Fences, Football and Dropping

Nathan and I were planning to celebrate our 5 year wedding anniversary with a fancy dinner and some downtown Sacramento activities. Well, being 34 weeks pregnant put a hinge in that plan. On Saturday morning, I told Nathan that I really didn't feel like driving 25 minutes to go to some fancy dinner and walk around downtown Sacramento all night. He replied, "We can do what you want!" Thank goodness my hubby cares so much! Honestly the thought of having to walk all over is absolutely horrifying especially if it can't be done in my slippers...

So we opted to go to our favorite local Mexican restaurant, La Placita Dos, and headed on up to the cheesecake factory for some dessert to go. We then rented Brave from the red box and had an absolutely relaxing (and much more economical) night. It also made me extremely happy. I don't feel like I missed out on trying another chicken dish at a fancy seafood restaurant. Plus, who goes to eat chicken at a seafood restaurant? Oh yes, I do because I don't like it! I also didn't have to seriously dress up which was a huge relief.

I know that right now a lot of pregnant women enjoy dressing up and it makes them feel better and I say to them go for it! Once that baby comes, dressing up and feeling good about your self that way will be few and far between, so I say do it now. I really don't get much enjoyment out of it. I would just rather be comfortable and happy.

Going to dinner. Nathan is sporting his new Niner's hat!
(Which by the way they won this weekend and now have the second seed in the NFC!)

Holy crap look at that belly!

 As previously mentioned, our fence is needing some mending and Nathan took it upon himself to get it done on Sunday and boy he did! I really am useless at this point helping with anything involving any sort of manual labor so I just sat inside, took a bath, and pretended like I didn't know what was going on. The only time I checked on him was when I heard crashing from the side yard about three times. I did this out of fear that my husband had killed himself by death of fence falling on him but he managed just fine. (I knew he would!)
He managed to get the concrete poured and fence poles placed in the ground. Tomorrow he is going to secure the fencing to the new poles and ta da! we should have a new fence. Way to go honey!

I also took the time to make Nate some yummy spinach dip so that way when he was done he could have a snack to eat while watching the Niner's play yesterday. Oh and did I not mention that they won? So, a Ravens and Niners Superbowl is still on the horizon! How much fun would that be for our household? Like I said before though, knowing my luck it will be a niners/ravens Superbowl and I will most likely be in labor. Ha!

I'm just a wifey extraordinaire, as Nate would say.

Here is the recipe for the kick-ass spinach dip:

1 8oz. box of cream cheese at room temperature
1/2 cup of mayonnaise
1/4 cup of sour cream
1 package frozen spinach
3/4 cup parmesan

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees and grease a small pan well with cooking spray.
Boil the spinach in a pot with about 1/2 cup of water. Once the spinach is soft, drain it and stick it in cheese cloth. Drain as much liquid out of the spinach as possible. If it's wet at all you will have dip that is runny and watery! (GROSS!)

Combine mayo, cream cheese, and sour cream in a bowl and mix well. Then add the spinach while its still hot from being boiled. Combine until mixed well. You don't want chunks of cream cheese in this mixture, so really get your mixing hand going.

Pour into the greased glass pan and then sprinkle parmesan cheese on top. Cook for 25-30 minutes.


As of Sunday, Lincoln has decided to take residence in the lower half of my belly and hip region. I can also feel him flirting with the idea of getting in place for birth. He has started to lower himself into my hips and that created a shitty night of sleeping last night. He has decided to place his head right into the left hip joint which creates a lot of discomfort. Its not painful, just uncomfortable and makes sleeping difficult. As of this morning, he has moved a bit more to the right, so I think he is just trying to figure out the right place to be when he's ready 'to exit.' Yes it's uncomfortable but definitely not unbearable.

Tonight we are just staying home and making homemade Zuppa Toscana. It's delicious! We're also going to try to make it to midnight but with how tired I have been recently it might just not happen.

~Julia