finally doing some blogging...

Let's get started shall we?...We have LOTS to talk about...

(REALLY LONG POST!)

First off, let's see... the pregnancy is going good. My OB visit on May 4th could have been better. I dropped off my pee jug(24 hour urine collection...glad that's over)and they drew blood for the Quad test. I had not started taken my meds for blood pressure yet and was told to do so! Yeah, yeah I know! I didn't want any weird side effects while on vacation, AND I really felt that I didn't need them. But yes, I did start taking them!
On May 12th was the first actual time I felt the baby move. And she hasn't stopped a day since. I had felt a couple before that but wasn't sure, but this day I was.
My next OB appointment was on May 15th. This appointment I had another sonogram and had to encounter that horrible Glucose test! Really it wasn't that bad. I only had to down half of the bottle of the orange juicy goodness...yum yum!!! Anyway, they called me back to drink the juice. I hurried to the back lab area and had to wait in the hall for a nurse to try to draw the blood from another patient. Obviously she couldn't because she left the room and came back a few minutes later with another nurse. I waited a little longer and in I went to get my drink. I drank it up and was told to go back out to the waiting room and I would be called back soon. As I was heading down the hall I was stopped and told that an examining room was ready and to go in the room after my weight was checked. Oh, ok. In the room they checked my blood pressure. Oh that was no fun! It seems that it was WAY too high! Something like 162 over something. I was told to lay down on my left side and the nurse would be back to re-check it a bit. Well hell yea my blood pressure was HIGH! I was told to go here, now wait in the hall, drink this wonderful glucose drink, now go out there and wait again and then no, come on in! That's enough to raise anyone's blood pressure in my eyes! Shoot just being at a Dr's office raises it.
After about 7 min. the nurse re-checks me and I'm down to 118 over something. She is amazed and says..."I can't believe it dropped so fast!" I say..."I'm not, ya'll had me running back and forth down the hall!" The PA comes in and listens to the babe growing inside me. Heart beat is about 146 she tells me. And that the Quad test came back normal(yay!). Then she proceeds to tell me that my blood pressure was way too high and that I need to start taking the meds 3 times a day now instead of 2! WHAT THE??? 3 times, are you people trying to kill me?! CRAP!!! And I'm told to come back on Monday the 18th for a re-check again...UGHHH!!! At least 10 min. after that was done I had the sonogram done. Our little babe was all rolled up in a ball and no good measurements and photos could be done. He was however able to get a couple of good profile shots. And here is two...can you see the nose, lips? And that pop belly...hubs said it already looks like him..HAHAHA!!!

Another sonogram is ordered in 4 weeks(June 12th). AND...I now just have a low lying placenta and no longer Placenta Previa! YAY!!! That was good news to!
Then finally about 20 min. later again...my blood was drawn and I was able to finally leave the office. What a time I tell you. Man!!!
So then Monday the 18th I arrive back at the OB's office for my blood pressure check up. It's checked and is perfectly fine! Well yea it is, I'm taking 3 dern pills a day for it, why wouldn't it be!!! I'm told to do another 24 hour urine sample and bring it in next visit which will be the June 12th visit. WHAT??? ANOTHER ONE!!! I say to my OB(Dr. Luna). "Yes", she says! "One every month due to the fact that your blood pressure is high and the meds. We need to make sure your kidneys and liver are doing ok". GOOD LORD!!! I check out at the receptionist desk and leave with jug in hand(in a bag actually) and a sour look on my face!

Hunt and I attended the last Casa Manana performance on the 8th. It was A Year With Frog and Toad. The play was really cute and as always Hunt enjoyed it to.

Our Mother's Day was spent partially at home and partially at Grandma and Grandpa's. That morning I was given a big huge and a "Happy Mother's Day" from Hunt as well as a card and a Visa gift card. Hubs also gave me a sweet and touching card to. I like getting things made by Hunt, so I had purchased a wooden picture frame and Hunt and I will do some decoupage and painting to it and add a photo inside of the two of us together. I'll be sure to post a photo of it once we complete it. I knew hubs didn't have the patients to sit down with Hunt and do it for me.
Later that morning Hunt and I decided to make cookies and fresh bread. We took the cookies to the grandparents house. Both the cookies and bread were wonderful!
In the afternoon we left to go to grandma's. Along with the cookies we made we also took grandma's Mother's Day gifts. This year Hunt made her some heart thumb print magnets and a cute card. We also gave her a card from hubs and I and a Barnes and Noble gift card. I'll post photos of the magnets that Hunt made soon, but here are some of Hunt doing our cookies...






Last week on the 13th Hunt and I made another trip out to the farm to pick berries. We were planning to pick blackberries, but when we arrived we were told that they were not ready yet. So we stayed and picked more strawberries. And purchased fresh new potatoes, green beans, onion and yellow squash. YUMMY!!!! We put the potatoes and green beans together and had them along with the fried squash for dinner the next night. So delicious!!!! Here's a small slide show of our picking berries and the fresh produce we got...


