Big gut lol

So here I am at 10 weeks and 3 days along (my ticker is a tad off). Don't mind the sweatpants, it's Sunday and the whole fam is just chillin. Rhianna, Jamison, AND Daddy are sleeping away! :-)

I still have a little morning sickness now and then but it's not bad. I am hungry a lot more than before though! Tomorrow I go in for a prenatal physical so maybe I will be able to hear the heartbeat! I hope so. I feel bad though because I am not as excited for this pregnancy as with the other ones. I watched a 3 yr old girl and her 2 month old brother last night for our friends (it was a date night for them). It was alright, the kids did fine but DH was stressing over work and school and of course Jamison was super jealous. I think I am more nervous than anything. I worry about DH handling 4 kids. I mean it's not ordinary circumstances....he has just come back from war and has PTSD and is trying to finish his Bachelors and trying to retire AND the new baby all in the next 8 months! Granted it's not easy for me either but I worry all the same.

I worry about the baby integrating in the family and the jealousy that will come. I know God had us get pregnant for a reason but sometimes I get so worried about everything that sometimes I wonder why He did this. all I keep saying though is I def want to get something done permanently so I don't get pregnant anymore.

Oh and then I feel horrid about even feeling this way. Of COURSE I love this baby and WILL love him/her regardless. I don't want my baby to ever think that they weren't wanted because they ARE. I just worry about the future and hope that everything falls into place.

And then my Christian mind takes over and logic says all I have to do is put my trust in Him and He will take care of everything. Argh but it's not easy

2 Posts in one day!

Wow so I must be on a roll or very bored or something! Here I am posting AGAIN today! LOL Allena wanted to see pix so I went and took a few.

Oh and I was tagged like FOREVER ago to post a few pix of where I do my artsy-craftsy stuff. I mainly sit on the ole couch and knit/crochet. (there's my 1/8th completed "panta"!)











Now I have a nice recliner to choose from as well (the long ago promised pic of what DH got me for my bday....a CHAIR!) Showing off my nice "dukes of Diyala" afghan we bought to support my hunny's unit when he went to Iraq.




















OR if I have to do some rubber stamping or sewing I sit here at the table.














Now here are some random pix just for you! A pic of Jamison's crib....without one rail. We are trying to train him not to fall out of bed and so far so good. I think he likes having the railing off so he can get in and out at will. Of course though we now have to put a baby gate across the doorway so he won't wander around after bedtime. He's usually very good about staying in bed though. I have a toddler bed that I am repainting and will post a pic of that when I am done. As you can see I am trying for a dinosaur theme in his room.

Here's a pic of my would-be veggie garden. I planted corn, carrots, spinach, green beans, pumpkins, and water melons. I had a good number of spinach and carrots growing until I went up to PA. Sniff sniff the soil dried up and all that's left is the corn and beans and a little pumpkin sprout. No watermelons have shown themselves much to Malayah's dismay.

Anyway, I smell a stinky so off to change a butt! ;-P

Friends

My fam and I got to travel up to PA to see my best friends! We all met in Germany and have since been scattered to the winds. This weekend was the first time I have seen them in 9 months! Pam and Allena were there but quite a few of our other buds were MIA. But the 3 of us had a blast anyway....and we can't forget the kids, all 8 of them! Yes, 8 kiddos packed into a tiny 2 bedroom apartment! LOL that was fun!

It was bitterly cold up there! I'm talking 5-7 degrees sometimes! I really dislike being THAT cold ya know. A Cali girl can only stand so much cold before they turn into a popcicle! So we all hung out indoors....talking and laughing like old times. A trip to Michaels craft store, an evening of swimming (at the hotel's pool) and the bestest meal ever! TGI Fridays! I have LONGED to go to that place for a month now! And oh was it good! LOL Now I just wish I could eat there all the time, those Jack daniels recipes are to DIE for!

Of course Pam and Allena were knitting a lot of the time I was there. I have been in a fink lately when it comes to any type of craftiness. So now that I am all motivated again I need to get cracking! What to make...hmm Malayah has been dying for a poncho and I can't seem to find *just* the right pattern. Perhaps that's what I'll try. That and I need to sew my Mom's throw that's been in my closet 1/2 done for 2 months.

