Its a start...

The paint has started to go up in Corban's room. I love the colors and can't wait till its finished. It has been a crazy week for me with election stuff and all. Ever night my kids have an assignment having to do with the election. The first one was a worksheet where they had to define Communism, socialism, capitalism and redistribution of wealth. They then had to tell me the difference between communism and the redistribution of wealth. The next day I had a ton of emails in my school email, so I was a little scared but I was pleasantly surprised to find that the parents were thrilled with the assignment and wanted to tell me so....... that never happens parents only want to talk with the teacher when they don't like something! Yesterday we talked about Obama and the debt he will put the country into and today we are talking about McCain and his projected spending.....

Baby its cold outside!

And I can't wait for Christmas!!!!!!! Eric and I have adopted a new rule. NO weddings, birthdays, house warmings or any more babies this close to christmas. Our baby count is up to 7, not including myself. Yesterday at school we had a suprise daddy shower for the 2 expecting dads at school, both of them are expecting girls. Sarah will be here in about 3 weeks, I am guessing when I am on a filedtrip in Nashville so I won't be able to come see her, its just my luck.... Adrienne will be here a couple of weeks before Christmas, an unnamed baby boy will be here around that time too. Eric's step brother's wife is having a girl at this time too... don't know a name yet. Corban and Madelyn should be here around the same time I think I am a week or two ahead of Jeni. Will #1 will be here in March and Will #2, if it is a boy, will be here in April. Oh, did I mantion Eric's mom's house warming party on Sat., Aaron's wedding in about 3 weeks and his birthday a few weeks later.... I think the holidays will be here soon too!!!!!!! Oh my gosh I think I am going to go crazy!!!!

In the mean time, Corban is VERY active. I can't help but laugh when he kicks.... except for the kicks that are really low, they are um, a little uncomfortable. He likes it low and I guess plans on staying there. He must be in a growth spurt because I can't stop eating, after Sunday I don't think there is any food left in the house. I am 1 week away from being 6 months preggo and people keep telling me that I don't even look preggo. I can't decide if that is good or bad.... We didn't get to get the room painted but I will post pics as soon as we do!

Floats!!!!

Today we have from 8-12:30 to work on our class homecoming floats..... they are not real floats more like a 5x6ft pallet with a frame of chicken wire to decorate on the back. We end up having so much fun I will post pics there should be a few good ones this year. Eric has decided to brave the weather and the teens and help me tonight with all of the fun stuff I have to do. I have to get the alumni reception ready get the girls in their pictures before the game, with their dads. get them lined up on the field help crown the queen and stay for the dance till midnight..... needless to say I will be "sleeping in" tomorrow. Unfortunately for me that may mean 7 or 8am. It looks like we are going to paint Corban's room this weekend and I am so excited!!!!!!!! I will take a belly shot some time this weekend too, geeezzzzz people.....

Doctor/ Corban update

So, yesterday I met another doc in my group. I am on that rotation thing so I can meet all of the docs, they want me comfortable with whoever delivers me. I have to admit I was shocked last time when I went I had only gained 3lbs but had my pooch. This time I added 11 more pounds to that. So I am at 127.4...... I have not been this heavy since I was working out 2x a day and even then I only got up to 130. But at least I know why my back hurts. I am not very big but I am having a hard time bending over and getting up, it is weird to feel as though I have no stomach muscles. Corban is as active as ever he loves to play and kick from 7-9 at night and from 5-6 in the morning..... and other times in the middle of the night but it is more random when he wakes me up. The doc didn't say anything about my iron level so I am assuming it is fine, I can eat meat now.... as long as it is in something, chili, lasagna just not full on meat. Right after I have this kid I want a steak!!!!!! My next visit will be oh so fun as I get to drink the goo for the glucose scren and then have them take my blood an hour later. Eric has decided that he really wants the 4d so we are having that done in December when I am at 30 weeks...... Today's dress up theme for homecoming for my homeroom is the school staff, so yes, someone will be dressed up as me and it should be good.... I will have to take pics!!!!

Corban.......

will either be a soccer player, a kicker, or a wrestler.... and a big eater.......... Well, we head to the regional tournament today in York, the sticks. We lost the coin toss so we are the 7 seed instead of the 6 seed and we have to play the 2 seed. I am missing one of my starters due to an injury so we will be hurting. I don't care about winning I just want to play well. On another note it is homecoming week and things are crazy, as usual, but as always lots of fun too. Say a prayer for my aunt today, mom's sister, she is having both ladies removed and reconstructed today. They say it is a 6-8 hr surgery. Mom is upset because my aunt is all of her family she really has left, other than us and my aunt's 3 kids. This will be her 2nd battle with the cancer and she is not looking forward to the Chemo and all of its "joys."

Update!

She made it throught the surgery ok this morning. They ended up not being able to do the reconstruction because her levels were too low. So, she didn't get her tummy tuck after all, they did implants instead. The good news is it only ended up being a 3 1/2 hour surgery and because of the implants her recovery will be less than half of the original time. They were able to skip the ICU and put her right into a room where she will stay for a few days....

I love my honey!

Guess what I did last night? Eric took me to the Michael Buble concert!!!!!!! It was so much fun..... the last concert I went to was the Gaithers, which was way more fun than I thought it would be, and the one before that was christmas before last with Trans Siberian Orchestra. So as you can tell I am not a BIG concert goer. Not only was the music great but he was very entertaining, he cracked several jokes. He even came down off the stage and into the crowd to have his picture taken with a 3 year old and on his way back up he shook several hands, one lady hugged him and grabbed his butt, both cheeks and gave him a good squeeze. It was so funny, he didn't freak out or anying he just laughed about it. And can I just say he is quite the cutie! They always make people look good in their pics but he is the real deal. He had his horns and did lots of teasing with his band. I love big band music, which is several of his songs. He did a TON of audience participation. Oh, and apparently Corbin liked it too because he kicked the whole time any music was playing.... guess he is going to take after daddy...... Thank you baby!!!!!

