You Are a Little Messy

You aren't the cleanest person in the world, but you're definitely not a slob. You clean up when you have the time, but you're realistic about what you can get done. Generally, you're pretty organized and tidy - though you may have a few hidden messes. You eventually get around to making things spotless, but you do it on your own schedule!

Are You Messy?

I think that's a fairly accurate description of me! Right now I have a routine of cleaning the entire downstairs every single day, so downstairs always looks fantastic, but upstairs????? It's like my zone of messes because no one but us goes up there...LOL But tomorrow while Jakey's at scouts I'm tossing a bunch of his crud he DOESN'T need anymore! LOL

Ah, I can't wait to get out of the house later today. This morning has been an interesting one already and I'm sooooo ready to go swimming and have a break!

Jacob and Justin eat breakfast together at the table every morning. Jakey makes them cereal. I want to keep this habit so I can feed the baby when she comes and because I don't like cereal...LOL Anyhow, so Jakey pours breakfast, blesses it, and then they eat. Justin messed around while eating a bit this morning and so when Jakey was done he still had quite a bit of cereal. He doesn't like to be alone at the table so when Jakey walked away, he did too. Now Jakey says, "If you're not going to eat your cereal then I am!" and pretends to walk towards the kitchen, Justin would then say, "No, I want it!" and run for the kitchen. He'd then come right back in the family room. This went on for about 5 minutes. Finally they both decide to go back in the kitchen, Jakey and Justin are going to "share" what's left in Justin's bowl, having dueling spoons going on or something. They get to the kitchen and all of a sudden there is a big scream.

Buddy beat them to it. LOL Normally I'd be mad because I HATE when that dog gets on the table and eats food, makes it to where I have to put her out every time that we eat so that if I have to get up to potty I can do so without worrying about my food! However, the dog eating their food because they were fighting over it, just seemed like justice...LOL.

Anyhow they are now at war over a blanket, this is a war that happens, EVERY. STINKING. MORNING. So I'm off to police this war (by sending all blankets back upstairs and enforcing the "if you're cold enough you need a blanket, go back to bed" rule. It's going to be 108 today, I think they can survive without a blanket. LOL

My other thing I must remember for today is, RUB IN YOUR SUNBLOCK ALL THE WAY TO THE SUIT! The other day when I went swimming I apparently didn't want to get the white stuff on my suit because i have about a 1/2 inch burn all the way around where my suit falls because I probably didn't rub it up to the suit. And a 1/2 inch burn at my hairline on my face, apparently I didn't want to get sunblock in my hair either...LOL Not so important now that I'm burnt, LOL! Today, must rub it in all the way to the suit! :)

Have a great day!

It's like there is a clock in my uterus, everyday at 7:00 pm until about 7:30 Jayden squirms and wiggles and kicks and moves all around, it's pretty much the only time her movement is consistent for more than just a few minutes here and there. It's adorable! While I type she's actually giving me a couple good blows to the c/s scar when usually she's a light jabber. Cute!

Justin's tush is healing - he has a little rash looking area, but we're putting ointment on it and it seems ok. I told a few friends at church today the story and we laughed long and hard about it (reverently, in the hallway, LOL). Seriously, Justin is just a silly, silly kid! Last night he became OBSESSED with Toy Story, he is a HUGE Woody and Buzz fan, he'd never seen the movies until yesterday/today and now he's HOOKED. Loves them!

I have BIL and SIL this week. (BIL is 13 and SIL is 10) I think it'll be an easier week though because SIL's extreme moodiness was explained away with the appearance of, well what appears for the first time when you're about her age. Thank goodness we have 3 or so weeks until going through it again! And I think we instilled in her, with a few girl talks this weekend, that you cannot knock everyone's head off, no matter how much the annoy you, just because you're hormonal. I know, it's hard enough for me to understand at 26, I'm sure at 10 it's worse. Which led me to thinking, oh no, I'm going to have a daughter who has to have these kinds of talks someday!!! Panic mode!

Anyhow, it's Father's day, gonna go see if I can get a short game going before the kidlets go to bed. We made Kevin breakfast in bed, biscuits, gravy, sausage, and OJ but Kevin was lonely in bed while we all ate at the table, LOL, so he came downstairs and ate with us at the table. The boys made him cute bowties out of M&M's (a reg pack of M&M's, pipe cleaner cute in half to make the bow tie take shape, and string to tie around Daddy's neck)...very cute....he wouldn't wear it though...hmmmm....LOL!

Have a good rest of Father's Day everyone!

Never in a million years are you all going to believe what Justin did this morning. Never.

He took a Costco sized container of pepper to the top of our stairs. (Black Pepper) He sprinkled about 1 lb of pepper all the way down the stairs...paying particular attention to getting it right in the center of the stairs. Then, he went to the top of the stairs, stripped all of his clothes off (You don't want to get pepper on them I suppose...) and slid down the stairs, ON HIS NAKED BUTT.

I'm on the phone with my mom and Justin's screaming - HELP ME, MY BUTT HURTS, HELP ME!! And I can't figure out for the life of me, what in the world he's crying for. He brings me to the stairs and shows me....and screams, "My butt burns!!!" Ok after I laugh hysterically....sorry, but that is funny! I throw him in the bath and tell Jakey to stay with him and vacuum the stairs...well apparently he wouldn't sit in the bath water for Jakey, so his butt got more and more seasoned (now we're not talking cheeks here people, think BUTT CRACK) yeah, so he's SCREAMING. So I get him to sit, I wash his butt, I do everything I can think of....the pepper is still making him scream.

So, what does any mother do??? I called the dr. I think it was a full five minutes before the nurse stopped laughing and crying....then another 10 for the dr and rest of the staff....followed by - apparently there is a special ointment for little boys who slide down the stairs on black pepper butt naked and irritate their butts....it'll be waiting for me at the front desk. (Can I really show my face in there????) Oh and if the burning doesn't stop by tomorrow or he has a hard time going potty, we need to bring him in. THIS is so getting written down, I'm telling ALL of his dates this story. And I think I might have grey hairs. Oy!

Whew! Well I feel much better today, but then my two teenage adoptee's for the summer aren't here yet. What scares me the most is generally I can handle the girl, but my BIL? I just can't take his teenage-boy-moodiness!!! Makes me crazy! And I'm going to have TWO teenage boys someday! LOL

Anyhow this afternoon I am well rested so I plan on playing board games with them alot and watching a movie and I'm planning an actual snack for them at 2:30 so that we don't run into eating just before dinner time...and hopefully we'll survive it! The other cruddy thing, and I had a talk with Jakey about this today, Jakey and PJ (BIL) duel their YuGiOh cards, and PJ keeps playing for cards while dueling, and Jakey just doens't know enough/play well enough to be playing for cards yet, so PJ has all of his "good" cards and Jakey has no prayer now of ever winning a duel. Now you'd think, "and you care because?" I only care because I have to hear about it, and hear Jakey cry when PJ's choosing a card from his deck, but I want Jakey to experience two things: 1) You have to stick by your word (to give up a card) if you say you will, and 2) you don't always win...but now I'm getting to the point where the lesson has been learned too harshly and I'm sick of hearing about it! LOL So I told PJ if Jakey wins 2 times, then he can play for cards, but until Jakey wins twice, NO PLAYING FOR CARDS! Ugh.

ANYHOW, LOL, now can everyone tell why I don't do daycare? I just don't like other people's kids that much! LOL My friend's mom babysits for her, and her mom is going out of the country for 2-3 weeks next month and I feel bad for her, but I know watching her two kids would drive me over the edge...I just couldn't do it! LOL Plus I'm planning on going to my parents cabin for most of the time her mom is gone.

Speaking of which, man I can't wait to get up to the cabin...swimming, swimming, swimming, and the weather is cooler there. Bliss! Can't wait!

Oh and last night, I made dinner but NOT for BIL and SIL, I made dinner late (no one was hungry anyways) and their mom picked them up just as it was done. And I told them (I'm a better cook then their mom, so they were bummed) "I would have made dinner at 5:00 like usual, but you all snacked at 4:00 and weren't hungry...maybe you should consider not having snacks after 2:30-3:00?" I think I got the point across LOL. I made a pasta salad and Kevin cooked some smoked sausage and we had pasta and sausage for dinner....it was pretty good. Tonight though I need to make up the chicken I took out yesterday - Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, cornbread - GOOD FOOD! :)

Ok I'm off to look for a patriotic craft idea for our Primary Activity on Saturday! Have a great day!

Lorie, I'll be MeMe-ing tonight! :)

Argh, so this is my padded space and I'm gonna let my frustration out! I went upstairs to take a nap and when I come down, Kevin's brother and sister (who are staying here in the afternoons after summer school - and NO we're not being paid or compensated for our food or anything for this) are heating and buttering up all my English Muffins!! Plus it's nearly 4:30 and I'm going to make dinner in a few minutes! And they're making the kids some too! I'm like Kev, what the heck??? 1) They CHOSE not to eat the FREE lunch at school because they "didn't like it" and have been told, "well the Top Ramen is in the cupboard." since that's about all I can afford to feed these extra picky eater kids...nope they didn't have anything. and 2) it's 4:30, now no one is going to eat my dinner I'm making. ARGH. Skip it, I'm NOT making dinner. :(

Oh man, so funny!

I sprinkled some carpet powder on the living room carpet this morning to allow it to soak in a bit before I vacuum it a little later this afternoon and Jakey says to me, "What's that for?" and I said, "Oh it gets rid of odors in our carpet." He stares at me for a second, the ground for a second and runs and screams to the couch yelling, "OGRES!!!"

Oh my goodness, I laughed so hard. OGRES. LOL

Wow, Justin, wow....

Tonight Kevin was watching TV with Jakey and Justin and I went upstairs to lay down for a few...Justin told Kevin he wanted to go lay down with me upstairs and so he left the family room. He went to the kitchen where Kevin had left a bag of spices used in cooking crawdads and a cannister of creole spice, he redecorated our whole kitchen - CAJUN STYLE. Then started screaming because he rubbed it in his eyes...then I put him in the bath where he rubbed soap in his eyes...then shampoo in his eyes...holy cow. Not to mention cleaning up the Cajun mess in the kitchen!!

