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. :)