alright so i suppose its that time again to let you all in on whats been goin on in my crazy life thus far..

well...i had my baby shower on the 31st of May..and it was amazing..i want to thank all of you that came for the marvelous gifts and much needed support..i think we are pretty well prepared for our little girls arrival thanks to all the tremendous things we received..i don't have any pictures from that day unfortunately cause my mom took all the pictures and well they are on her camera...but i will have to borrow it from her at some point and get them onto the computer for all to see..

the weekend of my baby shower was just as crazy as i thought it would be..it was a constant on the go for me..but i had a blast seeing all my family that came into town...and my sister won her derby game which kicked ass..and then the royals won their game the next day..so it was a pretty awesome weekend to say the least..i was beat as hell..but i had a great time..

alright..so then the following week i pretty much just put all my baby shower things away and went back to life..haha.. i went to the doctor and he checked me to see how dilated i was..i was a whole centimeter dilated and 10% effaced..nothing too major..pretty normal for 4 weeks away from d-day...but i was stoked that the process had officially started...

since my doctors appointment that week..things have been getting more and more uncomfortable for me...savannah has dropped a great deal..and well..sleep is a thing in the past..don't get more than about 4 hours all together in a night...but i'm still healthy as is my daughter... now we are just playing the waiting game for the most part..doctor thinks the earliest she will come is the 1st of july..but i tell ya..i bet she will be a little earlier than that by the way she is moving and dropping..but i guess we will see how things pan out..

tish's bridal shower was on saturday...that was fun..small and simple..she got a lotta kick ass things..haha cant wait till we have our big renewing out vows and reception here in a couple years..

went and saw orions grandparents condo on the plaza..omg its gorgeous..if only we could afford to live down there..its soooo nice..we went walking around the plaza sunday with them..about 2-3 miles i swear..got a bite to eat..and then headed back to their place to relax for a bit..i tell ya..i think they wanted me to honestly have this kid on the plaza side walk..haha it was nice and breezy though..gorgeous day to walk the town ya know..

have a doctors appointment on friday..we are going to see how dilated i am..kinda excited to see how she is coming along ya know..orion is also going to get the car seat installed..car cleaned and ready for savannah's arrival..cause its only a matter of time..2 weeks to be exact..that she will be here..so cant wait..

doing my pre-admission stuff at the hospital on saturday..just gotta get through that..and then she can come whenever she pleases..haha...getting my hair cut on saturday afternoon..and possibly spending some time with mom that afternoon/evening..

meeting up with tish most likely on sunday to go get our baby monitors and baby shades at babies r' us..and most likely ordering our pack in play this week too from walmart..those are our last big things we have to get..

doing a birthday dinner with orion sunday..just him and i..not sure where..but should be nice..

then i'm going to attempt to work next week...gonna work as long as i can before i go into labor..

my birthday is next tuesday, so i think i am doing something family wise on tuesday night...but if anyone wants to get together and do something next week..just let me know..my nights are pretty open..haha

getting together with shannon tonight..yay..haven't spent some sister time with her in awhile..cant wait..

hmm.. well i think thats about it for now..

hopefully ill have time to inform you all some more in the next week or so..

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happy wednesday all!..

so things have been pretty steady since we last talked..not much new really...just been getting things ready for the most part for savannah's arrival..which is in 5 weeks i might add..4 more weeks of work and 5 more of being prego..or lets at least hope she is close to on time...oh man..i'm super stoked to be a mom...but i'm also scared..nervous..terrified..you name it..but i'm ready...for the most part..haha

my daddy and his girlfriend heather came into town a couple weeks ago..it was really nice to see them..they brought lots of goodies for savannah...we ended up shootin the shit at the house for a little while..then went to dinner and shot the shit some more..haha i just really enjoy spending time with my daddy now that i'm older..we have a lot more to talk about and lot more in common..i really think i'm a lot like my dad in a lotta ways..and orion and my dad get a long amazingly well..so he really enjoys spending time with them too..which is a change in pace..since my mom and step dad don't always...ok practically never see eye to eye on things..i dunno what it is..but my parents are split with him..oh well..they aren't the ones married to him..i am..haha so i don't care..like him..don't like him..i love him and thats all that matters..

