Catching Up!

Wow, I dont' realize how time really flies sometimes! It's been over two weeks since I last posted, and there's so much to tell! We really squeeze so much into each minute of everyday! Sometimes it feels like we are just rushing from one place to the next, just to get there and rush somewhere else, but life will HAVE to slow down soon, in less than two months to be exact! Yep the new baby will surely put the brakes on us some! Ok well, there's no really good place to start, sooooo let's just jump right in!

In the last two weeks, Abi has started her soccer season. She's never played before, so she's having to learn everything there is about the sport. It is quite comical to watch those little 6&7 year olds get out there and chase after that ball. They just run and run and run, their energy seems to be never ending. So far they have had a couple practices and played two games. Won one and lost one. (Ok let me back-track a little here....Abi has had a few pretty bad nose bleeds in the last few weeks, and we don't know if it's the change in the weather or her sinuses or what...but anyway.) At the last game one of the other players kicked the ball and it hit Abi square in the nose. The first thing she did was grab it and look at me and say, "Oh my nose is gonna bleed!". She came and sat with me a sec, but then was right back out there. No longer than her feet had hit the grass, the same little boy kicked a pop up again and it got her in the jaw. She turned and looked at him, shrugged up her arms and said loudly "Seriously?, Again?" All the parents died laughing!!! She is a trip and most definitely tough! So far she seems to love playing soccer though, and I enjoy being a soccer mom! :)

 Disregard Brandon's "beverage" cans in the background!, but here's Abi ready for her first game!

I have finally started on the nursery too! I have had my bedding and paint colors picked out for a while now, just haven't gotten around to getting it all started. This week I painted all the trim, and walls, as well as two pieces of furniture, a chest of drawers and a night stand. We still have to get the carpet cleaned, so that's why the furniture is still pushed up together in the middle of the room. Here's a few pics to see the progress. It's far from finished though. Still have lots of setting up to do!

 Chest of drawers BEFORE the makeover!

Room before. The room is full paneling! 

 And AFTER!! I used three different colors. As you can see a light pink, a dark pink and a pastel green. Both the doors and a wall are green, two walls are light pink, and one wall is dark pink.

My fave, is the furniture. It turned out better than I thought! I still have to get the new drawer pulls put on though!

Oh, and here's one of my first FINISHED projects! A rag wreath for the closet door.

Brandon has also gone on his first business trip with his new job. The company he's working for is putting him through their management training program, so for the next 9-12 months, he'll periodically be gone for meetings and "schooling". He spent a week in north Alabama in different cities seeing different stores and plants, and all other kinds of stuff. You know, he came home telling me about it, but I didn't really follow the whole convo! :)

What else? Well, we had our latest visit with the baby doc, scheduled my c-section (Nov. 9th) and got to tour labor and delivery at Flower's. This will be my first delivery there, and even though it's scheduled, and I'm able to plan for it, now that it's "on the books" I'm getting kinda nervous! The dr was so funny, we are rotating through some of the other drs in the practice, so it wasn't "my" dr we saw this time. It came time to talk about scheduling the surgery, and he said "So I see your due Nov. 6th. You want to plan this for the last week in October?" I said "No way! I'm in nursing school and I actually need her to stay in there an extra week!" He was absolutely shell shocked. He had the deer in head lights look! He said most women are begging us at 35 weeks to start labor or do the c-section. He told me I'd never make it to the 16th, so we compromised for the 9th!
I also started back working my 32 hour weekends, so Brandon and the girls get to enjoy Saturdays and Sundays together. (But this Sunday afternoon is my baby shower, so I'll get to be off and take the girls with me! We are super excited!!) It's hard to miss out on their fun times, but it really makes it easier that I'm home every night during the week to handle the hustle and bustle of school night routines, and now soccer games, and all the other prep work that goes in to each school morning, not to mention the endless dr appts, that will only get more frequent from here on out. It won't be like this for long...that's what me and Brandon keep telling ourselves!

And oh my goodness, I almost forgot...This past weekend, my sister got married! I was a full weekend with Friday night rehearsal, and Saturday we had a bridal luncheon, finishing touches to the ceremony site, and finally that evening, the wedding! We had a little scare with the rain, but the weather cooperated at just the right time, and her outside ceremony was perfect! But, where was my camera during all of this? Yep, on the kitchen counter. I could have kicked myself, I went out and left it for the festivities Friday AND Saturday. Oh well, we'll just have to wait on the photographer to send her the prints! They'll be much better than mine anyway! :)

I know I kinda skipped around during this post, but I wanted to get it all down! Hopefully I won't wait so long between blogs next time! Lots to come in the coming weeks. Next week will be especially busy. Nursing school is back in full swing, so I'm in Geneva on Mondays for clinicals, then Tuesday me and Abner will be headed to Pensacola for her appt with the neurologist, Wednesday I'm back to Dothan for an OB appt, and a trip to the vet, Thursday is class day, and MAYBE Friday I can finally get that carpet cleaned! :) Wow! What an eventful week ahead, and I'm not even done with this one...I'm tired just thinking about it!
Happy Friday everybody!