Yippee!

Joe got the job he wanted. It is certainly not anything near a 'glamorous' job. But he is very happy and so am I. He will start on November 16th so we have time to get settled. This just might all work out...

Food and Stuff

I haven't been making my weekly menu for about 2 weeks now. I thought that I would be doing myself a favor by being able to be spontaneous each day and just make a meal based on the time I had available. WRONG. This has been awful. I hate not knowing what I am making in advance. So last night I planned out the rest of the week for dinners. Breakfasts will be oatmeal, cereal or toast and eggs. All served with fruit (if I can make it stretch for the rest of the week). LuLu and KiKi are eating lunches at school this week. Not ever my first choice but it helps me for the week and they think it is a 'treat'. Joe is only working part days and I am not going into the office at all (except for an hour here and there) so we are eating whatever we find in the fridge for lunch. Here are my dinner plans.
Tonight: Pot roast with carrots and onions. Served with rice and salad
Tomorrow: Beef enchiladas (made with leftover beef, cheese, onions), Spanish rice, salad
Friday: Pork Chops, pasta and green beans

That's it. Saturday is our moving day.
I pretty much stopped buying groceries about 3 weeks ago. I have been just picking up the absolute essentials (milk, cheese, veggies, fruit) since then. I had a pretty full pantry and freezer that we have really emptied out. The trailer obviously doesn't have the storage space that I have been used to so my food stock ups had to be depleted. But I'll tell you a secret. I do have two large totes almost full of food that I'm going to keep at Joe's parents house. I figure I can 'shop' there each week in addition to the regular grocery store.

It is almost pumping time again. I pumped at 6:10 this morning. I'm trying to pump every 3-4 hours. I have my fenugreek tea brewing right now. Today I'm going to try to keep track of my water consumption too and see if that helps. Thanks Cyn for the tip about the lanolin. I'll try and find some of that (but probably not until I get relocated).

I got my bookkeeper duties done for the day so the rest of my day will be spent working on the house. WhooHoo. I forgot just how much fun that moving is.

Moving Right Along

Angel just left- again. She had came back for a few days but since she has to work tomorrow she went back to the city. I won't see her again until a couple of days before her wedding. I'm feeling sad but happy that she is stepping out on her own. And also happy that I was able to pass off lots of household items that she could use for her apartment. So much easier than packing it up and putting it in storage.

Lactation induction went better today. I still am not getting much milk but I am getting some. I have lots of hope that I will see improvement in a week or so. I am experiencing some cracked, ummm, 'parts' but I think that will get better soon. I know that pumping is not going to be anything like the actual nursing so it will be good if I can get my 'parts' toughened up. lol.

Another big day for packing and organizing. The walls are beginning to close in on the trailer with each load of stuff I take out there. What seemed like a semi-spacious area appears to be getting smaller and smaller. Putting my clothes in the closet I was beginning to wonder (as I was trying to shove a sweater in a drawer not meant for sweaters) what in the world were we thinking?

LuLu is feeling a little sad tonight. We won't be able to move our chickens. I thought we had a new home for them but that didn't pan out. I posted an ad on our freecycle and I'm hoping some very nice person wants them. These chickens are more like pets. And while they do give us great eggs their true purpose has been more of entertainment. One of the chickens (Bambi) even gets carried around. We got the chickens as freshly hatched babies with the assumption that they were all girls. We brought home 8. They were just little balls of feathers that looked like fur. A few months later we realized that one of our 8 was not a hen. LuLu was quite surprised the morning that she was out caring for them and 'Sara' started crowing. We renamed Sara Samuel. The 8 of them were a riot to watch. They talked all the time it was great. And then we lost one of our girls- very sad. When Samuel was about a year old he discovered just what a rooster was made to do. My poor little hens. He liked them so much that he rubbed the feathers off of 5 of them. Not a good thing. Then Samuel decided that he liked the girls so much that we couldn't go anywhere near them. Samuel now lives on a free range chicken ranch with about 80 hens to 'take care of'. A much better situation for Samuel.

Tomorrow will be another day of packing and pumping. I might try to throw in a little bookkeeping too.

