Family-less

So as most of you probably know, Wes left to go to Arkansas today for the next 5 days. Austyn stayed all night with dad tonight and will be staying with Mom and Vickey tomorrow night. Today has been very strange and not so unusual, just slightly discombobulating. I have had so many urges to pick up the phone and call Wes, just to be reminded that he isn't close to home to talk right now. While I have heard out of him twice to let me know he is safe, his phone service is very sketchy. I thought that today was going to be very productive, but getting home at 5:30 put a bit of a damper on the productivity. I feel very refreshed though and that makes the day a good one in the least. I went to Target, bought a new throw for the couch to snuggle under and new towels and rugs for the bathroom. Then came home, took a long bath (warm, not hot of course ;) ) and read my new Real Simple mag. Did get the bathroom super clean before I soaked, 1 room down, 5 to go. I guess thats progress :) I do feel very bad that I neglected a friend that wanted to get together today, I hope that she will forgive me when I try and call her tomorrow and set up a new meeting! Anyway, thats all for tonight, its 9:15 and strangely bed is calling my name already. Amazing what a little relaxing and an entire day of NO television will do to your mind!

My Little Alien

We have a heartbeat!(Yes I'm breathing a sigh of relief)! Went to the doctor this morning, found out I've lost 3 lbs, heard a very good, strong heartbeat (fetal heart tones of 169) and had a pap. Yuck on that last part, but I guess its all part of the process. It was pretty funny though, as soon as Dr. Priddle put the heart monitor to my stomach out pops the beautiful sound of a heartbeat and I was so excited. It was such a huge weight off of my shoulders and I feel so much better about my pregnancy now. Dr P. said that after you hear a heartbeat at this stage the chance for miscarriage drops significantly. That was a relief! Anyway, short entry, just had to share my news and I will write more when I'm a little more rested than I am now :)

A Baby Story on TLC

Dang pregnancy hormones. While I'm feeling better which makes me think that the hormones are calming a bit, the crying over silly stuff hasn't changed a bit. I have to admit that ever since Austyn, anything will make me tear up. A sappy commercial, song or ANY baby reality show. I still love watching a baby story and bringing home baby, as most of them follow first time parents that I can relate to. Now with baby #2 I feel so much more prepared for everything! That is very comforting and makes me think that I will appreciate everything with this pregnancy and baby a little more. I love my Austyn, she is my world, but it took me a bit and there are things that I regret to have not captured (pics/videos/journaling) with her. I love the little baby bump that I am starting to sprout and can't wait to find out what we are having so that I can start shopping. For now, I guess its all we can do to focus on finances, getting the house cleaned up and rooms moved around and sit and wait. After all, isn't that all that pregnancy is!

Quick note

Just wanted to write a quick note before I run to work, don't want anyone thinking their being neglected ;)
I was so excited this morning. My stomach has seemed much flatter the last few days, slightly bothersome, but I attributed it to the massive amounts of water that I have been drinking for the last 10 weeks. I have been drinking more caffeine (I know, shame) and it probably acted as a diuretic and flushed out what I was blaming on the baby. Anyway, this morning I was laying in bed, hiding under my blanket (it was 61* in the house, yes I was hiding) and I touched my stomach just out of habit. There was a very noticeable hard bump in there. What has felt like fat and flab for the last couple of weeks has started to come through as what actually feels like a baby belly. That makes me happy because it means that there may be something growing in there, which is comforting. I have lost about 6 lbs, probably because of the nausea but I'm guessing that wont be the case for much longer. With the start of the 2nd trimester this week, I have noticed some very good changes. My hair and skin has started to relax a bit, nausea and exhaustion has subsided a bit and my appetite has started to return (albeit very strange eating habits ;) ). Yesterday, for lunch I had pretzels, twizzlers and half of a blueberry muffin. Not overly nutritious but it kept the nausea at bay most of the afternoon.
Anyways, that turned a little longer than I had planned, just wanted to share my news :) Love u guys!

