Home for a pit stop...

or so it feels since I was gone last week and leave again Thursday! I spent all week last week in St. Louis for work. Which, despite the fact that I worked for 11 hours on my birthday and actually had to wear heels it was a lot of fun! I got to see all the people I was a trainee with in Jefferson, along with others from our "trainee class" that I haven't seen in ages! We had a good time.

My fellow trainees from Jefferson

Dessert & milk at the bar! Oh the life of a preggo lady

having a ball in the hamster wheel at STL City Museum

in the cave at City Museum

Preggo Update

DATE: October 31, 20100 Happy Halloween!
How far along: 26 weeks tomorrow
Total Weight Gained: 15 pounds.....ugh!
Maternity Clothes: I have two pair of Cruel Girls that I can still wear... and am holding on as long as possible. But.... everything is maternity.
Sleep: Waking up about 4am these days....
Best Moment of the Week: Coming home Friday to snuggles from K
Movement: yup
Prep: We've decided on a theme, well we've always known it'd be cowboy but now we are going vintage cowboy. Should be really cute!! I've been searching the internet for the perfect fabric for his bedding!
Food Craving: This week I've been on a dessert kick... which is NOT a good thing. Apparently, I need to be on a lean red meat kick because my doc told me Monday that my iron is a little low.
Food Aversions: None- I actually tried different foods this week in St. Louis. I was pretty proud of myself. haha
Morning Sickness: none
Gender: BOY!
Symptoms: my back hurts... what's new??
What I miss: buttons on my jeans
What I'm looking forward to: Trick or Treating tonight and New Mexico on Thusday
Picture:

25.5 weeks

Preggo Update

*** Typed this up last Sunday but never got around to posting it***

I should have started this much earlier and did write some things down in a pregnancy journal but I've decided to do a weekly (or probably bi-weekly) update on how things are going in the world of baby boy Tuttle.

DATE: October 10, 2010

How far along: 23 weeks tomorrow

Total Weight Gained: 15 pounds

Maternity Clothes: I can still fit in to some of my regular pants and survive the day. Others though I could still squeeze in have been retired for the next several months.….still wearing regular shirts with some maternity ones thrown in there too

Sleep: doing better the past couple of weeks. In order to (at least attempt) not to wake up to pee in the middle of the night I'm not drinking anything within 1.5 hours of bedtime and peeing at least twice before bed. Sometimes this works... sometimes it doesn't.

Best Moment of the Week: Kailee singing to the baby- ABC's and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Movement: oh yes….always! Though I've noticed he is really active around 8:45-9:30pm and also around 1-2ish in the afternoon.

Food Craving: Cereal... I would eat cereal right now for 3 meals a day. My poor family.

Food Aversions: not really any that weren't there before

Morning Sickness: nada, I feel fine

Gender: BOY!

Symptoms: my back hurts! After sitting in my chair at work for an extended period of time and by bedtime at night it's pretty bad.

What I miss: shopping for normal clothes and sleeping through the night!!!

What I'm looking forward to: going to NM and seeing Lizzy pregnant too! Two pregnant woman in one house... her husband is lucky he'll be out of town.

Picture: To come

For four years

my life has been consumed with everything pinks & purples, princesses, & girlie! I've absolutely loved it but we found out on Tuesday that it will all now be about blues, trucks, getting dirty, and balls.

It's a boy!

Just for the record... I knew... but no one believed me. I'm now two for two. Maybe IF (notice that is a big if) there is a next time my husby will believe me when I tell him what the sex is. :-)

We took KR with us to the ultrasound appointment. Which on a side note I can't believe how mature she is (she's only 3- yes I know she will be 4 in less than I month but I'm holding on to 3 until the last day!) but she seems to understand all of it. I made sure to tell her that the picture will be a black and white picture and kind of hard to tell what the baby looks like so she wouldn't think her sibling was going to look like an alien.

Her response- Mom, I know that... the baby will look like a real baby when it's ready to come out, duh. (which I don't know who taught her that word... but thanks! ugh) .

Me- Okay, well KRae we don't know if it's a boy or girl yet but I don't want you to be sad if it's not what you wanted.

K- Ugh, mom... I know we have to wait to hear what the doctor says. Sometimes I want a brother and sometimes I want a sister. So it's okay if it's a boy or girl. I don't care I just love the baby.

Me- Well okay then. Glad we had this talk.

At the doctor's I laid on the table as the ultrasound tech checked out the baby. The tech told us it's a boy and I looked at Reed who was beaming and then at K sitting on his lap. The two of them looked like they were about to burst! It was the best moment ever! Reed had convinced himself it was a girl, I think so he wouldn't be let down if they told us it was. He (we) wanted a little boy so bad to complete our perfect family. Plus, he needs someone on his team and I'm going to try my best not to ruin this little boy (not that it will work but I'm going to try)... I'm not saying anything bad about K other than she is my clone! I will leave it at that but if you know me... you know why this is hard for Reed. haha.

Back to KR being super mature & the sweetest (which just for the sake of argument we'll say is part of the cloning of me) girl. After we found out while the tech was still looking around checking out the baby KR climbed down off of Reed's lap to stand by the table. She stood there and held my hand... smiling. Another moment I don't ever want to forget.

After we left it was time for the phone calls to begin. We called everyone- smiling ear to ear!! Everyone (almost) was just as excited as us! As soon as I was done with my appt the sis called from her oh-so-fabulous trip to Indonesia (almost midnight there) to hear the news. :-)

Now, we play the figure out what to name him (which I think we know but aren't telling yet), register for baby stuff, shop shop shop, decorate, and paint!

More to come!!!

On a jet plane...

