Sunshines & Creeps

• Sunshine for Friday. Even though I have had a very short week I definitely need the weekend.
• Creep to Grady getting his first cold this week. He got a fever on Wednesday and I stayed home with him on Thursday. He is back at daycare now but is definitely still not feeling the greatest.
• Creep to mom catching G's illness.
• SUNSHINE to baby Sloane making her grand entrance into the world. I can't wait to meet her!

Sunshines and Creeps

• Sunshine to milder weather which permits me to take baby G outside more often.
• Creep to forgetting my pumping bottles again on Wednesday. That seriously put a damper on my day and I had to wait for Ross to bring them to me, boobs. were. exploding.
• Creep to turning into a crotchety old lady. A child was sitting in his parents' car (and by sitting in the car I mean he was hanging out the window of his parents' car) and throwing things at passing cars. It, of course, hit my windshield. I am not sure what it was but it made quite the noise. I must note that I was fairly impressed he had such good aim, but I called the cops on them anyway. That kid needs a little talking to, clearly his parents weren't going to do it, and he is going to cause an accident or do something to someone's car.
• Sunshine to daycare having a lemonade stand today. I bet it will be adorable! They're raising money for school supplies for needy children. How fun is that?!
• Sunshine to this week being over. I'm in desperate need of a reset. G is constantly having blow outs and I really can't take washing another poopy item today (here's hoping he gives me a little break). I'm trying a new type of diaper today so we'll see how it goes.
• Sunshine to trader joes. I so wish we had one nearby. I am currently loving their kalamata olive hummus. YUM!
• Sunshine to a weekend with my boy! I can't wait!!

Sunshines and Creeps

• Creep to me. Has it seriously been a month since I've blogged?! I'm so busy trying to keep up with everyone else's blog posts that I don't seem to ever get around to my own. 
• Creep to google for getting rid of Reader. I seriously have no idea how to subscribe to feeds anymore. I don't want 1500 blog posts coming separately to my email each day. How are people dealing with this?
• Sunshine to THIS WEEKEND! My whole family and I are going to the MN Twins game tomorrow. They're playing the Indians (who now have one of my favorite players, Nick Swisher) and my entire family is going. We're talking my parents, brother (and family), aunt and uncle, their two kids and their families and my grandparents. We are a group of 18 people plus two buns in the oven (not this oven, it's simmering on preheat for awhile again). It is going to be a blast. I agonized over G's new Twins gear at Once Upon A Child for 30 minutes on Wednesday. If you're ever looking for great cheap(er) sports attire check yours out. I am now realizing that I don't actually have any Twins garb myself. Last year I wore a Sioux sweatshirt, so did Ross. Maybe I'll see if Target has anything on clearance.
• Creep to never getting to the gym but still eating like crap. All my hard work during my pregnancy to keep myself in check has gone down the tubes. Will power please come back again! Also requested is motivation, you've been missing lately too. The only time I seem to have to go to the gym is after G goes to bed. That is when I do laundry and get to actually see my hubby. And then I usually choose to catch up on my TV shows over going to the gym. Something has to change! When the weather was nice I would forgo dinner (until later) and go on a nice 3 mile walk with G but now it has been way too hot for our little guy to spend an hour in his stroller. So, boo. Next week I'll get myself in gear. I swear.
• Sunshine to getting to see Kristen and Michelle this week. It was an impromptu gathering at my house and it was seriously so much fun! I don't get out much (ok, not at all) so it was really nice seeing friends again. It was great catching up on all Michelle's new adventures in life and with Kristen's too but also important was a nice good chat about BB15 which is just out of control this season. I love it. I really want to see Amanda win it all. Kristen brought her boy Caleb and he is a busy toddler, which is a great reminder for what I'll be in for. I can't wait to learn all about trucks and all forms of transportation. I hope G is as adventurous as Caleb. It also showed me how much baby proofing I need to do, like get those wine glasses out of a child's reach.
• Creep to my new yummy drink being a bad idea to drink while nursing, AND finding that out AFTER I drank way too much of it. 
• Creep to G growing so fast. I feel like my baby isn't a baby anymore. This week he started to really be able to sit on his own and even sat up in bed twice! To be fair he was more reclined than lying flat on his back but it still shocked me, that's for sure. Today daycare told me that he's sitting in the baby seat on her swing set. Baby G I love watching you learn and grow but I feel like the days are going by so fast now and I barely get to see you. You're already om 9 month clothing and it doesn't seem to be too large, hopefully you slow down in that department too, we need to get a little more use out of these clothes mister!
  

