Getting too big...

Ok, so I have come to see this baby weight hitting me in places I am not too fond of. Like my face, arms...etc. So here is the reason for this...well besides having the baby.

I have not been to the gym or worked out (other then taking daily walks) since ummm...lets say August!

Our gym, the one that Jimmy used to work at and run, is in Baltimore City. It is a little out of my way but on my way home from work. But by the end of the work day, I am so beat, there is no way I can go there and get in a decent workout so I haven't been. I have been paying for it though, which is even more frustrating.

So I have made a move. Jimmy went in and cancelled my gym membership downtown yesterday. There is a gym about 5-8 minutes from our house which is only $4 more in price, has a pool, has awesome fitness classes, and childcare! So I can come home from work, eat, relax and go there later in the night and it not take 2-3 hours to get there workout and come home. I can leave go work out before work if I want to (they open at 4:30 where my other gym opened at 6) and then come home and shower, or shower there and they have a pool. Which is very exciting for me, because I love to swim and this far in pregnancy it is probably the best workout for me. If only I had a swimsuit that fit!

I am going to the gym on Monday to sign up. I was hoping to go today or tomorrow, but the guy I have been coordinating everything with over email (he is cutting me a deal on the initiation fees etc.) doesn't work until Monday. So since he has helped me so much I am waiting to go and sign up when he is working so he gets the commission off of me signing up.

So my longing and missing of the gym is about to end and I am very excited about it. I can't wait to get back into it in full force after the baby gets here. Though I know it will be a few weeks. However, until then, I will just love to get out (instead of the freezing cold outside) and do some work on the elliptical or walking on the treadmill at an incline, or swimming and then feel good.

I know it seems it is a little late to start back up with the working out, but I have been feeling very lazy and can't wait to have some me time, not sitting home watching tv, or cleaning, but out doing something that is both good for me and the baby.

Here is to a few good weeks of working out before the baby comes!

Adios :)

31 Weeks and Christmas :)

31 weeks...9 more to go...unreal. I can't believe that I am in the single digits remaining.

I am starting to feel it. As every day passes, I get bigger and feel bigger.

Things get tougher to do, it is harder to put my shoes on, harder to get in and out of the car, harder to pick something up off of the floor, harder to walk the 3 dogs at the same time, harder to sit for a long time, harder to get comfortable anywhere...be it, lying on the couch watching TV, sitting in the car or leaning over the sink to do dishes.

I just want to be comfortable again. And that is not going to happen for 9 weeks or longer.

Christmas...was good and bad...the bad is all better now.

Our Christmas started on Friday night, when Jimmy and I celebrated our Christmas together. This year we decided to not get a Christmas tree. We are in the process of getting the basement finished and therefore we have stuff all over our house from the basement that we had to move. About a month before Christmas we put all of the Christmas decorations and stuff in the attic from the basement. So we decided, we had no place to put a tree and we didn't want to drag everything down from the attic to put up a tree, only to have to take it down in early January, so that we can have the house all ready for the baby. Well...here is what I come home to on Friday after work...

He went out and got a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree, decorated it and put my presents under it! He is too cute!


We went out to dinner to Flemings Steakhouse...DELICIOUS!! I had my favorite Apple Pork Chop - TO DIE FOR - and he got his steak. It was expensive, but worth it! We then exchanged gifts. Jimmy was too cute, how he wrapped everything for me...he is so funny with his wrapping...I just had to take some pictures. He got me some maternity shirts (well they were technically from the dogs :)), a fish tank that I wanted for the nursery, some candy, some of my peppermint lotion, an incredibly soft blanket for me and the baby for the new recliner in the baby's room, a shoe protection kit for my Uggs, and a bunch of other wonderful and thoughtful gifts! I love him so much. Here are some pictures of his creative wrapping :)

For Jimmy for Christmas I got him a new gym bag that he wanted and I wrapped all of his presents and put them in the bag. He wanted me to have a bag of presents to open too, so he made one out of wrapping paper and filled it with presents! :) oh...and you can't see but he used a stapler to staple the edges of the bag shut! He is the only person I know who would use a stapler to wrap gifts!!

