Some nursery pics...

Again, we aren't done with decorating the nursery yet, we still have Rachel's awesome pics that she did for us to hang up and some shelves and things, so it's not done, but the curtains are up. It's defintely dark enough in there now!! :) The room is angeled so weird, so I couldn't get a good picture of it either, I had to take a bunch of different ones, so you kindof have to use your imagination. The room is small (one main thing we hate about this house, our kitchen and living room are big but the rooms in the back are so small!!), but I guess he doesn't need a big room right now, so it will be perfect. The pics make it look even smaller than it is though!! Oh and we still have a lot of stuff in boxes on the floor that we haven't opened yet and things still sitting on the ground that need to be hung up and put in other rooms, so it's far from done, but this is just to give an idea. :) Oh and the stroller won't be in there also, it looks a bit crowded but is far from done! :)

Little scare but all is ok

yesterday we had a bit of a scare, but everything seems to be ok now. I had more bleeding than was normal (a tiny bit is normal my dr said). I was alittle worried so I called my nurse and she said to put my feet up for awhile and see if it stops, if not, call her back and probably start heading to the ER. So I did just what she said and put my feet up for awhile, all was ok then I got up and did some things around the house and then it was there again, not as much though. So I called her again and said it happened again and she said ok, head over to the ER. So since Mike's beloved truck was gone I had to call him to come home from work (luckily they were finishing up anyways). So he started to head home and I got dressed and then she called me back and said she just talked to the dr and the dr said that as long as I'm not having contractions and it's not a continual bleeding, then I just need to get to bed and not get up for the rest of the evening. I really didn't want to go to the ER, so I felt alittle better, but I felt bad because Mike was already almost home. So I put my feet up and was on the couch for the rest of the night. I felt bad because Mike had to work all day and then come home and cook dinner and clean also. He was very helpful though. My stomach was alittle tighter than normal too but he was still reinacting a bruce lee movie in my stomach, so that made me feel alittle better knowing he was moving around and things. So this morning we got up and ran some errands for Mike to get his rental car and all seems to be ok. I feel ok and no bleeding, but Mike has me on strict guidelines for the day. hehe. So I guess no over doing it for me today, I will probably do some things in the nursery and relax a bit. It drives me crazy to relax all day, I feel so lazy, but I have to do what's best for Dylan. I'm only 31 weeks and 3 days, so it's way too early for anything to be happening. I have my next Dr apt on Monday, so I can discuss things with her in person then and maybe she can check me out. I start going every 2 weeks after that. Wow, I can't believe that time has come. I'm getting pretty nervous about it all, but also so excited for him to be here. We have a lot going on soon too. We have our pediatrican visit this Friday, we are meeting with an in home daycare lady Friday after work (which makes me nervous to even think about putting Dylan with someone I don't know in their house, but that's a whole different blog, we are just meeting with her to see what we feel, if we feel too nervous, then we for sure won't do it. We will be getting references and everything else, believe me!! She charges $320 less than daycare though, so we had to atleast check it out and see what she was like). Anyways, then the 11th, 18th and
23rd we have childbirth classes (mike is really excited about those!hehe). Things are starting to pick up and that means it's getting closer. ugh, makes me so nervous, but so excited. Well, that's an update on us for now. I plan on taking another picture of me on Monday when I'm 32 weeks, I think my tummy is getting a tiny bit bigger so maybe there will be a difference then from the last one. :) Oh and I'm up to 20 lbs. Hip Hop hurray!! and he only weighs like 3 lbs, which means all other 17 are ALL ME!! yeah!! hehe. Ok so I have mixed feelings about the weight gain, I'm glad because that means he's getting nutrients and all of that good stuff, but it's also hard to wrap my brain around it, but his health is most important, so I'm ok. :)

Goodbye old truck

Well, the most unfortunate thing happened yesterday. Mike had his truck stolen from right under his nose pretty much!! He was at work, went to lunch, got back about 2:00 and walked out at 4:45 and it's gone. He said he thought he heard it start up at 3:30 but you just really don't think someone would steal your truck right outside the door in broad day light so he just went about his work. He also had about $8000 worth of tools inside for work. I just can't believe this. He has worked so hard to get that truck, got a big raise and always dreamt of having this truck. It's such a rare truck to find and he got such a great deal on it. He finally gets it then 8 months later, it gets taken from him, just like that. We are pretty sure they will just take it somewhere and strip it of all the luxeries that were on it. There will be nothing left of it more than likely if they even find it at all. So we are down to one car right now until he can get a rental. The insurance company I guess waits 30 days to see if it's recovered then I guess they will maybe cut us a check for the blue book value and we just have to wait and hope it's atleast what we owe on it! If not, then I guess we will be paying on a truck we no longer have. Just sucks that people in this world can be so cruel. Poor Mike is pretty upset over it, but not really angry upset surprisingly enough, just in disbelief and depressed over it. We were both just so disgusted yesterday. We tried to make it to our infant cpr class but we were 30 mins late and she wouldn't let us in, so we went and ate and were both just not in the mood to eat. What a crappy week...

Goodbye old truck

It's a hard life....

It's raining outside today so me and the boys are stuck inside. They love and hate days like this. They have to be inside bored with me, but they get to sleep and be lazy all day long!! They are so spoiled, but we love it. :)

Is it unfortunate or a good thing???

