14 Weeks

Today marks 14 weeks and we actually managed to do my belly shot today!  Yay for us!  My pregnancy symptoms seem to be getting better.  I don't usually feel nauseous anymore (except when I get overly hungry and if that happens...watch out!).  I still feel tired a lot, but I have a feeling that also has to do with the fact that we are running busy all weekend and every weeknight with trying to get this house in order.  (I am proud of us for getting so much accomplished in 3 short weeks!  The only boxes that have yet to be unpacked are boxes of books for our book shelves that I haven't decided where I want.)  But let's be honest...we have a deadline of 5 1/2 months to have all of our home improvement stuff done!

Baby is the size of a lemon (3 inches) right now and somehow that lemon is making me bust out of all of my normal clothes!  Because of multiple requests I'm posting my 9 week picture and my 14 week picture to show the difference!

9 Weeks

14 Weeks

It is amazing what a difference 5 weeks makes!  I think I look way further along than I am!! 

SWAGGER WAGON

Jonathan was sent this video from a co-worker who said that this is what his life was about to turn into.  I watched it and could not stop laughing.  Hope you enjoy.

My husband, the Electrician

Over the past couple weeks my husband has put on a few different hats.  He's been a cleaner, a painter, a builder of furniture, a gardener, and an electrician.  He's absolutely wonderful!!  Some of the first items that blaringly needed to be replaced were all of our light fixtures and ceiling fans.  This house was decked out in shiny brass fixtures (good for you if you like shiny brass...personally my eyes practically start bleeding when I have to look at them).  And don't think I'm not eyeing all of those doorknobs and hinges!  Those will be another project.

Anyway... we finally settled on 3 ceiling fans.  One to replace the brass living room fan.  One to replace our brass bedroom fan.  And one to replace the hideously ugly light fixture in the guest bedroom.  I know ceiling fans aren't the prettiest decorations and I'd love to have a chandelier in our bedroom to dress it up, BUT I have to sleep with a fan on and I figure our guests do to.

I couldn't find a chandelier for our living room that I liked at Lowe's or Home Depot so I went to a specialty lighting store.  I was a bit overwhelmed with the massive selection but the workers were super helpful and they had a HUGE variety of styles in all price ranges.  I found a chandelier that was 50% off and actually cheaper than the ones at Lowe's and I think it's totally original and perfect in our dining room!  I may have to go back there in a couple months when we're ready to switch out or kitchen light.

After Mother's Day lunch with Jonathan's mom, he got right to work on the living room fan and then on the dining room chandelier!  Poor thing.  His arms were about jello after those two.  I told him he needed a break, so we ran to Lowe's for more supplies and then we stopped at Graeter's for ice cream!!  If you have never had Graeter's you are soo missing out.  They are from Cincinnati and the chocolate chips in the ice cream are about as big as a chocolate candy bar!  We sat outside and ate our ice cream and enjoyed our Sunday evening!

Living room fan - before

Living room fan - after 

The old dining room chandelier

New chandelier

Enjoying our Ice Cream (I could barely get our faces in the picture let alone the ice cream cones!)

When we got home, I talked Jonathan into leaving the other two ceiling fans for another day.  We needed some down time tonight!  I hope you all had a great weekend!  Time for me to relax...

"Um...I own this house..."

If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you've already heard this story, but it was just too funny to not share in detail!

Last night we were babysitting Kennedy, so she, Dakota and I were on the couch watching Disney princess movies, while Jonathan was de-cluttering the house of boxes, tools, papers, etc.  (BTW, it looks so much nicer now!  The only clutter is the many decorations that are scattered around that don't have homes!)  Our doorbell rang and I figured it was one of the neighbors.  We have found that our neighborhood is the friendliest and we love it!  Our next door neighbors go to our church and are really sweet and after I heard a man's voice I thought it was our neighbor. 

Jonathan walked back into the living room and said... "Please tell me you just heard that."  Um no I didn't, I have a Disney sing-along going, a 2 year old and a dog in here.  He went on to tell me that there was some councilman going door to door and when Jonathan answered the door he asked Jonathan if his PARENTS were home!?!?  How funny is that.  So Jonathan kinda played along and said, "No."  The guy was like, "Well, are you of legal voting age?"  Now seriously, could he really think my 29 year old husband was not yet 18???  Jonathan said, "Well, I hope so since I own this house."  He said the guy was stunned.  He had to feel soo dumb.  He told Jonathan that he would have carded him at a bar.  Um yeah, if you didn't think he was 18!  (Jonathan even had a day's worth of stubble, with usually makes him look a bit older!) The guy had enough guts to ask us to put a sign in our yard tho!! We were rolling!

Since Jonathan works at the University, he has multiple times been mistaken for a college kid.  Which is a bit funny.  One meeting he was going to, he was told that classes were in the next room!  Hello...have you looked to see what scruffy stuff college guys wear?  Jonathan is always dressed like GQ.  Pretty sure a college guy wouldn't wear button up shirts and dress pants to class.  But at least he's being mistaken for a college kid... A high school kid?  Seriously?  Now, that's a bit extreme!

I guess I'm toast!  When we're old and grey, Jonathan will still have that baby face and I will be wrinkly and old-looking:)

13 Weeks 2 Days

Today was my 13 week doctor's appointment!  To say that I was a bit nervous would be an understatement.  I really hope that I'm not that nervous about every appointment.  I know that I shouldn't be nervous because God is in control, but my human nature takes over every time!

