Time

y’all time goes sooo fast lately but also so slow. 

I’m going to have a 5 year old on Christmas, I mean really how is this even possible?!

My mom and Bob moved today and they lived in their house for almost 20 years, I just don’t think that’s possible or that on my birthday in January  I’ll be 34! 

Back to my parents moving though, it just feels surreal. It seems weird to know that I’ll never go back over and just walk in, I know the people who bought it but it just feels weird. I went there tonight to feed my moms horses and it was just strange. I don’t know how to describe it...

I’ve wanted to write on here numerous times, but can’t seem to figure out how to write about certain life happenings. I always hope I’ll get better about that but never seem too. 

So I still have a blog

well I guess I still have a blog, of which I rarely update.

I’m currently enjoying some time by myself as Noel is in Florida with my mom :) I have a cute foster pup by my legs and I can hear Kento snoozing from around the corner.

Umm also it’s 2019 how did that happen?

Noel is 4!!! Which seems CRAZY!! Times goes sooooo quickly.

I can’t really think of much else right now, but I’m gonna try to keep up on here more often! I always have fun ideas but then never write anything!

Happy Sunday y’all!

Sometimes animals are jerks

case in point... Shaggy the adorable but also not adorable miniature Scottish highland.

What a Dumb A!*! I fed him per usual and then after I gave him the last flake of hay, I thought that lucky lady might have gotten out so I sprinted ever so slightly and then whack! His gosh darn hood collided with my leg. Wtf!!! What a bastard! So note to all, don't do anything but walk behind Shaggy. Insert all kinds of eye rolls!! Dumb dumb dumb!

And a week from today I'm supposed to have some boudoir photos done and of course the leg that got kicked is the one with my sugar skull tattoo, go figure! Oh well, such is my life apparently. At least the photo shoot will still be fun :)

Late night rambling

first, I'm doing this post on my phone and it's really a fail. I can barely see the whole screen or what I'm typing. Ugh, technology is the worst ;)

You guys, seriously having a two year old is rough! Omg! Just within the past week, Noel has become a serious monster!! I'm really not even sure what to do! She likes about 3 things, baths, goat cheese (yes, I'm a mean mom and my child doesn't have cows milk, but that's a whole other post) and her red fuzzy sweatshirt. And out of nowhere has an extreme fear of bugs, heaven help me it's gonna be a long summer!

And speaking of bugs, a stink bug just flew at my phone so I think I better turn this off and go to bed!

Be prepared for random bits of Noel craziness 😁

Lots of stuff.....

Oh man, I'm so bad at keeping up on here. I always have amazing thoughts and posts but then get to tired to actually write and or type. ;-)

Umm, I have an almost 2 year old and am seriously wondering how this can be!! I mean don't get me wrong, I'm kind of thankful because life is a lot easier in SO many ways but it's just the fact that she's gonna be 2! Crazy!

Life is crazy but crazy good, I've been home for a week after another fabulous Honduras surgical mission trip. I think the trips bless me and probably the whole brigade more than the Hondurans. It's always so refreshing to have time to just be and not have my phone and be constantly checking it or looking at social media. And I'm not gonna lie, not having my phone during the election was a Godsend. God really spoke to me and reminded me that he is control, despite everything going on(whether the election, or the drama within my family) and that I need to be reliant on him. I also need to get my focus back to him and spend time in his precious Word daily. Which lets be honest is not always easy, some days for me it's before I go to bed. And I'm looking forward to getting back to church since the busy season is done. And our church is getting a real building, woot woot!!
So another fun thing, Jared and I are going to Hawaii in January and we bought our tickets tonight! It's going to be amazing, I've always wanted to go and am looking forward to getting away.

I've now been at Bronson for almost a year and I can finally say that I'm glad I made the switch. It's been rough at times but a good thing too and the drive is soooooooo much nicer.

And can you believe it's thanksgiving next week?!  How does that happen?


Today I'm thankful for my job even though I'm working on Saturday night :)

How to know that you're officially a hippie

So I just went downstairs while at work to get a snack and not just any snack, kale chips. And they don't have the kind I want. Ugh!! Coconut lime is not the kind I want. 

So it's official, I love raw juice, kombucha, kale chips, and don't vaccinate my child. Yep. Oh and I also had a home birth and was just looking at home funerals and green burials. And I love essential oils. 

That is all :-) 

Late night thoughts

First I should be going to bed but as I was driving home, I was just feeling so very thankful! 

Like seriously blessed, I have so much! I was thinking back to how I am very glad that I got to go to a Christian school, where we learned about the Bible, and were required to learn memory verses and I was thinking on September 11th of this year, how awesome it was to be at a Christian school when those tragic events occurred. We prayed and sang and were thankful to be there. I had amazing teachers who genuinely cared and LOVED their jobs!! One teacher in particular always had a prayer request and PTL(praise the Lord) column on her blackboard and we would start class by saying our requests and praises. And it didn't matter how long it took, she made that a priority. How awesome is that?! *side note I'm crying as I write that, because I'm just so impressed and know that Mrs. Weaver loved praying for us and wanted to know how we were doing and loved seeing God work. 

I was thinking how amazing it was to have an incredible radio station like way fm, and how much music can impact ones life. It was so cool to be able to go to so many Christian concerts. I'm thinking of that because it's the Allegan county fair this week and there were so many great concerts there! Gosh I was so blessed! Also such a blessing to have a Mom who knew how important it was for us to listen to good music and always encouraged us and went with us to so many concerts. 

