A few weeks ago I bought some flip flops for Devy at a garage sale for only 1 dollar!! They are way cute but I had to figure out a way to keep them on her feet.





























I had to sew the elastic on the shoes and now she wears them ALL THE TIME! She loves them and I love that they are way easy to put on!

Cinco De Mayo

One of my friends hosted a Cinco De Mayo party and there were quite a few people that showed up. There were burritos with those you-cook shells! They were AMAZING! The meat was soo good. There was a TON of food and a pinata for the little kids! We all had a lot of fun.
















The kids waiting their turn















Swarming the candy...















Devy not knowing what to think about this situation















Devy playing with some kids at the party

29 Weeks

29 weeks!!

So... I know that I am 30 weeks and 4 days but here is the latest.
My life so far...
I love being pregnant... Yes I do! Really! I know I am sick a lot and tired A LOT and I have weird cravings... But it comes with the territory. Granted I DID NOT like the morning sickness but other than that I really enjoy feeling a little life inside of me. I really enjoy bonding with this little guy and knowing that one day he will be my official son! I am so excited to kiss his little face and and will play all day.

He will bring SO MUCH joy to our family. As CRAZY as it sounds, I am SO excited to have a "little Lance" running around our house. He was SUCH a cute little guy and from our ultrasound our little Lucas looks exactly like his Daddy. (Go figure right?) Our daughter doesn't even look like me though so it is to be expected. I definitely don't have the dominant genes here...

Also I am so happy to announce that I have solved the problem of neighbors that still have their kid in their bedroom that keeps me up all night (nothing against them, I am just a REALLY REALLY light sleeper) and the STINKIN BIRDS that chirp right outside me STINKIN window starting at 4 am. Yes and they chirp ALL DAY! SERIOUSLY PEOPLE if I wasn't afraid of guns or if we had bullets for the one Lance owns I would have shot them!

But good thing it didn't have to come to that since.... drum roll please... I bought EAR PLUGS!!!
AMAZING!!! I have never had much luck with ear plugs but I guess the ones I bought really do work! I didn't hear the baby OR the birds last night or this morning. It was great to actually sleep through the night (until Lance's alarm clock went on at 5am and then every 5 minutes after that...) By that time, one have fallen out and so I had my ear on the pillow that didn't have the earplug in...

Pella

Dutch shoes outside the biggest windmill

Some of the kids that we went with

A fountain that the kids were OBSESSED with

A couple weeks ago Devy and I went to Pella with a group of girls from my apartment complex.  People kept stopping us and asked if we were there for a child competition or something.  It was really funny.  We got there right as Devy was supposed to go down for a nap so that is why she isn't smiling in any of them.  Oh well, it was still fun!

For those of you who don't know, Pella was settled by the Dutch and so the little town is full of pretty windmills and fun little dutch shops.  The town has a 3 day festival called the Tulip festival and the whole town is FULL of gorgeous tulips.  We were able to take some pictures and eat some yummy Dutch treats.

Spending days counting days

So lately I have felt REALLY REALLY REALLY lonely... But I know that it comes with the territory of being a wife to a medical student. So maybe this will help others or maybe your husband is home all the time and you have no idea why I am whining...

If you are one of the latter, keep it to yourself nobody likes to hear a bragger.

So here is my "journal entry" of my missing my husband:
First lets start out with the good... I love my life. I really do! I love being mother to a feisty 20 month old and I am really enjoying pregnancy. I love love LOVE my nieghbors and friends who help to keep the sadness at bay (thank you girls you know who you are are you SERIOUSLY keep me sane)

However, I still miss my husband. I caught myself smelling one of his shirts the other day (it smelled like his cologne, not stinky body because we all know I would have thrown up instead of reminisced) Nothing can replace him. I know we drive each other CRAZY sometimes and half the time he is home I don't know what to do with him since I am so used to him being gone. But I do miss him.

It is hard not to be frustrated when you have only spent a total of two hours (awake) with your spouse in the last 6 days...

I have tried all the old tricks in trying NOT to miss him but they all FAILED miserably! Seriously it just made it worse I think. I tired the not thinking about it, the thinking that it is okay to be alone "who needs a man anyway... right? WRONG!!", the not caring if he is gone (meaning emotionally distancing myself so it doesn't hurt as bad when he doesn't get home till 1 am for 3 weeks straight), I think that one was the worst ever... and others that just don't work.

I have realized that yes it hurts to say goodbye, and yes it is sad to eat dinner without him, and yes it is sad when your daughter runs to the window when "daddy is supposed to come home" (I seriously don't know how she knows this) and points to cars driving by and asks "daddy?", or when we sit down for dinner and she says one of her first two words sentences of "daddy home?", and finally every time she passes our bedroom door she looks in and asks for daddy (this is because if Lance IS home when Devy is awake, he is always sleeping... and so on and so on

However I try to remind myself it is STILL VERY IMPORTANT to keep us both happy in our marriage. I do love him and I think that is why I miss him so much. I love him and miss his presence in our home.

I guess I just have to keep reminding myself: THIS IS TEMPORARY

Thats all

PS I LITERALLY count down the days until summer... I have two calenders that I cross off the days every day... I don't know why but it does help. 3 weeks and 1 day left... lol

Birthday fun!

The other day Devy and I had some friends over. The girls had a ton of fun trying on the colorful sunglasses that Devy got for Easter. Way cute Shaylee, Camille, and Devy!















Her hair is LONG ENOUGH!! I decided to try putting Devy's hair in pigtails... IT WORKED!! She kept them in all day! I just had to remind her just to touch and not pull.






























Later yesterday we went to a birthday party! It was her friend Blake's 2nd birthday and he threw a "Go Diego Go" party. They had headbands that Chelsea MADE! and here Devy is coloring her vest















She actually let me put it on her for about a minute and then she didn't want to wear it anymore! I'm glad I got a picture though! Great idea Chels!!















If that wasn't enough, there was also a pinata!! The kids had fun hitting it with the bat















They couldn't quite hit it hard enough so Chelsea's mom ripped it open and poured out the candy for the kids















The candy picking up... Devy LOVED her Starbursts she picked up

Pregnancy development

I am 27 weeks along now.  We are having a boy.  We have decided to name him Lucas Alfred.  We are soo excited! I think Devy is too.  Every time she sees a baby, especially baby boys for some reason, she wants to mommy them and play.  She is soo stinkin cute!!

I have also recently decided to just give up being so frugal that I feel like I am being left out of all the fun... So I am now in the process of getting a gym membership at the Y and I have been working out there for the last week.  I LOVE IT!! I LOVE working out! I LOVE helping people and giving them new ideas to add their workouts! I love looking at myself in the mirror and knowing that I am doing something good for myself and my baby! Why didn't I get a membership earlier you ask.  Well I was too cheap and we didn't have any money... But now that I know that Lance will be getting a job this summer, I am not going to deprive myself of happiness anymore.  And I want to get a job there after we have Lucas.  I probably wont do the Personal Trainer route because I don't want to work that hard... lol So I think that I am going to try and get a job in the child care so that I can play with my own kids (and others of course) while getting paid for it! Sounds like an amazing job to me...

20 weeks

22 weeks

24 weeks

24 weeks front view... Very pretty huh!

25 1/2 weeks

27 weeks today!!