Baby Belly

38 weeks pregnant!!!
We are now able to count down the days until baby arrives. I really wanted to get a henna tattoo on my belly before I deliver. Henna tattoos during pregnancy are said to bring safety in childbirth and a happy baby. But, there aren't any local henna artists so I did the next best thing and hired a local crayola artist instead.
Here are our most recent belly pictures and belly art pictures.

Here is the wonderful artist hard at work.

His masterpiece

A nice side view of my belly at 38 weeks.

Nursery

I think that our baby nursery is finally complete, or at least as complete as it will be until baby arrives and makes us realize everything we forgot to do.
Here are the pictures of the nursery.

A couple of ladybugs made it up onto the ceiling.

This is her ladybug nightlight.

Here is her doll collection.

Baby Shower

Here is a little update on our baby and my belly and all of the fun we are having. Our little girl is very active and likes to play soccer inside my tummy. We are now at week 34 (8 and a 1/2 months and only 6 weeks left until the big day). These pictures are from a couple weeks ago when my mom and Kyle's mom threw me a baby shower. It was tons of fun and I got so many wonderful things that I can't wait to show my little girl. I hope you enjoy the pictures.

My belly at 32 weeks (the very beginning of month 8)

The baby shower!

Here is me and my cousin Leslie with our babies. She is due on Christmas Eve so she has a little longer to go.

One of the games was that everybody had to smell diapers and guess what kind of candy made them dirty. Here is my Grandma and my Granny both really getting into the game.

Our Vacation Day Three

Today we went on a chartered ocean fishing trip. It was a very peaceful day on the ocean, the water was so flat that it felt and looked like we were fishing on a lake. The boat left at 6:00am and we returned to shore after everyone on board had caught their limit of fish at a little after noon. Kyle caught 6 fish and I caught 5, but we were able to each take home 8 fish (if you would like some good fish let us know because our freezer is overflowing). Kyle and I only caught rock fish, although some of the people on board were able to catch a Chinese cod, some ling cod, and a mother-in-law fish (it gets its name because it is mean, puts up a heck of a fight, and because it is so ugly). One person on board even caught a duck. The ducks in the ocean dive over a 180 feet to catch fish and one duck caught the man next to me's hook instead of a fish. We saw hundreds of jelly fish swimming in the water and even saw a few dolphins.

Here are the pictures of our fishing trip.

"Fish on!"

Even our little baby caught a little baby fish.

The guy next to me had to reel his duck in over 200 feet.

The bird was very mad when it got on board and bit the captain when he tried to remove the hook from its wing. The bird was okay and flew very far away from the boat (very fast) when we set it free.

Our trophy size fish

All 16 of the fish we got to take home with us.

After fishing we went to a nearby town called Coos Bay where we went to a botanical garden and saw sea lions on rocks in the ocean. The botanical garden was huge and very beautiful. The garden was donated to the state by a very wealthy couple who built it themselves. We didn't take as many pictures as we wanted to because our battery was starting to get low.

Us under a giant rhododendron bush.

This is a Monkey Puzzle Tree

This rose was larger than a large grapefruit.

We found some rock that had hundreds of seals and sea lions on them. They were all barking very loudly.

Our Vacation Day Two

Our second day of vacation was a pretty relaxing, laid back day. We started by going out tide pooling at 9:00. It was nice having low tide so late in the morning because we were able to sleep in a little it longer than usual. There was so much neat and new stuff to see that we stayed out at the ocean until lunch time. After lunch we went and walked around all of the shops in Bandon. Bandon is a very small town so it did not take very long to see all of the shops they have. Then we decided since it was too late in the afternoon to go to any of the nearby towns and do stuff there that we would go back to the beach, where we walked a very long distance and both got a little sunburned. Here are some of my favorite pictures and videos from tide pooling and exploring the beach.

Of course there were birds on the beach.

You can't have pictures of the sea without a picture of seagulls.Vultures

When you've gotta go, you've gotta go.

A very close encounter with Sea Lion.

We barely had enough time to take this picture of me before the rock filled up with water.

Here are several crabs we came across
There is a crab hiding in this rock.

These were really pretty although we don't know for sure what they are. Their skin felt leathery with marble-like shells.

A snail

We could hear the barnacles talking.

Starfish kisses for the baby.

A sunstar.

We both got stuck in quicksand a couple of times.