Counting Down

Our goal is to leave here on Saturday. We have had a super busy weekend. All of our big items (except the beds) and many, many boxes have been moved to the storage unit. Today Joe and I started loading up the trailer that we have here. It is challenging to get everything that we think we will need pared down to what will fit in two travel trailers. I find myself thinking and then over thinking if we will need something or not. At one point today I decided to throw a lot of additional items away that I was planning on keeping. I'm surprisingly okay with it.
Tomorrow, I have a full day. I have a meeting at the school at 7:30 AM, then I'll go into work for a couple of hours, then back home to work on packing and cleaning. Tomorrow will be my last day going into the office. Most of the work I do is from home on the computer now anyway. I was just finishing up a few projects. My replacement is doing wonderful and the less I am there the more it helps the owners transition to relying on her the way they did me.

Joe and I had a wonderful phone conversation today with my friend G and her husband. In the back ground we could hear Baby L. She sounded so cute! I wish we lived closer to them so we could go and see her live and in person. G and her husband sounded on top of the world. It was wonderful to hear the excitement, awe and love in their voices.

Whirlwind Trip

Joe and I got home at 2AM from a quick trip to CA. Joe had a job interview down there. It is for a temp job with the Parks Department that he is very much hoping to get. We left here at 5:30 Tuesday night. Got down there at about 4AM. Slept a few hours then did some stuff that needed done before the interview. We went to the school that we are hoping to get the girls enrolled in. We have to cross school boundary lines to get them there so we had to find out what was involved with that. The process is now started and we should know the middle of next week if they will let them. I hope so because I refuse to send them to the school that they should go to. My second option may be homeschooling (gulp).
If the Parks job doesn't work out Joe will go back to work for the school district. He was with them for 19 years and they have told him that they would put him on a substitute. That would be just fine if needed but I know that Joe is really hoping the Parks job will pan out. He likes the idea of what he would be doing and feels it would be good experience. His interview was at 2 yesterday afternoon. He'll find out next week. Just in case he did get all of his paperwork in at the school. Either way will be okay. I'm not looking for work down there. I'm still the bookkeeper at my current job (love the Internet) and with the Wedding and the Baby coming we decided it didn't make sense for me to work at all. Even temp work which is what I had planned on. I guess that I will be plenty busy keeping my travel trailers tidy. Surely that will be a full time job in itself. LOL.
I was up early this morning and got my bookkeeper duties for the day done. Next on my agenda is cleaning my house. Then I'm going to go and work on the trailer. Clean it and start moving stuff out there. We only have one trailer here the other is in CA already. It is my sister and her husbands that they had planned on selling and instead are letting us use as long as we need. We won't take that one to Wyoming with us. It is older and there is a fear that it wouldn't make the trip. But it will sure make our CA life more comfortable. Some days I truly think we are nuts for doing this. Of course, then I remind myself that since our house sold so fast we really don't have much of a choice. It's all good.
One of my closest friends (also an Intended Mom via Traditional Surrogacy) may become a Mommy today. She called me this morning and they think that their surro's water broke. They are a couple of weeks early. I'm sure everything will be fine but all of my prayers are with them today.
I am totally bummed that we were only a couple of hours away from J but we didn't get to see her. It was just too quick of a trip for us to try and go down there too. Our anticipated moving day is November 8 and then I'll be able to pop over and see her more often. As nuts as I sometimes think that we are for our housing situation I am very glad that we will be down there. It will be nice to be so close for the birth and for afterwards. As we get closer to the baby being born I think about J even more. I'll probably have to do one of those big deep thoughtful posts again soon talking about my feelings of this whole surrogacy thing. But that is a post for a day when I have had more than 3 1/2 hours of sleep.

Need to Rest from the Weekend

Whew. I'm glad it is Monday. This weekend was crazy busy. We packed, we took loads to storage, we spruced up the travel trailer, I had a birthday, we packed some more, we took more stuff to storage, etc, etc. That was our exciting weekend. I went to bed each night exhausted.



This morning we all got up early so KiKi could get to school for a field trip. She is part of the leadership group at school and they are visiting another school today. It is a huge thing for her that she loves. Joe and her left this morning at 6:05. Angel and Ogre who have their own apartment in the city have been here since Saturday. Ogre is still working in this town so they came back here and brought their laundry. I find it so amusing that after only being moved out for 3 days Angel came back with about 3 loads of laundry. I think that she is going to need to figure out how to go through less clothing or that coin operated laundry is going to cost her a fortune.



Our new home (AKA travel trailer) now has brand new flooring. We put in new tile and new carpet. The carpet is wonderful. So beautiful and feels so good. I'm going to give the place a good cleaning this week and then we will start moving stuff into it. Trying to scale down from a 3 bedroom home to a storage unit and two travel trailers is not going to be easy. We are parting with a few things. I'm using freecycle alot to get rid of some stuff. I like that we can pass it on to others to use. Once we get settled in Wyoming we will replace things.

