Happy Valentine's!

Jason and I have been married almost 4 years now. I can hardly believe that sometimes, but it will be four years March 5. We always take turns planning the Valentine's Day plans, but this year they were sort of planned for us. We had our first birthing class on Saturday from 9 am to 4 pm. Didn't give us a lot of time afterward to do much, so we just went by Central Market and got ingredients for a dinner that Jason had picked out to make for me. Just a word of advice...that was everyone else in Dallas's idea as well, so try to avoid CM on holidays. It was PACKED! The birthing class was good. I learned a lot of interesting things that I had no idea about. It is amazing how much you can read and read and think you know what to expect, but you see that birthing video and you are like oh wow. All I can say is I don't know why anyone wouldn't get an epidural. I will be requesting it the second I walk in to the hospital.

So Jason picked out the dinner to make for Valentine's, and we got all the ingredients and then I just sort of gave him a little cooking lesson to help him out. He has been learning a lot lately. Last week I showed him how to make iced tea, this week it was fettuccine with bolognese sauce, next week I will be utterly useless to him! I will have to come up with other ways to keep him around. =) But dinner was delicious and we watched Vicky Christina Barcelona, which I have to say I didn't love. I just kind of hated the whole message of it and it sort of depressed me. Oh well.

Sunday we attended the church of Samsung because the tile guy was coming to do our shower. So we decided to build the crib and I still had a lot of organizing to do for the nursery. Mom is coming up this Friday and I am taking the day off and we are going to just decorate and put stuff where it will need to go and basically just play in the nursery. =) I am excited about it. So anyway, Jason got the crib put together with very little help from me - it is getting hard for me to do ANYthing, much less lift heavy objects and such. I mostly just played with all the toys and clothes and I turned on anything musical for the dogs to hear. They say you are supposed to introduce them to any new sounds or smells before the baby gets there so they aren't in 'what the heck is all this stuff that this new person has brought in to my house' mode later on. So here are some pics of the crib.

Jason working on it...


Getting closer...

And the finished product...

So cute! =) At least I think so.

So after the tile guy was done and we cleaned up a bit, we went to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I felt like the only person who hadn't seen it and that was evident by the fact that it is hardly playing anywhere anymore. So we found a place that had it and headed off and I loved it! It is kind of long, but I thought it was so good and cried my eyes out about the last half of it. Cate Blanchett is so dang pretty and she has had three kids! I hope I can hold up as well! After that we walked out and Jason realized that in the next theater The International was about to start and he had been wanting to see that so we got some popcorn and snuck in to that theater. We used to do these double movie for the price of one days a lot, but haven't in a while. I am usually not the type of person to break any rule of any sort, but I feel like they are making all their money on concessions that we are only too happy to buy anyway, and they are going to show the movie whether we are there or not. So what's the harm right? =)

The International was just ok. I felt like I had seen that movie about ten times before, but whatever. It wasn't awful and Jason liked it. So we came back home and had a quick dinner before crawling in to bed. We have been getting in to bed earlier and earlier lately, mostly because by about 8 o clock I am done for. Maybe not super sleepy, but just physically exhausted. It is taxing having an extra 20 pounds or so strapped around your waist at all times.

So I have 29 work days left until my maternity leave and I am SO ready to be done. I have a few things I have to wrap up before I head off, but I am excited. We have one more birthing class next Saturday and I have another shower the weekend after that and hopefully by that point we will be pretty prepared (yes I know we will never REALLY be prepared) for Isabella's arrival. Can't wait!