So it’s the final stretch. I can’t believe my due date is tomorrow.
Things have been going pretty good lately. Last weekend we went to the drive-in and almost got rained out. We went to see Land of the Lost…I thought it was freaking stupid. Saturday we went to Springville for Art City Days which of course is always fun. It seems like we only do pieces of it every year. We didn’t make the pancake breakfast this year, but Joe did get to go to the parade, which is my favorite part…and I got attacked by ants. The little shits were all over me. So annoying. Then the BBQ pretty much got rained out from being an outside BBQ, then Joe got sick so we had to go home. Crappy.
Joe had friends over that night as well for the UFC fights that we all know he NEVER misses. By the way, if you ever want to come over for them…just come over, invite yourself! We get every single fight, and I hate paying the cable bill because of it!
Ang and I on the other hand were not into watching the fights and wanted to get out of the house so we went to a random trip to Wal-mart. We got some awesome things for mani and pedis! We got a bunch of other random stuff including a shower rod and the Britney Spears greatest hits CD. Make fun of as you please. Some people like rap, some like country others like weird stuff that no one has ever heard of and I have always liked Britney Spears. And I also got Joe his first Father’s Day card and I can’t wait to give it to him. Even if our Champ isn’t here by Sunday, Joe still deserves it. I know he is going to be a great Daddy and we’ll be a great team. Its one of those music cards and inside it’s the song from The Jungle Book…”I wanna be like you oo oo. I want to walk like you, talk like you…” he’s going to love it!
Anyway, I gave Ang a rocking pedicure as well as myself! I have to make sure my toes stay cute! You don’t want to have ugly feet in the face of the Dr. and nurses!
My darling Chelsey threw us a baby shower on Sunday. It was super fun and laid back. It just reminded us that we have super great friends who love us and are there for us. Our friends are our family, and we love them. And we are super thankful for all the loot we got from everyone. Did I mention that one of the guys bought us a box of condoms…it came with a gift card too, but it was quite hilarious!
I have been pretty pooped lately and luckily this last week my office has let me work as I please. I’ve done some half days, some full. It’s been nice having all of their support. I know everyone is excited to see our little guy.
Joe’s stepmom and the twins are in town and it has been so nice spending time with them. She took us out to lunch the other day and then we had them over for dinner. And yesterday she came over and cooked. Ang and I took the girls to the park to play and Sarah cooked us all dinner and made two huge dinners to freeze so that we had food when Champ arrives. Then she cleaned pretty much the whole kitchen. GREATLY APPRECIATED Sarah, Thank You! We are hoping that the weather will keep being sunny and hot, because it would be fun to take the girls to the pool, plus I’ve been dying to go to the pool since we moved in and I know Ang really wants to go swimming. Damn rain! My mom is also coming up this weekend. Mom and her BF are picking up his kids from the airport. Yes they could have flown them into Boise but it was cheaper to have them fly to SLC and my mom wanted to come see us! So after my mom leaves, Joe’s sister Vicky is coming! She flies in on Sunday and we are super excited. It won’t be for long, but he’ll have his “Edsall” sisters all in the same state!
And I’m not going to lie but I’ve been quite irritable lately. I get so annoyed so easily with some things. And I think you can tell by reading this blog that I’m pretty…ummm cranky…maybe a bit bitter. It’s because I am!
I have a doctor’s appointment today and I’m REALLY hoping that something has changed! He said we could talk about inducing me but I don’t want to be induced unless I have to be. Unless it’s medically necessary I don’t see a reason for being induced. And in all honestly I don’t like the idea of picking his birthday. But we would really like him to come this weekend!! I know its only like an 8% chance that he’ll come on his due date but I think that would be freaking awesome!

The little dudes clothes are almost all put away and his room is still a mess! We need to get that crib up and put together. Its driving me nuts that his room isn't all together yet.
And hey check this out…Joe got this today from a guy at work. His wife makes them. It’s all made out of balloons.

I had to bring it to work to show off!

Lets all hope Champ wants to come out and meet everyone this weekend!

