PICU Harvest Party

Me and a few other people organized a PICU Harvest Party for the unit, and here are some photos to prove that we had a fun time.
There were corn mazes, snacks, punkins, race cars, and a whole lotta kids there. :)

the nugget.

so, now that a majority of the people in my life know, i might as well spill the beans.

i'm pregnant.

i am 15 weeks along. yes, we're finding out what it is. we find out November 13th. we will NOT be finding out earlier than that. so don't ask. and don't rub my belly. it's not a baby belly, it's just my fat roll. and while we're at it....absolutely do NOT, under ANY circumstances remind me of how i "better get my sleep now because once that baby comes i won't be getting any!"

if i hear that one more time i might stab someone.

if you are finding out the good news from this blog, i'm sorry. there really just isnt any way for me to tell eeeeeeeveryone and thus must rely on extraneous measures. hence, the blog.

we found out the day before we went to see the house, and the next day bought the house. it's been a busy 3 months, but a good 3 months.

now i can keep people updated on baby-type things. :-D

i will post soon with other FAQs.

is your refridgerator running???

because mine isn't.

it hasn't been since we moved in.

Sears finally got off their lazy asses and came out to fix it.

instead of fixing it, they told us it was dead.

now we have to buy a new fridge.

we have no money.

therefore, we won't have a fridge, i have decided.

the end.

sleepy merlin

Merlin was helping me pack. and he looked exactly how i felt at that time. so i snapped some pics. :)

here, kitty kitty

do you know that warm, cozy, fuzzy body feeling that you get after you get out of a late-night hot shower or bath? i currently have that feeling every second of every day. which means that i literally feel like i am about to go to bed every second of every day. i think that i could sleep every second of every day. a few weeks ago i slept for 20.5 hours out of a 24 hour period. it is my greatest accomplishment to date.


i forgot to mention a funny story, which isn't as funny as when my sista-friend tells it. but alas...
sarah had come over to help us finish packing the night before we moved out of the apartment. i was feeling especially exhausted and lightheaded, so needless to say, she WAS doing all the packing. anyway, she dropped a toaster and it landed on my cat, and in true cartoon-ey fashion, merlin leapt up, grabbed onto sarah's leg as though he were climbing a tree, and sunk his sweet little kitty teeth into her shin. she screamed, i screamed, merlin (and the other kitties) ran and hid for the remainder of the evening. sarah carried on for hours about cat scratch fever and bloodloss, calling her friends and taking photographs for our future lawsuit. she was ridiculous. she demanded i put him down. i laughed in her face. she left with a belly full of pizza and a phone full of incriminating photographs.

anyway, come the next morning, moving day, sarah shows up with a mild fever, works through her pain, and puncture wounds and gets us settled. at 8pm that night, she finally decides to show me the bite...i don't know WHY shy waited so long to show us....but it had manifested into a fullblown cellulitus, she was febrile and sweating buckets. all i could do was laugh. anyway, trips to the MD showed that she had an infection in the bone and was started on antibiotics. she was a mess. and of course, wouldn't let me live it down, as though merlin and i had secretly planned it all out.

i think she learned her lesson.
she shouldn't drop toasters on cats.

:)

the aftermath....

Well, moving day has come and gone. i wasn't feeling well, so the boys did eeeeeverything while i sat around and told people what to do. the first few days were rough, but thankfully my mom and sister came by and helped to unpack and rearrange. i haven't unpacked my camera yet, so i have no pictures to share of the house. but hopefully i will soon.
so far things are good. it's so different coming home to a house insead of an apartment....i can't really say how....it just feels so different. like it's actually home. and i can actually MAKE it a home. i like it. :)

as far as other things go...things are good. i feel better, not so sick all the time. and i have lots of things to look forward to. :)

by the way, this episode of grey's is ridiculous. i can't even stand it.

yaaaay!!

we officially own the house, and spent all of yesterday cleeeeeeeeeeaning and fixing the small things that needed to be done. J and my dad changed the locks, while sarah and i scrubbed ridiculous amounts of dirt off of the floors and windows. i won't say that i like the housework...but i WILL say that it is a completely different feeling when it is your own property. there is a certain level of pride in it....even sarah was picky about the window streaks!
today J and Dad are putting up a screen door for the front door, while i stay at the apartment and pack, pack, pack. if anyone is bored, i am taking time donations. :-D or lunch. i'm stahhhvin!

ok, back to work! we'll be in the new house next saturday. :)

soooo...
sorry for the lack of blogging. i've been immersed in buying this house. but there is good news!!! we did our final walk-through tonight and everything looks fantastic! the closing is tomorrow at 2:30, and then we are immediately going to our new home so that justin can carry me over the threshhold! haha. :)
we are uber excited. this weekend will be a mish-mosh of cleaning the new house and packing furiously so that we can move officially next weekend. and then we can focus on other things. :)

like babies. :)

grrr

i'm crabby.

we're back from aruba. let the stress begin! i don't even know where to start with moving. ugh.

i'll do an aruba update later. i need to get on with my crabby self.

shout out

this is an official early birthday shout out to my laowra, for i will be MIA in aruba (hopefully not with a scary dutch arubian guy who wants to throw me over the side of his boat).

have a very very very happy birthday my lady. :)

muah!

update:

sooooo
the inspection went just dandy. nothing wrong. just minor stuff that daddies and husbands can fix. ;)
aaaaaand, financing stuff went through.

we close september 4th!! :)

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!