Maternity Style // Week 32

Welp, I'm caught up on outfits now!  Well, sort of.  Technically I'm 33 weeks now, but I'm such a procrastinator that I usually shoot my outfits on the last or second to last day of my gestation week, which means that I probably will never have an outfit posted in the actual gestation week I'm currently in.  I can't remember if us pregnant gals aren't "supposed" to wear horizontal stripes, but I don't care because this dress is soft and stretchy and feels like jammies.

As you can see, the lake is now frozen, though only a couple inches, not nearly thick enough for walking on yet.  It's interesting seeing the world around me transform to winter as I transform into a larger and larger pregnant person.  The more wintery it gets around here, the closer I get to having a real live tiny person.  We haven't gotten snow yet, but it's supposed to snow soon, and the peaks of the mountain peaks surrounding town are all dusted with snow creeping down closer and closer.

Dress : Thrifted (Target) | Cardigan : Dear Creatures | Boots (similar) : c/o Seychelles
Hat : some roadside shop in the redwoods | Mittens : The North Face

Maternity Style // Week 31

Mmm, lazy Sundays are so nice.  We went out to brunch this morning with family, then went shopping around town for some warm clothes, since winter is fast approaching!  Our lake is totally frozen now and the nights are falling well below freezing, which means snow should be here shortly!  

Dress (similar) : Thrifted | Boots : c/o Cat Footwear | Hat : c/o Moorea Seal
Necklace : Free People

Maternity Style // Week 30

Starting to feel kind of like a house, which makes sense, because there is an ever-enlarging human residing inside me.  Two more months of this, woof!  Last night we built my crib, so the baby's room is slowly, very slowly, coming together!  I've been enjoying my lazy, slow mornings snuggling in bed with Dusty, knowing the my days of full nights of sleep are numbered.  

The past couple weeks I've been so focused on shooting weddings and sessions that I've dropped the ball on organizing and decorating the apartment.  It's hard finding new places for everything to go, and I desperately want to paint all the walls and make things feel fresh, but stuff takes time.  I forget that in our old house I'd left our living room half painted for about 6 months, and that it took all of the 3+ years we lived there to get every room looking the way I wanted.  I can be so impatient at times, I think of a project and want to do it immediately.  But that's not the way life works always. So I'm learning to be more patient and take projects as I can.

Top : Thrifted (Forever 21) | Jeans : Flying Monkey | Boots : Kensie Girl

Maternity Style // Week 29

Two months to go and I'm starting to feel very pregnant.  It's still so bizarre to me that I even am pregnant.  Sometimes I'll just stand in the mirror and be like, is this real life?  Still haven't started working on the nursery.  Still haven't come even close to picking a name.  Have bought some clothes, and my baby shower is on Saturday, so this baby thing is sinking in at least a little!  A stranger asked me when I was due yesterday, so I guess I'm at the point now where I look actually pregnant, not just ambiguously rotund.  Now excuse me while I go take a weeklong nap because I'm an insane person and scheduled a 15 hour travel day with 3 flights at 7 months pregnant...

Top : Thrifted (Free People) | Leggings : Motherhood Maternity | Boots : Vogue Footwear
Hat : c/o Moorea Seal | Necklace : Free People | Cardigan : c/o Modcloth

Maternity Style // Week 28

Fall is in full swing and I'm so happy.  I'm having a little baby shower/blessingway next weekend and my mom and I have been testing out cake/icing flavors (and sort of unsuccessfully attempting to learn how to naked-ice a cake without making it look ugly).  We tested out this cake + icing recipe pair last night and it was super tasty, but we've still got some work to do on getting the icing to actually look like a nice naked cake.  Who knew a naked cake would be harder to do than a regular iced cake?  Not me.  

Either way, moral of the story is it's fall, so pumpkin cakes with maple cream cheese icing are totally in, which makes me a happy camper.  I'm actually not a PSL person (or a Starbucks person, really, for that matter), but I have always loved fall flavors.  My wedding was in November and we had pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting (and red velvet cake, mmmm) and they were delicious.  The whole pies-as-wedding-cakes thing hadn't hit the mainstream yet, but in retrospect, I totally would've had pumpkin pie and apple pie at my fall wedding too.  Aaaand now I'm craving pie.

Tee (similar) : H+M | Jacket (similar) : c/o Lulu's | Skirt (similar) : Thrifted (Wet Seal) |
Shoes (similar) : c/o Seychelles | Necklace (similar) : Free People