baby segura/nursery updates

happy tuesday everyone!

i hope you all had a nice long memorial day weekend. ours went by too fast, as usual, but we got to spend time with good friends and family.

we've done a little work in the nursery so far, and we're starting to get some fun stuff for baby segura, so i figured it's about time for an update!

first of all, for those of you who follow me on any sort of social media, you already know that baby segura is a girl!! we had our 18-week ultrasound on the 21st, and it was SO fun! our ultrasound tech is awesome and always takes her time, making sure to show us all of the fun stuff and letting us linger for as long as we want to.  baby girl was not shy with showing off the important parts, so it was pretty easy for us to see from various angles that she's a girl. i was amazed by how big she is already! there's such a huge difference between the 12-week and 18-week ultrasounds that it's kind of hard to believe.

in related news, baby girl also officially has a name: ellie charlotte segura. michael and i have always loved and agreed on ellie as our first baby girl name, so i think we were a little relieved when we found out she's a girl! we didn't really have any boy options so far, so it's been fun to call her by her name since the ultrasound. charlotte is my mom's name, and we like that it's traditional and feminine. we want both of our kids to have family names as middle names, and thankfully this name choice came pretty easily to us!

since we found out we're having a girl, my planning and nursery dreaming has gone into overdrive. we now have 2 decent-sized registries, which have been so fun to work on. we're really only missing the big things now (strollers, furniture, etc.), which we're going to go shopping for in person when we get back from our big vacation (that start this friday--yay!)

we also got the sweetest baby memory book from my brother-in-law who lives in costa rica and was visiting family here in north carolina last week. i can't wait to start putting things in it!

a few more fun  baby-related things that have happened recently:

 this weekend was the first time we've seen my family since we found out we're having a girl, so we got lots of fun girly gifts to start filling up ellie's closet! my parents, brother and brother's girlfriend all loaded us up with the sweetest clothes i've ever seen. seriously, not much is sweeter than baby clothes on baby hangers.

uncle zack is a shoe fanatic, so it's fitting that ellie's first pairs of shoes came from him! so precious.

the diaper stockpile is growing, thanks to ellie's grandparents and our couponing skills. seriously, future moms-if you buy diapers at full price you are crazy. i routinely check the huggies and pampers websites and coupons.com for diaper coupons. the target cartwheel coupon program also pretty much always has the target brand diapers on sale. we haven't bought any diapers or wipes so far that weren't either on sale or we had a coupon for. i should've kept track of how much we've saved-it's been a lot!

the dresser in the nursery has sort of scratchy wood in the drawers, so this weekend i picked up some shelf liner and started putting a few things in there. the first drawer is currently holding bibs and ellie's first jewelry! my parents got her the sweetest bracelet and ring that are beyond-belief tiny.

i ordered this print from etsylast week (obviously with ellie instead of emma) to hang in the nursery. i want to do mostly soft pink decor, so i thought this print would be a really pretty start to the wall decorations!

since ellie will have the same first initial as her mama, i'm happy we get to keep our little shelf in that room with the big metal "e" from our wedding. we'll have to relocate michael's "m" for now :) the paint color we went with (which i am SO in love with) is "shaken not stirred" by allen + roth for valspar.

as for me, i'm happy as a clam and feeling great these days! ready for our euro trip to begin so we can take a few days away from the craziness of life and be together, just the 2 of us, before baby comes! i'm 19 weeks, 3 days today and can't believe that on saturday i'll officially be halfway there! time is flying. my belly has really grown a lot in the past couple of weeks-it's pretty undeniable now that i'm pregnant! i'm very thankful for my maternity wardrobe at this point. i've gained about 9-10 pounds so far (that's an estimate based on my last doctor's visit and how i've grown since then-i dont' weigh myself at home) and i'm still wanting sweets 24/7. i could exist solely on candy and cinnamon rolls if i let myself. i wouldn't really call them cravings most of the time though-i can live without them! i'm still doing the tracy anderson workouts. i'm currently on month 5 of the pregnancy project and loving it!

thanks to everyone who has been so sweet and supportive to us through this whole process. we are getting so excited to meet ellie and are so thankful that we have such wonderful people in our lives to be happy right along with us!