saw some dolphins!



Thursday, Melissa's friend Wendy met us at the beach condo and we hung out at the beach for awhile. Jason and Lee did swim a bit in the ocean, but I just waded in the water. There was an ice cream social at the pool after lunch, then after a nap, we headed to Outback for dinner! Later, me, Jason and Wendy took a walk on the beach near sunset.



Friday, we had to leave the beach and me, Jason, and Wendy headed to Kennedy Space Center and did the bus tour.



This is one of the launch pads. The kakhi looking road is actually gravel for how they transport the shuttles to the launch pad. It takes 8 hours, as the crawler goes one mile an hour!







The next stop was the Apollo/Saturn V Center, where the Saturn V moon rocket is displayed. There also was a video about the Apollo 11 mission (first walk on the moon in case you didn't know your history! LOL!) Basically, when Armstrong and Aldran were on the "eagle" going to the moon, they lost contact with mission control, the landing site was off by 3 miles, so the mission was close to being called off. I didn't realize so much had gone wrong, but then things went right when they landed on the moon!





The last stop was the international space station, where we could look at actual workers building sections that will eventually go to the space station. Totally amazing!





The vistor's complex where you come into a first has a bunch of IMAX shows and other exhibits. We were so tired after doing the bus tour that we just saw one show about the moon missions.



On Saturday, we rested in the morning, then Wendy and Corey's apartment complex had a cookout at their pool, so we ate our lunch there! Then, we headed to Sea World! We saw two killer whale shows. They were basically the same, but one was called "Shamu Rocks" and just played rock music while the whales did their show!







We got to see a baby sea lion nurse on its mother in that exhibit!



We saw an artistic show with ballet and circus type stuff and also a sea lion/otter show that made fun of some of the other shows at Sea World. At one point, it had a sea lion pulling a string in the water that was attached to a banner saying, "Shamu, can you do this?"



This is the picture where they were pretending to be on the rollercoaster ride and would move side to side. The sea lion even did a scream!







We're so glad we got to go!

Nursery progress!

Mom and Jason finished painting the nursery! Then, we got to see my roomate from college Genie and Sandra (her mom) on July They gave us a cute outfit and Sandra made this adorable Winnie the Pooh blanket! It's so perfect!

Happy 4th of July!

Here's my latest baby bump picture, taken today!

I believe I'm about 145 now. I went to the doctor today and when she heard the heart beat, she said "wild child." No one can deny the kid's a Holcomb! :) LOL!

Monday, we both had the day off and went with mom and dad to Gaffney. Jason found some shorts he needed and we enjoyed walking around. I had to rest a few times!

We're actually in Hickory for the 4th! We've been on vacation the years before, so it's different! We've just rested for the 4th, but Jason went fishing with Lee.

July 3rd, we went to the Blowing Rock parade! It thankfully was not terribly hot and afterwards, we went to Shops on the Parkway and ate ice cream from Kilwins! Here's some pictures I took as we waited for the parade.

Friday, the 2nd, mom and Jason painted most of the nursery! I'll post a picture once it's completed! We chose dusty yellow! I was suppose to have half day off, but ended up getting all day off, so I stayed in the den and they closed the door. I couldn't smell the pain except when I went in the hallway. I felt a bit weird that I couldn't help, but it's okay! Jason and Dean also put a fan in our den because we've been getting hot lately. It's totally wonderful to have a breeze of air now!

We've finished up our marriage book in life group and some couples are feeling leadings to possible start new life groups. So far, Jason and I don't know what we're suppose to be involved in, because we won't be doing nursery anymore after July, which leaves open Wednesday nights for a bible study and also finding a Sunday school class. We'll just have to see what happens!

I've been feeling more movements lately and I am no longer wearing my engagement ring or my opal ring because they got a bit tight. I'm not taking my wedding band off because it's settled into my finger now!