It's natural I guess in life for people to change right? I mean you go through things that change you like maturing, motherhood, fatherhood, your career, having money, going to war, where you live etc. I'm sure there are 100 other things that can change a person. I notice a lot when I talk to people I haven't talked to in awhile how they have changed or people I do talk to how they go through things that change them, etc. I always wonder how much I have changed and if I have changed for the better? I guess I would say (if I were to speak on my behalf, hehe) that I have changed for the better in some ways and for the worse in others. I have changed for the better in the fact that I have matured a lot and don't like to party or drink as much anymore (well of course not for the last 8 months, but before that), I am more responsible, I have different goals and I want such great things for Mike and I. I have probably changed for the worse in that I am more of an anxious person now. I worry about so many little things that I NEVER used to worry about. I let people who are judgemental get to me. I let the fact that they are insecure about themselves, so they feel the need to always judge others, effect me, when they should be the last people I am trying to impress. I worry about my health a little less than I used to, but I still let it bother me that if something happend to one person, it's bound to happen to me. I remember being young and not worrying about stupid things like this. I guess that's all in how people change and grow up. It's hard to grow up and start having responsibilities. Can't we all just stay young and live off of our parents forever?? hehe. (not that my parents ever let me live off of them, I remember having to work at dairy queen and couldn't even drive there yet, hehe, good times!! and I'm sure now that I'm having a kid, I wouldn't agree to that when he gets older). But I guess my whole thought is more about people who change not from just maturing, but from other things I guess, things that happen in their life. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I guess it depends on how they change ugh? I mean people can change for the better from being a mother or a father and spend all of their time with their child rather than drinking or at a bar or with friends. But then people can change for the worse by letting other people around them influence them into becoming someone else or letting the fact that they make a lot of money now affect who they are deep down as a person. I don't know, I guess it just all depends on the situation and the person to debate if it's a good or a bad thing. Some changes are good and some are bad. I guess it's unfortunate when you lose a friend because they change though becuase they have their own crowd and you both are in different places in your lives. I guess it does happen, but it's just unfortunate when it does. Friends you can trust are hard to come by. But, I guess through this crazy life, you figure out who your real friends are that can remain your friend regardless of how their lives change. Sorry for the random thought of the day, you can thank my roller coaster hormones. :)

The life of a pregnant woman...

Well, it's a Saturday night and I'm watching one of the dumbest girly movies I have ever seen, so bad that I don't even say the name of it on here. It's one of those movies in blockbuster that have ONE copy and that's it. hehe. Mike is out with a friend tonight, I just dropped them off at the bar, what a good wife I am. :) I went and had lunch with a friend today and then Mike and I headed to the horse race track for dollar days!! It's such a fun time. $1 beers, live music and live racing. The thing that was crazy was that since I couldn't partake in the ice cold $1 beers, I asked for a water. The water was $4!!! What?? really?? So I can get drunk for cheaper than I can being the designated driver, nice. So I threw a fit and said nevermind, I'll stay thirsty. haha. Like it was the girls fault for charging too much for water. Never get in the way of a pregnant lady and her water!! hehe. So we brought $40 and it actually lasted us almost the whole day of racing. There were only 2 races left by the time we left. There are some really really interesting people at the race track. Mike was getting hit on by 2 girls that had about 4 teeth total, you can do the math. They kept telling him how pretty his eyes were and things. I was like wow babe i'm so jealous!! haha. Anyways, we had a great time, but it was hot and I didn't get to sit down for the 4 hours we were there. Then we all went and ate and the boys wanted to go have some fun and play pool, so I dropped them off and now I have to go back out at 2am to pick them up! It's fine though, then I can make sure they make it home safely. :) Ok, back to my fabulous movie, I might be missing something important....

Stay away sickness!!!

So the last few days I have started feeling my throat getting really sore and sneezing a bit more. The last time I was sick was absolutely horrible! Poor Mike because I was sooo miserable and cried and cried about how bad I felt. I can't really take anything right now so it was horrible. So I'm trying to drink lots of OJ and water and stop this before it starts. I do not want to get sick again!!

So Kramer broke his tail again. What?? yeah my little baby Kramer is so special to me but how in the heck does a dog break their tail? And this is like the 4th time this has happened! I remember the first time he broke it, he just kept trying to lick his butt and kept crying, I had no idea what was wrong with him. So my redneck husband said, it seems like he has worms! So he said that when Jake had worms (his old dog that died a few years back) he gave him some dip and it made him poop out all of the worms and totally got rid of them (I guess instead of actually having to pay money for them to give him pills or something, haha). So Mike proceeds to give Kramer some of my dad's dip. I'm like, my poor dog but if this works, then I'm fine with it. So we give Kramer some dip and you can just tell he's looking at me like "what in the heck are you giving me mom?" Well nothing happens for the first hour, then it hits us, he doesn't have worms, he broke his tail some how!!! So now my little baby has a broken tail AND he has to poop his brains out because Mike gave him dip!! I felt so bad for him, sure cleaned out his system though. haha. Are we sure we deserve to be parents? So if our kid gets an infection, we can just give him dip to make him poop it out right? JUST KIDDING!! So anyways, kramer has another broken tail and he's uncomfortable when he sleeps and stuff. It seems like it's getting alittle better, but he still can't wag it. That's my dog!!!

Umm not much new with the pregnancy. I would take a pic for my 30 1/2 week picture but i swear my stomach hasn't gotten any bigger. I just hope I'm eating enough and gaining enough weight, I don't feel big at all!! 1 1/2 more weeks and I"ll be 8 months and I totally don't feel like it. I just want to make sure he's healthy. He sure is kicking like he's healthy though. I think his head is sitting on my bladder or something because I have been getting up to use the restroom about 5 times a night!!! I mean why sleep in my bed these days, I may as well just make a pallet on the bathroom floor, or just wear one of his diapers!! hehe.

