Summer Recap

So I promised I would update this blog on our summer activities so here goes....

In August we had a wonderful visit from Jesse, Hilary, and the kiddos. They came over for a few days and we went to the Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle Aquarium, and the Olympic Game Farm. I would have to say the favorite of the three places was the Game Farm. Once your through the gates you are fair game for the animals to accost you through your open windows. The ox were first on the list and they were pretty well behaved compared to some of the others, but they did smell horrible!

Then we ran into the Zebra, who I am pretty sure had had enough bread. If you look close you can see the piece of bread sitting on its back lol.

There were other animals and lots of birds but the photos are plentiful so I chose our fav's. Next we got to see the bears! They were very fat and lazy and barely moved to get the bread that was tossed to them. Good thing though since they were VERY large and only kept in their enclosure by a farm fence and a small piece of electrical wire fence. This bear was "fake roaring" as he was trained to do and it looked pretty scary but he actually didn't make a sound.

After the bears was where it got pretty exciting. We ran into the sentries at the gate.....

Oh what a site! These guys were HUGE!! They were also very pushy and being so tall they got right in your face inside the car for the bread. The cow was a bit smaller but she certainly was the worst at being pushy. She was all the way in my car at one point and she was trying to eat my pants. It was a very strange feeling to be surrounded by such large wild animals...

On the way out was when they were really bad, here is a photo of the elk trying to get into Jess and Hil's van

of course the cow was looking our way because she thought we had more bread.

After the game farm we went to a Lavender field, it smelled wonderful and was very pretty. Poor Ali got stung by a bee so she didn't have the best of times there but I snapped this super cute photo of the kids. Riley is not in it because she of course was being rotten, but we did get this photo of her and I together right before we left.

The next day we went to the Aquarium and the Zoo. I wont upload those photos though because they are pretty general. The Aquarium was also pretty crappy. No one had fun there and it was soooo crowded you could hardly walk through it.

The end of August I had my baby shower. Hilary threw it for me and it was wonderful! We had such a good time and I got some very nice things. Here is a photo of me before the shower. I didn't get many photos because of course I was the guest of honor, but a shower is a shower :o)

That about sums everything up that I can think of. I am adding my last photo here of my pregnant self at 32 weeks which of course has been two weeks ago since I will be 34 weeks tomorrow. When I get a chance I will take a 34 week photo and add it, hopefully tomorrow, but I have a lot of cleaning to get done since Andy will be off tomorrow, and then I have a dr. apt. later in the day so we will see.....

I am pretty happy in this photo since I am wearing my pre-pregnancy jeans. So far I can still wear all of my pre preggo pants but we will see what comes in the next few weeks.

September

Wow, I still cant seem to make time to keep up with this blog. I always think of it when I am laying in bed about to fall asleep which of course does me no good.

Anyways, I figured it was about time to log on and update you on whats been going on the last few months.

We can start with the good news, I always like good news :o)

 

Things are going well here, we are pretty much unpacked all the way and our house looks like a home now. I am glad we got it all done, and it only took us 3 months lol. Andy has also gotten a job at the car lot here. Its the biggest one around and he is doing very well so far. He loves the job which is nice, it sucks because he is gone all day and has been working his days off so we have money once the baby gets here. Speaking of the baby, she is trying to kill me :o) She is very active which makes me feel bruised and beaten but we are anxiously counting down the days till she is here. I am almost 34 weeks, so I only have about 47 more days till she will be here (if she comes on time). I have also only gained a total of about 7 lbs which I am super happy about! I can still wear my regular jeans!! Whoo hoo!!!

We are pretty much all ready for her, I need to get a swing still but I am waiting till after my next dr. apt. to see if they will give me another ultrasound, I want to be 100% sure she is really a she. Ohhhh I guess I should back up a bit, I have not told you all the stuff that has happened in the last few months... I will get to that in just a sec, but I will finish the good news first. So continuing on... Riley is doing really well, she is a bit lonely but she is very excited to see her new baby sister. She is also growing like a weed! She is wearing 5t and 6x clothing already and is in a size 11 shoe!! Holy cow she is getting so big. She is also getting super smart, I feel stupid most of the time compaired to her lol. Oh and the last bit of news is we got a new puppy! She is a super adorable Chocolate Lab we call River. She is pretty smart. Her and Riley get a long great and its fun to watch them together.