This past weekend we had a nice relaxing time at the lake house. We made a trip to the TSC(Tractor Supply Company) and I finally purchased a water-bath canner pot and utensils. So now we're almost ready to start canning. I know our strawberries have been waiting in the freezer!!! Here is a photo of the canner kit and a few of Hunt at the lake house.


Hunt found that old fishing pole washed up down by the bank.




LOOK who arrived on April 28th! A new little cousin! Baby Rylie, Mick's little sister! She's such a doll!

These photos were taken on Mother's Day.

VACATION::

I'm splitting up our vacation by days, so this blog will include our drive down to San Antonio(Sat. 25th) and Our Sea World trip(Sun. 26th).

Vacation was good, just not great.
I wish I could say that it was fabulous, but I can't. You'll hear why as I finish blogging about our vacation the next several blogs. It didn't seem like a vacation really to hubs or I, but it wasn't terrible.

Saturday::April 25::Driving to San Antonio
We left early on Saturday April 25th and headed for San Antonio. We were slowed down by a horrible wreck on 281. If you have never driven 281 through the Texas hill country, you should try it. It's a nice drive with not much traffic and beautiful scenery. For this reason it was odd to be stopped on 281 not moving. We knew something was up. After seeing a Air Life helicopter land just a few hundred feet ahead of us on this small hwy, we knew just down the hill a terrible accident happened.
After a while the helicopter left and we were on our way again. Driving past the wreckage we noticed that it involved 2 vehicles and one had to have the jaws of life to cut the person out. Both the car and truck were in bad shape. I felt for all involved...it was really a messy sight.

So we arrived in San Antonio and to our hotel(Marriott-Resident's Inn). The hotel was not what we had been told. The room us upstairs with no elevator. Which if you know me, you know my suitcase never weighs less than 50 pounds. Then the room was a studio style with a bedroom upstairs and a trundle/pull out style bed downstairs. It was to be one suite with two separate bedrooms. This and the fact that our toilet didn't want to flush, light bulbs were out, we had to request more toilet paper in the room, iron didn't work, NO DVD(what the heck!), and a few other issues. Just not a great place folks!

Sunday::April 26th::Sea World San Antonio
We woke early for a fun day at Sea World today. After eating some hotel breakfast(ick) we left for Sea World.
Our first show was the sea lion and walrus show called The Cannery Row Caper. The show was a cute story about missing fish. It was really funny and Hunt seemed to understand a few silly jokes. And...WOW was that walrus huge!

The second show we watched was the Shamu show called Believe.
This show was of course the largest and most packed. But it was a nice story about a person who dreams of being a killer whale trainer and through their belief, their dream comes true. Hunt liked watching the whales splash water all over the people sitting in the wet zone.

Next we headed to Viva! , the beluga whale and pacific white-sided dolphins
show. It featured acrobats and cool diving stunts. This show really reminded hubs and I of the Cirque du Soleil shows...with some sea creatures thrown in.

After the Viva! show we decided to find us some lunch and take a look in a few shops. Lunch was ok, about what you would expect at a theme park or something of that nature. Not great, but not horrible either.

Finally after lunch we headed to the last show that we were going to attend called Pirates 3D. This show was in a sit down theater. We donned funky red 3D glasses(see our photo below in the slide show...too funny!)and sat down to enjoy a nice rest and movie. Or at least that was what we thought! See, this show as I said was 3D and a bit frightening for a 4 year old. We were chased by HUGE 3D bats and spiders and thrown into pirate sword fights. All this and air shooting out at us at different times through the movie AND water squirts! To say Hunt was scared and ready to leave was a BIG understatement! He was whining and shaking and to the point of crying. The show did give a warning that it may not be suited for younger people, but hey...it seemed cool. And it was with Hunt until the spider and bat episodes and the air and water squirts. Sad to say, mama was sort of finding this funny. I know I'm bad, but it was comical...to see my son afraid of stuff rarely happens. At least the rest of us enjoyed it even if Hunt had to sit in mama's lap for 3/4ths of it and stare behind us.

After we saw all the shows for the day we had a chance to relax and look at other stuff Sea World had to offer. We watched some of the rides. Hunt really wanted to ride some, but he's too small for most and mama's too pregnant to. Uncle Ken rode the Great White roller coaster and said it was great!
We toured the penguin area, Sharks/ The Coral Reef building.
And of course before we left we had to make our way to Dolphin Cove. We arrived just in time to feed the dolphins. It was really cool to see Hunt feeding these beautiful and sweet creatures. Daddy bought several containers of fish for us and we all got turns at feeding them. I have to say that it was my favorite part of the day!
Here is a slide show I created of some Sea World photos...

THANKS SEA WORLD FOR A FUN DAY!!!

Next blog will feature Vacation Day 2-Buckhorn Saloon Museum and what ever else I decide to throw in.

Now you can take a breather, this post is over...