Well, it's another pretty morning so I'm going walking and then off to start trying to decorate some more in the nursery. :)

Beatufiul day

Man, it has been so pretty this week! I got up and walked the dogs individually this morning. I would walk them all together but the last time I did that was so much drama!! They were crossing over each other and tripping me and it was a mess. I really wish someone was video camera'ing (is that a word?) me and could replay it for me, I bet it was hysterical for anyone that was watching. So today I just took one by one. I'm sure they also like to get some individual attention with us. There were some guys working on some electric pole at the end of our street, I bet they were like "how many dang dogs does she have??" hehe.

Anyways, it felt really good to get out and walk and stuff when it's so nice out. Makes me start thinking of all of the good things I have going on in my life and what I have to be thankful for. Yeah I am jobless right now but we are ok and I have this time to relax and get ready for the baby and do things around the house that I never had time to do. So I am very thankful. I have my health and that is the most important thing to me. yeah I could be sad that we aren't rolling in money or something or that we live here and not in Austin where we want to, but who cares, we are healthy and we have a great life and have so much that we should be thankful for. We forget that sometimes and stress and worry about such materialistic things when being alive is the most important gift. WOW, hormones and emotions are in full force today ugh? haha! Why can't I always be this enlightening?

So yesterday I finally got to go through everything we received from the shower. It was fun, but I had to figure out where to put everything. I'm sure I will move things around after he's born and realize what is not where it probably should be to make it easy on me. Going through everything also made it all seem so real to me too!! I just started thinking, wow, we only have like 10 weeks left, that's it! I'm starting to get alittle panicky about the labor part of it, I'm just ready to get that over with. I can see me being one of those people that says YOU DID THIS TO ME!!! hehe. Poor Mike. :)

Well, I'm off to do my daily stay at home wifely duties!!

What a week...

Man, I feel like I have been going and going and going since Tuesday! I headed to Austin on Wed morning. I was SO excited to go that I could not sleep past 5am on wed morning. I got up and started trying on clothes for the shower, packing and everything else I could think of. I got MIke out the door then I was able to pack up and leave myself. Wed. I had lunch with my mom at her work, I was SO happy to see her. We ate and chatted for a bit, then I went to see my sister at her work. It was so good to see everyone. We talked for alittle bit in her office and then I headed out to go back to the house for a nap. I still hadn't slept and was so tired! So then wed, I just hung out with my parents and watched some tv. Thursday I went and ran a bunch of errands for my sister just to help out since I was there and off, then I went and saw more friends and family that I hadn't seen in awhile. I always feel so good when I go back to Austin, it's like all of the stress just goes away and I feel at home. We can't wait to move back, it just doesn't feel like home here. Then thurs night it was my mom's birthday so we all headed to downtown for a really nice dinner and alittle live music at Belmont. The food and atmosphere was awesome! A bit pricey and a long wait for food, but might be worth it for how good it was and the great patio! (thanks again dad for buying!!) I was DD of course while everyone had their wine and stuff, I sipped on my fabulous water and enjoyed the music. I'm fine with not drinking right now though, I have passed the point where I am craving to drink. The first 3 or 4 months were tough just because I enjoy having a beer on the patio or a glass of wine at night, etc. But now, i'm totally used to it and it doesn't bother me anymore.

So then Friday it was still raining so hard! Poor Mike had to drive in that day, luckily he got off alittle early. Anyways, Friday morning my mom, sister and I all went to Lifetime and had a great workout!! I worked out for over an hour and it felt great. I didn't overdue it of course, but it was just so nice to have all the weights and cardio options. So then we went to lunch with dad and hung out for a bit. I also got to pick up my nephew from daycare so we could hang out for a bit. We went and bought him a toy and just played. He is just so adorable and so much fun to be around!! I can't wait for Dylan to get old enough to play with him. Friday night Mike finally got there! I was SO excited to see him, we hate spending nights away from each other, even though we know it's good for us, we still hate it! He was a bit grumpy when he got there because he was so worn out from studying, driving in traffic and rain and just having a hard week. So I had a cold beer waiting for him when he got there and some pizza, he was happy soon after that. :) So we all just hung out and went to bed fairly early since we had a big day ahead of us on Sat.

So then Saturday we woke up, I played with my nephew for a bit while my sister got ready and then it was time for me to get ready for my shower. I was pretty excited about the shower but also just nervous because we had a few more people cancel before it and I was just wondering if anyone would even show up! It ended up being a good turnout. There were about 18 of us. I will post the pics when I get some from everyone. There were about 5 or so people that I didn't know, it was so nice of them to come and not even have met me before. We played this game where you had the name of a famous celebrity mom on your back and you had to ask questions from everyone (where they could only answer yes or no) until you could figure out what the name was. So in the first few mins I figured out I was a bad actress, a singer, I was pretty young, and I had 2 boys. I COULD NOT think of who it was!! Finally someone helped me out a bit. I said "do I have blonde hair" and she said "yes, when you have hair!" That totally gave it away, I knew I was Britney Spears right after that. What a great game though, it was so such a good time hearing everyone asking questions. My sister April had Wilma Flinstone and she could not for the life of her guess it! Finally about 5 mins before the shower was over, everyone just started throwing out hints. You don't wear shoes, you have a white dress and a white necklace, etc. She finally got it. It was pretty funny. We played a lot of fun games, had great food and great company. It was a perfect shower. I am so appreciative for everyone coming and for everything that everyone did to make it happen. I am very lucky to have such great family to put it together. I got a ton of great things too, we had to stuff 2 cars full on the way home and it's all in his nursery right now. I can't wait to start going through everything and putting it in it's place. I feel so much better about him coming now, I felt like I was so unprepared before!! I still have a lot of stuff that we need to go buy but it's not that much so we did great!! Thanks everyone who contributed! Later that night I went to my friend Kari's house. There were quite a few people there. We watched the UFC fight and just hung out. It was a great time hanging out with everyone. Everyone drank and had a great time, I as usual, sipped on my water and watched everyone drink. hehe. Luckily Mike had a DD home though since it was so far away. We ended up staying until about 1:00am though. I was proud of myself for lasting that long. I started telling Mike at midnight that we needed to start wrapping it up. I was so worn out and my back was killing me. He kept stalling because he was having fun. I felt bad for making him leave too, but I was just so tired! So finally about 1, I finally lost my patience and said Mike, LET'S GO! hehe. He was like ok ok. So we left and drove home and fell right asleep. What a long but fun day.

