So I had my 28 week apt on Thursday. Yes 28 weeks! Can't believe it I never thought I would get here. Especially in the early/sick weeks I dreamt about feeling good and being in my 3rd Trimester. Yay!
Not sure if I posted it before but b/c of my blood type I am RH negative. Not sure exactly what that means but I guess depending on Steve's blood type (which I'm still trying to figure out why they don't just test his blood type but whatever), I could reject the Baby's blood and we could counter act basically is how I understand it. Somebody tell me if I am wrong here.........anyway so I had to get a big shot in my butt. Yippie. Ha. It didn't hurt and still doesn't so I think I'm good to go :)
I also had to drink that stupid sugar water glucose stuff for my gestational diabetes test. I was REAL worried about this test but everybody re-assured me that they ate tons of sugar and junk food through their pregnancy and have been fine. I have been trying to get better, I have been eating organic fruit strip things instead of fruit snacks or skittles, lots of fresh fruit, veggies (carrots, mushrooms, cucumbers), and making my own lunch and dinner not eating out and stuff. But I still cave. Right now we're on ice cream sandwiches and mini chocolate doughnuts. Ugh they are so amazing and delicious. Anyway, the nurse said they would find out the results this morning and call me if I failed but if they don't call me I am good to go!
My Dr checked me and told me how "cute" I was, it was hysterical. He told me he sees and has seen millions of pregnant women, there are 2 kinds. Gross fat ones, and the cute ones and I am defiantly in the cute category. LOL I love him! He made me feel good :) So I asked him about my water in take and how much he wants me to have. I'm sure I wrote it in my 20 wk apt blog, but my fluid was on the low side :( I was very upset. The u/s tech just told me to drink loads of water and maybe have some juice or gatorade before I go to bed. So I seriously like tripled my water in take. I drink anywhere from 64 oz to 80 oz of water. I fill my water bottle like 4 times a day and visit the restroom at least once an hour at work! Ha. I'm sure my coworkers love me but they don't say anything! So I told him sometimes I feel really bloated from that much water and was wondering if I still have to drink that much. So of COURSE he tells Casey (u/s tech) to get the machine ready and to re check my levels. YAY! So I got to see my lil Princess again yesterday! We double checked to see if she was a girl and she DEF still is. Yay! We saw and heard her heart and it was perfect :) And my fluid went from a 7 (whatever that means I have NO idea what kind of "chart" they use or whatever) to a 14 in 8 weeks! YAY! I doubled my fluid! So they said to keep drinking how much I have and just deal w/ being bloated. Yay. Ha. It's OK I will as long as my Baby is good and safe. So I was on cloud 9 yesterday. It sounds bad but seriously I was so proud of myself. Plus seeing her and seeing how pretty she is and how perfect everything was just set me at such an ease. I know God knew I needed a chill pill and decided to let me see her and see for myself to trust him more.
So then I get the dreaded call this morning.......yes my levels were to high on the gest. Diabetes test and I failed the test. :( Now stupid me didn't both to ask HOW high they were. I'm hoping they were low and I just barely failed. I have to go next Saturday for a 3 hour test. I am NOT happy. It is NOT good. Seriously if I have to give up ALL my sugar? Oh my. This Girl has not 1 but like 20 sweet tooths (I know not proper grammar but you get me right?). Ugh. So I had a meltdown and bawled my eyes out and am having a huge pity party. It's not the giving up the sugar that is a big deal, honestly. I would eat ONLY saltines every single day if I had to. I just want my Baby to be OK. I don't want a c-section, I don't want a HUGE Baby, I don't want her to have diabetes or other health problems b/c of this, I just want to be NORMAL! :( I am struggling and I know I shouldn't worry and freak out until I fail the next test, I just have it in my mind that I am going to so I am set up for the worst. Isn't that horrible? Sorry it's just how I am! So I'll keep you guys updated and let you know how the test goes next week! So crazy never thought it would happen to me. Loves!
P.S. Thanks for the prayers for Cameron. After 6 hours in the hospital they told Nikki he does have RSV but at only 4 weeks they can't give him any breathing treatments or even tylenol, and since it was in such an early stage they thought he would be fine so she got to take him home. She said the last 2 days he has been amazingly better and breathing so much easier and a lot less mucus coming out of him! Praise God! He is just to little to be really really sick! So all good news for them yay! :)
February 6, 2009
February 4, 2009
Need more prayer.......
Oh my lovely prayer warrior friends I am in need of your help again!!!! I love you Ladies your the BEST!
One of my very good friends Nikki (she was one of my bridesmaids) gave birth to her 2nd little baby a Boy Cameron on new years day. I got to be there and coach her through her labor and see the delivery of the little man. He was born at 37 wks and was only 5lbs 9oz. Look at how precious he is!
One of my very good friends Nikki (she was one of my bridesmaids) gave birth to her 2nd little baby a Boy Cameron on new years day. I got to be there and coach her through her labor and see the delivery of the little man. He was born at 37 wks and was only 5lbs 9oz. Look at how precious he is!
(only about 10 minutes old! So sweet and TINY)
Nikki also has a 3 year daughter and she brought home a cold from daycare and Cameron caught it this past week. Nikki rushed him to the dr yesterday cuz of all his green goobers coming out of his nose. The Dr said he was fine it wasn't in his chest or lungs but to watch him and keep him inside and his nose clear. Well, this morning he made a turn for the worse and was having a hard time breathing, wouldn't eat and looking really bad. Nikki said he would go for a couple seconds without breathing and his lips were turning purple. She rushed him to the ER at Children's Hospital (one of the best in the country) so please pray it's not in his chest and they will let her leave! This little guy is just so tiny and I know he is probably very weak and tired! He is so sweet and I am hoping he will be alright! So scary! I'll update when I hear from her again!
Life Lessons Learned
OK so this is the first installment of my various weird and quirky stories of experiences and things that have happened to me in my life. I swear these are all true stories, just names have been changed so I don't get in trouble for talking about ppl and such. Haha. They are mainly for my own memory and safe keeping and please remember if you’re easily offended or are going to argue w/ anything I have to say in this post then keep on steppin. I'm not here to be PC and hold people's hand; I'm also not giving any opinions or real thoughts on the subject I am simply telling a TRUE story of an experience that happened to me and some of my feelings while in the situation.
My Mom used to be very close w/ a lady we'll call Lisa*. Well, Lisa had befriended a new family in town the Brown's who moved here from Wisconsin or Minnesota or something. They were also a home schooling family like my own so my Mom thought it would be nice if I would help the Mom out and baby-sit for her kids every once in awhile so she could get out and run errands w/out her energetic 3 boys.
Now don't get me wrong I love all kids. But these boys were BOY boys. They wanted to play baseball (I was to be the pitcher. Seriously??), basketball, wrestle, run, scream, get dirty just be crazy. Plus I dunno their lifestyle was just so vastly different then mine. They only ate organic and vegetarian. Which was fine except I about gnawed my arm off every time I went there cuz all they ate were black beans and soy tofu stuff. WAY different then cheetos and fruit snacks I was used to at all the other houses I would baby-sit at. (or my own house for that matter!) Making food for them was a chore cuz I didn't know how to properly use the food all together. It sounds dumb but honestly I didn't know what any of it was. It was weird. They also didn't have a tv at all. So we weren’t allowed to watch movies or anything. Which is fine, I don't like just sticking kids in front of a tv to be entertained the whole time. But these boys wore me out and I needed to at least pop in a Veggie Tales or something for 30 minutes so I could rest! They had a computer but the parents claimed they would LOCK their bedroom door where the computer was b/c they didn't want the boys to play on it while I was there. Always seemed a little funny to me but logical. I also discovered from their house that I am allergic to Dog Hair. It wasn't that thier house was messy or gross it was a gorgeous clean house but they had a super sweet Golden Retriever that shed everywhere and my eyes would kill and get purple and red, my nose would run, and I would be in horrible pain. So you can see from all this it WASN'T my favorite place to baby-sit and I wasn't very comfortable in the house but I did it for Lisa and my Mom and tried to be nice. Plus I mean hey they paid me well!
The Dad was a child psychologist at one of our local medical universities, so they were pretty well off. Like I said they had a HUGE gorgeous house in a very nice part of town. The Mom didn't work and got to stay home and raise the boys.
OK here is where I get a little judgmental and maybe you'll even think I'm mean but it plays a big part into the story. You'll see..........
The Dad was DIFFERENT. Scary. I'm sorry but he freaked me out. He was super tall like over 6 ft, he was balding and the whitest white man I have EVER seen in my life. He was almost albino in my opinion. He was quiet but would try to make conversation with me and I was NEVER comfortable with him. They lived less then 15 minutes from my parent’s house and whenever he would drive me home I would squish myself up against the door because I didn't feel safe with him. I just got that feeling that women get when they are afraid of a man. Does anybody know what I am saying?? I dunno I hate to say it but honestly what would run through my head was that he was going to touch me or do something and I would have to get away from him quickly. Seriously that is just the vibes I got and I have never felt like that in front of somebody ever.
So I went for a couple months w/out hearing from Mrs Brown and was starting to wonder what was up. I was actually with Lisa after babysitting for her boys and was asking her about Mrs Brown and what they were up to. Lisa asked me if I had heard anything and I was like no. She was really hesitant to tell me and I could tell she didn't want to but I finally got it out of her. It turns out Mr Brown has some MAJOR identity issues. He had decided when he was in 3rd grade that God "messed up" and made him a man instead of a woman. He met Mrs Brown and she knew about his feelings towards this and decided she was going to change him and have a family and he would be a strong man of God. Obviously as most of us could have told her that didn't work. But she was blinded and thought everything was fine. Everything was not fine. He had all his dress up clothes and make up and things in their bedroom, hence why it was locked they didn't want anybody to find anything.
One time when I went over there I thought it was odd because he had fallen down the stairs in their house (which were quite steep and there was a LOT of them) and broken his leg. It's odd to hear about men breaking their legs but I was 15 and naive and didn't think anything of it. Turns out he had been taking progesterone and hormone pills and his bones weakened and he broke his leg. Crazy. He also decided at some point to put on all his woman clothes, wig, and make up and sit his boys down and tell them God made a mistake and he was supposed to be a woman and was now going to live his life full time as a woman. So so so sad for those boys. They need a good strong man of God in their lives to help shape them and raise them and they lost that. Mr Brown also decided to fulfill his life long dream and move to California to have a S^* change operation and live full time as a woman and changed his name to a female name. (and ya'll whenever I hear a woman w/ his new woman name it makes me cringe I feel bad for all women that have the name he picked) Mrs Brown divorced him, sold their house, and moved back to Wis./Minn. or where ever they had moved from and back w/ her family. I never got to see them again and I think and pray for her and her sweet boys all the time. It was really horrible and it's so sad how Satan can drive people to live like that. I am glad he is not working w/ Children anymore and that his boys will know only know their Grandpa and Uncles and Cousins as the good men they should be.
Also another moral of the story: trust your gut. I never trusted him and I thought he was creepy and for good reason. I always know to go w/ my gut now and that it will tell me what to do and who to trust.
I had those same exact feelings about another Dad I baby-sat for, there was just something off about him and I wasn't comfortable with him so I made sure I was never alone in the room with him. (luckily they lived up the street from my parents so I walked and never had to be in a car with him) Turns out he beat his wife, badly and it was a very bad situation!
I fully believe God was giving me a sign and telling me to stay away from him! Scary! Lisa was very glad to hear I had those feelings and knew not to talk to him or trust him at all I could have put myself in a scary situation although I don't think he was dangerous at all just a little messed up in the head!
*All names in this blog have been changed to protect the people in these situations
My Mom used to be very close w/ a lady we'll call Lisa*. Well, Lisa had befriended a new family in town the Brown's who moved here from Wisconsin or Minnesota or something. They were also a home schooling family like my own so my Mom thought it would be nice if I would help the Mom out and baby-sit for her kids every once in awhile so she could get out and run errands w/out her energetic 3 boys.
Now don't get me wrong I love all kids. But these boys were BOY boys. They wanted to play baseball (I was to be the pitcher. Seriously??), basketball, wrestle, run, scream, get dirty just be crazy. Plus I dunno their lifestyle was just so vastly different then mine. They only ate organic and vegetarian. Which was fine except I about gnawed my arm off every time I went there cuz all they ate were black beans and soy tofu stuff. WAY different then cheetos and fruit snacks I was used to at all the other houses I would baby-sit at. (or my own house for that matter!) Making food for them was a chore cuz I didn't know how to properly use the food all together. It sounds dumb but honestly I didn't know what any of it was. It was weird. They also didn't have a tv at all. So we weren’t allowed to watch movies or anything. Which is fine, I don't like just sticking kids in front of a tv to be entertained the whole time. But these boys wore me out and I needed to at least pop in a Veggie Tales or something for 30 minutes so I could rest! They had a computer but the parents claimed they would LOCK their bedroom door where the computer was b/c they didn't want the boys to play on it while I was there. Always seemed a little funny to me but logical. I also discovered from their house that I am allergic to Dog Hair. It wasn't that thier house was messy or gross it was a gorgeous clean house but they had a super sweet Golden Retriever that shed everywhere and my eyes would kill and get purple and red, my nose would run, and I would be in horrible pain. So you can see from all this it WASN'T my favorite place to baby-sit and I wasn't very comfortable in the house but I did it for Lisa and my Mom and tried to be nice. Plus I mean hey they paid me well!
The Dad was a child psychologist at one of our local medical universities, so they were pretty well off. Like I said they had a HUGE gorgeous house in a very nice part of town. The Mom didn't work and got to stay home and raise the boys.
OK here is where I get a little judgmental and maybe you'll even think I'm mean but it plays a big part into the story. You'll see..........
The Dad was DIFFERENT. Scary. I'm sorry but he freaked me out. He was super tall like over 6 ft, he was balding and the whitest white man I have EVER seen in my life. He was almost albino in my opinion. He was quiet but would try to make conversation with me and I was NEVER comfortable with him. They lived less then 15 minutes from my parent’s house and whenever he would drive me home I would squish myself up against the door because I didn't feel safe with him. I just got that feeling that women get when they are afraid of a man. Does anybody know what I am saying?? I dunno I hate to say it but honestly what would run through my head was that he was going to touch me or do something and I would have to get away from him quickly. Seriously that is just the vibes I got and I have never felt like that in front of somebody ever.
So I went for a couple months w/out hearing from Mrs Brown and was starting to wonder what was up. I was actually with Lisa after babysitting for her boys and was asking her about Mrs Brown and what they were up to. Lisa asked me if I had heard anything and I was like no. She was really hesitant to tell me and I could tell she didn't want to but I finally got it out of her. It turns out Mr Brown has some MAJOR identity issues. He had decided when he was in 3rd grade that God "messed up" and made him a man instead of a woman. He met Mrs Brown and she knew about his feelings towards this and decided she was going to change him and have a family and he would be a strong man of God. Obviously as most of us could have told her that didn't work. But she was blinded and thought everything was fine. Everything was not fine. He had all his dress up clothes and make up and things in their bedroom, hence why it was locked they didn't want anybody to find anything.
