Bad Blogger

I have been a terrible blogger lately. Honestly, my life is just not exciting. This week I'll reach 26 weeks of magical pregnancy. Between that and work, I basically come home and sleep or lay around until its time to sleep. My husband even made the comment last week that he never sees me anymore. Thats because I live in my bedroom when I'm not in my office.

I did have a birthday last week. The big 27. It was a very nice day with lunch with my best friend, cake and presents at work, and then an 80 minute prenatal massage as a gift from my husband. This weekend he's taking me to see Harry Potter. He did good.

Pregnancy is going great. Baby is healthy and next week we have the wonderful glucose test and rhogam shot. I'm very ready to get it over with and hope I don't have to do the 3 hour test. It's not a hard test or even all that bad, its just gross and the not eating is inconvenient to a growing person inside who thinks mealtime is 24 hours a day.

I have gotten to be home the last 2 days with absolutely nothing to do and it was fabulous. It inspired me to actually make good, healthy meals for me and hubs. Last night we had lemon pepper cod, steamed broccoli and homemade mac and cheese. This was my first attempt at homemade mac and cheese and after following this Paula Deen recipe I am recommending it to EVERYONE!!!! It goes in the crockpot and is super yummy and cheesy creamy goodness. Seriously, I ate two platefuls of all of it. Tonight I made my first pot roast and in the crockpot, with help from my BFF Erin, and it turned out amazing as well.

Hubs is not a huge sweet fan which has been a conflict since all I crave is sweets constantly. He's not into cakes and cookies and all that yummy stuff. He's more of a cobbler/pie guy and had some super sweet stories about his grandmama making cobblers when he was little. So after some googling I found a super easy recipe for a cherry cobbler and with the exception of baking powder I had everything I needed to make this last night. I ran to the store for the powder vanilla ice cream and made my first cobbler. Hubs watched me put it together and complained it looked strange. When we pulled it out of the oven it was perfect!! Little tip: if you do cook this at the 350, it really only needs like 40-45 minutes. Even though it was still yummy, the crust was a tad on the crunchy side so a little less time would have been perfection.

I am now super pumped to have these easy recipes in my arsenal for when baby is here and the in-laws come to visit. Even though its right after we get home, I can't have them visit us and not cook for them. Its not in my Southern roots. Thats all for now!! Hope everyone has a great week!

A Trip Home

Hubs and I just got back from 8 wonderful days in GA with our families. We had a blast and enjoyed some amazing food that you can only get in the south. I was in heaven. My dr is probably going to freak at my weight gain next week at my ultrasound!

While we were there MIL threw us an amazing baby shower. We did get a few gifts but mostly gift cards which were much appreciated since we were traveling. Even what little we did get in actual gifts cost us over $50 to send USPS regular post.

This weekend holds nothing exciting for us even though it is the 4th of July. We will be complete homebodies and resting. My body is still on GA time and wakes me up ready for the day at 5am. Not cool. I will leave you all with some pictures and hope everyone has a wonderful and safe holiday weekend!

21 wks pregnant

Our incredible cake!! The top layer was vanilla and the bottom chocolate

VERY excited about some UGA stuff for baby

Me with two of my closest friends

Family Photo w/ SIL, BIL, Grandmama, hubs and me

All Baby William's loot

Me, my mom and my son

1 year anniversary

One year ago today I was going through some photo's and found a very old picture of me and my first love. Then thanks to some encouragement from my BFF Erin and Facebook stalking super-sluething I found my now brother-in-law and got the phone number to my now husband.

One year ago tomorrow I heard my husband's voice for the very first time in 6 years. It brought me to tears as soon as I heard and I knew I could never let him go again. After just a few days of talking, turns out he felt the same way.

We got back together and are now married and expecting our first child. 11 years ago I loved this man more than anything on the earth and today, I love him more. It has been an exciting year of ups and downs and many blessings. I cannot wait for the next 5 months to pass so that I can see him holding our son. Then shortly after that we will celebrate our one year wedding anniversary.

Every day, good or bad, I thank God for bringing this man back into my life. After so many years of hurt and abuse and shame, he reminds me that I am worthy of the love he offers. We have our ups and downs just like any other married couple, but at the end of the day all that matters is that I'd rather fight with him than make love with anyone else.

