Baby Fig

Hello! This week baby is the size of a fig! It is getting bigger!! So far pregnancy hasn't been to bad for me, yeah!! My skin is super itchy (from being so dry I think) and that is about for now! Oh and I can't eat any greasy or spicy food, like Pizza Ranch chicken, El Tequila, McDonalds, Dairy Queen, etc. because is goes straight through me, hehe!! I'm not so tired any more unless I do lots of stuff, then I get tired out. Oh, Jese's coffee really stinks too, I could smell it this morning when I was in bed, gross!!
Yesterday I went to Amy's for a game day. It was just me, her, and Josie so it was easy to play games for once!! We just played spite and malice, we both won about the same amount of games I think!

Today I made Jell-o, folded laundry, did dishes (some by hand!!) and I am just waiting for my mac-n-cheese to get done baking for supper! Oh yeah, I also cleaned the tupperware cupboard, it was a MESS!!! Right now I am watching Blue Crush because I don't feel like watching the news. Tomorrow our new furniture is being delivered between 2-5, yeepee!! 

-Christa

Baby Of The Family

A guy at Jese's work gave us a car seat last week so we have it sitting in the spare bedroom upstairs. Oreo decided that she wasn't giving up being the baby of the family and would claim the car seat as hers!! I woke up this morning and found her sleeping in it, she is so cute! I shouldn't let her sleep in it because she will get it full of kitty hair but she is just to cute to kick out of it!!

Today is GAME DAY (which also means PJ day) at Amy's house, must go get ready!!

-Christa

New Furniture!!

We got the love seat and chair! We got them in a darker brown though!

Hello! Today Jese and I purchased our first non-handme-down furniture!!! We got a love seat and chair for the living room! Cassie is going to take our old couch for us! They will be delivered on Tuesday, I am so excited!!! We just got back home a little bit ago. In a little while Jese's friends are coming to visit us, we hardly ever see them!! Last night Mom, Rick, Jese, and I all went up to Cassie's for a birthday supper. We went to Bonfire, their smashed potatoes were soooo good, it is all I can think about!! It was lots of fun, plus we got to meet their new dog, Glory. She is huge...and kind of stupid!!! 

-Christa

Couch For Sale or Trade!!

I cannot STAND our couch anymore! Most people find it nice and cozy, not me! It hurts my back so much!! Today I figured out that if I put a pillow behind my back it is better, to bad that isn't very comfortable! So if anyone with a nice couch would like to trade with me that would be nice :) If you don't mind having a whole in the back of the couch from Jese rescuing Pizza it is in very nice shape!

-Christa

P.S. That is an old photo, there are nicer curtains there now and the couch is in a different spot, just thought you should know!

Baby W-R Update!

Hello! Baby W-R is the size of a kumquat now! I went to the doctor today and got to hear the heartbeat. He was going to do an ultrasound but since he found the heartbeat with the regular little heartbeat finder thingy-majig he didn't do one. He said that that was good because it is early to hear it on that, he said it was because I am so skinny :) I have only gained 2 lbs so far, yeah!!! I am pretty sure all the weight is in my porn star boobs!! Really I thought I had gained more than that because my pants are all tight on me, stupid pants.  He also asked if I was peeing all the time because my bladder was really low and my uterus was pushing on it a bunch, stupid bladder, I am sick of peeing!!

After my appointment I went grocery shopping ($69 for 2 weeks!) I got the last tax document thing in the mail today that I can't get online so I think I might start our taxes today. I'm not 100% sure we have everything but I can always start it and finish it later. I just got done loading the dishwasher. I think I will make tater tot hotdish tonight for supper, yummy!

-Christa

What a trouble maker!!

