Feeling Crafty.....

I just came across the cutest little craft idea over at Time4u2craft!

I'm thinking this would be an adorable craft idea to do with Piper this weekend or next. And frame it for her grandmas for valentines day.

What do you think?

Adorable, eh?

This little cutie.... is now telling me that she has a baby girl in her belly...and I have a baby boy in my belly. Will she be right? That is the big question....and to be totally honest I still have not made up my mind about finding out the gender.I'm thinking it will be a last minute decision. But luckily, we are 95% sure we have a boy name...still clueless and undecided on a girl name :(

Pregnancy Update

Yesterday, I had my very first prenatal appointment. My lovely, doctor has decided to my estimate due date will be July 7, 2012 on paper. So as of today, I'm 11 weeks, 4 days.

The appointment was routine and not overly exciting. He is putting in the referral for my 20 week ultrasound that can be done anytime after February 2nd. At this point, if Chris and I want we will be able to find out the gender. Still undecided.....

At first my doctor wasn't going to try to listen for the heartbeat because he usually doesn't like to listen before 12 weeks BUT because I had an extremely full bladder he decided to try... and of course, it couldn't find the heartbeat. He doesn't seemed worried and said we will definitely hear it next time....but of course, I'm already starting to feel paranoid and uneasy. I almost wish he wouldn't have tried to listen for it. So, now I'll be counting and waiting for January 19th for my next appointment.

Finding Out...

That I was pregnant on October 28th, 2011.... was totally exciting and I couldn't wait for Chris to get home and to tell him!!!! But, immediately after the shock and excitement, all my fears and concerns came flooding back.

Not sure how many people know but this is technically my 4th pregnancy overall but only my second 'viable' pregnancy. I had one miscarriage going into my 12th week (baby stopped growing around 8 weeks) before getting pregnant with Piper. And this pass January I had another miscarriage at 8week (baby stopped growing around 5-6weeks)... both miscarriage started the same way but were completely different. One was harder physically (2months) and the second was done and over with a week and that was harder on me emotionally.

I knew that I wanted to have another baby because I didn't want Piper to be alone but I was hesitant...and Chris was great and patient and my family was a great way of support. As the months, went on I could tell people were just waiting for me to say I was pregnant again but I kept stating that I was taking my time and I wasn't rushing it. That we would start trying or being more 'proactive' starting in the fall around October.

I must say every time I've set my mind and wanted to be pregnant, I've always gotten pregnant within the first 3 months... and voilà I got pregnant in October... I didn't think I was going to get pregnant that fast...so we won't get into how proud Chris is about his super sperm... lol....

I have been sick (back on diclentin) and I've been really tired and I had such a great feeling that this little bean was here to stay, I just never get over that fear, or the feeling of being a failure (which I've felt like twice already)...going the bathroom was stressful...watching as I peed for any chance of blood (how both miscarriages started), extra wiping to make sure, etc.

It was hard not tell anyone... of course, Chris doesn't know it but I did cave and told my sister immediately. I couldn't not tell her. We finally told our families at 8 weeks because I was sick and few people were starting to put two-&-two together. 

But seeing the little baby on Monday at the ultrasound.... just expanded my heart once again. I almost forgot the feeling you have the first time you see the baby. I think it's help me connect with the baby even more. Not that I didn't already love the baby but I was just trying to not get emotionally attached (if it's even possible) just in case the worse would happen to us again. I'm so excited and happy...and lovin' the fact that Piper kind understands but doesn't and the little things she says. I'm happy and not surprises that everyone else is happy for us but I think it's some great news to get right before the Holidays. I don't think it hurts to have an little extra happiness this time of year.

Can't wait for my doctors appointment next Tuesday, and hopefully get to hear the strong heartbeat once again!

and for my sister who is casually bringing up that she wants me to name the the baby after her she can keep wishing because I doubt it will happen. Even though Lane, is on our long list of names, I'm not sure I'm lovin' and if this baby happens to be another girl. I've already said that it will have the middle name Francine after Chris' mom, It's only fair, Pipers middle name is Colleen after my mother....and plus if it is a girl, it will be Francine second and probably last grand-daughter.

Wordless Monday...

Baby Kelly due July 6, 2012

My little gem....

turns 4 yrs old today!!!!! I call Ruby my little gem because I'm born in July and my birthstone is in fact a RUBY....

I know people shouldn't technically have a favorite but Ruby is by far my favorite niece ;)
(and I'm technically in the clear for saying that because Ruby is my one and only niece.... I have a total of 6 nephews, remember! and i'm 99% I won't be having anymore nieces)

Ruby definitely makes me laugh....and sometimes I really have to think about how she comes up with things...but Ruby is a true kid that lets her imagination run wild.

One of my first pictures with my god-daughter! :D





On the last outing Chris and I took her on.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LITTLE MISS RUBY!!!!!

