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.