One time when I went over there I thought it was odd because he had fallen down the stairs in their house (which were quite steep and there was a LOT of them) and broken his leg. It's odd to hear about men breaking their legs but I was 15 and naive and didn't think anything of it. Turns out he had been taking progesterone and hormone pills and his bones weakened and he broke his leg. Crazy. He also decided at some point to put on all his woman clothes, wig, and make up and sit his boys down and tell them God made a mistake and he was supposed to be a woman and was now going to live his life full time as a woman. So so so sad for those boys. They need a good strong man of God in their lives to help shape them and raise them and they lost that. Mr Brown also decided to fulfill his life long dream and move to California to have a S^* change operation and live full time as a woman and changed his name to a female name. (and ya'll whenever I hear a woman w/ his new woman name it makes me cringe I feel bad for all women that have the name he picked) Mrs Brown divorced him, sold their house, and moved back to Wis./Minn. or where ever they had moved from and back w/ her family. I never got to see them again and I think and pray for her and her sweet boys all the time. It was really horrible and it's so sad how Satan can drive people to live like that. I am glad he is not working w/ Children anymore and that his boys will know only know their Grandpa and Uncles and Cousins as the good men they should be.
Also another moral of the story: trust your gut. I never trusted him and I thought he was creepy and for good reason. I always know to go w/ my gut now and that it will tell me what to do and who to trust.
I had those same exact feelings about another Dad I baby-sat for, there was just something off about him and I wasn't comfortable with him so I made sure I was never alone in the room with him. (luckily they lived up the street from my parents so I walked and never had to be in a car with him) Turns out he beat his wife, badly and it was a very bad situation!
I fully believe God was giving me a sign and telling me to stay away from him! Scary! Lisa was very glad to hear I had those feelings and knew not to talk to him or trust him at all I could have put myself in a scary situation although I don't think he was dangerous at all just a little messed up in the head!
*All names in this blog have been changed to protect the people in these situations
Long ago...........
Oops it's been awhile and I have been meaning to post a "life update/move/new house pictures" post for like oh 4 weeks now. I've been lazy. I just read blogs but never want to write on my own! I have so many blog idea's jumbled in my head this post will probably be all over the place! I might start a new "series" to. I'll probably just type them up and post them later. They are some fun and interesting stories of things that have happened to me over the years. In case nobody could tell I LOVE to tell stories and share life experiences, as well as hearing others! So that is why I am in love w/ bloggy land so much. I read a story yesterday on this girl's blog about being kidnapped and having to jump out of the moving car and run into somebody's house to get saved! Oh my that is awesome! Nothing extraordinary has happened to me like that but I think my stories are full of character. See there I go off on some weird tangent again.....................
So on Friday Jan. 2nd me and Steve went to the Title Co. to sign our names 34923084 million times! It was quite funny earlier in the week we were getting SUPER antsy to close and move and be out of Steve's parents and in our OWN space. I got a call from the Mortgage co. and a girl was asking what Steve's middle initial was. For some reason they thought it was H, but it's M. How you get the 2 confused is beyond me. Well, when Steve signs his name he does it like a typical boy and scribbles an S and then another S and a line with some dots on it. Quite lovely. Well, the girl told me at closing he was going to have to sign an M on every paper. I knew he wouldn't be totally happy about this but whatever. So I sent him an email and all it said was "there is a problem and I talked to a girl from the Mort loan office, give me a call when you can" HA. He freaked! It was pretty funny. I heard about it for days :) So we close and get our keys and are soooooo excited! Steve got off work way early and met our families who started helping unload everything into the house! By the time I got there a LOT of stuff was unloaded from our P.O.D. (which if you ever need storage or are moving across country or anything these things are amazing and SO the way to go. A little more costly but much better then loading and un-loading a truck. They just bring it right to your driveway!) and cleared out most of Steve's parents house! Oh how I LOVE our families! We got some amazing pizza and pasta from a local place and chowed. I un-packed and put away my whole kitchen that night and we got the mattresses set up on the floor for sleeping! I didn't sleep well (no curtains made for an early morning) so I was up at 5 organizing closets and the bathroom. lol. Then I made a HUGE trip to walmart for food since we were out of everything and came home to more family and friends helping and more un-loading! It was such a blessing to have everybody come over and get so much done on Saturday. I wasn't allowed to carry any boxes or anything so I just ran around like crazy and tried to help where I could! Yet ANOTHER huge trip to walmart (we spent a LOT of $ at wally world that weekend) and some more organizing and we were totally and completely in and un-packed by about 2 pm on Sunday! I was even putting out some of my candles and decoration stuff! It was so amazing. I don't want to sound stuck up but honestly we are just organized people that HATE ciaos and clutter and couldn't stand looking at the boxes. We over did it and I almost died Sunday night but I took a bath and rested my feet and was much better by Monday :)
With out further ado here are some pictures of the house mostly completed!
Looking from the living room to the front door. (bedrooms and guest bathroom to your right). We have since hung up a picture on the right wall and it looks really nice!
Living room view from the hallway/front door area. Of course we bought a new couch last night so I will update pictures as soon as it comes in on the 28th! The kitchen is directly behind the sofa, this is our new TV area so we had to get a huge sectional so we can both be lazy and lay down and get comfty
View 1 of the Kitchen. Far left wall is the sliding glass doors, and the small door on the left is our food pantry which I LOVE! I LOVE this kitchen it's so huge and with the pantry I actually have empty cabinets! I'm sure Hailey will be able to fill them once she is here with all her stuff so I'm not to worried about it ;)
View 2 of the kitchen. Just love how open and bright it is! My fav room in the house!
Here is our master bedroom. I love how HUGE this room is. We have a tall dresser and a chair on the wall opposite of the bed. This is the only room with real fabric curtains, we have a lot more rooms to go!
Guest bathroom :)
Guest bedroom/computer room. It's all ready and set up for people to come stay with us! But only 1 at a time everybody else will have to sleep on the floor :( Sorry!
Bean's Nursery before painting. It was a catch all room but we cleared it all out. Even sold the tv!
Bean's room during painting! Steve painting this past Saturday he is such a hard worker. Seriously he is a WAY better painter then me. I just slap it on and get paint everywhere. He is so careful it's cute. We still have to do all the cutting in by the ceiling, the bottom a stark white and get a chair rail up! As soon as it's finished I'll post pictures and then will put some MORE up after her crib and changing table are in and set up. I'm getting excited!
So there is our LOVELY new house! We have already had a couple friends over for dinner and we are having my whole family over for my Mom's Birthday Brunch Saturday morning! We really love it and LOVE entertaining and would love to have you so c'mon over! :) I'm really excited and anxious to get Hailey's nursery all done and set up, have my shower, and get everything all put together and organized for her!
We have hung some more pictures and mirrors and stuff since we took those pictures, and have paint colors all picked out just need the $ to buy paint. The WHOLE huge living room, entry way, hallway to bedrooms, and area by the garage door/laundry room (it's the area behind the wall with the stove) and down the stairs will be a goldish mustard color. (which is HARD to find let me tell you) It will be a LOT of painting but I know it will look amazing when we're done!
The kitchen is going to be a moss green, the master bedroom and bath will be a tan, the guest bath and guest bedroom we still haven't totally decided but we're throwing around a couple of ideas. Painting is secondary to having a Baby so it might happen in the next couple weeks but probably not until this summer/fall or next spring. I hate the builders white walls but I can live with it for a while.
The only pictures I didn't get are of the laundry room, our master bath, and Steve's man cave in the basement. I'll get on it sometime though!
Pregnancy has been pretty boring and standard lately. I feel great, just a little tired and bloated. I feel stretched to my limits and huge but I know I am just going to get bigger!!! I am still have "plumbing" issues sorry TMI I know but if you could say a prayer for me it's really painful and I hate losing sleep over it. I know I need to sleep now before she is here!!!
While we're on the topic of prayer requests, we got an email sent out from the company that me and Steve work for saying they are laying off 350 jobs in the company. I know we are totally over staffed and the way this company does things is a little screwy and backwards sometimes but I am fully aware of how precious our paychecks are now! So far they have let about 50-75 people go from various dept. neither of which have been mine or Steve's. We'll see what happens, we're both fairly certain we're safe but if Steve would lose his job that would be huge. Normally I wouldn't be worried but in this market it's so hard to find a new job. I have been praying a LOT the last couple weeks and would LOVE if you would also! I will be praying for everybody and thier spouses as well, it's scary times we're in but I know God has a plan for us and will provide and take care of us and our needs :) This is hard for me I worry about $ and our bills and things a lot and I think God is trying to teach me a lesson that everything will be fine!
OK girlys (and if any boys are out there?) I will end this blabbel now. I feel a little more caught up I'll try to get better! I have my 28 week apt tomorrow and I'll update next week w/ how my glucose test goes. Loves!
So on Friday Jan. 2nd me and Steve went to the Title Co. to sign our names 34923084 million times! It was quite funny earlier in the week we were getting SUPER antsy to close and move and be out of Steve's parents and in our OWN space. I got a call from the Mortgage co. and a girl was asking what Steve's middle initial was. For some reason they thought it was H, but it's M. How you get the 2 confused is beyond me. Well, when Steve signs his name he does it like a typical boy and scribbles an S and then another S and a line with some dots on it. Quite lovely. Well, the girl told me at closing he was going to have to sign an M on every paper. I knew he wouldn't be totally happy about this but whatever. So I sent him an email and all it said was "there is a problem and I talked to a girl from the Mort loan office, give me a call when you can" HA. He freaked! It was pretty funny. I heard about it for days :) So we close and get our keys and are soooooo excited! Steve got off work way early and met our families who started helping unload everything into the house! By the time I got there a LOT of stuff was unloaded from our P.O.D. (which if you ever need storage or are moving across country or anything these things are amazing and SO the way to go. A little more costly but much better then loading and un-loading a truck. They just bring it right to your driveway!) and cleared out most of Steve's parents house! Oh how I LOVE our families! We got some amazing pizza and pasta from a local place and chowed. I un-packed and put away my whole kitchen that night and we got the mattresses set up on the floor for sleeping! I didn't sleep well (no curtains made for an early morning) so I was up at 5 organizing closets and the bathroom. lol. Then I made a HUGE trip to walmart for food since we were out of everything and came home to more family and friends helping and more un-loading! It was such a blessing to have everybody come over and get so much done on Saturday. I wasn't allowed to carry any boxes or anything so I just ran around like crazy and tried to help where I could! Yet ANOTHER huge trip to walmart (we spent a LOT of $ at wally world that weekend) and some more organizing and we were totally and completely in and un-packed by about 2 pm on Sunday! I was even putting out some of my candles and decoration stuff! It was so amazing. I don't want to sound stuck up but honestly we are just organized people that HATE ciaos and clutter and couldn't stand looking at the boxes. We over did it and I almost died Sunday night but I took a bath and rested my feet and was much better by Monday :)
With out further ado here are some pictures of the house mostly completed!
Looking from the living room to the front door. (bedrooms and guest bathroom to your right). We have since hung up a picture on the right wall and it looks really nice!Living room view from the hallway/front door area. Of course we bought a new couch last night so I will update pictures as soon as it comes in on the 28th! The kitchen is directly behind the sofa, this is our new TV area so we had to get a huge sectional so we can both be lazy and lay down and get comfty View 1 of the Kitchen. Far left wall is the sliding glass doors, and the small door on the left is our food pantry which I LOVE! I LOVE this kitchen it's so huge and with the pantry I actually have empty cabinets! I'm sure Hailey will be able to fill them once she is here with all her stuff so I'm not to worried about it ;)View 2 of the kitchen. Just love how open and bright it is! My fav room in the house! Here is our master bedroom. I love how HUGE this room is. We have a tall dresser and a chair on the wall opposite of the bed. This is the only room with real fabric curtains, we have a lot more rooms to go!
Guest bathroom :) Guest bedroom/computer room. It's all ready and set up for people to come stay with us! But only 1 at a time everybody else will have to sleep on the floor :( Sorry!Bean's Nursery before painting. It was a catch all room but we cleared it all out. Even sold the tv!Bean's room during painting! Steve painting this past Saturday he is such a hard worker. Seriously he is a WAY better painter then me. I just slap it on and get paint everywhere. He is so careful it's cute. We still have to do all the cutting in by the ceiling, the bottom a stark white and get a chair rail up! As soon as it's finished I'll post pictures and then will put some MORE up after her crib and changing table are in and set up. I'm getting excited! So there is our LOVELY new house! We have already had a couple friends over for dinner and we are having my whole family over for my Mom's Birthday Brunch Saturday morning! We really love it and LOVE entertaining and would love to have you so c'mon over! :) I'm really excited and anxious to get Hailey's nursery all done and set up, have my shower, and get everything all put together and organized for her!
We have hung some more pictures and mirrors and stuff since we took those pictures, and have paint colors all picked out just need the $ to buy paint. The WHOLE huge living room, entry way, hallway to bedrooms, and area by the garage door/laundry room (it's the area behind the wall with the stove) and down the stairs will be a goldish mustard color. (which is HARD to find let me tell you) It will be a LOT of painting but I know it will look amazing when we're done!
The kitchen is going to be a moss green, the master bedroom and bath will be a tan, the guest bath and guest bedroom we still haven't totally decided but we're throwing around a couple of ideas. Painting is secondary to having a Baby so it might happen in the next couple weeks but probably not until this summer/fall or next spring. I hate the builders white walls but I can live with it for a while.
The only pictures I didn't get are of the laundry room, our master bath, and Steve's man cave in the basement. I'll get on it sometime though!
Pregnancy has been pretty boring and standard lately. I feel great, just a little tired and bloated. I feel stretched to my limits and huge but I know I am just going to get bigger!!! I am still have "plumbing" issues sorry TMI I know but if you could say a prayer for me it's really painful and I hate losing sleep over it. I know I need to sleep now before she is here!!!
While we're on the topic of prayer requests, we got an email sent out from the company that me and Steve work for saying they are laying off 350 jobs in the company. I know we are totally over staffed and the way this company does things is a little screwy and backwards sometimes but I am fully aware of how precious our paychecks are now! So far they have let about 50-75 people go from various dept. neither of which have been mine or Steve's. We'll see what happens, we're both fairly certain we're safe but if Steve would lose his job that would be huge. Normally I wouldn't be worried but in this market it's so hard to find a new job. I have been praying a LOT the last couple weeks and would LOVE if you would also! I will be praying for everybody and thier spouses as well, it's scary times we're in but I know God has a plan for us and will provide and take care of us and our needs :) This is hard for me I worry about $ and our bills and things a lot and I think God is trying to teach me a lesson that everything will be fine!
