26 weeks

26 weeks down! 14ish to go!
it's all coming so fast now! yet really slowly at the same time.
Charlie moves everyday. she still likes to use my bladder as a trampoline and i'm sure that will only get more true the further along i get.
my pants no longer fit so i need to buy new ones but i'm to cheap and i don't want to buy pants that i may just have to get rid of because they're to big after she's born.
Travs family is throwing me a baby shower on October 13th and i can't wait to see what kind of things Charlie gets :)
Doctors appointment next week :)

Lies && Salsa

So on Tuesday morning I went to my moms house to make salsa like we do every year. it is quite delicious stuff really and it's never the same any year. ever. heck its never even the same between batches. one batch can be hot others can be not so hot. some are thick and some are not so much.

any who aside from the yumminess of the salsa my batch i got this year is quite hot. which Travis lied to me about the butt! I didn't get the chance to eat any until just now but Trav got to the other night. he said it wasn't hot. lies. it is quite hot. maybe it just seems that way because i'm pregnant and no matter what i eat it's different than it was before i got pregnant.

either way. the salsa is awesome and hot to my super hormone exposed taste buds.

Marvens return

About a week ago we got a hamster named Marven. well a couple days ago he was in his ball just rollin about and when no one was watching he managed to escape. We had no clue where he was. We didn't know if he had made it outside or if he was in the wall or if he was hiding under a pile of stuff or if Chewy had eaten him. He was just gone.
I had about decided he was gone forever when we went to bed last night. I figured he had escaped under the door was out in the world or had been eaten by a cat. Very possible theories, but not what happened.
Around 3 this morning Trav and I were sound asleep in our bed when I felt something crawling on my neck. Now at first I thought it was just a bug, maybe a spider so I went to get it off. When I touched it, it was big and hairy so I freaked out and threw it off of me. My first thought was that it was a tarantula. IDK why there would have been one in my house let alone in my bed but that's what I figured it was. For about the first 10 seconds. After I threw it off I sat up yelling, "Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!" Trav woke up completely confused and worried something was wrong. this is about the time I figured out it wasn't a tarantula or even a spider. "The hamster is still in the house!" now Trav is even more confused because he has no idea what's happened so far so I had to explain that either Marven had just attempted to climb on my face or a mouse, and we don't have mice in our house so I was 99% sure it was Marven.
I flipped on the lights and started searching. not under the bed. not in the pile of blankets. not in the pile of clothes. where the heck did I throw this hamster? finally I saw him. he was trying to crawl behind the bedside table but we have wood on our bedroom walls for decoration and it was blocking him from going behind more than about 2 inches. I caught the stupid hamster and put him in his cage.

when i got up this morning his cheeks were so full of food I don't even think he could chew. That's probably why he came out of hiding, he was hungry.

25 weeks

yay 25 weeks down!

this week i haven't been feeling the best. I had a super bad cold all week and have been sick to my tummy the last 2 days :(
i'm gaining weight and rather quickly. last thursday i went to the doctor and weighed 110.2 then on tuesday this week i went to a WIC appointment and weighed 112.6. talk about quick weigh gain.
My stomach feels tight all the time and my back is giving me more problems then usual now. I feel Charlie move every day and man does she kick hard lol

Remember 9/11/2001

11 years ago the Twin Towers were struck in New York, the Pentagon was hit in Virginia, Flight 93 crashes into a field in Pennsylvania.
At the time I was only 9 years old and wasn't exactly sure on what had happened.

The morning of September 11, 2001 I woke up to get ready for school as usual. The news was on like is was pretty much every morning and I saw the footage of the towers being  hit for the first time. All I wanted to do was cry. No I didn't know anyone in the towers, no I didn't even know anyone from New York. I knew what had happened. I knew a lot of people had died and even more were hurt. At the time I didn't know about the other highjacked planes and the other places they we're headed, I only knew about New York and I was scared.

I've always been a patriotic person. I had always considered joining the army even though I didn't think I would survive boot camp if I tried, but that morning all I wanted to do was fight. If i had been 18 and old enough to enlist I would have. There's no doubt in my mind that this day would have been the day I signed my life away to the army. If by the time I turned 18 I hadn't already been in a committed relationship with my now husband I still would have joined, but as it happens I was and our life was already being set and I decided the army wasn't for me.

I have yet to meet anyone who was directly affected by the September 11th attacks, which I mean I haven't met anyone who had family there or die in them, but I do know several people who joined the Armed Forces as a direct result of what happened that day. I know people who have died over seas defending our country that otherwise would not have been sent over seas if this had not happened.

The number of people they say died as a result is very high but in my opinion it's higher than people think. I not only count the people that were there that day, the ones in the buildings and planes and were hit, the firefighters and policemen, and all the people in the surrounding areas, I also count everyone who has died at war caused by these events. Now the number is much much higher and is still getting higher 11 years later.

This blog post is really sounding like an essay which it wasn't suppose to however I don't care. I wrote this to say Thank You to everyone who died or was injured that day and has since died or been injured because of it.

Thank you to everyone who cares about what happened.

Unforgettable September 11th photos

I know a lot of people don't like to look back on the photos and videos of what happened but I do. It helps me remember what happened and what is still happening.

24 weeks

24 weeks down! 6 months or so!
we went to the doctor on Thursday and our little girl is doing great
heart rate: 140
weight gained total: 10.2 pounds
they measured my tummy and said i'm all good there so nothing to worry about :)

I did the glucose this week and boy is that not a tasty drink. at least i got the orange one i hear the other one is super nasty.

This morning I woke up with a cold. wonderful. It's a horrible cold too. i can't breath i don't want to move i don't want to do anything but sleep. Making it even better is that medicines not really an option. well it is but not the stuff that actually helps :/

front view

24 weeks

23 weeks

23 weeks down 17ish to go :)

Charlie is moving a lot this week you can even see my tummy move sometimes

nothing has changed much since last week doctors appointment on Wednesday tho :)

lookin super pregnant