Hello! Yesterday Jese and I didn't do much. We went to the bank, the farm, and brought Kipper in the get his nails trimmed. The jerk just stood there and let the lady cut them, he never lets us do it, jerk! We had chinese food for lunch (Jese got it in the cities Thursday night since our Chinese place is closed) and then for supper we had steak and shrimp, yummy!!! Jese didn't know that if you are going to dump the leftover melted butter down the drain you should run a bunch of hot water down after it to make sure it gets out of the pipes. This morning we woke up to pipes full of hardened butter!! I told Jese to find where it was and heat it up the pipes with a blow dryer to remelt the butter since hot water didn't do the trick. I was right and it worked :) I think he learned his lesson! 

Last night I was watching T.V in bed and fell asleep sitting up! I woke up with my glasses on, sitting up, and snoring!! It was pretty funny because when I was waking up I thought, what is that noise!! Then I realized it was me!!!! I am so funny! Oreo has decided she can't leave me side anymore. She sleeps right next to my head all night and during the day she follows me around, and when I am on the couch she sleeps under it! She loves me a little to much. At least she likes me since Pizza will never snuggle with me. Okay on to the rest of my day!

-Christa

Only 64 days until Spring!!

Brownies For Lunch!

Is it okay to eat brownies for lunch as a treat? I figured I have been eating pretty good and so I deserved a cheat day, so I decided to eat brownies for lunch! They are so yummy, I probably could eat the whole pan, but I will refrain from doing so, Jese might get mad if he doesn't get any more! I made the brownies yesterday, they are sooooo good! I haven't had brownies in a long long time, I missed them. 

Yesterday I dusted, swept, mopped, washed curtains, and deep cleaned the kitchen. I was super tired by the time I was done. I did keep a little bit of reserve energy to make pizza burgers for supper, they were good, not as good as brownies though. I still have vacuum and do the laundry. I will either do it today or tomorrow, or NEVER, HAHAHAHA!!!!

-Christa

Dear Mother Nature: Please send spring to me!

Hello! Yesterday I had to babysit. It was a super easy day because Liam and Josie decided that they just wanted to exercise in his room all morning! For some reason they needed all of his cars, a ball, and some other toys to exercise. They also found that exercising was hard work and had to strip down to their underwear. Liam did decided to dress himself a little bit before lunch, he chose an all camouflage outfit. Josie decided she was sick of her diaper and decided to start taking it off but it got stuck half way down her legs, I was nice and gave her a new one to wear. I made them a delicious meal of ring bologna and mac-n-cheese for lunch, yummy! They both chowed it down, Josie still didn't want to get dressed. Then they decided to pick up all of their cars in Liam's room (okay I made them) so they could color. Then it was my favorite part of the day, nap time!! Josie did pick out a lovely outfit of a onsie and pink pants to wear right before her nap. Just as I started watching Parenthood from last week Amy surprised me and came home! So then I left, washed my dirty dirty car and went home! When I came home I took a shower, did the dishes, ate supper (tuna melts, not so yummy), and wrote on over 400 pictures and got most of them put away! My photo album filled up so now I have to get another one to finish off the rest of the photos. I also watched Biggest Loser, said hello to Jese when he came home, and went to bed!

Today I am going to do some cleaning, boring!!! I am trying to stay busy because if I sit on my couch for more than 5 minutes it hurts my back, stupid thing! I am hoping we get enough tax money to fix our plumbing and get a new couch. I think I am going to make brownies today, yummy, that would be a nice treat! I am going to make pizza burgers for supper, Jese is excited for those, I am too! Okay my 5 minutes on the couch are up!

-Christa

Grape!

Hello! Today Baby W-R is the size of a grape! Yummy, I could eat some grapes right now, to bad we don't have any! Yesterday I did absolutely nothing! I figure I should enjoy what lazy days I have left because soon I won't have any left for the next 18-25 years, that is a long time with no lazy days. Today I think I will clean up all the dirty dishes in the kitchen, after that I am not sure what I will do, probably nothing! The house is clean and the laundry is done so there isn't much to do. I could bake but we have lots of snacks from Christmas still and Jese just made an apple pie the other day. I do have to go to the grocery store one of these days and get dog food because they were all out last week, jerks! 

