20 wks 3 days belly pic and firefighter brycen :)

Well, last night we took B trick or treating. He loved it of course! I didn't realize people gave out MONEY these days! I think he got rich off of Halloween! Which really is better for his teeth anyway! lol. He of course got a ton of candy and I think Ryan ate more of it then B did! It's fun to see Brycen try new kinds of candy... the faces he makes crack me up! We didn't go too many places, just a few family and friends (the gadberry's, the gaines', my parents, nana sandy (his preschool teacher and long time family friend that's why he calls her nana), Deputy Kent (his police officer buddy from my work and mommy and daddy's friend), Papaw Ed's (my mom's dad), and Gran and Papaw Richard (my dad's parents). I think that was it... but he got a whole bag full of candy! And it was all good candy too! haha! He got a bag of chips (regular ruffles) from my Grandpa Ed's neighbor lady... I was craving those things so bad, I kept bugging him to let me have them... finally he said "well mommy, you can't have them, but if you SHARE we can all have some!" lol... it was just a mini bag, but that was fine w/ me! Pathetic I know :) I don't even LIKE those chips normally, pregnancy makes me eat weird things! Anyway, we got home relatively early and I was thankful for that! Still plenty of time for his bath and time to relax a little before bed.

Fire Fighter Brycen before trick or treating!

My little cheeseball! I tried to make it look like he had soot or ashes or something on his face w/ my black eyeliner... it's a good thing I never tried to be a make up artist! lol

Anyway- this morning I had my 6 mo. check up at the dentist! I love how my teeth feel after a cleaning at the dentist! That went well w/ no problems! I was so thankful for that! Last year I had a mouthful full of problems and had to end up getting a root canal and a crown put on a tooth so you can imagine why I am thankful that I have nothing wrong! I scheduled B's appt. for his first time to go to the dentist. It will be in December, the week before his birthday! He really has been wanting to go to the dentist, so hopefully that will go okay! I guess we'll see! Our dentist is a super nice guy & he was like, "don't freak out if he hates it and doesn't want to, we'll just reschedule for a few months down the road, a lot of times a ride in the chair is as far as we get w/ 3 or 4 yr. olds!" I think since he is so excited he'll be okay though... HOPEFULLY!

Tonight we're getting Brycen's baby stuff out of the spare garage (brycen calls it the "dirty garage") it's where we store a lot of stuff and Ryan has a lot of junk. lol. I want to get all that stuff cleaned up (like the high chair, exersaucer, bouncer, etc...) before it gets to cold outside to be able to do it. It's all sealed up in plastic bags, but I peaked in one day a few months back and it was still dirty and needs cleaned up. I think this evening it will be nice enough to get that done! Then we went have to worry about it while it's freezing outside! My mom is so sweet and wants to buy the crib bedding for us! I got it all picked out and I think she was ordering it last night! I can't wait until it comes in! Tomorrow is house projects galore for my poor hubby, he has a long list of things that need accomplished (finish trim in family room, redo our master bath that is torn apart right now, make dresser for baby's room, make huge toy cabinet for family room so we can move b's toys in there, paint baby's room... etc!) sooo you can see why he's wanting to get all this done! lol... plus all my mom's family is coming to our house for Christmas the weekend before Christmas, so a lot of that needs to be DONE before then and I'm not a lot of help on any of those projects! haha. I'm sure B will be Daddy's big helper though :)

Hope you all have a great weekend~ I'll leave you w/ a belly picture.

