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I am finally putting a dent on my crafts that I have start over the last year or so!!!!

1. My 1st baby blanket is done except for the name and the date of birth to be stitched in and I have the backing bought I just have to sew it on, which will be the hardest part b/c it has to be done by hand because of the edging.

2. The second baby's blanket is complete and and washed
3. I got a bunch of scrapbooking pages done. I think I just have about 20 more to do to get caught up to this yr. Than I have to start the pregnancy/baby scrapbook :S. Not sure if this one will get caught up.

Well besides that we had a great long week. Got a bit down around the house and some baby stuff, hopefully I'll get more done this week and next week. Now I am just getting ready for my friend Laurie who arrives on Thursday for a 5 day visit. Well tom is counting down the days like a mad man and I am trying to tell him that you know the baby more than likely will be late, but it's not sinking in. Anyhow like Tom would say 18 more days to go. Lets hope for less than that rather than more!!!! I think that is up to date for us.

Totally unexpected

Well a few days ago this week Tom called me from work and said that I couldn't do anything on Friday at noon because his 6 co-workers were throughing us a surprise baby shower for us at one of the local Chinese restaurants. It was totally unexpected I must say. I know all his co-workers, a few better than the others, but we both have a feeling it was the only women on their team that put this together. It's a little bit funny because most of the showers I been to or seen have been mostly women and sometimes a few male parties but my was the total opposite. It was all male except me and the one female co-worker. Anyhow it was really nice of them to think of us and our little one on the way.

As the day gets closer I am dreaming of the day that I can just crawl into bed and be comfortable, noticed I didn't say to get some sleep. I think, I have the no sleep part down pat here pretty good. Most nights I am up 8 times during the night and than I finally crawl out of bed at any time between 6:30- 7:15 am because I just can't handle laying there not sleeping anymore. Not sure if most pregnant women go through this too, but I know I am. I know why I can't remember anything anymore these days which people call pregnancy brain too. I don't think it has anything to do with being pregnant per say but more due to the of lack of sleep and not being able to rest comfortably. At least when this baby comes and the recovery of delivery is over I will finally be able to be comfortable!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's the long weekend here for us and I am extremely happy that Tom gets this holiday off because there are a lot of holidays that he doesn't. I am hoping just to relax and straighten a few more things up around the place. I must say yesterday I got some things done but I know now that I did too much because my body started yelling at me last night and today. I think today I'll probably do a little bit less than I have been doing, so I am not out for the count during the whole weekend.

36 wks and hopefully no more than 4 to go!!!!

Can't believe I am finally 36wks now!!! We had our doctors appointment yesterday and everything is looking good. Baby is head down, cervix is really soft and I am still dilated 1cm. She said that there is a chance to go early which I would love b/c of how soft my cervix is but I am not getting my hopes up there because sometimes you can stay in the position I am in for days, weeks etc.... Our next appointment is in two weeks so I guess by than well know more of how things are going.

Well the weather is suppose to get really hot here after the weekend. I am hoping that the new window fans we bought will help cool the place down some, where our air conditions just doesn't seem to do the trick that well. It ends up being hotter in the apartment than the actual outside. ugh.

Next weekend we have our long weekend which will be nice. We don't have any plans at the moment but maybe I can talk tom into going somewheres if I am feeling okay. It will be our last long weekend of just the two of us!!!! My mom got her passport picture done and is sending everything in but she won't talk to me about a time frame that she's thinking of coming down so I don't know if she want to surprise us when she know for sure or she is just getting the passport done so that she has it and doesn't have to be bother with getting one later, since they are good for about 8yrs.


Well I should probably run we have a lot of stuff to do today and I am just a pregnant women beginning to ramble now. Hope everyone in Canada is having a good long weekend.

POTENTIALLY 30 DAYS TO GO!!!!!

