WE'RE PREGNANT!!!!!!!

Derick and I are having a baby!!!!!!! I am about 7 weeks and counting! We are so excited! Well I am first pregnancy excited and Derick is "man" excited. Meaning it really hasn't hit him too hard yet. I actually found out on a weekend and tried to think of a cute way of telling Derick, but I knew I couldn't keep it from him for very long. He had gone to do some work that morning so I was hoping he would come home to eat some brownies he had made the night before. When he came home he was taking too long to get to the brownies so I kind of told a fib. I told him that the cat had gotten into his brownies and he need to go check it out. When he saw it he was like "what's this?" "Are you ovulating?" (I was tracking my ovulation and was using a kit prior to this) "No" "A pregnancy test?" "Yes." "Does it say no?" "No." Well you get the picture. It was cute. We decided not to tell anyone until I went to I went to the doctor. I am due Dec 17th ish and I go back on the 12th to get the first ultrasound. I am so psyched!!

I do tell you what, I am not sure why (at the moment) that women do this more than once. The nausea and smells are not fun! My stomach turning and my nose both turned on this weekend. The fatigue came a couple of weeks ago. I do have to say that I think I am very lucky because my friends that have been pregnant recently have been sick for months straight and I have been feeling okay up till this point. I have vomited yet, but I do feel like I need to a lot. Anyways....we are stoked! I will post the pictures when I get them.

Cute kid story

Funny story! One of my students who is severely language delayed, comes to my desk from his computer signing “Baby, no baby, no, computer, baby no.” So I check what he was on and it was baby’s cribs. He was like “Baby no; house, baby no! House!” He wanted MTV Cribs to look at the famous people’s houses and all he was getting on the computer were baby cribs. I had to explain the words mean different things. It was quite funny!

Spring Break Project

During spring break we were able to wallpaper the whole kitchen! It was a project I was suppose to do alone, but Derick was great about helping me! I really appreciated it. I know it wouldn't have turned out so well with out him! This is the madness the kitchen was in for a couple of weeks.





Derick was even better when he was made to paint the kitchen for me. I found out the weekend I was starting to paint that I was pregnant so he had to do the job for me. I was a bit disappointed because I was looking forward to that part.



Here is the finished project. I think he did a great job! It is now on to the 80's style dome fluorescent lighting thing! Derick is working on it now. Soon it will be done and we will have a fan and no more blinking, or never turning on until two hours later lights. I am very excited!

Tagged! 8 Things
8 Favorite T.V. Shows
Well let me see....since I gave up TV for Lent. I am trying to better myself and be closer to God, but the problem is I got rid of TV and inherited my husband and sleep. Yes, spending time with my husband has been wonderful and so has the sleep (at 9pm we are bored, I go to bed and read, Derick will watch TV or play video games,) I have not devoted that time to God. Next year, that is going to be my actual goal… Spend time with God. You never know…I will maybe successful before Lent next year!
1. Musicals…I know they are not a TV show
2. Friends
3. South Park (Watch it with open eyes, humor, and get pass the cursing… there are Christian values to be learned …though not all the time!)
4. Family Guy (ditto)
5. Friends
6. Law and Order SVU
7. Anything with Deaf People
8. 17 and Counting/ John and Kate + 8 (They count as one, they are both TLC!)

8 Things I did yesterday
1.Showed up for work
2. Defused petty arguments of teenagers
3. Wrote a referral on a kid (which I haven’t done in a long time, but he went to my colleague’s room when I have repeatedly asked him not to!)
4. Realized that some parents just don’t really know or understand their children, i.e. a child that has NO communication, cant speak, cant hear, cant sign, no understanding of sound, but believe that one day they will be saved and will be able to talk.
5. Said good-bye to D for his cruse
6. Went to Target and bought new jeans (that is a big deal! Jeans are not fitting like they used to anymore! And not for the reason that I want them too!)
7. Went to Lows to see if they have enough wallpaper for my spring break project
8. finished my book on tape “Confession of an Ugly Step Sister.” It is by the same author who wrote the book the screenplay for Wicked was based on , which I am in love with! It was good book on tape, a different side of the Cinderella story.

