19 Weeks

19 Weeks

It's my half-way mark!

You would think that was exciting... and it is...

but it is also nerve-wracking.

I know the closer I get to the third tri-mester the higher chance of me getting sick.

I sorta feel like a ticking time bomb.

I'm just praying to be able to make it to 38 weeks so Corbin can be full term and healthy.

Not sure I could deal with leaving my baby in the NICU... not after this past year.

Tomorrow I go for a regular check up with Dr. Reisinger... I really love her.

I appreciate her so much more after having to go to a specialist... he's not my favorite person.

I can't wait to hear his little heartbeat again.

I can feel him move so much more these days. It's becoming more reassuring now.

I know he has to be growing, because all I can do is EAT.

I've never been so hungry in my life!

I'm all set for a boy, but I still feel the same urge to buy stuff for Corbin that I did the other two.

I do need to buy a baby book.

I think I'm going to go ahead and have a yard sale...

the boys will be 5 years apart and that seems silly to keep clothes that long.

I think I'll keep like 0-12 months and sell everything after that.

Anyone need boys clothes? lol.

So this is probably the most random post ever...

Oh yah, I'm going dark tomorrow... ya know, like dark hair... :)

I'm pretty excited about it.

I'll update about my appointment... but it might not be until Wednesday...

it will depend on what time I get home tomorrow.

Going to Owensboro so Liv can do my hair after my appt. She always gets it right...

think I'll get bangs again... my hair grows so fast!

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I typed this post today and thought I'd just add the picture tonight...

when I reread it I thought I sounded kind of annoying....

and thought I might delete it...

but I'm really just being honest....

so I guess I'll leave it!

Bigger this week?

Soup-er Friday-- Weekend Edition!

My dear friend Courtney has started Soup-er Friday- this week it's the weekend edition :) If you don't read her blog you should hop on over there and check it out. She has great craft ideas, recipes, and adorable little girls who always make me smile-- plus Courtney is pretty darn funny!

She started this a few weeks ago and I kinda sorta haven't gotten around to posting anything yet. I thought I'd go ahead and make up for the past few weeks...

The first week was soup.

The easiest I make is veggie soup. It's one of my favorites. My grandma's is way better than mine, but I usually always have all the stuff laying around to make this sooo....

I use my crock pot. Simmer on low for 8 hours or cook on high for 5-6.

You'll need-

Package of Frozen stew meat (chunks)
Big can of tomato juice
veggies
salt and pepper
1-2 pototatos chunked or 1 can of potatos sliced

I just stick the stew meat i nthe bottom of my crock pot (still frozen), but if you need it faster thaw it out first.

I usually just use a bag of frozen mixed veggies and dump on top of the meat

I also normally just use a can of potatoes (we're going for quick to prepare here people). Drain the water off and pour in.

Then I put the salt and pepper on top of all the stuff and then pour on the tomato juice.

Put the lid on the crock pot and let your house start smelling like fall :) I usually stir once everything is unthawed, but you wouldn't have to.
We just had this last week and it was pretty yummy :) The leftovers are good heated up too!


I think the Second Week was appetizers or Football game food :)
My nacho cheese dip is what I usually "fall back" too... it's quick and simple and always good!

You'll need-
a jar of salsa
1 box of mexican velveeta
1/4-1/2 cup of milk, depending on how creamy you like it

also, if I don't have mexican velveeta I usually always have regular velveeta and you can substitute that and then use a can of nacho cheese soup.

Put in crock pot and melt.

Good w/ doritos too :)


This week is breakfast foods! I'm not a huge breakfast eater... actually in 8th grade our health teacher (he was really mean and smoked like a chimney) wanted us to keep a food diary. We had to try and be healthy and eat every meal... I refused to eat breakfast and ended up standing in the back of the room for refusing to eat breakfast and writing "nothing" in my food diary. My mom was like, "Chelsa, just WRITE SOMETHING, ANYTHING"... Nope, I wouldn't do it. I used to be really stubborn... oh who am I kidding, I still am! That's like the only trouble I got into in school (well, besides for talking!). :) Back to the sticky buns--

These need prepared the night before.

Grease bundt pan well. Line bottom of pan with chopped pecans (you can leave the pecans out, I don't like them so I don't use them). Drop 24 (or how many ever will fit in your pan) dough rolls (1 pkg Riches frozen rolls) over nuts (or no nuts!). Sprinkle with one small package of butterscotch pudding (NOT INSTANT PUDDING).

Melt 1/2 cup butter, 3/4 cup brown sugar, and 3/4 tsp. of cinnamon. Mix and drizzle over rolls. Sprinkle with more nuts (or not if you don't want too!). Cover with foil and let stand on the counter overnight. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 min. Do not over bake (so check them before the 25 minutes is up!). Turn the pan upside down as soon as it comes out of the oven... onto a pan or whatever you want.

