Weigh in

Don't worry, I refused my weigh in today BUT we were able to weigh Liz. She has gained over a pound in two weeks weighing in at 5 lbs 9 ounces which puts her in the 65th percentile. My poor body. I'm only 34 weeks pregnant. Looks like i'll be refusing the rest of my weigh ins if she's gonna keep this up. I told work to go ahead and schedule my c-section. Joe's reaction to this all was "I'm excited!" My statement back to him was "My V-gina isn't excited". Then he told me that I needed to lay off the ice cream because she obviously likes it way too much.

wish me luck!

Babycare Basics 101

I thought it would be good for Joe and I to take a class and learn about babies before we, well before I, bring one into this world. We signed up for Babycare Basics since it was just an overview of everything. I'm glad we went, it was very informative and I think Joe really learned a lot. I wish we had not stayed up so late the night before because Joe and I were kind of dosing off but we still got a lot out of it.
One thing I really liked was that she showed/told us what all they would do in the hospital and told us what all to bring with us. Now I don't have to wonder what their doing with my child and will feel much safer. Which by the way, why is it that the women do all the work and then they have to just lay there while the husband gets to go and see the baby, hold the baby, and watch the babies first bath? Have I ever mentioned I hate being a woman......
Joe was cracking me up with the baby doll. He was so gentle and was trying so hard to get everything right. Of course the first time we even get to touch the babies I drop mine and the head hit the table and made a loud noise. I laughed...... don't worry, i'll be gentle with Liz.
Some things I learned were
*don't use ANY type of lotion until 2-3 weeks after they are born. Lotion clogs there poors and causes milam? I think in simpler terms it's baby acne
*we learned how to give a sponge bath and they said to only bath the child every other day
*wash the face first without soap and then wash the the rest of the body with soap.
*hot dogs, marshmallows, and hard candy are the top 3 choking hazards (I knew hating hot dogs was a good thing)
*I finally learned how to swaddle a baby. that is something I have never been able to figure out.
Anyway, it was a good class and now Joe wants to pretty much go to all of them. I think we might try out the baby CPR since our teacher HIGHLY recommended it.

32 weeks, weekend vacation, and updates

So i'm in my 32nd week and growing fast (me and liz both). I am rarely hearing the "oh you look cute pregnant" and hearing more of "wow! your belly is sticking out". I did however hit the 20 pound mark this week in hopes of not gaining more then 30. I had a patient today tell me today that I looked like I was about to pop. I politely laughed and said "not till September". I'm running out of clothes fast and too lazy to go buy some more but I was informed by my doctor today that I needed better fitting clothes.

I had my appointment today and we got to measure how big she is. She now weighs 4 lbs and 7 ounces. Yes I am aware that she is huge. She did however go down from the 68th percentile to the 59th percentile in her size. My doctor informed me that it'll vary each time and also pointed out that's why they don't measure everytime. But she's nice enough to measure for me.

I guess my doctor got sick of me complaining about not being able to go to Florida this summer so she was nice enough to let Joe and I go to their newly built cabin in Heber and stay the weekend. Our only chance to go was last weekend and we could not have had a better weekend. The high was 75 and it was absolutely BEAUTIFUL. We fished, swam, and just layed around all weekend. We unfortunately are not meant to catch fish because we were out there everyday for hours at a time and did not catch ONE FISH! Joe and I were frustrated but personally I didn't care because the weather was so nice and it was just so relaxing. Thanks again Dr. Johnson for letting us use your cabin!


This is their dock down from the cabin where we fished and had no success. But again, the weather and cabin made up for it.

Funny Story:
As we were pulling out of the driveway Joe told me that he had been eyeing this limb hanging from the tree the whole time we were there and all he wanted to do was swing on it. I laughed and told him to turn and around and have at it. With the most excitement i've seen in awhile he hurried and turned around. He got out and got his gloves out of the toolbox and headed over to the tree. He informed me that he would be safe and tug on it first before swinging. Well.......he tugged and it snapped. He was so upset that it didn't work out but relieved he didn't just go swing on it because what he would have swung over he would have died. I took a picture of it but you can't really tell. There was a huge drop off with tons of rocks. Needless to say, I was dying laughing the entire time.

Joe, so dissapointed......

What he woudl have landed in.

The nursery with no crib

The nursery isn't quite done yet but I just finished the project on her wall and I can proudly say I did it ALL BY MYSELF! I got technical with the miter saw, hammer, nails, and leveler. Joe was quite impressed with my abilities, as was I. Obviously I'm completely done but this is what we have so far. And just incase your wondering where the crib is.......it's STILL on back order, or that's what we're told. It's been 6 long weeks and so Joe is going today to "talk" with them. I'll give more pictures once it's all done!

