More for me...

So I am creating a little survey of sorts that I am going to try to post each week, it's more for me so I can remember how i was doing and feeling throughout my pregnancy...but first lets start with some important dates I want to remember...

Found out we were pregnant: Dec. 14, 2009
First OB Appointment: January 13, 2010
First Ultrasound: January 20, 2010 (Ben's Birthday!)
Gender Ultrasound: March 9, 2010

I'm very much a worrier so I can't wait until my appointments to hear the heartbeat and know everything is ok. If I could go every week just to hear that I would be so happy :) Yeah, I'm crazy...now for this little survey (that I'm going to create because I can't find the blog I saw it on once...)

How far along are you today?: 16w5d
How have you been feeling this week?: Good, still going to bed early but I really think that's because of what time I get up. Had a few time where I got nausous because of food. THought that was supposed to be over??
Any morning sickness?: Nope
Gender prediction (if you don't know yet): I think girl, everyone in our families thinks boy
Food cravings?: Nothing really, I crave sundaes with whip cream a lot but I have yet to get one...
Food dislikes?: Ground beef, except in very certain things (burger from Swensons and taco bell chalupas)
Smells dislikes?: Food cooking - which is not good for my husband lol. I just can't stand the smell!!

Maybe I will add more questions as I think of them but that's all for now...

Next weekend is Melanie's shower. Came up pretty quick, seems like just yesterday she told us she was pregnant and now she is due in about 6 weeks. Crazy to think! Then I should be about 4 months behind here with our little one.

Not much else going on, Ben's work has been a little crazy. His manager got fired the other day and I thought Ben was pretty much in for the position but now I am not so sure. Which sucks because it would have been a substational raise, and he makes so little now, anything would help. They ahven't even given him the assistant manager position yet - he's still in the trial period. So now raise there yet. It just sucks. We will see though what hapepns. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he gets it even though he hasn't been there long.

My computer is broke right now so hopefully my mom can get it fixed. Not sure what is wrong with it! It just freezes up for some reason and won't get unstuck. Nothing I do helped so I'm borrowing my mom's laptop while she tries to fix mine. I really hope we don't have to spend the money to take it in to get fixed!

We get our bonus at work next week and I'm very excited because I ordered a new camera! Mine right now works fine but my sister got a new one and I liked it so much that i just had to get it! And the price was only $120 after tax...and it's blue :) I love blue! It's a pretty good step up from my current camera - my current is 8.2 megapixels and 3x zoom, the new one is 12.2 mp and 5x zoom. So I'm pretty happy with that for the price. Just have to wiat for it to be shipped to the store - I did that so I didn't have ot pay for shipping! But it's saying it could be Feb 24-Mar 2 before it arrives at my store. That seems like a bit long! So hopefully it won't be that long but we will see...

I think that's all my updates for now! Have a great Valentines Day!

Thanksgiving Plans

So for Thanksgiving we are going to Ben's Grandpa's house. Normally we would go to his other side of the family but too much drama lately and I don't think anyone is really having it. His aunt that lives across the street is having his grandparents over so we might go up there for a minute and say hi. I'm very excited for Turkey though...I don't make Turkey at I think. Ever. So having Turkey now is even better! :) It was a quick week though because I only work two days then I'm off for five! Very nice and everyone is jealous. I have little doubt that I will actually accomplish anything. I might try to get our Christmas Tree up but see as I have no idea where we are putting it since we rearranged our living room, I don't know what's going to happen. I might get it up, I might not. I really would like to. I am hoping Ben's mom doesn't bring out any of her Christmas stuff though because I really don't need any more stuff in the house nor do I want it. I know she has a bunch of stuff but I really don't want it out. So we will see!

As for other updates, not much else going on. Just working. I worked a little over the weekend and I might come in on Saturday to try to catch up on a few things. We will see. It would be so much easier if I could work from home on the things I needed to do. I could but of course I don't have a lap top so it's not that easy.

Mel and Brian and I went to the doctor on Monday and they are having a boy. Mel was pretty upset because her heart was so set on a girl but she seemed to get better with it as time went on. Brian was very excited that it was a boy (which we all knew he would be). But I think it doesn't really matter to them as long as the baby is healthy - Mel just wanted to buy dresses and bows :). But congrats to them!

Also, we found out this week that Ben's cousin Carmie Jo is pregnant. They leave in Kenmore so congrats to them also!

Well

I ended up going to see New Moon last night :) Me and Ben meet my sister, Amy, and her husband Matt at the movie theater in Macedonia which is a 30 minute drive for us! I went home and crashed for a bit then woke up and went up there. Total I got maybe 5 hours of sleep, I'm dragging already today. I wish I would have taken half a day! Oh well. It was worth it :) I'm glad I got to go and I think it was better then Twilight.

This weekend I hope will be relaxing...we are going to that seminar tonight at our church from 7-9:30 and then I will probably come home and go straight to bed. I might do some cleaning and laundry this weekend. I have a few books to read so hopefully I will get through those and all my DVR'd shows that I Haven't gotten to! I might have to come in to work for a while but we will see!

Monday is Mel and Brian's appt to find out what they are having, she asked me last night if I wanted to go. Well she kind of said that she already thought I was. Which confused me because she didn't really want me to go last time we talked about it, she wanted it to just be her and Brian. Oh well. So I guess I'm going. One of them will be upset though because she wants a girl and he wants a boy.

New Moon

I am really tempted to go see this tonight at midnight. I'm sure everywhere is sold out by now though or else I probably would try to go see it. We are going to an "Investing in Your Marriage" thing at our church tomorrow night and then we might go see it after that. Or we will go Saturday night. Not sure yet. I'm very excited about it though and can't wait to see it :)

Ben's mom didn't hear anything back on the jobs she applied for yet. She called a few places yesterday that she applied at but still nothing. Keeping my fingers crossed for her! We will see what happens.

