Merry Christmas Eve Eve

Its almost Christmas Eve!! I'm currently feeling annoyed that there are 2 shows recording and I don't like either one but don't really know enough about the TV and how to fix that. So the curse of oak island is on, which I think is just a dumb show and they will never find anything. oh well!

Christmas Eve is tomorrow!! I seriously love this time of year! :-) Still no sign of Rice Baby coming...Except that he\she is right up in my ribs at this current moment. I did have a few real contractions on Saturday! But now there has been nothing, which is slightly disappointing but yet good because I kind of just want to get through the 3 days of Christmas festivities.

 Tomorrow brings going to my moms and opening presents with her. I even bought cinnamon rolls for the morning, we shall see if I get around to making them!

We gave my goat friends a couple Christmas trees today which was fun to watch them chow down on! 

The nursery is coming right along! it looks so good!! Dawn, my mother in law, came over today and painted the room and its done! I am so thankful! And it looks sooo good! My dad is hopefully gonna come over this weekend or early next week and paint the animals on the wall! Progress! YES!!! Now to have a baby for the nursery! At least the baby won't use the nursery right away. I'm feeling pretty ready. I have over 30 cloth diapers and have been reading up on them. I think its gonna work out quite nicely! I have quite a few different kinds but all seem really great! I got a great deal on a pack and play the other night, so now I have two one for here and one for at work with my mom. 

Well thats all I can think of to write about, but 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Maternity Picture Post

Could be 2 weeks or less!!

So I'm tired, I had to go Christmas shopping today which is one of my least favorite things to do. Blah! Which might seem strange because Christmas is my favorite season!! :-)

Oh well, I think we got just about everyone done! I think there are maybe 3 more people on the list that we need presents for, but knowing that seems much more bearable! yay!!

Oh and now I'm 38 weeks and 2 days along so really just about anytime we could get to meet this little baby! WOOHOO!!!! I can hardly believe it! so exciting and crazy all at the same time! In a way I want he/she to stay in until after Christmas but yet I could be ready now too. But seeing as its not up to me to decide, we shall see what happens! :-D

We had some maternity pictures taken yesterday so that was fun! I'm excited to see them!! :-D

We are still having warm temperatures and I'm loving it!! I would even be totally ok with a green Christmas. I know that most people disagree with me on that, but I'm ok with that. I would however like the temps to be in the 20s at night so that my dogs won't be so darn muddy when I let them outside to go potty. But we've been getting better at going out on leashes. I think its supposed to get a little colder tomorrow.

Jared is currently working on the barn wood for what will look a barn around the crib in the nursery! Hooray for some progress! I picked up some paint colors yesterday to see what I might like, so thats progress too. We are gonna do a sky blue on the top and green for the grass on the bottom and then my Dad will come over and paint fun farm animals on the walls! Its gonna be great! I'm still in search  of a nice wooden rocking chair and a wooden antique/vintage high chair.

Well I think thats about all for now,  I should go figure out my least favorite question of the day - Whats for dinner? ugh.....

Less than a month!!

OH MY GOODNESS!! I can hardly believe it that in a month or so I will finally get to meet this little active babe thats in my belly! SOO crazy!

I'm trying to think of what else is new or has been going on....I had a lovely shower from the women's ministry at our church. I am also going to have a shower with work friends in a couple weeks, so that will be nice!
Our septic is new and back working!!!! I don't think I had ever been so excited about taking a shower at our house, lol!
Our Thanksgiving was so great, it was just Jared, me, my mom, twins, Bob, and Drew and Catie. It was so nice and laid back. Just perfect! My mom made the turkey and bought pies at Food Dance. I made mashed potatoes and Catie brought green bean casserole and some carmel apple dessert. Both were really tasty!
All of the Christmas decorations are up! We even got our tree but that needs to get decorated still but the twins want to help and since they are slackers on their homework, they are doing that instead of helping decorate. Maybe Tuesday, at least the lights are on it and it smells so wonderful! I just LOVE Christmas!

