Summer is Officially Over!!!

I have been back to work for 2 weeks now. It has been nice getting out of the house, but tiresome at the same time. We have been working 13 hour days this week. We had to get all the students entered in the system since Tuesday's enrollment. We had to get each route set up, mapped out and directions typed up. WOW! We have our big all staff meeting tomorrow, which is the proof that summer is over. I am excited to see the kids on my bus route though, so it has made it more liveable. LOL.

We have been some canning fools the past few weeks too. We have canned green beans, cinnamon pickles, relish, blackberry jam and some chili sauce. After the count today we have 199 jars of goodies sitting on the pantry shelf just from this summers crop. Winter will be wonderful!!!!!!!! That doesn't count the stuff we have already eaten because the jars didn't seal. LOL.

Went to the dr. this week after a scare from waking up spotting. Everything turned out great and we got to see the baby move around. It was AWESOME. Although I can't feel it yet, it was still pretty neat. The baby was VERY active for the sonogram. SUPER excited now that we have seen movement. It was more exciting than hearing the heartbeat for the first time. We go back for a sonogram in Sept. and the dr. said we should be able to see the sex. CAN'T WAIT!!! Although I already (think) know it is a boy. HEHE!!

Hope everyone is feeling better these days and that those returning to school are having as much fun as I am. LOL.

Back to the daily grind.

So summer has flew past us once again. Time to get back in the swing of life. I have really enjoyed this past summer of nothings really.

I have to return to work on Monday. Talk about a rude awaking, they are wanting me to be there at 6:30am...couldn't tell ya the last time I willing got up before that time. Guess those early morning waking restroom breaks have been good for something. HEHE.

Our garage sale went GREAT. We had a yard FULL of goodies and lots of customers. Only had to haul off two truckloads to good will, it was all mostly bigger items. Those items one looks at but has no way to haul them home so they leave them behind. LOL. It did rain on us a couple of times but nothing that put a grinding hault to it all. We sat through it and managed to continue making sales.

I did get to go see Harry Potter with Christy, Jenn and Melissa. It was a great time and enjoyed a yummy breakfast at the theater. Thanks Christy.

Megan and Miss Nora came up this week and we went and walked around the Fair. We were also joined by my sis-in-law, niece and nephew. It was so fun watching the kids react to the animals. They loved it. It was even better getting to see Megan and Nora. I have missed talking them and seeing them. :-)

We had another dr. visit this month. Got to hear the heartbeat on the doppler machine. This is the 2nd time we have got to hear it, the first time we had an awesome sono tech that found it. I am 11 weeks, 3 days. Almost to my 2nd trimester. The dr. says everything is going great and as planned. We will get a sonogram in September and she said we shall be able to "see everything we want to see." Yes, we are going to find out what it is. We want to do the nursery accordingly.

I have for the most part been feeling Great. I was having a bout of stomach cramps and icky feeling days, but I realized it is true...you have to drink lots of water. I don't like water, never have liked water....so I am pushing myself to drink lots of the nasty stuff. HAHA!

I am going with Christy tomorrow to see "The Ugly Truth". Have heard nothing but great reviews about it. It looks funny and will make a great end to my summer vacation.

Hope everyone enjoys what little of summer is left. It has gone by way to fast.

The Dog days of Summer!!

Didn't know if anyone else was aware of how hot it is today. My sis-in-law and family are on their third night of no power. Thanks to the wonderful force of mother nature. We were fortunate and just had wind and rain. Never once did we lose power. Thank goodness!

I was working around the house today and thought I was just hot and sweaty because I was fearlessly going through closets and cabinets getting ready for the garage sale. I went outside with the dog and when I came back in I realized it wasn't much cooler in the house as it was when I was out in the shade. I looked at the A/C unit in the kitchen, it was blowing hot air. It is still not working, so I am waiting for Adam to get home to check it out. The animals and I are sitting in the bedroom with the door shut..the window unit in here is working GREAT!

I got a call today from work I am going to drive day trips on Mondays and Fridays for the next 6 weeks. It will be nice to have some money coming in. Surprisingly enough the summer is going pretty fast. Faster than I thought it would. Haven't done much really, just relaxing for the most part and dr. appointments.

Speaking dr. appointments. I go again next Thursday for another sonogram. She is wanting to do another one because of her words "you were 5 minutes pregnant when you found out". LOL. I figured it out way to early I guess. We did get to see the gestational sac last week on the sonogram. I have a feeling I am not as far along as the calendar says. But we will find out hopefully next week just how far along I really am.

Hope everyone stays cool. I know I am going too.

Wishing all you dads out there a Happy Father's Day!

