24 weeks & Hair Cut

Here is the 24 week baby bump photo. I took it a day early since I had a free moment.


Excuse the tired look on my face. I really am not tired I dont know why I look that way.
16 weeks til my due date!! I cant believe how fast its come! It seems so unreal. I thought I would be getting nervous the closer it gets but really now Im just anxious to have the baby here finally.

Here is the new do! Its really short and a lot shorter than I have ever had it before but with how hot it has been lately it feels good! The hair stylist couldnt believe how thick my hair was and kept saying how do you deal with this hair? Lol. Um I dont, thats why I came in to get it shorter so its less to deal with!!

Show us where you live- Master bedroom

Welcome to our master bedroom! Its pretty tiny so bear with me here. Excuse my pregnancy pillow on the floor. Lol

My dresser. The flowers are all the flowers chadd has ever given me. I dried a few flowers from each bouquet and add them to this. On the wall is a few wedding photos too.
My black wall. Chadd thought I was losing it when I said I wanted to paint a wall black but he really likes it now.
The beautiful throw blanket my MIL knitted me for christmas. It usually lays at the end of our bed.
One of my favorite parts of the bedroom. We strung up some rope lights under the bedskirt and it looks so cool when its dark. You cant really get the whole effect now since I took the photos during the day. At night it looks so much better.

One of my favorite photos from our wedding. This sits on our headboard.

Kung Fu Baby

Our baby is apparantly training to be a Kung Fu fighter already. I am constantly getting kicked and the baby is still pretty low the midwife said so most of the kicks are below the belly button. We have a very active little booger!! But then again with a daddy like our baby has why am I suprised? Lol
I am still struggling with heartburn alot! I think Im going to have to break down and get some heartburn medicine at walmart this week. There really isnt a rhyme or reason to the heartburn either. THe one night I think cherries gave it to me. But then last night I ate pizza and not a bit of heartburn. Who would have thought?
Wednesday we leave for vacation! Woo hoo! Im so excited, even though we are only going to Indy. We have a room at Sybaris where we stayed on my birthday again for one night then we are going to stay at Days Inn the rest of the vacation. Hopefully some Circle center mall & edinburgh shopping is included in next week too ;-) Although I really dont need that much baby clothes anymore, I have a TON of it stashed away now thanks to yard sales, good will (gotta love $1 per piece!) & craigslist. I could use a few more summer stuff for next summer but Im hoping to find some good deals when all this summer stuff goes on clearance this fall.
I got my livingroom all clean today in between jess fussing so at least now I feel like I accomplished something today. I was going to start our bedroom now but decided as soon as I would she would wake up from her nap now so decided to wait til monday when I dont have the girls. I need to run and get some lunch before she wakes up now!

* Please continue to pray for our pastor, he is still in the hospital, this is going on 4 weeks. Not really any progress being made but thankfully he is keeping food down now.

*Also remember a good friend of mine this week in your prayers. She is going through alot of stress and I know she would appreciate your prayers!

Pregnancy Update *Edit*

Well, today was my "23" week appointment although I am actually 22 & 6 days today. Everything looks great. The baby's heart rate is still right where its been at, my blood pressure, sugar levels are normal.I am measuring right at 23 weeks. So yay for a good appointment!! The same midwife that delivered my baby brother is the one I am seeing so today my Mom and Baby brother went with me and it was nice for the midwife to get to see a baby she delivered almost 13 years ago!! Pretty cool. I also met a blogger friend I made on here who is also having a home birth. Its always cool to meet people in person who you "meet" online.
This week is my last week of babysitting the girls. Its a bitter sweet week for me. I am relieved that I wont have the responsibility of watching them every day and there is quite alot of drama in their family ritht now so I know I need to quit for my health & sanity sake now. But yet its also hard for me to let them go since they are going through a tough time right now and I know its going to be hard for them to lose yet another person in their lives. I have had Sarah since she was 2 months old so I am all she remembers. Ill probably cry my way through next week without them. But I know its the right thing to do for me right now and for my baby.

*edit* I forgot to mention that our pastor still needs lots of prayers. They thought he would get to come home if they used a hospital bed and all at home on Saturday but Friday night he started having digestive problems and was sick all day saturday and all night saturday night. He is on a liquid diet with a little yogurt & puddings right now so for the time being he is in the hospital yet. Once his digestive system is back in working order they will talk about what to do next or when he gets to come home. Its been almost 3 weeks now that he has been in the hospital so I am sure they are all ready to come home. Please pray also for his wife & their kids. His sons and their wife/girlfriend have been back and forth alot the last 3 weeks too.

