working hard or hardly working?

On Thursday this week we had 17 tons of dirt delivered to our yard. It didn't look like quite as much as I was expecting but it is still tons of dirt. We plan on using it to fill in around the house and hopefully stop the basement from leaking. So now between rain storms Andy is working hard trying to get all of the dirt moved so we won't annoy the neighbors with a huge dirt our yard. I am on the disabled list so I didn't help much today. I did get a few flowers planted in pots. I don't really know what I am doing. And I do wish I would have picked a different type of flower, not that I even know what I picked I just thought they looked nice at first, but I guess I will know better next year. Maybe once they grow they will look a little better. So I ran to Walmart after I was done and didn't bother to clean up. I did put a clean shirt on, but it's Walmart, so no need to go all out. When I got home I realized I had a huge dirt streak up my neck. A little embarrassing but I probably fit right in.

Graduation Season

Last weekend we went to my cousins' ranch in Kansas for their graduation. My family was also there so it was fun to see them and I know they want to see how my shape is changing. It was a fast weekend we drove down on Saturday and back on Sunday at least we like rode trips. This weekend we drove out to my a different cousin's graduation party and stayed the night at my Grandma's house. I however did not get any pictures from the 2nd graduation weekend.

Me with the graduates Tristin and Chelsy

Me with my little sister and brother Melissa and Ryan. We are only missing Rachel, she couldn't make it.

my lovely lady lumps

It has begun. I was at McDonalds last week and the cashier was a real happy bubbly lady and she looked at my belly and asked “What can I get you lady lump?” Hmmm… lady lump that’s a new one, I am sure I will hear many more things like that. It’s kind of entertaining. There are of course the people I work with every day that still haven’t noticed or at least are too scared to say anything, which is fine too. It all depends on what I am wearing.

Let the count down begin

We are leaving in 3 weeks from tomorrow for Nicaragua!! We are staying in a nice resort and it's going to be so fun! Not much time to write this morning but I knew you were dying to know. Thanks for all the guesses some of them were close, but who would have thought Nicaragua and in case you were wondering my OB thought it was really cool that we were going there and said one of the other Dr's goes down there all the time and loves it!!

Drum Roll Please...

We have booked our long awaited vacation!! Just where you might ask? Try to guess. I will give you some clues and the winner can have the satisfaction of knowing they won. If you already know don't ruin the surprise.

It is somewhere I have never mentioned wanting to go

In fact I never knew I even wanted to go there

Not a common place to go on vacation

It is warm and tropical

Beaches, volcanoes, rain forest, mountains, monkeys

four-five star all inclusive resort

Stimulus package almost covers it!!

South of the U.S.

Same as Mountain Standard Time Zone

Any Ideas?

Good Samaritan?

I went to the mall this week and as I was getting out of the car this lady was trying to flag me down from across the row. She was much taller than me and I am 5’8” and just a sturdy looking gal, at first I was going to pretend I didn’t hear her and keep walking but she was persistent. As she was walking up to me she told me her name was Caitlin which isn’t common for someone who seems to be in their 40’s, but what ever and she was telling me that she was so so embarrassed to ask but she really need help and seemed a little frazzled. She said she needed like 4 dollars because she ran out of gas she had to take her daughter to the mall and she was trying to get back to work, and she kept saying she was “so embarrassed” to have to ask, and she would mail it back to me and kept rambling. I was still feeling nervous- I mean I would love to help someone but I was by myself, and because of my back I was not feeling real strong on my feet at the moment if I needed to be. I just kept holding my purse closer as she approached, and I did unzip it to start to look because for most of the week I did have a couple of dollars just hanging out in there, still nervous, I remembered that I had spent my last dollar on a bag of Honey BBQ Fritos that my stomach had been regretting all afternoon. So I stopped looking and told her I was sorry and I didn’t have any cash I spent my last dollar on a bag of chips that I regretted buying. She was ok with that answer and walked on across to the bus stop?
That is seriously one of the oldest tricks in the book, it could be legitimate and I feel bad if was, but how do I know it was legitimate and I wasn’t really up for any funny business.
And really almost everyone has credit cards anymore, so couldn’t she have used a credit card? Well, if she really did indeed need some help I hope she found it. I guess I wasn’t a good Samaritan this week.

movement

I know, I know I missed my weekly Thursday update. I spent the evening with one of my good friends and mother of little Ruby. She fed me dinner, we chatted, took care of the girls and enjoyed ourselves. It was a fun way to spend the evening!
My back is doing much better. Melissa's comment on my last post made me laugh so hard I almost injured my back further. I am really surprised and very grateful at how fast it is healing up. I thought for a few days I was going to be miserable the rest of my life, maybe a little melodramatic but hey I have pregnancy hormones.
I had my 4 month check up on Monday, everything looks good. I thought that I was going to have a follow-up ultrasound but they are going to wait a few more weeks. We don’t plan on finding out girl/boy. I think it will be fun to have a surprise in a few months.

One of the things I was really looking forward to in pregnancy was feeling the baby move. It was most discouraging to me to think if we were never able to have children that would be one thing I would miss out on. I am disappointed however that I can’t mark the day that I first felt the baby move. It's quite possible it was a month ago, but it was so brief and never repeated, that I just don’t know. I know during church on Mothers day I most definitely felt some movement, and one day this week the baby and I both decided my pants were getting way to tight and I felt a lot of bouncing around in there. It’s a nice feeling-- the baby moving not the too tight pants. It’s still so hard to believe that I am actually pregnant and I will in fact have a baby to hold in just a few months. I am getting so excited!
We have a busy weekend planned, I think it’s going to be a fun one!