We got home to our doggies. We took Kramer with me but left Gunner and Sam here. We have never done that before and felt so bad about it all weekend. We had a friend come and feed them and check on them. We knew they would live and be ok, but they are just so spoiled, we felt so bad for leaving them, but it was just so much less stressful without them. We wont' do that very often, but we know they will be ok if we ever HAVE to do it again. We took them running and just spoiled them the rest of the night. It was nice to be home and relax, nowhere to be, nothing to do, just chill. We are going back again in May to watch my nephew for a weekend, the drive was kinda hard just because I had to drive and stop to pee and the traffic just stressed me out, but next time Mike will be driving!!.It took forever to get home. Luckily next time, we will be riding together and I can just sit back and relax instead of stress over traffic.

Overrall, what a great week and weekend!! I had such a blast with everyone!!! Again, I will post pics once I get some from people.

Note to other people:

Ok just a small note to other people now: Please don't tell me horror stories of your friends pregnancies or what happend to them after their pregnancies (atleast not until after I have this baby). The other day I was in hallmark getting something and the girl at the counter proceeded to ask me how far along I was etc, which is fine of course. Then she said "my sister was in labor for 72 hours it was horrible for her." I was like wow that's great, that doesn't make me nervous at all!! THEN, I was getting a pedicure today, usually the girls don't speak much english so they just do my toes and be done with it. The girl today was Ms. Chatty Kathy!! She spoke really good english and alittle chinese. She wanted to know everything there was to know about me. How long I have been married, am I getting an epdidural, am I having a C section, etc etc, etc, etc!! Then she said "my friend had really bad post partum depression, she went psycho if she didn't take her meds. OH and the other day I was watching Oprah and she had this woman on who killed her 2 babies from ppd. One of them she put in the freezer because it wouldn't stop crying and the other she through across the room." I'm thinking REALLY?? Do you really have to be telling me this right now?? not like I think I will do anything like that but geez, I mean tell me some good stories here people!! Make it where I actually don't have a panic attack going into labor thinking about all of these horrible stories!!! I just told her, um I think that woman had a million other issues going on before having a baby!! But i'm thinking inside, holy cow, ppd causes women to do that?? They should automatically put people on drugs if that's the case!! man.

29 weeks and 3 days

Here is a new pic from today. Don't ask my why I always feel the need to put my arm up on my back, I guess because I think it makes my arms look skinnier! Hey, I need help however I can get it these days. :) I don't think my stomach has grown that much I would say in the last like month!! When I went in last week though, she said i was growing on track, but I guess I just don't see it!! I have started making apts with pediatrician's. Our first apt is May 1st. I have to ask them a bunch of questions, good times. :)

Note to self.....

Note to self: When you are a bit of a hypochondriac, don't watch any shows on women dying after having their baby!!!!

So, I was doing some weights yesterday in my living room and started watching Oprah. I don't watch tv really ever during the day unless it's something good or just for background noise. The show was about dad's who have raised their children all alone for one reason or another. So they come to this one guy who was fairly young and he was showing pics of him and his wife and her all pregnant and happy pointing at her belly, then he showed a pic of his wife having a c section (no graphic pics just her head and the baby when she came out) and then he said this is the only picture I have of them 2 together. I SHOULD have known right there that I needed to turn it off!! Well, I didn't, (dumb!). Apparently the woman had a C section and then a few hours later the dr came in the room and said "let's go see your baby" so she got up and said she feels light headed then DIED from a blood clot. REALLY?? So, me being the panicky person I am thinking everything that happens to everyone else WILL FOR SURE happen to me, I am like great, now I'm going to die from a blood clot from having a baby, great, lovely, nice knowing everyone!!! I emailed Mike and asked him how I can prevent blood clots. He immediately said oh gosh, what did you watch now? haha. I told him and he said TURN THAT CRAP OFF! I'm like I know I know, I shouldn't have watched it knowing how I am, but I did and the damage is done. He made me feel alittle better and said it's usually when people aren't active or are on bedrest or something and that I was pretty active so I will be fine. Who knows if he's telling me the truth or just trying to make me feel better, but it didn't really work. Now I'm more scared than EVER to have a baby. ugh. maybe they can just give me something to knock me out completely during labor! Is that possible? I'm sure i will be so annoying they will want to anyways. So, from now on any shows about having babies I'm banned from. Probably a good thing. :)

Another week down!!

Here are just a few pics of the nursery as of now. Mike finished the painting on Sunday!! yeah!!