OK girlys (and if any boys are out there?) I will end this blabbel now. I feel a little more caught up I'll try to get better! I have my 28 week apt tomorrow and I'll update next week w/ how my glucose test goes. Loves!
January 30, 2009
Would you like to take a Survey???
So here is my 2nd attempt at this, yesterday when I posted it it only posted like half my answers :( I was REALLY mad! (Thanks Julie for pointing it out!) So of course now I forget what I put so I'll wing it again. Ha. Ya'll left such sweet comments yesterday to hope you'll comment again cuz I LOVE LOVE LOVE me some comments :)
So all of my friends are filling this out on facebook and I am not smart enough to learn how to do it on there, so luckily Jen and some other bloggy friends posted it on their blog so I figured I would do it here to!
25 Random facts about me:
1. All my life all I ever dreamed of was having an amazing Husband who I was madly in love with and loved me more then anything in the world, to have a nice pretty decorated house, a good car to get me around, and babies. I can't believe at the age of 26 I have all of those things! God has truly blessed me more then I ever thought possible
2. I pluck all the hair out of my toes cuz it totally grosses me out
3. I have the sweetest tooth (teeth) ever. If it has sugar in it I will most likely eat it.
4. I've had almost every single one of my back teeth filled from cavities. At one point my dentist was watching 8 holes in my teeth and I have since had all 8 filled because all the holes were growing and got to big. (think #3 and #4 are connected at all? Ha)
5. I also had to have braces for 3 1/2 years and a ugly horrible metal head gear (for huge over bite. I would squeeze 2 teeth between my bottom and top teeth. Totally attractive) for over a year. My teeth look great it just stunk and I was a rebellious teenager and didn't wear the rubber bands on my braces and had to keep them on 8 months longer then good kids.
6. My husband on the other hand has PERFECT teeth and never had a filling in his life. (pray our kids have his teeth and not mine)
7. I love roller coasters and thrill rides but freak out while in line for them and almost throw up from anticipation
8.I was born over 3 weeks late. My Mom's Dr told her I would be born in late July and I didn't come until August 13th. Now being pregnant myself I don't know how she did it at all, that is crazy
9. I am obsessed w/ naming cars. So far the cars I have owned are Orny, Horny, Gwen, and Monica. I named Steve's cars; Twyla (he didn't care for it but after a couple months he referred to his car as Twyla and I found GREAT joy in this) and Sam. My parents have Ruby and Julian, my brother had Bo Moby (don't ask LONG story) and now Tarkie. Also various friends cars I have named: Kate, Paula, Stella (my friend Julia's car, a guy at her wedding rehearsal dinner even sang a song about her car Stella. I had tears in my eyes people), Ruby, Whitey, Gabi, and others I can't remember. It's kinda my gift to come up w/ the perfect name for your car
10. I check my phone probably over 40 times a day for missed calls. (has to be on silent since I work in a call center) Nothing excites me more then seeing that somebody was thinking of me and called and maybe even left a voice mail!
11. I most likely won't call them back as I HATE talking on the phone. Which is weird since I work on the phone for 8 hours a day. I am horrible about calling friends back. I have gotten a little better, but honestly send me an email and you'll get a response right away, call and it could be a few days or I won't even answer your phone call I'll just shoot you an email. lol
12. I have super weird eating rituals. I have to eat things in order. it's weird. I pull out the cheesiest goldfish and save it for last, I eat skittles and other colored candies in flavor order. (the flavor I hate the most gets eaten first and my favorite last) I could go on and on about my weird eating habits but you get the idea.......
13. I'm psycho about how my socks "sit" on my toes. I hate that stitch line at the top of your socks that sits on your toes. If it's off or bunched or uncomfortable on my toes/feet I will freak out and have a hissy fit. This made us late for church a LOT when I was little because my tights were freaking me out on my toes
14. I have a short fuse and tend to get frustrated and throw things and scream if something isn't working the way I want to. It's pretty bad. I need to break this habit ASAP. Luckily my husband is the most patient man in the world and usually laughs at me and comes to save the day and fix whatever is wrong and hug and kiss me and then I am all better and it's forgotten!
15.I LOVE LOVE LOVE any sandwich w/ the name "salad" in it. Tuna Salad, chicken salad, egg salad they are all my favorites. I <3> them.
16. I used to be really mean to my sister and not play what she wanted to play. She was obsessed w/ Barbie's and I only loved to play w/ my Cabbage Patch Dolls. So I would tell her I would play Barbie's with her if she would play dolls w/ me first. We would play dolls for a long time until she got tired of it, then she would beg to play Barbie's. We would go play Barbie's for 5 minutes and I would say I was bored and would leave. She let this go on for a LOOONNNG time then finally caught on and stopped playing Dolls with me. LOL I am so mean!
17. I played w/ my dolls for FAR to long. I had 4 best friends that were obsessed with them also. We used to "birth" them, "feed" them, take them in their strollers EVERYWHERE (the mall, zoo, church, grocery store, I'm sure it was embarrassing for our parents and siblings), make "baby food" which consisted of flour, water, and food coloring. It was bad. I think I was finally 12 or 13 when I stopped being obsessed w/ Dolls, probably around the time I started babysitting real kids!
18. When I was 15 I started Baby sitting for families from church and our neighborhood. I made SO much $ (tax free!). My favorite family I nannied for every Tuesday night and Friday's for 9 hours while the Mom taught Kindergarten. It was a LOT of responsibility but I loved it and was very mature for my age
19.One of my life long dreams is to attend cosmetology school school and learn how to professionally do hair and make up. I am obsessed w/ cutting, styling, up-doing (not a word but I am cool like that), and anything involving hair. I LOVE it! I was enrolled in hair school but had to get out because it was $18,000 for 13 months. I was young and didn't have the $ and didn't want to go into debt. Maybe once my kids are all grown and out of the house/in school...........
20. I worked in a tanning salon that had a hair salon in it for 3 years in high school. This is where my love of hair started, I used to shampoo the other girls that worked there, and after the hair salon was closed we would do each other's hair and cut our boyfriends hair. Ha. One of the other stylists even let me perm and color her hair! It was so fun
21.Between me and Steve we probably have over 150 movies in our collection. And they are all my "favorite". It's my catch phrase "oh that movie is my favorite!". But I really do have a deep love for a lot of movies! Same thing with music I probably have over 300 of my "Favorite" songs. Steve makes fun of me for this a lot
22. I HATE biting into peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Seriously I'll gag and spit it out if I do. I love the flavor of them and cooking w/ them just can't stand EATing them if that makes any sense.........
23. My Mom has 3 siblings. Her brother has 2 girls and a boy (birth order), then her older sister has 2 girls and a boy (also birth order). Her baby sister doesn't have any children but my Mom ALSO has 2 girls and a boy. Anytime I hear of people having thier kids in this birth order I freak out I think it's so cool and I would love to have 2 girls and a boy myself :) (although all the boys are all spoiled ROTTEN)
24. I am obsessed with online photo albums (from like Snapfish and Kodak), I LOVE putting them together and finding fun quotes and stuff but am scared to pay the $ for one and order it. I have made 3 or 4 and they are sitting online waiting for me, I look at them and visit them but never order one
25. I met one of my best friends in a chat room when we were 15 (11 years ago!). We started chatting and being stupid and silly and probably picking on people. We started IMing each other on AOL and would meet online after she got home from school to go to other chat rooms together. Then we started writing letters and sending each other pictures in the mail, and then started calling each other on the phone. When we were 17 she flew to Omaha from Pittsburgh and stayed with me for a week. I love her to death and even though we only visit each other every couple years I feel like she is my sister and we get along so great and I can tell her anything! No matter how long we go w/out talking we always pick up right where we left off and I love her to death!
OK I am tagging Cara an Julie!!
So all of my friends are filling this out on facebook and I am not smart enough to learn how to do it on there, so luckily Jen and some other bloggy friends posted it on their blog so I figured I would do it here to!
25 Random facts about me:
1. All my life all I ever dreamed of was having an amazing Husband who I was madly in love with and loved me more then anything in the world, to have a nice pretty decorated house, a good car to get me around, and babies. I can't believe at the age of 26 I have all of those things! God has truly blessed me more then I ever thought possible
2. I pluck all the hair out of my toes cuz it totally grosses me out
3. I have the sweetest tooth (teeth) ever. If it has sugar in it I will most likely eat it.
4. I've had almost every single one of my back teeth filled from cavities. At one point my dentist was watching 8 holes in my teeth and I have since had all 8 filled because all the holes were growing and got to big. (think #3 and #4 are connected at all? Ha)
5. I also had to have braces for 3 1/2 years and a ugly horrible metal head gear (for huge over bite. I would squeeze 2 teeth between my bottom and top teeth. Totally attractive) for over a year. My teeth look great it just stunk and I was a rebellious teenager and didn't wear the rubber bands on my braces and had to keep them on 8 months longer then good kids.
6. My husband on the other hand has PERFECT teeth and never had a filling in his life. (pray our kids have his teeth and not mine)
7. I love roller coasters and thrill rides but freak out while in line for them and almost throw up from anticipation
8.I was born over 3 weeks late. My Mom's Dr told her I would be born in late July and I didn't come until August 13th. Now being pregnant myself I don't know how she did it at all, that is crazy
9. I am obsessed w/ naming cars. So far the cars I have owned are Orny, Horny, Gwen, and Monica. I named Steve's cars; Twyla (he didn't care for it but after a couple months he referred to his car as Twyla and I found GREAT joy in this) and Sam. My parents have Ruby and Julian, my brother had Bo Moby (don't ask LONG story) and now Tarkie. Also various friends cars I have named: Kate, Paula, Stella (my friend Julia's car, a guy at her wedding rehearsal dinner even sang a song about her car Stella. I had tears in my eyes people), Ruby, Whitey, Gabi, and others I can't remember. It's kinda my gift to come up w/ the perfect name for your car
10. I check my phone probably over 40 times a day for missed calls. (has to be on silent since I work in a call center) Nothing excites me more then seeing that somebody was thinking of me and called and maybe even left a voice mail!
11. I most likely won't call them back as I HATE talking on the phone. Which is weird since I work on the phone for 8 hours a day. I am horrible about calling friends back. I have gotten a little better, but honestly send me an email and you'll get a response right away, call and it could be a few days or I won't even answer your phone call I'll just shoot you an email. lol
12. I have super weird eating rituals. I have to eat things in order. it's weird. I pull out the cheesiest goldfish and save it for last, I eat skittles and other colored candies in flavor order. (the flavor I hate the most gets eaten first and my favorite last) I could go on and on about my weird eating habits but you get the idea.......
13. I'm psycho about how my socks "sit" on my toes. I hate that stitch line at the top of your socks that sits on your toes. If it's off or bunched or uncomfortable on my toes/feet I will freak out and have a hissy fit. This made us late for church a LOT when I was little because my tights were freaking me out on my toes
14. I have a short fuse and tend to get frustrated and throw things and scream if something isn't working the way I want to. It's pretty bad. I need to break this habit ASAP. Luckily my husband is the most patient man in the world and usually laughs at me and comes to save the day and fix whatever is wrong and hug and kiss me and then I am all better and it's forgotten!
15.I LOVE LOVE LOVE any sandwich w/ the name "salad" in it. Tuna Salad, chicken salad, egg salad they are all my favorites. I <3> them.
16. I used to be really mean to my sister and not play what she wanted to play. She was obsessed w/ Barbie's and I only loved to play w/ my Cabbage Patch Dolls. So I would tell her I would play Barbie's with her if she would play dolls w/ me first. We would play dolls for a long time until she got tired of it, then she would beg to play Barbie's. We would go play Barbie's for 5 minutes and I would say I was bored and would leave. She let this go on for a LOOONNNG time then finally caught on and stopped playing Dolls with me. LOL I am so mean!
17. I played w/ my dolls for FAR to long. I had 4 best friends that were obsessed with them also. We used to "birth" them, "feed" them, take them in their strollers EVERYWHERE (the mall, zoo, church, grocery store, I'm sure it was embarrassing for our parents and siblings), make "baby food" which consisted of flour, water, and food coloring. It was bad. I think I was finally 12 or 13 when I stopped being obsessed w/ Dolls, probably around the time I started babysitting real kids!
18. When I was 15 I started Baby sitting for families from church and our neighborhood. I made SO much $ (tax free!). My favorite family I nannied for every Tuesday night and Friday's for 9 hours while the Mom taught Kindergarten. It was a LOT of responsibility but I loved it and was very mature for my age
19.One of my life long dreams is to attend cosmetology school school and learn how to professionally do hair and make up. I am obsessed w/ cutting, styling, up-doing (not a word but I am cool like that), and anything involving hair. I LOVE it! I was enrolled in hair school but had to get out because it was $18,000 for 13 months. I was young and didn't have the $ and didn't want to go into debt. Maybe once my kids are all grown and out of the house/in school...........
20. I worked in a tanning salon that had a hair salon in it for 3 years in high school. This is where my love of hair started, I used to shampoo the other girls that worked there, and after the hair salon was closed we would do each other's hair and cut our boyfriends hair. Ha. One of the other stylists even let me perm and color her hair! It was so fun
21.Between me and Steve we probably have over 150 movies in our collection. And they are all my "favorite". It's my catch phrase "oh that movie is my favorite!". But I really do have a deep love for a lot of movies! Same thing with music I probably have over 300 of my "Favorite" songs. Steve makes fun of me for this a lot
22. I HATE biting into peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Seriously I'll gag and spit it out if I do. I love the flavor of them and cooking w/ them just can't stand EATing them if that makes any sense.........
23. My Mom has 3 siblings. Her brother has 2 girls and a boy (birth order), then her older sister has 2 girls and a boy (also birth order). Her baby sister doesn't have any children but my Mom ALSO has 2 girls and a boy. Anytime I hear of people having thier kids in this birth order I freak out I think it's so cool and I would love to have 2 girls and a boy myself :) (although all the boys are all spoiled ROTTEN)
24. I am obsessed with online photo albums (from like Snapfish and Kodak), I LOVE putting them together and finding fun quotes and stuff but am scared to pay the $ for one and order it. I have made 3 or 4 and they are sitting online waiting for me, I look at them and visit them but never order one
25. I met one of my best friends in a chat room when we were 15 (11 years ago!). We started chatting and being stupid and silly and probably picking on people. We started IMing each other on AOL and would meet online after she got home from school to go to other chat rooms together. Then we started writing letters and sending each other pictures in the mail, and then started calling each other on the phone. When we were 17 she flew to Omaha from Pittsburgh and stayed with me for a week. I love her to death and even though we only visit each other every couple years I feel like she is my sister and we get along so great and I can tell her anything! No matter how long we go w/out talking we always pick up right where we left off and I love her to death!
OK I am tagging Cara an Julie!!
