May 1, 2009

Well at my doctor's appointment on Friday we found out that Kole is growing like a little weed!

They moved my due date from May 11 to May 1. This is not a bad thing, because it gets him out of finals week, but it is bad because Nick's mom and dad are going to be on a cruise, and if they move it up any more, the maybe gone still. Right now there are only 8 days from their arrival back on land to Kole's due date.

I am excited to say that everything looked good, and he weighed approximately 1.3 pounds! His pictures are WAY better than they were last month! I think I am having a 3-D sonogram done sometime in the next couple of months (thanks to Kim--its my Birthday present) and I am REALLY excited to see his pictures then!

January 6th is my next appointment and although I hope he keeps growing, I don't really want them to move my due date anymore!!

Well I hope everyone had a good Christmas, because we sure did (I will try to post some pictures at some point), and I hope everyone has a safe and happy New year!

Hopefully there will be some excitement this week! :)

Gift Exchange Number One...

Today at work was our Christmas gift exchange! It was so much fun, the guys are such dorks, and the things they come up to exchange for our $10.00 limit make me laugh. It is just another Monday, but our gift exchange and pizza was a nice light touch to a short week!

I have decided what I am going to do for the Harris gift exchange for the "male" gift, for our $10.00 limit as well, even though Nick thinks its lame.... :)

Ok, well I better get back to work for now...

This is it folks....its almost here...............

No Were Near the End......

Ok, well I didn't get HALF of what I wanted to get done last week done. That makes me sad. Now I have a head cold and sore throat that I think are trying to become a sinus infection, so at night when I get home, I feel like doing nothing. To top that off, once I go to bed, I can't sleep!! The past couple of weeks, I can go to bed just fine, and be REALLY tired, but about 2:30, I'm up! That's it, the good night's sleep is over. At that point, my nose starts running again and the coughing gets worse, you know, just about anything to keep me up.

Well here is to this week...sleet, snow, and all.....maybe something will get done.........

Half Way...

This week is half way over, but my progress is FAR less than half way done.....

Maybe I can make up so time after I get finals off of my mind, or maybe my good intentions were just TOO GOOD...

We will soon see....

Good Intentions...

So its Monday, every one's favorite day of the week, and I have decided that not only am I going to try to have ALL of my Christmas done, including wrapping, but I am going to clean my house this week (or at least by Sunday)!!

First off I am going to FINISH shopping, yes I said FINISH, providing I can find everything that I still have on my list, and get it wrapped and under the tree!

Next I am going to get the John Deere Room (our guest room) ready for the hunters this weekend. (This room is full of Christmas presents and left over decorations, so hopefully it will clean up fast and easy, once I get all of that stuff off the bed and under the tree where it goes!)

Third, I am going to clean out my closet, since MANY of my clothes are too small now, and probably won't fit ever again anyways. I am going to get our bedroom cleaned out and organized for the addition of our computer and filing system (I guess you can call it that). The computer is now in what will be the baby's room, so it has to find a new home. I think the only Internet "jack" (I guess that is what it is called) is in that room, so the computer needs to be moved and re-set up where it will probably be for MANY years. The hurry on this is that Craw Kan needs to come out and get our Internet ready for when school starts again next month.

Next on my list is that room. Right now we refer to it as the "office," not that much "work" other than homework goes on in there, but still. It is filled with Nick's hunting stuff, complete with a gun safe in the closet and a dresser full of shotgun shells and camo clothing. On the other side of the room is the computer and filing system. What a job this will be!!

So, after the John Deere room is ready, and Christmas is over with (for now), I will get our room ready and start getting ready for the newest addition of our family!!

Let's just hope that this week goes as planned, my intentions stay good, and I stay on task!! Wish me luck!!! :)

What is Society Thinking?!?!

I just can't keep this to myself......

I can't believe that these people are for real....but for all of you who like to have a nice steak now and then or even a hamburger from your local McDonalds, this article might interest you, as well as those of you who make your money off of cattle (or hogs for that matter)........

What an article to top off my Friday.......

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28070487/wid/18298287/?GT1=45002

No More Christmas Cheer...

Well folks, it happened, there is officially NO MORE Christmas Cheer in our household....

As many of you know, last week and in the few past weeks, I have been SOOO excited about Christmas, but we picked out a tree that is the devil, and it has caused all of the Christmas Cheer in our household to run away.....

On Sunday my husband decided to be nice to me and humor me by taking me to the Christmas Tree Farm to get our tree. It was snowing and cold, and just like a book or movie!! What a good guy he was being, as we even had lunch at my favorite restaurant, that he doesn't like, before heading out in the cold in search of the perfect tree!

