laundry & pregnancy

SO i haven’t had any weird craving for food or any  kind of cravings for food. My weird thing is – i can’t get enough of the smell of laundry. I always want to be doing the laundry just so i can smell the clothes. i don't think our laundry has ever been this well kept.I love the smell of Gain mixed with Oxy power, on wet clothes. If i could convince Scensty to make a new smell i think this would be the winner! I use to hate walking down the laundry isles in Wal-Mart because they smelt so strong – now i walk down the isle even if i don't have to.

What’s some of the weird things you experienced while being pregnant? Cravings, urges or even things that irritated you?

oh edema..

You have given Dave and I such a great laugh.

Shoes don’t fit, toes don’t touch the ground, and the joy of  fat cankles.

 

You can leave whenever you want, Please?!?! I just want to be able to walk without feeling fluid swishing back and forth on my feet. Also I'd love to be able to wear flip flops and take them off and not look like I'm still wearing them. Thanks for visiting but you have worn out your welcome.

Dollarama. . . . The second love of my life!

The living room has been attacked by birds.

 

The laundry room is becoming beautiful!

 

The nursery had a stampede go through it.

 

These vinyl – stick ons are $2 at dollarama!!  Even if you change your decor in 6 months its well worth $2 to add some spice in the mean time. The picture quality isn’t great but I think you can get the idea of what's going on.

Bring it on!

 

Today we went for a check up and she told us its time to get ready- not that we didn’t know already :) Now we are almost already! I have a bijillion lists of what to pack, to buy and to get done. Crazy to think im almost full term – 4 more days. We’re thinking time to pack the bags and set the crib up. Dave’s doing that right now THANKS! We have the list of who to call/text all ready to go. So if anyone has any advice on what to pack that would be great, I'm just going off of a website.  Hoping that I remember everything. Thankfully we don’t live to far away if I forget anything. We still aren’t 100% on names so go ahead and throw those our way too.

Heres the crib- Thanks to a wonderful auntie for the bedding and awesome mom for finding the crib for FREE!!

 

yike-a-bees

I am now at the doctor’s office every week, what a delight! Last night i was telling Dave i think the baby “dropped” I'm waddling and needing the washroom every other hour now.  Sleeping more then a 3 hour stretch is SO SO exciting! Today when I was at the the DR, she palpated my stomach and asked how i was feeling and i told her i think he's dropped. She felt around and said he definitely has. She pointed out where his feet were placed and that his bum is on the left side so he is in the perfect position. So bring on D-Day were ready for ya! Dr. Adolph even gave me my papers to be admitted into the hospital just in case. Crazy to think that we are now down to 4 1/2 weeks! YIKES- a - BEES! We still feel like we have a million things to get done around the house and yard. At the same time we just want to meet him and see his little face.

6 weeks to go.. & sewing drapes.

Dave and I haven’t taken any maternity shots yet, were waiting for the weather to clear up. He did shoot a quick one of my expanding belly. Hard to believe how fast time is going by!

 

 

Taa Daa!! I finally sewed some drapes for the kitchen. I found this fabric at Thrift Village for $5 plus it was 50% off so really i got all of it for $2.50!!

Its hard to see the texture and color of the fabric in the pictures. I am in love with the fabric!

Its amazing how a little thing like drapes can brighten up a room!

 

Here’s another project i did this week. I dont have them hung up yet so you can’t see the WOW factor. These will be hung in the office.

This is a shower curtain from Thrift village that i got for $2 ( it was 50% off day as well). From the picture you can see it had hooks to hang on the shower rod. Luckily these were nice and long, I could just chop that off! Then I cut into 2 equal pieces to create 2 panels.

I folded over the top twice to give it a finished hem. I also did this on the 2 sides that were cut. So they looked finished.

Then folded over 3 more inches to give room for a bar. We have kinda chunky bars that our drapes hang from, so I do 3” hems. Did this for both panels.

I’ll show a picture of them all hung up once that happens.

check this out.

I found an awesome recipe website. I haven’t cooked anything yet, i just found it yesterday. As soon as i do i will share it with you!

Click here to find some goodies.

Feeling better.

Oh how i hate that i always take my health for granted. It takes me getting sick to realize how much i love being healthy. This week i got a nasty GI bug, thank heavens it was only 24 hours! It was bad enough that it caused a night in the ER. I was loosing my liquids faster then i could drink them. Causing me to get dehydrated quickly. Dave and I had quite the reality check when we went into the hospital and they gave us our own delivery suite.We are gonna be there sooner then we think. I was hooked upto an IV for about 5 hours. It was really neat when they hooked me up to check the baby’s heartbeat and to see if i was having any contractions. He was the most active he’s ever been and he kept disrupting the heartbeat. I finally had dave come put his hand on my stomach to feel how active he was, Dave was all smiles as he felt either a hand or foot go across my stomach.  We had the nicest nurse, she offered to let us sleep all night in the suite if we wanted too, and she would just give me a 3rd bag of fluids. I have a hard enough time sleeping that i just wanted my own bed. We were glad that Dave’s boss (my dad) allowed him to have the next day off to help take care of me. I am now feeling better and it makes me realize that i need to enjoy being healthy more.

Gone Fishin’

                  Meet Percy the Pike.

Dave was sad he dropped the poor fellow. Were unsure if he lived to tell that tale.

This is Frank, a Franklin Gull. We rescued him this same evening. Luckily the Birds of Prey Center was still open at 9 at night. They came and picked him up for us. They said he just was too skinny and they would feed him at the center and he would be good as new!

The B-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l sunset at Henderson Lake. You can kind of see the Airplanes criss crossing each others paths.

the baker is almost done cooking.

Dave cooked a cake and i turned it into a celebration. Amongst all my excitement i spelled a word wrong.. Did you catch on to it?  Can you tell who's ready to be done being pregnant??? oh i am!

a Saturday of fun.

Dave and I planned a Murray get together in Calgary yesterday. We have 2 Sisters that live in Edmonton and there is 5 of us down here. We don't get to see the Edmontonites very often so we planned to meet in the somewhat middle (thanks to the Edmonton gals for driving farther).We carpooled with Roger and did some sight seeing on the way. Here’s us in Vulcan.

Lots of the photo’s and they don't need captions, so enjoy!

  

 

We went to Leisure Center in Calgary and had a blast!! 4 hours of swimming went fast! We dont have any pictures from there, we didn’t want to have to haul a camera around. Plus who wants to sit out and watch the camera when you can be in the pool?!

Then we were off to supper at Pizza Hut. We had a great waitress who was a little overwhelmed with all 24 of us!

   

We think we got some pretty cute nieces and nephews! It was such a fun day and so nice to get together with almost everyone.