i'm kind of a big deal...

my baby was 2 months old yesterday. where is the time going?!?! thanksgiving is just a few weeks away now and christmas next month. i seriously can't believe the holidays are upon us already! i have so much to be thankful for this year. what a trip life is!! =)

macey is 7 weeks old today... had a visit with the doc this morning and she weighed in at 12 lbs and is 23.5 inches. growing fast!!

halloween is on saturday and i'm not dressing up. pretty sure this is the first year EVER that i haven't done so. but, i'm not really confident with my body to try and get into some slutty get up and i'm not creative enough, or have the time rather to be creative, and put together anything. plus, we'll have ry and so halloween is really all about her going trick or treating. she is going to be a hollywood starlet and macey is going to be a little lamb. there is a big party in oregon this year and i have to admit... i'm sad i can't go. but alas, motherhood calls. i suppose i should get used to missing out on big parties. oh well.

justin's 30th birthday is on friday... 30 on the 30th. we're planning on joining him for dinner and will be bringing macey with us. i actually told him i'd plan it. does anyone know of any really great italian places in seattle that we could go? preferably something close to some night life since the rest of the group will surely be going to get their drink and dance on afterwards.

doing pretty well with the workouts so far. i've been going everyday. mostly to zumba and spinning classes, and i've been squeezing in a few strolls with charlie here and there too. i'm feeling great and my bp is way down so i know it's already doing some good. i'll be happy when the weight starts to go though. i still have a few weeks before i see any of that though. it's really a shame you can't see results immediately. bummer.

i'm going to go to the last supper club the day before thanksgiving for the 11th anniversary shin dig. should be really fun. mark your calendars. =)

macey was 6 weeks old yesterday. time is flying by so fast. jeeeeez... but, with the 6 week mark here, i can hit the gym again... yay! i did a spinning class yesterday and a zumba class today. i'm reminded that the first few days, few weeks even, are the hardest. but i am determined. go me!

my baby girl was a month old yesterday. already! time flies...

i've been doing REALLY awesome with my diet. and now i've gotten on a walking routine too. i've been walking either the big hill in my housing development or the centennial trail every day. i walked four miles the last two days and 5 today. i'm going to join the ymca at the beginning of next month too and start hitting the cardio hard. can't wait to do spinning and zumba classes again!!! i haven't gotten on the scale so i don't know if i've lost any more weight. but i think i'm going to wait until i go to the doctor at the end of the month since that was the scale i was weighed on last. i hope to see a smaller number.

amber and i bought the baby girls their halloween costumes this week. macey is going to be a little lamb and ashtynn is going to be piglet. they are so darling! i set up halloween land on my mantle yesterday complete with spiderwebs and sparkly spiders. as soon as i finish this, i'm heading out to the front porch to decorate. green glow in the dark webs. oooooooh. =)

corey and justin are going to the seahawks game on sunday so macey and i are going to spend the day with cassie. looking forward to it.

wedding is in 10 months. when i think about how quickly my 9 month pregnancy went by, i realize just how little time i actually have to get everything in order. i'm so excited!!! don't forget to save the date... AUGUST 7TH!

i'm a mom. it's the most amazing thing. september 8th was by far the very BEST day of my LIFE! more updates later...

went to the doctor and had another ultrasound today. i was happy to discover that macey hasn't grown since the one i had two weeks ago. she's still just under 9 lbs. i was expecting her to be closer to 10 by now. i'll be heading to the hospital monday night around 9pm where they will attempt to ripen... yup, you read it right... RIPEN my cervix. my doc will come check me early tuesday morning and if ripening has occurred, we will induce labor. if it hasn't done any good, we will have a c-section. but either way, macey jeanne is coming on tuesday! =)

went to the doctor yesterday and things went well. the doctor has given me permission to leave the bedroom, but i still can't do much. i went and got pedicures and lunch with my little sister today and now i'm doing some laundry and tidying the house. but then i really need to get back to the couch. i go back to the doctor on thursday for one last ultrasound to check baby's weight and lung development and then we'll be setting a date for delivery... most likely early next week. CRAZY!!! so excited though. i just can't wait to meet this baby girl...

