10 Day Challenge - Day 7

1. I want pretzels and peanut butter and ice cream!  :)

2. I want my Masters of Music degree to just fall in my lap! HA!

3. I really want a Kindle!!  My friend just got one and I was playing with it a little bit last night and OH MY GOODNESS!!  I want it!

4. I want my child to be healthy and happy.  I want him to know God and have a good relationship with his daddy.  I want him to love fishing and camping and hiking and...

5. I want to have the ability to fly to visit my friends in all the different places that they live!  I hate not being so close to them.  Strike that...I want my friends to move to Portland!! ;)

6. I want to go full term with my son and not have any complications that lead to intervention or c-section

7. I want a house to live in that is in a good neighborhood for my family and has a beautiful park where my son and I can go play!

10 Day Challenge - Day 8

1. I won't ever be in a place where I can say I have a great relationship with my Savior.

2. Somebody I meet won't like me or get along with me.

3. Anything adventurous.  You laugh, but seriously, I've realized I'm scared of adventure.  I once stood on a cliff for at least an hour and couldn't talk myself into jumping off like all my other friends.  That goes for high dive as well. White water rafting...HA!  Caves, super scary.  Skiing, slow death by rolling head over heals down a steep mountain.  Not joking...this is how I think.

4. I won't be able to lose my pregnancy weight.

5. I'll never be involved in singing or music ever again.

6. I won't be a good mother, one of those "naturals" that just knows what to do.

7. My child will be just like me :)

8. My husband and I won't ever be able to get out of debt.



This blog post over at Twirls 'n Curls is a must read and a MUST REMEMBER!

I hope to always remember to be uplifting to Rolando.  I hope to always cherish his way of doing things (especially when they are the exact opposite of how I would do it!)  I hope to remember that, more than winning a fight, more important than being right, more important than speaking my mind, above all, my child needs to know that I love daddy and daddy loves me.

Pregnancy Survey - Week 25

How far along are you? 25 weeks and 5 days.  I am LESS than 100 days away

from meeting Sweet Pea!

How big is Baby? Baby is about 9 inches and weighs 1 3/4 pounds :)

Weight Gain? You bet your sweet bippies!  I've gained about 18 pounds.  More than I wanted with only being 25 weeks, but still in the okay range.

Gender? Boy

Maternity Clothes? Yes ma'am!  I can still fit into some of my work shirts (if they are long enough) but I've been in maternity pants for about 12 weeks.  I seriously cannot stand anything tight around my belly!!

Stretch Marks? Not any new ones!  I was blessed with stretch marks before I was 14. :(

Sleep? I was sleeping just fine up until about a week ago.  March 16th I hit the milestone of Sweet Pea waking me up with his kicks for the first time.  I'm sleeping okay if I always have my body pillow with me!

Symptoms? I have not experienced many pregnancy symptoms.  I'm not trying to brag, just being honest.  I was never nauseous, i was only tired for about a week.  I've not experienced cravings other than I love spicy foods more and more. The only aversion I experienced was to coffee, but that has disappeared!  YUM!

Movement? YES!!! Sweet Pea has been kicking up a storm lately!  I absolutely adore feeling him move around inside of me.  I'm excited to experience him rolling and tumbling.

Food Cravings? nothing except for I love my foods even spicier than normal.

Labor Signs? none yet

Belly Button in or out? 100% innie!  It hasn't changed even a little bit.

What I miss? I've been thinking about this for 5 minutes and have come up with nothing!

What I am looking forward to? I can't wait to see what he looks like.  How dark is his skin going to be?  What shape will his eyes be?  What will be the color and texture of his hair?  Will he have Rolando's nose (I think he will based on the ultrasound picture)?

cutest little profile I've ever seen!! and the nose? totally Rolando's!

Best moment of the week? Knowing that I hit the double digits of days left in pregnancy. :)  YAY!!! 

40 tips

I stumbled across this neat article today and wanted some place to store it so that when Sweet Pea arrives, I can reference it.

10 Day Challenge - Day 9

1. I absolutely adore feeling my son kick inside of me.  Seriously can't get enough of that!!

2. I love when I get home and my husband is in the kitchen.  He already has the dishwasher loaded, the trash/recycling taken out and dinner is ready to be served!  He's the best husband EVER!

