Who has two thumbs and is really cool?

This Girl! or maybe it goes "whos really cool and has 2 thumbs?" Good question, Adam thought this was hilarious when I goofed up this quote last night. HAHA! Oh I have never been known for my quoting abilities unless I am watching the moving While You Were Sleeping or Serendipity... as Adam can also attest too.

Thursday it was back to the Doctor for my monthly OB appointment. The baby is doing great and so is mommy. I had to do my 29 week glucose test this time around. I had to drink a 10oz pure sugar syrup drink in 60 sec and then have my blood drawn an hour later. Since I have not gotten a call I assume I dont have gestational diabetes.... gotta love doctor's communication skills. I heard horrific things about the sugary drink, but it wasnt all the bad, I think the worst part was how cold it was.

Thanks to Adam and his huge network of people, afterall he does know 99% of the people in Ohio! We were able to do a 3D/4D ultrasound on Friday. It was awesome, we have a DVD of the 30 minute session with heart tones. The image quality was like night and day compared to the usual 3D ultrasound pictures. SO COOL! The Ultrasound Tech said she definetly has my nose and Adam's sleeping habits. Let me explain, our little bundle of joy was SOUND ASLEEP during the session, nothing would wake her up, much like Adam when he is sleeping...haha. The tech was pushing and poking on my stomach to try and get her to move her face towards the "camera" and all she did is bury her face more into the placenta and move her hand in front her face, as if saying, "I am trying sleep, go away" Oh I think she may be a bit stubborn like her mom too.... oh goodness...hehe. Well enjoy the pics below!

Here she is, sleeping, her arm is going across her chin

She's sleeping again, and not happy about us waking her up... :-)

this is when she put her hand in front her face, while sleeping

This is a really cool shot of her legs crossed and her feet at the bottom

Football.. I mean greased pigskin!

So Saturday I got off to a great start, now 29 weeks prego and only 10-11 weeks to go before baby is here I was anxious to get back into some competitive sporting events. Well this may not have been a marathon, but I did walk the AHA Heart Walk 5K Saturday morning. It felt great to not be dragged by dogs through the same old neighborhood route and finally get back to a road course of some sort. This weekend I am going to paint the guest room and walk/run in either the Alzheimers or Childrens Miracle 5K and hopefully be back in time to watch the Gators take on Arkansas. This brings me to my real point... what is the world was going on in the heads of the UF coaches and players on Saturday afternoon at the Swamp. WHOA! Someone forgot to take their Vitamin B12 or something. 5 Fumbles, 3 turnovers (first of the season) like the title suggests, there must have been too much bacon grease on the pigskin Saturday down at the Swamp. Oh well, I just wonder what the outcome would have been if UF would have gone for the 49 yard field goal as opposed to the 3 yrd run up the gut on 4th down. HMMM it makes a girl wonder.

The Gators are now 3-1, falling to Ole Miss who seems to give us more trouble over the past 10 years then any other SEC team... a bit shocking. But now we are ready, ready to fight and win it all! Go Gators Beat Arkansas this Saturday!

Light me up!

YES! The power is on! The power came back on Friday night around 9pm. I was actually out in the backyard messing around with some storm debris and the dogs, when I looked at my neighbors house and noticed that they had a lot of lights on for a generator to be powering all of that...then I noticed there ceiling fan. Not even thinking that the power could actually be on, I just assumed they had dangerously hooked the generator up to their 220v house power and moved on...about 3 seconds later my brain started working again and I eagerly walked toward the house...HOT TAMALES! we had power! As my parents can atest i was very excited to have power again. The first thing I did is start the dishwasher and then i headed for the vaccum cleaner (a week of not vacuuming and 2 large dogs = one messy house)

Saturday was catch up day... I made it to the grocery store along with half of Beavercreek to restock the freezer and fridge. Then it was time to mow the yard, but after only a couple sweeps of the lawnmower I was out of commission. I was stung 2 times by yellow jackets (fiesty little things) I then noticed the large swarm living in our gutter...ewwww! Adam's medical skills helped me through and then it was time to become bee hunters. After the bees laughed at our attempts to kill them with the wasp and hornet spray we called in a professional and in about 15 minutes we were good to go. The lawn will be finished today...Finally :-) (being the good husband he is, Adam wouldn't let me mow with yellow jackets swarming, good call)