I'm also really thinking how cool it is that I will be having a baby around the same time we celebrate Jesus' birth. What a cool thing :-)

Well that is about all for now. Here is a special birthday shout out to my SIL Corie :-) Happy Birthday!! Since I know you will eventually read this! Hope you've had a fabulous day!

Basement update

So the rather unfortunate news in the Wendzel house is that we have to get a whole new septic system :-( boo!!

I'm thankful tho that both our parents live close so that we can shower there, and do laundry. And that we can still flush the toilets and wash our hands. And that it happened at a pretty opportune time since Jared gets a bonus from the farm at the end of the season. It sounds like all the septic craziness will be happening early next week. And the ground won't be frozen yet and they said that our fence will still be ok. Sigh of relief!

I'm excited that Jared and I are going to Chicago this weekend!  Yay!! Chicago style pizza and a couple nights at the Hyatt should be so fun! And we are going to a steak place that is so good! I am looking forward to it! 

We put the crib up last night!! It's really starting to feel real!! So crazy that in less than 2 months or so we will get to meet he/she!!! :-)

Shower in the basement?

Just in case you needed to know, when your husband is upstairs taking a shower and it sounds like someone is taking a shower in the basement with you, this is not a good thing.

I don't even normally sit downstairs but decided I would lay on the couch and read/go on the computer, since if I try to read in the library all of my dogs try to sit with me in the smallish black chair.

But as I was sitting here, I heard what sounded like a shower and that it seemed odd but didn't really think to much of it. Then it kept sounding like it and since Jared was in his bathroom not downstairs, I actually got up to see what was happening. BOO! Water dripping from two different spots and lots of water on the ground, insert grumpy face here. Sometimes home ownership is not all that fun. Now poor Jared needs to try to figure out where the leak/leaks are and I'm sure he's had a long day already. Quite frustrating!

I will keep you all posted on what happens with the leaking basement.....

I heart Fall

As I'm sitting here with very restless legs(which seems to happen often later at night), I'm just thinking of all the really beautiful fall colors that I have gotten to see this Fall. I seriously love it!! I attempted to take a few pictures this of the trees this afternoon, but to no avail. Maybe I'll try again tomorrow since I think its supposed to be another gorgeous autumn day!

Today I got up a little early, and it was SOO foggy! My barn animals were still sleeping, lol. Ginger was still in the stall even! If you don't know, Ginger is my little goat who jumps in and out at will, and always comes out at breakfast and dinner and helps herself to whatever she feels like eating! She is so darn cute and fun! I just love her!

So that was from yesterday, but today was really nice again! Hooray!! :-)

I just had Jared take my 30 week picture, and here it is

I can hardly believe that time is going SO fast! In around 10 weeks, I get to meet this little one! Who by the way is taking up lots of space up high, and making it hard to breathe and even wear a bra. I don't really care if thats TMI, at least not that many people read my blog. We are finally gonna start the nursery within the next few weeks! Yay! And I need to find a crib, ugh! Why does every single one have to have like 5 things it can do, I just want a normal crib. I also really want a wooden high chair but thats also proving to be quite the thing to find. 

Well thats about all I have to write. And I'll leave you with one more picture of Dieter dog in the leaves yesterday.

Needing a nap

I want to take a nap sooo bad!! My dogs are all sprawled out and napping and I'm not! Seriously not fair! 

I'm tired because I was on call last night and this morning, and had to be to work at 7am! Yikes! I can't remember the last time I have been to work that early, probably years! But instead of napping today, I washed our sheets and put them back on the bed. Sleeping in fresh clean sheets is probably one of my most favorite things :-D So even more reason to look forward to bedtime, and without a nap maybe I'll even go to bed early! We shall see tho as that rarely happens even when I try!!

I'm at 29 weeks with ricebaby! Time is going sooo fast!! 

Ok well that's my quick little post m, luckily I need to go pick up Makayla otherwise I would be fast asleep!  

Read read read

Right now I'm currently reading Ina Mays Guide to Childbirth and it is soooo good! I seriously can't get enough of it and it just makes SO much sense to me. It has all the points of why I want a home birth and just so many points that I think far to many women don't understand or just isn't explained.

