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The Story Part 6

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I knew that the nurse came in to take my vitals but hubby and I were so exhausted that we wound up going right back to sleep. I remember passing my arm across the bed at the nurse but I’m fairly certain she took my blood pressure while I was asleep.

When I woke up closer to 7:30 that Saturday morning hubby and I discussed breakfast and he called our order down to the cafeteria and then we got baby girl up to hold her. After we ate hubby started packing our things up because we were told we’d be able to go home that day. My doctor came in and released me, we were just waiting for baby girl’s doctor’s nurse practitioner to come in and check her/release her to go home.

Nurse Shanie who gave us a tour of the delivery area a few months prior was our nurse that morning. She and the Nurse Practitioner came in and checked baby girl over, answered a few questions that hubby and I had and said that she was released. So hubby continued to pack up our things so we could leave as soon as we were discharged.

My mom called and asked if we needed some help. I told her if nothing else, please come to our house and watch baby girl so at least hubby and I could shower and take a nap. The night before was a bit rough. She said she’d just head into the hospital and help us finish loading up and then she’d be more than happy to watch baby girl for us.

Around 11:30, I was still in the hospital gown but otherwise everything was packed up and had been moved to the car, except for what I needed to change. We were just sitting in the room waiting for the nurse to come release us. Finally hubby asked me if they forgot about me and told me to come up with something I could ask them.

As you may or may not know, they have you wear those mesh underwear things in the hospital so I finally thought I’d go ask if I could wear my actual underwear home. I know, it was a stupid question but I needed to do something to get the nurses attention. They told me of course I could and asked if I was ready to go home or if we were eating lunch there. I said, I’d prefer to just go home, I really don’t have any reason to stick around here unless I need to. They told me to go get dressed and when I was, come let them know and we’d go through discharge papers.

I walked back in the room and asked hubby to come into the bathroom and help me dress and then we’d be ready to go. I was kind of excited. 2 days in the hospital was long enough for me. The only other time I’ve been in the hospital like that was when I was born and I obviously don’t remember that.

Once I was dressed and got everything packed up that was still waiting I went out and told the nurse sitting at the desk. She said Shanie would be right in as soon as she was finished doing what she was doing.

My mom helped dress baby girl in her going home outfit, we snapped a few photos and then we were out the door running.

Okay I wasn’t running and neither was anyone else. Shanie wheeled me out of the building (protocol), hubby carried baby girl in her carseat (also protocol, babies have to be strapped into carseats before they are allowed to leave the room), and my mom, FIL and hubby grabbed what ever was remaining in our room to go home and then we finally got to head home.

We put our stuff in the car, my mom took my prescription to go get from the pharmacy and we headed out of the hospital parking lot. It was a crazy feeling, even though we’d only been in there for 2 days to leave there. The driving home part was sooooo surreal. I snapped a picture of gas prices on the day baby girl got to go home.

When hubby and I were headed home we called my MIL so she and Tbug could come over. We got to the house and unloaded baby girl. My mom got there with my prescription just after we got home. She decided to run to the Amish store up the road to get us lunch. Then since my MIL was there, my mom said she had things to do at home so she went ahead and headed home. My MIL and Tbug watched baby girl while hubby and I took a shower and then went and took a nap. While we were napping, Earl and the kids came by to see Peanut for a few minutes and then she went home to make dinner (for us too).

Later that night Earl, Pokey and the kids came back with Lasagna for us. While they were here they watched Peanut while Tbug, Memaw, hubby and I ate. We all sat here and watched a movie. About halfway through the movie Earl and I went and put Peanut in jammies that Pokey picked out especially for her.

Then we settled back in to watch the movie. Peanut made some of the cutest faces while we sat here and watched the movie. In fact, I have no idea what movie we watched because I watched Peanut more.

Then about the time that Earl, Pokey and the kids went to leave, Moo and Tbug gave peanut a kiss. And then we were on our first night home as a new family.

Maternity Photo Shoot Outtake Take 2

I hope you looked at yesterday’s outtakes… If not, go check them out now. I’ll wait!

What did you think? Yeah I know, we’re talented!

So anyway I told hubby that I wanted photos of just me, some with Tbug, some with just him and some with all of us. Well the day we worked on them the first time, sadly I didn’t get any of him and me. Hello… :). So I told him we had to try again so this last weekend we took another opportunity. We took around 100 photos. There again were some good ones but some crazy ones too. These were easier to narrow down to the crazy ones though!

I’m not done yet though… well unless Baby Girl decides she’s coming early, then I guess I’ll have to be done, but I played around on pinterest last night and found a whole bunch I’d like to try. So we’ll see what the next few weekends have in store for photos, otherwise enjoy this second set of outtakes!

Why not blow out a photo while I’m in the process of sneezing 🙂 Always a good way to start things off!!

This is a little more our style, don’t you think?

And of course he needed to get the look to tell him to be good 🙂

eh, who needs a head. Actually we were readjusting the camera at this point.

