Rollercoaster

Well the last few days have been very interesting to say the least. For the past few weeks we have known that Jacobs work was going to do some layoffs. Work has been pretty slow for them and they have had to downsize drastically. Yesterday he went in to work and they gave him the bad news. It did help that it wasn't a complete shock to us, but still a disappointment. Since he had known this may happen he started looking at other jobs that were out there and actually got a call from another company yesterday afternoon. Today he went in to meet with them and they have offered him the job if he would like it. So at least that is good news. Now he just needs to decide if it is the right company.

I have also been looking at jobs. Since I have been feeling much better and I am seriously burnt out doing nails I wanted to see if there was anything out there I might enjoy doing. The only thing I was worried about was if someone would hire me knowing I was pregnant. I decided to give it a try and what do you know I had two job interviews yesterday. One in real estate and the other in mortgage. Today I accepted the real estate position. I am pretty excited about this! The company knows I am pregnant and is willing to work around that, the pay is good, and I mostly work from home. Could it get any better?? I am still not going to completely get my hopes up until I actually start on Monday LOL.

We had our big ultrasound today. So after all of the running around we did today we went in. We got two really good gender shots. It looks like we are having a girl! We are very excited! We really didn't hope we had one more than the other but for some reason we both thought it was going to be a boy so that is where our mind set was. Guess intuition is not always right LOL Little Nadia was kicking away. We have another ultrasound next month. It will be exciting to see how much she has grown. Now we can complete our safari themed room with accents of pink and purple. I have to say, its wonderful being able to call the baby by her name :)

So all in all it seems that things are looking pretty good for us. So we will just continue to keeps our spirits up and fingers crossed that things keep falling into place!

Nice to see family

On Friday Jacob got off work early so we ran to the bank then Walmart for some grocery shopping. I was craving Chinese food so we stopped and got some for me then headed back home. Since Christmas we have been searching for a Wii, I know he really wants one and I wanted to get one and surprise him for his birthday, but it is impossible to find one out here! I guess that's one of the bad things about living in a big city. I did find him something that I thought he would like so I ordered it. It should be here in a few days. Hopefully I will get to it before he does, even though I am horrible about keeping gifts! I'm sure I will be too excited and give it to him early LOL

My brother and Ron came to town from Minnesota so Saturday we went to my parents after I made breakfast to hang out with everyone and swim. So far Jacob has met 4 of my 6 siblings, I need to catch up meeting his :) We had a great time and of course LOTS of food. I had a horrible nights sleep the night before (probably due to falling asleep on the couch) so by the time we came home at 6:30 I was ready for bed. I must be really spoiled with my mattress because my back and hips hurt so bad I was miserable! We laid down to watch a movie, but I ended up falling asleep after Jacob gave me a massage. I woke up at about 10, ate a brownie, hung out with Jacob a little and we fell asleep at about 11.

This morning we slept in a little then went down to my parents for brunch at the country club. My mom was too tired from the day before so it was just my brother, Ron, my Dad, Jacob and I. The food was great, I especially was loving the fruit! I can't get enough pineapple! After brunch we walked around a little then we headed back home. We have yard work and house work to do, its going to be 97 today so I'm sure I won't be able to be outside for too long. The heat is really getting to me, this summer is going to be killer being pregnant! I can't believe how easily I get overheated.

Can you say crazy!

I haven't worked much this week, mainly due to my lack of motivation. I can't seem to get my butt in gear and go into the salon. Of course I go in when I have appointments, but if I don't I should just go in to sit and hang out in hopes someone will want something done. Anyway, my point is, I need to. Even though I feel like I don't want to, my emotions get the best of me if I don't. I am a people person, I need interaction with people on a daily basis. This brings me to what happened yesterday.