Well, after lunch we headed out. Upon arrival, we were given the choice of cutting down our own, tree, or having the staff cut it down. Because my husband loves me, or at least did, we opted to cut it down ourselves to make it more "authentic." Needless to say after many rounds throughout the trees we, I should say I, found the PERFECT tree (with some debate from Nick).

Once again, humoring me, my loving husband gets down on his knees on the cold wet ground, in the snow, and begins to cut down this 11 foot or so tree. Of course it is too big for our house, but they can cut them down to whatever size you prefer, making it the perfect tree!

After about 10 to 15 minutes of sawing on this tree, nothing. It is not even leaning yet. If any of you know Nick, he has NO patience, and this is really not a good way to get any. At this point he starts to get angry at the tree, and at me because this was all MY GENIUS idea. So, another 10 minutes or so passes, still nothing. At this point, there is anger, and lots of it. I proceed to walk back up to the front and ask for assistance, since I could see that poor Nick was not getting anywhere fast.

Well, help came to the rescue, with a chainsaw I might add, not a handsaw. After about 30 seconds, down the tree came. Another minute later it was cut and trimmed to a perfect 7 foot. At this time, all is well again, and his humor is coming back around, no Christmas Cheer, but some humor at least....

I have realized after seeing them bag it and load it, that it may be too big for the lights that we have. Nick humors me some more and allows me to run into Home Depot and get some more lights. We get home, eat a good dinner courtesy of his mother, and hurry home to put our tree.

After much time trimming, and fluffing it is in the stand and ready to be brought in the house! Ta da, it DID fit through the door!

This is where the REAL trouble begins....

Our beautiful tree is in the house and in its stand, the only trouble is, now, we can't get it to stand up!!!

So here we are, angry from the cutting experience, and angry because our extra large tree stand that be bought last year won't hold our tree. It is big, but not that big as we had it CUT DOWN to 7 foot. Well need less to say, three days later and two i-bolt lags in my woodwork, along with 2 bungee cords, it is standing!!

TIME TO DECORATE!!

This should be fun right???? Remember how I said that we had to stop and buy MORE lights because I didn't think we had enough, well I was right, and even with the new lights, we STILL don't have enough. On Monday I decided to go to Wal-Mart after my doctor's appointment and buy more, so I could finish this NOT so perfect tree, well...I get the home, start to put them on, plug them in, and they don't work.

Yep more anger....

So on Tues, after class, I proceed to return that box of lights, just my luck, and get new ones so we can FINISH this stupid tree! As I am waiting in line at Customer Service, I realize that the man behind the counter has NO IDEA what he is doing. When it is finally my turn, he lets me exchange them, so I walk back to the Christmas department and get TWO boxes, in fear that my luck is with me again today, and one of them won't work when I get it back up to Customer Service. Well I was right, as I re-wait in line, and it is my turn, I ask him to plug them in and try them for me. Neither box works. That is right, all THREE boxes of lights that I picked out, NONE of them work. So as he thinks of what do, and calls for help AGAIN, at this point I just ask for my money back. Needless to say 15 minutes later, I got a gift card for my return.

Angry, yet again over this tree, I call my poor mother (I refer to her as poor because I think that she should have ALL of the answers and has received a MILLION phone calls over this tree). She tells me to go BACK into Wal-Mart and make them find me a box that works. Well, I am not gonna do that, so, still angry I head to the Dollar Store, all the way across town, but up ahead, on the right, there it is, Walgreens!! Oh yes!! They have lights! I pull in, get inside, find the right aisle, and not only do they have lights but they have power strips out so you can TEST the lights BEFORE you get them home!! What a life saver!! Needless to say I finally purchased lights that worked!

Upon arriving home again, I was actually excited about FINISHING this tree that has been a HUGE pain from day one. As I begin, to put on the new lights, yes...it falls over, AGAIN. That is when the i-bolt lags and bungee cords came into play. With some good advice from the poor Christmas Tree Farm that offered to exchange my tree, and my father, a solution had been found!! So, I made ONE more trip into town to purchase the i-bolt lags and my mother came out to save my sanity and possible the thinnest strand of Christmas Cheer that I may have ever had left this early on.......But this morning, it is STILL STANDING and all a-glow!!! (and FINISHED)


On a lighter note our baby boy's bedding that I had been stalking on E-Bay, and my father stalked (and won) arrived yesterday!! It is even cuter than in the pictures!! Now the question is what do with it until May.........