[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!

another day...

another day... more baby stuff.

went to walmart on saturday to pick up a stroller/car seat set we saw online. they didnt have it then. but of course, i go today without andy and they have it. i was really excited though, this is the last thing we absolutely had to have to be ready for Ava Marie. as you probably know, you cant even take the baby home if you dont have a car seat. so that was really exciting.

i had my first mothers day yesterday. andy couldnt have done any better for me. all i wanted was to spend time together with him, considering it'll be the last mothers day with just him and i. so we had what we call "fat girl sunday" and just sat around, watched movies and pigged out all day. it was PERFECT!

not too much else going on around here... it's getting hotter and hotter by the day. but i'm ok as long as i have ac (wall unit), and the pool.

andy and i have baby classes coming up, one is budget for baby (thank you Jesus), breastfeeding (which i'll be going alone to, haha), and baby basics. so that'll be fun! something to look forward to until she gets here. only 15 more weeks... more or less. i'm getting more and more excited every day!

that's all for now, sorry it's so boring... hopefully i'll have something good soon!

take care

day of relaxation

so today... andrew and i did absolutely nothing!!!

well, he put up a shelf in the kitchen to hold spices, but other than that... we've been watching movies and laying around. it's been pretty amazing. it's ridiculously windy outside... and there are really good movies on TBS. sooo.... i'm in heaven basically.

only down side is i find myself eating constantly while sitting here. i think andy would be a little upset if we ran out of groceries a week after we just went shopping. haha.

i've been craving chocolate all weekend. i think i'm going to go buy some chocolate cereal AND ice cream tomorrow. because i deserve it. (this is what i tell myself to make it ok).

ava has been having a good ole time today. andrew laid his head on my stomach for a little while and she was kicking him in the head. obviously she's getting him back for all that poking he used to do to her. :0)


well, it's almost time for dinner... then to bed early. i'm still trying to get back on west coast time. maybe if i stop waking up at 7 am, i'll get there.

nighty night!!

back in crappy cali....

i've decided...

going home was kind of a bad idea.

only because now that i'm back in california,

all i can think about is how badly i want to be in SC.

it's so true when they say you dont know what you have until it's gone.

i always used to complain that it rained too much,

it was too humid, the traffic is bad, bla bla bla.

i now live in the middle of the desert and let me just tell you

i PRAY for rain d a i l y.

it hasnt rained here in months. and i need it. please.

not to mention that i miss everyone terribly.

the food is always delicious, and people are so much nicer in SC.

ANYWHO...

i had the best time back home. we stayed with andy's parents.

i seriously lucked out with the in-laws.

they would do absolutely anything for us

and i couldnt love them more!

his ma threw me a baby shower and it turned out wonderfully.

we got tons of gift cards from family and friends.

this will help greatly when buying things for *ava*.

i'm so excited to get all of her things here and not worry anymore

(that's pretty much impossible... wishful thinking).

his mom is also an awesome photographer.

she took pictures of andy and i (and ava).

they were beautiful, everyone i know wants to know

where i got these professional pictures done.

well let me just say... she will have her own

business soon enough! she's definitely got talent!

when we got back to cali, we had another ultrasound.

we got confirmation that it's a girl.

so if she comes out with male anatomy...

God has a sense of humor.

we got to see everything.

everything BUT her face, because apparently she

takes after her mother and is ridiculously shy.

everytime we got even a little bit

close to her face, she would throw those hands

right up there and cover her eyes. it was funny.

she's one pound and four ounces,

and might possibly be a week before what we

thought she was (we're at 24 weeks now, she might only be 23).

but we'll find that out at our doctors appt

on wednesday.

other than that she's perfectly healthy.

heart rate is at 141 and she's

starting to pack on some pounds.

cant ask for anything more than a healthy peanut!

in the meantime, we're spending lots of time with

hank. i have a tiny feelings he's

going to have a liiiitttleee jealousy problem

when ava gets here.

we're already trying to get him to understand

that he cant be up on the couches anymore.

he's not too happy about that.

well i think i've written enough for tonight,

dont want to bore you too much :0)

goodnight everyone!

BABY AVA!!! (22 weeks)

so it's been quite a while since i've posted anything on here. but i thought, what better time to start back up than while pregnant with baby ava marie!

the first trimester was the absolute worst. i didnt want to move, i didnt want to eat, drink, i just wanted to sleep... all day everyday. it was the most miserable time ever and i dont think andy knew that i pretty much hated doing nothing. it bothered me that i couldnt even get up and do dishes!! but then month 4 came! morning sickness was gone, i was more energetic, and most importantly, i wanted FOOOD again!

i'm in my fifth month now and it's my favorite so far! the "nesting" stage kicks in every now and then and i clean the house top to bottom (which andy pretty much loves). i'm constantly looking for something to do if i've already cleaned spotless.

baby girl kicks mostly at night, of course. somehow i need to get her off of that schedule and get her sleeping at night and up during the day (dont ask me how). i read that walking around lulls her to sleep and being still wakes her up. so we're going to need a lot of moving things to keep this girl asleep!! haha.

we're going home tomorrooooow!!! visiting for about 10 days, i'm so EXCITED! we havent been home in 6 months, but it feels so much longer than that! my ma in law is throwing me a shower while we're home, i'm excited to see everyone! and i'm not going to lie... the thing i'm most excited about is the food. i love all of you guys, but this west coast crap is just that... crap. i cant wait to get some southern cooking!!

well since we'll be going home, i probably wont be blogging until i get back (next thursday). but i'm sure i'll have a lot to write about!!