This baby is sponsored by...

You know all of those commercials  where the announcer says this "blah blah" is brought to you and sponsored by State Farm! or Circle K! it's always something. Well I figured our baby needed a "sponsored by" shout out haha. Matt and I have been so fortunate in all things baby. There has been so much help from people here and there but my biggest shout out and thank you goes to Jacqui and Valerie. Jax gave us the whole nursery basically. Griffin's crib, change table/dresser, change pad, bedding, some of the wall decorations (including the layout haha), and more that my brain just can't think of right now. My cousin Valerie has also been a huge help letting me borrow basically all of her baby stuff and anything I ask for! Clothes, both maternity and baby, boppy, breast pump, bassinet, moby wrap, the car seat cover pieces and lots of other things.
It really has been a blessing to have all of this help, as well as here and there from others that I didn't mention but really do appreciate it and you! We really do feel blessed and are very thankful.

Yes. We finally decided on a name. - Beckham Chauncey Loper
Beckham was a name both Matt and I liked before we were even thinking of starting to have kids. Like I mentioned before, whatever the first boys name was, his middle name had to be Chauncey, just like Matt and his dad, grandpa, etc. and Beck/Beckham seemed to go nicely.
Eventually the name started to sound weird, you know when you say something so many times it just doesn't sound natural? (Try saying apple like 20 times in a row... it starts to sound weird) That's what happened, and all the other names we thought of just didn't fit either, ha but that's probably because we had been calling him Jershaun for so long!
So there I was at Hobby Lobby, these rusty looking letters were 50% off and I was going to get them! I laid out "Beck" and "Tade" (Taden) and the colors of Beck were better so tah-dah, name picked!

 (I know, the mattress isn't in there yet) The closet is fun, there are two rods for clothing and that shelf which was nice for the storage baskets! the inside of the closet also has some shelves (behind the letters C and K) which are also nice for storage. The picture on the wall is actually a page from an old magazine from like 1940, that I found on ebay! I though it was cool and kind of went with the vintage cars and planes theme.

This glider was a super awesome find. this woman was selling it for $40 and it totally looks new, especially for the cream color! The canvas there is just something I painted, it doesn't really go with the room but that's okay. Haha I spent the time to paint it, so we're just going to pretend it goes.

These are little clothing size dividers I made. It was so simple! I just got A few wooden O's from Hobby Lobby, painted them white, picked out some fun paper, and used matte mod-podge to get them together! Now all I'm missing are the sizes (well and the clothes to go between them haha). I need to find number stickers (0-3, 3-6, etc) and then I'll do one more coat of mod-podge.

Here are just a few more pictures of the nursery.

This wall of decorations is what took forever to finally get up on the wall, therefore keeping this blog post of the nursery/name from all of you -I know, I know, because you care so much!

That empty spot will eventually be filled, I just haven't found the right piece yet! Hopefully the next time we go up to Flagstaff I'll find some sort of old Route 66 type sign.


As far as all things pregnancy goes, everything is normal, I'm 36 weeks tomorrow and have started my weekly doctor visits. I finally per-registered at the hospital yesterday!
My wedding ring and shoes still fit (Hah, probably because all of the "swelling" keeps going to my boobs). 

Getting out of bed to pee so often is a little difficult, just with all the pillows and the rolling and the getting up. But other than that, and the really heavy front weight, I'd say personally the third trimester is not all that bad. Everyone warned me of how bad it was but nothing has been as bad as those first 13 or so weeks!
I have mostly what needs to be in my hospital bag, just haven't packed it yet. I'm waiting until after the shower, which is THIS WEEK!

Hope to see you all Saturday, if you never got me your address, lost your invite, never saw my posts about mailing out invites, and you need the address just call/text/fb message me and I'll get you the info!

Oh, and Lewis is enjoying the nursery too!

 He surprisingly loves to hang out in the crib and on the footstool of the glider. He's kind of funny, I'll find him just wonder into the nursery and just stand there and look around. I think he knows something is coming/changing, and that it has something to do with this room, but he isn't quite sure why we keep hanging out in there haha.

Literally shopped till I dropped

What a week. It all started with a rash. Since about December I thought I had heat rash under my boobs (it gets toasty in there haha) and the occasional small couple of spots on my sides, stomach, back, and my shoulder at one point. But then a pretty big spot showed up on my neck, and continued to get bigger, then had a darker color "ring" around it and I was like crap. I'm dying. or I have ring worm. After much Googling it was neither ring worm or death approaching, but what it did sound like was PUPPPs, this like crazy not common pregnancy thing where you're allergic to the male hormones in your baby. I had a little bit of a rash and it was itchy and irritating and Google told me to take an oatmeal bath.
So it's Saturday evening and it took everything I had to get some pants on and get in the car. I just HAD to get to Lush so I could get some skin soothing/oatmeal bath stuff. I made it there and back, had a bath, it worked, no more itch.