And I have absolutely no words for this.

I sure hope that you’re having as much fun laughing at these photos as I am :). We’re working on a few good ones and yes I have a few of those to share too, but for now I’m having fun laughing at these outtakes.

I Can't Dance

I’m not sure what rock I live under, but just yesterday I heard Lee Brice’s new song “I don’t Dance.” It was on the top 4 at 4 on one of of our local Radio Stations. Apparently a lot of people use this song for their wedding song. Yup, guess I’m out of that loop as most of my friends are married… I guess that’s how I missed it anyway because I spend a lot of time in my car every day driving… so you’d think I’d hear it at least once, right?

Anyway I listened to the lyrics. I like the song…

“I Don’t Dance”

I’ll never settle down, / That’s what I always thought
Yeah, I was that kind of man, / just ask anyone

I don’t dance, But here I am / Spinning you around and around in circles
It Ain’t my style, but I don’t care / I’d do anything with you anywhere
Yes, you got me in the palm of your hand / Cause, I don’t dance

Love’s never come my way, / I’ve never been this far
Cause you took these two left feet / And waltzed away with my heart

No, I don’t dance, but here I am / Spinning you around and around in circles
It ain’t my style, but I don’t care / I’d do anything with you anywhere
Yes, you got me in the palm of your hand, girl / Cause, I don’t dance
Ohhh / I don’t dance

Ooh

I don’t dance, but here I am / Spinning you around and around in circles
It ain’t my style, but I don’t care / I’d do anything with you anywhere

I don’t dance, but here I am / Spinning you around and around in circles
It ain’t my style, but I don’t care / I’d do anything with you anywhere
Yeah, you got me in the palm of your hand, girl / Cause, I don’t dance

So this song just made me think of my husband. I know another sappy Nicole post but I can’t help it! When I started talking to and eventually dating my husband, all he would tell me was “I can’t dance.” I called BS on him a lot. I didn’t buy it.

Another conversation we had he told me he never figured he’d find anyone to settle down with. He just didn’t think it was in the cards for him. Again I called BS on that too. I can’t help it, my optimistic side came out I guess :).

Well I’m just here to tell you, the right people fall in love and all that melts away and you can call BS all day because it’ll be true!! This past February we hit 4 year engagement anniversary.

And come this September we’ll hit our 4 year anniversary. And 4 years ago at that time he will have danced with me (as many other times as well!). Sometimes you just have to call BS and if it’s meant to be, they’ll dance with you!

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I LOVE This Man

Oh goodness, have you ever been pregnant before? Pregnancy brain is a real thing but those hormones. I can be a nice loving sweet person one minute and I swear the demon in me comes out the next. Please oh please tell me I’m not the only one!!!

So these last couple weeks have been extremely stressful. I hurt in places I didn’t know you could hurt. I’m sick of the phrase, “I don’t feel good.” In fact I’ve had to start giving hubby some sort of a description on what doesn’t feel good because I swear that phrase comes out of my mouth every 2 seconds at times.

Pregnancy wasn’t made for me. Oy! But this boy, he’s been a trouper.

He puts up with me when I’m not even sure I can put up with myself. The other night for example, I pretty much went from 10pm until 2am on no sleep and then I threw a fit because I was so tired. He woke up, turned the fan on (it was hot that night), suggested I go take a quick shower, let me put my head on his chest and I slept for 3 hours straight. First time that night I made it past like 20-30 minutes of sleep.

Yes, I had to get up and go to school but he had to get up and go to work. Monday’s are my easier days so I got to take a nap. He didn’t. Then when I had issues with our home internet and my homework he suggested I go relax in the tub for a few minutes, take a nap and then try the internet again.

Last night I slept for a while and then woke up miserable again. Little girl has been camping out on my right hip to the point I don’t feel much of my leg other than extreme pain, especially in my hip and knee. I woke up a little grumbly and he rolled over told me where his chest was, I put my head on his chest and I was out again.

He has been a trouper through all of this. I couldn’t ask for a better husband. We’ve had our arguments, don’t think it’s been balloons and roses or anything but at the end of the day I wouldn’t trade him for the world. He’s there for me and has supported me through all of this! Thank you Dear God for putting this man back in my life! You knew what you were doing!

Him & Her {Sappy Week Continues}

It must be the fact that today is Valentine’s Day or Wednesday was 4 years since my husband proposed to me or I’m not sure but I’ve been extremely sappy this week. Sorry! Maybe I’ll straighten up next week, but I wouldn’t totally count on it :).

Earlier this week I was reading Kenzie’s blog and then Emmy’s blog (she stole it from Kenzie, I know, she said so :)) and they did a him vs her post and so now like I told Kenzie earlier this week, I’m stealing this and doing my own. So our version of Him vs Her will now commence:

SHOES

him: New Balance tennis shoes or my Ostrich Boots || her: Either my Macie Bean boots, my Ariat Fat Babies or my Sperry’s

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Why We Work

So Bonnie introduced this blog topic yesterday and I thought, I should do this… Why We Work. Like every couple, my husband and I have a strange and weird past that included each other as friends for a while, we went our separate ways and made our place in the world and then we came back to each other. I guess what they say is true,

We compliment each other.
We both have our strengths and our weaknesses but we never see them, instead we work with each other to help complete that circle.