The Raiders of WSU managed to pull out the win Saturday afternoon and the Gators rocked rocky top! On Sunday we gave in, the dogs got 2 new toys, which gives them a total of 4! WOW! We got the dogs 2 indestructable nylabone kong like toys and a bag of hooves to chew on, sounds gross but if it keeps our monsters occupied I am all for it! The dogs love their newest toys and have already attempted to destroy them :-)

All in all a darn good weekend, now if I could just shake this cold!

Jim Cantore... You WIN!

I would like to apologize to the entire state of Ohio for the hurricane forced winds we had for about 5 hours on Sunday afternoon and evening. Yes, I thought mocking the weather channel and the amateur hurricane coverage down in Texas was hilarious...however, the force has spoken and apparantly the hurricane gods did not find it funny one bit. On Sunday, Beavercreek, OH was the recepient of a front coming in from Chicago and the remains of Hurricane Ike. We had up to gusts of 75mph and over 2 million people without power throughout the state. 200,000 people in the Dayton area, including Adam and I, we lost power Sunday and still are awaiting its return. The DP and L power co. says it could be till the weekend before all power is restored... lets hope its tonight or tomorrow morning at the latest for us, or I might loose my mind and all the food in our house. Because Beavercreek never sees winds of this strength, more damage was done than expected. The trees in the area are so mature and heavy that the whipping winds just snapped them like toothpicks. Several were uprooted and luckily only minor damage happened to many of the homes, just a lot of clean up to do. Adam had to work yesterday, so I spent about 4 hours in the yard and around the house picking up debri, branches, sticks and raking up the rest so our yard no longer looked like a war zone. Chainsaws and mulchers have taken the place of birds chirping and dogs barking in our neighborhood. But with all that said, 2 streets away they have power and never lost it so hopefully ours isnt too far off.

As for now, I am at work catching up after yesterday with no power to the office and then back to the home front to hang out with the dogs. I must say that the weather looks great for clean up and luckily no AC or heat is needed at this point.

A lesson on hurricanes... Oh Jim Cantore eat your heart out!

Disclaimer: this is a satire, please read with caution...haha

First, I know I have been lacking on my blogging in the last week, Adam let me know this. My reply was "I dont have much to write about" his response "Oh my gosh, you have me, the greatest thing ever, what is there not to write about" In that case.. Oh Adam you are wonderful!

Ok back to the blog, as most of you know Hurricane Ike is on its way to Galveston and Houston Texas. Only 100 or so miles off the coast, expecting to hit around 1am tonight, the Weather Channel is on Red Alert and Direct TV is broadcasting a local Texas news station around the nation. Whoa! as a native of Florida and having been through a hurricane or two, I know WCJB channel 7 of Gainesville, FL was never broadcasts nationally! Its another Pres. Bush Texas realtions conspiracy! (jusk kidding) As I watch the updates on Ike, its more entertaining (with all do respect) than 90% of the shows on TV. These guys are great, how many ways can you say "we are 10 hrs away from landfall, please leave the area for your safety, we expect to see a surge of 15 ft." Not many? Oh 'On Contrare' meterologists must take a class in how many ways to say "hurricane coming, leave now" As a sidenote, please be aware if you are awaiting your local forecasts on the 8's you are not going to see it, 10 hours out and the Weather Channel is in FULL coverage, so eventhough Ohio is about to get slammed by strong storms and potential tornados, hey have some respect, there is a hurricane 10 hrs away. I must confess, I understand the Weather Channel has been awaiting the landfall of Ike since August, but seriously I could use some form of local weather.

