It's all fun and games until......and other bits

It's all fun and games until.....

someone pokes their eye out

you get hurt


you get in trouble

you loose a limb


I am sure we all heard that phrase at one point or another in our childhood, or maybe even recently. :)


Well for me it has all been fun and games UNTIL this cute bump started making me hurt.

Let me remedy that sentence, until Gwen started making my back, neck, shoulders, hips, belly, knees, legs and heart hurt.

The fun and games are gone, now my body is starting to rebel at having to carry this extra weight!

So now added to the fact that i am over-anxious to meet our little girl, i now just want my personhood back! I want to sleep without pain, walk without running out of breath, bend down without having to groan, eat without wondering what it might do to be later and roll over in bed with a minimum of effort and no dizziness!

I guess i had it coming. My pregnancy has been EASY! And by all accounts, i really have no right to complain now. For the most part, during the day i feel good, have a moderate amount of energy and am pain free. Plus, i do have the blessing of getting a massage once a week..... And i guess if it got real bad right now, it would just serve me right for having it so easy up till now.


But i am now just finding myself praying that for many different reasons (mainly cause i want to meet our little girl so bad!) i hope Gwen is just a TEENY bit early. Not to early for her to be too small, but earlier. Please?

We have had other exciting things going on in our lives though BESIDES our little Gwen (i am sure you would never have guessed that :)

My Great grandparents (yes i said GREAT) are coming to live with my grandparents in two weeks! They have lived in Kansas their whole lives and it is just getting too hard to take care of them when we live up here. So now we will get to see them MUCH more and they are very excited! I think this will greatly improve their quality of life, their health and probably extend their years on earth. Though we know they won't be with us too much longer, this is just going to be such a blessing to spend these last years or months in such close contact as we have been apart most of our lives. And maybe (hopefully!) we can squeeze in a 5 generations photo! Wouldn't that be cool!

WWW

You would never think that not having internet at home could be such a big deal. Well let me tell you, it is!

We have not had internet at home for a little over a year now (trying to save money) and now today we finally got it again! I am so so excited! It is amazing how often you use the internet every week and how much of a pain it is when you have to go somewhere else to get it. Now when i go to my parents house i won't be spending 80% of the time online and i can actually visit with them! Yeah!

63 days to go!

Yesterday i was officially 31 weeks pregnant! Here is a belly bump picture:

My doctor assures me i have more room left, but i sure do not feel like it! I finally took some pictures of the newly decorated nursery too so here they are!

I must admit, even though i am down to 63 days (or 9 weeks whichever you prefer), i was feeling like that is still a VERY long time! I mean, 9 weeks! That is more then two months! And i have to get bigger and a lot more uncomfortable during that time! But then i realized: I only have two more bi-weekly doctors appointments and then i go every week! Wow! I mean, you don't go every week until you are almost there! And i must admit, that since i have started going every two weeks, it has gone pretty fast. I just went on Tuesday again and it felt like i had just went, even though it had been two weeks ago. So that got me excited! Because i am so anxious to meet this little person inside of me! (and to get my mobility back! I swear i feel like i have gained 50lbs instead of just 28! I just can't move very fast anymore....)

My hubby is getting very anxious as well. When we went to see my new little nephew he was excited, but he said to me "I just wish it was our turn!" Don't i have a cute husband?

Oh, and i have a funny story to tell you! Throughout this whole pregnancy thing, my hubby has been pretty involved. He usually does not tune out when i start talking baby stuff, he has wanted to be involved in all the decisions we have had to make and he has taken care of me quite well. But, he has never been super excited to feel her move. This just does not make sense to me, because i think it is the most exciting thing in the whole world! But i really can't complain, he has been great in all other aspects, and it isn't like he doesn't like my new shape. So when we started talking about car seats and what we should get, i could not believe how excited he got! It was kind of weird! Once we settled on what to get and i went to get it, as soon as he got home from work he asked me "Did you get the car seat?" and then proceeded to rip open the box and scrutinize my purchase! Don't get me wrong, i was excited about the car seat because it is just a visual reminder that we get to take home a little baby in november and that it is getting close. But i couldn't believe that my hubby was THAT excited! I really thought he was going to rush out to the car and install it right then and there! So here is a picture of the RIVETING car seat:

Next time i will post some pictures of the clothes we had so much fun picking out for her to wear home from the birthing center!

