Happy New Year

We brought in 2012 with some good old family time.  Two thirds of our family can't even partake in a holiday beverage so the best way to celebrate is ice cream sundaes of course. 

Waiting for our ice cream - oooh the anticipation.

best. thing. ever.

Luke was wired and stayed up until almost 9:30, we even got him to say happy new year or something really close to it at least.  Then Zach and I barely managed to watch the ball drop and hello 2012.  Best way to bring in the new year - with my favorite guys.

I've been messing with my new camera the past few days.  When I told Luke to say cheese this is what I got.  Gotta love this kid.

Happy Holidays

Yay for Christmas.  We had such a good time this year and I'm finally in a house that is more suitable for company!  We had a bunch of my family over Christmas Eve for dinner and presents.  Luke was in rare form all weekend, all stemming from being really sick last Friday, but managed to save all the meltdowns/crankiness for Mommy and Daddy so no complaints.  The boy knows when to behave ;) 

Sunday we did presents at our house, presents at my in laws, home for a nap - for Luke only unfortunately - then back to my in laws for their family Christmas gathering.  It was a crazy, awesome, fun two days.  Our house is a mess now - toys everywhere!  We even hid a few in the garage after Luke opened them since he has so many new ones to choose from.  It'll be like Christmas all over again a month! 

One main theme to my holidays - Thomas!  Every time Luke started to open a present he would say "tommy? tommy?" thinking every single present had something to do with Thomas the Tank Engine.  He was right about 75% of the time.  He is currently living in choo choo heaven here.  Everywhere I turn there is something train related and he loves it!  So thank you to all of our family and friends - he is one happy boy.  I just bought a new camera yesterday so I don't have many pictures from last weekend but do have a lot of video.  I need to go through some from family and hopefully eventually post a few on here.  This one I did take on Monday night at the dinner table when Christmas finally caught up to him.

Hope you had a good holiday too!

Just About

So I'm just about 21 weeks pregnant and I'm just about ready for this weekend.

21 Weeks:

How much does baby weigh: Little lady T is the size of a banana this week. Roughly 12 ounces.

Maternity clothes:  Only maternity pants, half and half on tops.

Sleep:  ohmygosh there is not enough time in the day for sleep right now.  Completely not pregnancy related though.

Movement:  every day

Food cravings: I'm hungry. Always. Especially for Cheddar Jack Cheez-Its....mmm.

What I miss: Sleeping on my belly.

Thoughts:  I'm so busy pregnancy is not top on my mind right now, is that a bad thing?  I feel like I'm missing out on all the little things I so looked forward to the first time and don't really want to miss any of it seeing as this will most likely be the last time I'm pregnant. 

This weekend - Christmas!
So most of the house looks fairly presentable - garage was cleaned up and organized with the hopes that we could get a car in there this weekend.  However, the radon guy came today, made Zach move all sorts of stuff, sealed all the cracks in the garage, and said they need two days to dry.  That may dampen our plans of putting a car in the garage this weekend.  The nursery and office are full of junk and all the rooms are mostly unpacked.  For 5 days since we've moved I'm pretty freaking happy with the amount we got done.

As for Saturday and Sunday, the tree is decorated, stockings are hung, food shopping is half done, cleaning is half done, presents are under the tree.  I still have a list that is mega long to do but we're plugging away here.  I don't think I've sat for more than 15 minutes straight all week but next week it'll be worth it when I can take naps, maybe sleep in, and do the last bit of unpacking and organizing.

And just about on winter vacation - tomorrow at 1 pm will be glorious!

Happy

Our new house makes me happy.  We have all of our belongings under one roof again, and even though its still really messy and a bit nuts, I'm loving it.

The smell of Christmas trees makes me happy.  We bought a tree tonight.  It standing about 10 feet away from me, looking all fine, and smelling wonderful.  I'm totally put off by the fact of unpacking decorations before I have the house unpacked but a decoration-less wonderful smelling tree is good enough for me for a little while. 

Being with my family makes me happy.  We've only had a few days in the new place but just hanging out with my boys, unpacking, laying in bed together, dancing together in the kitchen, and watching Luke run like a mad man with his "new" toys all around the downstairs makes me really really happy.

BIG Day!

We are homeowners once again AND we're having a girl! 

Our ultrasound was labeled as "difficult" due to Little Lady T moving pretty much nonstop.  This time I didn't even eat a sugary snack on the way there.  All I had was some Total cereal for breakfast but this girl was on the move.  Regardless of how hard it was for the tech we got a few good mugshots and got to see all the important parts, even if some of them were for a split second.  She did do a good enough job to show us the right parts so we could see she was in fact a she.  Besides that, the tech can't really tell you anything.  So as long as I don't get a call from my doctor tomorrow then it should be all good.  Luke moved constantly when I was pregnant with him and he is a man on the go now so this could mean my hands will doubly full in the near future ;)  I would scan the one good picture to show you but we have no scanner right now. 

Which brings me to the rest of our day, settlement!  I have never been so excited to sign my name a million times and hand over a big ol' check.  But today I was thrilled, that means we own our own home again and this time its not even attached to the neighbors, has a nice big yard, and a pink room for our new little lady along with a manly blue one for Luke.  The walk through looked great and luckily the previous owners left it clean and ready to go for us.  Zach is ready to move now so he took a car full over tonight, we'll do the same tomorrow, unload the storage unit Friday, then get everything else with the truck on Saturday!  Yaaaay! 

Sweet Dreams

Sleep is rough lately.  I think there is too much on my mind.  The next two weeks for us are super exciting and super crazy so its kind of understandable that my mind is going at all hours of the day and night.  Today I did happen to pass out for about 45 minutes while Luke was napping and I had the worst dream ever!  We went for our final walk through in the house and it was NOTHING like we saw before.  Like completely remodeled, walls removed, only 2 bedrooms.  Oh my goodness, it was horrible.  And then we were stuck either just signing the papers or being homeless.  I woke up and knew it was all dream but its making me awfully anxious for Wednesday.  It has been a while since I was actually in the house....  blah. 

Regardless, for some strange reason, I am so super dooper oober goober woo hoo woot woot excited for next weekend.  We are going to be moving into our new HOME!  So even if its a nightmare, which I'm sure it won't be, it will be OURS!  Since we are moving exactly 8 days before Christmas, it adds a little bit more stress but all of our presents are bought, wrapped, and ready to go.  Christmas cards are finished, not baking any cookies this year, and all we have to do is a bit of decorating, buy a tree, and waaalaaa, we'll be set for Christmas morning.  It sounds easy enough, right? 

And stay posted, hopefully our little Baby T will cooperate on Wednesday for our ultrasound and help us find out if we have a he or a she?  Anyone want to take guesses, last chance! 

18ish Weeks

How far along: 18 weeks and a few days

Total weight gain: 9 pounds

How much does baby weigh: Baby T is about 6.5 ounces this week, the size of a sweet potato.

Maternity clothes:  Maternity pants pretty much all the time now.  I need to find a few more work pairs and then I'll be in them for good.  Shirts still not so much.

Stretch marks:  nope

Sleep:  I'm tired a lot but am just sleeping okay.

Best moment this week:  Scheduling our big ultrasound - December 14th, woo!

Movement:  Feeling a bunch, especially on my drive home from work or sitting on the couch at night.  Not strong enough for Zach to feel yet though.

Food cravings: yogurt, ice cream, spicy trail mix

Belly button in or out: in

What I miss: I really wanted a margarita this week - Zach got one and it looked oh so good.

What I'm looking forward to: ultrasound in about a week!

Milestone: frequent movement

Thoughts:  wow, I'm almost half way there!