4 DAYS TO GO!!!!

Ok, I guess I'm so excited about the sonogram on Friday that I'm skipping days of the week. I could have sworn today was Wednesday!!! Geez... Can Friday just get here already!

I was wondering does everyone have horrible nightmares and bizarro dreams when their pregnant? I know I've read in all my pregnancy books that vivid dreams are common but horrifying nightmares that jolt you out of sleep, heart pounding and shaken up enough that it takes minutes for you to realize it was just a dream? And are the tears you launch into at that realization tears of relief or build up from the nightmare you just lived through in your sleep!?! That's the last time I'll eat Fried Chicken for dinner. Damn devil bird!!!

Speaking of Fried Chicken, I stopped into Brookshire's to get a few grocery items and saw a long line at the deli. My nose drew me that way and I discovered Fried Chicken was their deal of the day. The smell was enough to make me salivate and almost drool on myself and when I saw that box of crispy juiciness I couldn't resist. Of course in my pre-pregnancy days I would have went for the 8 piece mixed so I could feast on a large fried chicken breast and not feel so guilty because it was white meat. But since Big Daddy is a dark meat man I grabbed a box of Dark, Hot & Spicy and figured what the hell. So I rushed home did my 40 min pregnancy yoga DVD (which I love by the way) jumped in the shower and ran in the kitchen to make my plate. Fried Chicken, a salad with ranch and corn on the cob, YUMMY!!! About two bites into the chicken something wasn't feeling right. I thought to myself, the flavor is good what could be wrong. Then I realized OMG! eating this is making me wanna hurl! All of a sudden my mind filled with thoughts of chicken skin and flesh. I wanted to gag, but you know me I ate it anyway because A) I thought the visuals would go away and B) I was too lazy to make something else! =0) What the heck, I usually LOVE Fried Chicken. Should'a stuck with the white meat now I'm ruined for quite a while. Baby Jacob must have liked it though because he/she was doing some serious kickboxing last night.

This baby sure ain't shy about knocking the crap outta me. I get used as a punching bag atleast 5-10 times a day. I'm not complaining though, it's just reassurance everything is ok in there. =0)

Big Daddy told me yesterday to make a list of things he could do this weekend! Uh, what?!? Yes, ladies read that one again and envy me...=0) Of course that was followed by his statement of, "I wanna get everything done before football season starts." My husband and his sports, I swear he's an addict. Are most men like this? I think the NFL Network logo is emblazoned onto our TV screen. During football season he's planted in his chair, eyes glued to 52" of pure visual cocaine for him. Lord help me. He's already making plans to perch our little one on his lap and attempt to make him/her a fanatic too, boy or girl. They will experience the greatness of the Patriots!!!! Good thing my due date is on Super Bowl weekend. =0) Anyway, so the brain is turning... What can I add to this list? I hope he's not sorry he asked. I'm sure he meant things I can't do like painting and lifting/moving heavy objects. But I can't help but wonder, you'd think he notice if I slipped dishes and laundry on that list? Puh, what am I thinking. Of course he would!

Have a Blessed Day, Kim

Thrifty Decorating is HARD!!!!

Ok, so Big Daddy and I had our own little spray paint party yesterday! Although, he didn't seem half as excited about it as I was. I mean, are you kidding!?! I know what you're thinking spray painting and pregnant is a NO NO. That's why I lounged in a chair many feet away from the garage while Big Daddy most likely killed a few brain cells spray painting away in the garage. I know he's the greatest, Thanks Babe. I'd have to say, I wasn't as pleased with the Chalkboard spray paint as I thought I'd be. Of course it didn't help that I failed to read the directions and with my excitement uncontainable went ahead and scratched it with the chalk I was using. =0) I intended on writing new phrases on it for the holidays but I think I've ruined it. Curses... and I've decided that although Flat Black spray paint looks great on a metal rooster it does not look great on a frame or say, shelves. Is it supposed to have black soot on it when you're done? Ugh, so those items will be getting a once over with either glossy black or a glossy coat of clear. So my (our) first attempt at thrifty home decor didn't turn out as great as I planned. But hey, we're learning right?!?

(Pay no attention to our messy garage or to the decorated Xmas tree in the background. I was extremely lazy last Christmas. This was in the nursery until about two months ago. When my 5'2 mother decided to carry it through the house and out into the garage. Gotta love mom... muah!)

(See that chair on the far right. That would have been my spot. It seems kinda pointless but I could at least scream to Big Daddy ever once in a while to make sure he wasn't passed out from the fumes.)

