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.