Lazy day

I am sure that there is something that I should be doing, but I am not going to do it. I just don't feel like doing anything today. I should have cleaned the house this morning, but there is still time to straiten up when Bella wakes up. I don't want to wake her up until she is ready, she has been a real bear lately, and naps are a nice escape from her. She must be going through a growth spurt.

We are going to get our tree on Sunday. I am super excited. I wont get off work until 1, so that will put us leaving around 2ish. We are going with the neighbors, not sure where, but I hope it is not too far away. I need it to still be light out when we get home. I would like to start putting light up. Well, now that I think about it, I think we will just put the tree up and decorate it. Spencer has school Monday, and I will be decorating the rest of the house Monday and Tuesday. Knowing me, it will take me until Wednesday to get it all done. Monday will be dedicated to outside lights. That is the only day that we can realistically do the lights, perhaps Tuesday night when John gets home we can finish. I am hoping that his dad will come over and help figure out what we can do about our electrical situation. We have a grand total of 4 plugs, not 4 outlets, but 4 plugs. We can only plug in 4 extension cords. It is challenge doing it, but we managed it last year. I am positive we can do it this year too. John wants to do some cool things in the yard part (must talk in code, neighbors might be reading, and we are in a competition!!!), and I have come up with a few sweet things to do on the porch and the fence. The fence may cost a pretty penny, but I am willing to splurge on that one part of it. I think it will only cost me $30 more to do what I want to do on the fence. I will be making some of the decorations, I have said too much. Don't worry, I will be posting a poop load of pictures. I will have to wait until nest weekend to work on the hand made stuff, there is just not going to be enough time between then and now. Maybe Wednesday or Thursday during Bella's nap I can make it down to the basement to work on my projects. OOOHHH too many things to, and not enough time. I wish I had not sat on my big fat butt today, I could have gotten a ton of stuff done for decorating. Oh well, I have to go do some laundry for work tonight. TTFN!!!

Thanksgiving 2008

For Thanksgiving we went to Aunt Barb's house. We had a good time, and good food!!! Here are some pictures!!

I love it when a plan comes together!!!

So this year I am not putting any unnecessary stress on myself when it comes to Christmas shopping. For the last few years John and I have been the last ones to get anything, as parents usually are, when the money ran out we just made due with what we had. This year I started buying the kids presents early, so that we would have money left over for the little things... the tree, any extra decoration I may want and our gifts. I am super excited about the gift I have gotten John. I still have a few more rad things to get for him, and this will officially be the best Christmas he has ever had!! You can quote me on that!!

Don't even get me started on Spencer's gift. I can tell you what I am getting him, be can read but is not quite smart enough to read this... so... we are getting him a guinea pig!!!! I could not be any more excited about it!! My super awesome neighbor knows a person that is giving us a baby one!! I am not sure if it is a "baby" one, or just a younger one. I guess they had some babies born this week, but they would not be ready in time. John got his weekly bonus today, and it is more than enough to pay for the cage and all the supplies for our new little piggy!!! The neighbors are also soooooo RAD, that they will actually be watching the piggy for us for a few weeks!! Too cool, huh!! I can not wait to see the look on Spencer's face when he opens that gift on Christmas morning. Best Christmas ever!!! I am not going for quantity this year, but for quality. Bella is getting a super present too, she will be getting a Bear Mill cat, and a backpack to carry it around in! I know, not as cool as Spencer's gift, but when she is older, she will get better gifts. She still has no clue what Christmas is. Not to mention, I have been stricken with the problem my mom has had all these years, a birthday the week of Christmas. Very hard!!! Will get more hard!!! Thank God we have a big family that goes crazy at Christmas and birthday time!!

FYI- TO FAMILY THAT BUYS ME GIFTS... CHRISTMAS, BIRTHDAY OR FUTURE BABY SHOWERS!!...I need gift cards for The Home Depot!! I have lots of bedrooms that need painted and trimmed out now!!! I had planned on going all out on Bella's room, but now I have a new bedroom that will need to be done too, and I can not go crazy on 2 rooms with our income. I told my mom she should get me a gallon of semi-gloss white paint for Christmas!!! I can always have it tinted when I know what "Twinkle" is going to be!!! We were luck enough that Spencer's room was painted a blueish green color when we moved in. Bella's is yellow, but I would love nothing more than to put it back to the way I had it at the old house, pink on the top and green on the bottom. If "Twinkle" is a boy, I am doing a sea theme in the down stairs bedroom, if it is a girl, I have no idea as of this point. I may do the sea theme, but make it a bit more girlie with some dolphins, mermaids ect...

I am pretty excited that today is my Monday, then I get a day off!! I was going to work all day Saturday and Sunday, but we are going to get our Christmas tree a week early this year, and are going on Sunday. That being said, I am now getting off at 1, not 4:30, so the sun will still be up. I am not sure where we are going, but I know that neighbors have been there before and are excited to take us. I also can not wait. Maybe we can have hot cocoa when we get home!! I can not wait to decorate this year. I am going to use all the decoration that I could not sell. I love them and they will go with my decoration. My colors this year are red, green and white. I will have the Elvis tree in our room, with all my lovely Elvis decorations in there for me to see when I wake up. The living room with be red, green and white. I am not sure, but I would love to have another tree in the kitchen with the family ornaments on it, but that will be the first tree that goes if money does not allow.

Little baby "Twinkle"

Today I am 5 weeks and 3 days pregnant. They consider that in my 6th week. I know, hard to keep track of huh??? Any way, here is what "Twinkle" should look like between now and this time next week.

Me so sleepy

I am sick and tired of being so freaking sleepy. I understand that you get tired while your pregnant, but I am having a hard time even cleaning the house. I need a dose of energy, but that is the one thing you can not have while pregnant. I have switched to half decaf in the mornings, and I have to have 2 cups to get the energy I need, but that only lasts until lunch. John is due home at 6:30ish, and I have to have the house clean for him, but I just don't know how the heck I am going to do that. If it wasn't for Spencer, nothing would get done. He said something to me today that really sent me into a depression. He said, "why aren't you as happy as you use to be, you never smile anymore". I wonder if he is right. Am I not as happy as I was, or am I just really sleepy. As crazy as it sounds, I am hopping that the holidays will get me going. I will not be in my second trimester until January, so my energy will not pick up until then. I just hope I can muster up the energy to decorate for Christmas. I have decided to not "do up" Bella's birthday, it is going to be a simple party. I only hope I am not judged for it.

Anyway, I have to go do the dishes, laundry and straiten up the kitchen before John gets home.

Spencer is on Santa's nice list!!

http://family.go.com/santas-list/video/6951-supercori/

You guys have to check this link out, very cute. I can not wait to ready your comments on it!!!

Huh

The second I found out I was pregnant with Bella, I felt the bond. I loved her the second the test turned positive. I am finding that I am not feeling that this time. I feel guilty about it, but there is just not a bond yet. I did not feel the bond with Spencer, and it took me a few weeks after he was born to feel it. My theory with this is... I wanted to get pregnant with Bella sooo bad, and it took so long. To finally get what I had tried so hard for, was the most rewarding feeling I have ever had. This pregnancy sort of just happened (do not mistake this for an accidental pregnancy, we calculated and planed this baby too, just like the other 2). I did not expect it to happen so quickly, or frankly, did not expect it to happen at all. Am I tempting the fates having one more baby? I am not exactly a young chicken prime for reproducing. What if this one is not healthy. I have never been soo worried before about such a happy event. I am not a religious woman, but I will be talking to God allot about this, and praying for a happy, healthy pregnancy and birth.