i so wish we could win the lottery..i tell ya..seriously it would just solve sooooooo many problems..

we could pay everything off..get new cars..get a new house..not work anymore..and just spend our days together as a family and not be stressed about anything..ahhh what a dream that would be...haha

but seriously...money seems to always be the problem in any situation..there is never enough of it..and i'm not just talking about my situation..i'm talking about everyone..we are all suffering with these damn gas prices...and economy is really suffering in general with everything..i mean everything seems to be going up except for work wages..bullshit i tell you!..haha oh well gotta do what you gotta do to get through i guess..just some days are easier than others...you all know what i mean..

only taking 8 weeks off for maternity leave..mainly cause 2 months is plenty of time to get things situated with our new born..and i know i will be going crazy by the end of that time anyhow..

was going to look for another job while i was on maternity leave..but it just doesn't make sense to start all over at a new job when i have already invested 6 months into this job...so looks like i'm going to stick with it for the time being..i mean i cant really change jobs even if i wanted to cause our insurance is through this job..and i cant get on orions till november..cause they have a 6 month waiting period rather than 90 day waiting period for benefits..but its worth it..their benefits are a ton better than what we've got..so just gotta play the waiting game..

babies room is done for the most part..just have to get the white trim for the walls..but thats going to have to wait a little bit...

oh yeah this weekend is the shower..and i know i have left a few reminders on myspace here and there..but if you haven't rsvp'ed..please do..i would love to see you all there..its going to be fun..

this weekend is going to be insane i tell ya..

saturday morning have to clean house before i get ready and meet my mom and kathy at the club house to set up for the shower at 1130..then the shower is from 1-4 roughly...

then after the shower..we have to clean up..super speed style cause we have to meet everyone back over at my mom's to then head down town to tailgate and watch my sister skate in her roller derby bout..then i'm going to stay over at my mom's for the night rather than having them take me all the way back to gardner..

then sunday we are headed out the the royals game about 11am..to tailgate then watch the game at 105..whew..i'm getting exhausted just thinking and typing all this....then after the game i think we are going back to my parents for dinner..and then back home to pass the hell out..haha not sure how i'm going to get my prego but out of bed monday morning..yikes!

the good part about all this chaos this weekend is i get to see my family that i don't get to see much..i mean my extended like aunts, brother, cousins..

but the bad part is that orion has to work all weekend..so i wont get to see him till sunday night when i come back home from my parents..oh man..what i weekend..super psyched for all of it..but i know i'm going to be beat..i just have to make sure i get plenty of rest and drink tons of fluids...oh and cant forget the sunscreen on sunday..otherwise amy is gonna be a toasty prego lady...haha

hmmmm well i think thats about all the new news i have for ya..

oh yeah if you haven't done so..check out tish's blog..her and brandon are finally going to tie the knot at the end of june...yay!..

well if i see you on saturday...please don't be a stranger..message me..i'm always up for meeting up and catching up with all of you!..i feel like i haven't keep in touch like i would like to of with most of you..but help me out..message me and we can set something up..

