I dont have the sugars!!!

I had to take the 3 hour glucose test after failing the one hour test. This was done last Saturday. Teri went with me to sit through the 3 hours of boringness! Luckily, everything came back ok. My fasting level was 99, which is higher than the recommended, but not by much. As a result of this experience, I told Chad that I thought it would be a good idea for us to be careful on our carbs and sugar intake. So from now on, I am going to try (TRY) and be a bit more diligent in not making pasta's and pototoe's all the time. We are going to try and eat more green/colored veggies and chicken instead of hamburger helper and pototoe soup with rolls :(
of course we will still eat that other stuff, but just not as often.
Unfortunately at work, we've had donuts the past 2 days, so I did those. Hopefully no more donuts pop up in the break room for a while.
Other good news...the nursery is painted!!!! i was so excited when Kent and Chad told me to go ahead and pick up paint for the nursery becuase it was going to be ready to paint Saturday afternoon.
As soon as I put the border up, I will be sure to post pictures. We only have a few spots in the whole house that need some drywall work, so we are very close to painting everything.
The house is finally coming together! I am so excited!
We have 3 showers planned in february for the little squirt. Hopefully we'll have a clean place to store all the goodies until we can put them in the nursery.
Chad no longer has china calls on Wednesday nights!!! This means that we don't have to be at his work until 10pm on Wednesday nights anymore! However, this also means that I'll have less time to work on the blog until we decide to bite the bullet and get internet at home. When that happens, hopefully I'll be more diligent on the blogging and updating seeing that our little squirt will be here in 7-10 weeks.
That is so close! It's very scary to think that we could/probably will be parents in March to a new little baby boy...still to be named :)
We've decided that when we do pick a name, we are not going to share it until after the squirt is born, just in case we change our minds.
Well, my break is over at work, so time to get back to it!

Insulation!!!!

It is official, our house is insulated!!!! (aside from the crawlspace, but that isn't the point) Chad and I worked hard on Saturday finishing up the insulation project. We bought the insulation on friday and got up saturday morning and started working right away drilling holes and getting stuff out of the way. It only took us about 5 hours to fill all the walls and it went way easier than i thought it would.
We noticed a difference right away in how the house held heat. The bedrooms are much warmer and are about the same temperature as the living room and kitchen.
Being very excited about having insulation (and hoping to save money on heat) we decided that we should reward ourselves and turn the heat up to 60 degrees from the chilly 55 we've had it the whole winter season. So on Sunday night, I turned the thermostat up after downing some hot chocolate and noticing that I was still cold and could see my breath. We sat on the couch for a few minutes and never heard the furnace kick on. That's when I realized that it wasn't the hot chocolate that made my breath visible...our house was freezing b/c we had no heat! I checked the thermostat and it said our house was at 48 degrees...that's a little bit too cold. So we went downstairs (after i made sure that it wasn't a tripped breaker) and started to fiddle with the furnace. We pulled out the permanent and disposable filters and noticed they were terribly dirty, most likely from the insulation/drywall project. After cleaning them off and not putting the disposable one back in (we aren't supposed to use disposable filters according to the manual) the furnace started working again. By the time we went to bed, the house was back up to 56 degrees and when we woke in the morning it was at 60.
Funny thing is, after all the excitement about turning the heat up, we actually got too warm and ended up turning it back down to 56/57 degrees. We have decided that when we are home for extended periods during the day, we will turn it up to 60 but during the week and at night, it will stay a nice/brisk 55 degrees.
However, the house feels like a sauna when coming in from -10 degree weather. So I'm not going to complain!
On to some baby news!
In the past week, 2 showers have been planned for chad and I. We have one the first sunday in February with our church friends and then one February 22nd down in columbus with family and friends. We are very excited. Well, I am at least! Chad gets to attend a diaper shower with some guys from our church at a bowling alley while I go to the fun shower at the church where there is going to be great food and a lot of fun!
Our childbirth class is the second weekend in February. I am excited and nervous at the same time. Chad seems to be pretty excited, but we'll see how he responds once we get there.
Other than that, the baby is still growing. My dr tried calling me the past couple days, but my phone has officially passed on to the cell phone afterlife. I tried calling them back today, but the office was closed do to the hazardous weather. I have a feeling they are just wanting to tell me the results of the glucose test. Cross your fingers that I don't have the sugars!
Ok, well, it is almost 10 and I am definitely ready to sleep. It's been a long day.
Good night!

28 Weeks!!!

I am so sorry for not blogging the past few weeks. We haven't been to Chad's work for China calls until now. So I have quite a bit to tell.

First off, I have officially entered my 3rd trimester...we are on the homestretch! here is a pic of me at 27 weeks. (last week)

It's not the greatest pic because we took it at the end of the day right before bedtime and we were both exhausted and ready to be sleeping! but as you can see, i have grown quite a bit. I go to the doctor tomorrow for my 28 week appointment. The squirt (still un-named) is moving A LOT. Erin and Mom got to feel him move while we were home for christmas and I think both were a bit surprised at his sometimes forceful jabs :) He hasn't got me real hard lately and I think he may be lacking the room to get a good swing in.