8 Things I look forward too
1. SPRING BREAK!
2. Having babies
3. Seeing my mother in law this summer
4. Summer itself!
5. 8th graders graduating and going to high school
6. spending time with my family!
7. Derick coming home
8. learning…maybe grad school

8 Favorite Restaurants (In no particular order)
1. The Hut
2. Steve’s Tomatoes
3. PF Changs
4. Wing-N-ribs
5. Any good Mexican
6. Derick
7. Olive Garden
8. Ruth Crist

8 Things I Wish For
1. The Economy to get better.
2. People to become honest/ good moral vales to take over even at the expensive cost that it would make for everyone!
3. Babies!
4. happiness/health for Derick, I, and our family
5. Deaf friendly world
6. Better place for children to live, IE a licence to have children
7. Education to become a priority for the government
8. for me never to feel tired!
8 and a half: to learn how to write!

8 People to tag
1. Jessica
2. Hope
3. Corina
4. PJ
5. That is all I got unless that is someone else that wants to join Blogspot
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Stuff going on but not much at all!

There is always stuff going on, but nothing too exciting to be blogging about...the most significant and most important is my aunt (on my dad's side.) She is having heath issues, severely! We need all the prayers she can get. I can't say much because of family issues, but please, please pray for her and my family to be able to get through this hard time. She is young and needs all the encouragement and fight for life all of us in good heath have! I wish I could disclose more, but at the moment I cannot. Instead I can post a pick of Derick when he was 11 or 12. His mother sent us this. Actuall,y it was a picture with Josh and Rochel at their aunt's house, but I didn't want to post anything without their permission. It is a very cute picture. I think it is the first pic from when he was younger that I think he looks like himself now. Unlike myself, I have looked the same since 4th grade; I think this has the same face as he does now.

Speaking of Derick....so my man decided to practice his tiling before tackling the shower, which looks the same since i posted the last picture, has made this in the garage. I am in awww at what he can do. He thought the whole concept up and used all old scraps of tiles we had lying around in the attic. I have no doubts the shower will be fantastic. The red stuff around the out side is grout, we haven’t painted around it yet to make it look polished...that may be a while.


Though my project is going to be the kitchen for spring break, which starts the 4th for me!!! As I am writing this, tomorrow will be the last day before the break. And let me tell you, it is time for a break!! The kids are going loco and so are the teachers. I work with some life skill kids that need complete structure, this FCAT thing is really a mess for them. It does not work well for them, because as soon as i get back on track and everyone on schedule it is spring break and i have to start all over again when we get back....grrrrr. Anyways I am rambling...so I am going to texture wallpaper my kitchen this spring break and God willing, I will have it painted by the end. Theses are the testing pieces. What to you think? I am glad I tested because I have changed my mind and made plenty mistakes already. I may be on the phone with my mother in law by the weeks out because I hear she has wall paper experience. I have none

Derick has also left me all by myself for several days to go on a bachelor cruse with Rob (his best man in our wedding, who is getting married in June.) I am sure that is why you are hearing from me this evening. There is no one to speak to except the cat and I think sometimes he gets board with my ramblings :) I could go speak to the parents, but i think they are out this evening and it is getting late.

Latest news: Derick are still trying for a little one, but no such luck yet. I had a bit of a scare that i may not be ovulating, but the stick says I am. And the fact that D is gone in prime time this month it will probably not happen this time. Maybe next month :) BUT one of my close friends is prego and I am living vicariously through her! It has been quite fun! She has been great for allowing me to tell some people for her.

Oh and my mom cooked up some of the collards from our garden that our kids grew. You should have seen some of the faces we received. I have great pics, but I don’t want to post because of ethical/legal issues. Some kidoes thought they were great, others were not so thrilled. I thought they were great, a bit tough, but i think we left on the plant too long. It is looking like we will have another batch before the year is over. Did I tell you spring break starts tomorrow?!?! Well it does! :)