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Smorgasbord – part 1

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May 24, 2012

Hey Y’all!

Like I posted in the last post, we have been really, really busy these last few weeks. We have been so busy that I am going to split our month of May into two posts. I am going to make a separate post for the second half of the month and for the nursery that we have been working on. So here ya go…….

I went to Seattle the end of April for my cousin Joni’s wedding. It was great seeing all the family again and also getting to hang out with our niece. She is getting so big!!!! I didn’t take a lot of photos, but my sister Jenni did and said she would send hers to me. I don’t expect to get them until August when they come out for baby, but we shall see.

 

After I got back from Seattle, Darrell and I went to our local farmers Family Farm Day. We had a really nice day. It was a little bit on the hot side, but at least there was a small breeze that made it bearable. I drank a ton of water!!! We got to see the new goslings, the piglets, the new baby donkey, and all of the other animals they had. They definitely had a very baby friendly Spring! They had a little walk you could take through the tree area behind their house, and there was a mulberry tree with a bunch of fallen mulberries. The butterflies were just loving it! If you stood still long enough, they would land and you could get fairly decent photos of them. Darrell stood there for like 5 minutes trying for some photos. He got some good ones, but there were a lot of photos to go through. 🙂

 

 

 

Then, next on our list of busy, Darrell went to Orlando for a work conference.

 

After Orlando, he flew straight to California for the Annual Boonville Beerfestival that we do every year. I skipped it this year, but we hope to bring the whole family to it next year. He had a lot of fun and enjoyed hanging out with friends and his cousin Kirsten and her friends.

 

And, after all of that, we were only half way through our month of May. Yes we did actually have to work during this month, so it has definitely been crazy busy. More photos in the next post from the month of May.

~S

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Wowzers!

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April 17, 2012

We have been extremely busy these last two weeks. We have planted the garden for this year, cleaned out the nursery, set up the office/guest room, Scottish Heritage Day at Abilene State Park, and giving Zedd some antibiotics for his feline acne.

For our garden this year, we are hoping things grow and produce like they should. I don’t know if we are being optimistic or not, but we planted a lot of things. We have: 2 zucchini, 4 cucumbers, 2 broccoli, 6 cauliflower, 4 green beans, 6 sweet banana peppers, 6 cubano peppers, 4 cherry tomatoes, 4 yellow pear tomatoes, 4 cherokee purple tomatoes, 2 cabbage, 4 basil bunches, 8 pea bunches, and a thyme bush. We also bought some catnip, but we haven’t planted that yet. We are hoping for a lot of veggies and the ability to share with neighbors and friends. 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have had a lot of really good weather, so we have all been spending a lot of time outside. I really like this time of year and the awesome weather we get. Glad we haven’t  gotten any of the nasty weather that areas around us have been getting.

We spent our Easter weekend moving the office to the front room so we have an empty room for the nursery. It was a lot of work, but we finally finished the moving part. We don’t quite have everything where we would like it in the new office/guest room, but we are working on it. I will put pictures up later after we get it finished. It might not be until June or so since we have a lot of things planned in the next couple weeks. But they will be up at some point.

Last weekend, Darrell had a gig with the Abilene Pipers at the Abilene State Park for Scottish Heritage Day. We had a lot of fun and it was a gorgeous day for it (even if a little windy :P)

I also realized that yesterday has been 2 years since we closed on the house! Boy does time fly when you actually have stuff to do 🙂

We can’t wait until August and are excited to meet our little Pixel. We still haven’t come up with names, but we still have a couple months. Everything has been looking good at the last couple appointments. I am currently measuring 2 weeks ahead, so who knows what the next few months will bring. We are about 23.5 weeks along with 16.5 to go. Here are some pictures we took in our backyard. The first two were taken on Friday, the last two were taken on Saturday (hence the two separate outfits).

Enjoy your spring!

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It’s a ….

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April 4, 2012

BABY!! (We think :P)

We had our level 2 ultrasound today. We were really excited to make sure that everything is going ok and that there aren’t any noticeable defects. Pixel is all curled up in a ball, so we didn’t get any good shots. We got a couple of pictures, but you can barely make out the face. We got to see the hands and feet as baby moved them around to curl up tighter. All of the shots look like a Jack Skellington face almost.

Looks like we have a stubborn kid here. 😛

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Halfway there and busy, busy, busy

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March 23, 2012

Hey y’all!

We have finally made it to the 20 week mark. Which means we are halfway through the pregnancy! We have another week and a half until our level 2 ultrasound. We are excited to see Pixel again and make sure that everything is going good.

 

I have also been given permission from the midwife and the doctor to travel to Seattle at the end of April for my cousin’s wedding. I am really excited as many of the family I will see there I haven’t seen since my wedding almost three years ago. It means that I don’t get to go to the Beerfestival, but that’s ok.