Well folks it's been a while since I last wrote. Not much is going on our side of things here. Just a very busy husband at work and a pregnant wife at home. Not long now I guess maybe just 30 days and 30 night to go. That is if I don't go over which most cases first time mom's do. But a few first timers go early too. I would love to be an early mom, like most pregnant women do especially at the end of the road like now. So in 30days we might have many big surprises to say the least. Like is it a boy or a girl, when is the birthday, what is the child's name and of course when will we be able to come home. If everything goes well we'll be home 24hours after birth, which sounds crazy to me and if there is complication I think it's 2-3 days, down here. We have our next doctor's appointment tomorrow, so well see how things are looking than. We are getting more excited each day but not too much b/c we don't want to be let down if we go pass our due date, so in my head I have July 1. That way I know I'll go early if it's July 1 hahaha. It's great when you trick your mind.

Tom's mom will be down for two weeks in July which will be great to have some family down and than I heard that my mom is saying she is getting her passport and there might be talk of her coming down in August for a visit which will be wonderful too. We are still trying to come home for the Christmas/new year holiday this year, so hopefully we'll get to see everyone than too, even though it will probably be a fast trip like always with lots of driving in the winter time ugh. One thing I don't miss about home is driving in the snow, even thought Californians don't know how to drive in rain.

Well I should go and put up my feet for a bit since I got blessed with some swelling just last week in the knuckles and feet. Got to love pregnancy!!!!

Buddha belly Pic's

Well I was messing around with the camera yesterday and they aren't great but it's not easy taking pictures of yourself, hopefully I will get better. So here are some pictures of the Buddha belly. I find this shirt makes me look a lot bigger than some others I have but oh well. Hopefully I can get some good pictures done with practice. Hard to believe that I only have potentially 6 wks + 1 day to go but it will probably be longer than that. Who knows only time will tell I guess.

32wk Doctors appt

Well we had our 32wk appointment today and all is looking good. The heart beat is still strong and sounding good. The baby is still high and even though I have lots of braxton hicks contractions and a tiny bit of cramping, it doesn't seem to be affecting anything so there is no worry about going into premature labour. I have my next 3 appointments already scheduled so we have a 36wk, 38wks, 39wks appointments on the calendar. We have our Breastfeeding class tonight and CPR course tomorrow and Thursday night this week. Our birthing course starts May 7th and continues for the next three Mondays after. I guess having all these course are telling us that the time is getting closer for the baby day, however it still seem really far away till mid June.

Finally getting some Scrapbooking done!!!

Finally getting some craft out of the way. Last night and today I worked on pasting in some pages of my scrapbook about Tom and I. So I am getting old pages together. Here are a few pictures of my progress. Sorry if some are a little blurry.

Strange how things work....

...out in life. I have been looking for a good job for what? a year and a half and I had an okay one for 6 months. Well I stopped looking anyhow because we found out about the little one on the way and the fact that that there was no such thing as morning sick but all day 24/7 puking sickness for the first four months. Late Friday I got a call from a resource technology company that Google bought to recruit people for massage therapy for their company. It's not completely what I would like in a job because you have to start off with doing chair massage but everything else is perfect with the job. So in the end I told them to keep me in mind and that I was interested but where I am potentially due less than 9 wks away I won't be able to work for a bit, so I am told to contact them when I am ready to go back to work, where there is normal always 1-2 spot open. Tom and I talked this morning after I called them back and where it's part time 3 days a week 2-7pm job, I might be going to work after the baby depending on how things go later with the baby....meaning probably not till 6 months after the baby. Tom can probably come home and work from home while I am at work. It's really strange how things come around, I wish that I got this call over a year ago. It would have made a lot of things easier for us. Plus I would feel comfortable in this work environment because it would be employees and and not just any Joe off the street.

30 wks and approximently 10wks to go!!!

