6 Down, 4 To Go!

My parents sold their home in Amarillo and have finally found a gorgeous home here! They don't close for a few weeks so they will be living with us until then.  Between my cousins side of the family and ours there were 10 of us living in Amarillo (not counting our husbands and boyfriends)  6 of us have moved away, so now all that's left are my Aunt, Uncle and Younger cousin Sasha and my sister Sherryann.
Sherryann has no plans to move but the others do, hurray!! Hopefully sooner than later!
I got stuck driving the U-Haul back to the drop off since Landon had to work the next morning, that thing was scary! I could hardly drive our Expedition!!!  I love all the medians here (cause they're normally filled with trees or flower) and the u turns that are allowed here, expect for when I drove this thing, U Turn...forget about it!


My mother didn't have to return to work for a couple of days and it was so nice to have people around to hang out with during the day.

The mornings were beautiful so we spent them outside eating breakfast, playing and talking about how blessed we felt for God to have brought my parents their dream home, it has every little detail my mom could have ever asked for, daddy is just happy to have a nice patio to watch the cars drive by ha.

 

Oscar and Murphy trying to adjust to their new home, They look comfortable right?

Brielle was enjoying having her Papa Lou here to play with her.
She said "mom your dad is coming, are you excited!" ha!

 

 

Landon and I had a date night, we needed a break after all the moving business.

We decided to see Jurassic Park in 3D.  That was the coolest movie when  it came out, I totally thought we were going to bring back dinosaurs after that haha!

Score!

 

Happy to be getting more family close, slowly but surely!

Paradise Pond

I found this awesome place called Paradise Pond in Grapevine.  It's a big activity room filled with everything from a ceiling height gymnasium complete with slide(which I didn't get a picture of but B was brave enough to go down it), to a mini grocery store, doll house play center, a bounce house and so much more!


This is the costume/dress up area.......

 

Princess Tinkerbell.

This area was filled with only dinosaurs! I loved how ever section had a theme!

 

Cutest check out girl I've ever seen!  She kept saying that that's $4.83 haha we don't know where she gets this stuff put thats her number if she ever has to put a price to something lol.

Now this thing was awesome, don't know what you call it but Brielle enjoyed, she mostly peddled backwards.

 

She loved the tools area, she's been watching us work on the house so much lately she knew what tool was supposed to do what.  She'd say  "this ones just like dads!"
Keepin it fancy with her princess dress and tiara.

 

 

She looks legit here! Loot at that stance!

Our once upon a child store in Amarillo had one of these car coaster things, now I wish we would have bought it, B had so much fun with it, maybe we'll find one for Hason!

 

 

This area was our problem one, can you guess why : )  It was full of just cars and of course Brielle thinks she's the only cars fan out there so she'd try to hoard them and wouldn't share.

Do you see that train track lying next to her... she turned her back and started playing with a couple of those for a few minutes and then turned around angry that someone had taken her Mack truck. Um you're the one who decided to play with the dumb train tracks instead of the cool truck....needless to say we had to move on to another station after that.

This place was so great, it will come in handy especially in the winter time and it's only $1 for 2 hours of non stop play, every kids dream!

Disney On Ice!

I heard on the radio that Disney on Ice would be in town, when I got home I went straight to the
computer to see about the tickets.

Then Landon comes upstairs and says I wasn't going to tell you and keep it a surprise but....then pulled out 3 tickets!  I just love him, he loves surprising his girls!

We didn't tell Brielle, all week we just kept saying there was gonna be a surprise on Saturday and she was thrilled when we told her to wear her princess outfit and tiara!

She saw these letters and went crazy saying "look mom and dad, B for Brielle and G for Gann" She's
so smart that one!  She was supposed to stand in the middle and it spell big but we pretended they were put there just for her!

She didn't know what to think when we got in there.  She was nervous, poor thing.

We could not get her to smile, she was just trying to take it all in.

Until Mickey and Minnie came out!

