Come on 5 O'Clock

What to talk about?? This week has been sooo boring at work. I really haven't done a whole lot of anything. Today has probably been the worse and 5:00 can't get here fast enough. So-I thought I could kill some more time blogging. :D I really don't have a lot of anything to say. ??? Let's see...I have ordered the invitations for my baby shower. I picked them up today. They turned out to be really cute. I just picked out the invitation yesterday and came up with the wording so that I could get them this week. I should've probably already had them and not have waited til the last minute. I told Bri (one of my friends) planning the shower that I wanted to do the invitations. That she didn't need to worry with that.

Here's the proof


I got the invitation from Paper Works on 1st Avenue North. They have a lot of really cute invitations, decorative paper, party supplies, etc...


Last night I didn't get home til 7:00! I wish I could get home everyday at like 4:00. That would be so nice!! I didn't cook last night so Mr had to fend for himself. Mom had cooked spaghetti and that sounded really good to me, but Chad hates spaghetti. Instead he ate Cream of Wheat (similar to Grits) and Grilled Cheese. I have never heard of Cream of Wheat until we started dating.


Our pool is starting to look a little green. It's not that bad and it wouldn't look that way if Chad would've vacuumed it when he said he would. I think we shocked it one night last week and when we did I told him that we would have to vacuum it the following night...We never did. So he PROMISED he would vacuum the pool Wednesday night. I didn't think he was ever going to do it...He didn't go out there til 9:30!!!! I almost told him to forget it! There is no sense in vacuuming it now. You can't even see everything. He vacuumed it anyway and left the pumps running all night! Sometimes I feel like I have to do everything!! I know it's not his fault because he has never had a pool and doesn't know how to really take care of them, but he should know, by now anyway, that you turn the pump off every night! It drives me crazy how he will wait til the last minute to do something, or until I go to do it and then he won't let me.???



We are leaving for the Beach tuesday morning!! I am so excited. I just hope I don't have any problems like my last beach trip. We are going down with another couple, Matt and Rebekah. Then Wednesday Eric, Brianna, Bryan and LaDonna are coming down.

10 Weeks To Go!?!?!

I can't believe 30 weeks has already gone by. It seems like yesterday I was trying to be sneaky about buying a pregnancy test. I just knew I wasn't pregnant and I would "start" any day. I sure was wrong! I think I took 4 pregnancy test. The first test I bought I said to myself that it was wrong. The lines weren't very dark. The next day I took 2 more store bought tests and one from a doctor's office. I remember thinking, are you serious...I just couldn't believe it. To be honest I was a little upset at first. I didn't know what Chad would think. And this just wasn't really part of "our plan." I really believe everything in life happens for a reason and God knows what he is doing!! Why is it so hard for us to realize that?
So...here I am 30 weeks later. It has been that bad. I am sure things could've been much worse. I just hope nothing too crazy happens these last 10 weeks. I know I probably shouldn't say that, but oh well. Somebody has to think positive.

Blahh...

I started this yesterday and never got to finish.



That is what I feel like. It started yesterday morning while I was getting ready for church. First of all...i didn't really get much sleep. Everytime I had to change sides I would wake up and my throat felt like it was on fire most of the night. I guess that would be heartburn. ??? I have never had heartburn before, so I keep describing my symptoms to Chad and I think he tells me everytime..."yes-that's heartburn." Before I ever took a shower I was in the bathroom...ya know...not throwing up, but "the other." Which is something I do quit often. It's really starting to get on my nerves. So...we went to church and I made it ok, felt somewhat better. Went to my parents house for Father's Day to eat lunch with my dad and just didn't really want to eat anything. I think I ate 2 pieces of corn on the cob. We went to the lake with some friends and rode their boat and I felt okay...We stayed out for awhile, finally getting back to their house around 7 ish. We ordered a pizza and watched a movie. I only ate one piece of pizza and ended up falling asleep on the couch. Chad woke me up after the movie went off to go home. It was around 10:00 when we got home. I got ready for bed, laid down and it wasn't 2 minutes later I was running to the bathroom. Just barely making it...Pizza is probably the worst thing I have thrown up to date. It was horrible! It's like I couldn't control it and it went everywhere... Poor Mr. (that's my name for Chad-I know it's weird) he had to help clean up the mess. So finally...we went back to bed and I was fine. Pregnancy can be so strange at times.



Saturday- We had the 4-D Sonar and it didn't quit turn out how I wanted it to. I was a little bit disappointed, but it is always neat to see what she looks like whether it's in 4-D or 2-D. Olivia just wouldn't cooperate. She had her hands and her feet up by her face. After taking measurements, looking around at everything and trying to get her to move. We took a break and I drank some caffeine and ate some crackers. It helped a little...there are a couple of okay pictures, but I have seen better. The sonographer kept saying she is just being stubborn today and Annetta would always say, "she is Chad's child!" I was really wanting to see if we would be able to see more of her features. I guess we will just have to wait until she actually gets here. I will try and post the pictures later.



