21 weeks....

Today we had doctor appointment and everything went great. I am 21 weeks tomorrow. Camden went along today since we were doing the ultrasound. I was telling him on the way down that we would be seeing a picture of the baby. He was pretty excited to see the baby but his idea of a picture was alot different. Overall everything looks good though with the baby.
The week has actually gone pretty fast with tomorrow being Friday...YAY!! It seems like I have been busy at work this week so the week seems to go faster. Brad has also been busy at work and has finished up doing our taxes this week. We are not doing anything exciting with our tax return but putting it in savings....woohoo...I am sure I could find better stuff to do with it:) Actually we want to save up to start adding on/redoing the house!!
Camden has had his normal week of going to school and daycare. He was pretty excited because he got to wear his pj's to school on Wednesday! This week he learned about strangers. He came home and was telling me everything we should do if a stranger comes up to us or tries to take us! Today he got to pick out his valentines for preschool and daycare and is very excited to give one to his girlfriends!:)
Have a good weekend!

Why do weekends go so fast?

It was pretty much a normal weekend for us. Brad had the weekend off so Friday night we went to the South O'Brien BB game with some friends of ours. The boy's team is undefeated in the conference and Friday's nights game was supose to be a goodone! The whole game was pretty close and the Wolverines came away with the win. Let me tell you I was getting nervous toward the end of the game with the score being so close. Go figure, most of you know that's how I get during games especially if Ozzie and Brett are the ones playing:)
Saturday all day we pretty much watched some BB on tv and cleaned the house. Cleaning is never ending in our house! Saturday night we had some friends over after supper to hang out for awhile. The kids ran wild and played hard all night! Where do they get there energy? I wish I had half the energy they do:)
Sunday was a day to do nothing! I like those days! Brad had to help with Super Shooters up at the school so Camden and I went up and watched that for awhile. It's a basketball competition for kids and the 1st-3rd place get to go to state. It nice for the Jaycees to put this on for kids. Camden played BB for awhile afterwards and then when we went home he wanted his basketball hoop brought in the house so dad and him could play!
One last thing.....
When we bought Bandit last March as a puppy he did not shed to much. The last couple months he has been shedding so bad. Ok it's probably not that bad compared to some dogs but it drives me nuts to have dog hair all over my house and furniture! Yeah I know I shouldn't let him be on the furniture but oh well. (Once I get new furniture he won't be able to be on it.) I vacuum 1-2 times/week and our vacuum is a decent one but just doesn't do the job to get rid of the dog hair! The dog hair really isn't that bad but enough to drive me nuts.
So Brad and Camden went to Sears Saturday morning and bought the new high tech Dyson DC17 vacuum cleaner. I didn't know much about them until Brad came home awhile ago and was telling me about this vacuum. At the time he was telling me I didn't think to much about it.
It comes with 3-4 other attachements and one is to use on furniture. My floors don't look dirty but after using this vacuum cleaner in my living room I about died at what came out of my floors. This vacuum cleaner has such high power that it was sucking everything out of my carpets! It brought up more than just the dog hair. I really didn't think it was going to be this great, but WOW I am amazed at what this vacuum does! So I am glad that it is worth the money....I was a little worried until I saw what it did! Ok sorry I am talking about vacuum cleaners but I got really excited about it..HAHA:) Have a good week!

Cartoons

Why can't the cartoons now days be like the cartoons back in my day! Some of the cartoons I used to watch have been remade or whatever you call it and are back on television now, but it's still not the same. Some of my favorites were: Care Bears, Inspector Gadget, The Smurfs, Pinky and the Brain, Top Cat, Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes, etc. I could keep going but there are so many! There are some cartoons that are on now that are good and decent. I find myself watching cartoons or at least listening to some of them while Camden is watching them! I can't believe some the stuff they say on some of them. For instance Spongebob is not a very good cartoon at all, but I do let Camden watch it. He LOVES Spongebob and probably has seen every episode 10 times and can tell you what is going to happen during the show! He might watch a little to much tv. But I have found myself listening to more of what the Spongebob shows are about and wow I about died. I really do not like it when Spongebob is saying That's so stupid, or Let's get naked, etc. Camden has come to me before and said Spongebob just said stupid and that's a naughty word, at least he knows better. I have also noticed that there are many sexual comments that Camden probably wouldn't catch on to but adults can figure out! We have some friends that do not let there kids watch Spongebob and some friends that do! Not every episode is that bad but I have seen many that I do not care for! Spongebob is not the only one but Camden just happened to be watching it when I started thinking about this! Some cartoons he watches are very good and some actually teach him things. I think to myself that yes he does or probably will hear all this stuff somewhere else. I believe this is how young children learn this crap and then if you throw in the shows that have violence makes it even worse. The shows that have violence is leading to teaching kids all about it and that is why we have all these shootings, stabbings, etc in the world! I think I will stop now as I don't want to have to go off about violence! No I do not believe I will take away certain cartoons but I am definetly going to limit how much he watches them! So like I said at the beginning of this post I wish we had cartoons like I used to watch!