Sunshines and Creeps

• Sunshine to a beautiful looking day today! It was a little muggy but at least the sun is shining after a night of thunder storms (and I love a good thunder storm). 
• Sunshine to the first official day of summer, which means that my favorite season has now passed (Spring) but summer definitely cracks my top 4 favorite seasons too :)
• Creep to rain in the forecast. I was hoping for a little outdoor time with G! I'll have to take him to the gym instead, there is a pool there, he's gonna love it!
• Sunshine to my plans for sewing and cleaning this weekend. I guess that is the only silver lining of having a rainy weekend, I don't feel so bad about staying inside! Plus it is usually easier to stay inside with a newborn when you can't use sunscreen on him anyway.
• Sunshine to some Mama & G time this weekend while Ross goes fishing with his dad. I was thinking of making a day trip to Fargo but I think I will have to go another time :)
• Sunshine to getting a starbies frappacino today at lunch but creep to my favorite eatery being out of today's lunch special and eating an old sandwich and lemon dill humus instead. 

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I started this Friday...didn't get around to finishing it so here it is a little late :)

My little finger sucker.

• Sunshine to the weekend! Being a working mom really gives you a new appreciation for weekends! So Sunshine to Friday!
• Sunshine to ArtFest! I can't wait. I am meeting my friend Jenny there. She has a baby 3 weeks older than G and so our babies don't always cooperate at the same time for things but we will sure try! Update - It was a wonderful day! We met and looked around for two hours. Then I ended up heading to the local baby boutique when G had a major meltdown and so after a good feeding and changing we were good to go again and actually stayed downtown for a couple more hours. I met my friend Kristi there and we walked the booths again. Seriously Artfest is the best.
• Creep to the weekend going way too fast, as all weekends do these days 
• Sunshine to Ross being off this whole week! I am so excited that he can take of dinners :)
• Sunshine to the sunshine today! It is beautiful!
• Sunshine to a happy baby. He has been back to his normal self after a few rough nights. The little guy was going through a growth spurt I think so he would wake up crabby a few times at night and just wasn't his normal happy baby-self. 
• Creep to this weather. It will not stay nice two days in a row. It is just sad. Last week we did get out on a few walks though. 

Cross your fingers that I get to go outside today it is beautiful!

• Creep to one of the little girls at daycare being in the hospital for an asthma attack. Being a mom really makes me terrified of everything. I am scared of getting in an accident with my little guy, etc. This will go away eventually I hope, and it isn't so bad that I can't live a normal life but when you have a little person who is depending on you it really puts things in perspective!

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• Sunshine to finally getting my breast feeding post done. It took me like two weeks to squeeze in the time. 
• Sunshine to my good friend Casey being matched with a baby and he came home yesterday. Welcome to the world baby Gus. I can't wait to meet you!
• Sunshine to Friday and the weekends I get to spend with my sweet baby G. I just love this kid. He's so good to me too.
• Creep to this weather. C'mon mother nature give me a few days/nights to work with here! I need to get some exercise in!
• Sunshine to G only getting up once last night. He has been getting up twice again for some reason, and I'm not used to that anymore! 
• Sunshine to Baby Mya being baptized this upcoming Sunday. I can't wait for another occasion to dress up my little man.

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Sunshine to the days ticking down until Baby J arrives. We're down to 5 (for whatever that means anymore...) I hope we don't go late but I guess that really isn't my decision. I should get used to this little guy ruling my life from now on. Mexican food didn't work to coax this little guy out yesterday, shoot.

