2010

So I was thinking about going through month by month of last year and give a small summery of it. It's funny because a friend of mine beat me to it and I felt like I was going to be early on this one. :)
January - Joe got his motorcycle stolen from outside our apartment. We also had a huge amount of snow and it was cold! My parents dog that they had since I was 12 passed away. I got to see my cousin Nick and his family the first time in about 6 years.

February - I lost my pregnancy at 12 weeks and had to have major surgery that went along with it. Joe got his motorcycle back after it was in a high speed chase. Joe and I got to see the comedian Gabriel Iglasius. We had an end to our 3 worst Tuesdays of our lives.

March - I turned 23! We went out to our fanciest dinner with just us two to celebrate it. He also took me to a go kart racing place that was super fun! I might insist we go there again this year. :) I started counseling for grief. It was either the end of this month or beginning of the next where I started to help my friend Amy plant a garden of flowers and various plants that all died due to to much heat and bad soil.

April - Joe turned 24 and we went out to a family fun center to celebrate it. My sister Kate had her beautiful twin girls the day after. We went to Utah the end of the month to see the girl's baby blessings and to spend time with my family and amazing friend Alexis. We also got to see one of the missionaries (and his wife) that helped teach Joe the new member discussions.

May - We returned from our trip from Utah. I stopped counseling since I was feeling better. Joe started to work 12 hour night shifts where he was there from 5pm to 6am. This is also the time I found out I was pregnant again. Actually found that out while in Utah. Joe's aunt died the end of this month and we were able to go home to her funeral.

June - We had the fire to our apartment building.

July - I was in the car accident with my friend Becca. The worst part about it was I had just announced my pregnancy not much before this. I think I was only 15 weeks at the time of the accident. I started to feel my first flutters this month. My friend Andrea had us go out to her mom's house to light off fire works since you can't light them off in the city.

August - Went to the Oklahoma City Zoo for the first time with my friend Angela and her two daughters. It was probably in the 90's that day! It was so hot! We found out we were having a baby boy. I went to Colorado Springs with my friend Meagan so she could look at places to live and the local college campus. It was fun to have a girl trip for 4 days. My due date for Little Mac happened this month. I was a DD for my friend Becca when she got her tooth pulled. It was super funny and fun. She was pretty loopy and the morning of that is when I found out about the baby and she insisted that she had to buy me my first boy outfit, even though she wasn't all with it that day. :) We were offered a place on base but turned it down due to size.
Also it was in the 100's or above pretty much the whole month!

September - Joe and I went to the Oklahoma City Museum together. My water heater had it's whole smoking incident where the fire department had to come. I got another ultra sound and found out our baby was still a boy. We decided on the name of David for the baby. We also bought our Eddie Bauer Travel System this month. My friend Meagan and her husband Sam moved to Colorado Springs. That was hard and still is! I miss you Meagan!

October - So we went to Wisconsin for some family time and so my friend Katie and Chia could throw me a baby shower. I had my glucose test which was normal. We got our maternity/family photos taken while in Wisconsin. The end of this month is when we moved out to Moore from Midwest City to live with Joe's co-worker Jeff and his two dogs. My favorite uncle died this month from cancer.

November - Joe and I hit our 7 year dating anniversary and our 3 year married Anniversary. My friend Meagan drove back from Colorado Springs to throw me a baby shower!!! My friend Angela had us over for Thanksgiving. Joe and I got some good black Friday deals. We started going to the Moore ward even though at first I wanted to stay in Midwest City.

December - Joe got a root canal done and also had a major cold. Poor guy! Our records were transferred to our new ward and had the missionaries stop by to meet us. We had all the carpet removed, except for one bedroom and the closets and had to restart the whole organizing process from scratch. We also started a huge buying spree to get the last minute baby stuff we needed and to get ready for the baby. My friend Angela had my friend Becca and I over for Christmas (since Joe wasn't feeling well).

Overall this year had some majorly sucky things happen and some really good stuff happen. I just pray for a better beginning to next year and pray it's not at all like this years beginning.