20 wks and 3 days

jumping belly :)

Yesterday was my day off, as Wednesday normally is! Yay for that. I took Brycen to pre-school and then got a lot done around the house... and I did rest and finish up a book I've been trying to finish reading! I love reading, just making the time for it isn't easy, and these days I sit down with a book and fall asleep. haha. Ryan called me during the day to see if i wanted to go watch FireProof which was held over at the Washington Theater. I really did want to so we decided we would. My mom watched Brycen for us and we went to Pizza Hut and ate (our waitress was so mean to me I almost fell out of the booth!) & then went and watched the movie. I told Ryan you know you are old and married when you go to the movies on a Wednesday night! :) I really enjoyed the movie! I had watched Facing the Giants which is by the same people and I thought this one was even better! I felt kind of mean or something b/c all these people were crying during the movie and I didn't cry! I mean don't get me wrong, it was an emotional movie and if those were people in my life then I would cry, but I just didn't?! Anyway, we didn't get back home from the movie and picking up Brycen at my parents until 9:45pm. Past mine (and Brycen's) bed times! Thankfully though, praying it stays this way, I'm not as tired today as the past couple of days. That's such a relief!
On the baby front, not much news really... I've been feeling him for quite awhile, but the movements get stronger by the day. I find them amusing and quite frequently laugh out loud at them. People probably think I'm nuts! And hey, maybe I am! haha. Anyway, yesterday I was sitting on the couch reading and he was kicking/punching harder than I had felt before, so I lifted up my shirt to look at my belly and I could see my belly "jump" each time he would do it! It still amazes me that there is a little tiny human being in my belly!
Tonight we are taking Brycen trick-or-treating... I know everyone has different views of Halloween and I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the whole thing. Our view so far at our house is that we don't mind him going to family/friends homes to get treats and that he has to be a "nice" thing for Halloween. I don't really see anything too evil about dressing up as a fire fighter and getting some candy. I'm glad it's not supposed to be too frigid tonight so hopefully we won't freeze to death getting in and out of the vehicle. We won't go very many places anyway! Hope everyone is having a good week, I can't believe tomorrow is already Friday! I'm always ready for the weekend! :)

Cures for being Tired??

Anyone have any good pick me ups?? or Cures for being exhausted?! I'm always tired, I think I make that perfectly clear in most posts... okay maybe I whine about it too much. I honestly don't know how I'm going to keep my eyes open most days though. I fight and struggle through my day (sitting behind a computer screen most of the time doesn't help). I think my clients think I'm on drugs or something b/c my eyes probably look all glassed over! I'm getting plenty of rest and I'm still so tired I can barely stay awake! HELP!!!!

no pictures AGAIN!

Well, I went home at noon on Thursday. Friday morning I finally felt better (yah, good enough to go shopping). I wasn't up to par, but I wasn't missing out! Thursday night Ryan started getting sick and by Friday was miserable. He came home from work that morning, which NEVER happens so I know he was really really sick! I got a lot of great deals at Edinburgh! I got quite a few Christmas presents, which is good since I'm wanting to finish up Christmas shopping SOON. Brycen & Andon both got plenty of new clothes! Who can pass up great deals?! We had fun. My mom, my friend Vanessa, and I went and laughed the entire day! The only bad thing happened after we'd been shopping for about an hour... it was about 11am and I was going to town in the Osh Kosh store and started feeling not so great... um yah, I almost passed out AGAIN. I kind of forgot to eat anything that morning... whoops! We went to lunch right away and after I got some food in me I was feeling much better. We got home late Friday night and I was sooo exhausted. Of course Brycen had to get up three times during the night for breathing treatments and w/ Ryan being sick I was the only parent "on duty". Luckily, on Saturday we didn't have anything to do and Ryan was still sick so we mostly spent the day laying around and catching up on rest and trying to get healthy. I did have to run to Wal-Mart to get groceries and other stuff we had to have, but that went pretty smooth. I didn't have a chance to go at all last weekend w/ being so busy, so my bill was outrageous though! lol. Brycen had a terrible cough and his poor little chest was just killing him by the end of the day. We were up again 3 times during the night for breathing treatments on Saturday :( I felt so bad for the little guy. I felt like I already had a newborn in the house, being up so often! Also, Saturday we dog sat for our friends puppy, she was sooo cute! They live in KY and had a wedding up here and so we got to watch her. Brycen loved that. Yesterday afternoon everyone was finally feeling much better! What a relief! I hate germs, and I felt like we were sitting around in a germ filled house so I disinfected pretty much everything possible! Ryan said it smelled like a hospital after I got done :) We were able to make it to my parents for supper last night, I needed to get out of the house! My mom made Taco Soup! YUMM!! I have been on a real soup kick lately! Brycen finally slept soundly all night w/ no coughing, wheezing, or any other symptom that needed taken care of! I was so glad b/c we all needed a good nights sleep! He was still tired and not wanting to get out of bed this morning (hey, neither did I!). We did make it to work/school and I talked to Ryan earlier and he is feeling good! yayy! I hope the sickies stay away, we've had our fair share the past few weeks! This week we don't have much going on at all and I'm so thankful for that! I thought that last week, but then ended up not being able to catch up on much, sooo hopefully this week the catching up can happen! Well, I need to eat lunch- so I hope you all have a terrific Monday!
Oh yes, and we have decided on a FINAL name for baby! Andon Joseph Richard Knepp... Long, I know, but we couldn't decide on the middle name so we thought we'd just use both! Plus, it's still shorter than my name was growing up. It's only 23 letters, mine was 26, a whole alaphabet worth :) My brother & my grandpa are pretty excited, so I'm glad we decided to use both names!

