DC Baby Shower!

I am so behind in updating so I am trying to catch up.  We have been so busy with the contractors here, traveling for Thanksgiving, working, and everything else.  Anywho- my friends in DC threw me a baby shower on November 19th.  It was so wonderful of Pari and Kelly and I am so happy so many people came and brought beautiful things to baby girl.  Ben and I are so truly blessed to have such wonderful friends.

Tons of delicious food!

And a very tasty cake!

Presents for baby girl...

Our friend Debbie made this for baby girl. 

I absolutely LOVE it!

Opening my last gift.  Johnson & Johnson products for baby girl!

Thank you to all my friends that came out for a wonderful afternoon.  I had such a wonderful time and I love all the gifts for baby girl.  Yay for baby showers!!!



Catching up with birthday fun and the nursery

The past two weeks have been a little busy in the Novak household so I am a little behind on my blog updating.  So here are our updates starting with November 7th...

Free dinner at Fuddruckers (they sent me an e-mail for a free meal for my birthday)

I also went to Victoria Secret and got a free bottle of shower gel ($10 value) and then over to Express and I got a free lip gloss ($7 value) (all courtesy of free birthday items with my birthday coupons).

On Friday, November 11th (2 days before my birthday) I came home from work and Ben had set-up a 3-course fondue dinner for us to celebrate!

Cheese fondue (first course)

Meat course (second course)

Chocolate fondue (third course)

So yummy!!!

Sunday morning (11/13/11), Ben surrounded me with presents (and breakfast) in bed.

I have been "hinting" for a door knocker with our last name for about 6 months.

My new camera!

On Monday, our contractors started on the nursery.  They were finished on Wednesday, here is the finished project!

Walking into the nursery.

New wall (on the right) and the new door!

Beautiful, happy yellow paint.

New door.

Ben building the first piece of furniture.  The changing table.

The finished product!

So, that's what we have been up to the last couple of weeks.  Busy celebrating and getting ready for baby girl.  We are super excited to have the construction done on the nursery and now we (and by we, I mean Ben) is putting together the rest of the furniture and adding all the fabulous details to her room.  Once it is all done, I have will post about the nursery.  Have a great week and a Happy Thanksgiving!



28 weeks

I am 28 weeks (and 2 days) pregnant!

Baby girl is about 2.5 pounds and 14.8 inches long.

She is still the size of an eggplant.

Her lungs are mature now.  So in case she comes early, she is ready!

New this week: I am having a lot of trouble sleeping.  I get up 3-4 times a night.

Weight gain: Probably 20 pounds

Clothing: I am wearing maternity jeans, but all of my shirts are regular.

Time left: 12 weeks or 82 days

Nursery progress

Some of you have been to our house and some of you have not.  For those of you that have, you will remember that our 3rd bedroom (the loft) was our office.  For those of you that have not, now you know that our 3rd bedroom (a loft) was our office.  We are turning the 3rd bedroom from a loft office into a nursery with 4 walls and a door.  Here is the progress we have made in the last two days...

Monday (day one)

Starting to frame the wall

More framing

Dry wall

Tuesday (day two) they framed and installed a door!

Yay for a door!

A door and a wall!

They are painting the room yellow.

It is so cheerful!

View from the outside hallway, again, yay for doors!

27 weeks

I am 27 weeks pregnant!

This is my last week in my second trimester (yay!).

Our daughter is the size of an Eggplant.  She is about 14 inches long and weighs almost 2 pounds.

This week our daughter has been practicing inhaling and exhaling with her rapidly developing lungs.

Weight gain so far: I'm guessing 19 pounds

Fun fact of the week: I love almost all foods again!  Still no red meat....but hey, everything else sounds good.

Time left: 13 weeks or 89 days (oh my goodness!)

Sunday Savings

Super doubles were going on this week at Harris Teeter!  I hooked up a bunch of good coupons and deals and then made my way to CVS.  I didn't save as much as I would have liked, but we were out of a lot of stuff and needed to stock up.  I did much better last Wednesday during the first day of super doubles, but still wasn't too bad.

We needed milk and juice.  The Sara Lee cake was free.

The 3 pizzas were 1/2 price plus I had $2 off for each.

The meatballs were buy one, get one free.

The muffin mix was buy one, get one free.  The chips were free with a coupon. 

I had coupons for the juice and sugar.  Everything else we needed

(except the Teddy Grahams, I was craving them)

The cokes were buy 3, get 2 free.

Original total:  $147.58

Total spent: $98.62

At CVS, I was working towards getting a $4 extra care bucks credit and spending the $30 to get a $10 gift card.

I only had a few coupons to work towards my items.  I had coupons for the Clorox wipes, Pledge, ALL, and Colgate toothpaste.

Original total: $81.13
Total spent: $38.52


Original totals: $228.71
Total spent: $137.14

26 weeks

I am 26 weeks pregnant!

Our daughter is the size of an Eggplant.  She is between 13.6 and 14.8 inches long and

weighs between 1.5 and 2.5 pounds.

New this week: Her eyelashes have all grown in.  She has also started to take some breaths, but it's of amniotic fluid at the moment.

Weight gain: 17 pounds

Time left: 14 weeks or 97 days!