a serious update!

oh wow has it been awhile! last post was in december so it has been what, 6 months? and let me tell you alot has happened in 6 months. well first off, christmas was very nice. yet very hectic. we had 3 different christmas' to attend. mike got me a very cute necklace and these boots that i have been dying to get. mike got a gas powered remote controlled car. (which he has only used twice lol).

the next best thing happened in february. mike and i found out we are expecting alittle girl. we are naming her taryn rae burch. i seriously cant wait! mike was very disappointed lol, he wanted a boy so bad. but you know i think he is even more excited its a girl. he is going to be so protective of her and she'll have him wrapped around her little finger. i cant wait to see him interact with our daughter.

april finally rolls by and ruger is finally a year old! and let me tell you he is getting so much better! still gets in his go-kart moods but over all he can finally lay in the room and just chew his bone. he even listens to me now. its amazing that he is becoming a normal dog. yet still the size of a miniature horse but thinks he is a lap dog. i think that it helped that mike didnt work from february to may though.

those few months were the most stressful situation we have been in. being pregnant and trying to buy stuff for the baby, feed the dog, and pay bills when their is no income coming in is so hard! thank god he got his job back, not that we like that place or the time he is away, but at least it pays the bills and more. so currently he is back on the road. :(

this pregnancy has been a roller coaster! the beginning was smooth. no morning sickness, felt fine, blah blah blah. although, heartburn start to sink in and it wont leave, i feel like im breathing fire everyday all day! im always tired and so sore. i feel like my body is falling apart and like im 80 years old LOL. then i went in to one appointment and my blood sugars were alittle elevated so then i had to start testing my blood sugars 4 times a day. yet my morning blood sugars were just alittle too high for my doctors likings so then i have to take insulin at night. ugh. and now my blood pressure is elevated! one thing after another. so currently my blood pressure is still high and my sugars are under control but i have non-stress tests twice a week. they are interesting but boring. i just lay there and listen to taryn's heart beat. but now i am 35 weeks and 4 days and im measuring 39/40 weeks from my pubic bone to the fundus. which means now i have to go in for another ultrasound to measure taryn's bones and head to see how big she is. if she is getting too big i might have to have a c-section soon so she doesnt get any bigger :( i really hope she is just long cause i want to push her out, i want to feel labor pains. i mean i hope my doctor would decide to induce me and let me try labor and if i dont progress then take her out by c-section.

anyways, this saturday i'll be 36 weeks and im having a baby shower! im so excited. having a baby is so much fun and exciting, yet so nerve racking too! its finally the end of the pregnancy and i am officially done! i want to see what she looks like, if she looks like me or mike, i want to hold her, i want to love on her, and i want to see what her personality is like.
there is the update on our life! enjoy everyone :)

ruger...

ok i understand that ruger is still a puppy and only 9 months old but seriously he is so crazy. he doesnt want to be outside running around and he doesnt want to lay in his kennel and if you leave him in the house he runs around trying to chew on everything and get into everything. why cant he just be a regular lab already and lay there like a good dog chewing his bone. ugh. i cant wait til he is over 2 years old. one more year and 3 months. its so much easier to take care of him when mike is home but once again he is back on the road.

the result of our one year night...

mike finally got home. we layed around the house and finally we both showered to get ready to go out. you know we are both extremely undecisive, its so hard to figure anything out. so... we went to olive garden like we always do. typical but whatever. dinner was nice, we had calamari for an appetizer and our meals were good but we were so stuffed. its hard eating full meals when your pregnant and your stomach is always upset and gets extremely full very fast. and i really wanted dessert but oh well. the night ended with both of us feeling kinda crummy. we were planning on going to see brothers at the cinetopia but we just had to go home. were so lame. i put terminator salvation in and we layed in bed cuddling and fell asleep before half the movie was over. haha. a hard working guy and a pregnant lady can not stay up late. in the end i wouldnt have wanted our night go any other way. it was relaxing and nice minus the upset stomachs lol. but there will be many many many more years to come and celebrate.

today is our one year being together and guess what? mike isnt home. his job sometime is so hard. i mean yeah ill see him tonight but its just the fact that he is in town and i cant even see him when he is home. being the girl-friend of a truck driver sucks sometimes. they are always gone, staying in different cities, and you are stuck at home, pregnant and with a crazy dog that is extremely hyper and doesnt know how to stay out of things. ugh... i think that is enough ranting for now.... until later.