It's a good thing I got pregnant before he started redecorating our kitchen, flooding our family room, and just in general LOST HIS STINKING MIND!!! LOL

I meant to post yesterday but...

I fell in love with some English Muffins and Honey Spread from Country Crock, and spent the whole day obsessing over whether or not they were good, bad, or ok for me. I decided, induldge now, cause there is NO WAY I'm going to pass the gestational diabetes test! LOL

I taught Jakey how to play Farckle and Kevin's brother and sister, and we played 4 rounds and you know how many I won? ZERO! Can you believe that! I got whooped by them all! Jakey won twice! He got really good at counting by 50's and 100's so this is definately a game I can see us playiing in the future to keep him up on his quick math adding skills!

Today it's been one year. One year since Denny passed away. My mom is choosing to not remember that, or think too much about it, so I guess we'll just go with it and see what happens. I can't believe he's been gone for a year. It just doesn't seem like it's been that long since I saw him.

Anyhow, we're going to pick up Jakey's scout uniform today because he has scouts at 4:00, and run a bunch of other errands, so I'll be back tonight. I'll try to get a pic of him in his uniform....I can't believe I have a kid old enough for cub scouts!

Argh, Justin's going through this phase where if he's mad at you, he'll dig his nails into your skin, it makes me want to rip his little head off! He just did it to Jakey and now he's in time out, screaming at me....argh. Ok, gotta go take a shower...bye!

Wow, the retreat was FANTASTIC!!

As the mother of two young children, who homeschools so I don't get the "normal" amount of "away" time from them with school or whatnot, and as someone in Primary, I do not get adult conversation, especially on gospel topics, as often as I NEED them. I love being home with my kids, and I love serving in Primary, but this weekend really "refilled" me so I could go on spiritually.

On Friday afternoon we got there (what a windy road!! LOL) at around 1:00. There were already quite a few people there so we found bunks in a cabin and set up our stuff...then we sat around and told stories, laughed, got to know eachother better, played games. We played a game called "Farckle", interesting name huh? It's a dice game...anyhow it was HILARIOUS and we had a ton of fun playing. There is a British lady in our ward and when she said "Farckle" I couldn't help but laugh. It was so fun! I really got to know the sisters in my ward and stake so much better!

Friday night I ate WAYYYYYYYY too much candy, chocolate, pizza, things I shouldn't have eaten!! I even had a smore to top it all off, and boy was I not feeling so great when I went to bed at 1:00 am after sitting up talking to some sisters in my ward!!!

On Saturday we had breakfast and then 2 workshops and a keynote speaker...the theme was really just relaxing, not stressing, just letting things go more and being ok with it. The keynote speaker's main point was, "It is what it is." And it definately is true! She also said her RS Pres (in UT we had an out-of-town keynote speaker) has a saying, "If you want to see me, come anytime. If you want to see my house, make an appointment." THAT is the most true thing, I am constantly apologizing when people stop by because I can't mop the floors right now and they're dustier than I like, or what not.

After lunch we all headed home. We stopped by the 100 Giants Trail and I had my picture taken inside a huge Sequoia tree, my friend is going to email the pics. We had fantastic conversations in the car on the way home about repentance and our temple sealings/weddings, trials and temptations, just very spiritual topics, and it was nice to hear experiences of the other sisters in my ward, when we were alone.

It was a fabulous time. The stake president said they're going to make it an annual thing because he has felt the Spirit in the camp and that we, as women, need this, and what a benefit it is going to be to our families and those we serve by refilling ourselves spiritually with a time like this. They're even going to see if they can get some priesthood up there to cook for us next year on Saturday morning. I got to know our stake Relief Society President that much more, I was surprised she even knew my name, but she did....and her counselors...other people in other wards from other cities around Bakersfield even...it was fantastic!

Anyhow, I can say enough about what a positive thing this weekend was for me...it was definately a much needed "retreat"! (And I came home and the house hadn't even burned down!)

I went to Enrichment tonight, it was alot of fun! We made isolette covers...now here's the thing...remember when I was hoping my baby would be a girl I wouldn't touch pink clothes? Well I'm now hoping she won't be a preemie, so I wouldn't touch the isolette covers....superstitious I know...but not touching pink worked! LOL I did bring other sisters pins and scissors and thread, I just wouldn't touch the fabrics...LOL I don't know how to sew anyways, so what good am I?

I convinced my mom to go, and she's recently learned to sew, and so she was in all her sewing glory and there I was, the bad daughter - not sewing...LOL

I saw a friend who recently moved back to Bakersfield from Virginia and spent alot of time talking to her. I feel bad because she asked me, "So how are your brothers?" And since I keep in really good contact with her sister - I thought for sure she knew Denny had passed away. She knew Denny, she was shocked. I felt bad for shocking her like that, it was incredibly shocking to me too, when it happened.

Anyhow tomorrow morning we're off to the church owned camp, for our stake Relief Society Retreat! Should be fun! I do hear that 150 women RSVP'ed and they only have beds for approx 120...so um, good luck to those who come late! LOL Nah, some of the more able bodied ladies in my ward are planning on camping in tents, I would but, I'm not all that able bodied...I'd hit that ground and NEVER get back up! LOL I'm SOOOOOO not a camper either, I know, what's wrong with me?!?!

Ok, my last funny of the day before bed. So Kevin was at work late for a company luncheon thing...well I go upstairs and shower and I'm blow drying my hair when I hear BLOOD CURDLING SCREAMS coming from downstairs, the boys are freaked out and running towards me. Turns out Kevin's work had crawdad's and Kevin came into the house holding two crawdad's and was chasing the boys through the house with them!! LOL It was hysterical. Especially for Jakey to be so upset because everytime I'm at the butcher counter at Albertson's he's staring at the lobsters asking me why we don't eat lobster (um yeah it's like $19.99 a lb!) and crawdad's look ALOT like lobster. After he calmed down he ate some and enjoyed it, I thought it was more fishy than lobster...LOL

Anyhow, time to get to bed! My mom bought me a bunch of pillows today and brought them to me and I'm gonna sleep good tonight!!! (Hopefully)

Do you have a secretly purposely messy part of your house?

I work really hard to make sure the house is fairly clean all the time. I work at it constnatly - redoing what I've already done, to keep it fairly clean. But there is an area of my house I have a hard time cleaning - and I spend alot of time there, just because it's MY mess LOL. I clean up after everyone else in the house's messes and I just don't like to clean up this one area that's just mine! LOL

It's my computer desk...I leave a cup on there longer than I would want anyone else to, because it's MY mess...LOL Is that neurotic or what?! LOL

So, do you have an area of your house that you purposely don't clean up as often as the rest, just so you can enjoy YOUR mess as long as possible?

I woke up the middle of the night last night and cried...I realized I'm not going to sleep through the night again until November.....of 2008.....at least. LOL

You know how it is - your pelvis feels like someone took a bat to it everytime you roll over, or lift your leg to put on jeans...your hips feel like someones driving an ice pick into them when you've slept on one side too long....yep. I must have hit my head on a rock to forget how much that stuff HURTS!

What really made me cry, it's going to get MUCH worse before it gets better...LOL

Ok I'll stop whining now, but wow, how in the world can we forget this pain enough to do this again??? That is truly amazing, huh?

I wonder if it's just that my friends and I are all getting to a certain age or what, but ALOT of my IRL friends (and a few OL ones) are getting divorced. Last night's news of a formerly very close IRL friend who was married the same week as Kevin and I, was pretty shocking. Another IRL friend who got married the week after us, also getting divorced. Is it the "7 year itch" or what? My mom says that it's as we all near 30, we're just not the same as we were in our teens/early twenties (all high school sweethearts) and that we are going to have a higher rate of divorce because we never really dated anyone else. I mean Kevin and I have our issues, sometimes pretty major ones, but I can't see getting a divorce. It really jades "love" to see everyone around us getting divorced. Like, do marriages really work out? Of everyone of my closest girlfriends, and our parents, we've been married almost the longest (save my mom (second marriage) who got married only 1 year before Kevin and I started dating, but her first marriage didn't last as long as ours has).

What do you think? Do people really change that much as they near 30 that they grow apart from their spouses?

Jayden packs a punch!!

Tonight I was rocking Justin to sleep and Jayden started kicking HARD. I've never felt her kicks outside before, so I put my hand there and sure enough - bang, bang. I called Jakey over and he got to feel her kick! He was amazed that she could hit sos hard you could feel it from the outside! LOL He thought it was even cooler when I told him how my belly will wiggle and squirm when she gets even bigger, when she moves.

Lunch

It's a good thing I don't have picky eaters! LOL Today I decided a must have for lunch was pork (as in cut up hotdogs) and beans, and cut up strawberries on the side. So that's what we had, it was a huge hit wth the boys, Jakey loves beans, and Justin loves hot dogs :) LOL! It was delicious! I know, I'm weird.

Man, I am still in shock, I cannot believe it's a girl!!

Anyhow, here's the pics!! She was soooooo unbelievably cute playing with her hands and yawning and just lightly kicking me now and then. She's hanging out under my c/s scar today, hip to hip, just lounging! (Even though I had a pancake breakfast with orange juice to wake her up!!! LOL)





And, what I did immediately after finding out I am having a girl!!!



Some funnies from the u/s, when we were done, Jakey called my mom and told her, "the baby has a labia!!!" LOL My mom was like, what????? LOL

Kevin said, the baby is still a boy just his parts are really small, and the tech said, then pink clothes are not going to be a problem for him! LOL

Anyhow, she's BEAUTIFUL and we're so, so, so, so happy that she's healthy and perfect! I can't believe I'm going to have a daughter. As soon as the u/s was over, I RAN to the closest store and bought TONS of clothes, I'm only holding what came home on hangers in the belly pic! LOL

It's A.....

GIRL!!!!!!!

She looks great, healthy, she was playing with her hands and yawning during the u/s....I'll be back later with u/s pics!!

Thank you for all the birthday wishes! It was a fantastic birthday!