He loves to individually wrap every present in the shape that it is...these are some peppermint bath fizzys that look like big peppermint candies in clear celophane...well he wrapped them indivudually in red paper and tied the sides with green ribbon!

Sunday morning we met 2 of my coworkers, their kids and significant others out for brunch. It was great, the food was good, the company was good...all in all a wonderful time. Though, they had $10 all you can drink mimosas...and I couldn't have any...I will I say, I will go back there after the baby is born and have them!! :)

So onto Christmas Eve and Christmas...after a lot of issues with the in-laws, we ended up going there for Christmas Eve and my parents house and Aunts house for Christmas day. (it is too too long of a story to post...but plans were made, then changed because the in-laws had other plans, then got mad at us, because we changed our plans to because they told us to!!! AHHHH!!)

So on Christmas Eve I get a call from my Mom all sad, telling us we shouldn't come. No reason, just we shouldn't come. So I start to freak out, wondering what is going on. She says my Dad is really sick and he doesn't want me to get sick. Turns out he had a bad bout of a virus that wasn't being very nice to his stomach (to keep it nice and clean) and that with me being pregnant and all, he didn't want me to get sick. Though my brother and sister-in-law were there for 2 days and were fine as was my Mom. I told her we were coming and not to worry about me, I was still on antibiotics from the whole kidney thing and that I'd be very careful at washing my hands etc.

Then Christmas morning, I get a phone call from her at 6am telling me that they are in the emergency room and my dad is getting fluids and that they should be home by the time we get there. I actually was glad to hear that they went to the hospital to be sure everything was ok and he got fluids, some medical attention and some antibiotics. But when we got to my parents it was a sad site...my poor Dad was shivering so bad he couldn't write something on a piece of paper...it killed me inside. :( He could barely keep his eyes open, hadn't slept in over 2 days and just looked sick. That was the worst. He didn't want to open presents and tried to stay there with us as much as possible to see us open ours. It was very rough.

But the good news is, I talked to him last night, he sounded better and I talked to him for like 20 minutes today and he sounded 75% better. So that makes me feel so much better. It was just so tough seeing him like that. So tough. But I am glad the meds are working and he'll be back to his old self soon enough.

After we went to my parents we went to my Aunt's house for Christmas dinner, it wasn't the same without my Mom and Dad there, but they both insisted we go without them. So we did. Dinner was yummy and it was good to see everyone. Though I am not a big fan of being asked tons of questions and being the center of attention when it came to baby talk. So that part wasn't fun, but the rest was good. Jimmy and I made it back home by 5pm, I walked the dogs and brought in all of the gifts from the car while he took a nap. Then I woke him at 6:30 to go to work...

He thought it was going to be an incredibly slow night at the bar...turns out his bar was the only one open in all of Federal Hill, so they got pretty crowded and he made a good amount of money for Christmas night, which always helps, with needing money for carpet and furniture for the soon-to-be-finished basement.

Jimmy has been sick with a cold or something for the past week, so I made him a Dr's appointment this morning and made him go. They gave him some good cough medicine with codeine so that he can sleep...that has been his worst problem, not being able to sleep, and being up all night coughing, so hopefully that will help.

We both made out like bandits at our families on Christmas. Jimmy's parents got us a DVD/DVR Camcorder...for the baby. I hate being on video...so it is just for the baby...and the dogs :) I got some clothes, some lined Crocs (so comfy!), a board game and some things for the baby from his family. He got clothes, some dvds, and some stuff I can't think of right now from his parents.

From my parents we got our baby monitor, some baby stuff, diapers, wipes etc. I got some cooking utensils I have been wanting, a nice comfy maternity sweatsuit outfit, a cupcake/cake carrying case thingy, some scratch off lottery tickets, some of my favorite peppermint lotions, an adorable puppy dog night light for the nursery and some other misc stuff. Jimmy got a sweet North Face light weight jacket, some clothes, a non-stick omelet pan for his eggs he makes for breakfast, a spatula, a drill/driver set he wanted, and some other things from my parents.

