1. Getting out of bed easily
2. Putting on my shoes and socks without grunting or getting out of breath
3. Going more than an hour without needing to pee
4. Bending over for any reason
5. Sleeping on my stomach
6. Rolling over in bed easily
7. Walking up the stairs without feeling like I need to stop at the landing to catch my breath
8. My once spot-on memory
9. Having full control of my emotions :)
10. Having a flabby stomach - I think that was better than my now ROCK hard stomach

I had more but see number 8 :) Any mom's have any other good ones to add ...

In case anyone is interested in knowing what's been going on lately with the baby preparations, I thought I'd list a few things bullet-point style. I'm still not in the mood for writing but at least I'm updating, right?

• We put together our stroller. It's sitting pretty with the baby carrier in our dining room. I'm waiting to come home some day to see Mike pushing it around the living room again :)
• We are done with Step 1 of 3 in terms of painting the nursery. We are going to finish Step 2 tonight. I think it's going to be really stinkin cute!! I can't wait to see the end result.
• We have our crib and dresser/changing table. Neither are put together but they are bought and begging for us to finish painting, so they can be assembled.
• We had our birthing classes last weekend. It was a looooooooong weekend and although at times, I don't think it was incredibly useful, I'm glad we went. We had to take our classes at Metro because Scott wouldn't allow me to get time off to go to Spectrum, so we still have to go to Spectrum to tour the birthing center. I think we are going to wait until the beginning of January to do that.
• Something really exciting happened yesterday but I don't want to share yet in case people start reading my blog again. We have chosen not to share with everyone quite yet. I'll be sure to share within the next week or so.
• **EDIT- Addition** I'm pretty sure we have decided baby names. We have one full name chosen and the other sex, we have the first name decided but aren't sure on a middle name quite yet. I thought the baby naming process would be so easy but it's been our biggest "struggle" yet. It's kinda cool to call the baby by a name though. Of course Mike will only call it by the girl's name :)

That's all I can think of for now. I should probably get back to work anyhow ...

• Yes, I'm still alive. Life has just become very busy.
• Yes, I'm still doing well but starting to get uncomfortable.
• Yes, I'll try to update more often but I can't promise anything.

The End.

Check out how many days are left!!! I'm into the double digits!

I don't have a cool little picture for this but Christmas is only 52 days away!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought I'd start another new....series for lack of a better word because I've been sitting here for probably 5 minutes trying to think of the correct word I'm looking for :)

I'm going to post recipes -- both new and tried and true.

I had heard about a recipe on the radio and then Olivia confirmed it's deliciousness.

I made them last night and man were they good!!! They were incredibly chocolate-y, very moist and super easy. I brought a bunch into work and everyone loved them. No one believed there was pumpkin in the muffins!

Chocolate Chip Muffins

1 package of chocolate cake mix

15 oz canned pumpkin

6 oz of semi-sweet chocolate chips (I used mini choc chips)

Mix together; batter will be thick. Pour into muffin tins. The batter will not rise, so fill close to the top. Bake in a 350 oven for 15-20 minutes.