There goes my car payment!!

Today I took my brother Mike to a job interview. It was a two parter with over an hour in between.

While I waited for the first part I had money I needed to put into the bank for my car payment. Apparently the bank I use no longer has a brand in Chandler. I didn't know this, I live in Mesa. So I just held onto my whole car payment in cash. I wasn't going to drive to Mesa to go to the bank and then back to Chandler to get Mike and then back to Mesa to go home.

So I went back and got Mike so we went to grab a bite. Did I mention I had Alexandria with me? Well, we finished eating and headed to the car. I opened the door so I could set Alex down and change her diaper, when what did I see? Only part of my money scattered all over my chair and floor of the car. CRAP! I had forgotten when we went to eat that I had put my money under my leg so I wouldn't forget to take it to the bank. So after freaking out for a few minutes, I started asking people if they had seen some money by my car or if they had seen anyone pick up some money.

Just as I was about to give up (tears welling up already) I ask one more person, who says no they hadn't seen anything, I turn my head. OMG just over there in the parking lot. Two twenty dollar bills! So I spent about five minutes searching and found a bunch. Then I went to the car counted what I found, and what I still had left. I WASN'T SHORT! I found all of it.

OH MAN, I am so lucky! I have never been late on my car payment and I really didn't want to start this week. While all this was going on, my awesome brother was taking care of Alex, even got her diaper changed for me so we could leave instead of wasting more time. Today could have been a terrible day for me and a lucky day for someone else. Thank goodness it ended up in my favor.

Oh, Alex learned to turn around in circles while she is walking. She spent about half an hour spinning and falling. Well, trying to spin, she is still slow but it is so dang cute!

Excuse me, have you seen my heart, I think it just escaped my chest.

So my brother Cody moved in with us the other week. He is really active with sports. We have enough room for a basketball hoop, not really enough room to play football or anything else though.

We found a basketball hoop on craigslist.org and were well on our 10 mile venture, when about a mile away the lady texts me and says she sold it. F. What a load. Anyways, we try Target. Nothing worth getting. He wants it NBA sized, 10 ft, not 6 ft. Sports Authority and Big 5 are way too expensive, like $300+ kinda expensive.

(Did I mention it was about 100 degrees out today? My old beater truck doesn't have AC! Too bad a BB hoop it was to big for my car. Luckily, Lee got home from work early so he stayed home with Alexandria so Cody and I could go and not drag the baby out in the heat.)

At this point we had been in the truck around an hour. So I pulled over and searched walmart.com, but they only had 1 in stock and it was another 30 minute drive. I called and was on hold off and on for about 30 minutes, they couldn't find it in the system, then they did, then they couldn't find it in the store, but luckily he checked other stores for me.

Success! The walmart by my house has 12! Walmart.com is a liar. it said only one in a 50 mile radius. So we got the hoop and finished putting it together as the sun was pretty much gone.

While we were out, Lee called me. "You'll never guess what just happened!" He said, and terror stuck me. He proceeds to tell me, that Alex pushed her high chair to the side of the couch, climbed onto the couch, up the arm and into her high chair. Then he laughed telling me she got mad cause she couldn't get out of the chair. She is quick. He had been on the phone with his mom and didn't realize this was going on. The entire time he was telling me this story I was waiting for him to tell me to RUSH home and take one of them to the hospital, that something was broken. By the time I hung up I was so relieved, but the whole time we were on the phone my heart was racing. I don't know why terror stuck me. Probably because I know my little girl can climb, and run, and pull things down that used to be out of reach cause she stands on her toys. I don't think I can baby proof that room anymore!! There's nothing else to move!

Either way, I had fun with my brother, its been nice getting to see him and hang out, but DANG that phone call was scary! Oh, and Alex cries when you tell her NO now.

2 Days Shy of a Year. Really???

So its been a stinking while since I updated on here. Facebook is so much for convenient to update, and everyone who checks my blog checks that. Plus I am not much of a writer. Lets see, major events that have happened.

-Got Married
-Alexandria turned 1 year
-Graduated from school
-Moved to a much better house

Anyway, maybe I can figure out a whole story to tell later that we all haent already heard on FB.

Home from the hospital!

