The Weekend is OVER!!

Whew.  What a weekend!  Right after Matt & I went to bed Friday night he started throwing up.  It lasted ALL night and into the AM.  Then at 4 am it started with me.  Thank GOD we have two bathrooms because we were each in them at the same time... the Stomach Flu has hit our house!

Thankfully Matt's mom was up to coming over and taking Makenzie from us soon after she got up so we didn't have to expose her to any germs and because we could barely move let alone take care of a busy 2 year old.  I was excited to spend the day lounging on the couch watching movies with the hubby not having anything to do.  LOL... that is SO NOT how it went!  Instead we spent our time in the bathroom or in bed trying to sleep thru the horribleness.

They ended up keeping Makenzie for the night, which gave us even more time to recoop.  By Sunday AM Matt was doing a bit better.  I'm dragging behind I think because of the pregnancy.  Just can't rebound like that!  Miss Makenzie came home Sunday morning and by Sunday night Matt was exhausted with her!!  LOL.  Kids are a lot of work when you don't feel good!! 

Today we are up and running pretty good!  I have even started some laundry, resanitized almost everything (for the 3rd time!!), and I haven't gotten sick!!  Woot Woot!

To keep Makenzie busy I found this craft to do:

Bedtime animals ready to watch Makenzie!

Boogity trying to find something to do too!

Cooking oil!

Add Food Coloring!

 

Adding paper heart to tray with a little water in it.

 

Cooking oil and food coloring mixed.

Use dropper to suck up and drop color over paper in water!

Boogity decided just to watch this time.

Finished!  Time to let them dry!

Random Pics and Last Week's Update

Boy did we have a BUSY week last week!  It took me a few days to recover from Mom's party!  But last week was a pretty typical week in our house.... which I haven't been able to do in a WHILE! 

So the week started with laundry on Monday, which fell into Tuesday (ok.. so maybe I'm not "totally" able to do it all in one day yet).  Tuesday afternoon I headed over to my aunt's house to cut my hair!  I LOVE getting haircuts and was really excited for it, but not excited for the drive.  It finally decided to snow in Michigan.  My 10 min drive to her house started snowy and blowy, then white out, then blinding sun!  20 mins later I was there.  Makenzie was ticked... she knows that after nap time Daddy comes home, but we were leaving.  So she cried pretty much the whole time making my hair cut not too enjoyable.  BUT... this is one of the best cuts I've ever had!! 

Time to bake!  With Mommy's and Makenzie's Spatula!

Wednesday morning was our first morning in a 10 week story group!  We read books, played, did a quick craft and was headed off back into the snow.  I did some light house cleaning and that night we met with our new Pastor.

Little Bo Peep stopped by!

Thursday was the first day we didn't have anything going on!  So I was making my list to head out to the grocery store and unfortunately... didn't make it to the store.  (Which was sad because our fridge was pretty much empty since Tuesday!)

Bath time is over!  All snuggled up in Mommy's towel!

 Friday morning Makenzie decided to sleep in delaying our grocery shopping adventure.  Then cried the whole way thru the store, which never happens, that got me all in a tizzy.  Left the store without diapers.  She was wearing the last one.  Off I headed to my Grandparents house where we had a quick lunch then I left to go back to the store to get diapers.  Lucky them I came back, snatched Makenzie to head back home for a quick nap then we were headed back to their house for sledding fun!

Happily eating her Co-Co Wh- Eats! Completely unaware the cat is drinking her juice!

Busted!!

Yelling at the cat and the cat totally ignoring her! He's not allowed on the table, but I couldn't help but take these pics as this was going on :-) 

Surprise 50th Birthday Party!

Early January, my mom celebrated her 50th Birthday!!  Only a week after she was making a comment about being almost the same age as a woman in her early 40's :-)  Hehe.  Yeah, she was off by a few years! 

My sister and I decided not to do anything until the end of the month because 1, I still wasn't feeling very good and 2, it would throw her off-- hopefully!

What she knew:  The immediate family was coming over for an afternoon of games and then dinner to follow.

Well she got suspicious that Monday before the party she had wanted to come over early.  I said no and that raised an eyebrow.  But to be honest... my thoughts were: you're already over for most of the day, why come any earlier??  So whether we had the party or not Mom... No is still my answer :-)

What was really happening: Extended family and a few friends were coming over with games and appetizers followed by dinner out at Logan's.

The pics:

Ricky must still be hungry!  Makenzie's watching you!  Stay away from her food or else!!!

I thought the party went great!  I had it during the day so by time I felt crappy at night everyone was out of my house.  I happily ate all the appetizers everyone brought and then happily ate a lot at Logan's!  When we got home at 7 my house was empty... and clean!  All except my mom's new honking Over the Hill Cane that she "accidentally" left. 

Big Deer and Hoo Hoo's!

