A Kittie Story

One thing we found out recently is that our cats LOVE ice cubes in their water.

Domino also enjoys drinking while i'm filling up the bowl, so I think we'll be getting them their first present ever soon.. a pet water fountain, lol.

Here are a couple pictures of them loving the ice cold water!

Baby Bump

We look just like the button I made on the top right of the blog, right??

Here's the bump at 15 weeks and 5 days. Obviously this was weeks ago but I thought I would share it. And I know Alex is covering a lot of it but there's another one I'll share as well that was taken with Laurel. Her hand is (obviously) much smaller. Regardless. Enjoy :) I will eventually get the actual image and not have to 'steal' the proof.

Want vs Need

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I saw it here. {Awesome blog by the way} And now I think I need it. 

Alex has informed me that this is a want. And a pretty unrealistic one based on the price tag.
{he's right on both accounts}

I told him we could find the chair part on craigslist and we can make the bottom part.

His reponse was that we probably couldn't find a chair that someone didn't pee on.

I find that false but haven't been able to find a chair similar to this or remotely what I would want. 

At least not on the Lancaster craigslist.

Doesn't it look so comfy though?

Do people do yard sales in the fall??????

Just another typical Wednesday

Everytime I spell this word, I think it this way

I'm here at work, on my lunch break, eating (free) pizza. The pizza part isn't typical but the other part is. I do enjoy Wednesdays because of the 'hump' factor though and then it's a nice slide into the weekend.

This weekend we start car shopping. We're pretty excited because we've never purchased a car together before. I having never purchased a car at all. So test driving should be a blast. We're going to take pictures and take notes and I'm probably over-thinking it all but who cares! New car, new car is all I keep thinking. Time to get rid of the little green coug that drove me back and forth from college for a number of years.

The cars we're currently looking at are:
Ford Edge
Honda CRV
Hyundai Tucson
Hyundai Sonata
Honda Accord

We probably won't get a sedan but we threw it in for good measure. I love the look of the sonata and all it's curves, but I just think it'll be too small. We already have a sedan, so having a crossover as well would be ideal. Alex has recently fallen in love with the Honda CRV. The cargo space is really great and from what I hear it rides like a sedan. I guess we'll see! The hard part will be not purchasing anything and waiting another couple weeks until Labor day weekend. For the sales!!

Those are our main plans this coming weekend, as well as heading up to the 'burg for a birthday party! Should be a great weekend overall!

The weather is gorgeous out today so hopefully it's like that a least a little bit over the weekend (though i'm fully aware it's supposed to rain). Summer showers are unpredictable sometimes though so you never really know.

Happy Hump Day!

This weekend we..

didn't really do all that much.

Friday after work, I thought about going to the mall but didn't do it. Instead i moved furniture around upstairs. Then we proceeded to snack our way through dinnertime and we watched a couple episodes of The Wire. Alex really likes it, I don't love it but don't hate it. I usually just sit there with the ipad and half pay attention.

Saturday morning we thought about going to test drive some cars, but decided we didn't have enough time. So we went to the grocery store and s clyde weavers, came home and had hash browns for breakfast and later on BLTs for lunch. Then I headed to a bridal shower for a friend (Gretchen). She was super surprised. I love watching others be surprised. After the shower (in which it rained the whole time, a real life shower, lol) Alex and I were supposed to head to some other friends going away party, which we found out ended earlier then expected. We were pretty bummed but luckily we'll see them tonight for dinner. So we decided to go to the Red Box and we watched The Lincoln Lawyer and Hall Pass. TLL was good, HP was a silly waste of time.

Sunday we had plans to go tubing with friends on the Pequea, but the rain cancelled them. So I went up to my parents to hang out for the day and Alex stayed home to do chores around the house, etc. I later went to my cousin' Stephanie's fiance Brandon's (follow that?) welcome home party. He's officially out of the service. We're very happy for him. I came home afterward and we watched Alice in Wonderland (the newer one) to end the weekend.

Relaxing (sometimes boring) but good nonetheless. Next weekend brings car test driving and a birthday party as well as being one week closer to seeing our growing baby bru on the big screen (i'm not actually sure how big the screen is).

17 weeks!

No bump picture, just words today.

2 weeks away from the anatomy scan and learning the gender! woo hoo!

Feeling great still, this morning I had some crampy stretching going on. Not painful just annoying.

Some days I show more than others. I definitely need a new bra but i'm struggling with what size to buy.

I've recently been reading delivery room stories that include crazy family members (mostly mothers and mothers-in-law) which prompted me to talk to my parents yesterday about what they did when it came to labor and delivery. Apparently things were very different back then when it came to visiting hours and even my sister (who had a baby 6 years ago) said that people can't just burst into the room, like i've read in some of these stories. I'm obviously not worried about anything crazy happening since I have normal parents and inlaws. Just think it's (sadly) entertaining to read about.

Other than that, I've started moving furniture around upstairs. I moved all the stuff I could move on my own and now have to wait for Alex to do some and then for the next strong man to walk into the house when Alex is home so I can convince them to move more. Then I can get down to sanding and painting the crib and changing table. That should take about two weeks anyway! I'll be sure to take before and after pictures for this here blog.

ABC's

The ABC's of me. I saw this on another blog and thought it would be fun (mostly for me, a little for you).

 

A. age :: twenty six

B. bed size :: king.. love

C. chore you hate :: cleaning garages and basements, ew spiders

D. dogs :: zero (but say it in a french accent)

E. essential start to your day :: i don't have an essential.. but i do love OJ

F. favorite color :: purple

G. gold or silver :: silver

H. height :: five five (some might say six)

I. instruments you play :: piano just not all the time

J. job title :: marketing coordinator

K. kids :: baby in utero.. gender undetermined

L. live :: Lancaster, PA

M. maiden name :: Elscheid (haven't typed that in a while)

N. nicknames :: Mitch? Babe?

O. overnight hospital stays :: none that i'm aware of

P. pet peeve :: bad drivers

Q. quote :: "The best love is 

the kind that awakens the soul, 

that makes us reach for more, 

that plants a fire in our hearts 

and brings peace to our minds" 

from the Notebook

R. righty or lefty :: righty

S. siblings :: three sissies

T. time you wake up :: weekdays: 6:50am + two snoozes; weekends: around 9am

U. university attended :: Millersville University

V. vegetables you dislike: I can't think of any so it's probably an uncommon one

W. what makes you run late :: nothing.. i'm super aware of the time

X. x-rays you’ve had :: dentist and i once had a chest xray

Y. yummy food :: mexican; guacamole; ice cream

Z. zoo animal favorite :: elephants, definitely

Thanks for reading along.. :) Happy Friday!