My apologies

I know I haven't posted in a while. It has been part life got busy and got away from me and part I still don't feel good. So I will try to recap everything that has happened lately I feel like I have so much to share.

First, last week Thursday Mike and I met up and went to the doctors for a check up on me and baby. We got to hear babies heart beat loud and clear. We even called my Mom so she could hear it over the phone. She begged. :) The heart beat was still a fast 160 BPM. The nurse began to tell us that wives tale says that the faster heart beats means its a girl. Then she followed up by saying I wouldn't run out and buy something pink though, their theory is flawed. You know I thought for sure I would cry when I heard the babies heart beat but no. You know when I did cry. While we were watching AFV-America's Funniest Home Videos. I was laughing uncontrollably at the video montage they did (like I always do, those montages really get me going) then suddenly uncontrollable laughter turned to uncontrollable tears. Poor husband didn't know what had happened. I just looked at him and said "We're having a baby." Then I went back to laughing at the next clip. Hormones!

After our doctors appointment we loaded up in the car and headed south to Lewiston to see my Cousin Chris who was visiting from Maui. I love him so much! He is like a big brother. We had a wonderful visit. My Auntie Liz gave me a lesson in gardening, we ate Portuguese Soup and then we all watched the 2 hour Grey's Anatomy. It was wonderful.

Friday we rushed back to Spokane to greet our house guests Ian and Maria. They were very forgiving of my house and my hostessing abilities. I am not all here and having just done a whirl wind turn around things weren't what they would normally be in the James household. We had a great weekend. We watched "Spiderman 3" on IMAX, cooked steaks on the grill, ate smores around our fire pit, watched the Amazing Race finale (the amazing part is how much our lives center around TV). It was a wonderful time with great friends! Come again soon!

During the weekend Ian and Nicole came and brought their little man Peyton. We went over to join them at Greg and Courtney's and Nicole made us a wonderful Dinner and Dessert. She is amazing that way, as well as in many other ways. It was a great time with them and the Henson's just hanging out talking and catching up. Not that we had much to catch up on since we all talk so often but it is great to have such wonderful people for friends.

Then we headed into a crazy work week. This week I was approached about extending my hours at work. For those of you who don't know I am incredibly spoiled and have been working M-W 7:30-3:30. It leaves me this great 4 day weekend and I can't tell you how much of a blessing it has been while I fight off 1st trimester sickness. I agreed to extend my hours to M-F 8:00 -4:00. I am not sure why I agreed to this. The very next day I was having second thoughts. Then it got worse when Mike and I would start making plans for this or that and say "Oh we could go on Thursday and then have a 4 day weekend." Then we would realize it wasn't that easy anymore and it would make the regret of my decision even deeper. I don't know what to do.

Well hopefully I will be better about keeping up with my entries. I love blogging and I love receiving your comments. Thank you for all of you who keep checking back here even if I am not good at keeping it up to date.

Happy Mother's Day, MOM! See you tomorrow.