Thanksgiving :)

For Thanksgiving, Caleb and I made our way to my dad's house.  It was only an hour away, so unlike some people this Thanksgiving break, I didn't have to do a lot of traveling that day.  Which proved helpful when we made our way home because Caleb literally had to help me out of the car when we got home because I was so full I could not move hardly.  Along with it being incredibly uncomforatable to wear a seatbelt.

Our Thanksgiving day attire :)  In this attire, if you see the shirt that Caleb is wearing and see my make-up; we traded some Christmas presents early.  I got him a Party Rock shirt and he got me a large make-up kit.  YAY!  I was wanting some more make-up so I can work on my skills.  He's the bestest husband in the world!

Here is a better look at the shirt.  It fits him perfectly.  Now he has a proper shirt to practice is shuffling skills in.  (Which really aren't that bad, he is getting pretty good!) 

We got to my dad's around 1:30 in the afternoon and watched the first Firefly episode.  Have any of you seen the series?  It's pretty interesting.  Very difficult to catch on too, I was extremely confused the first half of the first episode.  But once I learned the characters, and their personalities it was easier.

The food my dad's girlfriend prepared was delicious.  They got turkey from the best place to get seasonal meat EVER.  Well, I just found out the turkey was good but I knew their ham was freaking AMAZING.  Honey baked ham, to be specific. But the turkey has the same glaze, or at least very similiar.  Delicious.  Freaking delicious.  I could eat it all the time.  Other than turkey there was, of course, other deliciousness.  Such as mashed potatoes (nom!), green beans from my grandmother (nom!), mac and cheese (nom!), stuffing (nom!), corn (nom!), gravy (nom!), rolls (nom!), and then after a break from eating and another episode of firefly we ate a pumpkin dessert.  It wasn't pie, but a better version.  I forgot what it was called.  I don't really like pumpkin things, but I really didn't mind that stuff at all.  I couldn't eat a lot of it though.  Oh!  And there was delicious, made from scratch, cookies!

But besides the food, it was amazing seeing my dad.  He is awesome :D  Of course, it was amazing seeing Allie too.  She is great!  I wish I would have thought to get some pictures of them and with them.  Dad has some on his camera, but has failed to put them on facebook where I can steal them.

I almost forgot on important detail -  My boots.  Caleb and I found some new slipper boots for me at K-Mart a week ago and Thanksgiving was their debute.  Veiw them!

I hope everyone else had a great Thanksgiving as well! :)

<3 Tory

Thanksgiving is this week!

I am freaking excited.  Caleb and I are going to my dad's for Thanksgiving and let me tell you,  I cannot wait to shove all the delicious food that my dad and his girlfriend are making down my throat. I. CAN'T. WAIT. Any food that I acquire in that household is delicious.


Foooooooooooood! Nom nom nom nom nom.


With Thanksgiving coming, it's time to think about what we are thankful for.  Mine are simple: Husband. Being able to become pregnant with our child, and have an easy (for the most part) pregnancy.  Family.  Friends.  And the great life that I have with Caleb.  I am so extremely thankful for all of these things.  <3  I would not change anything in my life right now.  Except maybe to see my friends and family a little more and for my husband and I to have more of the same work schedule so I can spend even more time with him.  (I swear I cannot get enough of that man <3  He is the most amazing person that I have ever met in my entire life.)


Caleb and I are having our own little miniature Thanksgiving for our friends that aren't taking leave for it.  I am pretty excited about that too.  I just wish I had a day off for this event, BUT because that probably isn't going to be possible it will have to be a lunch. Better than nothing, right?  I think so.


What are your plans for Thanksgiving?  If you are cooking, what are you most excited about making?!


<3 Tory

30 Weeks;

ONLY 10 MORE WEEKS LEFT!  :D  Getting closer and closer by the weeeeeeeeeek!  For this week, I decided to do a comparison picture.  I took the "30 weeks" picture last night.  So technically I was 29 weeks and 6 days... but... It's close enough.

I thought actually seeing the difference side by side was insane.  It's such a big difference to me.  I remember thinking I looked pregnant at 19 weeks.  Psh.  I look even more pregnant now!

I am still feeling normal.  No bad pregnancy symptoms or anything.  Minus back pain, of course.  I don't think I am more tired than I had been.  Not getting sick.  Sleeping pretty well.  I've had small spouts of feeling sightly nauseous.  But.  Nothing that was out of control.  :)

Here are the pictures of the newly organized nursery!  I should have taken a before picture, but just imagine it being backed full of boxes and bags.

From the door coming from our living room.

New glider and dresser!

Crib with the valences or whatever they are called.

Swing from Ashley!

Ah, now it is time to get ready for work.  Meh.  I hope you all are having a happy hump day :)

<3 Tory

Not much happening..

Since I last updated, literally nothing exciting has happened.  I wish I had something awesome to fill y'all in on!


