17 week belly picture...

17 weeks

(21 to go- and yes, I'm counting!)

Just an update...

Friday was a long day! I had a headache most all day and evening long. Ryan worked (on our cabinets, but at the shop) until 8pm so he didn't get home until 8:30pm. B and I went to eat w/ my parents for supper and then I went home and had to get all the stuff cleaned out of my cabinets. I'm thankful for my pretty large dining room now b/c all my stuff out of cabinets is somewhat organized in the dining room and not a huge mess all over the place (just contained to those two rooms).

Saturday we got up bright and early and made our way to B's soccer game. He played goalie this week, he was not a huge fan of that position (as you can probably tell by the picture!).

B and his buddy Pilar, you never know what these two will be up to on the soccer field, but they are always cracking me up!

After the game Ryan headed to the shop to work on our cabinets some more and B and I made an unplanned trip to Wal-Mart and Mi Pueblo (YUM) w/ my mom. After we got back from Washington we went straight w/ my mom to my cousins' birthday party. They are sisters and their birthdays are Sept. 19 & 20th! B and Ashlyn are 3 months apart and they are great friends! He had a lot of fun playing outside w/ them. After we left there we went home to change clothes and then we went to my Great Uncle Jim's 80th Birthday Open House! After that we went home to rest for a couple of hours and then headed to my Aunt Lisa's for supper w/ the family (chili and veggie soups and left over sandwiches from Uncle Jim's Birthday party!). Yum! We enjoyed some good food and great times visiting w/ family, as always. We got home and Ryan had all the upper cabinets torn out and the place was A MESS! The walls were sooo nasty behind where the cabinets had been and it made me feel gross (okay, I admit it is still making me feel gross!). I asked Ryan if I could clean it and he said it is no use to try that's just how it is, so I went to bed! haha.

Yesterday afternoon we had to go to Lowe's to sign paperwork for our carpet. They are supposed to call today with a date to install it! We also had to pick up a new sink, facet, and hood range thingy for our kitchen! Fun stuff! I got the new paint for the kitchen, but I still have to pick the paint up for the front living room (did I mention we were painting too?). I know what color I'm getting, I just have to get it... I had to get the name of it today from my co-worker!

We came home and relaxed and were just lazy all evening. It was nice! Hopefully, Ryan will be able to spray the upper cabinets tonight (he finished all the doors on Saturday!). After those are finished he will tear out the lower cabinets. I'm looking forward to this b/c that means getting rid of the hideous counter top! I told Ryan last night I just can't even imagine what it will look like with the new stuff!

Brycen was goofing off last night and I just had to take a picture... Seriously, if this doesn't at least make you smile I doubt anything will! You just never know how you'll find him!

Tonight my mom is making Taco Soup (I've been craving it) for us since my kitchen is out of order! B and I will probably go there to eat it and take Ryan home his since he'll probably be a busy bee! Although, Ryan did promise B he could help paint the boxes tonight, we'll see how that goes!

Oh yes, and in baby news, we find out ONE week from today if it's a boy or girl (although, I really know it's a boy!). My appt. is at 9am our time so at least I won't have to wait all day to find out! I've been feeling baby move a little bit off and on (like a fish in my belly), but yesterday was a first, we were all feeling my belly (me, ryan, and b) and you could feel it a little from the outside. When we took our hands off my belly the baby "jumped" so hard you could see it on my lower belly! It was sooooo reassuring to me! It did it like 3 more times and Ryan saw it too! I was so pumped! At this point I def. need little reassurances like that...

weekend... and field trip...and home improvement

Well, I started to make a post about our weekend on Monday (or Tuesday, I can't remember!), but quickly realized it sounded very boring and I have NO pictures from it! Sooo I thought I would wait.

Last Friday our friends Ricky & Brittany came over and Ryan grilled out. We had a good time just chatting and eating. Saturday was a rushed and busy day. We had to be at soccer early for pictures and then B had his game. We rushed home after the game and ate a quick sandwich and then off to Turkey Trot. We hung out at the camper and enjoyed the nice day and then went to the truck pulls. We had supper at the camper and then B went to ride some rides. We got home about 10 I believe and I was EXHAUSTED. No more pushing myself to be "miss busy bee". I know I say that, but I am serious this time. It was just too much for me... and I am staying healthy this time (well as much as I can control it, I know I had no control over getting sick last time, but I just mean I'm not going to run my body ragged and give it any more of a reason to freak out!). Sunday we were around the house and I was trying to recover from Saturday. Thankfully I felt much better by Sunday evening. I guess now every little thing worries about me, but better to be safe than sorry. We went to my parents for supper Sunday evening and visited for awhile.