 Since my daytime has been getting better we decided to get outdoors Saturday AM and find something fun to do!  Our adventure led us to the Outdoor Discovery Center.  It was our first time going there and we will definitely be back pretty frequently!  They had 3 elk to watch (we got REALLY close to one!) a couple of deer, trails to walk, a little Indian village, owls ("Hoo Hoo's") and other big birds, etc.  It was a great morning!   Sun was shining and temp read 55 degrees.  We walked thru a lot of the trails and Makenzie did great, she walked all by herself without needing or wanting to be picked up.  She did get a tiny bit annoying when we were on the way back to the truck... she wanted to see the deer again... so over and over and over and over she would say "Where'd deer go?"  Seriously 5 mins straight!  I got video of it b/c I thought it was pretty funny, but you hear more wind than her!  It was so nice to get out in nature and just walk.  I loved it!

Mission Accomplished!

It's 2:30 in the afternoon... Makenzie is down for her nap and I'm blogging away!  What a DAY I have had.  I had a really good day yesterday too!  Yesterday AM Makenzie and I went to a playgroup where we read a book, sang, danced, painted, and of course played!  After that I headed over to my Grandparents house (which I normally do on a regular basis and haven't been there in about 2 months!).  We had a great visit, mooched some lunch then headed home for nap time.  It felt so good to be OUT OF THE HOUSE!!!  And I missed my gma and gpa something fierce!!!

So this morning I decided that I would make a "To Do" list for me and see if I can regain control of this casa.  Last time I tried cleaning it made me feel pretty sick and I dry heaved my way thru it.  But I made the list anyways figuring we'll see what happens.  The list was L-O-N-G.  This would take me a week to do!  BUT, I got almost all of it done!  I can't believe it.  I didn't waste any time this morning, I stayed in my pj's and went right to work.  Gave Makenzie mini projects to do along the way and my "To Do" list is almost done!  I'm shocked and so happy!  It feels good to do stuff around the house again. 

My camera's date must be off.... hmm... here's Makenzie with a painting project today!  Shaving cream and glue!

Dinner is smelling yummy in the crock pot in my sparkling CLEAN kitchen!  And I am off to shower and get ready for the day!

Christmas Eve/ Christmas Morning

Hmmm.... I'm trying to think back to what we did Christmas Eve.... this was when I had a really bad cold.  I was most likely in bed for most of the day!

Christmas Eve-evening we headed to our church's Christmas Service.  Wasn't too sure how it was going to go with me not feeling good in more ways than one and nursery wasn't open so we had Miss M. with us :0)  But it went really good.  It didn't last long, so that helped and there was a lot of singing... so no one could hear Makenzie talking really loud!

After church we came back to our house and got dinner around.  Matt had put a pork loin in the oven so we had to quick come up with some sides and dinner was served!

Makenzie put out some cookies for Santa and then she was off to bed.  And Matt was off to put her kitchen together!  Wow did that take some patience!  We had pieces all over the living room.

Makenzie bringing out the dish of cookies!

Apparently she had to "sample" it before she could let the plate go!

Christmas morning Makenzie got up to see that Santa had come!  She had a REALLY big present waiting for her to tear it open.  Boy did she have fun.  She opened and opened and opened! 

She got a train too!!

Guitar

Kitchen!  Onto stocking!

My warning to stop with all the pictures and attempts to make her smile!

Emptying stocking... just tip it over!

Stocking goodies: socks, stickers, cars, flip flops!

Once we got Santa's gifts opened we had some cinnamon rolls for breakfast and then went back to the family room to open the gifts under the tree. 

"Hmm... now what was Daddy using to open his gifts?"

She saw Matt using his swiss army knife to open stuff so she paused during opening, grabbed the knife (all folded up) and tried to open it!  Monkey see monkey do!

Makenzie put the stickers to good use right away!

After all the gifts were opened I was feeling pretty miserable.  Matt put Makenzie down for a nap and then headed to Walgreen's to see if he could find me some relief!  After Makenzie got up from her nap we headed to Christmas Party #3 at Matt's parents house!

Week 8: Caught a Cold!

(post saved from December 24)

Here we are... officially 2 months into this.  My first Dr's appt is at the end of this week!!!  My morning sickness has gotten no better.  I now have a really sucky cold and am not sleeping.  Not good... I don't feel good at all.  Hoping this passes soon so we can enjoy our Christmas parties without me being cooped up in bed.  THANKFULLY my hubby has been off work on vacation and is able to help out do EVERYTHING around the house.  Taking care of me and Makenzie. 

Normally when I get a cold I take actifed and am better in a jiffy.  Can't take that seeing as how I'm only in my first trimester so I gotta tough this out with good ole tylonal! 

Week 8:
Weight gain: 3 lbs
Craving: Still carbs, lots of cereal and toast

1st Belly Pic!