Holy crap.

Yes, we've been holding onto this news for a little bit. 
Here are our Initial Thoughts and some random notes I took while we were waiting to tell:

Are you serious?? Are you kidding me??

Ok what do we do now?

We can't tell anyone?? I wanna tell people so baaaaddd.

Can we at least tell our parents?
How are we going to convince my parents to come see us from Renssy without it seeming suspicious?

What are we doing to do about Vegas? Costa Rica? Bachelorette parties? Regular parties? How are you going to hide it when people come over next weekend? I'll make your drinks.  We'll substitute applejuice!

When I called the doctor, they wanted me to come in 3 weeks later.  But what can and can't I do? So I start doing research.  Turns out I can't drink or do tons of illicit drugs while pregnant.  WHAT? When did this happen?  Just kidding.  But I did find a big Q&A section online.  Someone actually asked, "Can I get a belly button ring while pregnant?"  WHY would you want to do that? Sexy preggo belly with a PIERCING? Mmm-hmm!!

I talk to Andrew on the phone while he's away for work. He tells me that "You two" better get to sleep.  I say, "Brian's already asleep.... oh you meant... oh.. um ... yeah, WE'd better."  That hit me like a ton of bricks.  There's a little T-burg growing in there.

I'm SOOO tired.  It takes all the strength in my body to move the mouse for my computer at work.  Not cool. Oh and this "light nausea" is a real pain in my ass.  But I have to say, I'm very lucky that it's only *light* nausea.  It could be so much worse. 

At a work thing, a guy tells Andrew that his wife is pregnant and due the first week in December.  Andrew says, "Oh so then she's *just* pregnant? Like 6 weeks?"  "Yeah, how'd you do the math so fast?" "Uhhh, I'm just good at math."  HA!

Andrew and I have both been using this as an excuse.  "Andrew, will you take Brian out? I'm busy multiplying cells over here." 
"Morgan, I think we should buy an iPad."
"What? Why?" 
"For the baaabyyy!!"

Recently, I watched Tina Fey on SNL.  She was in a skit about being a 9 inch tall hooker with a heart of gold.  I definitely cried.  Wow.  This is not good.

I called my brother Adam and told him the news.  After talking for a few minutes he says, "So you've got a bun in the oven.... Well I also have something in the oven.... chicken strips."  I laughed for about 5 minutes.


So back to TODAY:
Today we went to the doctor for the 10 week check up.  They were going to listen for the heartbeat.  The first machine they tried to listen and we heard nothing.  Silent Freak Out Time.  I shouldn't say we heard "nothing" because we heard what sounded like a wind tunnel.  Plus the doppler thing looked like an old ham radio.

I expected to hear a repeating distress message in French (that's a joke for all the Losties out there). 
Anyway, she tried twice with no luck.  Not cool.  She said, "Well we're not going to leave without letting you know your baby is okay."  So she takes us to the ultrasound room.  She "performs the ultrasound" and BOOM Baby.  Both Andrew and I stare at the screen in awe.  It was incredible.  That is our kid.  He or she is RIGHT THERE! WHAT? You could see the teeniest little fluttering in the chest area.  She said that was the kiddo's heart.  The heartbeat is 174 beats per minutes.  Pump that blood, Baby T!!!

Seriously, technology is amazing.  There's just something about seeing the vital signs that makes it incredibly, amazingly real.

Do you think Baby T is smiling for his/her first picture?

Happy Burphday to yooouuuu!

I've been really bad about birthday posts lately.  REALLY bad.  You're about to see how many I've missed.  But I still want to put up some belated birthday wishes so I hope you'll forgive me!

The first birthday I missed was my niece Lilli! Happy 7th birthday Lilli!! She's dressed to the Nines (in my clothes) and ready to party!

The next birthday I missed was Andrew's dad, Tom.  Happy Birthday Tom! This picture is at the bar after his 60th birthday party last year.... which would make him about 39 this year.

I cannot even count how many pictures I have of Andrew making this face.



The next birthday I missed was my sister-in-law, Desi. Happy Birthday Desi!

I picked this pictures because its a lovely picture of Desi but the rest of us look a little goober-ish. 


Birthday number 4 that I missed was my nephew Jack.  I hope you had a great one, Jack, with your microphone-shaped nunchucks. 

The final (I hope I didn't miss anyone) birthday that I missed was my niece, Cecilia.  Hope your birthday was cheerful, Cec! (Go Crusaders!)

Well I hope that's everyone.  I better go check my Google calendar again just to make sure I didn't miss any other family members! April and May are busy months!

Brian WINS!

Did we buy a new wreath or did Brian win the Derby this weekend?

Brian is not very good at drinking water.

Seriously Brian, you should try DRINKING your water instead of just spitting it all over the floor. Did you even get any in your mouth?

Quick Trip to Chicago

We planned a quick trip to Chicago this weekend to meet up with Erin and Doug for brunch.  We went to the Grand Lux Cafe which is downtown and DELISH.  I had the fresh garden omelette and it was absolutely amazing.
I wasn't thinking like a blogger at the time so I didn't have the waitress take a picture.  But I can work one up in Paint really quick.

This just might be my masterpiece!!
Seriously, that's exactly what it looked like.  HAHA!! Might want to click on the picture to see the artistry and the attention to detail on the food.  Grand Lux should have me design their menu pictures!! I crack myself up, I tell ya.  Look at my plate.  It looks like a school bus with red wheels! That's supposed to be an omelette and tomatoes.  HAHA, I'm awesome at drawing.
Come and do draw-wwwwings with me.



Anyway, it was a beautiful day in Chicago.