The doggies got their stockings from my parents with 2 toys each in them and some treats!! So needless to say they were in heaven when we got home last night...and they were out of my hair so I could relax :)

Ok...off to put away some laundry and relax with the doggies.

Adios :)

30 Weeks!

30 Weeks...only 10 more to go!! As usual...I can't believe it. Time is flying. On Christmas Day I will have exactly 2 months to go...that is if I go on my due date...by the new year, which is right around the corner I will be 32 weeks...with only 56 days to go...there is going to be a baby here soon and we have so much to do!!

I had a Dr's appointment last week and I am still measuring 2 weeks ahead. So if I am still measuring ahead on my appointment on the 2nd of Jan, then she said she will order me another ultrasound to make sure the baby isn't too big and that there isn't too much fluid. I don't know what happens if either of them is the case, but I guess I will find out! I passed my gestational diabetes test, which is great! I didn't want to have to go back for the 3 hour test.

I did have my first bout with the fun Braxton Hicks contractions the other night. I woke up to roll over like I do multiple times a night, since I don't sleep very well and then it hit. 2 of them, and 2 of them was enough. They felt like really bad cramps kind of sharp and painful, but tolerable. I'd just like to not have anymore...those 2 were enough :)

Things with the basement should be moving along as of today, so hopefully by this weekend I can post some pictures of the basement with actual walls :) The carpet guy is coming today too to measure, so hopefully we can at least have that all set up and ready to install as soon as the walls get up and we get them painted.

I have a new nephew!! Last weekend I went with my friend Katea, to pick up her 8 week old golden retriever puppy Jax!! He is sooo cute and I love him so much! I have been trying to go over to her house to help her with some training and just play with him at least once a week. My dogs aren't a big fan when I come home smelling like him...but I can't resist. We are going to have our first big play date this weekend as long as it doesn't rain, so I will definitely take some pictures then...until then here is one picture from the day we picked him up :)

I can't believe that Christmas is only 1 week away. I am done all of my shopping. Jimmy still needs to get some stuff for his family...but that is on him since he can't decide what he wants. I just need to wrap about 5 more things and then I am done. I am glad to be done and glad that I figured out something to get everyone. Now just to wait until this weekend when I get a 4 day weekend. I can't wait!

Have a great rest of the week everyone!

Adios :)

The Nursery!!

We are finally almost done the nursery!! All of the painting, molding, furniture and everything is in the nursery. All we are missing are the blinds and curtains which we have and the baby stuff! After my showers I am sure the room will be packed full!

Here are some pictures...

The changing table/dresser from my parents

The incredibly comfortable glider/recliner from my parents

The bookshelf we painted the back of it to match :)

Jimmy's favorite part of the room...he picked it out :)

The crib from Jimmy's parents

The little shelf above the crib and dresser I am getting some artwork to sit there as well as we will be getting the baby's name in wooden letters to put on the ledge once the baby is born and we know if it is a boy or girl and what its name will be!

Our car seat came yesterday too!! So I feel a little bit more prepared now for this baby to arrive...now just to wait 2 1/2 more months!! Oh My...I can't believe it is only 2 1/2 more months!!


Adios :)

My Amazing Husband

So I come home from work yesterday to dinner being made and Jimmy waiting for me. Well before we sit down for yummy dinner he says, "After we are finished I need to talk to you about something" so I was like ok. Then of course I was like, what is it about? is it bad? is it good? etc etc. To which I'd get no responses...eh, kind of worried me.