I am only working very part time now and mostly from home. It is so odd to not go to work every day. I'm not sure how long it will take me to get used to it but I'm willing to give it a try!

A Packing Day

I am supposed to be packing right now. I've done a bit already and have decided that I need a break. I am happy that I have been doing lots of sorting and purging over the past few months when we were getting ready to put our house on the market. It should make this final packing easier.
Last night we took our first load to our storage unit. The storage unit is the size of a single car garage. I will be needing to get rid of quite a bit of stuff in order to get things to fit. I planned on getting rid of lots so I guess that is okay. The actual getting rid of might be difficult. But I keep reminding myself that it is just stuff and I shouldn't have any sort of emotional attachment to stuff.
Our plan is to move 2 weeks from tomorrow. I have a daily chore list mapped out for us and if we follow it then this should be fairly painless. Tonight we are taking Angel's stuff to her and KiKi and LuLu to their dads for the weekend. Tomorrow we are doing a few things to the trailer and then taking a couple of loads to the storage unit. Joe says that soon I will have nothing left in the house for us to sit on or sleep on but my 'plan' allows us to have both of those luxuries until shortly before the move. Silly man.
I should end my break and get back to it. I want to have all of the upper cabinets in the kitchen cleared and and packed up. Most of those items will go to storage instead of going with us since I don't use them often and space will be at a premium in the trailers. Our adventure is beginning!

Working From Home

Today I am not really going into the office. I will stop by there later but for the most part my replacement will be handling everything. Of course, I have already spent a total of 30 minutes on the phone with her and it is not even yet 9AM. HMMMM. It is nice to be needed but I'm hopeful that soon she won't need me much at all.

I do have a busy day planned. There is a furnace guy coming sometime between 10 and noon to service the furnace as part of our sales agreement. Then I'll pop into the office for a short time (like an hour or less) then it is off to town. Angel has her second wedding dress fitting today and we are going to go to a bakery and chat about wedding cakes. Then we are going to the wedding/reception hall to take some measurements of the place so we can plan the layout. It is going to be challenging doing the wedding and reception in one place but that is what Angel and Ogre want so that is the way it will be.

Angel is officially moving out of my house tomorrow. Most of her stuff is at her new apartment and she starts her new job in the city on Thursday. Friday night Joe and will take her bed to her apartment. It is exciting for her but a little hard for me.

We are moving from here the first week of November. That is also exciting and hard. I know that in the end it will be worth it but I think the next few months will be challenging. I am very happy that KiKi and LuLu are still excited about this. I hope they are just as excited when we are a month or two into it. I figure that November will go well because it will all still be new. December will be okay because we will all be looking forward to Angel's wedding and Christmas. January will be great because that is when the baby is born. February might get a little iffy. The weather and the tight quarters will probably start to get to us. March will look better because in theory the weather will improve and we can get out more. April will be wonderful because we will be looking forward to early May when we head for Wyoming. So that doesn't sound so bad, right?

My biggest 'issue' with this move is the fact that we won't have a real house for a while. We will be wintering in California in two travel trailers and then when we get to Wyoming we will live in one trailer while we build our garage. We will then move into that while we wait for the house to get finished. We know that we can make the garage home-like so that won't be too bad. But I am feeling a little bad about bringing the baby home to a travel trailer. I guess we didn't plan this too well but we really didn't feel that we could reject the sales offer on our house because the timing wasn't the greatest. With the mortgage market the way it is we are feeling pretty darn lucky to have our house in escrow and if all goes well we will almost make a small profit (when I say small I mean very small). It will at least put us in a good position for moving to Wyoming in the spring.

An Exciting Day!

Our house goes on the market today. I would say it is about 95% ready to show. Tonight we will finish up a couple of things. I truly wonder how I will keep it looking good all the time. And of course, the dog has decided now would be a very good time to shed. Aren't they supposed to do that in the spring time? Shouldn't he be getting some heavy winter coat now instead of losing it? sigh.

We got some other great news a few days ago. We had been looking at a piece of land in Wyoming. We made an offer on it at the end of July which was rejected. We made a second offer last week and it was accepted! We are scheduled to close on it before the end of this month. Super fast deal. It is 2 acres with a well and a septic in place and power/phone to the lot line. Our plan is to either build or move on a modular. The catch. We will have to move to Wyoming before the house is completed. We will be 'roughing it' in our camp trailer. Should make for a fun time. The plan is not to move until spring so at least we won't have any weather issues to worry about. I have been studying lots of "Off Grid Living" type blogs for ideas on how to be more comfortable during the camp trailer time. I am amazed at how ingenious people can be. They have given me some very good ideas.

