Lankford Love

Many of these giveaways from my Thankfully Thrifty Baby Shower end tomorrow! Don't forget to enter! TT: Baby Bargains Book ends 11/29 GAMDR: Protect-A-Bub Compact Sunshade ends 11/29 TT: Old Navy Jeans (For anyone!) - 3 Winners! Ends 11/29. AFF: Dipe N' Go . Ends 11/29. TT: Shutterfly Birth Announcements or Invitations . Ends 11/29. GAMDR: Lansinoh nursing gift pack . Ends 11/29. TT: Stonyfield Baby gift pack . Ends 11/29. AFF: My Brest Friend nursing gear . Ends 11/29. TT: $60 to CSN . Ends 11/29. TT: Sassy Baby toys - bumpy ball and jitter bug . Ends 11/29. TT: Baby legs and baby balm from Muffin Baby . Ends 11/29. Letter from Santa - 2 Winners ! Ends 12/1.

This was taken earlier this week at one of my baby showers - at 29 weeks! I've had two now, and I have one more coming up! So exciting! More shower pics to come. But here's an update... I am loving getting the baby's room ready. Again, pics to come... slooowly that is. I've also been getting more tired... hi, third trimester. Also I'm in the process of switching doctors... okay really switching from my OB to a midwife. I have been reading more about natural birth and decided that a midwife has more of the mindset I'm looking for. Not to worry - I'll still be delivering in the hospital and under great care, should anything unexpected creep up. I'm excited though to have the extra care, attention, and natural birth specialization that a midwife offers! Oh and here's a pic from today  at almost 30 weeks...  And PS check out my cute nephew, born two weeks ago! His dog sister Caylee got jealous and needed attention too... left to right: Brendo...

Okay I'm losing count... This picture was taken at 26 or 27 weeks, although tomorrow I'll be 28! I can't believe I'm already into my third trimester and almost 7 months! Time flies! Brenleigh is now moving a ton! I can see my stomach moving at times. So strange! He or she is as long as a cucumber. And I believe it! I can tell that it's starting to get a little squished... hang in there 12 more weeks! I had a little growth spurt right before this picture, but I am pretty sure I haven't grown much since then... or the scale doesn't look much different anyway. I was shocked last time I went to the doctor though to see how much weight I had gained. Definitely a growth spurt! But now I've gained about a pound in the last 3 weeks, so it has slowed down, at least for the time being. Other fun symptoms... heart burn (Yuck. Tums is my friend.) and leg cramps/pulls (ugh... though two bananas/day seems to help) And I have baby showers coming up! So fun! T...

And my brother's team won SPC Champs!! Way to go William!

It's almost my birthday! I truly love my birthday. I always get hyped up weeks before and declare it "Princess Ashleigh Week/Month." And since gifts are my love language, you can imagine that on my birthday, I'm in heaven. I feel incredibly loved. It's always a great day. But somehow this year it doesn't seem as exciting... not sure if it's the fact that I'll be 26 (not that that's old, it's just not exciting) or the fact that I'm pregnant and there's enough hype going on with the baby or it might be the fact that things have changed over the past year. Soon after I turned 25, we began TTC (trying to conceive). It took longer than we had planned. The journey began in November. What made it difficult is that it seemed like all of my friends were getting pregnant right away - without even "trying." Really? Who does that? I didn't face the devastation I've seen some friends face since then - with fertility testing, pi...