I tried to get motivation for nesting today :)

I have been thinking a lot lately about how close we are getting to my due date and how NOT ready we are for her to be here yet. The house is definately still set up for a couple with dogs; not a couple with dogs and a baby! We have so much work to do and it seems when you look at the calendar that days are just slipping away from us now. We still have to move all of the office furniture into the spare room, get the baby furniture, put it together and decorate the room. We also have to figure out everything we still need to buy. There are a few necessities we need to purchase and some things that would just be nice to have.

I was supposed to meet my friend Ashley this weekend in Paducah to have a nice relaxing, pampered weekend out of town; that wasn't really that far out of town. But, things changed and we weren't able to meet up. She is going to be coming down here to Nashville in about 2 weeks so that we can hang out while Tom is at his Reserves weekend in Birmingham... I decided to use this day as a catch up day for rest and also to try to get some of the motivation for that "nesting instinct" that pregnant women are supposed to have. I suppose I have the nesting feelings but no desire to actually accomplish them right now. What I did today I consider a huge feat! I opened all the bedding and blankets and everything we have gotten so far including the clothes and spent the day doing laundry and folding. I wanted to make sure that everything was clean and washed in the baby Dreft soap that is supposed to be good for their skin. Other than that I just layed around watching my DVR'd shows. I don't even have the energy to cook so I just ordered my first pizza online. I hope it gets delivered correctly because I am not so sure I trust my technology skills!!!

Tomorrow I plan on getting up and making my way back to church. We haven't been in a long time because the air circulation is so bad in our church that the last 2 times we went I almost passed out. I guess the rest of the weekend I will get the house cleaned up and work on the adult laundry that needs to be done. At least I will be able to eat left over pizza for my next couple of meals!!!

31 Week Belly Pictures!!!

She's getting big now. I can't believe there is still 9 wks left to grow!

The pregnancy week by week says that she is now 18 inches from head to toe and weighs about 3.5 lbs. She still does a lot of shifting but instead of just feeling her on the right side now I am feeling her on the left as well. I think that she is starting to get cramped in there because I don't feel as many movements as I have in the past few weeks.

The front view!!! My belly button is barely hanging in there and I am starting to notice a very faint line down the middle. Still no stretch marks and I have just broke the 20 lb mark on weight gain according to the scale at the vets office today! Sleeping is getting a lot harder. I think my mommy senses are really kicking in because I have become the lightest sleeper. Everything seems to wake me up and every time I wake up I have to use the bathroom so I am peeing about 4-6 times per night. It's also getting harder to bend over and put my socks and shoes on and to get up off the floor. Turning from sided to side in the middle of the night has also become and enormous feat but it will all be worth it soon!

The puppy cousins!

Mazie, Shirley and Riley had such a good time playing with each other all weekend. They were such good girls. Riley especially liked Mazie being here because Mazie still likes to play like a puppy. She can hang for a little while but she is defiantly starting to show her age. Alan sent us a picture message on the way home last night and she was out. The poor puppy will probably have to sleep for 3 days to recover but I know she had fun at Aunt Amanda's!

Alan and Cate visit Nashville

Alan and Cate decided to come down and visit us this weekend which was unexpected but fantastic news! They got into town about 12:30am Saturday and we headed to bed. In the morning we got up and I cooked some bacon and eggs and then Alan played Mr. Fixit around the house.


First he fixed our stereo which hasn't worked for about a month and a half. Shirley and Riley loved helping him out. It turns out after he took the thing apart that randomly somehow the knob that switches the speakers on and off was turned off and all he had to do was click it back on to speakers on. That made us feel kind of dumb but at least its fixed. He also fixed our scanner and our Microsoft Office. He is very electronically inclined as Tom and I are obviously not! Thanks Alan!!

For lunch we headed into Nashville which ended up being quite the adventure. We wanted to take them to Monell's which is a meat and three traditional Nashville place but they don't serve lunch on Saturdays. We then decided to go to the Loveless Cafe which is also a Nashville landmark but they had an hour and a half wait. We also tried a burger place which I messed up the directions and then to the Tin Angel which also wasn't open for lunch! By this time the pregnant lady was getting really hungry and cranky! We finally gave up and went downtown to eat at a BBQ place. We sat right down and the waiter took our order and an hour and 15 min later we ate. Horrible service!!!!! He even admitted that he forgot to turn our ticket in and didn't do anything to make it better like take some of the money off the bill!!! Not going back there anytime soon!!!

