Addiction

I have an addiction to shopping, or at least searching the internet. For what? For baby stuff! I am not even through my first trimester yet and I already want to buy everything in site! Not to mention the ideas for decorating! AHHHH!! I still don't know what our nursery will look like if we have a boy or by any chance twins, but if we have a girl I have a really good feeling the nursery will look something like this...

Is that not beautiful tranquility in it's essence? Purple is my favorite color and I absolutely LOVE this nursery. I would love to do the ceiling like that but I have a feeling it isn't a DIY thing and probably not a cheap thing. I'll improvise somehow. Other than that everything looks amazing! The only problem is that we aren't sure if we will be in this house by the time the baby comes. My mom is moving down here in October and I think if Jon ends up deploying in the beginning of next year I will move in with her. That was we can save money and I can save my sanity haha. The problem with that is that she is dead set on renting a house and they usually are not ok with painting... TOTAL PARTY POOPERS!!! 

I will seriously cry if I can't paint and decorate our baby's nursery the way I want to. It's like 75% of the fun of pregnancy! I can't just throw a crib and chair in any old room and call it a day! That's ridiculous! 

I am full of emotion since we found out we're pregnant. I am anxious and curious to know if we are having a boy or a girl or twins?? haha. I am nervous that I am going to do something wrong or eat something I'm not supposed to that will result badly for the baby. I would never forgive myself. Guys have it so easy... Bah. 

But yea back to my mom. How awesome is it that she is moving here? She has always wanted to live in North Carolina so this is a perfect opportunity for her. She is in the process of adopting my little brother and sister so she can't move down until October but that is fine. It will be so great having her and my little munchkins around. Especially when the baby comes! It will be amazing having her guidance and support and help. I am very thankful for her. 

I've talked your ear off enough for one night. I am going to go rub lotion on my tummy religiously as to hopefully avoid stretch marks. haha. 

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Car dilemma

My car is totaled. I barely injured the thing. I got in a fender bender going about 25 mph so it barely looked damaged at all. Well that's because my car had like 170,000 miles on it and 2 bumps on the back from a garbage truck and I think my step mom did the other one. That was actually a funny story. But anyways, we are getting hardly anything for the car. So now we have to take another loan out for a car. We are looking to get a new/used car. I would love a brand new car but with what we are looking at that's not going to happen. So we're looking at used cars with less than 50,000 miles on it. We both really like the Jeep Compass and Cherokee. We also like a couple other cars and suv's. What I want to know is do any of you have a car or suv that you are absolutely in love with? We could really use some advice as what to get!


Thanks girls!


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I need some input/advice

We all know the hardest part of this life is saying goodbye to our men. I have said goodbye for 3 months to my husband while he went to boot camp. Nothing but letters an a 30 second phone call for 3 months. Then I had to say goodbye for 5 months while I went back to college and he went to school in NC. We haven't gone through a deployment yet. Unfortunately I fear it's coming at the beginning of next year. The scary thing is that our due date is the end of February as of right now. I think it will end up being some time in March. Either my husband will be leaving in January or March. The January deployment is gone for about 6 months. The March deployment is gone for a year. So, either he misses the birth or the whole first year of our baby's life.

I am so confused and upset about this. I know I don't have a choice in any of it. Not that it would help because I don't know which I would chose. I know he wants to deploy. I don't want him to at all especially with a baby on the way. I don't know what to do :-(

Help?

Jean diapers?

Really? Jean diapers? Why didn't we come up with this earlier? Before I would see a baby running around in just their diaper and be like where are your pants? Now it's a little more appropriate haha. I think they are just hilarious. The commercial is soooo funny. I don't know if I would ever purchase jean diapers but you never know.

