Maternity - Coming to an end.

Well it's been way to long since my last post. Things have been a little crazy but we are in the final stretch. The last few weeks we have been spending a lot of time with family. We celebrated Memorial Day with my side of the family, yes we celebrate that holiday. I've lost some very important people in my life but I love going back to visit them and tell them thank you for everything that I learned from them. For Memorial Day we had a picnic with my family, some of my cousins, aunts, uncles and my grandma. But what is a Godfrey get together without rhubarb pie!! I have to tell you that is on of my favorite desserts. Our family knows how to make a great rhubarb pie. 

The weekend following that Sam and I went to my parents again to help my brother and his wife unpack their apartment into a storage unit. My sisters came up for a day. They live in Salt Lake City where they are working for the summer and going to school. It was a little strange this last visit because the next time I will probably see all of my siblings is when our little guy, Tague, gets here! But we are excited, I don't feel ready and I'm slightly terrified but I can't wait to finally meet him.

Pictures of projects for the baby room

I'm currently at 37w and 5d. I had a doctors appointment yesterday and they told me I was showing signs of preeclampsia. That made me a little nervous because I have already had major swelling in my now cankles but I also started my pregnancy overweight not by a lot but I was still considered overweight. One of the things I've been struggling with a lot in my life but especially being pregnant is not seeing myself as pretty or beautiful. Sam tells me all the time to try and get it in my head that I am beautiful and pretty but I always see pictures of myself and never really see the person that I want to see. This pregnancy I thought I was doing okay with my weight and keeping my eating habits where they needed to be but with each appointment the scale just kept climbing. I have now come to terms with the fact that what's done is done and that I can't change anything now. I've told myself that I won't let this weight gain defeat me and I plan to get back up and be active after the baby comes. When I was 16 I started liking running. My goal is to start small and get myself up to where I can complete a 5K (running the whole thing) but I will start with walking and work my way back into it. I know what I'm capable of I just have to put in the work to get myself back to where I want to be. My philosophy is that I don't need to be skinny but I need to be healthy and that is more important then the label on my shirt or pants. 

Well that's it for now. I hope my next post won't take so long to get it up on the blog. Thanks for reading! Have a great day!