THE BABY SHOWER!

SO, THE BABY SHOWER WENT AWESOME! i GOT UP THAT MORNiNG ABOUT 6:30 AND GOT MORE STUFF DONE AROUND THE HOUSE AS RiCK WAS TAKiNG ALL THE KiDDOS TO LAKE BELTON TO FiSH! THEN, i WENT BACK UPSTAiRS, AND JUST CHiLLED OUT UNTiL ABOUT 3 WHEN i STARTED GETTiNG READY! EVERYONE GOT HERE, AND WE ALL CONGREGATED AROUND OUTSiDE ON THE BACK PATiO, THEN FiNALLY CAME iNSiDE TO OPEN PRESENTS! iT WAS SO SO SO FUN! ABBY GOT HER BEDDiNG, A BATH TUB, CUTE CLOTHES, WASH CLOTHES, HiGH CHAiR, BOUNCER, LOTS AND LOTS OF NECCESSiTiES PRETTY MUCH! i WAS SO HAPPY WiTH THE TURN OUT! i ALSO WORE A DRESS AND 4 iNCH HiGH HEELS, THAT i SUCCESSFULLY COULD WALK AROUND iN ALL NiGHT! iT WAS AWESOME! i CAN BE PREGGERS AND STiLL BE SYLiSH *LOL*! i DEFiNiTELY LOVED THE FACT THAT MY HUSBAND WAS WiTH ME THE WHOLE TiME AND THAT HiS MOM AND STEP DAD AS WELL AS BOTH OF MY PARENTS AND HiS STEP SiSTER JENNiFER WERE HERE. i LOVE ALL OF THEM FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART! THEY DEFiNiTELY MADE THAT DAY SPECiAL FOR ME! AND NiCOLE TOO, BUT SHE ALREADY KNOWS i LOVE AND APPRECiATE HER ALL THE TiME FOR EVERYTHiNG SHE HAS EVER DONE FOR ME THROUGHOUT OUR 13 YEARS OF FRiENDSHiP! i AM ONE LUCKY GiRL, AND ABBY WiLL BE THE SAME WAY! THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU THAT CAME! iT REALLY MEANT A LOT TO ME! i AM TRULY BLESSED TO HAVE EACH OF YOU iN MY LiFE, iN OUR LiVES! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

If Today Is Tomorrow...

Then it's THURSDAY! HAHA! I wish! So, I'm getting really really excited that there's only 2 more work days left this week, and then my baby shower + a 3 day weekend! That is going to be SO nice! I can't wait! The baby shower is going to be great! I have decided I don't care if a lot of people don't show up(no offense if you can't come.. I"m just saying I understand and am not going to be upset). I know that my family, Rick's REAL parents (Irene & Dan), Crystal, Laura, Nicole, Wayne, Katy & husband, Heather & her husband, & some others will be there! Unfortunately, Uncle Sam has screwed me again! My brother won't be coming home until it's looking like October! UGH! I am thankful for everything he does for our country and all, but at the same time I get a little bit sad inside! ANY WAY, I can't wait for everyone to see the house! I have kind of pieced it together! I have been trying really hard to find things to put up on the walls. I know the last time we had people over I had NOTHING put up haha! So, this time, I at least got some of our pictures up! Plus, we have finally gotten all the black out drapes for our house. That was a chore in itself! Buying drapes for like 18 windows that are really odd sized! Any way glad that's over! On the other hand, I was hoping to have Abby's room set up, but I don't have any of her stuff in yet. My dad is one of those superstitious "don't buy anything before the baby gets here" type people. He just so happens to be the one that's buying all of her bedroom furniture! AH! Go figure huh?!?! So, I won't have her room done until after we come home! So, don't expect any pictures until after she gets here! Then I am going to go into overly productive mood and get to cranking on that bedroom! I can't wait! Her bedding is too darn cute! It's a green/pink paisley pattern. I am doing her room kind of like a chic cowgirl type theme. I even have a stuffed animal looking rocking horse to go in her room! I can't wait! Any way, so most of you don't know, but Rick's step sister Jennifer moved in with us. She had gotten married, and moved away to Arizona, but things changed, her husband is a lying/cheating sack of you know what... so we extended our home and hearts to her and her two children, Macie and Dominick. I was never very skeptical about letting her into our home seeing as she is Rick's step dad Dan's daughter, and I know she is a good person just for that fact, because, well, Dan is awesome! Any way, she and my mother have both been my saving grace these past 2 weeks. I just can't find the energy after I get home from a long day at work to do anything but head my big bellied self upstairs to our cave like coldness of a room, prop my feet up on a pillow, and just lay there and relax watching lots of MTV or medical shows. I gotta say, it's been very nice to be able to do that, but on the other hand, I feel like they may be spoiling me too much! Last weekend, was the FIRST weekend in my ENTIRE pregnancy I didn't do a darn thing. I mean I literally slept all weekend, no joke. It was nice, and I have been so rested this week. My pregnancy really hasn't been that bad. I know they always say the baby will keep you up all night, but strangely, Abigail is only active during the day when I am active, and doesn't move around at night. So, I am able to sleep (if I can turn my head off and get out of the "to do list" craziness that's in my head) through the night with the occassional potty breaks. I can sleep on my side and on my belly if I get a pillow and kind of tilt myself. It hasn't been bad. I don't have ANY cravings. NONE! I have more aversions to food than anything else! I can't STAND meat right now. I would rather have me a bowl of cereal or some donuts. Ok, so I guess I do crave things, but I LOVED cereal before I was pregnant. So, I don't know! All I know is I will be 34 weeks pregnant this Saturday! Not much longer to go, and the weather is suppose to be getting cooler! So, that's not bad either! I keep getting scared b/c my belly is dropping, but I guess it's about time for her to be making her way there. I haven't had any "false" contractions. Well, I have but not noticable enough to even gripe about it. I am just mostly achy and tired, but from about 6am-3pm I could do ANYTHING! Seriously, I feel I could run a marathon! Then after 3... well my energy goes bye-bye and the sleepy eyes set in! Any way, after the baby shower, I shall post some pictures(if I can figure out HOW), and let all of you know how it goes... since you know, I'm letting the husband have a pony keg. HA! I know, I'm strange, but I want everyone to have FUN! I can always go to bed whenever I want... =-)