This weekend I worked all weekend, as usual except Saturday I worked a double.  A double ending in two huge parties.  One was a party of 26 the other 21... at 10 pm... When we only had two servers, the bartender, and myself on the clock.  It was horrible.  Well, while I was there it wasn't as bad.  But when I got home and my body was able to relax... It was horrible.  I thought I was dying on the inside because my body just hurt so damn bad!  I don't know if I am being a baby or if this is normal, but I don't think I will be working another double again until I am no longer a human pod.


Oh, oh!  And Caleb and I organized the nursery!  And it looks very nice :D  Not long after I had wrote that blog about how it was overwhelming to organize things, Caleb was determined to get the nursery put together and nice looking.  And we did it!  :D  Some things that we aren't keeping in the nursery still need to be put away, but hey, the nursery itself is done!


Hm, but other than that.  Really nothing else has happened. 


I hope y'alls weekend was wonderful, and the start of your week was good too!


<3 Tory

Late once more, with no excuse :)

Yesterday was my 29 week mark.  I knew this, thought about writing a post and taking my weekly picture but you know what?  I really just didn't feel like it.  Maybe it was because I felt like I was getting sick or just pure laziness.  Today, I feel better and still didn't take the picture to document yesterday.  I'm just not feeling it. 

However!  I will give you whom like to keep up with my pregnancy shinangans the weekly thebump update!  Hooray!  It's probably not changed from last week much, but I don't remember exactly what was on last weeks so I will let you be the judge!

One more week and we will hit the big three zero! Crazy.  Every week I am in shock that I am already to that point, but especially when I hit the 10 week milestones.  Caleb and I are so excited!

Speaking of the husband, you know if you're newly... or within the first couple years.... married you don't expect to have to even think about funneral plans.  When Caleb came home for lunch, I guess they were putting together the things they want for if they get killed in Afganistan, and in the middle of just sitting there watching TV eating lunch he looks at me and asks: "Is there anything special you want to have at my funeral?"  I am in shock.  I honestly had no idea what he was talking about.  He ended up meaning like a song or something.  I still had no idea what to really say except that I hadn't put much thought into it.  I know in the back of my mind that it is a possibility, but I can't say that I sit there and make plans.  I don't want it to happen, I want to avoid it as much as possible.  I don't even want him to leave in the first place.  It's so hard to think about, I normally can't without getting upset so I just don't.  If it is brought up in conversation, I can talk about it for a little while but if it starts getting to real I have to change the subject or go get food or something. 

Some people when you talk about it for to long will say that I know what I got into when I married him.  And they are right, I did realize the possibility of all of this happening.  However, until you are in it, you don't experience the emotions.  That whole your heart ripping, and dieing from the inside isn't present when you originally think about it.  I was just like, I know that is a possibility, and I will handle it if it comes.  Handling it is hard.  Handling it when my emotions are in a constant rollercoster of uncontrollable maddness is even harder. 

I don't really have a point in bringing that whole conversation bit up, but.. it's just crazy to think that we haven't even been married a year, our child isn't born, and funeral plans are being made.  Just incase funeral plans, but funeral plans nonetheless. 

And it's not just my husband's funeral plans, it's also one of my best friend's funeral plans, and all of my new friends that are being deployed with Caleb.  Ugh.  I can't even think about it anymore.

I hope everybody makes sure they cherish every moment they have with their husband/wife/friends because you never know what could happen.

<3 Tory

It's Overwhelming to Organize!

I took my first attempt in getting all the baby clothes, gifts, and anything else that has to do with the nursery organized today.  In the two hours that I was inside of her nursery, I got some done, but I still feel like what I got done is not organized in the slightest.  I don't even know where to start when it comes to organizing everything, besides putting things that are alike in the same pile or box.


I say box because we have a little dresser thing that has those cloth boxes.  It has 9 square holes to put these boxes in.  The square hole in the middle, we left boxless to put a picture frame or some sort of decoration inside.


Does anybody have any sort of tips on how the hell I should organize all of this stuff?  Because I am clueless.  Should I separate the sets of onesie/bootie/mitten/hat matching things? Should I start putting bottles in the cabinets?  When should I wash everything, as I organize or a week before hand?  What about the stuff that is meant for travel?  What about the bath stuff?!  We really don't have room in our bathroom to put anything...  Maybe the guest bathroom?! I just don't know.  I feel like every other pregnant lady just easily puts things together and everything is so pretty.  I'm just not sure.


Any advice would be greatly helpful!  And our nursery is very small because we live in an apartment.  It's not the size of a second bedroom, just like a small room that is connected to the master bedroom.  Probably a bout half the size of your typical apartment bedroom with no closet.


<3 Tory

Baby Shower;

My baby shower finally happened yesterday!  After freaking out and worrying that everything wouldn't be put together and clean and all that, it ended up working perfectly and going really well!  Caleb and I got almost everything that we needed!  I have to get Thank You cards to send out.  (Which I am horrible at, but I WILL do it this time.)  A lot of people showed up, most about an hour late.  But it was okay.  I was just glad to have everybody be able to come and be with me.  The presents were just an added bonus :)

Gifts for baby!

And there is more than you can even see in the picture!  I am so excited with everything thing we got and so thankful that Caleb and I have such great friends and family that were willing to contribute!

