When I found out that the Bears game on New Years eve was changed from noon to 7, and all kinds of people were trying to get rid of their tickets, I thought it would be the perfect time to go! It will be the last chance that Ryan and I have to go out before the baby gets here and Alex is always looking for an excuse to stay at grandma’s. Not to mention Ryan and I both have off work so this could totally work out! I started looking into it, but when I talked to Ryan about it, he didn’t seem interested. Yes- the same guy who said he would miss the birth of our child instead of missing the Bears game! So I think that he either has something up his sleeve planned for New Years or he has gone crazy. I did mention to him what the tickets were going for on eBay, but then he said that he saw some for a different price. I asked him why he was looking into it if he didn’t want to go, but he just kind of shrugged it off. Maybe he already has tickets for us and HE is surprising me? We will have to see. Who knows.

Oh- for those of you who didn’t know, I got Alex and Ryan a puppy for Christmas!!! They LOVE her and were both SO surprised!!! She is a cutie-pie! She is 9 weeks old- a black lab. I am hoping she turns out as good as Aspen- wish me luck! We let Alex name her- she picked “JINGLE BELL” since we got her on Christmas. So we are calling her Bell. I tried to post a picture, but stupid blogger won't let me.

Da Bears and Babies

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! Ours was great this year. It was nice having it over a weekend like it was.

So during our Christmas festivities, it occurred to Ryan that my due date is Feb 4th- Super Bowl Sunday. With the Bears running a very good chance at being in the Super Bowl this year- he informed me that he is NOT going to miss the game. If I am giving birth at that point- I am on my own! He said maybe we should have the midwives induce me a few days early so we don’t have to miss the game! Great solution- I am sure that is a perfectly acceptable medical reason to induce someone early. I told him there are TV’s right in the delivery room (I remember watching Survivor while I was in labor with Alex!) but he said he didn’t want to be “distracted” by the birth while watching the game. Now I know he is just kidding around and truth be told- I don’t want to miss it either!!! So wish me luck that this baby comes a day after the or before the game, but NOT on my actual due date! I read somewhere that only like 15% of babies are actually born on their due dates, so I should be ok.

STAPLES

It’s the holidays so I don’t want to complain and be negative- this is more of a funny story than a negative one. Just more proof of how stupid people are. This woman today at work started ranting this morning about something. I asked her what was wrong, she said “It makes me SO mad that I always run out of staples RIGHT when I need to use one! UGH!” …this is followed by a sigh and an eye roll. Now let me as you- when the hell exactly do you use the stapler, but not actually NEED the staples in it? It made no sense- OBVIOUSLY it runs out when you need it- if you didn’t need it, you wouldn’t be using it and you wouldn’t know it was out! It’s the same as those people that tell when you are looking for something “Oh it will be in the last place you look” well no shit Sherlock- why would I keep looking for something after I have found it!

Anyways- I really am in a good mood and very Christmasy today! I can’t wait for this weekend. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas weekend and be safe out there- the weather is nasty!

Ok so here I have been thinking all this time that I am done Christmas shopping. Last night, out of the blue, it occurred to be that I totally and completely forgot Libbie! Libbie, my confirmation sponsor, my maid of honor, my daughters Godmother!!! FORGOT her completely!!!!! We grew up together, she spent entire summers living at our house and I can’t even remember to get her a gift this year! So I was one of those frantic last minute shoppers today scurrying around the mall hoping that something will pop out and me and say “I AM THE PERFECT GIFT FOR LIBBIE”. I did find stuff and a cute card as well, so all is well in the world again. Now I am just in panic mode though hoping I didn’t forget anyone else! I guess this year at least I can just blame it on pregnancy, but I really hope I didn’t forget anyone else! I am just glad I remembered her in time I guess.

Also- I think it’s going to be a small miracle if I don’t gain 15 pounds over the next week. Work is horrible! Everyone is bringing in cookies and caramels and candy…etc… PLUS all our vendors and accounts keep having stuff delivered. Meat and cheese trays, popcorn balls, cookies, cakes, candy, fruit baskets- you name it! There is SO much food around it’s hard not to nibble all day long. Wish me luck girls!

