Exciting News!

OH, and the most exciting news that was a secret a few weeks ago? Well, it wasn't about me (I had known I was pregnant for a while), but that my sister-in-law, Piper is pregnant too and due a couple weeks before me. Yeah!!!!

There are many areas in our neighborhood that are being constructed right now so I can't tell for sure which one, but isn't 4:00 AM a little early to start the trucks up with their annoying "beep, beep, beep" backing up sounds? As Michelle Tanner would say, how rude!

I had a dream that I was babysitting Nancy Pelosi's baby girl. Scary, no?

One thing I don't love about this pregnancy is my teenage acne. With Henry, my face was nice and clean, and now it's all zitty. Oh, baby, it's all worth it though.

RJ' s parents are coming to town today and staying through Monday! This is pretty exciting!

We had a neighbor's cat in our yard last night and it was very strange. It was just lurking around very slowly and stare at us and wouldn't get spooked too easily. Henry was trying to catch it and meowing at it like crazy, but we were trying to keep him away because the cat was just too freaky.

The weather is going to be gorgeous this weekend! The official end to summer. It went so fast!

Happy Friday, everyone!

Refreshing Week

After my completely, self-centered pity party ALL last week, I feel much more refreshed this week. It helps to get out and have some good girl time! I met a couple of gal pals at Cheesecake Factory Monday night, went to an amazing MOPS meeting last night (cried through about half of it), and went to a groovy concert at Pottery Barn Kids this morning.

If you live in my area and are looking for a MOPS group, we would love to have you! It's going to be a very exciting year! We have a new mentor "mom" this year and she is a sweet, Godly woman with many years of expertise. I'm also going to work on setting up a lot of fun excursions/free things to do with our kids, and a couple of fun things to do with mommies only. We've also got some fantastic meeting ideas in the works....
Seriously, I can't wait to see what God has in store for our whole group this year. I have a feeling it's going to be something huge.

Right now I'm looking forward to RJ coming home. He started coming home on Wednesdays before he does his other job and I love it. Thanks, baby.

I got to hear my baby's heart beat today. :)
Now I'm looking at baby slings on etsy. Anyone have one they suggest?

Hello, cuteness!!

We had a great day Friday and Saturday, and I don't mean this in a bad way, but Saturday was the longest day of my life. When everyone is up and at 'em by 6:30 it's amazing what you can get done! We went to the Junker's new house in Parkersburg. They could not be happier with it and we're so happy for them too that they no longer have to live in someone else's basement and have a place to call home! They still have landscaping to do and build a garage, but otherwise they're all set. We went in to Waterloo to visit RJ's other grandparents and went out to eat. It's sure nice having so much family in the same area.


Hope you are all enjoying your Sundays! RJ is cleaning and Henry and I are heading outside to ride his scooter. What a gorgeous day.

Henry found a ton to play with as we sorted through all their stuff.
Pop-pop hiding in the cupboards.
Helping Pop-pop while daddy was crawling under the house.
Helping mommy paint some pretties.
The end!

Okay, forget all that complaining. I just got this picture from my cousin from the reunion last weekend and all is well. :)

Do you ever have days where you want to stay in bed all day? Like, literally. All day. And you wouldn't even care. Oh man, there goes my disguise.

When your husband leaves for the day and says, "good luck", you know it can't be good.

When your little boy is up and as wide awake as ever at 5:45 but it doesn't matter because you've been up since 4:00 tossing and turning anyways, you know that can't be good either.

And when you try to go to a couple of simple garage sales but end up taking 5 detours because of all the ridiculous construction and end up buying a few things because the lady is shoving stuff down your throat and you simply can't say "no thanks" and walk away? Well, that's just down right bad.

Oh, what petty little things. I know you all have stuff and then some going on in your lives way worse than this. It's Friday. Lighten up, self!

Everyone says each pregnancy is different and I've come to learn that everyone is right. I had started to feel pretty good earlier this week and after initially being worried about that, wondered if I was just going to have a super easy time, but now realize that this time around it's just more random. Good days and not so good days. There's a lot of little differences this time and lots of things I think I just don't remember. For example, I cry while watching the Olympics, whether pregnant or not. But it's been a little extreme. The other day I caught the last 15 minutes of Legally Blond and cried at the end when Elle gave her speech at graduation. Seriously. Commercials get me too. And talk about moody! That probably explains the above complaining......

I have my first real appt next Tuesday and I can't wait! I feel like I've been pregnant for forever since this will be the 5th time I've gone in since I've had a positive test. I'll only be just over 10 weeks so I'm trying not to expect to hear the heartbeat since it's a bit early, but of course I hope we do. We heard Henry's at 9 1/2 weeks but it had a lot to do with a very determined and patient doctor, and my appt is not with him.

RJ is golfing all day in Ames with some church buddies and Henry and I are heading up to pick him up and then head to Parkersburg to see his grandparents new house and paint something pretty in grandma's kitchen. His parents are coming down too so I'm looking forward to it. When they're around Henry is glued to them.

Have a Happy Friday, all!