Creep to the sheer exhaustion that is the "final" week of pregnancy. Between not being able to sleep because your little person is literally squishing your insides and because you're so anxious with anticipation that your mind is racing there isn't much time left for actually sleep.

Sunshine to Valentine's Day! Not only did I get my sweet watch, but Ross got me a box of chocolates, flowers and the sweetest card. He didn't get quite as much ;) We did go out to eat last night as a last hoorah (fingers crossed).

Sunshine to Ross having today off, we're meeting for lunch to do some walking and bouncing at the gym to get baby J moving!

Sunshine to my FIL's birthday tomorrow, perhaps he and Baby J will have the same B-day! Then he would HAVE to be the favorite grandbaby right?!

Sunshine to feeling pretty ready for Baby J to make his arrival. We definitely have everything ready for him!

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Sunshine to Friday Creep to working over the weekend to start trying to make up some maternity leave time.

Sunshine to an absolutely wonderful baby shower last weekend. I had so much fun with all my ladies and they all spoiled baby J. I will post a picture of some of the loot when I get a chance!

Sunshine to Kris for staying late and taking a few informal maternity pictures for Ross and I after the shower. Ross and I are horrible at taking photos and even worse subjects.

Sunshine to making a trip to Fargo to watch Ross's 6yo nephew play hockey last Sunday. He was so excited to have us there and you could tell he was trying to show off the whole game. It worked too because he scored 4 or 5 goals, including one from their own net while he was the goalie.

Sunshine to running into Kris and her whole fam at the Fargo mall while I ran  in to grab some food and moisturizer on our way out of town! Their family is so nice and so much fun. They're good people!

Creep to getting back on Sunday and having to go straight to a two and a half hour meeting then to Ross's work Christmas party. It was a long day and my body was killing me by the end of the night which caused a major meltdown on Monday. Things have definitely gotten brighter since then.

Sunshine to getting closer to being done with Baby J's room. We will hang the artwork tonight and hopefully get it all ready to go. I also washed his first load of laundry last night with the second getting done tonight! I realized that I definitely have too many clothes for him but I don't think I am quite as overboard as I thought I was.

Lastly, SUNSHINE to February being here already/finally! It is BABY MONTH! I can't wait to meet my little man and snuggle him to pieces! On a side note I also can't wait for him to make his debut as he took up residence in my ribs again last night which caused me ridiculous pain and rendered me unable to sleep after about 4:30. This is "his move" He is nice and low all night until bedtime and then he wiggles his way ALL the way to the top of my uterus and snuggles his butt right up there.

The guy loves to snuggle obviously but I wish he would wait until he comes out to do anymore of it. He is already not listening to Mom, clearly he is my child.

Sunshines and Creeps - Tuesday Style

• Sunshine to getting back to the gym. It has helped my back immensely. 
• Creep to being so huge that I get the sympathy eyes from all strangers I come across when I tell them I still have three weeks to go. I am getting huge. 
• Creep to swelling starting to set in as well. My feet are flattening out and my legs/ankles are starting to get very puffy.
• SUNSHINE to the snowstorm avoiding us here in GF. I can't believe we got so lucky. It stayed nice here one more day and we were able to take Cooper dog to doggie daycare to get some exercise and his nails trimmed up.
• Creep to the cold returning tomorrow. Oh well, soon it will be spring, which is my favorite time of year!
• Sunshine to my wonderful shower this weekend. I wish I would've taken more pictures with everyone but I was having such a good time I didn't even think of it until almost everyone left! Short (practically pictureless) post to come.
• Sunshine to Kristen taking some informal maternity pictures for Ross and I. I just wanted some photos to remember this time by. The poor girl got a real taste of what it was like taking our wedding photos. We aren't the most photogenic couple. :) I can't believe it is the last three weeks of just my hubby and I and I am cherishing it! 
• Sunshine to getting the nursery almost all set up. Should have it ready to go this week, fingers crossed!

Sunshines and Creeps

Sunshine to my parents and friends coming up this weekend!

Sunshine to my baby shower this weekend! I cannot wait to see my friends and family and celebrate Baby J's upcoming debut!