Thursday Thoughts

Hey everyone!!! I know I haven't been around much and I really doubt anyone really notices but I thought I would check-in and post some of my random Thursday Thoughts.

- I must admit that I was a little surprise when I woke-up and realized it was Thursday. For some reason, I've been totally lost when it comes with days. This week as seemed to be lasting forever, so thankfully it will soon be over.

- I'm pretty prone to getting bladder infection, I usually get them every couple of months. So, I'm usually pretty good at telling when I'm getting one and the doctors are usually surprised when I go in because my cultures aren't really high with bacteria yet so they are surprise I can catch them so fast. So, this time I think i'm just going to call my doctors office and ask if I could swing by quickly after work and he can the small urine test at his office... wish me luck, I doubt that he'll agree with me.

-I am soooo excited that me and some good friends will be having our very first Ugly Sweater Party next Friday!!! OMG... i'm so excited...but now I'm on the hunt for an ugly sweater. It will definitely be a good time and i'm sure we'll be laughing about that night for a while.

Looking for something like this?!?

-I'm pretty much done Christmas shopping just need to care my daycare providers a little something. And something for my parents and Chris' parents. My only concern is when will I have find the time to wrap everything!?! I'm not late night person, so I refuse to wrap at night.

Thursday Thoughts

I'm thinking about when I'm going to have a moment to relax this weekend....

I'm off tomorrow and i'm hitting up the big toy sale with my sister, my mom and her friend. I'm hoping to to get atleast 5 out of 7 kids scratch off my Christmas list including Piper.

Getting my hair done in the afternoon, and hoping that it will stay in place so that I won't have to do anything with on Saturday before heading out to a bacholorette party for a friend that is getting married in January.

I'll definitely blog about what our intended plans are on Monday. I can't wait, it's going to be a great night. We'll probably get home in the weeee hours of the morning...and I'm thinking of what my chances are that Chris might take Piper out for breakfast so that I can sleep in..... slim to known but I will drop some hints from now till I leave on Saturday afternoon.

Thinking that I really need to purchase a laptop so I can download pictures off my camera. Our current computer is ANCIENT and I don't even bother trying downloading pics because it takes to damn long. I really wanted to show people what a cute bumble bee Piper was for Halloween.

Potluck

Today at work is our Halloween (Grossed out) Potluck. I decided to make Mini 'Pumpkin' Cheese balls

Cheese Balls



I find the recipe on Pinterest and thought it was cute and easy recipe. I bought all the ingredients and added up to my moms place where she helped me make them. I think we got about 32 mini cheese balls. I can't wait to see what everyone at work thinks of them!!

This is Piper being funny last night with my mom's wig....

Excited!

You have no idea how excited I am for this work day to be done, so I can take Piper to see Toopy and Binoo in Pembroke at the Festival Hall. We are going with my friend Sheri and her son Walker (who is 6 weeks younger then Piper. Side note: They were totally eachothers first 'french' kiss during swimming lessons right before they turned one!)

This morning Piper woke-up with me at 5am... she came waddling into the bathroom, I told her to go back to bed. She looked at me and said 'no, you go back to bed now!'
Oh man, do I wish I could have called my boss and said 'Sorry, can't come into work today, Piper has ordered me back to bed!' - I WISH!

After I laughed at her back to bed comment, I asked Piper what today was and she of course shrugged her shoulders. I told her that she was going to daycare, having supper with Grand-Maman and then...and her eyes widen she gave me two-thumbs up and exclaimed Binoo, Binoo! She completely remembered me doing that from the night before.

Only a couple more hours until I see the excitement in her eyes. Can't wait to see how Piper and Walker react to eachother, it as been a little while since our last play date....

Quote of the day!

This quote made me giggle and I thought I would share with the rest of you

Quote of the day:

'Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart.
She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit.'

Growing like a weed

Piper is just shy of being 2 1/2 years old and the days of her being a baby is starting to get foggy (which is so sad.) She is now talking up a storm, and you can understand 90% of what she is saying. She is more independent, wanting to dress herself, brush her own teeth, feed the dog.

Her biggest milestone is potty training!... she does have the occasional accident but they're mostly our fault and they are sooo far and few between now. And the greatest thing she will now use a public washroom which is a life saver and no more trips to parking lot for her to pee in her potty. Lately, she is refusing to wear a pull-up at night, which I knew wouldn't be far behind because it's rare that she wakes-up with a wet diaper but at least for the last couple of days we've been able to put a pull-up on and put her panties over but not anymore.... this is the final straw, my baby is real a big girl now... so proud but kind of sad all at the same time. (knock on wood that I have not jinx myself)

Pigtails!!! Piper can finally wear pigtails! And she is so proud of them, that she will keep them in now! A mothers dream... I've been waiting 2.5years for this people! Hair accessories = great stocking stuffers.

