Let this be a lesson......

Well we finally have our computer back...... Its not the same as it was before. It doesn't work the same. Not to mention we lost EVERYTHING that was on it! Luckily because of this blog and Facebook I have most of the really important pictures and details from the past years!

The only thing that I am SOOOOO sad that we have lost for good is a video of my Grandma Dent (Who has dementia and doesn't remember anyone but her children and her husband) reading to Riley when we visited last year! It was the sweetest video and no one in our family had anything like it! I thought that would be something so special for Riley to have since she was too young to remember it. Unfortunately its gone!

Long story short our computer caught a virus and it ended up that we had to wipe our computer clean of EVERYTHING! We had no way of making backup Cd's and videos because our computer wouldn't let us in! But again, Thankfully we have most of the really important stuff still stored on our blog and facebook!

(Hey Lana! Remind me to ask you about the pictures and video you took of Riley on her first birthday!)

So the moral to this story is....... EVERYONE OUT THERE....... Make a backup of all your photos and videos NOW Don't let this happen to you!

Do this or get an external hard drive or SOMETHING because computers ARE NOT as dependable as everyone thinks they are! And if you are thinking "Well, this wont happen to me GUESS AGAIN! I had that exact same mind set and look where I landed! I had been thinking for months that I needed to get Cd's to back up everything but I kept forgetting and putting it off! Its really frustrating!

That's all. I will get off the soap box and start trying to live my life with a dysfunctional computer! ha ha

Amazing!

So We still don't have a computer yet so I have no way to put the pictures on my own post, but you need to check out my sister Jamies Photo blog here! She took maternity pictures and Rileys 3 yr old pictures and they are to die for!!! Thanks Jamie you are amazing!!!

SIckly

Its been a pretty exciting couple weeks for us. We have had a lot going on and I will update on birthdays and such later when I have better access to a computer. For now though we are going without a computer and will not get ours back from the computer doctor for a couple weeks!

Our computer caught a bug and we thought it was only going to take a week to fix then they found more wrong with it so it was gonna take another few days and then they found out that the bug the computer caught infected the motherboard! So now its has another 2 weeks added on to its sentence.

So I wont be able to post much for a while but expect A LOT when My computer is back in a couple weeks! I will have a bunch to post on!

Imagination

I am sitting here on the computer for a minute and Riley walks up to me and says..

"Mom! Check this out!"

She is rubbing two pencils together. (Picture man making fire) So I say.... "Cool! What are you doing?"

She replies...(very excited)

"Mommy, I am playing the violin!!"

Now she is walking around with one of those pencils under her chin, in the proper violin way, and stroking it with the other pencil!

MAN SHE IS CUTE!

Hmmmmm

I just got to thinking....... I am almost 29 weeks pregnant! 29 is almost 30 and 30 is REALLY REALLY close to 40! WOW!!!!

P.S. Aren't you impressed I know how to count?

Not what we expected!

 So today Dale and I finally decided to get Riley's ears pierced!!! It was SO not what we expected it to be! Riley is such a stubborn child... If she doesn't want to sit through something she will do everything in her power to NOT sit through it. I have NEVER seen a baby to match her will power! Most kids can be talked down, calmed down or distracted but not the Bug! She has a one track mind and she is freakishly strong. So we expected her to freak out quite a bit and throw enough of a fit because of what was happening that we would end up leaving without having accomplished our goal...... We were SO surprised! We let her help pick out the earrings (Pink of course) and told her she was gonna get them put in her ear and they would be so pretty! She was excited!!  Then the lady started to touch her ears.... She started to get suspicious! She kept eyeing her like this............

