On The Mind

Day 2 of 2 at work and I can't stop thinking about babies!! This is about the time of month that I start to feel impatient and antsy. My right lower abdomen has been sore tonight and someone said "Maybe you are ovulating". Yay!! I love it when my eggs decide to make an appearance... they just haven't decided to appear when Joeys swimmers make their appearance. Maybe they are shy? They better buck up because Reid/Ahring babies are NOT shy!! Or.. maybe they are. Frankly, I don't care if they are outgoing or shy.. I just want them NOW! :) Tonight JonAnn told me that her sister tried for nearly 1 year before getting pregnant and it gave me hope. I always read about these people who try for over a year and require IVF. That just SUCKS! I do not want IVF! I want to do this thing naturally. Alright alright.. I am going to try and quite thinking about it because we are not technically trying this month. I just need to calm down, relax and just enjoy my husband. I just wanted to share my thoughts.. even though they were a bit lengthy and .. of course about TTC! Thanks for listening (reading) guys.

I Just Couldn't

I'm sorry .. but several days pass and I just kept looking at my blog. My poor little page with no new updates. So I just HAD to writes SOMETHING. I figured that we aren't trying this month anyway.. so if it prevents pregnancy this month I won't even know or have my hopes up. Alright.. lets get real about this. EVERY month I get my hopes up. But... I will not press the TTC issue this month so it shouldn't hurt as bad. Alright.. that's enough of TTC talk.. I could just go on and on about it. You know how I love to talk about my FBR (future baby Reid)~!
On another note.. I am freaking exhausted today! I worked Friday and was off on Saturday. So I slept from like 0830 to 1245. Then I cleaned up the basement (not a small task). I picked up all the trash and boxes, swept the floors then shop vacced the baseboards. Joey and John finished up the fireplace crown moulding. It looks AMAZING!! I am super excited about it! So after we finished up down there Joey and I laid on the kitchen floor for a while. We frequently do that... just lay on the floor and rest. I am pretty sure that nobody else ever does that.. but we certainly love to. Then we went to the store and picked up all sorts of goodies for dinner. Joey made steak, baked potato, mushrooms and garlic bread. Can anyone say delicioso! And I made some chocolate chip toffee cookies. They too were delicious. After that it was back down to the basement for us. Brent even came over to help with all the basement festivities. I am pretty sure that if Brent hadn't came over that we wouldn't have went back to down there to work. Thank you Brent for helping us be productive. Alright.. so then I painted the bottom of all the walls. We didn't get done until 1245. Holy cow is my back is killing me! But overall it was a very productive day. Ok, finally that leads me to today. Joey woke me up at 1045 and said we were going to Nebraska Furniture Mart. He had to pick up a stove for a property so he wanted to look at bedroom furniture. Well... WE FOUND SOME FINALLY!! Yay!! I posted some pics of the furniture. Unfortunately we won't get the set until March since it is an order out. But that's ok.. we have waited this long. We didn't get the mirror to go with the nightstand. It seemed unnecessary.


Then we found this curio in the clearance section. Joey got them to go down an additional $50 from the clearance price. YAY! He is such a good salesman! This curio is going to go in our front room. I am super excited about it! Then we found this curio. Sorry the picture is so small.
It will go in our dining room to put our fine china in. Joey bought some fine china for Christmas last year.. but it has remained in the buffet because we didn't want it to get broken. We might cancel this curio because Joey thinks it might be the wrong color. Who knows! But I am super excited about everything. The only problem about today was 1. I felt like my body had been ran over by a truck and 2.I had to work tonight and I woke up early and didn't get much of a nap. I got home at like 4:30 and tried sleeping until like 5:50. Overall I think I got about 30 minutes of sleep.. but over an hour of rest. And that 30 minutes actually did make me feel tons better!

Sorry for another long blog entry, but obviously it takes a while to explain approx 3 days worth of activities. :)

Until Further Notice

ATTENTION: Per the request of Ashley Wrecke I have decided to stop blogging for a while. I will restart my blogging adventure once I have been blessed with a growing uterus, nausea and excess urination. Ashley reported that people with blogs "don't get pregnant". She is not sure why.. but she has noticed this trend. And frankly.. I have as well. So I am sorry for the inconvenience, but I will attempt to enjoy my blog free time. Thank you and feel free to leave comments on how you feel about Ashleys request.

Too Long!

