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2012 Was  A Year!

As my hubby laid in bed last night and relived our year, we decided that we did ALOT!

It was amazing and we are so lucky to have the opportunities we did.

Just a  quick photo recap....

 New Years 2011-2012 in London, UK with the our friends!

The Best New Years ever!

Followed by a trip St Augustine Florida mid January for some warmth.  

March started off rough with me being re-ended and ending up on muscle relaxes for a week.  

But then.....

 

Joe turned 30!!!!

Old man =0)

 April was a little sad with Joe's parents heading south to retire in Florida.  

However we partied it up-

 Celebrating both our 3rd Anniversary and my 30th Birthday in Hawaii in May and June!

 June/July was a summer of Friends- literally our house was full with visitors almost weekend!!!

Then I came down with a little bug.....

Hello Baby OH!

 Our annual Labor Day visit to Maine on Little Diamond Island. 

September Clemson Football Game with our friends!!!

 

Our big Europe Trip to Rome and Paris- booked Pre-Bug.  

An amazing trip.

 In October we found out that we would be having a little boy!

OH BOY!

 Smaller trips followed to St Augustine Florida for a much needed girls weekend and then Thanksgiving in Florida with Joe's family.

I am officially done with traveling!

 

Christmas we finished off the Year in NOVA with my family.  

We were fortunate to witness so many engagements, babies being born, friends graduating and people moving!!! 

2012 was amazing....

But with bug on the 2013 will be even more eventful. 

Here is to saying goodbye to 2012 and hello to 2013!

Maternity Clothes... 101

So the bump finally popped! 

It took 27 weeks but I now at 30+ weeks
I officially feel pregnant and I am starting to run out of wardrobe options. 

So I decided to email one of my friends with regards to her pregnancy wardrobe three weeks ago.

She made a couple of recommendations for me. 

-  Buy a couple basics

-  Shop at places that do not sell Maternity Stuff

-  Borrow if possible

-  Find outfits in our closet that can work pregnant and non pregnant.

I do not want to spend a lot of money on my pregnancy wardrobe because the reality was that I have only 3 more months to be pregnant and also I can wear scrubs at work everyday so I am very fortunate in the fact that I do not have to purchase "professional/work" clothes. 

So I started out last weekend by visiting one of my friends who was nice enough to let me borrow a couple of basics. 

-1 Long sleeve pregnancy black Shirt from Target Maternity

-1 Pregnancy Sweater from Motherhood Maternity

-1 Pregnancy Dress from Motherhood Maternity

-1 Pregnancy skirt

- 2 sets of pregnancy leggins

I then really looked thru my closet and found that I have 3-4 sweater dresses that would work perfect with Maternity leggins.  I also had 2-3 sweater that worked well with jeans and a couple of shirts. 

I also borrowed a Target Maternity Pregnancy Sweat Dress from another friend. 

So Saturday afternoon, I headed out to H&M on a recommendation. 

I will admit that I have never ever been into this store. 

I walked in with an open mind. 
I left with a sweater dress and a regular dress that I am hoping I can wear to my shower. 

Both cost me 40 dollars. 

Neither were pregnancy items but they way they were cut, they were perfect and have lots of wiggle room. 

Then on Sunday, I headed to Destination Maternity to shop for a really nice pair of Jeans. 

Since I do not have to spend a lot of money maternity clothes, I knew that I wanted to buy 1 nice pair of Maternity Jeans.  I felt a little guilty about spending this much money on jeans but when I reminded myself that I had not purchases a single piece of clothing since July so I did not feel bad because 4 months of not purchasing a single item justified it in my mind.
 I decided on a pair of 7 for All Mankind Maternity Jeans in Petite once my hubby pointed out how cute my butt looked.
DONE and DONE!!!

This was my splurge!!!

Any pregnancy pieces of clothing that you loved?