Randomness

Just some things on my mind….

I know a lot of people are all excited about the election, I know already who I plan to vote for, but I am not a die hard political junkie by far. But I work in a medical setting and have noticed a few of my coworkers wearing political buttons for their favorite candidate. My first thought is they shouldn’t do that, but then I wonder if I am being too picky about it. They have the right to be excited about their candidate I guess, as long as they are not passing out flyers or pushing their views on the patients, but I still find it odd for some reason. I might be over reacting though, and maybe deep down my problem is really the candidate they are supporting, ‘cause I am not voting for who they are excited about.


My friend emailed me back and she expressed disappointment that I am not going but was fine with it over all. But get this, she has a work conference in Williamsburg in November and wants me to stay at the same hotel and hang out with her. Umm hello.. I live like super close to Williamsburg, why would I get a hotel just to hang out, and how the heck am I supposed to do that with a newborn and two kids? I enjoy getting away for girl trips such as scrapbooking, but my maternity leave is holy to me. I want to spend it with my kids. A moms day out will be needed I am sure, but a few hours for shopping and pedicures will be all I desire. I have not talked about it on here, but this friend has more issues then People Magazine, and I had cut off our friendship a while back as the drama got on my nerves when I was pregnant with Laura. It involved me calling Child Protective Services on her, (LONG STORY but totally deserved). Anyways, I am ready to just drop the friendship altogether. I know that sounds harsh, but if you knew the whole story and situation you would want do the same thing. I probably would have never picked up the friendship again, but I don’t exactly have that many close female friends, and Dave encouraged me also to be nice to her, so I can blame him as well =)


I had been wanting to schedule the baby’s birth on September 12th rather then the 19th as I thought it was one of my sisters b-days, turns out the 19th is not her bday lol, so I have been stressing for no reason on that one. At my next appointment the doc and I will set the date for the c-section, so I could care less what date we go with. The 19th kinda appeals to me now, as that means I wouldn’t be going back to work until late December, and then Christmas would here, so I would be able to stay home again for a few days.

Another thing on my mind is since the baby will born on a Friday, and that is the day Laura has preschool, do I have her stay home from school, or should she go on in anyways? She will just be starting school for the first time, and its only for a couple of hours. I guess since it will all be new to her I should make sure she still goes, so she gets in a routine.

Stripe Update!!!!!

For the last 2-3 nights ( I am beginning to lose track) Dave has been still been “prepping” for the stripes, but last night, the dear husband made some progress yall. This morning I snuck up there before leaving for work and low and behold we have stripes! He has to finish the stripes under the windows, and do a few touch ups, but he has done a great job and its about done! Woohoo…

I had planned on getting him to do chair rail in the room, and he is familiar with doing that, so it shouldn’t be a ordeal, but I wonder if that would stress him out as these stripes seemed to have done a doosy on him. It will look good with or without, so I will just leave that up to him I guess.

Next is getting the crib assembled, and I guess I gotta get a crib mattress since Laura is still in a crib. We are getting close to taking her out of it and getting her in a big girl bed, but I don’t want her to get upset and see us take her old mattress and put it in the new baby’s room. I don’t want her to think she has to hurry up and grow up just to make things easier for us. Sigh… with all this baby stuff we have I envision us having one heck of a yard sale one day…

My friend has not replied to my email or called my house, so I have a feeling she’s pretty ticked at me. I feel better though about the decision I made though, so I guess that’s all that matters!

Ok so I sent an email to my friend backing out of the Virgina Beach trip, since my heart isn't into it. I have not heard back from her, she's probably pretty ticked at me. I feel like a bad friend, but I don't really need to be away from my kids and husband like that right before our life gets even crazier. I also would feel bad about wasting the money on myself to just be 45 min away from home. I am such a dork.

Uggg

I am being such a terrible friend right now...I have to confess my horribleness. I have a friend who doesn't read my blog thank god, and if she does well, I am just screwed. She has been after me to go to Virginia Beach with her for vacation this summer. She lives in Richmond, and I didn't think she was really serious as shes just not a beach person as she doesn't seem to like hot weather or being outside in general. Well apparently she is serious, and had wanted to rent a condo or house together. I got the impression she wanted me to go with the kids, and leave the husband at home. Under no circumstances would I take the kids to the beach by myself, while 8 months pregnant without my husband. She was bringing her child, and shes a single mom, but she was planning on bringing a sitter with her, and was going to have the sitter watch her son and my two. I don't think so... I don't know her sitter, and it's just not happening call me crazy.

I went the route with her at first that I wasn't planning on spending the money to rent a condo or a freaking house, and wasn't planning on using any vacation between now and the baby. I told her I would be game on getting a hotel room or something and coming by myself without the kids possibly if Dave was off on the coordinating dates and he was cool with it. She has apparently found a hotel, and has some dates in which Dave is off, and I think I am going, but I don't know if I want to go.

I kinda want to go, as I had hoped to make it to Nags Head this summer, but Dave never got around to setting that up as he had to coordinate it with his regular days off so he has time at home with me when the baby comes. So this is my chance for some beach time. But I am nervous that my friends idea of a good time will be advoiding the beach as like I said, shes not a outdoor person and she hates the hot weather. She sleeps in, and I like to get up early. When I go to the beach, I like to spend my time with my feet in the sand out in the sun, and I don't really know what her plans are.

So we have been playing email tag trying to set this up, and she's been calling my house a lot, and she always calls at crappy times, and I am bad at calling her back as I am just so unsure about this trip. I wonder if I will have a good time, or end up ticking off my friend, I wonder if traveling is even something I should be doing even if it isn't that far away, considering if I go we are going the very end of Aug and I will delivering soon. The hotel is also expensive as mess, because she wanted a place that had a resteraunt so she could eat right there...so that adds even higher expenses and I don't know how I feel about wasting the money on myself with a baby coming. Basically I want my doctor to tell me when I see him that I can't go more then 1/2 an hour away from my house, and then I can make him be the bad guy, cause I will feel like such a party pooper if I tell her I am not up to going.

Stripes?

My husband yesterday decieded to take last night off from work. He came home from after court, and slept until he asked me to wake him up, and then when the kids went to bed, he had plans to work on the baby's room. I attempted to sleep, and I slept horribly with having to wake up and pee every 5 seconds, and having this baby kick the crap out of me. So this morning, I get up and Dave is coming down stairs with Rachel who is awake and he's grumbling about how he can't get any sleep and doesn't understand why the kids are awake already. The kids usually get up at that time as that is when I go and get them ready, so I don't know what he was thinking or expecing... I take Rachel from him and feed her some breakfast while he grabs Laura, and brings her down in a clean diaper, but no other clothes, and he lays back down. I was a bit peeved as if he is home I usually try to scoot out to work early, and that is his day to get the kids up and going, but I figure he must have just worked himself to death over the babys room.... I tell Dave that I will take them to my parents so he can gather himself and sleep a bit longer, and he tries to say no, but of course he wont get out of bed either, and I am not going to leave them if he is just going to go back to sleep... so I take them next door to my parents, and explain Dave would get them in a little bit...