I love having all my online friends mention it, and then the outpouring from my RL friends and family - I felt very loved on my b-day and that was the best present of all. My other "best present" was the baby. I'm grateful for the boys and Kevin and my family in general, just exceptionally glad that the one thing that I've been blowing candles out for years while wishing, has FINALLY come true and feeling the baby wiggle inside me makes my birthday very special to me.

In tangible (well more like commercial) presents - I got the most comfortable PJ's!!! I got other stuff too, but man PJ's! I didn't realize how uncomfortable all my jammies were getting!! That stake RS cabin trip is coming up next weekend and I really wanted some cute jammies to wear. :) Kevin also brought me home a dozen roses after he finally got off work really, really late last night. We're going out to celebrate my b-day next Saturday night with our close friends.

Today we went and saw Pirates of the Carribean 3...at first I wasn't too interested, but we got free tickets, so I watched #2 and prepared and actually it was a fantastic movie...and quite a feat for me to hold off using the potty for 3 hours! LOL We had alot of fun though and came home tonight to work on my sharing time for tomorrow night. It feels so good to be a contributing member by being able to fulfill my calling!! Hopefully it's not too much, but my strength really is returning in this "honeymoon" trimester.

Ok, so you all know I have insane dreams - well last night I had dreams all night that SOMETHING stopped me from finding out what the baby is on Monday. Like natural disasters, etc. No natural disaster better happen between now and Monday at 9:00 am!! LOL We stopped by JC Penney's to return a maternity dress I got for my b-day (I got another one that is more modest and my style! LOL) and refused to even look at baby clothes, don't want to jinx myself! LOL

Well I'm off to go slip into my new comfy jammies and watch some TV for the night and get the chance to be quiet and still and feel this little one beat around on my organs for a bit. It's still so cute, and I remember all too well, it turns to bruising punches and kicks so quickly, it's best to enjoy the light movements before the baby starts to get really rough! LOL

Night!

Time to get that picture to move on down!

A post 99% of the reasoning is just so that the pic will move on down, LOL.

Coincidentally, that was the last picture taken of me as a 25 year old! Today I awoke closer to 30 than to 20! Ahhhhh!!

So you all thought my insurance-drama was over, didn't you? I did too! Until I called Justin's pediatrician this morning when he got the toilet paper holder thing (you know the springy thing that holds it to the brackets on the walls?) and got his fingers stuck in it. (Think those cheap chinese finger trap thingies.) Only, toilet paper springy thingy works MUCH better than chinese paper finger trap. Pushing the sides together - DOES NOTHING. So, Kev's dealing with Justin's fingers and I'm calling the dr.

I call his regular ped, now get this, we had Blue Cross HMO privately, through Kevin's work....we switched to Blue Cross HMO through Health Families Program, they don't take that. Say what?! Yeah, nope. They say, we only take Healthy Families Health Net. Well Health Net wasn't an option! So a few days ago Blue Cross HMO mailed me a book with all their providers for our area listed, so I call. Either they are not accepting new patients or they don't accept Blue Cross HMO anymore - they take Health Net.

So by now I'm crying. What am I going to do? Justin's got his fingers trapped, I don't feel it's "Emergency Room Emergent" so I just want a stinking DOCTOR!!! So I'm bawling, Kevin comes in and says, "I got the toilet paper springy thingy off Justin, what are you crying for?" I explain it all to him, and tell him I still want to figure this out TODAY because Justin's likely to find the thing least likely to hurt him, but use it as a weapon and he needs a dr that we can call/see at any time.

So, Kevin takes over the phone. He calls Blue Cross HMO and tells them our situation. The lady on the phone says, "Well this one dr in Lamont accepts it, and Lamont isn't that far away." Kevin relays this and I say, there is no way that I'm going to drive to Lamont (where I've never even been, and it's like 20 something minutes away) and so he tells her that and she says but that's definately an option. By now Kevin has found the doctor she's talking about in the book and it looks like this:

Dr blah blah
234 not going there
Lamont, CA whatever
(661) XXX-XXXX
Languages: Armenian, Spanish

And Kevin says to her, get ready for it....

MY KIDS CAN'T SEE THAT DOCTOR, THEY ONLY SPEAK ARMENIAN AND SPANISH!

I about died laughing. English is obviously a given...LOL I think the lady on the phone had a hard time taking him seriously after that too...LOL

So I called Healthy Families and told them what everyone was saying about Health Net being all they took of the Health Families Program and that I was never offered Health Net....lo and behold, they offer it, only if you have a current dr who takes it or you cannot find a Blue Cross dr to put your kids with, BINGO, we qualify. So July 1st they'll have Health Net (So help Healthy Families if they don't!) and in the meantime, the emergency room does take Blue Cross HMO. (And they speak English too LOL!!!)

Anyhow, that is my eventful day. We're about to go out to dinner for my b-day to my fave steak restaurant...I can't wait!!

17 week belly shot

Kev's brother took a pic of The Belly tonight at 17 weeks. Jakey and Justin had to get in on it, and of course they looked as though someone was killing them, but they wanted to be in the pic and were laughing the whole time, apparently just not when the picture was snapped...LOL




Don't mind the no makeup, I just washed my face for the night. I'm planning an "official" for the baby book pic next week at 18 weeks, and I'll be dressed wearing makeup and all! LOL

Also, my pants aren't maternity, and my shirt is tight, so you can see the unbuttoned buttons on each side of me...LOL

I LOVE naps!

Today I had a presidency meeting here at 1:30, everyone was gone by 2:30, so I said to Justin, hey let's go lay down on Mommy's bed and nap for a little while. He was surprisingly happy to go take a nap (guess getting up at 6:30 am will do that to you!) We went upstairs and it didn't look like he was going to nap, he kept playing around and talking, next thing I know, he's snoozing. So I slipped into my coma as well. Man that was the best sleep I've gotten in FOREVER!!! Unfortunately everyone who knows our number decided it was the perfect time to call us. Grrrr! LOL

I've decided to institute the rule of "sleeping when your baby sleeps" from now on! LOL Although Justin insists, "I'm a big boy, the baby is in your tummy making it fat." Thanks. LOL (And the baby wasn't sleeping at all, it was beating the bed while I laid on my side.)

Wow, did anyone else watch Traveler? I watched it last night, after missing the original episodes, that they did air again last night with a new episode afterwards. It was really good! Kind of like a younger "24". Good stuff!

Kevin's brother and sister stayed the night last night so they could walk to school this morning, it is their last day. I had forgotten how awful it is to have to get up early in the morning to get kids ready for school! Plus normally my boys sleep in until at least 7:30, if not 8:00 and this morning they were both up at 6:30. ARGH. And what is with the sun being up so early!! LOL

Kevin's been home most of the past two days, plus had Monday off, so when he went off to work this morning I was more than glad! LOL I have alot of housework I want to get done before I go on housework-strike for my b-day tomorrow! LOL

Well I better go, we're having a Primary Presidency meeting here today at 1:30 and my house is so messy, I need to get it clean before the ladies get here, especially since we have recently called some new people and I don't know them very well to have them coming in my messy house! LOL

They finally fixed my cool ticker...it was only showing babies at 1w1d for so long! Now it works though!

I've been working hard with Jakey all day on his schoolwork. We have to be at least at 85% to be considered "complete" for 2nd grade (and so he can move onto 3rd grade and start scouts.) Right now we're at:

Math - 86%
Language Arts 84%
History - 83%
Science - 100%

We finished science today because it had a unit on the life cycle of humans. While it mentioned that it takes a man and a woman to make a baby, it wasn't specific and at 7, Jakey wanted to be more specific, but luckily being done with the lesson became more important.

We looked at some ultrasound pictures and after showing him the differences in a boy u/s and a girl u/s Jakey became very proficient at telling them apart! And telling what body parts he was looking at in the other pictures! He's getting really excited for Monday!

My mom wants to know where I want to go for dinner on Friday for my b-day, I'm torn between Olive Garden and Roadhouse Grill - steak or Italian...hmmm. Well I better run, Kevin's off today and we're working on cleaning the upstairs. Later!

Another thing about me, LUCKY YOU!!! If you see this you have to do it! It's fun! Just do it!Just copy....hit Fwd....Paste.

Two Names You Go By
1. Dawn
2. Mommy

Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now:
1. Pajama bottoms
2. Kevin's shirt (mine don't fit :( )

Two Things You Would Want in a Relationship:
1. Communication
2. Respect

Two of Your Favorite Things to do:
1. play with the boys
2. Go to a nice restaurant for dinner!

Two Things You Want Very Badly At The Moment:
1. To know the gender of my baby.
2. A cure for heartburn.

Two pets you had/have:
1. When Kevin and I were first married we had a really imbred Shih Tzu named Logan that I think was mentally handicapped! That dog ran into EVERYTHING.
2. Our ugly, crazy haired doggy - Buddy (Buddy's a girl though) LOL

Two people who will fill this out:
1. Lorie?
2. Kara?

Two things you did last night:
1.Watched trashy reality TV shows all night
2. Rocked a 3 week old baby to sleep after I fed him a bottle.

Two things you ate today:
1. Tuna melt - no one get onto me about mercury poisoning! LOL But it was soooooo good!
2. BBQ chicken and pasta

Two people you Last Talked To:
1. Kevin
2. My mom

Two Things You're doing tomorrow:
1. cleaning the house - don't want to do it on my b-day!
2. working on some end of the year projects with Jakey for school.

Two longest car rides:
1. California to Washington
2. California to Utah (on a holiday weekend - Thanksgiving, with a 20 month old wearing a stinky diaper that we did change but had no where to put while stuck in traffic on the 2 lane part of Hwy 58, oh yeah MISERABLE!)

Two Favorite Holidays:
1. Christmas
2. Pioneer Day - I love the way we celebrate it in Bakersfield. This year I'm going out of town during the celebration though because it's too hot for me to be out there for it :(, next year.

Favorite beverages:
1. Cranberry juice over crushed ice
2. Lemonade over crushed ice
(I'm anti-soda at the moment, weird for me cause I love soda, but this baby is ruining my teeth so I gave it up, don't want to make it worse!)

Fantastic Checkup for 16w5d!