After lunch we took some time to walk around downtown and went to a couple of the bars to listen to some music. They are smoke free now so I was able to tolerate them just fine. We walked up on the pedestrian bridge to see the view and that was a challenge for me. I thought I wasn't going to make it up all the stairs and then the walk to the lookout!! Holy Cow I am getting big and out of shape! It was a really pretty day, a little over 70 degrees. They couldn't have picked a better weekend to come down.

We got home about 5 o'clock and it felt like midnight to me but we decided to start a fire in the back and just hang out. We had a late dinner and then went inside to watch a movie. Cate barely made it through the opening credits before she fell asleep and I made it about 10 min in. The boys woke us up when it was over, about 10:30 and we headed off to bed.

Sunday morning I got up and made everyone breakfast again... Biscuits and Gravy, Scrambled Eggs and Hash browns... Yummy however, by the time I was done cooking it I got really hot and didn't feel good so I didn't get to eat any of it... I had it this morning for breakfast though and it was really good! We layed around the house all morning and then they headed out for home about 12:30. It was so nice to have them here and especially to get to know Cate a little better. They say they are coming back after the baby is born so we will see. I hope they do!!!!

Another week of football...

This has been another long week... I really thought that our football season would be over last week but, we won our game and off to the second round of playoffs. The team plays in Memphis this Friday night which is almost a 4 hour drive... I knew that would not be a good idea for me considering how I felt after last week... After last weeks game, my back was really hurting and I just plain didn't feel good, I had to get up and cover 5 basketball games the next day. After I got home Saturday afternoon, I couldn't do anything except lay on the couch in pain!!! When we won I knew I had to get a hold of my doctor. There was no way I was driving to Memphis, working on my feet chasing after football players for 6 hours then driving home. Of course, my doctor agreed with me and he gave me a work excuse for tomorrow. Someone will be going to Memphis for me... I feel a little guilty that someone has to make this trip because I can't but when I think about myself for once. I am proud that I made this decision.

I have no pictures for this week because I can't seem to find my charger for my camera battery!!! I have no clue where it is... The only explanation is that I left it in the hotel when I went to Peoria for Mandy's wedding... That seems like so long ago that I should have had to charge the battery since then but it looks like I will be purchasing a new one today or tomorrow. We are soooo excited that Alan and Cate are coming down for the weekend! Hopefully we will have some fun things going on around Nashville to do with them. If not, there will be plenty of work around the house for them to do :)

I should hopefully have some pictures up this weekend and a 31 week picture ready for Monday... I am getting quite big now.

29 Weeks Belly Picture...

Side View...

Now there's a front view. She hangs out pretty much on the right side all the time and I think you can see my belly is a little lopsided to the right. My belly button is almost gone now.

At 29 Weeks the book says she is almost 17 inches from head to toe and weighs about 2.5 lbs. I'm still feeling a lot of kicking although not quite as often or as hard. The doctor says this is normal because the space is getting kind of cramped in there. If I take time to sit down and relax at night and have some food I definitely feel the 10 per hour. The other night Tom and I were sitting on the couch and watching my stomach jump. That was the first time that Tom was able to see her move but of course he has been able to feel her for several weeks now. The scary thing is; is that I stayed up and waited for Tom to get home from class on Friday night. He went out for a couple of drinks with a friend and got home at midnight. We stayed up till about 1am and that was the most I felt her move in so long. She was practicing her gymnastics in there. I have a feeling that she is going to be a naucturnal baby. Ugh Oh!!

Go Bears!!!

Over the past few days we have gotten a couple packages in the mail. Mom and Dad sent us all of the bedding and lady bug decor for the baby's room. It came in a couple of different shipments... All the stuff is so cute, I can't wait to get Kennedy's room started. I think that we are going to wait until the middle of December to do that though. We also got a package from Mike and Lisa yesterday with a couple of outfits and a little musical bear. Tom saw this one and fell in love!!! He thinks it is the best present Kennedy could ever get and he can't wait to put it on her...


