Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day 💕

And I Choose you, in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality. I'd find you, and I'd choose you.

I have always loved celebrating! Birthdays, anniversaries, all holidays really any excuse to celebrate this beautiful life! I love making people feel special, picking out gifts, writing in cards, planning parties! All of it! I get it from my amazing mom. She was always so good at making every occasion special and making every holiday fun. If you ever drive past her house she will have decorations for all the holidays, seasons and birthdays. She knows how to celebrate life and how to make the special occasions fun! Thanks mom for passing that love on to me 💕

It is Matt and I's 9th Valentine's Day together! He is always very thoughtful and makes the extra effort to make me feel loved. Since having Lane we have made Valentine's Day more of a family occasion! We usually stay home cook steaks, exchange gifts and enjoy the night as a family! Lane and I are going to decorate the house V Day style to surprise dad when he gets home for work! This year I made him a "man bouquet" full of all of his favourite things! I had lots of fun making it.

I find any occasion or holiday now a days can have so much negative feedback on social media. It makes me sad. Why can't we all just enjoy and celebrate this beautiful life. I get that not everyone is going to enjoy Valentine's Day, especially if they are unhappy in a relationship or single but instead of focusing on that, treat yourself! Get some girl friends together and go for supper, treat yourself to a pedicure, do something to make the day great. Self love is so important.

I'm a firm believer in positive thinking and choosing to see the good. Trust me I have my down days but I try to always chose to see the good and to enjoy this beautiful life as much as I possibly can.

I have hit the 28 weeks Mark! So crazy this baby girl is sure active and I am more often than not uncomfortable lol but I am so excited to be in my third trimester!! This pregnancy is flying by! 12 more weeks! I am feeling good and still enjoying working out. Sleeping is becoming more and more difficult but that's to be expected! We have decided on a name!! And I am putting the finishing touches on her nursery! I'll post pictures once it's done! I am so in love with it! Lane is very anxious to meet her! He loves giving the belly a smooch and calling her by name. ❤ we are all so excited! Lanes newest thing is pretending he's a doctor and trying to find her heart beat lol it's so cute! (Can you tell he comes to all my appointments) Dr Gelber let Lane "help" him find babies heart beat at my last appointment so naturally now Lane thinks he's a doctor and would love to give you a check up! Lol

I mentioned to Matt last week that for my birthday in April I wanted to get away just the two of us before the baby comes. I had already talked to my mom about watching Lane while we went on a weekend "baby-moon" she of course said yes! I was looking on Groupon at Banff, Canmore, Calgary and waterton. I mentioned these places to him and he didn't seem overly enthused "what are we going to do in any of those places you cant ski your pregnant!" Which is true but I more or less just want to relax toddler free, enjoy some one on one time with the hubby, soak in a non interrupted bubble bath and get some reading in!! (How heavenly does that sound!!) before I knew it he was looking into flights, so I quickly googled how far along you can be to fly! It's not recommended after 36 weeks FYI! So we would have to go before my birthday! Then Matt said why don't I take you to see Britney! You've always wanted to see her!! (I have dreamed of this since I was a little girl!) Umm YES PLEASE!! so we are booked in at the cosmopolitan for 3 nights 4 days! We are going to see Britney, lounge pool side, shop and just enjoy each other's company!! I never thought I'd be going to Las Vegas pregnant but I'm not complaining!! I'm excited but what does one wear pregnant in Vegas?! (Lol any and all recommendations are welcomed!) I am feeling extremely spoiled and loved and the countdown is on till the baby moon!!

I hope you all have a fantastic Vday! I hope you all feel special and loved!! Xoxo 😘

Only 14 weeks to go 💕

Not so patiently awaiting the arrival of my baby girl! I'm not going to lie these 26 weeks have flown by! And I have actually not been  puking every single day!! Yay!! Being pregnant and having a busy toddler is HARD it's exhausting lol. I thought I was tired the first time around... I had no idea!! Haha at least I'm not puking (I keep telling myself) positive thinking right!! Only 14 more weeks to go and then I'll really be tired!! Haha but I can hardly wait to hold that sweet girl in my arms and add her to our sweet family.

Matt and I had planned on painting the nursery this past weekend. We got the walls washed, and taped and then Matt got called out to work. So yesterday I got the bright idea to start painting the nursery.....
I never should have tried to paint the nursery #nothandy #nopatience #myhusbandhatesme I just really wanted to be helpful... but I think I should leave the rest of the painting to my hubby because it is clearly not my jam....

Oh it's February.... Valentine's Day when your huge and prego just doesn't seem right! Lol the last thing this momma is feeling lately is sexy so definitely no lingerie this year (sorry not sorry Matt) haha so I am opting for a "man bouquet" a bucket of his fav things!

Lanes new fav thing is to play hide and seek with daddy! Which is quite entertaining!! He prefers to find daddy but only wants to count to two and then chase daddy! So I usually have to keep him with me and make him count to 10 and daddy usually has to make noises for Lane to find him! When Lane hides he meows very loudly like a cat and or comes out immediately haha he hadn't quite figured that part out yet plus he always hides in the same spot! It's quite humorous to watch Matt pretend like he can't find him and Lane melding VERY loudly hahaha we love when daddy gets home! There is always some pillow fighting, wrestling, catch, hide and seek and basically as much playing that Lane can get before bed time! He's such a good daddy

Sleep? What's sleep?! I am getting to that point where I'm so uncomfortable and when she wants to party as soon as I crawl into bed.. once I finally do drift off I have crazy dreams/ start hearing things and thinking Lane is awake or in my room?! And to top it all off Lane has decided to wake up at 6! Lol so much fun! I've started just going to "bed" when he does so I can manage to get some sleep!

Lately I have really been trying to Make more time for personal growth. I've started working out earlier in the day which has become one of my fav things I love when Lane participates (most of the time) then once I snuggle Lane to sleep at night time I have time to meditate, read or listen to a podcast and just enjoy some soul searching ME time! I am Trying to stay centered and positive but it can be HARD when your hormones are going crazy and your mood swings are NO joke (send me good vibes ppl)

Mostly I have been focusing on remembering how truly blessed I am for this crazy beautiful life. I have really been trying to make more time for my hubby. I have decided to limit my phone time! Some nights I feel like we can both just get so caught up in our phones that we barely even talk. So I've made it a rule to put my phone in my room once he's home and be present and enjoy our time together. I'm also working on Being more present with Lane! I noticed he acts our a lot more when I'm on my phone too much! He just needs me to get down and play so I've started to limit my time on my phone! In the morning after breakfast Lane watches cartoons I enjoy my coffee and scroll through my phone! After that I try to limit my time and be more productive and present! I'm not perfect I'm still working on it but I know how fast he grows and how limited our time is just the two of us so I'm trying to soak it all up 💙 lastly I've been working on being kinder not only to others but myself. We can be so quick to judge and I'm really working on minding my own D business and to be happy! And working on giving myself the love and credit I deserve! I hope you all have a fantastic week!! Xo