weight watchers

so i bit the bullet and finally went back to weight watchers wednesday night...besides my pregnant time- this is the most i have ever weighed in my life. so after a year of not counting points i have started again. I'm hoping it wont be as hard to lose weight as i feel its going to be :)

and what does my loving husband (of 4 years now) do to help support my new embarkment of weight loss? he buys 3-1/2 gallons of ice cream...while i am at my first ww meeting no less. in his defense he did buy me some ww ice cream bars - only 2 points each. and one of the 1/2 gallons was no sugar added.

island beach state park

On saturday we trekked over to NJ to see the ocean. the day was perfect- sunny and warm but not too too hot. I forgot how much fun the ocean is to swim in. i rode the waves, they smashed me into the sand over and over, got lots of saltwater in my eyes, ears, and mouth. it was awesome! We took audrey into the ocean just a teeny bit- after that video stopped ryan was sitting on the edge of the water still holding her and a big wave came and splashed audrey- she really started screaming then. she was so good other than that though. she slept the whole car ride home. We are definately going to the shore more often.

Pictures

i love the ocean!

Audrey...not so much

Backyard Baseball

Well last night we had some visitors from NJ and CO come over. Promptly after dinner Luca started asking everyone to play baseball with him. He had gotten a foam bat and ball to play with this week in NJ. Its so much nicer than the wiffle ball type kits I remember always playing with. The bat looked like a real wooden bat- but it was dense foam. very nice- i think everyone was impressed with it except murphy- who was struck by it accidentally :) Anyways it was fun night running around the backyard with Luca...and only 1 person stepped in poo.

the best line of the night was when luca told cath 'you can bat, cause thats the only thing you are good at'















Luca's celebratory dance after a homerun

Chicken BBQ

Hunts and Bakers - 2008

We took a trip to portville this weekend so that Audrey could meet all her family...or well vice versa I guess- because she probably wont remember this weekend. but anyways it was fun. Ryan and his dad did their famous chicken. all the family came over, lots of friends and their kids too. We gorged on chicken...sooo yummmy. Audrey was a popular hot potato- and we got lots of pictures with her.

sunday we got up early and ryan, his dad and I went and practiced shooting soda cans with ryans gun. my shot is not so good- but my thoughts are if someone was in my house to get me and i went to shoot them they would be bigger than a soda can so I would be alright. right???

i drove home yesterday- b/c ryan is working in NY until wednesday. met up with cath and mike at a reststop. we didnt get home until after 8pm last night...long trip :)

camping highlights

well we spent last week at Chenango Valley State Park, here is a recap

Highlights
swimming at a lake- its like nothing else
Caths 99 year old BF at the beach
cabins with running water and toliets
Celebrating Dads 60th b-day together with strawberry shortcake
MR day at the beach
campfires and smores

Lowlights
Getting a cold...Audrey too
Audrey getting sunburnt
Daddy long leg spiders EVERYWHERE
sleeping in bunkbeds
rain

Overall it was a nice relaxing trip- the weather could have been more like philly- hot/humid/no rain....but i still got to swim and mananged a sunburn so i cant complain.

sunday besides loading pics (**warning: lots of pics of the babies...as usual this will be a blanket warning for all my future picture albums...i cant help it**) and videos i didnt do anything

camping video

working...

It was back to work for me this week...not fun. but the good side is i have next week off. we are heading up to binghamton to camp (in cabins) with the fam (minus becky) who has used all her vacation already... she'll come down for a night though.
ryans parents are down visiting and watching audrey for the week.

its been hard to get back to work- hard to concentrate on things for more than 10 minutes at a time. and the lack of sleep is getting to me- i had not functioned before 10 am in a long time- or worn socks. i had to drink a whole cup of coffee the first day and a soda...i had the caffine jitters. its getting easier though. i think i just need to adjust to less sleep.