It rained almost the whole time.  We were soaked walking down Michigan Avenue but it was still fun.  I had never been to an Apple Store so that was exciting.  We also visited Niketown so Andrew could look at jackets.  He didn't bring one so he was freezing. While we were there, we saw all the athletes Nike sponsors including good ol' Tiger:

I have to give credit to Erin on that one.  That was definitely her joke. Hilarious!  (So just to clarify, NO, Tiger's picture does not actually have a text balloon at Niketown. Those were my Magical Paint skills at it again.)

Take Your Son to Work Day

Tomorrow is the annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.  It is apparently sponsored by Barbie. Side note: Barbie now has two new career choices: News Anchor and Computer Engineer. Computer Engineer Barbie has a sweet blue tooth and wicked awesome pink frames.  Love it! Now if little girls all over the world could just be inspired by her and choose this as a career, then I wouldn't have to deal with the deplorable tech support I deal with now.



Oh and by the way... YOU'RE WELCOME!!

Anyway, back to the "Take Your Kid to Work So Your Babysitter Can Have a Break" Day.  I actually did this earlier this year. 

Done and done. 
Don't worry, he got a couple treats for doing my work that day.

 Good boy!

He also got to rest a little too.  Two 15 minutes breaks and a lunch were all I could allow.  I mean, come on, he has to follow Labor Laws too!

But hey, at least he didn't have to go work at the GAP like this dog.

That sucks.

Those two words are all I've heard from people the past two days. Why, you ask? The picture will help explain.





I drove down to Indy with my two co-workers for a convention for our work association. We arrived at 10 am and went inside. At the break at 11 (yes, just an hour later) I went back out to my car because I forgot to take out my Garmin and I discovered my broken window. Sweet. I wasn't even in a bad part of Indy. WTH? Broad daylight? Are you kidding me?
So what did these awesome criminals take? My two co-workers suitcases. They left my suitcase and my Garmin in the car. Seriously? What's that all about?? Did they not want my suitcase because it was dirty and covered in dog hair?? Maybe. Or did they just run out of time and my suitcase happened to be on the bottom? Who knows? They broke into 3 other cars in the parking lot, not just mine. So I called 911 and they said they would send someone out. We waited for an hour and a half and no one showed up. Finally 911 called me back. (What?) They ended up taking our police reports over the phone because they couldn't get anyone out to see us for a couple more HOURS. Awful.

By that time I had called a Chevy dealership to get a quote on how much this was going to cost to fix (since I didn't want to drive 3 hours back to South Bend with rain coming in my open window). They quoted me at $535!! Gross!! Then I called Safelight Autoglass. They were awesome!! Only $177 and I was fixed in a couple hours. Phew! But my poor coworkers each lost over $1000 worth of stuff in their suitcases.

Say it with me now, "THAT SUCKS!"


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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIN!

It's Erin's birthday today! Erin is my sister-in-law. This is my gift to her.

Hope you have a great one!

Best "That's What She Said" Ever

The plumbers had to come back to our house because our drain was leaking again.  While they were there, we overhead them say:

Plumber #1: Grab a hold of my pipe with both hands. Got it? Okay now take the rubber off.

Huh huh huh huuuuuuh... good one.

IKEA is the Devil.

Seriously.  It is.  And yet, we keep going back.

Here goes the story.

We pick out the bookshelf we want for the office on IKEA's website.  It's white and over 6 feet tall, much like Robbie Hummel.  Anyway, we pick out a weekend to drive to Bolingbrook, IL to pick it up thinking it would be simple.  By the way, they make you walk through the entire store to get to the area where you can pick up the  boxes that hold your furniture.  So of course we find tons of other stuff to buy before we even get to the  bookshelf.  We find the bookshelf by matching the Aisle and Bin Number on the tag of the white display bookshelf.  We grab the boxes, purchase our items and head home.

By the way, our little Equinox hardly holds 6 foot tall boxes but we manage... with my knees in the dashboard.

That night I open the boxes to begin putting the shelf together.
It's not WHITE.  IT'S BROWN!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Are you kidding me???
The next day, we head BACK to Bolingbrook, IL to exchange our stupid bookshelf with my stupid knees in the dashboard again.  We walk through the entire store AGAIN so of course we find more things we want to buy.  We make the exchange. This time I open the boxes to make sure the stupid thing is white.  It's in a totally different bin number.  Argh.  We make our purchase and head home again.

Now we have to put the stupid bookshelf together.  AAACCKK SWEATDROPS!
Things are going swimmingly at first.  All the pegs are in the holes, all the boards are matching up, everything is level.  Then we go to put that last screw in.  It won't line up.  EVERYthing else was lined up.  But not that last screw.  After countless attempts, many cusswords and several lost tempers, everything lines up and it is finally put together.  HOORAY!!
Here is the stupid bookshelf.

The bookshelf is very nice but look at that crazy electric blue room!! That's electric! (Boogie Woogie Woogie!)
I know, we're crazy. 
But check out the desk.

Everything in the room will probably be black or white to offset that crazy color. 

We also got a new light fixture for the room.  The old one was gold.  'Nuff said. 

(By the way, I'll do a Compare The Room Post when we get it all set up.)

Some more stuff we got at IKEA? That fun silver bowl and striped silver place mats! Look at that sweet set up! That's some Bree Van de Kamp crap right there! Haha!

Also?

A fun silver wine holder! The wine on the bottom is from Cline Winery in Napa Valley. Where my San Fran peeps at?  Oh.  You don't remember the wine tour? Yeah, me neither!

We of course remember this.

But then it starts to get a little fuzzy...

Ah, memories.

But anyway, IKEA is the devil.  But I still love the cheap crap we get there.