Our new property has an amazing view which makes it a little easier to give up the amazing view I have now. The picture above is the view. See that mountain? That is Casper Mountain. I thought we would only have prairie there so I was quite happy to find a piece of property that looked at a mountain. Okay, so it isn't as big as the mountains I'm used to. But it'll do! Lots of fun things to do on that mountain too. A nice little ski area, cross country ski trails, hiking, fishing, camping. All good things. A few miles from our new property is a river and a park with a boat launch. We are pretty sure hubby's boat is too big for that little river but a smaller boat would work. The same river has some great man made rapids for kayak's and tubes in the town of Casper plus we are told the fishing in the river is very good. And less than an hour east is a nice big lake perfect for more fishing or for water skiing. My goal once we get relocated is to convince Joe that he would much rather have a water skiing boat and a small fishing than a big fishing boat. Wish me luck on that one (here is where I need a winking smilie). But in my mind it is a good deal. Two boats in place of one! What's not to like about that idea?

Whew!

Realtor visit went well. The listing price she is suggesting is right in the range we are wanting to list at. Of course, listing price and price that it sells for may be two different things. At the moment we aren't in a big hurry to sell since we want to wait until spring to move but listing times here average 90+ days so it could work out good. Then again come spring I may be on here whining about how our house won't sell. We are going to finish up a few projects and official list date will be 9/8.



Once our projects are done and the listing is active the fun of living in a fish bowl begins. This part scares me. I am domestically challenged in the area of housework. I struggle to keep the house clean and tidy and fail often. I do have my Home Management Binder completed that I mentioned I was making. It has been helping me to stay on task and keep organized. And I made an entire section for my beloved weekly menus! I even use the binder to help with my youngest girls schedules. I wish I would have known about this binder thing years ago!

Alert, Alert!

I have a realtor due here in 35 minutes to chat about listing our house. I do not like selling homes. I've done it before and it doesn't get any easier. And right now with a sluggish (that is the term the realtor used) market it is a super scary thing. I'll report back on how it went and hopefully the news will be that we are listed.

It's Saturday!

I love Saturday's. I sleep in late, then I lounge around for a little bit on the 'puter, then I make us a little brunch and then I get to work. We spend most of our Saturday's (and often Sunday's) working on fixing up this 108 year old home.

Before we were fixing it up for us, now we are fixing it up to sell. The realtor is coming on Monday to see about listing it so this weekend will be full. In fact, I should be making our brunch right now instead of sitting here typing so I can get to work. Joe has already been painting for 2 hours and I'm still in my jammies.

We have done quite a bit of work to this place. We are hoping that the realtor will agree and not want us to do much more. I'm about burnt out. It is not nearly as fun to fix up a place that we are selling compared to one we are trying to make 'ours'. I do love this house though. And part of me wishes we were staying here.

We live in the country. 19 miles east of the nearest real town. That town isn't very big (population of about 10,000) but if we drive about 45 minutes east we can get to a bigger town (of about 40,000) or 2 hours east to Portland (really big town). It is beautiful here. Our house sits up on a little hill and overlooks a slough and a small valley. The picture above is the view that we have from our front deck. Usually it is very green but we are having a dry year. You can't see the slough very well in the pic but it is there. I'll miss that view when we move to Wyoming. We are going to be put an offer in on a piece of property this coming week that has a pretty nice view too. Different but still nice. I am very hopeful that we will get it. No house on the property just a septic and a well so we will build a house. Fun times.

Purging and favorites

Yesterday I purged some of my books. I now have 2 garbage bags full for our local 'library'. The library is a section at our feed store here in my small little area. I kept more books than I probably should have but for some reason it is hard for me to part with my favorites. I am the type of person who will re-read a book I love.

This morning I started on the movies. I didn't do as good with them. I only buy movies that I already love so it is hard for me to part with them. There are some movies on my shelf that I have watched a dozen or more times. It kind of drives my husband nuts when I want to watch one of my old favorites. I never tire of some of them.

My favorite movies in no particular order:
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Matrix
Die Hard (1, 2 and 4)
Lethal Weapon (all 4 of them)
The Day After Tomorrow
Armageddon
G.I. Jane
The Transporter (1 and 2)
Legally Blonde (1 and 2)
Con Air (Nicolas Cage looks sooo good with long hair in a wife beater. yummy)

My favorite books:
The Red River Series
Return to Red River Series
The Love Comes Softly Series
The Little House Books

Do you have a book that you re-read or a movie that you watch over and over?