I bought my tickets this week to head back to Cruces for four days (the first weekend in Nov) of fun and quality time with my friends!! I'm so gitty about it!

Here is what my long weekend will include... in no order:

YUMMY Mexican Food!!! Can't wait... I plan to eat all weekend!

Gorgeous Sunsets!!

My wonderful friends!! (disclaimer....I am only putting a few pictures so not all are included in these pics)

All things baby showers/baby shopping for Lizzy and me!

Naps & Relaxation= Spa!!!! (My bestie is pregnant too so she will totally be down!)

Just being "home" and taking it all in because I won't be back until next May

Updates to the farm house

I'm posting pictures of KRs room even though we didn't make changes (I was walking around taking pictures of the house and K wanted me to take pictures of her room too) -just moved her stuff in... which all happened to be pink. The walls were already pink, those blinds were there and that "fabulous" carpet was already in there... lucky us!! :-/ I would love to paint her walls white & but she loves it and that is all that matters, right??

Her room from the door:

From her closet:

Living room- duck hunting border and paint on the bottom half... yes the carpet is green:

Another view of the living room... I hate the carpet but we couldn't talk them into changing it because it's actually in pretty good shape:

Living room after:

Another view of living room:

Dining room view from kitchen... nasty peeling wallpaper:

Dining room view from front door:

Same view of the dining room from the front door after wallpaper was taken down and wood paneling was painted:

Here is the kitchen (looking into the dining room) before we painted:

Here is the kitchen after painting & new carpet (looking into the dining room):

Another kitchen view... oh how I'd love to paint the cabinets!

There you go...

Yes, it's been since May that I last blogged! I kept thinking I need to update but so much as changed that this blog could be so long. I'm going to kept it short and sweet or else you'd get bored reading and I would get bored of writing! There have been two major changes in our lives that I'll just touch on. (more detail is to come)

1. We're pregnant!!! We found out the first week of June after I'd had a couple crazy mood swings and one day of not feeling well. We couldn't be more excited and KRae is absolutely ecstatic to become a big sister. I can't wait to see her with the new baby... she is the most loving and nurturing little girl I've ever met. We find out Sept 28th the gender!!!
   
2. We moved. We moved about 40 minutes away from where we were living in Lincoln to southeast of Lincoln in the country. Literally... we have two neighbors both about 1/2 mile away. We are able to have to horses out here and love it. I took before & after pictures of some of the rooms we redid... I'll post sometime. It is so peaceful out here!!
   
   
   This is the view from our front porch
   

My weekends and evenings are spent with things like this now...

It takes all sorts to make up our camping neighbors

For the first time in forever Reed had a 3 day weekend!! It was wonderful! We went camping at the local lake... literally 20 minutes up the road but it sure was interesting when we looked around at our camping neighbors.

It all started when we were setting up our tent, the people just over from us stared at us the whole time we sat up camp, awkward! They had all their friends there, 3 different camp sites set up and 7 fishing poles set up along the banks (including in our lake spot which made the husby mad he couldn't fish there). From a far they looked pretty redneck, I found at later in the day when he came over to see our dogs that is exactly what they were. All of them had skin that looked like leather from the sun, she was approx 200lbs (& short) and wore items of clothing that I believe fit her 20 years ago. There dog was named Freckles, he was a cocker spaniel and he has chained up to a tree... on a chain you'd expect to fine some ferocious animal on the other end of. They had 2 paneled vans that we swear they were hanging out in to do something illegal, honestly who would set in a hot vehicle on a 90 degree day! Moving on (I'll come back to them when we meet there buddy)

The young couple who decided they didn't have to use an actual camp site, which I'm sure means they didn't pay to camp. They showed up 1/2 way through the day on Saturday and plopped their stuff in between ours and another family site (this family seemed normal!). They didn't speak English very well but had two very pretty girls, who I later figured out where not sisters and barely knew each others name- obviously mom & dad haven't known each other very long. The girls kept coming over to our site to play with the dogs and the parents seem to careless that they were playing with strange dogs. Whatever. The one story I do have about them is that Reed was fishing and glanced over to their site only to see the girls playing and "dad" sucking on "mom's" toe. Not real appropriate.

Next we have the family that showed up Saturday evening. Seemed normal. Then Reed quickly pointed our that the young girl (though I'm not sure it was a girl) who was acting very strange had her pet Cockatail in the tree she was standing by. That's right, she brought her bird camping and that is all she did was play & mess with it. Didn't look twice at their dog they'd tied to the tree on a approx a 2 foot leash but played with the bird the whole time. Why even go camping? At dark a gentleman (I use this term loosely) in a wheel chair came over to the edge of the pavement near our site and started yelling at us to see if we'd seen the blonde that tied the dog up... no no I hadn't seen her, not like in a couple hours anyway. He got very frustrated that we hadn't seen her (honestly, at this point we were trying NOT to look around us at the other sites). He proceeded to cuss us under his breath and wheel away. Also, he was wasted, very obvious. As soon as he left she stood up in her tent (almost like she'd been hiding from him, idk).

We took a walk towards the dock just to check it out when we finally met the friend of the hilly billy's. He was very friendly, I'll give him that but I found a picture that I SWEAR is him, or his twin brother. No joke. His teeth REALLY looked like this.

Despite all of the craziness near us while camping we had a wonderful time.  KRae and I had the swimming beach all to ourselves Saturday morning and it was awesome. She had so much fun... so did I. Here are some pictures from the fun.

They are best buds and sat here for about 30 minutes. K talked, he listened.

Camping is rough on KR... and no, that is not dirt or a big bite, just chocolate from the
Smores the night before.

Daddy cooked a yummy breakfast

She was much happier after breakfast!