I am watching a baby's story on TLC right now. People have the strangest births! What is this pool birth business? Is it common? It seems to be on this show. Another common thing seems to be to have your entire family there? I'm talking husband, both sets of parents, any kids you may already have, all your cousins, uncles and aunts too. Seriously? Maybe it's just me but if my husband can be there he will be the only one in the room with me. And by room I mean next to the bed, not bath tub or pool. If my husband can't be there then I want my mom there. Don't get me wrong, people can be waiting in the hospital. I just don't want the whole world staring at me through it.

Maybe I shouldn't be watching these shows. They make it kind of creepy and scary haha.

Oh well, I'm out for now.

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Baby brain

I cannot stop thinking about this little bugger in my tummy! I am beyond excited which makes me extremely paranoid and over anxious. I am constantly reading ingredients and thinking about if it's good for the baby. Did you know I can't eat lunch meat, hotdogs, certain types of artificial sweeteners, red dye 40, too much caffeine, or SEAFOOD!!! I knew the seafood thing, that one is common sense. The rest of them just sent my mind for a loop. I am terrified I am going to eat something that is going to either cause a miscarriage, or a birth defect. I swear I am going to go all organic. Is this a normal feeling? Do all mommy to be's have anxiety like this?

In other news, I believe we have baby names!! We already knew that our first boy would have my husbands name so he would be Jonathan Christopher Jr, or JJ for short :-). Our second boy name is Cale Leon. Our problem is girl names. We cannot come up with any we like, until the other night. I think our name for a girl is going to be Bristol Yvonne. Bristol because my husband is in love with Nascar so I thought it was kind of cute to name one of our kids after one of his favorite tracks. I hate generic names so everything sounded too familiar. Lillian, Isabelle, Madison...they are all beautiful names, but I love unique names. Yvonne will be her middle name because my grandma's name is Yvonne. She is one of the most important people in my life and I don't know any better way to show her how much I love her than to name my first girl after her. Besides Yvonne is a gorgeous name.

We will probably change our minds like 5 million times before we find out what we're having and if it's a girl, before she is born. We're very indecisive. Another thing we are debating on is the design and theme of the nursery. We both LOVE Dr. Seuss. We think it would be amazing to have a Dr. Seuss themed nursery. The only problem I see with that is it becoming too overwhelming or bright. Dr. Seuss' imagination is full of bright colors and fun creatures. I would love a wall mural but unless I can get a cozier idea in my head I think that one is on halt. Another idea we have is teddy bears. Since I call my husband papa bear and he calls me mama bear we would obviously have a baby bear. Yes, we're korny, get over it and smile :-) haha. These both are gender neutral themes which is great. Any ideas?

This one is my favorite. It was my favorite book and I think the colors are subtle enough. 

Ok, I've chatted your ear off enough.


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Ok ok, I've made you wait long enough

I had to wait until as late as I possibly could because my mother in law and sister in law are leaving in about an hour to come here to visit and we wanted to be able to tell them in person.

So what's the big news??

WE'RE PREGNANT!!!!! We don't know how far along exactly yet but were estimated at about 6 weeks making the due date February 27, 2011!! I am so excited!

The next 9 months are going to be blogging heaven for me because I am so anxious and excited that I need to be able to get that energy out some how!! And no way better than to talk about it and share all my excitement!

So stay tuned for belly pictures, nursery ideas, and all things that go along with pregnancy and babies!!



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I need to clean, Clean, CLEAN!!

My mother in law and sister in law are leaving NY tonight to come here for the weekend!! They should be here tomorrow morning! I totes should have started cleaning like last week but staying true to myself I have procrastinated until the day before :-) haha. It is only 7:30 ish in the am right now though and I think I will at least wait another hour before I start cleaning. I have absolutely no energy which is a daily occurrence lately.

I guess I just need to wait for the morning show to be over with and then get some motivation to clean. It would be nice to have the house cleaned before my husband gets home at 12 so that he can just relax. He had to go in really early this morning so he is probably going to be grumpy when he comes home.

I will finally post my "secret" later tonight!!! Stay tuned!

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