Lindsy stopped by work today to visit with me because she was at the church so we decided to go get lunch.  We went to Panera and it was delish!  We decided to sit outside since it was an absolutely beautiful day.  Does anyone else get annoyed that Panera pretty much has shot glasses for water glasses?  Well, I HATE that and since we were sitting outside I decided to order a pop (non-caffeinated of course) so I wouldn't have to walk inside a billion times for refills.  I maybe have one can of pop a week so I was definitely splurging!  Anyway, once we got to my appointment the nurse asked if I had ingested a lot of sugar recently.  OOPS!  So then they had to bring a glucose meter in to check to make sure my blood was ok.  Of course it was fine.  I tried to assure them that my body is not used to having a sprite in the middle of the day.

My doctor had been called to an emergency C-section so the nurse practitioner saw me.  She was really sweet so that was just fine.  Anyway, she got the doppler out and it took FOREVER for her to find the heartbeat.  She said that it's pretty normal at this size.  But there were all these noises and she said that the baby was moving all around and she couldn't get it to stand still long enough to hear the heartbeat.  Oops!  Too much sugar!  OK, so point taken... I will not drink a glass of pop before my next appointment!  HA!  But, we did finally get the heartbeat and it was a fast and strong heartbeat!  YAY!  Hopefully soon I'll be able to start feeling all of those movements!  I've gained 5 pounds since my last appointment a month ago, so I guess I'll take that.  The nurse said that was just fine!

My next appointment will be at 17 weeks so we again will not have an ultrasound, but the next appointment after that will be the BIG appointment so we can find out if it's a boy or a girl!!!

We again did my belly picture two days late.  Here it is!

This post is for my mom...

My mother has been bugging and nagging me nicely requesting that I post pictures of my new dining room table.  Jonathan got the table and chairs built on Monday night and I put the covers on the chairs.  We were worn out by the time we were finished and yesterday we were busy so today I finally took a picture of our new table.  It's quite ginormous!  It didn't look so big in the showroom.  We're going to have to rearrange the buffet so that we can actually use the end chair (And that is before the two leaves are in it!) :).  But I love how it turned out.  Plain straight lines and dark wood are my favorite!  Hopefully soon I will place a table center on it and get some drapes and the place will be looking good:)

Tomorrow we get to hear baby's heartbeat!  I'll post a belly pic then!!

BTW, is it me or has it been forever since I've posted about something other than my growing belly or my house??  Please don't answer that...

Ikea Weekend

Jonathan and I spent the day at Ikea on Saturday.  A couple years ago we updated a bunch of our fixtures and household things in our old house from there and the stuff was really affordable, so since we needed a bunch of fixtures for our new house we thought we'd take a day and go up there.  It's about an hour and 45 minute drive so it's not horrible.  Well we went through the store and had a full cart and that was without any of the furniture we had found.  So we checked out with all of the small things (we always stock up on energy efficient light bulbs and batteries because the prices are soo good) and loaded them into the back of my SUV.  We did have some decorations and rugs, so we decided that we wouldn't be able to fit any furniture. 

We went back in the store to write down all of the item numbers so we could have them for next time and then we just got a crazy idea to go ahead and rent a van (they have that service there) and get everything that we were thinking we might want in the future so that we won't have to rent anything again.  So yes, I now have a dining room set...well two pieces to the set are up and the table and six chairs are still in flat boxes:).  Whoohoo for that since I didn't think that would happen for years!  And we got a mattress set!  We've needed a new mattress since we got married and we HATE to mattress shop, so we haven't gotten a new one.  This was one thing on my priority list since I figure that I'm going to have enough problems sleeping while pregnant.  The price was surely right on their mattresses.  Let's hope it is as comfy as it seems!  Here are some pictures from the weekend.

This was last night around 10:30 pm unloading the rental van to get back on the road to return the van and get my car!

Yes, that is a king sized mattress shoved in there!  A lot of boxes = lots of work!

We didn't get back home until 2:30 AM and it was raining, so I got this picture as we unloaded this morning.

The kitchen light above the table - before... (I couldn't take it down fast enough - gold is not me!!!)

My wonderful hubby hard at work!  Not my dream light fixture, but it was cheap and will work until we find something we love!  Anything had to be better than builder grade gold stuff:)  (please don't look at the mess in the background!!)

My laundry closet light fixture - before... this thing was soo old and barely gave off light!

Seriously...is this from the 60's?

After Jonathan's handiwork!  Looks nice and gives off tons of light!  Makes me want to do laundry... um...yeah.

The buffet...um...looks like a LOT of pieces!  A bit overwhelming!

It's starting to look like something!!!

Yay!  Finished!  I LOVE it!  (Don't mind the mis-matched decorations and the plastic wrapping still on the mirror.  Had to get a bit of the mirror effect:)

China cabinet finished!  LOVE it!!!

Installing the legs on the box springs!

We still have a dining table, 6 chairs and a desk to put together, plus two mirrors to hang.  But I'm so thrilled with everything we got accomplished today!  YAY!  What a great weekend.  But, will we ever just have a relaxing weekend when something doesn't need to be done any time soon??