Maternity pictures

This past Thursday Joe and I drove up to Rosebud to have one of our bff's take some pictures of us before the baby comes. We had tons of fun being goofy and it shows in our pictures. And just FYI I am now 30 weeks.

What not to say to your wife *part 2

Remember when Joe told me he felt sorry for my face because pregnancy had been mean to it? Well there's more. I have to share with everyone because it makes me laugh to know that my husband is trying so hard to be nice while saying these awful things to me and really thinking that it's ok to say them.

-About 3 weeks ago on a Friday night we were talking with some friends about how excited we were to go swimming the next day for the first time this summer.

Joe-in a very concerned voice, "Now that your pregnant are you gonna float?"
Me- "are you calling me fat?"
*After everyone gave him a hard time about what he had just said he proceeds with
Joe-"What? Fat people float......."

-A couple of weeks ago we were getting ready to go to bed and I had asked Joe to help me up off the couch. He picked me up off the couch and said

Joe-"WHOA........THAT'S A BIG DIFFERENCE".
Me-"I've only gained 6 pounds!!!!"
Joe- trying to cover up what he just said "your belly is just poking into mine"

I'm glad I have Joe to make me life through this pregnancy. I told him he's lucky he didn't marry someone who gets there feelings hurt easily . Instead I just laugh and tell everyone about it.

26 weeks and counting

So finally I got a camera charger and I told Joe we had to take pictures before I started receiving anymore hate comments about not blogging. So here they are and I threw in a cute pic of me and Joe just because it was probably the first time we got a good picture of us together in a long time.
Pregnancy is going good. My belly just popped out last week so I'm starting to get asked the usual questions. Joe and I are moved into our house and loving it. We are still doing updates here and there but we finished the big stuff this past weekend. I don't want to put pictures of until it's all done though. We ordered Liz's crib, which was supposed to come in yesterday but I called and they said it had been put on back order. I was annoyed but what do you do. I'm doing her nursery in elephants. It's gonna be pretty darn cute.

FINALLY! There's life

I am now 20 weeks as of last Friday. I'm very excited to know that I am half way done and in 4 months i'll be holding my ridiculous long armed baby girl. With her having such long arms you'd think, for sure she's felt the baby move by now. WRONG! As of last Saturday I STILL had not felt her move not even a flinch. I was really starting to wonder if I was just getting fatter for fun. Well FINALLY Saturday morning I was half way awake when I felt it. It was a little nudge right below my belly button. I thought, nah that couldn't be her until I felt it two more times. I was so excited and woke Joe up right away and he was able to put his hand on my stomach and she kicked/punched at him. I now feel her only when I'm laying down but when I am laying down she is going to town in there. This morning I was trying to sleep on my stomach and she was getting pissed and kept kicking/punching me. I thought it was too cute to change my position so I just stayed like that for awhile. I'm a mean mom I know.

Best Day Ever

Last Wednesday is the day we were set to close on our house. Joe and I both took off and could not have been more happy. We woke up all excited, nervous, and stressed. We started talking about finances and Joe was really starting to stress out about us not selling our truck that had been for sale since October. No lie, 30 minutes later a guy called wanting to check out the truck and he ended up buying it that day! We were so excited and then at 3 that afternoon we went to the title company waited for 2 hours almost didn't get to close on our house but after another 45 minutes of waiting we signed our lives away and are now official home owners.

We LOVE our house and have been working on it for almost a week now getting it all jazzed up for us to move in. My parents have been more then a big help to us and we could never repay them for all the hard work. We have painted almost every room in the house, including paneling that we had to prime twice, and the carpet and tile were laid down yesterday. It is coming together and I'm loving it more and more everytime I step foot in it. We hope to have everything done this weekend so that we can move in next week. So after next week if your ever in the neighborhood, you should definitely stop by and we'll be more then happy to give you a tour of our new home.

name

Sorry, I forgot to tell you in the last post that her name will be Liz Tribett. Yes just Liz. It won't be short for anything. I told my sister that if she's born on her birthday (9-14-09, my due date is 9-18-09) I'll name her Liz Aubrey Tribett. It doesn't really flow but I think it'd be cute so we'll see.......

It's a party

We had our party last night and everything turned out perfect. My doctor was awesome and ordered the cake (since she was the only one who knew what we were having) picked it up and even presented it to us at our party. It could not have gone any better. Thanks Dr. Johnson, your truly the best. We found out what we're having around 6:45. I was so nervous and could not stop shaking. When Dr. Johnson opened the cake I screamed. Melanie has a video of it that i'll have to post later. We had a blast and people were so kind to bring gifts and come and support us. I hope everyone had fun.

