Weekend Wrap-Up

 This weekend was certainly a busy one for us...again. It seems like weekend always are busy these days. Is it only us? We headed out Friday evening for dinner and to get paint for our weekend project; painting the living room. While Stephen was showering I snapped the much awaited bump photo that many of my readers have asked for in the past week:

I am almost 19 weeks in this picture and feeling rather large...I know it's only going to get worse...the important thing is that the baby is growing and thriving!

Louie felt left out and wanted some picture action too:

How sweet is he?

We had dinner at Culver's before shopping at Wal-Mart. Sometimes I like Culver's and sometimes I really don't. On Friday, I really didn't. Stephen loved his burger though and the few bites of his that I had were wonderful. That's what I get for trying to be healthy and ordering their new Asian salad. Take my word for it, it looks good in the picture but it is not good in real life. Promise.

Saturday morning the work started in the living room. Stephen's Dad came over around 8 and they got right to work. One wall in our living room had some damage from a leaky roof prior to us purchasing the home. The paint on that wall was peeling so it needed scraped. Then it also needed some drywall compound and sanding. It was more work that I would have ever imagine and I am so thankful that Dave and Stephen were able to take care of it! The painting went on almost all day, and well into the night/early morning for Stephen. I believe he came to bed around 1am Sunday morning...1am after the time change, so really 2pm. Yikes!

Some pictures from Saturday:

You can see in some of the above pictures that the color of the room was a dark tan color. It really wasn't a bad color, but with our carpet and furniture being tan I just felt it was too much tan. I also wanted a lighter, brighter color to brighten the room. Watching the new color go up always excites me!

While the men worked on Saturday, Louie and I were on the couch for the most part. I think that Louie really enjoyed all the snuggle time with me and I really enjoyed reading my book! :)

Sunday morning we woke up to dry walls and a messy living room! Since neither of us really slept in (thank you time change), we had plenty of time before church to put the living room back together, hang things back on the walls and clean up the painting mess. I am so glad that we were able to get this done before church, because the only thing on our agenda for Sunday afternoon was resting and watching movies. That is just what we did!

I snapped some photos with my phone before we left for church, so these aren't the best but you can tell the difference and see the new color. What do you think?

Like I said, on Sunday afternoon we watched movies. 3 actually. Well, I slept through half of the first one and Stephen slept through half of the second one, but still! We have actually been watching lots of Christmas movies trying to find a family friendly option to show at church in December for a family movie night. We need something family friendly and something that will hold the kids attention...any ideas? The one we tried this weekend might fit the bill, but I cried at least 3 times during it so we would need to make sure the sanctuary was well stocked with tissues!

On Saturday we also took Louie to the vet for a heart worm re-check, but more on that another day this week!

Today is the day we find out Baby D's gender. I am so anxious...totally not sure if I will get anything done today while waiting for this appointment. It is at 2pm, please pray with us that Baby D is healthy and that we can determine the gender today! :)

Happy Monday!

An Update...

Hi Folks! It's been awhile, yes? I know we are so overdue for an update and bump pictures...well, I can provide one of those things today...an update! I promise to get my photographer (husband) to take some updated bump pictures so I can share them next week. There has been some major growth going on in the belly area!

So what have we been up to recently? It seems that we have had quite a few lazy days, as this pregnancy is still knocking me down with exhaustion. I don't know if it's all the pregnancy, or if my thyroid has something to do with it too. I was told that when pregnant we would likely be increasing my snythroid (thyroid medicine), which helps with energy levels among other things. Well, my last blood work apparently showed no reason to increase so we stayed at the same dosage...I am thinking we should have increased...but that could just be me being tired of being so tired, ha. So other than going to bed by 9pm almost every night and a couple lazy Sunday's we have been working more on the baby's nursery, painting more rooms in our home and enjoying time as a family of 3 with Louie.

Oh Louie...I could do a whole update on him alone complete with adorable pictures. I will save that for next week though as we go to the vet with him tomorrow for a heart worm recheck. At this point, we have been doing treatments for over a year. Please, please pray that our pup is heart worm free at last. I hate putting him through these treatments, which I would explain as chemotherapy for dogs basically. They make him not feel good and it just breaks my heart! So please, pray for Louie to be heart worm free with us!

Along with being busy and blaming my lack of posting on that, I feel like I should also be honest with you. I have been having a bit of a hard time the past couple weeks. At some points I have actually felt depressed or wondered if something was wrong. It all comes down to some personal family issues that my Florida family is dealing with, and then the exhaustion and just not feeling right from this pregnancy-not to mention working full time, plus overtime. I feel like I really can't complain because we get to go to the doctor and see the baby ALL the time, and I haven't been sick for weeks at a time, but even so...I don't enjoy being pregnant. I have been trying to focus on the amazing thing that my body was built to do by the grace of God, but some days are just rough in plain English. Please don't start to worry though, everything is good and baby is thriving away as of our last appointment.

Our last doctors appointment for the baby was on 10/26 and everything was dandy. The baby had a strong heart rate again and we were able to pick it up on the doppler so I did not have an ultrasound. Our doctor is confident in our pregnancy and prenatal care with diabetes. I still feel like we have a wonderful medical team working with us to bring this little miracle into the world! Our next appointment is actually on Monday and we will hopefully find out the gender. We are scheduled for a scan at the local hospital as opposed to going to my doctors office. I am nervous and excited at the same time. You can bet your bottom that there will be a gender announcement along with a name announcement as soon as we know something. And yes, we have both names settled on as of a couple weeks ago! Any last minute guesses as to the gender??

On our agenda for this weekend is painting the last room in our house that needs painting; our living room! I am not at all looking forward to the actual project but I am looking forward to the outcome of the project. We are so thankful that Stephen's Dad will be helping out some since I can do less and less each week it seems! We hope you all have a great weekend, see ya next week (I promise!)!