But none of that now, I'm off to take Rhi rhi to her gymnastics class!

We've got a live one!

I had my OB appointment today and DH actually got to come with me! We both got to see the little bean with their heart beating away! I am so relieved as I have had 2 miscarriages and it's always scary until you get to see that little heartbeat!

So here's the pic...a little fuzzy, but really, who can tell what they are looking at anyway? The ultra-sound tech must have extensive training in crossing their eyes and holding their tongue just right to even get close to guessing what the hey that little blob is! Kinda like those paintings with all those little dots? You are supposed to look at your reflection or cross your eyes or something to see the 3D image? anyone have any idea what I am talking about? :-) LOL

Anyway so my due date is Sept. 21st and i am 9 weeks and 1 day. I need to change my ticker up there....

It's been awhile...

I guess I haven't felt much like blogging lately. There's not too much to say, just the same ole same ole. I can, however, share some pix of what I got for my birthday!

This is a picture frame made from home-made paper. My friend went on a missions trip to Thailand and said they specialize in paper-making over there. also she bought me this cool box full of patters, "knitting on the go". It has a really cute teddy bear hat pattern that I might make for Bubbah.

Here is laya acting goofy behind a bouquet of flowers from my MIL. I also got a bouquet from my Momma!

And I had ordered some Pampered Chef awhile back and voila! It was here right ontime for my birthday! (disregard the yucky banana and starfish!) lol

DH also got a COOL present for me....well, it's for the fam too. But that will have to wait for another day. TTFN

Happy birthday to me!

Well today is my birthday! It's amazing how I almost forgot! As you get older birthdays just don't seem as special as they did when you were younger, huh? DD#1 was asking if I was going to have a party. Nope...and she wondered, "why not?" I told her I didn't have any friends around here and she tells me that I need to go out and do stuff and make friends. Just the same lines I fed her when she started her new school. :-) What goes around comes around I guess.

I have tried a little to make new friends. I started to go to a woman's bible study on post but stopped because it starts at 9 am and morning sickness still raises it's ugly head about then. So there's not much else I do to meet anyone so here I am, stuck with my "virtual" friends.

So anyway, here's to another 27 years!

Pix for your entertainment

SO yesterday I was too lazy to trudge upstairs and get the digital camera to show you some pix. So I felt bad and am showing you now! LOL

Here's the girls playing in the snow on saturday

And Grey Ghost wanted to see what snow was....he kinda liked it and tried eating a lot of it. LOL Soliel (my 9 yr old cat) on the other hand hated it and stood by the doorway meowing pitifully. Awww... :-)

And here's the start of the snocone goodness! Unfortunatley I didn't get a shot of 1/2 the porch's snow covered in red koolaid mix! All I can say is I hope it all washed away or we're gonna have a major ant problem come spring!

Anyway, that's all I have for now....TTFN

Snow and an accident

Yesterday we actually had snow again! It was there for about 2 days (melting today) so my oldest DD Laya got to play in it! Unlike last time when there was 4 " of snow before she went to school and NONE when she came home! So they made a fort and Rhi tried a snow angel. They actually got to ride on their sled and saucer too! Also we have one of those "snoopy snocone makers" so I took the syrup mix from it and mixed it and the girls got to have REAL snow snocones! Of course they were spraying the juicy red stuff on everything and when they were done it looked like a masacre out there! LOL I had to yell at them to quit eating all that sugar cause they were going for the whole bottle of the stuff!!

Super Bowl night was good. I cooked goodies like a mad-woman and Dh had like 8 people over for his little "shin-dig" I had 2 other ladies to alk to so it wasn't SO bad. Dh really had a good time drinking beer and yelling at the TV. Of course he was happy to see the Steelers win as it's Allena's hubby's fav team!

And the accident: Dh just called me and I guess he was going through a green light and the old lady doesn't see her red light and comes flying through the intersection. Dh said he saw her and tried to hit the breaks but too late.....he crashed into her broadside. Luckily no one was hurt at all (he was going like 15 mph when they hit). But his piece of crap truck is now even more of a piece of crap. LOL Hopefully we can get it fixed soon! I am just so relieved that he's alright and the old lady is ok! Dang I hate car wrecks! I have been in 3 and none of them are fun!