I then go back home to get my crap for work and deciede to peek at the babys room... Seriously, you would have though with the display he made this morning that he was up all night painting and putting the crib together... He hasn't even painted a single stripe yet... all he did was put more painters tape up to mark where the stripes go, and I think he did more of that the day before, so he made horrible progress. I just don't know what the heck he did up there... Did he sit up there and talk to the walls and beg them to paint themselves? Did he go up there and dance around the room? I just don't know?

I am begining to get inpatient here folks if you can't tell...I am 5 seconds away before pulling the pregnancy hormone card and calling David some names...

Monday

So another weekend has passed, but we had a lot of fun. We spent time at the pool, and yesterday I took the kids to the playground at this church near our house so they could release some energy. Laura is talking more and more every day. The things she says amazes me... and some crack me up.

And drumroll....Dave is going to start with the stripes tonight....woohoo! He is so freaked out its funny. I mean I am not expecting perfection, and if he really does a doozy then we can just cover it all up and go with one color. I want stripes but more or less I just want the room set up and ready for the baby.

I also set up my maternity pics for Sept. 6th, which is also our 5th wedding anniversary. I feel so silly for having those pics done, but I am curious about what he will have us do. It's part of the package so I am just going to go with the flow.

Not much else really going on!

Crafty Sunday....

I went to Michael's this am to utalize a coupon they had in the paper, and I just had not been there in quite some time. I ended up buying this wood frame for $1.00, some Modge Podge, paper, and some ribbon, and figured I would modge podge a frame. I tore up bits of paper from three sheets of paper that coordinated, and glued them on the frame covering up the wood. I then took a paint brush and brushed the modge podge gunk all over the frame to laquer it down, and when it dried I hot glue gunned a small bow on it. I think its kinda cute, and would look good with the girls picture in it.

We are going to jail...

This morning I ventured out early to Costco with both girls to give Dave a chance to fall alseep without us in the house being loud and girly. First of all, I pretty much threw on the first outfit I found, and I had not gotten around to putting on makeup or making much effort with the hair. Now that I think about it, I don't even know if I brushed my hair yet when we left. Yeah I was pretty ugly this morning. Of freaking course we run into one of my scrapbook lady friends, who looks all beautiful with makeup and great hair. I wanted to run and hide, but it was too late.
I hate seeing people I know when I look like mess, and it never fails to happen haha.

So my purchases this morning were 3 gallons of milk, and some PJ's for Laura in the next size up she will need. We headed to check out, paid the bill, and headed to see the gatekeeper man. At Costco they have a guy that checks out your cart and receipt to make sure you didn't steal anything. While waiting for Mr. man to check out our goods I notice on my receipt I was only charged for 2 milks. A honest person would have gone back and paid for the other milk I guess, but I already wanted to get out of there before someone else I knew saw me looking ugly, and I figured I would chance it. Yes Mr. Gate Keeper man looked at my receipt, looked in my cart and waved me on. We stole a gallon of milk, I say we at my kids were with me and are my accomplices. Guilty by association. Hey, I have freaking 4 items in my cart, Gate Keeper man and the cashier are just as guilty too...

10 year reunion

My ten year reunion was last weekend, and I didn't go... the whole thing was poorly planned, and sounded like crap, and they ended up canceling all but this one event at Bailey's which is a pub at the flipping mall... and some cook out the next day at this little beach where you were supposed to bring your own food to cook on the grill... I thought it all sounded a bit ghetto, and I was right... they had a myspace page and the pics from the "reunion" look like a gangsta party, and I don't think I recognized anyone in the pics.

I hate to be rude like that, but I geeze, who the heck was on the reunion committee? I mean I am sure those things are not that easy to plan, but good lord, the effort made from what I saw was horrible, which is probably why hardly anyone went.

I am glad I went to Dave's last year. He went to the same highschool but graduated a year before me, so I guess I lived my reunion through his. I had fun at his, mainly because we had hit up Plaza before for a pre-party, and margarita's make everything better, followed by shots of whatever they had at the reunion.

Oh well, here is to the 20th being a bit better planned....

Some more Giles House...

Our bedroom still isn't by any means clean, but its ok enough for me to post I guess... Here is the view from the door into the room...

I love our new bed we got last Januaray- from my beloved Costco. I think all married couples should have a King Size bed. There's room for our fat butts and the kids. We plan on moving the trunk that is at the foot of the bed as we usually put the pack -n- play/bassinett there when we have a newborn in the house, so they can nap and sleep some at first down near us. I love the trunk, and it belonged to my granny. I have some of my older scrapbook albums in it. Right now its covered in some clothes.

This is a view of the other side of the bedroom. We have a piece of excercise equipment that also doubles as a place for Dave to throw his uniform on, or other clothes lol. It's a el cheapo EFX machine, it works ok, but alas as you can tell it helps us hold clothes more then burn calories... Above my jewlery box stand is this cool shadow box thing I made when I was pregnant with Laura. I have in it a wedding pic of Dave and I, and the girls baby name bracelets. I plan on putting in it also a pic of the girls.




One of my favorite things in our house and bedroom is our closet. It's not a huge closet, but it has plenty of room for our junk. We had Califorinia Closets comes and install their system thingy in it, and it was worth every penny. I have plenty of room for all my freaking purses and shoes, and Dave has room for all his junk as well. It was hard to get a picture of it, as I also have been storing presents in here for Christmas, and I don't want some family members to see anything they are getting so these are two sneak peeks of the closet without showing any of the presents. Yes I have started my Christmas shopping and some wrapping... I always try to start early, and I am making a bigger effort this year since I don't think I will have much time to shop with three little ones, and I want to enjoy my maternity leave...






I also want to show off my pantry door that is in between the kitchen area and the den. My mom painted this door back in the early 90's. She's a talented lady. She paints, sews, cooks, she can pretty much do it all... It was for my sister Becky's first house for her pantry. My sister has since moved twice, and wasn't able to use the door at her other houses, so it was sadly just sitting in my parents attic for years. When we built our house we decieded to make the closet under the stairs into our pantry and I was able to use the door. My dream is for her to do a mural in the kids playroom, and we had talked about it some when I was pregant with my first one, but it's kinda hard for her to make time, so I don't think it will happen, but if she ever gets bored and wants to be creative she can come on over and get busy lol.