6 days to go!

It’s really getting close now. I feel like I did when I was a kid and it got this close to Christmas. I think you kind of lose that feeling, but get it back when you have kids at the age that THEY are really into Christmas. I am glad that Alex seems just as excited to be giving everyone else their presents as she is about getting them. Maybe it just seems that way through my rose color glasses, but I can only hope.
Ryan actually told me yesterday to stop making so many Christmas cookies! I am done shopping and wrapping and there is nothing left to do until this weekend now. So I have been baking cookies like crazy. Anyone watch Grey’s Anatomy? I am like Izzy with the muffins! I only plan on making 1 more kind until Christmas- then I am done- promise.

Not really much to say today, just wanted to post.
Hope you all had a great weekend.

Adding to the terror

Ok so if I wasn’t freaked out enough… the DAVENPORT police department called us last night! They said that there have been so many break ins that they were calling everyone in the neighborhood to warn them and give safety tips. They called about 30 minutes before Ryan had to lave for work so I was hysterical. So of course after I go through my 15 minute routine of making sure everything is locked up, I try to go to bed. I couldn’t sleep at all. At about 12:30, Millie started barking her head off! She went on and on for 25 minutes! I didn’t go down to check on things, I just kept hoping it was a bunny in the yard or something. So then at 2am, 3:45 am and 4:40 am she does it again. I know that it wasn’t someone trying to break in at each of those times, but needless to say I got about 2 hours sleep at best last night- if that. I almost hope that one of the times she went nuts it was these creeps trying to break in and Millie made them just check our house off the list and they moved on. I KNOW I am overly paranoid about this, but the fact that the PD called about it just sent me over the edge!

TERROR in DAVENPORT!

I am completely terrified and want to move now. I don’t know where too, but somewhere. There has been 2 girls not that have gotten their houses broken into at work.
These 2 girls both live within a mile of me. With me being at home alone at night since Ryan works nights I am scared to death and freaking out! I want to move to that neighborhood that never has break-ins! I realize that for 1, this is the time of the year with the highest crime rate, and 2- there is no perfect neighborhood that never gets broken into, but still!!! You guys would be laughing at me- I now go to bed with the front and back door lights on, a light on in the living room, kitchen, bathroom and 2 of our TV’s on. I also lock the loud baby gate on our stairs. The baby gate is so if someone is breaking in and trying to get me, them getting that baby gate unlocked will wake me up. I will at least have time to grab my baseball bat under the bed! Not that that is any match for a gun if they have one, but still. It makes me feel better. Now when Ryan is home, I don’t have a single light or TV on, nor do we even lock the damn doors. I don’t know why I think Ryan can save me against some lunatic with a gun, but for some reason I do!

So what did everyone do over the weekend? Anything fun?

I was a little worried that my weekend was going to be a nightmare, but it turned out fun! My parents came here to do some Christmas shopping. I am done- and try to get done by this time every year to avoid the crowds. They needed to go though. So the 5 of us (mom, dad, Alex, Ryan and I) piled into their tiny PT cruiser and headed to the mall. The 1st store we went to was the Disney store- it was PACKED to say the least. It was the 1st store though so it didn’t bother me too much. Plus, people seem to be nicer too you when you are pregnant, so everyone got out of my way! Then after that, the mall was pretty busy, but the actual stores (at least the ones we were in) weren’t bad at all! So we had fun.

My parents gift to us was a new digital camcorder. They wanted us to pick it out though so we went to Best Buy and got one! YEAH! I am so excited about it too because it’s all kept on it’s own hard drive. So there are no tapes, DVD’s, or memory cards or anything. You just plug it into your computer and click on “BURN TO DVD” and poof, it’s done. Not to mention it’s actually smaller than our regular still digital camera so I don’t have to lug some big thing around. Oh all this technology is so fun.

Sunday, Alex and I made a Gingerbread house! It turned out pretty cute considering the main person making it was 3! Ryan taped it all so that will be the start to our CHRISTMAS 2006 DVD I plan on making. Well it isn’t “taping” anymore but I don’t know what else to call it. I will call it “taping” like my dad still says “ice-box” instead of refrigerator I suppose!

