Wildcat Football Players

Justin and I were cooking dinner the other night and the boys were running around playing outside. I went out in the garage to get something and noticed the boys down by the mailbox. I looked a little closer becuase i could tell they were hard at work doing something. Then I realized what it was. They had gotten Justin's "Home of a Duluth High School Wildcat Football Player" sign out of the basement and were trying to put it in the ground. So i went back inside and told justin to look out the window and he started cracking up. ---we don't even live in Duluth school district lol---but we pretended we didn't see them. So they came back in and were like daddy come look what we did for you. and walked him down to the mailbox. lol- and they insist that we not take it down.

Carden family Reunion

Well, i was able to attend my first Carden family reunion. I guess technically it wasn't a "Carden" reunion but close enough. It was Justin's mom's side of the family. We left Friday morning at around 3:30-4:00am - North Carolina bound. The boys and I slept almost the entire way. My poor husband drove the entire time. We got to NC around 7:30 and stopped for breakfast and the boys and i stayed awake for the remainder of the drive and arrived at Aunt Ellen's about 9:00- 9:30 something like that. I took a shower and we just piddled around for a few hours. I realized that i had one the "mother of the year" award when i noticed that i hadnt packed ANY toys for the boys to play with AT ALL! I put two seek and find books in the car but that was it! I don't know what i was thinking. so we took them up to Wal-Mart and got them some Uno cards, a hotwheels race track, a plastic ball, & some extra race cars- color changing cars. Anyhow, then we went and i got to meet Gary- justin's dad's 90 year old sister, Ruth! She was a sharp as a tack! It was hot as blue blazes in her house but still that woman doesn't seem 90 at all!

Saturday ws the BIG REUNION at Ellens house. We arrived at 10:00am per Ann's request and just kind of hung around for a bit until time to put up the jump house and get things started. Once the jump house was up we didn't see the boys for a while until Irey came and wanted to kick the ball with Justin in the front yard. Ellen has this tree in her front yard- Satan's tree. This tree had thorns- sharp thorns- about 3-4 inches long on the branches and these blackish brown pod like things hanging off of it- almost like pea pods but i would imagine around 6-8 inches long. The tree was creepy to say the least. Anyhow, Justin kicked the ball up in the tree and it sounded like a mad snake and the ball deflated instantly. Satan's tree ate Irey's ball.

Uncle Rick tried to patch it as best he could but it wouldn't keep air in it, so Irey moved on to other things. Justin's cousins were all to arrive at noon so we could visit before all the people we didn't know arrived at 2:00. One of the cousin's husband's was cooking a pig on this huge smoker. So, Laura- the cousin with the big- calls and says that they were loading up the cars and her daughter was carrying a bag and it ripped open and i knife fell out of it and sliced her foot. So they were heading to the emergancy room. So Angela, another cousin, went and picked up Laura's son and her husband drove the pig over. The pig was really cool to see on the smoker- i know thats kind of morbid but i had never seen that before. I took pictures.

So anyhow, Laura and her family arrived after the Emergancy room visit- everyone is fine. And all sorts of people starting showing up. People that Ann didn't even know. We were introduced to as many as possible and basically just kept to ourselves after the introductions. The family is so sweet all of them.

The next morning we packed up the cars and picked up Ms. Ann and headed for Cracker Barrel for breakfast and then hit the road back home to GA. It was a very nice trip. Was good to get away from home and spend some fun times with family. I will post pictures when i get Ann's camera.

Randy's Pumpkin Patch

Randy's Pumpkin Patch

Justin and I had promised the boys we would take them to the pumpkin patch to jump in all the jumpy things. We told them there was no way we were buying them a pumpkin there b/c they are really expensive and we can get the same thing at Publix for cheaper. So yesterday we went. We got there and one of our neighborhood friends were also there and the boys had a hay day playing and sliding with their friends. I like to people watch so i was watching all these parents who dressed up their kids just to take pictures of their kids with these pumpkins and then just leave. I don't really get that. I mean yes pumpkins are cool colors and shapes but why? Why not buy one and take it home and take pictures. I was watching all of them and trying to remember if when the boys were younger if i did anything like that and i remembered. I took Irey when he was really little to the Yellow Daisy Festival at Stone Mtn just to take pics of him. Silly I know but they are our babies and i guess i wanted a cute background for pictures to scrapbook lol. So i joined the clan of parents taking pics of their kids with pumpkins.....my pics are not as cute b/c i didn't dress them up but......... my kids are still the cutest no matter what the background is.. :)

Pregnancy Brain

So i pulled my first pregnancy brain booboo today. I came into work as normal and started the coffee pot as normal. i go back into the breakroom to chat with co-workers and as one goes for the coffee pot i realize.......it looks like dirty water. ha! I had fixed the entire pot without pulling in the coffee grounds, so i basically made hot dirty water. what a moron. lol. we got a good laugh and one of my sweet co-workers remade the coffee bless her heart. They were probably thinking....great whats next lol. I am the first person in the office on a daily basis so i better keep my head and get that coffee right from now on or my office mates might revolt. Anyhow, i am sure there is more to come.


I learned that this week my uterus is the close to the size of a grapefruit and the baby is the size of a raspberry. How cute is that! I can't wait to go to the doctor to see the little blob on the screen!