While the Lady marked her ears. It was so much funnier in person! The the Lady put the little white gun to her ears and she was SURPRISINGLY calm...... Until After. Then it looked like this......
I thought that it was cute that they had a little bunny for her to hold onto to love when she started to feel the pain. After that the lady waited a little and Dale was able to calm her down a little and talk her into letting the lady do the other side! AMAZING! Dale did so good at talking her through it! I am so glad he was willing to be the one to hold her on his lap and that he was calm enough to try to keep her smiling and trusting! This is her after........
If this picture had any subtitles it would be "I hate you Mom and Dad for tricking me into this and making me think this would be fun!" She didn't want to look in the mirror right away, she was to angry, but then we took her to go potty and she was happy enough to check herself out in the mirror and be glad she had cute "Pinks" in her ears. We thought maybe she would be crying all night just because she wouldn't be able to let it go but as soon as we told her she could go play at the "playground" in the mall and get a treat she was fine! She ran right into the playground and didn't skip a beat! She was as happy as could be! It was as if nothing had happened! I tried to get a happy picture afterwards but I couldn't get her to old still long enough! She was too excited to play! She brought up the fact she had "hurts" in her ears a couple times but she didn't notice or remember enough to bring it up constantly. It wasn't until it was time for bed and I had to treat them that she got defensive. She told me she didn't want to wear the earrings to bed but forgot about it quickly enough when we went into her room to read her bedtime story! I will have a better after picture when I can get her to sit still long enough! They are so cute and I am so happy we got it done! Our little Bug surprises us all the time!

This....

Is what I have to look forward to today............

YUMMM
At least I don't have to taste this one! 

Why did I get out of bed this morning?????

Not for us!

Nope! Who needs blankets and pillows when you have nice hard boxes and newspaper ads?!?!?! Comfort is for the birds!And just because.... Here is me at 25 weeks!

WHAT??

So I just thought this was weird.... I keep telling Dale (and he agrees with me) that I think I am getting super big! It feels like a lot for my body to handle. Like I have said before I didn't get as big as I am right now when I was pregnant with Riley until I was about 8 months and then I didn't have to suffer so long but I still have three and a half months left and I don't know how my body can get any bigger. I know it will, obviously Baby Mak has to get bigger and so I will, but it just doesn't feel like my body can handle much more! I thought maybe it was just me. I was starting to think that maybe it was just me being a wimp, that I just didn't remember being pregnant well enough. Apparently its not! I had a doctors appointment on Monday and to my surprise my doctor told me that I had gained more weight in the past month than I should have and that we will have to keep an eye on my weight gain!!!! WHAT????? That is the strangest thing to hear! It makes me happy to know that Baby Mak is growing and healthy but I am just not sure that my body can handle much more!! Its all in the belly too... My clothes are actually fitting loose everywhere else. It just doesn't make sense to me but I guess I wont complain.... My baby is growing and is healthy and that's all that really matters! My comfort will have to be sacrificed! ha ha

Short lived

So this might not be post worthy but I am SUPER excited about it although nobody else might want to read about this! As it tuns out I had no need to get so frustrated and stressed about a diaper bag! It might sound dumb but really that was the one thing on my list of things to get, to be prepared for Baby Maks arrival, that I was MOST stressed about!

The day after "Frustrated" posted her rant about diaper bags and the stress it was causing her, Dale sent me a link through the chat that him and I have while he is at work. I open it up thinking its probably a link to some car on sale or some house he found that he wants to buy..... Nope! He had found a diaper bag on craigslist that was like one of the bags I had shown him that I wanted. It was a different brand that I had never heard of and the picture was a little blurry so I wasn't quite sure about it but it was CHEAP and I thought it was worth looking up and calling the lady about. So I looked up the bags brand and found out that they were normally just slightly less expensive than the original brand that I had been looking at. I decided to call the lady to talk about the condition it was in. (I couldn't tell from the picture) She said it was in fabulous condition and still looked brand new! She said she got it on a deal and that's why she was willing to sell it for so cheap! So off I went to pick it up. It really is so cute and everything I was looking for! The lady was super sweet about it all. She was really understanding when it ended up that I didn't have as much cash in my wallet as I THOUGHT I had. (of course I didn't check like the brain dead girl I am) I felt like some scum bag trying to rip her off for 5 bucks! But she was really nice and understanding about it. I got so lucky! I am so excited about this diaper bag and I cant wait to use it!

Signed, FRUSTRATED!!!

Hi, Its me, Frustrated! You know me right?? I am Cajsas 2nd personality! (alter ego, if you will)
I surface (mostly) when I feel like the only way to get what I really want is to spend WAY too much money on something that in NO WAY should cost as much as "they" are telling me it should cost!