I have been writing this for a few days (or weeks now lol). Obviously my time is a little consumed.

Alexandria and I have come home from the hospital. We are both doing well. My little girl is amazing, perfect. She was born on April 1st 2009 at 2:44 pm, weighing 7 lbs and 15 oz, and is 20 inches long.
Labor was not too terrible. We started having contractions at Nana B's house on Tuesday evening. Around 7pm I started counting them and they were about 4 to 5 minutes apart. After 30 - 45 minutes of that, Natalie came out from taking care of her boys and told me, "Kristin, your going to hate me. My water just broke." lol So she got to go to the hospital while I stayed at Nana B's house and kept counting contractions until 9 pm. Shortly after 9, Lisa got there to take me to Chandler Regional.
So we get to the hospital, pretty much they take me back right away, take my vitals, then send me to the triage area to monitor my contractions. Spent maybe an hour and a half there. Then I got sent home with a sleeping pill cause my contractions were not long enough. Even though they were 4-5 minutes apart. I slept maybe 2 hours max, tried wasting time for a while, then around 5 or 6 I made Lisa take me back to the hospital.
This time when I get there, they took me to the triage area, checked me, then got working on admitting me. My contractions were still 4-5 minutes apart but this time my contractions were lasting long enough. Just sat around in my bed, working through those, talking to Lisa, and Dawn got there too. Around 9:30 I got my epidural. That sucked. They tried a million times to get that gigantic needle in my back while I am supposed to be sitting still, hunched over having contractions. Lisa Almost passed out, along with one of my nurses.
Once that Epidural kicked in, I was fine! Back to laughing and chatting. Rachael showed up a little later. Even though I was not supposed to eat anything, so you don't get nauseous and throw up, Dawn fed me a nutri-grain bar. I was so thankful. I was starving then. I was starving after I had Alexandria too. Imagine how much worse that would have been if I had nothing.
Around 1:30 or 2 pm my water breaks. Which is the weirdest thing ever by the way. Did I mention by this time my epidural was wearing off, or basically it was gone. I was definitely feeling contractions again. Suck. So by 2pm we start pushing. I won't quite go into detail here, but 44 minutes later, at 2:44pm my little girl had arrived. She was beautiful. (Still is.) I got to hold her for a minute, but I don't really remember it because of all the other things going on in the room. So about an hour and a half later, after the shaking from shock was done, after the nurse finally gave me something for pain, and after all the stitching from the birth was done, I finally got to hold Alexandria for a while. She was the prettiest little thing I had ever seen. I was even crying cause I was so happy for her to finally be here. Just our first real time together, without people snatching her off again, she was perfect. perfect shaped head, perfect face, ten toes and fingers, wide open eyes. She has been curious from day one.
I didn't really have visitors that night because I was pooped. I couldn't believe how exhausted I was. We spent some time in the hospital getting checked out, getting to know each other and learning how to take care of my newborn. Then Friday the we went home.
It has been great ever since. I love my little girl so much, I wouldn't change a thing about her. She is so funny and adorable I can not wait to see what she is like when she gets older. For now though, I will savor and enjoy this time, while she is still so little. Let me tell you though, she is growing so fast, I can not believe how big she is getting.

Sorry it took so long to get this up. Some of you definitely know how busy you can be as a new mother.

Taking some time..

So it is taking me a bit longer then I had expected to write an actual blog about having a baby, I figured I would put up some pictures to show you all how adorable she is for right now.. Thank you Elise for these wonderful pictures!! (She is six days old in these pictures.)

just sittin around..

So Ive got 16 days left until Alexandria gets here. You guys excited? I am, still nervous too. I am on a leave from school already so I can get things taken care of and get enough rest. If you want anything done to your hair, let me know, and we can see what we can do. Although I am still working at nights so we will have to work with the time. Since I can't sleep straight through 8 hours anymore, it shouldn't be that big of a deal. LOL Let me know if you aren't sick and want to hang out since I do have some time to spare right now, cause who knows how long it'll be until that happens again. Miss you all! Wish I could get an update on here more often..

count down to baby!!

We have a name by the way. It's Alexandria. No middle name yet though. Super excited. And I totally look prego now..