The Gang

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Let me tell you about our crew... Momma L- I dig pretty shoes- that are comfy. And coffee, I love coffee. Big Daddy- He is gonna cringe if he sees this, lol. I also dig that. He loves playing basketball with the kiddos. JD- He is 14. He is sarcastic. He is a freshman in HS. He is a regular teen. Annoyingdotcom. I heart that. HN- 9 yr old math wiz and future rap star. Well at least that is how he sees himself. He currently is enjoying beatboxing, reading, and anything techy. Little Miss- 8 years old, loves my little ponies and her critters. She loves all things pretty. HW- 7 years old and if it has to do with construction,garbage trucks, or wild life...he's there! He is my little funny man. Baby O- 4 years old and fancies herself fancy. She enjoys all things dolly, tea party, or shopping related.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Dr. Appt. 11/19/2009

I had another Dr. appt. today. It was a nice quick and easy one. She is measuring around 5 pounds ish now and we are still planning on taking her out via induction the week before Christmas. She is head down and a little wiggle worm. All my vitals look good, blood pressure is low, I lost two pounds which is ok- even though I am supposed to be gaining a pound a week right now. I was sick last week so that is probably what that is from. I have gained a total of 16 pounds thus far. Pretty good, all baby and boobs really. haha.
I am in such anticipation to see her. You never really get over the excitment to see something so wonderful that you helped create. Each little one is so different, so new. I wonder if she will have my lips, my nose, Nash's eyes, dimples. I wonder if she will have lots of hair, curly, blonde, or dark? Blue, Green, Hazel, brown eyes? I just can't wait to find out!

Monday, November 9, 2009

The baby shower

So the baby shower was super fun. It was so nice to see everyone and visit. I loved all the pink clothes. I think I was in pink over-load. Plus being sick I was kind of in a stuper. One which I am still coming out of. Yesterday I just layed on the couch all day. Today I ventured out only because it was my day to take a lady who just had a baby a meal and I wanted to get it done early in the day before I got too tired. Then the kids and I had lunch at Lisa's. Now it is naptime and one is down and the other is sitting down. I however still feel like crapola.
Nash and I did start going through baby clothes last night though and putting them in drawers, we are not even half way done, but it was fun to get to relook through everything again and really get a good look at it. I think Nash liked it too.
Time for a little rest, maybe. peace out.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Baby shower today

Today is the baby shower! I am really excited. I love any excuse to get together with friends and hang out. It is also nice to have some grown up time and relax time. Lindsay came in yesterday and the boys didn't know she was coming, they were so excited when they saw her. It was adorable.

latest dr. appt.

So I had another Dr. appt. last night. Everything looks good. She is about 4 1/2 lbs. Still planning on coming out the week before Christmas. It will be nice to have her home and be home resting before the holiday. We were trying to get a good shot of her face, but she kept pulling the chord or her hands and arms infront of her face so that wasn't a possibility. Little stinker. The dr. did mention that it looks like she has a lot of hair. No clue how he could tell that because I sure couldn't but it will be interesting to see!
This morning I woke up with one hand kind of swollen and a rash. The rash usually indicates that I took something that I was allergic too, but I didn't eat or take anything out of the ordinary yesterday so I don't know. Will have to keep an eye on that to make sure it goes away here soon. It is rather annoying.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

31 WEEKS!!!




31 weeks. She should be a solid few pounds by now. At her last ultrasound he said she was about 2 1/2 pounds and that was 3 weeks or so ago. I have another ultrasound next Thursday. We will check out how she is doing. As of right now we are planning on having her the week before Christmas! Woot woot!

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Excitedly working on the room!

We have been working on Olive's room and it is slowly coming together. I think this week we are going to start painting, and Nash is working on her crib out in the garage. We are painting the crib the boys used and getting a new mattress for it.
Which FYI other moms out there if you create a registry you get like 10-15% off stuff on your registry when you buy things off of it, so register. Cause when you need a new crib matress every little bit helps. Plus then babies r us, or baby depot starts sending you coupons on top of that!
I am excited to see things start coming together. It is a slow but steady process.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Recipes???

