Its cold, and I love it

We left our windows in the bedroom open last night, and I woke up freezing.... YES!

Fall is my favorite season, it always has been and always will. My birthday falls what I consider in the middle of Fall (October 14th!) and has always made Fall that extra special. My Fall season is from September 1st through end of November. That's Fall to me, because once you hit December, that is all about Christmas, that's Winter.

Fall just makes me happy, and I totally need that right now. I've decorated, and started preparing the gardens for the season, and thinking about wearing sweatshirts and boots just makes me smile. The only downside this Fall is no camping... we love to go camping in the Fall and at 8-9 months pregnant, I just don't know if I could handle it. There is always next year.

BUT THIS FALL... is the best of any Falls, I will get to meet my sweet boy.. less then 6 weeks til my due date now... and I'm getting more and more excited. I'm hoping to have an early birthday present! A girl can hope!

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Nights are beginning to be harder and harder to get some good sleep. I don't wake up every hour to pee like some women, just once between 2 and 4 am sometime... but my bones... oh my bones how they hurt. My lower back and hips and all those joints around there are hating me. Getting up at night and in the morning... shit, anytime I sit for an extended period of time makes me want to cry. OK.. not cry, but  DAMN IT HURTS. I swear one of these days my legs are just going to give out underneath me.

The belly is definitely starting to get in the way... of everything.

Also... people keep telling me that he will stop moving as much as he is getting less and less room. Well, he hasn't yet. I think he's got a shit ton of room in there, because he still moves like he is doing gymnastics or something. And as much as I enjoy feeling him move, and just sitting here wondering what he is possibly doing in there.... OUCH. He's under my hip bone, pushing out my belly button, and he is low.. oh so low that I think he could stick a hand out and wave.

Don't get me wrong, I love it.. and as a million and one people have told me that I will miss it... sometimes depending on what he is doing in there, I don't think I will miss is that much... especially when he's down there pinching on my bladder sending pain the whole way out... well you get it. Miss that? Probably not.

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You know what I love? My husband. (big surprise right?) But seriously, I have to give a little credit to him in the fact that he's totally awesome. He has been the best through this whole pregnancy... listening to my every "hey, babe he's moving, come feel!" (probably ten times a day) to my every complaint, and whine of "can you help me" (he's hearing that ALOT more these days). But after everything, he still makes me feel great. Those developing stretch marks that I finally saw and pointed out to him, he just laughed and said "All I see is beauty marks." To this morning when finding clothes is becoming harder and harder, without wearing the SAME maternity shirts I have over and over again, he looks at me and smiles and says how cute I look.

Gosh... he's great. I won't say perfect, because NO ONE is perfect, and I hate when people say that, but he's pretty darn awesome, and I'm pretty darn lucky to have him. It's the little things that count people. He's going to be a great father.

My Life Bucket List...

About a month ago I read a post over on Loves of Life by Katie about her Fall Bucket List.. it was super cute, and she even made a print out for everyone. So, of course I did, because I love things like this! I even did exactly what she said to do.. I put it in a frame so when Ryan and I do these things, we can check them off with a dry erase marker.. super cool right?

Here is a small preview of what she did. If you would like a copy, you can click here to get a printable copy, located at the bottom of her post, be sure to read the post because it's cute too.. like all of her posts!

Well, sadly we haven't done ANY on the list yet... but this weekend we plan on doing a couple.. We were pretty busy with the wedding and all, but it has finally died down. I figured by the end of November will be our cut off for the Fall Bucket List. Hopefully, we can get a few off these checked off! I do hope that she comes out with one for every season.

But.. to get to my point it got me to thinking..

(This is me talking to myself in my head)

"This is super cool... I hope that we can do this for every season... what if I made one for my life? You know like that movie with Jack Nicholson... The Bucket List. I should make my own Bucket List and put it in a frame... yah.. that would be even cooler. Then Ryan can make one too.. and well have our Life Bucket List with our seasonal bucket lists... yah! That would awesome."

So... after I conversed with myself.. I took a few weeks and I really, really thought about the things I want to do in my life... The things I don't want to miss out on. I owe this inspiration to Katie, from Loves of Life. I just loved the look and feel of her list, the idea and the concept - I just had to make my own.

Below is my Life Bucket List.