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Hot mess

It is always a rough end to pregnancy for me,  and its no different this time around lol.  Baby Noname is giant,  and sucking the life out of me, and I am so ready, though he is happy and content in there,  im swelled up in places that shouldn't be and sore all over, not sleeping or eating too much cuz if I do I get awful heartburn. cant eat passed 6pm because then I can not sleep due to said heartburn.....   miserable!!!   My uniform is a black tank top and yoga pants.... everyday,  nothing else fits,  sometimes ill throw on this ugly maxi dress I got a few summers ago to match my cousins :) at least its comfy :) 
Wil's birthday was Wednesday. Easter was the weekend before that,  Nick has been going through some insane job stuff that I cant get into,  We have both boys in baseball with games 3 times a week in different cities most nights lol. and I have been having contractions for the last month and a half. Tired doesn't seem to be the word right now lol.
I am so grateful for Nick,  he is amazing,  really really,  working all day and into the night most nights,  home when he needs to be and at all the games he needs to be at. He is quite literally Superman.......  then we both crash into bed in an exhausted heap at 9-930 just to do it all again at 530 the next morning lol...  I love it, its busy but im done being pregnant and im ready for my mom to come and take care of me for a while. also excited to meet this baby,   overly anxious to meet this baby :)  I love babies,  if money grew on trees I would have 11 of em :)
But back to my hot mess story... lol.  The day before Wils birthday was an awesome field trip to a wild life ranch, I have never missed a field trip and it gives me great anxiety to have him go alone,  so we had Nick lined up to go with him. But Nick was unable to take a day off to go too...... So I was convinced I was going only to be shot down by my husband who told me no,  that I would not be going into labor 45 mins away on a field trip with a bunch of first graders and that I was being dumb and he would be fine by himself..... So I sent his teacher a message giving her my sad story and she was wonderful and sent me picture messages of the field trip every 20 mins all day long :)  So I got awesome pics of him getting kisses from camels and what not,  I will upload pictures after I write this post out.....
So the next day was his birthday, I told his teacher we would bring cupcakes to school. So in the morning Cooper and Ember and I headed to walmart to get an ice cream cake for wil because that's what he wanted and to get some cupcakes because I desperately didn't want to cook them,.....  So we got 2 giant things of cupcakes and took them home,  the teacher wanted us to bring the cupcakes in at 2,  which is right in the middle of princess's nap time, but whatever,  she would have to get over it,  which she chose not to. So walking into the building she refuses to walk or stop crying or really be pleasant at all,  I decide Cooper can help since im giant and already have a huge baby inside me and now have to carry the pain in the butt 2 year old inside I hand him the cupcakes 2 big boxes with 12 in each box,   Hes got his chin on the top of them he can totally do this. I tell him "Coop, watch the curb you have to step up don't move yet" and in that same sentence he trips over the curb and tumbles the cupcakes all on the sidewalk..............  Hes bleeding,  and crying,  ember is crying,  cupcakes all topsyturvey in the box...........    pivotal moment.... cry or laugh..... cry? or laugh?   I laughed,  kissed cooper wiped the blood off  shook the cupcakes right side up, and we walked into the building.....  Turns out that it was someone elses birthday too and that there was a mom there with cupcakes already........  and the teacher forgot that I was bringing them that day too lol...... So I walk in with me tumbled cupcakes,  hair not done, no make up glasses yoga pants,  tired 2 year old who refuses to leave the hallway,  also I didn't even think about napkins or drinks lol.... And this mom has cute little frozen homemade cupcakes with matching napkins that all have alittle ring on them and juice boxes already layed out and opened so that the kids don't have to worry about a thing.....  They both look at me and are like "are you ok?"   lol...... yeah im fine,  heres your freakin cupcakes im going to sit down,  ive failed today lol  the kids all ate both cupcakes like it was no big deal and Wil was totally happy to have us there even though ember lied on the ground in the fetal position the whole time.
We came home then and waited for Dad to do presents and dinner. Wils reactions were awesome,  he is the best kid and most grateful. He had a long long long list of things that we would never get him,  well that were really hard to get for him, but he wanted a drum set,  a bike, a computer, new 3ds games. just mainly a lot of really expensive things.
So when it came time to open presents I only had 2 little ones for him to open.... and the rest were hidden in a closet. Grandma and Grandpa O got him a new bike,  a cheap one, but awesome non the less, and Nick found an amazing drum set that is electronic,  that he can wear headphones with and I can not hear, and it really is the coolest thing just what he wanted. When we brought out the bike he was extatic but when we brought out the drums he jumped on nick in a giant hug that knocked them both down :)   totally worth it.......  it wasn't too expensive either and Grandma and Grandpa Blaine went halvsies on it with us..    perfect birthday.......  But one of the cords didn't come with the drums,  so nick was set on this kid getting to play it that night and drove all around sanger down into denton looking for this cord, then drove down to guitar center in Lewisville which is about 40 mins away only to have the guy there tell him you have to pull it out of one of the legs and cuz it was tucked into the set..........  then by the time nick got back he had missed  the majority of the evening (for no reason) and the boys had to stay up a while after bed time for cake and drum playing lol..........  just had to laugh not to cry........
the next day I woke up at 4am with contractions took meds at 5,  still not working lots of contractions,  about 3 mins apart, just annoying enough to not sleep through,   dropped wil off at school and headed to L&D where they told me to drink water and that I was still at a 3 baby is not coming.   got home,   laid down for a bit,   then went to get wil from school and locked my keys in the apartment , had to wait for a maintenance guy to come unlock the door and was late to pick up wil from school for the first time ever......  lol
get this baby out of me,   im a hot mess  :) 
life is hilarious,   just needed to write this stuff down because this is the stuff you cant take pictures of and forget lol