Dear Ladies,
If you are viewing this website I would like a HUGE favor from you. Do you think that you could bring a recipe card with you to the shower with your favorite EASY recipe on there. I would love some great crock pot recipes or casseroles. Basically anything that will take very little time to prepare. And things that I can prepare in the am and cook all day, or pop in later are awesome. I just know me, and know that I am not going to feel like making dinner at the end of the day. I am trying to prepare for it now, but I am already tired! haha. Plus I love having hand written cards from people, it is really neat seeing that in my cook book. And maybe one day Olive will be getting this cookbook :)
Thanks you guys!
B

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Girl clothing...not as easy as I thought it would be.

So while most people do not want clothes for showers...we do. We have no pink in this house :) We are borrowing some infant items from a friend who has two girls, but 12mo and up is pretty slim. We have started her a box of various sized, and can I say how FUN girls clothes are, and how confusing! I thought, being a girl it would be easy. But there are stockings, tights, leggings, bloomers, long shirts, regular shirts, dresses, ooh my! And I thought that putting everything together would be fairly easy...being a girl myself. I thought wrong, little girl style is a Little different I am discovering. Boys are easy, shirt and pants. The only real thought is what funny saying I might choose on their shirt. Or if I want them to match that day. But for the most part the boys can even pick out their own outfits and look good. I can see now how girls cannot.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

today's dr. appt.

She is still a GIRL! I am always amazed when he looks between her legs and says, "Yep, it is still a girl." Not that I really think it is possible for a penis to suddenly appear, but I guess it is just hard to believe I am growing a girl inside of me. wow!
He also said that she is growing right on track for her age too, not too big, not to small. Just right on track. So that is good. Everything looks healthy, no birth defects or anything serious. Which, with my "condition" as mother would call it, haha, could slightly raise birth defects. But we found out so soon that I was pregnant and I started taking vitamins and extra folic acid right away that all has been well. Praise Jesus. Plus I have a cute little boy praying for the "poopy baby" every night, so I am sure that is helping. Cute kid :)
I can't wait to hear her cry, and see what she looks like, and put her in a dress. Gosh this is taking forever!

mommy and daddy


Wednesday, October 7, 2009

sitting here watching my tummy bounce....

So it is naptime and I am sitting here watching a baby story and watching my own tummy bounce. It is such an interesting feeling and sight to watch something kicking you from the inside out.
I am at the point in my pregnancy where I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about things that I could be doing. You know important things like, dusting, window washing, dishes, etc. These things can keep me up for over an hour, and sometimes I have have to just get up and do them. That is at least what I did when I was preggers with Hudson. It is all sorts of annoying.
Time to go... more later!

Friday, September 25, 2009

crazy8

I love this store. This is a cute store and everything here is totally our style.
http://www.crazy8.com/shop/dept_category.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302774893&PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524445981563&bmUID=1253917208204
that is a link to the dresses. Or just go to
crazy8.com

25 weeks


Here we are at 25 weeks! I can't hardly believe it. It has come so fast! This was last week, so we are 26 now. I am working on Olive's room daily, I ordered a piece of her bedding this week so that we could pick out paint and get to painting her room. I am so excited! I can't believe WE are painting PINK!!!!!
I can't WAIT to see what she looks like. Nash and I were talking about that the other day. It is always so hard to picture what a child will look like, and the waiting is killing us! Patience, it seems like my daily life is full of little patience lessons.

Monday, September 21, 2009

chandelier

this isn't the exact chandelier. I am going to look on craigslist, and antique stores, but something like this. Instead of having a standard light fixture, we are putting something a little more girly and glam in there.

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=93188-17771-50307AW&lpage=none

Saturday, September 19, 2009

About three months preggers here. Gotta love how on number three, the extra fat gets pushed out way sooner.

Us on our trip to the Oregon Coast.

A kickey...yes that is a word...little girl.

She has been kicking ALL DAY LONG! Nash and I are about to go and start painting the crib and clearing out her room. THe D-day is quickly approaching. Time to get a move on things. Got my work clothes on, so I best go!

Babies r us

we have made one registry at babiesrus.com so that people can peruse things online at their leisure, we plan to make a similar one at target or babydepot as well.