Creep to the ridiculous weather we have been having. Seriously the weather in the 20s this next week will feel like spring! I cannot wait. I guess I can't complain too much because I can take it, I have a built in furnace in my belly right now but I must insist that it all be over with by the time Baby J arrives!

Creep to having no motivation to cook lately. We haven't had a real meal for so long. I feel pretty bad for Ross actually.

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• Sunshine to this week flying by. We had a lot going on this week and I have been super busy at work so it is seriously making my last 40 days before baby go very fast
• Sunshine to (ALMOST) being done with all the painting in baby's room. All we have left is to go back and fix my mistakes. I am done with the furniture except I need to get a couple coats of poly on top of the paint. Creep to having to park our cars outside during freezing rain because I wasn't done with it yet. I'll have to finish up the last two coats in baby's room. Hopefully it'll have lots of time to air out in there!
• Creep to a little someone waking me up at 3 kicking my insides so hard it woke me up!
• Creep to wanting some really good ribs after watching pitmasters all morning!
• Creep to blizzard Gandolf going on right now.
• Sunshine the weekend :) DOUBLE SUNSHINE to Ross having it off!

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• Sunshine to Ross finally waking up out of his flu coma!
• Sunshine to the dogs being pretty good while Ross was in his fly coma
• Sunshine to watching our friends' 18 mo tonight! Can't wait.
• Creep to the cold weather!

Pretty short this week but I don't have time for a longer post right now :)

Happy weekend!

Sunshines and Creeps

• Sunshine to the short week. Creep to having to work this week, but it has gone quickly.
• Sunshine to deciding to take a half day on Monday. Ross has the day off so I am pulling the trigger and just making it work. We won't get much more alone time before baby comes and I am going to take full advantage!
• Sunshine and Creep to my Birthday on Monday. It is a biggie...I will be turning 30. I love the thought of ringing in 30 with Baby J, definitely a sign that I'm getting older but the end of being in your 20s means that you're officially a grown up. This is something I struggle with most days. I seriously feel like I haven't ever left my school years, even though I have been out in the working world for a solid 4 years now. I am also mourning the fact that I can't get super wild and crazy on my 30th. Ross assures me that I will be able to next year to make up for it. So I will be sure to take advantage of that! Overall I am very excited to see what my 30s has in store for me. We will be celebrating with my favorite, a DQ ice cream cake, sparkling grape juice, and painting Baby J's room. Hopefully ordering the crib as well, so Baby has a place to sleep when he joins us!
• Sunshine to Christmas. I just love love love the Christmas season. I am torn because I feel like the Christmas decorations were barely up this year but I also would like to take them down and get going on that. I think I will wait one more week! Also sunshine that all the Christmas chaos is over. It really took a lot out of me this year. We had a lot of really late nights and traveling under our belts so I am happy to just have a little time at home.
• Sunshine to warmer temps these last couple days. It has been a nice break from the subzero temps!
• Creep to Ross never seeming to have a weekend off lately. I guess I shouldn't complain too much because his boss did finally give him a holiday off! New Year's Day is holiday enough for me.
• Sunshine to our (likely) final ultrasound on Wednesday. I can't wait to see our little guy. I'm sure he is getting huge. Hopefully we will get good news that he is turning right side down and that everything else looks good in there! 

Sunshines and Creeps

• Sunshine to Friday! Unfortunately it is also very sunny today which means no cloud cover and very cold temps.
• Sunshine to my little baby J who is getting very big in there. He is turning into a rock. My belly is getting so hard and lumpy I don't know what to do with myself. 
• Sunshine to a scale finally showing up at the gym again. I just have to know! 
• Creep to the numbers on the scale going up and up. Sunshine for it being for a good cause :) 
• Sunshine to the world not ending. 
• Sunshine to less that two months (fingers crossed) before Baby J makes his debut. 
• Creep to my grandpa getting pneumonia this week. He seems to be recovering well but scary news either way! Never something you want to hear.
• Sunshine to Christmas. Oh how I love the holiday season. I just can't believe how fast it is going this year!
• Sunshine to not getting too much snow. I really hope we can keep it away at least until after February 20th...wishful thinking?