Just seriously so good! I'm loving it and loving learning so much more about birth and all the many many ways and different things one can do to have a better birth. I'm still so pleased that Ruth is going to be our Doula and that we are using a super great midwife, Emily! And I'm also really excited  that Linda French is hopefully going to be here as well!

Doing all the reading about natural child birth and just by talking with people I work with, who have no idea about things can be and how great they can be really really makes me consider going back to school, maybe midwifery or doula where schooling isn't required. Oh my goodness! i'm just so excited about it!

Let's see what else is new...I'm in the third trimester and I'm wondering how that happened so darn  fast! Crazy! The animal barn has been a big hit this fall, and its been really really nice to have a barn for all my friends! I just love all of the animals. :-) We are in the process of having our house painted, its going to look sooo great once its done! Our painter isn't the fastest but I can't wait for the end result! We ended up painting our front door a nice bright red and I LOVE it!! It looks so fun! I would take a picture of it but since the house isn't done being painted, it wouldn't look so great. But once the house is done being painted be prepared for some pictures!

Well thats about all I can think of right now, and I feel like I could take a nap. So maybe a little nap will be in my future....

Rice Baby update

SO I haven't blogged in ages, that always seems to be a trend. But hey at least I'm typing right now.

I was thinking out this blog post in my head last night about how I am finally thinking pregnancy is pretty amazing. Now that I can finally eat and not feel nauseous all the time. It only took until 20 weeks, but now its so cool that I have a little human growing inside. How crazy is that? I finally felt he/she around week 18 when we were in Florida, and now I can sometimes feel where I think the head might be and the little kicks and pokes. Its just incredible! I mean how cool is our God that he creates us and this little one currently. Its just amazing to me!! :-D

So, we are now 25 weeks in! Hooray!!

I've been feeling good, somewhat tired but nothing to bad. I'm also really excited that we are planning on having a home birth! I feel really passionate about it and am looking forward to being at home where I'm comfortable and even the dogs will be able to be here! yay!! And I know that God has designed a woman's body to do exactly what its supposed at the time its supposed too, and I'm looking forward to the process. My wonderful Sister in Law's mom is going to be our Doula and I'm so excited about that! We just love her and both have known Ruth for a long time, so thats a plus. We are going to start our birthing classes with Ruth at the beginning of November. 

Well I just feel so blessed to be able to be the parent of this wee little one already and I'm so looking forward to meeting him/her in just a few short months!! 

The Best Christmas EVER!

I am so happy and excited to announce that BABY W is coming this December!! Around Christmas time to be exact! How fun is that? Not only is Christmas one of my most favorite holidays, now there will be a baby! Yay!!!

WOOHOO!! Below are a few more fun announcement pictures :-D

 

This is most favorite picture!

A new post!!!

Hello Blog,

I am still alive. Yes its been FOREVER since I've written.

Even right now I'm trying to decide what to write... so I will go with what I'm currently doing

I am eating some Lays cheddar sour cream chips since that seems to be the only thing worth eating in my whole kitchen. And I'm watching HGTV house hunters renovations. I don't know why but I love watching these shows. Although the people are sometimes so annoying. Oh well, maybe I'll get some ideas for the downstairs bathroom that still isn't completely de-wallpapered. I was just in there and think that needs to happen sooner than later. But Jared has been working on the outside of the house. I am definitely not complaining though! Because we now have an amazing newly fenced in backyard!! No more make-shift fencing! Yay! The dogs are loving it and don't like to come inside once I let them out.

My sisters are leaving on Monday morning for their 3 week long mission trip to Costa Rica and San Blas Islands! I am soooo excited for them but also extremely jealous as I wish I was going. Sigh, maybe next year :-) I am going to miss it so much this summer! But I will be praying for everyone!

Next up on the calendar this month is a trip to Florida. Let me just say I'm not all that thrilled about it.  The thought of Florida in the summer is just gross, its going to be awful hot and not that exciting. And we were originally going to fly there but plane tickets were awful expensive, so now to top it all off we are driving. Just lovely(insert the sarcasm). The only thing that will be fun is that we are going to go to Universal Studios and go to the new Harry Potter Diagon Alley park and be able to ride the Hogwarts Express. Honestly, that is the only reason I agreed to drive. ;-) I also wouldn't mind going to SeaWorld again, but I guess we will see. Either way the Wizarding World of Harry Potter will be fantastic!

