Strawberry Shortcake and a Day in Bed

I believe I have succumbed to the 24hr stomach bug everyone is so kindly sharing.  I'm sure it doesn't help that I work in a medical clinic and everyone and their brother comes in sick, coughing, sneezing all over the place.  So thank you dear patients for making me feel horrible!  I even had to go home from work at lunch yesterday because I felt so horrible I couldn't even function.  So I came home and crawled into bed and slept.  Thankfully my fiance traded me vehicles and he decided to pick up Marcus after work so I could come home and try to sleep it off.  I came home and slept for an hour and felt a lot better. 

By the time Justin got home I had felt a lot better so I made dinner with his help and curled up in bed with Marcus and finished watching the newest Sherlock Holmes.  Which is a must see by the way!  I still felt fine so I put Marcus to bed and we went to bed since 5:30am comes real early.

About 5am I woke up with the worst stomach pains in the world.  I felt horrible, I tried to lay in bed and see if they would go away and they wouldn't walking didn't even help.  It would go away and come back. Finally after getting Marcus back to bed around 6am I fell asleep and we slept until 9 and I woke up feeling way better than I have in 2 days, but I spent 95% of the day in bed just relaxing.  So hopefully I'm over whatever it is I had, because I need to pack for this weekend!  Right now I'm just fighting a killer headache!  If its not one thing its another isn't it?

We are leaving Friday after we both get out of work to go to Michigan for the weekend to see my family!  I haven't got to see then since the first week of June.  I saw my dad last month but that was only for like an hour and we had dinner together.  Were going up so I can get my wedding dress, my bridesmaid dresses and get our cake picked out and the flowers.  So its going to be a super packed weekend and Saturday night we are having a cookout so all of the family can see Marcus.  I am looking forward to it, a weekend to get away and spend with my family and away from work and all the other stuff going on here.

So in the title I mentioned Strawberry Shortcake, last week Justin and I went to the grocery store to pick up a few things we needed.  While walking through the produce section Justin found the pre-made Strawberry Shortcakes.  I told him rather than pay the $3.50 for the tiny cake I'd just make some.  Even better Strawberries were buy 1 get 1 free that day!  So we grabbed strawberries and a box of Bisquick and we headed home.  It took me a couple days to make them because after we got home I was to busy with Marcus to make them.  But I made them a couple nights ago and while they were warm I cut them in half layered strawberries, whip cream, shortcake, strawberries, whip cream, strawberries.  Oh my goodness they were delicious!!  I in fact had one for breakfast this morning and it was delicious still! 

Here is a picture of the delicious creation.  Delicious!!

A heads up for any of the mommies who may be reading Bumbo just came out with a recall on their seats.  If you go to their website here http://recall.bumbousa.com/ it will walk you through the steps to get the restraint belt they are now offering for the Bumbo.  But as always you should never leave your baby unattended in one of the seats.  

Now for a picture that totally makes my day and the reason I love being a Mommy.  I love this little guy!

Wedding Registry

On October 20th 2012 I will be taking a big step and marrying my best friend.  Aww I know!  I have been however dragging my feet like crazy.   We have 70 days until the wedding and guess who still hasn't bought her wedding dress.  That's right this girl!  I have the dress picked out but haven't paid for it yet and this is why.  The dress is at David's Bridal.  Their payment options suck!  It's either pay out of pocket, get the store credit card or put the dress on lay a way.  I was excited for the 3rd option until they told me its 40% down then you only get 2 months to pay the dress off.  So my dress is $850.  That's $340 down, and  $255 a month until the dress is paid off.  $255 is more than I pay for my Jeep in a month!  That's like a month and a half worth of payments!  Geez!  So when I go home to Michigan on the 18th of this month I talked to my mom about it and she said she'd put the dress on her Visa so I can get it ordered.

We are also ordering my girls dresses at the same time.   The maid of honor my cousin will be wearing a Coral colored dress and the other 3 girls will be wearing Tangerine.  I wanted to go with long dresses but 3 of my girls are on the short side and one of them said something about long dresses making them look shorter so we are going to look at short dresses or tea length as well.  As long as it looks good I'm fine either way, I'd really like long but we'll see.  I want everyone to be comfortable!

The guys already have their tuxes picked out, and the groom and one of the groomsman is all fitted we just have 3 more groomsman to get fitted and we are all set with them and the tuxes.  Pretty sad the guys are ahead of us on outfits!

So in order to get everything done on my end for the wedding we are going to Michigan this next weekend.  The 18th I'm getting the dress then we have our cake tasting at 5pm that night, then at 6pm were doing engagement pictures and were having a cookout so I can see all of my family!  Some of them I haven't seen since Marcus was born!  Then Sunday we are going to pick out our flowers for our bouquets.  Then sadly we have to head back to Indiana.