My BP was great, I gained 3 lbs (boo!), everything was great!! Baby's heartbeat is 155 (boyish heartbeat huh? LOL) and I measured 21 weeks. (Crazy!) So the dr is having me come in for a u/s on Monday (TO FIND OUT WHAT IT IS!) I mean figure out if it's the baby or amniotic fluid making me measure so big. I'm so excited, I want to know what the baby is soooooooooooo much, and on Monday I will!!! :) I'm excited, can you tell?? :)

On Saturday I was yard sale-ing with a friend and there were a bunch of baby girl clothes on sale and my friend says, "You should buy some of these." and I said NOPE!!! If I even TOUCH those clothes my baby will grow boy parts to spite me!!! So, I'm waiting. I think it's a boy, but I'll be pleasantly surprised too if it's a girl. :)

Yay, Jordin won AI! That was a great season finale! I loved all the music, it was great!

I just got done speed cleaning my house - I try to clean between 10 - 11, then make the boys lunch, Justin has quiet time and Jakey and I work on school. Yesterday was so awful, I'm trying really hard with the boys today. To not be upset, and to just praise them when they are doing really good. Like right now, they are playing SO WELL together outside. (Even though there was a fist fight right before they went outside!)

Last night Kevin took us grocery shopping at Albertson's and we bought $25 worth of the products that will get you free Pirates of the Carribean 3 tickets and got our free tickets! (Totally not intended to earn them! LOL) So, I guess this weekend we're going to go see PotC 3!

The baby is really wiggly and moving alot now - my dr is going by my original due date and that makes me 16 weeks today! :) I have my big u/s in just over 2 weeks! I can't wait! I want to know who's in there!!

I've been looking for a kid friendly insect repellant for the boys and me to share this summer up at the cabin (and around town, I'm allergic to mosquitos and I don't want to have to have an epi-pen shot if I get bit!) and I just ordered the Skin So Soft Children's Insect Repellant and Sunscreen from Avon, I hope it works and isn't too yucky smelling!!

Our Stake Relief Society is having a Women's Retreat in 2 weeks and I need cute jammies that fit because it's overnight....so that's my goal this weekend, find cute jammies!!! I'm hoping my dr lets me go, I'm pretty sure it'll be ok but I'll double check with him on Tuesday. I'm totally looking forward to getting away and going to this! It should be fun, we're going to be put in cabins by wards, being in Primary I just don't get to know alot of the people in RS and YW like I should.

Yesterday after I had a breakdown, a friend came and got us and we went to the mall with her 2 kids (3 & 1) and my two (7 & 3 as you know) and we are both pg, well it was HORRENDOUS. Justin was awful wanting to run around. I'm going to have to put him back in a stroller! I didn't think with an almost-4-at-the-time-this-baby-is-born, I would need one, but how in the world am I going to keep Justin contained while I do anything once the baby is born, or even before!!

Anyhow I better go make the boys' lunch so Jakey and I can do school. Our school standards are that when you are at 85% completed you are "finished" with that grade level, well 1 of our subjects (math) is at 86% and all the other subjects (Language Arts, Science, and History) are at 75% so we are THISCLOSE to beng done wtih 2nd grade. Jakey really wants to finish because he gets to start scouts as soon as he is out of 2nd grade and offiically a 3rd grader, even though his b-day isn't until Oct (to make it even on starting times for all the boys his age that's how we do it) anyhow he's THRILLED to be starting scouts and looking forward to Scout Day Camp in July. He's even been earning money to help pay for it. Cute!

Ok, off to be domestic....HAHAHAHA! :)

Homemaking Meme

ABC's of Homemaking~

Lorie taggied me, and this is what I have to say about that:


Rules: Answer the following questions related to homemaking and then tag 3 people. Don't forget to link to the person who tagged you and let the people you tag know they have been tagged.
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Aprons – Y/N? If Y, what does your favorite look like?
Nope, don't have one.
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Baking – Favorite thing to bake
Hmmm, I don't bake much at all, cookies a few times, so I guess cookies.
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Clothesline – Y/N?
Yes, a few weeks ago I wanted to dry some pillows on the line.
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Donuts – Have you ever made them?
Nope.
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Every day – One homemaking thing you do every day,
load the dishwasher
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Freezer – Do you have a separate deep freeze?
Nope.
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Garbage Disposal – Y/N?
Yep!
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Handbook – What is your favorite homemaking resource?
internet
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Ironing – Love it or hate it?
Ironing? What's that? I throw it back in the dryer!
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Junk drawer – Y/N? Where is it?
It? As in singular? I have SEVERAL!
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Kitchen – Color and decorating schemeroosters
not really decorated right now cause we just moved here
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Love – What is your favorite part of homemaking?
the part where you eat bonbons and watch tv, oh wait....um LOL
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Mop – Y/N?
Not allowed to, so Jakey Swiffers daily now.
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Nylons – Wash by hand or in the washing machine?
When I absolutely have to wear them, I buy and open a new package every time. Where exactly are people who are washing their nylons going? It doesn't seem like something that would get too dirty???
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Oven – Do you use the window or open the oven to check?
I open the door!
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Pizza – What do you put on yours?
cheese, pepperoni, sausage, and ham
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Quiet – What do you do during the day when you get a quiet moment?
Read, blog, sodoku
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Recipe card box – Y/N? What does it look like?
nope
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Style of house – What style is your house?
I don't know, it's 2 story, two bedrooms two bathrooms upstairs, living room, dining room, kitchen and a bathroom downstairs and a 3rd bedroom we use as a family room.
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Tablecloths and napkins – Y/N?
Nope, that would just be more laundry for me to do.
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Under the kitchen sink – Organized or toxic wasteland?
Toxic wasteland.
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Vacuum – How many times per week?
Jakey vaccuums everyday, eventually he gets everything up too!
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Wash - How many loads of laundry do you do per week?
10 loads a week.
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X’s – Do you keep a daily list of things to do that you cross off?
Nope.
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Yard – Y/N? Who does what?
our gardener
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Zzz’s – What is your last homemaking task for the day before going to bed?
make sure the garbage can is put on a counter so the dog doesn't get into it in the middle of the night, getting up in the middle of the night because our dog is misbehaving is not my idea of fun and could be dangerous for the dog!
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Now I tag 3 people:
1. Natalie
2. Rachel
3. Beth

When Justin was born Kevin and I gave up alot of "conveniences" in order for me to be able to be a SAHM. Bye bye cable, bye bye 2nd car, bye bye cellphones, bye bye LOTS of things. One thing I now believe we shouldn't have given up - 2nd car.

I seriously cannot handle the isolation anymore. It was ok for a while, he drove over the road and so I had the car because he wasn't even home. Then he worked in Shafter but they let him bring his truck home because of our proximity to the I-5. Now he works somewhere that will not let him take home a truck, so he has to have our car, and he works such odd hours there is just no way of telling when he'll go to work and when he'll be off, so I don't take him to/from work.

I just can't handle the screech Justin makes when Jakey has annoyed him, or Jakey coming in screaming hysterically because Justin finally got tired of putting up with what he does to him and hit him right in the face. At this point I don't even feel like punishing Justin for hitting Jakey because honestly - he deserves it. I do, but I don't think I agree with myself about doing it. LOL I want them to learn to work their problems out without shrieking, hitting, or telling me!!!

I'm staying up til REALLY late at night just so I can be ALONE. Then I'm exhausted when they want to get up the next morning and I'm probably even more short tempered so I'm sure it's a vicious cycle at this point.

Thank Goodness, my mom's last day of work is next Friday....she'll take us to get out of the house, keep the boys some nights, it should get better, at least for the summer. Our primary car needs smogging, tagging, front axles, and new tires before we can buy a new one though, so that puts off getting a new car even longer. I could just cry. :(

Please, no more fighting today. And PLEASE let Justin take a good nap!!!

Ah, sweet memories!!

My "Ode" to the HOTTEST American Idol contestant EVER!!!!





Now to go watch Blake and Jordin, who are no Chris Daughtry!!!

Shrek Hands!

Oh my goodness!! I was just doing some housework and my ring finger felt funny so I look down and my hands are swollen up and as big as Shrek hands!!! I lotioned and begged my rings to come off, finally popped them off. Whew! Time to put them on a chain for the rest of the pregnancy!!

Kevin called at 6:30 to see if I was awake to keep him company because he was getting tired at work....um, no. LOL Anyhow after that call I was! I'm going to be dragging today!

I've never really had "allergies", not like everyone else, I sneeze a little when everything is blooming, but it's not like I'm dying with a stuffy face and have true allergies. When I'm pregnant, all of that changes. I've been sneezing for almost an hour, my nose feels plugged up, I have the drainage stuff, my ears hurt, and I had a horrible headache right behind my eyes and nose last night. Of course, allergies and I can't take the "good stuff" to help!

I had a dream last night about grocery shopping, LOL. Like the whole dream was about all the food I was buying at the grocery store. I even saw my birthday cake in my dream, when I told Kevin about it - he laughed at me! LOL How sad is it I'm dreaming of food?!?! LOL I really don't eat that much, I eat often, but small amounts because big stuff doesn't fit in my tummy. Anyhow, I thought it was hilarious! I was really bummed when I first got to the Dream Grocery Store because it was only 4 aisles! Once I got going though, I realized that the aisles were just really long...LOL And so, I woke up craving baked potatoes. LOL So guess what's for dinner?! LOL

I'm so excited to watch American Idol tonight! I can't wait til tomorrow either, to find out who won!!

Oh yes, I almost forgot to mention yesterday's most interesting moment...Jakey and I did a unit of History yesterday - on the Crusades and the end of the Middle Ages. The last "chapter" of te unit was about The Plague, and talked some about the "Ring Around The Rosie" song....yep, Jakey no longer wants to sing that song ever again! (And he's a little scared of getting The Black Plague, even though the lesson said that we have medicines today to help with this disease that we're available then.)

