Life Lately

Life lately has been hectic... we've been traveling so much, and I am just flat out exhausted.

Some may consider this post a photo dump... but I'll add commentary as well so I can remember all these events. I sure hope life decides to calm down a bit before Baby Cookie arrives... I could use some quiet days.

I sure did miss these fur-babies while we were out of town! More on that out of town part in another post or two...

I love when I'm able to get them both in the same photo. 

Hospital stay #? Who knows anymore. I was admitted for pyelonephritis, which is a kidney infection. No good. They kept me overnight and pumped lots of fluids and antibiotics into me. 

While I was stuck in the hospital, it was National Hug Your Cat Day. I was super bummed, so I told Dan to hug the kitties for me when he got home. This is the photo I got... nice try, babe. It's the thought that counts, right? :)

One night, we went out for custard... and I thought, "let's bring Smudge along"... so glad we did because they had a dogwich on their menu! It was frozen custard between two dog biscuits. He loved it. 

We went to the Strawberry Festival in Troy, OH... but the best part was taking a photo with Babe Lincoln!

Stormy climbs Mt. Janelle every day. She loves her baby.

My handsome husband ran his first half marathon! And the lucky guy wasn't even sore afterward - he even mowed our yard that day!

These two... staring at an airplane. She's such a daddy's girl.

On the 4th of July, we made patriotic French toast. It was SO delicious. 

And then we spent the rest of the holiday weekend sanding and painting furniture for Baby Cookie's room.

I wore my respirator (Walter White style, yo) because of my asthma... and so Baby Cookie didn't have to get all the fumes either.

No caption needed. :)

We celebrated Tyler's second birthday with him, and we had so much fun! He is such a little character, and we love seeing him so often. 

After flying, I was super sick... again. I had an ear and sinus infection, so I loaded up on juice since I can't take many meds right now. 

Dan and I have started (and almost finished now) a six week Lamaze class through our Air Force Base hospital... it's 2.5 hours each Wednesday night, but we're learning a lot. This is after the first class when we deserved 1/2 price shakes for having to watch a live birth on TV without any warning.

The MLB All Star Game was in Cincinnati this year, which happens to be only an hour away from us! Groupon was so nice and offered a big discount for the Fan Fest... so we went! It was a lot of fun, and we got to pose with the world's biggest baseball.

And I got to hold one of Cal Ripken Jr.'s old bats, which was pretty sweet.

Gilligan likes exactly TWO human foods: ice cream and peaches. When I had peach ice cream, the guy went nuts. I can't blame him, though. 

Stormy is always laying on her baby. She's going to be so confused when Baby Cookie doesn't have whiskers or a tail...

Smudge is the goofiest dog in the world. This is his "I'm so happy after a walk" face. 

Due to my sinus infection, I was actually admitted during a routine appointment with the pulmonologist. I was wheezing too much for their liking, so they hooked me up to an IV with some meds to open up my lungs. It worked, but I had a slight allergic reaction, so what should have taken 30 minutes actually ended up taking 2.5 hours because they had to dilute the medicine with saline and drip it super slowly into me. I'm all better now, though!

We keep catching Stormy sleeping on the changing pad. In her defense, it does look like a cat bed... and here's a tiny sneak peek at Baby Cookie's room! 

I made these cherry lemonade cupcakes for our Ohio baby shower that a couple good friends threw for us... more on that later!

Has your life been crazy lately too?

Have you done anything fun?

    

The Month of May

May is not over quite yet, but it sure has flown by! I remember last May... leading up to Dan's Air Force Academy graduation and our wedding. The end of the school year and all the craziness that comes along with it.

This year has been slightly calmer, but I think May will always just be one of those months for us. It holds so many events of years' past, and Timehop sure doesn't help.

I have been aching to re-live last May. It was seriously such a magical month. But no worries - this month has been pretty great too! ...with the exception of another ER visit.

