23 weeks!

23 weeks today! Time sure if flying by. I meant to post pictures last week but never got around to it, life has been pretty busy around here. Work wore me out last week, so I spent a lot of the weekend relaxing in bed. I like this excuse! As you can see, I am showing more and more each week. I'm not getting to the point where my pre-pregnancy shirts still are wide enough but not really long enough and I end up with the bottom of my tummy hanging out at work sometimes! Oh well. Guess that means it's time to go shopping!


Shhhhhhhhhhh......... don't tell Wanda that I'm still wearing my heels! (Yes Wanda, I had Jeff take this picture just for you) My lower back actually hurts less when I wear heels, and I sit almost all day at work anyway. And what can I say, I LOVE my heels! Anyone who came to the wedding can note that these are the same shoes I wore with my wedding dress!

Gotta show the bare belly. I'm getting the line on my belly already, at first I thought it was hair but it is actually my skin. I read about it and they say it is supposed to go from your navel to your pelvis, but mine starts close to my rib cage and goes all the way down! I think my skin may be splitting at the seams!

Things are going well, I feel good and am not too tired these days. I definitely have the pregnancy brain though, I say silly things and forget things and have problems focusing at work, and by the end of most days my brain is just fried. I guess that is just normal and to be expected, but it doesn't help me much in handling the complex claims now. I just do the best I can, what else can I do?

The wife of Jeff's commander, Nikki, threw us a baby shower last weekend, it was so nice of her! It was a few of the other military wives as well as some of the female Air Force people Jeff works with. We had a good time, and with the presents sitting on my table, I feel like we are finally starting to prepare for the baby! The theme was "practical baby" so we got lots of very useful things. My favorite piece of clothing is the ducky bath robe his First Sergent bought us. It has a ducky head on the hood! SO cute. Here is a picture of it:

And here is a picture of all the baby goodies hanging out on our dining room table (driving Jeff nuts I'm sure).

I am trying not to buy too much baby stuff before the shower at home in April :-) However, I have bought a few of the bigger things when I find them on major discount. I found this swing below at BabiesRUS on clearance with an extra 20% off, normally $140, I got it for a whole $70, yes half price! Yeh, I'm good :-)

And I got myself a glider, I love it! I got it from Target on sole with free shipping, normally $170 + $60 for shipping, I got it for $130. Another good deal for me! I love bargain shopping. Here is my glider, Jeff put it together for me already, I like to sit in it and rock which watching tv.

Speaking of good deals, today I found a new favorite place, a used clothing store here in Tucson right down the road. I took all my old clothes that didn't sell at the yard sale in to this store and sold some of them, used the store credit plus a 10% military discount and a "buy one blue tag get 2 blue tag items free" sale and I got all the clothes below for $1 out of my pocket! Pretty good, huh? Two pair of nice brand-name maternity pants, 3 shirts, a brand-name dress, and 4 baby onesies. For $1. Ha! This is my new favorite place. They sell tons of cute good quality kids clothes for cheap, the baby onesies were $.99 - $2.99, I think I will definitely be shopping there once the baby is born. They also sell used baby equipment like bassinets as well as shoes and blankets. After the shower, I'm going to work on checking out the other stores in Tucson along with yard sales.

Jeff convinced me to bowl with him last Sunday, below is a picture. Notice that the ball is about to go into the gutter in this picture. I have somehow gotten WORSE at bowling, I blame my changing center of gravity :-) I bowled an 85, 57 and 52. Humph.

Below is a picture of my little cubicle area at GEICO. I actually have a large cubicle now due to my new job, the desk continues to the left then I have a huge set of shelves behind me holding all my paper files and reference material. This is my home away from home! I love my job. My company is the only auto insurance company that is doing well right now, because of our hard work to keep costs low and because a ton of people are switching to us now because we really do save most people a lot of money. Our growth is double what was projected right now, at a time when other insurance companies are laying off workers. I am so grateful to be with this wonderful company and to have such a great job!!! I am truly very lucky to have landed here.