so, my bp decided to spike super high on thursday. i called my doctor's office and they told me i needed to be admitted to labor and delivery right away. i freaked out. started having a panic attack, which was surely GREAT for my already high bp. we packed our bags, bag for baby just in case, and headed down to olympia. they kept me in and monitored my bp and baby's heart rate for a few hours and ran some tests. my bp never did go down, but since baby wasn't in any distress and all tests came back normal, they sent me home. i told corey i thought we should just stay in olympia overnight because i wanted to talk to my actual doctor the next day. i was still concerned that my bp didn't go down at all. so we got a hotel room for the night, and it was a good thing we did because when i called my doctor the next morning, he had me go straight back into the hospital. my doctor was very thorough which i was happy about. he kept me in overnight to run a 24 urine test and some other blood labs. he also switched up my bp medication and kept monitoring that until it went down. it finally did... but the only downfall to that is that it will only stay down if i do. so now i'm on glorious bed rest, with bathroom privileges only. it sucks. bad. especially since we had my family baby shower on sunday and got so many gifts that i am now completely overwhelmed. seriously. both my mom and corey's mom said they've never seen so many shower gifts before. it was insane. so now i have all of this stuff that needs to be washed, organized, some stuff needs to be returned and exchanged and i can't do shit. great. corey is stopping at babies r us on his way home today to get our basinet. that's a must since baby will be staying in our room for the first few months until she starts sleeping through the night. he's also exchanging a duplicate swing for a bouncy chair and returning a bunch of onesies and outfits that i just really didn't need. then he'll be on laundry duty and be taking orders from me to get everything organized and ready to go. my parents came over last night and helped out quite a bit. we have the car seat all set and ready to go and the baby swing is set up and ready too. now, we just need the basinet, a bunch of diapers and wipes, a few bottles in case breast feeding isn't successful and we'll be good to go. i keep telling myself that the rest of the things (like our dirty laundry, vacuuming, sweeping/mopping, etc) can wait until baby comes and i'm feeling better, but it's REALLY hard. like REALLY REALLY hard. but, here i lay. just have to try and keep my bp down and baby in for another 3 days. preferably 10 so we can get to 37 weeks. then her lungs will be fully developed and she most likely won't have to spend extra time in the hospital before we can bring her home. this is all a little overwhelming. i was really counting on that extra month, but what can ya do?? just hoping for the best at this point. i'll keep you all posted!

as labor day weekend quickly approaches, i can't help but feel a little dead inside that i'll be missing the dmb concert this summer. this is the first year since i started going that i'll be missing it. i really thought i'd be able to swing it, which is really just ridiculous. i finally admitted to myself last month that going was really just out of the question for me. i mean, seriously? i am going to be omg huge. how much fun am i really going to have standing on an uneven hillside in the hot sun at 9 months pregnant? lol.

it's a big bummer, but i just keep looking ahead to NEXT labor day weekend, my bachelorette party, which will include one night of dave and then pushing onward to sun lakes for a relaxing weekend on the water with my friends. it's going to be fantastic! i guess i'll survive missing them this once. *sigh*

i want to die. this heat sucks. yesterday, i sat in the pilchuck river while the kids and charlie frolicked about. that was nice. but i have not slept well at all for the last three weeks and i totally had a break down at like 2 this morning. just sobbing uncontrollably and i couldn't calm down. corey, finally got me to stop crying long enough to get me in a cold shower. that helped a bit, but i still didn't really sleep. it's already 84 in my house... and who knows how hot it is outside. i just want to go float around in my parents' pool or the lake. but i feel bad leaving the house in it's current state. it was beautiful and clean, but then corey came home and now his shit from his trip is all over the place. ugh. so frustrating. but it's just too hot to be productive...

in other news, we have a family reunion and baby shower/bbq for my cousin lindsay, both in raymond, on saturday and another doctor's appointment on monday. so we'll be spending the weekend down there. 53 days until my due date. such craziness. the baby shower that sara and katie threw for me was really great. i got a ton of darling things for baby macey. i have another shower on august 23rd at corey's parents' house too. oh baby. i can't believe it's almost time for motherhood.

for now, i'm going to go drink some water and then hopefully jump in some.

my girlfriends only baby shower is tomorrow and i'm really excited for it!! corey will be home in just 4 days now and motherhood is approaching so rapidly that i can hardly contain my excitement... and anxiety! i've done a bit of decorating and our home is starting to look really pretty great. it's about to be the hottest weekend of the year and i fully intend to be in my parents' pool all day on sunday. the end.

i had an ultrasound yesterday.

my "what to expect when you're expecting" book told me that my baby would be just over three lbs this week.

macey is 4.5.

my doctor has informed me that i can expect to push out at least a 9 lb baby.

this is great news to everyone in the office because i am a high risk hypertension pregnancy and typically those babies have low birth weights.