As far as the house goes, Dad came up a few weekends ago to help chad work on the house. They ended up tearing out the doorway that leads from the kitchen to the hallway due to mold issues behind one of the bathrooms. Chad and I started the project not intending to take the doorway out, but seeing the extent of the water damage, they decided to rip it out as well as replacing some of the hallway subflooring. here's a pic of Dad working on tearing out the nasty subflooring.

And here is a pic of the final product. good job boys!

On Monday, Chad and a very nice man from our church blew a ton of insulation into the attic. Chad had calculated that we would need about 70 bags of insulation for the walls and the attic. However, at the end of the day, they were left with only 2 bags. Every other bag was put into the attic. So this weekend, we are going to try and finish the walls. It will be nice to finally have an insulated house!

Some sad news to report: The mach5 is no longer with us. Chad sold him a couple weeks ago to a man who needed the car more than we do. We will/do miss him very much. There are many happy memories associated with the old guy.

In other news, I am trying to earn a trip through Arbonne taking place in October. if you would like to help me earn this trip and to grow my business, ask me how and I will let you know!

Good night and God Bless!

Wednesday!

Christmas is in a week! That is very hard to believe, but I am so excited to spend time with family again. We are going to New York for a few days next week to spend with Chad's family and then on Friday we will be heading to New Carlisle to spend the weekend with my family. Chad is going to snowboard with his brothers while I relax and get a much wanted massage!
We haven't really done much else with the house lately aside from tear out more drywall :( However, my dad is coming up here this weekend to help chad and I will be heading down to new carlisle to hang out with my mom since she can't come with dad on friday.
As far as the baby update goes, I am now 25 weeks and feeling pregnant. sleeping is becoming a new issue for me. I wake up often and am having to put a pillow under my belly b/c it is starting to not be so comfortable anymore. I feel it in the afternoon the most. I just want to lay down and take a nap. But around the time when I get home, I have a little more energy. Also, my appetite has increased a bit. I have noticed that I am hungry when I get home from work and I normally can't wait for chad to get home to eat...so I snack and end up not even being hungry when he is ready to eat, but that a few hours later (around 9 or 10) I get hungry again :)
At my appointment last week, everything went and looked good. I am measuring a little big, so this little guy is telling us that right now, he is not so little. He had better slow down or come early enough so I don't have to push out a huge baby! I'm not quite prepared for that.
I have started a registry for the baby at target and babies r us, but we are still adjusting them and are missing a lot of stuff. It's so hard to know what to put on there without getting overwhelmed! It's quite a bit different than registering for a wedding.
One more thing that's getting harder is getting up from soft cushy seating. Chad now has the job of helping me get up...which i never thought I'd get to that point so early, but my balance is definitely off!
I think that's it for tonight! I'm ready to lay down on the floor and take a nap until chad is done with the call!
hope everybody has a merry Christmas!

short

Well, its 10pm and I'm ready to go home, but we are still at Chad's work. I just got done putting an Arbonne order in and emailing people and updating our budget.
The breaker box is officially in! Yay! however, there is still a little bit of wiring to do. I don't have pictures yet, but I will at some point.
Anyway, it's time to go and I am exhausted!

No More Fuses!

We are getting our Fuse Box replaced today with a breaker box! Woohoo! It's about time! After many blown fuses and money flushed down the toilet to replace these fuses, we will no longer have to worry abut blowing a fuse!
I'll let you know how it goes and of course post pictures of our new addition to the house. You are probably not as excited as I am, but this is HUGE!

Better Late Than Never

I told some that I would have pictures posted last night when Chad and I went to his work for the China call. However, Chad informed me last night when he got home that there was no China call, therefore no pictures!

So now I will update and post pictures today :) I have great news! We found an electrician that is going to change our service from fuses to breakers for an awesome price! I was helping with directory pictures at work and my friend who was taking the photos sent me an email saying that a guy came in for his pictures and through conversation she found out he was an electrician and he has been looking for work. So she gave me his name and number so we could contact him. Well, I called him yesterday morning and to my surprise he called me back about an hour later. You have to understand that up here in Bryan, it is almost impossible to get anybody to call you back. It took Chad 3 times to get ahold of the cable guy and we have called 3 previous electricians, one which actually showed up after we called twice. Needless to say I was impressed and shocked. To top that off, he agreed to show up that night (last night) to give us a quote. He was going to Goshen, IN yesterday so he wasn't sure what time he could make it.

He ended up coming at 5:30 and gave us an incredible quote of $500, which was what he called a "worst case scenerio" since we already have some of the materials. Our other quote was for $850...so I am thrilled. Plus he agreed to come out sometime next week before Thanksgiving but if he couldn't do that he would come out the second week in December. Side note: he is a deer hunter and will be hunting during gun season the week after Thanksgiving, which is why there is the gap of time.

So to make a long story short, No More Blown Fuses for the Clarks!

Ok, now onto the pictures after that long story: Ultrasound pics first!

This is a "boy" shot and a profile

Pic of his spine, bottom of his feet and yet another "boy" shot :)

One of my favorites aside from the feet shot are these, a profile and the one on the bottom showing him sucking his thumb :)

Me at 21 weeks...it's starting to come out now...
Chad after sanding the drywall-proof that we are making progress
Greta wearing a mask to protect her from the dust!

Well, that's all for now! I'll hopefully update later :)