1st day

happy 1st day of fall!

I really like fall with all the leaves changing colors and espically the cooler weather. Means I can actually open up the windows and let some nice, crisp fresh air into the apartment. I also have a little fall basket with fake leaves I can put on our little breakfast table in the kitchen. I’m ready for fall but don’t want winter! I do not like the cold! Usually around here It doesn’t get that cold though.

I’ll update about Katie’s 4 month check up a bit later :]

IKE

Eesh, we’ve had quite the hurricane season so far. One hurricane after another for a while now. I was looking at weather.com earlier today and saw how high those waves out on the coast of Texas are getting. They were saying it was gonna be the worst hurricane on the Texas coast in 4 decades. Also heard there might be damage from the hurricane all the way to Dallas. I don’t think our Alabama weather is gonna be impacted by Hurricane Ike, atleast not yet but who knows we could get some rain or wind from it.

I just hope Ike doesn’t make too much of a mess for Texas.

Hurricanes

I was just reading about Hurricane Gustav and Louisiana. They are getting everyone out of there – which is awesome. BUT. Some people are actually wanting to stay? Ummmm. Are you out of your mind??? I told Brad about it and he said there would be NO doubt that If we knew a hurricane was headed our way soon we would be OUT of there! Use *COMMON SENSE* people! You want to live? Yes? You like your life? Yes? Then leave town when a hurricane is said to be headed your way, duh! My biological Mom lives somewhere in Louisiana so I hope she can get somewhere safe If she’s in the path of it.

Here in NW Alabama we might get a bit of Gustav’s wrath somewhere between Monday and Wednesday. It’s said that we’ll get tropical storm like winds, rain and possibly even tornadoes. Eesh! I really hope everyone on the coast in Louisiana and Mississippi can get out of there before It hits. Please call your friends and relatives If they live along the coast to make SURE they know what’s coming their way.

June + 2 weeks old!

Our lovely little lady Katie D is now 2 weeks old! My goodness! 2 weeks have gone by already!!!! It’s been a great weekend with my 2 loves. I don’t want it to end! We took Katie shopping with us to Wal-Mart yesterday and It went really well but shew was it hot out there! I want to go swimmmmmming aaaaagh! We’re now into June and It already feels like July! Today has just been another relaxed Sunday. See, even Katie says Sunday is relax day!


Hehe i love taking pics of her!!! <333

Katie has another appointment Tuesday then I have the WIC appointment on Thursday! I look forward to this month! Our stimulas check should come in about the 20th WOOT! My 6 week Doc checkup is June 30th and then Brad’s July vacation will be coming up YAY!!! Only thing that’s really really really really worrying me is Mom.. she is having surgery on the 20th I think. I just pray it goes well. Please please please God. I miss her so much and hate soooooo much that she hasn’t gotten to hold or see Katie in person. If I could I’d be there in a heartbeat to see her and let her see Katie. If only..

Stormy Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day!

We just had a little storm come through and so Brad and I opened the front door to peek out and It was pouring rain then came a pretty good amount of hail! Brad picked up a large piece—

I am so hungry!! We gotta eat some din-din here soon! Katie is getting some Zzzz’s heh <333

Friday appointment & busy!

Man am I tired! Was up quite a bit during the night because of leg/hip pain and having to use the bathroom every couple hours and then a little more haha. Then we had to get up at 7AM to get ready for my baby doc appointment @ 8:30AM. Brad happened to be off work today (I think I had mentioned in a post before that his work has had random weeks lately where instead of 5 days they’ve been working 4) SO I was glad that he was gonna be able to take me to the doc once again. I think I got up around almost 6AM? to use the bathroom and then Brad got up about 6:45AM so I layed there for a few more minutes then finally got up to start getting ready.