Oh, my potty mouth Piper was back the other night. We were laying in bed watching TV, Chris started talking but I sshhhh'd him. He started talking again and Piper randomly said 'Fuck off, Daddy!' Omg, we were both shocked...we told her that was a bad word and shouldn't say it. Next time, a timeout will be issued!

Deer Hunting

I shot a buck on Saturday evening (before dark)... I was so excited and so proud. Chris couldn't believe I actually did it. It was the best experience ever! I was standing 40yards away from the deer, standing pretty much in a middle of a field with my crossbow held in my hands...and at the right time, I just pulled the trigger.

I was a little sad at first because I knew that I hadn't missed, there was distinct pouf sound....but the deer had ran away...and of course, as soon as shot and I knew I hit it...I kind of started doing a 'happy dance' until I notice my hubby running in the direction of the deer to make sure he knew which way he had headed... Oops, I'm beginner I forgot to watch which way the deer took off.

It got dark really really really fast, Chris said the deer had run into some long grass and went left, I had a feeling it went right but I was busy doing a dance that I wasn't positive. Our flashlight was useless...but with it being so cold Saturday night, Chris said that it would be fine overnight and that we could come look first thing in the morning. We went first thing in the morning...and Chris went left...and I went right..and there it was...maybe 20ft from where we were looking the night before. I should have went with my gut instinct.

**I did not gut the deer myself nor will I ever do that dirty job, it was the most disgusting/smelling thing ever to see and watch**

Sorry if my picture grosses anyone out (Sorry, Lena!) but I can't blog about it and not sure you a picture of it....

1st deer (buck) ever...October 1, 2011

Diet

You think I would know better then to start a diet on the week that I'm PMS'ng and all I want is things that are sweet and salty.. but I'm holding back on temptation! Wich is really good for me...maybe not so much for Chris (oops, lol)


This is making my mouth water right now!





Even more so...

and of course, I only started my diet yesterday because I refuse to start a diet on a Monday...

Also, I joined the gym here at work yesterday also. I have my 'consultation' tomorrow so I'm looking forward to learning how to learn to use those scary/big machines. I to have them help me with a fitness plan. I must say the gym is pretty affordable $24/month ... definitely don't mind paying.

But I think I'm going to splurge and join one the specialty programs, I believe it's $41 for 8 weeks. I wanna try out the Kettlebell... registration is Oct 17th - I must not forget.

A quick fix?

DeeDee (my parents dog) has some issues going on with her ear. I believe, that she somehow got a scratch in her ear... but it's not healing well because she keeps scratching at it(everyone knows how itchy a healing wound can be.) My mom brought DeeDee to the vet and all the vet told my mom was to keep it clean and put cream on it. Okay, good luck...this dog will not lay down all nice and quietly to let someone clean (poke around in there). On Saturday night, it took myself, both my parents and our little helper Piper to get DeeDee's ear well cleaned.

My mom had tried all week to make a homemade cone (i wish I would have taken a picture) to put on DeeDee but then my mom was worried that she couldn't eat or drink so off came the cone! So our quick fix... maybe put socks on the dog, that way if she scratched alt east she would  feel some type of relief but her nails won't do any more damage to the wound.

We'll putting socks on a dog isn't an easy tasks! And then we all had a blond moment and couldn't remember if dogs used their front paws or back paws to scratch so all four paws got some socks.

For the life of me, I'm trying to get the picture of DeeDee off my phone onto here! But of course, I'm not having any such luck :(

Bad, bad blogger...

I'm such a bad blogger..I haven't blogged since the beginning of August. Shame on me!

Since the last time I posted... I had my girls weekend in Tremblant! Absolutely a gorgeous place, I would love to see it in the fall or winter. I had such a great time, with a bunch of great ladies, so many laughs! Can't wait to decide what we are doing next year.

Had a great summer overall... the weather was nice. I loved watching Piper float around our pool looking like this:

I also really like this picture of Piper and her daddy:

Chris baseball team won  3 our of the 4 tournaments this year. I love watching the beer buddies play... well, I actually like the socializing out at the ball park more then watching the game.



Beer Buddies - Champs of 2011

Also, I can finally scratch #1 of my 1001 list.... I finally donated blood. Yay Me! I went last Thursday, September 15th. I was a bit nervous from hearing from several other people that the needles was big or that they felt sick afterwards. I managed really well, I didn't think that needle was much bigger then usual, and it took about 10 15mins for them to take all the blood they needed. The man in front of me and the lady beside me weren't as fortunate as me. I was sitting down reading my book and out of nowhere all I see if the men's legs go up, a cold cloth go to his face, the needle come out of his arm; 2 minutes later the girls legs go up, she gets a juice and the needles comes out. I did kind of giggle at them when we all meet up at the cookie and juice station later on.



From one great weekend to the next....