this is horrible news to me. i don't want to push out a 9-10 lb baby. oi.

that is all.

corey left me for another mission. 18 days this time. ugh. i got really emotional about it. i just miss him so much when he's gone. 10 days is hard enough... but 18??? lame. i'm sure it will be easier this time around since i've got my family so close. plus, ry will be back up here for this week too. the klahaya days festival here in snohomish runs from the 15th-19th so i'll probably be taking the girls down for that. it should be fun.

in other news, i am 29 weeks pregnant today. i think it's crazy that i'm coming up on 30. it's gone by so freakin' fast!! i'm getting really excited for my first baby shower (july 25th). it will be fun to see all of my friends and i know it's a bit selfish, but i'm so excited to start getting presents!!! like cute little outfits for the little girl. there's nothing cuter than baby girl clothes! =)

the house is really coming along. it looks more and more like a 'HOME' every day. it still gets a bit frustrating from time to time. i can literally see in my mind what i want every inch of the house to look like, but it's all happening so slowly. we just can't afford to go out and buy every single thing we want at once though. so, i guess i can be patient. rylie's room is 100% finished and that makes me really happy. i'm not sure why we chose rylie's room to work on so hard, but we did. there's something about having one room completely finished that really makes me feel at ease. now i can just close that door and move on to the next room... which is ours. it's really coming along too, but i need to get some more wall decor for in there. the living/dining area is completely bare with the exception of our new furniture (which i love). i also bought a great area rug that looks really awesome in there. we still need end tables though, and a hutch for the dining room. but we may be waiting awhile for those things. in the meantime, i'm going to start hunting for wall decor for down there too. it's really fun!

tomorrow i'm going to get rylie from her mom and then we're going to a family reunion at ike kinswa state park just outside of mossyrock. it's probably my favorite reunion of the year. the weather is almost always charming, the food excellent, and the park itself is really fun. it's right on mayfield lake and it's gorgeous. i'm really looking forward to it. the next week, i'll be busy working on the house and keeping the girls entertained... probably hitting up flowing lake a time or two and definitely the klahaya days festival. then i have to attend corey's family reunion at his parents' house in aberdeen on the 19th. i'll hand ry back off to her mom where she'll most likely stay until corey returns. the following saturday is my baby shower. and then sometime after corey's return i have to find time for a belly photo shoot with my dear friend jessica. it's going to be a busy month!

yesterday was my mom's birthday. my little sisters and i baked her a fantastic cake. and today is suzanne's birthday, so happy birthday to you! i hope everyone is enjoying the nice weather. as for me, i'm a hot sweaty mess. but whatev. i still love the sunshine! hope to see you all soon...

xoxoxoxo.

it's so fantastic!! i'm so happy to be here. we still have a lot to do before we'll really feel settled, but we're moving right along. we bought some new furniture items on saturday at jr furniture in lynnwood... a microfiber couch, reclining love seat, and rocking recliner. they got delivered today. we had a feeling that all three pieces would be a little much for our living room, but decided to go for it anyway. the deal included all three pieces and the total price would have only dropped a little over $100 if we didn't take the recliner. we will eventually move to a bigger home and will be able to use it and in the meantime, we're just going to put in our bedroom and have a small seating area by the window where we can read or relax or whatever. it's a great feeling to have a clean slate to do with what i please. and i'm so so soooo glad that i was able to get corey to sift through all of his shit before we came here. it makes everything so much easier. anyway, i suppose i should drag myself off my new comfy couch and get back to work. can't wait for everyone to see it!!

so, things are getting better. we are moving right along now. it's hard to ignore the mess that's being created in the process, but i know that will be an easy fix once all of the big stuff is loaded into that uhaul tomorrow morning!! i have successfully packed ALL of my clothes and shoes and managed to make another pretty significant downsize. i figured it was probably time to let go of all of my party attire. i can't really picture myself wearing a pin striped floofy petticoated skirt with matching tube top ever again. strange how becoming a mother really changes your taste. ;) today, i have to pack up all of corey's clothes. he's already gone through all of his stuff and i sorted through it last night and decided what was worth trying to sell at our garage sale next weekend and what could simply be tossed or donated. also on the agenda today is rylie's room. i'm not really looking forward to that at all. she has a closet jam packed with shit. i'm pretty sure most of it is garbage though so perhaps it won't be so bad. we'll be able to put all of these boxes, along with our tv, stands, bookcases, dining set, dressers, and kitchen utensils in the uhaul tomorrow. we'll save the beds for saturday am and then we're off. i'll probably come back down here on wednesday or thursday and clean up the rest of the mess and set up for our garage sale. and whatever doesn't sell will be donated. then we're DONE!!! i know that in reality, that's still a LOT to do. especially when you factor in the whole UNpacking process that will have to happen as well. but i'm feeling much more at ease than i have been the past few days. just fyi... i know most of you are pretty far away and a trek down to lacey wouldn't even be worth it, but we're going to have a LOT of really nice quality, barely used name brand clothing for both women, men, and little girls if anyone is interested. just thought i'd try to share the wealth.

