Crazy Pregnant Lady on the Loose!

I am going to begin by saying heaven help this little child if they have inherited my emotions. To say I wear them on my sleeve would be an understatement and I don't know if the world is ready for another emotional crazy lady like myself :)

I think (for the most part) I have been pretty calm the last few months. I was a little feisty in the beginning, I think because I felt so yucky, but have pretty much grown out of that. Like I have said before I now feel like a round, happy roly poly! I will still, every once in awhile (ie: everytime I watch a sappy movie, hear anything about a baby, see someone happy, see my husband when he or I get home from work, see the dogs, etc.) get a little emotional and sentimental. I just can't help it, it's who I am :) Well, last night the emotions must have been too much for me and I just had a breakdown. I decided I wanted to make Cottage Pie for dinner (I am trying to be creative and in doing so use up all the food we have in the fridge to a) not waste and b) try and save money on groceries) we had all the ingredients and I was set. So, I made the meat, with a spoon and made the mashed taters with another spoon. Life was great, until I made the mistake of FORGETTING and ACCIDENTALLY using the meat spoon to spread the taters on top of the meat in my pie dish. I then put the cheese on top and baked the entire thing at 375* for 40 mins. I was thrilled when it came out and proceeded to eat away.

You know AFTER I finished eating I realized the mistake I had made involving the meat cooking spoon contaminating the cooked taters. I immediately burst into tears convinced I had poisoned both the baby and I with e-coli and how was the little going to handle it when they are SO SMALL!! I called Bj sobbing and snotting and made him promise me I was not a bad mom and assure me that there was no way I had given us both e-coli...all while explaining it can just be hard sometimes making sure I am doing everything I can to protect our baby. WOW! I give him a gold star for his performance because he was wonderful and assured me as many times as I needed that we were both okay.

After this, I had to get myself ready for bed and assure Sedona that I was okay (she is awfully protective of me in general and even more so when I am upset...the sweet dog). Bj called back a little later and made sure I wasn't still crying. I was laughing about it by then...it was just so funny! I could not get it out of my head that I had done something harmful and apparently it was all too much for me in that moment. I was relieved when I got in the snoogs and laid down to feel the little one dancing around in my belly. It made for a good nights sleep :)

I was telling my co-workers this story today and they said it was too funny not to blog about, as I would want to remember this in the years to come...so there it is! The crazy pregnant lady at her finest!

One Year Together

I was going through some pictures on the computer (I have been so bad about snap-fishing lately, silly work keeping me busy!) and realized I never sent out our pictures from Telluride. It brought back such a flood of emotions looking at them, seeing all that has changed since our first visit to Telluride. As you know, we got engaged in Telluride (both of our first time to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival) on top of the mountain at the St. Sophia station. I was shocked and it was the best June 14th I have ever had, just perfect. It was so nice to go back with even more wonderful news to celebrate.

We had such a great time talking on the way about all that has happened in just one year of marriage and all that we have to look forward to. It was so special to be celebrating our one year anniversary in the place we got engaged, while also celebrating that we found out about our nugget the month before! It was a beautiful week, the weather was perfect and the music was great. It was also nice to enjoy each other and our friends without any of life's everyday stresses. We stole away for a romantic dinner and reflected on our life, it was really nice. I am pretty happy he is my husband, I kind of like him.
At the end of the trip I noticed the "Nugget Theatre" and couldn't resist taking a picture as we are having a nugget of our own.

A Funny for the Day

Like I alluded to in the "Snoogle Thief" post, we dropped Scout and Sedona off at Chad's new house (Thanks Chad!) for the night while we went to Vail and Aspen last weekend. We were also given a tour of his new place. It is so nice, we can't wait to see all he plans to do to it!

Well, one of the things he has installed is a doogie door in the sliding glass door leading out to the backyard. It is one of the ones that goes right next to the sliding glass door, therefore making the original door not open quite so wide. All great and good when you don't live with a pregnant woman. I think Bj and I both realized at the same time (while I was trying to rip the door open) that it wasn't going to open any further and I was barely going to make it through. Yes, the large and in charge pregnant lady could BARELY MAKE IT THROUGH THE DOOR AND HAD TO TURN SIDEWAYS. Looks like I won't be going back outside at Chad's house until the baby comes! It was hilarious and made me really happy we had our doggie door installed in the bottom of our door or else it would be a long nine months with no going outside.

The Snoogle Thief

As I have already talked about (and most likely told you about) I LOVE my snoogle. As of right now, it is the best thing ever invented for pregnant women. I am just sad that I was not the one to think of it. I love it so much that I am bringing an extra large suitcase to visit the Kepplingers in North Carolina JUST so I can pack the snoogle and sleep in comfort. I have already warned Aunt Steph about the snoogle, though I don't think any warning is enough for the sight of me and this belly! :)
With that said...we share our house with the two cutest monster dogs. One of whom is pretty convinced that all dogs live as comfortably as he does and finds nothing wrong in cozying up with his mamma's snoogle. WRONG! I will gladly have him rest his head on it, Sedona too (Bj too!), as long as I am the one snoogled up in it. We left them for the evening and when we can came home Scout pranced upstairs and got himself all comfy and warm in my snoogle. He looked like he was the one almost five months pregnant after a hard day at work. It was pretty funny, we were laughing really hard as we took the photos. He is even posing! We thought these were too cute not to share...you also get to see the snoogle with someone much cuter than my large pregnant self in it! Bj even positioned him exactly the way I sleep in it! I will have to write more about sleep in a later post as I look pretty funny heaving myself and belly out of bed, it is getting a lot harder I tell you what. It is all worth it though, I love the site of my big belly (and our bed is the most comfortable one in all the land...thank you Denver Mattress!).

