Late honeymoon/early babymoon…

Mr. Right and I never went on a honeymoon.  And since we are going to have TWO children come December….  We decided to take a vacation ALL BY OURSELVES!

We decided to go to Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, TN.  Yes, we went there last year for our family vacation with my in-laws, but there was a lot of stuff we wanted to do last year that we didn’t get to.

So, we went and had a good ol’ time!  It was so nice to get away alone… and go out to eat and have a peaceful meal… and come and go when we wanted to… 

But with all that said….  WE DID MISS OUR SWEET PEA!!

I didn’t take a lot of pictures…. well…. I didn’t take a lot of pictures of the mountains…  I took the most at the aquarium (as you will see…)  I, literally, took over 100 pictures on my phone of the aquarium because I wanted Sweet Pea to have new pictures to look at when she takes over my phone.  Haha!  But in general, I just wasn’t really in a picture taking mood while we were there. 

We went on the sky lift (below)… which was a big accomplishment for me since I’m terrified of heights.  I was so scared at first…. but I made it alright.  The view was beautiful from way up!

I’m surprised I didn’t lose my shoes going on the sky lift!  Ha!

We saw this little fella on our way back to our car.  These ducks are so pretty!!  I had to snap a picture…  (There is another one in the bushes, but he was hiding…)

Aquarium pictures…

Jelly fish always fascinate me.  They just look so cool.  These were itty bitty jelly fish…

SHARK!!!!!!

 

This is while we were in the tunnel thingy.  Mr. Right is pointing at a shark.

Stingrays are pretty cool too….

HUGE jelly fish…

The penguins were so darn cute!!!  I wanted to take one home with me!  Haha!

Mr. Right in the Penguin Playhouse.  There was a little tunnel to crawl in…

We went Gem Mining… one of my favorite things to do in the mountains!!  If you’ve never been… they give you a bucket of “dirt” and it has gems in it.  You sift it through water and get to keep whatever you find in your bucket.  We found some pretty big stones.  I’d like to get something made for Sweet Pea out of what we found.

And that’s all for the pictures. 

We also went to the Titanic Museum.  We couldn’t take pictures there.  It was fun and nice.  The only downside to it… it took like 2 HOURS to walk through it and see everything.  I was tired and hungry by the time we got done.  Haha!

We went tubing down the Little River.  I really wanted to go white water rafting, but it didn’t sound like such a good idea being pregnant… and the websites even said they wouldn’t let you go if you were 2 or 3 months preggers… so we had to say no to that…  Instead, we just went tubing.  It probably wasn’t the greatest idea still…. but I didn’t think it would be too rough.  And it wasn’t.  To me at least… 

Mr. Right SOMEHOW got flipped off of his tube and hit his shoulder on a rock (AND he lost his $3 flip flops that we had just bought).  He couldn’t get back on the tube and I was just a floating by and couldn’t stop!  He eventually got back on and was ok!  Haha!

We were floating peacefully later on and all of a sudden Mr. Right says, “Ummmm…..”  I look over toward him and there is a SNAKE in the water just a few feet from him…  His head was poking up out of the water and you could see his body just underwater.  Mr. Right was slowly paddling away from it.  I said… “Is that what I think it is?!?!?!?!?!?!”  He says…. “Yep….. just stay calm…….”  I lifted my butt up as much as I could… trying to get it out of the water… (it didn’t work)… The snake dips back down in the water.  I didn’t know which way it went!!!!  I started freaking out and paddling away as fast as I could!!!  Luckily, we could see our exit from where we were.  I was soooo happy to get out of the water at that point!!!  Mr. Right asked me if I wanted to go down the river again (we could go as many times as we wanted until they closed)…  I gave him a quick HECK NO!!!!!! 

It was really fun and relaxing.  But I doubt I will ever go tubing again…  I don’t care to swim with snakes.  I think I will stick to white water rafting from now on since my whole body will be in a raft!!!  I’ll just have to plan our next trip when I’m not pregnant!  Ha!

We had a great time together and it was much needed after the past few months (especially for Mr. Right)!

14 weeks!

How far along:  14 weeks… obviously  ;-)  Yay for the second trimester!!!

Size of baby:  About the size of a lemon

Total weight gain:  I’m going to say about 5 lbs.  I had lost 2 lbs when I went to the doctor on June 6th.  I didn’t get fussed at by the doctor on that visit… thank goodness. 

Maternity clothes:  I haven’t bought any yet.  I’m still wearing stretchy stuff.  I haven’t worn my jeans in a few weeks, so I don’t know if I can still fit them or not… 

Gender: Don’t know… and not going to find out!