Sunshines & Creeps

• Sunshine to Friday. It couldn't come any faster this week! 

• Double Sunshine to finally feeling like I'm over my sinus infection. I can now stay out of bed past 9:30 and not feel like I'm slowly dying.

• Sunshine to starting the third trimester this week. Creep to being terrified that it means our little boy is coming very quickly and we're not ready for him. Plus I'm not ready to be done being pregnant yet. He is still doing just fine in there and he can stay there for awhile if it's up to me!

• Sunshine to finally finishing up all our apple dehydrating last night. It has been a very long process to get like 50# of apples dehydrated. Plus apples are my dogs' favorite snack and they go NUTS when I'm trying to do it. Ross was able to help the last couple times and it actually turned into one of my favorite little hobbies with him. We should've started that earlier!

• Sunshine to buying our stroller & car seat last weekend! One more thing checked off the list I guess. Creep to how much it cost. Someone, I forget who now, told me they heard of someone buying a package of diapers after each prenatal appointment to help offset the cost for when baby comes! How smart, I am going to get some in the next week to start my stockpile! I guess we will need them...or so I have been told.

• Sunshine to an impromptu visit from Kristen last weekend! Creep to my RIDICULOUSLY unkempt house that is definitely not toddler proof! What a wake-up call. K for your information the house is much cleaner now so come back and visit. I even vacuumed up all the dog hair. How embarrassing! It did get my lazy butt in gear though.

• Sunshine to my second favorite craft show of the year tomorrow! If you are in the Forx come check it out! I'm hoping to get some cute baby stuff. Because I don't have enough right?! Bonus, I get to go to water aerobics first and then am meeting my friend Jenny who is going to bring us Starbucks for the line!

• Creep to trying to plan finances for when baby comes. It is really dawning on me how much this baby is going to cost. So we will be putting him to work to make some extra cash right away. Maybe we'll charge people $5 per holding session and $1 per kiss :) I'm sure the grandparents will pay up, not sure if anyone else would though. It is a good thing I am a food hoarder so we won't have to buy groceries because we won't be able to afford any come February! 

• Sunshine to CHRISTMAS!!! I love the Christmas season and it could not come fast enough! We are going to pick out our tree tonight or tomorrow and I am SOOOO excited! We have the rest of our decorations up, just missing our showpiece!

Sunshines and Creeps

So this is going to be a tough one to write. Those of you who know me, know that I am not a morning person. I was thinking of getting up early this morning to go to the gym, however, I decided not to be crazy and slept a little longer then got up to pack.

I was pretty proud of myself. I was ready, pretty much packed for our weekend trip, and ironed Ross's pants and got Sophie's bed in the dryer.

Now I did this all and wasn't going to be late for work, this doesn't ever happen.

So time to put the dogs in their kennels and go, right? Wrong. Cooper decided to play a game with me called "chase cooper around the car for five minutes while you get increasingly angry and eventually totally lose your temper" So after chasing Cooper around the car for five minutes I finally got him to follow me back inside (their kennels are in our garage) where I trapped him in the corner and I put on his pinch collar and leash. I literally drug him to the kennel and he was whimpering because it was starting to hurt his neck, which I immediately felt bad about so of course I eased up. That was a mistake, because then he started wrestling me to get out of his kennel. SERIOUSLY wrestling, he then pulled out his dirty dog moves and was headbutting me right in the belly, all 90 lbs of him!

Meanwhile Sophie is shaking, and panting and crying in her kennel because she thinks something is wrong, which it was but nothing she could do about it.

So now here I sit. My back aching because of my wrestling match, me thinking every little twinge in my belly is something wrong because of getting head butted by my evil dog and feeling really bad for being so mean to a dog that I love so much. Ugh. What a morning.

So CREEP to that.

Sunshine to Friday, I really needed that today.