Daddy's little Bears fan in the making.

Baby Shower!

This morning Tom and I got motivated, especially since we thought we were sleeping in only to wake up and realize that it was an hour earlier than we thought it was. Thank You daylight savings time!!! I got a lot of last weeks laundry folded and a good start on this weeks. We also started cleaning out the closet in the office/soon to be baby's room and the closet in the spare bedroom. Tom got an extra clothes rod up in the office closet and I got everything all organized, for the most part. Tom headed off to the gym and I finished cleaning then we got ready to head over to Mindy's house for the shower.

Our friends; Jeanie, Mindy and Jen threw the shower for us with all of the athletic trainer girls that I work with. There was a really good showing and they did such a great job with the shower. I was very impressed and Tom even had a good time being that he was the only boy there. We played a few games. My favorite was a game where they blind folded me and I had to guess the baby toys that they handed me. I got 8/10 right!! I rock!


The cake... It was sooo cute. Look at the little lady bugs on it. I love it!! And the cake was really good too. My favorite, white with chocolate frosting! YUM!!!

Me and Tom with the cake. This was Tom's first shower, he really didn't know what was going on. He thought it was weird to get a picture with the cake, but he did good and he caught on pretty quick.

Me and my girls!!! Jen to the far left, then me, Mindy and Jeanie!!! What a great group of friends. They have really made it easier on me being down here. When I first got here, I didn't want to make any new friends because I didn't want it to be hard to leave any more good friends behind, but I went ahead and did it anyway. If/when we end up leaving Tennessee it's going to be tough to say goodbye to these girls!! I can't thank them enough for such a great shower, they really went above and beyond anything I expected!
We had a really good time.

Happy Halloween!!!

We had a decently uneventful week this week. I worked a lot. Tom worked on school work and worked at night. We tried to get little things done around the house, but not much really got done. I had my usual Friday night football game, which by the way was a monsoon! It rained buckets and the guys were pretty much playing on a mud slip and slide. I only had one kid really get hurt so I guess it wasn't that bad and my Gortex kept me pretty dry. The soccer game that was schedule for Saturday did get rained out due to how muddy and tore up the field was. That meant for the first time this month, I had a two day weekend!!!! Saturday was a complete lazy recovery day. We got up and watched The Biggest Loser and then a movie, Sunshine Cleaning. We took the dogs for a walk, went to the store to get candy for the trick or treaters and then carved our pumpkin. Then back to laying around watching TV. We did light a fire in the fireplace though.


Tom getting his hands dirty. We picked out all the seeds and I made Tom toasted pumpkin seeds. It's his favorite time of year just for that.

Riley kept wanting to steal the pumpkin guts. She got away with a couple of hunks of it. Here she is eyeing the topper... :)

I drew the scary face and Tom carved it. It took a long time because of all the little curves and detail, but it turned out really cool.

The finished product!!! All lit up and spooky!!!

We only had about 5 sets of kids come to the door. The first group was two little girls and their mom. The little girl was telling Tom how cool his pumpkin was and that she thought he should be a professional and next year she is coming to our house before Halloween and paying him $50 for a pumpkin! She was soooo cute!!!

Demolition Derby

Last Saturday when I got done with my soccer game I headed up to Ashland City to see a friend of ours compete in a demolition derby. Tom had helped him strip the car out a couple of months ago so all of us wanted to go up and cheer him on! Tom was really disapointed that he couldn't make it up to see it; he had reserves that weekend so he was down in Birmingham. Kendal's was the only bright shiny "new" car in his heat. So unfortunately he got picked on. He was the first one done in his heat.


Here's the "before." Kendal is the Green car just under the center spot light.

Here he is... all done...poor Kendal! :( He had a lot of fun though and we had a lot of fun cheering him on!

The back end was so smashed in they had to have the back hoe come in and lift him up and push him while he steered it out. It was kinda funny. Congratulations Kendal, it was a great first run... Now we will see if you are able to get that thing going for a second run...