Baby baby, baby.

I always thought I'd be one of the super obsessed girls and go baby crazy and take picture of my growing belly every week, and document everything (besides throwing up), and take pictures of all the baby stuff, and blah, blah, blah. And yea, that totally isn't me. I didn't even take a picture of my belly until I kept getting hassled on instagram for one, HA!
So here we are at 22 weeks and 4 days...feeling awfully well rounded, especially in the middle!

and here's the guy who doesn't get enough face time around here,
just stuffing a kit kat in his mouth.

Did I mention both of our cameras are out of commission...yea, awesome. So all these pics are from my ipod hence the grainy quality. Sorry!

We have the best neighbors.

     This week was the first week since we have been here that it has actually been HOT! It hadn't been above 90 the whole time we've been here so we didn't mind too much the humidity or not having ac.
     Well that changed this week! It was hotter than hot! I believe it hit 98 everyday this week! And the humidity just makes everything/everyone sticky ALL the time. Getting out of the shower is the worst...I hate to put clothes on because I could never completely dry off so they were such a pain to try to wrestle on my body (probably didn't help that they are all getting nice and tight).
     Until now we had been surviving with just 2 fans going all the time and of course opening doors/windows when it cooled off in the evening. Well we almost hit our breaking point when the coolest it got every night was 86 degrees! We couldn't even sleep with a sheet it was so hot! We even took a drive the other night just so we could enjoy the ac in the car:)
     Allow me to digress for a moment, we live in a very old building (we still debate if it was at one point a house) that has 6 apartments, 2 on each story. We are lucky to live on the bottom floor I think. We have heard and seen signs of neighbors, but only ever met the ones right next to us. The man is a skinny little man, probably late 40's-early 50's but smokes so that may make him look older. Has a long beard and tattoos. He is always wearing a cut off t shirt and short. He introduced himself as Steve but the landlord called him Michael, and his live in girlfriend calls him Possum or Possum Steve (he has signs in all his doors/windows that say 'Possum crossing' or something). I think we are going to just start calling him Possum as well:) He has been battling cancer for a few years now but seems to be doing well lately. The girlfriends name is Donna and they have a dog named Pooh (I think?). Anyway, when we first moved in Possum came right over to introduce himself and ask if he could do anything for us. He is just the nicest guy and every time we see him asks if we need anything or if he can help us at all.
     Ok, back to why they are the greatest neighbors, besides the fact that they have been the only friendly ones to us and are constantly wanting to help us, I ran into Donna taking the dog out on Monday and talked to her for quite a while about some recent building issues (which is another topic that someday I will make public). Anyway, we had a good conversation and I happened to mention being pregnant and then never thought about it again.
    Well the next day there was a knock on the door and it was Donna and Pooh. She said they had an extra window ac unit that if we wanted, we could have. I of course didn't want to seem desperate but told her if they really didn't need it we would gladly accept. She said just to send Nate over to get it anytime. Well the next thing I know Possum is at my back door with the ac unit! He said he didn't want to make me have to wait and be hotter longer than necessary. The thing was really heavy too, I felt bad he had to carry it over but I thought that was so nice of them! He also kept calling me dear which I thought was cute. And he told us to come sit out on their makeshift patio anytime we want, we will definitely be taking them up on that! We have LOVED having the ac unit and it is definitely more enjoyable to be at home now.
     I just think they are the kindest people! They clearly don't have a lot and just the fact that they are always asking if they can do anything for us shows how good of people they are! I plan on taking them some cookies or something in the next few days, not like that is even half the payback they deserve!

Nate-ism #8.

(Ok so this was a Nate-ism and Lindsey-ism.)
While driving in the car today.

Nate: You know what I'm really going to enjoy about moving back west?
Lindsey: Del Taco?
Nate: No, Carl's Jr.

Apparently we don't care about being closer to family and friends, living in a place newer than the 1800's, having 2 cars, etc. All we care about is food!



P.S. Nate had never seen the movie Holes. So tonight I made him watch it. I kept asking him "is that how your work does it?" I think he was starting to get annoyed. But he laughed when my dad's favorite part of the movie came on:
Warden as a little girl: I'm tired of this grandpa!
Grandpa: that's too dang bad, you keep diggin'!