My mom made all of the food pretty much and got massive chicken trays to feed everyone that showed up.  She even made a theme cake!  The theme was celebrating our little pun'kin, so she made a pumpkin cake!

I thought it was cute, and it was super delicious!  I wish I would have thought to take a picture of the whole food table.  It looked really nice.

Along with the present opening, we played a couple games thanks to Helen!  We played a guess how big I am game with the ribbon, and then a guess how many pumpkin marshmellows are in the bottle.  The prizes being small bottles filled with M&Ms.  :)  I enjoyed the games.  Especially because they were easy and didn't require a whole lot of trying to get everyone to focus on one thing at one time.  Because that might have been partically impossible.

Those are just a few pictures from the event :) But if you are friends with me on Facebook, you have full access to pretty much all of the pictures.  Hooray!

Caleb and I just have to get a couple more things, build the big things we got, and organize everything and we will be fully ready for Kayden to make her arrival!  I can't wait to get it all put together and show off everything!

It is time to go to sleep now however, husband is already sleeping on the couch because he was trying to wait for me to get done writing this blog.  He's cute <3

Goodnight everyone!

<3 Tory

Doctors Appointment;

I had my doctors appointment today!  And it went pretty well.  Kayden's heartbeat is now at 143 bpm, the doctor said that was a good heartbeat.  :)  Before leaving to go get my glucose levels tested (which really wasn't as bad as I have heard it to be), she ordered me a follow up ultrasound.  Apparently, when I had my 20 week ultrasound the ultrasound tech made a note about Kayden's kidneys.  The doctor said what the UT put was normal, I don't remember exactly what it was about... But she said that she thought she should schedule me a follow up ultrasound just in case.  Hopefully all is well!


The glucose test, like I said, wasn't to bad.  I chugged the little orange drink and then sat there for an hour.  Lucky, I brought some hat making crafts with me so I could keep myself occupied.  If I hadn't I probably would have gone crazy.  Then I went back, got my blood drawn, and picked up some more prenatals.  Easy squeezy.


Other than that, my day has been pretty uneventful.  I got pretty much nothing done, and I let one of my co-workers have my shift tonight.  (Which I ended up getting a negative response about from Caleb.  Wah!)  I did finish Caleb's hat, made Kayden a matching one, and started on another one.  Whoop!  And start organizing the "army closet".  Eh.  So many things in that stupid closet.  I swear Caleb has accumulated so many army things, I feel his collection to be abnormally big!  Ah!


My mom is coming over tomorrow to get everything prepared for the baby shower on SATURDAY! AHHHH!!! I am excited to see my mom.  She is getting here super early too.  My friend Ashley is also coming tomorrow evening to bring presents because she is unsure she will be able to stay for the actual baby shower D:


I hope everything for that shower falls into place!  I'm nervous!


<3 Tory

28 Weeks;

So, for the first time in what feels like forever I am here to give a proper weekly pregnancy post!  I have a picture and a thebump update and everything!  So, without further delay, here is my belly.  (It was pointed out at work the other day that I now have a baby BELLY and not a BUMP! Hahah)

Are you as shocked as I was when I saw this picture on the computer?  I didn't realize I had gotten that big!  I feel big, but not that big.  I guess my quick adjusting skills are coming in handy.

She is about 2 pounds!  That's crazy!  It seems like just last week she wasn't even a full pound.  This pregnancy is going by faster and faster.  She will only get bigger from here, and so will her pod!  Eek!  You can tell she is getting more squished too, because you remember how I mentioned you can see her little kicks?  Well, now you can see what looks like explosions.  My stomach will move up and down so fast with every little movement it seems like.  I swear I don't get tired of it either!  :D

My baby shower is coming up fast too!  This Saturday.  It's going to be crazy.  There are going to be probably over 30 people in my small apartment.  It went up so fast too, on Monday I was thinking about 20 people maybe a little under and now BOOM.  I didn't realize so many people would be able to make it.  I hope we all fit!  It will be fun regardless.  My mom is coming bright and early on Friday to help me take care of all the last minute things.  Thank goodness.  I hope everybody has fun!

On top of the excitment from that, I feel mostly caught up from everything that I got behind on housework wise.  The house is mostly clean, and the laundry is mostly done and the dishes are mostly done.  Granted all those mostlys don't seem like I got much done, but trust me.  I did.  And I am happy.  AND I have a doctors appointment tomorrow morning at 820 in the morning.  A lonnnnng doctors appointment.  Because I have the regular check up, and then I have to do the test for gestational diabetes.  Which means I have to drink this sugar drink and it will be gross and then afterward wait in the waiting room that has NO signal and then get my blood drawn.  Ugh.

Wish me luck!

<3 Tory

Ps, I thought this was funny:

Now, if you don't know, Missy is my mom.  Facebook automatically tagged this.  So, apparently I have my moms facial features according to Facebook.  (You probaby won't think this is as funny as I do unless you are one of the readers that actually know me, and know my mom and its okay.)  :)