I have been going into the deepest sleep ever lately, it is nice! I didn't even hear Jese come home last night! Of course I still get up 50 times to pee but I fall right back into a deep slumber! I didn't want to get up this morning but I had to because I had to pee again, stupid bladder!!! Today Jese started classes again. He has class at 9:00 on Mondays and then has to go straight to work after it. That will be a LONG day, that is for sure! Okay I am going to go eat now, have a nice snowy day!

-Christa

P.S I could really go for some 50 or 60 degree weather so I could sit outside!!

Loans: Consolidated!

Hello! I have FINALLY consolidated my student loans!! I decided I better do it since I have to start repaying some of them next month. Last time I went to do it I didn't have all of my loan information so it ended up closing on me before I saved it, this time I was ready and it didn't take me long at all! 

Yesterday Alicia and Brandon came over for a visit. We went to El Tequila for supper, yummy! They stayed until a little after 10:00, Jese and Brandon played video games in the basement while Alicia and I visited! It was lots of fun, but I was super duper tired! I didn't get to bed until around 11:00. I always turn the t.v on when I go to bed and when Jese came to bed he asked me for the remote and I told him no! My arms were pretty much broken because I was so tired, I couldn't even move them!! 

Today I told Jese if he wanted to keep Kipper he has to start walking him, bathing him, and getting his toe nails cut. So he went to take him on a walk today and Kipper decided it was to cold and stopped walking!! Jese said he had to carry him the last block because his poor little feet were just to cold, baby!!! I also made a deal with Jese, he wanted to get a video game so I told him if he cleaned the fridge, oven, cut up all the veggies for soup tonight, and cut bugging me about eating veggies, he could get one. He of course jumped at the deal so now he has a new video game, loser! 

We had to go to Target for his video game and we went at lunch time. I was about to pass out from hunger when we left so we stopped at Dairy Queen. I don't know why I keep trying to eat fast food. I will just leave it at this, Jese went to the bathroom after me and said I should stop eating fast food, jerk!! I yelled at him and told him that wasn't very nice and I don't say that every morning after he goes to the bathroom!!! So now I can't go to Dairy Queen either unless I am just getting ice cream, stupid fast food!! Oh yes, we also got new batteries for the bark collar and the invisible fence collar, Kipper just got a nice shock from the bark collar. It sure will be nice having that work again! 

-Christa

Good Morning!

Good morning! I am sleepy!!!! I am at Amy's house right now with Jese, we are babysitting. Since I am on Amy's computer I have no pictures today, sorry. Yesterday I paid the bills, went grocery shopping, and did the laundry! I even got the laundry put away!! Tonight Alicia and Brandon are coming over and we are going out to eat, that means I don't have to cook, yeah!! Tomorrow we don't have any plans, that is the first Satruday in a long time we don't have plans!! Next week Jese starts classes again. He will have to work Thursday's this month and part of next month so he could get Tuesday's off for a class. Okay I really don't know anything.

-Christa

So Tired!

Kipper attacking Dexter!

Hello everyone! I don't really know much today. I have been super lazy and tired lately. I kind of feel lame for whining that I am tired because most people do WAY more than I do and at least I am not sick or anything else like that! I guess I will take being tired. Today I fell asleep sitting up during Liam and Josie's nap time for about 15 minutes, whoops! I am starting to feel more energized this week than last week though so that is good. 

Right now I am watching Nip Tuck, mostly because I have nothing else to watch. I am excited all the shows are new again because I have been super bored at night. Tonight Biggest Loser starts a new season, yeah!! I shouldn't watch it though because for some reason seeing fat people makes me hungry. Maybe it is because they talk about what they used to eat all the time, hehe!! Good thing I don't have any junk food at my house so I can't indulge my cravings. 

