Woman in the striped pajamas

Seriously made these babies in about 5 min. One leg is wider than the other and I didn't even size them. I think even at 37 weeks I can fit 2 of me in them. But I was seriously out of pajama pants. Actually I am down to 3 pairs of pants that fit at all. I wish it would warm up a touch so that I can rock the dresses.

A full heart

As I sit and write this I realize I have been neglecting my poor little blog and keeping up on Facebook instead. On Wed my Dr. put me on modified bed rest due to my contractions picking up frequency and intensity. Basically it means I need to ask for a lot of help, doing really simple normal things. I have a week where I need help and then I will be good. Today as I headed to my "Presidency meeting" for our primary I walked drove up and wondered why there where so many cars, well lucky for everyone I just figured Gwen invited extra people. I walked in and there were a bunch of my friends all there to shower me with love and gifts. I am so grateful for the friends I have and how wonderful they have all been during this deployment. Taking my kids, phone calls to see how I was doing and all sorts of little things. But mostly I can't believe how blessed I have been with the generosity of my friends in handing down all their baby stuff. I have seriously bought almost nothing and she is fully stocked until she is at least 2! This deployment/pregnancy has really been a lesson in humility for me. I have never in my life had to ask for so much help as I have the past 6 months. It took me a long time to even feel like I sort of liked NJ and now I can say it is really starting to feel like home. When we do eventually leave this place I will be so sad to leave the wonderful, loving and caring people that have welcomed me with open arms and loving smiles for my children and me. I am just so overwhelmed with the amount of love and kindness I have been shown this past week and it makes me want to continue to be a kind and generous person, even more so than I ever have been. To all of the people who help make my life a better one, THANK YOU, truly you have no idea how much I love and appreciate you!

Halloween

I am a fool and deleted all the pictures of Halloween thinking I had blogged them. Oh the kids were so good this year. I'll have to figure out how to get the pictures off of facebook to put them on here. Ugh I am so mad at myself. BTW the kids and dog were Ang, Katara, and Appa from The Last Airbender cartoon. I am proud to say that I semi-homemade their costumes too.

Christmas 2011

This year was a fun one,
We revolted and decided not to travel(you know me being 6 mo preg and Ed gone I just wanted to stay home for once)
Here are the pictures of what we have done since Fri (the night before Christmas eve)

 Christmas pizzas for pizza movie night

 Their faces as they walked in to see the presents Christmas morning.

 Kevin and Santa(Mr. Bill) at the MOMS club Christmas party

 All the loot

 They made out like bandits, again this year

 Even Annie got in on the action

 Sugar cereal for breakfast.

 The aftermath

 Ready for church, sorry it's sideways

How we spent a lot of the day. Kevin had a rough breathing day so he had treatment every 3.5-4 hrs and Anya played leapster games, watched movies and played with all the toys.

Thank you to all our friends and family who made the Christmas so spectacular, and seriously low key!

We wish you a merry Christmas

The kids and I were singing Christmas carols while we, actually I, decorated for Christmas. We started singing "We Wish you a Merry Christmas" and Anya decided to change the words for Papa.

We miss you this very Christmas!

It summed up how we feel completely. We have started the coming home countdown though. After Christmas the links will go up and we can count down for real!!!

Oh wow is me....

Pardon me while I wallow in my misery for a minute...........

I am ready for Ed to come home. I am tired, I have not cooked in 4 months and am quite sick of crappy food, or eggs, every night for dinner. I am done with yelling, fighting children, oh and I am done being pregnant. Not really I still have a while to go. I am tired and cranky and just want someone else to put my kids to bed without having to pay them.  Ok that is all. I will back update with pictures etc. soon. Thanks!

12 weeks

The good thing about having Ed gone for this pregnancy is I am going to be good at documenting it!!
Please don't mind the mess behind me, this is the mirror in the playroom. Yes this is how we really live. I am starting to feel better but keeping the playroom clean all the time is just something I do not have energy for.