So the last few weeks in my life have been slightly stressful. Between subconscious worrying, my baby brothers whirlwind wedding, my co-manager going up for and getting a promotion leaving me to run the account by myself, and trying to plan and go on a min-vacation.  Can you believe that I almost forgot my anniversary? It's today!!!!!!!!!!!  Three years ago today I got hitched.  WOW! time flys.  The sadder part is that my husband and I don't want to do anything.  We were going to go to alive after five down town, and then just out to a quite dinner, now we are renting a movie picking up dinner, and lounging in our PJ's all night. 

In other news my baby brother who got married last week was supposed to ship out to basic training this morning.  My husband and I went to dinner with him and his new wife on Monday to say good bye as he did not have an exact time when he would be shipping out.  However, this afternoon he comes walking into my office at work surprising the hell out of me.  turns out he missed his plane this morning and has to wait to get a new plane ticket so he can actually leave. For some reason I am having de-ja-vu I think that my older brother also missed some flight that the military paid for when he was in the army. maybe I am wrong but I think he did.  I am glad I missed out on that gene.

So now the account is all mine.... this is what I really wanted about a year ago.  Now I was hoping to get my own account.  Then I got pregnant and missed my one opportunity to get an account here in town so I will be staying at the place I work now.  This is not terrible but it is a managers job and I wanted to be a director by now as I was told I would be a year ago.  Still don't look a gift horse in the mouth it is still a good company and I am close to home and family it is just not nearly as good of pay as a director and lord knows with the new mouth to feed I could use all the money I can get.  I will miss Tina though.  We did not always see eye to eye.  In fact sometimes I really wanted to strangle her and I am sure her I but we hung out outside of work every now and then and as a person I really liked her. She was one of the few "friends" I have.  being a workaholic really limits social contact outside of family.

On the upside our trip to "the mountain resort town near us" was very nice and relaxing.  We golfed, I got a massage, we had some good food, we got to see the lake and spend a beautiful day outside and see some wild life, I even took a nap. It was very nice.  I only wish my camera battery would have stayed charged so I could have gotten some good pictures of the beautiful scenery.  

Well that about catches up on me I could so use a nap today.  Too bad I won't get one. Oh well Happy Anniversary honey.

Oh yeah Monday was my mommies birthday.  Happy Birthday Mom.

Meet Arabella Chrsitina

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It's offical.  It's a Girl.  She passed all her tests with flying colors.  Perfect heart, all the right limbs, no clefed palet.  She even sucked her thumb and yawned for us during the sonagram.  She would not keep her face out of the pictures.  everytime the tech tried to get a picture of her heart or some other part she would move so that her face was in the picture.  What an attention seeker she could not possible be mine. Bryan and I are thrilled.  We can't wait till December to meet her in person.

So Friday morning is the big day.  The ultrasound that tells us everything we need to know.  Does it have all the right limbs and organs?  Are they in the right places?  Possibly is it a boy or a girl? Though the last part is the part I am looking forward to I have been having nightmares about the other ?'s for the last few days.  I have been sleeping really badly and last night I woke up in a sweat even though it was chilly in my bed room because of a dream I had.  I could not remember the dream but I remember the feeling it left me with.  I am so glad that the time gap is closing on this appointment because I don't know how much more of this I can physically take. I don;t know how I will handle it if there is something wrong.  I have faith that everything will be fine but my subconscious worry wart cannot be silenced in my dreams.  This reminds me of that line in Armageddon where the Wilson brother says "I'm 2% scared 98% excited or maybe its 98% scared 2% excited I don't know thats what makes it so great"  its just like that minus the great part at the end.

My baby brother is getting married!!!!!!!!!!!  He leaves for boot camp and tech school on Monday and he and his fiance decided to tie the knot before he left instead of waiting until he got back like they had originally planned.  I am happy for them but I don't know if it is a great idea as I know that she really wanted a "traditional" wedding. They are also babies.  Granted they are both older than I was when I got married but in my eyes they are babies.  Babies who can drink and vote and go to war but babies non the less. So this Thursday at 1:00 I will walk into the court house and witness my baby brother get hitched. I am an emotional slob so I will probably cry like a baby myself.  I am going to record it for my parents and anyone else who wants to watch.  I am just glad that he told us and that I get to be there.  They could have just shown up one day with wedding rings and told us after the fact.  I know her family is not even coming because they do not understand... or something... maybe she didn't tell them yet I can't remember. Well congratulations to them We will have to get a reception planned.  Perhaps in December when my parents can be there I mean whats the point in getting married if you don't get any presents; and with Adam out of town Megan can register for anything and everything she wants. To the Happy Couple.