January 27, 2009
Music to my ears
So I have tons of blog ideas and need to update but I am trying to fill my days reading blogs, various websites, registering for our lil Bean's arrival, and other junk! Honestly the days are flying by anymore which is FINE with me! One day closer to meeting my lil Princess! Anyways all this random-ness (it's a word I made up cuz it's my blog and I can HA) just to be boring. Sorry guys! I HAVE to post the lyrics to these songs. Anybody that knows me knows I am OBSESSED with music. (not to be confused w/ my obsession w/ baby names and movies) I probably have over 200 songs that I claim are my favorite. I am serious. I love how lyrics or a melody can move you to tears, make you wanna jump and scream and give you so much energy, and remind you of special times or special people. I know I've previously posted a couple songs that remind me of Steve every time I hear them, and of course Be Near by Shane and Shane remind me of finding out I was pregnant and I bawl every time I hear it and think of my Baby Girl. But here are a couple songs I've been listening to lately on my iPod that remind me of both my Babies (Hubby and the one growing inside of me!). I am basically just putting them up here so I don't forget them and can reflect later and remember how much I love these songs and what I was going through at this point in my life and how they speak to me!
Tell me what songs speak to you or if you and your guy/kids/friends/sisters have a special song. I LOVE listening to music so I'll most likely download whatever you recommend to me! :)
This is actually a Christmas Song by Celine Dion, oh how I LOVE LOVE LOVE me some Celine Dion! This song REALLY speaks to me and I love the melody and the way the song carries. It's super pretty and really romantic. Anyways I'll highlight the words that especially remind me of my Boo :) We've been through a LOT the last couple years and we are always holding hands and I LOVE that he is always by my side:
"Another Year Has Gone By"
So many 25th's of December
Just as many 4th of July's
And we're still holding it together
It only comes down to you and I
I know you can still remember
Things we said right from the start
When we said that this could be special
I'm keeping those words deep down in my heart
Chorus:
Another year has gone by
And I'm still the one by your side
After everything that's gone by
There's still no one saying goodbye
Though another year has gone by
I never been much for occasions
You never let another birthday go by
Without announcing how much you love me
But the truth was always there
Right there in your eyes
And we're still holding hands when we're walking
Acting like we've only just met
But how can that be - when there's so much history
I guess that's how true lovers can get
Chorus X2
This is a brand new song by a Christian Band I had never heard of. They are called Tenth Avenue North and the name of the song is called "By Your Side". Oh my I just LOVE this song, every time it comes on my favorite radio station I blare it and sing along it's so great! I strongly suggest you download this song and listen to it, it speaks to me about my Hubby, but it also really truly speaks to me about how God is holding us tight in his hands and he is ALWAYS by our side. I know he is going to always take care of me and that he is watching over our Baby and making sure we are all safe and we will be by his side one day which will be totally amazing! It makes me emotional (stupid pregnancy hormones) when I think of it while I'm screaming along w/ the radio but it truly is an awesome song!
"By Your Side"
Why are you striving these days
Why are you trying to earn grace
Why are you crying
Let me lift up your face
Just don't turn away
Why are you looking for love
Why are you still searching as if I'm not enough
To where will you go child
Tell me where will you run
To where will you run
And I'll be by your side
Wherever you fall
In the dead of night
Whenever you call
And please don't fight
These hands that are holding you
My hands are holding you
Look at these hands and my side
They swallowed the grave on that night
When I drank the world's sin
So I could carry you in
And give you life
I want to give you life
Chorus:
(repeat 2X)
Cause I, I love you
I want you to know
That I, I love you
I'll never let you go
(repeat chorus 2X)
Anyways I could say a LOT more about that song, I find it a lot deeper then the song writers probably mean for it to be, but to me it has real depth to it and I just love the lyrics and how it flows. OK I'll stop being a weird mush ball now! And again let me know about songs that speak to you, and what you love! Hope everybody has an amazing Tuesday :)
Tell me what songs speak to you or if you and your guy/kids/friends/sisters have a special song. I LOVE listening to music so I'll most likely download whatever you recommend to me! :)
This is actually a Christmas Song by Celine Dion, oh how I LOVE LOVE LOVE me some Celine Dion! This song REALLY speaks to me and I love the melody and the way the song carries. It's super pretty and really romantic. Anyways I'll highlight the words that especially remind me of my Boo :) We've been through a LOT the last couple years and we are always holding hands and I LOVE that he is always by my side:
"Another Year Has Gone By"
So many 25th's of December
Just as many 4th of July's
And we're still holding it together
It only comes down to you and I
I know you can still remember
Things we said right from the start
When we said that this could be special
I'm keeping those words deep down in my heart
Chorus:
Another year has gone by
And I'm still the one by your side
After everything that's gone by
There's still no one saying goodbye
Though another year has gone by
I never been much for occasions
You never let another birthday go by
Without announcing how much you love me
But the truth was always there
Right there in your eyes
And we're still holding hands when we're walking
Acting like we've only just met
But how can that be - when there's so much history
I guess that's how true lovers can get
Chorus X2
This is a brand new song by a Christian Band I had never heard of. They are called Tenth Avenue North and the name of the song is called "By Your Side". Oh my I just LOVE this song, every time it comes on my favorite radio station I blare it and sing along it's so great! I strongly suggest you download this song and listen to it, it speaks to me about my Hubby, but it also really truly speaks to me about how God is holding us tight in his hands and he is ALWAYS by our side. I know he is going to always take care of me and that he is watching over our Baby and making sure we are all safe and we will be by his side one day which will be totally amazing! It makes me emotional (stupid pregnancy hormones) when I think of it while I'm screaming along w/ the radio but it truly is an awesome song!
"By Your Side"
Why are you striving these days
Why are you trying to earn grace
Why are you crying
Let me lift up your face
Just don't turn away
Why are you looking for love
Why are you still searching as if I'm not enough
To where will you go child
Tell me where will you run
To where will you run
And I'll be by your side
Wherever you fall
In the dead of night
Whenever you call
And please don't fight
These hands that are holding you
My hands are holding you
Look at these hands and my side
They swallowed the grave on that night
When I drank the world's sin
So I could carry you in
And give you life
I want to give you life
Chorus:
(repeat 2X)
Cause I, I love you
I want you to know
That I, I love you
I'll never let you go
(repeat chorus 2X)
Anyways I could say a LOT more about that song, I find it a lot deeper then the song writers probably mean for it to be, but to me it has real depth to it and I just love the lyrics and how it flows. OK I'll stop being a weird mush ball now! And again let me know about songs that speak to you, and what you love! Hope everybody has an amazing Tuesday :)
January 22, 2009
Bean.......
Hailey,
It's been a long time since I wrote you last. I didn't mean for it to be this long in between "letters", I want to try to capture and journal every part of this pregnancy and remember it all as I know it will be over before I can blink. And then when you are here my world will totally revolve around you. But for now life is getting away from me to quickly and I have so many things going on!
It's been a long time since I wrote you last. I didn't mean for it to be this long in between "letters", I want to try to capture and journal every part of this pregnancy and remember it all as I know it will be over before I can blink. And then when you are here my world will totally revolve around you. But for now life is getting away from me to quickly and I have so many things going on!
You are now 26 weeks old. So crazy. You could be here anywhere from 11-14 weeks. That is so soon in many ways and to long for me to wait in others! I hope you stay in longer so you are perfectly healthy and fine and can come straight home with us. I hope Mommy has made a good home for you, and I hope your comfty and warm and want to stay in there and grow for a long time so your perfect for me and your Daddy! Mommy has gone through some WEIRD things the last couple months. LOTS of heartburn, a big scare last week which I almost ran into the ER because I was so so deathly scared something was wrong with you. (turns out it wasn't heartburn either, after lots of water, 2 apples, a magic pink laxative I got the "problem" out and I will do everything to avoid that pain again my whole life. LOL) I never knew I could love somebody so deeply and unconditionally like this Baby Girl. If something were to happen to you I don't want to look back and not remember cherishing my moments with you and loving you. I LOVE when you flop and move in me, no matter how un-comfortable it makes me or how I start to get annoyed I make myself stop because I know you are just trying to communicate with me and tell me HI and that your OK in there :)
You LOVE your Daddy more then any Baby in the womb I have ever heard of. Every single time he kisses my belly, talks to you, or puts his hand on you, you immediately stop whatever your doing and are so still. Once he stops you go at me again kicking and flopping away. Sometimes it makes Mommy upset because she doesn't have that effect on you, but secretly I LOVE it because I am in love w/ your Daddy just as much as you are and I think he is amazing and I guess you learned early that he is :) He is going to do anything and everything to provide you an amazing life and make sure you know you are loved. I can't wait to see him hold you and I know you 2 will love to take naps together and spend time bonding over NBA games :) Baby even if you don't please pretend for your Daddy that you love Basketball. Don't worry I'll teach you all the rules and how it's played! Ha.
We finally got to move into our house and your room is not ready at all. I am in panic mode. We need to get paint and get that started I know it will come along quickly I just want everything to look and be perfect for you. You also need a crib and a changing table and a million other little things! I know I have 3 months but just make sure to wait so your anal Mom can have everything clean, and folded and put in it's place OK? Thanks!
We love you more then words could say, I have loved this time to bond with you and for you to be my special girl. I love that you dance and jive to our praise music on the radio in the car, and that you always calm down after I say a prayer for you. God is watching over us and I know he is still holding you in his hands. Your a lucky girl and I hope to do everything possible to let you know how much you are loved and wanted! Mommy will try to get better about writing and telling you how special you are! I love you sweet Princess
I am getting huge! This was taken last night, please excuse the HORRIBLE double chin (I was trying to crop my face out as much as possible), and the pajama pants. Ha! Can't believe my Girl is in there growing! So crazy
January 15, 2009
Update
H E A R T B U R N is the bane of my existence. I HATE it. Yup that's what it is. My Dr was amazing and joking and made me laugh, I even felt great after words me and Steve went home and ate lunch. And now I am dying again. I just have to take my Zantac and Tylenol for the pain if it doesn't go away I have to take Mylesec or whatever that nasty stuff is (sorry spelling is escaping me right now). :(
I am back at work and dying but I'm stubborn and will wait it out! Thanks for your prayers girl I love you and I felt them all around me! Hopefully this Bean sticks it out another 15 weeks and will be fine and healthy! He heartbeat was 151 and she was movin and shakin and is still perfect!
I am back at work and dying but I'm stubborn and will wait it out! Thanks for your prayers girl I love you and I felt them all around me! Hopefully this Bean sticks it out another 15 weeks and will be fine and healthy! He heartbeat was 151 and she was movin and shakin and is still perfect!
Scared.........
I know I am way behind on my blogging and I need to take pics of the house and all that but life is crazy. For now I just need my bloggy friends to pray for me and my Baby........
The last couple days I have had EXTREME tightness in my belly. To the point where it hurts to walk or be upright so I've been trying to rest, sit, lay down whatever to relieve the pressure. Hey I've never been pregnant before I don't know what it's supposed to feel like, it worried me but I am a worry wort and I thought maybe it was just my belly growing to accommodate my ever expanding Baby inside. Well, yesterday after eating what was probably to much spicy/crazy food (Qdoba, and then a BBQ ckn sandwich at Applebees), I had amazing heartburn and was so bloated I wanted to explode. I woke up at 10 last night with the worst heartburn you can imagine. I'll spare you the details, but it was B A D. I slept somewhat OK but this morning I have been cramping so horribly bad. I am just sitting at work in tears it's so painful. I am scared beyond anything. I can feel Hailey move and kick so I think she is OK I am just worried this could be pre term labor or something else wrong :( I am drinking lots of water and seeing my Dr in about an hour and a half but I really could use your prayers. I am scared beyond anything and praying like crazy that everything is OK. I will try to update later today or tomorrow and let you know what is going on...........
The last couple days I have had EXTREME tightness in my belly. To the point where it hurts to walk or be upright so I've been trying to rest, sit, lay down whatever to relieve the pressure. Hey I've never been pregnant before I don't know what it's supposed to feel like, it worried me but I am a worry wort and I thought maybe it was just my belly growing to accommodate my ever expanding Baby inside. Well, yesterday after eating what was probably to much spicy/crazy food (Qdoba, and then a BBQ ckn sandwich at Applebees), I had amazing heartburn and was so bloated I wanted to explode. I woke up at 10 last night with the worst heartburn you can imagine. I'll spare you the details, but it was B A D. I slept somewhat OK but this morning I have been cramping so horribly bad. I am just sitting at work in tears it's so painful. I am scared beyond anything. I can feel Hailey move and kick so I think she is OK I am just worried this could be pre term labor or something else wrong :( I am drinking lots of water and seeing my Dr in about an hour and a half but I really could use your prayers. I am scared beyond anything and praying like crazy that everything is OK. I will try to update later today or tomorrow and let you know what is going on...........
December 31, 2008
So grateful........
All the blessing this year have been amazing and I don't know where I would be w/out my amazing God who has made all these things happen............
I am grateful for.............
I am grateful for.............
- my ever growing baby belly and that I can not fit in most of my "normal" clothes.
- that maternity clothes are so comfty due to point above :)
- feeling my Baby girl moving and knowing she is OK and loves bouncing around in her Momma and is safe and warm all the time
- My hubby. So many many reasons to many to list here. But we have grown in our love and our marriage and I am so extremely blessed he loves me
- that despite horrible real estate market and economy we were able to sell our house and make a very good profit in less then 3 weeks!
- to build a brand new GORGEOUS house that we will spend many many happy years in, parties, friends, family, and bringing our perfect lil princess home to! And the fact that we move in 2 days!!!!!
- in laws that have let us live w/ them rent free for 6 months and have been so open and gracious to us
- the fact that both of us have good paying jobs and have not been laid off or even taken pay cuts and in fact have both gotten raises/bonus this year!
- all my friends for their love and support, for always being there for me and listening to me and putting up w/ me through out the year. I love you guys more then you'll ever know!
- maybe it will sound stupid or juvenile but for finding blogs! I have gotten to know so many great people, people that don't even know I read about their daily lives. It has strengthen my walk w/ God and I have been able to get my thoughts and feelings out in such an awesome way
Hope everybody else is as blessed as we are! So sorry I didn't get cards out to anybody this year :( Life is to crazy and they are boxed up somewhere and I was not about to dig through and find them. But expect an amazing card for the Holiday season of 2009! Hope everybody is safe tonight and celebrates God and all the blessings of 2008! Love to you all!
December 26, 2008
Still Waiting..............
So this post will be all over. I am not really in the mood to write/post but I am bored out of my MIND today! I honestly think the bank loses $ by paying us to work the day after Christmas. It's pointless we are dead and there is NOTHING to do and to many workers! Ga. I am out of websites to look at and blogs to read. How depressing. lol.