GARAGE SALE...GARAGE SALE...GARAGE SALE

So here I am on summer break and keeping VERY busy.
I decided this past weekend it is time to clean out the house and get rid of the crap. I have 7 years worth of accumulations that have sat in the storage in the basement since we moved here. We spent yesterday, Adam didn't work, cleaning out 3 of the 6 closets. I am going to have a HUUUUGGGEEE garage sale. We haven't even started on the basement and I know I am getting rid of A LOT from down there. I am going to sort through all my holiday decorations (which I have TOO many for only being married 7 years, LOL), all the wedding decor I have inherited is going too. So if you know any new brides let them know about it. I have some really pretty decor that is easily interchangable to any color they would like to use.
My family is also cleaning out their homes and bringing LOTS of goodies into sale. If anyone has anything they would like to sale let me know and we will set up a time to get together. We had originally set the 2nd weekend in July as our date, but we may move it up to the last weekend in June. We have all started working at getting our stuff together and no one wants to sit with boxes all over the house.

We go Thursday morning for our sonogram. Can't Wait!!!

Other than that just been relaxing at home. Not much going on.

How fast life changes!!!!

So as most you know, I am pregnant. We found out on Tuesday. I was having some severe cramping in my lower abdomen area. I just thought it was a bowl problem or something I had eaten just wasn't settling with my system. Adam told me a couple weeks before "you're pregnant", how in the world would he know that I thought. So Tuesday morning when the pain was more severe I sat down and looked at the calendar. LOW AND BEHOLD I was a week late. LOL. So I went to WalMart and bought the home test. I came home and do you think I could pee? NO! I had to take my mother-in-law to an appointment at 9am so I stuck the stick in my purse (just in case) I had to pee while we were out. I couldn't pee for the life of me. HAHA! The one time I did finally pee, I totally missed the stick.
When I got home from the appointment I called the dr. due to the level of the pain. I just figured something was wrong and I would be in for an afternoon of tests. I told them I was late so of course the first thing they did was have me fill a urine cup....and YES, I filled the dang thing. LOL.
It came back positive, they even ran it twice. :-) So the dr. suggested I go ahead and call an OB since I have had female problems since I was 18 and I had even went through all the fertility testing a couple of years back. We went to the OB yesterday.
Nothing showed up on the sonogram. The dr. was pretty sure it is just to early to detect it. He said that the sonogram won't show anything until my progestrone levels are in the 1000's. With my history of always having very low progestrone they drew blood and if they are indeed low I may have to take a supplement. We will find all the results from the blood draw today.
I go back next Thursday for another sonogram providing all my levels come back normal. If they arent normal we will go from there.
So we are going to be pretty busy for the next 9 months. LOL. We are just praying for a healthy baby regardless of what it is. We would be excited with a boy or a girl. Doesn't matter to us.

SUMMER IS HERE!

So here we are...the first official day of summer break. IT CAN BE EXPENSIVE....have to watch it very close. We went and bought a water slide today, along with a swimsuit top and shorts. Swimsuit shopping for a 10 year old girl is a JOKE...what are parents thinking? The little girls in todays world must be A LOT bigger in the chest than we ever were. It was ridiculous!

We are starting the pool season tomorrow. Can't Wait! I am such a water bug. :-)

I am just planning on living pool side for now and then once the garden comes on we will be canning! Hopefully back to work by the middle of July. If not, just more pool time for me ;-)

Hope everyone enjoys the weather before we get tooooooo HOT.

School is almost out....

Here we are sitting with only 3 weeks of school left. Man has time gone by fast or what? I have been staying pretty busy at work. All the school field trips have been upon us for a couple of weeks now. On Thurs. last week we received a phone call at work that on Monday morning we would be having a corporate audit. Talk about crunch time. LOL. Lets just say I put in 47 hours last week. Which part of that consisted of working late Friday night and then again Sat. morning. So come tomorrow morning, things at work will be a little crazy for the day.

We went up Sat. evening to Adam's Uncle Roger's retirement party in Richmond, MO. He retired from BNSF Railroad after 41 years. It was fun. I got to meet one of Adam's cousins from Florida and her girls. Got to see some family we haven't seen in a long time.

Today, we had the DeGrande girls "Granny's Tea Party". Granny would have been 81 today. We had so much fun. My aunt Patty had a friend that is going into the catering business and she sent treats, and do I mean treats, for the party. She is amazing. I can say, so much for anyone being on a diet today. :) All the great granddaughters dressed up in their frilly dresses and wore their hats. They were so cute! They decorated straw hats, ate lots of tasty sweets, sipped tea and enjoyed each others company. Granny would have been so proud.

Now we are moving on to Graduation parties for the next couple of weekends. And then into Weddings. Lots to do!

Hope everyone is finally getting dried out. I am off to the School Day @ the K on Thursday and then to Theater for Young America on Friday of this week. Hope everyone has a good week and stays dry.