New Curtains

I have been wanting to find some new curtains for our living room for a while, since the ones I had in there were the same ones I used in college, but I feel like I'm not good at decorating and hadn't found anything that really caught my eye. Well yesterday during my lunch break, I ran over to Big Lots to see if they had any cribs. I didn't find any cribs, but I did find some curtains I liked!
















Sorry my picture taking skills are not too good! I also got a little lamp to put in the corner on top of the bookshelf that matches the color of the curtains perfectly! Now I just need to find some new pillows for our couches...

Ladder Lesson

A lot of you who read this already know about this, so I'll try to keep this short. Yesterday (Friday) my dad was going to check the gutters at Mom's house to clean them out and he was on the ladder and it started to slip, so as it was slipping he jumped back off the ladder, landed on his feet, then fell down and ended up badly fracturing his hip. He was by himself (let this be a lesson to you!) but luckily had his cell phone and was able to call 911 and my mom. So they took him to the ER and at about 10:30 last night they did surgery to repair the hip. They put two rods in his left leg to repair the damage.

He was in a lot of pain yesterday leading up to the surgery, but it has been some better today since he is way doped up with medicine. He was out of the bed, sitting/laying in a sleeping chair while we were there today, and he's been eating but dealing with some nausea, but he is doing fairly well. He'll probably be in the hospital until Monday and will be out of work for 3 to 4 months. The doctor says he should make pretty much a full recovery and be able to do all the normal things he is used to doing, but it will probably be a difficult few months for him in getting there. So please pray for him, for a quick recovery and the entire family as we learn to deal with this new situation.

23 Weeks Pregnancy Pic

Here is me at 23 weeks. I'll be 25 weeks tomorrow, so I'm a little behind, but better late than never right? I just adore being pregnant and I know I am going to miss it once she is born. Obviously we'll love having her "outside" with us, but I just really enjoy feeling her move and kick inside of me and having her so close to me all the time! I have my next appointment on Monday but I'm not exactly sure what they will do at that, so I'll let you know once it's over! I still get asked a lot how I am feeling, which is fine, great, I have felt nothing different pretty much the whole time. I've also been told I'm "glowing" or I have that "pregnancy glow" and that I look like I feel good, so those have been nice things to hear. Also pregnancy related, my friend Megan from church just found out she is having a boy again (she has an almost 10 month old boy), so we decided that our babies will have an arranged marriage when the grow up! :)

Belly Jiggle

Anthony has now felt Bailey kick and seen her move from the outside! I love feeling her kick and just sitting and seeing the "belly jiggle" as Anthony calls it when she moves. I am definitely one of those women who loves being pregnant.

3-Day Weekend

I am so glad it is the weekend, and a 3-day weekend on top of that! We slept way late this morning, and when I did get up it was only to fry up some cube steaks to put in the crockpot for dinner tonight. Then I got back in bed. :) Once I finally got around to eating some lunch and getting dressed, I went outside to pull some weeds from the front flower bed. May I please say, I hate crab grass! We have a couple of plants out front that the crab grass had just like taken over. Luckily, after Anthony took the trash to the dump, he helped me with that. That stuff is so ridiculous... I think it should be called cancer grass, since it spreads and takes over like cancer. Stupid stuff. But I "think" we got it all, all that was taking over those two plants at least. So hopefully it will stay away from those now. Now I am beat from sitting out in the sun doing that. I need to clean the bathroom, vacuum, and do laundry, but it will be there when I'm ready, right?

I sent in our registration for the childbirth preparation series class at AMC this week. We are going to do it in November. Really, according to what they say, we should be doing it in October, but that didn't work out. There are 4 consecutive Monday evening classes, and Anthony will have quiz bowl meets he has to be at every Monday evening in October, so I didn't want to do every week without him. He will still have meets in October, but he and the other coach will be taking turns going to meets by November. I think there is also one Tuesday, one Wednesday, and one Thursday meeting as well, for a total of 7 meetings. So on the couple Mondays Anthony can't go, Ashley is going to go with me. So I'm looking forward to that, although it's still 2 months away. At least we have that taken care of now.

Last night we went to Chili's for dinner and had free chips & salsa and free wings! In case you didn't know, you can get those for free on weekdays before 7 I believe. So when we go to Chili's we always go on a Friday so we can get the free stuff! After eating we went to Walmart to make a registry there, with intentions of putting a few things on it that we couldn't find/didn't like at Target. One of those things was a crib, but there was nothing at Walmart to satisfy me either. So apparently, that's not going to be going on a registry! We'll have to go somewhere else and find one I guess. We also got groceries and then headed home and stopped at Sonic to get some slushies! I love strawberry fresh fruit slushes from Sonic!

As far as baby news goes, tomorrow I'll be 24 weeks, so I'm in my 6th month now. I was just thinking the other day, that in a few days it will be September, and then I'll be able to say I'll be having the baby in 3 months.... yikes! Exciting of course, but also scary. I'm still feeling her move a lot, and sometimes the movement can be felt from the outside. I've tried having Anthony feel a few times, but I think he's not convinced he has felt it yet. That will be fun, when he knows for sure that he can feel her. I just can't wait to see what she looks like, will she look more like me or Anthony? What color will her hair be? Will she have freckles like her daddy? Etc, etc. I still have moments where I can't believe I am pregnant. I wish I could relive that morning where I took the pregnancy test, or just watch a video of myself. I was just in such shock. I thought sure it would be negative but just needed to know for sure so I would stop wondering. And there it was, two pink lines. Pregnancy is just such a miracle!

Well, I think I'm done being sentimental now, haha. Maybe I'll try to convince myself to get up off the couch and do something productive... or maybe not. :)

Top 10 - Stolen from Courtney

1. Favorite movie- maybe The Notebook, also love Dumb & Dumber
2. Favorite TV show- Survivor
3. Favorite music- contemporary Christian mostly
4. Favorite color- blue
5. Favorite food- don't I look like it's all my favorite?? cheese fries comes to mind at the moment
6. Favorite Bible verse- I don't know that I have one favorite verse, the one that is probably most meaningful to me lately is 1 Samuel 1:27 - "for this child I prayed, and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him"
7. Favorite store- Maurices
8. Favorite animal- anything little mostly, puppies, kittens :)
9. Favorite article of clothing- lounge pants!
10. Favorite season- summer I think, I'm excited about fall though

Getting Old

Almost the weekend! Thank goodness. And even better, it's a 3-day weekend. I'm so looking forward to sleeping in on Monday morning and doing whatever we feel like. It's been a pretty uneventful week. I started washing and putting away baby clothes. We already have more clothes than we can handle, which is amazing, thanks Ash and Zoe!

Funny random story for the day.... a few weeks ago I got a membership offer for AARP in the mail. And then just the other day, I got an overview type thing of my social security eligibility and benefits type thing. What is going on here? Apparently you get ready to bring a child into the world and you are suddenly old or something! Can't wait to see what's next. :)

We took more belly pictures tonight so I will post those when I get a chance. Now it's time for me to get a foot rub from my wonderful hubby! :)