Baby Moon

Adam and I had a wonderful time in Charleston this past weekend. We decided to take one last beach trip together since it will be a long time before we will be able to get away by ourselves again. I guess this is what some call a "Baby Moon". We had a fabulous time and the weather was great! I am so glad we were able to do this. We took off work on Friday so we headed down early Friday morning. I have been having great energy so that made the weekend that much more enjoyable. So thankful for that! Last time we were at the beach I was in my first trimester, so I wasn't feeling wonderful. We got some good sun... apparently my skin is suddenly really susceptible to the sun (a pregnancy thing I'm sure), and I got burned pretty badly which is not like me. I normally tan pretty well. It felt good to get some color though. I haven't been loving the hot weather we've been having so haven't gotten my normal summertime tan. We also did some good eating while we were there. If you know Adam and I, you know we like to eat good food, so we definitely took full advantage of all the great food in Ctown. We kicked off the weekend at our favorite place on Sullivan's Island...POE'S! Ya'll know what I'm talking about if you are familiar. Poe's has the best burgers anywhere, hands down! We were able to have an awesome date night downtown at Basil (a great Thai place) Friday night. We've decided we need to hit up all the not kid friendly places while we can, ha ha. The rest of the weekend was just as nice and filled with some wonderful memories for us. Here's a preggo pic of me on the beach at 19 weeks. Yes, getting bigger and bigger...

On a side note, we have been going back and forth about the nursery furniture, so this was the big topic of our weekend, ha ha. See things have already started changing quite a bit. Instead of what bar do we want to hit up tonight, it's what cribs, dresser, etc should we do in the nursery? Hilarious! We are definitely ready for the next chapter in our lives and are excited for the challenge ahead. And Yes! We have no idea what we are in for. Anyway, we have had the hardest time trying to decide exactly what we want to do about the furniture. I went ahead and pulled the trigger and ordered the Serena and Lily bedding. It went on sale, so I took that as a sign plus my wonderful mother found an awesome coupon code to use that gave us $66.00 off. After looking extensively at other options (trying to find cheaper), it ended up this was the best deal for what I wanted. Here's the kicker! We have decided to cancel the cribs we ordered. (We only put a refundable deposit down.) They are so nice, but let's be realistic. The boys will only be in them for about 2 years, so what's the point in spending a lot? Yes, we have found some cheaper (waaaaayyyy cheaper) cribs at Target that will work just as nice. We are having 2 babies, so we need to save where we can. We figured with the nice bedding and other furniture you won't even be able to tell the difference. That brings me to my next topic...furniture! After looking at tons of different types of "baby" furniture and getting very frustrated I might add, we have decided to go a different direction. Of course there is some beautiful baby furniture out there but we are trying to be economical (most of it is so expensive). Plus we want something that is different that will be used forever (whether it be in the boys room or somewhere else in our house). We found an awesome store in Mt. Pleasant called Nadeau Furniture with Soul. The furniture has a distressed look and comes in all different colors, which we love. They have 2 stores in ATL so we will probably end up taking a day trip to get the dresser/changing table and maybe a bookshelf that we have our eye on. Plus the prices aren't terrible. Here are some pics of the dresser (it's really a buffet) that we're thinking about.