Then after we finish eating dinner I am like "so...what do you want to talk about?" and he tells me to wait a second and grabs the laptop and starts looking something up. Then he says..."can you do me a favor and not have the baby for at least 2 weeks?" I was like...I will do my best...why? And he then turns the laptop around and shows me a picture of the car seat we wanted and says "I ordered us the car seat!! But it won't be in for at least 2 weeks" :) how cute is he. He had been saving up $20 from each of his bar shifts over the last month or so so that he could buy us the car seat. Sneaky little devil :) Then he tells me that his mom drove up here that morning to pay for it with her credit card so that he could give her his cash. (I thought that was a little odd for her to drive all the way up to our house for just that) See the car seat that we wanted to match the jogging stroller that we want, was not available in any of the stores, only online, so we'd figure we'd buy it ourselves and not worry about trying to tell some one about it or register for it all by itself from another website or something. But he saved the money from his bar shifts, because I deal with our bank account and look at it every day online and he knew if he ordered it from our account, I'd see it and he wanted it to be a surprise. How sweet is he.
I love him so much.

It gets better though...So then we are getting ready to head out to Dick's Sporting Goods to look for a bag that he wants for Christmas that I told him I'd buy him as long as he told me which one he wants, so we didn't have to play the return game after Christmas. He asked me if I was ready to go and I said yes...he was like "aren't you going to change into some comfy clothes?" I was like, eh I'll wear what I have on and change when I get back. He persisted and said that I should put on sweatpants like him and then we'd both be comfy. So I said ok, wait a minute and I will go and change. As I am getting ready to head upstairs, he yells, take a look in the nursery, I hung up the curtain rod and blind. So of course I go there first...and when I walk in and turn the light on...the first thing I noticed was the bookcase was moved, and there was no curtain rod or blind! But then I look over and there is our crib!! All set, with a mattress, mattress pad, sheet and all!! All put together and everything!! His parents wanted to buy us the crib, so when his mom was up our way to pay for the car seat, they went out in search of a store that had the crib in stock and bought it and all of the supplies for it and came back and Jimmy put it all together as a surprise!! I was so happy!

So now this weekend when my parents bring up the dresser/changing table that they bought us and we get that in the room, the room will almost be all set!! Minus a few decorations, lots of baby items we registered for...but the main pieces will be there!! So I will take some pictures on Sunday and post them for you all to see :)

Just wanted to share my exciting news and how wonderful my husband is...

Adios :)

Wonderful Blog Buddy!!!

Jeannie over at Points and Pounds is such an awesome blog buddy!! Today I come home from work and find a box sitting at the front door. So I pick up the box thinking it is one of the things that I bought Jimmy for Christmas, so I take it inside without a second thought. I go ahead and make dinner and wait for Jimmy to leave for work so I could open it up and wrap it.

To my very excited surprise, it wasn't something for Jimmy for Christmas...it was a baby gift from Jeannie!!! I was so excited!! Here it is!! It is a little sleep sack and some pacifiers :)

Jeannie Thank You so much for being so thoughtful!!!

The funny thing is...that after I went into the hospital last week and then came home I had a freak out...that what if I had gone into the hospital and came home with the baby...?!?! We have nothing here for a baby yet!! So I told Jimmy we had to go out and buy some necessities to have -just in case- the baby were to come early. So we were planning on going to WalMart and get some diapers, pacifiers, a sleep sack, some shirts, onesies and wipes. So now I can mark 2 of those items off of our list!! Thanks Jeannie!!

So some other...well I hope good news. Please all of you keep your fingers crossed for us. I don't know if I typed about this before, but Jimmy was waiting for his clearance to come back so that he could get a job at my work.

I just looked back and didn't see a post about it...so here is the quick and dirty version so you will get the point.

1. Jimmy quit his old job in January because he was promised to start at my work Jan 15...it fell through when they messed up putting his clearance through

2. So he took a full time job at the gym (paying next to nothing, but at least it was something) Then he got some nights at the bar

3. Then his clearance finally came through in SEPTEMBER and he was supposed to start working there Oct 1 --he quit the job at the gym -- then 2 days before he was supposed to start (he had signed an offer letter and everything) they lost the funding for the job -- so he was unemployed...except for the bar

