Today is the kind of day i have been waiting for..the kind when i wake up in the morning and i know..i just know "today im gana get allot done!" and i did:) wioth all the energy i could muster upi took on cleaning my whole house..all at once!!since i been pregnant i will clean one room..and then do antoerh room the next week n so on-so my house has never felt "all clean" at once:) until today:)and let me tell you how good it feels-dispite the horrible ache in my back..its a great feeling:)
fall has FINALLY arrived here in the south!!and it came with a bang!!suddenly it is super cold around here...but i love every bit of it!:)weve had our windows open for the past week or so..no matter how cold it gets we leave them open ..we both get warm quickly so we like a cold house..then we bundle up if need be:)electra on the other hand is constantly finding a blanket to snuggle up in..she seems a little cold:)
week #31 has arrived as well:)and were still kicking:)i loveee tthis part of my pregnancy..my belly has become quite a distraction for me:)i find myself staring at it waiting for it to move from one side to the other-or a little bump to bulge out so i can push it in ..thats my favorite part..ill feel the babies foot or knee or something sticking out and then ill push it in and feel it go..and in a bit it turns up somewhere else..so ill push it in again....we could play this game for hours i thik..every dnow and again baby mullet will finally just"stay in":)i can often feel its little butt sticking up too..its awesome to be able to feel exactly where the baby is..last weekend we were camping with our church and i told matt to feel the left sideof my belly then feel the right..he jsut laughed.the right was hard as a rock and the left was a pile of mush:) so matt scooted baby over to the left side..but it quickly went back to the right:)it seems to like the right side a bit better:)matts neices get sucha kick out of feeling my belly-and i get a kick out of them tryni to find it or little sophia puts her ear to my belly to ttry to hear the baby:)oh yes i love being pregnant...its so fun all the new things that happen inside of you...but i am sooo ready to get this body back into shape..i have gained an enormous amount of weight and it bothers me soo bad yet at the same time i am pregnant..i did hope that wen i would get prego i would keep my body and just pop out the front..this soooo did not happen-i HATE taking pictures of myself cause i cant stand how puffy my face looks or how flabby my arms are..and PLEASE dont get my ancles on the picture!i have none!:) i can laugh about it now..but in 9 weeks once babies out of my tummy..i will not be laughing!! i pray everytday that God will give me energy to work off the baby weight and that i will be happy with how i look..cause we all know how you feel about yourself is what matters the most:)dnt amtter what others say.i ahd to take my rings off today-it was hard work getting them off..but with the help of butter and cold water..they came off..my fingers are so swollen that my rings left a bold red mark around my finger..so im guessing i wont be wearing them for the next 9 weeks..i hate not wearing my rings..for a few reasons btu the main one..i dont want people thinking that i got knocked up and have no husband to take care of me:)so i might make matt go get me a bigger ring that you can buy at walmart:)
i get to go "home" (my other home:))to see my family this weekend!i am sooo excited!this will be the alst time ill go to pa before baby mullet arrives..that itself is pretty exciting:) but i cant wait to meet my latest nephew Carson Miles..my brother raym and his wife jo had there baby a few weeks ago and it tears me up that i stil havent met him..but soon enough..i plan on holding him all weekend:)thursday wen i get tehre im spending the afternoon with my cousin/best friend..and this is sucha special thing for me..her birthday is on wednesday so im soo glad i get to hang out with her for her bday:)and since shes goin on vaca for 2 weeks on friday im glad im catching at least one day to be with her:) SUPER excited to hang out with my sisters(including my sis in laws..they are my sisterS) and my mom i know they already have a few things planned and i am beyond excited...wen we all get together you KNOW theres gana be a good time..i adore my sisters n mom...there is no other women who i id rather spend my time with...being away from them is the hardest thing..and also the best thing..the best thing because wen i come home..were together alllll weekend:)that wouldnt happen if i lived there:)i often wonder what it would be like if i lived 5 minutes from them...i cant let myself think about it too much or i could getg really down about it..but for a little ..its a super fun thought:) the BEST part about going "home" is staying with my mom and dad ...it feels nothing like it did before i was married...sure back then it was just the 3 of us as well...but i didnt appreciate them then like i do now..i didnt "drink in "every moment i had with them at the thouse then like i do now...and i defninately didnt have that thought that this is only for a few days like i do now..oh i am always ready to come home (my home..here in nc)no doubt about that...but its nice cause wen i go to pa...i know that this is only for a few days...therefore i find myself just bathing in the time i spend with my family...i find myself looking at each one of them a little longer cause i know it will be a while before i see them agian-i find myself doing things like watching a movie at my sisters late at night dispite the facet taht i am getting up early because i jsut cant do that any other day..or picking my neices up from school cause really how many times will i be able to that before they graduate:) or laying in bed with my parents and watchin deal or no deal cause next time were together matt will probably be with and i know he wont wana lay in bed with mom and dad...or take a nap with mom in her bed in the middle of the afternoon cause in a week ill be napping alone again....a year ago..all these "small" things became big to me...all these things are no longer just something i can do but something i GET to do:) some of you might think this is sad...but for me its not sad...i love the way i feel wen i go back to pa now...the feeling like i wana do all i can while i can cause im goin home in a few days and it will be a while before ill get to do this again...its a good feeling..its a live like ur dying feeling..only im not really dying..its just not everyday that i get to be with my family:) and this weekend is especially special..cause it is most likely the last time i go "home"(to pa) alone...after this weekend i wont get to go to pa just like that-cause ill have child... which will probably make my trips to pa that much more exciting but also probably allot mroe limited.:( but thats ok-ill just make my fam come to see me:)
enough of my rambling...i wana post some pictures...
this is week 30(i had just scratched my belly..those are not stretch marks on my belly)

last week one day stephy and i went out on a drive and picked some berries to make wreaths with-we were sure if we were allowed to pick them so we did it very sneakily...and then the next day we made thee beautoiful fall arrangements

so proud of ourselves:)

even though its pretty much dead berries hangin on my door now..it was pretty for a few days:)and it brought many smiles to my heart cause i made it with my own hands :)

matt didnt have any games last week and by thursday evening i ws really bored..so we played jenga..i love this game..and get quite into it:)

we laughed so hard everytime it would fall..well i would laugh so hard matt just laughed at me laughing..i dont no why i found it so funny..btu i did.

our little pookie hangin out with us:)as she always does:)

n last but not least-my hubby and i ..in 9 weeks we wil be parents:)could life get any more exciting?! matt is not a fan of taking pictures obviously..and me..well heres my puffy face:)


enjoy your week!!!!:)