I have been surfacing a lot more lately than Cajsa likes me to. Mostly because shopping for Baby stuff STRESSES HER OUT!!! Its not like she doesn't have enough on her plate making sure that she is doing everything she can so that the beautiful baby girl that is growing inside of her is growing and healthy!

Right now her problem is diaper bags! Do they have to cost so much?? Does she have to spend almost 200 bucks on a diaper bag that is everything she wants it to be! Is she too picky? Does she ask too much? She has been through a few diaper bags and has not been completely satisfied by any of them.

She looked for a cute one and had to sacrifice convenience. She tryed for convenience and had to sacrifice eye appeal! Not to mention that the "convenient" ones weren't convenient AT ALL!! Too bulky, always in her way and never holding what she wants it to without everything falling out. The pockets not closing. Nothing ever being able to be reached without digging through the freakin Grand Canyon to find it!!! She doesn't want it to look like everyone else on the Planet Earth! Same patterns, same brand. She doesn't want to look like a couch that's covered in plastic just so that it wipes clean! Apparently though that might be what she has to settle for because that's what is affordable! She doesn't need a name brand to make her happy just something that will last be cute and will hold what she wants it to without costing her so much money! Also Cajsas husband has a say in all this too... After all he does have to carry it too and it cant be too girly. Pink is "O.K" as long as its only in the trimmings. The patterns cant be too fru-fru because NO MAN should have to carry that around when its his turn for diaper detail! Also he is the bread-winner so he is the one fronting the money for this endeavor.

Is Cajsa the ONLY person to have these problems??? I have never heard complaints from anyone else... Maybe everyone else can afford the things she cant which wouldn't bother her, to each his own, except that they are the only ones that seem happy with their choice! Money never really has equaled happiness for her but apparently in this case they go hand in hand?!? Is there a compromise or is settling my ONLY option???

Signed,
Totally and Completely FRUSTRATED!!!!

A Kicker and her Name

This is for mostly my own journal purposes so don't feel like you have to read it!

This pregnancy like I have said before is just a completely different experience from the last one. I have gotten much bigger much faster than I did when I was pregnant with Riley Bug. I am about as big now as I was with Riley at 7 months or so! I am already feeling so big in the belly! It took me until I was nine months to feel big the first time!

I have been feeling Baby Mak (her nickname) move around in there for a while! She is much more violent than Riley was which is a total surprise to me.. (Riley was quite the kicker) But Baby Mak has no mercy! I honestly can feel her most of the day and they aren't just tiny movements either. Most of the time I have to adjust my position so that I can let her roll away as she pleases without making me too uncomfortable! Even this early you can actually see her movements from across the room sometimes! I have heard stories about babies that have kicked so hard they have actually broken ribs! I was sure if that was gonna happen it would have happened with Riley, (I am sure I had a few bruised ones at some point with her) I wasn't sure it could get much worse... I thought wrong!

I have felt a few of the "fake" Braxton Hicks contractions which they say is normal at this point as the baby and the body are preparing for what is gonna happen in a few months. Its just weird to think I only have a few more months. The first part has gone by pretty quickly, now that I have said that out loud it is gonna start dragging.......

The "Mommy Flu" is mostly gone by now! There are sometimes, mostly in the mornings, when I feel not so hot but I just have to eat something pretty quickly and I feel fine the rest of the day. Although I am hungry all of the day I don't really have "cravings." Different foods sound better to me at certain times than others but I can basically eat anything and be ok. There has only been once where I really couldn't eat anything else but what I was craving because I wanted it so badly. Going to the grocery store is a nightmare though! I have to make sure I don't spend time lingering in the isles or the whole store would be sold out I just look for what is on my list and then spend my time in the produce section! Then all I give myself time to think about are the apples, grapes, watermelons and salads. I guess though that I spend a lot of time in the cereal isle! I am always wanting some sort of cereal. I couldn't have any at the beginning of my pregnancy because the thought of milk would make me hurl but now I could eat it all day! I have to force myself to eat other foods sometimes.