So it's friday morning... yesterday was a lazy day of trying to catch up on rest, but I feel like such a better person now, and better parent. I did accomplish one thing thats been on my do list for a while. Dave's mom has gotten the girls these add a pearl necklaces, and has given them pearls on their birthday to go on it. You have to go to this store and have them add the pearls for you, and I had not gone yet to do that. I had a major blonde moment... I couldn't understand why Laura had one more pearl then Rachel, and I panicked that I had lost one...But I didn't think it was possible as I always put them away immediatly in their jewlery boxes when they get them... After I bought a pearl for Rachel's to make them equal, I soon realized Laura has one more then Rachel, cause shes a year older- DUH! Oh well... I am sure I will be buying them pearls too for their necklace, I just did one early for Rachel without a reason.

Last night we went to see the new Batman Movie- The Dark Knight... it was really really really good....scary too. Since when did movies at AMC 24 go down to $5.00? It wasn't even a matinee, and we didn't even try to pass off our college ID cards for a discount... The movie I saw with Daves family the other night was $5.00 and I thought it was because there was something special going on or something.

Well, I have a curtain for Rachel's room... I popped in my favorite kids consignment shop after work Wed., and low and behold they had the exact same curtain I have in Laura's room from Pottery Barn, for just $15, so you know I grabbed that sucker. Now I guess I need to order a rod for it and she will have her window treatment for her room finally. I also found a pair of brand new pink reef flip flops for 3 bucks there, and Laura quickly took them.

Dave is gearing up for the stripes... he has starting marking where they are going, and he bought some lazer level thing. I think he's stalling in hopes I go into labor early so he can just get out of the whole situation.

I go to the doctor today, I am sure it's just your basic, pee in a cup, blood pressure check, measure the belly and get the heck out of here appointment. Of course I also get to see how fat I have gotten in 2 weeks- should be fun!

We are going to go to the pool today afterward. I bought some of those noodles from the Dollar Store we have not used yet, I don't know if the kids want to play with them, but momma does.

I got about ohhhh zero sleep last night.... I was a zombie at work Wednesday, despite how much sugar I consumed, and then with the bad storms last night it just wasn't pretty around our house hold.... SO this is going to be a sleep catch up day.

Tuesday night I went and saw Mama Mia with my MIL, Dave's lovely aunt, and lovely cousin. I have never ever ever done anything like this before, and knew that 1.) I needed to spend time with his mom as I never really have 2.) I really wanted to see the movie and knew Dave wouldn't be as excited to see it, so here was a chance for me to go.

Dave's mom is super nice, don't get me wrong, but sometimes its a too weird of nice and peachy keen if that makes any sense, and our parents are just so different from each other its just odd for me sometimes, well most of the time. I have to admit I am still bitter about my ruined diaper bag, and things getting lost or misplaced with the kids... and never getting a replacement to items ruined much less a valid apology. Seriously, my poor diaper bag yall.... I have been toting around the old Vera Bradley one which is about to fall apart. The Coach one is still useable, but I am just a bit traumatized from the whole situation still, and when I see the stain on it I cringe.

So anyways, I rode with his mom and we are on our way to the movie to meet the others. The lovely panicky, have to have my way, and hold nothing back auntie calls us twice within 5 min to see where the heck we are. We were not running late or anything but she was freaking. She got so uptight she went ahead and bought our tickets as she was afraid they will sell out. This bothered me as I had brought a gift card I planned to use, so now I had to pay her back in cash. I thought to myself thats ok, I will just get some refreshments from the concession stand. Well, everyone else wanted to hurry inside and get a seat, and I didn't want to look like the fat prego woman holding everyone up to get my fix of empty calories, and sit with them if while they look at me like I am a pig. The movie was really cute though, and I enjoyed it depite the lack of refreshments. I know they are expensive, but man I gotta at least have a drink at those things.

Dave and I are going to go see the new Batman movie tonight, and I plan on getting lots of popcorn and candy and using my lovely gift card =)

Get the goods on your neighbors...

You have to check out this free website .... My friend posted a blog about as she found this website and I had to check out my own neighborhood cause I am nosey like that!

http://www.criminalsearches.com/neighborhood/

Famous!

So my friend sent me an email today to let me know one of the digital pages I did made on the websites gallery! Laura and I are famous now haha. Check it out: http://www.howfasttheygrow.com/index.cfm?page=content&cid=5

I am sure its a ploy to get me super excited and create lots more pages and spend money, and it just might work =)

The pages I did

These are my first pages from howfasttheygrow.com I made a third page, but I am waiting to see the quality of what they send me before I go crazy and order anymore. I think the templates they have are super cute!

Digital Scrapbooking

So I have been playing on this website called www.howfasttheygrow.com and I think I am addicted. The only digital scrapbooking I have done before was on creative memorys website. They have a free program, and I made book for Laura on her 1st birthday party. It was cute and all, but I still prefer to scrapbook with all my supplies. Good lord knows how much money I have sunk in that stuff over the years...

Anyways, if you have children, especially small kids you need to check it out. The pages are 12 x 12 which happens to be the page size I use for most of my albums. I made two pages last night and ordered them as I want to check out their quality, and they have free shipping going on with a coupon code that I THINK is summership.... I will have to check my email box on that though so if you want the code let me know. The pages cost $7.50 but thats no so bad I guess. I plan on adding these pages to my regular book since they are 12 x 12, and if I like the quality of them once I get them in the mail I might have to make a few more here and there, especially when they are running free shipping or other sales. It sure makes scrapbooking easy, as scrapbooking with your tools and all your embellishments gets a bit time consuming, so this is easier to make time for as they have done all the hard work for you as you. So check them out, and if you have another digital scrapbook website you use let me know!

Pringle Can boredom...

I decided I was going to do something with a empty Pringle Can we had. By the way, I had not had a Pringle in forever and man there good...great for taking to the pool too...

All I did was put some of my scrapbooking paper around the can, the cardstock I had was really thick so I used hot gun glue on the end of it too hold it in place. I glued some ribbon around the top and bottom, and then put some sequin stickys on it to decorate it some.

I wasn't sure what the heck I was going to do with it at first. I cleaned it out, but I could still smell the sour cream scent, so I decided to use it to hold spaghetti noodles. Figure the scent wont really matter with them. I did have to snap the ends of the spaghetti about half an inch to fit in the container, but hey it works and looks cute in the kitchen.

