Blogging Again

Since my last post, I have experienced technical and pregnancy difficulties. For the past 2 weeks my internet explorer has not worked and Mozilla has been too slow for me to be bothered with. So, I finally kicked J off of his laptop. I love it. I'm telling you, the thing has a halo. Anyway, as far as the pregnancy difficulties, nausea has kicked in full force! I've done everything that I was supposed to. Keeping my appts, taking my larger than life size pre-natal vitamins, AND AND AND eating disgusting, repulsive vegetables! And what do I get in return?! NAUSEA!!!

Needless to say, Baby Prickett and I had a nice little chat and I'm feeling much better :o) Because I'm feeling better, I feel like blogging. So here's what's been going on since my last post!

9/19/08

I took Liz to karate and came straight home. When I got home, I couldn't find Jeremiah anywhere. So I looked around and discovered that he was in the backyard. All I could see was him, water and the waterhose. When he noticed that I was home, he told me to come outside. When I stepped out on the back, this is what I saw.

Mr. Man was powerwashing the patio!! Not only that, how sweet is the I heart G??!! A couple of days before this, I was not feeling well at all. Obviously, this definitely put a smile on my face. I heart you too sweetheart!

Quite naturally, Liz wanted to "powerwash" too. My patio is sooo clean now. All of the black and green yucky stuff is gone (thank you very much previous homeowner). I feel like we have brand new fresh concrete. Thanks you guys!

Later on in the evening, Liz's cousins showed up to spend the night. We thought that would be a nice surprise for her. As always, they played, fought, ate and slept.

9/20/08
Everyone is headed for the great outdoors! After breakfast, the girls went outside in the backyard and climbed the trees. Jeremiah decided to powerwash the driveway and the porch.

Here's Liz.

Jacey

Taryn

In the meantime, J was powerwashing the driveway. Look how clean it is where he is standing. In the bottom right corner and to the far right is the old dirty driveway. Now, my driveway is all clean too. There are a few spots that would not come up. Generally speaking, I am pleased with the results. It is all clean now, just like new concrete! Thanks babe!!

He was doing just fine until I showed up with the camera.

After I distracted him long enough, I left so that he could get back to work.

He powerwashed the garage door too...NICE!! I didn't stick around to take pictures for that. I needed to go check on the girls.

9/21/08

I haven't been feeling well for the past couple of days. So, Momma Keeton called me when we were on our way home from church. She invited us over for dinner so that I wouldn't have to cook. Wasn't that nice?! Or maybe it was pity. Regardless, that was a meal that I didn't have to cook!! The missionaries came for dinner too and mommy's house was full. I wanted to take more pictures than I did but I just wasn't up to it. Again, thank you very much nausea!!!

Liz was enjoying the extra attention from my sisters, Maria and Berry. Unfortunately, I have not been much fun for Liz for the past couple of days. I hate feeling "blah" and she hates to see me that way too. That's the biggest I have seen her smile since the nausea took over.

This picture was taken after dinner. I don't know who told Berry and Liz that it was okay to play in Momma Keeton's kitchen. Personally, I got out of there before mommy came.

Eventually, we left and made it home. This is how we usually find Liz in the backseat after we leave my parent's house :o)

9/23/08

I went to the doctor for my pre-natal visit and it went fine. I weighed in at 119lbs. I'm lighter now than I was when I wasn't pregnant! I even would have been okay with 120lbs. They drew blood, I made my next appt, and we were on our way. J took the morning off to come to the doctor with me. After we left the dr.'s office, we went home and he made us lunch. We ate, he left for work and I went to Hobby Lobby. The rest of the week was a normal week in the Prickett household!

Hurricane Ike

So here’s how each of us were affected by the rain as a result from Hurricane Ike. First, I need to give you a little history. We moved into our house on May 17th earlier this year. For about a month, Jeremiah and I were parking in the driveway because he had so much of his stuff in the garage from the move. Whenever I needed to go somewhere, the inside of my car would be so hot that it took at least 10-15 minutes to cool it off. All because I was parking in the driveway...in the exposed sun...without ANY shade. So after asking nicely, using sarcasm, and then downright demanding, I finally made Jeremiah clean out one side of the garage so that I can park in the garage. Every since then, I've been trying to convince him to clean out the other side of the garage so that he can park in the garage too.

On Thursday, 9/11, when the news about Ike was gaining popularity and how it would affect the DFW area, suddenly Jeremiah got motivated to clean out the other side of the garage! Why? So that he could park in the garage in the event that it started to hail. Or, to avoid having damage done to his car in the event that lighting struck a tree and it landed on his car. In his defense, we have seen 2 or 3 trees in our neighborhood get struck by lightning and the next morning, the trees were in the driveways. Anyway, Jeremiah posted a bunch of stuff that we had in the garage on craigslist for free. Most of it was landscape materials that we took out of the front yard b/c the lady that lived here before us was apparently crazy and went nuts with cement and rocks. Moving along, by noon on Saturday, in the rain mind you, he managed to get rid of 95% of the stuff. What people would do for free stuff! The only materials left are some rocks. The result, NOW WE CAN BOTH PARK IN THE GARAGE!!

On the left are the remaining landscaping rocks. Pardon the dirt on the driveway :o(

As the rain continued to pour, I heard a bunch of commotion on the other end of the house. Naturally, I go investigate and discovered that the noise is coming from Liz’s room. She is hard at work packing EVERYTHING that is important to her. It may be quicker for me to tell you what she left behind! I grabbed Jeremiah so that he could see what she was up to. Both of us were cracking up and knew that we had to get pictures of this. Please pay attention to her hair. She was working so hard that her hair started coming out of her ponytail holder. Finally, we asked her what she was doing and she said “I’m packing all my stuff together for when we have to evacuate!”

Here's Liz working hard packing!

All done and ready to go! I'm loving the hair, LOL!!!

Here she is going down the hallway to wait for the evacuation order! This kid cracks me up!!

As for me, I’ve never been a worrier and I have never been able to frighten easily. So while Jeremiah was getting rid of the stuff in the garage…while Liz was preparing to make a run for it…I was drooling over Baby Prickett’s sonogram. In case you haven’t tried yet, I encourage you to click on the buttons/icons on the fetal monitor at the top. The pink and green ones are my favorite.

Here's Baby Prickett's close up!

As the early evening slowly approached us, and the rain was still coming down, we decided to watch one of the movies that we checked out from the library. We popped in the original, in black and white, Father of the Bride with Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor. It was pretty good and fun for the entire family!

By the end of the night, we survived being in the house all day. Whew...what a day!!

Here We Are!

Create your own family sticker graphic at pYzam.com

I have decided to jump on the blog bandwagon! Just like everyone else, I'm starting a blog so that you can see what is happening with my family. Maybe I'll be a little more committed to blogging than writing in my journal. I'll try to update my blog at least once a week so check back often to see what we are up to. Without further ado, happy reading! One more thing, when I get a decent family picture, I'll be sure to post it. This illustration will have to be sufficient for now :o)