We left about 7:45AM and got there a little early so we sat in the truck for just a bit before going in. Waited a few more min inside before the nurse called me back. Haven’t gained any weight in 2 weeks. Blood pressure was 134/85 and my sugar was 69! Brad was already waiting back in one of the rooms hehe so I went and joined him to wait for the Doc. She came in and said everything still looks good! :] Measured my belly – my belly is measuring about a week ahead of where It should be which she said is ok. Got to hear Katie’s heartbeat and she had been squirming all morning so her heartrate was up to 158-159bpm then It went back down to 147bpm which Doc said was just fine! Told her about my leg/pelvic pain so she prescribed me some muscle relaxers. Take 1 an hour before bed time. I really hope they work, lol. That was about it! Made my next appointment for in 2 weeks then we headed out to get breakfast! I got a sausage biscuit and bottle of water and Brad got a chicken biscuit and coke. Went to Wal-Mart parking lot, ate then went inside to wander around. Didn’t have to be back at the Docs till 11AM. Bought a few little items and Brad’s Mom called to say they had gotten their stimulas check and they were heading up to Wal-Mart to buy groceries. We met them in the parking lot right before we were heading back to the Doc and said after we were done we’d come back, follow them in Wal-Mart till they were done then we’d all go eat lunch! YAY! Back to the Docs. The awesome nurse Linda took my blood sugar this time and as she said while we were waiting.. “Drum roll please” hehe and number was… 88! Woot! Then she joked and said, “I’m sorry but I’m gonna have to let you go” lol. She is great. So we were out of there!! Headed back to Wal-Mart & went and found Brad’s Mom and Stepdad in the store and went along with them as they did their shopping. They checked out and we headed for the Mexican restaurant! I wound up with a shrimp chimichanga YUMZ. I was so full, lol. Afterwards, we thanked them then headed home.

Brad’s Mom and their crew were grilling out tonight so we wanted to eat some yum grill food too so after going home, relaxing a bit, watching most of Dr. Phil then I called Mom and talked to her for a long while – we headed back over to Brad’s Moms about 5:30PM-ish and food was delish. We stayed over there past 8PM then came on home. I got in the bath to relax and soak and now I’m sitting here typing this listening to Breaking Benjamin! Think I’m gonna do a few more things then maybe log onto Lord of the Rings Online for a bit before taking my muscle relaxer, waiting an hour then hopefully getting some niiiiiiiice Zzzz’s! Busy but awesome day and even better? How good the temp was outside today! WOOT WOOT. Have a great rest of the weekend!

Mother’s Day!

So yesterday was Mother’s Day! :] I sent Mom a nice card last Wednesday and she got it either Friday or Saturday. I think Brad did a great job in giving towards his Mom. He made her a necklace, plate full of chocolate chip cookies, cheesecake cupcakes with cherries on top and a “sweet” card to match the goodies hehe. We went and gave her those and spent a little time over there. I’ve been tryin to convince Brad to wash his truck with me here outside of our apartment and he said he would finally yesterday lol. It was REALLLLLLY windy! We had a good time washing his truck together though hehe :] then I hopped into the truck and he helped me throw away trash, get extra cups to bring inside then I wiped down everything inside so now It’s nice and clean!!! Rest of the day was filled with laundry and random things. Was a very nice day though!!

Had a bit of a close call with severe weather last Thursday during the morning. Around 9AM Brad’s Mom came and got me but thankfully the most severe patch didn’t get us. Same thing happened Saturday night and again, It just missed us. Hopefully It’ll be pretty this week! Friday is my next baby appointment and this Sunday is Brad’s Moms baby shower for me yaaaaaaay! I cannot WAIT! I’m so excited to set up Katie’s nursery!!!!

Just finished eating my yummy egg sandwich so I’m gonna go get a few things done! Have a great Monday!!!!!!

We got snow!

Thursday it was 60 degrees and beautiful. Friday? Rainy, cold THEN It switched over to SNOW!!! I’d say we got maaaaaybe an inch last night? It was pretty! Snowed pretty hard at times. Such crazy, crazy weather. We actually collected 2 big bowls of snow and put in our fridge to make SNOW ice cream with!!! I made a big bowl of it with just one bowl of our snow. Some people have no idea what snow ice cream is, lol. You just mix milk, sugar, vanilla flavoring and snow! Mix, put back in freezer for a bit and voila! It’s awesome. I can remember when I was little my Mom would make it and I would sit and eat it until I had severe brain freeze haha. Today of course by noon the snow had melted and gone. Today It was pretty cold and tonight It’s gonna be 23 but tomorrow’s high is gonna be 56 and this coming week we get even warmer.

Ahhh, I woke up around noon today and I was laying on my side and I rolled over onto my back and could feel a hardness in my belly right on and around my belly button and I felt a few pokes in that area then I could actually FEEL baby rotate/move, It’s quite weird lol and then on the right side of my belly button I felt a bump so maybe the head or foot or something? Haha Brad came and layed with me and felt the bump too hehe. So awesome! I’ve never felt baby that high, It’s always been random pokes and little tiny kicks in my lower abdomen so It was a treat to feel It up there!