My doctor's visit on June 23rd went well, but I'm a bit low on iron, so I'm now taking a vitamin for that. I had to do the gestional diabetes test and didn't think the drink was too bad! It tasted like a very sweet orange crush! So far, no phone call, so I hope all is good!

We started our Lamaze classes and it's been very helpful! It's really more like labor education, going through the stages and what to expect. I do not know what I want to do as far as no drugs, or epidural, but it's nice to know all the options. We've done different labor techniques to help with contraction pain (like putting tennis balls in a sock to rub my back and sitting on the "birthing ball."). I know Jason will be a good labor support coach!

Start of Summer!

We are sorry to not have posted sooner. Our internet hasn't been working well at home!

Here is a picture from 6-14-10, 27 weeks:







New things going on:

My feet are swelling a bit. Just puffing up more than out so my shoes still fit!



About the time of the picture, I saw my stomach do this involuntary twitching/spasm thing. It reminded me of the movie scene where the alien comes out of the guy's stomach. It was a bit creepy, but cool!

We're starting to feel "hard areas" on my stomach, which we assume is some type of limb or hand or foot. Again, cool, but creepy!

We've had some fun events lately. Friday, June 4th, we did not have life group, so we had our friends Kelly and Sam come over for dinner with their 9 month old Mitchell. It was fun watching him play around our den and we watched the Stanley Cup hockey game. The next week, Jason and I enjoyed watching the games together and stayed up late the Wednesday night that the Blackhawks won!


That Sunday, I went to a baby shower in Statesville and then we had a cookout at Karen's, which was nice. The pool was open, so they swam a bit!

June 11th was high school graduation night, so Jason was gone until late in the evening. He did come by in the afternoon to see me at work that day, which was nice!

We got to see our friends Bill and Carrie with their son Caleb for lunch that Saturday (yum, Mexican!). They got to come to our house, which was great! Here's me and Carrie!








Later that night, we went to Matt and Melissa's wedding at a hunting lodge. It was beautiful, decorated with red roses! We were close to Linda and Gary's so we headed up there and got to see our nephew Athrun! He was having a rough night, but so cute! We also got to see the cool sandbox Gary built!


Sunday, we went to a birthday party for Dave Hammer, who lives at the lake. A rain storm came through first, but it really cooled things off! I ate two hamburgers (within a few hour time spread!) It was fun to see all the kids enjoy playing in the water.



We got to see Linda again on Tuesday, as she was getting her car serviced. We went to Chick-fil-a and then I had to babysit at church. After a trip to Babies R Us with Linda, Jason headed to our friend's Kelly and Sam's house to babysit for their son, since it was their anniversary. I came a bit later after the church babysitting was done and then we had a nice evening talking with them!



This Friday, we met with a family daycare that is right around the corner of our house! I really liked her and she'll have a 5 year old and three 2 year old in the Fall, so our baby would be the only one! We're just praying for wisdom right now!

We didn't have life group, but went on the Blanchard's boat on Lake Hickory. It was great not to feel sick at all!

Saturday, we had another wedding in Blowing Rock, my second cousin Ben. We rode with mom and dad. It was a nice day up there and the preacher did a great talk about how marriage represents Christ and the church and the sacrifice it takes for both to treat each other as so. It was neat to hear, especially since we've been reading the marriage book! Afterwards, the reception was at the country club and we got to talk to lots of people from mom's side of the family. I wanted to dance, but felt a bit uncomfortable since I can't move like I want to!

Sunday, we met Jason's dad, Karen, and Lee at Olive Garden with my parents. Then, we hung out at our house for awhile. TNT bible study was on doubt, focusing on Peter and when he walked on water. It hit me how distracted I've been lately about money, daycare, what to do about insurance, regarding the baby. I've decided to focus more on the exciting things and not worry so much about the other stuff. Having upcoming baby showers should help!

Baby Bump- week 25

Here's a photo taken June 1st! I had a doctor's appointment that day and I now weigh 137!