too cute not to

I'm gonna have 3 kids soon, but sometimes my house ALREADY feels like this... Just thought it was cute.. had to share!

Indescribable...

A little update.... So this past week we had our 3rd Ultrasound (1st at 13 weeks, 2nd at 18 weeks, and then this 3rd at 26 weeks) And the last two the baby has been big enough anyway to suppose to be able to show what gender it is.. Weeeeelllllll.... We have a very modest baby. A baby that no matter what does not want us to know what it is!!! During our second ultrasound the baby had it's legs crossed and was comfortable this way and was not moving no matter how many times I rolled over, or went potty or we jiggled and prodded at it.. Well this time it had it's legs straight out and together... we could see and measure both legs fully extended but as the tech said "those legs are shut tighter than fort knox!".... Soooo... it's very unlikely that we will be able to get another Ultrasound, especially now that we just have medicaid insurance because of Jon being laid-off. Soo.. we might have one of the old days where we are in the delivery room and after hours of labor we get the delightful doctor saying "Congrats, it's a ___!". Anywho... I don't know what to think about it at the moment, and don't see how people can willingly do this to theirselves! I WANTED to know!!!!!! But in our case we have two girls and desperately wanting a boy to complete us... *sigh* anywho... The very next day was my 26th Birthday. Woohoo.. I'm getting older.... Then Saturday was all about packing and last minute things before Jon left early Sunday morning for the beginning of a long two weeks of Annual Training (AT) with the National Guard.. *sniff* We had a rough start to the weeks with Ella being fussy around 1am Sat night then began puking a half hour later which lasted most of the night/morning. She seems better now and so far is the only one of us that has been sick. Hopefully it stays that way.

Bummed...

Friday afternoon as Jon is in the Jeep about to leave his work for the day, his supervisor comes up and knocks on his window handing him an envelope.... Never really good news... Soo, like we were afraid of (because of the economy and rumors we had heard) Jon was one of the 5 that day to be laid-off. So here we are, thankful to have each other and a little bit of savings put away. We are one week away from him leaving for his summer AT(Annual Training with the National Guard) so it's a good and bad time for this... bad because we now have a week of no pay right before another stretch of weeks before another check, but good because we have our ultrasound this week (yay.. crossing our fingers the baby won't be so 'shy'..) and Zoey has a dentist appointment, and it can give us a little down time before AT. So, temporarily he is working out at the armory during the day and they will be able to pay him like he is making up a drill weekend or something, but it will be something at least. We have car payment, insurance due while he's gone and then rent due shortly after he returns (15th-29th he's gone) then although his AT check is the biggest one he gets from the Guard all year, it takes over a week for them to processs and get them actually to us... Soo.. we are utterly greatful for having an ever so small savings.
Just one thing we've been thinking about though, that doesn't seem quite fair... If an employee wants to quit a job they are required or requested to put in a 2 week notice so the employer can look for a replacement, etc.. Well..... if a company decides they are going to lay-off and employee no notice is required. Like us.. it was a normal Friday afternoon, heading home from a long day's work and they knock on our vehicle window... Here we are, not living the best within our means but working on it, two young children in diapers, and expecting our third.... Even a few days notice that this was going to happen would have been nice so he could have at least been putting applications in and getting something else set up for work. There aren't many decent places to work that you can just walk-on. There is a process that takes a while to get started working. So all this time that his employer knew they were going to be laying people off they couldn't have notified us of it? Now we have this lapse in paycheck and I am in a panic feeling of what we are going to do with nothing lined up we are praying to find a decent job, nothing we've seen so far will pay what he was making so we will be taking quite a paycut as well as the lapse in checks because of the time it is going to take to find a job... So we are going from 15 an hour with 40 hour weeks, to the Unemployment office telling us we can get 198 a week.... Sigh... Anywho... I knew the times were suppose to be getting harder, it's been in our counsel forever to 'Be Prepared', well Get Prepared People!! I don't anticipate it getting any easier on us... :(

I pray that my friends are well and doing better that we are at the moment. I have two hymns that have been circling thru my head lately, "Be thou Humble" and "Did you think to Pray". I wonder if the spirit was trying to tell me something...

"When life gets too hard to stand, Kneel.."

Just an update..

Well here we are... I am horrible at this whole blogging thing! I have a ton of thoughts always going thru my head and a ton of things that I could be keeping down with what the girls and I are up to but I never feel I have the time to sit long enough to write... So here we are.. tonight it is 10:23. I am getting ready to go to bed, it's been a long day.. Today I got our carpets cleaned in our house! I am so excited, it is something we have put off for far too long. I just hope we can maintain the way they look now. So the past few days have been nothing but me trying to clean house and get everything put away and things ready. Then doing a last minute walk thru picking up things and beginning to vacuum an hour before my appointment and I get thru my office(3rd bedroom) and the girls room and then maybe a 1/3 down the hallway and our vacuum decides to just shut off.. it's done. I am a big exhausted at this point with this new bulging belly and tired from cleaning and lifting and moving things around AND trying to chase around a 13 month old and 3 year old from getting out all the toys that I just put away and keeping food and things in the kitchen, etc.. ( a never ending battle to keep up with the tornado's that I feel are always in my house with these two..) I give up.. I am just done cleaning! So I go and make the girls some macncheese and wait for them to show up, I would just apoligize and assuming this is their day to day job they have probably seen worse than just a few muffin crumbs and etc on the floor. So, he arrives to clean the carpets about 5 minutes after I notice it looking a bit cloudy outside.. He had told me it would dry faster if we had windows open and stuff.. so I start opening windows and within 2 minutes it is a HUGE windstorm and so the wind is slamming doors and whipping insanely thru the house.. I live in the middle of the desert and the day i decide to open windows and have our carpets cleaned we get a storm.. Figures... Anyway.. we got it done and I had a dr appointment directly after anyway so it all worked out, we just ate out for dinner and did some walking at the strip mall here.. All is good now that it's over. But a well needed bedtime is calling me after a very long day!