It gets better, in preparation for hurricanes I find it best to motivate people to make a decision, leave or stay, and then prepare for the best outcome in which ever choice they have made. For example, if they are going, leave early, pack light and make sure you are prepared to wait in traffic. If you are staying, pull out the canned goods, fill the bath with water (to flush the toilets) make sure you have a radio and batteries and a flash light handy, charge the cell phone and hang on tight. Oh NO, not the news... At the top of the hour Ike segment on the Weather Channel the lead anchor come on and says word for word "Hurricane Ike is coming, Prepare for loss of life, catastrophic damage!" Holy crap I am in Ohio and now I think the world is about to end. Way to reasure the people in Texas. In all respect, I do understand that they have to be realistic and show the danger to deter people from galavanting on the coast as a storm surge increases.

This brings me to my next point,...

First this just in, the news is now refering the hurricane to skinny ice skaters vs. long armed hockey players...No Joke! Or they could just say centripical force is an awesome power, here is how it works.. no it appears Ike is "wobbling hockey player, not a skinny short armed ice skater" Local Texas news station channel 11.

As I am watching the coverage, really mesmerized by it for the aforementioned reasons, the news is showing people (very brilliant people) taking pictures and playing in the ocean surf (10 ft surges already). First of all, the water is disgusting, really why play in that. Then they show people jet skiing in the background and finally a person dressed up in a bear costume running and skipping on the beach....wow go Texas! If this isnt good entertainment I just dont know what it is. Here is a link to the video of the news report http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iul__OgJlas#

With all the best going to those in Texas, I hope the damage is limited and the Cat 2 Ike isnt near as damaging as they are calling for. As the weather channels says, "Stay tuned through out the storm for the latest information on Ike, especially those in the path of the storm" At first one thinks whats wrong that, well considering the power is going to be out long before and after the storm hits, I guess they wont get those up to the minute updates.

have a good weekend all, enjoy the 'Katie Satire' for the day and yes Ohio is now probably going to get hit by a hurricane b/c I wrote this... I will be prepared.

Finally Pictures

The baby has somewhere to sleep... YES! I am on my way to being a world class mother! All jokes aside, below are pictures of the furniture I picked up and built Sat. afternoon while watching the Gators pound Hawaii. Sidenote: Gators play Miami on ESPN, Primetime Sat. Ok back to the blog... Here is the beautiful glider and ottoman, I think these are a requirement for a nursery, almost more than the actual crib. Let me explain, when I went to register for the babe at the very end, they give you a printout of everything and also "missing items" on this list was not a crib, dresser but yes a glider and ottoman! Haha, that just seemed amusing to me. But here is the chair with a beachy bucket ready for books and the bedtime routine.

The beautiful crib, which is gorgeous - thank you Stephanie, great pick on the furniture. Oh yes, did I mention my sister, the one who asks questions like "what is the difference between a tall building and a sky scraper" at the age of 15 picked out this awesome, 4 in 1 crib and matching pieces.

The dirty diaper station.. This is going to be Adam's station, jk, he would rather tackle more plumbing adventures than be the permanent diaper changer. :-)

The Dresser, which has to weight about 400lbs.

the ensemble

Enjoy the pics! when there is actual art on the walls and a mattress in the crib I think the room will really be pulled together.

Beep Beep!

That is the sound of the Babies R Us scanner! YES, we are registered at BABIES R US! Just go to baby registry on their website and type in Horseman or Stopka to find our list of goodies!
www.babiesrus.com


First of all, Saturday marked the begining of football season for the Gators and after a sluggish start they won their game against Hawaii 56-10. At the last minute, I found out it was on TV...Perfect! So before the game came on I got all the chores done and ran to the Sugarcreek Target and got all the Baby's Nursery Furniture! Yes, somehow it did fit in my Rendevous! I got it home, carefully unloaded the four pieces and started building. By the time the Gator game was over I had a fully furnished nursery... minus wall art and decor :-) GO KATIE! This being Adam's first road weekend with vball, I had to find something to do to keep myself occupied. haha. Pics coming soon.


Then on Sunday, Angie and I went to Babies R US to register for the baby shower and Camden's 3 month away arrival. I must thank Angie tremendously, she spent 2-3 hours with me in that crazy store giving me all the practical advice I never would have known without already being a mom. The registration process was crazy but also really fun, now that I know what I am doing, I totally want to go do it again! haha.
Happy Labor Day to all, enjoy the day off and dont work to hard!