Changes: Some Bad (the Fire), Some Great (Spud)

This week has been rough! Where we live we are about 20-25 miles away from Waldo Canyon, which is currently on fire and it quickly became the worst fire in Colorado Springs history, possibly even state history. Thankfully at this point they have the fire 70% contained and people who had to evacuate their homes are slowly being let back in. Thankfully very few people were hurt in what could have been a massive tragedy for the people of western Colorado Springs. During this time Jason and I were managing the climbing tempetures by positioning fans to get air flow and keeping windows wide open; tempetures continue to be about 10* higher than usuall for this time of year. Needless to say, but we were getting extremely warm, then the smoke from the fire blew across town to the area we live. Instead of being smoked out of our house we shut all the windows with the hope it wouldn't get too warm and soon the wind would change so the smoke would be blown elsewhere. This was not the case, instead our house was usually warmer than it was outside....not ideal when your about 37 weeks pregnant. Some amazingly gracious friends from church offered their guest room, aka basement, to us for as long as we needed. It was more than wonderful to be in an air conditioned house, in a cool basement with great hosts! We couldn't have been more thankful especially since the night before we packed up to live at their house I slept about 2hrs because it was so hot in our house; 2 hrs of uncomfortable, restless sleep doesn't make for a happy momma. While staying at our friends house I had an unexpected visitor (Jason was in on the surprise) my mom!!!! She flew in for the baby shower the ladies from my church threw for me and was able to stay the weekend to help us pick up our crib. It was an amazing surprise and I was so thankful to get to visit with her and get more words of experienced wisdom (she's had 6 kids) about our upcoming adventure of labor, delivery and parenthood. We got our hopes up that Spud would have made an appearance for Grandma because of the news were getting at our prenatal appointments. (Possible TMI alert) At our 37 week appointment my body was already getting prepared for Spud. I was dilated to 2, 50% effaced and Spud was head down. At 38 weeks I was dilated to a 3, 70% effaced and Spud was still head down and positioned correctly. At our most recent visit the nurse said she could feel Spud's head so baby and mom are both getting closer to a visit to the hospital!!! Jason and I couldn't be more thrilled to know that Spud is still healthy, growing on schedule and will soon be joining us! We know that a lot will change with a new baby in the house but we couldn't be more excited to start this next chapter of our lives!