So since all of this happened...and I became pregnant, we were living on just my income and his bar $. We decided that he wouldn't look for a job anymore and he would be a stay-at-home Dad. He loved that idea (I mean who wouldn't!!) and he would be amazing at it. We would still have the same income, because he could still work at the bar and stay home. So we were set. We had a plan and it was all coming together...as I like to say "everything happens for a reason"

Well then we come to this week. The job he was supposed to get that they lost the funding for...was full time...well now they re-released the funding for that job, as part time. So they called Jimmy up to see if he wanted to work the job part time. He told them he was planning on staying home with the baby. We thought, well that's that. Then he gets a call last night saying, they still want him. He can work part time as much as possible until the baby comes, then as little as 5 hours a week after the baby is here if he wants to keep his clearance active etc. Of course he could work more then 5 hours if he wanted. So he could keep the bar gig and go in late or leave early as he needs until the baby comes and then after the baby is here, he can do all or none. HOW AWESOME IS THAT!! So he told them he would as long as they are willing to work with him and they told him that they would. So now we are just waiting for a final go and a start date...I won't believe it until he is actually there working after all of this...but this would be SO GREAT!! So please keep your fingers crossed for us!! I will keep you all posted!

Ok...off to clean some and watch some TV.

Adios :)

My Hospital Welcome to the 3rd Trimester

Yes...I spent 3 1/2 long days in the hospital this past week. So 27 weeks in started out a little rough...and now I am already 28 weeks!! 12 more to go...unreal.

ok, so now I am sure I have you all wondering why I was in the hospital. First and foremost, let me tell you the baby is OK. The baby was never involved in the reason I was in the hospital and has been strong and healthy all along. Well I guess I can't say the baby was never involved in why I was in the hospital...he/she was probably the root of the cause...but then how can I get mad at such a little baby :)

So Wednesday morning I woke up with a little back pain. No biggie...I have been sleeping like crap and usually wake up with one ache or another from the weird ways I have been laying when I sleep. So I think nothing of it at all and get up and go to work like usual. So a pretty normal day at work...until about 3pm, when I start to feel warm...kind of like hot flashes and chills and just weird. I was really hoping that I wasn't getting the flu or something. Then when I got up out of my chair to leave to go home, the right side of my back hurt really bad, like a pain I have NEVER felt before in my life.

So on Wednesdays I go and referee an adult sports league and this was my last night, playoffs. So I had to go...I knew the guy who ran the league would be there, and if I still felt bad I'd tell him and go home. So I drove to the arena and got some breadsticks on the way there, because I wasn't really hungry, but I knew I needed to eat. So I ate a little and then went to work. When I got there I felt fine. I was there for about 20 min and my back pain came back in full force. I couldn't sit or stand...nothing felt comofortable or made the pain any more bearable. So I told Mike and I left.

I went home and took a warm bath since that usually takes the back pain away. That didn't work. I tried to sleep, laid in bed, couldn't get comforatable any way I laid. So 1030 rolled around and I called Jimmy at work and told him he had to come home and take me to the hospital. He freaked out of course, thinking it was the baby, though I told him it wasn't and knew it wasn't. The baby was kicking up a storm, not helping the pain much, but all the same it was great to still feel him/her knowing they were fine.

We got to labor and delivery at about 1115pm and I got into a room at about 1125. Those 10 min were the longest and most excrutiating of my life. I was pacing in the waiting room...thinking over and over again...what did I get myself into?! This is unbearable. Well to make a long story short...3 tests later (including one ultrasound where we got a little glimpse of the baby...it is SO BIG!) and about 3 hours later, I was in a room in the anti-partum wing with an IV and pain meds and was feeling A LOT better. Come to find out after they got back a bunch of tests by Saturday morning before I got discharged, that I had a kidney infection and 2 kidney stones. eh.

I wish this upon NO ONE. It was the worst pain I have ever felt. Luckily after I got my IV that was the last I felt of that pain. The nurses kept telling me that having kidney stones was worse then having labor...I don't know if I consider that a good thing or not. But at least when I come to the hospital to have the baby, they will know that is what is going on and I won't have to wait 3 hours for pain medicine!!!