Monday- I had a doctor's appointment. I had actually lost a little bit of weight, so they weren't too happy with that. I told my doctor how Sunday went and the past couple of weeks. He suggested taking Fiber con and increasing my fluid. Side note...I am so tired of drinking water. He thinks I could have a small case of irritable bowl syndrome. Other than that...everything looks good. I go back in two weeks-July 1st (my 22nd birthday!)

Baby Talk

I thought I would post some of my sonar pictures of Olivia. I can't wait to see what she will look like. I hope she looks a lot like her daddy! I think Chad has the prettiest eyes, the longest and thickest eyelashes and the best complexion I have ever seen! I wonder is she will have his eyebrows??? Poor thing...we both have thick eyebrows. The first picture was at 14 almost 15 weeks and the second picture was at 18 weeks. It's neat to see how much she grew in 4 weeks. In the second picture I am pretty sure that is the umbilical cord sticking up. It's still weird to me to think there is a baby inside me!! I still really don't feel that pregnant. My stomach is getting bigger but it's not uncomfortable yet...which is surprising. I thought that would be one of the weirdest things-to feel my stomach over my pants. Pregnancy is a CRAZY thing and it's really not what I thought or imagined it would be like. The kicks don't feel like what I thought they feel like. She still hasn't kicked me that hard, and yes I know-it's coming. Everybody keeps telling me that, about everything. "Just wait....you'll see...it's almost like they want me to miserable or something. Sometimes my mother-in-law can be the worst. I think she mostly just says things to aggravate me intentionally. She is funny like that, but I still love her. Anyway... Here is one of my favorite pictures of me and Chad. It's old-It was the day of my 19th Birthday. I think we will have a pretty baby! Don't you think so?

Blogger In Distress

I have messed with that last post I don't know how many times once I already posted it. It never looks the same when I preview the post. The spaces in between the pictures aren't there when I am creating/composing the blog. I went back 2 times and changed the size of the pictures and the spacing and it still looks exactly the same!!
What is the deal?? Can somebody fill me in. That would either be Amanda or Megan. I don't think anybody else actually reads this. If they do-they haven't told me.

I am so sleepy...

I am so sleepy today and I don't really know why. I didn't get in the shower this morning til 7:15 and I didn't get to work until 9:30 or a little later. I really didn't want to get up this morning. I wish I could go take like a 30 minute nap. It's also a little dark and thundering outside so it's not really helping the situation. They have started the constuction in our office and it already looks completely different. I took a few pictures to send to Beth (she is my boss or who I work directly with). She wanted to see what all is going on since, she is getting to work from home for the next 2 weeks while all this fun is going on. :D If I were "working from home" I would be on the couch right now, or better yet I would be in the recliner.










Ok...this was my old desk and office area. I should've took some pictures before we moved everything, but we got carried away and I forgot.








Here is another view. That is Beth standing in her office doorway. It's kind of hard to explain how the office was set-up. I basically sat out in the open. I had Beth right in front of me. David to my left - you can see a little bit of his office in this picture and then Carl's office was on my right. Behind my desk was 2 more offices and some filing cabinets.














This is my new work area. It's actually the mail cube. And no...that is not my picture hanging up. That's just where we put it for now. I actually don't even know whos it is.












Here is a picture with the mail meter. This means everyone is constantly in and out of my cube putting postage on their mail, putting something in the basket for the Jasper mail-which I have to take to the Jasper office every night or looking for FedEx labels or boxes.

So...this is the last picture I will post. To add to the annoyance of being in the mail cube. I also have to hear the copier every 5 seconds! It's like 5 steps away from my desk.

That's all for today. This post has been interupted some many times, so I guess that means I better quit for today.

What a weekend

Wow...this weekend was somewhat crazy. I have plenty of time to fill you in.

Friday- I got off work and had a good commute conversation with Amanda while she was on her way home. It's always good to talk to someone on the way home from work. It makes the drive not seem so bad. We had planned to have a few people come over to the house to grill out. Chris (Chad's oldest brother) and his girlfriend Lacy, Cody (Chad's youngest brother) and his girlfriend Candace and Matt Franklin AKA "Big Frank" and his girlfriend Rebecca came over. On my way home Chad was telling me that one of our friends, Ricky Bowen, or as Chad likes to call him "Ricky B" got drafted and signed with the Cincinnati Reds!! Yay Ricky!! He has been playing baseball the past 2 or 3 years for Mississippi State and graduated high school from Sumiton Christian. So a Jasper boy making it to the Major Leagues is pretty big! I think Chad was the most excited. By the time I got home he had already went to Hibbets and picked up a Reds hat! What a nerd!! I guess it was ok, because when he was in there Ricky came walking in to get him a hat too!! So...Ricky came over and I took their picture. I kept telling everybody, "We have a friend in the Major Leagues!"

So...the little get together just kept getting bigger. By the end of the night it was all of the above people mentioned plus Kelly (Ricky's girlfriend) Bri and Eric came by, my mother-in-law Annetta came by to get a bite to eat and then Bryan and LaDonna and their kids Riley and Lilly!! We have never had that many people in or at our house. It was crazy, but a lot of fun! I think I kept telling people we need a bigger house!!