Sunshine to going to celebrate Thanksgiving with my family this weekend. We are also celebrating the completion of the "deer skinning building" at the farm and are hoping to christen it with a fresh deer as well.

Sunshine to getting the dogs out for some exercise this weekend. It will do us all a lot of good.

Sunshine to hitting up the Pride of Dakota showcase on our way to the farm! I can't wait. It is one of my most favorite shopping events all year!! (Creep to no free wine sampling for me this year)

Sunshine to getting to see my precious niece Sophie this weekend. She is so much fun and I can't wait to play with her.

Sunshine to some nice weather that's coming our way. It's definitely feeling like winter around here!

Sunshine to making lefsa with the in-laws last night. They generously sent some with us for our family, I hope it makes it all the way there and doesn't all end up in my belly!

Sunshine to water aerobics. It sure is fun and feels so good to get in the pool every week! I will miss it tomorrow!

Sunshines and Creeps

• Creep to feeling like I'm in the first trimester again. All of the sudden a wave of nausea came over me. I put some food in my belly which helped some but now I keep burping up water. Boo. Plus I have been on the verge of sickness all week. So I am one tired and achy preggo.

• Creep to Ross working and bad weather coming this weekend. I will be forced to skip the deer hunting opening weekend festivities for the first time in a loooong time. This make me very sad. It has been an event I look forward to all year and it is depressing. I LOVE deer opener. I love how all of the sudden sleep Dickey county roads are full of crazed hunters chasing down deer. I love getting up early and scouting with my dad, then napping, walking some of our land with the dogs for pheasants and then hitting the deer stands at night. Seriously, I better stop thinking about what I am missing or I will get pretty depressed.

• Sunshine to learning infant CPR last night with Ross. CREEP to the thought of maybe having to use it almost bringing me to tears.

• Sunshine to an impromptu date night after and then when we got home Ross was able to feel baby for the first time! That was fun. It is so hard to know what he will be able to feel because when you feel it on the inside it is a lot easier to feel it on the outside at the same time!
• Creep to daydreaming about shakes all day today...

• Sunshine to a three day weekend! I am REALLY hoping to get some serious house stuff done this weekend. I am thinking I will paint over my horrid red wall finally! It really isn't that bad. Actually at night I don't even mind it. During the day though it is too pink so it must go. I have put it off too long!

• Creep to sales at the Gap. 

• Creep to buying way too many clothes for Baby J. I won't have to do his laundry for the first 3 months of his life! I think I will take some back and exchange them for bigger sizes so that he doesn't outgrow everything at once!

• I guess I'm not feeling overly sunshiny today, sorry!

• Sunshine to 103 days until due-day!

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• Sunshine to going to Bismarck this weekend! Yay!
• Creep to driving in potentially crappy weather to Bismarck. Boo.
• Sunshine to Ross's mom for watching Cooper dog for us this weekend. I am excited to get Sophie back this weekend as well. I keep telling myself that I am going to make the dogs sleep out in the garage in their kennels...I hope I follow through with it. Sophie will come back pretty dirty from the farm so that will help me force her off the bed! I must say I liked a dog free night last night. It was so nice not getting barked at all night and getting a few things done without even thinking about them (what will it be like with a baby and never any nights off! Can't ignore a screaming baby like you can a barking dog!)
• Creep to really really dry itchy skin.

• Creep to a water aerobics crasher who really shouldn't be coming to my water aerobics. It is very sad every time I see him walk in the door.
• Sunshine to Friday. I really needed it this week. I have been so confused as to what day it is all week, it is nice Friday is finally here.
• Sunshine to Menard's finally getting in our shelving brackets. Creep to it taking so long, double creep that they sat in back for a day and a half before they put them on the shelf. 
• Sunshine to getting fitted for compression hose this morning. They're supposed to help with circulation and reduce swelling in your legs as you get bigger and bigger. I won a free pair at the hospital at my last baby class, so DOUBLE FREE SUNSHINE!
• Creep to making my cream of wheat this morning but it turning out very wrong...something caused the milk to curdle instead of turn into creamy goodness. It was sad washing it all down the drain.
• Sunshine to walking into my office this week and finding a bag of maternity clothes, two bags actually! I love having great friends willing to share!
• Sunshine to another wonderful friend willing to share their baby swing for baby J, I'm super excited to save on that expense! Everyone says to share those kinds of things because babies aren't in them very long so that is one place I am happy to borrow over buy!
• Creep to trying to plan parties from another town and having to leave it to your brother and father. I am an UBER control freak and it has been really hard letting go of the reigns on my mom's 60th birthday party. I feel like everything will go wrong, I know it won't, when I'm not in charge. Plus I really like to know it is all my fault if it does go wrong, rather than wishing I could have done it and done it right. I know, I have issues to work on (but I'm sure I'm not the only one).
• Sunshine to 110 days to due day!