Finally I have pictures, your welcome Aubrey and Brad.

Dr. Johnson got me this shirt and I fell in love with it.
My very first gifts. I love them all!

Sleep or No Sleep?

For some reason my body thinks it's funny for me to wake up at 4 in the morning EVERY morning. The worst of it all is that i'm actually comfortable sleeping in my bed I just can't sleep. Poor Joe hasn't been getting much sleep either because I keep wake him up constantly because he has developed the habit of snoring and I don't deal with snoring very well and plus i'm bored.

So I've been completely exhausted by the time 10 am comes around and I have been non functional at work. I'm not a fan of caffeine or carbonation but it has saved my life. Since I can't have excedrin I figured I would turn to Dr. Pepper, well wouldn't you know all they have at work is pepsi products. I even checked two different vending machines until I finally settled with a diet pepsi, except they were out of order AFTER I put my money in so I just went with a regular pepsi. I don't even like pepsi infact, I hate it but it litterally saved my life today. So thanks Pepsi for helping me at work and I'm sure everyone at work is thanking you too.

So I know I never put pictures on here. I'm reminded on a everyday basis that I need pictures on my blog but just so you know I lost my camera charger in November and so haven't been able to. Joe is going to be scanning my ultrasound pictures for me so I can blog them.

Also, we find out Thursday what we're having. I'm so anxious. We're having a little party with close friends and family thursday to find out what we're having. My doctor already knows what we're having and she is ordering a cake for us and she'll show up with it on thursday and announce it to all of us, including Joe and I, with the cake what we're having. Only 2 more days! My doctor has known since last Wednesday so you know i'm dying here. I'll be sure to blog about the party as soon as possible. I guess I should go buy another charger for my camera.

What not to say to your wife

Joe is notorious for not saying the right thing but truly not meaning it the way that it comes out. Thankfully I know that the things that he's saying he's really not meaning rude. Well yesterday was one of those moments that really he should not have said ANYTHING! Thankfully I was in a good mood because I had slept all morning and I was feeling pretty good. He got home from work and we were sitting down eating our lunch. He was talking to me but while he was talking he was looking at my face with much concern. I knew what he was thinking and wanting to say but he was just staring. I was dying to hear what was about to come out of his mouth so I said "Why are you looking at me like that"? His response "I feel sorry for your face, pregnancy hasn't been very nice it". While laughing out loud I had to tell him how rude of a comment that was. His response "Well, what am I supposed to say"? With a stern response I had to tell him "NOTHING".

Updates

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.

Tutu's for Tuesday

I came across a blog about a month ago where I was introduced to a sweet 2 year old named Tuesday that was sent home to die because her cancer had taken over and chemo was no longer going to help. She died 2 or 3 days later. I was so upset that I wanted to share her story with others. I told a girl at work, Becca, about it where she continued to follow the blog as well. She came attached to this little girl and her family without ever meeting them and is now donating her time and money to make Tutu's for Tuesday where $5 of the proceeds will go towards research. I tell you this so that you might help with the donations and plus you'll get a way cute Tutu out of it for any little girl you might know that loves to dress up.
You can order them through this www.TutusForTuesday.etsy.com

If you would like to read about Tuesday http://www.half12.blogspot.com/ (beware, you'll need a box of tissues)

I do everything my older sister does

1. I wish I could go to lunch with my sisters at least once a week
2. I'm really in the mood for warm weather and a beach
3. I'm addicted to blogging
4. My bed and toilet are my best friend right now
5. I hate school and I know I should go back
6. I only finished a term in college, that's not even a whole semester. Does that even count?
7. I met Joe when I was 15
8. I can't explain things to people to save my life
9. My hands sweat really bad, especially when I'm nervous or think about putting lotion on during the summer
10. I love wearing sanuk's (it's a shoe/sandal)
11. I love going shopping with other people for them. There's nothing more fun then spending other peoples money.
12. I love buying people presents and want a BIG reaction out of them when I give it to them. I will literally ask at the least 15 times if they like what I got them if they didn't give me a good enough reaction
13. Sad thing is i'm bad at giving reactions when people give me things.
14. I had a paper route from the age 9 to 15.
15. I was grounded for a month(from literally everything! tv, friends, music, etc...) for not getting home in time for my paper route so to get back at my dad I would play tennis by myself in the garage and hit the inside wall to the living room so my dad would hear it and get on his nerves. Little did I know, my dad can't hear and it didn't bother him one bit.
16. I don't like hugs and the only hugs I give are to my sister to bother her and course Joe.
17. I love that my husband is a pilot and is going to fly big planes some day.
18. I love having family around, I wish we all lived closer.
19. I love being a part of a big family.
20. I think there's nothing cuter then to have my 4 year old niece call me and have a 20 min. conversation about life. She is the smartest little girl I have ever met.
21. I'm not a fan of Obama and I wished McCain would have won.
22. I wish I had something sweet to eat right at this moment.
23. There's nothing more exciting to me then to see my sisters face when I give her all of my clothes I don't want.
24. My dad is my hero.
25. I can say I ran a marathon with my dad and finished at the exact same time with my dad.