He said he could see why it was my dad's favorite part, and he said he could see my dad being that cranky old grandpa someday ;)

Tractor Pull.

Monday July 8,
     The Franklin County Fair in Chambersburg was going strong this week. Nate and I learned there was a tractor pull Monday night and figured we better go since 1- neither of us had been and 2- it was on a night where Nate didn't work so we could actually go together!
     I must admit, the people here are a whole different breed than they are in Idaho. The rednecks in Idaho are MUCH classier than here. And I am being completely serious.
     We enjoyed the tractor pull and had a few laughs. I think our favorite part was the pickups trying to pull...and breaking. They were entertaining and proved that the Dodge is not the toughest truck.

21 week and STILL puking.

I feel like I could write a version of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" only call it "The Very Pukey Pregnant Lady".
Because just when I think there will be no more of this vomiting...it returns.
"On Monday she laid on the couch all day, but she was still puking.
On Tuesday she ate only toast and grapes, but she was still puking.
On Wednesday she slept till noon, but she was still puking."
Ok, so it isn't really this bad and I feel better most of the time. I actually don't think I was sick at all last week!
But like today, we sat down to eat dinner and I was maybe 5 bites in when I asked Nate to please go get the trash can. Up it all came and I felt miserable for a few minutes and then all returned to normal and I went right back to eating.
But 21 weeks and still feeling this?!
Bah-humbug!

and here's a nice and greasy picture of the bump...Nate says I'm huge.

Hershey Park and then the 4th of July.

July 3

For work today we went on an all day field trip to Hershey Park which is an awesome amusement park in Hershey, PA. There are 11 roller coasters and tons of other rides. There's also a huge water park with water rides, a lazy river, wave pool, and 8 water slides.
Since I'm pregnant, I lucked out and got the "scardey-cat group" which was pretty much the kids who didn't want to ride rides and just wanted to hang out at the water park all day. And I was totally fine with that! The kids rode 2 rides on the way to the water park which I just sat at the exit and watched all their stuff for, and then we played at the water park the rest of the day. It rained for about 45 minutes right at lunch time so we just hid under a giant umbrella in our swimsuits and ate lunch. It was also overcast most of the day so even though it was in the 80's it wasn't terribly hot and again, I enjoyed that! I did participate in the wave pool and the lazy river...and the ice cream parlor.

this is just a small part of the water park and these slides are not included in the 8.

The last hour we left the park and went out front to the Hershey factory. We took a tour where we got free chocolate and then spent time buying and eating all the chocolate we could handle! And yes, it very much reminded me of Willy Wonka :)

The drive was just about 2 hours, which wasn't bad. We didn't get home till 7pm so it was a long day but it was definitely fun and not as expensive to enter as I would have expected. Most of the kids who had also been to Disney World said they preferred Hershey Park.

July 4

We both got to sleep in for a little change! Even though we were up by 8:30, it was nice to have a slow morning together for once where we could just eat breakfast and watch tv.

About 10am we rode our bikes to the high school a few miles down the road and watched the parade and walked around the "summer jubilee" as it was called. There were a few games, some food stands, and a bunch of retailers. It was HOT and although I wore sunscreen, I somehow missed my back and it is fried!!

waiting on the parade to start.

We enjoyed the parade and walking around, but this preggo was mostly excited about the lemonade, fries, pulled pork, and strawberry funnel cake that we ate :)

shriners.

It was also nice to see some familiar faces for a change! I think it felt a little more like home that we recognized some people from the crowd (although truthfully I think they all recognized us first).
We then rode our bikes UP the hill home, it was hard but I accomplished it... and then laid in front of the fan for the next half hour.

Nate of course had to work in the afternoon/evening which was lame as always. Hopefully he got to do something fun at work. We were invited to have dinner and watch fireworks with a family in the ward so I went there for dinner but was worn out and didn't make it to the fireworks. 

Hoping next year to be able to watch some fireworks together...for the FIRST time!