Woo Hoo!!

Go KSU!!! KKKKK.... SSSSSS.... UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU, WILDCATS! :)

Past entry

I wrote this in my old blog and thought that it needed to be copied for this blog. Not only because I enjoy re-reading it to help jog my memory but I am trying not to go back to my old blog much because its really not based on a very good time in my life. I know that for some people reading, it will be old news. But for those of my new readers, I wanted to repeat it. Thanks!

Thursday, September 6, 2007
Apologies and Thanks

In an effort to bring more peace into my life, I want to apologize to everyone for anything that may have happened in the past. I know that it goes without saying that we all mess up and half the time, don't realize that we've done anything to cause pain. I know that some people really deserve my apology more than others and I hope that in time, I will have an opportunity to hug them and ask for their forgiveness personally. I hold too many grudges and allow situations to affect me for far too long. I am pledging a clean slate. I am taking any past pain or sadness out of my memory bank. I still have all the lessons that I may have learned, but I think that the lessons are all I need to keep. I hope that everyone will read this and think about it in their own lives. I'm not proud of everything or every decision that I've made, but none of that matters now as I am releasing all those bad feeling and casting them away. Thank you to all of my friends and family, I love you all dearly and hope that you know how much you mean to me. You've helped to shape me to the person I am and can't thank you enough for all of the compassion and love you've shown me.

Thanx!

Thanks for the love, everyone! For the comments and emails (for those that couldn't figure out how to leave comments :) ) I love knowing that people enjoy keeping up with my silly little life! No big news today, that's all I wanted to say for now! :)

Change of focus

So, because at this point all we can do is wait on the baby thing and see what happens, its time to change or focus from baby to money. We can't do anything but sit and wait on the doctors to allow us to hear a heartbeat and monitor to make sure is everything is okay, so now its time to work on something we can control. After the 4Th referral to a book called The Total Money Makeover, I finally went out and invested. I really like his strategies and guidelines, very straightforward and to the point. I think that is exactly what we need right now. So this weekend we have planned on sitting down and working on a budget. One of Dave Ramsey's rules is that you have to tell your money where to go. Then the next step is to save $1000 for an emergency fund. He says this should be accomplished within a month, even if you have to sell things or take on more work. I like his thinking, this time is better than any, considering in a mere 28 weeks, we may have another mouth to feed (and clothe and diaper :)). So for the next few months we will be going on a financial diet, sorry if we seem like party poopers. Just forewarning everyone that we may be a little boring over the next few months while we get our finances under control. If anyone is interested, this book is definitely worth checking out. There is a book and a workbook. You don't necessarily need the workbook, but there is step by step directions in it that you don't get from the original book. Helpful for financially incompetent people like me :)
Anyways, no new news on the baby front. Morning sickness and exhaustion are starting to back off a bit. I still definitely get waves of both, but its better than the last 3 weeks where I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to function during the day. Next doctors appointment is a week from Monday and then Wes leaves for Arkansas the following Friday. We just found out that he will be gone from Friday through Tuesday or Wed, so if anyone would like to hang out or walk or go to the park with me and Austyn, let me know! I may need some adult conversation :) Also, please feel free to leave comments on my blog, I have lots of people telling me that they are reading, but only my lovely Anne is leaving me and feedback! I love hearing out of you all, makes me feel loved! Alright, work beckons, guess I probably ought to get there before it gets any later in the day!

