I love her!

I have been a gigantic fan of this lady for a few weeks now. It started November 1st and every commercial has been absolutely fantastic! Her workouts and game plans....they are just fantastic. This card one takes the cake! I saw this commercial on Black Friday and about peed my pants! I couldn't stop laughing! Mainly because I could see myself and a few of my friends doing this! I will miss her after Christmas and I hope she returns next year!

Holiday Flicks

With late night feedings and a lovely incision that is limiting my mobility, I have found myself watching movies like a mad person. I am excited because I am getting my fix in of holiday movies. I have quite a few that I love and have to watch around the Christmas season. Usually I have to keep watching them into January but due to maternity leave, I have watched almost all!

Movies I have to watch at Christmas time:

While You Were Sleeping

Elf

A Christmas Story

Love Actually

Funny Farm 

Home Alone and Home Alone 2

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

The Polar Express

Babes in Toyland (ft Keanu Reeves and Drew Barrymore. Keep laughing, it's okay.)

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Die Hard and Die Hard 2 (What? They take place on Christmas Eve!)

Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer

How The Grinch Stole Christmas (Ft Jim Carrey)

It was bound to happen....

It's that time of the year again! When you get on KCCI.com and there are weather alerts. You click on that one link that says "Road Conditions" and get into a little funk. Get ready Iowans! It's just the beginning!

Something new

This year is marks a new peg. It's the first time in 7 years we are not traveling south to Arkansas for Thanksgiving. With my due date a week and a half away, we thought it best to not travel down. I really do not need an Arkansas birth thank you! Michael still makes fun of me and says it answers a few questions that I was born in Missouri. Har Har. I will miss the warmth. It is usually 20+ degrees warmer down there. Take today. They high down in Bella Vista is 71 degrees. Yes it may be rainy but that is a whole lot better then the current 27 degrees it is out now. Our high for Thanksgiving is 21. Are you kidding me?! I expect that on Christmas Day, not Thanksgiving. The high down there is at least 42! The first year we aren't going down and they are actually suppose to receive a rain/ice mix on Friday. The whole town will shut down if it happens! With us not going down it frees us up for the whole Thanksgiving, 4 day weekend. Well, not 4 day for me but for Michael. I'm on a 64 day vacation! 

Wednesday. Normally at this time we are packing up the car and driving down south. The whole day of Wednesday was spent driving down. Today Micheal is working which he never has done before the day before. I get to spend the day baking and relaxing. I do have a doctors appointment but that isn't till 4. A day that use to be pretty stressful turned into a day of relaxation. I welcome it!

Thursday. Usually the men (Chuck, Dave, Michael and Andy) would spend the morning cleaning up Grandma's yard while the women cooked and took care of the young ones. We usually ate around 1 and then crashed. Tomorrow, different story. Michael gets to relax on a day off! He is a tad bit excited about it! I have to cook 1 thing for lunch and it's crock pots job! We are heading over to my sisters at noon to eat our selves out of our pants and I am so looking forward to it. Being pregnant over Thanksgiving has it's perks! Although, I am getting to that point where I am running out of room so I don't eat as much. I will just have to snack throughout the day. The rest of the afternoon will be spent with football and my family. We haven't had a Thanksgiving together, well, ever since Michael and I got together. I think we need to start alternating. Especially since we have children now. 

Friday. Black Friday. No one in Michael's family is very gung-ho on Black Friday shopping. Now, I do have all my Christmas presents bought, wrapped and under the tree but I still love going early in the morning! My dad and did it a few times when we I lived at home and loved it! The people alone are insane and I love it! I don't even need to buy anything but if we come home with a new TV or something along those lines, oh well. I have quite a few things saved in "checkout boxes" at a few places online. Let's hope they don't crash! Most of the items are hoodies and comfy pants for the hospital. Also, GAP is needing pajama outfits for 14-19 year old woman for a organization in Des Moines. I need to pick some of those out. I believe Old Navy is having crazy deals on PJ's! 

We then will just have a normal weekend!! We are already 95% done decorating and all done with wrapping gifts! I have a few homemade ones to finish up and the weekend will hopefully be perfect for it! I also have an idea or two for some last minute gifts. I also have to think of a few gifts for our white elephant Christmas party in December with friends. Looking forward to that evening!! Odd to think we will have another baby at that time!

I will miss the time in Arkansas with Michael's family. I know Jake will miss time with his cousins. I will miss the warmer weather and the hours of playing football. I am embrace the change in scenery for this Thanksgiving and I am thankful for so many things! We are truly blessed!

Thank you!