Movement:  There have been a couple of times recently that I thought I might have felt something… but I’m not sure.  It’s been so long since I felt a baby move in me… so I don’t know if that’s what I’m feeling…

Sleep:  I still want/need a lot of it!  Haha!  And I guess I’m sleeping ok…

What I miss: I can remove caesar and italian dressing from the list because my mom called the company (maybe?) and found out that it is ok to eat because it is pasteurized.  So I guess it won’t harm the baby.  I hope not at least!

Cravings:  Sour, salty, tangy, tart stuff.  I was eating A1 steak sauce the other night by itself because it was tangy and tart.  I discovered Edy’s lime fruit bars…. I. Am. In. Love.  They remind me of a margarita… minus the tequila.  Haha! 

Symptoms:  Nausea and fatigue mostly…

Food aversions:  Ranch dressing.  Let me explain…  I DO like ranch dressing.  But considering I have been wanting salads lately, and I thought I wasn’t able to eat caesar dressing… I was eating ranch a lot.  I’m to the point that I just can’t stand it right now.

Milestones:  None that I can think of……???

May 2011 beach trip…

We traveled back to the coast in May.  My aunt, who I haven’t seen in YEARS, was coming down for a few weeks to visit.  Mr. Right wasn’t able to go with us this time. 

We all went to eat at the Blow Fly Inn.  Of course, we had to take pictures afterwards…

My mom with all the kids

The kids

Mamaw with all of her girls

Olivia, Sweet Pea, and Emily.  Blake didn’t want to be in the picture.

Walking down to the beach.  She still was a little unsure about the sand this time.  But she got used to it very quick… and loved it!

Emily carrying her around… because she thinks that Sweet Pea can’t walk.  Haha! 

I got my toes in the water… toes in the sand…  :-)

I think Emily was trying to talk Sweet Pea in to going into the water…

If you are wondering who is holding Sweet Pea… That’s Olivia behind all the hair.  She looks like that 90% of the time.  Haha!!

My dad went out in the water with them for a little bit. 

 

Blake digging a hole….

All of them digging a hole….

 

This is the next day.  We went to a different part of the beach.  East Beach maybe????  The girls were trying to put Sweet Pea on the boogie board.  She didn’t like that at all…

 

Sweet Pea in the “baby pool”… Haha!

We took the kids across the street to wash off and let them play on the playground.  I think they are a little too old for playgrounds, but they had fun with Sweet Pea.

The last day, we went to the pool.  Sweet Pea was not impressed with it.  She didn’t want to get in or anything!!  I didn’t bring my swimsuit with me, so I couldn’t get in with her.  So, we sat at the steps for a good bit. 

Then I made the kids put her in.  She HATED the baby ring.  You can tell by the look on her face.  Poor child…

Olivia being silly…

Emily carried Sweet Pea around in the pool most of the time.  She was fine with that. 

All the kiddos!

I had to get a picture of the ghetto booty baby…  I forgot to bring the swimmers with me… So she just had a regular diaper on.  Needless to say… the diaper stuff swelled up and it looked like she had some junk in her trunk.  HAHA!  Too funny.

 

And here’s a random picture of her eating Marble Slab ice cream for the first time.  We had to give it a try and see if it was as good as our Cold Stone Creamery.  I still love Cold Stone the best. 

And that’s all for our beach trips (so far) this summer.

Emily’s birthday!

I started this post a long time ago and never finished it…  Better late than never….. right?!  I’ve decided to not “write” in this one… just post pictures…  I’m trying to get this knocked out quick!

We went to the coast back in March for Emily’s (my niece) birthday party.  Sweet Pea just loves her cousins!!

 

 

 

Getting ready to go to the birthday party!!

Emily had her party at The Mud Shack.  It’s a place where you can paint ceramics.

These are the crosses that Sweet Pea and I painted.  I actually did the brown one myself.  Sweet Pea did the smaller cross.  I helped her paint it and I added the polka dots. 

The finished product!

Emily showing off her cross necklace her mother got her.

We went to eat at Leo’s for lunch (pizza place).  In the midst of all the picture taking afterwards…. Sweet Pea’s diaper bag got sat down… and left.  So we had to call them and see if someone turned it in.  Luckily, it was and we picked it up later.

My sister and I

Sweet Pea loved playing with the ballons!!

Later that evening, we took all the kids out to the beach to take some pictures.  We were trying to wait until the sun was setting…. and we waited a little too long (I think) because they didn’t turn out how I wanted…

This was Sweet Pea’s first time to touch the sand.  She was not happy about it.  She didn’t like it AT ALL!!

She finally started walking with Daddy, but wasn’t thrilled about it.

Our family portrait…..  Gotta love my hair flying all over the place!  It was very windy!!!

And this was the best picture of the kids…  Haha!!  I’m being serious. 

We can always try again next time!