First I'll start off with a recap of our Christmas and the last couple of days;
Steve woke up Wednesday (Christmas Eve) complaining of his throat killing him. He wasn't swollen and felt fine to me so I chalked it up to his sinus and told him to eat and drink something and take a hot steam shower and he would feel better. Of course he didn't feel better after all that and ended up staying home from work and laying around feeling yucky all day. I was so upset and sad. So I got off work at 2:30 and threw together some Jell-O for dinner at Mom's and laid around for about an hour and rested before I got ready for our church program. I got to church early and the kids practiced their songs and hung out waiting to go on stage. It was a little ciaos. They decided to move the stage around and put 9 million poinsettia’s where the kids were supposed to stand. Not good. Then we didn't have time to go out and practice on the new stage so the kids were totally confused and had no idea where to go or what to do. Ha. It was quite comical. They forgot the words 1/2 the time but they looked cute and it was highly entertaining. I would post the video but I'm sure parents would not appreciate me showing their Children to the world all over the internet where anybody could find it! So if you really feel like you need to see it email me and I'll see what I can do ;)
Steve stayed home from Church and laid around. I was almost in tears. I did not have the best attitude cuz I was so angry/upset/hurt. It wasn't at him just the situation and he always gets sick at the worst times. I was sooooooo upset! You have no idea. So after church I ran home got my Jell-O and went back to Mom and Dad's. Steve stayed home :*( Yeah that is when the crying starts. I wasn't handling spending Christmas Eve w/out my Hubby very well at all. And I wanted to stay and take care of him but I knew he would just go to bed in like an hour and then I would sit around and feel sorry for myself. Ha. So I hung out w/ Mom, Dad, and Andy. Ate Potato soup (OK I couldn't stay home w/ my Hubby cuz I would miss potato soup shoot me. lol j/k), and ham, and talked and had Birthday Cake for Daddy! It was so fun and time flew. Before I knew it was like 11 and I needed to get to bed! Baby girl LOVED all Grandma's cooking and she was jumping all over the place all night! It was hilarious. I've never felt her move so much before. I think she loves Christmas and Potato Soup to!
So I slept in Christmas Day and woke up to my Hubby feeling MUCH better and playing xbox. I crawled up in his lap and told him how sorry I was for my crappy Christmas Eve attitude and that I would be better and how much I missed him. He was so excited to open presents he was begging me to do it right then. I needed time to wake up so I made him wait an hour. lol. He is so impatient it was pretty cute. So we opened presents and he LOVED his popcorn popper I got him for his soon-to-be "man cave" basement :) And he spoiled me rotten! What other person knows me well enough to buy me slippers (aka slickers as I call them) and a LABELER! OMG I was in heaven! My whole entire house is going to be so friggin organized and labeled! Oh my goodness. Ha. I am psycho! But I seriously got so excited! He got me a couple Christmas cd's I had wanted b/c ya'll do not understand how obsessed w/ Christmas music I am! Honestly.
A little later we then we headed over to Momma and Dad's and helped get lunch ready and sat down to a feast! Now don't ask me what we ate I can not remember for the life of me! Some yummy delicious cut of steak (but not prime rib?? I don't remember!). It was heaven, and corn casserole, potatoes, more Jell-O, carrots, and breadsticks. Oh it was so yummy! So we stuffed ourselves again, and again Baby Girl was in heaven floppin all over the place. It was so sweet. Then us kids did the dishes for Mom and quick cleaned up so we could do presents! I got spoiled some MORE! Socks, a winter hat, robe, digital picture frame (which Steve is super excited about. That boy loves him some electronics), make up, and Steve gave me another present! The most amazing chair for our master bedroom where I can sit and feed Hailey! I am super excited! So it was a great time. Then we all watched "Elf" because my Mom and Steve hadn't seen it before. Oh my we were crying from laughing so hard at some parts. To funny!!!!
Then we laid around some more and ate dinner of yummy ham sandwiches, and then we finally packed up all our stuff and went home! It was such a great Family day and we are so so so blessed! Sorry I never take many pictures, I will try to steal some from my BIL and post then on here later! :) I know ya'll want to see Momma's tree and all the food and my fat self that doesn't fit in her regular clothes anymore right? Ha
Now on to our house. As we speak Steve is doing the walk-through with the head builder manager guy and our rep from the company that is building our home. It it quite exciting! This time next week I will finally be a home owner! We close next Friday Jan 2nd, at 8am. I am so excited you have NO idea. I actually think I might make it and I can actually see us living there now! Ha. YES!!! We're really really excited and trying to get organized and find help to move. It really stinks that I am out of commission as I usually run around like a mad woman getting everything done and organized. It will be so hard to just stay around and unpack boxes (which I have been told I am NOT allowed to lift any so they all better get taken to the right places!), and tell other's what to do. :/ I don't give out instructions well; I'm not a boss so we'll see how this goes. I plan on mainly working on the kitchen and bathrooms so hopefully that will keep me busy! We are truly blessed by great families and I know we can count on them to help us! We are also blessed as so far the 10 day weather planner is saying a high of 35 and sunny for the day we plan to move! Plus it will be in the 40s all week before so we should have no snow and no ice! Praise God such an answer to prayer! Of course it could change between now and then but I really hope not! So with out further ado here are some pictures of the house pretty much completed!
Steve woke up Wednesday (Christmas Eve) complaining of his throat killing him. He wasn't swollen and felt fine to me so I chalked it up to his sinus and told him to eat and drink something and take a hot steam shower and he would feel better. Of course he didn't feel better after all that and ended up staying home from work and laying around feeling yucky all day. I was so upset and sad. So I got off work at 2:30 and threw together some Jell-O for dinner at Mom's and laid around for about an hour and rested before I got ready for our church program. I got to church early and the kids practiced their songs and hung out waiting to go on stage. It was a little ciaos. They decided to move the stage around and put 9 million poinsettia’s where the kids were supposed to stand. Not good. Then we didn't have time to go out and practice on the new stage so the kids were totally confused and had no idea where to go or what to do. Ha. It was quite comical. They forgot the words 1/2 the time but they looked cute and it was highly entertaining. I would post the video but I'm sure parents would not appreciate me showing their Children to the world all over the internet where anybody could find it! So if you really feel like you need to see it email me and I'll see what I can do ;)
Steve stayed home from Church and laid around. I was almost in tears. I did not have the best attitude cuz I was so angry/upset/hurt. It wasn't at him just the situation and he always gets sick at the worst times. I was sooooooo upset! You have no idea. So after church I ran home got my Jell-O and went back to Mom and Dad's. Steve stayed home :*( Yeah that is when the crying starts. I wasn't handling spending Christmas Eve w/out my Hubby very well at all. And I wanted to stay and take care of him but I knew he would just go to bed in like an hour and then I would sit around and feel sorry for myself. Ha. So I hung out w/ Mom, Dad, and Andy. Ate Potato soup (OK I couldn't stay home w/ my Hubby cuz I would miss potato soup shoot me. lol j/k), and ham, and talked and had Birthday Cake for Daddy! It was so fun and time flew. Before I knew it was like 11 and I needed to get to bed! Baby girl LOVED all Grandma's cooking and she was jumping all over the place all night! It was hilarious. I've never felt her move so much before. I think she loves Christmas and Potato Soup to!
So I slept in Christmas Day and woke up to my Hubby feeling MUCH better and playing xbox. I crawled up in his lap and told him how sorry I was for my crappy Christmas Eve attitude and that I would be better and how much I missed him. He was so excited to open presents he was begging me to do it right then. I needed time to wake up so I made him wait an hour. lol. He is so impatient it was pretty cute. So we opened presents and he LOVED his popcorn popper I got him for his soon-to-be "man cave" basement :) And he spoiled me rotten! What other person knows me well enough to buy me slippers (aka slickers as I call them) and a LABELER! OMG I was in heaven! My whole entire house is going to be so friggin organized and labeled! Oh my goodness. Ha. I am psycho! But I seriously got so excited! He got me a couple Christmas cd's I had wanted b/c ya'll do not understand how obsessed w/ Christmas music I am! Honestly.
A little later we then we headed over to Momma and Dad's and helped get lunch ready and sat down to a feast! Now don't ask me what we ate I can not remember for the life of me! Some yummy delicious cut of steak (but not prime rib?? I don't remember!). It was heaven, and corn casserole, potatoes, more Jell-O, carrots, and breadsticks. Oh it was so yummy! So we stuffed ourselves again, and again Baby Girl was in heaven floppin all over the place. It was so sweet. Then us kids did the dishes for Mom and quick cleaned up so we could do presents! I got spoiled some MORE! Socks, a winter hat, robe, digital picture frame (which Steve is super excited about. That boy loves him some electronics), make up, and Steve gave me another present! The most amazing chair for our master bedroom where I can sit and feed Hailey! I am super excited! So it was a great time. Then we all watched "Elf" because my Mom and Steve hadn't seen it before. Oh my we were crying from laughing so hard at some parts. To funny!!!!
Then we laid around some more and ate dinner of yummy ham sandwiches, and then we finally packed up all our stuff and went home! It was such a great Family day and we are so so so blessed! Sorry I never take many pictures, I will try to steal some from my BIL and post then on here later! :) I know ya'll want to see Momma's tree and all the food and my fat self that doesn't fit in her regular clothes anymore right? Ha
Now on to our house. As we speak Steve is doing the walk-through with the head builder manager guy and our rep from the company that is building our home. It it quite exciting! This time next week I will finally be a home owner! We close next Friday Jan 2nd, at 8am. I am so excited you have NO idea. I actually think I might make it and I can actually see us living there now! Ha. YES!!! We're really really excited and trying to get organized and find help to move. It really stinks that I am out of commission as I usually run around like a mad woman getting everything done and organized. It will be so hard to just stay around and unpack boxes (which I have been told I am NOT allowed to lift any so they all better get taken to the right places!), and tell other's what to do. :/ I don't give out instructions well; I'm not a boss so we'll see how this goes. I plan on mainly working on the kitchen and bathrooms so hopefully that will keep me busy! We are truly blessed by great families and I know we can count on them to help us! We are also blessed as so far the 10 day weather planner is saying a high of 35 and sunny for the day we plan to move! Plus it will be in the 40s all week before so we should have no snow and no ice! Praise God such an answer to prayer! Of course it could change between now and then but I really hope not! So with out further ado here are some pictures of the house pretty much completed!
Looking from the living room to the hall way/front door. The 1/2 wall to your left is what is over the stairs going down to the "man cave"
My BEAUTIFUL kitchen! I am so excited to cook and even clean dishes in my OWN kitchen again! lol we'll see how long it lasts for ;)
Close up of the sink. I have never ever had a stainless sick or such an awesome faucet. Yes we're geeks we were playing w/ the water. lol
View of our bedroom from the doorway. You can kinda see the carpet it's dark tan/Brown. I <3>
Probably my 3rd Favorite room in the whole house (after the kitchen and Bean's nursery). Our HUGE walk-in closet. So glad we decided to go with extra shelving!
Our Bathroom sinks in the master bathroom. We are so excited. Hopefully we can get along and share a bathroom ;)
And now for a totally random picture. Steve's Mom totally went crazy and is spoiling our child rotten! This girl is gonna be so well dressed. A couple things we had already recieved (the gorgeous Green sweater hand knit by Steve's Aunt Dawn! I LOVE IT!) , but most of this is just from Christmas!!! So crazy.
December 19, 2008
Traditions.............
So in catching up in all my blog reading lately one of my favorite topics is how you and your family celebrate Christmas and the Birth of our Savior. My other favorites are when people post pictures of all thier Christmas decorations. I found a picture of our tree all decorated from last year, of course I don't have one this year as I don't have a house. So my tree, stockings, nativity scene, and beautiful wreath are all packed away until Next November :( I am seriously considering having Christmas in like July or August just so I get my stuff out and decorate and take pictures (and having my OWN kitchen w/ all my bake/cookwear and baking Holiday goodies!). But I don't suppose 95 degree Nebraska weather will be very festive huh? I digress..........so I'll go on and on about my family and our wonderful Christmas traditions.
This honestly is my favorite time of year. I LOVE it. I start at the beginning of November by listening to some great local radio stations that play Christmas music 24/7 until December 26th. It's so great! I love going to the stores and seeing garland and trees up with red bows. Oh it puts me in a great mood and motivates me to shop early and get everything out of the way so I can enjoy it. I LOVE decorating, putting up the tree, silvery candles, pine cones, oh I love it all! One of my favorite things in this season to do is to go around various neighborhoods and look at Christmas lights while playing Manheim Steamroller on the car cd player. Seriously it's like the greatest thing ever. My Dad used to do it to us when we were little and you better believe I am going to drag my kids out in their jammies and do it to them to! Steve hasn't quite caught on to this Becky Tradition but we'll get him there no worries!
So on to actual Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Now first of all you must know that Christmas Eve is one of the greatest days EVER of all time. Why you ask? Because that is the day my Daddy was born. He hates this. More then the plague. Growing up as a child he got the shaft and would get Christmas presents wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper that people would try to pass off as Birthday presents. This did NOT go over well. I specifically remember him telling us that his Grandma would send him socks, underwear and t-shirts every single year from California for his Birthday/Christmas present combined. So if we're feeling extra feisty one year somebody will buy him some socks and underwear. It's pretty hilarious to see the expression on his face. Anyways, so it's a VERY big deal we get him separate presents wrapped in BIRTHDAY wrapping paper nothing even slightly resembling Christmas wrapping :) We celebrate his Birthday in the afternoon and give him presents and do whatever he requests. lol he can be quite demanding! Anyways, then Christmas eve night is our BIG family Christmas night. It's super fun and special! We usually go to somebody's church (my parents go to a different church then me and my sis and brother) for the Christmas Eve candle lit service which I just LOVE. Nothing says Christmas like praising God with our voices of praise! It usually makes me cry (I am such a freaking emotional person even non pregnant) and puts me in such a great mood! Then we go home and have Mommy's home made cream of potato soup. Oh my it's amazing. I think if there were one year we didn't have it I would cry my eyes out. It's been our staple Christmas Eve food for over 20 years. I love it! The fixins' with the soup can change but the soup MUST be present. Even my extra super picky Hubby is in love w/ Mommy's potato soup! Lately the fixings have been a scrumptious jello salad, relish trey, and ham sandwiches. Oh my it's so amazing! Add the welch's sparkling grape juice and call me good to go! I LOVE it! Probably the best and my most favorite night of food all year. Seriously people. So we eat and shove our faces, by low lighting and candles mind you, I LOVE it. And then we all help clean up quickly so we can go and open all our presents! It's fun usually Dad puts on the ugly ol Santa hat and hands out the gifts. It always starts of one person at a time going and everybody else watches but after a couple minutes we get tired of that and we're all opening things at the same time. But I LOVE it cuz Dad always wants to know what everybody gets (it's so great, he bought it less then 2 weeks ago, wrapped it and has already forgotten what it is. Seriously cracks us up he has to see what your opening and wants to know what it is like he hasn't seen it before. Then maybe he will remember it's so cute I love how excited he gets it totally wears off on us kids). It's pretty fun. After presents we hang out and gather up all the trash and play/look at all our great loot!
