Busy last two weeks for mom & dad.

As I'm starting this blog and have typed the words "mom & dad," it seemed funny to actually put that down for us now. Wow.

Brian & I are counting down the days to get home for Christmas. We are so excited to be heading home. I think I'm even more excited! I haven't been anywhere but maybe Jackson Hole 3-4 times since we moved and I have to say that it's a gorgeous drive but not much else to do there. I really wanted to camp out by Jenny Lake again this last summer but we just didn't have anytime with our work schedule's. We also went to check out Boise during the summer, but that was just a quick & long days drive. Great mall and small shops, but not long enough to get out of town.

Next week starts the baking process for the Christmas party for work, and then I want to bring home some Kuchen & maybe some cookies for everyone. I also have some major organizing to do at work before I leave so I can be prepared of what I need to work on when I come back from vacation. My own "to do list" to myself. Yay. I do love my job because I can work at my own pace & decide on what I want to work on each day. Plus, having a great boss always helps. Cindy is so wonderful to work for. I had to work a 3pm-11pm shift last friday and there was a party going on in the bar that night. (keep in mind the lounge is located only steps away from the front desk-I don't know why they built it that way). I had mentioned to Cindy today that I felt sick when I went home last friday because the lobby smelled like cigarette's & felt like I was standing in the lounge from all the people going in and out of the bar all night. I woke up the next morning with the worst headache and still felt nauses. Cindy called the owner immediatly and said, we need kelly not to work the evening shift on the weekends because this is something she can not be around.

She told me today that this will change and I won't work late on fridays. Wow! Just like that, she was working a new schedule out for me. Tommorow I still have to work the 3pm-11pm shift because it was such short notice and no one is available to switch the shift. But I told Cindy that I can work this one because I'll have the weekend to recover if it's like last week. But for the remainder of my schedule next week, and I when I come back has already changed. I still work Monday-Friday with weekends off and no friday evening shifts when the bar is hopping with chain smokers! I'm truly thankful to find such nice people to work for.

Besides my work, Brian is going to be busy with the end of the semester coming up before we leave. He's getting a little stressed so I believe it's best for me to stay out of the office while he's studying or figuring out his codes on the computer. Poor guy. He only has one year left though, then off to full time work! I think he can't wait to get a job, he's quite sick of school work.

Other than work, the baby is doing well. I think I finally can feel the baby kick once in awhile or move around. I notice it the most when I'm ready to go to bed and find a comfortable spot. It's quite neat. Oh I also made something for daddy to lift his spirits. He's been down in the dumps with the end of the semester. I'll post a picture of what I did for him. I also picked up a newspaper for him and told him he should read the front page. It's really important! He looked at it and he said "Oh my god!" It's an original Ohio paper from when we landed on the moon. Picutres and news articles of Neil Armstrong and other articles he's having fun with. He's being a kid in a candy store again. :-)

My first Baby blankie.

I made a blanket for our little girl and I think it turned out well. I wanted to start making things for baby and I really want to work my way up to making a baby quilt. Brian got me a sewing machine awhile ago and I still have more material to buy. I think I'll make another "critter blanket." I have some more ideas down the road.

Baby making her first apperance.

Here's our little one. I finally got a picture scanned in and posted. I really like this picture because you can see her mouth, nose and she's got her hand raised on the side of her face. I think she's either waving hello or trying to hide from having her picture taken. Unless she takes after her daddy and she could be saluting?
This is the first ultrasound Brian has seen and I think he was speechless for awhile. He just kept saying "wow, look at that." He was amazed to see how big baby is and how she's settled in. I almost got a little emotional because it was so beautiful. I had seen our first ultrasound before and heard the baby's heartbeat already so I sort of knew what to expect, or so I thought. I couldn't believe how much the baby has grown. I loved seeing the baby's heartbeat and finding out other details of how she's doing. The doctor said she's doing wonderful and everything looks great! She said she didn't see anything to be concerned about and the baby looks very healthy.
The lady doing the ultrasound kept asking me if she pushing on my stomach to hard ,and she honestly wasn't at all. Until we wanted to get the baby to turn over, the doctor decided to tap really hard on my stomach and say "come on now,stop kicking me you cutie." I think I wanted to hit her. Why do you think our "cutie" keeps kicking you and meee?? Geee, I wonder. I felt fine during and then after the ultrasound and we got lots of pictures. We even got the ultrasound recorded onto a dvd. Right after, I had to go to my regular check up with our doctor and then to the grocery store after that. Whew! What a busy day. I think it was to much in one day for baby. By the time I was halfway done with grocery shopping for thanksgiving, I had the worse stomach cramps. I thought I was going to throw up. The grocery store was so un-believably busy and I was ready to hurt someone because they were all in my way and I wanted to cry at one point because it hurt so much and I wanted to get my stuff and get home asap! I think baby was paying me back from the pushing and tapping on the stomach. I finally got home from work, doctor appointments and grocery shopping around 8:30pm. I put all the grocery's away and went straight to bed. I never slept so well. I didn't have to work until 9am the next day but I could have slept until noon the next morning.