39 Weeks.and Christmas

So my camera battery died so photos will just have to be posted later. So any who I had my appointment today and it went well. I am still doing good and my blood pressure is doing better also which is good. So I'm still only dilated to a 2. Nothing really has changed. I had some contractions yesterday (more like just being crazy crappy from 2am till like 10 or 11am), but then it went away. So I'm pretty sure I'm still in this till next week. I am still on schedule for being induced on the 5th which is crazy because that's a week from tomorrow!!! So we are all set to go for a baby when ever he comes. My bags are packed (which I have a quick question about did you pack anything in the bags for daddy? Joe doesn't seem to think I should put his stuff in there but I think I should), our room is ready and all we have to do is to put the car seat in the car and we're golden. So I'm just getting excited. All we really need yet is still a crib but we are still trying to figure that all out. Joe has a co-worker who would even just give us their old crib, but I really really want to by a new one though I understand money and all that, but man how long will our kid be in this crib for who knows maybe until he moves out (since we want to get a convertible crib). So we are trying to just trying to work all that out.
So Christmas was pretty quiet for the most part. Joe was pretty sick with a head cold and I let him sleep in a couple hours after me getting up. I made pull apart bread for our breakfast. So we ate that and opened gifts. Joe gave me a pretty charm bracelet with 3 charms. One saying the word Mother, another one had a baby foot print, and the last one had a stone that looked like the birth stone garnet (which is January's birth stone). He also got me one of those baby birth stone necklaces that the charm has bead arms and legs and a birth stone belly, also in garnet. I got Joe a table top fuse ball table (it's a mini thing), I got him a pj set because I thought it would be nice for him to have some nice lounge clothes for when the baby comes. and a ginger bread shirt that says "Oh Snap" since the gingerbread's leg is broken.
Our friend Becca came over and we hung out for a little bit and then her and I headed to our friend Angela for Christmas dinner. Joe stayed home since he wasn't feeling up for going out. So it was just us girls going. At Angela's house she had her husband and their 2 girls and also her friend Michelle with her husband and their 2 boys. So it was a nice little meal and then we headed home. I brought Joe a plate of food for Joe and Becca headed home. Oh my gosh I completely forgot that we got Becca a package of Elf Cookies (she loves those thing) since I figured she could use the pick me up since her husband is deployed right now.
The rest of mine and Joe's Christmas was really relaxed. We just enjoyed being here together and alone. So we had a good Christmas, just wish Joe had felt better that day. But imagine next year will be extra special for us since David will be here.

38 weeks!

So I was really nervous about my appointment today with all the pre-eclampsia stuff. But I passes both my 24 hour urine collection test and my blood tests. So they took my blood pressure again today and it was still high so they had me lie down and did it again and it was fine. I'm still putting on weight, but I did eat a lot of pizza right before my appointment today. :) I gained like 2 or 3 pounds since last week. Though I don't know how much I trust that. I'm now about 2 cm dilated and still long. So they actually already set an induction date! So if I'm still pregnant on my due date January 4th I will be induced either that night (if I'm not thinned out at all) or at 5:30 in the morning on the 5th! So I figure either on the 5th of 6th! I'm pretty excited. Though I did get pretty much all set to go because I was really worried about getting induced early as it is. So now I guess I'll just work on those little things that I thought could wait. So now I'll just wait to relax a little because yesterday I was working like a mad women with washing and putting away clothes, setting up clothes and just finishing the hospital bag. So now I'm trying to figure out what to do with my time. So now I just feel like it's a waiting game to figure out what's next!

Also this syatic nerve thing is driving me crazy! It's funny about 3 weeks ago my sister asked me about it and then the next day is when the pain kicked in. Thanks a lot Kate! :) But yeah it hurts almost every day if not all day. The longer I go the more I hurt! :( But it'll all be worth it in the end.

Photo update.

In front of the tree.

Our Christmas Tree.

Us in front of our Christmas tree again. :) It's out of order because the set up on loading pictures is dumb.

Us at Joe's work party last Thursday.

37 weeks and 2 days baby! I was doing some dishes right before the photo and that's why there is a wet spot on the front of my shirt. :)

37 week Appointment

I do not have a photo to put up right now since when it came time to find the camera today it was stashed away so that the carpet could be done. So I found it after Joe went to work. :( So I guess that will just have to wait till tomorrow or tonight depending on how late Joe works and how late I feel ok staying up till.
So any who! My appointment didn't go as well as I would have liked it. I gained about 6 pounds in a week some how and am now tipping the scale at 239! Yeah I feel a little weird posting my weight here by my journal is MIA once again with all the moving around stuff! Anyways! So with that and my blood pressure being a little high I'm now being tested for preeclampsia. I got my blood drawn as my appointment and have to do a 24 hour urine collection (which I'm not looking forward to at all) which I will probably do tomorrow just to get it over with. My doctor told me to make sure if I get blurred vision or really bad headaches that don't go away with over the counter drugs to give her a call. So now I'm a little worried, but to be honest if I got induced next week it wouldn't be the end of the world since I'll be 38 weeks. So I guess the only thing I'm afraid of is being induced in general! But on the bright side I'm already 1 cm dilated, but still long. So we'll see what happens.