We did do a tad bit of rearranging with the wall decor in the house too. I've decided I officially hate hanging things on the wall. I managed to knock two screws and those plastic screw anchor things into the wall. Yes, I said INTO the wall. Like I made a whole the size of the tip of my finger and they fell down into the wall. Big Daddy came in to find me almost in tears from frustration, trying to hold a 10 pound mirror up to the wall and a huge hole that I was desperately trying to hide before he saw it. Not so good. Of course his first question was, "Where's the level?" And of course my answer, "I don't know." It wasn't like I would have used it if I would have anyway, he should know by now I do everything the hard way! Uh, Duh! So he takes over and still with all his measuring the left corner is still lower than the right. So I wrapped tape around the nail to make it bigger and Wa'la... it's beautiful. Now I need opinions on my table top decor. I don't have much for decorations and tried to use what we had in the house. We tried painting one of the gold charger plates and well... that didn't turn out so well. So I was thinking about adding a big "J" for our last name to this one but is the gold just too much? Any suggestions? (Oh yeah, and please excuse the finger prints all over the mirror.)

Anyway... again not so good decorating weekend. We are doing a porch face lift. Add some plants, chairs and I'm going to tackle painting our U-G-L-Y brass light fixtures. So pics of that to come. Oh, and we may get the nursery fixed one of these days. Being that I'm already 5 months I guess we better get on the ball.

Our sonogram is Friday, I'm super excited. I feel confident it's a boy but Big Daddy seems to think we're going to get a surprise pink announcement. We'll see. Although I've been saying "He" for months now I hope if it is a girl I didn't give her a complex! =0)

Ok, and I'm being brave and posting a picture of me looking not so pretty. But I told you about my weekend so you can see why! I LITERALLY (this was not staged) had a craving for a pickle last night. So I go to the kitchen to fix dinner and have a pickle. And when I opened the freezer to get out the Turkey for dinner I saw the Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream (YUM!) and so then I wanted that. But I still wanted my pickle. So yes, I did it. I figure why not, I had pickles and Ice Cream. I almost thought my mind was playing tricks on me and then realized had I not REALLY wanted this I would most certainly throw up at the thought of it. And to my surprise, it wasn't bad. Sweet and Salty is never a bad combo!

PS. I've added some photos to my previous posts.

I told you I sucked at blogging...

OK so my goal for this weekend was to get the nursery cleaned out and post a before pic. Well... I got the nursery cleaned out...but I forgot the before pic. =0( Let's just say it took me ALL day Sunday and it involved moving a fully decorated 6.5 foot Christmas tree out of the room through two rather small door ways and a LONG hallway to the garage. Where it has found a resting place until this November where I'll drag it into the living room still erected, lighted and decorated and save myself the hassles of trying to reach around, bend and stoop to decorate a tree at 8 months pregnant! Ah... yes, you could say I'm lazy. But hey.. the room was empty last December and taking it all down just seemed like such a chore. =0) But anyway, I did purchase the paint for the nursery (Yellow Begonia... whatever) put have yet to get started painting. This weekend was full of half a*s projects. Where you start something realize you missing something and can't finish it. Gotta love it.

(Nursery AFTER cleaning. Yes, it was MUCH worse than this. As you can see on the left, I've already started buying diapers. I have to think BFF Andrea for that fantastic idea!)

Ok, this is going to sound really cheesy BUT I am stoked! I bought one of those inflatable family pools at Wally World that is just big enough for me to get my Shamu size rear on a floatie and maybe get some color on this Elmer's Glue colored skin I have. I mean come on, I gotta try something and don't they say tanned fat looks better than ghastly white fat?!? Of course I haven't got to try it out yet because we had a small flood at our house on Sunday and the water had to be turned off for the majority of the day. I was not a happy camper! I may attempt to get it up today since it's supposed to be as hot as the sun's surface here in Good 'ol Tejas the next couple of days.

BTW, go on over to my SIL's blog to get the recipe to the most delicious French Silk Pie you've ever tasted! It is to die for... Christy knows she ate the last piece sitting in the driver's seat of her car with it still running in my driveway! As Alexa stood over here drooling and hoping she'd share!

Have a Blessed Day, Kim

Showing off a little bit...

Our Beautiful Bunch!

My two gorgeous children. I can't believe both my babies will be in High School this next school year, 17 yrs old and 14 yrs old. Just in time for us to start all over again. =0)

My beautiful neices. Yes, my sister and I have done it again and managed to have babies within a year or so of each other. 6 total grandkids by December for our parents! We're what I would offically call a large family.