On Christmas day we're pretty lazy, we sleep in, don't get dressed until like noon and then eat a big meal. Honestly Christmas Day isn't a big deal for my Family we do everything mainly on Christmas Eve. Last year me and Steve stayed home and opened presents we got each other, ate some left overs and I think I made a nice dinner and we watched movies and took naps. It was lovely. Some years Mom will make a big ham lunch and we'll go over and sometimes she doesn't it all just depends. Is any of this making sense or am I all over the place?? Anyways, so yeah Christmas Eve is special and I LOVE it and I LOVE my family and being with them and I LOVE that we celebrate the Savior's Birth!! Being pregnant myself I can only imagine how Mary was feeling, in pain, cold, on a Donkey, and had to go to a smelly cold barn and deliver her Baby with only her Husband there for support and help. How scary! But seeing that Baby and knowing how special he was and still is made it all go away I'm sure :) I am so so thankful!
This year is going to be WAY different. I'm really sad. It turns out that my Mom has to WORK on Christmas Eve :*( This is a major deal. Ha. Not really she only has to work like 1/2 a shift and will be off by 7 but it's still sad. She has promised to make the potato soup and keep it on low on the stove so we can eat it before she gets home and then she will join us when she gets off work. Also it turns out that Brian's (BIL) family is getting together Christmas Eve and they are going to go over and celebrate with him. It's fine I will just miss Sissy and her Hubby Christmas Eve! So our night will start out with me, Steve, Dad, and Andy meeting at my church to see the Christmas program. I have been teaching a couple girls every Sunday night since Early September 3 Christmas songs. I am so proud of these girls and their beautiful voices singing praises to God. I LOVE it! I am sooooooo excited to see them up there in front of the whole sanctuary singing their voices out! It should be quite entertaining :) They are so cute. So after church the 4 of us will go home and eat and hopefully Mom will be home soon! Then I think we will just hang out and maybe watch tv or relax or wahtever! Then we will have a big lunch and open all the presents Christmas Day. This is weird to me but I am going with it cuz I want everybody to be there together when we do! I'm sure Steve will give me a present Christmas eve seeing as how the boy can not wait at all. LOL.
Another cool tradition we started last year was that each person in the family has to buy a $5 gift and wrap it. We each start out with a present in hand, doesn't matter what it is just 1 present for each person. Dad reads The Christmas Story from the Bible and every time he says a certain word like IT or AND (it has to be a common word not something weird that won't be said very often) and you pass the present to the person sitting to your right every time the word is said. By the end of the story you open your present! We had to fudge a little last year and switch so we didn't open what you bought. DUH. It's super fun and we laughed the entire time and got to hear the real Christmas story!
So yeah we're really not as traditional as I thought we were some things are flexible but we always make sure to be together and always eat our potato soup ;) I LOVE this time of year and hearing your stories. So tell me! Wither it was growing up, what you do w/ your spouse/kids now, if you get together with family it's all special and I love to know! I like stealing other people's ideas for our family as it grows I want to pass along some of these great things to our children and cherish the memories forever!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
Our tree, stockings, and nativity scene in 2006. Blah HATE the bare white walls so boring! (also notice there is a missing tree skirt. Yeah the Dog chewed it up and I was NOT happy)
Tree in '07. More ornimates, a new tree, a SKIRT!, and lots of presents. Oh I miss it! I think next year I am going to do red instead of all the blue what do you think??
December 17, 2008
Crazyness
So I am FINALLY updating. I know I am like a week late but oh well. I had over 200 blogs to read while I was in Denver, and all sorts of interesting things to look up online (can anyone say BABY stuff/clothes?? ha). Plus I keep forgetting to send myself 2 of my (4) pictures I took while in Denver. I know I am ashamed of myself for taking 4 pictures 2 of which were of Meg's Dog Austin, my nephew. LOL. I promise if we get together while she is "home" in Omaha for Christmas next week I will take some pictures of us together to prove that she really likes me and does exist. Ha.
Honestly it was the best, most relaxing, funnest vacations I have ever taken. Seriously. We did not do a thing. Ha. We did stuff just nothing big, no theme parks, driving hours away, nothing it was perfect! I got there Saturday afternoon, oh wait I must interject here. When I started working at the branch on Maple for First National I met a teller there named Nicole. We knew each other’s name from somewhere but couldn't figure it out. So we started talking about high school, churches, and stuff. Long story short it led us to elementary school and we figured out we were in Kindergarten together! Yes I went to 4 1/2 months of Kindergarten before being pulled out to Home school and it just happened to be that Nicole was in my class and now I am working with her at the bank! Well, she left the bank and works for Sprint who I have my cell phone through so she is my go-to girl for all my cell phone needs! :) Anywho she was sitting at the airport at MY gate with her friend! So I went up to her and said hi and turns out she was on the same flight to Denver! It was so funny. Small world right? So since we flew Southwest and you don't have assigned seating I ended up sitting w/ her and her friend and catching up. It was fun and made the flight go super fast. Denver is a HUGE airport like seriously huge and very scary if you've never been there before. So it was great to have a friend to go through it w/ and try to find luggage claim and all that :) It worked out great and it was so good to see her! Anyways so once I got through the scary airport and found Meg we went back to her apt and hung out for a little bit. Then we went to her sister's apt and hung out and chatted and then went out to Sweet Tomatoes for dinner. OMG we NEED one in Omaha. Seriously if you live in a different state look them up and see if there is one near you, if so RUN there as quickly as possible! It was amazing. A huge never ending salad, soup, fruit, pasta, frozen yogurt bar. Oh my I was in heaven! I think we each ate like 7 plates of food. Now we didn't eat like full plates just tried nibbles of things but oh my it was heaven! We didn't eat the entire rest of the evening and we had an early dinner! Then we went back to the apt where Meg's roommate Kevin was hanging out w/ their friend CJ who also was staying there for the night from Omaha. Again small world. Well, it's a long story and we were going to go downtown but the boys were NOT co-operating, it was cold and yucky outside, and the boys ended up buying a pay per view boxing match. Oscar De La Hoya or whatever his name is against somebody who beat the living you know what out of him. I had never seen a fight before, to be honest I avoided them but whatever it was actually somewhat entertaining. So we all passed out and went to bed (after a taco bell run for the boys who had a couple to many beers), and woke up Sunday to a gorgeous 65 degree day. Oh the mountains were so beautiful! I don't think I would ever get tired of looking at them they are so gorgeous. But again I didn't take any pictures because my only views of them were from the car while driving on the interstate and with an occasional bridge and cars everywhere, I don't think the pictures would have turned out. :( We went to the greatest outlet mall in the world and of course I walked out w/ nothing but a $7 pair of sunglasses. Which of course I love to death! lol. Not knowing the sex of the baby stunk I wanted to go crazy and buy a bunch of cute things at all the baby stores but I held off. I just knew I would buy a bunch of girl clothes only to find out Wednesday it was a boy or vice versa. lol. I was annoyed! And for some reason I am scared to buy maternity shirts. I know I will have to break down SOON (as my belly is peaking out of the sweater I am currently wearing lol) but I can't do it. So yeah I was boring and saved my $ which is probably a good thing :) Sunday afternoon we laid around and watched one of the greatest movies EVER P.S. I Love You. Oh my it's so amazing. Megan nor Kevin had ever seen it and they loved it. Oh I forgot! We also stopped after the mall at a local pizza shoppe and got some yummy slices of pizza. It was rather late so we waited until about 7 to eat Goulosh made by yours truly. I seriously love to cook and I have missed not having my own kitchen while living w/ the in laws! One MAIN thing I am excited for (in 2 WEEKS!) is having my OWN kitchen and cooking all day and night and spoiling my hubby and giving him an even bigger belly then mine :) So we ate dinner and Megan studied for her finals while I flipped through TV stations and tried to leave her alone :) It probably didn't work well. We went to bed early cuz Meg had to be up to take her final at 7am, I laid around all morning until Megan got home then we laid around some more and watched some tv and just hung out. I finally got off my butt and showered and got ready for the day! We went to a very very posh movie theater in a very ritzy expensive neighborhood, we saw Australia with Nicole Kidman cuz it was like the only movie that was halfway decent playing at the time. (the theater is so small it only had 4 screens) It was a good movie but it was like 3 hours long! It was crazy. I don't recommend seeing it, maybe rent it if you must but be prepared for LOTS of blood and deaths. Some funny parts, but just kind of a weird plot. Anyways, after that we met up w/ her "best Denver friend" Janna, Janna's Mom and Aunt cuz Janna graduated Vet school that day! Yay go Janna! So we ate some yummy bar food and chatted and had fun :) We got home early since Meg had to study for her OTHER final the next morning. I watched my normal Monday night shows and just hung out and tried to be quiet again which again I'm sure it didn't work. Ha. So Tuesday Meg woke up at the crack of dawn again and took her final and I laid around being lazy as usual! We went to lunch at another great local place called Spicy Pickle. Oh my it was heaven! It was a cross between a panera and I don't know some other yummy sandwich/soup/salad place. Ha. It was so delish! Then we took the long way to get to the interstate and started the long drive to the airport I was so sad to be leaving :( But we had a BAD snowstorm in Denver Monday night that produced about 3" of snow and they were calling for bad weather in Omaha so I was deathly afraid my flight would be delayed/canceled due to bad weather. And ya'll I HAD to get back to Omaha to find out about my Baby on Wednesday! Luckily everything was perfect and my flights were right on time. I got into Omaha at about 7:15 and ran into my babies arms so glad to see him. I love that Man! We went home and he had a great surprise/present for me! I know I've said it on here before but it's really comical to me. Right when it's about a week or maybe more before a big event that boy can not WAIT for whatever occasion is coming up; he always has to give presents before. Like I always get a present a week before my actual Birthday. I get presents weeks before Christmas time. It's super funny and his Mom is the same exact way. They just get to excited and can't wait! So there was a bag with a present in it laying on the bed for me to open. To my shock and surprise he had ordered a Video Camera for us! I had been looking at them for months with the baby coming I knew we would want to capture all the big moments on video and I was excited to get one, but he kept making me wait until we got the house and moved to get one and then we would start seriously looking. Well, I guess he found a great deal and couldn't pass it up so he got it for me as an early Christmas present! I was so shocked and surprised that boy is horrible at lying and he knew about it for weeks and still told me we couldn't get one, I love my Hubby! So be prepared for LOTS of videos on here once I figure out how to upload them and everything! lol
So Wednesday morning comes, we slept in and Steve stayed home from work to go w/ me to the Dr apt and then go into work for a meeting after the apt. I was a nervous wreck. I couldn't focus on anything. I was in a bad mood and snapping at my poor innocent Hubby (I apologized later no worries) :( I so mean. But honestly I was so stressed ya'll don't know! So we wait a couple minutes in the lobby and Casey (u/s tech that I LOVE to death), took us to her room. We let the machine start up and get warmed up and had to wait even longer. Oh my I thought I was going to die from anticipation. Now I must stop here and interject, I did not care what-so-ever about the sex of the Baby. A boy, a girl, 1 baby, 4 babies whatever as long as it was healthy. All my nervousness and anticipation was over the health and only the fact that our Baby be perfect! I was so worried about Trisomy 13, 18, skeletal dyspepsia, something fatal and wrong with our Baby. Honestly I am SUCH a worry wart. I know way too much about all the different diseases Babies in utero can have and although NONE of our family has any history of any birth defects or anything I was so scared to hear "incompatible with life". So anyways, Casey comes in and is going to start, we tell her we do want to find out the sex but not until the very end once we find out everything was healthy and fine. We told her if she needed to move the screen we were fine w/ it (which she did have to do like 6 or 7 times). She scanned, measured, and looked for over 35 minutes. She was telling us stories about her own pregnancies (they had like 30 boys on her Dad's side of the family and she already had a boy and swore her 2nd baby was a boy and it was a girl!), other people, and some clients. She was so funny it was awesome she puts me at ease like nobody else can. So finally once she is done measuring everything and printing like a million pictures for us of the spine, profile, foot, I was in Mommy heaven with all the pictures! She goes through and shows us everything and telling us everything is measuring perfect. Oh my I was so so so so relived I can't tell you. I think Steve's poor fingers were purple from me squeezing him so hard. lol. Then we got to see a 4d of the Baby's face! The little arm was over the face, but we could make out a button nose, chin, and mouth it was so cute. Bean kept coving their face w/ their arms and hiding. I was so mad! It better get used to pictures and Momma shoving a camera in their face every 2 seconds. Ha. So after showing us the ribs and how perfectly shaped the spinal cord is, she showed us the Babies hands. Most of you know that if a Baby has Tri 13 or 18 their hands are clenched and it's a very very bad sign. Well, our babies’ hands were in front of their mouth sucking the thumb and waving to us. The most beautiful sight I have ever seen! This was one of my biggest worries was seeing a fist. It was beautiful, that was when I lost it. Not finding out what it was but that it was perfect and OK! Now for boring stats :) The Baby weighed 11 oz and that put it in the 28th percentile. Honestly I could care less about those charts and will never pay attention to them the whole time my child is growing up. I think they are dumb and a lot of kids now are over weight and un-healthy so why do I want to compare and have my child be "normal" or even on the big side! Oh sorry I am done ranting. So yeah Casey said that was perfect size and if the baby stays right on that curve of growing it will be in the low 7 lbs mark. Perfect for me I don't need to be pushing out a 10 lb kid! HA. But of course who knows what could change and the baby could start rapidly gaining weight in the next couple months. As long as it's healthy and they can get it out of me that is all I care about! I was measuring about 3 days ahead which is good and that means I could go a couple days early before my expected due date of April 30th. Again fine with me an early small Baby would be awesome! So after all this boring stuff is done she starts scanning again and looking for the Babies butt/lower area. She said she already knew what it was and was excited for us. We kept telling her it was a boy and how excited we were for a little boy but we were arguing over names and it was funny. So she finally finds the bottom half of the baby and lets us look for a minute, I was so sure I saw a little "wang" (sorry for the term) and said out loud "see I knew it was a Boy Steven!" and we squeezed each other's hands, so Casey just kept quiet but on the screen started typing and wrote in BIG letters T H I N K P I N K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG I almost screamed! A little girl!!! Oh wow I am crying sitting here at my desk re-living it. It was so amazing and perfect and wonderful. We both started crying and were so happy. She showed us all her parts and why she thought it was a girl and we got to look at her some more and see her face and sucking her thumb. She is a VERY active Baby and was all over the screen! It was amazing. So we got like 12 pictures printed off including 2 of the 4D pictures which I will put on here at the end! She is sooooooo beautiful I am sooooooo in love w/ this Baby Girl. She is perfect and growing and I can feel her moving all the time! I just love it. She is going to be spoiled rotten! We left the office and went down to the front lobby to call our Mom's and tell them the wonderful news! Steve had to rush off for a meeting :( So I made him call his Mom at school first. As soon as she answered he told her everything is perfect and the Baby is healthy and fine and that Hailey Elaine will be here at the end of April. His Mom, God love her tends to be a loud talker and I can ALWAYS hear her on the other end of the phone and of course I was squished up to Steve's head so I could hear her reaction. lol. So she just goes "oh that's great!!!" then paused and "screamed IT'S A GIRL?!?!?!!" it was hilarious exactly the reaction I wanted! She was so positive it was a boy she had been out buying boy outfits and blue things and has since had to return them all! :) I loved it! Then I called my Momma who was about in tears and was so excited. She thought it was a boy to so she was thrilled. It was sweet. I called my sister also who was excited and one of my BFF's Nikki and we screamed together and talked about all the things I'll need and how excited we were. She has a little girl and is pregnant w/ a little boy due in Jan so I love talking to her cuz she will tell me all the practical things I need to get to get ready for the Baby to be here. I sent out a mass text message to all my other best girls and got so many amazing loving responses back. We are so blessed and this girl is going to have so many amazing cute clothes and be so spoiled by all her "Aunties"! I love these girls so much!