Newbie Blogger

I've thought about starting a blog for a while now. I'm the type of person who gets all excited about something and goes full steam ahead for a while and then... Nothing. I avoided starting a blog for that reason. I've entered a few post in the blog section in myspace (which I'll copy over below to catch you up) but for the most part my thoughts just float around in my head. One of the reasons I'm starting this now is to have a record of our life events. We have so many things going on right now.

Event #1: We are expecting a baby! Having a baby is a wonderful event. This will be my husbands first child and my fifth child. We are very fortunate to be able to have this baby. We are only able to have this child thru the help of a surrogate. Our surrogate is 16+ weeks pregnant and we believe that the baby is a boy. My other children are all girls and our surro has only had girls before (4 also) so having a boy is new territory for both of us! We'll hopefully know for sure at the next ultrasound on August 15th.

Event #2: We are planning a move. We currently live in the Pacific Northwest. Next spring we intend to move to Wyoming. Big switch! I'm looking forward to this as an adventure. We have an offer in on a piece of property. A beautiful 2 acres that we will either build a house on or put a new modular home on. It has a view of Casper Mountain and Casper the city. I love it and we hope to hear soon that our offer was accepted.

Event #3: My DD#2 is moving out. This is a bittersweet event for me. She turned 18 in June. I'm amazed at what an incredible young lady she has become and am very happy that she is taking this step. But I'll still miss my little girl! DD #1 will continue at college in the fall as a sophomore. Only change is this year instead of living on campus she will live with my parents. It is very good that they live close to the college. I am a little (okay alot) sad that when we move to Wyoming both of the older girls will be staying here. It is hard for me to realize sometimes that they are now adults and are building their own lives. I'll get better at accepting this as time goes on (I hope).

I guess that is it for big events. Many little things. Such as continuing to work on our 1900 era house to get it ready to sell.

What will I write about in this blog? Many things. I will probably tell you about surrogacy, my children, moving, my attempts at cooking, working on the house, plans for our new house. You name it. In my mind everything is fair game.

Here are copies of my previous blog posts.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Waiting...
We are currently in what is referred to as the 2 week wait. This is the time when we are waiting to see if the attempted conception has achieved a pregnancy. I would like to tell you that it is a fun time but I would be lying! Joe and I have been through quite a few 2 week waits (2ww) now. We have found that working on our house helps us pass the time. But it still drags on and on and on and on. You get the idea.
Ours is not a normal conception. In order to have a baby we need the help of a surrogate. Our surrogate is in this 2ww right along with us. I know for a fact that this 2ww is just as looong for her as us. And she has the added temptation of pregnancy tests. I am sure that as I am typing this she is thinking about pregnancy tests and using one (we will in the future refer to this as POAS). Stay strong girl- stay strong!
By this time next week we should know how this 2ww turned out. In the mean time, Joe and I are going to rip the icky tile ceiling down in the living room, dining room and kitchen. That should keep us busy!

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Sunshine!
I love the sun coming in my window. Many of our days are dark and rainy here. So a sunny day is something to celebrate. Of course, my wimpy Oregon eyes can barely handle the brightness!
I've lived in Oregon for half my life. I never really noticed just how much it rained until I married my sun loving husband. Last winter he was getting very sad about all of the rain. I kept promising him 'wait until summer, honey, it will be beautiful'. Well, it was beautiful but it was also the wettest summer that our area had seen in years! I do understand better his loathing of the rain. He spent his life doing things outdoors. Here we go outdoors but it isn't the same. Going hiking in the rain is no fun, going boating in the rain is no fun, picnics in the rain- not happening.
There are things that I will totally miss about here. The rain makes everything very green. It is beautiful. There is alot of water here (duh). We live across the street from a slough, 1.5 miles from the Columbia River and just over a half hour from the Ocean. In the winter the Ocean is amazing. I love watching the waves hit. Of course, my favorite way to watch them is from a hotel room in front of a fire with a glass of wine!

