Fun Slide September

Last weekend was our towns yearly festival, Harvest Days 2010. Thursday we had decided to take Trent to the carnival. This is the first year that he is big enough to actually be able to ride some of the kiddie rides. He was so excited all week and talked about how he couldn't wait to ride "all the cool rides!" Especially the cars on the merry-go-round, the blue car to be exact.

We had to pre-purchase a ticket for his wristband at the bank so that we didn't have to stand in the ridiculously long line. We dropped our guess as to how much was in the piggy bank and headed out the door. Thursday night when we arrived the first ride of choice was of course the cars. However, once we got to the line with the cars he insisted that we watch first. BIG mistake! He would NOT get on the cars. I told him about the little girl from his daycare was in line and she was not nearly as big as him. I was not successful at getting them on the cars.

Next ride of choice, and maybe I should mention that it was the ONLY ride of choice, was the fun slide. He absolutely loved the fun slide.

Tiger got a lot of exercise going up and down those stairs. I did go up there once! It is hard for me to carry our big boy up that narrow stairway.

Next year we hope to graduate to the cars! Overall it was a great weekend and really enjoyed it.

Wordless Wednesday: Tower Building

Family Decision

About a month or so ago Tiger and I had made a big decision to add to our family. I called the doctor for a checkup and to get things rolling in the right direction. I go in on Thursday to have an outpatient procedure done so that we can make that decision come to life.

Tiger is overly excited! I on the other hand seem to be very calm and not excited at all. I'm wondering if my excitement will come later, as in when I take that little test and see that plus sign indicating that we have indeed created life. Could it be that I have plans for the week of September 13-19th? I want to run a 5K and if there is in fact a softball tournament I want to play! I know that I can run a 5K while expecting but I can't do any high impact sports.

I remember being pregnant with our "little guy" and recall having a good pregnancy. I ate anything I wanted, took plenty of naps, and had no morning sickness. I also recall the heartburn, water retention, and being as big as a house. I'm serious about the "big as a house" part, my "little guy" weighed in at 10 lbs. 6 oz. when he was born!

My hopes for my next pregnancy (I know I'm dreamin')

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  No water retention
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  No heartburn
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  No morning sickness
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  I only have one in there
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  It is as smart as the "little guy"
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  It is as well behaved as the "little guy"
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  I don't give birth to a toddler sized baby (The Princess always teased me about having a toddler during my first pregnancy.) 
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  I secretly would love another boy. I wanted a girl my first time but ended up with a boy and couldn't be happier with him.

 All kidding aside I know that I will be perfectly happy even if my hopes are just me dreamin!

Participation is Key!

After an exhausting Relay for Life I came up with a list of accomplishments from this year's relay.



1) Cookies Ate: I think that I could walk away with a prize for the most cookies ate for the night. One team member made peanut butter M&M cookies and another brought store bought peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. My biggest trigger food is peanut butter! I love peanut butter and could eat it right out of the jar.

2) 10 Miles Walked: Yes, I did walk at least 10 miles! It could be more but I happened to walk a little bit before I bought my lap beads. Lap beads where another teams fundraiser in which after every lap you were given a bead to place on your necklace to keep track of how many laps you walked. What a great idea!

3) CPS3 Participation: CPS3 is a study being done by the American Cancer Society. The basics are that you fill out a survey every few years, they measure your waste and draw your blood. If at anytime in the next few years you develop cancer they go back and pull your blood to do tests on it. I figure it is the least I could do!

4)Least amount of sleep: Out of all the team members I got the least amount of sleep. I slept a total of 2 hours that night. In Tiger's (My hubby) defense he did ask me to wake him up but I let him sleep.

5)Lost & Forgotten: For the second year in a row I have forgotten to bring a belt for my jeans and I forgot my MP3 player that I loaded with the best songs. I lost my cell phone on the track twice!

While I had made an excellent effort to participate I am left a little disappointed in some of the others on my team that didn't.

Two were in Mexico so they have a valid excuse. A few others just didn't show up, had a dinner party with friends, or just didn't feel like it. I can honestly say that I'm going to ask one person to not join us next year. We have to pay for our participation and we could have had someone else participate for them or we could have used that money toward our team total.

Anyways, to end on a positive note, hopefully all our hard work will pay off one day so that we can celebrate more birthdays.