Until then...

Long time no hear!

Ok, so I haven't done this in quite some time now! Goodness! I never have been good at the whole "jourmal upkeep". Well, as many of you know we are having a baby girl! We still haven't gotten her room done, but the rest of the house has come together quite perfectly. Still don't have picture frames for all of our engagement/wedding portraits. I just right now, can not make myself spend so much money on frames! I am a cheap skate, really, I am! However, after 2 months of fighting with myself, Rick and I picked out that paint for Abigail's room sometime in June. I can't wait to see what it looks like when my Uncle John gets back from Tennessee! The baby shower is set for August 30. I couldn't have picked a better date!! My brother, who amazingly has been sooo supportive of my little family, will be coming home for some R & R around that time! How perfect! I was so excited to hear that he would be coming home for that, and that somehow, I had managed to plan this shower around him! Especially since he deployed the day of my wedding. I just thought to myself how things work out in mysterious ways! I had NO clue he would be able to come home this soon! I am oh so excited though! Well, more about pregnancy... we can definitely see & feel Abby lots lately! August 2nd(Saturday night), Rick and I could feel her little head! He kissed it and told her how much he loved her. It's the sweetest thing ever. Any time he can feel her at all he gets real close to my tummy and says, "Abby girl, it's daddy I love you." It's so sweet it almost tears me up right now just thinking about it. Those are the times I want to put in my memory box and never ever forget! AGH! Any way, I have only gained 11 lbs so far! I am very excited about that! I did start off a little bit on the heavy side. So, me not gaining oodles of weight has been a big accomplishment to me! Any way, all is good in the Warden family right now. I will post more, sometime later. I work all the time, and I just found out today that I'm not eligible for FMLA. So, I had planned to take off 12 weeks starting September 8-November 28, I can't! The most time off, UNPAID, I can have here is 6 weeks, but HR will make an exception and extend it to 7 weeks since the week I will come back (provided Abby makes her debut October 11 as planned) would be Thanksgiving week, and we get off that Tuesday. So, two work days is pointless. Any way, I am severly bummed now! I don't feel like I have any time to get the last few things done, and on the weekends I am so tired from working all week that all I want to do is rest. Plus, by some odd mishap, I have severe depression coupled with insomnia, which as you know, doesn't make depression better! UGH! I don't know what to do! I really wanted to take off next month, and prepare, but I have to work up until the day I deliever! I can't believe this! I am so ticked! So, when I find some more time I will update... Until then....