 That was her favorite part of the whole show!

I can't even begin to tell you how beautiful and awesome the Little Mermaid performance was! I may have shed a tear, these movies never get oldto us "little" girls!

During intermission we got a souvenir snow cone.

There's that shy face again. She was frightened by some of the darker louder parts of the performance. She was also very worried that someone was going to slip and fall on the ice.

I need that chandelier for my house ha!

I loooved the beauty and the beast part too! Beauty and the beast is my most favorite Disney song, that one may have made me cry a little too.

Grand Finale with everyone!

Waving and saying goodbye to all the characters.

One blessed little girl to have a daddy that adores her so much!

 

24 Weeks!

Here we are, 24 Weeks!!! only 16 more weeks to go
and one month to my 3rd Trimester!!!
 

I just can't tell, I feel I look the same and I'm sure I've gained about
the same as well.  I'm up 22 lbs which is about 4 lbs over what I should
be at dangit!!! I didn't' want to gain as much this time but I feel like I'm
on the same track.
One nice thing however is I think I may be carrying differently. I can't really
tell from the pictures but I can still wear my regular pants and
they fit comfortably, I'm just unzipping them and using the old rubber band
method to keep them up.
With Brielle I switched over to maternity pants at 20 weeks, not sure
if it was cause I was just that uncomfortable or I just thought it
was time and I was excited to wear pregnant clothes.  Either way
I'm still wearing my old pants which is awesome!

I had a lot of energy starting week 20 till about now.  I thought it would last longer.
I'm not dog tired all the time yet but I've have noticed just this past week that I can only
cram so much into one day and then have to put off the rest for tomorrow.
My hips and back will start to hurt and I just get tired and sleepy.
I took two naps this week and I haven't taken a nap since about 18 weeks,
 a sign for me to slow down.

Don't really have any ongoing cravings, except for oranges still I guess.

A couple differences with this pregnancy than my last is that I'm stuffy a lot.
I don't feel like it's a cold or sinus stuff cause I feel fine otherwise, it's just
hard to breath,  apparently that can be one of the many weird side effects
of pregnancy. TMI...but I'm also a bit constipated, so annoying, that is all
I'm gonna say about that ha.

Hason kicks so much differently than Brielle ever did. Her kicks felt normal.
Have you ever had gas in your tummy and you feel like sometimes those gas
bubbles burst on the inside (please tell me someone has cause Landon has
no clue what I'm talking about) Well that's what his kicks feel like...bursts maybe
and they are real quick and kinda jerky/explosive maybe.
  Brielle's were graceful maybe cause she's a girl and his are sloppy just like a boy haha!
I can't tell where he is sometimes either...maybe he's kicking towards my back
and that's why I can't tell exactly where the kicks are.  So far he doesn't' keep me
up at night and neither did Brielle. He kicks down a lot which is a weird feeling, I swear if I were to look down I might see a foot come out haha! He's active after I eat and when I sit or lay down.
After praise and worship at church and all through church service on Easter Sunday he
was going crazy.  Brielle did this too. Needless to say I missed a lot of sermons
cause I was too into my sweet baby moving around! I just love it!

 I have been getting a tightness real low, feels like he's
pushing himself up as far against my tummy as he possibly can, but maybe
they are braxton hicks, when it happens I feel short of breath or like  it's kinda hard to breath which is weird cause it's not like he's in my ribcage, he's way down low.  I didn't have any braxton hicks with Brielle so I wouldn't really know what they feel like.
Either way I'm not worried about it.
 Last appointment I was measuring a week ahead and this time I was measuring 4 days ahead.
I've given myself a due date of August 1st, that's two weeks after my "real" due date,
just so I don't get depressed if I go past my original date.  I don't have the option
really of getting pitocin or induced because I'm going to attempt a VBAC!!!
Don't know if I've mentioned that yet but I will do a big ole blog on that later,
I'm so excited to have the chance to labor the way I should have been
able to do the first time!