I think my most favorite reaction of all was from my Dad. Now you must know I think my Daddy is one of the greatest Men ever (besides God, my Hubby and my bro) and I love him to death. You could say I am a Daddy's girl and I would do anything for him. So he called me at about 6 that evening and told me he was secretly hoping it was a little girl all along and was so excited. He said the name Hailey is perfect and beautiful and he loves it. It was so great I was almost bawling. I know this lil girl is going to have Grandpa wrapped around her whole HAND and he will love her and be silly with her and they will have a special relationship. I hope Hailey and her own Daddy also have a special relationship like me and my Dad and are always close.
So later that morning I went to my regular apt w/ Dr R and he didn't do much, measured me (but didn't tell me anything about it. Wonder if I am to fat..........), and we talked for a couple minutes, I had some concerns about some of the glues and paints they use in new houses and if everything would be fine. He told me nothing will harm me or the Baby and that I can even paint her nursery! Yay! I don't think my Hubby will agree to that and that is fine with me! He can do all the painting ;) Love you Honey! Ha. So without further ado I introduce to you Hailey Elaine Sessions who should be here in less then 5 months! I want to meet her so badly!!!
Honestly it was the best, most relaxing, funnest vacations I have ever taken. Seriously. We did not do a thing. Ha. We did stuff just nothing big, no theme parks, driving hours away, nothing it was perfect! I got there Saturday afternoon, oh wait I must interject here. When I started working at the branch on Maple for First National I met a teller there named Nicole. We knew each other’s name from somewhere but couldn't figure it out. So we started talking about high school, churches, and stuff. Long story short it led us to elementary school and we figured out we were in Kindergarten together! Yes I went to 4 1/2 months of Kindergarten before being pulled out to Home school and it just happened to be that Nicole was in my class and now I am working with her at the bank! Well, she left the bank and works for Sprint who I have my cell phone through so she is my go-to girl for all my cell phone needs! :) Anywho she was sitting at the airport at MY gate with her friend! So I went up to her and said hi and turns out she was on the same flight to Denver! It was so funny. Small world right? So since we flew Southwest and you don't have assigned seating I ended up sitting w/ her and her friend and catching up. It was fun and made the flight go super fast. Denver is a HUGE airport like seriously huge and very scary if you've never been there before. So it was great to have a friend to go through it w/ and try to find luggage claim and all that :) It worked out great and it was so good to see her! Anyways so once I got through the scary airport and found Meg we went back to her apt and hung out for a little bit. Then we went to her sister's apt and hung out and chatted and then went out to Sweet Tomatoes for dinner. OMG we NEED one in Omaha. Seriously if you live in a different state look them up and see if there is one near you, if so RUN there as quickly as possible! It was amazing. A huge never ending salad, soup, fruit, pasta, frozen yogurt bar. Oh my I was in heaven! I think we each ate like 7 plates of food. Now we didn't eat like full plates just tried nibbles of things but oh my it was heaven! We didn't eat the entire rest of the evening and we had an early dinner! Then we went back to the apt where Meg's roommate Kevin was hanging out w/ their friend CJ who also was staying there for the night from Omaha. Again small world. Well, it's a long story and we were going to go downtown but the boys were NOT co-operating, it was cold and yucky outside, and the boys ended up buying a pay per view boxing match. Oscar De La Hoya or whatever his name is against somebody who beat the living you know what out of him. I had never seen a fight before, to be honest I avoided them but whatever it was actually somewhat entertaining. So we all passed out and went to bed (after a taco bell run for the boys who had a couple to many beers), and woke up Sunday to a gorgeous 65 degree day. Oh the mountains were so beautiful! I don't think I would ever get tired of looking at them they are so gorgeous. But again I didn't take any pictures because my only views of them were from the car while driving on the interstate and with an occasional bridge and cars everywhere, I don't think the pictures would have turned out. :( We went to the greatest outlet mall in the world and of course I walked out w/ nothing but a $7 pair of sunglasses. Which of course I love to death! lol. Not knowing the sex of the baby stunk I wanted to go crazy and buy a bunch of cute things at all the baby stores but I held off. I just knew I would buy a bunch of girl clothes only to find out Wednesday it was a boy or vice versa. lol. I was annoyed! And for some reason I am scared to buy maternity shirts. I know I will have to break down SOON (as my belly is peaking out of the sweater I am currently wearing lol) but I can't do it. So yeah I was boring and saved my $ which is probably a good thing :) Sunday afternoon we laid around and watched one of the greatest movies EVER P.S. I Love You. Oh my it's so amazing. Megan nor Kevin had ever seen it and they loved it. Oh I forgot! We also stopped after the mall at a local pizza shoppe and got some yummy slices of pizza. It was rather late so we waited until about 7 to eat Goulosh made by yours truly. I seriously love to cook and I have missed not having my own kitchen while living w/ the in laws! One MAIN thing I am excited for (in 2 WEEKS!) is having my OWN kitchen and cooking all day and night and spoiling my hubby and giving him an even bigger belly then mine :) So we ate dinner and Megan studied for her finals while I flipped through TV stations and tried to leave her alone :) It probably didn't work well. We went to bed early cuz Meg had to be up to take her final at 7am, I laid around all morning until Megan got home then we laid around some more and watched some tv and just hung out. I finally got off my butt and showered and got ready for the day! We went to a very very posh movie theater in a very ritzy expensive neighborhood, we saw Australia with Nicole Kidman cuz it was like the only movie that was halfway decent playing at the time. (the theater is so small it only had 4 screens) It was a good movie but it was like 3 hours long! It was crazy. I don't recommend seeing it, maybe rent it if you must but be prepared for LOTS of blood and deaths. Some funny parts, but just kind of a weird plot. Anyways, after that we met up w/ her "best Denver friend" Janna, Janna's Mom and Aunt cuz Janna graduated Vet school that day! Yay go Janna! So we ate some yummy bar food and chatted and had fun :) We got home early since Meg had to study for her OTHER final the next morning. I watched my normal Monday night shows and just hung out and tried to be quiet again which again I'm sure it didn't work. Ha. So Tuesday Meg woke up at the crack of dawn again and took her final and I laid around being lazy as usual! We went to lunch at another great local place called Spicy Pickle. Oh my it was heaven! It was a cross between a panera and I don't know some other yummy sandwich/soup/salad place. Ha. It was so delish! Then we took the long way to get to the interstate and started the long drive to the airport I was so sad to be leaving :( But we had a BAD snowstorm in Denver Monday night that produced about 3" of snow and they were calling for bad weather in Omaha so I was deathly afraid my flight would be delayed/canceled due to bad weather. And ya'll I HAD to get back to Omaha to find out about my Baby on Wednesday! Luckily everything was perfect and my flights were right on time. I got into Omaha at about 7:15 and ran into my babies arms so glad to see him. I love that Man! We went home and he had a great surprise/present for me! I know I've said it on here before but it's really comical to me. Right when it's about a week or maybe more before a big event that boy can not WAIT for whatever occasion is coming up; he always has to give presents before. Like I always get a present a week before my actual Birthday. I get presents weeks before Christmas time. It's super funny and his Mom is the same exact way. They just get to excited and can't wait! So there was a bag with a present in it laying on the bed for me to open. To my shock and surprise he had ordered a Video Camera for us! I had been looking at them for months with the baby coming I knew we would want to capture all the big moments on video and I was excited to get one, but he kept making me wait until we got the house and moved to get one and then we would start seriously looking. Well, I guess he found a great deal and couldn't pass it up so he got it for me as an early Christmas present! I was so shocked and surprised that boy is horrible at lying and he knew about it for weeks and still told me we couldn't get one, I love my Hubby! So be prepared for LOTS of videos on here once I figure out how to upload them and everything! lol
So Wednesday morning comes, we slept in and Steve stayed home from work to go w/ me to the Dr apt and then go into work for a meeting after the apt. I was a nervous wreck. I couldn't focus on anything. I was in a bad mood and snapping at my poor innocent Hubby (I apologized later no worries) :( I so mean. But honestly I was so stressed ya'll don't know! So we wait a couple minutes in the lobby and Casey (u/s tech that I LOVE to death), took us to her room. We let the machine start up and get warmed up and had to wait even longer. Oh my I thought I was going to die from anticipation. Now I must stop here and interject, I did not care what-so-ever about the sex of the Baby. A boy, a girl, 1 baby, 4 babies whatever as long as it was healthy. All my nervousness and anticipation was over the health and only the fact that our Baby be perfect! I was so worried about Trisomy 13, 18, skeletal dyspepsia, something fatal and wrong with our Baby. Honestly I am SUCH a worry wart. I know way too much about all the different diseases Babies in utero can have and although NONE of our family has any history of any birth defects or anything I was so scared to hear "incompatible with life". So anyways, Casey comes in and is going to start, we tell her we do want to find out the sex but not until the very end once we find out everything was healthy and fine. We told her if she needed to move the screen we were fine w/ it (which she did have to do like 6 or 7 times). She scanned, measured, and looked for over 35 minutes. She was telling us stories about her own pregnancies (they had like 30 boys on her Dad's side of the family and she already had a boy and swore her 2nd baby was a boy and it was a girl!), other people, and some clients. She was so funny it was awesome she puts me at ease like nobody else can. So finally once she is done measuring everything and printing like a million pictures for us of the spine, profile, foot, I was in Mommy heaven with all the pictures! She goes through and shows us everything and telling us everything is measuring perfect. Oh my I was so so so so relived I can't tell you. I think Steve's poor fingers were purple from me squeezing him so hard. lol. Then we got to see a 4d of the Baby's face! The little arm was over the face, but we could make out a button nose, chin, and mouth it was so cute. Bean kept coving their face w/ their arms and hiding. I was so mad! It better get used to pictures and Momma shoving a camera in their face every 2 seconds. Ha. So after showing us the ribs and how perfectly shaped the spinal cord is, she showed us the Babies hands. Most of you know that if a Baby has Tri 13 or 18 their hands are clenched and it's a very very bad sign. Well, our babies’ hands were in front of their mouth sucking the thumb and waving to us. The most beautiful sight I have ever seen! This was one of my biggest worries was seeing a fist. It was beautiful, that was when I lost it. Not finding out what it was but that it was perfect and OK! Now for boring stats :) The Baby weighed 11 oz and that put it in the 28th percentile. Honestly I could care less about those charts and will never pay attention to them the whole time my child is growing up. I think they are dumb and a lot of kids now are over weight and un-healthy so why do I want to compare and have my child be "normal" or even on the big side! Oh sorry I am done ranting. So yeah Casey said that was perfect size and if the baby stays right on that curve of growing it will be in the low 7 lbs mark. Perfect for me I don't need to be pushing out a 10 lb kid! HA. But of course who knows what could change and the baby could start rapidly gaining weight in the next couple months. As long as it's healthy and they can get it out of me that is all I care about! I was measuring about 3 days ahead which is good and that means I could go a couple days early before my expected due date of April 30th. Again fine with me an early small Baby would be awesome! So after all this boring stuff is done she starts scanning again and looking for the Babies butt/lower area. She said she already knew what it was and was excited for us. We kept telling her it was a boy and how excited we were for a little boy but we were arguing over names and it was funny. So she finally finds the bottom half of the baby and lets us look for a minute, I was so sure I saw a little "wang" (sorry for the term) and said out loud "see I knew it was a Boy Steven!" and we squeezed each other's hands, so Casey just kept quiet but on the screen started typing and wrote in BIG letters T H I N K P I N K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG I almost screamed! A little girl!!! Oh wow I am crying sitting here at my desk re-living it. It was so amazing and perfect and wonderful. We both started crying and were so happy. She showed us all her parts and why she thought it was a girl and we got to look at her some more and see her face and sucking her thumb. She is a VERY active Baby and was all over the screen! It was amazing. So we got like 12 pictures printed off including 2 of the 4D pictures which I will put on here at the end! She is sooooooo beautiful I am sooooooo in love w/ this Baby Girl. She is perfect and growing and I can feel her moving all the time! I just love it. She is going to be spoiled rotten! We left the office and went down to the front lobby to call our Mom's and tell them the wonderful news! Steve had to rush off for a meeting :( So I made him call his Mom at school first. As soon as she answered he told her everything is perfect and the Baby is healthy and fine and that Hailey Elaine will be here at the end of April. His Mom, God love her tends to be a loud talker and I can ALWAYS hear her on the other end of the phone and of course I was squished up to Steve's head so I could hear her reaction. lol. So she just goes "oh that's great!!!" then paused and "screamed IT'S A GIRL?!?!?!!" it was hilarious exactly the reaction I wanted! She was so positive it was a boy she had been out buying boy outfits and blue things and has since had to return them all! :) I loved it! Then I called my Momma who was about in tears and was so excited. She thought it was a boy to so she was thrilled. It was sweet. I called my sister also who was excited and one of my BFF's Nikki and we screamed together and talked about all the things I'll need and how excited we were. She has a little girl and is pregnant w/ a little boy due in Jan so I love talking to her cuz she will tell me all the practical things I need to get to get ready for the Baby to be here. I sent out a mass text message to all my other best girls and got so many amazing loving responses back. We are so blessed and this girl is going to have so many amazing cute clothes and be so spoiled by all her "Aunties"! I love these girls so much!
I think my most favorite reaction of all was from my Dad. Now you must know I think my Daddy is one of the greatest Men ever (besides God, my Hubby and my bro) and I love him to death. You could say I am a Daddy's girl and I would do anything for him. So he called me at about 6 that evening and told me he was secretly hoping it was a little girl all along and was so excited. He said the name Hailey is perfect and beautiful and he loves it. It was so great I was almost bawling. I know this lil girl is going to have Grandpa wrapped around her whole HAND and he will love her and be silly with her and they will have a special relationship. I hope Hailey and her own Daddy also have a special relationship like me and my Dad and are always close.