Flu

Oh my gosh I am so sick!  I woke up in the middle of the night last night with the kind of illness that only happens once every 10 years!  Like sitting on the toilet while puking in a bucket for hours kind of sick! !!! It doesn't help that I am so pregnant that bending over its nearly impossible!  They started me on terbutaline last week to stop the contractions I was having.  I've only had to take it like 4 times since, it seems to stop the contractions easy peasy so I can stay out of the hospital until I need to be there unlike last time :) I'm 32 weeks and I'm already dilated to a 2!  Better than a 4 like I was with Ember at 32 weeks. Over all this pregnancy has been loads better than the last.  Until today! !!  I can't get off of the couch.  A wonderful lady from church brought over gatorade and sprite this morning and my mom is ordering pizza for the kids.  Nick is staying late at work tonight.  His job is hanging in the air.  It's just awful timing for me to be sick lol.  I kept Wil home today and he has been amazing!  He got everyone dressed this morning.  Made beds, emptied the dish washer, fed the kids cereal, did the dishes, fed the kids lunch of pb&j put Ember down for a nap,  did lunch dishes,  lol he even attempted a diaper change.  In which he got the diaper on her backwards.  Which is really hard to do in the first place.  So if he would of done it the right way he prolly would of had it good enough :)
I am so grateful for this kid. And for how awesome Cooper has been, he's been right beside Wil helping all day.  They are such good kids. 

 

Here is a picture of Baby boy at 20 weeks,  I have an ultrasound pic of him at 30 weeks but it wont load right, it keeps flipping over when I post it.... But we have been thinking of names for weeks and having the hardest time narrowing it down,  I usually like to have baby names picked out way earlier than this.... so that I can stick the babies name on the wall and just be prepared,  but Nick has a few names he likes,  I have a few names that I love, and we don't like eachothers names at all........    ugh lol Nicks names are Damon, and Jackson.  I really like Archer. We both kind of like Daxon.   So we shall see what name he comes home with :)

 Wil's first grade music program was amazing,  when he said he had a solo part, we were assuming that he had a few lines of one song. But instead he was the only named character in the show about hats and had an entire song that he sang and was up in front with. I was totally not expecting him to have his own song,  there were two other kids who stood beside him and waved red white and blue ribbons around. Of course I couldn't compose myself while he was singing and I was just crying lol,   but they did the show twice, once again in the afternoon and I got a better video that I didn't sob through lol. He did so very good,  and was so stinkin cute in his suit signing....  I love that kid

we went to play at the beach the other day after school :)  Ember wears princess dresses everywhere

 

 Cooper had his first run at his game on Saturday. I don't have a pic of that on my computer im going to have to steal it from nick to post it. He was so very excited and it was adorable. It has been so rainy that he has had a lot of canceled games so it was nice to get to finally play on Saturday!

Right Now

I'm not sure that I will ever be able to catch up on all of the cute things that happened in the last year....... But I really need to keep on top of the writing so that baby 4 doesn't think that we forgot all about him....  Baby 4 is Due in May and I still feel like the last 2 years of Embers life have just blown by.

