updated pics

Hello to the 2 maybe 3 of you that read my blog. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. I know I enjoyed mine. Just wanted to post some pics of Alyssa's room. I finally got my curtains and my rocking chair covers back. My mom did both for me since i am sewing illiterate. We are still waiting on carpet. Hopefully we will get the carpet January sometime, just waiting until todd's job gets the good stuff in. I really wanted her room done by Morgan's birthday party, but that's not gonna happen. Oh well...atleast we have 50% of it done.

So here is a view of the rocking chair and changing table.

My beautiful curtains and chair that my mom did for me. There will be 2 white corner shelves above the rocking chair that Todd has to put up.
Obviously her crib. I bought the letters at AC MOORE and painted them.
And this was my Christmas present from Todd's dad and stepmom. Totally unexpected!! Wasn't the one I had on my registry but I like this one so much more.

My next doc appointment is on January 13th, I have my glucose test and my lovely rhogram shot. Thanks goodness this is my last "test" my doc's bills are already up to $600 and that isn't even including my 20 week u/s. Can't wait to see what the hospital bill is gonna be!! Now we are in the home stretch....More than halfway, almost 3rd trimester. I know she is gonna be here before we know it. I can't wait to meet her and complete our family.

First Winter Storm

All day Morgan was asking to go outside. Finally Todd came home and she got her wish. The only reason she is smiling in this pic is because I told her if she didn't say cheese she wasn't going outside. I know I am so mean. LOL

So here she is all dressed up.

Morgan and Daddy made a snowman. She won't pose next to Frosty for Daddy

No Pictures!!!
Fine I will stand here but that doesn't mean I have to smile.
And finally my big girl playing on her snow mountain!

I am officially fat!

So I am officially on a pregancy diet. I have splurged way to much these past 4 weeks, and today at the doctor I saw the toll it took. I knew i had gained a lot of weight, I can see it in my face and my arms, so I knew it was coming. 12 F***ing pounds is what my fat ass gained in 4 weeks. Serves me right. I should've known that eating a whole pumpkin roll in 2 1/2 days would hit my in my ass..literally! It's my own damn fault and a major reality check. So I am now watching my portions of what I eat and I am going to try to eat as heathly as possible. The doc also said i can work out if i am up to it, i just need to take it easy, cuz when ur pregnant you tend to pull things easier. So I am going to start working out on Todd's bowflex 3 days a week, for 20 mins. My goal for next months checkup is to either gain no weight at all or lose some of the fat that I put on. Keep your fingers crossed for me that I have enough self control to fix this before it gets worse. Me and pregancy don't go well together. I gained over 60 pounds w/ Morgan and I am not doing that again.

Other than the 12 pounds gained, baby alyssa (oh yeah that's gonna be her name) is good. When the doc went to find the heartbeat she kicked him..not once but twice. She already has an attitude! I am measuring right on track. Any pains that I am having are completly normal. I go back on Jan. 13 for my yummy glucose test. I have to say this is the worst part of the tests. I can take needles, but the glucose is nasty. I chose Orange again, even though this time they gave me an option of lime or orange. They gave me the bottle today to take home. That was a relief. With morgan i had to go to the bloodwork place drink the shit and sit for an hour. So w/ this I take it at home 1 hour before my appointment. Another perk to next months appointment is I have the pleasure of receiving a shot. I am RH negative so I need to get a rhogram shot so if the baby doesn't have my blood type she won't reject my blood. When I was pregnant w/ Morgan they made me bend over (that's right) to give me the shot. This time I have the option of arm or ass. I think I will take the arm this time, cuz even though there is a lot of fat in my ass I remember crying with that shot.

Baby's room is almost ready to go. All the wallpaper is up and the new bedroom door is on. Hopefully we will be doing the carpet tomorrow, but i doubt it because we are supposed to get snow. So my hopes of her room being done before X-mas is probably not going to happen. But that's okay because I don't think I am going to get much for her anyway. My family doesn't seem to listen to me when I tell them not to buy for me and to buy for the baby off the registry. Since I am a snoop I check the registry all the time and the only things purchased have been purchased by me. Oh well!

I Hate Hormones.

So I think I am a little hormonal lately. Last night I got so mad at Todd for something that I look back on as being so stupid. I was taking a shower and he decided to give Morgan a bath for me. So instead of me looking at it as him helping me out, I took it as him being arrogant and giving her a bath the same time as i'm in the shower. Okay you might be thinking what the hell is her problem...but the second he started running the water for her bath I lost all water pressure and my hot water. So I was pissed, I flipped out and we didn't talk to each other the rest of the night. Now I see that I might of over reacted just a tad!

On a better note...we took Morgan for her X-mas pics the other day. I thought that she would cooperate this year, but boy was i wrong. We ended up with 3 decent poses, but this one is our favorite. Sorry for the blurriness on the bottom of the pic, I took a picture of the professional pic because I didn't want to pay $19.99 for a disc w/ 3 pics on it.