Ok so for the other news, it really isnt bad, so here goes-

Shortly after my last note I had to be admitted into the hospital for kidney stones. It was a terrible experience and I was in the hospital for a week and then misserable at home for another month. Thank god I am better now. The Naval hospital was an experience, and overall they treated me pretty well, I did have one dr. who was nasty the second time I was in the ER but I didnt have to deal with him much. I was checked out of the hospital the day Andy was discharged, and no, I dont think that it was a coinsidence. The NAVY has basically black listed us and will not get back to us on anything. They still owe us a bunch of money and medical which we have not seen and I am sure we wont. The medical issue was a bunch of crap and I have had a horrible time getting in to see the dr. I have not been seen for the baby since I was 10 weeks and living in Chehalis. When I was at the hospital they checked her heartbeat but that was it. The only reason we knew it was a girl (or at least THINK its a girl) is because I had to have an emergency ultrasound on my kidneys and the tech took a peek. She said she was 95% sure it was a girl, and I was drugged up but I saw the "money" shot and it looked like a girl to me as well. I am stressing a bit now since we have all girly stuff and if she turns out to be a he we will be in a bit of trouble. Really the matter that bugged me the most is that I have not been to see a Dr. for so long. First the NAVY refused to help us out and then once I applied and was given State insurance I had a bunch of problems with them. Thank goodness everything is all taken care of and I now have an apt. this coming Monday. I am just praying everything will be ok and there will be no issues with the baby. I am very anxious to talk to the Dr. about how she is and what all has been going on the last few months with this pregnancy. I have not had any complications thank god but who knows what has been going on on the inside. At least I know I will get to deliver in a hospital and actually have a Dr. present. Its just a relief.

Oh I also have a wonderful baby shower! Hilary threw it for me and it was very nice! I had so much fun and it was great to visit with everyone. It was a bit sad since Andy had to work and he could not come, BUT Riley and I took our first plane ride and went over. It was a bit scary for me but it wasn't to bad and I made it just fine. Riley loved it and wants to go again. When we landed she had her hands in the air like she was riding a roller coaster lol. It was cute. I got a bunch of great stuff which I am very grateful for.

Anyways, it is now officially fall here. we had such a great summer! It was wonderful weather most of the time and we had a lot of fun going to the beach and collecting shells, seeing starfish, and catching crabs. Andy actually caught some crabs and ate them when Jess and Hilary visted. i will post another note on their visit including photos, this one is getting to long and I still have more to write :O)
I am all ready for fall, this is the best time of year for me. I know the weather gets rainy here but I am ready for some cooler weather. I have already decorated the house and pulled out my fall Scentsy smells. I am really enjoying it right now. Its nice to have your own home and be able to decorate and not have to worry about the landlord.

Very rare Sunflower Starfish we found on the beach below our home.

HUGE Starfish we found on our beach!

River, the Lab pup.

Well I think this is long enough for now. I will post a couple of photos of the pup and this crazy starfish Riley found at the beach a couple weeks ago. When I have more time I will fill you in on Jess and Hil's visit, and then post some photos of the house, Riley's room and the baby's room. I will also try and keep up better with the blog. I know I have said it 10000 times before but I really have no excuse. Being a SAHM I have nothing to do all day but clean and sit around.

Bad to Worse?

So instead of finding out what all was going on with my hubs re-enlistment we heard nothing more. He went to his class today to learn more about what they were offering in this program and he was bored stiff. Evidently this class was supposed to be scheduled a year to 18 months in advance, so BEFORE they are to be discharged, not 7 days before! It is sooooo frusterating! Then the news gets worse! His chief calls him to tell him that he will know whats going on tomorrow by 12:30 but he had to threaten the higher ups with us getting a lawyer unless they A. Do everything they promised right now, or B. Extend him through December 1st after the baby is born. He told the hubs that those are the only two choices, so either they do either of those things or we will have to get a lawyer!! I cant even tell you how scared I am right now....I dont know what we will do... If they do what they promised we will be ok right now, but if they do not and extend us we will be ok but it will still suck because we really need the lump sum of money to pay things off. If they do nothing we are totaly screwed! Not only do we NOT have the money for a lawyer, but we wont have anymore money as of the 1st coming in, and could lose EVERYTHING! I am praying so hard right now they just give us the money as promised, but I will take the second option of extending us as well if its offered I just cant handle the thought of them doing nothing....
Anyways, I guess I will let you know...I just had to get that out....please pray for us if you pray, or do whatever you do....I just HAVE to hear good news tomorrow....

June

Well we got moved into the house finally! It has been wonderful so far, and we have gotten a lot done here. Riley's room is all finished, we painted a pretty pink color, got her new bunk beds, bought her a new dresser and painted it white, and also painted her hope chest white as well. She has all new furniture now and it looks perfect! She is pretty happy in there, so I am good with it :o)

We also got the paint for the babies room. We got a really pretty green color but we have not painted it yet. We got the crib set up and it is really pretty, I am really glad we bought it. The bedding I bought goes really well with the crib as well. I will start working in there pretty soon, I just want to make sure I dont over do it.