So later that morning I went to my regular apt w/ Dr R and he didn't do much, measured me (but didn't tell me anything about it. Wonder if I am to fat..........), and we talked for a couple minutes, I had some concerns about some of the glues and paints they use in new houses and if everything would be fine. He told me nothing will harm me or the Baby and that I can even paint her nursery! Yay! I don't think my Hubby will agree to that and that is fine with me! He can do all the painting ;) Love you Honey! Ha. So without further ado I introduce to you Hailey Elaine Sessions who should be here in less then 5 months! I want to meet her so badly!!!
Her footw/ 5 little toes, probably kickin her Momma!
Her most gorgeous profile! Face pointed up
4D picture. OK I realize for those of you who don't have kids or are not experts at seeing ultra sound pictures it looks really weird. I'll try to explain. Off to the far left is her plecenta (here by refured to as her "pillow" because she kept resting against it and Casey said she was sleeping against it like a pillow. Ha), then her head which she is digging her chin into her chest. You can see her nose right in the middle and her eyes above her cute lil nose. Her eyes are still sealed shut which is why she looks blind or something. Then her arm is drapped over her forehead cuz she was being shy and didn't want us to see her!
20wks 2days. Taken last Saturday I am 21 weeks today! Excuse the mess and the horrible face just focus on my cute lil Baby Girl Belly. Ha. Still wearing all my "normal" clothes to! YAY!
December 5, 2008
Omaha Update 12/5/08
It has been a while so I thought I would do a quick update. (Plus wifee says I have to blog) JK
Becky- Things are going well for her. She is staying very busy with friends and family. Work is there... just counting the days until she will be on maternity leave. B his feeling better with the pregnancy. Some meds are helping and she is eating almost normal. She is looking forward to all the upcoming things... Denver trip, new house, and baby. We learn the sex of the baby next week!
Steve- Going well. In the middle of lots of change again personal and work. Work is rebuilding the department and getting all new offices and cubes. The old ones were falling apart and it was about 25 years past due. Work is not too busy with the holidays coming, things tend to slow down. I am looking forward to dive into my main responsibilities in the next few months. I will be heading up a bank wide change of how items are purchased, a full source to settle solution.
I am enjoying watching nba. Even just on normal cable it is on 3 nights a week some times. Plus they finally got smart and start the east games at 7 instead of 8 or 9. But, most of the time I end up taping them and watching them on the weekend.
Baby- Baby is doing well too, All is good. Bean is growing and kicking. We will be glad to know the sex soon, and maybe even the name.
Well, that is it for now... I can't write as much as B does :)
Take care everyone!
Becky- Things are going well for her. She is staying very busy with friends and family. Work is there... just counting the days until she will be on maternity leave. B his feeling better with the pregnancy. Some meds are helping and she is eating almost normal. She is looking forward to all the upcoming things... Denver trip, new house, and baby. We learn the sex of the baby next week!
Steve- Going well. In the middle of lots of change again personal and work. Work is rebuilding the department and getting all new offices and cubes. The old ones were falling apart and it was about 25 years past due. Work is not too busy with the holidays coming, things tend to slow down. I am looking forward to dive into my main responsibilities in the next few months. I will be heading up a bank wide change of how items are purchased, a full source to settle solution.
I am enjoying watching nba. Even just on normal cable it is on 3 nights a week some times. Plus they finally got smart and start the east games at 7 instead of 8 or 9. But, most of the time I end up taping them and watching them on the weekend.
Baby- Baby is doing well too, All is good. Bean is growing and kicking. We will be glad to know the sex soon, and maybe even the name.
Well, that is it for now... I can't write as much as B does :)
Take care everyone!
December 4, 2008
Movin along
So I'll go on and blabbel for a little while and you'll just have to deal w/ it K?
I am super duper super mondo super excited (can you tell I am excited?) b/c I get to fly out to Denver to see my bestie ever Megan! Ahhhhhhhh! She has lived there for over 2 years and she comes back to Omaha so much so I always get to see her and I never have the time, $, or PTO at work to get to go see her :( And honestly ya'll I could travel once a weekend a month for 12 months out of the year and still not get to everybody I would want to go visit. I have friends in Florida, Pittsburgh, Colorado, and Ohio I could go visit. Then I have family in Indiana, California, Washington, Michigan, and Alabama I could go visit! Soooo crazy. I would LOVE to go see them and sometimes it's so hard planning trips and trying to decide who to go see and when. Plus being able to take like a whole week off at once for me and Steve is nearly impossible. It's so super hard! :( Makes me sad I haven't seen my Gram or my favorite Aunt's and Uncle's or met almost all of Steve's family!! We are hoping to make it to Indiana and at least Michigan this next year.
I am super duper super mondo super excited (can you tell I am excited?) b/c I get to fly out to Denver to see my bestie ever Megan! Ahhhhhhhh! She has lived there for over 2 years and she comes back to Omaha so much so I always get to see her and I never have the time, $, or PTO at work to get to go see her :( And honestly ya'll I could travel once a weekend a month for 12 months out of the year and still not get to everybody I would want to go visit. I have friends in Florida, Pittsburgh, Colorado, and Ohio I could go visit. Then I have family in Indiana, California, Washington, Michigan, and Alabama I could go visit! Soooo crazy. I would LOVE to go see them and sometimes it's so hard planning trips and trying to decide who to go see and when. Plus being able to take like a whole week off at once for me and Steve is nearly impossible. It's so super hard! :( Makes me sad I haven't seen my Gram or my favorite Aunt's and Uncle's or met almost all of Steve's family!! We are hoping to make it to Indiana and at least Michigan this next year.
So anyway all that to prove to you what a challenge it is for me to get away! But I made no excuses this time and w/ Southwest's AWESOME flights of $49, I really couldn't beat it. And honestly after living w/ the in laws for 5 1/2 months I knew I would want to get away and re charge my batteries! I am SUPER excited and can't wait to see where Meg lives, works, hangs out, meet her friends, go to what I have been told is THEE best restaurant EVER Sweet Tomato (is that right Meg?? I always friggin forget the name. Oops), do some outlet shopping and RELAX and cook for my girl! (and Kevin to!) I can't wait! I fly out Saturday morning and come back late Tuesday night then on Wednesday is the BIG appointment! Yes Becky caved and is going to find out if this little bean is a HIM or HER. I am super nervous, excited, emotional, fearful, a bunch of feelings all mixed into one! I am praying fastly that God has his hand over us and everything will be fine. I am scared God is going to take my innocence and give us something big that we think we can't handle. I know everything will be fine and he will not give us more then we can handle but if you think of us say a little prayer?? Thank you! We appreciate all of them! I will post a blog and let everybody know once we tell our parents and family, I am super excited and can't wait to tell the world the names we have picked (me and Steve are re hashing boy names as we speak. LOL we are in-decisive), and show the newest pictures of our Little Bean!
I will leave you with one new picture from the house from last Friday. We are hoping to go tomorrow and see a sidewalk, back patio, interior paint, and all our lighting fixtures up! But if nothing has changed inside we may just skip it and go next weekend :) We'll see and I'll make sure to take plenty of pictures! So here is the kitchen w/ ALL the cabinets installed and the counter tops on. I am partial but I think it's gorgeous!!!
I will leave you with one new picture from the house from last Friday. We are hoping to go tomorrow and see a sidewalk, back patio, interior paint, and all our lighting fixtures up! But if nothing has changed inside we may just skip it and go next weekend :) We'll see and I'll make sure to take plenty of pictures! So here is the kitchen w/ ALL the cabinets installed and the counter tops on. I am partial but I think it's gorgeous!!!
December 2, 2008
Bump and thump
So my most exciting news; I could finally at 18wks 4d finally was for sure feeling this little creation God has put in my body. Yes The Bean is going to be soccer star. Or maybe the most awesome next Husker Kicker! I don't care if it's a girl she could still kick the boys and footballs butt! OK sorry off track as always.........so I was sitting at my desk last night and I felt this little thump in my belly. I thought I had felt it earlier this weekend but wasn't sure what is was. It did NOT feel at all like what people said. No flutters, no bubbles, this was like a full on thump in my belly. So weird. It actually felt like I was having muscle spasm's. But I knew it wasn't a muscle spasm it was to sporadic. Call it Mother's instinct but I just knew it was my Baby telling me Hi I'm here Mom and I'm growing and fine! I LOVED it. I almost cried at my desk. (not the first time) I emailed Steve and he was all excited and said he wanted to feel it to. It's so sporadic I didn't know if he would be able to, plus I didn't know if you could feel it through all my layers of fat. Ha. So last night after dinner the little sucker was hyped up on something and was moving like mad so Steve rested his hand on my belly and felt it a couple times. It was very cool and he loved that he could be connected to the Baby like that. It was amazing. No matter what people tell you, the first time you feel it nobody can prepare you for that feeling. You try to imagine, even what it will feel like but everybody is different and you just never know. I think this kid likes to eat like it's parents because after every meal it freaks out and thumps the heck out of me. So amazing!
How was every one's Thanksgiving?? Mine was so awesome. I just LOVE our families and all the YUMMY cooking. Oh my it was incredible all the food I consumed! We first started at my parents w/ my sis, bro-in-law, and bro. We had Turkey (duh), stuffing, green bean casserole, Dad's special cranberries he made for me (I am so spoiled), wheat rolls, crescent rolls, garlic mashed potatoes, grape salad (if you beg I might ask my sis if I can post the recipe. I'll just tell you it's Paula Dean and AMAZING). And for desert we had apple pie, and apple pecan cheesecake. Roll me up and call me stuffed. OMG everything was so amazing! We hung out and chatted and then left. We got an hour nap to sleep off some of our food and then had another huge dinner w/ Steve's parents, his brother, sis-in-law, the 3 nephews and his niece. We had MORE turkey, my mashed potatoes, stuffing, corn, green beans, rolls, sweet potatoes, oh my I'm sure I am forgetting some but I love re-living all this food! It was so yummy! Shelley (sis-in-law) almost made the most amazing pies. Apple- my favorite and pumpkin! I had Apple but I could tell the Pumpkin looked scrumptious to! I wish I had a piece of each ;) So it was fun spending time w/ everybody but it was crazy busy day and I really think I prefer stretching it out a little bit more. I can't handle all that food in one day! Even being pregnant! I am used to eating all through out the day not like 1 HUGE meal. I'm sure I put Bean in a food coma that day :) I have so much to be thankful for, a amazing healthy (so far!) little life growing inside me, the most AMAZING Husband I could ever ask for, the most giving amazing families ever that do SO much for us- more then we deserve, a loving and faithful God that always has his hands over us, good health for everybody we are close with, and such amazing friends! I almost cry when I think of how bad people have it and how blessed and un-thankful we are for all we have!
My best friend Jess was in town from College in Lincoln so we got to go out to dinner Wednesday night and I drug her around to great places like Walmart and Kohl's ;) Ha! It was soooooooo great to be w/ her and talk and be the LOUD girls we always are when we are together! Then Meg was in town from Denver for the Holiday and we got to go see my new house and go out to lunch and did a VERY little amount of shopping Friday. (Black Friday and a hormonal pregnant Lady do NOT mix so I slept and didn't set foot in a store until after 2 which was when the Husker Football game started and all of Nebraska shuts down during the Nebraska/Colorado game or any Nebraska game really) It was so great!!!! Then on Saturday my sweet little Jordan turned 2. I got to go to his party and see all my fellow best ex-nanny friends! Oh how I miss them and their little ones! It was super fun, then I got to go help Natalie decorate her house for Christmas and meet up w/ the boys for dinner at one of my favorite Mexican restaurants, and THEN meet up w/ a couple of my FAVORITE bank friends! Oh I LOVE LOVE LOVE my friends they are the BEST! I of course had to have n/a daiquiri and didn't make fun of me and were just glad I drug my pregnant self out! It was so fun and again I am so blessed and thankful to have all these amazing people in my life. What did YOU do this last weekend?? Loves to everybody!
How was every one's Thanksgiving?? Mine was so awesome. I just LOVE our families and all the YUMMY cooking. Oh my it was incredible all the food I consumed! We first started at my parents w/ my sis, bro-in-law, and bro. We had Turkey (duh), stuffing, green bean casserole, Dad's special cranberries he made for me (I am so spoiled), wheat rolls, crescent rolls, garlic mashed potatoes, grape salad (if you beg I might ask my sis if I can post the recipe. I'll just tell you it's Paula Dean and AMAZING). And for desert we had apple pie, and apple pecan cheesecake. Roll me up and call me stuffed. OMG everything was so amazing! We hung out and chatted and then left. We got an hour nap to sleep off some of our food and then had another huge dinner w/ Steve's parents, his brother, sis-in-law, the 3 nephews and his niece. We had MORE turkey, my mashed potatoes, stuffing, corn, green beans, rolls, sweet potatoes, oh my I'm sure I am forgetting some but I love re-living all this food! It was so yummy! Shelley (sis-in-law) almost made the most amazing pies. Apple- my favorite and pumpkin! I had Apple but I could tell the Pumpkin looked scrumptious to! I wish I had a piece of each ;) So it was fun spending time w/ everybody but it was crazy busy day and I really think I prefer stretching it out a little bit more. I can't handle all that food in one day! Even being pregnant! I am used to eating all through out the day not like 1 HUGE meal. I'm sure I put Bean in a food coma that day :) I have so much to be thankful for, a amazing healthy (so far!) little life growing inside me, the most AMAZING Husband I could ever ask for, the most giving amazing families ever that do SO much for us- more then we deserve, a loving and faithful God that always has his hands over us, good health for everybody we are close with, and such amazing friends! I almost cry when I think of how bad people have it and how blessed and un-thankful we are for all we have!
My best friend Jess was in town from College in Lincoln so we got to go out to dinner Wednesday night and I drug her around to great places like Walmart and Kohl's ;) Ha! It was soooooooo great to be w/ her and talk and be the LOUD girls we always are when we are together! Then Meg was in town from Denver for the Holiday and we got to go see my new house and go out to lunch and did a VERY little amount of shopping Friday. (Black Friday and a hormonal pregnant Lady do NOT mix so I slept and didn't set foot in a store until after 2 which was when the Husker Football game started and all of Nebraska shuts down during the Nebraska/Colorado game or any Nebraska game really) It was so great!!!! Then on Saturday my sweet little Jordan turned 2. I got to go to his party and see all my fellow best ex-nanny friends! Oh how I miss them and their little ones! It was super fun, then I got to go help Natalie decorate her house for Christmas and meet up w/ the boys for dinner at one of my favorite Mexican restaurants, and THEN meet up w/ a couple of my FAVORITE bank friends! Oh I LOVE LOVE LOVE my friends they are the BEST! I of course had to have n/a daiquiri and didn't make fun of me and were just glad I drug my pregnant self out! It was so fun and again I am so blessed and thankful to have all these amazing people in my life. What did YOU do this last weekend?? Loves to everybody!
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