This helped. :)

Doctor

So I went to the doctor yesterday. There's definitely something in there. :) They put my due date around the 8-10th of December, but I don't expect to go that long... at least if he follows Dr. Hulme's trend. I liked the doctor. He seemed very nice, but I really REALLY missed Dr. Hulme. There's something comforting about going to someone who knows you and your body well. This pregnancy has been hard enough for a number of reasons, and having to sit in someone else's strange office yesterday... well, I know I'm hormonal, but I was nearly in tears the whole time. Of course I bawled like, well like a baby, in the car after I left. Being sick again hasn't helped that. In some ways it hasn't been as bad as with the others, but when it's bad... it's BAD. Incapacitating and not even Zofran does anything. Last night I was doubled over in pain on our bed. Of course that may have been due to the fact that I pushed myself too hard in Water Aerobics, but all I wanted to do was curl up and cry. And Sunday I went to church came home and couldn't do anything but lay around, felt so bad. Anyways. Basically I have days when I barely need the Zofran, mostly just to take the edge off, and then I have days when as long as I eat soon, I'm okay. And then I have DAYS.

Anyways. I have a bad attitude about the whole thing, and I know I should be grateful. But it's hard to be grateful when you feel like crap, weren't planning this, and miss your mom like Hell.

UPDATING!!!! :D

*****UPDATE: So BLOGGER is stupid and decided to upload all my pictures Backwards(!) from the way that I added them... urgh.... so all the captions are meant for the pictures at the top of each section and down... what a pain. I'm not gonna go back and try to re upload them all, so just ... you know... play along.

So I figured it was time I update my blog! :D

Here's some pics of what we've been up to.

We had a Easter Egg Hunt/ Easter Party with the homeschool group at a local park.




Really, the candy is all that matters!


We went to the Strawberry Festival in Poteet, TX. The boys rode some rides and we ate a lot! Mmmm. Strawberry Nachos!!!!





Ike enjoyed his slushee but had to show how cold it was!

We went egg rolling at a quarry/construction site, cause we didn't know where else to go! It was freezing cold! N complained and S slept in the car, but the big boys had a fun time!










D rolls his eggs with style. :)




So the Easter Bunny brought some Casta... Casten... Castaner... *doesn't speak Spanish*... colorful eggs filled with confetti...

The boys loved crushing them and rolling them down the driveway. N preferred to use his head to crush them. (Go figure.)






I love that first picture! It is Ike crushing one on S's head!!!! LOL!!! (If you click on the picture, you can see the confetti flying!)

S with confetti on his head! :D



I call this one "Noah" :D It looks like he's feeling for rain... get it? :P ..... He was tossing eggs.


This sums up our homeschool experience so far.

At the Alamo. Can't live in San Antonio and not go there. D got an awesome package from his Fort Rucker class. And so he wanted a picture to send back to them!


Yesterday, we went to the Zoo with some friends (we got a membership cause we knew we'd go a lot!). D loves to show off for the camera! :)





Yes, Ike has to go potty in the one picture....

And yes, the zebra is doing what it looks like he's doing. Thank you, Big D, for showing us your amazing photography skills by taking a picture of it. :P


And, yes, I am pregnant. I am still in my first trimester though. We were planning to go to the doctor last Wed but I just got so busy and we had to take care of some insurance stuff... so I go on Monday. *sigh* No, this wasn't planned. And yes, I would like a girl. :)

Totally HP related....

Filming of Deathly Hallows....

Emma sure is growing up nicely, eh? And look at Dan... filling out nicely as well! :)

Too bad the movie's gonna suck. We can still hope...

Just sharing...

Need... Cadbury... must have... Cadbuhhhhhhh.... *dies*

LOL!!

I like the Russian Baby. :P

So I found Hooked on Classics on iTunes... My brothers will know what I mean... at least I'm sure the older will remember fondly...

So for Music/PE we decided to turn on Hooked On A Can Can and go nuts. It was so much fun!! Ah, memories. If you don't know what Hooked on Classics is, I recommend looking it up! :)

Allow me to explain...

:P

We moved here because the hubs had a sure thing to work for his unit... for at least a month. After that, we didn't know. But for at least a month he'd have a job. We'd hoped, and still are hoping, that once his unit returns from Iraq in May, that more Active positions will open up, and he'll have a job and we can stay here. That said, we don't know for sure that will happen... so he applied to work for the CounterDrug Unit... based out of Austin with positions available in Austin, Houston, and Dallas... everywhere but here. There are 15 candidates for the three jobs and he is interviewing for them on Wed of next week. If he gets one, we'll have to decide if we want to uproot and move again for a sure job that pays what we want, or take our chances here hoping that a position will open up in May knowing that might not happen... and then what? It's extrememly complicated (STRESSFUL) and part of why I had such a hard time deciding on a place for us to live here in San An... cause I had to find a place that would let us out of our lease if needed be... etc. without a lot of hassle. And it's the reason I am home-schooling David, aside from that I've always wanted to try it...


That's it in a nutshell... :)

Of course we may decide not to take the counterdrug job anyways, and just look for more around here, knowing that we'll take a pay cut... but that's also why I chose this place to live... and why we're glad we don't have a lot of bills! Oi.

Oh MAN!!!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!


Despite my better judgement, I love them. And this is just too much!

Misc... this n that

So I talked to the dooder who's doing mom's headstone today. Called him three times and left messages. Then I called back around 5:00 and he apologized profusely that it has taken him so long to finish the project. He had mentioned last Nove when we took the stone to him, that his mother was ill also. Apparently she just passed away last month and so he's been a bit busy. I totally understand. I told him I was just glad it was getting done and he said that he had his guys in the back working on it right then. So hopefully it will be done by the end of next week.... now let's hope that the cemetery doesn't reject it. Urgh.

So, tomorrow will conclude our first week of homeschool. My brain is fried. Big D is bored. I am trying very hard to juggle teaching him, giving him cool things to do and taking care of the other two. It doesn't help that he hadn't made any friends here till last night. A new family is moving in next door and they have a 7 year old boy (HALLELUJAH!) and they have played both last night and tonight. And we are gonna be starting the Homeschool Co-op next week which will hopefully help also. He's just SO SOCIAL! We have our first activity with them tomorrow... an Easter Party. Hopefully he'll make some friends.

The school part of the homeschooling seems to be going fine, it's just when we're done with that, he gets bored.

In the words of Nacho Libre... "GO! Go Away! Read some books!!"

In other news... I have all but the master bedroom unpacked and hubs has a job interview in Austin next week. :P

More rockin' music on the playlist. Sweet!