I am hoping these next 10wks will go fast. I am having a lot more trouble walking around now with a lot of lower back and sciatic pain where I can't put much weight on my left leg. Lets hope that it's just a spell and not going to last long or get worst over for the rest of the pregnancy. We are still trying to figure out what to do with some of the stuff that we have in our small tin can and as well buy an apartment size deep freezer so I can cook some casseroles and dinners that can be frozen and used when the baby is here. I just hope that we figure it out before the baby comes. Tom started thinking that we will rent a storage cube close buy to put stuff in just b/c you never know when we will need it....ugh. I am dumbing out some of the small junk around the place and I going to have to re-organizes some of the cupboards and our bedroom closet shelf, so much to do.

This weekend we didn't do too much. Saturday we went to Santa Cruz and spent the night, which was just nice to get away from the apartment for a bit. We went to the Santa Cruz boardwalk and laid on the beach for a few hours just smelling the ocean air and listening to the waves. It wasn't that warm and the wind was blowing but it was still relaxing. We didn't go on any rides b/c I am not allowed on any, but we played some arcade games and walked around the fair grounds.

Now we are just taking the rest of Sunday as an easy day and picking more things up around the apartment. Well I hope everyone had a good Easter Weekend.

Baby shower box

Today we got a baby shower box in the mail from my mom and sister sandy. It was really nice of them to send a shower gift box. I picked up the box and took it to Tom's work so we could open it up together in the car. It was a wonderful Baby shower box I must say. They sent the normal baby shower gifts which is really great. My mom even put in the hospital outfit that I came home in that was knitted by my great Aunt Geneva and my own baby blanket for the baby. Thank you oh so much. Here are some pictures.



We also have to thank Trevor and Sarah for they have sent us a few things as well. I must say tom liked the Edmonton Oiler stuff and the little stuff Canadian moose was really great as well, especially since we really don't have anything Canadian down here. Thank you guys.

Living in a can and loosing my mind....

.....yup that is me. I have been trying to clean and get rid of stuff to make more room in this tiny tin can that we live in. I have thrown some stuff out but not enough and I can't get rid of some things by myself b/c well I can't lift the armour, or the gliding chair anymore, that I need to get rid of because there is no room and they are just sitting in the closet anyhow. I took apart of the crappy surround sound home theater system that we have today because well tom turns off the subwoofer b/c it's too loud for the apartment, the speaker cut in and out and the rears are unplugged, I have no idea why. So why do we have it all if we aren't using them....they are going out the door to goodwill. Now where to put the computer????? I just can't think of that at the moment at all. What to do with the kitty litter? I have no idea yet either but at least I don't have to worry too much about that till the little on starts to crawl thank goodness.

I am coming to the conclusion that I will be over 40 before we will be living in something bigger, which is depressing and to tell you the truth being forty won't be the depressing part but just knowing that we have lived most of my life in a tin can does. Time flies by so fast, and 40 is only 13 years away for me and 10 yrs away from Tom, it's crazy how time flies. I guess at least one day even if we are old we will have a bigger place or maybe not because once the kids are grown, we'll probably down size to a smaller place...So maybe we'll just keep living in the tin can. No one can say that time doesn't fly. I look at my nephews and nieces and well the oldest is 7 years old now, I was in UNI when he was born and was around to babysit him. I don't know how he got to be 7 already. Just ask your parents if they can believe how old all their children are. I bet they can remember like it was just yesterday when they had their first child or even when they brought each of us home.

I was day dreaming the other day and started looking at housing around here and well we are only 700,000 dollars short hahahaha, you know just pocket change. Well not our pockets I have checked. We couldn't even afford the low income senior housing here that were for sale in the mobile park, I guess with prices like these I can keep dreaming. Dreams are nice to have so well I guess I will try to keep that in mine. It's not so much as not having a house but the fact that it would be nice to live in a space that is bigger than a 850 sq ft cube.