Ya'll know me and how I complain about my butt ugly kitchen cabinets all the time (I know I know, a lot of people would be glad to just have cabinets, and I AM grateful, but....). I got spoiled at our first house and had brand new cabinets that were beautiful... probably b/c my hubby made them, but ya know. It also makes it hard b/c it isn't like it feels IMPOSSIBLE to get new cabinets... after all that is what "the man" does every day for a living! Sooo we're still not sure about the buyer that was interested in our house back in the spring and said he would know for sure in the fall. We don't want to bother him so we're not asking questions. We're really not in a rush anyway... but if that does fall through we still do want to put our house for sale sometime in the next year or so... so anyway that means we're still stuck not wanting to put a bunch of money into our current house, but still wanting some updates... sooo Ryan decided he would refinish our cabinets, get a new counter top and do a new back splash... um can I get a HALLELUJAH!? They still won't be my "dream" cabinets, but I know those will come when we build. I can settle and be really excited about ones that are the darkest wood EVER w/ the butt ugliest counter tops from 1974 w/ matching backsplash! Oh girls, you better believe I can be happy about "refinished"! Sooo after all that I'm getting to what we did on Monday evening! We went to Lowe's to pick out tile for our backsplash. We got that picked out and I love it! I think it will turn out great! Ryan also had me look at counter tops b/c they sale the same brands that they have available at the shop. I also got that picked out. We're not going w/ anything fancy b/c obviously we're trying to be economical, but make it more modern! While we were at Lowe's I thought I would go over to the flooring department, b/c as you all know another gripe I have is the carpet in our front living room. Well, we are getting new carpet in there! Oh Monday was a great day in the life of Chelsa :) We got a great deal on the carpet, pad AND installation! I'm soo excited. The guy is coming to measure up today. I had a carpet fund saved up but we had never went ahead and got carpet. B/c of the odd size of the room it was going to require double the cost and it's not even a big room... well we found an odd sized carpet to fit our odd sized room and so I will even have money left over from my saved up carpet fund, SCORE! Ryan thinks I'm basically insane for being so excited, but these are two of the things that drive me crazy on a daily basis so I'm just pumped! We've done a lot of "projects" around our house and these are two bigger ones that we've put off and not done, but probably two of the ones that bothered me the most so I will be so thankful to have them done! I think they will both help us w/ selling the house when we decide to put it up for sale (since both are things you see when you walk in the front door and were about the only two things that haven't been updated since we moved in).
So ya'll probably really think I'm crazy now, but I'm just so excited (get back w/ me in a week when my house is ripped apart and we'll see if I'm still so excited!). haha

Tuesday evening B had soccer practice... and then yesterday he had his pre-school's field trip to The Children's Museum in Evansville. We had never been there, but B loved it. It was so neat! I was worn out from all those kiddos though! Ryan didn't get home from work until almost 8 last night so me and B took all my flowers out of pots and cleaned up the landscaping and got all my fall decorations out... went and got mums and planted those too. I love fall decorations :) Tonight I was dreading doing laundry b/c I try to do it every other day at least and it'd been a few days since I'd had a chance, but my grandma (who still loves to spoil me) called me this morning and asked if she could go to my house and help me out w/ laundry or anything that needed done... Seriously, how does she ALWAYS know? I know w/out my Papaw to take care of all the time she gets bored and it makes her feel good to help me out, it makes me feel good too! haha! Honestly though, I'm so grateful for her! I will now get to spend my evening enjoying my boys instead of worrying about laundry! Or maybe I can make that dreaded Wal-Mart trip so I don't have to do it tomorrow... boo :( I like option 1 better.

Brycen is doing much better w/ pre-school. No tears this week! I guess he just needed a little time. He seems to be back to his old self. Hopefully, it will stay that way! Last year he had learned his phone number at school and then we recently got rid of our house phone b/c we NEVER used it and I don't really want to pay for something we never use... so anyway, we got rid of our house phone and just have our cell phones. This is working fine, except I totally forgot this would call for Brycen to learn a new phone number! Duh, Chelsa! Well, we started working on it last night and he got it right away! He was so excited that he had learned it and I was so glad that he went w/ the flow and didn't get the old number confused w/ the new number. He ran into school this morning and told one of his teachers! He was laughing and smiling about something when I left-- makes me feel MUCH better that I haven't scarred him for life.

Tomorrow night Ryan is going to start ripping out the cabinets- sooo my house is going to be unorganized for awhile- lots of eating out I guess (too bad Pike Co. doesn't have more choices!).

These pictures are from B's field trip yesterday!

Tyler and B

getting ready to balance

playing drums
B at the end of the slide that was at the end of the climbing thingy

Brycen and Kennedy pulling on some intestines--eww

Arri, Tyler, and B-- BOYS!