Friday, February 22, 2008
Friday!!
I like Fridays! I'm sure that most people like Fridays. Thing is I have a pretty good job that I enjoy going to (most days). But there is something super wonderful about the weekend. Some weekends we plan something special but most of the time it is just home time working on our house.
One of my favorite things is Saturday morning. Joe gets up usually a half hour or so before me. By the time I get up the coffee is ready and he has cleaned up the kitchen including mopping the floor. I usually do the main kitchen cleaning each night before bed (flylady.net says to shine your sink every night- so I do) but I intensely dislike mopping. Joe knows that so he does it. He is for sure a 'keeper'!
This weekend we have demolition planned. We are taking down ceiling tiles, pulling up flooring, taking out an old wood stove and taking down fake brick. I only wish I could use a sledge hammer for one of those jobs. Weilding a sledge hammer sounds like fun. Maybe I can talk Joe into taking a wall down. hmmm....

Sunday, February 24, 2008
Pregnancy tests are evil!
I have come to the conclusion that pregnancy tests are only evil teases. They tease you into thinking positive thoughts only to crush you. I think I might start a campaign to have pregnancy tests removed from the store shelves. My thinking on this is as long as they are available for purchase the temptation to buy them and use them is very great and in some women has even been known to cause an addiction. Yep, it is true. It is an addiction known as Peestickitis. It is a horrible condition. The only known cure for it is pregnancy.
Our surrogate suffers from Peestickitis. I sure hope she can be cured of this condition in the near future.
This 2 week wait is almost over and it doesn't look like we have achieved a pregnancy. Sadly, we will not be able to try in March so our next attempt will be April. That would give us a baby due around New Year's. A New Year's baby would be just fine. Bear (my oldest) was born on the 3rd of January and she will be 20 next year. A 20 year age difference- WOW!

Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Done waiting
Yesterday afternoon our 2ww came to an official end. Our surrofriend was teased by faint positive pregnancy tests over the weekend only to have reality hit hard. Joe and I are sad but at the same time very hopeful. Faint positives is the closest we have come to having a baby on the way. Our way of thinking is that faint positives mean something was trying to start. This has been a long road for us and now to finally have this hope is such a good feeling. I don't think that I've posted that we had a surrogate before. We insemmed for 5 months with never a glimmer of a line on those evil pee sticks. This was our first real month with our surro J and to have so much hope was wonderful.
We had thought that we would have to miss trying in March. Joe and I had planned a ski weekend with my girls as part of their Christmas present. (Actually, it is more of a present for me since we are going to be moving soon and Bear and Angel won't be going with us I really wanted to do something special with everyone.) The weekend we have our trip planned is the time in March that would be the correct time for insems. As it turns out J was able to adjust her schedule so she and her daughter can join us. We are very happy about this. My girls are looking forward to it also since they haven't had a chance to meet J yet. WhooHoo!

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
About that time
We are close to time to try for a baby again. This time we are doing what is called medicated intrauterine inseminations commonly called IUI. Our surro took an oral medication for 5 days that caused her lovely side effects including hot flashes and moodiness and tomorrow she will go in to have her follicles looked at. Hopefully, after that we will know when the IUI's will occur. We live about 12 hours from her so will drive down when it is time. We are hoping for one or two nice looking follies which will end up being one little baby. Stay tuned!

Tuesday, May 06, 2008
It worked! Current mood: chipper
After 9 attempts we have a positive pregnancy test (okay, actually we have several tests since our surro loves to test)!! Joey is still in disbelief but it is true. He will come around soon. We have actually started talking about baby names. Joey wanted to name the baby Seven. What kind of a name is that? I'm putting my foot down on that not happening. lol

Friday, May 30, 2008
Looking Good!
Baby is looking good. J has had a couple of ultrasounds and everything seems right on track. Of course it is still very early and baby Bubba doesn't really look like anything more then baby Blob right now but soon he/she will look just like a tiny baby. Our due date is early January to mid January. We are very excited of course!
We drove 10 hours to go camping for Memorial Day Weekend. It rained most of the weekend. It was fun but I'm still exhausted.
DD11 and I have finally finished planting the garden. We have a little space left so I'm going to pick up something else to add in. Not quite sure what. We have tomatoes, peppers, swiss chard, spinach, radishes, zucchinni, ruffle squash and cucumbers. We are going to plant flowers in a the flower bed and on the hill behind the house this weekend. Hoping to have some very nice color by mid summer.

Thursday, July 24, 2008
Baby News
Baby is doing good. We are approaching 16 weeks. Our surro went to the doc on Monday and everything is right on target. Doc did an ultrasound and thought he might have saw a little something. A little something that indicated we may be expecting a boy. How wild would that be? Me mom to 4 girls getting a boy. WOW. That is something I am working on wrapping my mind around. Either way (boy or girl) would be perfect for us. Next appointment and ultrasound is August 15th. We plan on being in attendance for that one.