I woke up at 6:30 let the dogs out, piddled around the house, did a myspace bulletin where people are supposed to leave you comments about memories together. This was a bad idea, it just made me miss home and made me even more depressed! Then I decided I was tired and would take a nap. I didn't wake up until about 2:30 when Jacob called to say he was on his way home. I was pretty excited and wanted a chocolate milkshake, he said he would pick one up for me. He called back 5 minutes later to tell me he had another call to go on. Usually a call takes about an hour, so I was bummed but no big deal. Until 3 hours had gone by and I didn't hear from him. I was afraid he had gotten into a car accident or something, my mind just started racing. Needless to say I had myself all worked up! Then I started feeling very lonely, I know this is because I hadn't been around people for a few days. I finally get a call from Jacob at about 6, he is on his way home. I had made biscuits and gravy for dinner so it was waiting for him when he got home. Poor guy had to deal with my depressed self telling him I was lonely. As I was trying to do dishes a large pan fell onto my finger. This normally would've made me mad because dirty dish water flew everywhere but instead I started crying. Yes, my finger hurt, but that was not my issue. Jacob comes over and asks if I'm ok and I try to answer that yes, I'm fine. I go to the bathroom to blow my nose and he follows me to ask if it's my finger that hurts or if it is everything else. Then I start BAWLING. He hugs me and tried to comfort me only to have me start laughing hysterically in his ear over how ridiculous I am being. He is very confused by this point and is trying his best to not laugh at me. Poor guy, he doesn't know what to do with me! LOL I think I have officially gone crazy.

My Appt

So I went in for my check up today. I have gained 2 pounds, I have to say, not so bad. I may have forgot to mention that a few weeks ago they left me a message saying I needed to have a test done at my next appt. They said if I wanted to know what it was to give them a call, they didn't feel comfortable leaving it on the answering machine. This of course kinda freaked me out! I called them back and turns out I needed a Pap. Well woop dee do! So today they did that and also drew blood to run the Quad Screen. We should get results back from that in a few days. Thankfully they also gave me a prescription for my headaches. She said by my description I am most likely having migraines, so hopefully this medicine will help alleviate the pain. The most exciting news is that we have our gender ultrasound next Wednesday. Woo Hoo!! We are so excited! This next week is going to take forever to pass! They also moved my due date up by 2 days, it is Sept. 24th now.

Anticipation

My Dr's appointment is tomorrow and I am just so excited. I hope that they schedule my ultrasound soon so we can find out what we are having. I am about 17 1/2 weeks and they generally do them at 18-19 weeks. It will also be nice to see how our little one is growing. I haven't felt anything else since the last little flick a couple weeks ago, but we do listen to the heartbeat every night and can hear the little one moving around. I brought the doppler over to my parents house last weekend and Julia got a kick out of hearing everything. She kept telling everyone that she heard the babies heart and could hear it move around. She is the cutest. Of course she wants me to have a girl. Jacob has a running joke with her about how it is a boy and they go back and forth teasing each other.

I have been looking into delayed shot schedules also. I was worried about this before we ever had a child. The link between vaccinations and Autism along with SIDS is pretty scary. I know of a few cases personally that make me think this link could possibly be the cause. I'm sure it makes it a little more real to me being that I people I know are having to battle this. It really freaks me out! So I am going to continue my research and hopefully I can find a solution to put my mind at ease.

Crazy day

Good thing I woke up in a good mood this morning! It seems that most days I am pretty happy (thank god the moodiness has calmed down some) but I do have days here and there, yesterday being one of them. I was just grumpy, we had a lot of running around to do and I'm sure I wasn't the most fun to be around. Thankfully Jacob is a very sweet, understanding man :) We took his truck in to be detailed and cleaned, it cost quite a bit of money and a LOT of time, but it really needed it. The sad part is, now we are really going to have a hard time selling it! We are both pretty sad. I feel bad for Jacob that he has to give up his truck with only one more year to pay on it. Again, thankfully he is very kind and understanding, he insists that it is for the best right now. I know it breaks his heart though. Poor guy. The more I think about it the worse I feel.....

