Oh wait a baby shower? For me? Yes!  :party:   My sister-in-law (Dora) threw me a surprise baby shower because everyone knows I’m a bit shy when the spotlight is around me…and most of all I HATE opening presents in front of people. Oh my it causes me such anxiety, Christmas time is horrible for me… I rather get nothing at all then have to open presents in front of a group. But it went well and the baby got very spoiled. We got a crib, bassinet, swing & quite a few cute outfits! :smiles: JP’s family truly spoiled us! We did co-ed and that meant the men by the end of night were outside drinking…and I ended up driving home. :bubbley: JP is knocked out in bed right now & well that kind of sucks because I can’t turn the shower on for my night time shower…the thing you pull to take a shower is REALLY stuck and takes a lot of he-man power to pull it

Ohhh me I couldn’t help but to upload some of the pictures we took today…but none of these made the cut for the Holiday Cards we are sending out… I’ll post those once I get the cards done  :hugs: I’m hoping to have the cards tomorrow so I can have them all sent off on Monday morning   :smiles: Enjoy this goofy picture of us… and no I could not stop laughing. JP kept doing weird things and then would pose all cool for the camera  :rolly: More pictures in my flickr!! Oh and have I mentioned how much I love that I haven’t had to do a credit card cash advance for Christmas?? This makes me very happy! :geek:

so I decided to take a few pictures of the Christmas tree but the ring flash I was using wasn’t giving me the results I wanted. Kind of upset because I’m not feeling too patient tonight at all. Ugh almost all of the pictures aren’t at all what I wanted… I think I’m gonna go grab my 50mm lens & my other flash… I want a decent Christmas tree picture darnit!! Ugh maybe my other flash will help with the lighting… I love how I let the silliest things frustrate me.. don’t be surprised if I blog more silly rants. Blame the Reese’s mini peanut butter cups.. too much sugar.

Wow at me waking up before 8am today & yesterday. Insane! I usually was up at around 9:15am every morning but I’ve been doing early mornings & getting a full day of stuff done. Yesterday I finished ALL my laundry, everything is clean and it feels wonderful not to have to think about that anymore.    Today I got a bunch of cleaning done but I am taking breaks a lot because baby boy is starting to pull down and making me tired even quicker. Even sitting on the sofa right now I can feel  him and it feels like he’s just pulling me down. xp

Last night we stopped by the grocery store because I had to stop by the bank to make a deposit & while there they had small Christmas trees on sale for 75%! I was so happy that they had these lighted trees for only $5 because we almost bought a non-lit one for $6  at Target. Oh and if anyone wants to know what to get me for Christmas, well I’d love a leather home theater seating. Ya know.. that would be freaking awesome. I think I’m going to put away a few things & then play with my camera a bit. My Christmas tree is begging to be photographed…oh man tomorrow we gotta take our Christmas card pictures. Is Monday too late to send out cards? They might be a little late…maybe I’ll just make them holiday cards with New Year included? :bubbley:

So this morning I went to the mall with Charles (my uncle who’s only 4 years older then me) and had a scary little spell that made me very happy that I hadn’t gone shopping alone today. When we were in the gap (I got Micah this for only $12!) I started getting a bit light headed which is normal with my very low iron levels so I do these like squat things & make sure to keep walking around. If I stand still too long the blood “puddles up” in my legs (my doctor’s words :p ) so it’s a good thing for me to not just stand in one place. Well I’m good & thinking it is passing so we go to a watch place in the mall. While I’m standing there I get very dizzy again & start sweating. I took off my sweater and tried some breathing along with moving around but I was just so dizzy it felt like I was about to black out. I was scared because it hadn’t ever gotten this bad. So I tell Charles after he gets the watch I need to go to whatever food thing is closest to get water & whatever carby/sugary thing possible. So we finish up and I remember that I had forgotten to pick something up at Bath & Body Works so I really wanna just stop in to grab it so we don’t have to walk all the way back (this is a REALLY, REALLY large mall). We go ahead to the store since I won’t be browsing or anything I think I’ll be fine but after checking out I go to a corner and just squat in it while breathing really hard because I just can’t stand. And I’m starting to see black dots, I just sit there until I feel fine enough to walk to the nearest stand with food which happened to be Starbucks. I sat down while Charles got me a big cup of water & a blueberry coffee cake to help because a bit of food/water usually helps. And thank goodness we were done shopping because I didn’t even wanna attempt to try being in that mall any longer. I’m just so glad I wasn’t alone because there is no way I could have carried my own bags & gone through that. I was so scared I was just going to pass out at any moment. But once I got some food & water in me I was good, I crunched the whole cup of ice on the way home too. I took the rest of the day off to lay in bed & relax because I really just didn’t want to risk driving to the store. I’m giving myself tomorrow off too minus doing a bit of laundry.

