Maternity Clothes and some tidbits

I just bought some maternity clothes and now, I'm not sure if I'll ever go back to wearing regular clothes.  Holy comfortable!  Just saying :-)

Happy Wednesday!!!

Last weekend we headed to Noah's Ark in Wisconsin Dells.  If you've never been there, you're totally missing out!  It's America's Largest Waterpark and is O SO FUN! 

Hubby is building his own telescope.  You've seen his handwork before on speakers, now he's moved to a whole new level.  Here's a picture of his latest speakers that he built and designed, for my Brother & SIL's Wedding gift.

I think they turned out great!

I'm enjoying my time home during the month of July, but I've noticed that it's soooooo easy to get lazy while being home all day long! 

I'll be 19 weeks tomorrow!!!

I start my internship on August 4th and need to get 400 hours in, hopefully before baby comes.

Do any of you own a Flip Video camera?  I'm thinking of purchasing one because I need to do 3 video tapes for my professor of counseling sessions and I think it'd be neat to have around once Baby Crane arrives.

I cannot believe it's almost August.  Where has the summer gone???  

I get to see my bestie Pam next week while she's riding through our town on Ragbri!  Yippy!!!

That's all for now.  Enjoy the beautiful day!!

The one with the cheating comment

Ok, so first off I need to clarify.  I do not nor have I ever condoned cheating, neither does hubby.  This was merely a joke made by hubby not to offend anyone or give anyone any weird ideas.

Hubby:  So, I was doing some calculations and when do you think you're due?
Me:  December 23rd because I have 5 week cycles instead of the typical 4, but the doc says Dec. 16th because of my cycle dates.
Hubby:  Ok, because if you're actually due on Dec. 16th, I was in Arizona (no where near our home state) and it's not possible unless you cheated on me.
Me:  You never know (joking of course)
Hubby:  If that baby comes out anything but white, I'm so leaving you.
Me:  I can't believe you just said that!  As if that would ever happen.
Hubby:  O, I know, I'm just saying.
Me:  Only you would say something like that.

Oh, the things he says.  He knows I would never do that and we have a very trusting relationship, he just says goofy things form time to time.  He never fails to surprise me. 

Out of the mouth's of Husbands :-)

Boy or Girl??

August 2nd is the big day my friends!  My 20 week ultrasound!!!  We've decided to find out if little Monkey is a girl or a boy.  We're secretly hoping (not so secretly anymore) that it's a boy, BUT could really careless at this point.  We're really hoping for a healthy, normal baby, boy OR girl. 

August 2nd at 10:00 cannot come soon enough! I don't know how some of you wait the whole 9 months, more power to you!  I'm way to anal for that stuff. 

We have decided that if all goes well with this first pregnancy and baby, we will have one more baby.  And with that one, we will wait the entire 9 months to find out.  I just figure the first one is a surprise in itself and the second one is a bit different because you've been through it before. 

So what are your thoughts on the subject? Did you, would you, will you find out what you're having?  Why or why not?  I think it's each persons preference and that's ok.  I actually admire those of you who have the willpower not to find out! :-)

P.S.  I'm going to try to put up a poll on the right hand side of my blog (if I can figure it out) so vote!

My Big Brothers Wedding!

This past weekend, my older brother got married, finally!! haha  Just kidding, he's only 28, that's not too bad.  Anyway, he's my only sibling and I didn't even get a sister when I got married, so now I officially have a Sister-in-Law!  Here are a few pics, enjoy!  Hubby and I were both in the wedding and we had a blast!

Congrats Brandon & Natalie!!

Aren't they gorgeous??

Hubby and I with the Bride and Groom

My beautiful Mother and I!

Wedding party..... I didn't have a better pic than this

My wonderful parents

Hubby and I dancing the night away!

Jesse and his BIL

The Newlyweds dancing.  Isn't my brother handsome??

Jesse's parents came to the wedding! It was nice to see him!

Taking a quick break from dancing!

It was a very fun night and everything was beautiful!   Thanks for letting us be apart of your special day you two!  I hope you are enjoying the start of your honeymoon!!

Maternity Clothes

Alright all of you Mama's or Mama's to be, maternity clothes.... what, when, from where?

I'm in that stage where my pants are getting a bit tight.  I  bought a bellaband (sp?), but have just been sticking to dresses and comfy clothes for now.  I recently went on Gap.com and found about 5 maternity shirts that I ordered because they were all on sale.

Other than that, I am clueless.  When did you start buying, what size, how did you know what you would need and where did you buy it from?

I don't want to spend a fortune, but I'm going to be doing an internship, so I'll need nice clothes.  Any help you can give would be great!

Product Review

Thanks to the wonderful people at CSN, I was able to do a product review for you guys!  They contacted me back in May and it has taken me this long to get organized to post about it.  Let me tell you, it's been one heck of a summer, already!

Anyway, onto the product review.... In choosing a product, I wanted something that was useful and something I would enjoy.  I decided on the Cuisinart Round Classic Waffle Maker in Brushed Stainless

Let me tell you, these waffle's were delicious!!!

All in all, I was very impressed with the taste.  I'm not huge on presentation, so even though this doesn't look perfect, it tasted perfect!

Thanks CSN!

New Deck

If I haven't mentioned it yet (and you know I have)  we've been VERY busy this summer!  To kick summer off, we decided a new deck was needed.  Hubby and a friend tore down the old gross rotting accident waiting to happen of a  deck.  I think they did an excellent job.  My husband had 2 friends help and his father come for a weekend to finish it off.  Thanks to all who chipped in!!

This is the deck when we first moved in.  It has gotten pretty crap over the 3 years we've been here, as they did not treat it correctly.  

Everything's ready... O and they killed all 5 of my bushes in the process of building this deck!

It's a start!

We're getting there!

Hard at work. This is my FIL and our friend Kaleb

Just standing around I guess.... haha just kidding!

The railing is going up!

Almost finished!

Finished product!  Isn't it beautiful?!?!  I just love it!

Thanks for everyone's hard work that helped us out!