This might be the longest I have went without blogging. Sorry for the delay!! Much has happened.. Halloween, The Election, Broke my big toe...maybe! I guess we should start with Halloween. It was really fun. J came over in his cute lil elmo outfit and was talking TONS! I can't believe he is already 2 years old. He is so grown up now. Keeley was a scary witch and Sophia was a princess with blue hair. It was fun all around. We had 8 bags of candy and ran out by 9:00. I felt awful because there was a lonely kid that was dressed as a pizza chef and we had already turned off out light. I hope he had already gotten a lot of candy! I was doing my best to only hand out 1-2 pieces of candy.. to make it last. But around 8ish a little girl came up and helped herself to a hand full of candy... HOW RUDE! If her dad wasn't standing there I would have taken a few pieces back.. alright I probably wouldn't have. But shoot, I was already running low! This was the first year that Joey and I had handed out candy and it was tons of fun!! It was hilarious to see all the kids costumes. Unfortunately Joey and I hadn't been feeling all that great that week, so we were both a little tired and cranky by the end of the night.
NEXT... THE ELECTION!! So I did my patriotic act and voted. I must admit I was so concentrated on the presidential election I didn't look up too many of the local candidates. However.. I refuse to vote on someone that I don't know much about. I did that once, the result... Matt Blunt. WOW! He was a very poor choice!!! I felt really proud after I voted, I fulfilled my responsibility.. I helped determine our future. :) I probably don't need to tell you that I voted for Barack- I Baracked The Vote. I knew he would win, I really did. And in my heart I wanted it to be a close election. I wanted John McCain to have a lot of votes. He is so darn cute and old! I just wanted him to think that he almost had it.. just not quite. However Barack came out the very popular candidate. I might have shed a couple tears with his concession (is that how you spell it?) speech. How sad! He said, "The people have spoken and they have spoken clearly". Aww, tear. Then he told the crowd that it was his fault that he lost (which is was) but DANG! Why does he have to make us all feel so sorry for him! How about I vote for John McCain as the cutest old guy in politics? Is there an award for that? With that said I think I should say I have a lot of hope for the future and I think President Obama is the best man for the job!! YAY Barack Obama!!
Next up on the list of things that happened... Joeys grandma died. She was on hospice so it wasn't a surprise. She died on Monday and she went pretty fast once she started to go. The family is doing good and Debbi (Joeys mom) is doing surprisingly well. So I am definitely thanking Jesus for that one. ( I have yet to thank Jesus for the baby growing in my belly because... THERE STILL ISN'T ONE!!) I know Jesus... I'm still giving you time. But PLEASE BE SOON! Ok, I am done talking to Jesus on my blog.
Ok, I know you are wondering about my foot. Thank you for your concern. So I was at Pump It Up on Friday, a place with tons of blow up bouncy things and blow up obstacle courses. It was my friend Christas sons (Jack) birthday party and Christa had challenged Joey on the obstacle course. So Joey had hurt his big toe by jumping over one of the hills and falling strait down on his toes while they were curled. He told me about it and said that his toe "hurt really bad". I thought "ya, ok.. sure. that must suck". Then I went to race Megan on the course and I did the same darn thing on the opposite foot. I think that it is a reflex to tuck those toes in and BAM, then you fall and put all your body weight on those poor little piggys. I had to drag myself through the rest of the course. On the top of my big toe there was a rug burn and a little bit of blood. (Joeys was the same way) I even had to cancel my extra for Saturday due to the possibility of it sucking to walk the next day. I was acting like a true baby. But then later when we got home my foot was really swollen and tender. I have a really bad bruise to my big toe and right above it. My toe and foot look really swollen but they are actually just fat. I think my mom mated with Barney Rubble and got pregnant with me. Christa assessed my foot and then compared it to my other foot and said "You know, your right foot looked really swollen until I saw you left foot. And that is a really bad nail polish." She then proceeded to remove the nail polish. Thank you for the help Christa! Megan also assessed my foot and said "You really don't have pretty feet".
Thanks for all of the encouragement guys! You totally helped my self esteem. Christa also told me "The wool socks weren't your best choice". My feet may have stunk a little bit due to the heat inside the puffy socks.
I just wanted a soft cushion for my poor little fat foot!

**Important to note that this IS NOT my foot or leg. I just thought it was funny and proved my point**

Well guys, I think that is it for now. I have much more to discuss but I have rambled on long enough.