Just another Manic Tuesday!

So tomorrow the carpet if being replace in the house. Out of a 3 bedrooms only one is not getting new carpet. Neither are the closets. So we get the joy of moving stuff off the carpet and either shoving it in our roommate's bedroom, in closets, in the kitchen, or in the garage. So far Joe and I have made some pretty good progress. The only problem is that I can't lift much weight and our roommate is working mornings so we really couldn't all work together on this. So I guess Jeff is going to have some guys over from work to actually remove the carpet tonight since Joe will be at work by the time Jeff gets home. I'm not sure what I'll be doing tonight, probably just starring at them because I have no idea what to do when it comes to removing carpet. Also I feel pooped from what I moved last night by myself and what I have done so far today that I might just crash in a quiet corner that doesn't have any carpet on it. :) Hope tomorrow goes quick since Joe has to be at work and I have a doctor's appointment to be at. I know the carpet will look nice though, so I'm not really complaining all that much, just don't like the idea of resetting up "home" after we just did it like 2 months ago. :(

Just a little smile for you guys.

Just A Thing I'm Mad at. :(

So last night (well actually lately I've been trying to get my baby clothes ready because that is something that will sit in the closet and not be moving around when the carpet gets torn out. Anyways! Last night I was going through some garbages bags of clothes that I recieved from people in Wisconsin from my shower and Joe's family. I found out there was a wet spot in the bag! So it's been sitting in the garage for over a month wet! So I felt like I had to throw out some stuff. There was running of colors and dark mold that stained my stuff. :( In all reality the amount of ruined clothes aren't that bad. I'm just mad that some of this stuff had tags on it when I pulled it out of the bag! So at least it was only one bag that had gotten wet.
Word to the wise. If you put your stuff on top of your car and it's raining check your stuff to make sure it's all ok. Lesson learned!

Photo Updates. :)

So today I hit 36 weeks!!! It's so hard to believe this. I'm getting so excited. The only problem is with getting set up our roommate just decided to change the carpet in the house (which he was supposed to do like weeks ago) so everything in our bedroom is going to be taken out in the next couple weeks. So I just hope that all this will be taken care of and be back to how I'd like it before the baby is born. But besides that everything is going great! I'm not dilated at all, which I'm happy about. So from now on I'll be going in every week till the baby is born. We'll have to wait and see how it all goes. :)

This is us on Thanksgiving. My friend Angela had us over with husband Rob and her two kids Athena and Kayla. Rob had 3 people come from work (he's air force) that didn't have any where else to go. We had a great meal. I made my first Turkey and it turned out great! I also made my mom's fruit salad. :) They have also invited us over for Christmas, and more than likely be going there. :)

So November 24th was our 3 year wedding anniversary. Joe had to work, but they let him go early since we didn't get to do anything before he went into work. So we went to Applebees and Joe got me some pretty flowers (the picture below). I know I look like a slob, but it was the fact that I didn't know we were going out. But we had a nice dinner. I can't believe we've been together this long! We are getting so excited for the baby! It's so cute that we bought a cam-corder on black Friday and Joe has that and the camera all set up in their bags in case we need them. Though we still don't have a hospital bag! LOL! I keep asking Joe for a duffel bag that's something I wanted for our anniversary and so far we haven't gotten a chance to go look at them. So as far as presents for our anniversary I got a pair of earrings on black Friday and Joe will be getting a pair of Oakley Sunglasses. So yeah we'll have to figure out presents yet and then Christmas then ah!!! Oh well. Everything comes in due time.

What would you choose?

So I have 2 20% off coupons that I need to use this weekend. So I'm wondering what I should use them on. Should I use them on a pack and play (where the baby will be sleeping at least a couple of months) and a crib? A pack and play and a changing table? Or just pay full price for the pack and play and just get a crib and mattress? I'm leaning towards one of the first two choices, but can't decide which one to choose!