My parents came over last night for dinner. I had a TON of lasagna and cake left over. They haven't been over since we got our new furniture and done the babies room so they were pretty excited to see everything. It was a pretty good night. After they left we laid in bed and watched Walk Hard. It got boring pretty early on :) The night before we watched Gone Baby Gone, which was a pretty good movie.

This morning we woke up and I made breakfast. This is where I am thankful I was in a good mood LOL The pancakes, eggs and hash browns all turned out ok, but I forgot that turkey bacon doesn't need to cook that long since there is hardly any fat in it. Needless to say, the house smelt of burnt bacon. Yes, this would be enough to really tick me off on a bad day, but today I just took it out and made a new batch. Then we had to take Jacob's work truck to the shop to be worked on. I took the dogs with me and followed Jacob up there. Dax was jumping around so much that he broke a toe nail off. I was so scared he was going to start bleeding everywhere, but he was ok. We got to the shop and the guy who was supposed to work on it wasn't there. His boss told him just to leave his truck there, so we headed back home. 10 minutes later we get a call to go pick the truck back up, the guy isn't gonna work on it today. If you don't know this, I HATE backtracking. We turned around, drove back to his work to find the guy that was supposed to work on it there. He decided just to pick it up anyway, the guy can work on it a different day. Jacobs main motivation, the Nuggets are playing and he didn't want to have to go back later to get it :) We headed back home. I beat Jacob there (because he missed our exit) to find out that I had locked us out of the house. My entire purse dumped out in Jacobs truck yesterday when I was driving it back from being detailed so I was hoping that in the mess that was my purse the keys were in there. No luck. Jacob finally got home and tried the back door, but of course I had locked it. Thankfully I remembered that our bedroom window was unlocked. After getting the screen off Jacob was able to climb in and unlock the door. I really hope that is all that is going to go wrong today, because through this all, I am still in a good mood LOL Who knows how much more I can take though!

Time to slow down

It's official. I need to slow it down on the pedicures I am doing at work. My back just kills! It seems to hurt whether I work or not, but especially bad after I do. Now I know why pregnant women waddle. Its not because they are heavy but because their back, hips and pelvis ache! Geez, I have a long way to go. We went and bought a body pillow to make sleeping a little more comfortable but that thing is so freaking huge its just awkward. It seems to be too stuffed for me too. A friend of mine gave me the idea to open up the pillow and take some of the stuffing out and then sew it back up. If I'm gonna bust out my sewing machine I might just give myself a few projects! My intentions are good but my motivation is severely lacking LOL We will see what happens.

It seems that I am just hungry ALL the time. I still haven't gained any weight, which is hard to believe. I have been trying not to eat a lot of "bad" things, but sometimes I just have to have something sweet. Tonight I baked a chocolate cake with sugar free chocolate pudding in it and substituted apple sauce for the oil, Splenda for the sugar. I know that doesn't exactly make it healthy, but it is so good! I also made lasagna. I have to admit, I read about Brianna making it and I just HAD to make some. It has been awhile since I've made it, but I'm so excited to have some. I tried to make it as healthy as I could with ground turkey, and fat free ricotta. Can't wait to have some! Yum!

Our weekend

Friday afternoon our crib was delivered. I wanted a milkshake so bad, but Jacob was so excited to set up the crib that we did it first. We really like it! Of course after we set it up I wasn't in the mood for a milkshake anymore LOL. We had a pretty mellow night.

Saturday we woke up and went to Paridise Bakery for breakfast, we are still checking out new places. After that we headed over to Babies R Us to look at some of the things I had put in the registery online. So now I need to go back online and delete some things because if we saw something we liked Jacob was happy to scan it, I know I have doubles of things. We also needed to get the crib mattress. When we left Babis R Us we did some grocery shopping then went back to the house. My sister was in town so we went to my parents house. Fred and the kids were already there in the pool playing, soon Jacob was joining in. Everyone was having a good time. My brother was getting pretty brave and actually sprayed my Mom with the water gun. If you know my Mom, you know NOT to do this! He did it a few more times. I can't believe that my Mom didn't freak out on him LOL Of course we all thought it was funny, but I know she didn't. As usual there was way too much food, but Jacob found a new kosher brand of hot dogs he likes. I guess there is a special deli here, that is also in NY that makes them. We headed home at about 6 and by 6:30 Jacob was in bed asleep. All that playing tired him out!