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I know everyone thinks their family is the strangest or the greatest or both.  I know mine is both pretty strange and great.  yesterday was a record breaking 105 degrees here where I live. So I called up my grandma and told her that my husband and I were coming over for a swim to cool off.  So she freaks out and runs out to the store to get food. What family is not preoccupied with food.  I told her no Bryan and I will bring over some smoked sausage and grill it up for dinner.  After all we invited ourselves not the other way around. She insists on feeding us.  So then the next thing I know the whole family knows that I am coming to swim.  I mean it was like I was going into labor.  She must have set the phone tree a blazing.  first my brother was coming too and then my cousins then my other cousins then my other brother.  I get there for a nice relaxing dip and she is apologizing that Tony and Mandy could not come something had come up.  This is how she is but seriously I did not need a party just to go swimming I just wanted to get in the pool.  I mean I am self conscious enough in a swim suit she did not need to have the whole family come see.  But that is her and she will never change.  She is out to impress all the time even when you wish she would just relax and hang out.  It ended up not being too big despite her hardest efforts.  But hey I had a great time and some good food. I love my crazy family just the way the are.

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So I have already written that I was not thrilled with my last doctors appt. I decided to give her another chance as everyone has off days. So I made another appt. with her. For the second time in three appointments I have been rescheduled so she can "do to a procedure".  Granted I schedule my appointments a month in advance but hell quite scheduling procedures during times when someone has already scheduled an appointment. I set these up so that my husband can go.  He had to miss the last one due to rescheduling and now he will have to miss this one.  If that wasn't enough I was just called yesterday by the ultrasound place and asked to reschedule my appointment with them as well.  These are two completely different places but its like come on give me a flippin break am I the invisible one.  luckily my husband and I both hav the day off as we are going out of town but still I try an dget either the first appt or the last because I work and it is easier to come in late or leave early then take off mid day and come back.  I do work full time as does my husband and it seems like my schedule does not matter to anyone recently.  When I rescheduled with the doctor though her recpetionist got an ear full.  I let her know that I was not happy and that I would not be rescheduled again they would have to reschedule the procedure that they were bumping me for next time. I will also be throughing a full blown tantrum when I go to her office. It costs a hell of a lot to have a baby and if I am paying good money I want to be treated like I matter.

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So this is how big the baby is supposed to be now I found out the quarter is just a size measure.  Not that big but I think that I felt it move yesterday.  I was having some pain in my lower abdomen on the left and I kneaded my fist in to you know make it hurt worse (I am such a masochist j/j) and I felt what to me felt like a bubble move from left to right across my belly.  It only lasted a half a second but It was so different than anything I have ever felt before I think that has to have been what it was.  Now I keep poking to see if it will do it again and it won't but it is still early and I could have imagined the whole thing though I don't think that I did.  Has anyone else ever felt bubbles? 

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Tomorrow June 20th is the birthday of my favorite person in the whole wide world. Please join me in wishing him a happy birthday!  I love you!!!

I have a cousin, Holly that has a 18 month old boy and a 4.5 year old girl.  She is not planning any more kids as she has very recently divorced her husband. She is very successful women and offered me some of her baby things that she was going to get rid of. She sent me a list and as I have nothing yet I said I would be happy to get anything you are willing to give. I set up a time to come and pick it up and as we pulled in it was all sitting very neatly in the garage.  I could not believe my eyes it was like Christmas in June.  I will attache some pictures later but holy cow.  a stroller, car seat with two bases, bassinet, crib mattress, two sings, bounce, jumper, 5 bags full of clothes, a bag full of blankets, a box of toys, and the list could go on and on.  I am amazed it took us two trips loading up our SUV full. I bet that she just saved us several hundred dollars.  I went through the clothes which went up to a year some of them still on the original hangers with tags and I swear that that boy did not wear the same outfit twice in his whole life.  It is going to take me several days to find places for all of this.  But boy am I pleased.  all I can say is family rocks and I am so excited to get some baby stuff I haven't wanted to by anything because they tell you to wait for a baby shower but hey this was great.  Thank you soooooo much Holly.