My new job

Today marks the beginning of a new season of life for us, well for me anyway. I am no longer working!?? I'm really nervous about it and excited too. Our house needs a lot of deep cleaning and I need to start labor, so for the next few weeks I will be cleaning from top to bottom.

Well, what else is going on? Travis is still working on Jackson's room. The walls and ceiling are painted, as well as the trim. We are now waiting on the new carpet! After Travis tore out the gross carpet in our hallway to lay tile, we thought it would be best to have the carpet installed before the baby and our family came to visit. It will be a pain for a few days, since we have to move everything out of the bedrooms, but worth it in the end.

I am 36 weeks now and feeling extremely uncomfortable. Everyday I just can't imagine feeling more uncomfortable than I am and then the next day I wake up and it's worse than the day before. I just keep focusing on the finish line and getting to hold Jackson for the 1st time, oh what sweet relief that will be!!

I will be able to update this more too, since I am now what Travis likes to call me "A lady of leisure."

Have a good long weekend!

Um, could you carry this for a few minutes?

So the big news is yesterday, Monday, August 7, we had another ultrasound done by the Doc and Jackson is weighing in at a healthy 4lbs 5oz. With seven weeks still to go, probably shooting for a good 8lb baby, which is fine by me. I want a big healthy baby, plus I know how to say "E-P-I-D-U-R-A-L Please!!" No wonder my back has been killing me, I would just love for someone to carry my tummy around for just a few minutes, that's all, I'm not looking for all day, I would just love a few minutes here and there for someone else to carry the load and give my poor back and especially my bad hip a break. Thank goodness for swimming pools! Not only do they cool a gal off, but she can feel as light as air in it! I'm sure I look like a bobber floating around that thing in my red swimsuit, but I don't care, it's sweet relief!

OK, so here's kind of a funny story I should share with y'all. Mind you my hormones are raging and my patience level is off the charts, so for this lady to have walked away without a little lip from me is pretty much AMAZING!! So, I know that there are women out there that had horrible pregnancy's. Some who have carried 10 to 13 pound kids well past their due date. I'm sure there's even those that have had worse temperatures and climate to deal with than me. I am not going to down size your experience in any way, especially when some of those women feel as if their childbirth experience was their right of passage, the way they brought life into this world can never be compared to again. I just pray that I learn from this and when I see a pregnant girl in the store or just in passing, I will just smile at her and SHUT MY MOUTH!! Seriously! I had a lady in Albertson's notice my condition, then felt the need to walk all the way across the produce section to where I was, just so she could share her story of giving life to her son in the hottest summer on record for North Texas....summer of 1980!! I listened patiently and then thought to myself..."why do some women find it so necessary to share these horrific stories with pregnant women they see? I can't change it for them, it's not benefiting me in anyway, I didn't ask for their opinion and even if I do have a hard time in delivery it still won't compare because according to you, you had it so much worse!!" Oh and don't ever tell them that this is your first baby....that's when they really pounce! Thank goodness these incidents have been few and far between, there may have been a different outcome to our conversation.

Well I guess my first wave of sleepiness if finally going to hit (right now...11:31 pm) so I should ride it in so I can get my first 3 hours of sleep for the night. I am truly prepared for a new born, I sleep in 2-3 hour intervals and am awake for 1-1 1/2 hours in between.

Thought I'd post one more of Meagan's pictures......she's got great filters on her camera so she can make anyone look good :-)




OK, one more...

Preview of Meagan's awesome work!

OK, Meagan I hope you don't get too mad if you see this, but I just had to cheat and show off a peak of your great work! Meagan, my friend who is this AMAZING photographer, came over to our house on Saturday morning and took some maternity shots as well as some of Travis and I. She is so good....here let me explain just how good she is. You see, Travis always gets this uncomfortable stance when he gets his picture taken and we end up with these pictures where Travis has this weird smirk or a smile with a hair-lip, so after Meagan figured this out, she backed up from us and starting shooting so Travis didn't even know what she was taking photos of and in the process got some amazing expressions on his face that every other photographer has missed. She's even better with kids, can't wait to see her work with Jackson's baby pictures.




This picture was taken in our front yard. She says that she still needs to "edit" them, and that these are the "raw" Meagan...my opinion either you got the talent or you don't, and clearly these are great! Her blog is linked over on the left, if you get a chance you should take a look at it, she does great family pictures with kids too. If you live in Fort Worth you should take advantage of having her here in town. She's good and she's got a great personality!

THANK YOU MEAGAN, this was a great gift!

Just keep growing & growing & growing...

Just how far can your skin stretch? Wow, let me tell ya I am just amazed at how large my stomach has gotten and yet I still have 8 weeks left.




This next picture Travis took while we were looking at some land west of Fort Worth for him to hunt on. Kind of hard to see the country side when you have a larger gal standing in your way. Although he doesn't say much about my ever expanding waistline, his eyes say more than he could ever express. I think he is just amazed as I am that I could be stretched this far!


These next pictures are HILARIOUS! If you are from Wyoming you are familiar with the drive-thru liquor stores we have. These stores usually have a lane that you pull your car up along side the curb and someone will come out a sliding glass door to get your order. Well in the state of Texas drive-thru liquor stores are against the law, consumers are required to actually be inside the establishment to purchase. So to get around that law and still provide the convenience of a drive-thru a lot of places have come up with this idea. They just knock down some walls and create a lane that you can drive thru inside the establishment. Every time I see one it just cracks me up.


Of course it is hilarious to Texans that Wyoming allows drive-thru's but enforces a drinking and driving law. I never really looked at it that way, and now that I see it through different eyes, it does seem pretty funny. Sometimes we just got to look at things through someone else's eyes, even the idea of a drive-thru liquor store.


Have a good day!