For us, a low key weekend!

We had probably the greatest food day ever in the history of food days on Thursday for Josie's last day! I contributed Krispy Kreme's and my brownies. I didn't eat either one. I was so stuffed and I even had a doctors appointment that afternoon. His heart beat was 132 and I can tell you it was because he was in a food coma. I didn't eat dinner at all. It was a sad but good day. Sad, because Josie wasn't going to be there Monday morning and good because we didn't do a whole lot of anything. Always productive! Giving on your side service at all times! =) Thursday night we actually went shopping. Jake needed some new kicks extremely bad so we hit up Stride Rite for a nice pair and then headed to Kohl's for a pair of tennis shoes. The kids feet are huge. Janzen trait I think. JcPenney was having some wicked sales on children's clothes so Jake scored a new pair of Thomas pj's and a rad winter jacket with snow pants for only $30. It was 75% off. What in the world? Snow hasn't even hit the ground yet. It didn't matter to me, that was an awesome find! We got home just in time for Grey's and for me to pass out at 9:30!

Friday was even a better day! I was eating lunch with Jana (who arrived safely from Texas on Thursday) and Becky. Ferry and Derrick came along and I was looking forward to a good lunch at Centro. On my way there, I noticed a SUV that looked oddly familiar. Flatness. Who else has a Durango with the deer sticker in the back left corner? Derrick and Ferry swore it wasn't her but not too many others have that. Plus it was Warren county plates. I just blew it off and kept walking. We weren't sure if anyone made a reservation, then I saw it. Saw them all. I was the sucka on Friday. They had all planned a surprise baby shower for me. I felt completely embarrassed. I hate having attention on me. I really do. I get all nervous and turn red. I'm still blaming the small one on this (Josie, you are going down!) It was a perfect shower though. Wonderful restaurant, tons of adorable gifts for Baby J and of course, amazing friends! After stuffing my face with my favorite meal there, we had to unfortunately head back to work. Funny thing, lunch ran a little longer so we really didn't have much work time left. Oh well. It was Friday. Also, Beth gave me a call when I got back from lunch and we ended up deciding to go to Night Eyes and eat pizza for the night.

Night Eyes....every year I say the same thing. We will never go back. It's insane, you hardly get any candy and it's always so crowded you can't get through anything without running over the ankles of the person in front of you. It took us just a half hour to get into the place and park out in basically Pleasant Hill. We had great company that kept the comic relief up and the kids had fun! We then headed back to the Proctor's and ate some pizza and watched the Rangers beat out the stinking Yankees. So fantastic. I dislike baseball, but I loathe the Yankees. We got home and basically completely crashed at 10:30. 

Saturday we spent the morning at home, doing laundry and going through all the new baby things we received. We went to OTB for a late lunch with Jana her hubby and the Haines'. It was fantastic!! So good. I could eat Mexican food everyday. Especially chips and salsa. I cannot wait till I can have a Margarita once again. I love them every once and a while with my food. So delish! We went to my parents house afterwords to pick up the munchkin who helped my dad rake leaves while we went to lunch. The kid had a blast. He was covered in mud and frosting. They went to Dahl's and he got a pumpkin and a cup cake due to some even they were doing. We then took our car in for some general maintenance and hung out with Michael s folks and eventually made it home around 7:30ish. Michael was in a horrible mood due to the Hawkeyes losing so I went to bed early!

Sunday was the norm. Breakfast, Church, groceries. We did have to run and take Elmo out for Michael's parents so we made a pit-stop at Sam's for dessert for Bible Study this week and some other non-necessary items that sucked us in. We then have been at home since. Did a few loads of laundry, baked a ton of cookies, watched a movie with Jake, and basically did a whole lot of nothing. It felt so amazing. I need more days like this!!! I wish we had another few days for the weekend. It would be amazing!

Another busy week is upon us. I think we are only home on Thursday and Friday this week. Friday we are without Jake. He's spending the night at my parents house with Eli and Caleb so I am sure he will be having a blast. Michael and I just need to plan a date night! We are so tired we will probably go to dinner early and fall asleep! Ha! Such an old married couple we are. I am very excited for Jana and Becky time tomorrow night!!!!! Can't get enough of that!!! =)

Money Cash

Cash and Jake

 

 Our little engineer!!

Connor and Jake

I love him!

All the kids!

