New Pictures

I thought I would post a few pics of me at 25 weeks. I haven't taken pics in a couple of weeks and was blown away by how much I have grown. CRAZY! Also discovered last night a totally new craving... on top of the Nibs, Croissant donut things and Carmel Fraps from Starbucks I am craving these Apple Pear Hybrid type fruit.. so yummy and juicy. Have to stock up on more! At least the are better for me than the other three things right?

Back at Home

So been back home since last Thursday, hate being at work. It sucks, and I find myself feeling angry sometimes at my boss. I know that a lot of my friends and family read this blog but I just need to spit this out. My boss is the same age as my grampa when he passed, I sometimes find it hard to look at him and not be angry that he is here and grampa isn't. I don't get it, I understand that this is how life works and that my grampa is in a WAY better place with an awesome workshop for him to work in but it doesn't make it any easier. Man I miss him.
In other news I am feeling HUGE and the baby seems to be resting on the right side of my body. Yesterday evening we were sitting at friends house and all of the sudden it felt like a knife was being SHOVED in between my ribs. I started yelling pretty much until it finally went away. What an awful feeling, I have decided that this baby is a boy since I don't think a girl would do that to me. It seems as though this child is constantly shoving a hand up my ribs but has positioned itself so that it is no longer on my bladder. I honestly think that I will take the bladder kicks over the hand shoving.
14 weeks 6 days to go! Man I am excited to meet this malicious little child haha and see what kind of personality they will develop!

ps... i really want that mint 3 musketeers bar they showed on tv yesterday!

Hard Times

So I know it has been a while but things have been a little rough around the house, now before anyone jumps to conclusions everything with the pregnancy is going just fine. I feel great although not as mobile and the baby is really a mover and a shaker! He/she has taken to dancing on my bladder while shoving a hand up my ribs on the right side. Lovely.... and it feels even better!

As I said in an earlier blog I had a family member who was not doing so well health wise. My grampa had been going through some issues with his heart and therefore had to have open heart surgery, he had a quad bypass 17 years earlier and had been in amazing health since then, always strong and always willing to kick our butts if we sat in his chair! In the last couple of years his energy has declined so far that he would get out of breath just walking across the room. After many tests he was diagnosed with Pericarditus (not sure how to spell it) which is the lining around the heart that contains fluid to help lubricate the pumping of the heart. After his bypass he slowly developed scar tissue on this thin membrane which in turn constricts the pumping of the heart. This is why he was running low on energy. So the doctors decided to do open heart surgery to remove this membrane (an even riskier surgery than the bypass) so that his heart could expand and fully pump again. The surgery itself went very well but his heart did not expand after they removed the membrane. He passed away as my uncle said a couple of heart beats shy of valentines day. We were all at the hospital and were able to comfort each other. I have realized in these last couple of weeks that I truly come from a family of love, my grandparents love was/is true and pure, I can only hope to have a love like theirs! Every family has their struggles but watching mine come together was a gift. I am so thankful that I got to be a part of these last couple weeks both with my grampa and in the grief of losing him. My last memories of him are so sweet and I will cherish them always.

Well thanks for listening. I have posted a pic from our wedding of myself and K with my grandparents.

Feeling Large and in Charge!

Ok so feeling pretty large these past few days... this is going to be a quick post... prison break is on and I want to spend some time with K. Thought I would post a pic and inform everyone that I am now having some problems with coordination... getting in and out of K's truck is pretty comical as is getting off the couch. Went to the dr's today and the heart rate is now at 149 or 147 I can't remember which one but it has gone down.. and some would say that means boy!!! Which makes K's day!
Below I put a pic of me today, please pardon the horrible hair I had just finished blow drying it and it gets a little poofy! Hahaha!

Me at 22 weeks!!!