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Recent pics of the kids..

Some pics from July of my baby girls, who really aren't baby's anymore... Enjoy!

Online shopping....

If you love cute preppy monogram items and what not you have to check on this site from a fellow blogger.... I have ordered some flip flops, Tervis Tumblers, and stickers for some gifts and can't wait until they arrive! Check her out now! There is free shipping until July 30th... a lot of these goodies make great Christmas presents....
http://www.mpmdesigns.blogspot.com/

Can you tell everyone is napping in the house, and yeah I should be cleaning, but whatever, I will ramble more on here and then get my booty in gear. Rachel has not had a bottle since the day I took it away, and she survived. It wasn't really that bad, my mom may have a different opinion, and probably would have snuck one to her if she was able to find them, but she's cured of the bottle... at least until she sees new baby girl get one, but maybe by then she will have forgotten how lovely it was.

I am in the process of setting up a date to do baby pictures. The guy that did our family photo back in the fall, and Christmas pics of the kids has this baby package that a friend of mine told me about, and I am going to do it. It starts with maternity pics (don't laugh), at your house, and in the nursery (hopefully it will be done by then!), and he comes to the house to take pics of the baby every so often for the first year. The pics he's done of my friend and her baby's first year have been awsome.... I am sure she's gone crazy purchasing them. The cool thing is his fee is super cheap, its like one price for all the sessions of him coming to the house, and he brings some backgrounds, and of course uses your natural enviornment, he also gives you a free 5 x 7 with each session. Of course, his prices for prints are expensive, but it's still a good deal, and I will have to tell myself to use restraint, or rather David will have to tell me to use restraint.

SO I do feel silly about the materinty pics. I don't want any exposed belly shots. Take all the pics of the belly with a shirt over it and we are cool, but unless he's going to photoshop the hoo-hoo out of my belly it's not coming out. I have not gotten any stretch marks this time around (most likely cause the other two stretched the belly out), but my other kids sure marked me up. So we shall see how that photo session goes lol. I can't picture any shots of the husband all kissing my belly either, 'cause I would be giggling like a school girl, and Dave would be rolling his eyes at me.

Ok I gotta pry my butt off the couch and get moving while everyone is still out of my way.

Some of our house...

This is a little tour of the house, the master bedroom, and kitchen were are off limits at least these last few days, and my den pic isn't that great either, but hopefully by the end of this weekend we will get it in gear and have the house cleaner.

So let's start with the kids rooms. I love their nurseries. Laura is still in a crib, she turned 2 in Feb, and I am not sure when to make the move to a regular bed, but for now the crib works for her. Her crib coverts to a bed, so I guess pretty soon we will bite the big one and make it into a big girl bed. The thought makes me a little sad though...


The theme of her room is pretty much pink and green.

Another view of Laura's room

She has two small closets which are jammed with clothes. There is a dresser on the far left you can't see with even more clothes.

With Rachel's room we wanted to do sorta a beachy theme/under the sea. I love her colors. Her bedding was super cute too, but like Laura she was using the bumper pad to try to get out of the crib with so we took it out. Her sheets have cute palm trees on them.

I never did get around to getting her a curtain for her window, I totally forgot, so I might need to get one when I get them for the other babies room.




Both of their rooms are pretty identical with the dormer windows and two small closets. Rachel's closets and dresser are pretty slammed too. Laura and Rachel also have matching dressers. Her crib is white too, but different then Laura's and coverts into a bed as well.

I turned one of the upstairs bedrooms into a office, and I also do my scrapbooking up there on the table. We don't even use the computer and printer up there. Both are super old and probably do not work so I guess I need to dispose of them soon. I actually scrapbooked a little last weekend and you can see the page I was working on kinda on the table. I didn't finish the page and thats all I accomplished when I was up there, but hey, its progress...


The bonus room over our garage is now offically the playroom. This picture was taken while the kids were playing and making a mess, but hey, thats what the room is for. You can see the Ab Lounge we never use, mainly because I am always pregnant, and not sure what Dave's excuse is, since he bought it for myself. I at least have an excuse. I do love the toy storage we got for the kids from Pottery Barn. As you can tell the kids do not need anymore freaking toys. I pretty much do not buy them any because they just get so much at Christmas from "santa" and family. Plus it seems all they do is pull all the toys out and then run off to look for something else to do.



The other room upstairs in the new baby's room, and we are in the middle of painting it so nothing really to see just yet. This baby's room doesn't have a dormer window, but she will have a much bigger closet that I have started putting clothes in for her. There is another closet in there as well that is small that I currently have been putting my wrapping paper and gift package stuff in. It's still in there as I have not gotten around to finding another place to put it. It will probably just go in the scrapbook room.

There is also a full bath upstairs, that noone uses that all three girls will share eventually. I forgot to take a picture of that room mainly because we never use it. It's not that exciting looking but I will get around to take a picture of it. One cool thing about it is the toilet and shower are separate from the sink and mirrow area, so that will make it easier for them one day when they are all teens... possibly...

Down stairs when you first come in from the front door the dining room is on the right. Dave painted this room last year and did the wood detail stuff. I want to get a new light fixture for this room as I don't like the brass one we have now. I picked out the brass one when we built it, and took it back, but never found anything else I liked better, so I had to go back and buy it again. I will figure it out one day I guess. Excuse the table as my bday stuff was on it, and I think this picture has Dave sitting in a chair in the corner lol.


One the left when you first come in the house from the front door is the Living Room. The most unused room in the house, but oh well. We put our Christmas Tree in here, and use it some then. It opens into the Den, so when we have people over the over flow goes in there and you can still see the TV.


This is a view of the same room that I took standing in the den


Another view of the Living room while in the den of the other wall.


We have the kids play table in there as they like to play in there somtimes with their coloring books. Yeah nicest room in the house and we have them in their with play dough and crayons somtimes cause were smart parents like that.

This is view of the den, it's a crappy picture and I didn't take any other views out of lazyness and partly cause since its the most used room in the house it probably wasn't in tip top shape.


I will take more pics of it later.

This is the hallway from the front door that leads to the den. We have a ton of pics of the kids in the hallway on the walls.
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When you go down the hallway the den is on the left and the kitchen is on the right, and its all open. Our kitchen is small which you will see later, and it has a little breakfast nook. Off the kitchen is small hallway with a teeny half bath, and our laundry room is off there as well. The Laundry room is small too but hey it works. Our bedroom is off the den and I will take pics of that later when its nicer looking

So that's most of our house. The rooms are on the small side, but there's room for all of us to have our own space, and thats the main thing since theres so many of us now!