We still have quite a few things to unpack, mostly our clothing and stuff, but we dont have enough closet space so we need to wait till we get a couple dressers. I have been looking for them, but it seems like up here they aare few and far between, not only that but since my tabs are expired on my truck I cant pick anything up, so we have to rely on a friend to do it, and while we pay him gas I still feel bad for having him run all our errands..

Thats a huge thorn in my side right now as well.....the guy who sld me the car had his secretary call me 2 weeks ago wanting to know why I hadnt made a payment. I told her I wanted to know why they had not sent in the paper work for me to get it licensed...Anyways, to make a long story short it was a back and forth between us and I told her I would make a payment when they sent in the paperwork so I could license and actually drive my friggin car, she promised to do it, but its been 2 weeks and I have not heard a word about it. I am not only going crazy because I cant drive my own car, but I am also worried that they may not do it and try to come take my car, or just try to scam me out of the money and the truck. I guess we will see what happens, I should just put my truck in the garage so they cant get to it, just incase.

The other worry on my mind is the fact that Andy is officially out of the NAVY in 2 weeks. He did get the Involuntary Separation which sucks, but I am really hoping it will turn out better than him being in the NAVY. I just wish he would get on it! He has barely talked to them about it and always has an excuse why he doesnt. He only gets 2 more paychecks and thats it!! We dont get enough money as it is with me not working, we cant even pay our bills right now, already a couple of things are behind and I totaly dont want to mess up our credit score we just fixed because he is being lazy about talking to them. Not only does he need to figure out what kind of job he will be getting, but he needs to figure out the money and the medical issue. We are supposed to get that 20 or 30k and have not heard a friggin word about it and we need it!! We cant even pay our mortgage payment right now. Our medical is another story! I just got the medical switched so I can see a dr. but who knows if I will even get in to the dr. before he is officially out in two weeks, and I dont know how its going to work. We have to have valid military id's to get to the hospital which our id's will expire in 2 weeks...they say they will give us medical for 4 months after he is sepersted which is good but it sucks since that will give me medical till 3 weeks before I am due. Who knows what we will due if I get charged for the delivery, that will be a huge bill. Andy is supposed to find out more today but so far he is sitting on his butt still, I have already pestered him about it this morning and he said he would get on it but like I said, he is sitting here. It is really driving me crazy right now! I am 17 weeks right now and have not seen a dr. since 10 weeks! I am assuming everything is fine, I heard the heartbeat for the first time with my dopplar the beginning of last week, it was really cool. I was super happy since I had had a bit of spotting after we moved in here and I was worried, but all is well now as far as I know.

Anyways.....keep your fingers crossed for me that everything will work out for us, we are really going to be hurting here soon if things dont change, and if Andy doesnt get his butt in gear and get this shit done. I am trying not to be a bitch or to pushy with him, but as we speak he is still on his ass playing a friggin computer game. He has not tried to call anyone or even made a move to do anything! Gah! I could kill him sometimes!

Sooo frustrated!!!

Gaaahhh there is so much going on and I am sooooooo frustrated right now! First of all we were supposed to moving today, but sadly we are not, and we have no idea when we will be. I am so friggin sick of the lender saying dates and then having them pass, I wish he would just stick to one date! I know most of this isnt his fault since he is just waiting to hear back from the underwriters which of course he said would take 3 days and its been over a week now. I am just hoping we hear more today. We had better since the actual close date we had was the 19th and that is Wed. I guess we will see, but all I know is I am sooo sick and tired of this house buying business!
So now we are still in the rental house, a month after we were supposed to be out of here, the landlord is getting a little pissy over it, and we are 80% packed up here just waiting...

The next issue on the table is ugly. Andy was supposed re-enlist which he of course waited till the last min. to do, and guess what? We still have not heard if it went through or not...so after asking around as to why we find out that the NAVY is dowsizing its submarine fleet and he may get forced out. Sooo basically he will either get re-enlisted which is looking like it wont happen since he has not heard anything at all about it, or he will get an involuntary seperation fromt he NAVY and the lovely government will supposidly give us $25k and get him a job working as a civilian for the government. Either way I guess things will work out, they better since we just bought a friggin house and we have bills that need to be paid!

Andy and I are not getting along of course. I am just so sick of him spending friggin money like water. I have given him over $200 in the last week and of course it is all gone. He blows through money like water through a strainer and I am soooo effing sick of it! He doesnt even know of he has a job for crying out loud but yet he still spend spend spends! He will jus never learn and I cant even deal with it anymore. Of course he doesnt think he does anything wrong.... Whatever..