So that was the end of my last week and most of my weekend. Pretty eventful, until I got admitted to the hospital...then it just consisted of watching TV, lying in bed and eating nasty hospital food.

I am heading back to work tomorrow after taking today off to get done some of the stuff that I didn't get to do over the weekend. Not too excited to go back to work, but then when am I ever :)

I hope that everyone else had a great weekend. Here is to week 28 being a lot better then week 27!!

Adios :)

6 Months! 27 Weeks! Less then 90 days to go!

Oh my. Things are kicking in big time. There is not a lot of time left before

our lives are changing forever and I am starting to freak. 13
weeks left. ok...that is a little while...but then my friend Kelly
tells me that you are considered 'full term' at 37 weeks...that
is only 10 weeks!! TEN WEEKS!!

I don't know if I want to say I'd really like this whole process
to hurry up or what...but things are getting more and more tough
to do...more uncomfortable and I can't sleep worth a dang. I have
tried all of the pillows in all of the conglomerations that exist
and nothing works. I still wake up about 6 times a night 1/2 of
which are to go to the bathroom and the other half are to move my
whale of a body and simply roll over. I never in my entire life
got up in the middle of the night to go the bathroom. It drives
me crazy!!

I went to the outlet mall by my work for a little Christmas shopping
yesterday after work before I met Megs for dinner and I got to about
2 stores, then my joints started hurting and I was hot as heck. I made
it about an hour or so then had to head back to the car. I was beat! I
used to be able to run miles and miles...now walking the mall is a task.
Plus getting down on the floor to wrap Christmas presents...not so easy
either...and the getting up part is even more tough. I don't know how
people do this with a toddler running around. I guess it gets easier,
when you have to do it, but we'll see.

I am having incredibly weird dreams...like last night...I was parked in
a parking garage (I had my car from freshman year of college...which is
long gone now) and someone stole my car. I wandered around for hours with
my friend looking for it and it was gone. Then I went to the security
office, which was ran by a lady I work with currently who is our security
officer...but she was wearing a uniform sitting behind multiple monitors
watching the surveillance footage and we tried to find out who took my car
and when. Then I wake up...no conclusion to the dream at all what-so-ever.

So Thanksgiving was great. I didn't over eat at all...since there is
minimal room in my stomach for food with all that baby in there. So that
was good. Got outside and played wiffle ball and threw a football with
my cousin's 5 year old. Since the weather was so nice it was great to be
outside. I got a few nice walks in with the dogs while I was at my parents
house too. I needed to get them out as much as possible so they'd lay down
and relax during dinner. Since my parents house is so small there isn't
much room for 14 people and 3 big dogs. But they were great and there were
no food fiascoes with the dogs this year....the past 2 years Chloe has
eaten an entire broccoli casserole and an entire pumpkin roll...one each
year, so at least she doesn't over indulge :)

Thanksgiving morning every year, my husband and best friend Meg always
run a 10K for MS...well this year there was no running of a 10K for me.
Which last year I completed in under an hour...to this year competing in
the 5K of this same race...walking...and finishing that in 50 min!! Whoa
how things have gone downhill fast. :(  Jimmy and Megs still ran the 10K
and then walked with me...and Jimmy managed to shave off 6 minutes from
his time from last year!! He has gotten into major shape over the last
year. He could have done better then that too I am sure...except that he
bar tended the night before in Baltimore and was up until 4:30 am and
then drove to Wilmington...an hour...to sleep for 2 hours then run. Poor
boy...but he was a trooper!

