Its been a while....

I haven't posted anything in quite a while and I thought I would make an update! I'm 35 weeks along and I feel like a whale! lol I have the wabble walk and back pains and everything! Mark has been working on Madyson's room and things are coming together. I'm hoping we will have it painted by the weekend and looking great! My dad is working on making a crib for little Madyson. He's had a few set backs but I told him Madyson wouldn't be sleeping in the crib until she's like 6 months! lol My dad already made a cradle for Madyson and it sits in our room next to the bed. These past few months have gone by sooo fast.. its hard to believe in about 5 weeks we will have a baby in our home!! There are so many moments when I think "we won't be able to do this in a few weeks..." like get up out of no where and just GO out on a "date"...

Don't get me wrong, I'm excited and Mark is soooo excited... but its just scary how our life is going to change so drastically in the next few weeks. Mark and I have been going to pre-natal classes every Thursday of this month. I thought by taking the class it would ease my fears of giving birth, however it seems like the class tells you EVERYTHING that could go wrong... which puts thoughts in our head... NOT GOOD.. lol I'm sure its easing my mind a bit, getting knowledge on how everything works. I'm just so blessed that Mark is with me through every step of the way! I am so blessed to have a husband that cares so much and that is so supportive no matter what!

I feel so unprepared too.. I've had 2 baby showers and still feels like I have NOTHING I need to have.. I have tons of clothes tho... At least Madyson will be looking stylish huh? lol The thing that makes me even more blessed is to have a sister that has tons of stuff that even if I don't get everything I need with the next two baby showers, I'll get it passed down from my sister. That's the thing that eases my mind to this day.

The thing that is killing me is my carpal tunnel. I feel like such an old lady complaining of such a thing, but its common throughout pregnancy... apparently... I don't get it when I type or anything. its the worse throughout the night when I sleep. I wake up to go to the bathroom and my hand is always asleep. Sometimes its a pain, and sometimes its a numbing/tingling feeling throughout my fingertips... it looks like I might have to buy a wrist-brace to wear throughout the night.. that's sexy right?! lol

I have been in a canning frenzy in the kitchen lately... yesterday I canned about 15 jars of pasta sauce. With my garden and tomatoes that my dad gave me I had a whole box full of tomatoes!! Next time I believe I am going to make salsa!!! Today's agenda is to can green beans! My mother-in-law is going to come over later to help me... The new problem is that we don't have room for all of the canning I'm doing.. hahaha

Well thats all for now... I'll try and update more often!

Family Vacation

This past week my whole family and I went to Alligator Point Florida for a family vacation. We haven't been on a family vacation since I was around 8 years old. We got a beach house right on the beach!! It was fantastic!!! 17 people and 2 dogs under one roof!!! What a household!! We left on June 25th and got back July 2nd! We did everything from swimming, flying a kite, playing in the sand, shopping, went to the redneck aquarium (which the kids absolutely loved), and much more!!! I believe Fred and Mark had a blast flying their kites. It ended up being more of a battle and trying to knock each other's kite down... they had the trick kites with two handles and Fred called his kite the angel of death because his kite was an angel fish and about 6ft big... on the other hand, Mark's was about 3 foot long and just blue.. lol Needless to say Fred broke Marks kite over and over, but Mark was a trooper and kept fixing it and taking it back into the air. He had knots all throughout his string trying to keep it together. A funny story about Marks kite, he was out there without Fred around and got his kite up all the way with no extra string. He was quite proud of himself. He stuck the end of his kite into the sand and stood there in awe. A wave came up and knocked his handle out of the sand and his kite went flying! Next thing you see is Mark chasing his kite across the beach. I wasn't out to see this but my mom was. When I came out with my camera to get some pictures of the kite flyers, Mark was no where to be found. My brother pointed towards the house and I saw the kite, but did not see Mark anywhere. Finally I noticed a tree swaying back and forth. Mark was on top of this pine tree and I'm surprised it was holding him! He was trying to save his kite. Needless to say he lost about 2 ft of string and it was in a huge knot! Julie, Mark, and I finally worked hard and got his kite untangled. The next day he got it back up into the air and the string broke and the kite went sailing away again... Needless to say, Mark didn't go chasing after that one. hahaa We went to this aquarium. I call it the redneck aquarium because when you pull up all you see is a trailer. hahaa there were different buildings behind the trailer, it was great for the kids though because alot of the animals were hands on and they got to hold them and get up close and personal with the fishies. Greg was sweating so bad from running from tank to tank.. It was cute. We were in and our within 2 hours... It was a great thing to do on a rainy day. Sadly, the last 2 days we were there it was raining... So we didn't get to get a family picture on the beach like we wanted to but hopefully this will be an annual thing and we will do it again next year. My dad went fishing about every morning and night. Thanks goodness for Bob Crockett (Jenny's Dad) for bringing his fishing poles. My dad caught a stingray the first morning and a big trout that we ended up eating for dinner one night! I knew he enjoyed that greatly!!

Mark and I were able to bring our dogs Daisy and Maverick to the beach house! They were so tired by the end of each day! Daisy took on the waves at the beach like a baywatch dog jumping the waves and all! Maverick liked chasing the crabs... I'm surprised he didn't hurt himself haha.

Here are a few pictures from our trip! Look how cute Mark and Fred are with their kites!!