Today I was a bad, bad babysitter, alls I did was read the first Sookie Stackhouse book! I did put together Liam's train track for him and I did make the kids lunch, it was pizza. 

Okay well seeing as I don't know anything else I guess I will continue watching my show.

-Christa


Ok, I admit it, I just ate a bowl of ice cream while watching Biggest Loser!!

2010 In Pictures

In January I sold donuts...

in February I made a Lightning Mcqueen cake...

in March we were in the middle of wedding season...

in April we started cleaning up our lawn...

in May we started a veggie garden...

in June I ran half a marathon...

in July we had fun up north...

in August I did lots of canning...

in September we went to town festivities...

in October we made cookies...

in November we went deer hunting (Jese brought home 2 deer)...

and in December we finished our closet finally!!

 Happy New Year everyone! I hope everyone had fun last night (I slept) We are looking forward to what the new year brings us (like a baby) and excited to see fun we are in for in this coming year!

-Christa

Closet: Finished!

Yeah, after over a year we finally have shelfs in our closet!!! All of Jese's work shirts aren't in it right now because they need to ironed from laying on the ground! I designed the closet and Jese put it together for me! It only took him 1 hour to do it and he only said damn once when he broke his drill bit!!! I still need to get baskets for our socks because I forgot to today so right now we just have them hanging in a bag! I also have a bunch of dirty laundry that still needs to be put away, hopefully it all fits!

-Christa

Night 2: SUCCESS!!!

Yeah, last night was a success! We started out with putting Kipper right into his kennel and we didn't hear a peep from him all night! Even when I got up to go to the bathroom he didn't make a sound! Jese said when he got up he heard him whine a little but that is it!!! Of course now we have a new trouble maker and their name is Oreo!! She has decided that since Kipper is out of the bed she belongs there! She slept where my pillow belongs almost all night! She was about 2" away from my face and she stared at me for quite awhile, jerk! The problem with her is that she is a big baby and if I kicked her out she would just meow all night long, so the only other option is to shut the door but since we have no heat vent in our room we freeze! So I had no choice but to let her sleep with me. I think she is just getting old and lonely since Pizza hardly ever plays with her any more. I slept so good last night though, it was nice! I however, did not sleep as good as Jese, he took Nyquil and slept like a rock, I was jealous, I wish I could take Nyquil sometimes!!

Okay I have to go eat my grapefruit and take a shower so we can go to Menards!

-Christa


Oh yes, I am so happy the snow is melting today! Christmas is over which means it is time for the snow to all go away!

Night 1: Success...kind of!

Well last night went okay with kicking Kipper out of bed. He was sleeping on the couch (in the bedroom) really good until Jese came home. Then he started whining a bunch. He kept laying down next to my side of the bed and whining and keeping me awake! Jese of course slept through most of it. Around 4:00 I finally got sick of it and put him in his kennel!! I shoot the doors so I couldn't hear him if he barked, I don't think he did though. So now I decided we will just put him in his kennel at night, poor puppy! It was nice sleeping without any puppy legs kicking me though! 

My ear is super plugged right now, it is annoying! Every night after one of my potty breaks I get stuffy and my ear plugs up, it normally clears up by morning but today it didn't :( Also I can't figure out if I should make my bed harder or softer because it has been killing my back, no matter what I do to it I just can't get comfortable, stupid bed!! The couch is comfy, maybe I will just sleep on that all the time!

I am going to eat a grapefruit for breakfast, they are so good! I ate 2 of them yesterday, I probably could have ate 20!! Yesterday I made tater tot hotdish for supper, it was super yummy! I don't know what I will make tonight yet.

Tomorrow we are going to go to Menards and get shelving for our closet because it is on sale and we need it! Hopefully Jese can put it all up, last time he had troubles :) Okay I am hungry now, time for a grapefruit!

-Christa

Ice Dams

Not our roof!