20 Weeks!

September 8, 2008 marked the beginning of my 20th week. Woo-hoo, we are half way there! We both cannot believe how fast it has gone, it seems like just yesterday we were all grins and tears...finding out for the first time. I don't know why it ever surprises me anymore how fast time flies, I am sure next year I will be writing about how I cannot believe our baby is going to be one in a few short months. Craziness!

Things are great! We are both so happy. I think Bj would agree...we would be rich if I had a dollar for every time I tell him how I excited I am for this little baby Johnson to make its way into the world.

I have been on a terror lately, tearing the house apart trying to get things organized before we switch the office to the nursery and the basement to the office/den. It has been so fun though, seeing all of the things we can use around the house in the nursery and dreaming our big dreams for the little ones first room. Bj has definitely been the sweet husband/dad-t0-be and appeasing my terrors...ie:moving all the furniture from room to room and humoring me looking at paint colors! He knows how I am though and I am pretty sure he loves me for it. We have been so fortunate and offered Blu's old crib (Thanks Angelo, Erin and Blu!) and have a bookcase and night stand handy from the guest room. We only have a dresser left to search for and the rocking chair. As all of you already know about me, I wouldn't have it any other way. I love piecing together what I can and seeing how it comes together...I don't know why I ever thought the nursery would be any different! Next up is organizing the closet...fun stuff!

We went and registered for some fun stuff over the weekend and it got us even more excited! We had NO idea there was so much fun stuff out there for baby and OH MY was Babies 'R Us a site to behold...we had never ventured in there. Aisles and aisles of stuff, it was a great store and very organized I might add.

Other than that, we are enjoying the season changing over into fall. We can't quite believe September is here, but are enjoying the cool weather. It already has me excited for fires in the fireplace! We are still working away on names...they are tough I tell you. We only have one to pick too as the middle and last name are taken. Oh well, I know we will come up with something that suites us and the little one just fine. Just a little under two weeks until the sonogram...we can't wait to see what the little one is up to! I can feel him or her moving all around in there and the belly is getting mighty big. I had someone tell me the other day that I definitely look pregnant now, and even though I may have felt big before (I know this is not the last time I will say this) I AM really big now! It amazed me going through my pictures and looking at the difference between today pictures and second trimester pictures. Crazy stuff! I have only gained three pounds thus far and feel like most of it is going to the old belly, with a little leftover for my face, of course. I can't wait to put them all together at the end and see how much I have grown. Oh, one more craving...THE OLIVE GARDEN. Not sure where it came from, but I can't get enough of the place. The soup, salad and breadsticks combo is a bit more than I can handle, I think Bj will kill me if I drag him there one more time. Oh well, it's good and cheap at least :)
I think that is about all we have, stay tuned for more. Hopefully one of these days I can get a family photo on there...we need to flag someone down in the street to take it for us!

Pink or Blue?

It has been funny the last few weeks, as I am now very evidently pregnant, more and more people have asked what we are having. To which I follow up with, "It's a surprise!" some people are shocked that we are holding back and not finding out, and others think it's pretty cool.

I have always thought that as the mother and hotel for the baby that you would automatically have the intuition and know deep down whether your baby is a boy or a girl. Right...now that I am in that position I can honestly say we have no idea. Right now we are working on 50/50 boy or girl. I am sure some people know and some people don't, I think it is great either way. It's just funny. Once we tell everyone that we are waiting for the little one's arrival to find out, they share their story with why they think one way or the other. It has been pretty interesting to hear what people think. From heartbeat counts, food cravings to mood changes. All very plausible, but still not giving us any indication one way or the other. Not that we would listen to it anyway, we are perfectly content waiting a few more months for the little one to show his or her sweet face.

The only thing about it I will say is that more than not we both say "he" a little more when referring to the baby. But, when I dream about the baby (it has been happening a lot these days and more and more with my dad in the dreams) I dream they hand her to me for the first time and say "here she is!". So, don't know what to say about that one...we are still going strong at 50/50! :)

We do love the poll though, we can't wait to take one closer to the due date and have everyone guess weight and gender, it should be fun!

Thank you Greg!

Uncle Greg was kind enough to give me this shirt and I felt as though it warranted it's own spot on the blog. I had to make sure we got a picture before I couldn't fit the belly in it anymore. The belly feels like it gets bigger and bigger everyday...the little one is certainly under construction! According to baby center, we are in for some rapid growth the next few weeks! All I have to say it watch out :)

As you can clearly see...Hotel Little Mamma is expanding daily with no vacancy! Not quite sure how the little one is going to fit come four months from now!

Thank you Uncle Greg, we love the shirt and are pretty excited about our little one growing away in there!