Black Friday...so last year my Mom and I got up extra early and hit a
bunch of stores...well this year was very different. I did not want to
go out at all. First was because with finishing the basement and all, I
had no money and second of all there wasn't anything that I really needed
to buy. Of course Jimmy was on the lookout for his 50" Plasma TV for the
basement...though I told him from the get go that I wanted nothing to do
with getting up at 4 am and fighting people for a TV. So...I took a look
at the ads...and low and behold there was a vanity on sale at Lowes that
we had looked at getting for the basement a few weeks before, on sale $50
off. eh. And then there is a 46" LCD flat screen TV at Sears that Jimmy
wanted. So we made a deal. I'd get up at 5:30 and go to Lowes to get the
vanity...my thinking...heck who is going to be at the home improvement
store on Black Friday...and he would got to Sears after he gets off of
work at the bar and be there before the doors open at 5am. Deal. So I get
up and go and get the vanity, I was right...no problems! There was like me
and 10 other people in the store, and one guy came and got the vanity for
me and also loaded in my car. I was home and back in bed by 6:25. Perfect.
Until I get an irate phone call from Jimmy about how he spent 30 min in
line, then got inside to spend another 30 min in line to find out that
everyone bought the TV's the day before hand and then were all coming back
for price adjustments today. Boy was he mad!! So he went home with no TV.
:( But then on Saturday after he had made it back to DE for my reunion on
Friday night and then we were headed home in separate cars...he calls
me and says "I think I am going to swing into Best Buy to take a look at
the TV's" I am like ok...fine, whatever you want to do. So he then calls me
about 30 min later to tell me he bought a 50" plasma...and we can pick it
up on the 30th. He was in heaven :) Now just to keep him from taking it out
of the box until Bob is finished working on the basement!! He also bought
me an early Christmas present at EMS right next to Best Buy...I have been
wanting a pair of Uggs boots...but I kept telling him I didn't really need
the 'real' ones that they were too expensive. But he bought them for me
anyway...and boy do I LOVE THEM!! They are the most comfortable thing in
the entire world. I never want to take them off...you don't wear socks with
them and they are fuzzy inside and wonderful! I kept telling Jimmy that my
baby carrying feet needed comfortable shoes...my guilt worked :) heehee Here
are a picture of my new favorite shoes!!


The day after Thanksgiving was my 10 year high school reunion. It went
great!! Having a major hand in planning it I was a tad bit worried that
people wouldn't have fun or wouldn't like the place (though that is one
of the things that I had nothing to do with) but it all worked out
wonderfully! So great, that I had people coming up to me all night long,
thanking me for putting it together and that they were having such a good
time. I even had like 5 or 10 emails from people over the next few days,
telling me how they had such a wonderful time and it was so great to see
everyone and that we shouldn't wait 10 more years to all get together
again. So that was wonderful to hear! It was really a fun time. I
know most people dread reunions, but we had an amazing turn out...plus
in my high school there were your usual clicks and all, but at the reunion
every one was talking to everyone else and everyone was getting along
great! I had no worries about that part going in. So all in all a pretty
great weekend. Jimmy didn't have as much fun as I did at the reunion, but
that was to be expected. :)


We think we have found a pediatrician. See I am not one of those over
the top moms...well not yet anyway...who feels the need to go out and
interview 15 doctors (as my neighbor did) to find the right one for
our baby. I like to go by word of mouth, so I asked around at work to
see if anyone knew any pediatricians near where we leave and one of my
coworkers told me about her friend who is a very picky Mom and how
much she loves her pediatrician who is only 15 min from our house. So
she got the info for me and I called today, they take our insurance,
are accepting new patients and work with the hospital we are delivering
at...SCORE!! So the receptionist suggested that we come and meet with
the Dr. so I made an appointment and then went around the office and 20
questioned the Mom's that work here for at least 5 questions so I
wouldn't go in unprepared! So now I have my questions written down, so
as long as this lady isn't scary or mean, we are set. I am glad she is a
female...for some reason I am not a fan of male Dr's...don't know why,
have no reason to not like them...I have just always had female Dr's...I
guess that is it. So one more thing checked off of the list of things to
do before the baby arrives!! There are tons more on that list, but I tend
to freak out if I think about it too much :)

Sorry this post was all over the place, but there has been a lot going
on with a lot of different things...so instead of posting like 15
different posts it worked better to just put them all into one!!

Hope everyone is doing well and had a very happy holiday weekend!!
Only 27 days until Christmas!!

Adios :)