I'm an Auntie!

This last weekend the exciting event finally happened!


My sister-in-law had her baby!

His name is Saige Gavin, he is 8lbs, 2ounces, 21 inches long and born with a moderate bit of dark blonde hair. He is absolutely adorable!

As we have been anticipating this for awhile, i am so excited now that he is born!

The really unfair part is that he has to live with his parents in Gooding, which is too far for me to see him much. :(

I am afraid it would just give me "baby fever" though. I already thought "this is not fair, i want it to be my turn!"

Well, i still got 9 weeks to go (and i do want her to stay for most of that time, i don't want a half-baked baby). But we are both getting anxious, and it was exciting to think that it WOULD be our turn soon and I would be in the bed smiling holding a new little baby and accepting everyone's congratulations and oohhs and ahhs about my perfect child and how adorable she is. :)

And then i realized, i am an auntie! Wow! I forgot about that part!

This is the first time i am an aunt, and i REALLY like it! I think it affords me certain priviledges like:

If you are a "lower ranked relative", i get to hold the baby first :) just kidding
I get to show pictures around like he is half mine

And i am sure i get some other priviledges as well, i just haven't figure it all out yet. :)

These are a few of my favorite things....

I have just been looking at these, and thinking about them, folding them, washing them, unfolding them, looking at them, showing anyone who comes to my house........you get the point! So i thought i would share a few of my favorite things right now with you. :)

My week

This week our little Gwen is 2 1/2 lbs and 15 inches long! Her brain is growing bigger and her bones are solidifying. Here is a picture:

My tummy is now 31 inches, so i guess that means she grew!


And here is the reason why i have been wiped out this week and haven't blogged: canning!

I think i took a bit more then i could chew at once! A dear friend of ours had tomatoes coming out their ears, and so i was able to get some from them, since our dogs are eating all of ours. Both boxes were full and so is the five gallon bucket. Needless to say, i didn't need that many! But after two days hard work, i now have 24 quarts of spaghetti sauce in my pantry, and a five gallon bucket of tomatoes that i have to figure out something to do with!


Making spaghetti sauce sure is messy!

Here is the finished product! All of my hardwork so far this year in the canning department.

Motivation!

Today is going to be a good day. I can already tell!

Throughout this pregnancy i have found it weird that i have a few days, spaced out way too much, when i have boundless energy and am super motivated. On those days i want to get my whole house clean and get all my projects done and i feel like i can! These wonderful get lots of stuff done days are interspersed with WEEKS of "i don't care what my house looks like or what i need to do" days when i am lucky if i get the laundry done (usually when my husband tells me he doesn't have any underware) or even get dressed.

Although, getting dressed is something i do rather infrequently now. I mean, i always have clothes on, but they are more along the lines of basketball shorts and a tank or t-shirt. Nothing beats the comfort and lets face it, when i am home all day, why should i bother to put on jeans?

Any way, back to the crazy motivatedness. I think it is weird that is happens that way. I wish i had more motivated days, but maybe this is God's way of teaching me to be self motivated? I have also just FELT motivated before, so i never really had to make an effort to BE motivated. Until Gwen entered my life.

But from personal experience, i also know that even though i may FEEL like super woman and that i can cross everything off of my list today? I can't. I will crash and burn about 3pm if i even try. So i have made some moderate goals for today:

Clean the house - just the top part, and all i really have left is the bathroom and the floors, all the picking up i got done this morning.

Finish the laundry - i have one more load to wash, shouldn't be too bad

Get that done in enough time to sew this afternoon!

Oh, and our little Tank puppy is doing better this morning! I am so glad, it was just so sad to look at him. You could tell he was really sick. He has been my little buddy this morning, following me around wherever i go! I am so glad!

Sad Day

I am very sad.


Our little puppy, Tank, is very sick.

Last night he was throwing up every couple of hours so we took him to the vet this morning.

And they told us he has Parvo, which is really bad for dogs.

So now we have to give him shots and fluids and they say he has a 90% chance as long as we keep him hydrated. But he just looks so sad and sick, it breaks my heart.

:(