Three Weeks Left...

I don't know if I will ever keep up with this whole blogging thing, but it's nice every once in a while to put it out there what's going on in my life. So here is my four months later check in. lol

I start my 37th week of pregnancy today! I truly can not believe how fast time has gone. I thought it might fly by a little, but had no idea it would go this fast. Friday, I have my last sonogram before we get to meet our little buddy. Oh yeah, for you all who don't know, it's a boy! Our little buddy is due June 6th and we just can not wait!! We decided to tell our Mom's for Mother's Day that we would like for them to join Dan and I for our appointment. I know how excited they are, so it should be a lot of fun.

Currently, the doctor has me out of work until baby arrives. About two and a half weeks ago, while at work I began to have preterm labor contractions so the doctor thought it best that I take it easy and we try and keep little guy in there as long as we can. So I'm trying to obey doctor's orders and take it easy, but oh is it so hard! I'm in "Nesting" mode now and all I want to do is get everything together and perfect for when he arrives. So laying around and doing very little is just not me, but I'm trying!

The baby's room is coming along. We have the crib and dresser up; we now just need to fill the room with lots of goodies and finish putting the closet together. I'll have to do another post of the baby's room once all finished. It looks so good and we're extremely excited about how the room is turning out! Big thanks to my Momma because she did all the painting. She's pretty fabulous!! :)

Here is our little guy at 20 weeks!

Long Time Over Due...

 So, I haven't made a post in a very long time, BUT I've had some exciting new changes in my life that have had me a little distracted along with the holidays we just had. Well, we found out early October that we are expecting a little bundle of joy this June! We coulnd't be more excited and thrilled. I've been so distracted by the holidays and all this exciting news that this poor blog took a back seat for a while.

But I'm back and ready to keep you all posted on my life and all these exciting changes that we are about to experience and all the fun things we are currently going through. Now that it is a new year I can't wait to get started on all this baby planning. First things first, I have my sonogram on Thursday! This is espcially exciting because we haven't had a sonogram since I was 6 weeks along and our peanut was literally the size of a peanut, if that! So it's going to be very neat to actually see a baby in there! lol We'll also be able to find out the sex of the baby, if we decide too. Though, I'm pretty sure we have decided to wait and be surprised. I know it's going to be hard when we are there and they are giving us the choice to find out, but I think it might be a little extra special to wait. So we shall see.

So I'll keep you all updated and check back on Thursday once we have the appointment to let you all know how everything went. I just can't freakin' wait!! YAY!

Our little random adventure...

Last Saturday, Dan and I didn't really have anything planned for the day or anything we really had to do. We ended up deciding to go for a drive since it was a nice weather day, and we thought we'll just see where it leads us. We just drove around town for a little while, and then the next thing I know we are in PA. By now it's completely dark outside and I begin to ask Dan if he has any intention of turning around soon since we have no clue where we are or at least stop so I can eat dinner. We end up finding a Cracker Barrel and decide to stop there. I thought this would be fun because I hadn't been since I was a child when my grandmother would always take us.

I forgot how much I use to like going there because as soon as you walk in it's like a little gift shop. It has all the cool children's toys I use to love playing with, and different Holiday decorations for all my favorite Holidays. So to say the least, I had so much fun looking and shopping around. I bought a cute little Halloween decoration that I can't wait to put out and a cute gift for someone I know. I hope they like it. Dan and I were like big kids. Taking pictures wearing funny hats, and playing with some old school favorite toys of ours.

Once we were done goofing around, we finally were ready to sit down and eat. By then it was already 9:30 so not to many people were there. I kind of liked it this way. Of course they have that famous game of theirs that they keep at each table. I honestly can't recall the name of the game though. I couldn't even remember at the time when we were playing. I even tried looking on the back of the game to see what it was called and it's something that I would have never guessed. Some weird long name. Anyways, of course we had to take turns trying to out do one another. You know, just your friendly husband and wife competition. We are definitely both competitive and hate losing. Well, I only hate losing to him (hehe).  

So the food was definitely yummy and I couldn't believe that after two dinner meals, endless amounts of sweet peach tea and dessert, are bill only came to $19.99! I thought that was pretty cheap. I will definitely have to make a few more trips back there more often. We both enjoyed it a lot.

Making his move

Our Dinner

Yummy Dessert

Don't mess with me

Who doesn't love slinkys??

Loved our Hats...

My farmer boy

Ravens Game

Friday night we got to go to the Ravens first preseason home game. Luckily, it turned out to be a nice night because trying to get there was hell. The weather went from looking ugly to being extremely horrible. Water was everywhere, coming down as hard as it could and all I could stress about was that we were on our way to watch a game in this kind of weather. For all I knew the game might be cancelled or delayed. Somehow though the sky managed not to open up over top of the stadium and once we got there we were in the clear and it was GAME TIME!

We started out seating literally the third throw down from the very top of the stadium and I realized two very important things that night. First thing was that I might be skinny, but I am extremely out of shape. I felt like I was going to die once we finally made it up all those stairs to the very top. Second thing was once we sat in our seats and I looked down to realize how high we really were,  I went straight in to a panic attack. No joke! I'm talking, teary eyes, throat closing, feeling like I'm about to take a horrible tumble down all these seats and plunge to my death. Way scarier then I could have imagined. Never realized I was that scared of heights. Now I know, and I don't know if I can truly go to another game where I sit that high.