Yet another List

While cooking dinner (pasta bake), I was reminded of things that I can't handle very well during pregnancy:

1) Cooking hamburger meat. It makes me want to vomit just seeing it in the fridge. Not to mention the hundreds of times I have to swallow while trying to cook it.

2) Cleaning out anything spoiled in the refrigerator. I usually keep on top of this, but every once and a while one gets away. I resort to either throwing the container away completely or asking Michael to lend a hand.

3) Garbage. I cannot smell anything rotten. It is making my stomach uneasy just thinking about it. Luckily Michael usually takes it out. There have been a few times in the past 3 weeks I have had do. I just hold my breath.

4) Dog farts. Now not many people get to experience these wonderful moments in life, but Hawkeye....man that dog seriously has some rank gas. It tends to clear out a room. If he even lifts and eyebrow, I am out of there.

5) Certain foods. If it's a mix of food in general, I am screwed. Cafeterias and restaurants makes this extremely hard. Even just the mixture of people eating random food at their desks at work makes me uneasy. Especially if onions are prominent.

Now most of these I have to face and over come every day. I try to work through them and I believe the more I deal with them the better they will get. Well, I hope so. At least I have only a 48 days till this should go away!

In other news: Jana returns in 3 days. Sad part is when she returns, Jos ditches me at work. I'm the sucka now. For three weeks at least. I still have a lot to do. I have a feeling I will somehow get it all in with no time to spare. We will see.

Rest of the weekend....

Friday after spending the day at the orchard, some of the group and others joined us at our casa for pizza. It was fun just to veg out after a long day. After spending an hour talking with our "slightly" inebriated neighbors, I think we passed out by 10. Saturday morning we arose early and boy, I got a lot done. I really got to cross off quite a few things off my list. I finished washing and putting away all baby clothes per size for up to 6 months. That was a giant chore. I cleaned out Jake's clothes and his dresser. Another ridiculous task. The kid has clothes coming out of his ears. We got rid of the toddler bed and he is now sleeping in style on a full twin. Complete with Thomas the Tank Engine sheets. Honestly. Ugh. He finally allowed us to put a stinking pillow on his bed. Took over 3 years but he slept on it! Michael had to run over to a friends to help pull wire for about 2 hours and then we spent the afternoon cheering on Iowa (good job boys!!), routing for Texas (nice upset!), and laughing so hard that OSU finally got their butts kicked and were brought down off their high horse. All while, folding laundry, cleaning the kitchen, knitting, making out Christmas shopping lists, and getting our play on with Jake. We cuddles for a viewing of Iron Man 2 and then retired at midnight. All to wake up today to early church, grocery shopping and back to the orchard! Another gorgeous day! My pelvis will definitely hate me tomorrow but oh well. It was already mad at me for Friday and it will be out for vengeance tomorrow. It was so nice out and it was with great company! We spent the rest of the late afternoon watching the Vikings. That game had the most ridiculously ending I have seen in a long time. Then we took Gabby back to my parents house. I think she was ready to go home. Four days with Zoey and Hawkeye is just too much, even for normal people. My parents got home early so we got to see them after their long vacation! Jake was way excited! We are now crashing and it's only 7:30. Tomorrow I get the honor and privileged to go back to work. Barf. High point of the week...JANA COMES FOR A VISIT! That means dinners, OTB dates with Jana and Becky (I guess the men too) and other things! I have missed her so! Yes we may text an obscene amount but still. Sadly, this is Josie's last week at work. I think I might cry. Upside....that means only 3 weeks left of work for me. SUCKAS! 

Here are some photos from our orchard trip today!

Jumping

Hayride

Corn Maze

Orchard 2010

Every year we head up to Cambridge and every year we have a complete blast! Michael took Friday off work and we headed up in the morning to spend a gorgeous morning with friends. We of course stopped by Starbucks (our normal routine) and after making a quick detour to D and J's house, we were on our way. When we got there we could notice some major changes that they completed over the year. First off, the new main building. Can we say awesome?! I believe so. The store is larger, there are more things to purchase and the way to just pay and get in makes so much more sense. We spent a good two hours with the feeding the animals, playing the corn pool, riding the tractors, and waking around to all the little fun activities they have. Jake and Norah loved just being free and running around. Ellen and her kiddos arrived and we ate some lunch at the new restaurant barn. We headed over to the "big pillow" to let the kids (this includes Michael) jump around and burn off some more energy. The next stop was the big slide. Jake was too scared to go down. Bless his heart. Everyone else had a blast racing down the slide. We headed back up to the corn pool and let Jake and Connor run around for another hour or so. Those boys probably could have stayed there forever.