To top everything off I broke my friggin toe on Tuesday. Of course I was in the garage without shoes on but there is no reason there should be 500 friggin soda boxes thrown all over the garage instead of being thrown out, but just like everything else in the house thats only something that I would do. Anyways, I was trying to dodge the soda boxes and I trip and broke my toe. Of course that made me feel wonderful. Then today of course my truck battery died, it has been having some charging issues the last few days and I told Andy I needed a new battery, but of course super car mechanic man said I didnt, that I had just left something on in the car, which I knew I hadnt but whatever. Anyways, of course it ended in a huge fight because I was right and he was wrong, like usual, and he ended up having to go get a battery. He is on his way to Yelm which he thinks is only 30 min away when it is really more like an hour, to pick up a table and chair set for our new house. We will see if he is able to get the whole set in the truck, I dont think he will be able to since there is 6 chairs, but he is sure he can so whatever.

Anyways.....I guess the good news is I am almost 15 weeks! I have not been able to get into the dr. again yet, I was going to wait till after we moved but who knows if I will even be able to do that now with everything going on....I guess I will get in there sooner or later. I feel much better now though since I am over the nausea, I still need to take little naps everyday but that is pretty much by choice. Anyways I am so excited to move and decorate the nursery and the rest of the house, lets just hope we get in there soon :o)

Ok well I think I am done for right now. I am tired and I dont even want to do anything today, but I know I need to pack in the hopes that we may actually get to move in the next few days....

The end is near!

Well each day we are getting closer to the end of the month and moveing into the new house! We got the garage cleaned out and packed up this weekend so thats nice, today I need to get the spare room packed up, parts of Rileys room cleaned up, and then my bathroom sorted and packed up. Then we will just have our clothing, beds, and kitchen stuff to move. So we still have a lot to do lol. I threw out a bunch of junk stuff though and then took another truckfull to Goodwill so that made me feel better. I think I will have one more car load of stuff to go to the Goodwill once I am done but at least the new house wont have a ton of crazy clutter in it.
We still have not heard anything back on the house, but all we are waiting for is the word from the VA inspector that he is fine with the work that was done and the house passes, and then the loan documents. I just wish it would hurry up! I friggin hate staying here in limbo! Our agent said she thinks we will be able to move the second week of May no problem. If it takes longer then she is going to ask for early occupancy but hopefully it all goes as planned and we can just move in.
There is so many things we need to purchase an buy for the new house as well. We need to buy a few more fence panels so the fence is complete, we need to get dressers for all of us so we have room for our clothes, we need to buy new appliances so we can actually use our kitchen...AHHGGGG to much to think about!
Oh and I almost forgot! Today I am officially 12 weeks pregnant! Everything seems fine, though I really wont know until I get to the dr. again and I have no idea when that will be since I have to wait till I get to Bremerton and get set up. I dont want to see 3 different dr.'s so I will just wait until I get set up with my regular OB.
Ok well I think I am going to get off the computer for awhile. I have some stuff to get done here and then I need to go out an about on some errands. I will try my best to keep you posted on everything :o)

April

I know I have promised to keep up on this blog but so much has been going on here I really have not had the time. I also didnt want to write to much about the baby in case something happened, it just felt like bad ju ju to talk about it yet. Now that I am almost 12 weeks and I have already seen the heart beat I think we are ok.

Soooooo......where to start???

I guess with the beginning of the month. I am not officially a SAHM or Stay At Home Mom in case you missed it :o) Work got to be to much for me with the impending move and the baby so I left the first of the month. I was really sick of working as well, my boss was really being rotten as well so it was time for me to go. I have been a bit bored since being off, but this pregnancy has really been different and I have had lots of nausea which makes my day not so wonderful. It has been nice being able to take naps when I need to.

The middle of the month brought our pre-approval letter for our own home, which we have worked sooo hard to get! We were so excited we went house hunting right away! We had been looking online as well for the last 3 months in hopes that by move time we would have our approval so we knew what we wanted to look at. We went and looked at 6 houses and all of them we thought we would really like and they all had something not right with them that we didnt want to deal with at all, lucky for us our agent had gotten a new listing that morning which was the first to last house we went to and we fell in love with it immediately. We put an offer on it that night and that started our journey towards first time home owners status :o)

It is now the end of the month and the home purchase is well underway and we are expecting to move in the second week in May. We have some small remodeling projects to do in the house but I am very excited to do them and make this house our home.
I am also almost out of my first trimester of pregnancy. I only have a few days left and I am very excited to be done with it and in a "safe zone" so to speak. We have had a couple of scares with this pregnancy and I am ready to not have to worry anymore. We still have not told our families about the baby but I plan to soon. I ordered a photo mouse pad for mom with a picture of Riley holding the ultrasound picture that I plan to send to mom as soon as I get it. I know she will be happy, well everyone will be happy.

Well I guess that is enough for right now, I will try and update this on a regular weekly basis at the very least but I cannot promise anything since I dont know how busy I will be in the next couple of weeks with packing or the new house.