Saturday- I got up really early for a Saturday. I think I got up around 6:30 and went and picked up my mom by 7 and had to wait on her to finish getting ready. Which was really weird. She is usually the one waiting on me! We had planned to go to a yard sale to look at some baby stuff. She wanted to get a car seat for her car. So-she did get a car seat and a few blankets and cloth diapers. We both have not really got into buying a bunch of clothes yet. Honestly, I think it's a little silly to buy all those clothes, especially before having a shower. We went by a few other yard sales, but didn't buy anything. I guess you could say it's not really our thing. We stopped by the Farmers Market and I bought a few veggies and went back to her house. In the meantime, Chad was making his way to Babies R Us with Big Frank to pick up Olivia's furniture!! I can only imagine what them 2 looked like in Babies R Us with all the pregnant women!! Chad picked up the furniture and picked out the mattress! He did really good! I was proud of him!

I didn't make the trip to Birmingham because Stephanie and Paige were coming over to go swimming! They came over around 11 ish and we ate and Paige took a small nap and Stephanie just had to wake her up so we could go outside. I on the other hand would have let her sleep until she woke up, but Stephanie didn't want to leave her by herself. I didn't see the big deal. Our pool is like 10 steps from our back kitchen doors and I told her we could go in and out checking on her. So needless to say she was a little fussy the rest of time they were there. Here are a couple of pictures.

She seemed to really like the water-especially the jets. We could never really get her to look up at the camera. She was to busy looking at the water. So the pictures aren't that great.

Chad finally made it back with the furniture. Unload everything which got a little tricky with those big boxes and set everything up. The pictures aren't really that great and they really don't give the furniture justice, but you get the idea!

Here's a better picture with more of the bedding.

And here is a picture of the dresser and the semi-changing table. It's not really your traditional changing table, but I think I am going to use it as one. I guess we'll see what how everything works out when Olivia gets here.

I didn't really get a good picture showing all 3 pieces. But- there it is. I really loved this furniture because it was so babyish-so I can get more use out of it. The bed is a converter bed. So it will make to a toddler/day bead and then later a full size bed.

Later that night we grilled some steaks with Matt and Rebecca and Eric and Bri stopped by to see Olivia's room.

Sunday - We went to church as usual and ate lunch with Annetta. After lunch I took a much needed nap...for like 2 hours. I didn't think I was really that sleepy, but I guess I was. Chad woke me up just in time to get ready to go to the church Fish Fry at the Elkins house. They live on basically a farm in Curry. They always like to have church get togethers at their house. The Fish Fry started at 4 and it was like 100 degrees outside. I managed, but I was pretty sweaty. Later that night all the girls went swimming at Carmen's house (The Pumpkin Patch) and the guys played basketball at the church. It was a lot of fun!

Well....That was basically my weekend in a nutshell. This is probably the longest post ever, but I really don't have anything to do today so...I had more than enough time to post and upload pictures.

Killing Time

I thought I would post something while I am sitting here on hold with Lenovo. They are a computer company we use to order laptops. My rep. Bryant will not return my phone calls or emails. It's so funny how when you really need them for something you can never reach them, but when I don't need him for anything he bugs the crap out of me! I have now been on hold for 14 minutes and counting...
Today at work we started this fitness program. It's called the Steps to Wellness. All you do is wear a pedometer (provided by the company) and keep track of your steps for the week. At the end of each week the total steps will be divide by the number of members on our team. I think here in the Birmingham office we have like 12 members on our team. We will compete with the other properties and the Jasper office. Whoever has the most steps at the end will win a bike or a spa treatment! There are other prizes like gift cards to Target and Wal-Mart and other various places.
Some people in our office are taking it way too serious. This one lady in particular, who is probably the strangest person I have ever met has assigned a girl in the office to make sure I am doing my part in walking! I guess she thinks I am lazy or something!! She did ask me earlier this week how my walking was going. Now...the contest just started today, but a few people were already wearing their pedometers just to see how much they already walk. I told her that I have not been able to because of the swelling in my ankles and legs. She hasn't said anything else. I did let her know that my legs and ankles were mostly back to normal and that I would be able to walk more! She is hilarious I really wish you could just meet her.
Well...I have wasted more than enough "company time" now. I better help finish moving. Our office is doing some major renovations and the part where I sit is having the most done. So I will be relocated to a different part of the office-a cube where the mail meter is! How exciting!! A lot of other people will be "working from home" - yeah right!!

Intro

Ok...Here's my first post for the 2nd time! In the beginning I started a blog to try and keep a record of my pregnancy. I wasn't to good at it, so maybe the second time around will be better. This is just a blog of my life and pregnancy. I am sure there will be plenty of grammatical errors and who knows what else, but who really cares! I hate stuff like that anyway. So...I hope whoever reads this doesn't mind too much. It's Just ME!!