It's late at night...

And I'm tired. And sore. But I have "blog guilt" because I haven't updated in a long time!

Besides, if I go to bed, I'll just lay there and not be able to go to sleep anyways, so why even try? (Pregnancy insomnia!)

December 1st was Barrett's first birthday. We celebrated that weekend.

I made his cake... A monster cake for baby monster. <3

He wasn't too sure about it at first....

But quickly became very accepting!

And begged for more every time he ran out :D

This kid LOVES his baths!

Jessi loves to play outside. (I need a newer picture, we now have about twice as much snow!)

Too bad it's way too cold for her to be out most of the time! :(

Rosy cheeks!

Barrett's favorite thing to do.... Pull everything out of the "diaper dresser"! The little bag he's holding has "booty bits" in it (Soap bits to put in our spray waterbottle for a cloth wet-wipe solution.) and it's his favorite thing to play with! I've had to hide it several times.

Most recent full belly picture.. I think this was at 30 weeks. (33+ now)

32 weeks. With part of my back-fat cut out. Haha.

Things have been going good here. We have about 6ish weeks until Baby time. Her diaper stash is complete. And probably a bit overboard... What?! Did I just say that? No.

I've been feeling very well. Which is honestly a huge relief from my pregnancy with Barrett. It wasn't so much that I didn't feel well with him, I was just in SO.MUCH pain all the time.

I've been very thankful to be able to just enjoy this pregnancy.

Barrett's now walking all over the place. He still can't/won't stand up in the middle of the floor (unless he falls and doesn't go all the way down) but it's now his preferred method of getting around. We gave him a haircut the other day and it makes him look like a different boy! It makes me sad, he's getting so big. And now there's going to be another baby. Which in one way, makes me sad because he's still supposed to be my baby!

He's still nursing. There's been some times (now included) when I've been sure he's just about done because of different things, but each time, we get thru it! My milk has decreased and then came back several times now. Last week I was positive I was "all dried up" but it's getting better now. He has been getting goat milk ever since he turned one. We're about out of it, so after this is gone we'll just go to regular whole milk.

Jessi~ She's a clown, a sweetie, a pest, and everything in between.

Every morning after Wade goes to work, she wakes up and crawls into bed with me. It's our special cuddle time.

She's SO excited for her baby sister to get here. Every time we get something (like a diaper....) in the mail for her, she gets so excited about it.

Her birthday is in 2 days. I can't believe it! We kept asking her what she wanted for her birthday and she always told us, "A party! With everybody there!"

So, a party it shall be.

And hopefully I'll get pictures of it up sooner!

I'm done doing daycare now. 'Nuf said on that. Haha.

So yeah..... there you go.

Step by step cookie making instructions

First, get everything ready. Including your stool if you're just not tall enough.

Then, mix all your "wet" ingredients. Take a little snitch to make sure it's going ok.

add "dry" mixture.

Add in cheesey smile

And watch the spiffy kitchen-aid mix it all up. Smile again for good measure.

Breath a sigh of relief because Mom says that NOW you can FINALLY add the chocolate chips.

Put them in, hurry! Before she changes her mind.

Throw in another cheesey smile while wondering how many snitches you can snitch before you're told to quit.

at this point, you MUST do a taste test. Otherwise you're whole batch might be ruined.

Hehe, this is not my first snitch. Those stinking cameras, sometimes it's hard to get just the right picture, so you have to keep trying...

Wonder if you can convince mom to forget about baking the cookies and just eat the dough.

Put cookies on the pan and bake for a very looooong 15 minutes

Then put in the cookie jar. Because now it's supper time..

And mom is mean and says I can't have one until I eat my supper.

Just as a warning, she might make you put on your pajamas first too.

But all's forgiven when you eat the cookies.

A goalmark passed...

We just officially paid of more than 5K of debt.
It took 6 1/2 months. We've also put aside $1,200.00 for our birth fees for this baby.
I know that's not a whole lot, really. But it's much better than what we were doing before. :)
Things will go slower / get tighter soon, but we'll deal with that when we get to it.

How do you...

Plan a proper 1st Birthday party when you have nobody to celebrate it with.




Stupid hormones.

Ding ding ding!