Anyhow, my #1 goal for today is to get a pic of the boys, together, to share with everyone because it's been a LONG time since I took a pic of the two of them!! :)

What a wonderful morning so far! We were at a b-day party for our best friend's son until pretty late last night and Justin fell asleep in the car on the way home and slept until nearly 9:00 am this morning! Jakey was up bright and early - but he doesn't require much attention and lets me sleep! LOL I still woke up about 8:00 cause my bladder was calling me.

Any ideas for getting the musty smell out of my carpet? We've shampooed the area that Justin's flood got to, but it still smells musty. It ruined the couch that we had in our family room so we took that out and we're just putting in a recliner and end table and buying a few bean bags...the boys mostly lay on the floor anyways when we're in here, Kevin's almost always in his computer chair and it'll leave space available for a pack and play for the baby to not have a huge couch in here...so that's the plan for that space for now, now just to get that musty smell out!

Yesterday church went much better than even the weeks before. I feel alot of my strength returning and I'm able to do more and stand longer, and just have more energy than I did have right after I got off bedrest. Plus alot of the family's college aged daughters are home from BYU right now visiting and they make FANTASTIC subs! LOL It's my favorite season, the use-the-college-daughter-in-Primary-season! LOL

Today I have to work on this house for a few hours - every room needs cleaning and this weekend is a holiday, long weekend and I'd like to spend it doing fun things, not cleaning! LOL So my hope is by Friday the whole house, my bedroom included, will be PERFECT...and we can enjoy our long weekend which I intend to spend lounging in pools and BBQing! LOL

I'm trying to find a maternity swimsuit, but everywhere has told me, oh we stopped selling those already - WHAT?!?! Yeah apparently swimsuit selling season is Jan - March, why would I have bought a swimsuit at maybe 4 weeks pg????? I wouldn't have, that's rediculous. And I'm going to be 4-8 months pregnant every day it's over 100 degrees in Bakersfield, but eh, who needs a swimsuit? ARGH....at least Old Navy online has some on clearance still....maybe it'll be here by this weekend????

What I was doing during the Flood

I was on my way to upload these pics to post here - so here ya go!! Pics of Jakey and his castle, he's so proud!! Don't mind all his castle building "supplies" around him! :)

Eating Out Meme

I was tagged by Lorie for this meme, talking about favorite places to eat out.

These are the rules:
1. Link to the name of the person who tagged you.
2. Include the state and country you’re in.
3. List your top 5 favorite places to eat at your location (locally).
4. Tag 5 other people (preferably from other countries/states) and let them know they’ve been tagged.

I live in Bakersfield, CA. My favorite places to eat out:

1) Tahoe Joes!! My all time favorite steak restaurant. VERY expensive, so we usually only go there for birthdays and major celebrations. My kids have NEVER been there, and won't be - at that price, everyone is paying for ambiance too!! LOL

2) Texas Roadhouse Grill - I really love steak, I also LOVE the potato soup at this place! VERY good, again my kids have never been here....but this is a date-ish place, not just for b-days.

3) Outback Steakhouse - do you notice a theme - I'm a meat and potatoes kind of girl - and I LOVE their potatoes more than any other! It's closer and cheaper so we use this place for dates too.

4) Charlie's - it's a small place in the mall food court and they make THE BEST philly cheesesteak sandwiches!! The have "gourmet" fries too - very yummy!

5) Don Pepes - hole in the wall Mexican food...the BEST kind of Mexican food!!! Love the chips and salsa, love it all!!!!

We go out to the nicest places for birthdays, anniversaries, special occassions, and then we have our "family friendly" restaurants. My kids fave place is Don Pepes and that's where were having a luncheon after Jakey's baptism in November - cheap mexican food! Yum!

I tag:
Whoever hasn't been tagged, I think everyone who reads me has been tagged!!!

I have a Meme post I'm working on...but wanted to post something while I'm finishing it.

The insurance thing finally got all figured out - a manager called and apologized, put the boys on the right plan, and credited our account for one month's premiums for the inconvenience. Sounds good to me! Guess my emails finally paid off!

We got a new dryer last weekend and I think I put too much laundry in it because I've restarted it on 80 minutes 2 times now! LOL

No park today - Justin painted the bathroom in toothpaste and dumped a cup of water on Kevin's head this morning....I just wasn't up to it! If he had been mean to another kid or done anything wrong I would have just bawled I'm sure! LOL He took a LONG nap this afternoon - prayer answered! LOL

I'm so excited that Shrek The Third is out!! We're going tomorrow at 11:00 am to see it! Then to the mall to do some shopping! Yay!

The nurse called from my dr's office to check on me and schedule my BIG u/s today - and we discussed if it would be possible to do it June 12th. My mom is going out of town the week after and that's the 1 year anniversary of my brother's death and she needs something exciting to look forward to on that day, so she would like to see the baby that day. The nurse said she'd talk tot he dr, he likes them done at 18 weeks, according to due date #1 that's 18w5d and due date #2 that's 17w2d....baby started measuring big though so hopefully he's ok with it.

Anyhow the dryer is almost done - I'm going to go check it - PLEASE be dry!! And then fold it and work on that Meme....have a happy Friday!

Ok, so after a rough couple of days, I've decided I really, REALLY, need an "I am thankful for..." post!

I am thankful for:

* Justin, he gets into stuff, and makes life very "interesting", but he's absolutely ADORABLE, and SO smart!! Since his favorite thing in the world is food, all I have to do is put a bologna sandwich in front of him and I win the "Best Mommy Ever" award, everytime! Like I've done something amazing just by making a sandwich. It's pretty cool! :)

* Jakey, Even though homeschooling him is difficult sometimes, and our personalities clash, it's AMAZING to watch him learn and grow. He's going to be the first of our children to become an official member later this year when he is baptized, and through his History unit this year (where we learned about the life of Christ and the beginnings of Christianity) - I've learned of his wonderful testimony. I've also seen how much he really knows, like all those Family Home Evenings finally paid off!!! :)

* Both boys, on Sunday after Nursery and Primary, they went RUNNING to eachother across the chapel, "Jakey!" "Justin!" and met like long, lost, friends in the middle, hugging. Then they walked hand in hand back to the pew. That'll make a momma's heart proud!!

* Kevin, he works SO hard so I can stay home. I know how rough it is for him to work 60-70 hours a week, sometimes more, so that I can be at home with the boys, when he wants to spend some time with them too. When I was on bedrest he brought me home a dozen roses and cleaned up the living room and set them in there so I'd have a really nice place to rest.

* Our New Baby - although the pregnancy has been difficult, I'm SO glad we're able to have another. After all the infertility, and pain from it, it's finally our turn to hav another baby! I'm beginning to feel a little flutter here and there and it's amazing. The boys list "loves them" every night and they always say, "The baby loves them." They're so excited to have a little brother or sister. (Although one wants a sister and one wants a brother and I'm only gonna make one happy! LOL)

* All of our extended Family - my mom, picks up meals, cleans up our house, helps with the boys, takes me to appointments, and just plain, gets me out of the house! Kevin's grandma - she takes me to dr's appts and stuff while my mom and Kevin are at work. Kevin's mom - babysits whenever we need help, last night she came after working a long hot day in a warehouse and sucked up all the water from my carpet!

* All my IRL and "internet" friends (some are both!) - for commenting, encouraging, emailing, me whenever I need the reassurance. For being just as excited as me when good things happen, and comforting me when the bad comes.

* My ward! Seriously, we're such a small ward, and it's HARD work to have all of us that are really active be in presidencies with husbands in presidencies and we're all usually really, really busy with our callings, but our ward is SO close! Last night the Young Women came to the door with a beautiful plant, they just wanted to tell me that they love me, we recently had alot of Primary girls move up, and they wanted me to know they missed Primary, but really love Young Women's. It made me feel like the kids DO notice their leaders, which isn't something I'd experienced much of yet. It was an amazing feeling, especially since no one in our ward but my one closest friend and Visiting Teacher knew about the flood. :) (Now I have to keep the plant alive! LOL)

Ok, so after listing it all, I AM incredibly blessed. :)

Oh and - my carpet is cleaner than EVER!!! The Great Flood prompted a steam cleaning of the carpets in this room!!! Yay!!! And MIL let us borrow her cleaner for a few days to do the other carpets in the house! :)

Ok, since I know at some point today I won't be grateful I woke up at 6:00 am, I better go take a short nap before the boys wake up for the day!! :)

And I thought we had escaped the "Terrible Twos"

I'm so upset I'm shaking, so I'm taking a break and thought I'd post my latest stress....oh man.

Justin went upstairs to take his nap while Jakey and I were building a castle for his Feudalism Unit in History. We finish, and I go into the family room downstairs to upload the pics I took of it (meaning to post them here actually!) and realize there is a steady stream of water coming from the ceiling in this room!!!! I run upstairs and Justin has put toys and clothes in the sink of his bathroom and turned on the HOT water and it's overflowing everywhere! I can't unclog the sink cause the water is too hot so I'm trying to mop it up with towels everything. To add insult to injury, he pooped in the middle of the bathroom floor, I did not notice it, and stepped right in it. But that point I started just bawling and freaking out.

Jakey mopped up the water while I tried to haul some boxes out of the closet the draining was going on in the family room, then I started contracting and cramping so much I couldn't do anymore, so I took a shower to stop the contractions and clean my foot with all the poop on it off. Kevin's in LA and won't be home until 8 or 9 tonight, my mom is at work...

Anyhow Kev's grandma is bringing over his little brother (13) at 3:00 when he gets out of school with a wet vac to clean up all the water and help me with this mess and my visiting teacher will be here soon and I'm sure I can get her to help me salvage some of my pictures from the carnage that is The Family Room Closet.

Justin is hiding in his bedroom. Good, if he knows what's good for him he'll stay in there for a while and take a good, LONG, nap. It's one of those times where you can't even punish your kid because you're too upset. Anyhow I need to eat something to get some energy back and so I can take some meds and try to get the cramping to stop.

Can You Guess?

Our big ultrasound is only about a month away now - so, can you guess what we're having? And once the baby comes, how big/small it'll be?

Teeter Tottering on the Edge of Depression

Or insanity...either way.