There are a few tiny tiny spots he wants to touch up on the blue, but you can't see them, he's just a perfectionist when he does things. I'm SO not, so I'm glad he is. hehe. I will post a picture but it's hard to get a good idea because I can't take a good picture of the whole room, I have to take seperate pics. Again, it's not finished at all, we are just now about to start really decorating, the only thing that is done is the painting. We might even be moving furniture around and stuff, so the fun has just begun! hehe. And we aren't sure we are keeping his name the way it is, we might put it on another wall, since my friend Erica says this wall is too big for them but I don't know what kindof house she has, but all of our walls are the same size!! hehe. No, I get what she means I think, we will be putting shelves, curtains, pics, etc all over the wall, it won't just be the letters, so again, it's hard to get a good idea of what it's going to look like. :)

It's Monday, I'm now 29 weeks and 1 day. yeah!! Feeling great except my back. I get a lot of tension knots in my back and the past few days I have had one big one on the left side of my back. I don't know if it's from sleeping on the couch while Mike was gone Friday or scrubbing the kitchen floors on Friday. I have had to take tylenol and a lot of baths the past few days, but it feels alittle better today luckily. Mike was gone Friday night to go turkey hunting, he didn't catch anything though. I guess that gilly suit he made scared the Turkey's off! :) So I just watched Friday night lights, which my parents got my hooked on, and read some of my dad's scary book, Dark Water Murders. Man, what a great book so far (it has taken me SOO long to read his books, i'm horrible about it, but I'm getting there). This book really is scary though!! Anyways, I barely slept on Friday night between the dogs playing since they weren't in their normal beds, my back hurting and just not being able to sleep very well by myself. So Saturday I woke up, worked out, cleaned the house and then took a nap!! Mike didn't get home until about 6:00. We just ordered pizza and watched a movie, then went to bed early. Easter Sunday we woke up, made some pancakes and then Mike finally finished painting the nursery!! Then we took the dogs running and I made a nice Easter dinner. :) Kindof a boring weekend I see now that I"m typing it out. Keeping this blog makes me realize that I'm freaking boring these days! hehe. I have nothing exciting to write about. I guess without a job or a social life, there's not much to it ugh? hehe. Sorry! If you can stay awake through the next few weeks, I'm sure things will start to pick up since I only have about 11 weeks left!! :)

So, my shower is this weekend. I'm SO excited. I leave on Wed morning to head to Austin. I have so many people to see in such a short amount of time, I'm thinking I can get everyone in though. I'm just excited to be in Austin for 5 days or whatever, I haven't been home since Christmas I think!! That's a long time for us. We just haven't wanted to spend the money on gas and then the money I would spend while I'm there. We are excited to go visit though and for the shower.

My baby is taking my brain cells...

Ok, I hear about pregnancy brain but just thought it was a myth or something. I swear lately I feel like the biggest blonde (no offense to blondes, I mean I was one for a long time (and brunette and black and brown, hehe). I mean I am so forgetful lately and have to ask Mike the dumbest questions. About a month ago we went and watched my friend run her first half marathon and I completely forgot where I parked downtown. We walked around downtown Fort Worth for about 30 mins trying to find my car. I'm also so dang clumsy. I mean yesterday I was walking into the restroom and completely just ran right into the wall in the doorway. I mean it was like the wall just jumped out infront of me, like the doorway to the restoom moved over about 2 inches!! I walked right into it and was like "ouch, what the heck just happend?" I hear pregnant women are clumsy but geez.

Up in smoke...

Man, yesterday a city close to Dallas (Sunset and Montague) went up in flames. The wind was so strong yesterday and the grass was so dry, something sparked it and they said almost the whole city had to leave their homes because of the fires and smoke. 3 people died from the flames and some animals too :(. But, I figured this was far enough away that we wouldn't be affected, but before I knew it, I looked outside and the whole sky was filled with smoke. I could just smell the burning smell. I didn't think it was bothering me and didn't really at first but later that night I was watching tv and I started to lose my peripheral vision and started seeing lights and stuff out of my right eye (I have had this happen before a migraine awhile back, had an MRI and they said it was just signs of a bad migraine coming on). I had to close my eyes and it scared me at first, but then I remember back when it happend about 3 years ago. So I took some tylenol and went and layed down. Mike was all worried about me, he was so sweet. He kept checking on me. After about an hour, I got up and I was fine but my eyes were burning so bad and the migraine came on alittle bit. I guess it didn't help that we had our windows open! hehe. Then I saw on the news how bad it was everywhere and that they were advising people to stay inside and stuff until the air clears. I think they got most of the flames out, but I think they said there is still one burning, but the air is fine today. I'm glad!! that was scary for a minute.

Test results are in...

I called my dr today to find out my glucose test results (that checks my thyroid and also for gestational diabetes) because i'm the most impatient person I know and was eager to find out! She said everything was fine, thyroid was fine, iron levels were fine and no diabetes. :) I didn't think I would have it, but you never know!! So that's good news. Now I can keep eating all the sugar I want! hehe, jk. I'm so glad because candy is the only thing I crave these days with the pregnancy. I NEVER really ate candy like starbursts, gummy worms, etc, before but ever since I got pregnant, I definitely have to have alittle something every day (thanks mom for candy for Easter, the jelly beans have filled my cravings each day). Anyways, just sharing the good news.