YUM YUM YUM! Easiest sticky buns ever and sooo good!

Hope ya'll go over and share your recipes b/c I love getting new ideas :)

Some Sneak Peaks

I know i've been keeping everyone in suspense with all these on-going house projects we've been doing! lol. I still don't want to post pictures b/c we have lots of little details to do in the kitchen and front living room (like paint, tiling for backsplash, etc...), but I thought I'd post a few sneak peaks :)

Here is the laundry room before. EW.

Here is the laundry room cabinets Ryan made for me! (We also painted in here).
Here is the butt ugly kitchen before... I mean I really despised this place.

I know this is a tiny little sneak peak, but HELLO, can you even imagine? It is looking SOOOO good! We have our new counter tops on and now all the doors on! There is still trim work to do and tiling to do for the backsplash and painting on the wall, but I can tell you I just smile every time I see it! It looks sooo country- which is what our house is done in. It just fits perfectly. They aren't as white as they look in this picture, they are a country/antique white. Ryan has done an amazing job!

This is the front living room before... you can't tell so much from this picture, but this carpet was stained TERRIBLY! Just ask anyone that's been to my house! I love the new carpet! It makes the room sooo much more cozy (probably b/c I'm not afraid to touch the floor!). Seriously, no matter how much we cleaned the carpet the stains wouldn't come out (they were from the previous owner). We still have painting and trim to do in here.
Our old table

LOVE OUR NEW ONE! It is so country and goes so much better w/ our house. I can't take a picture of the whole room b/c it's a mess w/ stuff out of our kitchen!

Poor B :(

Well, our exciting Monday just kept getting more exciting (if you want to call it that). While we were in Evansville B was not the well behaved child that he normally is while we are out in public... I didn't know what his deal was! We got home and he was coughing a bunch, but he had been having asthma stuff for about a week so I didn't think much about it. He did feel a little warm though so I took his temp. it was 99.4. I thought I better call the dr. and get an appt. since his asthma turns into other stuff about 2-3 times a year... and with the fall weather... well I just figured I better call and get an appt. even though I was dreading a trip to a dr's office where sick people would be. As the evening wore on he just kept getting worse and his breathing treatments weren't helping him to breathe better even for a few minutes... Normally, with his asthma it doesn't bother me (besides feeling bad for him) because I've dealt with having it my whole life... so I don't freak out like Ryan does... but I was really starting to worry when the treatments weren't helping at all... and his temp was up in just an hour from when I had taken it to almost 100. With all the flu stuff going around we figured we better take him to the ER he seemed to be getting worse fairly quickly and we just didn't want to take any chances with his lungs already being compromised from his asthma. We got to the ER and I about freaked about and came home because there were a ton of people and I didn't want either of us catching something else... We sat in a hallway by ourselves though, I was not sitting in there with those people puking and hacking everywhere. Call me paranoid if you want, but I have two babies to take care of :) We finally got called back (there was a trauma patient that came in right after we got there so it took forever) and the admitting nurse said it was a good thing we brought him in because his respirations were up and his O2 was down to 90 :( Poor guy! We got to have Ryan's cousin Darla as his nurse and we were very thankful for that and then the ER dr. great, we really liked him. They gave him a steroid breathing treatment right away. He went from being almost lifeless to bouncing off the walls. He literally couldn't quit talking and moving. They swabbed his nose to test for flu and also did a chest x-ray. The Dr. came in to tell us the flu swab came by negative, we were very relieved... BUT he has pneumonia. We weren't expecting that one. He said he could admit him or if we were comfortable with doing breathing treatments we could go home... we thought he would do better at home and have less chance of catching something else so we made that decision. Each time he got up though his O2 dipped down to 90 so NO physical activity for Brycen... He got a big shot in his leg and didn't even cry! We were so proud of him! He kept saying, "I got shot by my very own cousin!" lol, it was cute. We had to go fill his oral antibiotic prescription b/c they wanted him to start that that night as well. We didn't get home til 1:30am. We were all exhausted. Brycen fell asleep on the way home thankfully, but we had to wake him when we got home to take his medicine. He woke every hour all night coughing. Ryan still went to work yesterday (but not as early as normal). B and I watched cartoons and read books all day. Oh yah, and did breathing treatments! lol, those are on our schedule for every 3 hours, yesterday he could barely stretch it the 3 hours. His temp was back up to 99.6 yesterday evening and his breathing was terrible again... he fell asleep and when he woke up it was a little better... I know his little body is exhausted, but everytime he goes to sleep he wakes himself up coughing. Last night was much better, he was only up 3 times instead of every hour. This morning though he has diarrhea. I think it's from his medicine though. He still had a temp this morning 99.0, but I didn't give him tyelnol last night. I'm hoping his fever will break today... I just feel terrible for him! Oh and we took his bandaid off from his shot and his leg is all broke out around it now so he is itching that! Poor guy can't catch a break. We are watching PBS Kids and hanging out right now. (he loves Sid the Science Kid, B is really into science). We're lounging in our sweats and trying to get him healthy today!