My Sweet Ember is talking up a storm!  like 5 or more word sentences, She is 2 years and 1 month old.. I really want to have her potty trained before baby brother comes home, but im not very optimistic about that. she could really care less. She like to pretend she a puppy, wear anything insanely girly and squeels like a girl when she sees pretty things..... painfully cute.. She still wears giant bows in her hair and her hair keeps growing in curly :)  She makes me sing to her before she can go to sleep every night She is finally enjoying Nursery class at church and doesn't scream when I leave her in there she runs in by herself to play with the kids, but she still has an attitude and wont participate, like to look at people like they aren't very smart. She loves the movie Frozen calls it "Elsa"   and loves to play princesses in her little castle tent with her little castle for her little princesses inside.... She is my princess and I love her dearly. She also really enjoys playing baseball and going to all of her brothers games, Every night on our way to the car she says repeatedly "That's a weally fuun game mom! a wealy fun game! datsa weally fun game mom!"

 

Awesome Cooper is the best helper during the day :)  We have been doing school at home with just us and he has been working so hard at it. Its been hard for me to find the way he learns but we are finally getting into a groove at the end of the school year now :) He is so very excited to start school in September and we are super ready, not to wish the summer away but it will be a fun year for him next year. He is amazing with Ember, he helps her do everything and they play amazing together, he is so very aware of everything she needs,  hugs her carries her around, they are the best of friends. He always patiently waits for the end of the day when Wil gets home and they can go outside and play with all the other apartment kids,    and there are some scary one and a few good ones.  they have had a few interesting experiences outside with random kids.... I have since restricted them to only being aloud to play on the playground across from our windows so that I can see them and hear whats happening,  There are some big kids that like to hang out and pick on the littles and teach them really weird things..  lol  Cooper has one awesome friend from church, Jameson, whom we are really greatful for, we get to play with him and his little sister often and it is way fun to watch Ember get better at playing with other kids and not being such a baby anymore.  Cooper is doing Tball and is having a blast. He is adorable out there on the field, hasn't quite had a run,  but tball is usually just lots of craziness of kids running around like mad people after one ball. He made it to second base in his last game and once he got there did the most epic dance......  between the two boys games schedules right now we are out on the baseball fields at least 4 evenings a week. The weather is amazing so its really been great!

 

 

Wil is finishing out his first grade year amazingly. Tomorrow he has a music concert in the morning where he has a little solo :) He plays the part of Uncle Sam :)  He is so stinking excited he can barely sleep, Ive been typing this and he has been out here 3 times to remind me of things and to set an alarm and to ask if he can wear his new suit because uncle sam wears dress clothes.....   His enthusiasm is contagious. He had a little bit of a rough start to the year, had some issues being at the new school, it just took him some time and getting a little involved in his after school Music Club that he loves, they meet once a week and have special parts in the school programs. He is loving baseball. He plays outfield but that is to be expected when he met the cut off for the 8u league by 1 day lol,   his bday is april 30th and the cut off day was May 1st. so he is 6 in a league of 7,8,and 9 year olds,  but he is having a blast!  his team has only lost 1 game of 5 and its been really fun to see him busy and engaged :) He wants a drum set for his birthday,  and a bike, and a really long list of other things,  we have two different bikes for him but one is too small and the chain falls off a lot,  and the other one is too big and he cant stop it with his feet lol........ ugh  but the drums I told him no on!!!!!  we are in an apartment right now until nick can find a job he wants to stay at for more than a year which is okay but drums and a newborn baby do not fit into an apartment together....... BUT his dad seems to be rooting for him.... So we shall see what this spoiled kid gets for his bday :)

 

First leg of Texas Move!

 We packed everything up in Michigan on august 6th and stuck it all in a moving truck(motorcycle and extra large tv included)!!!  Then headed to Nauvoo the next morning to my little brother Jake's wedding!!!  
 Firs stop was the tire place at 8 am which put us a few hours behind because we had holes in the tires.... but it gave the moving truck that nick was driving a few hours to get ahead of us. We took it 3.5 hours south into Indiana to Jake's fiancé's house so it could sit there for a few days while we went to Nauvoo for the wedding then we came back for the truck and to go to the awesome reception there that weekend, then we headed the rest of the way to Texas the next morning :)

      We had a ton of fun spending time with uncles aunts and soon to be uncles and aunts ;)

 I love Nauvoo, Everything about it. We got to go to a pagent or two, and see the sites, go through the temple its a gorgeous place. Also the fudge is amazing. We have some awesome Cousins whose parents own a house there, right across the street from the temple, and let us stay in the house while we were there for a few nights. They have an amazing back porch that is all glassed in and at night we would play games out there with the beautifully lit up temple in the background.

Longest summer!!!

The beginning of summer was full of hanging out at home,  swimming and a nice long trip to Iowa before my brother Jake got married