23 weeks and Matt's surprise

Today we had our 5th appointment. We were able to hear Squirt's heartbeat again (135 bpm) and ask some questions about the upcoming months. I was told I needed to get a tetanus/pertussis (whopping cough) vaccination and I made it, without a lot of drama! The nurse allowed me to lay down and was quickly in and out (literally) and when she was finished she offered me chocolate! I hope Squirt doesn't have the same anxiety as his mom does about needles. 

23rd week at our doctor appointment

Last Saturday I was able to surprise Matt with an early 30th birthday gathering with our friends in CO. We will be in MI for his real birthday and celebrate again there. If you know me at all you know that I have a really hard time keeping surprises from my husband or lying to him for that matter. So I was so proud of myself about this one. I had told Matt earlier in the week that I would like to go out to dinner on Saturday night since we would be going to lots of parties back in MI and I really would like to have some quality time with him here. When Saturday came Matt had a different plan, he wanted to go to the gym and train for the 5K that he and some family members are running in next week. I had to stand my ground since our friends were all on there way to the restaurant as I tried to convince him we should just go get dinner instead. He gave in to the pregnant one and asked "Where do you want to go?" and I said, "I don't' care. Let's go somewhere near by." It was so funny that he suggested Olive Garden or Outback and I told him that steak sounded really good. Thankfully he picked the right place where everyone was waiting for us. Upon arrival Matt noticed the parking lot was packed and complained that there was probably going to be a long wait for a table. I smiled and told him that if that were the case we could just go somewhere else. When we walked in the door the host asked us how many and for our name. All the sudden I was stuck. We didn't need to put our names in because we had a group there waiting for us; so I told the host that I thought I saw someone I knew and went running in the direction of our friends. After a slight pause Matt followed me and was so surprised! After we ate our steaks we came back to our house for cheesecake and candles. I took some amazing pictures of Matt with his blazing cake but they seemed to have disappeared into cyberspace so this picture of Matt eating a cake he made for himself earlier this week will have to do.

Why have a slice when you can have the whole cake?