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.

Before and After Pics

The view from our upstairs looking at the dining room and entry way. We remodeled the dining room and changed the entry way light.

This is the dining room a little closer up. It still needs a bit of decorating. Joey did the marble himself. Pretty impressive!


.This is the basement. We took too long to take before pics. But this is when they just started to put up the framing. The next picture is after the dry wall is up. Its the media room with the bathroom right off of it
The bar!! Yay!! I still need to take updated pictures with the fireplace in it.. but this is all I have for now.
Sorry there is so many pictures! I just had a lot I wanted to show you. I must admit.. its much better in person. lol

Busy Bee

Life has been pretty busy lately. Joey and I have been working extra hard. I have really been trying to pick up a lot of extras lately.. nothing too crazy (3-4 this month). Whenever I'm not working at the hospital I am working at home. I am either working on Joeys business stuff or working on the basement. It hasn't been too difficult though. I really enjoy working on our basement! The fireplace is in with the oak trim around it. It is soo much fun to see it come together. I have almost the whole top half of the walls painted. We are doing a chair rail so that's why it is only the top half. :) Joey and I also went on Tuesday and bought carpet for the media room in the basement and our living room. I am even more excited about that. I have been embarrassed about our living room carpet since we moved in. It had bleach stains on it... I have no idea how that happens!! Soon our house will be almost like new. I am still working on posting some pics but Joey keeps taking the camera to work with him so I can't take the pictures off of it. But I promise... soon. Our hope is to have the basement completed by Thanksgiving. We have been working on it for almost a year. Joey just keeps adding more and more stuff. But I think it is going to be well worth the wait!

Thus far.. everything has been going well with the NOT trying to conceive. I think about it quite a bit, but not too much. I still ask friends some TMI questions related to TTC, but not too many. I have been trying to focus on working out more. I have only officially worked out 3 times, my work schedule sometimes makes it difficult to work out when I really should. My bowflex recommended only working out on Mon, Wed and Fri. I am not going to weigh myself for a little while, I feel good so I want to think that I HAVE lost weight. Its all part of my positive thinking campaign. ( I just wanted to use the word campaign).

My Thoughts...

Last night was the third and last presidential debate. It was definitely the best one! McCain came out throwing punches. He also seemed really antsy, Joey thought he had taken some Ritalin. LOL. What was with all the blinking?! However, no matter what McCain would blurt out.. Obama was quick with a come back and remained calm. Obama never ceases to amaze me.. always so calm, cool and collected AND knowledgeable. He is really smart on the issues and has yet to say something that I disagree with. I like his ideas for the economic crisis. I also happen to adore his running mate. During the vice president debate he KILLED Palin with his knowledge. But lets also be real here.. it doesn't take much knowledge to make Palin look silly. I cringe at the possibility that someday Palin could be running this country. She is very pretty and very dumb. :) I completely agree with Katie, I love to talk about politics and listen to others ideas. I am not usually up for a debate though. I never want to tell someone why I feel like their decision is wrong.. I just like to listen to why they have made that decision. I will however correct people when they bring up uneducated "facts" about Obama. i.e. 1.Obama took the American flag off of his plane. 2. He won't say the pledge of allegiance or hold his hand to his heart during the national anthem. 3. He is Muslim. All of these are untrue and if you come to me and tell me you don't like Obama for these reasons I may or may not tell you that you're wrong but I WILL think that you are not smart and worry that you are going to be voting for our future off of false facts. On that note.. I will end my discussion.

So I started to work out this week and I feel really good. I have just been doing my stair climber and the bow flex. I am doing the workout that the bow flex manual suggested and thus far I really like it. It has not helped me take my mind off of TTC but it is making me feel a little better about myself and that is much needed. :) I will keep you posted on the success of the losing weight battle.

I have previously spoke about a family that I adore. The Mooney family. They are the parents of Eliot who had Trisomy 18. They would celebrate his birthday everyday because they knew the odds said he shouldn't be alive. He lived fro 99 days and his life was amazing! His parents couldn't be more awesome! I even emailed his parents and they so graciously emailed me back. Well.. they just had another baby! I am so excited for them! They inspire me to be a better person and to have faith that everything happens when it is suppose to! I am following their blog, it is to the right and called SV. You should check it out.

Time For A Break

As you probably already know, the delay in writing is because I was waiting to find out if I was pregnant. The answer.. no. I already knew I wasn't, but that rude mother nature put a period at the end of it (literally). So.. I was ok with it, really. I thought, "Ok, thats alright. I can work out and lose a couple pounds". I had told Joey that I wanted to take a couple months off of trying to clear the mind and frustration and work out to get back in shape. I had been saying that for a while, I said if I wasn't pregnant by October I would take some time off. What that means is no ovulation kits and no constant checking for pregnancy symptoms. We'll see how I do on that last part :). So when I first started I was like, "Dangit, but I guess thats ok". However, when I told Joey that I wasn't pregnant I got a little teary (thats been a constant thing lately though). I just want to be a mommy so bad and I know Joey is going to be the best dad EVER!


This morning I was cleaning out my purse looking for a receipt and I found a fortune I had gotton a couple weeks ago while eating chinese. We ate chinese food like 3 times within a week and a half and had previously had the fortunes that said "Don't feel like a failure for not making it, feel like a success for trying" and the other one said " Your aspirations will soon be fullfilled". So the time after that my fortune said "To conquer your flaws, you must first accept them". I assumed it was talking about how I had gained weight. But today when I found the fortune in my purse I noticed on the back it had the thing where it tries to teach you to say a chinese word. The word was "Hopeful". And although I currently have tears in my eyes due to my disappointment R/T not being pregnant.. I am hopeful! I feel like it will happen when it is time and Jesus knows what he is doing, as does St.Gerard. I will continue to pray to St. Gerard daily.. multiple times daily, and I will try my best to be patient. I am hopeful that I will get pregnant by 2009. This month was hard because the doctor said it takes a "normal, healthy couple" 4-6 months to get pregnant.. this is month 5 (tear). But I am going to be positive and confident that is WILL happen and there was a reason it didn't this month. So anyway.. my fortune today said "Welcome the change coming soon into your life". What on earth! I keep getting fortunes that I swear are saying "You are having a baby soon, stay calm and get ready to be pregnant". My assumption is that for any other person they would think something COMPLETELY different.. but I feel good about these fortunes. Maybe it is Jesus's way of saying "Don't get down MB, it going to happen soon. Just stop stressing out". So this is me saying "OK Jesus, thank you for letting me know. I will do my best to quite being so crazy and emotional about the whole ordeal".


Alright.. so now I need to refocus and get ready to lose some poundage and "Start getting excited about my life" (thats from Dr.Phil). So.. as usual, here are some pictures of working out. It first is from South Park. That show is pretty funny! And the next one.. a squirrel working out. HOW FREAKIN CUTE! The last.. just a funny picture.