Weekly grocery list

3 boxes of cereal - $7.34

2 gallons of milk - $6.83

eating for 2 every two hours - priceless

Wow!

So mom made dinner tonight.........it was really good but my mom had to go so far to get a "wow" factor out of Joe and I. I walked up to the table and looked around and in a glass container was something yellow with shredded something in it. I just looked, and then I looked again until my mom said "it's jello with shredded apples". I honestly thought it was too much butter with shredded hashbrowns floating in melting butter. So then my mom explained to Joe and I how when she was a kid they invented jello recipes and she was trying to be creative tonight, yes she was born and raised in Utah, can you tell? We just went along with it until my mom went as far as to tell us that when she was a kid they would put cheese in their jello. I had to tell her that was not normal and then the next thing I knew my mom was throwing shredded cheese on her lemon/shredded apple jello. Let me tell you, she definately got the "wow" factor out of us! I told her I was blogging about it right then and I got up and here I am. So while as I was logging in to post my entry my mom says "I guess it was carrots instead of cheese". I rest my case mom. Thanks for the good laugh.

What is that smell?

For days now every time we open the fridge we swear something has died in it! We have all smelled it except for mom, which is weird because she usually has the strongest smelling nose. Anyway, I've pretty much stopped opening the fridge or I would prepare myself by holding my breath, grab what I need, shut the door, and RUN! Well, GOOD NEWS! My mom just found the problem. I was sitting here reading blogs when I heard her say "I think I may have found the dead smell in the fridge, I think it's the brocolli." She asked me to smell but I told her to take it to Joe instead. So she walked back to the office to ask Joe and I was sitting her all nice and cuddled up on the couch I smelt it! Yes, that's how bad it is! All she had to do is walk walk by me. Seconds later I heard Joe saying "uh! That's it!" Needless to say, my mom decided not to cook the brocolli (thanks heavens) and the dead smell is gone. Yea! Mom saves the day!

sad but true

On Tuesday on my flight home I had to fly from Vegas to Atlanta, yes I am aware how long of a flight it was, to be exact it was a 4 hour flight. I was dreading it but I knew I had a good book, sudoku, and much needed sleep that would occupy my time. When I got on the plane I was glad to see that it was leather instead of the nasty disgusting clothe seats that I had on my way out and then I was happy that I had a window seat. I sat down all situated and comfortable and waited to see if I was going to be crammed in my seat with someone next to me. Lucky only one person sat down and he was on the isle so there was a seat in between.

Now here's the sad part, the guy sitting next to me was middle eastern. I know I shouldn't judge and I know it's bad to judge but that day I was judging. So we got in the air, I got my book out and was reading. All the while I was watching this man next to me in the corner of my eye. He seemed nervous about something and I think that's why I was freaking myself out. I really thought I was going to die that day. He kept shaking his legs really fast and kept leaning foward and then back and then forward and then back, then he kept grabbing for things in the seat infront of him. Mind you, this was a 4 hour flight so he was probably just bored, but I thought otherwise. I was really trying not to pay much attention to him but I couldn't help but notice him.

At one point he reached down into his backpack, which I was watching very intently, and he pulled out a little notebook and started writing in it. At this point I really thought it was over for me. I thought he was writing his last goodbyes and then we were all in for it. After he got done writing he got up and started walking to the front. You guys this is how retarded I am, I actually sat up in my seat and leaned over to watch him and see if he was "actually" going to the bathroom or if he was going to the cockpit to take over. Not only were my hands sweating from reading my intense book but they were sweating even more watching this man and thinking I was going to die.

Luckly he just went to the bathroom and came back and sat down and then started shaking his leg again and then writing in his book. I was relieved that nothing happened when he sat down but then I started thinking that maybe he put a bomb in the bathroom and it was only a matter of minutes before the plane blew up. So here I am thinking of all these scenarios when all the while this guy was probably just bored from being on the flight and nervous to see who was meeting him at the airport. He finally fell asleep and I finally told myself that I was being rude for judging him and proceeded with my book.

As you can see we safely landed with no highjacking or bombing and I lived through my 4 hour flight. I'll be more careful and maybe more discreet next time I'm on the plane with someone suspicious.