Sunday we were up extra early of course because we had gone to bed so early. We were going to meet my Dad, Mom and sister for brunch, but they weren't up to it after last night. The company ended up staying pretty late and my parents. We were still hungry so we went over to our old side of town to get breakfast. We did a little shopping after and found some plants we really liked for the nursery. I can't wait until we find out what we are having so we can finish decorating! The rest of Sunday wasn't much to talk about. Jacob studied, I took a nap then we watched some of our favorite shows we recorded. Of course I had to watch Desperate Housewives when it came on!

Belly

Well I thought its time I put some belly pictures up on the blog. I think I offically "popped" this last week. I seem to have grown quite a bit in the last week :)

4 Weeks













15 Weeks


















Just one week later at 4 months


I can't wait until I look pregnant not just chubby :)

Anxious

Last night we had some friends over and just visited. It was nice to have people over. Lisa was showing us pictures of their trip to Belize and they were telling us about their trip to Mexico last weekend. They invited us to go with them again soon, but being pregnant and going to Mexico makes me a little nervous. It would be a lot of fun, but I would rather go when I can join in on the party too :) They go a lot so we have plenty of time and a babysitter. My mom is determined that we will be leaving the baby with them a lot and at night while we go out. I know she is excited, but we hardly go out now LOL. I am going to go back to work, but I don't know how soon. Even then it will only be for 3 days a week.

After some helpful tips I was able to start picking out a few items for the baby. It is so hard though not knowing what we are having yet! We are just TO anxious! I really hope that at my next Dr's appointment on the 22nd that they at least schedule an ultrasound. We just get so excited and want the baby to come. I have to say though that the actual process of giving birth makes my very apprehensive. I am just going to have to try and not concentrate on that part. I know no matter how much I am scared by the time I'm that far along I am sure I will just want the baby out already!

Survey

Go to urbandictionary. com, and type in your answer to each question in the search box. Once you get the definition, copy and paste it under your answer.

Only use the number one answer

1.Your name? Maya
A beautiful sounding, attractive, and appealling female name.
The name is very sexy.


2.Birth month? February
Love Sucks Month


3.Relationship status? Married
Having a spouse, being joined in matrimony. Having a close union with another person.

The state of being legally wed; can either be heaven or hell (or sometimes both).

Happiness is being married to your best friend.


4.You describe your best friend as? Trust worthy

An incredibly skilled, intelligent, wise, trust-worthy, crafty, and lust-worthy person. Often found on Warsmith.Org

I was owned by Asmodues.


5.What should you be doing? cleaning

1.Action that people do when bored.
Involve taking a pile of junk and moving it to somewhere else in the house.

2.Removing all useless part of a whole so that it is better.

1.I did some cleaning. My desk is empty now. But don't look in the wardrobe.

2.And the chief gang told'em that Joe and Mac were now missing.


6.
Favorite Food? Nachos
slang word for pot coined by a group of high school kids from northern VA (which spread quickly as far north as Boston, as far south as Savannah) both in honor of their favorite food and as another name for their favorite recreational drug. This name has been tested and proven for safe use in public.

In history class and across the room, "Hey man, those nachos we had this weekend were fantastic."
"Yeah I know what you mean, I stuffed myself with nachos all weekend."


7.Home State? Colorado - I had to cheat on this on and pick a better description :)

A place of vast beauty. Where you can drink tap water and breath the air (thanks atmosphere) People native to colorado know that there is never bordom if you are with the right people(there are a lot of cool people),and know the right places. Many people who move here love this place as if they are natives because they realize the benefits and how welcoming we are in this state. The only people who make me mad are people who move from texas and put down Colorado acting like nothing is good enough. I get that people are proud of where they originate from thats why I am writing this. All I am saying is if you like where your from and have no respect for where you are, go back there. You will be better off, and No one will miss you here.

