My PB + J

If you actually care to see what I have been up to in my kitchen please visit my Cupcake Blog, the link is to the right…

There will be a lot of fun things coming up for the holiday season.
Anyone wishing to place an order can e-mail me directly at
lepetitekupkak@yahoo.com
I am really reasonable!

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Baby Shower Numero Uno

Yesterday was our first shower. We had a co-ed shower thrown by the Schack’s, we watched the Charger game, ate yummy food and of course opened gifts. It was very relaxing and nice to see everyone, especially since we couldn’t really talk to anyone last weekend during Jim’s drunken daze. I started off the day by eating it hard in the driveway, I now understand the statement “barefoot and pregnant”. I have only worn heels once since being pregnant, but I didn’t have any flats that matched my dress so I rocked my gold Steve Madden heels with the full intention of taking them off immediately. Well, I decided to park my car on the street and then started to walk into the driveway, not even paying attention to the street. Well, my heel got stuck in a hole and my fat prego body met the concrete very hard. I had thought my heel broke right in half but it came flying off and I went a crashing! It was really funny, I literally could not stop laughing, but my laughter turned into tears. The outcome of this fall is a badly scraped foot all along where my shoe was, a two inch gash out of my knee, a bruise the size of a softball on my hip, two broken nails and a sprained wrist. Great start to a shower, but it gets better! I was going outside to check on the kiddos and as I was turning the door knob it broke off (just my luck) and if it couldn’t get any better, later that night as we were leaving Jim elbowed me in the forehead. Despite all the injuries the shower was amazing! Al and Kathy are super generous, besides throwing us an amazing shower they gave us a camcorder to document the baby, of course it was for selfish reasons because if I go into labor during Christmas they won’t be here so we need to document everything, but as Al said it’s to document our second dog’s life..ha ha.
We received all our major gifts so now we just need to get the bedding and furniture and get the nursery ball a’rollin‘. My parents are coming down this weekend to help Jim move out our guest bedroom furniture and then the painting will begin. It is all finally starting to sink in that in less than twelve weeks we will be welcoming our little girl into our lives. I am starting to feel super overwhelmed by my lack of preparation, but I have set a few goals to ensure we are fully prepared for her arrival. I head to the doctor this Thursday for my 28-week appointment.

Before we left for the shower…

Kathy, Al, Sven, Toni and Dad

H-E-L-L-O 3rd Trimester!

I cannot even begin to express how freakin’ ecstatic I am to have reached this milestone. On Wednesday (Jimmy’s B-day) I entered the much anticipated third trimester. I am due in thirteen weeks, and as we all know September to December always flies by with the holidays fast approaching. The one highlight that makes me even more excited than seeing my baby girls face is that I am going on maternity leave eight weeks from today. . .YES! Not much has changed besides my obvious growing belly. It’s getting a little harder to eat, by three o’clock I am so full that I can barely eat dinner and by eight I just want to crawl into bed. I go to the doctor next Wednesday for my 28-week appointment and Sunday is my first baby shower.
Please excuse the blurry belly picture, Jim took this while being super sick and snapped it before I was even ready, hence why I cropped my face out, but you get the idea!



at the party, but you can see how HUGE I am.

Delilah loves laying on my belly. She is my protector. I personally just think she likes it when the baby kicks her in the head.

Jim’s 30th

So I had been planning Jim’s 30th for months, I knew it had to be BIG but I wasn’t sure how to pull it off. I went through several different options for his big day but in the end I opted for what Jim would want, a party at his aunt and uncle’s house. Jerome, my talented bff created the fabulous Simpson’s invite. Many of you probably don’t know this but Jim is a Simpson’s know-it-all, he can tell you any trivia, what happened in any episode during whatever season. It’s kind of silly but you know what, this is what I love this about him. We rolled with this is as the theme complete with donuts, a cake matching the invite, a DJ, a taco cart, enough booze that made the party just as classy as Moe’s tavern and plenty of Simpson-like crazy moments. Another thing about my recently turned thirty-year-old hubby is that usually he can handle his alcohol, nobody ever even knowing that Jim might be intoxicated, but his special day proved to be the first (and only) time that we will ever see him let go of everything (literally). After his party he spent Sunday recovering from his hangover while I worked and the next few days he has spent fighting off a sinus infection. His actual birthday was on Wednesday, and he called out of work to spend a few hours in urgent care and then I brought home Greek food from his favorite restaurant, he rented Wolverine and I bought him his beloved and childhood friend Fudgy the Whale cake from Carvel. Overall, his party was amazing and I cannot thank everyone enough who helped or attended for celebrating this milestone with us. Jim cannot stop talking about his party and how I pulled one over on him. Happy 30th Birthday Hubby!

Jim’s Invite

Our pre-party started at the Barrel Room in Rancho Bernardo. Jim ordered a wine flight and didn’t drink enough while we snacked on appetizers, so when it was time to leave he had to chug three glasses of wine.

Then we blind folded him and drove around Poway for roughly twenty minutes throwing him off of where we were headed. He thought we were headed downtown to see Spamalot.

Wine + Straight Vodka + An entire bottle of Casadores Tequila + Beer
=
Embarrassing Moments

One decent picture

My fav ladies

Needing help standing after spending an hour hugging the porcelain God.

His cake, and no I did not make this.

Happy Birthday!


It’s Been a Rough Month!

I haven’t even been blogging for two weeks which is HUGE for me. Two weeks ago Thursday I went to the doc to do my 24 week glucose test (I passed) and then went over and had my 24-week appointment with my midwife. Baby girl is doing well and her heartbeat was over 140, she sure did sound like a galloping horse. Shortly after my appointment I began feeling sick, itchy throat, stomach pain, etc. On Friday morning I sent a message to my doc and she instructed me to go into labor and delivery right away. I waited. Me being me I thought that this would all pass and I would right back to normal. WRONG! I ended up having cramping early Saturday morning and my fever continued, we headed to L&D. Everything checked out fine but I was still in a lot of pain due to girly being breech. She finally flipped around the following day but I was still super, duper sick. I ended up going to work on Tuesday and barely made it through the day and stayed home Wednesday to go to intermediate care, where they treated me for bronchitis, even though I had a 101+ temp. By Friday I was still sick, running a fever and still unable to eat so I had went to my primary doctor where she finally said I was severely dehydrated and put me on an IV right away to pump fluids in me. In the end I ended up staying in bed for another three days, on antibiotics for the third time this pregnancy and still unable to keep any food or fluids in me. I headed back to work on Sunday and have been going strong for a week now.

Okay, now that I updated you all on why I was M.I.A. I feel better. Whew!
This past Saturday I threw Jim a surprise 30th birthday party. His actual birthday is tomorrow and the poor thing is so sick. I am sure it’s a combination of the serious drinking that occurred at the party and running down of his immune system. I will post pictures in a post following this.