Updates!

This past week has been crazy busy. This week is going to be just as bad! But I made it! This is the last "official" volleyball week for the season. I have a home game today and we play away Tues and Thurs. other than the regional tournament on Monday I am DONE!!!!!! We had club volleyball tryouts this weekend that I helped one day with. I didn't go Sunday because we got a new couch, visited a friend in the hospital at UAB, and wend to a friend's birthday dinner at some fancy seafood place over by Brookwood. NO! I would not recommend the place. They were out of several things and they were way understaffed We were a party of 8 and it took us 3 hours to get our food and eat. By the way that doesn't really work if you are preggo and ready to eat!!!!!!! I ate 3 different breakfasts yesterday. We got up and made cinnamin rolls, yum. I ran to walmart while Eric and the band were practicing before church and stopped at Burger King for an egg and cheese crossiant. Got back to the church and decided I was still a little empty and ate 5 of those yummy powdered doughnuts!!!!!! Corbin must be growing!!!!! He has also started to kick really low, it sometimes takes my breath away.......

Finally!

Now all we have to do is paint! Yeah right. The bedding is up and ready to go. I have found a painting idea that I love and am going to "borrow." I found it on the HGTV rate my space site, which is the channel that my tv stays on, http://ratemyspace.hgtv.com/snc/ViewItem.aspx?pguid=6db6be3f-1720-4ba3-a081-999042c09b6b&itemguid=0b7c8aeb-91b5-4587-9538-3d14b475f2ee. I will use colors that are a little different. I will have the 3 shades of brown, the color green, that matches my bedding and baby blue with a little darker blue but not navy. I love the way they have his name spelled out too. It looks like they used an 8x10 canvas covered it in fabric and painted wooden letters and glued them on to it. What do you think? My friend is going to paint it and also do some canvas paintings to decorate with in the color scheme.

The ladies at church are having a pajama party in a couple of weeks. I think it is a mary kay party too but who cares it sounds like fun. I am going to everything I can before I have to have child care........

Yippie Skippy

After my volleyball games yesterday we went and got baby boy's crib from wally world. It is a dark cherry color and is so pretty. Eric has been awesome, he put it up last night. The instructions were a little confusing at one point the picture shows one thing but the instructions say another, when all else fails I say go with the picture so we did and it was right. I have the bedding in the washer now so I can put it all up this afternoon, I hope, it will have to dry first. Eric brought back a bib that has the exact colors and sport theme on it that I want to use. I want to use light blue and the light green.

Please pray!

Some of you old school Kingwoodians will know the name Melia Hand, Jamie Hand's older sister. She has dealt with drugs for a long time. She was on Kingwood's 2nd volleyball team. I don't have all of the details but I have been in contact with Melanie Noe and Keith Hall and things are not good for Melia. She is at Shelby and her condition is getting worse, she has bed sores and her blood is septic. She has told her family that she is afraid to die. The family is asking for NO visitors. Melia is not a christian but does knows the truth please pray for her and her family.

Honey's home!!!!!

And I am so glad! I got the best sleep last night. Not that I didn't sleep all week its just a deeper sleep when he is home. Eric brought back goodies for baby boy!!!!! I hope to get the crib this weekend. Tomorrow is my birthday and it is what I have asked my parents for. Mom said she didn't want to get me tha crib for my birthday so I told her fine. Give me a card and we can go pick up the crib.

Good news! I think most of you know about my dad's accident last year. He was on his motorcycle and a lady ran a red light an hit him. It totaled the bike and broke one bone in his left arm into 3 pieces and the 2 bones in his right hand that go from his wrist to his pointy finger. Needless to say he had to have surgery. He has 30 something screws in is left arm holding the plates in place to hold that bone together and 10 pins holding the plate in his right hand. He still doesn't really have feeling in his right thumb and when he goes to make a fist with his right hand his pointy finger curves under his middle finger, he can't keep it in its place. All that to say they got the insurance settlement!!!!!!!!! Dad was out a LOT of work, volleyball, school, driving the bus, taking sports pictures, all of it. It was a mess. Not to mention the fact that for a while he couldn't feed himself because one arm was in a full cast and his hand was also in a cast, he couldn't even hold chicken fingers with his hand. I don't know exactly how much they got but mom said it was more than the amount that they turned in for loss of pay. It also covered the ER visit and the surgeon and physical therapy. PRAISE THE LORD. This is perfect timing too because Aaron is getting married in a month and they were not sure how they were going to pay for the rehersal dinner, for 50-60 people, and all that other stuff.

Did I say I can't wait to get the crib!!!!!!!!

YAY!!!!!

Eric comes home today!!! He will be leaving his grandparents around 4 or so. It will take him about 4 hours to get home. YAY I don't have to sleep all alone tonight!

Stuff!!!!!

While Eric is in fl. visiting his fam is giving us stuff!!!!! Thanks to Joyce (Cuz) we now have a bathtub and play thingie. Thanks to granny we now have a couple of outfits, a bib and a monitor that has 2 handsets!!!! I will post pics when he gets back of everything new!!! The one thing I am really ready to have NOW is my crib. I don't know why, I just want it. Maybe I will get it for my birthday!!!!! For Christmas we have asked for baby stuff. My parents wanted to know if we wanted to go to TSO this year again as part of our gift but we opted for the baby stuff. Don't get me wrong when we went 2 years ago it was the most AWESOME concert experience I have ever had but, with it being our first kid we are starting from ground zero.