Checking In

I hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving weekend.  Ours was great, though we had a few little problems (post to follow).  I am so happy to get back to the blogging world, and my mind is just full of post ideas for the week.  We now have a functioning computer so I will try to post tonight with some updated pictures of my little man and some breaking news about our family.  Other posts in the making this week...

• Caleb's Christmas Shirts (yep they are finished)
• Third Trimester Update AHHH
• Glucose Test Post
• Caleb's 16 month post
• Possibly a Christmas Decorations Post
• A little heart felt work that I have been thinking a lot about lately
• Lots of pictures of Caleb. 

So excited to get back into blogging!!

Off to get Bigger and Bigger

Can I just start this post by stating that I am super super excited about so many things this week.  I am excited that today is my last day working this week, I am excited that I get to spend a whole weekend with my family and hubby, I am excited to travel home, and I am so so so excited about Thanksgiving.  I mean you all do not even understand the goodness that awaits me deep in the hills of the Appalachians.  I am honored to eat dinner at the home of probably the best cook in the entire world.  I mean seriously.  Just the mention of some of my aunts dishes makes your mouth water for weeks.  I am not even going to start on how excited I am about her dressing and the glorious Roles! Don't even get me started on her roles. It is my goal in life to master them. I did help her make them last Christmas, and I wrote down the recipe, but I have yet to try to make them on my own.  Also, I am oh so excited about the cranberry salad and pumpkin rolls that I have been craving for weeks now!! YUM!!!!I have always loved Thanksgiving, but I think I love it even more this year because I am preggo.  I have every excuse in the world to indulge myself in the goodness over and over and over again, and the best part is I will not even have to unbutton my jeans because I will be wearing maternity ones.  I may gain more weight on Thursday than I did with Caleb's entire pregnancy, but I am ohh so excited.

Update on Bundle: 

• We are at 27 weeks!! Ahh! I can not even believe that we are only one week away from the third trimester.  Seriously?? Time is flying!
• I had my glucose test last weekend (post with pics on that to come at some point).  So far no news is good news, and I am hoping that I do not have to repeat that.  It was just as nasty if not more nasty than last time.
• Last check I had gained 11 pounds
• She is already kicking my ribs and moves all over the place all of the time.
• If you ask Caleb where his baby sister is he will pull my shirt up and kiss my belly.  He will then proceed to pat my belly (sometimes a little to hard).
• I am starting to get more of the pregnancy pains.  My skin under my ribs hurts, if I eat to much I feel stuffed up to my throat, I am having trouble getting comfortable while sleeping.  Ughh.  Only 13 more weeks right?
• I am still wearing normal shirts but I am loving the maternity jeans!
• We are going to have a 3D ultrasound performed within the next week or two, and I can not wait to see if she looks like Caleb. 
• I still have not decided on her bedding, or bought any clothing. The only thing she has to wear as of now is hand me downs and a few things that my aunt and grandmother picked up.   I have to admit I am excited to start shopping for her though.
• I can not even believe that I am going to have another baby in less than 3 months!
• I will post belly pics as soon as we get a functioning computer. 

Shutterfly 50 Free Holiday Cards

Who doesn't love Christmas cards?  I mean it is the one time of year when the mailbox is filled with something other than bills or junk.  It is just so exciting to rush to the box each day to see what cards will be there to greet you.  I know personally since getting married I have made it a ritual to send Holiday Cards each year, and that is something that I plan to continue until I'm 90. 

Shutterfly.com this year is offering an amazing deal that has buzzing through the blog world.  50 free holiday cards for bloggers.  I am a sucker for a good deal, and you can't beat FREE.  I am so excited about this oppurtunity, and I just had to do a post about all the great things that shutterfly.com has to offer. 

This was our very first Christmas Card as a married couple.  We used shutterfly.com, and we were so happy with the way it turned out.  It is so cute to look back on our little family of three.  Wow funny how two Christmas's later we have already added one dog, one baby and we have another baby on the way!! Geeze. 

This year I plan on incorporating various pictures of Caleb and our family.  I mean it is so hard for a mama to pick just one pic of their sweet precious to share with friends and family everywhere.  I have big plans for incorporating miss Mckinlee as well, but we will see if my plans work out. 

Lucky for us shutterfly.com has many Christmas cards with tons of space for pictures of our sweet babies.  Here are just a few that I have my eye on.

Don't you just love them?? I know a cute little boy who has the best face every to fill these up as well!! His name may just be Caleb.  Ahh I am so excited to get into the Holiday spirit, and share my little man with my friends and family. 

If you like what you see you should hop on over to shutterfly and start picking out your 2010 Christmas cards as well.  Trust me you will be glad you did. 

 

Broken

So...both mine and my hubbys computers are completely gone to computer heaven now.  Hubbys crashed a few months ago, and we knew it was only a matter of time before mine did. I mean 6 years is a long time in the life of a laptop.  Yesterday was the day it said bye bye :(.  So, I am blogging from my work computer, in which I can not load pictures, so family you will have to wait till you see Caleb in person on Wed for any cute pics :(.  One of our friends who is great with computers is going to try to salvage all our info from our old computers this weekend.  It sucks.  We need a new laptop but I am not sure if that is in the cards right now for us :(.  I will be back to blogging with pics soon.  Until then you will just get boring, non picture posts from me. 

Our New Winter Hangout

Today Caleb and I joined our mama group and headed to a fabulous place in our area for children.  Totter Otterville.  Let me just tell you  it was amazing!! It is a full building of fun filled with various themed rooms, and outdoor play area, and a food court. There was a veterinary room, a construction room, story time room, puppet, house etc etc.  Today Caleb was able to play various roles in each room that he visited. 

He was a construction worker

However, he unfortunately pushed in the house that was built. I have to admit I almost died when he knocked this huge house over.  I thought that it was unbreakable.  However, the other mamas around assured me that it happened all the time, and that my child was not the only one to ever destroy it.  Needless to say building it back was beyond my level of expertise, so this is how it was left. 

He was a homemaker, a grocery store shopper/clerk, and a daddy who pushed his baby in a stroller in this room.  We spent a lot of time here, and he played house with his future wife Madi. 

However, my favorite room was the one in which I know dada is not going to be to happy about.  The ballerina room.  There was a TV playing a ballerina video, mirrors everywhere, and the tutus!! AHH I died.  Caleb had to of course dress the part, and check himself out in the mirror (he is a little vain of the pretty baby in the mirror).  It was all in good fun, and don't worry his sister will be here soon enough, and I will stop dressing him like this :).  Well, maybe.  I think he actually enjoyed it...shhh..don't tell dada.

It was such an amazing morning, and my little man who has refused naps for the past week is sleeping away as we speak.  I loved this place!!