Didn’t do anything much today.. decided we wanted the jalapeno thickburger from Hardees so we went to a diff town since their the nearest one with Hardees. It was around 5pm which is pretty early for dinner for us so I ate half my burger and a little of my curly fries and saved the rest for later once we got home. The burger was delish!!! And I looooooove curly fries. We left Hardees then went down the road to go grocery shopping at Wal-Mart. Haven’t been to that Wal-Mart in quite a while but we used to shop there EVERY weekend when we lived at the trailor so we know it really really well. Got our groceries, looked around and eventually went to look at BABY stuff! Hehehe. Wound up getting a soft fleece different colored blanket that says “Baby” and also got a bottle with diff colors that says “baby” ! Picked up a little ring teether and a healthcare kit with all kinds of things in it such as comb, brush, nail clips, thermometer, nasal aspirator and a bit more items! I love buying the baby stuff!!!

12 more days till our appointment and to find out what we’re having!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, don’t forget to turn your clocks an hour ahead tonight at midnight/1AM or whatever you choose lol.

Friday night!

I know some people come to my site and see nothing but random sponsered posts – I try to write a normal blog after them but I’ve just been slacking lately haha so I apologize for not blogging regular posts more often. I’m proud to say I’m keeping up with my 366 on Flickr though! 😀

Lately I’ve been really down about not having friends to hang out with randomly. I miss that more than anything… being able to have real close friends who just want to go out like once a week? Once every 2 weeks even???? So I was more than HAPPY when Brad’s friend (well she’s my friend too) Amanda and her boyfriend Micheal wanted to hang out Friday night! I was really, really hoping the plans were gonna stick and that we would be able to go out with FRIENDS for once in a really long time! Even though It was raining – we did get to hang out and had such a great time! A trip to Petsmart first then to the mall where I FINALLY got my eyebrows waxed, lol. Been wanting to get those done for months. Went to other various stores but I was tiring out, lol. My feet were starting to really hurt and swell.. I should have NOT worn my Vans shoes out because their so FLAT and I’m not used to that at all but after roaming in FYE, I went outside the store and sat on a bench for a bit while they finished looking around in there. Went to one more store and by that time I felt like I was gonna pass out.. because my feet were hurting, I was hungry and thirsty and a bit sweaty. After the mall, we went to my FAVORITE place! The New China Buffet! I love that place! Really really really great chinese food for a great price. We all ate until we couldn’t anymore, lol. I had 2 plates then a dessert plate and I was completely and utterly satisified. I swear. I wish our little town here had a chinese buffet like that. We have a small one but It’s NOTHING compared to that place! *DROOOL* After stuffing our bellies, we went to randomly roam and hang out at Wal-Mart! Mostly I spent time with Amanda and Brad spent time with Micheal. We all had a blast! It was sooooooooo nice to have a girl to talk to!!! And I know Brad enjoyed having a guy to talk to and be randomly silly with – and they were lol both of them incredibly silly!
They took us back home and we said we’d hang out again sometime soon again. I REALLY hope so! I had a blast!!!!!

The weather is bizarre around here – 70 degrees today and was around that yesterday but we’re gonna get thunderstorms tonight then a cold front comes in so the highs tomorrow won’t be but around 30-40’s and a chance of FLURRIES. Crazy!!!!!! I like this warm weather! Don’t want cold again! Our thunderstorms tonight might be pretty severe.. all day the wind has been really high.

As far as baby goes! I’m feeling our little baby a bit more often now which just melts my heart. I simply cannot wait to hold this little one! Neither can Brad.. we’re always talking about it. *happy sigh* 🙂 I really love my belly bump lol Tomorrow I’ll be 22 weeks and have about 2 weeks until we see If this little one is a GIRL OR BOY!!!!!!!!!!! Yay Yay Yay!!!

For some reason today I just feel really happy and high energy! Which is excellent – Brad also had a good day so that makes me even happier to know that. I got pretty emotional Saturday worrying about money and buying things of our own for baby – I know lots of people are gonna buy us things for the baby but I also want to buy things ourselves! Brad and I have started a little savings pot just for baby. Makes me feel a lot better! Once we get so much saved up, we’ll go out a buy a little at a time! So I feel better about that. Alright! I guess that about wraps up my post! Have a great rest-of Monday!!!!

Stormy!

Tuesday we had a storm pass over us but all we got was some rain plus a little lightning and thunder. Today we have another system coming through that is supposed to be pretty severe. The wind has been whipping pretty good this morning so I guess we’ll see what comes of this storm.

Gosh, I have been so tired these last few days! Last night I did stay up until 2AM though haha I’m finally getting back into Lord of the Rings Online after not really playing hardly at all and I’m actually getting interested in it again so yay!

I can’t wait for tonight! New episode of My Name is Earl and ER!!!! Man, I really hate that my show Bones won’t be back until APRIL!!!!!!! Blasted writers strike =( Quite a few of my shows are affected by it! *pouts*