Boy was today busy. I think we went to Lowe's 3 times (4 by the end of the night) and Home Depot once to get all the pieces we needed to finish our last closet. In addition - we asked my brother to come out and cut the pieces of wood we had. We don't have a circular saw to do it and they were 8 feet long and we needed them to be 6 foot. My dear brother came over and did that for us.

In addition, after doing all of that, we dropped some stuff off at the Salvation Army that we no longer needed and I found out that the Salvation Army that I love to shop at is moving down the street to a HUGE warehouse. I'm so excited. They are expanding and going to a nicer building! Yay!!

After all of this we went about 15 miles away to drop off my mini-van at the dealer for some maintenance. On Friday it was driving weird and then when I got to work and stopped in the parking lot and put it in park, the engine started to rev up and down on it's own over and over. Yeah, not good. We decided it was finally time to take it in to get maintenanced. It may need new brakes but we never had maintenance done on it and we bought it at 30,000 some miles and now it has a little over 80,000, so it's due! I just hope it doesn't cost too much.

Hmmm, other than that our closet is starting to go up. I'm totally excited because I can finally start to clean our house!!! YAY!! This is a GOOD thing!

I guess that's all for now. I will post a bit more later. Tomorrow night I'll be at mom's house eating ribs. Maybe if a get a moment I'll update my blog with some photos that she has on her camera! I guess we'll see.

I swore I felt the baby moving on Saturday. One would say it would be gas, but I didn't have gas and it was such an odd feeling, so I really think I may have felt the baby!! I'm getting bigger all over and I hate it. I think I've gained like 15 lbs and I'm just about 3 months along. I've been working out 3x a week. No heartburn, morning sickness or anything! I'm just getting bigger! I'm still tired but I'm always tired anyhow!! I just think I'm busy! :)

Here's what babycenter.com says
How your baby's growing: Your belly may soon be big enough to announce to the world that you're expecting, but your baby is still tiny. In fact, he's only about 3 inches long crown to rump — roughly the size of a jumbo shrimp — and weighs just about an ounce. Despite the small proportions, there's a fully formed baby inside your womb now. Much more proportional than it was a few weeks ago, his head is now only about a third the size of his body. His tiny, unique fingerprints are already in place. His kidneys and urinary tract are functional, and he's starting to urinate out the amniotic fluid he's been swallowing. As you start your second trimester, most of your baby's critical development will be completed, and your odds of miscarriage will drop considerably.

* Note: Experts say every baby develops differently — even in the womb. This developmental information is designed to give you a general idea of how your baby is growing.

How your life's changing: Time to celebrate! This is the last week of your first trimester. Next week you'll be in your second trimester. That's great news for two reasons: One, your risk of miscarriage drops dramatically, and two, many women see early pregnancy symptoms, such as morning sickness, subside. (In some cases, though, heartburn replaces the nausea.) Birth is still months away, but your breasts may have already started making colostrum, the nutrient-rich fluid that feeds your baby for the first few days after birth, before your milk starts to flow. Many couples also notice a distinct libido lift in the second trimester as nausea abates and energy returns.

I know I've been MIA lately. Not sure why. I guess I haven't been on the pc at ALL lately. I'm so busy when I get home from work that I just do other things. The other thing that keeps me OFF the pc is if I am on it and Joey is around, he thinks he gets to sit on my lap and play games on here off websites like sesameworkshop.org or playhouse disney's website. So he comes up yelling games games games and I usually let him play.

I need to share photos of Joe and Joey's sledding trip like I promised. I will do that below.

This past weekend was nice. We went up north to see Grandma (we try to go every other weekend to spend time with her) and on Sunday we went to Chuckie Cheese's. Joey wasn't sure what to expect at first. I think he was just overwhelmed. We took him early in the morning around 10am. At the end he loved most things - he loved to play in the balls, he liked to climb in the ceiling in the tubes (thank GOD Joe went up there with him - it looked too contained for me), and we did a bunch of other stuff. He did so good. He did throw a ball at someone, twice right in their face! Joe made him apologize and say he was sorry. We ate pizza (which was just ok) and we all played skeeball. In the end we had enough tickets for him to get a shrek soft plush ball and a little race car (like a matchbox car). At the end (around 12:30) he was sooo exhausted that once we got in the car he was totally out in 3 minutes flat.

This weekend I played around with this video editing program and it's pretty cool. I made a home video from Christmas and Joey loved watching it! I asked who was on the screen when I came up and he looked at me and said 'YOU'. That was the first time he used the word 'You' in the correct context. He's saying so much now!!!

Work is going well. Joe and I got our annual raises and we both did great. That was nice. We even got enough to go and visit our buds in Seattle! I'm soooo geeked! Here we come Caroline! :)