Good morning!! Yesterday Jese didn't have enough time to finish cleaning off the roof so this morning he woke me up banging on it! I think he is almost done, hopefully! He lost his big hammer so he is using my little hammer I use around the house, hehe!! I had a dream about where his hammer was last night, to bad it wasn't true. 

Yesterday I spent the whole day cleaning! I took down all the Christmas decorations and then hauled them upstairs. I nearly dropped the tree down the stairs because I was dragging it up and couldn't pull it any higher! Then I had to clean up the living room from all the fake snow that fell off of my snow babies! It is all back to normal now, but the walls look super empty. This morning when I got up I got to vacuum again because one of the cats (Oreo) decided to know over one of my plants, jerk! 

Last night was Kippers last night in bed, he is driving me nuts!!! He keeps laying as close as he can to me and then kicks me all night, I have had enough!!! He can sleep on the couch tonight, I want my bed back!! 

Today I have to clean the kitchen and do the laundry. A bunch of laundry is already done but not folded because I did it during Christmas, I imagine it is all pretty wrinkly. Okay I am going to go eat a grapefruit now!

-Christa

Christmas Fun!

Rick making pizza for Christmas #1

Mom opening her Nana shirt

Cassie and Josie playing

Avis opening her Great Grandma shirt

Becker P.J Christmas Party

Nick, Rhyli, and Cassie

Josie and Liam

Liam

Dad digging a tunnel

Hello! Christmas was lots of fun this year! It started last Saturday at Mom and Rick's house. We had some delish pizza that Rick made. We announced we were going to have a baby for the first time, yeah! Mom and Rick got us all some beef and pork, what a great gift! 

This weekend we had lots of Christmas's. On Friday we went to Mom and Rick's again, this time for the Rugroden Christmas. We went to church and then had ham for supper. We played dirty bingo, it was lots of fun.

On Christmas day we first went to Faribault for the Peltz Christmas. We had ham there too, it was also yummy! After that we went to the Becker Christmas, we had a P.J themed Christmas this year. The food there was good too! 

Yesterday we went to Dad's for his Christmas. We got there early enough for breakfast, we had french toast casserole, yum! Then we opened our presents, Dad and Rita gave us chicken, deer meat, and a big box of fruit! Our freezer is plump full now! We played outside in the snow and played games too. For lunch we had delish turkey that Dad deep fried and some mashed potatoes!

Right now Jese is outside banging away at all the ice on our roof, there is a lot! We discovered an ice dam in the back of the kitchens roof. He also pulled all the snow off. I am going to take down all the Christmas decorations today and clean the house. Have a nice day everyone!

-Christa

Coming August 2011

Yeah!!! Finally after 2 1/2 years, Jese and I are expecting a baby!!! It has been a VERY long journey to get pregnant and we couldn't have gotten a better Christmas present! We found out 5 years and 1 day after we got engaged, on December 4th! It was super hard to keep it a secret but we decided it would be best to wait awhile to tell anyone because I was afraid since it was so hard to actually get pregnant that it wasn't actually true!! We were going to wait until Christmas to tell everyone but Jese couldn't hold it in any longer so we told our family a little earlier. We had an ultrasound done last week and everything looks great so far! The rest of our families found out at Christmas, everyone was very excited. We have another ultrasound in the middle of January, after that one I think I will believe it even more, I am still having troubles with that! I think if I was getting sick and feeling awful I would believe it more (I know now I will get sick since I said that) So far I have only been tired and have had sore (and growing) boobs :) My due date is August 14th, 3 days after Jese's birthday and 4 days after his grandma's, and it is Cassie and Nick's anniversary! 

-Soon to be mommy, Christa!

Christmas Break!

Hello!! Last night our neighbor snow blowed our sidewalk, path, and driveway, that was nice of him! I am assuming it was our old neighbor because he has done the sidewalk before. Anyways I am taking a Blog Christmas Break. I will be back next Monday to give you all the Christmas updates!!

Have a Merry Christmas!!

-Christa