Rocking Chair

My sister in law gave me a rocking chair glider 4 years ago and I kept saying to myself that I would recover the cushions. Well they are moving our things on Friday so I wanted to get it done before they took the chair. My friend Karris helped me with the sewing.. because that is not a strong suit of mine. I think it turned out pretty good. Now I just need to touch up the scratches on the chair and I think it will look great in Kobe's room. I also bought way to much fabric so maybe I will have to make a few pillows.

Hopefully 4 more weeks to go!

I am a little over 35 weeks. We are hoping to induce a few days early so we can plan on Gabe being there. So I am hoping to have the little guy in 4 weeks from today really. I am getting to the pretty uncomfortable stage. I can't eat much there is just no room and sleeping and sitting are pretty uncomfortable.

My saving grace is my lunch time water exercise. I love jogging in the pool and teaching my prenatal water class. I would stay in the water all day if I could.

We are moving most of our stuff to Vancouver this weekend. Ill be here with the bare minimum. Only 2 more months and ou

r family will finally be together for good. Once Kobe gets here in a month, I know the last month will go by quickly. What doesn't kill you makes your stronger I guess. Gabe will be coming home each weekend from now on.. so that is good. Weekends get boring with out him here and not having work.

I can't believe its already Friday!

This week went by pretty fast... I love 4 day work weeks. I am excited for a weekend with no plans. Last weekend wore me out, it was very crazy and stressful but fun at the same time. I went out to Portland to visit Gabe for the 3 day weekend. Friday I went to the airport... flying stand by is no fun. I got there around 2pm. I didn't' make the first two flights out of Lubbock. So after waiting for 3 and half hours I had a melt down ( I blame a little of bit of it on the pregnancy). I would make the next flight in another 2 hours but that meant I could only catch the last flight into Portland which got me in a 2am my time. Not fun when you are 8 months pregnant. So I am crying in the airport talking to Gabe on the phone and I am trying to decide if i should even go. I have Gabe call his friends and send my bag back up so I can just go home. But then I start crying again because I really want to spend the weekend with Gabe so i tell Gabe to call back and have them send my bag back down. The people at the airport probably thought i was crazy...

Oh well. I make it to Dallas finally at almost 9pm. Get sick in the airport from eating food in Lubbock and then getting on the plane. When I make it to my gate in Dallas I am number 16 on the standby list.. I was 3 earlier in the day. So now it looks like I won't even make it to Portland.. Pregnant me starts crying again and calling Gabe. He tried to move me up on the list but can't and the flight leaves. 9:35 and I'm all stressed out. Gabe tells me there is a flight leaving for Seattle in 20 min. So I race over to another terminal and make it by like 3 min. I was the last person they let on the plane. So four hours later I'm in Seattle (2 1/2 hour drive from Gabe's apartment) and it is 2am. Luckily Gabe got a hotel room so we wouldn't have to drive all the way home. At this point all I wanted was a shower and bed so I was glad. Once Friday was over the rest of the weekend was Great!

Saturday morning we walked around Seattle. It was perfect weather. We went to the space needle and Pikes Place Market. We ate fresh fruit and fresh bread for lunch Yum... It was nice to be outside and not have it be over 100 like at here at home. We headed back to Vancouver that afternoon. The rest of the weekend was fun and relaxing.. Just driving around Vancouver and Portland seeing where we would be living. The weather was great all weekend. I got to meet some of Gabe's employees and see his work. We walking around downtown Portland and watched some fireworks being shot off over the river.

Luckily Monday's flights home went smoothly and I made it back no problems. It was good weekend overall but exhausting!

I love being able to spend time with Gabe... but flying and being pregnant is the worst.. Airports and planes are not comfortable. Its good to be home. I will be nice when I can finally move out there and we can be together. I only took one picture of me in front of the space needle.

31 Weeks

Okay here is a picture of my belly. The doctor says my weight is perfect. Even though they say that is still frustrating getting dressed in the morning and I can't wait to fit in my old clothes again. I am trying to avoid buying a ton of maternity clothes so I am trying to make due with what I have. I probably try on 10 things every morning before I leave the house. I feel very lucky and blessed to be pregnant but I hoping the next 2 months go by quickly so Kobe can finally be here.

9 more weeks

Well not much has been going on in the Eyerly home. I have about 9 weeks left until Kobe gets here. Gabe and I are really excited. I really haven't got a lot of baby stuff done or any decorating because we are moving right after he is born. Gabe has been working in Portland for the last 3 months. He usually gets to fly home on the weekends for a couple days. Things have been kind of boring with out him. I pretty much just go to work and then try to keep my self from being too bored in the evenings. It has been pretty hard but I have great friends around who keep me company.
My pregnancy is going good. I feel huge though and hate the fact that I am going to just keep getting bigger in the last few weeks. I have been teaching water aerobics so that is good and I try to take zumba a couple times a week. I can't wait until I can exercise like I use too.. I miss it and I miss teaching classes.
I am kind of against taking pictures of my belly, so I doubt I will put one up for people to see.. Just picture a basketball under my shirt, that's about what it looks like. I am going to visit Gabe in Portland over the fourth of July so I will post some picture from that trip. Besides that I am just trying to survive the heat of the West Texas summer and keep myself busy while Gabe and I are apart. Gabe is doing great at his new job and We can't wait until our family can all be together including Kobe!

We are Having a BOY!!!

We found out last week that we are having a baby boy!! We are both thrilled. I was nervous because the little guy was hiding the whole time and the lady had to keep shaking my belly to get him to move. Gabe had been saying it was a boy all along but I wasn't sure either way.. I would of loved a girl to dress her up in all the cute little girl things, but I am equally excited that it is a boy. It makes it even more exciting to see Gabe so thrilled. I have been saying that I am going to be the one and not him limiting the baby purchases. If Gabe could have his way everything our little guy wears would be Lakers gear or sports related. We have already picked out his name. Gabe got to chose the name for his first son and of course he chose Kobe. I think it is cute too. His name will be Kobe Oliver Benjamin Eyerly. So if you notice his intials spell his name just like Gabe's ititals spell his name and they will share the middle name Benjamin. 21 weeks down 19 weeks to go hopefully!

Hawaii

The last couple of weeks have been crazy. I was home for about 3 days out of the last 17.. Our first big adventure was Hawaii. Gabe and I flew down there on Sat the 3rd and stayed until thursday evening. It was amazing. Neither of us had ever been and we can't wait to go back either. We stayed in Maui with some friends of ours that use to live in lubbock. We had the best time. We went to the beach, hiked up to waterfalls and enjoyed all the small shopping towns. One day we took a 6 hour boat ride, where we saw dolphins, whales and sea turtles and stopped in two locations to snorkle. Snorkling was one of my favorite things we did. We also drove up to the top of the tallest mountain on Maui and watched the sunset. Here are a few pictures...I am still waiting on our underwater pictures so we will see how those turned out. It was such a beautiful place!