Oh and I got an outfit for my shower. I went into this store up north in Dallas. I walked in and he said that there are pretty much 3 stores in one, pea in a pod, mimi maternity and motherhood maternity. He said pea in the pod, which was upfront, is alittle more high end, mimi maternity is alittle high end also and motherhood is your typical kohls and old navy prices. KNOWING I would not in a million years buy anything at the first two, I thought I would take a look around. I found 2 shirts I liked, both $80 each and get this, THEY WERE ON THE 50% OFF RACK!!!!!! I'm not even talking like cute going out shirts, I'm talking like casual t-shirts you wear around the house or something! I think I just about had the baby right then because I couldn't believe it. hehe. I'm sure they saw my face, I was like WHAT? are you kidding me? so i quickly put them back and made my way to my area of the store where I could actually afford something. Mike would make me where those shirts every day and sleep in them if I paid $80 for them!! So, I tried on some dresses and other stuff, It was between 2 shirts. I had to make Mike come from work and help me choose. hehe. So I feel much better that I have something to wear now. This is how exciting my blog has gotten, I talk about my shopping experiences. Sorry for anyone who is officially bored!!

Almost Friday, yeah!!

This is Mike in his wonderful gilly suit thing he made. Kinda scary ugh? He used his marine stuff.

Not that Friday's mean much to me these days, but I do still look forward to the weekend, that means another week down!! :) I'm also excited about spending some time in Austin next week, so that will be fun. Mike is going Turkey hunting tomorrow night with a friend. I don't really like hunting, me being the animal freak I am, but Turkey's don't make me too upset and they are so good! hehe. He still has to pick up his deer head this weekend too that he shot when he went hunting with his dad. He tries to explain the benefits of deer hunting to me everytime we bring it up, but I don't think I will ever agree with it really. Bambi didn't do anything to you I tell him! hehe. Plus we have the argument every other day about where this dang deer head is going to go. He keeps saying in our guest room, I'm like yeah our guests would LOVE to wake up to a deer staring at them with those eyes saying "help me"!! He says he gets to do whatever he wants to the garage, so I said put the deer in the garage, it will look SOO nice in there! :) So we are still debating that. Plus with me being so dang emotional these days, I would probably cry everytime I saw it if it was in the guest room.

I have to go and find an outfit for my shower next weekend. I went and tried on a few things yesterday and I was not liking it. I feel like I should just wear a moo moo and be done with it! I'm headed up north to Dallas to this other maternity shop by my old job and see if they have anything, then swing over and have lunch with my hubby. I just hope I find something!! I finally almost finished my hostess gifts yesterday. I spent about 2 hours in the mall. I didn't want to just get something they won't use, so I really have tried to put a lot of thought into it, it's hard though!! I'm done with 3 of the 4 though, so that's good.

Well, I'm off to do some walking before I head up North.

Grandparents are the best...

Yesterday we got 2 wonderful surprises from our parents. Mike's mom sent Dylan the CUTEST floppy bunny for Easter along with a nice card. It was so sweet. My mom also sent us a 3 layered Easter box set with lots of goodies inside and a cute cute little bunny in the bottom one for Dylan! Mike and I are so lucky to have such wonderful families that think of us and Dylan on Easter. :) He is going to be so lucky when he gets here to have such wonderful grandparents. Thank you guys so much!!

My son the Karate Kid

Wow, I heard that his kicking will get more intense but it's like he's got a karate tournament going on in there! Last night I was laying in bed and I could just feel his foot sticking out, it wasn't just kicking, he was pushing it out. I called Mike in and so he put his hand there and he was like WOAH!!!! I mean you could feel his foot poking out, so crazy! I feel like I'm in an alien 4 movie and the thing is about to explode out of my stomach!! hehe. Then this morning he was kicking again like crazy, I took a video of it but I had to do it sideways thinking I would be able to flip it once it was on the computer, but I can't figure it out. :) So I posted the video and if you look on the right side of my stomach you can see it push out, it's cool, but kinda hard to see because it's sideways, sorry.

Feeling good today. It is so pretty outside, I feel like I HAVE to get out and do something today! Yesterday was so pretty too except I was so tired because Mike kept me up with his snoring all night. I had dinner with a friend from Publicis last night and we had a great time, we should do it again soon Delana!! Mike had a test today so he studied late last night. I haven't heard back from my dr yet about my glucose test, but if I haven't heard anything by tomorrow I'm going to call them and see if they have my results, since they don't call if I passed. I watched a baby story again this morning, it made me start feeling anxious about the delivery. I just hope it all goes ok. I shouldn't be worrying about that now though I guess, I have less than 3 months to go, but that's still a ways away, I will have plenty of time to worry about that when it gets closer. Well, I'm going to get out and run some errands on this beautiful day!! :)

Some pics

I just wanted to post some pics that we took from the weekend. We took a few of Mike opening his gifts and then one from the nursery. Please remember this wall is NOT finished. This is just what we have done so far. We are going to put up pics and shelves and things too, so it looks alittle plain for now. Also, Mike doesn't know if he likes the letters spaced out the way they are, so that might be changing too. I like it but he's not so sure. So enjoy! Oh and the last one is me at 28 weeks, not much of a difference. :)

5am, really??

So it is 5am and I'm up and wide awake!! I went to bed about 11:30 but for some reason woke up about 4:45 and could not go back to sleep, so now I'm up and watching saved by the bell. :) My back was killing me and just couldn't sleep anymore. I started feeling alittle bad last night, I think I just did way too much yesterday. After all the yard work on Sat and then yesterday I walked alot, did weights and then cooked a big dinner, went to the store, etc, etc...I was worn out and my stomach was hurting a bit. Mike was nice enough to take over dinner and do dishes and stuff for me. I just had to lay down and not be on my feet anymore. I feel better this morning though, guess I just over did it yesterday. I'll take it easy today.