Surry Festival

I bought a lot. I actually told Dave yesterday I didn't want to go as I didn't really see much last year, and it's kinda long drive and always hot there. But we went with my parents, and I threw down. I couldn't help it though, they had some new venders and basically everything I got was for the kids so thats fair right?

I got this bin, not sure if I will use in in the playroom or in the garage for the kids stuff, but it's cute.

The Giles Slate, that I got goes in this stand in the yard. The same lady goes to a bunch of festivals in the area and I have a bunch of slates that I change out through the year. I also got a beach scene one, but I put it outside in the slate thingy already to get some use out of it this summer. We also got a bunch of head bands for the girls. I might hold them back for Christmas though.



The hair bows were really cheap, I am going to put them aside for the girls stockings at Christmas time. I got enough for all three of them to get a few.



This is a crappy picture but its supposed to be of these small mirrors I got. The pink one with the palm trees is for Laura's room to go with her pink and green theme. The other mirror has turtles on it so it will with Rachel's beachy room. The lady has a website and will do custom orders, so I think I am going to get her to do a lady bug one for me. I



I bought Laura and Rachel those pillow case dresses. I had seen them before at some other craft shows, but this lady had them for flipping $15 bucks, which I thought was a steal.




Laura had fun pushing Rachel in the stroller, Rachel looks kinds scared in this picture, but she survived.

I enjoyed myself by eatting lots of festival junk food which was super yummy.

Happy Saturday Morning

I have been busy but I am going to catch up with a blog and I think I am going to do it on our crazy house. This morning I am going to Surry, VA for the Pork, Pine, and Peanut Festival. I know your all jealous haha. Actually, its not so bad, as you can imagine they have excellent fatty / greasy food, and sometime some neat crafts. I am hoping to get some Christmas presents for some people.
So back to the blog post on our house. I have taken some pictures, none of our bedroom or kitchen though cause they are extreamly messy, yeah sometimes when we have people come over our bedroom and the pantry closet sorta turn into a dumping ground of crap we don't know what do with but can't get rid of so we hide it and try to forget about it. Yeah thats my mega confession for the day.

Flipping Rocking Chair....

You see this flipping rocking chair? Apparently to get it reupholstered I need to hit the lotto or live with guilt the rest of my life. Dave had picked a fabric that I thought was ok, and then I found one I liked better and of course they were out of that one. I picked another which was very expensive but I was going to get it anyways. So then Mr. Crazyman gives us the grand total... apparently he needs to replace the burlap in the chair and do some other reconditioning to the chair.... which brought the grand total to about ohhhh $1400.00...

I then ask about the fabric Dave had picked which is by far one of the cheaper ones... this Crazyman insists the chair needs the recoditioning, so with the fabric that I am not really that crazy about, the reconditioning, the total would be ohhhh $800.00... You should have seen my face, it was priceless. How this man can sleep at night is beyond me. He also wanted the money upfront, in cash. Seriously people... I don't care how talented this man is, he's f*ing crazy.

My nice mother who apparently smokes crack, told me I could still get this done in the fabric I like, but I just can't do it... Not even for the cheaper one... It's just way to much, and I would be afraid to sit in the chair knowing how much it cost for fear I would do something to hurt it. How nice of her, but I just can't do it. So after some mild freaking out, I made my husband go to the shop and get my chair back. It will probably sit in the attic now for life instead of the nursery, which makes me sad, but hey, for half that price I can by myself a glider or rocker brand spanking new....I am toying with the idea of asking around some other places, but I think I should just give it up and either go without a rocker or buy a new one I like that wont guilt me the rest of my life.

Yesterday I had my birthday dinner with my side of the family at my moms, and it was nice. I was feeling a bit slighted though as I had to beg for the husband to take pictures with my camera, and when it came time to do cake I had a freaking tea light candle on it and most people were off playing outside or off talking somewhere. I especially love it when people end up bringing friends that are not invited, that’s always good taste you know. I am a brat like that. Basically I had my panties in a bunch and got sad about that because a nephew of mine had gotten under my skin already. I wont bore you with the details on here, so if you want to know ask. Mainly he just hurt my feelings, which isn’t hard for anyone to do with me these days, but seriously, I just want to slap the crap out of him.

I got spoiled silly with gifts. I got a couple of pedicure certificates at the place I usually ride my bike to near the house, so I was excited about that. I also got a massage certificate to this place in City Center. I am debating about using it now before the baby or waiting until after as a treat to myself for giving life lol. We shall see. I got the Vera Bradly duffle bag I wanted so I no longer have to steal one of the kids for short trips, and the lunch bag. I also got two books I have been wanting to read, and a Target gift card, and Dave got me the Tiffany earrings I wanted, and I freaking love them.

I am feeling pretty chipper today, hopefully that will maintain. I did better with taking my iton pill today, so hopefully I can continue the trend. I am using this sample pack this week, and I need to get my actual prescription filled. The sample pack is a different brand then what I was prescribed, as they told me to take the sample pack every day, and then with my prescription, I would take that brand just on Mondays, Wendnesday, and Fridays as its supposed to be stronger. I am hoping stronger doesn't mean bigger pill, or I may work myself up all over again, cause I am a baby like that.

I have to share another great Costco find. A friend told me about this one, and apparently its always been there, I just never knew. At their optical center they have eyeglass/sunglass cleaning kits. Ok may not be very exciting but just wait. The kit comes with two nice cleaning cloths, two spray bottles filled with cleaning solution, one travel size spray bottle, and I think a eye glass repair kit that goes on a key chain. The kit costs $5.40, which really excited me, AND even better, when your run out of the cleaning solution you just go back to Costco, and they give you free refills so you got to save your bottles. How cool is that? Ok so maybe you don't think thats cool, but I do and I don't even wear eyeglasses, but I love my sunglasses, and now they will be all sparkly. I bought this kit for my husband, as once a year he usually buys a expensive kit from Sunglass Hut, so I was thinking of him, but since it comes with two of the cloths and spray bottles, you better believe I snatched some of the goodies for my own selfish needs. The kits are just there at the counter, so go get some.

Costco still does not those damn jeans that a girl found at her Costco in Florida. I remain hopeful it will work its way up to Virginia, but maybe they get different items for different regions... I don't know how that works... But since I make twice weekly milk runs to Costco, I will keep looking. Yes, my children go through a crazy amount of milk, and my fridge can only hold but so much so I get half at the begining to the week, and half near the end.

What a Monday....