Timer has popped!
I think it's timing is a little off though....
It's funny, with Jessi only the very tip-top stuck a little bit out. With Barrett, about half of it stuck out. This is the first time it's come all the way out! And it was all of a sudden.
22w 3d

So, we had our U/S on Tuesday. I was very determined that we wouldn't find out what we were having this time around.

Well, Here's the story.

When we found out we were expecting again, we decided we were going to wait a while this time to tell people. SO, that ment that we didn't tell Jessi either. Because she likes to talk.

About 3 days after we found out, Jessi asked me out of the blue if I had another baby in my belly! I didn't want to say yes, so I just asked her if SHE wanted there to be another baby. She said Yes!

Then, about 2 days later, she started telling me that I had a baby sister in my belly. Ever since then, it's been all about the baby sister. She wouldn't hear ANYTHING to do with "him, he, boy, brother". She would correct you if you said otherwise. (When we finally told her that yes, there was a baby in the belly at 13 weeks when we told family, she just looked at us like "why are you telling me this? I already knew that.")

Wade felt very strong that this baby was a girl. And he's been right with t he other two.

I felt very strongly that this was a girl. But I refused to say so, as I've been wrong with the other two.

So we go in for the U/S. I don't want to find out. Wade does. Jessi doesn't care, because she knows already.

The tech ask's us if we want to know. We kind of laughed at each other and she says she'll wait until the end of the u/s and ask again.

We have lots of fun, they had a brand-spanking new machine and it was awsome!! You could see things you couldn't with their "old" (only 3 years old!) machine. The regular images were almost as good as 3D!

Then, I think I see something. But don't say anything.

I ask Jessi if she really wants to know if it's a girl or if it was really a boy. She answers, "It's a girl." We ask again in a few different ways and she looks at us like we're dumb and says "It's a girl!" She called the baby a "she" or "sister" the whole time. Asked about every 2 minutes what "she" was doing on the screen.

Then, I see another image. And I know. So I tell the tech that she might as well comfirm it becuase I wasn't going to know, but not "know". That's no fun.

Here's some pictures:

The only 3D image we got. The tech waited until the end and by then the baby had put on quite a show and was finished. So here the baby was folded in half, holding it's feet. We couldn't get a face image or anything.


And here's what ended up being the telling shot. I REALLY think that if it had been done on the old machine, we wouldn't have been able to tell. But you could see EVERYTHING with this one, so it was pretty clear. (click to make bigger)

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So yes, It's a GIRL!

Blog depression.

I think my blog is in a great state of depression.

It can't think of anything to say.

It never does anything exciting.

So it sits out-dated and boring.

My goal one of these days is to do a photo-log of one of my days. I don't know why. Maybe to prove to everybody exactly how boring my days are. Or maybe to see my day thru pictures and find things I can appreciate more.

I do swag bucks. Right now I have 2,457 swag bucks, which could get me $25 in amazon gift cards. I need to do more surveys to get more swag bucks if I want to use my gift cards for Christmas/birthdays.

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How's that for a sales pitch?

I'm a huge Nebraska Cornhuskers football fan. HUGE. (I'm not saying I'm huge.. just that I'm a major fan.. you know? Although, I am getting a little huge. But I'm the only one allowed to say that.)

For Wade's birthday I blew a bunch of money that really I shouldn't have and got us tickets to the Nebraska/Mizzouri game this weekend. I'm a little nervous. I'm that person. The one who gets so excited and wound up, yelling and screaming when we watch a game. And that's just when we're watching it on tv or listining to a game on the radio. Imagine how I'll be when I'm there in person!! This poor little baby trying to grow inside me. It's in for a rough day.

My daughter is just like me. Poor little girl. My favorite quote of hers from the last game we got to see? "Run you little freak, RUN!!" (Our punt returner was returning a punt which he ended up running 100 yards for a touchdown.)

She prades around the house on game day in her Husker clothes going "Goooooo Biiiiiiig Reeeeed... GO BIG RED!!"

I'm so proud.

I'm 21 weeks pregnant today. It's going so fast! Our "big" U/S is scheduled for Tuesday. We're not planning on finding out what this little peanut is. It'll be the final surprise.

I want a massage. And a day off. A whole day. (And night) And some really good food.

I want to go to Italy.

I have gorgeous children.

See?

(20 wks)

I've nothing clever to say...

So I'll just post the picture.

14 weeks.

That about says it all.