Baby's Room Update

So I've been slowly working on the baby's room. Friday night we decided to paint and put up some wallpaper. It was really nice we did it as a family. My husband isn't much of a painter and usually lets me do any room decorating, but he helped me and Morgan paint.

Here is a pic of the room before anything was done to it.

After 2 coats of each color paint, waiting for it to dry.

Final product. Well paint and wallpaper atleast.We still have to get new doors, add new trim, carpet and add a ceiling fan.

I really love the room so far. My mom is making a slip cover for my rocking chair and making my curtains. Hopefully she will have them done soon. As soon as the room has carpet we will bring up all of Morgan's old furniture. I will post pics as soon as the room is done. I hope to have it done by the beginning of January. I know its early, but we are gutting Morgan's bathroom before the baby comes and that has to be done by Feb. because of Morgan's birthday party. And we can't wait until after February to finish the baby's room because the way I look at it I will be too far along to want to do much. So hopefully we can get things rolling and get everything finished.

wallpaper update

So I got a phone call last night from Wal-mart saying they found my wallpaper. The guy said the slip on the box fell into another box or something. The guy that yelled at me should feel like a real asshole because it was his damn fault. I actually had to order another roll of wallpaper because my husband told me that 2 rolls would be enough but he didn't measure, so last night i had him double check and he said it would be close, so I got another roll. This time from Target.com. I paid a little more, but i know that they are reliable.

I am on my way to Lowe's now to pick up paint and a curtain rod, then to the fabric store to find fabric for curtains and to cover my rocking chair. I have a busy weekend so I will hopefully be painting early next week. Once it's painted and wallpapered I will post updated pics.

I hate Ghetto Mart

So here is why I hate Wal-Mart....not all Wal-mart's but the one by me in Whitehall. For one it is full of trash. The store is always mobbed, there is no parking, and people are just irritating. Oh yea and the employees are so damn rude. So anyway I bought my bedding on Wal-mart.com 2 Friday's ago. And I did site to store shipping, cuz i didn't feel like paying $30 in shipping costs. Now I wish I would've just paid it. I have been tracking my order for the past couple of days through UPS.com. According to UPS all of my items (bedding, mobile, lamp, wallpaper) were delived yesterday morning, and everything was signed by the same guy. So I called them last night to check on my order and the guy told me it wasn't processed yet. Okay I can wait. So I check this online this morning and 3 out of my 4 items are ready for pick up. So I called Wal-mart again to make sure everything was there and the idiot told me all was there. So I bundled Morgan up and headed to Ghetto Mart. I get there and the C.S. rep tells me that my wallpaper hasn't come yet. I told her that according to UPS everything was delivered, so she did all in her power (so she says) to find it and she couldn't. Then this jackass Gary came out and had the balls to start yelling at me and telling me that I need to call UPS because they never received it. So now it is all gonna be he said she said bullshit and I am going to have to play phone tag all day. I just called UPS and they are e-mailing me a proof of delivery, but once I get it I am not quite sure what to do with it. I e-mailed wal-mart.com too, but who knows if i will ever get a response. I just want my wallpaper so i can go pick out paint. Why does everything have to be such a pain in the ass??

my weekend

My Thanksgiving was pretty uneventful. The cowboys won, that was the highlight of my day. I don't want to think about all of the sweets I ate in one sitting. I won't be surprised if I have gained a lot of weight next checkup.

Baby girl is starting to get more active these days. She is still lazy compared to Morgan, but she definitly has her moments. I finished demo on her room yesterday. All the trim is off the walls, the closet doors were taken down and the shitty shelves and the pole in the closet are gone. Yes, I did it all by myself! So now I have a blank canvas. I have some holes to patch up but that is about it. I am hoping to have the room all prepped and ready to go by next Tuesday because I want to paint. I would like to have the room painted and carpeted by Christmas. But we will see, Christmas will be here before we know it.

Todd took over my dining room this weekend. We never use this room so we took the table downstairs and brought our futon, an extra tv and all Todd's cowboys stuff up. He now finally has his man room with the exception of my computer. The room looks really good. I bought him a fathead last Christmas and it is finally up on the wall. He was playing his xbox last night and Morgan wanted to play with him. So she has my controller and is wearing the headphones just like daddy. How cute is this pic??

Here is an updated belly pic. 21 weeks tomorrow. This picture doesn't do my bump justice. It really is bigger than it looks in this picture. But everyone I talk to says I am smaller with this one, and that I really have only grown in my belly. Let's hope it stays this way. With Morgan I gained over 60 pounds and I do not want that to be the case this time. Right now I am right on track with my weight which is good, but since the weather is colder now I just sit in my house and the snack food calls my name, that is why I can't wait to get the bedding and paint. I need to keep myself busy. I am tempted to give Morgan's room a little makeover since she is getting new bedding for Christmas. I guess we will wait and see how much energy I have in these next few weeks.