I know this might be a little late BUT last weekend was one of the best weekend I've had in a long time. I love when our little town as their baseball tournament. There's nothing better then watching my hubby's team come in first place in the ball tournament AGAIN and having great laughs with some awesome people!!!!

Friday night, was a great night of ball and I got to participate in a great game of Flip Cup. Even, though I was on the losing team I still had a great time, and I didn't feel that bad in the morning either...just had a big craving for a pound of bacon!
Saturday, was a great family day at the ball field, between watching Chris' ball games, playing in the park with Piper and taking her on a wagon ride and petting the horses. By time Chris and I were ready to leave at 9pm, we had to wait for our little social butterfly to say good-bye to everyone, which took an extra 30mins.
Sunday, happened to be my 25th birthday! and a busy day at the park... Chris had to play in 3 games. I am very fortunate that my mother in-law was able to get Piper down for a nap and watched over her while I was keeping track of the score sheets.... Sunday also happened to be a busy day for drinking for me anyways. My mother in law, took Piper home so that Chris and I could stay back and enjoy the victory with the rest of team. The night ended with several of us pool hopping around town. It was a very priceless moment, and I'm still laughing about how we must have looked.

Even though, last weekend was a great weekend... I'm 100% positive that this weekend will be able to top it. This weekend is our Girls Gone Wild weekend. This is the 4th year, and this is the first time that I will be participating all weekend. We have decided to go the Mont-Tremblant, we are 14 girls staying at a 5 bedroom condo. There's a hot tub, a pool with a water slide! We've decided that Saturday night, we are going to dress-up and paint the town red! Thankfully, I have a sister that loves clothes, shoes and accessories because I just went shopping at her place and found the perfect little combination for Saturday.

I'm soooo looking forward to the weekend away but not looking forward to the mess that I might return home too. Not sure if Chris can handle taking care of Piper and staying on-top of the house chores as well.... sigh...

101 List Updated...

Yay, I have a few more items that I can finally scratch off my 101 things to do in 1001 days.

#3: Take Piper to the Toronto Zoo: mission accomplished the weekend of Piper's 2nd birthday.

#32: Get my wedding ring resize: Only took me two years...which is so sad! But, they are resized and in their appropriate spot.

#37: Bring Romy to the groomers: I'm a little upset that I forget to take a before and after picture. But I did this at the end of May, just before the summer heat kicked in. She was so cute, the lady even put two little clips in her hair.. it was the cutest thing.

#78: Plant 2 apple trees: 1 apple tree has been planted in our yard. Chris as always wanted an apple to tree (which is just for hunting purposes) so Piper and I bought the 5-different types of apple tree for him for Father's Day. I thought I was going to need to buy 2 apple tress to help with cross-pollination but it turns out that you don't need too if you buy the apple tree that has 5 different kind of apples... who would have thought!

749 days left and only 16% complete .... starting to get a little nervous!

We Want to Know Wednesday!

I'm linking up with Impulsive Addict , Janette , Mamarazzi and Seriously Shawn



This weeks questions are:
1. Which activities make you lose track of time?
2. Is there such a thing as perfect?
3. When do you feel most like yourself?
4. Describe your life in a 6 word sentence.
5. Share one of your most beloved childhood memories.

1. Chit-chatting with people. It never fails. I leave my desk to go the bathroom and end up being gone for 20mins because I stop to chit-chat with people. I tell Chris I'll be right back, I'm just going to the mail, 30mins later I get home and tell him that I was chit-chatting with this person and then this person.

2. Perfect person, no way. Maybe a perfect dessert, or perfect present, perfect outfit, perfect birthday card, for sure!

3. At home, hanging around the house in my pj's.

4. A great wife, mother, sister, friend

5. The childhood memories that I always remember and Cherish, is spending a week or two every summer at my Grandma Mary's cottage at lawless lake. I don't really remember my grandpa a whole lot but my Grandma Mary was one of kind. Every kid wanted her as a their grandma!!
 It  was great, we would stay up late watching scary movies, we would live in our bathing suits - be in the lake by 7am every morning. If we wanted chips for breakfast we would. I remember going home with a purple finger because we were allowed to eat 'freshy' (powder juice mix) with our fingers. It was the greatest summer vacation ever for any child!

Potty Mouth Piper #2

Piper and I were cuddling on the couch, watching a new toddler show eating some delicious blueberries when Piper accidentally dropped one.With the annoyance in her voice, all I hear as she turns to pick it up is... HoLy F*ck (with the emphasis on the holy)

Of course, I don't react to it. I don't want her to think it's funny, so I just casually said that's not a nice word and let it be. But of course, Piper looks at me and says 'What?' with a confused look. I just ignored her.

I'm a big time potty mouth, I'm at the point where I don't even notice that I'm saying it.... and holy f*ck is one a use ....