So we’ve been in the house for over a week now and we just love it.
It is so nice having room and space and storage. Everything is pretty much put together which is nice. We still have to get our love seat out of storage for our upstairs living room, then that room will pretty much be done. I have one random box of kitchen stuff that I stare at every day but just can’t bring myself to put the stuff away! Its full of beer glasses and shot glasses and stuff like that…if I can’t use them, they can stay in the box! My wonderful friend Melonnie and her husband gave us their dining room table and chairs, which looks awesome in our dining room, which means that the ugly round table we did have is now in the garage aka the man cave. I’m not a fan of round tables anyway, they can have it! And I was bugged at the idea of the garage being their little man cave but I’m totally not anymore…I didn’t have to give them an actual room! I am however dreading having to get the rest of the stuff out of storage being that a lot of Joe’s stuff is in there and its all “boy” stuff that I know he is going to try and hang up every where, but I can’t stand some of the things he wants to hang up so hopefully we can compromise on just putting it in the garage. We’ll see who wins that battle!

The Dr. said on Friday that Champ is still high and I’m still sealed! Or as Joe likes to say “Nic’s still high and tight”. So needless to say it is not an “any day now” kind of week yet! Maybe next week, but I really doubt it. I've been feeling pretty good, really I can't complain, but man am I tired. Thinking about taking a half day of work off and going home and napping!

My little sister Angela flew in on last Wednesday and has been such a big help. I do however feel a little bad that she is at home all day but I guess it can’t be that bad…a house full of food and cable with lots of movies On Demand! She helped me go grocery shopping on Friday, we did laundry on Saturday and she painted my toenails for me too. We all went to the air show on Sunday and it was FREEZING! We thought it would be rainy outside but warm like it had been earlier in the week but it wasn’t. Ang and I both wore skirts and flip flops and luckily we did bring hoodies. We were there for a couple hours and we should have been more prepared. We didn’t bring chairs or anything like that. I was exhausted so the boys took us home, Ang and I grabbed some lunch, turned on a movie and took a nap, and the boys went back to the air show. On their way home they witnessed a crazy wreck that I think freaked both of them out a little bit, but luckily they weren’t involved. Its amazing how seeing things like that happening right in front of you can really get to you.

Monday I took Angelo to the mall because she wanted some cute new shoes. When I asked her what kind of shoes she told me she wanted something summery that she could “like wear on a date”. I have to remember that she is 16. To me she is still 10. It weird to hear her talk about boys and friends and driving places with her friends and so on. Anyway, we found he some super cute “summery date wearing” shoes and I got a super cute new dress. I love finding things that aren’t maternity that I can wear 9 months pregnant and still be able to wear not pregnant. And now when I shop I look for things that will have easy boob access! Not going to lie…I never ever thought I’d ever hear myself say that! And did I mention that I got to wear my cute new dress on a date last night?! Joe called me yesterday afternoon and told me that we needed more one on one personal time together with just the two of us because that is what he read that we needed most right now in the weekly baby update! So he planned a little dinner date night and I was so nice having just the two of us together. He wouldn’t tell me where we were going but I’m so smart that just by him saying “its not that special, but its special to us” I knew where we were going...the Macaroni Grill. That is one of our favs. And it is special to us. Joe took me there on my fifteenth birthday for dinner. He sold his scooter like thing back in the day so I could have a cool fifteenth birthday! And we went there for just about every formal dance for dinner. Then after dinner I decided that I was tired of the boys making fun of me for putting up picture frames downstairs with no pictures of us in them, so I filled them. Some of them still had the fake people inserts in them, and Cory kept referring to them as “my friends” so I finally filled all but one with pictures.

And we have a temporary new addition to the family. His name is Tray and he is a big o boy boxer. He is so well behaved and snuggly and lovey just like Lola. In fact it’s Lola’s boyfriend. They love each other! We are doggie sitting for awhile until his parents can move out of where they are living or until I go into labor, which ever one comes first. I’m going to be sad to see him leave. We just love him so much. And now Ang doesn’t have to be scared sleeping in a new place because Tray sleeps with her! Actually all three dogs love being with her, especially when she is on the couch!

And as long as Champ doesn’t think he needs to share a birthday with his G-ma Kathy I think we have a pretty fun weekend planned.

We had quite the eventful weekend.

