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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!!

Valentines day!!

Not that I'm a super big fan of valentines day but either way it's fun! I am one who prefers not to get flowers or bombarded with lovey dovey stuff. I do however love that I always get chocolate covered strawberries and Heilmans truffles. :-) yum!! 

So I was just reading my lovely SILs blog and decided to do the day book thing:) so here goes....

Outside my window: ugh it's gray and cloudy and they said we weren't supposed to get any snow today but we did get a light dusting. Seriously spring where are you??! 

I am listening to: the heater in my room as I'm being really lazy and laying in my bed under the covers, one of the dogs did come upstairs and start barking so back downstairs they went. So for now it's just me and the little heater. Hopefully I don't fall asleep, lol.

I am thinking: that I don't really know what to get Jared as a small valentines gift. That I got a super good deal on a new hair dryer today at TJMaxx and that I would still really like a shamrock shake. *side note I tried to get one yesterday and the ice cream machine was broke!! Such a bummer*

I am thankful: that I have a really great husband on valentines day and the whole year and that in March we will celebrate 2 years of marriage! And I'm thankful today for animals that bring me a whole lot of joy! 

From the kitchen: I made Jared scotcharoos last night and tonight we are having heart shaped pizzas from papa Murphy's( well Jared, bob, and the twins are) and gluten free tasty pizzas from cottage inn. 

I am wearing: my valentine sock monkey pajama pants from Walmart and a black warm shirt with thumb holes(my fave). And I'm thinking I'm gonna wear my PJ pants for the rest of the evening since it is valentines day.

I am hoping: that my headache goes away soon!

I am praying: that spring comes sooner than later. For my sister in laws Dad as he is dealing with the end stages of life due to a brain tumor. And for Josie as she battles leukemia. 

Around the house: well one hallway is finally all painted!!! Yay!! I'm loving it! I got a super sweet headboard for my birthday that will be probably get turned into a bench. And hopefully this weekend, the front entry way will begin to get painted as well! 

I am reading: a whole number of books on my kindle, some Christian romance that I get the first books free and then have to pay to read the rest, I just started reading insurgent again. And I want to read 1000 gifts by Anne Voskamp.

I am watching:  a new treehouse masters later tonight, the Olympics when I see them. And I've been watching American idol with Jared as he is loving the judges and has a few favorite singers who I think made it through to the top 30. And I'm very excited that the amazing race starts again next weekend!!

One of my favorite things: Friday night pizza :-) 

A few plans for the rest of the week: probably going out to dinner tomorrow for valentines since there's no way I'm going tonight, hehe. youth group on Sunday is a dodge ball tournament which I won't be participating in but I'll probably watch. We really really need to go grocery shopping. And hopefully some reading time on my kindle in one of our comfy chairs. 

A picture I'm sharing:  the headboard I got for my birthday :)