Tara........

I fixed it. Get off my back :)

Pictures...... Kind of late.

Well here's Valentine's Day. I made heart pancakes. Quite the challenge actually. And George even ate them WITHOUT chocolate chips and whip cream. Tender. Remember me wanting to make the incredible sugar cookies? Couldn't find the cookie cutter at ANY store in Las Vegas?? Thanks to my handy husband, he constructed a heart out of a tuna fish can. Yes, we washed it.

This is how the cookies turned out. The ones that look like hearts were cut out with a knife. The ones that look like a butt were from the makeshift cookie cutter. Regardless, they were very good. Lot's of work though, so I'll only be making them every now and then.

Me... 27 weeks pregnant. I don't know how it can get any bigger, but I've still got 2 1/2 months, so I guess it will. Fun.

Thanks Melanie!!! She hooked me up with some wall vinyl. I love how it looks. We might be doing some more in her room. Not sure what I want yet though. But love having her name on the wall. I think it turned out way cute!

And that is all.

A good laugh

For anyone who wants to know how funny and slightly weird my family is, click on my sister TARA's blog and read about what my two youngest siblings have said over the past couple days. Emma is 8 and Kevin is 6. They crack me up.

Everything is fine

Well, after a long weekend of worrying, I finally got my results back and the blood work all came back normal. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so happy! My doctor is having me stay on the high BP meds though, kind of a pain, but if it keeps me healthy and this baby in me for another two and a half months, I'm just fine with it. Sorry about the last post. Sometimes I let the stress and worry really eat me alive and become a mess. I'm fine and happy and honestly can't wait to see Charlotte's cute little face :)

Pregnancy... love it.

Well, this is obviously my first pregnancy. To be completely honest, I really have not enjoyed anything about being pregnant except George and I both being able to feel her move. Up until about 4 weeks ago I was on some medication to keep me from throwing up 5 million times a day. I would still get sick, just not everyday. For a solid 2 months, I screwed up my back enough that doing ANYTHING at all pushed on a nerve and sent a zing of pain down my whole right side. I could hardly sleep and working was literally a pain. I finally went to a chiropractor (bless him, :o) ) and he fixed me all up and my back has been pain free. About the same time I stopped taking the medicine for throwing up, I started having this weird heart thing goin' on. It sucks. There is no pattern to it at all but it's really scary. I'll be resting, just watching TV or lying in bed or sitting at the sink doing my make-up, you know, nothing real strenuous at all. Anyway, I'll just be chillin' there and my heart starts racing. Seriously POUNDING out of my chest. I'll try and take deep breaths but for at least a couple hours it just races. It's really scary. Oh, I forgot to mention that my blood pressure for the past couple of months has been a little high, sometimes really high. So this Tuesday I had a dr's appointment and I told her all about the heart drama and she said my BP was really high again. Also, the glucose test I had taken the week before was high and I needed to do it again to see if I have Gestational Diabetes. She also told me that I had gained a lot of weight in the 4 week period (still only 10 lbs so far, yay!) and because of that and the high BP she was starting to worry about toxemia or pre-eclampsia. Wow, words every soon-to-be mother wants to hear 3 MONTHS BEFORE HER DUE DATE!!! NOT!! She measured my belly and was really surprised, she thinks I am actually 3 weeks ahead of schedule (wouldn't that be nice) and asked for me to have another ultrasound ASAP. The soonest I can get in is March 4. She also told me to go and get all this blood work done to see if it really is GD or toxemia. That was Tuesday. Tuesday afternoon I got this killer headache. It was awful. I was tossing and turning all night trying to put pressure on different spots on my head to help it feel better. No luck. And I was just too tired to get up and take some Tylenol. The headache lasted until Wednesday around 2pm. Then it came back again right before bed and was bad for and hour or so then gone for a while. Thursday morning, still bad. Also the day I did all the joyous blood work. The headache was pounding away and finally around 4pm I called my doctor to see if it was something to worry about of just sleep it off. She told me to drink some caffeine (diet coke, doctors orders!!!), come in in the morning to test my BP again and try to sleep but if it was still really bad in the morning to go to the hospital. Luckily this morning it was gone. But again with the marathon heart rate. It was bad and I couldn't calm down. I get into the dr's office and the nurse was worried because of how out of breath I was and of course, my BP was high again. The dr told me to lie down for 15 mins in a room and they would do it again. This time, heart rate was better, but BP still high. She ordered me this medication to lower my BP and said as soon as my blood work results came in, she would call me and let me know what was going on. The office closes at 1pm on Friday, and the results hadn't come in yet. So I get to wait and stress out all weekend about what could possibly be wrong. Also, my head is still killing me. Grrr. Anyway, that's the story. I really hope nothing is wrong or they can at least help me with just medication.
Oh, just to clarify the first couple sentences.... I hate being pregnant. BUT, I can't wait to have this beautiful baby here. I am so excited to be a mom and have little Charlotte be a part of our family.

Mom?

So this has happened the past two times I have gone to Smith's. I'm wondering if either A) I look like a Smith's employee or B) I look like a mom that has grocery shopped for years and has all the answers. So here's the story. I'm walking down an isle and as I stop to look at something someone will come down, stop, look me over (yes, they both scanned me up and down, I SAW!) then ask me 1. "Do you know where the mayonnaise is? I've looked everywhere and I don't know where to find it." and 2. "If I'm making enchiladas, should I use this sauce, or this one?" Ha ha ha. As I write about it, I guess it's funny and my mother is probably laughing reading this because I call her and ask questions like this all the time. But, the two girls that have asked me this, seriously look the same age or maybe a year younger than me. Why would they ask me and not the old, wrinkly lady at the end of the isle? Was I just the first person they ran into? No, that doesn't explain the scanning me over..... I just think it's funny. Tell me your thoughts.

Nesting??

The past two days have been highly successful. I finally cleaned and organized the baby's room and it looks fantastic. I can't wait to get everything all decorated on the walls and then my life will be complete :) Today I went through and cleaned the whole house, cleaned our bathroom, did ALL the laundry (am I the only one who never actually finishes ALL of it and just leaves things for next time???) and went shopping. It was great. Tonight I am making some sugar cookies with a recipe that my friend Tracy gave me. She let me try one last night and they are seriously heaven in cookie form. I hope mine turn out just as amazing as hers! I'm a little peeved though. I seriously searched Wal-Mart and Smiths from front to back and there were NO heart shaped cookie cutters!!! I know it's the day before Valentine's Day, but really??? NONE???!!! Grrr. So I don't know how, but somehow I'll make hearts... even if they're wonky.
Hope you all have a great Valentine's Day with your sweeties. George and I both have the day off tomorrow, so it'll be nice to just relax together all day.