Pregnancy Moments

Since I got pregnant I have gotten much more forgetful than I normally am. I seem to have more blonde moments than ever now.-Not that they didn't happen before, just that it happens more frequently now. For example, last night I loaded up the dishwasher and reached under the sink to grab the dishwasher detergent. I pulled out a bottle, looked at it quickly and started pouring it in. After I started pouring I realized that instead of the usual white liquid that comes out it was orange and runny. What the heck was I doing?! I had grabbed the dish soap and just started to pour it on into the dishwasher instead! I'm pretty sure I'm losing it! Chad got a good laugh out of that one. I had another pregnancy moment when I was at the grocery store last week. I was in the produce section at Hyvee picking out a green pepper. I must have been standing a little too close to the display of perfectly stacked peppers because as I turned to put the green pepper into my cart my belly knocked over a couple big red peppers and sent them rolling on the floor! Yep that's embarrassing to knock something over with your mongo pregnant belly! Right away a sweet little produce worker came over and picked them both up before I had a chance to attempt to akwardly bend over to pick them up and told me that it happens all the time and not to worry about it. Another thing that I've noticed is that I've become clumsier than ever. I was at the gym the other night and I had brought three things with me: keys, my phone, and my ipod. I got on the eliptical and was on my way. Within 10 minutes of being in the gym I managed to drop everyone of those things at least once! You can just call me butterfingers! I know I've had many, many more moments like these since I got pregnant, but I just can't remember them. So maybe some of you can relate to these pregnancy moments, and if not, maybe it'll give you a good laugh for the day.

Tractor Museum

This weekend we got a visit from this cute girl

Chad's sister Erica came to visit us for the weekend. We don't get to see Erica very often so it was so much fun to have her here! Since we didn't get her back from the airport until late Friday night we didn't start our activites until Saturday. We got the day started off right with Chad making us a big breakfast. Then we headed out to Target where Erica helped us finish up the last of our big baby purchases. Afterwards we took Erica over to the East Campus where the law school is. Since we were over there we decided to see the Tractor Museum. Yes there is actually a Tractor Museum here...pretty funny!

There were rows of all sorts of different tractors to be seen.

Basically Erica and I spent our time there taking random pictures to entertain ourselves during the tour. I look like I swallowed a basketball in this picture.

Our tour was given by this little old man. Come to find out he used to teach mechanical engineering. As you can tell by this picture, once he found out that Chad has his undergrad degree in engineering he ignored us for the rest of the tour and gave Chad his own personal tour with all the engineering extras in it. Chad loved every second of it! Although the musuem is probably not my favorite place in the world it was defininetly worth it to take Chad there because I know it made his day. Thanks Erica for making the trip out here! We loved having you here!

Hot and Cold

It is no surprise that our home is full of extremes...

These pictures were from last night...

My Hottie! (The Hot)

And this morning....

(The Cold)

Michelle is such a trooper and handling this pregnancy like a champ! She is amazing and I love her. Isn't she so cute!!!!

Winter beginning and visitors

The past couple of weeks it has started to get a bit cool here and feel like winter is settling in. With the coolness has come my least favorite part of Nebraska....the frigid wind. I can handle the cold temperatures and humidity, but the wind just about does me in. It may be 40 or 50 degrees outside one day, but with the wind chill it feels much, much colder. So we are back to the windy days with bad wind blown hair and broken umbrellas. However, on the plus side the cooler temps have made it so we can sleep with our window open at night and it's been absolutely fabulous. Since I have my little heater inside of me I am constantly getting overheated at night which makes me even more uncomfortable than I already am. But with the window open and the cool air flowing in I sleep much better. It's so great! Then there is poor Chad. Before we go to bed Chad turns on the fan and opens the window for me. Then he crawls under all the covers and throws the heaviest quilt we have on top of him hoping that he won't freeze to death. He deserves a gold medal for putting up with that alone. But that's not all he does for me. He will do just about anything to make me comfortable and goes out of his way to please me. Pretty much he is the BEST! I just love this boy!
This week has been crazy busy and so I'm a little late in getting around to posting this one. Last week we had Grandma and Grandpa Price come visit us. They were on their way down to Missouri to see the rest of the Burgin clan. We were lucky enough that we were able to spend the day with them and have them stay at our apartment. I left work a little early on Thursday and went home and we all chatted for a while before we went to dinner at the Olive Garden. We had a great time and the food was delicious! Then we came back to our apartment and played Mormon Bridge and "No Peekie". I had never won at Mormon Bridge until last night. It was great to have my moment of glory for just a minute before the next game when I came in dead last. haha Same thing happens when I bowl...one game I do really good and then next game I score like a 50. We had a great time playing games and chatting with them. Grandma and Grandpa were so funny! We just love them and feel so grateful that they came and visited us.