This is this morning. He looks a lot better than he did yesterday.

His new breathing mask they gave him at the hospital, it has a dinosaur on it :)

My cabinet doors were supposed to go back up yesterday, but the dumb hinge people didn't send the hinges with the knobs... Ryan was quite irate because when he called he asked if they were in stock and they said yes and then on the order paper it said "backordered".... I wasn't there, but I have a feeling those people got quite the chewing out yesterday from him when he called. Our carpet is being installed today though! And Ryan just called me and he went ahead and ordered the hinges from a different place and they should deliver them to the shop tomorrow. I hope so, I'd love to get everything back in my cabinets!

18 Week Belly Picture

18 weeks

I think I grew a lot in the past week!

Corbin Fisher Knepp- 18 weeks

That pretty much says it all! He showed himself right away! Brycen was VERY relieved :)
his little feet!

he kept putting his hands in his face!

Corbin Fisher at 18 weeks.

He was quite the little mover and wiggler! It took her forever to get all the measurements b/c he wouldn't hold still! His heart, kidneys, etc... all checked out fine! He weighed 7oz and his heartrate was 165. I measured right on at 18 weeks.

We are so excited to have another little boy (I told ya so!). :) I always pictured myself having three little boys and now I do! A, B, and C :)

Well, Ryan is getting ready to put our countertop on so I'm going to get off here and check it out!

This Rainy Week

This rainy week has consisted of a lot of house stuff and a lot of headaches for me :( I got a headache on Tuesday and today it's finally gone. I'm so thankful! Dumb migranes. At least it is gone in time for the weekend.

Tuesday night I caught up on laundry while Ryan worked in the kitchen (exciting life, huh?!).

Wednesday was my day off! B and I went and had lunch w/ my mom at her work and then went over to her house to make up meatballs for supper. We got those made and then went home and just layed around. We had supper at my mom's... and then we came home and Ryan worked in the kitchen some more while I worked on getting all my maternity clothes hung up in the closet. I'm really starting to need them.

Last night Ryan worked in the kitchen some more and I took the "family bassinet" over to Todd and Kayla to use for Kaydee Mae when she gets here. It was my grandma's bassinet and pretty much everyone in our family has used it! I'm so glad Kaydee will get to use it too! She'll be done in plenty of time for our sweet baby to get to use it too. I visited with them for awhile and then went home. We had leftovers for supper and then realized we had a problem b/c our hot water in the kitchen was turned off... I woke up to a sink full of dishes this morning :( Ryan turned it off so he could move the dishwasher out so he could get the counter tops off... oh it's just a mess!
Please say a prayer for Todd and Kayla and Kaydee Mae... she is 36 weeks and 1 day today. Yesterday at her appointment her liver enzymes were elevated...which is a sign of PE, but she had no other symptoms. The specialist wanted her to do a 24 hr. urine today while Dr. R wanted to go ahead and take her cerclage out. The specialist won... and then this morning Kayla woke up w/ spotting, cramps, and stomach pain. They are at Dr. Reisinger's office now and I'm awaiting to hear news from my Aunt Lisa. It's making me a nervous wreck. I can only imagine how they feel. She is set to get her cerclage out on Tuesday anyway... I will feel much better when Miss Kaydee Mae is HERE. She was already 5lbs at 33 weeks so she will be plenty big enough :) So if you get a chance just pray for them and that Kaydee makes here safe and that her momma is healthy.

Tonight I need to go to Walmart, but that might get put off until tomorrow... Brycen is supposed to have soccer in the morning, but with this crazy weather, I'm not sure if he will. We will for sure be working in the kitchen tonight... or at least Ryan will be. I think he is going to paint! This weekend is going to be a little crazy b/c we also have to get the front living room painted so it will be ready for the new carpet on Wednesday (we got it pushed back a day so that it will be on my day off). I can't wait to show ya'll pictures of the finished look! I thought about showing progress pictures, but really, everything is such a mess I decided I wouldn't. Sunday I'm helping w/ my friend Shannon's baby shower so that will keep me busy! I'm so excited, baby Smith will be here before we know it!

Hope you all have a great weekend!