We have decided on a name! I wasn't gonna post it on here until after she was born but now I just don't care! We have decided to name her Makenna Rose! Dale loves the thought of Calling her Mak and we have started calling her Baby Mak. Kenna seems to roll off my tongue more easily ( I have a hard time using any ones full name... I think its some sort of a condition I have) but either way we love it! We are getting very antsy and cant wait to meet our Baby Mak! Like I said the last few months are gonna drag on!!

Our Easter

We had a very fun Easter this year! Riley was able to color eggs twice! We did it once at Mom and Dad Whipple's and once at Mom and Dad Dents. She loved watching the eggs go in white and come out really pretty colors. At My parents house she found a paint brush and she was determined to PAINT the eggs! Ha ha She kept dipping it in the colors and trying to color the egg! The eggs she did that with actually turned out really cool! All the colors were mixed by the end of the fun but luckily no one else needed them after her! (Of course I didn't take pictures. And I am very mad at myself for that!)

She was very excited to get her Easter basket on Sunday morning and had tons of fun with her little toys that were in it and OF COURSE the candy! We bought her stickers to play with during church and that worked like a charm! I have never seen her sit so still and be so quiet for so long!!

That afternoon we went to Mom and Dad Whipple's to have Easter dinner!! We had Brisket and mashed potatoes and it was DELICIOUS!!!!! Riley had a blast being able to play with her cousins and to spend some time outside! Hope everyone had a great Easter!

This is me at 21 weeks ( I look dead!)

Happy Birthday to.....

ME! I had a great day yesterday! I started off my day getting my hair cut! I LoVe when I don't have to do my own hair! Doing my hair is the one thing I dread most everyday, so I loved having my day started out by having it done for me!

Dale took the day off for my birthday and that was really the BEST part of my day! If I had received NO other presents all day that would have been fine! I loved just being able to have Dale all to myself ALL DAY!

I got to just hang out with him at home for a couple hours and them my WoNdErFuL SISTERS took my out to lunch at Rosas! We don't all get together very often with just us sisters unless one of us has a birthday! We live all over the place so its hard to get together especially when all of us have kids so its really fun to just be able to just sit and talk for a while! Since it was Good Friday my Mom had the day off work so she was able to Come along with us which doesn't happen very often either! We had LOTS of fun!

After spending some fun Time With Dale Riley and I we dropped Riley off at Mom Whipples house and Dale and I were able to spend some time with JUST US!!! We went to dinner at Julios Too (YUMM!) and then we went to the mall and I was able to spend my birthday money!!! A mall trip without a baby is WoNdErFuL!!!!! We were able to have WHOLE conversations without having to worry about making a poor child stuck in a stroller happy! And having to take a MILLION trips to the bathroom for our POTTY TRAINED child! I had a blast being able to spend alone time with Dale! PLUS I bought a SUPER cute dress and some REALLY cute sandals! I had an AWESOME birthday!

Thanks EVERYONE for the great day! And thanks Dale for taking off work and spending the day with me! That was the BEST part of my birthday! I love you! Thanks for everything!!!!!!

Monday Funday!

Monday is an awesome day here at the Whipple's! Most people detest Mondays but we LOVE them! Dale has Mondays off so its just a continuation of the weekend.! So yesterday we went over to Mom and Dad Whipple's house to do our laundry (Which isn't so fun) and Dale brought along his soccer ball. He wanted to take advantage of the wonderful space Mom and Dad have out back and kick the ball around with Riley! She loves to be out there running, and kicking the ball with Daddy! There is no other person she loves to play with more! Honestly , I think Dale would say the same thing about her! He loves that she loves to run around with him gettin' dirty and sweaty! They are an awesome pair! I got to sit down and watch it all happen! I enjoyed being able to play around with my camera a bit and capture the fun moments!



Just look at how much fun they have together! All smiles!
















This was me relaxing.












This is Dale enjoying some alone time with his soccer ball while Riley was busy giving Izzy some attention!












And this is Izzy! She doesn't look happy.... (ever) but she was glad to have even a little attention!
She was scared of the soccer ball though! I thought that was funny!






Later that night Dale and I decided that we needed a date night! We hadn't had one with just us for a couple weeks so Mom and Dad Whipple watched Riley while Dale and I enjoyed ourselves walking around the mall and getting some yummy Dairy Queen/Orange Julius! YUM!!!! I love Mondays!