KSU vs. KU game pics

 
 
 
 

Monday, Monday

Yucky Monday's. Today was kind of nice tho, because when you work an 11 hour day on Sunday, Monday feels a bit like a vacation :). Yesterday cleaned an apartment and worked at the store for about an hour. Very bad apartment, made me want to come home and clean my own house!
Saturday was game day. Game was bad, but had fun with the experience anyway. I got fried though!! I wish I would've taken pictures of my face on Saturday night, not a very pretty sight! I guess after 24 years of having fair, easily-burned skin I should know better, but no. I didn't use sunscreen thinking, "I will be fine, it will be no big deal". In my defense tho, I read an article today which said that pregnancy makes your skin uber-sensitive, so, I'm sticking with that as my excuse. :) Although the loss in the game was crappy, we had a blast just being there! Tammy, thank you so much for the tickets!
Anyway, today I am officially 12 weeks along and I am starting to feel much more confident that I may be actually carrying a live human in there. 2 weeks from today we will hear a heartbeat and then it will feel much more official. I can't wait for that! I was really feeling yucky this morning, but felt much better as the day went on. I am thankful that everyday I seem to be feeling better, second trimester- here we come! Now, I can't wait for the exhaustion to subside, maybe a few more weeks and we will be in the clear for awhile!!
I will post some game pictures in a bit, stay tuned :)

 
 
 
 

A little Austyn Update! Since importing pics from Picasa seems to work much better I decided to catch up on some pics from Austyn's first day of school!! We made Austyn the offer to be able to go whereever she wanted to for lunch on her first day, she picked Spangle's in Topeka :) So Eric (Wes's little brother) went with us and we had a great time having fun and goofing around!

Picture This

 

I am trying a different way of importing pics into my blog. Hopefully this will be more successful than the last couple of trys :) Thanx for bearing with me!

Productive Day!

Today has been a very good day! I am feeling much better today (hope that's not a bad sign) and have been fairly productive at home! I am starting to think in terms of making things better around the house sooner than later, so as to get the most out of my still small frame. I hope to get belly pics posted soon as there is a lot of difference in this 3rd pregnancy belly compared to the first one with Austyn. I can't fathom trying to hide it for 6 months again this time, as I'm almost done with 3 and am already struggling to hide it. Bigger belly means more time to fully enjoy the wonderfully curvy pregnancy body tho. Thinking positive :) I do loath stepping on the scale though, maybe it's bad weight watchers memories, who knows?
Can't wait for the doctor's appointment on the 22nd though. I need that heartbeat to settle my mind and own the thought that I am actually, as a friend recently said, "baking a baby". I love that line :) I actually considered running out to the store today to buy one of those baby heartbeat monitors. Had to remind myself that I'm only 11 and a half weeks and more than likely it wouldn't pick up a sound and would scare me even more. Only positive thoughts, no worries, everything is going to go perfectly!

Bowling night!

Tuesday bowling league.. always buckets of fun! Tiredness mixed with a sore back (Me) and sore ribs (Wes) makes for a little less enjoyable bowling night though. I'm sure that we will miss it tho when we are done for the season. It does get us out of the house and when you begin to feel like an old married couple that's an important thing!

Today was first ever picture day for little Miss A. Woke up early and curled her hair and put her in a jean shorts and a cute multicolored gingham tank top. It is hard to justify buying pictures from Lifetouch when I have such an unbelievably talented photographer for a best friend. Makes me a bit biased, I guess. I wonder what it's going to be like when little Miss H starts kindergarten and Nicole has to send her to get her pictures taken by someone sitting in front of a colored background. I will be looking forward to the day :)

Today was a good day, felt fairly crappy but I have to keep reminding myself that being sick is a very positive sign. I wasn't sick at all with the last pregnancy but was horribly sick with Miss A. I am thankful that this time is not as bad as with her but sick enough to know that I am probably in the throes of a healthy pregnancy this time. We can hope at least!!

Happy Anniversary!

Yep, it's been 2 years already! I can't believe how time flies! We had a nice quiet night, went to eat at Applebee's with Austyn and then went grocery shopping. I guess that means we're officially not newlywed's anymore :) Anyway, thanks to everyone who has supported us over the last 7 years, we couldn't have done it without the support of our friends and family! Time to get Austyn to bed, first ever picture day tomorrow, woo hoo! Bye for now!