And right now as I lay in our spare room with my crazy cat who I didn't think was going to live a couple weeks ago(that's a whole other blog post) I am thankful for this beautiful home that we get to call our own! I love this house and the memories that we have made here already. I am so thankful for the sweet and stubborn almost 9 month old sleeping next door and for my husband sleeping across the hall. 

Well that's all, I'm tired and need to go to bed since 7am comes way to fast! 

I'll leave you with a cute picture of Noel :-)

 

Night time ramblings

I'm just laying in bed, and I should be going to sleep but decided to blog just now. 

I just rolled some lavender EO on the bottoms of my feet so I'll be tired here soon. 

I'm thinking that it's crazy that Noel is over 8 months old now! Guess what? She finally crawled today!!!! Yay!! :-) 

The farm season has begun and I may or may not be LOVING it! Last weekend my mom, Noel and I did some shopping which was fun and even went to Starbucks! 

The weather tonight feels like fall! Yes!! 

And all of a sudden I'm real tired! 

Goodnight blog! 

All of us girls at auburn last weekend 

Hello blog!

Well hello there!

I'm clearly not cut out to have a blog or at least not one that's very noteworthy as I'm quite a fail at keeping up with it. Sigh!

Oh well, I'll do a quick update! Ummmm seriously Noel is almost 8 months old?! How in the world? She's so darn cute and may or may not be quite stubborn already. Oh man! She has two little teeth on the bottom which popped through about a month ago! 

I mean seriously how cute is she?!

I haven't been able to get a good picture of the little teeth yet but they're cute 😉 I'm not anywhere near considering having another baby, I seriously get asked that question WAY to often!! Maybe adoption someday at an appropriate age. Like potty trained, able to communicate etc.

Currently Noel is napping and I should be doing any number of things around the house but so far I've taken a nap on the couch, checked Facebook, and am now updating my probably one or two readers on my life. I should go pay some bills tho.

Oh and my mom and I have been running now for about 3 weeks and I'm feeling so much better. We've been doing 3 miles 3-4 times a week! Woot woot!

 But I'll leave you with some more adorable photos of Noel. :-)

Happy Fathers Day!!

A very Happy Fathers Day to Jared!

I know he won't read this, but I'll still post a few pictures and say that I'm very thankful for him and the dad that he is to Noel so far :-) especially since he's really liking her now! lol

Terrible blogger

Yep that would be me! Ugh, I just always run out of time! But seriously, Noel is getting soooo much more fun and I'm just loving it! 

Can she be any cuter?! Eeeeee!!!! :-) She got her first ponytail yesterday and even laughed lots yesterday! Oh my goodness! 

This child could still really use a lesson in just closing her eyes for a nap! Ugh!! Frustrating! Like today she woke up at 7:45am and proceeded to stay awake for Grandma until 12:30pm. Wtf!? I felt so bad! Oh naughty girlsy!

Ok I gotta leave work! I'm still going to write Noel's birth story so be on the lookout for that! 

Hi Ho Hi Ho its off to work I go.....

While that title may seem happy, I'm not very excited. Well parts of me are excited and others not so much.

I am looking forward to going back and seeing all my work friends, and the surgeons that I enjoy working with. And I'm not gonna lie its going to be nice to be away from baby girl for a few hours.

Its going to be really hard to be away from baby girl, as I haven't really yet done that.  I also am not looking forward to the drive to GR, ugh! But I guess I choose to work in GR so i'll have to get over that one.

I still really need to get the rest of Noels announcements out because next week she is going to be 3 months old!? What the heck? Time goes fast, well yes and no, lol. 

Because somedays it seems like it won't ever be bed time for the little lady and/or monster as I've taken to calling her. 

I still need to write a blog about her birth story and just go on and on about how wonderful a home birth with a midwife and doula really is :) be prepared y'all!!

Thoughts on being a new mom

SO I'm sitting here while Noel is in the swing, going back and forth because she starts crying if she spits out her pacifier, sigh...

I thought I would write a little bit about how I'm feeling..

I do not like newborns, yep they are real cute but that's about as far I'll go.

I don't like not knowing what she needs/wants.

I don't like that they don't much at all.

This whole stage has been hard, although I knew that it was going to be before she was born. Don't get me wrong I love her to pieces but I have had numerous crying spells because she won't stop crying and I feel like a super crazy person. 

Well I better go get her because she's just starting to wake up in the car seat and if I wake her up she's usually much happier than if I wait til there's wailing from the car seat.

On another note, Noel is 7 weeks old today!! And I think she had given us some real smiles, so that is pretty fun ;-) 

Welcome Noel Marie!

Noel Marie Wendzel was born on Christmas Day at 7am!!

So I started this post quite a while ago and just now am updating it, phew! Right now the lovely lady is sleeping and I'm sitting with the computer dimmed way down in bed as she is sleeping and has been for awhile, I'm really hoping she stays asleep for awhile and for most of the night as she's been really sleeping this afternoon.

I still can't quite believe that I had a Christmas baby, but I seriously love it!!! And its also so crazy that the little peanut is going to be one month old on Thursday!! What?! How does time go by so fast?

The birth went so amazingly well, I am still so thrilled about it! We got to stay at home and it was so amazing!! I couldn't have asked for anything better! Emily was great, Ruth was amazing and my mom was spectacular!! Jared did awesome as well, and was sooo helpful! Jared even cried when she was born, how precious!  I will write more about the whole birth story soon but right now I am going to post some super adorable pictures of Miss Noel :-) Enjoy!

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.....