Bath & Body Works Sale

Friends, there's a big candle sale happening at Bath & Body Works this weekend! All of their 3 wick candles are 2 for $20 , and you can get them 3 for $30 too! The does sale start today, but if you go Saturday between 1p-5p you'll get a free smaller candle with purchase! I love free!! The small candle is one of their new fall scents, I can't remember which but it smelled amazing.

They have some new scents for this fall season, and my personal favorite is Nutmeg and Spice. It smells just like my mom's sugar cookies! I'm excited to hop into the store (w/Lysol wipes and Purell) to pick out some new fall favorites!!!!

Peace

Saw this image on the Facebook site for the Breast Cancer Society and thought I would share. During this physically and emotionally trying time, it's sometimes difficult to find peace in your heart.

PEACE

It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. 

It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.

24 Weeks

Here's the 24 week picture. This week we were able to have Ryan's mom take a fun one of both of us too! On Monday we had an ultrasound and saw that Baby Addison is growing right on schedule, which is such a relief. The chemo will sort of stunt his growth, so the doctors are shooting for 5 lbs at 37 weeks. Right now he's 1 lb, 6oz. Keep growing, baby!

Ballpark Bob

Yesterday I finally used the Gilt credit that I've had for over a year. I couldn't believe this super cute baseball bear, his name is Ballpark Bob. It's 24" too! We're planning on taking the baby's pictures next to it to see how he's growing. Baby Addison can't get here soon enough!

20 Weeks (two weeks late)

Part of my philosophy for the cancer battle, is to not lose site of the other big change in my life right now. This beautiful, perfect, little boy that's growing inside me. He's not even here yet and I love him so much and want to protect him with everything I can.

Here's our 20 week bump photo, actually taken around 21. I'm 22 weeks today! Time has really flown, and it's hard to believe that I've technically been pregnant since March. It's funny because I don't think my belly is that big when I look in the mirror, but when I see pictures from before I'm like WOAH!

The Buzz

We did it-- I let my husband buzz my head. I love him with my whole heart and trusted him enough to do it-- never thought we'd encounter him cutting my hair in our marriage. But it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Yesterday I wrote a journal entry in our Caring Bridge about hair because I had a feeling it was coming soon. You can read the journal entry here: www.caringbridge.org/visit/sarahaddison.

baby updates

I thought it was time for something upbeat on this blog, and a baby nursery definitely fits the bill. Our crib is set to be delivered today and I couldn't be more excited! Ryan painted the nursery over the weekend, and the color is quite similar to the picture below.

Graco "Lauren" crib

Also, we've signed up for birth class at the hospital! It'll be the one day express class, on November 3rd. We had to find a day that was "safe" for me to be around others, and that was the only one that worked. All the other classes were on 2 weekends and one of the weekends I would've been at risk. I'm looking forward to this!

A Different Blog

I haven't posted on here a lot lately, mostly because my time has been spent either at the hospital or sleeping. Ryan and I set up a Caring Bridge site and that's where I've been posting journal entries and updates through the process. I'll try and keep posting on here, but I think we'll switch over to the Caring Bridge site for now. We'll see though, maybe I'll want to keep writing about unimportant things on here to keep some aspect of my life light. Chemo treatments and nonstop doctors visits can really put a damper on a 25 year old day-to-day life, so we've been trying to keep things as normal as possible.

You can visit the Caring Bridge site here.

Prayers Please

Things have been busy here in Denver. Between moving and finding out we were having a baby boy, we also received some additional news. Please visit my Caring Bridge site for more information.

You can also access the site by visiting CaringBridge.org and search "sarahaddison" (no space) in the visit site search. Thank you for all of your support.

Pink or Blue?

Blue!