 

As the title of the post says, we have been really busy lately. Darrell has had a lot of gigs with the Abilene Pipers the last couple of weekends, so we have gone there. There was the roller derby and then there was a St. Patty’s Day gig at a local bar. These are some photo’s from the gigs and with Darrell in a Kilt.

Roller Derby:

St. Patty’s Day:

We have also had quite a bit of nice weather lately, so we have spent a lot of time outside. The cats have really loved it. We have loved it as well! I’m so glad it is spring. I love how everything turns green. Granted, most of the green you see in the pictures are actually weeds and not the grass. The grass is still brown and dead. No idea if it is ever going to grow back.

We have also been working on clearing out the office to make it into the nursery. We are going to move our office into the front room/guest room. There are a lot of things in the two rooms, so we are going through everything and finding stuff to get rid of. There is still a lot more to go through, but we have almost finished cleaning up the guest room. About half of the office has been cleared out. Still a lot more to do, but it is slowly getting done.

While cleaning up the office, we found a bolt of fabric that we forgot about. We absolutely love it and are planning on using it as a theme idea for the nursery. It gives us a color scheme and some ideas for stuff and is totally gender neutral. We shall see how the nursery ends up.

 

Hope everyone is having a happy Spring!

~S

 

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What we’ve been up to

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March 5, 2012

Hey y’all!

I know I have been quiet lately. Haven’t really had much going on. We have been busy doing things, but mostly just working.

We have started to clean out the office and move things into the front room so we can start the nursery. We are starting early so that we can go through things and get rid of stuff we don’t need. We have a really big pile in the garage already of stuff to get rid of. We are thinking of having a garage sale sometime in the next couple of months. After we go through more things.

Our neighbors pulled up their hedges in front of their house, so we got some new hedges and put them in our yard. We are waiting to see how they handle the transfer before we go ahead and buy more to put on the other side of the walkway. It’s a continuous project. 🙂

   

Another project we have done lately has been to move the recycling from the garage into the backyard and get it organized. We were tired of having a big pile blocking a section of the garage, so Darrell built some containers we could put trash cans in so the wind won’t blow them all over the backyard. It turned out really well.

  

We still have a couple projects we want to get done in the next month. We want to get the patio expanded so we have more space outside to hang out in. We are going to get that done as soon as we get our tax refund. Another project is to dig out and finish the second garden bed. We haven’t done anything with it since we went through the cable line last year. We want to finish that because we have heard it should be a good summer (not to hot) and so we are hoping for an awesome veggie abundance. Unlike last year where everything flowered, but nothing actually came of it.

As for baby, things have been going good. We have had a midwife appointment and another doctors appointment since the last post. Because we have the midwife and doctor, even though we only see each one once a month, we have them on opposite schedules so we see at least one of them every two weeks. At each of the last appointments, Pixel has been measuring right on schedule and has a heartbeat around 150 bpm. Everything is looking good so far. I have only gained about 10 pounds since the beginning of the drugs for the IUI cycle. I have finally grown out of my pants. Instead of purchasing Maternity clothes, we just went out and bought some dresses that will give me room for a growing tummy. I still fit into one pair of capris, but it has been to cold in the mornings to wear them. In the afternoon it has been warming up enough, but we still have occasional days where it is to cold all day.

   

<– Week 6 / Week 17 –>

I had really bad morning sickness from week 12-14. I could eat anything, but nothing seemed to want to stay down. It was bad. But since week 14, I have been fine. The flu went around the school district and many of my co-workers got sick and had to go get antibiotics. I got a small version, but mine wasn’t nearly as bad. I was just groggy and sleepy for 36 hours. However, I have been getting migraines off and on since then. It was about 4 days of full on migraines except when sleeping. Then it tapered off into just occasionally. I think it also had to do with the fact that we got some prescription prenatal samples from the doctor and the midwife said it would be okay if I mixed it up and took different ones occasionally. I took a different one right before I got sick and started getting all of the migraines. I stopped taking it and went back to my regular one and the migraines seem to be going away. Who knows exactly what it was.

We have had a thief in our house for the last week. Poleeko is being a little devil and I think he is trying to get a ton of attention. He keeps taking the hand towels from all over the house and storing them under the bed. We use to keep our closet open and had all the extra handtowels and rags on a shelf in there. One morning I went in there and there wasn’t a single one left. They were all in a pile under the bed along with a stuffed animal from my mantle (no idea how he got that one). We are at our wit’s end trying to figure out what to do. We are about ready to find a ribbon and tie a towel to his tail so he has one with him constantly.

That is about all that is going on in our neck of the woods. I have 12 more weeks until summer break which I am looking forward to! Granted next week is spring break, but summer break is better. 🙂

~S

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