However I try to remember all the more positive stuff like I am so thankful that tom and I go on trips and see different parts of the world, that is so important to us. I just couldn't imagine living in one area and never experience anything else out there. There is so many amazing thing out there to see and we have only been to three different countries, beside Canada and have only seen a little part of each of those countries. Hopefully it will continue to happen even when this little one comes in June. This little one might see more of the world before s/he can really remember it but at least we will have some pictures of it. Where to go next? who knows there is so much of Europe we want to see, Italy, Ireland, Scotland, just few examples and other places as will outside of Europe.

Well It's been a while I guess from the last update on how the baby and I are doing. We had a doctors appointment last Monday and things were good, the heart rate was strong and I was measuring right on target, so no concerns yet. I getting really tired mostly because I don't sleep anymore. Most nights I am up 6 times just because I wake up, sometimes to pee or my hips are killing me. So I am thinking that not sleep now is just preparing for when the baby is here. Tom's been really good dealing with me and my lack of sleep I must add b/c lack of sleep and pregnancy hormones just don't mix that well for me. However I got to get tom on board about realizing that 10 wks and a few days is not that far off, and has to start helping me prepare more instead of thinking we have all the time in the world till this little one comes. If you know tom well than you know his frame of time lines and distance is not that good. Some of you might remember a walk from our old place in Ottawa to Hull and he said it was about a 5 min walk when it's more like a 30min walk. Well I think that's it for now not much news just one very pregnant women's rambles.

3rd Trimester!!!!

I can't believe it, I have finally made it to the 3rd trimester, what a blessing it is. Not much is new with us. I am moving a lot slower and well all the other stuff that comes with pregnancy. I have finally joined a prenatal yoga class which is near our house and is on Thursday nights. Not sure how good I will be at it but just maybe I will meet someone at the class. Tom is happy that I finally joined one and now we got to get him into a soccer club or something. Our next doctor appointment is next Monday, to see how things are going. I am hoping that this baby not too big. Tom keeps saying he wants a BIG sturdy baby and I tell him if he keeps wishing a BIG baby on me that I am going to wish kidney stones on him since they say that is the closest way a male can experience giving birth. I just want a health baby no more than 7bls since it's coming out of me. If he wants the BIG baby he can push it out of him. Funny how men don't think of how it actually feels to get stretched pretty much to the point of the no return. I also think it's true that if it was up to man giving birth there would be no children. I know tom and he wouldn't do it. You know man when they get sick or hurt and yes all women know what I am talking about. Well everything else is good with us, just the slow everyday living here.

Last week of second trimester!!!!

I can't believe today marks the last week of the second trimester!!!! It's hard to believe that 6months has passed into the pregnancy and there are only 3months to go. I am 98 days away from our est. due date but don't get excited folks because this little one probably won't come any sooner than June 24th no matter what the ultrasound said. I am think it will be sometime after the 24th when this little one will grace us with her/his presents. Well the old belly is getting bigger which I like to see and thankfully that is all that is growing. I haven't gained anymore weight since our last doctors appointment, which I am not upset with. Everything seems to be progressing just fine. Baby is pretty good , s/he doesn't keep me up at night and doesn't wake me up either. The baby seem to fall asleep when i do and waits for me to wake up before s/he starts moving. It looks like the baby is not going to be like dad in the mornings because after I wake up about 5 mins later this little goes right to town with a party.

We are having a wonderful weekend this weekend in CA. The sun is out and the weather is shorts weather, got to love that. I also love it because I am tired of wearing my only two pairs of maternity paints that won't stay up. I have four pairs of shorts that we bought for Hawaii so I have a little bigger wardrobe which is nice. The plan for today is just like yesterday, to stay outside in the sun and to try to get a few things done. Yesterday we manage to buy some folding cloth diapers and a few fitted cloth diaper(for night time), and of course the plastic diaper covers. I will go back in a month or so to buy some more. I didn't want to make one big purchase at once, littler purchases are just easier on the old wallet. We are going to go to Ikea to see if they have some smaller computer desks. We'll need a smaller one when the time comes to move the office into the kitchen, when the baby is moved out of our room. The desk even thought is not big is just too big for the kitchen. That is still a few months way after the baby comes, so there is no rush to buy one just now, we just need some dimension for future planning. I however need another small bookcase because tom is just collecting too many computer books and they are just getting piled everywhere in the house. Well I think that is all for now with us, time to run I need to get out in the sun.

