Our weekend

We had the most AMAZING time on our marriage enrichment retreat this weekend. I had good expectations for it but it even exceeded those.

We were on our retreat from 5pm on Friday until 9 am on Sunday. We stayed at this wonderful place in Pine Knoll Shores right before Atlantic beach. There was no internet or tv in our rooms so you had tons of time to focus on each other. There were lots of wooded paths and ponds and it really was so incredibly beautiful. That was just our surroundings!

We were at the retreat with about 10 or so other couples. 3 of which were pregnant too so that was pretty cool. We had our classes as a group but did exercises as couples and then could share what we learned with the group if we chose to. We really learned so much and it made us realize a lot too. Almost all of the couples were there to try and get help with communication and almost all of them had similar problems or disagreements. It was great to see how they dealt with these things and talk to others about it.

I would seriously highly recommend everyone goes to one of these at some point. It's not marriage counseling or divorce counseling or anything like that. It's just an opportunity to learn how to communicate better with your spouse and in the end love each other deeper and really appreciate one another.

Here is the Credo website for the Lejeune area ladies
http://www.mccslejeune.com/credo/index.html


At least check it out. It's FREE and you get all of your meals and rooms included. It's a great experience and I am SOOOOO thankful we went on this.

Finally!

I am finally feeling better. I am still super congested but I no longer feel like death is merely minutes away. Big improvement!

I love my job because I get all day to relax and work on feeling better. Mornings are painful having to get up early and move but knowing I get to come home at 8 and sleep until whenever I feel like it makes it better.

I am super thankful that my immune system is working again because this weekend is our marriage retreat. Jon has been told that it's great at helping with communication (which we need) and that it is a lot of fun! It's free and we get to have a resort weekend together. I'm really excited for it!

Halloween is Sunday which happens to be my husbands birthday too. I don't know what we are doing yet. Maybe handing out candy, maybe not. We have been told that not a lot of kids come trick or treating down our road so it might be a bust. I guess we will see.

Remember that accident I got into back in June? Remember how I went to court just to have to go back because the paper from the insurance company wasn't worded right and people apparently get 2 years to file a claim? WELL, that all got taken care of yesterday! FINALLY!!! I got another paper from the insurance company that still wasn't worded properly but I had a court date and just made due. I am so thankful that the ada was such a nice guy and it probably helped that I was pregnant and maybe played on the tired, hungry, miserable card. He dismissed the ticket so I never have to go through any of this again! WOO HOOO!!!

I'm sorry I have been such a slacker with my blog lately. I have been busy, sick, and just plain unmotivated. Hopefully that will all change soon.

If I don't blog before I leave for the weekend tomorrow then have a wonderful halloween!

I love you Mr. Sykes<3
You too Abigail<3

Semper Fi<3

IT"S A GIRL!!!

YAYAYAYAYAY!!!! It's a girl!!! The ultra sound was clear as day that we are having a little girl. I would post pics of it but I feel kinda like that would be borderline kiddy porn so we're not going to do that. Just take my word for it haha.

Her name will be Abigail Yvonne Sykes<3 SOOOOO EXCITED!!!!


I Love You Mr. Sykes<3
You too Abigail<3

Semper Fi<3

It's Monday!!!

Although I did have to wake up and head to work this morning it's still a great day. Why?

It's hopefully the day we find out if we're having a boy or a girl!! Yay!! I'll keep you posted on that!

Other updates, I'm still sick. My throat and head feel better but I'm still having a relationship with the toilet. Lucky me. It has to end eventually just keeping my fingers crossed that it's soon.

I'm off to get ready for the day I'll keep you posted!

Sooo sick.

On days that I can sleep in I never sleep past 8:30. I have been so sick lately and worn down from it that I slept until 1:30 pm today. I went to bed around 10:30 last night. That is a ridiculous amount of sleep! And I am STILL exhausted. I can barely move. My body feels like it's a million degrees but my temperature is normal. My bottom left wisdom tooth is throbbing which makes my entire jaw hurt. My head feels like it's at least 10 lbs heavier than usual.

On the plus side, my throat isn't all that sore anymore. But I do still have a cough.

I can't catch a break.

Hubby is sick too. Not good.

BUT... only one more day until Monday! woohoo!

Edit: I can now add number 2ing constantly to my list. Without being too vivid. Lets just say Pepto Bismal is my Bff right now.

Tummy Time!

I finally have my link to share with you guys for my mommy blog!

http://tummytime.onslow.org/tummytime/author/breanna-sykes/

My posts haven't been posted yet but will start to be this Monday! I am soo excited about this I can't even describe it!

I'm terrified

Is it completely awful that I am terrified to give birth? Not for the pain. I can deal with pain. I am terrified because I hate going to the OB and showing him my hoo ha let alone having it on display for however long labor will take and with more people around!

I know that once I go into labor all I will care about is getting the baby out of me safely and quickly but until then I have quite a while to think about it.

Then the other option, C section, makes me even more crazy! I've seen the operation taking place and it's absolutely positively DISGUSTING!!! I have an extremely weak stomach so blood and cuts and anything along those lines makes me disgusted. Thinking about a doctor slicing open my stomach and pushing my organs around and just digging around in there for a baby creeps me out.

Did anyone else go through this? It makes me feel like an awful mom :-(