Memory card/laptop crisis has been solved. It took tweezers, some cursing, and even a few tears from myself, but I got the sucker out and the memory card still works and the laptop is still working. I didn't even wake up my husband to have him hear my sob story. I do think the laptop is on its last leg, as its just a lemon, but it still has some juice left, so no need to send it packing just yet.

I was so angry about this memory card situation, and Rachel had one of her bottles out and had knocked it over. The holes on her nipples are bigger cause she's older so if they are on its side milk will come out of them, and so milk came out of a bottle on the floor that I had just moped, so I made a decision immediatly to take away the Advent bottles from her and force her into the sippy cup. The photo above is photographic evidence that drank from the Nubby brand sippy cup. Yes, she must have known mommy meant business, because she drank from it the rest of the night. She fussed a little for a bottle at bedtime, but I refused to give in and she continued to drink from her sippy. I hope tomorrow my mom will feel like continuing the trend. I think we just need to stick with it, and after a few days she will be cured of the bottle attatchment. It just needs to be done, its gone on long enough, and in less then two months another baby will be here and she will need the bottles. I have to make a mental note to buy some newborn nipples for the bottles, and to introduce the sippy cup with this next baby when she is much younger...


My Monday morning was just hectic. I slept horribly of course, but had finally gotten comfy and sleeping well when it was time to get up, so I was slow moving. I had to fill up my car before heading to work and I had issues paying at the pump as I kept putting in the card in the wrong direction. I was bummed about having to take this huge iron pill that is the size of a golfball, and I felt yucky most of the day from taking it, I know that is probably totally all in my head. I just hate taking pills in general unless they are teeny, if they have any size to them, I work myself up where I feel sick to my stomach all day. I'm a head case like that.

I also tend to overwelm myself whenever I get to work on Mondays. I always feel like I have so much to do at first, and then stress and hustle, and I always get it all done pretty much by lunch, but I always get this stress feeling at first. So I was in the middle of stressing, when my freaking Granddad calls me at work....

My granddad is friends with the guy who owns the place that I was taking my rocking chair in to get reupolstered. Apparently, he's near the age of retirement, and is busy with other things, such as traveling, and enjoying life, and isn't doing this much more, but he was going to do my chair since he's friends with grandaddy. I knew this was the case, but was told I could mosey in there one day, pick out the fabric and he would get it done. WELL granddad calls me this morning at my work and tells me pretty much that this guy was on his way to the store, and needed to meet with me immediately. There was no way I was leaving work as much as I would have loved to, so this meant I needed to get the chair up there and have someone else pick out the fabric which was stressing me even further... I called my mom who didn't want to have the responsibility of picking something out for me to hate her for it if I didn't like it, and then I called the hubby... He had some time before court, so he went all the way home, got the chair, and went up there with my parents to try to figure it out. He sent me some photos of some samples by camera phone, and he did a good job I think. I agree on one, and then for some reason the guy relaxed a bit and let him take home some samples for me to see in person before making everything set in stone. Of course I went through them and found something else I like better...so I guess tomorrow we can just call him with the info and he can get started. But good lord, that paired with everything else today is about to give me a heart attack. I can't handle even the smallest bit of stress without wanting to freak out or cry.

I am ready for the weekend to get here already, so keep my husband and kids in your prayers as they deal with me until baby arrival day.

Send sippy cup vibes to Rachel the rest of this week as well....

ahhhhh

My lovely two year old managed to screw up my laptop in the 3 min I selfishly took to pee and put away their dirty sippy cups and bottles from being at my moms today. I had my memory card in the laptop, my memory card has to be in this stick adapater thing and the stick goes directectly into the lap top. Apparently, Laura took the memory card out of the stick and then shoved the card into the opening and I can't get it out, and since its stuck I can't very well put anymore pics on the computer, or I would take a picture of my pissy face right now. I am determined that either the laptop will be ruined trying to get it out and or the memory card. I hate my stupid laptop anyways, but I can't afford a new one right now. The battery life on it sucks, and when I have the cord in it to use electricity rather then the battery the cord shorts out from time to time and it tends to get hot, which is just a fire hazard I know. My lovely kids have also broke one of my shift keys on the keyboard part as well. This laptop has just taken a major beating since I got it. I totally need a new one, but like I said, I don't want to drop the money on it, or rack up a credit card bill on it. But I have a feeling its going to happen down the road.

So right now I am angry as anything, and I can't even scream to Dave about it cause he's still sleeping from working last night, hopefully he can save the day and get the freaking memory card out without major damage.

Water Country Pics

Is the weekend really over???

So it's Sunday, and some how these last three days flew by soooo fast. Dave was home this weekend, so that made things so much better. I like it when he is home and we can spend some family time all together. We spent a lot of time at the pool Friday and Saturday, and Sunday we went to Water Country with his brother and his family. Dave even managed to start painting the baby room. We have one color done now completely, and when he works up the courage he's going to start the stripes in the other color. He's seriously stressing these stripes...

Not much else really to tell accept it was a just a nice weekend. Great weather, good quality time, etc. I bought a watermelon this weekend, first one I had bought this season. I made a Costco run Saturday for milk of course, and saw some there. I thumped on a bunch and noted they were charging $5.99 for seedless ones. That seemed a bit high, but hey, everything is going up... I didn't get one, as I get scared buying melons sometimes as you just never know what you are getting until you cut them open... So I decieded to go to Dean and Don's and buy one from there, knowing I could get one of the experts I used to work with to pick me out one. I ended up paying a lot more then the price at Costco, but it was delicious, and I am going to get another one from there this week cause we ate it up already....

Great gift idea for dads from young kids

Check this link out : http://yellowfence.blogspot.com/2008/06/make-something-monday-fathers-day-gift.html


This would make a super cute gift for any dad from your little one... I am thinking about doing this for Dave from the kids for Christmas or something....

Doc appointment and baby stuff

I had a doc appointment today, and all went well. I found out my blood sugar test I had went well and I passed in flying colors, thank goodness. Taking the three hour test is always a pain in the booty. My iron level remains crap. I had really been craving burgers lately, and was for sure the burgers I have been eating would do the trick. Guess not, and I got to start taking some prescription iron pills now. My weight had not changed, from 3 weeks ago, surpringly, I have been eatting such crap lately, and my activity level is really slowing down, guess the gods were just smiling on me today. So total weight gain remains 12 lbs which they say is great, and my belly is measuring exactly like it should. I was hoping to get my c-section in the books during this appointment, but apparenlty I have to see my main doc to do that and he was not in the office today... but from what the nurse practioner tells me I can have it either or the 12th or 19th of September for sure. So decisions, decisions....

