Twenty Weeks!

Above are some pictures of the babies! You can tell what baby is which by the A and B on the bottom. Baby A in my belly is on the bottom and baby B is on top. As I was told they are on bunk beds. They will always be this way while I'm pregnant. Baby a will be the first out.

Yes I am 20 weeks! It is absolutely crazy... Half way there.

I wake up every day and say to myself WOW my belly has grown over night! Well this morning my wonderful husband looks at my belly and says wow your belly really does grow over night doesn't it. He just loves my belly! Sometimes he will just sit there and rub my belly. He loves me pregnant so much... sometimes it makes me think that he may want more babies after this! I don't know if I can handle that one!

So this week we had our 19 or 20 week ultrasound. The ultrasound was scheduled for 1 hour and when I got there the ultrasound tech was like you are having twins! Well 1 hour isn't long enough to get all the pictures that we need and they had to change my ultrasound for 2 hours. So there I sat... well shall I say laying there for 2 hours.... 1 hour per twin. By the time the ultrasound was done my back ached like a .... and my belly was so soar! I had to wait for 1/2 an hour after the ultrasound was done to see the doctor.... The doctor asked that I cut my hours to 40 a week and that I try and spread them out through out the week..... she also wants me to do the test for pre- eclampsia.

Life's Challenges

Life in general brings challenges!

One of my biggest challenges in life has been to find a hobby! I think that I have finally found some hobbies that I really enjoy and that will take time to do!

I am trying to start scrap booking and I am totally excited to be doing this. Today I even went out to Jo-Ann's today and got some stuff to get me started. I almost saved as much as I spent Can you say SALE!! Anyways now I have to get all of our pictures developed and organized so I can do something with them.

I also have been doing some canning with my mum. We have canned jam and some green beans. I am excited to try canning some other things as well I want to even trying to freeze some things.
These are some of the things in my life that are exciting challenges now.
So for the more difficult challenges in my life. It is difficult to say this but I have an issue with my weight! In the last 4 years I have gained a significant amount of weight. I am not happy about this and I have to learn how to deal with it so I can hopefully lose weight in the next year. I want to get back to my weight in high school! I don't know what it is going to take, i know that it will take some work on my part. Well not just some work a lot of work. I am the one that let me get to where I am at know!
With trying to lose weight I feel that now that I have a hobby to take up time I will be going to food less and less! Doing that will help me out a lot. I will have to find some healthier recipes so that I can change the way that my family eats. I am excited about the new changes that are coming to my life.
Another difficult thing that I have had to deal with in my life is happiness! Sometimes I don't feel happy I feel sad and don't know what to do with myself. Having hobbies and eating healthier I believe are going to help me be happy with myself and happy in life. There are so many of my life challenges that just run together. IS that the way it is with everyone. That once one thing falls into place everything seems to follow? I really hope that this is going to work for me. I have seen so many people be successful in their lives that I now want to be successful with myself.

Thank you to all the people in my life for all the support and examples that you are to me. You all have helped me to find a happier me.

Update!!!

So Ricky is off of night shift now. He was back to days for like a month or so but now he has been put on standby with Diamond B. He has been working on his new boat that we got on the 13th of this month. The boat is a 1990 Olympic with a 1989 88 special Evinrude outboard motor on it. When we got it the motor was having some problems... but my husband is very talented and somewhat of a mechanic so he has fixed our boat motor and added a few accessories to the boat itself.
Andrew is now out of school and enjoying his summer. He really enjoys to ride his bike and play outside when it is nice out.
I have been up to my normal stuff. I have been reading a bit more again and I really enjoy it. I get to spend some time with my hubby. Oh yeah and in the last month or so I had been going between home and a hospital in Seattle. That is a long story and I will write another post about that at a later date.

In the last couple of days or even weeks, we have been preparing for our yearly fishing trip to Bonaparte Lake in Canada. It takes about 7 hours to get there in the motor home. We are taking our new boat and can I tell you how excited Rick is about taking his new boat out. It is like WOW at how much he likes his boat. I have been trying to plan out meals for this trip and not pack too much food. Well as it goes I always pack too much food. As I have been doing this I have decided to marinate my meat portion of the meal and freeze it so that it cuts down on the prep time and let me enjoy my vacation a lot better.