This past weekend we went to my work picnic- it was alot of fun. ryan got to meet some of the people i work with. we got a family portrait taken, food, airbrush face painting, swimming, door prizes- (well i didnt win anything) but they were giving away xbox systems, laptops, nintendo DS, $100 gift cards...it was crazy. and we got to play bingo :) the best line was when we were leaving (*note: where i work is about 75% indian, dot not the feather) ryan said "i feel like we are in India"

birthday

my birthday weekend was alot of fun. sarah and junior came to visit with teagan. I took lots and lots of pictures- if you have a few hours here they are **warning: there are alot of just the babies**

this one is my favorite- it looks like teagan is trying to punch audrey















i got a facial and pedicure for my birthday present - which i went on saturday to get. the facial was pretty cool- i had never done one before. i learned i have alot of congestion in my pores. And need to use lotion every day. they used this cool powder sunscreen on me too- i want to find some of that to buy.

twins

I think they look like twins

dream

I had a dream last night about my blog...that i was told i have to update it...i take dreams pretty serious so i'm updating...

my birthday is coming up next week- Sarah and Jr are coming to visit for the weekend- should be a good time - they havent been since new years i dont think. it will be cool to see audrey and teagan together...not that audrey does much but cry and sleep but anyways...

i have no idea what i want for my birthday...(except i know i dont want a new computer monitor) any ideas?

July 4th weekend

Our guests just left from the holiday weekend...it will be an adjustment now not having a helping hand with the baby- she requires some 'hold me time' to fall asleep that having extra people really helps with, so you can do anything. And of course all the other work grammy did was very helpful. Her and Ryan were responsible for the garden and cleaning of the house. We actually didn't leave the house very much- but i had a very good time-

Here are some pics from the weekend:


baby girl in her first bathing suit


Her hand is sooo teeny




SPARKLERS!!!

Garden

lots of hard work was done on the garden this weekend...

Baby

Audrey was born June 18, 2008 at 4:02pm, she weighed 8 lbs 1 oz and was 20 3/4" long.














I think she looks just like her dad..this is a picture of him when he was a baby.














Labor was not fun as to be expected but its all over now and we have a healthy little baby girl. we got home from the hospital friday afternoon and things havent been too bad. Ryan had researched how to introduce the baby to the pups and so far so good. the only pup interested in linus - Hopefully it wont be long until she is not obsessed with her.

Settling in now to long nights...

Here are some pics

big baby

well there has been 24 hrs of no new groundhog stories...thank god. I took linus to the vet and it cost $100 to have her looked at, shaved and the wound cleaned, and some anitbotics. All in all 15 minutes of the vets time. they picked the right business. this morning she wasnt acting normal, she didnt even want a biscuit when i offered her one- i'm hoping by tonight when i get home she will be back to normal.

i had an ultrasound this morning and the baby is estimated at 8lb 13 ounces. i'm hoping that they are way off. especially since i have atleast a week to go. i'm putting money on june 27th to deliver. Ryans guess is June 22nd.

dogs vs groundhog round 2

well if sundays attack/killing wasnt enough excitement for the dumb groundhogs then yesterdays better have been.

i got home from work and let the dogs out- i checked the right side of the yard (where the previous attack happened) before letting them out and it was clear. i watched the poms run about looking for the goundhogs and then saw them both sprint over to murphy on the left side of the lawn. The big fat mother groundhog was in the fence! and murphy was surrounding it- then all 3 of them were. I was TERRIFIED that one of my dogs was going to get very hurt. i was screaming at the top of my lungs at them. i didnt know what else i could do. well screaming did nothing- the dogs all ignored me. i panicked (surprise, surprise) i was running into the house and back out screaming for them to stop and let the thing go- the groundhog was screeching and the whole gang of them were moving toward the house. i was honestly thinking it might try to run into the house to escape the pack of dogs. i threw our lawn chair out toward them to try to break it up. nothing. meanwhile i think i was screaming the whole time. the pack was moving a little to right of the yard - where the ground can escape - if it makes it alive. well in my last ditch effort i throw our other chair at them and it separates murphy and linnie from patty and the groundhog. enough space that the groundhog gets a few feet away and darts toward the fence. patty runs along barking at it like an idiot. the groundhog escapes- not sure with what damage.
then i ran inside and lost it. hysterically call ryan who probably thought something had happened to the baby or something.
well linus has some battle wounds- a cut on her muzzle and fang marks on her side. i bet she was the only one who actually bit the groundhog though. we called the vet after some research on the internet knowing full well they would just want us to come in so they can take $. i think linus will be fine. we cleaned the wounds with peroxide and bag balm and she didnt even wince. but i am taking her today to get a rabies booster shot and have her wounds checked out. this wont be cheap.