I took in my FMLA and short term disability paperwork for them to fill out. It really ticks me off that my docs office charges a $15.00 to freaking stamp my docs sig on the papers.... well that pretty much what they want to do, just stamp it, and expect you to fill it out, but apparently my companies paperwork is a little more involved and asks all these questions that they want the doc to answer. The lady at the desk today asked me if I had filled everything out so she could just stamp it, I told her I had done my sections, but the rest was for them to fill out. She didn't look too thrilled, but come on people... if your going to charge $15 for it I expect you to make a little more effort. So my plan this materinty leave is to take the complete 12 weeks off which is the max. The short term disability plan will pay me for a good portion of my time out, and then I can use vacation for the other weeks or go unpaid, but I should have enough stored up to cover it all. If not I really do not care as this is my time that I can have home, I am going to take all I am entitled to. I plan on working up until I deliver, well actually my plan is since it will be a friday, to have my last day be Wendnesday, so I have Thursday to just relax and take care of some stuff.

So in other news, Dave is going to start painting tonight... he plans on painting the walls all one color, and then come back and do the stripes after that dries. He's still stressed about these stripes, let me tell you. Who knows when he will work up the courage to do that. My mission is to take a rocking chair in to be reupolostered whenever the guy at the shop is back from vacation. Crazy enough I have never had a rocking chair or glider in either girls nursery. I know I know... I wanted a glyder or a rocker, but because their furniture was white in their rooms, I wanted the rocker or glider to be white, and I didn't get around to ever getting one, nor did I want to use the cracker barrel ones we have on our porch that everyone was telling me I should do. So alas, I didn't rock my babies. Call Child Protective Services on me asap. They were great sleepers though, so I didn't really need it.

However, I have a nice dark wood rocking chair that came from my granny's house, that currently has this horrible fabric on it, and its going to go in new babies room once I get it recovered.

Today I am not sure what else I will be doing, I would like to go to the pool but the sun hasn't really come out much all week, and they are calling for rain again today, so not sure if that will pan out for us. Makes me cranky cause I have not been able to go to the pool at all this week, besides swimming lessons at the Y, and I like pool time, and apparently Laura is getting a bit upset about not going as much as she wont stop asking about it.

The Man Code

I have been pissy with Dave the last few days, my poor coworkers have had to hear my sob stories about it, and of course my blog has been filled with Dave bashing, as well as my updates on myspace. I have been more iritiated that he has not aknowledged my lack of talking or the mopey face I have had on my face for a few days.

Anyways, today he sent flowers to my work with a card that says he hopes I feel better soon. First of all, the flowers are pretty. I like them. However, I want to know who freaking has told men that if you buy your wife/girlfriend flowers that it takes care of all problem? I seriously think Dave thought to himself today, "maybe if I send flowers she will remove that stick from her behind." He could have saved himself money if instead of sending me flowers he just would make more of an effort around the house. I don't even know if he understands why I am pissy since he seems to think I am feeling sick.

In my perfect world this is how he should redeem himself.
The setting- our house. I come home from work to find the house spotless. Dave is in the kitchen in a apron on, and he has been slaving all afternoon over dinner. He tells me to sit down and put my feet up while he sets the table, and when its ready we all have a great meal. Afterwards, he clears the table, cleans up the mess from the kids eatting, and he tells me to take a long bubble bath. Afterward, we have a nice evening hanging out with the kids who are on their best behavior. Dave then announces he is going to start doing this every other day for me because I am a princess and deserve nothing but the best.

Divine Budgeting Intervention?

I read on someone's blog that my beloved Costco was carrying 7 for all man kind brand jeans. The chick had even posted a picture of the display in her area. I got excited, and for a few days thought it over. That brand of jeans if you don't already know, are super expensive, expensive enough where the Costco price of 112.00 is supposed to be a killer deal. I do not own any, in fact the most expensive jeans I have had probably came from Express or American Eagle back when my parents bought my clothes in the pre-marriage, pre-fat, pre-baby days, and I am sure they never were more then $50 or something.

But I have read how wonderful these jeans are, and Oprah even did a show on jeans and this brand was one of the top ones out there that make you look fab, and beautiful, and can change your life pretty much. So I thought about it and decided that I too needed these jeans.

I ventured into Costco today, feeling silly for planning on spending that much on jeans, jeans that I surely am not wearing anytime soon given the size of the baby belly, and jeans that may just not even come in a size big enough to fit me after the baby, but I was determined to buy a pair. I went through all the clothes, and apparently my lovely Costco doesn't have them. Is my area not classy enough? Maybe they are coming in later? I just don't know. But I was heart broken, and actually left Costco without purchasing a single thing...

Tuesday

Robyn was a wee bit cranky today/last night, etc. The husband has upset me by his lack of understanding, and help around the house. I can not stress enough how little he does on his days off. If your not going to do anything remotely helpful at least don't make more messes, I mean thats simple enough right? Apparently not. He's a good husband, don't get me wrong, but my stress level meter can't handle this. It's fruitless to clean up after the kids sometimes, I will admit that. You pick up the house one minute, and then the next time you turn around everything is crazy again as they have dragged everything out. But some things can be kept up better. So today I made a decision to start getting the house cleaned once a month again. We did this for a while before, starting when I got pregnant with Laura, and we ended it not long after I went back to work with Rachel. Partly because I wasn't happy with the results as most of the time they weren't cleaning the upstairs of the house but charging the full price. We thought about going with a agency like the Cleaning Authority, and they come every other week, they wont do just once a month. I came this close to starting them, but chickened out over the idea of different people being in our home, and Dave told me about seeing some people in court who worked for them. I also just overall didn't want to waste the money on something we should be able to do ourselves. But, I think I need to waste the money now for my own sanity. I will just cut back on something else to justify it.

We are going to try someone new who does it privately, and its someone he knows from work so they are not going to rob us blind and pawn everything for crack or something. I am crossing my fingers that this will help me not freak out so much and stress, and that the once a month cleaning will ease things. I would like to have it at least for these last two months of pregnancy, and probably during my maternity leave as I have a feeling I would appreciate the help while trying to figure out life as a family of 5. That its self should be interesting!

In happier news I have learned I might be the owner of a timeshare here soon. Apparently my granny still had one that we all thought she sold a long time ago, and my parents do not want it, but I sure as heck am interested and I am being given dibbs on it. I am trying to learn all the details, but I am 999% sure I am going to take that bad boy and be the proud new owner. That makes mean pregnant lady crack a smile.