The dinners that we are having on our trip:
Asian Flank Steak - oh so good that I am going to do this 2 nights.
Hamburgers
Hot dogs/Italian Sausage
Lasagna - tradition for the first night
Herb and garlic Chicken
Pork chops
Steak
Foil Dinner
Fish - the one meal that Rick does because he likes his fish a certain way.

All of these should be really good dinners that I can do on the BBQ or in a fire and don't have to heat anything up in the motor home. We now have a camp stove and a BBQ so I can do a complete dinner out side and this I am so excited about. We have our large propane tank that has a post attachment that has 2 ports for hoses so you can have your camp stove and BBQ going at the same time and on the top of the post you can put your lantern. I am so excited about the set up and being able to see what I am cooking when I am cooking at night.

Any ways that is what we have been up to and what we are going to be doing for the next little while. When we get back I will try to put up some pictures of our set up, our boat and our trip, Oh yeah and hopefully some Fish.

December!

I looked at the calender today and I had to change the month to December! It really make me think that I am so behind on my Holiday shopping! I really don't shop too much but I can't even bring myself to want to go into Bellingham at all. I have been trying to find out what I want to get Andrew for Christmas but I can't think of anything that the boy will want! I feel that I have to get something totally cool that is completely over board... I don't know why but I just do. Maybe it is because all the kid wants for Christmas is a quad!

I thought I knew what I wanted to get everyone for Christmas but I really have no clue! I have 8 people to by for this year! I only have one person figured out Now to try and figure out everyone else!

So, I have told you before that I am trying to live a healthier life style! It is very difficult to do so! There are so many temptations out there! Like donuts for example! Someone in my office today got donuts for everyone! Its been like 3 or 4 week since I have had one but I caved today and ate one! I don't feel as full as I would if I would have eaten my cream of wheat! Now that I have eaten a donut I just feel gross. I know that I haven't done the greatist but I have done better that what I was doing. I make a home made dinner every night! Some nights it sucks but I have been really creative lately and the hubby loves it!
I will keep you posted on how I am doing! OH yeah next year I want to be able to jog 3 miles with out stopping! Lets see how that goes! WOOT WOOT!

Long time no blog

Sorry! I've been busy! Almost married for 3 months and I have a ton of things that I want to do!

Lately my biggest thing that I want to do is make clothing! I am having a bit of trouble trying to find old sheets and that sort of thing to make things my size! (I want to test it out first). I have some really cute dress/skirt and shirt patterns that I got from burdastyle.com. I have been doing some research on other things that I would like to make as well.
Next weekend I plan on going and having a sewing day with Meredith and my Mum.... I have a bag of clothing that I planned on never wearing again, I think that I will just revamp all of them so that I will wear them again! I am going to make a dress in to a skirt, a different dress into a cute tank top, and maybe some other things! Not sure yet! I may even make a skirt from scratch! Depends on if my wonderful husband will let me by material this weekend or not!

I am also planning on painting the living room and making covers for the couches, maybe even making some selves for in the kitchen.. too may things cluttering my counters! So... Many projects to come! Hopefully pictures to come as well.

On other notes! Andrew is doing well in school! He is so smart that he gets in trouble for distracting other kids. He is also in football! That may have been a bad idea! But so far once he is at practice or in the game he loves it! Ricky has applied for a job at BP in the general shop. Right now he has made it to the test. He took that on Saturday! We are waiting the results on that one (Please pray that he gets it). We have been wanting this for 3 years now! We are hoping that with all the people that we are talking to that his name is out there and he gets it. Other than that it is Hunting season again. right now it is Bear season.... Next weekend as in the 16th Deer season opens! We are hoping that he gets both. It would be nice to get all that meat in the freezer!

My job is going good right now! I may only have 1 month left! It all depends on the Diesel Unit Project! That should be getting awarded today! I most likely will not find out until Monday. That job should keep me busy for 2 years if they keep me on out here!

Rick is thinking playing football for the Bellingham Bulldogs! I want to look in to playing soccer again! (anyone with any pointers on how to get on a team? let me know...)