In February, after Kevin lost his job, but as he was coming into this new one, we applied for a "middle income" program for health insurance for children through our state. Basically the state subsidizes how much regular insurance companies like Kaiser or Blue Cross can charge you for health insurance, reducing your costs. The program sounded too good to be true, help for the middle class? Who ever heard of such a thing?! So February 16, I sent off my paperwork for the boys.

In March we were notified that we needed to send in a different form of income verification (Kevin had changed jobs) and Justin's birth certificate. Due to the change in his jobs we had to wait a few weeks for a first FULL paycheck stub to send into them, and get by the Hall of Records and get the birth certificate. Since I had become pregnant we decided to apply for the matching program for middle class pregnant women for health insurance during my pregnancy since Kevin's new insurance wouldn't work until late June and we couldn't afford COBRA. On April 3, I mailed in the completed paper work for the boys for Health Families (their program) and my AIM (Access for Infants and Mothers) application. Come the end of April, I'm insured and have no problems, and the boys - NOT YET.

On April 25, I called and was told that the boys were approved but that my first choice of health plans was unavailable so I told them, ok go with Blue Cross HMO, the lady said ok, that'll be 3-5 business days for the change, 10 days for it to take effect, they should have insurance soon. On April 30 I got a letter from Healthy Families saying that I needed to designate a health plan, so I called, again indicated Blue Cross HMO, was told the same 3-5 days speil. On May 3, I got a call from Healthy Families - which plan do I want? My original one is not available. I about freaked out, and told them again "BLUE CROSS HMO!!!!" (Any questions on which plan I want yet? Yeah, I know, clear as a bell - I'd like BLUE CROSS HMO!) Ok, the lady says 3-5 business days.

Yesterday I decide I've waited too long for this paperwork to be done and I call to see what's going on. The lady looks up our account and says, "Kaiser is full, which health plan would you like." I was furious....kept my cool though and said, "Let me talk to your supervisor, this is unacceptable and you do not want to deal with this, I'm extremely upset." Supervisor probably refused to come to the phone, and she says, "what can I help you with?" a few minutes later. So I laid into her as the "representative" of her company, I unleashed my fury over this whole situation and cried a little, and basically lost my mind because I'm so frustrated with this whole situation. The phone call finally ended with her saying she would put a RUSH on our order to have the boys put on Blue Cross HMO, it would be done in 24-48 hours. I said, 24. She said maybe 48, and I told her unacceptable, 24. She finally said she would try very hard. Ok.

Today I call, unfortunately the guy was really nice, so I couldn't be that angry, so mostly I cried. That little brat from yesterday put us on KERN FAMILY HEALTHCARE!!!!! Does that sound like "Blue Cross HMO"? No. It doesn't. Not even close. I asked if Blue Cross was closed for enrollment or something, "Nope." He says, let me read you her notes....pauses to find them. I say, "It should say a crazy woman called, VERY UPSET, and yelled that she wanted her sons put on Blue Cross HMO ASAP." He laughed and said, "nope, she put mother indicates ANY insurance program available, just insure kids asap." So apparently that's how she chose to get back at me...she put my kids on a plan I do NOT want. Kern Family Healthcare is my county's equivalent of Medicaid....long wait times, not very good drs....NOT what I wanted!!!! Turns out I have to wait a few days so the 10 day waiting period for KFHC can take effect and then change to Blue Cross HMO so that the boys are covered as soon as possible. Ok. At least this guy was reasonable. I however BAWLED MY EYES OUT during the ENTIRE conversation!!!!!!

Also, Kevin didn't get off in time for us to go out last night, so I made dinner at home. Then this morning just as we all got dressed to go to the mall, his work called him in again, to work until 10 pm, so no mall today either. The boys had popcorn with a movie so I could make the above-mentioned-horrible-phone-call and they dumped popcorn ALL OVER the livingroom.

Oh and then the last straw for me today that led to a HUGE crying spell - I was making a grilled turkey and cheese sandwich and my pan's nonstick stuff is apparently gone cause the sandwich was STUCK. And that just sent me over the edge....sigh.

Ok, I'm done whining I promise.....I just want to be able to discuss stressful things (and most nonstressful things) without crying.

All dressed up and no where to go

Kevin thought he'd be off around 3:00 and we'd go to the mall and pick up a shirt at Motherhood that I wanted but didn't feel like walking back to get on Saturday and also grab dinner at the food court. There is this place that makes THE BEST philly cheesesteak sandwiches EVER and I want one sooooo bad!!! Anyhow, his work is crazy unpredictable so - he's still there :( Hopefully he gets home soon so we can go!

Happy Mother's Day!

We did alot of our Mother's Day celebration yesterday, and then some more today. Yesterday my mom and I went to a fashion show on Modesty put on by my stake, and a brunch was served. Then we went shopping to find some maternity clothes for me. It is next to impossible to find MODEST maternity clothes in XL, but we found a few skirts and shirts. Then the kids, Kevin and I went to a b-day party for Kevin's cousin's kids at the park. Afterwards I was so exhausted I went to bed at 8:30! LOL

Going to bed at 8:30 was heavenly, but I woke up at 3:30 am STARVING and I laid there and tried to fall back asleep and telling my stomach to shut up, I had to get up, I was just too hungry. At 4:00 am you really cannot make a huge breakfast or much really, so I ate my least favorite food - cereal. Bleh. Lucky Charms. But it did the trick and I tried and tried and tried to get back to sleep but I couldn't fall asleep! Finally, the family gets up for church at 7:00 and I'm passing out, figures...LOL So I got up and went to church.

This Sunday went MUCH better than last Sunday. I was in charge of the Mother's Day craft, so two kids at a time I got it done, went to nursery (which was FAR more reverent than Primary!) and did the craft with them too. I got mine from the boys and a pretty flower from the Young Women as I left Sacrament Meeting. Our plans to go out to dinner on Saturday were a bust cause I was just too exhausted so Kevin had picked up my fave Italian food and heated it up for us today. Yummy!

The best news of the day really was, last week I got short tempered with the RS President because our ward is really so small, she was chewing me out for "doing too much" in Primary and we really feel like there is just no one to call. ALL of the able-bodied, younger, sisters (remember our ward is REALLY small) are in the RS Presidency, so my comment was: "If you think it takes 4 able-bodied women to make sure those ten 60 year old ladies don't fight eachother during RS, imagine how we get along only having usually 2 of us with 1-2 teachers for THIRTY or more Primary children, and until we have FOUR able-bodied people, there isn't a whole lot I can do but "too much".' I think my comment hit home, the RS Pres is married to the Bishop and the Bishop said we could have anyone we wanted, whole ward is "fair game" that we need "quality, dependable teachers." And here I was kind of hoping I'd just get released. LOL Anyhow, I just hope something works, it's literally like that, our ward is SO SMALL, I'm amazed we're not a branch, and we only have 2 consistant teachers in Primary and their health restrictions make them our older class teachers and we NEED consistency in Jr. Primary.

Oh, after church, Justin climbed in a tall laundry basket and tipped it over and he banged his head on a wood chair. Gave himself quite the goose egg right between his eyes. He's been begging for HOURS to go to the doctor. He doesn't need a dr!!! LOL

Anyhow my Mother's Day was great - my mom got me some shirts, Kev gave me $$ for clothes that fit, and I was a little pampered. Hope everyone had a good Mother's Day!

My whirlwind weekend is about to begin

Friday: Park Playgroup at 9:30 - 12:00, naps, at 3:00 my mom will be here with Kevin's paycheck and we're going to the bank, Walmart, and the grocery store. Home to put up everything and then drop the boys off with Kevin's mom and we're going to a chocolate party and dinner. Then I'll be home as I'm about ready to slip into a coma...LOL

Saturday: 10:00 Fashioin Show and Luncheon at the Stake Center for Mother's Day, then shopping for church maternity clothes cause none of my skirts/dresses fit me! Kevin and the boys are taking me out to eat on Saturday night, then home again to slip into a coma.

Sunday - Church (which in and of itself has been very difficult for me), then a BBQ/cake for Mother's Day and Kevin's little brother's b-day.

I'm supposed to be still on "modified bedrest" that doesn't sound like it at all does it?? LOL I will be doing a decent amount of sitting, so I hope I do ok, I really want to do all these things and have a fun Mother's Day!

Oh, and last night I went to a Progressive Dinner for my mom's ward and got to take home a loaf of homemade bread her friend made.....man I could LIVE off of that bread!! Anyhow, time to head out the door to Park Playgroup!

How does a three year old not fall asleep til 10:30 and have the energy to wake up for the day at 6:30? Man, I am exhausted!!!! Today's going to be a Doze In The Chair While The Kids Watch Cartoons For A Little While Day for sure!

Last night I had a dream about my BIG ultrasound. I dreamt that she'd check the gender and it would look like a boy, do some measurements, then say "no it's a girl", then measurements, "a boy", measurements, "girl", and I was so confused! Then thanks to watching Medium right before bed, I had a Deal Or No Deal dream....there were 100 cases and 50 had "Boy" in them and 50 had "Girl" in them, along with a pregnancy complication, syndrome, or "perfectly healthy" and I had to chose a case and play "Deal Or No Deal" to figure out/get the baby I wanted!!! It was insane! And now I don't remember what I ended up "winning".

We have 3 b-day parties for 4 kids in the next week, plus Mother's Day, ugh. Tonight we're going to Walmart to buy all the presents. The good side of this is b-day party food and birthday cake! :)

I talked to Jakey's teacher about our plan to finish by the end of the year and I really think we can get it done, at worst we'll finish by the end of June and not the middle, but they'll order his 3rd grade curriculum when we've finished 85% of his 2nd grade work.

Ok off to teach, clean, and catch some sleep!

If my baby's legs are that crossed in a few weeks at my gender u/s - I'll be REALLY upset!! LOL

The Great Debate

We're looking at school to enroll Jakey in for 4th grade (the year after next) that are NOT in our school district. We have been using a website called Great Schools to gather information about the schools we are interested in.

