I haven't been much into the blogging mood lately. I think about it always but that's as far as it's gone. My sister won't quit bugging me to blog so Aubrey, here's to you.
We have had some pretty exciting things happen to us in the past month. Amy Routt told me about a house in there neighborhood that wasn't up for sale yet but knew that they would be selling it in the future. I called the owners and told them that we were interested in looking at it. They were kind of hesitant but said we could come that next day. Joe and I went over and fell in love with it immediately. It's an older home, built in the 70's and in the best condition we have ever seen. Just a little paint and new flooring and it will be as good as new. We drove by later that even to show my dad where it was and the owners were still there so we stopped for a second time and asked if it was ok for us to show my dad. We got my dad's approval so we knew we had to do something about it. Joe worked all week on getting our loan stuff submitted and a week and a half later we made an offer and they accepted. We will be closing April 30th and we could not be more excited. I don't have any pictures yet but as soon as I get them I will post, scouts honor.
I'm now 13 weeks and still going. It's been a rough journey but I think we're all making it. Joe and I were sick a whole week in February and that was nothing fun. I told Joe I would rather die then to ever feel like that again. I was the fortunate one that couldn't keep anything down and ended up in the hospital with an IV. Thanks to my AMAZING doctor, she got me right in and she even drugged me up with some phenegran. Let's just say, I forgot pretty much everything from that day I was so drugged up. Joe's birthday was that thursday that we were out sick. Poor guy had the worst birthday of his life but my dad made it special and picked him up an Old Chicago pizza and made him his favorite, white cake with chocolate icing. Thanks dad! My pregnancy sickness is off and on. I thought I was getting better but these last 5 days have kicked my butt. Somebody please tell me this is all worth it. My mom told me she was going to tape one of my ultrasound pictures on the back of the toilet so that everytime I throw up I'll remember what I'm doing all this for. I told her nope..... The perks of working at my job is I get to do an ultrasound every week. I wait till Friday when we're all done at work and then I go in and see my little baby. I love watching it move. This past Friday I watched it for awhile and I think it's gonna have my personality, save us! It kept hitting itself in the head and then at one point the umbilical cord was in it's way and it totally moved it out of it's way as if it was bothering it. Then it kept falling asleep on me so I would try and wake it up by shaking the probe on my belly and at one point it totally punched up at my belly as if it was telling me to leave it alone. Poor thing...
Today is my dad's birthday. We celebrated with a few gifts, dinner, and cake. You know the same ole same ole except for the fact when we went to light the candles on the cake we couldn't find our matches so we were tearing the kitchen apart until we found ONE match. We tried striking it on the grout on the tile and other things and it would work so my dad seriously opened the closet to the furnace and lit the match with the pilot light. Talk about desperate! I suggested for them to just call the greens and get a match but NO!
For his birthday we're sending him to a St. Louis Cardinals game sometime this year. We told him he could choose which game. I'm excited for him go. Joe will have the pleasure of taking him and he's already planning on all the food he'll be eating. I told him we may have to take a loan just so he can eat at the game. Joe loves to eat! lol.