We bought some supplies to get started decorating Baby Cookie's room...

We went out together for Cinco de Mayo... don't worry, mine's a virgin daiquiri.

I had some hot cocoa to soak up the last few moments of cooler weather...

Gilligan was handsome as always... he loves hiding in the windows. 

I had another trip to the ER for kidney stones. This time, they admitted me to Labor and Delivery since that's where you go after 20 weeks, and I was 22 weeks. They didn't really know what to do, though... because they do babies, not kidney stones. 

We drove an hour to Columbus to watch Dan's old flying team from the Academy practice and compete at Nationals. It was so cool because I was never able to attend a competition when Dan was on the team because I was always busy teaching... so it was a lot of fun seeing them! 

I made delicious (and super easy!) cookies to take to the flying team... don't worry, I'll share the recipe for these bad boys soon! 

We pretended to be healthy eaters by devouring this berry salad. Just kidding. We both love fruit. We just eat a lot of other desserts too to balance it out. ;-) 

See? Carrot cake muffins stuffed with cream cheese. SO good. I'll share the recipe for these soon as well. 

I was trying to take a selfie with Smudge in our backyard last week... and somehow, this is the best we could get. He just wouldn't look at the camera and instead wanted to block my face. Maybe he was sparing you guys. 

On a random Monday night, we decided we had a hankering for something sweet (go figure, right?), so we went to our backyard fire pit and made s'mores. So worth it! And we had a great time sitting out there in the dark talking. 

How has May been for you?
Do you have one month that always seems busier than others?


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My Week

Last week was pretty fun. It wasn't THAT out of the ordinary... but there were a few fun things that took place. Today, I'm going to share my week through Instagram pictures. If you've already seen all of these... my apologies. But I want to have them documents on this little blog as well. 

I hit 600 sales in my Etsy shop! It's actually up to 619 now, and my goal is to reach 1,000 by the end of the year!

Timehop informed me that it had been exactly one year since I ran my first full marathon in Oklahoma City - actually, I didn't need the reminder. I knew. I can't believe it's bee so long. Crossing that finish line is still the best feeling!

Speaking of throwbacks... I put together this little collage of myself being athletic. I wonder what sports Baby Cookie will want to try and which one(s) she'll excel at!

We went to a Dayton Dragons game to celebrate my husband's birthday a couple weeks late! It was a lot of fun, and I hope we're able to go to more games this summer!

I was so excited to try the new S'mores frap at Starbucks. I may or may not have had two last week... oops. It was SO good... and they even did half caffeine for me!

Smudge destroys every single toy we give him... within five minutes. We finally found one he enjoys but can't rip apart! Score! 

I just love his smile!

Stormy is trying so hard to be near him... she even moved to the middle cushion at one point (Smudge was fast asleep then, of course), but I didn't want to scare her, so I didn't jump up to photograph the occasion. 

Gymboree has the cutest little hot air balloon outfits! I am obsessed. Dan proposed to me in a hot air balloon... so it's kinda our thing! Thanks, Mal, for letting me know where to find these!

Stormy has been so protective of my belly since January. She hangs out on me or near me almost all day, which is pretty cute. She's going to be in for a very rude awakening when there's no kitten in September but a human baby instead. 

Half of her loves my belly... and the other half is flabbergasted by all of these clothes. She's looking at me like, "Mom, what ARE these?!" Also, I had to take this picture of the clothes because I found them at Once Upon a Child for $27 - woo!

And finally, we had our anatomy scan! It was supposed to be at the beginning of April, but then those darn kidney stones put a damper on everything... so it was AMAZING to finally see our little girl up close. The high risk doctor (my asthma and kidney stones put me there... oh, and the high blood pressure I apparently have) said all of the measurements look great - Baby Cookie is measuring just two days ahead, but they aren't moving my due date... but if they did move it up those two days, my due date would be on Labor Day, which I find ironic and fun! 

Have you been up to anything interesting lately?