Every pregnancy is different. This much I have learned in three pregnancies. This one has been very kind to me I must say, compared to my other two. I have been a bit crakly lately. In fact I may or may not have told my husband this weekend that for the next 2 months his "behind" (insert potty mouth word) was mine. Basically lately I have been frustrated that my body doesn't want to keep up with what I want to do. I am sure its nature just telling me to slow down, but its still frustrating, as I have two kids to keep up with, and a million things that I want to do. Sunday I did laundry all day, which is time consuming but not exactly strenous, and I had to take a nap half way through it. We did have a butt load of laundry though.

But I am getting snappier with my loved ones, and I am having the hardest time getting comfortable at night. It's not fair that we spend part of our pregnancy not getting sleep, and then once the baby is here you don't get any sleep for a while cause you have this new little person that needs you around the clock. I know they are worth it, don't get me wrong, but we all get a bit mean when we don't have enough sleep.

More JCREW Kids...

I was showing my mom the dresses I picked out for the girls for next summer and showing her some other cute stuff on sale on their site. Being the cool nana she is she purchased some girly stuff for them too. New Bikini's and coverups that are super cute!

Question????

Anyone out there at all in blog land know anything about Time Shares? Specifically, I want to know how hard it is to trade weeks, resorts, and how far in advance you have to do it with your company.... if you don't want to leave a comment email me at Robyngiles7@cox.net

Thanks!

Happy 4th!

Hope everyone is having a good 4th of July! I am going to attempt to go to the pool later if its not too crazy as they were having a big ole party up there... Dave is working tonight so he has been sleeping. I have pretty much been lazy as I had a horrible night last night. I woke up with horrible stomach pains and was scared to death I was in labor. I figured I would wait it out as I didn't feel like going to the ER with other crazies, so I called my husband since he was at work to try to warn him. Of course he didn't answer his flipping phone, and took an hour and a half to call me back cause he was busy. I wasn't happen though with his response time regardless. Not that he could do anything for me, but I just wanted to talk to someone while I was pain. I feel better now, so maybe it was just gas pains or something else totally embarrassing. I go back to the doctor next friday so I can bring it up then if it doesn't happen again sooner.

So while the kids were napping today I noticed Jcrew is having a freeship sale thingy going on and I checked out the girl stuff. I bought two dresses for next spring summer for either Laura or Rachel, or maybe both since they are similar in size. I am not allowing myself to buy anymore summer clothes for them this season, but buying for next summer/spring is ok in my book. I mean I got great deals, someone has to support the sales. The two dresses are at the top of the page.

My fun kid activity today was making Brownies with Laura. She thought she was pretty special. We will probably take them to his parents house later for a cookout. Before that I guess I will attempt the pool with the kids and pray its not to crazy.

So proud...

Dave is currently upstairs doing some prep work in the nursery for painting... So guess he will be starting soon... SHOCKER... In the mean time I am starting to freak out a bit as I feel I am not ready for little miss who is coming in two months. I am trying to remember how to take care of an infant, and what items I need to pull out that she is going to need. I believe the infant tub is in the garage... I think the pack in play/bassinet is... well I am actually not sure where the heck that is... I have to find the infant carrier and base, and figure out where everyone will sit in the car. I need to buy a bunch of diapers and some wipes. I just feel lost all of the sudden.

We were supposed to have swim class tonight, but we skipped... Basically it was because both kids had some tempers tonight, and were overly tired, so we didn't want to drive all the way out to Y just to have them freak. We decieded to still let them get some pool time at the local pool since its super close, and figured they would get some activity out of it, and if they freaked out we would be closer to home. By the time we came home they were ready for bed, and so am I. I have a belly ache and I am blaming it on my lunch. We had a lunch meeting thingy for work at a new resteraunt. Usually we get to go to Shleshingers or however you spell it which is a really nice place here locally. Right from there in the same area there is another resteraunt, its changed names a few times and been under new owners. Its been called Cowboy Syd's, The Light, and now The Fin. I never went to this place before, but I wasn't impressed. I thought I would get to go home early after lunch, but no... apparently they are still working out the kinks. The drug rep told the wait staff that they could start with our food during the presentation, like bring our salads, and they didn't seem to understand, as they waiting until the presentation was over. You know prego woman was all upset about waiting for her food... It was a three course meal so we had salad or soup, and then our main entree, followed with dessert. They have us a few choices of each thing, and for dessert the choices were Cheesecake, Sorbet, and icecream. I chose Sorbet, but get this. They had a lot of requests for cheesecake, and they ran out, so they asked some people who had chose Cheesecake to pick from a few other options they didn't give us earlier, like this awesome looking chocolate cake. Totally not fair, I didn't have that option damit. My sorbet super sucked, and I wanted to steal my neighbors chocolate cake. I thought their service was entirely slow, and the food was just ok. I was also bitter for not getting home any earlier then usual. I don't think I would go as a paying customer... ever... Our drug rep was pretty pissy about it too, and she's also super duper pregnant, and you don't mess with pregnant folk. She felt awful as some people had to leave to go back to work and didn't get to get their meal or dessert.

Anyways, all this talk about food is making me hungry. I really have a craving for the Melting Pot. I just want the cheese fondue and dessert though. The actual entree part doesn't really impress me. Maybe I can talk the hubby into taking me for my birthday.

Wii Fit

My brother in law and sister and law have the Wii for their kids and have the Wii Fit thingy as well. I am not sure if Cher reads this (the sister in law) but start locking your house up at night as I might break in and steal that sucker. It is the coolest thing ever!

Dave and I both got on the board and it analyzes your BMI, weight, and what not, and tells you your Wii Fit Age and then can help you make a program to get where you need to be. You can do yoga on it and all kinds of neat stuff. It has to be cheaper then a personal trainer, not sure if it works as well, but the concept is neat. Makes me want to spend my money anyways.


So for Dave, (he is totally going to kill me) his Wii fit age is 61... yepp his numbers super suck. He's older then me, but not that freaking old! Poor guy. I still love him though, but hopefully its a wakeup call for him as I don't want to be a young widow. My Wii fit age is 25 which is younger then what I am, so I was pleased, but my BMI is in the overweight range. Yes I know I am pregnant, but I did my BMI right before I got knocked up and it was still in the overweight range. At least it didn't say Obese. It could always be worse. I bet skinny lifegaird bitch would get a perfect reading on the damn board.

So I want a Wii, and the Wii fit board thingy. Might make a good anniversary gift from the husband as our anniversary is in September and thats when I am having the baby. Or maybe we should get it now and let Dave get going on his diet.

So does anyone else have one and has anyone seen any real results from it?