Hibernating

I'm 31 weeks pregnant today (I'll be 8 months next week). Girls get BIG when they're getting ready to be born (who knew?)! They also get really swishy and sometimes watching my stomach is like watching a wave pool as their little hands and feet jut in and out while they roll around (Adam is loving the chance to interact with them more and they always liven up a lot when he touches my belly... ahhhh).

I want to apologize to all those of you who we keep talking about getting together with or inviting over to see our new house or making dinner for.

The other night I woke up from a very in-depth dream about a pumpkin painting party I wanted to host and in the dream I had set a specific date and time and guest list and had cataloged all of the materials needed and the decor and the refreshments... I even dream-designed the invitations (down to the font, people!).

I woke up and for a minute I was all excited to really have this event and then I remembered two things that are stopping me:

1. Adam is studying to take the GRE at the end of this month and therefore EVERY free minute he has (which aren't many) has to be devoted to studying. Between working full time and doing his calling and taking care of me and the house and coming to doctor's appointments he's really pushing himself to the limits and needs all the time he can get (even sometimes at the expense of watching BYU football... that hurts the most).

2. I'm exhausted. Flat out drained. Not that I've had so much energy before now, but somehow in the last two weeks I have been SO tired. The doctor hasn't put me on bed rest but has really encouraged me to rest more and do less. So now I'm only going into work two days a week and then working from home for two days and having one day completely off. It's a real struggle to not push myself to do everything I want to do, but on the days when I've tried to do it all it's knocked me out (sometimes for the next several days). Because I need my energy to keep working (at least until the end of October) and to make it to my doctor's appointments (which are often THREE in a week), and to keep making dinner and doing the essentials, I'm realizing that this is the limit of what I can do these days.

So for these reasons, I have put Adam and I into hibernation. I have made peace with the fact that our social lives and extra-curricular lives are going to be really slow until the babies arrive (probably after too). The only social thing I've committed to this month is the Creative Club Night (Thurs. Oct 22nd, 7:00--check the Creative Club blog for more info). Other than that, I am laying low. Like I said, sorry to those of you we've been talking about getting together with. It will happen later. We're really good at rain checks. Plus we hear 2010 is really the year to be hanging out anyway.

In the meantime, if you need to see us give a call and you can come chat with me while I lay on the couch. But be warned, I'm wearing really big t-shirts and sweatshirts these days as they are part of the dwindling list of things that still fit (thank you, Adam, for saving all your random gigantic clothes)!