Now on to Monday, I just assumed it had been a long weekend and didn't think much about how "exhausted" I was Saturday. But then it also took just as much dreaded effort to get ready and get in the car on this particular morning. I was planning on making a trip out to Last Chance. I was hoping to find a robe for the hospital or one of those sleep dresses that your nana wears, you know the one with flowers all over and looks like a sheet, a diaper bag, and slippers. After much convincing I made it in the car, drove two minutes and got on the freeway and I realized, "wow... this takes so much effort to push the  gas pedal... I don't want to do it for 30 more minutes. Maybe I'll just get off at the next exit and go home." And that's what I did. I've just been feeling so tired and lazy, like I just have no desire to do anything that is more than 20 steps away. I then decided that this must just be what happens in the third trimester, I'm 33 weeks so yeah it's ok that I have like no energy at all.

But here comes Tuesday, and yet again I convinced myself that I had to go to last chance and get these things done and purchased. So that's what I did. It's a mad house in there. I was there for maybe 10 min and I was like omgosh I don't feel well. I started having weird cramps on my lower stomach area, I wanted water and boy did I want to just sit somewhere, but that's impossible in there. I found a front button down sleeping shirt and stood in line for the fitting room because I knew there was a seat in there. I pushed myself so hard to stay standing and make it into the fitting room, but all along I'm thinking oh gosh I might pass out right now, oh gosh get me in there!!! I made it in the room and just sat there for a while. I considered asking for help or maybe someone could get me water, but I thought it would just be weird and I could push through it and make it out alive. (bad idea)

I stood in line, luckily it was short, and made it to the escalator (Last Chance is in a basement, which I why I never left and came back... because I knew I wasn't going to go back down the stairs!), then dragged myself to this little cafe kiosk, basically holding myself on the counter, barley was able to ask for a bottle of water! The whole time I keep telling myself, "Just a few more steps and you'll be at the top!" "Just a few more steps and she'll give you a water bottle! - Don't pass out!!! Don't cause a scene Ande!" I got my water and made it to the nearest table  and chair.I started freaking out a little because I didn't know what was going on, I wasn't sure I could make it ALL THE WAY to the door (which wasn't even far), and if I did, what would I do, drive?! yeah right. I just felt exhausted, like I pushed myself too hard at the end of a work out and my body was done... except I didn't work out. All I did that day was drive there and walk inside haha.
So after gathering the energy to get the phone to my ear, I called my mom thinking mom's always know how to fix things, maybe I'm just supposed to eat a banana or a pretzel or something. Either way I thought oh she'll know how to fix me!
But instead I panicked her, which panicked me! I was hoping she would tell me oh you're ok just do/get/eat this. So her school resource officer and my mom leave her classroom, jump in his squad car and zoom over to the Last Chance (luckily it wasn't that far from her). By this point I felt a littler better because of the water and the chair, but ask me to walk to the door? hah yeah right, I was not going to make it. Officer B. called the paramedics to come check out my vitals.

The ambulance just showed up lights and all, so much for not causing a scene haha.

Silly, but I felt so embarrassed. there's this teary eyed pregnant lady, a cop, another woman who seems serious then makes jokes then back to serious, and now the fire department is coming in. Parked right out front with the lights on, they wheel in a bed (I'm thinking oh gosh what is going on), but it was just to hold all of the equipment. All of my numbers and whatnot came back normal but they suggested I go to the hospital.
I just didn't want to. If everything was "fine" then I was PROBABLY fine haha.

Eventually what happened was, I went to my doctors office instead of the hospital (it's a little cheaper and less dramatic that way). In the end it turns out I'm anemic and need to take an added iron pill. The doctor told me all of the blood pools in my legs and doesn't make it to my brain very well and if I feel like I'm going to pass out... I'm probably going to pass out so don't push myself again next time. But both baby and I are healthy and fine now so everything is on track for back to normal!
Oh and I asked about my weird rash and it turns out it is just eczema basically. Pregnancy does some weird stuff to you.

In other news: The baby shower invites are being sent, get me your address if you haven't already. Also, we finally picked a name! Stay tuned, I'll be posting that and pictures of the "mostly finished" nursery.