A Few Maternity Pics and Baby Update

Last Thursday Shannon and Derek hosted a little reunion of some of our college friends. It was fun to see everyone and to see all the kiddos play together. Six of the eight members of the "Hoochie Hut" were able to make it. (Kristen, Kristy, Keelie, Shannon, Steph, and me) We were just missing Kerry and Kari. Maybe next time! Kristen was in MN visiting from Monterey, CA where Keith is stationed right now. She has her own photography business and wanted to snap a few shots for me. Her camera ended up having to go into the shop to get cleaned so I brought mine over and she was able to take a few maternity pics for me. She still wants to do some retouching, cropping, color work, etc. but I was too anxious to get them on the blog. So here they are in raw form:

In case you want to check out any of Kristen's other work, you can scroll down to the bottom of this blog where I have a link to her blog. From her blog you can also get to her website! She's quite talented!

Baby Update: I had my 36 week dr appt on Tuesday. Heart rate was 160 which is the fastest hers has ever been! Dr. Lindgren said that was because she was so active when he checked. Usually she's sleeping. I am 1 cm dialated and 30% effaced. Doc says that baby is in the posterior position (which means face forward, but still head down). Not a big deal, but I hope that she decides to turn soon. I've read and heard that labor is much more painful and complicated when they are delivered posterior. Great! My next appt is next Weds. I'll update after that.