sick.

So when Brycen was sick the weekend before last I was so thankful not to catch anything. I was thinking it had been quite a long time since I've been sick too. Yah, well I shouldn't of thought those things! Tuesday I had a runny nose and a stuffed up head, but figured it was just the weather changing... By Tuesday night I was just plain miserable & could barely move. Yesterday I took Brycen to pre-school and came home and slept the entire day. Each time I would wake up to use the bathroom or get a drink and I couldn't do anything but go back to sleep. It was terrible! I guess I know why I have been so tired lately... either my body has been trying to fight this off and finally just lost, or it's my bodies way of telling me to slooowwww down. Either way, I'm still miserable today... my head isn't as stuffed up as yesterday, but I still feel like I've been hit by a truck. I'm at work, probably shouldn't be. I'm not a fan of meds anyway, and I'm especially not going to take any being pregnant, so hopefully this will hurry up and go away... I'm supposed to be going shopping in Edinburgh tomorrow w/ my momma... Who knows at this point if that's going to happen or not!

name meaning

I could not find a name meaning for Andon... and it was starting to frustrate me! I wanted to make sure it didn't mean anything bad before we named him that! lol. This morning I finally found it! It means ~priceless~ or ~invaluable~. How perfect is that? Also, the name derives from Anthony, and get this, that's Ryan's middle name! I guess that seals the deal, Andon it is! We are back and forth on the middle name. We'd like to name him after my brother, whom I love soooo much. It would be Andon Joseph... but I don't want people to call him AJ. We also thought about naming him after my Papaw, but Andon Richard sounds really old. Sooo we're still up in the air about the middle name.

Nothing Much

I don't really have much to say... we had a pretty quiet evening at home last night. Ryan mowed the yard & B and I played outside. I played catch up w/ laundry. The house seemed to be a mess after I wasn't home at all this weekend except to sleep! I'm saving my cleaning for Wednesday b/c I can get more done w/ no one else at home. Anyway, I was too tired last night for much cleaning! I took a few pictures of B that I wanted to put on here.

Friday night at the rehersal dinner/weiny roast, listening to my buddy Jacob play guitar and sing to us--what a treat :) Brycen was def. impressed, lol. Anyone who knows him knows how much he lovesss his guitar!

Yesterday while we were playing outside Brycen asked me to take a picture of him and Izzie :)

here they are again... they are so sweet together! (those boards in the background are what he was "working" with!! he calls himself a "worker man"). i love his imagination.

B w/ his farm all set up- I love to watch him play w/ it, he is such a little farmer :) The bad look he is giving me is b/c I made him stop playing to take a picture, haha.