Here are some photos of our adventure.

The goats

Duck races

 

Norah petting the horse

Corn Pool!

Family of 3, about to be 4

I see you!

Kisses

Tractor rides

Animal feeding

Jumping pillow

Giant Slide

My BIG kid!

Gorgeous or what?

Completely love

4 days off...not really.

I have today and tomorrow off work. 4 day weekend! Score! We had a few things planned but nothing to huge. Now we literally have 2-3 things going on everyday until Monday. How does this happen? I have no idea. I am looking forward to spending time with good friends and just being able to act silly with our kids.

We also have a new member in the house for 4 days. Her name would be Gabby and she is the dog of my parents. It is a weird dynamic in the house. Hawkeye is way territorial. I think more of Zoey then anything. Zoey is super submissive to Gabby and then Gabby just pretty much keeps to herself. Unlike our dogs, she is a butt sniffer so she is always up in Hawkeye and Zoey's business. She is an older dog so the only downfall is she usually has to go to the bathroom around 3:30-4 in the morning. Just one more thing to get us ready for the baby!

I am sure I will have photos to post after this weekend. Michael took the day off tomorrow also so I'm way looking forward to that!

Lame blog, I know.

Finally did it!

We had to some training this morning and it gave me the opportunity to make my lists! I have a "to do" list before the big day. I have a list of everything we need to pack and bring to the hospital attached to this list is a list of everything of Jake's we need to take to my parents house. I then have a list of things I still need to buy and miscellaneous items that didn't fall under any of my other categories. After I finished it, I think I about had a heart attack. I think the "to-do" list was my shocker. I decided though, I will take it top to bottom (and same on the next page). I have the day off tomorrow and Friday so I hope that I will be able to kick start this list! We don't seem to have much going on so I really, really hope I can get a good start!

How many more days till Nov 19th?

Who needs sleep right? I think waking up 4-6 times a night is worse then just getting 7 hours of light sleep. They say you have vivid dreams when you are pregnant. I had a few with Jake. I think the most insane one I had was a T-Rex was reeking havoc on downtown Des Moines and somehow Lucas killed him. It was just way beyond anything I have ever dreamed before in my life.The people, the scenario, the hero, the villain, and half the time I think it was in 3-D. Well this time around, I get them at the least 3 times a night. They are all different. I wake up between each one and they never have a common link. I wake up for about 2-3 minutes in between, then they start all over again. If I could remember them and write them down, I would. I could make money on them. I tell you what, I have one crazy imagination. People appear that I haven't seen for 10-15 years. People I completely forgot about. I would love to just go to bed and wake up at 4:50 AM. No dreams, no wake ups, just sleep. I feel like I have only received about 2 hours of sleep. It is really causing me to dislike work. I think mainly because I am tired so my annoyance level increases for immaturity and stupidity 200%. There I said it. I'm constantly bombarded with both at work. I just keep thinking: "__ amount of days till break". That is what keeps me going. Sad but true. I loathe walking into that place everyday. The only thing that keeps me going is the people. Even then, Mrs Flatness is leaving me in 7 days. I am going to cry. I cannot manage that. I will explode. Who in the world is going to really get me? Just not fair! The amount of immaturity I have to deal with or see everyday makes me think that High School was never that bad. The circus we work in, it's just, mind boggling. Don't get me wrong, not everyone is "clown" material but there are days. I need a ray of hope! Also, it seems all our underwriters, okay, 75% of them are thinking they are the cats meow and can get away with walking all over everyone. They all think they are the most important and that they deserve all the attention. I feel like I'm working with a bunch of 2 year olds. I get a headache just thinking about it. Recently it seems like they want us to do everything for them, including wiping their butts. Now I will say it is not all of them. I love a few of them. They keep me going. Just the issues I have been dealing with recently are just insane. The "cheating" is becoming a little out of hand. If we are not competitive, just let it go. Stop trying to give it away. This will not work and will backfire!  Again, tiredness and hormones are probably making it sound worse then it is.

Enough said on that. I just had a horrible day today and needed to vent a little! I could have gone way more into detail and all that but I really don't feel like it. I just need to take it one day at a time and breathe. Just breathe. 

That and 10 days till Jana comes to visit!