Fun times!

Here are just a few pictures for your enjoyment. The top two are from Riley and John's adventures with all the other Setzer's while in GA (Riley and John are on the tube on the far right). The last one is of Riley and I on the 4th of July at Olivia's hotel "Pirate Pool".

Life here is going well, I am staying busy with work trying to keep everything as caught up as possible so that in the event my water breaks I don't leave anyone in the lurches. John just went back to work on Wednesday after being off since July 3rd. HE SUCKS. (Just kidding.)

Riley has now been out of school for two weeks. First for the trip to GA and now because all the cousins came back to Nana's so I have been dropping her off at Nana's everyone morning to have a full day of cousin chaos as I like to call it. Today the six kids were going to the water park with Nana, Uncle Denny, and Uncle Trevor. I hope to hear all about it when I get home tonight. In light of all this fun Riley has been having she is WAY off any kind of schedule. Not a huge deal if I were not working however, she isn't ready for bed until like 12am. Which finally caught up with her last night. She was exhausted and had a major meltdown when I insisted that she go to bed at 8:30. She finally realized that I wasn't going to give in so after 20 minutes of kicking, screaming, scratching and pulling mom's hair she finally got in the bed. She apologized and fell asleep with in five minutes of hitting the pillow.

My mom is getting in tonight for a long weekend. Riley is pumped for Pammy's visit, also our dog is coming home with her so we are pumped to see Tarheel as well. I am a terrible dog owner I have sent him on a sabbatical with my mom during most of my pregnancy. He is a great dog but he has to sleep up against my stomach and chest and I just can't deal with that at the moment.

Last but not least, on the Lyla front, she is kicking up a storm. All the kids got to feel her moving around the other night. Nothing like 12 little hands on your belly at once. I have another OB appointment next week. Still uncomfortable but I know it will all be a distant memory in about a month or less. I hope everyone is having a great week I will post again soon!

Braxton Hicks Suck!

OK I don't have a lot of time nor do I have any pictures so this will be just a quick blog. I didn't mention this to anyone on the blog because I didn't want any crazy blog stalkers to know that I was home alone for the past week. Riley and John went on the Setzer family vacation with out me. I had to work as I will be taking maternity leave at the end of the summer, and I have been swamped at work so I got a lot done. Anyhow, they are back I missed them tremendously although the peace and quiet was NICE. I got to talk to Riley every night via Skype so we could see each other. If you have relatives that live far away this is a great free way to see them via the Internet and web cam that is wonderful!

Anyhow, Saturday evening/Sunday morning I woke up around 3:30am with contractions they were about 2 minutes apart until about 5am and then finally started to get further and further apart. I didn't panic nor did I wake up my husband. I just got on Web MD and watched TV and waited to see what happened. Luckily my water did not break and they eventually started to spread out and finally went away. They still were very uncomfortable which seems to be the theme of my life right now. Lower back, hips, and pelvis are killing me, but I am hanging in there I know I am approaching the finish line and Lyla needs to cook for a couple of more weeks.

That is all for now. I will post John and Riley's vacation pictures later this week. Have a great week everyone!

Lyla Update

Just went to my latest OB appointment. All is good. I am 31/32 weeks depending upon who you ask, however I am now measuring at 33 weeks. I gained another 3 lbs to bring the grand total to 27lbs thus far. They also went ahead and schedule my C-section for Friday, August 29th. However, I feel in my heart of hearts this baby is not going to make it until August 29th. Riley came at 36 weeks and just like Riley, Lyla is already in position (head down and butt jammed into my ribcage) and I was also measuring way ahead of schedule during my last trimester with Riley. Also I passed my diabetes test. If you think I am hormonal now just imagine if I were diabetic and they took all of sugar away!!! My next appointment is in 2 weeks!!!

Happy 4th!

Well as I may have mentioned a few posts ago Riley got a camera from John's parents for her birthday. I have finally managed to download an entire album of her work onto picasa. Look at your own risk. Some are great, however there are a lot of blurry pictures. Her MOST favorite thing to photograph is her own feet. I am posting those for everyone to enjoy, honestly they crack me up.

Also you will see a few pictures from our 4th celebration. We kept it low key. My cousin Olivia and her family were down for a week. We went to their hotel which was right near the Pier that was doing a giant fireworks display. We actually could see perfectly from the balcony. Thank God we were not actually down on the beach watching as there were a lot of drunk people shooting off a lot of fireworks in the midst of large crowds and the wind was out of control. It just looked like a recipe for disaster. We got there early in the day so that the kids could hang out in the giant pirate ship pool and the lazy river. I did not quite fit in an inter tube so I only made one slow journey on the lazy river. Riley, however would have ridden until the end of time.

I must say this three day weekend is wonderful and I dread going back to work. Poor John I have been working him to death around the house. He put up shutters, pressure washed the back of the house, broke down the bed in Lyla's room, etc. He will be ready to go back to work by the time the weekend gets done.

In other exciting news we have had our first green pepper and now I just found a cucumber. It needs to stay on the vine a little longer but I am pretty excited this is the first year we have really tried to grow anything. We also have our first naval orange on our orange tree. I have been nursing this tree for two years so this is a milestone for me. I know I am totally boring. Anyway I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th!