This room was probably Brycen's favorite. He was def. in his element. He was building a bridge here!

Ty and B after the water room- they were SOAKED!

Blessed

Today is our 4th anniversary. That doesn't sound like very long! We have been together 8 1/2 years though... that's more like it! We got married on September 10, 2005 at Gasthof Amish Villiage in Montgomery, outside, in and around the gazebo. Our colors were bright pink and orange... w/ accents of yellow... it might sound hideous, but it was really pretty, since it was an outside wedding. The flowers were orange and pink roses. We each had seven, yes seven, attendants... 4 ushers, a ring bear, and a flower girl. It wasn't your traditional wedding... my bridesmaids wore short dresses and flip flops and the guys wore khaki's and white shirts. We wanted a "relaxed outside" feel. I wouldn't change a thing (except maybe the pesky videographer (see below)). It was really the shortest wedding in history b/c our poor OLDDDD (i'm talking 87 years old) preacher FORGOT the whole wedding message! :) It was so funny, I'm sure some people don't or didn't think it was funny, but seriously, it's something we'll never forget! Okay, enough of the chit chat and here's some pictures (still really poor quality (pictures of pictures)).

yes, I can be a drama queen... hard to believe huh!? (this is at the dress rehersal)

yep, pretty sure that dress rehersal consisted of me being dramatic... it was the videographers fault, he wanted to change EVERYTHING!


very frustrated ;)

my dad and ryan... watching me be the drama queen, that i can be... my dad telling ryan, "yep, tomorrow she is ALL YOURS" :) haha, he still teases him about this!

my favorite picture of me on our wedding day... it wasn't posed, the photographer took it while i was getting ready w/ my girls... i think i'm just glowing and i love how stinkin' happy i look!

and the hottie that i got so lucky to marry!

the place...

where the guests walked in

guest book table

unity candle table... my mother in law did it... i think it was gorgeous!

i LOVE this picture! jayce (our nephew) and kylee (my little cousin) were our ring bear and flower girl... jayce said to kylee, "WHY ARE YOU THROWING THOSE FLOWERS ON THE GROUND??" her response, "I'm doing it for Chelsa!" i think their faces tell the story!
our people :)

my sister (in law)... had to put this on her, she was my matron of honor... yah she cried during her speech, it was sweet :)

my daddy, giving me away (getting rid of me?!) haha :) (i have no idea why i'm so short)

the cake-- gift from my friend/sister/bridesmaid, erin :)

he was mean! it's not fair, my arms are too short! :)

I feel so blessed to be married to this man, my best friend. Through this year, the hardest year of our lives, he has been there, listened to me cry, and ramble, and not make sense. He's seen me at best and loved me through my worst. He's humble and hard working. He's funny and sweet. He's a great daddy and husband. I am so blessed.

Appt. and Day Off!

My appt. went well! My BP was 100/70 and babies heart rate was 161. I'm def. still thinking boy. It really doesn't matter at all, but I really truely 100% think it is. Oh yah, and only 1 lb. of weigh gain so far. I picked up B early from school and took him with me. I get a little nervous on appointment days and his busyness helps to keep my mind off of it a little better! I go back to the specialist on the 28th and will have the anatomy screen ultrasound at that time. Sooo a little less than 3 weeks and we'll know for sure (hopefully, if baby cooperates) if it's a boy or girl. I think it will help me to know for sure so I can start calling him or her by their name. After my appointment with the specialist I go to Dr. R on the 6th (the next week after the specialist appt) and then I will start seeing her every two weeks. I got my flu shot yesterday. Boo! I opted out of it last year, but this year she "highly recommended" it for me and reminded me that I don't need anything else to possibly land me in the hospital. She really never "highly recommends" anything so I figured I better take her advice on this one!

After my appointment Brycen and I hit up Cold Stone! YUM! I really love ice cream :)

and so does he!! :)

We also had to make a Target run for a few things and then we were on our way home. We were both tired when we got here.

We slept in a bit this morning and then did a few things around the house before we went to eat lunch at Taco Bell and then to Wal-Mart. BLAH! I was so worn out before we even went that I thought I might fall asleep in the bread aisle :). We did get a treat and ran into Tera and Miss Brynna though.

At Cold Stone yesterday Brycen wouldn't look at me and kept saying he needed to move... He finally said, "Momma, if I sit here like this people are going to think I'm dating you, and that's embarrassing!" WHAT?! Where did he get that? I figured it was one of those one time things, but ohhhh no, today at Taco Bell it was the same thing!! He had to sit at a table BESIDE me instead of across from me. Seriously! I don't know where he would come up w/ something like that!