A friend and I were discussing our criteria for the school we will choose for Jakey (our school is a failing school - the public one he formerly attended, not the charter school we use now for homeschooling and thanks to No Child Left Behind we can transfer pretty much wherever we want). Anyhow our criteria are:

Test scores
Ethnicity - I want a culturally diverse school, I don't want Jakey to be a majority or minority.
Percentage of students getting Free/Reduced lunch - honestly - the lower that # the higher the teest scores.
Percentage of students learning English - Jakey really got left behind alot in public school because his teacher was so busy trying to reach the non-English speaking students.

She disagrees, she thinks that Free/Reduced Lunch and Language have nothing to do with test scores, and I believe firmly that they do. I do not want Jakey attending a school with more than half the students receiving it, and I don't want more than 10% to be learning English while my child gets left behind because he knows English - he just doesn't know what the teacher is trying to teach.

I want Jakey to start back in 4th grade, it'll give him time to make some friends so he can go to a Jr high with those same kids and have friends during the hard transition to middle school. Plus if Jakey's in, then Justin will be "grandfathered in" under his enrollment and can start Kindergarten there when Jakey is in 5th grade.

So what do you think? Do you think those kinds of socio-economic factors play a part in a child's academic success? I obviously believe SOME overcome, and not ALWAYS is the "stereotype" correct, but I think it really does.

When you had a particularly rough night, why do your kids feel the need to wake up extra early? Drives me crazy! LOL

Our stake is planning a women's retreat to the camp The Church bought for Girls' and Scout Camp next month and I just lined up care for the boys. It's about 1 1/2 hours away, so I still have to talk to the dr about it to be sure I can go, but I sure hope I can!! The stake is providing all of our food, and there is limited cabin space, but older sisters and pregnant sisters are supposed to have first dibs on bunks in the cabins, but to stay with my friend in my ward I think I will sleep in her tent if she doesn't get a bunk. It sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun! This year our stake really seems to be focusing on the women of our stake, we had a women's day in the temple last month, on Saturday we're having a Stake Mother/Daughter Fashion Show and Luncheon for Mother's Day, and then this retreat.

Anyhow, man will I be glad when everything is done blossoming and blooming and the hot summer sun kills it all off! LOL I hate sneezing, it pulls strange muscles while you're pregnant! LOL

Oh and I finally found my wallet Justin lost, little stinker!! It was behind a chair in our family room.

Last peice of randomness - I do not own a pair of tennis shoes - I know! I'm girly like that, I need a good pair for summer that can be ruined because of this women's retreat and then going to my parents cabin in July for two weeks. My snow boots just aren't going to do! LOL I HATE socks, and I hate wearing shoes that you have to wear socks with, any suggestions?

What happens when a 3 year old gets bored?

He finds your purse, dumps it, cuts up your cash, and hides your wallet, from himself even. ARGH.

Come on, you know you want to say it!

"You're ONLY 11.5 weeks!"

"Are they sure there's only 1 in there?"

"WHEN are you due again?"

It's ok, EVERYONE says it.

Dawn needs to

I took the "your name needs to" idea from Kara and this is what I got. (You type "yourname needs to" into google and see what it comes up with!

1. Dawn Needs to Firm Up Her Group’s Flextime Options

2. Dawn needs to be on TV land

3. OUCH! Dawn needs to show us more of the extraordinary young woman she showed us glimpses of & less of the needy attention-seeker that occasionally peeked out.

4. Dawn needs to be the only or youngest child with a good age gap. I'm the oldest, we're all 13 months apart...LOL

5. I can see Kara liking this one :) dawn needs to make it to the boise area.

and last 6. dawn needs to change. Hmmmm.....

I think number three kinda hurt LOL.

Interview Meme

Lorie Imed me my Interview questions - so here we go!

1. What do you think your greatest achievement in life is so far? My testimony. I've worked VERY HARD to build it, nuture it, and now I can share it. I didn't always have a very strong testimony, it's something that I really had to work at. It's my greatest achievement because I know it makes all other achievements possible.

2. What are your 3 favorite things about your husband? I LOVE to see him with little babies, as our kids get older he does struggle to find his place with them, but as babies he was just extra attentive. My second favorite thing is how well he supports us...I'm sure it's very hard for him to work 60-70 weeks so I can stay home. Third, how safe I feel at night when he's home, I know I'm protected.

3. What have you not gotten to do in life so far that you always wanted to do? I haven't done alot of things, mostly because I had Jakey and got married so young, I definately want to get my Bachelor's Degree....likely I'll be getting it at good old Cal State. :)

4. Name the 5 most precious things to you. We're talking actual tangible objects/people/things? If so, scriptures, Kevin, Jacob, Justin, my newest little baby, and all of our family pictures.

5. What's your favorite: entree, vegetable, fruit, or dessert? I have to say dessert, I love pie and cheesecake!

Appt at 11w1d

My appt went GREAT! I lost weight again, I'm down 12 lbs total - my dr said I could lose and be fine, so that's great. He measured me and I measured 14 weeks and the heartbeat was right between my c/s scar and my belly button?! Crazy! He saw my Tummy Sleeve and thought it was really cool - and we were standing in the hallway talking to his wife about it, they're thinking of having a baby in a year or two and they thought it was great LOL. I did have 2 contractions while he was with me that concerned him, but he said my urine showed signs of dehydration so go drink some water and see if it knocks it off, I can call anytime I have more than 4 contractions in an hour but if I'm ok, my next appt is May 29th!

So no u/s pics from me until we can tell the baby's gender!!! :)

I miss my Fridays! I miss going to the park and chatting with my friends for several hours! My friends came and got my kids and took them but I'm here...

Soon, very soon, I'll be off strict bedrest! (I can hope anyways)

I'm so excited that I get to try going to church on Sunday and then talk to my dr about how it went (cramping, bleeding) on Monday and we can decide about getting off bedrest. I'm not going to Primary this week though, apparently the RS presidency got permission to have all of the MEN run Primary and Young Women's and ALL RS aged women are going to RS for a special Visiting Teaching Conference during RS and Gospel Doctrine. Interesting idea huh? So I'll be sitting in RS until it's time for Sacrament Meeting.

Hmmmm, what else is new? Not much really...Been reading more books, I'm halfway through the Hearts Of The Children series, I haven't decided yet if I like it as well as The Children Of The Promise series.

Ah, yes, the Dr's office called to confirm my appt for Monday - I apparently made ti or 8:15...wow that's early! LOL

Well I hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

Baby #3 at 10w2d

The baby was squirming EVERYWHERE and so the u/s tech tapped my tummy and told it to knock it off so she could measure it, that scared the baby half to death and it balled up, covered it's face with it's hands, and refused to budge for measurements LOL. So the best she could do was 10w5d measurement and hearttones. So my pic isn't too wonderful, but I've got so many it's fine, and it was fun to see! :) If you can tell, the baby is head downish - with it's head up against the heart tones marks to the right and it's hands are covering it's face and the rest of it's body is just totally curled up in a ball! LOL

This is not a pay-per-post ad or anything. I just have to share what will make a woman in the "in-between" phase of pregnancy happiest. Wearing her favorite pair of pants, that no longer fits, unbuttoned and unzipped, covered by The Tummy Sleeve .... ahhhh bliss!

Well I guess my nightmare will never come true, cause I'm 10 weeks now! Yay! LOL

Man, where did spring go? It was so nice! Now it's cold, windy, rainy, cloudy! I know I'm not really getting outside but I hope when I can, the weather is nicer than this!

Soooooooooooooo, anything new? Man I'm bored still LOL! I think I'm going to get a "season" on dvd of something to watch. But I haven't made a decision yet. Maybe I'll restart 24, or see what everyone thinks is so great about Lost, any suggestions?

Well I gotta prep Jakey for state standardized testing, so I better get on that this morning. Oh, guess what, tomorrow Night At The Museum comes out!! My mom is going to pick it up on her way over here after work tomorrow so we can watch it after dinner. I loved that movie and the boys haven't seen it yet. Ok, now I'm rambling, later! I'll be sure to update after my u/s tomorrow morning.

Sudoku

So, how many books of Sudoku puzzles do you think I've done in the past 2.5 weeks? 1? 2? 3? more? If you answered "more" you'd be correct!! I now see number puzzles in my head when I close my eyes...I dream about finding the spot in the square for a 7. I've lost my mind! LOL

My other fun thing is dreams - I have a recurring nightmare right now LOL. Every week when I go in for a u/s the tech asks me "How many weeks are you now?" and I answer whatever it is. Well I've recently started dreaming that every week I always answer 9, that I never move up in weeks. The u/s tech is aging (like noticably, getting grey hair), the appt setting chick is aging, my dr is aging, I never see myself, but I am ALWAYS 9 weeks pregnant, every week I go in...LOL

So, how are the boys doing? Justin is over his ear infection! He's got some nose crud but I'm convinced it's because the weather goes from 90 to 60 every other day. Isn't spring fun? LOL He's talking SO WELL. He's always had pretty good speech but he's gaining emphasis and vocabulary every day. It's cool to see him leaving toddlerhood behind and becoming a little preschooler. My mom bought him some art stuff and puzzles this week and he is doing really well with puzzles and is getting to know his colors very well!

Jakey has STAR testing (state mandated testing to see how bad/good schools are) next week. So he'll be gone from 8:30 - 12:30 Tuesday - Thursday and going to a pizza party on Thursday afternoon. That should be fun for him. I hope he does well, testing is so hard!! We have alot of prepping to do to get him ready on Monday.

Kevin got a raise this week :) We're really excited, like things are falling into place. The raise will equal an extra $400 a month or so and that's perfect because we need to rebuy EVERYTHING for this baby. We've decided to buy our baby a crib, we've NEVER used a crib before but I just can't spend 3 years getting another kid out of my bed! I love my kids, but I DO NOT like their little feet in my back all night! It's time to start bribing Justin to get him out of my bed, I haven't figured out the proper prize for the bribery though.

Oh and finally - THANK GOODNESS SANJAYA IS GONE!!!!!! That made my week!! And really they all did better with country than I thought they would do. Did anyone catch what genre they're singing next week? I didn't hear them say it? Just that "Idol Gives Back" stuff.

If I don't laugh, I'll cry....

