Valentine Weekend

Valentine weekend started with the boys preparing their valentines to take to their friends at school.

Ashton made his with lego candy, and Bowen chose suckers.

Then Thursday and Friday were Teacher's Convention so we surprised the boys and took them to Edmonton for a little get away.
 
Thursday morning we headed up - went to the West Edmonton Mall and did some shopping.  Jason was able to buy a new suit and Ashton bought a german coin (he's starting a coin collection).  Then we went for a nice supper at Moxies and back to the hotel for swimming and then bed.

Friday morning we headed to the Science Centre for the Harry Potter Exhibit.  It was awesome!  Unfortunately photography was not allowed so I don't have any pictures.  They had tons of memorabilia from the movies.  Costumes, wands, Mauraders map, the goblet, statue of dobby and other characters - the list goes on and on.  We had paid for the audio tour.  You would punch in a number on the remote and you could hear from the actors, costume designers, set makers etc.  It was really good.

The boys wanted a souvenir (which were all horribly overpriced I might add) so we got them each a commerative wand.

After spending a few hours at the Science Centre we headed back to West Ed and grabbed some lunch.  Then we spent a few hours at Galaxyland.  The boys had lots of fun going on rides.

Afterwards we grabbed supper and then to the hotel for more swimming and bed.

Saturday morning the boys decided rather than going to a movie that we had planned on, they wanted to try mini golfing.  So we went back to the mall and went mini golfing.  The boys had never tried before and did a great job and really liked it.  I hadn't mini golfed for years and I really enjoyed it too.

Then we did a bit more shopping.  I bought a few more maternity clothes, and the boys got new suits.  On the way to Edmonton our little DVD player for the truck had broken so Jason had noticed a sale at London Drugs so we decided to replace it.  We ended up getting dual DVD players that can either show the same movie or separate movies and then we bought them dollarstore headphones so we don't need to hear them.  It was bliss driving home.

It was a fun family valentine weekend!

30 Weeks!

This pregnancy seems to be flying by so quickly.  This Sunday will mark 30 weeks pregnant already.  Only 10 weeks to go!  I've been feeling pretty good.  I'm tired, and have lots of stretching and ligament pain but oh so worth it.  I had an ultrasound a couple of weeks ago and everything looks good with the baby so far.  The ultrasound technician wanted to find out the sex of the baby to put him or her on the correct growth chart.  I told her I didn't want to know so I shut my eyes as she took a look.  It was so hard to keep my eyes shut.  Part of me really wanted to peek!  I'm really glad I didn't though - it will be fun to have a surprise!

We have so much to do to get ready for the baby.  I'm really superstitious and haven't started doing anything yet.  But I've realized lately if I don't start getting some of it done - NOTHING is going to be ready.  We have started working on the boys room.  Two walls are painted and Bowen is getting excited about moving in with Ashton.  I sure hope they like sharing a room and are able to get some sleep!

Mom has been coming up every couple of weeks for a few days to help me out and that has been so great.  I was just saying to Jason the other night that the house was getting messy and I wondered when mom was coming again!  haha

I am getting quite the "belly".  I can only imagine how big it is going to get.  I'm loving all the kicks and pokes from the baby.  If this baby is as active on the outside as it is now - we are in trouble!!  My blood pressure has been really good, and just found out I have a glucose intolerance, but it has not developed into gestational diabetes so I'm grateful for that.  I should be able to maintain my blood sugar easily with my diet.  Everything is going better than I expected so far - another miracle!

29 Weeks and 5 days!!