More than the daily whine

How about some update-y stuff. Boy do I ever sound boring but really if it weren't for Friday school craft class and the odd get together with friends I would have nothing to report except more sleepy, sicky pregnancy stuff. I think we have all heard enough of that for now so since I managed a nap today and am feeling okydoky I'll dig through archives from the last few weeks.
Remember that I got my hair done?

This was a big deal. I needed it badly! Like two inch root bad.

I had this vision of what I wanted and it didn't turn out quite like it. I hated it for the first few days and now it has grown on me. 

I would love this do on someone else but I wanted more subtle streaks and was trying to grow it out. Am loving it now though so no complaints. Seems my hair dresser knows best. 

Now out to the yard. Somewhere we have not been in over a week. It is just too cold out there and the wind, eck!

However we did get out and soak up every single moment of sunshine and warmth before we hit the freeze.

And for some of you who were wondering about Halloween. Only three weeks later but here it is. 

Not the chicken but a turtle. 

Last minute Kaitlyn decided she wanted to be Franklin and dug out her turtle costume. I was sad not to see the chicken but I secretly hope for next year. Ethan went as a screeching giraffe. He was furious at us for making him dress up and it took him 3/4 of a block to get over it and get on with the candy getting.

For a few moments Kaitlyn wanted to go as a ballerina but after much coaxing was talked out of it. There was no way that would fit over a snow suit!

And the crafting. We have been doing tons but rather than post it all here I will eventually get it all up on my craft site. Don't go looking for it now, I am hoping to do it in the next few weeks.

The regular craft of our day has been going strong. 

Painting.

And it always gets out of hand.

Or maybe I should say on hand. Har, har....sad. Blame it on prego, mommy brain.

Dave has been going crazy outside with the Christmas decor and once he kept blowing a breaker realized the limit for the year.

If we stay here and not at the lake I think a new outlet will be in order.

Out at the lake we have been working on plans. After having my uncle who is an architect out we found out that it will be better for us financially to tear down the old place and start new. Not music to our ears but a relief to know what we have to look at.

Now in the evenings rather than go on here (though I would often rather do that) I have been plugging away at orders due before Christmas.

This one is nearly done and I think it will be one of my last portraits for a long time.

I just cannot find the time and energy for them and I just don't get the same satisfaction out of them as I do when I paint what comes out of my head. Weird and maybe selfish but one day when I have time to sit for hours at a time I will get back to them.

Since I have been feeling so lousy I try to take advantage of every moment that Dave is home. I nap. 

He does a lot of the fun stuff and has become quite the crafter. Kaitlyn decides what to make, tells him what she needs and away they go.

Now I just remembered that I did have more to share, oops.

All the pictures are still on the camera.

We went to the Santa Clause parade on the weekend and then I had my birthday yesterday, yup the big 28. Ha, I actually feel pretty young still though I am getting told on a pretty regular basis that I am "SOOOOOOOO" old. Thank you Emily!

Anyway I wanted to say thank you all for hanging in there with me, your comments and e-mails make my day. I hope I can get around and say hi to you all in the next few days, xoxo!

Off to Zzzzz.

The truth about my dud-ness

I think this is the longest I have ever gone without blogging. I feel rather detached and strange, I have no idea what is going on out there in the blogosphere.  I have weird blog dreams but am too tired to check in. I am just beat!

I am cranky and extremely scatterbrained.  I crave bad food and then feel sick when I see it. 

I rarely get out of my PJ's and skip more than one or two days washing my hair. A total dud.

My 300 photos a day has turned into 300 a week and then I don't get around to uploading them.

Dave has been so amazing, he is picking up after all of us and keeping it together. I could really sleep all day, all night and still be zonked. 

The reason I haven't been around is that I have been falling asleep with the kids and although I mean to get up again I just don't.

Then there is the yucky feeling. I wake up and feel pretty good but by early afternoon I take a turn for the worse. By supper food is repulsive and then I just feel ill. There is a stack of crackers next to the bed to get me through the night wakings and the pee trips.

I am really just totally wiped.

So I am sorry I haven't been around, I will be back soon, really! I have a ton of posts and a new hair cut and a fatish bloaty (already gained 8-10 lbs) belly...

 and fun crafty stuff, Halloween pictures and then the paintings....I have been working in every spare moment to get orders done before Christmas and still have 7 to go. I don't know why I said yes to half of them but I guess it is just that I couldn't say no.