Melanie and Brian find out what they are having on Monday. We will see what happens with this. She wants a girl and he wants a boy.

How time flys!

Wow I can't believe it's been almost a month sinceI wrote on here...so many things have been going on!

Work is still insane. I'm working on my days off usually right now but the overtime is nice so I don't mind. Plus it's less of a mess that I come in to the next day.

My birthday was Sept 11, I will probably do another post about this. It was a great night and all of our friends were there! I was happy to have everyone around :) I will do another post with details and pictures!

Sept 12 my cousin Ryan got married to Kelly. That will probably be another post as well. It was a good wedding - but more on that later as well!

On Sept 18th we celebrated Liz's birthday. Probably another post also, or I will put it with my birthday post. They went to dinner but we didn't go because we don't have the money right now. Then it was an interesting night but it was a good time!

I've been going to all of Mel's appointments with her. She just had one this past Monday (I forgot to take a picture of her but I think I will get one tonight!). She was 12 weeks on Tuesday I believe. She is doing better, not as sick but feeling very tired.

My mother in law will be here in about 4 or 5 weeks to stay with us. Her boyfriend will go back to Arizona and stay at the house there until it is sold. The only thing I am not happy about is her dog coming. I don't need another dog in this house, it's already bad enough. Plus she is a small dog so I'm afraid mine will trample her. We will see how she does with Duke. He doesn't do well with other dogs that he doesn't know. So we will see! I will be grateful for the help his mom will provide financially though. That will be a nice break! Plus she likes to cook and clean so that will help out also.

Work has been crazy and hasn't slowed down at all. I really think it's getting worse, which I expected but it's just insane. Plus it's the time of year when people are out sick so I'm constantly worrying about getting sick!

As far as my weight loss, I'm down about 22 lbs from where I started. But from my highest it's around 27 lbs. It sucks though becuase most of my clothes don't fit, well my pants for work at least, and we really don't have the money to buy any more. Maybe one day...

Other then that, not much else has been going on. I come home, make dinner, and go to sleep most nights. On the weekends I clean and do laundry. Not much time for anything else at this point!!

I will try to keep this thing better updated, at least for myself because I don't think anyone really reads this. I want to keep track of things better though so I will try!

I'm home!

Well I've been home for a few weeks now, I've just been really busy! The trip went really well, minus the traveling! It was a nightmare - 4 out of 4 flight delays and my exhaust fell off my car on the way home from the airport! I

It was really hot and humid while we were there but it was beautiful. We were just a few blocks from the Alamo so that was neat to go down and visit that. The Riverwalk was just below the hotel and had plenty to choose from for restaurants and shopping so we had a good time exploring that. We had dinner Wednesday night with one of the people from Cardinal who we work very close with and all of our sellers. Thursday night we had dinner with all of our sellers at The Fig Tree which was along the Riverwalk. It was wonderful! I tried foie gras for the first time - YUCK! But at least I tried it. So many good memories form that night. We all got pretty drunk and topped dinner off with a flaming desert. And we topped the night off with a night cap shot - Sex on the Beach! See my pictures on facebook or myspace from the trip!

In other news, I'm still around 20 lbs for my weight loss but I haven't really been working on it all that much. I've just kind of been slacking and eating whatever. I need to get back on board though because I would like to lose another 10-15. But at least I'm staying the same and not gaining.

I went to Melanie's first doctors appt with her last week on Weds. She is too funny! She was so scared about everything! But she got through it and I think she is much better now that she has seen the doctor. Next Monday is her first ultrasound too and since i'm off I get to go with her so I'm super excited for that. I know this sounds mean but I hope we are the only two who are going.I think that would be a fun thing for me and her to share together. But we will see. I know her mom is not able to make it but she did invite Liz. I don't know if she will have the day off but she has been having a lot of Mondays off lately so maybe.

Ben is gone this weekend at the farm. All four of the boys (Ben, Brian, Kyle and Rob) went down to Ben's grandpa's farm - the one we were at for fourth of July. I'm glad they were able to pull it together because I know they have been wanting to get down there for a while together. So me and Melanie hung out last night. We had a good time - went to dinner and then to the mall to look at the Motherhood store that has maternity clothes in it. She just wanted to look around to see what they had. She doesn't need anything quite yet but she does feel like she is busting out of the clothes she has. She told me last night that she really finally "feels" pregnant and not just has a slight pouch. I'm just working on cleaning around the house though and doing laundry while Ben is gone. I'm off tomorrow and Tuesday since I still get a day off from work becuase of my 4 ten's so it should be interesting. So this week at work should fly and then Friday is my birthday so I'm excited for that! I don't know what we are going to do but I want to at least go to dinner then maybe everyone can just come back here to hang out afterwards.

We did find out that Ben's mom, Sue, will be coming home the first week of Novemeber. That's what she says now but we will see when the time comes. I do think she will come back but I just don't know how everything will work. I think she will be fine if she gets a job and gets into a routine and just doens't sit around the house all day. I am worried though because she will be pretty much staying with us until the house sells in Arizona and what if me and Ben want to try to start having a abby. Not sure how possible that will be with her here. I know we can find ways but still. It's just not as simple. But who knows when that will be, I was hoping for the end of this year/beginning of next year but we will see! :)

Congrats Melanie and Brian!

They found out last night that they are pregnant with their first baby - exactly one week after their 5 year anniversary. Congrats to them!! Here is a pic from Saturday (their anniversary party). Funny that she was pregnant and she didn't even know it yet!