Well, we didn't end up finishing the nursery. Mike had a lot to do this weekend, mowing 2 lawns, painting, studying, and actually getting to relax on his days off, I felt bad saying you HAVE to finish this now!! . The days went so fast. He finished another wall of the detailed painting but we have one more to do, I just told him to finish next weekend. I guess we do have like 13 more weeks to go (hopefully.) I did get his name on the wall though and got the crib back in place. I think I'm going to wait to post pics until it's done though because it looks great but alittle boring right now without shelves or anything else on the wall. I would say the nursery will be ready in a few weeks, so that's exciting.

I have my glucose test this morning at 10. She told me that I didn't have to fast for it but I figured I would just to make sure I didn't fail. I DO NOT want to take the 3 hour test if I fail this one! But, when I got up at 5, I was STARVING! I looked on my baby website at a few other comments from other moms and some said they fasted and some didn't, some were told not to while others were told to fast, so it was a bit confusing. I just trusted my dr and didn't. I figured it was still 3 1/2 hours away, one piece of toast can't hurt that bad. I hope it doesn't mess with the test! We will see by the end of this week I guess. Everything else is good. I'm officially 7 months yesterday, so that's exciting. I don't think my belly has changed much though so I'm not going to take any pics this week, maybe next week will be alittle different.

Ok, I get it..

So usually during the spring/summer we have some people come mow or lawn. We started doing this because I decided to help Mike out one weekend and mow the back lawn but failed to see the huge metal rod stuck in the ground. :) I ran over it with the mower and split the blades completely in half, it sounded like someone was doing a drive by at our house, I think I even dropped to the ground to miss the bullet. hehe. So I broke the mower and we couldn't afford a new one, so we had these people that do them pretty cheap do it for us and then we realized how nice it was not having to do it and they did it for so cheap! So we have had them do it the last 2 years (and yes, we know that after 2 years of paying them, we could have saved for 4 mowers)Well, now that I am unemployed, we figured we shouldn't be paying someone to do it when we can do it ourselves (we would just use the mower he uses to do his friends house). So today he went and did her lawn and then came home to do ours. Oh goodness, it took us 4 hours for him to mow and edge then to sweep, etc, when it normally takes the other people we have do it like 15 mins. 4 hours later, Mike and I were like ok, we totally get why we pay them to do it. :) Oh and another thing that was pretty funny is that the bushes Mike has been having to clip the last few days so he can spy on the dogs next door, I had to cut all of those up today too and fit them all into trash bags. I filled 2 bags with those things. I was so worn out afterwards. I'm like ok, let's figure out something else for us to act like we are doing to check on the dogs! hehe. It did feel good to be all productive and domesticated though but I don't think my back agrees. :)

AAAA the weekend....

Well it's Saturday morning. Mike had a great birthday, some how he got a 2 day birthday though, I'm going to have to remember that for mine!! Thursday night he got to open his gifts. I got him an air soft gun, man those things aren't so soft, a new Tech hat, a few little Tech onesies for Dylan to wear for the games, and a chevelle part he's been wanting. He was very excited. I also made my first cupcakes. They came out SO yummy. Ok so maybe they looked like my nephew or neice did them, actually they would probably do it better, I'm not claiming to be Betty Crocker, but they are delicious!! Mike had school the next morning and a quiz so I just made him a great dinner and we talked and he opened gifts. Then Friday morning we woke up and worked out then we headed to his favorite place for lunch, Freebirds. He's been eating really healthy lately and working out, trying to lose weight (which he really has) so he doesn't get his freebirds very often anymore. So he was really excited. So then we had to go to school for an advising apt so he can get cleared for his next classes he's taking. We walked in with a plan and had it all figured out until the advisor dropped a few bombs on us. Now, Mike is going to have to drive all the way to school on his lunch break for a class, then all the way back twice a week! It's just for the summer though so that's good, but his fall classes have bad hours too. It's getting really hard for him to keep working full time and go to school. We are trying the best we can to keep his boss happy but keep him going, but it's getting harder each semester. So then after that we went to Dave and Busters to play some games, that was fun. Then we went and saw the new Fast and Furious. WOW, great movie!!! It was awesome. We own all of them (except the stupid Tokyo one)and this one was probably the best. Mike got to have some beers while we watched and we just had a grand ol time. Then after that we went to his favorite restaurant Bone Daddy's. He loves the food there (the girls walking around in tiny outfits have NOTHING to do with it, hehe). They also have car parts hanging down as lights and stuff and the huge beers, so he likes this place. I'll tell ya too, half of those girls should not be wearing those outfits. Yikes!! So anyways, after that we went home and played with his air soft gun. We made a target out of paper and saw who could get the best shots, it was fun, except for Mike shooting me with one of them in the butt and the dogs too!! poor things. Should we be having a kid? haha. They sting a tiny bit but they aren't too bad, still though! Now ever time I bend over to pick something up I'm scared I'm going to get shot in the butt! hehe.

So here we are with Saturday. Mike is over mowing Heather's lawn (the woman that was married to his friend that passed away). Then he's going to finish the painting!! yeah!!

I have been checking on the dogs next door for the last 2 days and nothing has changed. They are still just sitting out there bored and lonely. I start crying so hard everytime, I just don't think this is something I can let go. I keep asking MIke if he will go talk to the dad but he doesn't feel it's our place and thinks he will get upset. That is odd that I'm the one that wants to start a confrontation and Mike doesn't! hehe. I mean I don't want to start a fight with them, but this is just bothering me too bad to let go. I am going to have to go talk to them. I was going to give them that respect to talk to them before I called someone, but I just dont know. I'm at a loss here. I know that something has to happen soon because I just can't stop thinking about them. So if anything happens to Mike and I in the next few days, check the neighbors house!! hehe.

Thursday....