I can't see the birds!!!

I hear the birds but where are they? Come here birdy birdy!!!

Another day waiting

Well this is the second day that I have to stay home and wait for the Auto glass guys to come and replace our windshield on the car. Monday they gave us a time of come from 9-5pm and I must say I was happy when they came just before lunch so I didn't have to wait that long. However, since the once chip grew to more of a larger crack when waiting for them to have an appointment for us, they couldn't it fixed on Monday b/c he didn't have the windshield replacement with him. So I get to wait once again today for another guy to come out and replace the windshield with the time of 8-12pm. Which I didn't think was bad but now that it's a 11:17am and they still haven't called I am not impressed. So this morning since my back is still hurting I have been just working away on my baby blanket, hoping to rest a bit so I can run out this afternoon and get some things done. I have also been trying to record the baby's kicks with the camera but every time I get the camera ready the baby goes quiet till I put the camera down. Hahaha I guess he/she is just going to be like mom and hide from the camera :). I will get the shot sometime, I just got to be sneaky. Well I am happy the weather here has been amazing and I have been wear shorts for a few days now and it is great!!! I was hoping to go swimming before lunch but that is not happening since I am still waiting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll try to go swimming later this afternoon. I can't wait for this weekend it's suppose to be over 20C outside and the time goes ahead on sunday so that means longer sunnier days!!!!!! Can't wait for this weekend.

Good weekend in USA

Well this weekend tom and I were out and we finally found some good chocolate. That is right this weekend we walked into one of the little Chinese corner store that bring in different stuff around the world and I just happen to look down on the shelf and they had nestle coffee crips bars. I couldn't believe it that the US brought in some Canadian chocolate that is made in Canada and not just a company down here trying to make the same thing. As well tom went to Digital Moose infor session for taxes/green card for Canadians living in the US and he got some smarties too. What a good chocolate weekend, not that I need it and after eating chocolate my acid reflux acts up but it was good when I was eating it.

Baby is right on schedule

Well we are back from the doctor's office this morning and everything is looking good. The baby is measuring 24-25wks so that is pretty much right on, where I will be 25wks on Sunday. Heart beat is strong and was found right away. Weight gain is looking good not too much and not too little, however I am still worried that this is going to be a big baby. I don't think I look huge but the little one feels really heavy. Next appointment is on March 26th so we'll see how things go from now till than.

Well I am almost done that blanket for the baby I have two squares left to finish and than I have see how I want to put a backing on it(it doesn't have to have one but I want one). Once I get it completed I will post a picture of it. Got some names in mind but we are going to keep that a surprise till the little one comes. We aren't going to narrow it down to one because I find that too hard, so we'll problem have three boys and three girls names in mind and than decide when we are in the hospital after the birth.

Fish that we saw when snorkeling

Update on things

Well the weekend is here and I must say I am tired. Tiffany came down for her spring break from Victoria, BC and I must say we had a really good time. We went to the city(San Francisco) and did some sight seeing, I took her to Gilroy for some outlet shopping, and I took her out to eat some different foods!!!!! However, right at the end she got the flu....Tiff I better not get it ;), hope you feel better soon.

Well as good things come there is always something that sneaks up on you and on Friday morning we found our windshield on the car cracked. We don't even remember something hitting our windshield so now we need to pay for a new windshield. Not really happy about it, the car is not even a year old but what can you do but nothing. No since getting mad or upset it won't fix it.

