May Baby

The secret's out! Baby Hamrick is due May 23. We're all very excited. It is ridiculously adorable when Julien talks about the baby and so far he has insisted it's a girl/sister. As far as pregnancy goes, I've had a few differences with this one... I've been way more emotional. I get easily upset and sad or mad over nothing. With Julien I had a hard time eating anything without getting sick, this time I've felt pretty sick no matter what but worse if I don't eat constantly (but can hardly eat anything at a meal). I'm already feeling bad for how much I dislike being pregnant. I love the babies, but pregnancy just does not agree with my body... I'm feeling like the next several months are going to be very long. Fortunately Andrew had been absolutely wonderful and I have gotten lots of naps which does usually make me feel better temporarily.  

I did this little weekly questionnaire with Julien and like being able to look back and remember these things so I'm going to do it again.

How far along? 11 weeks 4 days
Total weight gain/loss: I've already gained. I started showing very quickly this time.
Maternity clothes? I've needed them for a few weeks already but have been wearing my pants unbuttoned because I haven't had a chance to get any.
Best moment this week: I started feeling little flutters this week and the first time was when Julien had has hand resting on my belly. Cute.
Movement: A little
Food cravings: Not a lot. Skittles.
Gender: Obviously we will be just as happy with a boy but I think we're all hoping for a girl. I am mainly hoping for a girl because I don't think I can handle being pregnant again!
Labor Signs: none
Belly Button in or out? in
What I miss: Being able to eat a regular meal and not feeling sick constantly
What I am looking forward to: May
Weekly Wisdom:
Milestones: We had our first officially Dr. appointment last week.

Happy Autumn!

We are so enjoying this cooler weather and family time. After the farmer's market this morning we took off for a picnic...

On Spontaneity

When you become a parent, being spontaneous pretty much goes out the window. It seems so difficult to get it together enough to do anything too spur of the moment. Sometimes we talk about it but most of the time we just end up deciding it's too much trouble. 

Today we left the house with the plan of taking some pictures and doing some Geocaching but decided to take advantage of the beautiful day by going to the lake so we ran home and made it back on the road in under an hour. That's major spontaneity for us!

The weather was perfect. Julien had an awesome time and didn't want to get out of the water the whole time. On the way home we stopped at Big Muskie Bucket and Jules ran around like a crazy man. Overall we had the most fantastic evening.

Sternwheel 2012

Last weekend was Sternwheel Festival. We walked around a bit and went to the car show. Saturday night when we were watching the fireworks, Julien was literally squealing with delight at the sight of them.   

Wall Art Love

I've found that I get easily discouraged when attempting to hang art in my home. I have these ideas of how I want them to look but they rarely end up looking the way I want and I just end up never finishing it... I wasn't going to let it get me this time, though. When we moved, I knew I wanted to create a look that I would want to look at and that was easy to change up/add to. Right away I ran into problems. I had this idea that I would leave the living room fairly free of photos and create my main wall above the dinning room table but (just my luck...) the wall over the table is concrete! So, the living room wall it was and I'm ok with how it turned out, though I'm continuously changing things already...

I think I may enter it in this Wall Art Love contest.

Friday Jules and I decided to head to the playground. Our usual playground was overrun with playgroup moms so we headed to the only playground in town that we've never been to and it was a total hit! 

It rained a bit while we were there but we managed to get through the day without any problems. By evening the sky was getting dark. Andrew got home from work with minutes to spare. The winds picked up and before it even started raining our electricity was out and then the rain came.

Torrential downpour of sheets and sheets of rain and just as quickly as it came on it was over. After a few hours in our smoldering house we decided to take a drive. We had no idea that the storm was so bad until we started driving. Our electricity went out before everyone else's because a tree had fallen on a moving car, taking the power line down with it. There were trees, power lines and almost anything movable blown all over the place. We drove around town, shocked by the aftermath and later found out that we were in a state of emergency and shouldn't have been driving. (oops..)

That was a couple hot nights. And the next day was even hotter, but despite all the craziness going on, it was one of the best days we'd had in a while. We spent time with family, cooked out and spent some time in the car, enjoying the AC. The news stations projected 5-7 days without power, which sent everyone into a panic. There were miles of cars trying to get to Walmart. We nixed that idea quick...

Thankfully we were only without power for a little over a day. There are many still without power, including the in-laws so we've had one of Andrew's sisters staying with us. We've enjoyed having her here. Julien absolutely loves it and I really like being able to use the bathroom alone! (and having her here, too... ) 

In Instagrams

We've finally found a new place but still don't have internet. It's a pretty big disaster right now but it feels fantastic to at least know that in the next couple weeks we'll be able to get back to some level of normalcy.