I may get flack from this due to a few family members being fans but I would like to thank Richard Seymour for finally doing what millions have wanted to do for a while. Punch Ben Roethlisberger in the face. First off his last name is a pain in the butt to spell. Rothlessburger. That is how it should be spelled. It makes him sound like a horrible piece of steak that no one will eat. Second, the guy is a douche. I am sorry but he is. His past actions and attitude has really turned me off to anything he has ever done. I would gladly take the $25,000 fine for letting him have it. That man makes my skin crawl. 

I also have an idea. This whole helmet to helmet situation. I witnessed a few fines that were given as a result from some games this weekend and started thinking about this situation. They started fining players for unnecessary helmet to helmet contact. I think it has prevented some but not all cases. There are some hot heads on the football field. My proposal is this: Whoever you hit helmet to helmet, you pay them the $35,000 instead of the NFL. I am sure players will knock that off immediately. Losing your money to the NFL isn't as depressing and losing it to another player. Just an idea.

Again, thank you Richard Seymour! I owe you one! =)

HP and a few other things

Friday was my last day. It went well. Very quick and busy. Turns out somehow my time is all messed up and the nurse and I are playing phone tag and it's really getting old. She has to be the hardest person to get a hold of. After getting ditch work early Becky and I headed to Monterrey! Amazing as usual. The cheese sauce was perfection along with our chicken chimi's! After stuffing our faces we headed to JC and walked around a bit. Turns out Michael ditched work also and met us for the movie. The movie was pretty fantastic. There were a few parts that I felt were extremely slow but payout was good. There were a few moments that I knew didn't belong but what can you do? Overall it was great and I enjoyed seeing "the darker side" and can't wait till the 2nd part! The rest of the evening I spent with a 3 year old! Michael had to go over to Max's to work till about 9. Jake and I watched a movie and cuddled. It was pretty fantastic! =)

Saturday we awoke early. According to Michael, too early for a Saturday. We headed over to my sisters house to babysit. Her hubby had to work till noon and she was headed off to KC with friends! The kids were all pretty good and the morning flew by! We didn't get home till about 1:30 and Jake went down for a nap. He was extremely tired. We watched as Iowa failed to come up with the win against Ohio State. I honestly was shocked we played as well as we did. Michael and I planned out our list and decided to go grocery shopping that night instead of our usual Sunday. It was an adventure. Even though we went around 7ish, it was still insane. On a good note we got everything but 2 things on our list! We got home and put Jake to bed and proceeded to be lame and go to bed around 10! 

Sunday was typical. Although, we completely slept through church. Ugh. I forgot to set my alarm Saturday night and we woke up a little too late to make it on time. Depressing. We basically stayed at home all day and cleaned, did laundry, played and colored with Jake, watched some football, and zonked. The whole family took a 3 hour nap together and it was heaven! I loved every second of it! Although, we all stayed up later then usual due to that long of a nap. I was suppose to go to Ingrid Michaelson at Prairie Meadows with some friends but I was exhausted. I got the privilege of seeing her earlier this year so I didn't feel too bad. I missed the girl time but Jake honestly, really didn't want me to go anywhere. He has been very "mommy" lately and gets upset if I leave to run an errands or just leave the room period. I think it's the baby and knowing that it's right around the corner. So we had family time which resulted in Michael and Jake dancing for a few hours. That is pure entertainment right there. 

Now I am home for my first official day off work. I sort of don't know what to do with myself currently. Jake is still going to my mom's because the boy is OCD and loves his schedule. We didn't want to break it so Monday-Wednesday he is going there this week. Then it's turkey day! It is the first time in 7 years that we aren't going to Arkansas. It's a weird feeling but I welcome the change. To be at home for once, it will be nice. Other then the year that Michael was in Iraq, this is his first time in about 20 years of not going. We have a good reason and I'm sticking to that! 

I think I'm going to work on some projects. One thing about being home is, day time TV sucks. I've just been listening to music and working through the morning! Zoey is loving me being home. She hasn't left my side or my lap. I am trying to finish up a scarf and it's hard with a pup sitting on your lap!

Well, the day is finally here; tomorrow is my last day at work until 2011. It's surreal and a shock. I'm excited about not having to go into work everyday and being able to be off work for the holidays. I am just going to go in panic mode since the big day is two weeks from Monday. I just have to get through Thanksgiving first. I'm going to miss going in and seeing certain peoples faces everyday. It will be nice to be at home though and be able to take a nap when I want or wear sweats all day! Just being able to have some down time before the baby comes will be great! Time to relax and enjoy some quiet!

Tomorrow is going to be a fantastic day!! I get off work at 10:30, then I am heading to JC for lunch and to take part in the Harry Potter phenomonom! I am pretty excited about this movie! I really wish I would have read the book again. I will definitley read it before June. I just didn't know where they were going to cut the movie off and I hope they don't mess this one up like the Half Blood Prince. We will see tomorrow!