I had a drs appointment on Friday, and the Dr. said that Champ isn’t coming any time soon. We were honestly glad to hear that because we have to move before he comes. And I know the little guy will make his appearance when he is darned and ready too, just like his daddy, on his own time, when he wants to! I guess that’s kind of how we both work. It’ll be interesting to see how we function as a family of three. Not that I’m worried, but it will be exciting to see what is to come. Now that I’m more anxious and I want the day to come sooner, I have a feeling that he’ll be an overdue little boy! I gained a pound since last week and my blood pressure was a little higher than it normally is but I’m going to blame that on the fact that I was super busy at work before I left and was trying to get a ton of stuff done. I’ve also noticed in the last week that I’m having a lot more Braxton Hicks contractions, which are normal of course, it’s just weird to feel my big o belly rock hard!

Joe came home from work on Friday just a mess. He couldn’t even talk to me about it until he pulled himself together. Joe found out that his boss got promoted and was leaving so now he’ll have a new one. He wasn’t upset about who was taking over, he was upset at the fact that his boss was leaving. His boss is like a dad to him. They were pretty close and he has done a lot for Joe. So Joe was pretty stinking upset. I felt bad for him. But he knows life goes on, and he isn’t going to work any less than he already does, and luckily he had a nice long busy weekend to not think about it.

On Saturday morning we got up pretty early for a Saturday (and once again it was wonderful waking up with my husband next to me on a Saturday!) and went on a walk. It was so nice and peaceful and people are much nicer in the morning. So has we were walking I noticed that my hands got HUGE. Like way bigger than they usually are when I wake up in the morning, and my palms and fingers turned bright red and got spotty. Then I could hardly bend the darn things. Then I wondered if that is how really big people feel. I know, I know, that is kind of mean but you know the really, really big people…anyway. Joe laughed at me because I wouldn’t let him hold my fat hands! Then I decided to hold hands with him and then he wouldn’t hold hands with me…he said it was like holding a man’s hand. Oh…totally cracks me up! We went home and went to the swimming pool. Being in a pool when you’re pregnant is weird. I couldn’t really swim because swimming uses a lot of your core, and my belly felt funny being in the water! I even got out once to make sure that it was still normal! So I hung on to Joe and we floated around for awhile! Then we got ready and went to meet our landlords, who by the way are super awesome. Instead of a typical “Hi how ya doing handshake” she gave me a hug and rubbed my belly! So we got the keys and headed off for a nice much needed lunch date!

And on Sunday…we moved!!
Joe had some friends come over and help, which we were super grateful for, thanks guys! They started about 9 and we had pretty much everything except the food out by 2. I had been packing little by little all week so it wasn’t too hard to move. We do have some stuff in storage but not a lot, and that will come out possibly tomorrow. Joe had today off so as I’m blogging (supposed to be working!) he is at the old apartment getting all the food out and some of the other stuff we didn’t grab yesterday. I must say that I’m super proud of him for actually doing it. It was like pulling teeth yesterday to make him help me unpack some things and put them away. And you know… he did wake up early with me this morning and he started to put more stuff away and organize other things as I got ready to go to work. He gets brownie points there! I didn’t even have to ask him! So, our little doggies were having a hard time yesterday in the new place. You’d think that they would just love it, nice big house to roam around in, good sized fenced in yard, a couch that sits right in front of a big window…but no. If we put them outside by themselves they’d whine and bark, if I put them in the house with me and if it was just me in there they’d whine, but you better believe that as soon as Joe was in the house with me they were fine, and as soon as we were both outside with them, they were fine. The poor girlies cannot let us out of their sight. It’s kind of a good thing I guess, and hopefully it will get easier on them. This morning Lola got up with me so I let her out and shut the door and she turned around and stared at me so I opened the door and she went half way down the stairs then stopped, turned around and looked and me, so I walked all the way out with her and then she went all the way down the stairs and went potty! I love our dogs! They just crack me up. Diesel on the other hand is so glued to Joe that she won’t do anything without Joe in her eye sight.
On another note…we are setting up Champ’s room this week, and I’m so excited to see everything put together. I have lots of baby laundry to do this week…good thing Ang is going to be here on Wednesday!