Help!

I need your help!  What are your suggestions on all things babies? 

I'm talking:

carseat
stroller
jogger
cloth dipers
bottles
baby wearing slings

Everything!

I'm new at all of this and I'd love to hear your favorites and not so favorites.

Chicken Breasts with Mozzerella Cheese

Earlier this week I decided to try a new chicken dish.  I found this recipe from WeLoveChicken.com

I choose one of their many recipe's and decided on their Chicken Breasts with mozzarella Cheese.  It was simple and actually quite delicious.  I served it on top of rice with a side of steamed broccoli.   Hubby gave it an A- and that means a lot coming from the man who doesn't normally like anything other than his main dishes.

Ingredients:
6 pieces boneless breast of chicken
4 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons butter
1 clove garlic
2 eggs
1 bouillon cube
1 can chicken broth
6 slices of Mozzarella cheese
Bread crumbs
Directions:

1. Dip boneless, skinless chicken breast in bread crumbs and eggs.
2. In a large skillet, heat olive oil, butter, garlic and melt bouillon cube. Make sure to put heat on low so oil doesn’t burn.
3. When oil is hot, brown chicken on both sides in oil, increase heat so chicken gets nice and brown on both sides, lower heat and add chicken broth. Simmer until hot.
4. Add Mozzarella cheese to top chicken.

19 Weeks

How far along? 19 weeks

 

Total weight gain: 5 lbs so far.  I need to quit eating those Oreo's! :-)

Maternity clothes?:  Finally purchased some maternity clothes and they are SO COMFORTABLE!  still wearing my dresses and comfy clothes, but now I have the clothes if I need to wear them.  I don't think I can fit into my jeans anymore, unless i use the Bella Band.

Sleep: Sleeping fine, just getting sick (already) of sleeping on my left & right sides.  Is it really that bad this early on to sleep on your back?

Cravings:  Just food in general.  Hence the 1/2 lb gain in a week!

Best moment this week: Hubby telling me he's really excited!

Movement: Maybe a little, still hard to tell.

Gender: You're guess is as good as ours! August 2nd cannot come soon enough! Don't forget to vote in the poll!

Labor Signs: No and stay away until December!

Belly Button in or out? In and I hope it stays in

What I miss: Having more energy, but still get kind of tired pretty early around 8:30-9:00

Weekly Wisdom: Take pictures, it's so fun to see the changes from week to week!

Milestones: None this week really, but 20 weeks will be pretty neat because we're 1/2 way there!

Favorite Moments: Belly getting a little bigger and starting to look like a baby bump!

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!!