Then after we saw Tera and Brynna I asked him why he wouldn't talk and was acting so weird (not like himself) and he said, "well b/c I didn't know their names"... oh my. He's a mess. He fell asleep on the way home so I guess he was tired!

When we got home and I got all the stuff put away I started cleaning. I'm so glad to have that done. I'm worn out though! The laundry is going now and I will be glad to be caught up on that as well. It seems like a pretty productive day so far. Now I'm off to decide what to make for supper... I'm thinking Chicken Lasagna (sound good, Court?). :)

15 Weeks and Preschool Woes...

Well, I was 15 weeks yesterday. I really promised myself to do better w/ belly pictures. I still love to look at mine from when I was pregnant w/ Andon. Sweet memories. I only have a few of when I was pregnant with Brycen so I really want to make it an effort to get as many as I can with this third (and def. our last) child.

Being the great big brother that he is :)

the 15 week belly... and just for comparison

Here is me last year at 15 wks and 2 days w/ Andon.

Bigger? Smaller? I go back and forth. I don't feel as big, but from this picture I think I look bigger now... who knows! It doesn't really matter as long as this baby is healthy!

I go to Dr. Reisinger for a check up today... I'll let ya know how it goes :)

So, this is Brycen's 2nd year of pre-school. He started daycare at 6 months and went to pre-school at that same place last year. He loved it. Due to quite a few different reasons I decided to switch him to a new school this year. His BFF wasn't going to be at their old school anyway so I thought now was my time to make the switch. It works better w/ our schedule and just a few other reasons as well, but that's the main one. I LOVE the new school. I am so happy with it. Brycen loved it the first two weeks as well. I was so excited b/c our adjustment had went well and so smoothly... I had been nervous, but obviously for no need. Um, Think Again. After the 2nd week is when B was in the wedding. He saw his old teachers at the wedding and reception... A conversation went on. His third week of school he started saying "I hate school" and "I don't want to go to school"... first off he got scolded for saying "hate" and then I started trying to figure out why. Let's just say that's been two weeks and I'm about at my wits end. I don't want him to "hate" school. And it makes me so sad that he tells me his belly hurts every morning and I have to leave him there while he is sad. I also know that we don't like everything about this world and that he will be going to Kindergarten next year... and if he doesn't like that, it's just too bad, he has to go anyway. I know that he is being well cared for at his new school and I'm not at all concerned for his safety, but my heart breaks that he isn't happy there. I can't get one exact thing out of him that he doesn't like... one day it will be lunch, the next day it's rest time, and the next it's a problem with the toys (he doesn't like them?). So obviously nothing major, but it seems pretty big to him. If he was a clingy child or one that cried not go before I'm sure this wouldn't concern me I would just know that's how he is... but he is sooo NOT like this. He is very easy going and layed back. He does say he loves his teachers... so I just don't know what the problem is. His teachers said he hasn't gotten in trouble (not even scolded) one time, that he is the best behaved child there (that makes momma happy!). I just don't want him to hate school and not learn what he is supposed to or just be miserable all the time, but I don't know what to do to "make" him like it either? Any suggestions? HELP ME!! I'm so emotional anyway and this just makes me cry!

sickies

I haven't posted in about a week... thought I better or ya'll might think I fell off the Earth. I didn't... we didn't. Wednesday I did start in on being sick though. I was home from work w/ a temperature Thursday. Friday I was just so worn down and still not feeling well enough for work. My grandma came and kept Brycen entertained Thurs. and Fri. afternoons. I am so thankful for that. Friday night was my brother's first college cross country meet so I forced myself to get dressed and go. I didn't feel like it and had no business out in public I'd say, but I couldn't miss it! He did really good by the way. We are just so proud of him! He is loving college so far... I'm glad he is, but I sure miss him. It was a late night since Evansville is an hour behind us. We slept in yesterday morning. My mom and I went to a few yard sales... I came home and could of kicked myself for wearing myself out already. My head was still pounding and my nose was still pouring snot (nice visual, huh!). Seriously, I've went through BOXES of kleenex. Brycen's asthma has been acting up too and we've been having to do breathing treatments every 3-4 hours. I hate it when he has problems with it. Anyway, I rested for the rest of the afternoon yesterday and we did go to my parents for a cookout w/ my Aunt and Uncle and cousins. I didn't do anything besides sit at the table and talk. I was starting to feel better, just really worn down. We rested all day today and I'm finally feeling sort of normal now. I still have a snotty nose, but it's not near as bad and I can at least breathe out my nose again. Marilyn and Phil (Ryan's parents) brought us leftovers for supper. That was so nice to not have to fix supper tonight. I'm really thankful for an extra day off tomorrow. This is probably the most boring post in history, all about me being sick... but that's all I've done since Wednesday!