and i bet the baby crawled into my ribs and will never want to come out now into our crazy madhouse.

karma gets even dogs...

heat makes dogs kill

there are always stories about people going crazy and killing during hot hot days- like it makes people crazy or something- i think (hope) the same is true for pomeranians. Yesterday we had a crime committed in our backyard. This weekend it was 95+ on saturday and close to 100 on sunday. Saturday while I was in the kitchen I noticed the big fat mother groundhog in our fence. i opened the window and yelled at it to get out. it did listen to me and left the fenced in yard. Well sunday afternoon about 1pm Murhpy and Linus were sitting by the back door (shade was pulled) so i let them out thinking they hadnt been out in a while. for some odd reason i watched them as they ran out the door to the corner of the yard right where the groundhog had left our yard the day before. As I was saying to ryan isnt it weird they run right over there i see a little baby groundhog running for its life to the fence and jumps through it. then i see linnie dart to the right and out of my sight. i see 2 more baby groundhogs running from the yard to the fence. both of them make it out. then i look over to see linnie and there is something brown in her mouth! i started screaming at ryan- oh she got one! she got one! ryan ran outside and had to pry her away from the poor dead groundhog. he disciplined her pretty good- hopefully it helps. i doubt it though. luckily the big mom wasnt in the yard too or linnie would have had her hands full. i bet murphy would have gotten involved if that happened. Murphy was just watching her in disbelief i think.

what is wrong with my dog?!!?

Classes

With the upcoming birth of our baby Ryan and I have been preparing by taking some classes that the hospital offers. It was when my niece was born that I realized soon I was going to have a newborn to take care of only I knew absolutely NOTHING about babies. so i looked into the classes that were offered and signed up for all of them that applied to us.

so far we have completed the CPR and first aid for infants- that class was good except that i think they really try to scare you and basically call 911 if anything happens was the message we got. We did learn how to do CPR though. Hopefully nothing we learned in that class we ever have to use.

we then took a 4 week childbirth class. There were 8 other couples in that. we toured the birthing center at the hospital, learned all about whats going to happen, they showed lots of videos on birthing that i chose not to watch, learned about breathing for pain control, pain meds, c-sections, shaking baby syndrome- NOTE to all - shaking a baby violently can do serious damage to their brain and could kill them. Soooo basically I learned WAY too much and now i am terrified. that class made it all too real. Ryan has taken on the 'coach' role and he is very serious about it - its kinda cute.

Last night i went to a breastfeeding class- which I thought was actually very informative and didnt totally gross me out.

We have one last class on newborn care to take next weekend and then she can come- we will be educated :)

like new Garage

Before
After
Before
After

unfinished projects

well we didnt finish the garage this weekend, we ran into a few snafus... Saturday morning ryan started bright and early while i slept in. about 10 am it was time for me to help steer the bug out of the garage. so the garage was pretty much empty by 11am. Thats when the painting was to start- but that was the first problem- we tried to use the spray painter ryan got for christmas- after a trip to lowe's we still couldnt get the sprayer to work- so we gave up with that and ryan started to paint with a roller. Painting wasnt finished until about 6pm. Ryan then started building his bench and got alittle done and then gave up for the day.
sunday it took all day for the bench to be built, so by sunday night we had very little done. but we were invited to a party of one of ryans coworkers so we went to that. The coworker of ryans is vietnamese but lived in cambodia most of his life. when we got there i had a corona handed to me..if only :) and then after that a steady stream of cambodian food- i ate some curry soup - the broth was very good, a little spicy but yummy. when i noticed ryan pulling things out of his mouth and putting them on his plate i decided to stick to the broth. turns out it was chicken in the soup- bones and all. and the chicken had been killed that morning at the asian grocery store nearby. too much information and freshness for me. i was "full" soon after that came out. ryan thought it was cool- he had some chicken wings after that- he said they were very good. i wouldnt know.
ryan proceeded to drink alot- so monday morning he was alittle slow getting back to work.












monday we organized as much as we could and then went to a nearby lake to take the dogs for a walk and have a picnic. the park was beyond packed though with lots of dogs - so it wasn't that relaxing...