an announcement and other things

so i have something to announce. what an official way to start a post right?

i'm pregnant!

Hooray! we are really excited about it! i'll be 17 weeks tomorrow so that puts me due "they" say on Feb. 3rd. i'm really thinking its about a week later than that. cause, really, what do "they" know anyway, amiright?

i think announcing you're pregnant is awkward. is it just me? its like "hey, i got knocked up!" but not really cause we are married and wanted a kid... but still. ugh.

i'm feeling pretty good for the most part, it seems the really dreadful parts of being pregnant are fading. slowly, but surely. i can walk into the kitchen without gagging so that really is a plus. and i'm not so tired that i feel like dying all the time. thats nice too. goodness though, i didn't think it was possible to look as pregnant as i do as early as it happened. i mean, i guess thats normal right? but still, so annoying. especially since we were trying to keep it on the down low until i was into my second trimester. liam was obviously paying attention to what i was saying though, he woke up one morning and told darrell "don't touch my boobs, they hurt" which i must have said regularly for a couple of weeks, even a hug, yikes it hurt.

anyway, hooray, baby! we'll probably find out what i'm having in 3 weeks or so, at my 20 week ultrasound. and, we are hoping for a human baby. boy or girl it doesn't matter, as long as it comes out human.

so...

in other news, we had a mini flood the other day. we got a call (which i didn't hear) from our renter and were then woken up by the doorbell being rang repeatedly at about 8 in the morning to hear that water had come gushing into the basement and there was a lot of water on the carpet and she finally found the shut off and the water had stopped. awesome right? so we trekked downstairs and found quite a bit of water and bulging paint on the walls and the panel covering the water shut off valves pulled off the wall. apparently the water came pouring out after the sprinklers shut off. i started sucking up water and darrell went out and started digging out by the sprinkler box to see if the problem was coming from outside. it wasn't. so what does that mean? inside the wall. what does that mean? cutting into drywall which then means drywall repair which is quite possibly my LEAST favorite thing to have to do EVER. so darrell started cutting and cutting and finally found the problem. an elbow had pretty much snapped in half so water was pouring out of a 3/4 inch pipe straight into our basement for almost 10 minutes. that is a lot of water. we ended up having to pull up the carpet around the edge of the room so we could suck water out of the pad. hopefully tomorrow a carpet guy will come and stretch the carpet and tack it back into place. ahhhhhh the joys of owning a house :) (i wouldn't trade if for anything!)

Jealous?

There is a bright side to this story. so we actually only just turned our sprinklers on with the timer for the first time last week. they are set to run every monday, wednesday, friday and saturday i believe. we went out of town on wednesday and our renter left on thursday. we got back on sunday and our renter got back on monday. we didn't even go down the stairs until quite late sunday night. can you even imagine how horrifying it would have been if that pipe had broken on friday after the sprinklers ran and water just poured into our basement for a day and a half solid??? awful, awful, awful. so i mean, if it was going to happen, i guess i'm glad it happened when it did. 

also, i've been working on doing my bathroom (yes again) and this time i think i love it. i even pulled down the old mirror and awful medicine cabinet that were probably original to the house. the paint color is fantastic, the wall treatment lovely. all in all its great. and almost done. just a couple more paychecks and i can put the finishing touches on it. (stay out of debt right? even if the final touches only involve a $30 can of paint. it can wait until next payday so i don't have to use the credit card.) 

also, i've been trying really hard to finish projects. so. i finished sewing the pillows closed that i started ages ago. and i just have to put binding on a wall hanging that i started last christmas and it will be done too! so i guess not much has been finished but at least those two things have!

anyway, that was long and kind of all over the place but thats how life is sometimes right?

until next time!