Anyway I am off, I need to lay down, feeling rather uck!

Thank you all for the e-mails and comments, I love you all and wish I could keep up with you all right now but...in time, I am just soooo tired.

A little bore.....snore

So I just went to upload all my photos off the new camera into iphoto. I had forgotten that I was messing around with RAW and now will have to go through Bridge. So no photos. 

Not that I have anything exciting to show anyway, I am rather boring lately. 

I lay around and let Dave do stuff. The floors are sticky and the fridge needs cleaning. There are piles of stuff on every surface and I want to get it all cleaned up. However after just sweeping and vacuuming I am toast and need an hour nap. Thank goodness Dave does laundry and dishes otherwise it would be rank in here too!

 So friends this is the state we are living in and please bear with us. I am hoping that my energy picks up again soon but at the moment sleep and lazing (and peeing fifty thousand times a day) is all I have on my schedule.

You can still come see me but I am just warning you!

There is this poem my mom used to have up on her wall in her foyer. I think I need a poster of it on my door.

Although you'll find our house a mess

come in, sit down, converse.

It doesn't always look like this

Some days it's even worse.

True, folks, so true!

A new baby...but not the real kind

Yes I have a new baby and it intimidates me more than a real one.

I got an early birthday gift almost a week ago. (my b-day isn't until next month)

Thing is there is a learning curve. I know there is a learning curve with all babies but this one does come with a manual. Problem is that it is just not English to me.

 Every picture I take is blurry or out of focus. I feel like a need to enroll in a camera class for dummies!

It is the Nikon D90 and there are some pretty  exciting features. Live view is a new thing and so is the video mode, however this camera has also been hanging out with its big brother the D300 and a few things rubbed off on it. This is supposed to be a good thing but I am finding it rather scary. If any of you have any pointers or know of sites that could help I am all ears!

I am feeling rather lost right now!

So rather than sit and read the manual I stuck with the familiar...reading learning books with Kaitlyn. Maybe this is a sign that my brain truly has turned to mush.

So off I went with my trusty old point and shoot. Not that this is a bad camera by any means, it has served me rather well. I was just finding that I was wanting more.

On with my distractions. A parcel came in the mail and it sure was exciting for a certain girl. This was something that she had chosen online and was waiting quite patiently for its arrival. It now goes where she does and is always filled with various treasures.

To nab one of your own go here.

And you can see that since I have been so frustrated with learning about my camera I have been choosing to fiddle in photo shop instead. (The above was inspired by some of Kim's awesome shots)

And some more in the area of distractions.

The moments when they nap together are not often and when it happens it is cherished.

Double peace!

Oooo, and I cannot forget this! When old friends come to town it is such a treat. Visiting with Maria was so bittersweet. We chat non stop as if we still see each other ever week rather than once or twice  a year. And then saying goodbye is always so hard, I just wanted her to say forever! Miss you already girl!

Back to the camera stuff. Every day I spend some time adjusting and fiddling with buttons. And whala.....I took a half decent picture! (this is the only one from the new camera in this post)

Now I am counting down the hours till my photographer in the making cousin gets here, I hope he can clear up a few things for me so I feel a little more comfortable with all this.

This baby is something else!

Oh, and on the incubating baby front for those of you wondering how things are going. I am still feeling queasy and yucky, starting to feel fatter and still really tired. Food still stinks and don't come near me with meat. Not tuna, chicken, beef or pork, non of it, yuck! Even the dirty dishes...like ones I just ate off of make me feel sick. Dave has been the biggest life saver and has taken over dishes every night, love the guy!

Now I am going to try and read some of that camera manual, see if I can become half educated before my tutorial tonight.

Have a good one!

Missing you

More than a week! I know, it feels like ages!

I have meant to get on here every day since last weekend but I have been wiped. By the time I get the kids to bed I fall asleep with them in their beds. 

So here is what is new. 

Last weekend Dave's sister and brother in-law came to visit with their two chic magnet boys.

Kaitlyn was drawn right in, then again she has always loved them.

We met them out at the lake for the weekend with plans for long walks and jaunts to the park and with warm fall weather in mind. Lesson learned. Listen to the forecast.

We had to make a morning trip into the city to gear up with socks, hats and mitts to combat the cold.

