fall is my favorite & 31 weeks

All time FAVORITE season of the year.  I remember even as a kid it was my favorite.. loving the changing leaves, the different smell in the air, APPLES galore in Oak Glen, and wishing I could live in the hay maze at the local pumpkin patch.
But.

I'm in the desert (don't get me wrong I LOVE Arizona).  It's just not as easy to find those changing leaves (Virginia- even Utah- was better than my hometown in California in that department).  BUT.  When I do see those colors I stop and soak them in.  I appreciate them more.  When I was prego with Brody we had a couple trees right outside the pediatrics office that I worked at and I watched every leaf fall off.  Even though it still feels like death outside right now that'll all soon change and I can't wait!  I LOVE fall time.

Yesterday morning I woke up particularly energized and decided it was high time I decorate for Halloween.  It feels SO good to have my few decorations sprawled around my living room.  Some of these I made as a kid- I have a lot more halloween decoration collecting to do.

What else did I do before my twelve o'clock class?  Why, I found these two long pieces of scrap material my sister gave me years and years ago.  I finally got my sewing machine from my mom (it's been sitting in Virginia since Christmas).  So I made a table runner.  I didn't measure and I'm no seamstress- in fact, I haven't sewn a thing since I was in young women's (on a machine anyway- I've always sewn by hand! Remember?)  I was proud of myself!

Thanks Anne for the fabric!  (hop on over to her blog, she's doing a giveaway)

Oh and a quick pregnancy update- haven't done this in a while...

Things are good, life is good.  I still feel more pain than I expected but I can manage as long as I'm not super active running around all day.  I'm not too stressed with school or my business, let's keep it that way.  People stare like I forgot to put pants on but so far no strangers groping me.  I get Braxton Hicks contractions like 20 times a day (I've been having them since 16 weeks and I was really worried about that at first).  Brody wants to be held allllll the time "I want to hug you!" It's hard not to pick him up so I do most of the time.  Doc says everything looks great, we have a healthy boy on the way.  I can't believe I'm down to single digit weeks!