First road trip in a year

Over the past few days we have been getting ourselves all ready to head to Colorado. I did manage to sneak in having lunch with one of my friends and she was sweet enough to bring baby gifts, 2 cute little safari outfits and swaddlers diapers. I had to open the diaper package just to see how little they were. Both Jacob and I had forgotten how small and cute they were. Of course Jacob joked, you have changed a diaper right??? Of course!! Do you know how many nieces and nephews I have! LOL

We decided that we are going to leave when Jacob gets off work today and drive half way. He says "if we stop" LOL I say, the last time we tried to do that we were almost asleep by Albuquerque. I also seemed to have popped a rib out, so I am thinking that it might be nice to split the drive up some. The bad news is, this is a pain I am just going to have to get used to because it seems little Nadia wants it that way! I tried to take care of most of my work yesterday, I did laundry, got the dogs stuff together, packed what I could for us. Today I will take the dogs down to my parents and drop them off. I feel very sad about leaving them! I know they will have a great time at my parents though and Jacob insisted that we were NOT bring them with us :)

There is so much to do on our short time in Colorado, everyone is excited to see us and trying to make plans, but its so hard when there is really only one free day that we have. It helps that we will see a lot of the people at the wedding, my baby shower, and Steve is having a party for us. Most of my friends can't make the party, and some can't make the shower, but I will just see who I can. I asked the Dr about traveling to higher altitude and she said that I just need to be careful. Drink lots of water, not a lot of walking around. I will probably be more tired than usual, so mostly I need to relax. It is so weird to think that it could really take that much of a toll on me when it was my home for so long. I guess now I will see what it felt like for visitors! I am still afraid that going back is going to make me very sad, but with things looking up down here, hopefully it won't be as hard to leave as I first thought. We were driving the other day talking about how almost everywhere we go we are on a 6 lane highway, we are interested an how being back in the Springs will be. We never really thought of it as a small town since that's all we knew. I'm worried that its summer but I am still going to freeze! I heard it was only 55 there a few days ago, that's cooler than winter here LOL. I only have one pair on maternity pants, the rest are shorts, and dresses. I have really gotten pretty big in the last month or so, I can't get away with wearing my regular pants with the bella band and I hate that most maternity pants make my butt look bigger than it is! I don't need that help!! Anyway, enough rambling, I need to get my butt in gear, finish packing, finish working and buy us some snacks for the trip!