Some Updates

I know it's been like 7 years since I've written anything here. Not a whole lot has been going on. Carson went to his first baseball game:

Carson also went to his first Parade:



Other than that, we've been enjoying the weather when it's nice and hanging out inside when it's not so nice. My mom and I brought Carson to Underwater Adventures at the Mall of America. Carson was a million times more interested in the moving sidewalk than the fish. Oh well, we'll try again in a few months and see how he likes it. He's free until he's 3 so I might as well take advantage!

As for me, I'm 18 weeks now and hanging in there, feeling good! I have my ultrasound on the 31st. We will not be finding out the sex of the baby so sorry to disappoint!! :) But I will come and post the ultrasound pictures!

Hopefully I'll have a real update soon!

12 Week Ultrasound

Just wanted to update you all on my ultrasound from Monday, everything looks great! Baby was measuring 2 days ahead and looking great and moving all over. I'll give a real update soon, but here are a few pictures and an awesome video of Carson who thinks the baby lives in our heartbeat doppler! :)

Videos

Check below for some recent updates, here are some videos!

This first one is Carson after a bath, he calls his wrinkles his 'bubble bath'


The next one is Carson stalling his bedtime by being as silly as possible


The last one is a few minutes after the previous, Dave is trying to read Carson a book and he can't shake the sillies! (Sorry for the poor quality with the low light but you get the point!)

Compare and Contrast

So as I mentioned before, I LOVE my new birthday gift. So now you all will be flooded with videos of Carson, I'm sure you're all extremely disappointed. Haha! :) Not too much new has been going on at our house. Still nothing on the job search. I can't believe how bad it is. It's just frustrating. I didn't go to any college which, until this point, has never been an issue. Now I'm finding I can't even submit an application for a job without a 2yr degree. UGH!

So for now I have been focusing on organizing Pampered Chef and seeing how I can make that successful for me. I have 2 shows in March which I'm looking forward to, my goal is to have 5 shows in March. We'll see if I can get there! I've temporarily made my kitchen table into a desk but the clutter/mess is starting to drive me nuts so it needs to be able to be put away daily. I think I almost have everything organized enough to make that happen!

My old company started the move into the new building today. I think that's the one thing I'm most upset about, I did a lot of work prepping to move and worked for 2 years in a really crappy building just waiting for the move. And I don't get to work in the new building. But I keep reminding myself that this is not my loss and that the company seriously does not care about it's employees. I am sure of this seeing as how the week after the layoffs in January the executives received some really nice bonuses. Some to the tune of $50,000.00!!!! If the cared at all, they would've taken pay cuts, cut bonuses etc. But no, they do not care and I do not want to work for a company like that.

Carson and I have been getting along great. The only time he wants nothing to do with me is bedtime. Usually Dave is home and Carson will fight me but allow Dave to do bedtime stuff (brush teeth, change clothes). If it's just me and him there is no fighting. Only if Dave is home. It makes me laugh.

We had a 24 flu bug come through the house Sunday/Monday/Tuesday. Dave had it Sunday/Monday I had it Monday/Tuesday. Either Carson brought it home (he threw up once on Friday but that was it) or he hasn't been affected by it. It was completely miserable and I'm so glad that if Carson did have it on Friday it wasn't to the extent that Dave and I had it. I didn't sleep at all on Monday night and Tuesday could hardly leave the couch with body aches and fatigue. I'm for sure glad to be done with that noise!!

Well I'll leave you with a few pictures of my new Flip! This will give you a good idea of exactly how small it is!! Also, I'll leave you with a great video of Carson doing animal sounds and being a bit silly!

Thank You!

Thank you to Dave and Jess for my WONDERFUL birthday present The Flip! I am so excited! Now I have no reason not to take video ALL THE TIME and post it here! It's so easy and portable! So THANK YOU!!!

Mail Time!!

I was just wondering how cute is my kid?! Haha, He kept singing the song, we'd rewind Blues Clues over and over and he just kept singing the song...so naturally I had to pull out the video camera. 9 times out of 10 he'll stop being cute when I pull out the camera but this time he kept hamming it up. Gotta love it.

I know I lied in my last post when I said I'd be back soon. I'm hanging my head in shame I assure you. Haha, we've kept ourselves busy. It seems Carson has turned 2 without asking me first. He picked up this horrible attitude problem recently which I have to admit is not so awesome. Everything is 'No' and he wants nothing to do with women, whether it be me or my mom or even grandmas. He only wants Dave and my dad and my grandpa and even someone we had over this weekend that he had never met. Too funny.

Carson had his first trip to the State Fair this year. He couldn't get enough of all the animals, the cows and goats and everything he could touch he wanted to touch. It didn't go so well in the Miracle of Birth Barn though, I wanted a picture of him with a baby pig and he had a meltdown instead. I have to scan the picture to show but it was so funny.

Well, I will be back with more!!

Just Kidding

Welcome April! I've lost track of all Blog Time...it seems like we went out with our friends and I've been trying to catch up ever since! We actually went out and had a great time, stayed up way too late and then have spent the last month (?!?!) making up for it! Haha!

We had a pretty laid back weekend...My parents came over for the Wild game on Friday night, my sister came over on Saturday and Dave's birthday was on Sunday. The Wild won on Friday!!!! We stayed up WAY too late on Saturday with Jess playing 'Sorry' and 'Phase 10' I lost miserably at EVERY game we played too...suck. Then on Sunday we just hung around...taking naps here and there.

Carson has been doing great. He's still teething so he's still been kind of...well we can call it *spunky* haha. He's been just a little crabbier than usual. He's sleeping at night just fine though which is good, I don't know what I would do if he wasn't sleeping. But he's been hitting and screaming just to hear himself scream. I'm so ready for all the teething to be done!

The Wild have been doing awesome in the playoffs...Game 4 tonight!! Too bad it doesn't start until 9:00. I had a hard enough time watching last night's game which also started late and I've been paying for it today. I'm not sure I'll make it through tonight's game at all.

Well, I'll leave you with a clip of SNL that we watched when Jess was over on Saturday. I don't know if it's just that it was like 1:30 when we were watching this (DVRd) or what but I was laughing so hard I was pretty much crying. Random I know...but please enjoy! :)

Milestones!