So glad today is Friday.....

I love friday's! Especially when it's Brad's weekend off. I went into work this morning at 8:00 and was home by 10:00! I didn't have much to do at work so I decided to start the weekend early!
What happened to the nice weather we had the past couple of days? It was so nice to be outside and actually have decent weather for Camden to play outside longer than he has been. But here we go again with the cold crappy weather. We went to sheldon to get some groceries this morning after I got off work and the wind was creating some good size drifts. The state crews were out blocking areas of the road so they could blow the snow into the opposite ditch. In some places along the road the snow was piled so high, it was crazy! I think the way I am saying it sounds worse than it actually is. If it blows all night then that could be a problem. We were supose to go to the NSK/CCE basketball game tonight but Connie called and said school were letting out back home and the game was cancelled. I wouldn't say it's terribly bad down here so I don't think school will be letting out. If they don't cancel the South O'Brien BB game tonight we are heading down there to that. I guess it's supose to be a big conference game. One of our friends is the boys basketball coach. If we don't go to that I think we are going to take Camden to a movie! He loves going to movies and does pretty well through the whole thing. The last one he went to with Brad was Madagascar 2 Escape to Africa. He liked that movie but I think the first Madagascar was better!
Camden is getting very sick of this weather too. He said to me "when all this snow melts we can go swimming again and go for walks." I think he is getting sick of winter just as much as I am! I plan on taking him to an indoor waterpark one of these weekends but I haven't got around to it yet! Well hope you all have a good weekend and stay warm!

Playing with shaving cream.....kept him busy! It's actually an activity in many daycares. It sounds crazy and obviously can only let kids old enough to do this. He had fun drawing things in the shaving cream and just getting his hands dirty....Way to much fun!

Messing around in dad's work hat!

He got sick of painting pictures and wanted to make a hand print of his hand with paint and then it turned into this. I didn't care, he was having to much fun!

It was another one of those weekends with not alot going on,which was nice because it seems like the weekends have been kind of busy for us. Brad worked all weekend and Camden and I just hung out at home. Brad had a busy day on Saturday with the blowing and drifting snow, once again he wasn't to thrilled by the time he got home for supper with all the idiot drivers! I think the only time I left the house was to run to the grocery store and to go outside today and play in the snow with Camden, finally the weather hit the 30's! Sounds like the next couple days are supose to be nice and in the 30's!YAY!

I posted some pics from this past week.

Sick of the cold!

This weather is getting so old and I am ready for spring/summer!! I can't believe how cold it was this morning when we got up. I am so thankful I didn't have to leave the house today or have to take Camden out in the cold. Sounds like tomorrow is suppose to be alot better with a high of 22....Yes it's still cold but better than -26! Next week we are supose to have temps reaching 38 degrees, it's going to be a heat wave for us:) Schools have pretty much cancelled school all week due to the snow and wind we have been getting and today cancelling because it was SOOO cold! I am sure the kids love not having to go to school now but wait til they have to make up these snow days and go longer into the summer.
YAY tomorrow is Friday. I do not believe we have much planned for the weekend. Brad has to work a one to one shift all weekend so we won't see much of him. I am sure Camden and I will find something to do! Have a good weekend!

Suggestions???

So this morning I got up early to come to work because we had an early surgery. I was getting ready and remebered we can't wear rings when working in surgery or we just have to put tape over them. I got my 2 rings off of my right hand but OMG I can't get my wedding ring off. I have tried lotion, windex, ice, etc. I noticed my fingers swelling a little with fluid but figured I could still get my rings off since they were not that bad. Well I guessed wrong! I have tugged at it all morning and it's really swollen now with all the pulling I have done. I am freaking out because if I can't get them off and my fingers swell and get bad I will have to get the ring cut off!!!! AAHHHHH! So any if anyone has any suggestions let me know!