Well September came a bit faster than I was expecting and here we are almost half way through the month. It's been a fairly productive month so that is a good thing. Jym turned the big 30 on the 2nd and we celebrated by going out to dinner. Back in August I offered to throw a small party but he declined. There's always next year. The weekend after his birthday we headed up to NH for my sisters wedding.
We left early Saturday morning as we had a 7:30am flight. Up until this weekend Jym and I had never really checked bags. Even on our honeymoon when we were gone for 9 days we didn't check luggage just had our carry ons. So when it came to timing that was how I figured out what time we should leave. I had forgotten that we had decided to check luggage for that weekend. We got to the airport and thankfully it wasn't too busy and the line to check luggage moved rather quickly. We did get the buzzer that said we were checking luggage with less than 45 minutes till our flight. We made it through security and they were boarding our flight (which made for a bit of stress but we got on the plane in the nick of time).
Fast forward about an hour and a half and we're in NH waiting for our bags to show up. Jym's shows up but mine does not. We go to the claim area and there is another flight coming in about 90 minutes. We were already planning to go to breakfast with Lori and Holly so we figured we would do that and then check back in. It took another flight but my luggage made it to NH (although there was a bit of worry about that for a while).
We headed up to Moultonborough and I got there changed and left within 5 minutes for the rehearsal. If there is one thing I dislike it's being late. I've gotten a bit better about it over the last few years where in certain circumstances it doesn't bother me as much but I was still stressing a bit about getting to rehearsal on time. I shouldn't have worried as other than Kaite and Derek my dad and I were the first to arrive.
Rehearsal was fairly quick and the place where the wedding was taking place was gorgeous. After the rehearsal we went to where the dinner was taking place. We got there a bit early so my dad and I headed to the bar to get a drink (ok a beer for him and ice tea for me but still).
Sunday was the day of the wedding. It didn't start till 5 so we had most of the day to hang out and visit with everyone which was nice. I will write more about the wedding in another post as I fear this one is getting too long already! We had a small baby shower Sunday morning with everyone who was staying at the house. We got some great stuff as well as some hand-me-downs from cousin Arden (Thanks Sara!) and that started our getting ready for the baby trend of the week.
We flew back to BWI on Monday afternoon and got home around 6pm and were both back to work on Tuesday.
Tuesday evening we decided to go out and purchase the crib. I had a 20% off coupon and we figured might as well start buying the things we need. We went to Target after that and picked up the crib mattress. On Wednesday I got a message from a friend saying that Target was having their baby sale and the breast pump she used was on sale. It happened to be the same one I had liked when I first started to look as well as the same one my sister has and likes. It was 25% off it's normal price and considering they don't go on sale very often we headed to Target after work to pick it up.
Yesterday we received the call that the crib was in and we could come pick it up so after work we trecked over to Babies R Us and picked up the crib. For those of you who don't know Babies R Us is having a sale right now if you bring in an old carseat, stroller, etc you get 25% off the purchase of a new one. We've had our eyes out for stuff and have asked some friends to keep their eyes open as we still needed to buy the stroller and carseat. I got a call from my friend Tara this morning and she had found one of those small umbrella strollers. She dropped it off on her way to run errands. The sale runs until next Saturday but I'm going shopping with a friend tomorrow so I'll probably buy the travel system tomorrow.
It's been a week of big purchases for us but thankfully they are all the ones we'll need for when the baby is first born. There are still some other things we'll need to buy but for the most part I feel a lot better than I did two weeks ago with where we were.
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