[mOVinG!!!!]

soooooo.. we definitely didnt make it to seaworld last weekend. we decided instead that we're going to move. haha. we found the perfect house for andy, ava, and i. andy said we needed to stay home instead of going to san diego so that we can have everything ready to move by the 22nd, which is our move-in date. well... we pretty much had everything packed in two days. can you tell we're excited and ready to get out of this house? so now i really dont have anything to do during the day. besides clean. which is what i used to do anyways. only now it has to be intense cleaning and that's not my favorite. and took alll of next week off though. so we'll be nice and settled in. i get to wait at the house and open boxes and put stuff away. darn being pregnant during moving, i just want to help soooo baaaaad ;0) . i'm thinking we'll have everything moved in about 2days.. at most. then we have the rest of the week to set things up.

i'm mostly excited about this house because now i can get ava's stuff ready. i can wash things, put it all together, decorate her room. andy says i dont need a crib because we have a bassinet. but i'll gladly sell the bassinet if i get a crib. this nifty yardsale site has all local people selling things for cheap and i got a woman to trade her almost brand new crib and mattress for my target giftcards. i'm pretty excited about it. ava's due date is august 23rd. i'm at 30 weeks and 2 days today. good news, i never got a call from the doctor after my gestational diabetes testing. she said if i didnt hear from her, then everything is good. next appt is on the 30th. i'll be 32 weeks. i cant believe how fast it all went. feels like it's slowing down now, but maybe after we start moving, time will start to zoom again.

andy picks up rank on the first (we think, or somewhere around then). so it's pretty much perfect timing. right before ava gets here. we'll get a nice pay raise. and i think i've talked him into staying in for another four. (pray for me). i just think it would be best right now. i hate being away from home, but i just dont see job security right now as a civilian. also, if he stays in, i'll be going to school for radiology. which is only 2 years. so when he gets out (hopefully even before then) i'll be making the most of the income. and most likely wont have to work that much to get decent pay so i can spend time with ava. it's all perfect in my head, i just hope it all works out that way.

well, ava seems to be having a spasm right now. i'm going to go drink some milk and have some of grandma perrines peanut butter cookies :0)

BaBiEs!

andy and i were supposed to go eat dinner and hang out at a friends tonight. apparently before we got there, mrs stricklands water broke!!!! i'm hopeing he comes tomorrow so i can play with him. hahaha. how selfish! kim is a very very tiny girl and she's been carrying around a massive belly that looked like one of those fake body suits they make men wear to feel sympathy for us (dont think it works, but whatev). so i really do hope he comes soon for her sake, looks like her back is in a little pain!

another one of my local desert friends has been having contractions for the last week and a half, but hasn't had any more progress. i'm getting so excited to have all these babies to practice with! that is if they let me. hahah. i've offered my daycare service to kim. she's a marine also, so she only gets six weeks off to bond with her son, to me that doesnt seem like enough time, but we live right off base so she can come and see him on her lunch break without a problem.

this friday we decided that we're going to go to seaworld! it's free for us to get in there, i thought that was perfect! so i'm pretty excited about it!

i got another box of clothes for ava from my friend brittany. i cant believe how well we've made out with all of this. and i absolutely HAVE to get thank you cards out. i feel terrible. next week. i promise.

well... going to watch rescue me and have some butter and jam toast for desert.

nighty night!

7 month update!

so... i'm about 29 weeks already. 2 and a half more months to go... or as i like to say, 11 more weeks! not too shabby. i've gained about 20lbs so far. i have a feeling these last few weeks, i'll double that.

it's getting a little tough to breath, with her getting so big. my doc said it's unfortunately worse for people with a short torso (thanks a lot!)... and this heat just makes it that much worse... so i get really irritable with not being able to breath and all, haha. poor andrew.

good news is, i still have an innie belly button! from the looks of it, i dont think it'll come out this time around, but what do i know anyways? andy picks on me all the time saying it's going to pop out, today's the day... we prove him wrong daily... and i love it. :0)

we have pretty much everything we absolutely need right now for ava. i wish we could move out of this house a little earlier than the beginning of august so i can make sure everything is ready for her. we're moving (again) out of the house we're in now because we have a roommate and i think with a baby, it's just time for us to be alone. our lease isnt up until the end of july, and i'll be about to bust around then. so i'm a little worried. not to mention that this house is at a constant temperature of 88 and up during the day and there's not a thing i can do about it. sooo... i pretty much melt away all day. cant WAIT to get out of here!

next weekend we're visiting some friends up in pendelton. they're going to let us stay with them. they have two little girls so i think we're either going to the zoo, sea world, or the beach. i'm so excited! it'll be hot, but i dont think it's as hot as it is here in the desert, they have grass and trees and shade.... jealous. we did have a pool at one point. apparently that pool attracted rabbits and the rabbits couldnt get themselves back out. this happened twice... dead rabbits in the pool. so we decided to retire it.... and now it's just trash. so that sucks.

by the way, ava is happy and healthy (according to the doctor on wednesday). heart rate of 160... she weighs about a pound and a half and from head to toe, she's about 13-14 inches long... dont ask me how she's fitting in there. she's always pushing on my hips and ribs, so she's definitely getting big. wiggle worm!!

alrighty, going to stand under the swamp cooler again before i die of heat exhaustion (drama queen, hahaha).

updates later!