"wow colorado is the dopest!!!"


8.Finish the line: "the best thing[s] in life is/are ___" FREE LOL

How chavs and southerners tend to pronounce "three" of something.

"Yes mate, what can I do for you?"
"I'd like free of them watchamacallits please"
"Is that two fs or free (you dozy southern/chavtwat)?"


9.One word to describe yourself? pregnant

The blossoming of a new life...in your life.

I'm pregnant, oh joys of joys, oh holy rapture! Springtime is here!


10.Your best friend? Hmm I used to say Corre but I'm gonna have to go with Jacob


Meaning a hot guy. People who are Jacob are very wanted by many women.

Janice: Wow your boyfriend is Jacob.





Ok, some of these are just weird and I'll say some are funny. It was a fun waste of time anyway :)

Butterflies

I have today off so I woke up early and started cleaning the house. Since we have been starting to get the nursery set up we have started to think about all these other things that we are going to need. I decided that I wanted to get online and start looking at some things. We have been looking in store also, but we soon get overwhelmed with questions. That was confirmed again today as I was looking online. Jacob called and I started asking him questions. What kind of car seat should we get? The one we were thinking about only is usable until 22lbs. How long does it take a baby to get that big?? Should we just get the other one even though its more of a pain when they are small? Then there is the bottles. I plan on breastfeeding, but what kind of bottles and nipples should I get? What kind of pump? I'm sorry if this is TMI :) Even diapers. I am starting to realize that I am going to have a lot of research on my hands. While we have so many questions I just find myself getting more and more excited and giddy looking at everything!

Rawr

Not much to report other than working. We did finish what we could on the baby's room last night. I took a little effort and teamwork to get the boarder up but we think it looks pretty good. The paint colors we picked actually work really well with it! Here is an updated picture. Hopefully our crib will be here soon!

Fresh Paint

Well we tackled the nursery yesterday. We picked up paint to paint the top of the walls since we are leaving the green that they had on the bottom. The idea was to pick a tan color for the top but turns out since it has been awhile since I have picked paint colors, I was a little off. Its brown..... Not a bad thing since we are doing a safari themed nursery, but not what I expected. All I know is, if we have a girl we are going to have to change up some things for her :) All in all it turned out good. Of course I volunteered myself to do the edging at the top of the walls and didn't take into consideration that we have extremely tall ceilings, and I'm afraid of heights! I managed but I did make Jacob come hold the ladder a few times when it was too wobbly for my taste. We got the room done in about 2-3 hours. Jacob was so excited he wanted to put the boarder up already. I told him we needed to wait until the paint was dry so we would do it today. I have to say it is refreshing how excited he is about things and how he just jumps in there to get things done.

We bought the crib yesterday too, it should be here in a few days. I have a feeling that we are going to get the nursery all together and then as time goes on I am going to think of other things I want to do to it :) Oh boy! My favorite nursery was in one of the model homes I worked at in Colorado. It is NOTHING like what we have done, so I'm a little nervous :)

Nachos

Nachos have been my latest addiction. We went out late Thursday night to fill my craving and again Friday. Although I do have to say that the nachos at Old Chicago's were much better :) Friday night we didn't do much except play on the computer. I had a HORRIBLE night of sleep though, not to mention Jacob's thrashing around in bed. Finally I got up and went into the guest room. I couldn't wake him up to make him move!

