5 on a long-awaited Friday!!!

It's been a busy week with a few poor nights of sleep, but I guess that's my body just prepping for April! lol. I am so happy to see Friday :) I even noticed this morning that there seems to be a bit of spring in everyone's step. It's not super warm out, but it feels better than it has. Brian said this morning that he feels more rested and like himself than he has in weeks (I'm not really sure why he feels this way but good for him!) haha. I'm joining the usual Friday link-ups today here and here.

And here's a picture of Molly and puppy from this week to get things started ;)

ONE

I LOVED the Veronica Mars movie. If you haven't heard about how it was funded, check it out here...it was all through a Kickstarter campaign that was completely fan-supported. I am not under any illusion that the movie was award winning or anything like that, but it tied up a lot of loose ends from the show, it made me laugh, and I loved seeing all the characters again. It's a fun TV series that I could watch again and still enjoy. I also love the strong female lead and Kristen Bell totally fits the role of Veronica Mars to a T. There were also some funny cameos including Dax Shepard (Kristen Bell's IRL husband), and James Franco as himself. I am definitely going to watch the whole series again someday and the movie too - it was available for download on the day it came out in theatres!!

PS - Overall, I was happy with the ending, but I don't want to add any spoilers here!

We had planned to see Divergent this weekend in theatres, but I think we're going to let that go and just see it sometime after the baby is born. No huge rush...loved the book, looking forward to the movie, but just not up for another "opening weekend" movie event.

TWO

If you've never heard of PinterestFail, you are missing out. Basically, people post pictures of things that they pinned and they try themselves. Usually their version will say "Nailed it!" but it looks completely different, or very funny. This one here is a favourite of mine, hahaha. I've had this experience before myself...and I think here is my own Pinterest fail from this week:

Left is from Pinterest, right is two of our best attempts

Here are a few of the other shots that Brian (engineer, not photographer <3) captured of Molly and me and the baby:

Haha.  A few of them are a bit creepy and weird angles, and these have all been a bit edited, but overall, you get the gist. I don't know why I decided to take these after one of the longest workdays of my life...but I just wanted to get them before the baby arrives!! And Molly is pretty photogenic ;)

THREE

It's Burger Week in Halifax so 50 restaurants are selling burgers for $5 or more and some of the proceeds go to Feed Nova Scotia. So a few co-workers and I are getting burgers for lunch today...yum! Can't wait!

FOUR

I can't believe that we will have a new little life in this world in 3 weeks or less (they are letting me go about 1 week overdue MAX). I am so excited, a little bit anxious, but mostly very, very excited. The funny thing is that I am trying to keep our house clean "in case" I go into labour unexpectedly, but it is next to impossible with a little 2 year old on the loose!!! I guess I'll just have to do some cleaning when we come home from the hospital - or leave it to my mom when she visits in April ;)

Not the best selfie but this is today :)

I'm also bouncing on the exercise ball as much as possible, at work and at home...so let's move things along that way!! ;)

FIVE

Can't wait for the weekend...ours is going to include a playdate with Molly's future St FX boyfriend, a housewarming party tonight for an hour or so, watching Frozen and having popcorn with my little munchkin (we'll see if she lasts the whole movie at home), final hospital bag packing and some R&R!! :) One more week of work!!

Have a great weekend, everyone!!!

Quick weekend recap with some pics :)

Our weekend was pretty good, but a little bit all-over-the place!! In some ways, I feel like we crammed a lot in...but looking back on it this morning, not so much! Oh well!!! It was a good one with lots of good friends!!

36 weeks!

On Friday night, we had a good friend of mine and her boyfriend over for a visit and some board games after Molly went to bed. We played this one again (can't get enough of it!) and enjoyed some delicious homemade popcorn (we have this maker which is awesome!) Everyone enjoyed some beers, and I enjoyed some Italian soda! It was good, if not quite the same as a beer ;)

On Saturday, we were all up around 7 am and Brian let me sleep in/rest until 8! He made us a delicious omelet for breakfast and then he was gone around 9 am to help some friends of ours move into their new house. Molly and I had a fantastic day together and she was the happiest little 2 year old all morning. We sorted and organized a bunch of her toys, and she re-discovered some favourites that she hadn't played with in awhile. We also made a small block castle, painted a card for my grandmother's birthday on Sat night and sorted through some baby clothes. I so enjoyed this time with her, and I told Brian later that day that I felt great after a quality sleep on Friday night and didn't even feel "super pregnant" all day - which was nice!!

My mother in law stopped by for a visit because she is going to sew us some new black-out curtains for our bedroom (since the baby will be sleeping in a bassinet there for a month or two) and a long-lost friend stopped by for a visit too! I was so excited to see her and catch up with her. Sometimes it can be hard to make time to see friends that aren't in the city all the time, but I love it when it works out and you can just chat and catch up on life. We went over to my aunt's house for supper on Saturday night to celebrate my beloved grandmother's 80th birthday!! Molly wore a new dress that Brian's mom bought her at Costco for Easter (I think it's the cutest dress ever!):

We left around 8pm and drove out of town about 45 minutes to our friends' house to visit with another visiting friend and his wife. Brian was overjoyed to be reunited with his 2 best friends (and groomsmen) and they stayed up late playing video games (not me, I went to bed around 12!). It was brutal losing that extra hour on Saturday night, and we all felt overtired after not sleeping well...so when we came back home on Sunday at noon, all 3 of us took a 3 hour nap - there goes our Sunday! haha. We BBQed some homemade lean ground chicken burgers and got our munchkin to bed...then watched a couple ofepisodes of House of Cards and turned in early. The spring time change always leaves me out of whack a bit, especially with the poor sleep on Saturday night and the long nap yesterday...I think I'll be a bit more caught up tomorrow ;)

I have lofty plans for this week, including organizing the baby's room, packing a hospital bag a bit more thoroughly, and doing our income tax return!! If I really get on a roll, I'll make some meals to freeze for the baby's arrival and we want to do a few DIY maternity photos. Here are a few I've seen for inspiration:

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We took some great pictures with Brian's cousin when I was pregnant with Molly, but the timing just didn't work out this time around and now we're getting down to the wire. I want to have a few good pictures to commemorate this pregnancy and share with this second child sometime in his/her life and time is running out!!

Any other inspiration for me? :) Hope you all had a great "daylight filled" weekend! :)