Best weekend ever...filled with surprises!

So wow...this past weekend was amazing and a bit of a blur at the moment as my preggo brain is still trying to comprehend everything that happened! We had shower's 2 & 3 Saturday and Sunday and our baby girl is so incredibly spoiled. I have no idea how I was able to get everything into her closet...but I did. It's like a jigsaw puzzle and I'm afraid if we take one thing out it's going to explode haha! 


Saturday Grandma Kingma, Auntie Stace, and Auntie Erin threw us a shower with amazing food, decor, and the group of woman surrounding us were so happy and excited to celebrate our baby girl! She got so many adorable outfits, toys, and so many things that we still needed! Thank you to all who were there and for everything that was done to make that day so special! 


Aunt Erin surprised us all the way from Colorado for the weekend! We were all so excited to have her home and I am so blessed that she took the time to be there for beanette and me!!! 

After filling my brother's truck up with no room to spare we headed home to unload everything and found out that the power was out after a storm that had passed through. Not ideal! But we managed to get everything into the house and sent my Mom and Keith out to dinner to celebrate their 24th wedding anniversary!!! Jason and I had plans to head to Kalamazoo to celebrate Jenn & Bo's engagement at Bravo for dinner. The second surprise of the day was that it was NOT an engagement party, but a full blown WEDDING celebration! What an amazing surprise and we were so honored to have been a part of their special day! They are so happy and in love and I know God will bless their marriage for years to come!!! 

After partying it up with all our friends on Saturday night to celebrate Jenn & Bo....we were tired, but the weekend still wasn't over. We headed to Real Food Cafe (my fav here in GR) and made church our second stop. After that we headed back over to Grandma Kingma's for shower #3 given by Auntie Stacey and Auntie Cindy (who flew all the way home from Atlanta to help with the shower!!!) I am so so blessed to have the friends that I do....they all came from near and far and it meant the world to me to have everyone under one roof to celebrate this miracle to come! I love you all so much and appreciate every effort you made to be there that day! 

From diaper cakes, books, Michigan gear, snowsuit, and more necessities we were so blessed to have the truck filled to the top once more. (I admit I was nervous that I wouldn't be able to fit anything else into her room....but we did it! Pictures to come!) The shower was amazing. Aunt Stacey made the most delicious food and everything was purple and perfect! So blessed is this baby to have so many Auntie's that love her already! Thank you a million times over for everything! 

Best weekend ever! Full of love and surprises, and everything purple:) 

So blessed and thankful are we! All three of us! 

Pre-Baby Getaway

If you ever get the chance to go to Boyne City, Michigan...GO! Jason and I ventured up there this past weekend in hopes for some much needed R&R before life gets really crazy with the arrival of our baby girl in just 5 short weeks! Mr. and Mrs. Noffsinger are wonderful and let us stay at their cottage. It's gorgeous and we immediately felt right at home! 


We must be gettin' really old because when we arrived we checked things out, unpacked, and took naps! Then walked downtown to look for something good to eat and watched the Tigers.  The next day we had coffee on the porch and just enjoyed the peace and quiet. It was raining, but I didn't mind...with that comes a cooler day and man oh man did I need that! It also means fall is coming which excites me to no end. I love when the leaves change colors, and Michigan football starts!!! 


We met our friends, Marvin and Lindsay, for lunch at the Water Street Cafe (I was told this was a must by my friend Jess) and boy was she right! Delicious!  Later we took a drive to Petoskey for some window shopping and then headed back and had dinner at Cafe Sante (another must I was told) and we ate like kings again for the second time that day! Sunday morning we joined Marvin and Lindsay for church and then made our way to Boyne Mountain so that Jay could do a little golfing! I was the designated driver...I don't golf and I think my belly would get in the way if I would have tried anyhow! 

We had the perfect weekend! I hope that we can go back sometime after Baby K is a little older so that she can play with Hayden and Hudson Simms (the Noffsinger's grandsons) oh the trio they will be :) 


Update: 35 Weeks
I had doctors appointment today and I'm measuring at exactly 35 weeks and everything is looking great! She's moving around a lot and I'm sure it's getting pretty cramped in there! I feel pretty good for the most part, but it doesn't take much to make me tired. No swollen feet or stretch marks so I feel good about that:) 


The countdown is on!!! 

What's going on...

Yay! Comcast finally works! We've had a love-hate relationship going on for the past week and after about 16 phone calls we're in business!


The Kingma household is doing well!  I've had busy days, lazy days, emotional days, and I'm sure I'll have more of each to come. The house is wonderful. We're settling in more and more each day...adding things here and there and making it ours. Jason loves to work outside and I've been trying to put personal touches on each room when I can find the energy. Our next couple of projects will consist of painting a bookshelf my dad made me when I was 16 to put into baby K's room, and also adding some decals to her walls. Jason will also be painting and distressing a coffee table we found online...that should be quite the project, we'll see what happens! 


We're at 34 weeks right now and I'm feeling pretty good majority of the time. The heat let up (thank goodness) so that's been a huge blessing. I've just been pretty emotional lately, but I guess that comes with the territory right?! Jason is wonderful and is always so loving and patient with me! 


Speaking of baby K, we had our first shower July 31, 2011. It was given to us by my mom, a.k.a Grandma Neel, and her best friend Joy. It was an amazing shower and baby K was so so spoiled! She got so many adorable outfits, reading books, must have care items, blankets, and Joy's husband Tom made her the most gorgeous cradle (I broke down and cried of course) It was such a special day and I was surrounded by an amazing group of women who all have meant so much to me over the years. It was such a blessing to have them all there to help celebrate this next chapter in my life! 


This coming weekend Jason and I are going up north to Boyne city for a before-baby-getaway! The Noffsinger's are allowing us to stay at their cottage for some R&R! We are so excited....stay tuned for more on that....

Baby Shower Invite

Baby Shower Shots

Baby K's Closet...she's spoiled already!