Show us where you live-Laundry Room

Welcome to my laundry room! Kelly's Korner is hosting another show us where you live and this week its bonus rooms, laundry rooms. I dont have a bonus room so you get to see my laundry room.
As you can see my laundry room is a long narrow room and with the washer, laundry sorter, dryer and hot water heater (behind the door) on the one side its pretty narrow to walk down. Plus we dont have a garage or basement so Chadds tool box there at the end gets to live in my laundry room. We also have to store our camping equiptment, lawn chairs, any computers that Chadd is currently working on (see the mess on the floor) Coats, shoes. . all in the laundry room. And yes, I desperatly need new curtains. Im working on it. lol

I do LOVE these cabinets above the washer. Even though I cant reach them (Yes, I stand on my washer to get stuff down.) They store our cleaning supplies, car wash supplies, extension cords, weed killer, flower planting stuff. . .



Our bedroom closet is too small for all my shoes and Chadds to fit so his shoes get to stay in the laundry room too. We did have them on a little rack on the floor to the right of the door but the dogs kept dragging them around so I hung them up. See the butt ugly blue, gold & pink floor? Lol. Gotta love 50's houses!! This is getting new floor tile the same time the kitchen floor is getting done. Hopefully in the next couple weeks!!

Update on Surgery & 22 weeks

22 weeks pregnant today!! Baby has been kicking like crazy lately. Baby is laying low in my belly, the kicks are all toward my hip bones. Some pregnancy stats so I can remember-
*Heartburn is horrible this week. The weirdest things give me heartburn. The first couple months of pregnancy it was chocolate that gave me heartburn but now not so much. Now its peanut butter, sausage, and salad.
*Lower back ache is starting. It comes and goes but I can feel it pretty good after a long day or if I do alot of lifting.
*I started getting Charlie horses in the backs of my legs. 3 in one night! Not fun!
*The baby is around 1# and 11'' long according to babycenter.com

Our pastor finally had surgery yesterday. They ended up doing a triple bypass. So far everything looks good. He is recovering very well! Praise God!

Update

First off a update on our pastor-
They have put surgery off again until further notice (monday or tuesday at least). Remember him in your prayers as he has been at the hospital over a week now just waiting.

This week is VBS at our church. Chadd and I are leaders of a group (aka teachers) and we have had 11-12 kids every night in our group. For the most part our group is pretty well behaved. Last night was the 3rd night and they were starting to get more adjusted to everyone and some of them were getting a little "attitude" by the end of the night. Thankfully the way our VBS is that we have the first 45 minutes inside the church with the story,songs, verses. . . then outside for games with game leaders for another 30 minutes, then inside for crafts with craft leaders for 30 minutes then we only have them in our classroom for 30 minutes. So it could be much worse.
On top of VBS, I am working this week yet & we are cleaning every evening at the library. Its been a long week so far!

Saturday we are going to a wedding for a friend of mine. She got married in Gatlinburg last weekend and is having a reception this weekend. I am supposed to take photos so we shall see how it goes. Then on sunday we have a birthday party for my dads family at lunch. Next week is going to seem easy after this week/weekend! Lol

Baby is doing great. 21 weeks! I feel like my belly really poked out lately. I was sitting on the floor yesterday working on our VBS lesson and I leaned forward to write something on the floor and my belly touched my toes..lol. Weird feeling let me tell ya! Im starting to get back aches alot more now too.

Prayer

If you could take a moment out of your day and say a quick prayer for our Pastor this morning I would appreciate it! He had a heart attack last night and this morning they did a heart scan ??(whatever they do) and it showed blockage so they took him to Louisville for immediate heart surgery. Keep him and his wife in your prayers today if you think about it. Thanks!

EDIT* They are scheduling his surgery for monday sometime now. They want to make sure his heart is strong before they do surgery. Continue to pray for him in the hospital all weekend!

Prayer

If you could take a moment out of your day and say a quick prayer for our Pastor this morning I would appreciate it! He had a heart attack last night and this morning they did a heart scan ??(whatever they do) and it showed blockage so they took him to Louisville for immediate heart surgery. Keep him and his wife in your prayers today if you think about it. Thanks!

20 weeks

Here is the baby bump at 20 weeks. . . Half way there!!!