in other news, poor little charlie doesn't know what the hell to think of all of this moving mayhem and all i can think about right now is mac n cheese from kfc. oh the joys of pregnancy!

now back to packing...

i'm realizing now that we should have started this whole packing process weeks ago. but it's kind of hard to do so with corey out of the country...

i'm sure most of you know how the whole moving process works... you pack up all your stuff and find that weeding through all the shit is completely necessary as you don't just want to simply relocate all of your old shit to your nice new location. luckily, i have moved enough times now that my junk is pretty limited. i did a serious downsize of even my wardrobe when i moved from tony's to olympia. corey, on the other hand, is a different story. he has got SO MUCH SHIT!!! and he wants to argue with me over what is garbage and what is "memorabilia" or whatever the hell. it's getting really frustrating for me because i am really not a keep sake type of person. i love to keep old photos and important stuff like that, but if i haven't worn or used something since grade school or junior high, i really don't feel the need to keep it. now, i am not talking about special awards or medals or trophies. corey is wanting to hang on to old warn out baseball caps and boston celtics t shirts and pins with funny sayings on them. it's just ridiculous. i know for a fact that these things will go into a box, into the moving truck, out of the moving truck, and into either our garage or attic and sit there until it is time to move again. it is especially hard dealing with this while pregnant because i find myself getting super stressed out and emotional and having breakdowns almost hourly. ugh.

we started in the garage today and i seriously had no idea just how much crap corey had stuffed in every nook and cranny out there. he just wants to pack everything into boxes and ship it on out and deal with it when we get to our new place. i keep trying to explain to him how much easier the transition will be if we weed through all the garbage now. that way, when we move in, we'll know that everything that has come with us is stuff we need and want. we can simply organize it, decorate, and be happy new home owners. i don't think he understands just how frustrated and pissed off he will be taking the extra weeks to throw away garbage once we get to our new place. he is starting to come around... thank god. i won't have it any other way. but it gets a little overwhelming.

we spent all of today out in the garage and it feels like we haven't even made a dent. i know that's not true, but it's just how i feel. and we still have the entirety of the house to pack up too!!! i know that the clothes and dishes and stuff of that nature won't be all that difficult. however, i am dreading rylie's closet. i know she has a shit ton of useless crap in there. but, i plan on having a large garage sale next weekend to try and make a little money off of some of the nicer things we no longer need. then we'll donate whatever we don't sell and be on our way.

i know that if i can keep corey on the right track and we bust our asses for the next few days, things will start to come together. but it's hard to get motivated. i wish i could just hire someone to come and do it all. but that's just not happening. time to toughen up and get it done. wish me luck!!!

we signed the loan docs yesterday, close on our house wednesday, and get the keys saturday morning!!! yay!

i coached my last fastpitch tournament this weekend and... we are the champions, my friend! great way to end the season.

macey is kicking around like a damn mia hamm in my tummy. it's so amazing!

i feel great and am so ready to get moved into our new place, but i am not at ALL thrilled about having to pack. i really need to start pronto. like today. ugh.

i am going to register for baby things next week at babies r us, target, and walmart. i am so so sooooo excited for my girlfriends only baby shower next month. it is going to be such a blast.

i miss my girlfriends but will be back in action (well, slow prego action) once this move is over with. i can't wait to get together to celebrate the final days of liz's single life next weekend! =)

the end.

i'm lonely. hungry. and broke. no bueno. i am so ready for corey to come home. /rant.

the inspection went really well... the final step is for the appraisal to go through and we will officially be home owners! we will be getting our keys at 9am on june 20th if all goes well and we're so excited!!! =)

in other news... well, there is really nothing to report in other news as i am a boring pregnant lady. i hope everyone is doing well. kthxbye!

marks the first time i have ever been kicked in the stomach from the inside! baby girl has started making big movements now. yay!!!