16 days to go!!!

I am SO in the Christmas spirit now!

I had a cookie exchange at work so I now have 102 different Christmas cookies at home! Thanks to Dana, I now have the best Christmas CD ever, so I have been listening to that non-stop. I am DONE shopping so that always makes me happy. I have been wrapping presents and decorating the house more and more every night. I told myself I was ONLY putting up the tree this year, but that hasn’t lasted long. I keep finding stuff that I HAVE to put up. How can I NOT put up the wreath my mom made and painted me, or the cute snowman candle holders my grandma got me… etc…. So my house looks like the North Pole again and I know I will regret it come January when I have to waddle around and take it all down. Oh well- I just am really in the spirit this year. I think a lot of it has to do with Alex. This is the 1st year she is really into Santa and the whole Christmas thing and actually “gets it”. We have been trying really hard to teach her that it’s not about presents and Santa, but baby Jesus birthday. She can’t make the correlation though as to why Santa brings HER gifts instead of Jesus-since it’s his birthday. Maybe I need to give Jon a call to explain it to her better!!!

I am having a really hard time spending money on myself. I hate spending money on myself during the holidays- I just feel so guilty! Well I won this contest at work and got a $25 Visa gift card. I also have a bunch of Bath and Body Works coupons for buy 1 thing get 10 free and crazy stuff like that. Anyways- I went to B&B yesterday and about had a breakdown. I just couldn’t do it. It wasn’t my money PLUS I had coupons for all kinds of free stuff and I still couldn’t buy myself stuff! I kept thinking I should get stuff for Alex or my mom or something instead. So I just left. I am going to the mall tomorrow so maybe I will try it again.

Big baby

I really think I am giving birth to a giant or something. I am HUGE now! I can’t even imagine by belly getting any bigger than it is now. I am pretty sure that this is as big as I was with Alex full term. I have 2 more months to go. So either I am having twins that somehow 2 ultrasounds didn’t catch, or I am giving birth to the worlds largest baby. Neither of which will be fun when it comes time to deliver. Luckily I don’t think everywhere else is getting big- just the belly. At least that is what I am telling myself.
Sorry, I am not brave enough to post pictures though. Maybe I will post one from over the holidays, but I plan on strategically placing Alex in front of my for all photos so this monster belly isn’t in any pictures!!!

Let it snow

I really feel like a huge blog slacker lately! I feel like you guys have 3 or 4 in by the time I get a chance to do another one. I never feel like I have much to say- so I will just ramble, and we will see what happens.

Ok so this weather is crazy! We got about 8 inches in Davenport. EVERYTHING is closed! (except my office of course). So Ryan is home playing “Daddy daycare” with Alex today. This should be interesting when I get home. I am guessing there will be a box of pizza sitting on the counter from somewhere (if anywhere) that delivers today. There will be about 3 sippy cups on the end tables along with 3 empty cans of soda. She will probably still be wearing her pj’s when I get there. If not, they will be on the floor somewhere and she will be wearing an outfit that doesn’t match at all. Every toy she owns will be out and on the floor in a million pieces. Wish me luck tonight girls I will be busy cleaning that mess up!

I am really in the Christmas spirit this year. I have 95% of my shopping done. I just need a couple other little things- stocking stuffers and teacher gifts and then I am done.
I have a cookie exchange I am going to next week. Yes I know this is So not like me to be involved in one of those, but I am pregnant and it involves cookies so I am in! We have to make 9 dozen cookies each! That’s 108 damn cookies! I get to COME home with that many though so I guess it all works out ok. I was going to pull a Dana and make gingerbread men- with little icing faces and buttons made with those tiny m&m’s, but when I heard how many we had to make, that changed!!!
What else, what else… oh! I am on a mission to find a great Christmas CD too! So if anyone knows of one let me know. I would just download and burn one, but I don’t want to subscribe to some website and mess with all that. I would just use it this once to make the perfect Christmas CD and never use it again. I might break down- we will see.

Ok so that’s all for now…