3. I love listening to the rain falling outside when I can just grab a book and lazily read the morning away.

4. I love receiving a random email or post that puts a smile on my face and warms my heart.

5. I love that my sister and I have play dates and random encounters!  For that matter, I love that my sister is within a 30 minute drive of me! :)

6. I love the fact that I live is 2 hours from the ocean, 1 hour from a huge mountain (not mentioning that it's a volcano), 1 hour from waterfalls, and 2 hours from the high desert land. Can't beat it!

7. I love that my family loves me so unconditionally!

8. I love Birch Community Services, our gleaning community.  Rolando and I would have starved to death (ok, slight exaggeration) without it.

9. I love the feeling I have AFTER a good work out.  I don't necessarily love the work out, though.

10 Day Challenge - Day 10

I found this little gem of inspiration over at Here Comes the Sun.  Beautiful new family, many challenges, you should stop by and read their story!

I've been having trouble figuring out what to write about so I've decided to take this challenge.

Ten Secrets:

1. I'm OCD...I know that's not a secret, but the one 'mess' I can't keep up with is the pile of clean clothes after doing laundry.  I HATE putting clothes away!

2. I am jealous of mommies who get to stay at home.  I don't think I would be a good SAHM but I would like the chance to try it out.

3. I love being lazy and would love nothing more than to spend every Saturday lying on the couch watching movies or TV shows

4. I could very easily eat a whole pint of ben & jerry's half baked ice cream...no joke!  I am not one of those who finds certain foods 'rich'...I don't even know what that means.

5. I would rather listen to a musical than any other genre of music.

6. I shower every other day (unless I work out at the gym, then it's necessary!!)

7. I beat myself up for not keeping in better contact with my friends.

8. I've lived in five different states, attended 7 different schools k-12, went to 3 colleges and am a better person for it.  I know how to make friends, I'm not afraid of new situations, and I'm not deterred by a room full of strangers.

9. My weight and food are always on my mind...not always in a positive manner.

10. I want to move to Italy someday.

bite and chew

You know that old saying, "Don't bite off more than you can chew?"  Can someone please tell me that again and again and again?!?!

This weekend was a very busy weekend.  Saturday I had to work in the morning, I had musical rehearsal in the afternoon, and Rolando and I had dinner at a friends house in the evening.  Sunday is the day that someone should have yelled at me to sit down for 2 minutes.  Here's what I decided was a good idea to tackle.

Last weekend my family made a trip to Idaho and came back with a truck load of baby gear! YAY!!!  Well, it was all piled into the garage (thank you Janelle, Tyler, Mom and Dad) and I wanted to dig in!!  There were buckets of baby clothes that needed to be sorted and looked at and washed.  Two loads of laundry later, task complete.  Not to mention the two loads of laundry that I brought over of Rolando's and my clothing! YIKES!  I better get used to that. 

I brought over bread mix to bake and little cubical storage containers to build.  I also wanted to start making a grocery list for Freezer Food Saturday coming up, but that didn't happen.

Rolando and I are going to sell the jeep so I decided (with the help of my dad) to fix a couple of parts that have been broken for a while.  Well, in the process of fixing one part, we totally pulled off the back window zipper.  The zipper has been broken for some time now, but Rolando and I just vowed never to touch it and it would be fine.  It took my dad and I two hours to zip the window back up.  We fixed it (WD-40 is a miracle worker)  and now I can take it through the car wash/detailer to get it looking good as new. :)

Well, all that work took a toll on my pregnant body.  I couldn't get comfortable last night, so I tossed and turned and shifted and groaned and grunted!  Not a good night sleep.  I'm feeling a little more than run down this morning.  Is this what sleep deprivation looks like?

I'm here at work today, but it's going to be a LONG 10 hour day!  Maybe I'll only make it 9 hours and go home, stick in a good movie, and FOLD all those baby boy clothes that I have. :)

Added a few hours later: I just wanted to let everyone know that my wonderful dad was the one handling the WD-40.  We were outside and he was spraying it on the window.  I was more than 5 feet away from the chemical so I don't think any damage was done to my little sweet pea.  Just wanted to clarify for any concerned mothers out there!  :)