Cutie Patootie, 4 months old

Kenz, 8 years old

KK, 13 yrs old

And my incredibly handsome nephews whom I miss so much that are in FL. Two of the sweetest, most polite boys you'll ever meet. Muah!!

Big Boy, 4 yrs old

Little Man, 3 yrs old

Ok, so I'm not a great blogger

I don't post often. Ok, so I've only posted once =0/ But I'm going to try to do much better. I guess my life just isn't that interesting but boy is it about to be! Well maybe busy is a better word than interesting? Anywho... my goal for this weekend is to take a picture of the spare (soon to be nursery) bedroom in it's current state. Which I must say is quite embarassing (just wait till you see the pictures and you'll see why) ever heard the saying Christmas in July? I figure since I'm starting my second trimester and between my wonderful family and friends I have accumulated quite a bit of stuff that needs to start to come together to form what will Baby Jacob's room. Not to mention since I discovered Thrifty Decor Chick's Blog (Thanks Sharon) I've been transformed into one man's trash is another man's treasure woman and have a few projects I need to tackle for the nursery. I figure I'd be held accountable if I put it out there for all to see. I'll also attempt to get the sono from 12 weeks up so y'all can see Baby Jacob. (Side Note: I would love to abbreviate names and stuff like all my fellow bloggers do except I think there is just something a little not right about using "BJ" for Baby Jacob. Or is that just my twisted mind? )



On a completely different subject, I have been craving Taco Bueno Bean Burritos daily for the past few weeks. And I must admit I have indulged myself on a few occasions. Well after yesterday, No Mas! I decided to check the nutritional information on the Internet. Mostly because my last craving hit at 3 am and I wanted to know what I'd be feasting on at such a late hour when I sent my husband out for a fix. To my dismay I determined my beloved simple bean burrito contained 604 CALORIES!!! Ruined my whole day... I'm one of those people that will never eat it again. I mean I haven't touched fettuccine Alfredo since I found out MANY years ago that Olive Garden's Fettuccine Alfredo had 97 grams of fat. Good thing Whataburger's whatachickn' is a slightly better option and my second most desirable food craving. =0)



But for now I ate too much trail mix and feel like I'm about to pass into diabetic coma so I'm going to find the nearest bathroom so when I do I'll land on dirty cold tile instead of dirty carpet.



Have a Blessed Day!

Monday... blahhhh

Monday, I just hate that word about as much as I hate the sound of an alarm clock. It marks the start of what usually is a very long week. I wonder will there ever be a time I don't dread Monday. I doubt it.

It's Administrative Professional's Day.. Yippiee.. As a treat from work all administrative employees were allowed to wear jeans today (our dress is usually business casual) and it's typically an exciting day because jeans are so much more comfortable than slacks. That is unless your wedged into them like I am at the moment and praying the tummy sleeve you shouldn't have to be wearing at 6 weeks pregnant doesn't roll up and expose your half zipped pants =0/ Ugh... Anyhow, I pull into the parking garage this morning and a shiny silver convertible BMW whips in 3 parking spaces down. Out bounds a tall, slender attractive 30ish female wearing a adorable black dress and cute strappy heels. I'm sitting in the driver's seat of my 2000 Gold Taurus with the dented driver's side door as she strides past my car and I think to myself.. She must not be an administrative professional. And then I had a realization... by wearing jeans am I advertising I'm part of the lower end of the totem pole? Should I dress to the nines on Admin Day so to not be so obvious? Good grief... why couldn't I thought about this before I left the house!?!

We are also having Strawberry Shortcake and prizes downstairs in the cafeteria this afternoon. Any other day I would REALLY enjoy that except Baby Jacob decided yesterday to curse me with "sour stomach 24 hr sickness" and anything that appears to be food (other than a cracker) makes me wanna run for the nearest trash can. Maybe I'll when a prize? Like a gift certificate or something. Then I can go buy some of those beautiful stretch top maternity jeans that aren't even made of real denim. I guess I could go buy some Maternity Designer jeans but I don't drive a shiny BMW so that ain't happening. Do they even make maternity clothes for women who are 6 weeks pregnant? Oh hell... what does it matter 6 weeks is what the calendar says, my stomach size screams 6 MONTHS! Wow... ain't I just a ball of sunshine today! Tommorow is a new day... let's hope for the best...

Have a Blessed Day, Me