Well right now I'm getting really tired and so I'm crossing my fingers that I will be back on here soon! Because there might be some exciting news coming and I could blog about our nice holiday weekend.

Adios!

An Afternoon to Myself

I am currently enjoying a full sunny afternoon all by lonesome and LOVING it! :-)

Jared is at another farm and I was supposed to go but decided to stay home(because said husband wasn't very nice about me going earlier this week) and I'm not even sad about it, I am loving having the day to do nothing but whatever I want to do.

This morning I woke up at 8:30a which is sort of sleeping in, my outside animals didn't really seem to pleased, hehe! But it was nice for me. I then fed everyone and took a shower then my mom and I did our normal Saturday morning routine which is getting coffee and then going to work. We then went to one of the consignment places that has sweet furniture, I'll post some photos of what I might be getting :-)

Then we went to TJMaxx and didn't really find anything, I found a really comfy skirt but it wasnt the correct size so I didn't get it! bummer! Then we went to Tuesday Morning and I got a cute new scarf! I'm currently wearing said new scarf! And I bought a really nice lighter for lighting candles. We then went to Ulta and were gonna try to find the $10 bare minerals deal on makeup but couldn't find it so I went online and bought it instead.




My New Scarf------>



After the morning of shopping I came back to our house and made some lunch of red potatoes, green beans, mushrooms and onions and it was sooooo yummy!! But now I'm seriously considering a dipped cone from Dairy Queen. After lunch  I was going to attempt cleaning up the back yard of excess winters worth of dog poop but I decided not too after going outside. The dogs did however get a tasty treat and I brought my camera outside with me and attempted a few pictures. The sun is out but its not so warm yet, I think it may have gotten to 50 today, woohoo!!

I came in from taking pictures to put them on the computer and was trying to read some photography tips but ended up taking a nap instead and am now blogging. And really really wanting an ice cream cone from DQ....

I don't know what time Jared will be home so I might get to go out to dinner with one of my friends who I haven't seen in FOREVER!! And that would be so fun!

Last week we said goodbye to a good friend who moved to Wilmington NC and I'm also super excited because I'm gonna go visit her, hopefully sooner than later!! :-) She's been putting lots of pictures on Instagram and I'm seriously ready to leave right now!

Ok, well I'll leave you with a few pictures I took today and I think I'm gonna go to Dairy Queen!

 I really love both pieces but the lighter one is what I want for next to the new bed :-)

 And this chandelier for in the kitchen. 

Happy Anniversary!

So if I was being technical, Today would be our 2nd anniversary! So happy anniversary to us!! yay!! :-)

But since I'm not really being technical, March 29th is the actual date. But still I'm pretty excited that its been 2 years! Yay!! On Tuesday Jared asked if he was supposed to get me a present for our anniversary I said No because... We got a king size bed!!! It was delivered on Tuesday and we got it all set up and it is seriously so amazing!!! Its gigantic looking in our room but thats ok with me because the space is so nice!!! yay! And for ones 2nd anniversary the gift is cotton, and I bought new cotton sheets for the bed so I'm pretty sure that counts! haha!!

I'm trying to think if there is anything new and exciting, I always want to blog and seem to run out of time and have really good ideas but now that I'm finally writing I can think of nothing! ugh!

Last night at work, I downloaded the Etsy app on my phone and I've been finding quite a few things on there that I would love to have. :-)

Have I mentioned that I'm super super super sick of winter, blah! Today has been soooo gloomy and with the snow melting it just looks so gray and gross. And its been alternating between rain/freezing rain/snow all day. Just no good!

I have been enjoying watching The Amazing Race this season. I still would really love to go on that show.

Well I suppose that is all! This weekend is looming ahead fast but I don't really have any plans maybe getting all the wall paper down in our downstairs bathroom. I hate taking down wall paper.

Now I'll leave you with a few pictures from our wedding two years ago!!