Saturday we woke up and I was so ready to go get some breakfast. Turns out I slept until 9 (late for me) and by the time we got to the only Village Inn we know of around it was packed. Forget that! Make a pregnant lady wait when shes starving? LOL We ended up at the Native New Yorker across the street and it was pretty good. Village Inn is not my favorite so I'm glad we have found somewhere that serves all kinds of food. We are still learning our way around this area of town, so its exciting to find new places we like. After breakfast we picked up the dogs and went to my parents to hang out by the pool. My brother was there with his two kids, which always makes it more entertaining. They were playing with their water guns and sure enough not soon after I was out there sunning I was drenched LOL. Jacob spent a lot of time playing with the kids in the pool, he has so much patience. He is going to be a great Dad! My Mom wasn't outside much. She seems to always stay inside doing all kinds of stuff and then when we are ready to go she decides to come out and is disappointed we are leaving already. I told her, we have been here 4 hours, what were you doing? It's hard because we need the weekends to get our stuff done to. We have yard work, housework, grocery shopping, all the normal things people do on the weekends. She said well can't you convince Jacob to stay longer? It's not him, it's that we have other things to do. Then she tells me Well, you don't know how much longer I am going to be alive you know. I'm sorry, maybe it's just me but I hate guilt trips, we MOVED out here to be closer to her and we see them a lot. I told her it wasn't healthy to be putting a guilt trip on me. I know her health isn't the best but people really should not say those things to other people. Her and I have a rocky relationship and when she starts drinking I just want to get the hell out of there! So off we went, back home, to do what we needed to do.

Today I want to go pick out some paint for the nursery. We are going to buy our crib here soon. So exciting! We also need to get some food in the house! Then it will probably be lots of yard work. We need to spray the outside of the house for spiders too. We spotted one by our master bedroom door to the patio and it looked pretty nasty. We don't want to get bit or have the dogs get bit. Jacob will have to do the spraying since I'm sure I need to stay away from those chemicals!

Ahhh the baby doppler

So I have been pretty good. Only using my baby doppler once a day :) Now that I have it down, I can pick out all of the different sounds I'm hearing. Last night after I got out of the shower we laid on the bed to listen to the baby. I always find the baby right away, but last night it was so cool we could hear (I want to say him) the baby moving all around. Could this be due to the iced tea I had with dinner? I'm thinking so! We listened for quite a bit. Then we tried to see if the baby would move to the sound of our voice. LOL Ok so it will be much easier to test these things once you can actually feel the baby. We are so excited we just can't help ourselves. I felt something like a light flick but from my belly. I'm not sure if that was the baby or not, but its nothing I have ever felt before. Only happened once and it was so light I was thinking, did I really just feel something..... I have been having little pains in my abdomen. Must be my muscles stretching, I hope. Then we get to the greatest thing to share ever LOL My tail bone is killing me. I am not very big, I thought these things happened when you got really big. The Dr. says it my hips widening. Oh thats GREAT! I'm still thinking the tailbone issue is from working. I have been doing a lot of pedicures lately. Don't get me wrong pedis pay well and are very easy but its not doing my back and butt any favors. Jacob said I should go get a massage and I think I'm gonna take him up on it. I tried to get him to come along and get one, but no go. Man, I even dreamt about having a massage last night! I still have a lot of tension in my shoulders and neck which I'm sure has something to do with my headaches. They have been much better though. Still there, but not as painful..... Thankfully

Flintstone feet

Ok so I am officially getting slightly swollen ankles. Aahhh :) I am afraid I am going to be such a chub by the time the baby comes! Oh man....

Sunday we picked up our new furniture and we LOVE it! It is so comfy and we are especially enjoying the recliners in the couch. So far we have managed to keep the dogs off of it. We will see if we can keep that up. It's hard to say what goes on when we are at work. We also picked up a new bed frame to match Jacobs furniture we put in our bedroom. We found one that matched perfectly and it was the style we were looking for. So I have to say, our house is lookin good. Soon we are going to be buying the crib and getting the nursery ready. How exciting!

Not much else the past few days besides work, napping, and grocery shopping. Jacob was on call Monday and Tuesday. He was out pretty late last night on a call. I do my best to stay awake so I can see him when he comes home. I don't make it much longer than that though.