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Sunshines and Creeps are a little late this week...again.

• Sunshine to carving pumpkins this weekend! I can't wait to roast the seeds tonight!
• Sunshine to water aerobics on Saturday! Creep to the start time at 8 am.
• Creep to Cooper barking all. the. time. I am getting bitter about it. He is four now and should be in his teenage years when all he wants to do is sleep!
• Sunshine to great deals at the gap, my pocketbook says CREEEEEEEP to great deals at the gap.
• Creep to my car almost not starting this morning! My car is turning into a money suck. I have to get rid of it soon.
• Creep to our garage still not being finished. I am getting so sick of it I could scream!
• Sunshine to my mom's upcoming birthday. We're heading to Bismarck for her party this weekend, and to finally retrieve my Sophie dog! I miss her immensely. I am mentally trying to talk myself into getting her to sleep in her kennel like she does when she is there. I hate it though because I really like her snuggling :(
• Sunshine to apple crisp this weekend. yummy!
• Creep to trip envy. My cousins went to Hawaii and my friend Jenni went to wine country. SO JEALOUS!

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Sunshine to Dr. appointments :) Especially when they go well. We do have to get a follow up ultrasound to check on a dark spot but the Dr. wasn't worried so I am just excited to see our bambino again next week!

Sunshine to Ross having to get his flu shot and tetanus/whooping cough shots today. Paying it forward, I'm so glad it was his turn!

Cooper is clearly flying in this picture.
He misses Sophie too!

Creep to not sleeping anymore, ever. This morning I tried to embrace it and went to the gym to do a little water walking and stationary biking! It was great at the time but now I'm paying for it...

Sunshine to seeing my family this weekend! I can't wait! We are finally bringing Sophie dog home after a two month vacation with my dad and then he comes up on Monday to help us finish our garage HALLELUJAH! 

Sunshine to hanging out with Ross's family tonight.

Creep to this weather, it is terribly cold, windy and rainy.

Sunshine to election season winding down, I can't wait to be done with the campaign ads.

Maybe he will look like this little cutie
I would totally marry that guy!

Sunshine to another week closer to meeting Baby J!

Prepping for baby is hard work...

 Sunshine to Kristen's days off from teaching because I have been texting her like mad with my questions, concerns and thoughts about being a mom, and weather or not I can do this! A girl just needs a little advice and lot of pep talks to get through pregnancy!

Sunshine to seeing Steve Bushemi at the gym,
clearly he was in disguise with the hat, smart!

Sunshine and Creep to all the awesome TV shows on right now! I am loving it all. New favorites include 666 Park Avenue and Homeland. It is hindering my motivation to all my housework that I have to do though!

Sunshine to Widman's Caramel Apple time! Best part of fall if you ask me :) (That and wearing sweatshirts for jackets.) I made a trip down there for one, and left with four plus a box of chippers (chocolate covered potato chips) and a couple other chocolates, bad preggo!

Creep to a flat tire on a Monday, double whammy! Plus I really am saving up for a new car so it has hurt my pocketbook (and will to live really) to have to put on four new tires on my car in the last three months. PS I didn't take this well at all. There was screaming at Ross involved and perhaps blaming him somehow...Some days I feel so bad for the guy.

Overall a really great week :)

Cooper is watching Ross change the tire,
he was very confused.