CRAVINGS

so chris comes home the other night and i had made popcorn and he says "do i smell cake, where's the cake?" now i have not really found anything that i really wanted. i am hungry but nothing has made me go "oh i gotta have THAT".....until he said CAKE. i don't even like cake, but i digress. i didn't want to go to the store so i looked through a recipe book. now let me remind you that the last thing i baked from scratch was cookies and they were AWFUL - both times. in my book i find a chocolate peanut butter cake recipe and a fudge frosting recipe.........I HAVE TO HAVE THAT! but i don't have cocoa powder.........so i'm off to the store anyway. i baked it, including sifting almost 5 cups of powdered sugar (do you have any idea how long that took me) y'all that cake totally kicked butt. actually i'm eating the last piece with some vanilla ice cream right now. however now that i read that pineapple thing that jenni mentioned..........it doesn't taste as good and i want pineapples........off to the store when C gets home......

Silly Boyz

here's what my silly boys did today. the first pic is from the rain, then it goes to today. the other album is some from baseball.

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Scarey visit to the Nail Salon

in between appointments yesterday i figure i'll head over and get my nails touched up. i'm sitting there about to get polished and i start to feel sick. hot, clammy feeling. light headed. i go to get up and fall back in my chair, right leg numb. the girl says "you ok?" "ummm no, can i have a cold wet papertowel?". she gets me one and i get that groggy everything getting dark vision thing. i just knew i was going to pass out right there, need them to call 911 and all i could think is "this girl barely speaks english!!!!!!" i lay my head down and just sit for a minute and things seem to subside long enough to let her finish my polish. i dry and go to leave. once in my car i know that i just don't feel right. being lunch time, my doc's office is closed so i head across the street to the ER. i explain to the lady i'm not in labor, there is something wrong with ME. they give me fluids, draw blood, get a urine sample, and put me on my left side. 2 hours later they send me up to Labor and Delivery for another hour of monitoring. my BP had shot up causing all of this, could have also been the baby pressing on something he shouldn't have. my blood work was fine, but i was spilling protien. today i went in for my routine OB apt and all seems good. bp is a little high but not bad, no protien in my urine. i am so ready to not be pregnant.
anyway here's my 30 week pic taken earlier that morning. i really did feel good yesterday up until that episode hit at the nail place. weird.

playing in the rain

yep. my kids are outside playing in the rain. we've been having some spurts of pretty good rain but no thunder or lightening so when i saw them passing by with coats on i didn't question it, just sat back and waited. little boogers have on winter coats in summer heat playing in the rain. and i'm just going to let them.
notice zach is even without pants. who cares right?

Back from the Beach

Wow what a great vacation! I truly am a beach girl at heart, no doubt, and so are my kids. Jacob keeps asking "can we go back tomorrow?" I would sell this house and pack up and go in a heartbeat, just getting Chris to agree is the hard part. I'm so up for a new place, but he's so not. ANYWAY. Got down there dropped our stuff and hit the jetties at St Andrews for swimming and snorkeling. Returned just to sleep and found our room was less than sleepable. The office was closed, we picked one of those places where each unit is individually owned and there's no real staff. We suffered through the night and as soon as the office opened the next morning got a refund and hit the road for a new aboad. Found the Beachcomber and LOVED it. Worth every cent more it cost us. Mom and Dad came in the next afternoon. We spent time at the jetties every day. Did the usual putt-putt, go-karts, and souveniour shopping. And of course had to take our Pirate Cruise, which we almost missed b/c they were so booked up. Luckily they had a cancellation and we got tickets. Chris stayed face down snorkeling the WHOLE time and was sooooo sunburned. I just chilled on the beach, snorkeling only once, never knew this baby belly could make it so much more tiring to just float above water. Chris and I got a night out alone and that was nice. But funny thing, we got back in earlier than our kids did - boy we're getting old. Got a call the 2nd day there and found out I failed my 1 hr glucose, so I went yesterday for my 3 hour one. Being stuck 4 times, drinking pure sugar on an empty stomach, and hanging out in the waiting room for 3 hours is certainly not a fun way to waste a morning. But we're back and today I have to work on getting settled back in, I have a buttload of laundry to do, but somehow I bet that will be left to do after we hit the pool this afternoon. lol I love summer! Here's a link to some pics, enjoy:

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Happy Mother's Day to Me!

so i was supposed to get a gazeebo for mother's day but target didn't get one in this week of the particular one i want.
then today my van died. ok maybe died is harsh, something broke that's not to hard to fix, but we don't know what other problems lie in the future, it's a 2000 with 140k on it, so i got a new car..........

















it's a GMC Yukon Denali, the pic was taken in the dark sorry. it has everything you could imagine and we got it at dealer cost b/c we got it from chris' dealership. i'm so in love with it.

surgery for zach

*sigh*
zach is having his tonsils and adnoids out Tuesday. i know i've been through this with the other two but i feel way more nervous this time. they saw them last week, we saw the ENT yesterday, and are set for surgery Tuesday. it was all so quick, but the kid litterally has a very small airway b/c they are so huge. they are keeping him overnight b/c they are concerned about his respiratory problems and the anesthesia, but all should go well. i'm actually relieved that they are going to keep him instead of just sending us home. i just remember neal having it done and this same age and how much he hurt and how it took him 6 weeks to recoop. not looking forward to this at all.