Hormones ugh

I had my first bought of mood swings/ hormone surges. Not cool. Please pray that NEVER again will i feel like i did last night. I do NOT remember feeling that way previously- but i know every pregnancy is different. I just hope that that was the one and only situation. LOL, i had mood swings before but never made a big deal out of something that wasn't a big deal until yesterday. What a goob am I. Thank God for my understanding husband.

Brain Trickery?

Well, today marks one week that we've known we are pregnant. I am still just as excited but a few things are starting to set it that i didn't remember from the boys pregnancies. I am whipped. I am just sooooo sleepy. Not so much tired just sleepy. I could sleep for hours, days, however long i could get away with laying in the bed! But there is still lots of work to be done around the house and two other little boys that need their mama.

I am also super hungry. All day. I don't remember being this hungry this early and this often in my other two pregnancies, but those were like 5 + years ago. So i am trying to make good food choices when i am hungry so i don't gain too much weight. I ate two bagels for breakfast this morning where used to i would eat half of 1 bagel for breakfast. Granted I should have eaten like one bagel and a banana or something but.....ill do that next time. Am i really this hungry or is my brain playing tricks on me? Everyone says this pregnancy will be different because im older so i guess we will see! It already is. and other have said, its twins. thats why you are so hungry. well, if it is twins we will be double excited and terrified lol. Double the Love. :)

I had a part time job working at Zax on friday nights and saturday mornings but the grease smell was making me soooo sick to my stomach so i had to resign. Other than that i haven't really been too sick so far. I've had an episode or two here and there but nothing to write home about. i am only around 6 weeks so i have a few more months of possible sickness but we shall see. Im keeping my fingers crossed that i just feel queezy and not barfy like now. . . . More to come :)

WELL, WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A BREAK FROM THE WEDDING TALK......IT'S BABY TIME~

We are expecting!!

Here's how it all went down:

I haven’t been on the pill since before the wedding so we knew it was just a matter of time. Then I had that cyst erupt on my ovary causing me not to have a period a couple of months ago so that didn’t help and we just stopped keeping track of my ovulation days. Then when I got my period again we tracked it and found the two “most important” days and made sure some magic happened and then just went about our business. So we kinda planned kinda didn’t. but for the past week I’ve been really hungry, constipated (TMI I know), bloated, nauseated and all that mess so I was like uhhhh I think something is going on here!

Then I was supposed to start Wednesday but I figured I’d give it another day and Justin and I decided we’d take a test Friday morning. so I woke up like every hour waiting to see if it was time to get up and take the test. Finally I got up at 6:00 and took it and layed back down and told justin I took the test. Then he asked if I wanted to go with him to see the results and I said no you look. So he went in there and said what am I looking for? And I said two pink lines. He said well, then I suggest you not drink anytime soon!

I was like SHUT UP! And ran in to look at it and it was like BOLD PINK lines lol. I was so excited I started jumping around and was like freakin out. lol justin had like a perma grin on his face and he took me to breakfast since we were up soooo early lol.

I called Mama first and she answered the phone by saying " You are." and I said "I am" my mama knows me so well even hundreds of miles away. Then i sent a picture message of the test with a note saying " I passed the test.......shhhhhhh" to a few of my friends and called the rest later in the day. Too many people to call. But we had to keep it under wraps and not on the internet because we hadn't told his parents just yet. I found out i was expecting Friday and Justin and his dad went out of town Saturday for the Panthers Redskins game for the weekend!

So i had to will myself not to get on Facebook and announce it or to blurt it to Justins mom when i saw her throughout the weekend while the boys were gone. It was sooooo hard! So we devised a plan on how we would tell them when everyone was back in town and the plan was that we were going to make shirts that said "I'm the big brother" and have Cole and Irey wearing one and see if they got it and also i got a bib that said" I love grandma" and an empty baby bottle that said BABY on it.

Dara came over to keep me company Saturday while Justin was gone and we made the shirts....well Dara made the shirts. She made one 100% perfect the other....not so much...

Haha, she felt so bad. I thought it was pretty funny actually. LOL so anyways, Monday finally came and we were supposed to have his parents over for dinner and devise our plan to tell them before dinner time, however, Ann and i both ended up sick and in bed! So last night they came over for dinner and the boys came up with the plan of how to tell them. We wanted to make sure they felt important in the hole thing. ( I also got them a book about being big brothers to a baby- Irey read it to Cole- very cute!)

They decided to wear their shirts under another shirt and to make them close their eyes and hold out their hands and they would give them to bottle- to Gary and the bib- to Ann and then take their outer shirts off to reveal the "I'm a big brother".

Well, the boys plan went well, howeve, Ann didn't get it at first- she put the bib on herself. lol- she thought it was just one of those dollar store- the kid picks out the gifts type of silly thing. Then she saw the shirts and then she saw Gary holding a baby bottle and i think it started to click. She was like....are yall trying to tell me something??? And Gary was like well im holding an empty baby bottle and im pretty sure its not for any of us Ann. And Cole said I'm going to be a big brother and again, she said, are yall trying to tell me something?? and we said yes, we are having a baby! She was like..............IM GOING TO BE A BLOOD GRANDMA?!?!?!

It was very exciting. I'm glad now the cat is out of the bag. i was able to post it on Facebook and almost everyone knows....except my work. I plan to tell them after I go to the doctor on November 6th. I will have an ultrasound and an apt with a MidWife. I plan to see both a MidWife and Doctor to see which is best for us. Previously with the boys i only had a doctor and didn't really know what a MidWife was. Dara is going to be our Doula. :)

So now there is 6 in our family............it just keeps getting bigger :)