I hate how emotional I have become! LOL

Tonight the boys and I were playing "Simon Says" and I said, "Simon Says do jumping jacks." Both boys looked at me confused. I repeated myself. Confused again, then "what's a jumping jack?" I started crying. Kevin's like - what is wrong with you??? LOL I was sad because we're homeschooling Jakey and it's my fault that he doesn't know how to do a jumping jack cause I never taught him. And so in my hormonal state - I must be a complete failure because I don't remember when I learned to do a jumping jack, but I know I wasn't 7! So, while I cried (I am SO lame!) Kevin taught Jakey to do a jumping jack (Justin too, but his are super weak LOL) and when I came out Jakey spent the rest of the night saying, "Mommy don't cry! I know how to do a jumping jack now!" Yeah, I know, I've lost my mind!

Baby's Bigger, Bleed's Smaller!

Finally! The bleed seems to be getting smaller, the baby is getting bigger! Yay! The heartrate was 175 and baby looked good!



My next u/s is next Tuesday at 11:00, after that I see the dr on April 30th and if everything keeps looking as good as it has then I'll be on modified bedrest, with only housework and weight restrictions. But this also depends on my cervix length measurements by abdominal u/s next week and the 30th because I have thinned a bit and dialated slightly and so they're going to put in a cerclage at 14 weeks, we just have to get to 14 weeks, I shouldn't be on bedrest but a few days after the cerc is put in! (Unless I develope further problems...) Anyhow things are looking really good. I don't worry so much about the baby having problems as I do about my body failing the baby...so hopefully my body doesn't fail.

Wow, the baby in that ticker is really taking shape!

According to the due date they gave me when baby first appeared on u/s - I'm 9 weeks today...according to LMP I'm 10w3d - but we're looking at the 9 weeks as being accurate - so I'm due November 18th.

It's stake conference today - and pouring rain, so Kevin and the boys are home and hanging out here. Kevin does have a little cleaning up to do because we have a full week of help from our families and ward coming this week and the house needs to be presentable, so they're all up working on that. The boys made a terrible mess with popcorn last night!

Not much new and exciting is going on here. I am reading the 4th and final book of The Children Of The Promise, I'm going to be sad to see this series end. I have a friend loaning me the next part of the series next week. I haven't read this much in forever! I think since I was on bedrest with Justin! LOL Other than that, I have only left my house to go to the dr's office for the past nearly 2 weeks, so I've totally got cabin fever.

Well tomorrow is another u/s (and chance to escape the house for a little bit) so I'll be sure to post the pic when I get back tomorrow afternoon from the u/s! Wish us luck, smaller bleed and bigger baby! :)

Adventures to the Pharmacy!

Yesterday morning I woke up and my throat was really swollen...it was the craziest thing, I could barely talk, I was panicking because breathing wasn't even that easy. As I woke up more and drank some water and stuff the panic subsided and I realized it's just allergies. (which I normally have a few sneezes as things bloom but they generally don't bother me, however we all know everything changes when you're pregnant!)

So I get up and call the dr and they said to take Sudafed. So I send Kevin at 8:00 in the morning to find Sudafed. Walmart - nope, pharmacy isn't open til 9:00, Vons- same, Walgreens 24 hour pharmacy - store policy is they don't sell Sudafed between the hours of midnight and 9 am. Nice. So Kevin had to work and couldn't keep waiting til 9:00 for someone to sell him Sudafed.

I called a friend and told her about our Sudafed problems and she said she'd get me some. She went after 9:00 am to Walgreens, had to show ID, sign for the Sudafed, and can't buy more Sudafed for 30 days! Wow!

It helped immensely though, the swelling went down completely and I still have scratchiness from the draining of my nose, but eh, it's totally liveable now.

Good Morning All!

I haven't spotted or bled in 12 hours!! I did get up and do alot this morning though with Justin. It's COLD here and rainy and so I had to dress him and feed him myself. My friend that's watching him today though said that she would take Jakey too so I could rest even more because she heard him tell me he would not get the door because he's eating so I had to get up (stinker!)...so he's gone today too.

I'm almost half way through Children Of The Promise Vol. 2 and totally engrossed in it! It's been such an interesting series! When I finish I have a friend who is going to loan me the next part of the series. :)

I'm going to keep bumping up that ticker - it's beyond cool!

Anyhow, totally not much new to say - LOL, I am happy that I get to see the baby again on Monday, so that's something exciting to look forward to. :)

Another u/s, another cute baby pic :) She purposely did not print the pictures of the bleed, she says she wants me to focus on my sweet baby and not the bleed. But the bleed is a little bigger this week :( But it's ok, my baby is doing good :)

This week's pic:

Thumbs up:

My ward is awesome! They have totally stepped in where our families just couldn't be because of work and/or school and saved us!

The Children Of the Promise series, very good! I'm starting the second book tonight!

Desperate Housewives being new last night!

Kevin folding and putting away all the laundry yesterday!!

Thumbs down:

My butt hurts from sitting/laying whatever!

Court shows, oh my goodness, with the exception of maybe The People's Court, these are almost as bad as Jerry Springer!

Soap Operas, I've always loved them, but like 2-3 times a week or less, I feel like the storylines never go anywhere when I watch daily and I feel like, oh my goodness this is totally trashy!!

My baby had an ear infection and I couldn't take him to the dr myself :( I had to send my mom to do my mommy job!

So there you have, the short of it :) I had help here all day today so I wasn't on the computer at all, but I'm going to be the commenting queent tomorrow when the boys are gone, before I go to the dr for my ultrasound at 1:30. :)

Wow, bedrest is BORING.

I read a few chapters of the first book of The Children Of The Promise series (which is great so far!), I watched horrible court shows on tv, and I think I gained 10 lbs because everyone brought my food to me! I felt like the 500 lbs woman on Dr. Phil whose family was always bringing her food.

Tomorrow is our anniversary - 7 years. And we're doing Nada. It's ok though, the baby is worth it. Kev might rent a movie - but that'll be it for us. He's also got to do all of our laundry and fold and put it away and clean the whole house LOL. He says he doesn't mind too much (after a big fight about how he feels about my being on bedrest, he BETTER not mind!) so hopefully tomorrow he proves that it doesn't bother him.

I am so bloated at night! My mom bought me some new clothes - thank goodness cause I could zip pants in the AM and die by the PM.

Anyhow, the bleeding slows way down as long as I stay down, but if I even stand long enough for a shower - I start bleeding a moderate amount of red. Laying down it turns to brown spotting. Not as frightening at all. Our families go back to work and school on Monday and so our ward is stepping in to help with our kids. It's been really touching to see how concerned and helpful everyone is being, and how everyone's come together to help us out right now.

Well I'm off to bed - night all! Everyone, post an updated blog (Stacey, develope a blog!! I wanna click your name and see your blog too!! :) ) so I have something interesting to read tomorrow when Kevin moves my computer to a more "bedrest accessible" spot. Thanks everyone for your positive thoughts for us, I think my cute little baby is snug and safe for now! :)

Let The Games Begin!

Things were really going too smoothly weren't they?

Last night I was making dinner and I got a really painful ache in my back just long enough to notice it and then it was gone. A minute or so later I stepped to the side to grab something and "whoosh!" I stood there and thought, I just had a transvaginal u/s - it's the goop (this was the day after the t/v u/s). Finally I got the courage to go look and sure enough, bright, red, blood.

I called the advice nurse and she said that I had to go in because I'm RH Negative and needed rhogham. (This is the advice nurse for my insurance.) Anyhow, so I go in and wait for hours and hours and hours. They do a pelvic and I'm closed with no tissue, but still bleeding bright red. They give me an IV and take blood and run labs and give me the Rhogam shot, but say the u/s won't be scheduled for in the morning. I said, NO! I was going to go home and call my dr in the morning - I didn't want to stay in the hospital any longer. (They wouldn't call him and his message thingy wasn't working last night.) So they released me at 3:00 am.

I called my dr first thing in the AM and he had me come in ASAP. I got there and immediately had a u/s - baby is totally great, I have a subchoronic bleed. Baby measures 7w4d which is 2 days further than Tuesday LOL, and a heartrate of 167. The dr came in and I told him about them not calling him, and the message being messed up, and he gave me the number to call if I have an emergency and said he's so sorry, he would have been there if he had known and taken care of me himself. I'm on bedrest, he says "toilet, shower, fridge for like 20 seconds - that's it!" and I have weekly u/s' to check the bleed and the baby. My next u/s is next Tuesday. So far baby is hanging in there!

Here is a u/s pic from today - the bleed is the dark spot to the right of the baby


And here is the pic with the baby's heartrate on it - I just thought it was cool :)

Ultrasound Update!

My baby looks FANTASTIC! Nice strong heartbeat at 171! Little arms and little legs! So cute!!! Slightly on the alien side - but that's ok :) However, baby bean measures 7w2d so we're changing my due date from November 8 to November 18th - shoot! But as my dr said, my baby just wants to be born ON November 8th :) Which is fine by me, the week before that is Jakey's 8th birthday and baptism and our Primary Program (Oct 28th) and so I'm all for being pregnant instead of just having had a c/s during that week! :) Just the dreaded getting through the first trimester part I could do without! I want the next 7 weeks to speed by and then my pregnancy can slow down and I can just enjoy being pregnant.

OK I'm going to go find my camera cord, it's my mission today - must find cord so I can show you all how cute my baby is!!!

Edit: figured it out here is baby!!!!

Boring 8 week checkup

Boring is good though :)

I went to the dr today and their fax machine and computers were down. So they weren't able to get my lab results. The dr didn't want to unnecessarily stress me out by trying the doppler too soon (maternal layers and all LOL) and so he was going to have the u/s chick scan me really quick but she was TERRIBLY sick, so he sent her home. She promised to feel better and scan me tomorrow morning, so at 8:30 tomorrow I go back for a u/s to see the baby's heartbeat.

The dr said that one of the most effective treatments for severe morning sickness is B6 injections, so tomorrow I'll be getting one of those (he had to order some from the injectibles pharmacy) and he said they last about a week. Hopefully it's as fantastic as he says it is.

Anyhow so a really boring appt overall. My blood pressure was good, lost some weight...good stuff :)