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...and "Texas" and "Arkansas" and "Missouri"  We leave after Adam gets off work tonight

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I don't know if it's pregnancy or just true American pride but I was a baby for all of the women's gymnastics sports.  I cried when Jordyn Weiber did not make the all-around.  I cried when the team won the gold medal.  I cried when Gabby won gold.  I will surely cry if Weiber wins gold in floor.  I've also cried for some of the swimmers when they were emotional (oh and that Judo girl too).  Also, Adam and I have been really cheering on the indoor volleyball teams.  We yell and cheer at the TV.  I don't know if my DVR can hold 8 hours of Olympics everyday for a week while we're gone.

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I'm not a pagent mom but it's a slippery slope.  I entered the kids in the state fair baby picture contest.  Thanks Liz B for letting me enter the one of Regina painting.  It may be a potential winner.  They judge on personality and appeal.  This year Jimmy is old enough to be in the cutest farmer contest.  I bought him so authentic things here and there like wrangler official rodeo jeans and work boots.  Sooo cute.  Pictures to come later. 

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I've kind of dismissed the idea of going to Omaha for a week to learn to be a practitioner for Creighton Method NFP.  Only because I don't know what to do with the kids for a week.  I feel a pull on my heart though to try harder since the diocese is offering to sponsor the whole thing. Prayers would be apprciated.

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You know what's REALLY annoying.  Getting down to a size where you can start wearing some of  those clothes you've missed and it looks mostly flattering but your belly looks like an area that needs work.  And also knowing it will be all too soon those clothes won't fit again.  So short lived.  I found a shirt I should have got. "It said I'm not fat, I'm pregnant (and fat)."  It's funny but I guess it's not really me in that I don't complain that I'm fat or really even say that to anyone.  Not even myself.  I know I'm overweight.  Before I started working on it I was very uncomfortable, but I never let it affect my mood.  I know I'm unique for that.  It just is what it is.  And I appreciate how good I've been feeling now, hope to continue to feel well, and will be able to pick up where I left off when I'm post partum.

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Have you tried those Starbucks refreshers?  I wouldn't have if some barista hadn't been standing in the heat giving out samples next to the drive through speaker.  They are the perfect summer drink. 

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You must listen to my son auto rap "Spiderman"    Please, I know it will change your day or make it more complete.  Go listen here:  Spiderman...is he green? No he's not. He is blue and red.

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I've really been digging The Band Perry.  Jimmy mumbles along to this one too

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For Jimmy, potty training is a b****.  Right now we have to wait til it's just about an emergency because he's afraid to go.  My thinking is once he does this enough then he'll be able to relax and control his functions more.  Unfortunately we haven't been consistant because when I run errands or when we travel on the weekend I leave him in the diaper.  We have to get this down as he starts preschool in exactly one month but yet we have a weeks vacation, followed by the rodeo coming up.  Any suggestions for traveling and potty training?  HELP!

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I'm pretty sure I felt a little flutter when I went to bed last night. How easy it is to forget that feeling of a baby moving in your womb. Even though you have a connection with that child you don't yet know who they will be.  It's so wonderful to be reminded when your previous children were in the womb and imagine them as the ones doing summersaults. 

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Adam and I think we'll skip the state fair this year because of money and heat.  However, with the activity going on right now on the fairgrounds (jr horse show and people setting up) Vose's corndog stand is open.  Yes, I already went.  Yes, I'll probably go back.  It makes me feel like I went to the fair.

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A while ago I said I wanted to go to a concert and I'd pick Miranda Lambert.  Well she's playing at the state fair but we're spending our money on a vacation so no Miranda, no Pistol Annies.  So sad.

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Our trip entails Oklahoma, Texas, Arakansas, and Branson MO.  I'm most looking forward to the histroic stockyards in Fort Worth

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I've been hanging on to a spa gift card for way too long.  I can't make up my mind what I'd like to do with it: facial, massage, mani/pedi.  Perhaps this weekend will be my chance!

 

Here Comes the Three-peat

So awhile back I thought I had a brilliant topic for a blog post.  You can read it here!  It's about the emotional experience a couple who practices natural family planning goes through when they think they might be pregnant then are not.

I wrote it in the third person although it is clearly about us. 

I'll wait for you to go ahead and read it....go on...


Right...so...The thing about early detection pregnancy tests are they only promise a certain amount of accuracy depending how far away from the missed period you are.  NFP couples have a hard time waiting until the missed period to take a pregnancy test because they have the tools to know if they should be pregnant. 

I was one of those people.

So now we're happy to announce we are expecting January 15, 2013. 

We can't wait for another beauty like these two...