I should be getting dressed to do Christmas shopping with Charles today buuuut I’m sitting here looking at ebay auctions of zebras with blue bows on their butts with my mom & talking about how my knees where really in pain last night so badly that I was up crying. Yeah yeah crybaby Pamela but I was just so exhausted and wanted to go to bed but my knees, legs & back were just acting up soooo bad I had to take a bath to help the swelling go down.

Oh how AWESOME did I do with groceries this week? I spent around $30!!

Anoooother doctor’s appointment, these are getting very tiresome. :p And sadly it is about to rain & I do NOT want to drive in the rain at all. I rather sleep through it…anyone else feel the same way? You know know what let’s just all jet a plane to las vegas nevada & gamble the night away. I’d include drinking but I’d be a bit jealous of all the fabulous drinks everyone else can have & I can’t. :q Heck I’d LOOOVE just a Michelob Ultra right now, I miss having a beer with dinner when I go out to eat. But you know what I’d give up all the adult beverages & raw sushi in the world forever if that’s what I had to for this little boy.

Ohhhh there are some REALLY good deals on cearal today, I’m so excited because I started to freak out last week when I saw I was on my last box of cheap mini-wheats! But this week I can get them for .49c a box & some others I’ll be getting are .29c a box! Uhhh hello stockpile of cearal, here I come!! Lately I just haven’t had any luck couponing but last week’s haul brought me some hope! A few things I’ll be giving as gifts (lip stuff & body stuff) but all the man stuff were things JP had been wanting me to buy….even at full price  Thank goodness I got him to hold out until a sale, I’d kick myself for buying him $14 razors when I got all that for the same price!

Alrighty I have to get dressed I have a busy day ahead of me. Bank, grocery store, Doctor’s office, grocery store, washateria, and a buttload of work Have a great day everyone!! Sorry for my random randomness but hey it’s fun!!  :pirate:

So baby has been on the brain for ohhh the last 8 months or so but it’s getting to be crunch time. And I realized I don’t know if I ever announced the little boy’s name.. have I? If not our little guy will be named Micah Owen! Right now I am taking a break from cleaning up the nursery, moving stuff around & cleaning our bedroom . We have an extra 3 piece living room set we never got rid of it and EVERY piece is in a different room then I want it to be in.. so today I plan to have them all in place. The chair will be in our room, the large sofa in Micah’s room & the loveseat will join the living room family. But I’ll have JP do the moving, one of the perks of being so darn big & pregnant.

Ohhh man I am having such a cookie craving, I fought it last night and won but I think that I need to make cookies… I just NEED to  ::)  Speaking of cookies…after reading all my posts about them & other yummies you might need some Leptovox. Which I apologize for talking about goodies all the time :flip:

And the winners are….

Congrats! Please email (cupcake4jp [@] hotmail) your mailing address where I can send your prize, Ashley I’ll direct your email to the amazing Cryssi. Okey I think it’s time for me to bake a batch of cookies only to find them mysteriously gone in the morning… I might need some alli after this pregnancy if I keep it up with the sweets. :q Okey I thinkmy little boy wants me to go lay down instead of bake, he just doesn’t seem to be able to get comfortable at all tonight. Last night he must have had the hicups because well that just felt WEIRD, felt like he was trying to escape!  Oh and enjoy my webcam picture of my belly at 33 weeks.. in my pantry  :LOL:

Okey so maybe it wasn’t that late when I took this picture but how dreamy & sweet does it look? Seriously whenever I see JP cuddled up with the animals on the sofa it melts my chocolate chip heart! And see Milo up top (orange cat) ? Yeah Bruce (lil yorkie sleeping with JP) learned how to do that and now all of the pets will sleep up top so our sofas are a total mess of squishyness… but really I expect that with animals. Atleast JP fell asleep watching TV & not ontop of a pile of textbooks… actually I just got rid of all our old textbooks because they were taking up SOOOOOOO much room up in one of our closets. Winners coming soon to a computer screen near you!! W00t!!! Okey well I have to finish getting dressed, I’m taking my niece to the children’s museum… ooo gotta make sure I have alive batteries in my camera! :hugs:

I’m sooo tired & tomorrow is another day I have to wake up “early”. I put it in quotations because for most people 7am isn’t early at all but well I work from home and am use to keeping whatever hours I please. But I’ve been babysitting my 4 year old niece all this week & oh man waking up at 7am hasn’t been hard but not joining in at nap time has been a bit of a challenge. I’m really tired right now and want to go to bed but too many things are occupying my head, don’t you hate when that happens? When you just can’t shut your brain off… ARGH!!! :whine:

A major thing on my head is Christmas… I’m not even half way done with shopping & it is completely stressing me out!  One good thing is I know almost everything I need to buy, no guessing around… I KNOW what to buy. Every pair of slippers, comfy socks, the many toys that I think are a perfect fit for each child & all the goodies… I know almost everything everyone is going to get. I just have to find any sweet deals out there & spend my money wisely. *deep breath* It’ll be all gravy.. right? Anyone else going through holiday stress?? I usually don’t stress over the holidays this bad… I’ll blame my pregnancy… that’s just the right thing to do… right?  :flip: