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.