Crazy Pregnancy Dreams

I don't always remember everything about my dreams but I do remember how weird they are. I'm pretty sure they are connected to the little person growing inside my belly, because I may have strange dreams normally but the one's I've been having recently are totally bizarre.

The one I had last night/this morning I was at a huge church and we were all celebrating somebody's 60th wedding anniversary. It was done it 2 parts the first part only immediate family was allowed in and then we all filed out and watched as everyone else and their neighbor's cousins all filed in then the family went back in. I was seeing people that I haven't seen in ages and the weirdest part is I was eating, well they started out as chocolate sticks but somehow turned into really long skinny churros, like they sell at Costco. I had armfuls of these things that I wasn't sharing but eating all of them myself. I don't know I thought it was weird.

The theme for my dreams in the past couple of weeks have involved characters from Harry Potter. It wasn't everyone all doing magic, but randomly one character would integrate themselves into my dreams. I just re-read the series so that may have something to do with that but, I didn't dream about Harry Potter characters when I first read the series.

There have been other dreams too, all equally weird, that make me scratch my head in the morning wondering what my mind is up to.

Anyways, this was just a random thing that I thought I would share with you all. And now I'm sure you think I'm crazy.... Maybe I am... But probably not. :)

21 Weeks Along

So today I decided that I was tired of the clothes that I packed, which isn't all of the maternity clothes that I have with me. So I went through the large box of maternity clothes that I have living in my trunk and pulled out a bunch more clothes. This outfit I'm wearing I picked out because I thought that it made me look more pregnant than some of the other clothes that I've been wearing recently. I think I look more pregnant looking down at my belly right now than how I look in this picture which was taken about 20 minutes ago.

Update on the House

It turns out that the sales lady who said that we would probably be able to move in the 3rd week of August was mistaken. It is now the 3rd week in August and we are not moving in to the new house. In fact it is still unfinished, we stop by the house after church on Sundays to check on the progress.

We have a walk through on September 2nd to make sure there isn't anything that the builders might have overlooked that needs to be fixed/finished and then once those items are done we will get the keys which will be September 9th, which is 3 weeks from tomorrow. We're excited to finally have a house and we've got all the essentials lined up: water, gas, electric, internet, trash. We have the movers scheduled to bring us all our stuff on September 12th (Andrew has every other Friday off and that is his off Friday). It's the 12th and not the 10th because I didn't want to be alone with the movers.

My New Hair Cut

So today I decided that it was too hot and I needed to get the hair off of my neck so I found a place that was close to Macy's ('cause I needed new bras) and went for it. Below are pictures of my new hair cut. Andrew said that this is the shortest he's ever seen it. Which now that I think about it, I agree.

I think for fun I will do another post about all the crazy things that I've done to my hair, that I have pictures of. :) But for now here are today's pictures.



So this is a profile view of my growing belly. This is 19 weeks & 2 days.



And this is an "artistic" front view. Andrew was having fun with the camera.


This is the last time I got my hair cut. It is was done in early April.



This is how my hair looked before I got it cut today. (This picture was taken at Andrew's family reunion at Dash Point State Park).

Pictures of our Unfinished House

We went down to Sahuarita, the town we're going to live in, and took pictures of our house. We should be getting a call on Monday or Tuesday letting us know what the official date we can take possession of the house will be. Right now we only know it will probably be the 3rd week in August.

The first group of pictures are the front of the house.





This next group of pictures are of the back of the house. The backyard is actually quite large and there is only one house that can actually see into it and it's not completed yet. The rest of the houses around us are 1 story houses and we are at a slightly higher elevation than them. Plus the concrete fences are at least 5' tall.




This is bedroom #2 which will be the baby's room.


This is looking from the living room into the hallway. The main door at the end goes to the garage. The little door to the right is the pantry in the kitchen.

This is the kitchen with an island and to the right is the dining area.

This is the "library" it isn't called a den because there aren't any doors enclosing it. This is directly off the living room. To the left is the front door and to the right is the hallway then the kitchen. I'm excited because both of our desks will fit in this office area.

This is the entrance to bedroom #1. You can tell it's the master suite because it has a fancy door way. Our window opens up to the backyard.

This is the living room. The sliding glass door opens to a large covered patio in the back yard. You can see the arch way to the "library" on the right and just out of the picture on the left is the entrance to the master bedroom. Directly behind me is the kitchen.

This is bedroom #3. This will be the craft/guest room. I really like the bay windows. We will have to put some external screens or something on these windows because they face due west.


There's still quite a bit of stuff to be done but most of it is cosmetic: tile, carpet, lighting, doorknobs, installing the blinds, plumbing for the sinks, installing toilets, installing the kitchen appliances except for the refrigerator, and grading the ground outside. I'm pretty sure that the final paint color is on the walls, though they will need to touch it up. So all in all I'm pretty sure it will be done by the 3rd week in August if not sooner.