Less than 2 weeks...and counting!!

So, Evlyn can come any day and I'm getting kinda anxious. I wish she would give me a hint like, a range of days. Oh well. I guess I need to start learning patience. :P I did start having small contractions on Friday, but they've come and gone. At first I wasn't sure if it was a contraction or not, but then I asked my mom and sister, and they described what I was feeling. So, I think she'll come before the due date and I'm hoping for sometime this week. :P I'm doing her very last load of laundry right now for her clothes up to 6 months and her blankets. On Friday, I went to the doctor and I'm still dilated to a 1.5, and 50% effaced. But, the contractions started like 7 hours after the appointment so maybe I'm dilated more now? I'll show pics of her room further down on this post.

On Friday, my mom came up to help me set up her porta crib and to go shopping for some projects around the house. I wanted a second opinion before I spent money on wood and other things that I don't know much about. It was really nice and gave me someone to talk to during the day. :P I've started to get kinda bored, even if I'm doing stuff b/c I don't really interact with people that much. While my mom was here, my friend Loriel also came and brought me gift- a massage gift certificate!! I'm excited!
Remember that wimpy little utility rug I bought at the dollar store as a door mat? Well, at Lowes, they happened to have a rug clearance! This rug was normally I think around 15 dollars, and I got if for 5! It's nice and heavy-duty, and I think it's pretty too. yay!
Here's the baby book section of our bookcase! The pooh bear books on the left that make a picture are from my parents. I used to love those books when I was little! My mom had like 5 sets of different children's books and let us each choose a set to keep. I chose this one b/c I loved them so much when I was little. The rest are ones I've picked up or ones I got from my baby shower. I can't wait to read to my little girl!
Okay, here's some random pictures of Evlyn's room. This is a cute basket I was given, and I decided to put her little tiny socks in it.
And there's all of her cute clean socks. :)


Here is a basket that I decided will be for Evlyn's head things. Originally it was just for hair things, but she has some cute little hats and a pair of adorable sun glasses that I decided to add to the mix. So, above is the bows and below is the head bands to put the bows on.
Here is Evlyn's porta-crib. I'm most likely going to move it into our room next to my side of the bed for the first month or so. But, for now it's in her room. You can't really tell but the bumpers are a really soft and pretty purple. My mom was in charge of the group gift for my baby shower and she went to multiple stores to find the bumpers and the mattress. I'm so glad cuz it helped me out a lot!!
This is another wall hanging in her room, that I painted years ago. I just thought it might look cute in a baby room. It's kinda blurry, but it's a swan.
haha Here are Evlyn's adorable shoes. I can't get over how cute they are!! She's gonna have more shoes than me before she even walks. lolAnd finally, here's her closet with her dresses hanging up, smallest to largest sizes. I'm so excited to dress her up!
On Saturday, Jared and I went to the Easter Pageant. The weather was absolutely perfect!! We went to my parents' house first and hung out with Aimee and Josh's family too for about 45 minutes. Then we went to Subway and to the temple to eat it there. We got there at 7, a whole hour early, and it took us about 15 minutes to find a parking spot! We parked 2 or 3 blocks away, and I thought it was going to be really bad if I went into labor and we had to walk all the way to the car and then drive the 45 minutes to the hospital. Luckily, I did not. :P The Easter Pageant was, of course, really good. We went with Jared's cousin, whom he happened to be companions with on his mission! So, it was fun to get to know him and his wife a little.

Yesterday was Easter and we had family dinner with the Morris family. It was fun and way too yummy!! There were at least 7 or 8 different desserts! We brought pumpkin bread pudding. Anyway, the little kids got to do a big Easter egg hunt before hand and it was cute.
Church was interesting. First, the young women were going to sing a song for a new beehive and the lady who plays the piano was not there. So, they asked me to play. The song looked easy enough so I said I could. Then they asked me to play prelude. So, not really worrying about the song I played prelude and then luckily they wanted to run through the song once before singing it. Well, let's just say I totally butchered it. The girls were nice though and we kinda joked about it. I was soo embarrassed, and then I was saved! The lady who usually plays it walked in and she played it when they really sang it. I just had to conduct, which was fine with me!
Then, I had the lesson for the beehives. It went okay, and then I started erasing the board. The clock was hanging on the black board, not the wall, and I accidentally bumped it. It went flying across the room and broke. This was definitely not my day! The 2nd counselor over the Beehives, Ruth, was very nice and put it back up and made it look as good as it could. She helped me feel a little better but man was that an embarrassing day!

Today I meet with a possible pediatrician for Evlyn, and from here on out we just play the waiting game. :) Hopefully my next post will have pictures of her!!