Announcement!!

Hello my loved ones. Now, this is one post I have been purposely putting off and therefore I do not consider it procrastinating. There is an actual reason why I haven't posted sooner, so I know you'll all forgive me, as you have done in the past :) This last week has been a bit of a rough one for me physically. Between being fairly nausiated to having a terrible cold, I've been verging on miserable, but I think I see a light at the end of the tunnel. At least for the cold. The nausia, on the other hand, may be here to stay for a while longer. Yes, it is morning sickness. I had my first doctors appointment yesterday and got to hear the heartbeat, but because I'm seeing a midwife this time, I don't think I'll be getting ultrasounds unless I or the baby need one to make sure everything is alright. The heartbeat is about 164 bpm and I'm around 8 or 9 weeks, which puts me due in early May. Knowing me and how my other babies have been, I have no illusions that this one will be on time or early, so I'll probably end up with either an anniversary baby (our anniversary is the 12th) or a birthday that he/she gets to share with an uncle and a cousin on the 10th. Obviously I'm hoping for a girl, but I think I might come to terms eventually if it turns out to be a boy. At least we have all the stuff already, but I'm a bit girl crazy right now. I need a bit more pink and purple and a few more ruffles in my life. I'm craving red meat all day and Jeff thinks I may be slightly anemic. My bp was lower than it normally is, 90/60 rather than 120/70, but that could be because I've been so sick with this darn cold. So far my nausia hasn't been too bad, but this cold has been overpowering any affects it has had, but now that the cold is starting to subside some, my stomach is churning. Whether it is still the grossness from the cold or something else, only time will tell. I'll try and keep you updated with all that is going on. Good luck and keep safe. I love you all.

Home again...

Once again we've just returned from a wonderful trip to Montana, although it seems we took the bad weather with us only to bring it back to Washington again. The weekend was supposed to be the perfect temp, highs in the 80's, lows in the 70's, but instead I don't think it got above 65 the entire time we were there. Thank goodness we didn't actually go camping, even though we slept in my parent's 5th wheel. Despite the chill, I think we all enjoyed ourselves.

Jackson was outside as much as I allowed him to be, which was pretty much all day every day except Sunday. I got a call from my brother one of those days asking if I knew where Jackson's shoes were. Apparently he'd wandered down to the shop in his socks even though I'd just told him to put his shoes on before he went back out. Silly boy. Even though it was pretty muddy, his socks weren't in too bad of shape. A little dirty, but not completely ruined as I expected.

Jeff was out with the guys doing target practice or trying to help where he could. I rarely saw him any time other than first thing in the morning, when it was time to eat and when the rest of the guys came in for the night. I'm so glad I packed some grungy-er clothes for him because he got filthy doing all his manly-man things.

Owen entertained himself chasing my mom's chi-weiner(dachound/chihuahua, but mostly a wuss) around the house and giggling. Oh and he got into EVERYTHING! I cannot even begin to tell you how many times I found him behind my dad's recliner with a pile of movies and a portable dvd player he'd found, trying to watch a movie, yet when we'd put one in for him, he'd be off to do something new in 10 seconds. What a silly little boy. And so busy!

I mostly just hung out with the girls, attempting to help with whatever needed done around the house, or with the many quilt projects that were going on or sneaking in a few minutes of uninterrupted reading. I finished to book I started the last time we were there and figured out what I'm going to do for Owen's quilt. I was even able to raid my mom's fabric stash for some fabric that will hopefully work with what I already have.

We had the camera with us, but my mind has been a jumble of too many things that I need to get done, and because I somehow become the offical photagrapher when we go anywhere, it was only taken out once or twice. I hoped we would be able to get some family pictures done, but because Jeff was gross the whole time and it was either windy, rainy or just plain cold until the last day we were there, we never got the chance to. It didn't help that I planned for warm weather and we ran out of long pants for the boys to wear and all the had left were shorts. At least we had some long pants so Jackson could play to his hearts content. We are all happy to be home now, but we seem to have brought a bug home with us. Poor Owen has a runny nose and sore throat and is just feeling yucky and I'm heading in the same direction. Yuck. Anyways, I hope you all had a wonderful Labor Day weekend too! Till next time :)