We aren’t each others missing half.
Say what? Well think about it, I am a complete person without him. I can function by myself with or without him. He’s the same way, but having each other in our lives just makes life that much more fun and interesting.

We are sooooooo weird, together.
I’m not kidding, we are both weird. We just look at each others weirdness and laugh. We accept each other for everything that we are and everything we aren’t.

We fight.
Come on, every couple fights. We try to fight fair, but not always. Some days we both fall into childish behavior but at the end of the day there is no one else I’d rather fight with.

He is my best friend.
I can’t wait to tell him about my day. Sometimes I have to call him during the day to tell him how frustrated I am or how happy I am. We laugh together, cry together and console each other. That’s what best friends are there for, to help you get through the good times and the bad.

We share everything.
Especially colds but I’m really thinking we could do without sharing colds…. I’m just saying :). We might even be accused of oversharing with each other sometimes but whatever it is what keeps things interesting!

We work really on so many levels that it is hard to single them all out, just know we’re there for each other no matter what. That’s what you need in a spouse (significant other) anyway! Someone you can’t wait to run home and tell everything about your day. Someone you’re willing to be goofy with. Someone who compliments you. I found that in him!

Linking up with: Life of Bon The Daily Tay

Drop the ring in the spaghetti plate

Okay so I should come clean about something… I have my moments where I’m sappy! I know fairy-tails don’t exist but that doesn’t keep a girl from still loving the sweet sappy stories. Yep, sometimes it gets me in trouble but whatever, I deal :). So one thing that I’ve always liked was for a guy to be nervous when he proposes. Does that mean I had to have that, no but I soooooo thought it would be awesome if he was :). I also said I didn’t want to know the proposal was coming.

I think what started my obsession (good word) for this whole being nervous was Kenny Chesney. I know there are other artists out there who refer to this, but he has 2 different songs, one refers to dropping the ring in the spaghetti plate and the other talks about being down on one knee on her momma’s front porch.

My husband exceeded all my expectations when it came to proposing to me from throwing me off the night before saying he still hadn’t asked my dad to actually showing up at my work and proposing. It was my fairy-tail.

Now one thing I’ve probably addressed before with our proposal was he bought me flowers even though I’d told him not to. I had to go to the front of my office building to get them which was quite a distance from my desk and that gave my mom time to get him into my cubical to set up. I called him while still up at the front of the building to “grumble” at him for the flowers (not really but we’ll pretend).

He had the ringer turned on on his phone and when it went off he threw the ring while trying to get the ringer turned off on his phone. The ringer was set specifically for me so it would have given him away.

With that knowledge, I realized that he was nervous! I got the nervous part of my fairy-tail. Now if only they would have caught that on film :). How awesome is that though? He was nervous and dropped the ring :).

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4 1/2 Years

Kellie Pickler Concert on Friday the 13th…. spooky? NOPE!

So for the last couple weeks I heard on the radio that Kellie Pickler was going to be in concert at Buffalo Run Casino. Now I really wasn’t much of a Kellie Pickler fan until I saw her on Dancing with the Stars last season and from what I can tell, she’s very down to earth and I just love her.

So I had hubby find out how much tickets were just because I was nosey and next thing I knew, we had tickets for Friday night.

I didn’t get a picture of her microphone but it was shiny and pretty!

The cool thing was it was standing room, so as you got there, you just chose where you stood. We got fairly close to the stage. The sad part was there were some drunk girls who jumped right in front of us/beside us and the gal was using me as a leaning post most of the night. Oy! Oh and I almost wore most of her drink. I’m fairly certain she was drunk before she ever got there.

But let’s not focus on those weirdo’s… let’s focus on Kelly!

She’s a little thing, holy cow! And look at those heels. They aren’t Red High Heels, but don’t worry, she sang the song!

Definitely worth going to her concert. It was a great way to end a strenuous week too!

And the sad thing is, she should have had that room packed and it wasn’t. This girl can sing!

Ok, so isn’t he cute? I’m so glad he took me there. Thank you baby!

I do!

Three Years ago today I married one of my best friends.

Please play Hank Williams Jr, Blues Man

This photo was symbolic for us for the simple fact that we went to school together. We met before we got to the high school, but our friendship strengthened once we were sophomores. At the time our High School was 10-12, now it’s 9-12. And sadly our high school building has become the junior high, but either way, this building is where we built upon our friendship all those years ago. And no, sadly we aren’t “high school sweethearts” but that’s okay. Everyone needs to build their story somehow and this is ours!

Happy Anniversary my sweet husband. I love you with all my heart!