So today was an early day where we got up at 5:20am to drive Tiff back to the airport and we just decided to stay up and go to bed early tonight. We went out for breakfast, than rested a bit and went out to Burlington Coat Factory to the Baby Depot. We finally got our car seat for the baby, a few onesies for newborns because they were 10 for 15 dollars which is pretty good for here and I got tom a book, father guide for the first year, for some bathroom reading :). Well I can't lie I have a small group of women that I talk to on a pregnancy board online. There are four of us that talk quite often and I am so jealous of them. They are all dressing up their nurseries for their baby's and are sharing pictures and they look so good. I really wish I had a room to do up. I just keep telling myself that we are saving money by not having a room for the baby but still I walk in to the stores and see the wooden cribs, blankets, lamps etc that I like and would love to buy. Maybe next time around I will have a room to decorate(wishful thinking).

picture of our car seat

Now hopefully tomorrow we can move the furniture around in the office/spare room just to see if somehow we can get more space. Might have to put the office in the dinning room and move the dinning room more into the living room but we'll see what happens.

Our Maui trip

Okay so now that we are back I know some of you have asked to hear about our trip to Maui. We have loads of pictures and memories of this trip. It was completely amazing for a relaxation trip. We laid on the beach almost every morning except maybe the 3 days where we had to leave early for activity days we booked. Maui is totally different from O'ahu/Waikiki where we went last yr. But they are both great in different ways. I love Hawaii it reminds me a lot of the Maritimes. It's more laid back and not so rushed, which is what I like. So for the first few days we just relaxed and walked around and took one drive up to the west coast of the island where we stop in a little town called Lahaina, which was right on the water and was probably the most touristy part of the island but it's not that touristy (pretty quiet) compared to Waikiki. We continued up to the far west part where all of a sudden the road goes to one very tight lane that follows the coast. We found out after that rental cars weren't suppose to be on that section. Oops. But we found a little stand which is supposed to be the islands most famous banana bread which they ran out before we got there but we tried a sample (it was really good but I can say it wasn't healthy) and bought some taro chips and some nuts.Our first trip that we paid for was the Haleakala Volcano sunrise tour. We got picked up at 3:30am at our hotel and got to the top around 6am and sunrise was at 6:50am. I must say we were told to bring light cover up and when I got up there well I wish we had our winter coats. The wind was brutal and made it colder. I was so cold up there but once the sun came up the temp did warm up some.

Our next trip that we went on was called the road to Hana. It was a nice tour just because neither one of us had to drive the 617 curves and 56 one lane bridges, which meant that both of us got to enjoy the scenery of the trip. This was another earlier morning pick up but not too bad just 7am this time. We drove through a town called Pa'ia were Willy Nelson lives part of the yr and just outside of this town at Ho'okipa Beach, which is supposed to be a world famous windsurfing beach where the most experienced surfers go for part of the day and the windsurfers take over the rest. The windsurfers weren't out due to the little wind that day when we got there but there were a few surfers out. On the road to Hana we saw beautiful trees, flowers, wild roosters, black and red sand beaches, waterfalls etc. However due to an earthquake Maui had at the end of last yr a bridge was out and we couldn't continue to Maui's winery or the O'heo Gulch Pools nicknamed"Seven Sacred Pools". So we went to the winery ourselves another day.Our last activity day was our snorkeling trip and I haven't gotten the pictures developed from our underwater cameras but as soon as I do I will post them. I must say that the snorkeling trip was the best activity Tom and I did besides just being together and relaxing. At first we were a little nervous just because we haven't snorkelled before and out of both of us, I am definitely the swimmer in the family but I must say after adjusting to it Tom took to the water like a fish and had a big smile on his face. We didn't get to see any green sea turtles at the second snorkeling sight which was a little disappointing but over all it was amazing and if we ever get back there I will want to do it again and again. While we were on the boat sailing from site to site and back home we got to see dolphins and whales which was amazing.