It all worked out though because the people we were with had friends down in section 125 (which is pretty close to the field) and we moved are little butts down there fast. My time there was great after that. I could see all the players faces and every play. I've never been to a game where I've sat that close before so it was pretty awesome. We ended up having a great time!

Our actual seats...it seemed way scarier then the picture looks

Our new view

I loved it

These were the cutest little boys that came out to play during halftime

Family Time

Tuesday night I went over my Mothers house to see my niece, Ryleigh Belle. She is getting so big now and I feel like I am missing everything. The last time I saw her she was starting to stand, and now she is full on walking everywhere! She is such a little sweetie pie. We had ourselves a little fun on the trampoline. She laughs so hard and finds it so funny to jump around on it. I can't get enough of her cuteness!

Since Tuesday was also the anniversary dealth of Elvis, and my sister just so happened to be wearing a t-shirt with a picture of Elvis (not on purpose) we had to have a little photo shoot. I even made her (try to) do the Elvis move.

Strike a pose

Work it Girl

Sunday Funday

I have a little brother, Nick who is 7 years old (yes, we are 18 years apart, crazy). I don't get to see him as much as I would like to or should so we planned a play day for Sunday.

Sunday, started off with Dan and I going to a local pizza place, Pizza John's, before heading to get Nick. I only expected to grab a slice of pizza and be on our way. Dan buys a large pizza for just the two of us to sit down and eat. Wow, he must really think I can put some pizza away. I must have thought the same thing because I sure tried too! Their pizza is extremely yummy and definitely one of my local favorites, but it is such a greasy pizza that I instantly feel sick.  How wonderful, I am about to go pick up my brother and I feel disgusting (I'll spare you the gross details).

We finally pick up Nick and our first stop is another local favorite of mine, Baltimore Snowball Factory. They have some awesome snowballs. I just love the way they shave the ice and they load it with such great flavors! Once we finish enjoying our delicious snowballs we head to Dan's sister's home to pick up his Niece and Nephew. Our second stop was the playgroud at Cowenton Ridge Park, located in Perry Hall. They have a nice little playground there and it was great because it wasn't crowded at all. The kids all made instant friends with the other kids on the playground and seemed to be having lots of fun. So much fun in fact that Uncle Dan had to get in on the action. I always call Dan my "Big Kid." I can only imagine what it's going to be like when we have children of our own. I'm in trouble!  :-)

Yummy

 

 

Uncle Dan and the kids having fun

Boys will be Boys

Sling Shots, Black Eyes, Water Spouts...OHH MY

Saturday was suppose to be planned as a casual day of just the girls going out on our friend Chris' house boat for a nice, peaceful, and relaxing day. The husbands had a change of plans, so they ended up going with us. Okay, that works, couples boat trip it is! We didn't get off to a good start and we probably should have known things were only going to go south when Chris had to go buy a new battery for the boat. Once we were able to get the battery working and had the boat all gassed up, what would you know, it begins to POUR! Okay, no big deal. The rain will pass. They didn't say it was suppose to rain all day, right?!

We make it to our destination, Hart Miller's Island. Things are going fine and everyone is really enjoying themselves even Chris' dog Buffet was having a blast. A few hours and a few beer later the boys get a bright idea. Lets bring out the sling shot and start shooting beer cans from it to the guys out in the water. Maybe not the worst idea ever if it wasn't for the fact that one of the boys on the receiving end of that beer about to head his way at an extremely high rate of speed was my lovely husband. Poor guy didn't have a clue what was being thrown his way, and as he goes to reach for the "Football" (as he said it was) he misses and straight to the eye it goes. After this moment the day (for me at least) went to hell. I started to become slightly annoyed and the rain/ crappy weather wasn't helping my mood. We finally begin to head back to shore. We hit some heavy rain and it begins to look pretty ugly out. The next thing we know, Chris comes out of no where screaming "The back of the boat, look at the back of the boat!!" Okay, what else could go wrong today, I mean really? Well, we all head for the back of the boat and what would you know, a huge water spout is heading right for us! This thing was extremely scary looking and all I can think is "I am going to die on this god damn boat with a bunch of drunks and no one is going to even know how this happened!" Some of us headed to the back/bottom of the boat. Others thought it best to hang outside the boat and watch the many water spouts that (supposedly) kept forming around us.     

My girlfriend Mandy was the only smart one to grab a life jacket (well the dogs life jacket). So I began to envision us all going under and Mandy being the only one who would survive. I thought how she would go on to tell our story and they would make a Lifetime movie about us. So of course we had to discuss who would play us all. The crazy water spouts dissipate and we finally make it back, but not before going out with a bang and a save! So the boys one by one seem to be falling in to the water right at the peer we docked at. Our friend Chuck lost his glasses when he fell in. My sweet (drunk) husband decides to jump in to find them . I mean really, what are the odds of you finding his glasses at the bottom of that gross, muggy, nasty water? Well obviously the odds are good because sure enough Dan found them! It was a crazy, yet happy end to our fun filled rainy day. I some how managed to take no pictures this entire trip except the best one of all.

Ouch