a little more catch-up

journal entry

Week 24…. 1/22/2010

So much has happened since last wrote, but I am happy to say I am feeling really good and even more excited to meet this new little one. My first trimester was tiring and I was a little nauseous now and then but nothing too bad. I got in a bad “funk” for a while where I didn’t feel like doing anything- cooking, exercising, reading, being social etc. and I was a little worried that I wouldn’t get back to normal. My calling (RS Pres. In Little Neck) got really busy for a while and we also had a lot of visitors and I got sick and I think just really worn out. The holidays came and it was really busy here in NY and I just couldn’t wait to for a break!! We went out to UT for 2 weeks and it was so nice to be with family and have a break from the day-to-day tasks. It was even better to get to be with Dave for 2 straight weeks without the hospital involved and the kids loved all the dad time.

Dave and I were both so busy before the trip that we had many little “hiccups” happen to us in the beginning of the trip….here’s the list:

• - we paid an extra $72 to check bags that could have been carried on
• -we packed our headphones in the bags that were accidently checked so we didn’t have them for the long plane ride.
• -I realized at the airport that I had forgotten my camera (I had put it in the church bag in the morning and forgot to put in back in my purse before we left) and was so sad!!!
• - we had to sit on the runway for two hours before even taking off and it was so frustrating because I had changed our tickets to make it to the “Christmas Sing-A-Long” at the Patricks and I didn’t know if we were going to make it (we did…two hours late!!)
• I bought a pair of earrings at the airport for my sister-in-law for Christmas and put them under the seat in front of me with my purse, but since Dave and I changed seats during the plane I grabbed his bag and he grabbed my purse and NO ONE GRABBED the earrings. I realized it the next day and LUCKILY they had been turned in to the SLC airport lost-and-found...phew!!
• - Dave and I were supposed to leaved for CA the day after we arrived in UT and luckily I decided to check our itinerary right before we went to bed that night. I pulled up his email and found two one-way tickets home from CA but we didn’t have a flight out in the morning!! I nudged him awake and said “Dave, what did you do? We are coming home twice but have no way of getting there!” An hour or so later and $150 later we had tickets to CA on Tuesday and went to bed exhausted! I had to reorganize all the kid-watching in the morning…but we were so grateful for all the help!
• -Dave slept terribly that night, had a bad pillow or something, and woke up with a terribly kinked, sore neck that lasted for the next 3-4 days…he looked like an old man whenever he turned to talk to me or drive and it was pretty funny J
• (One good thing that came out of this is that we were able to be at my family’s dinner Monday night and have Zanna’s b-day party with her, which we would have missed if we had flown out that day—I was pretty happy about that J
• - Dave spent the morning that we left for CA researching apartments and homes for rent that we were going to check out and when we got in the rental car to head out to these places, he realized he had left the paper in the front seat pocket of the plane!! I wasn’t even surprised at this point…

My excuse for all this was pregnancy, but I’m not sure what Dave’s was…he is having pregnancy sympathy right now so maybe that’s it. He’s talked about his feet hurting, gaining weight, and being really tired…I think it’s kind of cute.

We had a great trip to CA and it was really nice to just get some SLEEP!! We found some good options for apartments and may just enjoy living in a gated community with a pool, fitness room and bbq’s for a year. They are a little pricey, but the whole area is pretty expensive so we may just do it for the year and go from there. We are exploring other options…JD”s grandparents condo and apartment managing so we’ll see what happens. We also just had a great time ordering pizza late at night in the hotel, going to a movie (The Blind Side) eating Vietnamese and Thai food and having a great afternoon/evening in San Francisco. We ate clam chowder in a sourdough bread bowl, Trish’s mini donuts, did some great Christmas shopping and just had a low-key, relaxing time. As crazy as things were before we left, we needed this trip and came home feeling much more rejuvenated and relaxed.

end of journal.

I would love to post pics of Christmas, but I don't have ANY! So, until I get on my family to send me theirs you'll just have to believe me that is was a FABULOUS trip and one I did not want to end.

I will try to post a belly picture soon-I don't have any yet, but I have plenty of belly...so stay tuned :)

here are some oldies from last year...