So it's Thursday, man the weeks just fly by when you don't have a job!! :) Today is Mike's birthday, I woke him up to a nice breakfast and some coffee ( I hate making coffee and usually don't do it). We aren't really celebrating until tomorrow though because he has homework tonight and a quiz tomorrow morning, plus he took off tomorrow. So I'm just going to cook him a good dinner and then we will have more festivities tomorrow. I tried to get one of his good friends to come in and party with him tomorrow night but that didn't work out.

So I'm really torn right now because we have these neighbors that have 4 dogs!! 4!! and we thought we had a lot!! Well, we just found out that they have them tied up all day and all night long with chains to their dog houses in their backyard!! Now if any of you know me, I'm a huge dog/animal lover and do not agree with any kind of animal abuse, mistreating, etc. I am not cool with it at all and will take action! hehe. Anyways, they are really nice neighbors, the dad is alittle scary (hehe), but they are nice and their kids are really nice too. I see the kids walk the dogs like once a week MAYBE, but I always assumed maybe the dogs slept in the garage at night or they got to come in because we don't hear them that often. Mike was clipping our bushes out back a few days ago and saw them tied up to their doghouses. They were like that again yesterday. I knew they were tied up a few months ago, but thought maybe it was just for the day or something. I just started crying, yes maybe hormones came into play, but I was so upset about this. I don't want to turn them in because that will just create bad blood between us and I don't want that, but I also just feel so bad for these dogs. I thought about going over and asking them why they have to be tied up all day, they have a new fence! but I am scared to, hehe. So I don't know what to do. I asked MIke and he just said "whatever you want to do." wow thanks hubby for that great advice, I know EXACTLY what I'm going to do now!! :) So I'm stumped, I might just wait until I see them outside and go talk to them, maybe since I'm pregnant they won't get too mad at me. I'll just show some belly skin and hold my belly and so they feel alittle more sensitive to me. hehe. So we will see what happens. I mean why have dogs in the first place ya know? I know that everyone doesn't spoil our dogs like we do, but atleast let them off the leash to play together or something!!! I just don't get it.

Anyways, feeling good today, I was alittle emotional last night. We were outback and Mike was clipping more bushes and they said it was supposed to rain last night and I just started crying thinking about the dogs out there. Mike was like ok, you need to get out of the house. hehe. So he took me to sonic to get a drink, that helped. :) I love him so much, he has such a random thought process though. Last night I was laying in bed watching a few shows and he was out in the living room. I walked in and he has this military net thing spread ALL the way across the living room. this thing was HUGE. I was like what in the heck are you doing?? He said I'm making a gilly suit. umm ok, because I know what that is. So he worked on this for 2 hours, he some how attached the netting to his military cami's that he used to wear in the marines. So a gilly suit I guess is one of those suits that people that hunt wear so you are REALLY camoflauged and the deer or whatever can't see you. You blend in totally with the bushes and stuff. So he randomly made one of these last night??? he hunts like once a year if that!! I love how his mind works though, I swear that guy can fix or make anything!! I remember one year he made a kilt to wear to the yearly Irish Festival we go to here. It was the funniest thing. It ended up being a mini skirt on him which was amusing in itself, but it actually came out kinda cute. He also made me a bikini when he was in Cuba for that year. He had requests from other guys to make them one for their girlfriends too. He underestimated the top A LOT, but hey it was pretty darn cute!! :) He is a regular handyman. He has fixed EVERYTHING that has broken around our house, that's why I keep him around. :) Just kiddin, i love him so much.....Happy Birthday baby....

27 weeks and counting...

Here is a pic of me at 27 weeks. This was last weekend, so I'm about 27 1/2 weeks now. :) 3 more months to go!! Things are going good with it. My shower is coming up and I'm so excited about it. I'm sure only like 10 people will show up but oh well, I'm not too worried. Me and those 10 people are going to partay!

I feel good this week. My back is starting to hurt alittle worse these days at the end of the day and when I first wake up in the morning. But other than that, I feel great and have had a pretty easy pregnancy (knock on wood). I have been watching "A baby story" every morning. Some episodes are great and the woman has an easy labor like my friend Kari and some times it's like 36 hours of just waiting and in pain and her head starts spinning like she's possessed. But you want to know the difference in each of those?? EPIDURAL BABY..haha. I guess I don't understand why some women don't want it? Is there something I don't know about the effects of it? I mean the idea of my legs being numb scares me a bit, what if they stay that way forever??

but I am willing to suck those worries up and get the dang shot! :) I am not even trying to be a hero in labor, just keep me comfortable and as pain free as possible and I'll be happy. I look at pics now on my baby website and it shows what the baby looks like each week. Well, this week the baby looks already pretty big and it also shows the area it's coming through, um, not so big, like it doesn't even look like his leg will fit through! hehe. I mean I know thousands of women have babies everyday and mine will be fine too, but wow, that's a small place for such a big thing to come from! and he's only 2 lbs right now!! Anyways, I'm trying not to worry about the labor part until I have to, so for now, things are great.

This month is exciting, we have my shower in a few weeks and then we have our Infanct CPR class at the end of this month. So things are starting to pick up. I also have my mom's birthday the same week as my shower!! I'm just so excited that I will actually be in Austin and get to celebrate something with the fam. I miss Austin so much. I miss the people, our families, the trees, the hills, even the homeless people! We don't have that around here. One day, we will be back.....

Furniture

Becky, here are a few pics of the furniture in the nursery. We have everything in the center of the room because we are still painting and it has been covered up for the last few weeks so it needs to be dusted off, but here is an idea for you to see the color of it. :) Let me know if you need anything else.