Surprise times 2

Today, Louis and James 28th Birthday. To celebrate, yesterday I threw a surprise party for them. Throwing a surprise party was much more logistically challenging than I thought! Luckily though, both Louis and James had NO IDEA so I consider it a great success. I didn't take too many pictures but here are a few.

Gotta love the garage party

This one turned out a little dark

The boys hanging out

Bags

We moved from the garage to the driveway cause we are classy like that

The cake I made!

I want to give a big thank you to everyone for coming but especially my parents for helping me coordinating and buying things and to Jon and Erin for bringing the massive cooler.

I think its safe to say that the Malic household won't be having a big party for awhile!!

Slacker Alert

I know I haven't posted something on here for awhile but that is honestly because not much has been going on that is blog worthy. Heck half the of the stuff I put on here now isn't blog worthy necessarily but I put it up anyways.

I have recently been experiencing the unpleasantness that is having a cold while pregnant. I can't take medicine to make me feel better so instead I have had a faucet of a nose since Thursday with no end in sight. Sleeping is proving more difficult than ever since I can only sleep in a few positions and I can't breathe out of my nose....

On Tuesday Louis and I are taking the Newborn Basics class which should be very eye opening and I am going to be that girl taking lots of notes :)

The Cutest Baby Ever!

This morning we took the grandparents with us for a 3D ultrasound. It was the coolest thing ever. We got to see this little man's personality and try and figure out who he looks like more (Louis).

He knew we were taking pictures so he smiled!!

He has the I am about to be angry face down!

Overall, I highly recommend getting this done because it was so fun to see the baby and it made us even more excited for him to arrive.

The Baby has a place to sleep!

How do you follow up a bachelor/bachelorette party? Putting together baby furniture of course!! On Sunday, we borrowed my parents SUV to pick up the furniture that had finally arrived. Uncle James was on hand once again to help :) I was the official foreman of this job!

The dresser...it was big and heavy apparently

Daddy carrying the dresser upstairs

The crib! Mommy and Daddy put it together pretty quickly.

The dresser

Now that we have the baby furniture in the room it is really starting to feel like our little man is arriving in 11 weeks. Up next, need to start decorating the room-- that is where Aunt Katie comes in.

Erin's Bachelorette Party

On Saturday it was the future Mrs. Poliskie's bachelorette party. The festivities were in the city so Jenn and I took the 9:20am train into the city to meet up with the girls for the fun to begin. The kickoff to the party was going to NAS salon in Wrigleyville to get mani and pedi's. I highly recommend this place if anyone is in the city, the staff was amazing and pampered the heck out of us, I was really bummed I couldn't partake in the free sangria!!

Erin and Jenn getting pedi's

After the lovely spa time we walked down the street to Goose Island for some lunch. They had cheese curds!!

Me and Katie

Following lunch we headed back to the Hilton Chicago to get ready and have Erin open presents and play some games before dinner.

Erin and her underwear from the game "Guess who got these for you"

Erin showing off the sweatshirt that Katie and I got her. And yes, she does have clothes on underneath, its just a funny angle.

Kelly (Erin's sister and Maid of Honor) got all of us girls a gift, woohoo to Koozies!

Erin and her champagne!

I had to throw a few slightly inappropriate pictures in! Katie and Erin....

The party: Me, Jenn, Kelly, Marie, Erin and Katie

The party part 2: Me, Jenn, Kelly, Marie, Erin and Kristin

After the games and present fun, we were off to dinner. Kelly surprised everyone by renting a limo to take us to dinner. She is a rockstar MOH!

Kelly and Erin in the limo

Dinner at Carnivale, it was very yummy!

The girls taking shots

After the first bar, we walked a few blocks to the next place. We were debating between going to Benchmark and Fireplace Inn and when we walked past Benchmark there was a HUGE line (probably about a 45 min wait). Turns out Benchmark was digging the pregnant chick so all of us girls got to the front of the line and got right inside. Booyah for pregnancy paying off!!

Because I was sober sally I met up with Louis and James (they were at Jon's bachelor party) to take the last train home so I could try and sleep in my own bed. I am betting that the fun continued for many more hours.

Er- I hope you had a great party and Kel- Rockstar job at planning your sister's party

Wall of Smartness

As some of you may remember in one of my previous posts I complained about my MBA diploma being dinky. We just last week Louis' DePaul MBA diploma arrived and sure enough..it was bigger. GRRRR. Now people are going to think he is smarter than me which is totally NOT the case ;)

Anyways, we finally got around to getting frames for both of them so we wanted to add them to our wall of smartness. Ya know, the place in the house where you display your diplomas so when people come over they can be impressed.

In other words it is the 4 most expensive pieces of paper we own :)

Here is the before shot...even our undergrad diploma's while they are the same size, Louis got the obnoxious frame to make his look bigger!

Here is what it looks like now....as you can tell mine look small and stupid...

We are planning on switching out my IWU frame for a wood one so they completely match but for now this will have to do. Either way my diploma's look like the ugly step sister's to Louis'.

If you ever come over to my house, please lie to me and tell me that mine look the best!

As Seen on TV

One of our biggest challenges in clearing out our guest room to turn it into baby malic's nursery was what the heck are we going to do with all of this stuff we have stored in there. Everyone knows that comforters and bedding are super bulky and difficult to store. I have never ever bought anything that I have seen on TV but I thought that maybe these space bags could solve our problem. We went to BBB and sure enough they had a whole bunch of them. I was super excited to try this out!

Here is our before pile...you can't really tell from this shot but there are 4 comforters, mattress pad, sheets and numerous pillows.

Louis is stuffing the bag with a comforter and sheets

Sucking the air out

Now, I have to say, they definitely did not get super flat and nice like you see on TV or in the picture (it actually only got slightly smaller than the picture above) but we were able to fit all of the bedding I listed above on one shelf in our hall closet which is impressive. I am digging these space saver bags and think it was worth the $14 investment.