Then I was worried the whole weekend that I wasn't feeling sick enough. I had been so tired and nauseous the week before and had had a cramp and sharp pain just before leaving to head out there. 

 I felt on top of the world the whole weekend. Not a great feeling to have when you are pregnant. I was quietly freaking out inside and spent one night up sitting watching the embers dye down in the stove praying and meditating.

I came to a point where I was ok with the idea that we may have lost the baby.  The Lord is in control and I had to just let go and go with the flow and see what He has in store. I always struggle with this giving it to the Lord and then trying to take the control back. 

So I carried on having fun all weekend and stayed extremely busy. I love seeing relatives and miss seeing them frequently ever since we moved here. It really was a huge treat to have them out.

Ethan was thrilled to have his cousins around and spent nearly every moment with them....well except when they were out shooting each other during the air soft wars.

One of the big outings of the weekend took us to the local market garden in search of veggies for supper and a pumpkin or two.

Ethan listened to them. Not sure what they said but he had to check the biggest ones out.

And he wanted to take one home. 

Since it wouldn't budge he settled on a much more portable one.

On with the weekend and Sunday. 10 am and the turkey went into the oven.

Thanksgiving dinner for 24 people was at our place. With the day getting colder and colder by the moment we spent most of it inside by the fire preparing for family to arrive.

It was a very relaxing and easy dinner, the easiest I every hosted. Then again the fact that everybody that came brought a dish was what made it. All we had to do was the turkey, stuffing gravy and veggies while the guys hung out around the BBQ all afternoon basting a huge ham.  Home made buns, amazing salads, potatoes, sweet potato, pies, tables and chairs were all  brought by others. 

 It was awesome!

Half way through dinner there was a cry from one of the kids, "SNOW!"

As soon as the main course was gobbled down we all rushed out to get our first taste of the white stuff.

As the snow kept falling dessert was eaten and the talk about sledding started. We could hear a neighbor out revving his machine and it was then only moments before Dave had his out.

Rides through the park were soon under way.

An awesome Thanksgiving day wrapped up with fireworks. Thank you Dave!

The snow continued to fall through the night and in the morning we awoke to a beautiful white blanket covering all the green.

Ethan was so excited to explore the snow with his trucks and then the snow people building began.

Monday was a warm melty day out there and we spent it in shorts and t-shirts. As the day came to an end we packed up and headed back into the city.

My worries about being pregnant were still heavy on my mind but as the day wore on and we said good bye to our company the sickie feeling once again came back. 

Every day it has been worse ever since. I gag bad when I go near the fridge and the thought of meat....repulsive!

I am glad I am feeling gross again however the tiredness that has overtaken me is something else. Dave has been doing all the dishes and laundry and cleaning. I am like a bump on a log at this point. So this is why I have been absent, I have hardly turned on the computer to check e-mails every other day. I will have a lot of catch up reading to do when I feel a little better. 

I miss you guys!!!

I had forgotten what it was like when there are no comments and e-mails from you. Victoria's Secret sales notices is all that has come in in the last two days. Not so exciting!

Anyway, I am off to lay by the fire and watch Ruby and Max with the kids.

xoxo

Missing daddy and bleck

This week has been stretching. I am feeling tired and sick and when I look at food I really don't want it. I wake up and only want one thing and that is what I HAVE to eat that day. 

Fries, burgers and other fast food have been on the list as well as apples, tomato soup and grilled cheese. Anything else, yeeeck!

And nothing fills the void either, I must have what I crave. This is a new one for me. 

And please do not put something I front of me that I have already had this week, ooooeeee!

Today I had pizza buns for lunch. Prepping them was ok. Eating them, another story.

Problem was that I had had the same thing last night for supper. It was good then, it was on my list of had to haves. Today, not so much.

That is enough, this writing about it is making me feel worse and I have yet to take my vitamin today.

Anyway I have been missing Dave. This was the week that he had to spend out of town and it felt like he was gone forever. I missed him more than ever and I am guessing it was because we could see him. 

In the evenings we would both log on to I-chat and although it was choppy it made it real and seeing each other made the distance seem more.

He gave us a tour of his hotel room and we did the same with the new furniture arrangement in the living room. Now we are counting down the moments till he arrives. Yay!

Anyway I am off to gag down my horse pill of a vitamin and get back at the laundry.

Have a great weekend!