Last Wednesday I went to Kohl's to do our wedding registry I didn't figure Justin would want to be bothered with registering for towels and bedding and all that "woman stuff."  So I took Marcus and we spent a good few hours at Kohl's.  I had to quit when the scanner told me my registry was full..LOL  Opps.  After I finished registering I thought about it and decided that I don't need to have plates or silverware on there because I have all those things and it frees up stuff so I can get other stuff I really want like that 8qt crock pot!  But I was nice and registered for a 13" pancake pan for Justin since he likes to make pancakes.

I also started a registry at Target registering for some stuff there that I didnt at Kohl's.  I mean I highly doubt anyone will buy us the tv stand that I registered for but hey its worth a shot right!  The bedding is a lot cheaper at Target but I think thats because the thread count is lower, but you can't complain when your not buying!  We aren't having a bridal shower so I just hope that I get enough stuff at the wedding to help us out with our new place.

Here is a picture of my helper after he crashed out at Kohl's while doing the registry.

He was so cute he had all these older ladies drooling all over him.  I love this little guy!

I just hope I have everything I need registered for and haven't forgotten anything.  And I'm hoping that most of the big ticket stuff I want we end up getting because lord knows with a new baby I can't afford it!

3 Months Ago

Who would have thought 3 months ago at this very time I'd be holding a 11 hour old baby boy.  Definatley not me!  When the doctor told me on November 18th 2011 that I'd be having a baby in May of 2012 I started to cry because of the mixed emotions that just washed over me.  I was in disbelief, I was scared and nervous.  Not even two weeks prior my fiance and I had had the discussion about waiting 2 years to have kids so we could purchase a home and get settled in, guess that flew out the door!  Once I stopped crying and realized this wasnt the end of the world, we scheduled my ultra sound for later that day. (Well come back to the ultra sound later)

After I left the doctors office I called my parents and told my parents who were estatic.  This was their first grandchild and they both thought my brother or I were going to have them because we haven't been in any hurry.  I'm sure your thinking why the heck didn't you tell your fiance first.  Well I'll tell you why, he was a OTR Truck (over the road) which means I saw him on weekends and weekends only unless on some rare change he had a load close to Indianapolis which meant he could park close to home and I'd go pick him up for the evening.  I didn't want to tell the poor guy over the phone, I was afraid he'd never come home, not because he didn't want a baby but because it was such a huge curveball to our plans.

So after I left my appointment I had about a 3 hour gap between the appointment and my ultrasound so I went and did laundry.  Thank god the insane laundry mat was empty I needed some time alone with my thoughts!  I ran it over and over and over in my head how I was going to tell him, all the options freaked me out.  After I'd gotten the laundry done I went to the hospital for my ultrasound.  I was SO nervous!  I sat in the waiting room for probably 10 minutes silently freaking out to myself.  When they called me back I felt relieved and nervous still.  After getting situated the tech went to work, finding all his little parts, head, hands, feet, legs.  It was amazing seeing the tiny little life growing inside me.  The tech never said anything about how far along I was or anything.

So when the doctors office called 4 hours later to set a follow up I had to ask and the lady on the phone was kind of shocked to find out they never told me!  She said I was 16 weeks, to which I replied "16 weeks" she's like yes "4 months"  man was I glad I had pulled over to talk to her!  I was shocked, I felt like one of those people on "I didn't know I was pregnant."  How could I not know!?  Well simple, I had 1 day of morning sickness and I attributed that to not feeling well the week before, and sure I hadn't had a period since July but that was fairly normal.

Now for the fun part, it was an hour before my fiance got home for his weekend.  I had thrown dinner in the oven and was pacing the house back and forth freaking out.  So when his truck pulled into our little driveway I went into full out freak out mode.  He came in we exchanged greetings, he jumped in the shower, I sat in the bathroom and talked with him until he was done, we ate then went upstairs to bed.  He finally asked me after he was home for about 2 hours how my appointment went.  I told him "well not as good as I had hoped"  To which he replied "you aren't pregnant are you?"  Well that was a good enough time to spill the beans as any.  He didn't beleive me until I whipped out those ultrasound pictures.  He sat there in shock.  It's not that we didn't want this baby it was we both hadn't planned on it this soon and it was a huge shock!

We both figured a good nights sleep was what we needed so we shut of the lights and laid down.  About 2:30am he whispered and asked if I was sleeping and I told him no, so we got up and I asked if he wanted to go pick up my perscription at the pharmacy to which he eagerly agreed.  We talked all the way to the store, through the store and he decided to call his best friend and let him know.

We found out in January we were having a boy.

Marcus Gregory arrived May 5th, 2012 at 7:56am via C-Section (thats a whole other store)

Looking back at it, there is not a thing I would change, Having Marcus was the best thing I have ever done in my life.  I feel as if its brought our family closer and its added an extra amount of Joy into our lives.  Waking up every morning to that smiling, cooing face makes my heart melt!  Being a mom is the best job in the world! 


- Sara