Knit-stravaganza

My blog title might be a misnomer. I've found Three things I want tot knit for baby PLUS the dress I've been "working" on for months. I put working in quotes bc I haven't barely even picked it up at all in the last couple months. And yet here I am pining over knitted baby blankets. Seriously? Like Im going to have time for that. The first baby blanket is a zig zag. I want to do it in 4 colors, purple, grey, pink and white.


Next is this ridiculously adorable hat:
A baby with bunny ears? That's too darn cute for words.
Lastly is this blanket. It looks just simple but sweet and I was thinking I could make it gray and do the eyelet pattern area in purple.

My last problem is that I want to make her a blanket with really awesome yarn but all the yarn stores in my area close at 4 or 5pm. And I get off at 5pm. So........ Thanks a Lot Local Yarn Store Buttholes. Yes I know they're open on Saturday, but remember my recent post, I'm freaking busy like EVERY weekend!
These are knitting pipe dreams. For now I'd like to just finish her dress before she's born. Fingers crossed.

An Ode to Heartburn

Heartburn can kiss my ass. I know it has to do with the baby taking up room and smooshing into my stomach and the muscles that usually keep acid down being loosened and whatnot. But it's irritating. Heartburn does not feel like my heart is burning. Does anyone watch Game of Thrones? Remember when Gendry was about to be tortured by putting a rat in a bucket holding it to his stomach and then lighting fire on the other end? Well it's not that bad, but it's still right uncomfortable.





In better news, I signed up for summer school. Only one class I need was availabe, but I emailed the teacher on another one. And I found out I qualified for the Bogg waiver for 2012 so my class was only $11. Freaking SCORE. So this summer I will be learning about the History of Architecture! At least it's transferable to a big school :-) Maybe one day I'll actually get a degree haha. We'll see!

Busy Weekends

Seems like every weekend I've got something going on! Busy Busy!
Last weekend I drove up to Santa Maria. Got in Friday night, and hung out with my mom a bit. I was in town for two reasons. Mini High School Reunion and Strawberry Festival.
I had decided to make cupcakes for the reunion. My mom had baked a bunch so they were all baked and cooling when I got there. I got a little crazy and made all the frosting and filling from scratch. We had cherry chip cupcakes with maraschino cherry frosting topped with a cherry, chocolate cupcake with PB filling and PB cream cheese frosting, yellow cake with pineapple filling and pineapple cream cheese frosting and strawberry cupcake with banana filling and cream cheese frosting. And I'm so bummed I didn't take pics of all of them when they were done. Here are some pics of the chocolate ones:

 I used a melon baller to cut out the centers of the cupcake then filled them with the yummy-ness insides. Then I piped frosting on top!

They were all super amazing delicious. We made extras to take to a bake sale for a girl that died. She was pretty close in age to me, worked with my mom for a while. Very sad.
So Sat morning I made all these (my parents kitchen was a DISASTER! haha), then hung out with my dad. We went for a walk in the riverbed. B-Bop had a BLAST running after animals and romping through the grass. Conan ALMOST got a rabbit. That would've been TERRIBLE. He was super close! Afterwards, my dad went surfing and I laid down for a while. My feet were swelling again. Here's Qi snuggling with me:

 

Saturday night was my reunion and I had a great time. Good dinner, great to see all the people. It was small because people were being cheap ass jerks about it all but Diana did an awesome job and I got to see a lot of people I wanted to see!

Sunday we went to the strawberry festival. It was really small this year. But I got some strawberries and petted animals at the petting zoo. They had all these cute goat crosses and deer and pigs and even wallabies. Here's some pics:

 

Overall a really great weekend. I miss my family a lot, I would give almost anything to live closer to them. I'm super excited too because I'll be seeing them again in two weeks for Ellie's first Birthday!! Woo Hoo!! She's going to be one! And it's the first time seeing my sister since I've been "showing". I still sometimes think I just look fat vs. pregnant but oh well. She's moving around a lot tonight. Must be the taco bell and strawberries I had for dinner. haha Yum!

I'm a Terrible Wanna-Be Blogger

Well it's true, I suck at blogging. I really wanted to make this an interesting blog, with new insights into my pregnancy and our life. But apparently I'm lazy. Mostly, I just forget and have a zillion other things going on. So I'm making up for it a bit today.
I'm about 6 1/2 months along now, this little girl will be here before we know it! Brendan put together her bedroom furniture yesterday. Look at him hard at work!

It's an awesome set from JC Penney courtesy of my mom and dad. They're the BEST! It's real wood and the crib is one of those ones that converts to a toddler bed. There's a highboy dresser, a changing table with shelves underneath and the crib itself. See:

There's going to be a tiny person in there soon! SO WEIRD! :-)

Next time, i'll tell you about the amazing cupcakes I made. Booyah!

I call these the elephantitis feet

Names, and stress and more of the same

All is well in the world of the Thielman's. I've been letting stress really bog me down and it's making be tired and cranky. Work is in full tax season swing, only a couple weeks of madness to go. I actually like this time of year, it's good to stay busy.
Brendan and I took a mini weekend vacay to San Diego. It was nice, we played at the beach, had dinner with family and hung with my best friend. I miss living in that area. There's always something to do and I love just being able to be outside and enjoy the sun and sea. Unfortunately, we can't afford to live there right now. Maybe one day.
We're pretty set on a name for our little girl. It's still weird for me to call it "her" and picture me holding her and being a parent. Not to say I don't already love her, but it's weird to think of myself as an adult sometimes.
I also felt her move for the first time this weekend. It was a very strange sensation. I can't wait until Brendan can feel it too. I know it'll be soon enough! I'm over half way done, insane!
I found this baby shower invite that I think is the cutest thing EVER
http://www.disneybaby.com/images/2012/01/Dis-Baby-shower-invites-v8-forms3.pdf
Totally in love. I love that it's classic looking Minnie. Man, I love Disneyland. I can't wait to share that with my kid.
Probably should get some sleep.

It's a Girl!

I've been seriously slacking on blogging. I usually feel like I don't have much to say. but the big news recently is it's a GIRL!
Thats right folks it's a Baby Girl for the Thielmans! Which means I'll be getting a shit ton of hand me downs from my sister! YESSSSSSSS! I will take all the free stuff we can!
We don't have a set name yet but we're throwing some around. We seem to be liking names that start with C which is ironic because when my niece was born my sister tried to find a name with a C but ended up with an A instead.
Since the nursery has gray walls and carpet I think we're going to go with purple and grey in there.
we haven't felt her move yet, but my doctor says that's okay. She said that where my placenta is, it's acting like a bumper so we won't feel it until she gets a bit stronger.
I'm officialy 20 full weeks which means I'm halfway done. It seems weird since the first couple months were so rough and there's nothing really noticable so it doesn't mseem like I've been pregnant that long!
Things other then that have been fine. My high school reunion is next month so I'll be going to Santa Maria for that. It's the same time as the strawberry festival so YAY!
Money is super tight. I'm having to pick and choose what I can afford to pay every month which is royally screwing up my credit I'm sure. There's things we REALLY need, like a new couch and rug in the living room but it's just not going to happen anytime soon. Money super stresses me out, but hoepfully things will work out.
Once we get some stuff in the nursery I will post pics :-) For now there's just some clothes and blank walls! Time to start thinking about decorating!