Nice Night out.

Yesturday when I came home, Brian said to clear my schedule and don't plan to go anywhere the rest of the evening. Hmmmm. I asked what he was up to and he said it's a surprise and be sure to wear something nice. I really don't like surprises for some reason so I was a little antsy until we had to leave.
Anyway, we ended up going to Ruby River Steakhouse for a nice big dinner and then he surprised me , by taking me to the Idaho Falls Symphony. The entire sypmphony was based on the music by a composer who loved astronomy as well. So it was called "The I.F Symphony, The Planets."
The music was choreographed with a projecter screen showing pictures of the planets, space, and of course showing old footage of rocket missions. Quite a few people brought their kids with, because during intermission they had a place upstairs for kids to look at planet displays and talk to some people from INL. We decided to check out the display upstairs and when found it; the entire display was from brian's job! The CSNR (Center for Space Nuclear Research) was telling all about what they have in mind for the future of space exploration. Brian had no idea his boss had planned this and was a little dissappointed that he couldn't take part in it. Poor guy. But we had fun visiting with his boss and I haven't seen his wife in awhile and a few other people I wanted to visit with. As I surveyed the room of couples with the CSNR I had to laugh and think, "I guess this is the only way to get our husband's to a symphony or nice evening out? If it involves space, planets, & rockets; they are sooo there."
We still had a wonderful night out, otherwise we would have been at home doing nothing. Besides, I put in alot of overtime last week and I got a nice paycheck. I was so proud of it because it didn't seem like I put that much extra time in. I guess I'm really loving my job that I don't notice how much time I really have been working. So, with a little extra cash in our pockets we went out.
Oh, I also got my test results back from the blood test. This test was for any indication of birth defects or possible down syndrome. I have to report that all is well and everything came back normal. So another reason to go out and spoil ourselves. :)

After hearing that Barak Obama will be our next president. I stopped for a second and thought, wow, our baby will be coming into the world in a big historic event. After being so busy at work today, I zipped out of work and went to 4 gas stations, 2 grocery store's and then Barnes and Noble to find a single newspaper to put with baby's things. Not a single one in sight. I guess I'll have to get a newspaper tommarow or another day. Maybe when he's taking his oath into the presidency, then I'll have too be sure get that next days paper.
I know mom and dad kept some things for us, when we were born. I want to do the same thing for our kids. So I think this years election will have to go with the baby's stuff, or in the "What happened folder when you were born."
I might have to find a nice box to decorate and a binder of some sort to do some kind of scrapbooking to put everything together. Hmmmm. Ideas are forming and I'm getting excited.

More Blood work

Today I had another doctor's appointment and everything went well. I was able to listen to the baby's heartbeat again and it sounded great. We also took more blood work today, to test for any baby defects or down syndrome. The office will call about the results as soon as they come back.
Other than doctor appointments, I have been feeling really well. Once in awhile I will be sick in the, very early A.M but not to bad. It's just hard to get back to sleep again after getting up. Then I'm just dragging at work. Future daddy is being really good to us. I was craving DQ blizzard the other night and he brought one home after class. How sweet. But, I think I deserve another Blizzard or two. I was in the mood for some banana bread, so I stayed up a little late to make two loaves. I had a small bite of one before I went to bed and I told brian to take one loaf to work for him and a few people. The next morning I was excited for some banana bread for breakfast and to take some to work. When I got to the kitchen, no banana bread! All of it gone! As I'm tapping my fingers on the counter, a little mad, victoria is looking up at me with a face of, "Do you really think he was going to take just one? Now, feed meeee." I was laughing so hard because she had this dumb look on her face. Cats can be so cute sometimes, and Victoria is such a garfield.
So, anyway, back to the banana bread........I asked brian about it and "Ooops!" I guess guys just don't listen, do they? Everyone at his work said it was sooo good and they loved it. So at least I know I have good banana bread.

Pregnant Woman's Drink

The other day I needed I to go grocery shopping. I went over to the dairy section and I couldn't believe it. There it is, once again, Egg Nog. But not only any old Eggnog, it's pumpkin spice flavored! Ooooooh, yummy. I looovve any drink that's pumpkin spice. I will admit that I'm addicted to the pumpkin spice frappacinno at Starbucks (I try to boycot them), but I most of all miss the pumpkin spice chai from Mocha Momma's in Gateway Mall. That is the best winter drink of all time! So I think I found my craving. Now I'm hungry for pumpking swirl cheesecake. Oh, no. Hear we go. Ha ha.