Oh, and to celebrate we are taking off to where it all began 11 years ago tomorrow........ GA!!! So I will be away from the blog for about 10 days but will return with stories and pictures. Have a great week!

18 Wks and Bedrest

We had our official look yesterday and baby Peanut is a boy!!! We were completely thrilled until my doctor started discussing concerns that my blood pressure is high. I had full blown pre-eclampsia with my first son which caused him to be delivered early. I expected this would happen again but to hear that its happening already I was shocked and scared to death.

My blood pressure was 148/96. Normally my blood pressure runs low so the fact that at 18 wks its already this high is very bad. My dr is very concerned and is currently consulting specialists about my condition. I am sitting in bed with my laptop, season 3 of Las Vegas, and my stitching. I can return back to work on Monday pending nothing bad happens this weekend. But when I do I'm on strict orders to stay off my feet as much as possible. I also have to watch my diet and return to the doctor for a re-check in two weeks.

Obviously other than the given risks at stake, I am incredibly upset at this turn of events in my pregnancy as we have recently planned a trip home to GA that is taking place in 2 1/2 weeks. If my condition doesn't change, doctor will not let me travel. :(

Everyone please play that we can continue being pregnant without further complications and that Peanut will keep cooking until his allotted time!

What Justice System?

After dropping off the hubs at work this morning I was listening to the radio and the lady was talking about Lindsay Lohan is expected in court YET AGAIN to plead no contest on this whole theft thing. They mentioned that awhile back she was sentenced to 120 days in jail for a probation violation back in 2007. My spidey senses got the best of me so I did a little internet reading and found out that even though she's sentenced to 120 days she's likely to serve less than two weeks total. WTF????

I happen to have a huge problem with this. If anyone remembers, or for my newer followers who weren't around for this, my husband spent 3 days in jail for hunting without a license. THREE DAYS PEOPLE!!!!! For something incredibly stupid that turned out to never be indicted and no charges filed anyways. But because he was on a current probation for a DUI he was stuck in jail with a ridiculously high bond.

My blood has been boiling over this all morning. Why are celebrities not held accountable like normal people? Why will she not have to serve her entire 120 days in jail? Now, I'm not saying she's guilty or innocent and thats really not my rant here. My rant is, why is the justice system so screwed up? The big news here in Utah yesterday was how a woman was released from prison after 17 years there because a judge had now declared she was factually innocent of her charges. How come she lost 17 years of her life in prison when she was innocent in the first place? How come the people who can afford to spend thousands of thousands of dollars waste tax payers money on courts to stay out of jail instead of just accepting the responsibility for their actions and doing the time they were sentenced to?

13 Years

Thirteen years ago tomorrow I lost the most important man in my life, my daddy. He was my entire world. He was not just my daddy, but my best friend. Thirteen years later and this week has still not gotten any easier. It starts today because that was the day he went into the hospital, but he actually didn't pass away until tomorrow. Then his birthday is May 7th. He would've been 78 this year.

He missed all of the major events in my life. My high school graduation, never got to walk me down the aisle, and will never know his amazing grandson who carries his name. And he'll never meet this new baby about to enter into our life.

It breaks my heart that he's not here. He was such an amazing man. Full of warmth and love and life. He always had a smile on his face and went out of his way to make sure I was happy. He loved his children, his grandchildren, and his friends. He would've done anything for anybody. When he loved it was with his whole heart.

My dad was an amazing baker. He could make Elmer's glue taste like creme brulee. I have the best memories of my childhood making a huge mess in his kitchen baking cookies, cakes, and the Norwegian classic, lefsa. I got my first scar on his oven making chocolate chip cookies when I was six. Luckily for me, but not my waistline, I inherited his skills. I can't wait to pass them down to my children and only hope they mean half as much to them.

Nothing can take away my pain today. Nothing can stop my tears for the emptiness I have. I know the Lord will give me the strength to get through this week and make it another year without him. But today, I'm feeling the pain of not being able to pick up the phone and call him just to tell him I love him.

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