Confessions of a watermelon addict

Summer has come and gone already and fall has officially begun. I tend to dread the end of summer because I know it means a few things. Not only does it mean that long sunshiny days filled with warmth will be replaced by the bitter cold winds of winter, flip flops and shorts being tucked away for the season, but it also means that watermelon will no longer be in season.-Yep that last one is a big deal for me. Anyone that knows me knows that I absolutely LOVE watermelon. If I could eat one food all day every day it would be watermelon hands down. It's just that good! I remember when I was younger I would ask my parents if I could move my birthday from January to the summer so that I could have watermelon. Now that's probably what you call an addiction, but I guess there could be worse things right. I've been buying watermelons throughout this whole summer and savoring every minute of it. However, the last one I bought was nasty! Seriously I was so dissapointed because I knew it was one of the last ones I would probably buy and I ended up throwing it away because it tasted so bad. This week I went to the grocery store and carefully picked out a nice big watermelon in hopes that I could top of the summer with a good one. Yesterday as I cut it open I was thrilled that it was a nice juicy red one! Tasted fabulous too! Oh happy day! What a great way to end the summer!

I've got the tireds

If you know my mom then you will laugh at the title of this post. My mom would frequently say this phrase in a rather sleepy voice right after we finished dinner. Somtimes seconds later she was actually asleep at the dinner table. I think this phrase pretty much sums up our life right now. I've made it to my 7th month and I feel like I am tired all the time. I also tend to stress myself out by thinking of what feels like 90 billion things that I need to do before the baby comes. My mind is constantly filled with things such as: Does he have enough clothes, when will I get the carseat, what if I have the baby early, what books should I have been reading, do we have everything we need, how will we afford everything when I quit my job, etc, etc. I feel like all of the sudden December has gotten really close and there is so much that needs to be done that I haven't even started. That thought alone can wear me right out. My lunch breaks at work used to be spent walking are now usually spent sleeping because I apparently can no longer manage to work 8 hours without a nap in there somewhere. Ridiculous! Then there is Chad. This poor guy has an insane schedule. He is still swimming in the mornings at 5:30am, working way too many hours, taking both MBA and law classes, keeps up with his busy calling, trying to find a job for next summer, and on top of that all still makes time for me. I'm not sure how he does it all, but I do know he keeps plugging away even though he's exhausted. He's pretty much amazing and I feel grateful to have a husband that works so hard for us.

In other news, last night I went on a Target run and found myself a diaper bag. The best part about it is that it's actually not a diaper bag, it's a PURSE! It's big, red, cute, and I'm in love with it. So I will happily be toting around my very large red purse instead of a diaper bag when our little man comes. Oh and to make it even better I got a killer deal on it! Gotta love Target!

Labor Day Weekend Getaway

This Labor Day weekend we decided we would head down to Missouri and stay with the Burgins. We didn't get our things packed the night before so we didn't even leave until 6pm...putting us at their house almost at midnight. We probably would've gotten there sooner if it weren't for the many rest stop breaks we had to take. I've discovered that I now get SUPER uncomfortable in the car when I'm traveling. My body gets all stiff and achy and then when we finally do stop I can barely stand up because I'm so stiff. Needless to say this will probably be our last long road trip before our little guy arrives. Despite the uncomfortable drive down there I'm SO glad we went! On Saturday Teri and I headed out to Springfield on a hunt for a rocking chair. We literally shopped until we dropped! We were lucky to find the perfect chair that both of us loved so much that we will probably have matching chairs. We had a great time! We made it home just in time to have dinner and watch the BYU game. It was fun to see BYU pull out a win against OU. (I'm ok with cheering for BYU just as long as they aren't playing the Utes.) Sunday night we played a little mormon bridge and it was shocking to me that I didn't come in last. Mormon bridge is a big deal on the Price side of the family. Last year I played it at Bear Lake with the entire Price family (which is a lot of people!) in a huge competition where everyone played. It was pretty intense stuff! They all have been raised playing this game and are pros. I pretty much came in last every game, but it was still a good time. This time I think I came in 3rd or 4th so maybe I'm improving. Then on Monday Teri and I did some more shopping for baby stuff and found some good sales while Chad and the boys rode the four wheelers. It was hard to leave and come back to real life after such a fun weekend, but it was great to be able to spend some time with family. We did take our camera with us but I never pulled it out of the bag to snap some pictures while we were there. So sorry for the lack of pictures...I'll try to be better next time.