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well hello there..

i know its been a little bit since my last blog..but i tell ya its kinda hard to keep up with everything that has been happening ya know..

since we last talked i have gotten further and further along in my pregnancy..almost done guys..7 weeks to go..whoohoo..i have absolutely loved being pregnant for the most part..it hasn't been too hard on me.really it hasn't...yeah sure i had really bad morning sickness the first trimester where i lost 20 pounds..and sure i had to buy maternity clothes cause i seriously couldn't fit into anything i owned other than flip flops..haha..and aside from the mood swings and emotional roller coaster i've been on for the last 7 months...its been a blast..now don't get me wrong..i have seriously enjoyed being pregnant..especially since i started going to my doctor appointments when i got insurance..it really hit me when i saw my little girl last week on that big screen of the sonogram..she is getting so strong with her kicks and movements its crazy..we are seriously thinking about enrolling her in karate as soon as she can..lmao..

up until this point i haven't had too much discomfort, but i tell ya..the bigger she gets the more uncomfortable i get..mainly cause she doesn't like me sitting too long and she really doesn't like me walking and moving around too much either..i just cant make this girl happy i tell ya..haha but she is a wonderful little growing baby that i cant wait to meet..i cant wait to hold her in my arms and look into those eyes and smile, just knowing that orion and i made something so beautiful will make it all worth it..

ok so about two weeks ago gardner had a huge city wide garage sale..i didn't know about it till the day off..otherwise we would have set some things out of our own..but oh well..orion's sister jessica and grandma diehl came and picked me up and we did some serious garage sailing..haha i actually turned out really well for myself..for only $40..i got a practically new white changing table, car seat, some baby outfits, a t-stroller, a glider and some other nick nacks..i mean we got some really important baby things and thats really what we needed to get so i was ecstatic..oh and the gilder is practically new and unused from his sister..she didn't need it and it was one that grandma and grandpa diehl bought for her..so its really nice..we just washed the cushions and its good as new..i love that chair..i'm always sitting in it..

now all the big stuff thats left is the crib, bedding, video monitors, a new born stroller, pack n' play (for mom and me), swing, bouncer, two more car seats (for both grandmas), and i think we will be set..haha...good thing is though that we are getting a bouncer, car seat and a shit load of clothes from tish, oh and a set of monitors...she is a life saver i tell ya..i love her so much..what a great friend and sister she has been through this whole thing..i would have been lost with out here.. thanks girlie! 

oh and we are getting a car seat/stroller set from my mom, and she is also buying us a crib too...which we are going to shop for the crib tomorrow..yay!..i cant wait..i haven't been baby shopping with my mommy yet..its gonna be fun.. i think we are gonna do a girls day..lunch and shopping..whoohoo..cant wait..its nice to have mother daughters days like that..i so cant wait to do those with savannah when she gets older..what a blast that will be..

ok, so last weekend i was planning on going out of town with my mom to nebraska for my cousin ashley's graduation, but a dilemma hit orion and i the same weekend..he got hired at walmart friday the 9th for his second job..which is good..don't get me wrong..but that means that any spare time he would have had is going to that job and sleeping..and well he had orientation on saturday the 9th from 8-2 and started that job monday (the 12th)..so we had to get the babies room done over the weekend...there were no if and buts about it..we had no other time that could do it..cause we needed some solid days to get it done..not this chopped up here and there bullshit ya know..

another thing that orion and i felt horrible about was the fact that we missed kella and andrew's wedding on saturday...but we really couldn't make it..we have one car and orion had his orientation, and we HAD to get that room done...ugh..i know she understands..but i still have to make it up to her....may is just a horrible month to try and cram things into..i mean there are graduations around every corner, baby showers, weddings..you name it..and well we cant be in two places at once..and it sucks..i love you kella bella..i will make it up to you..i promise..

so since i took off work friday for my doctors appointment, we went to that, ran some errands and then headed home to start on the room...we took everything completely out of that room, and i mean everything..including the double bed, painted the room that night, pepto bismol pink i might add..lmao... i washed and hung/folded all the baby clothes tish gave us. i mean we were up till about 2 in the morning the first night..omg it was insane...we just had so much motivation to get things done..it was nice..

then saturday once he got home from orientation we went out on the hunt for more supplies for the babies room..we got everything done except for the white trim board he is going to do once we have the money for it..haha we kinda ran out of funds by the end of the weekend..between paint, boarder, and supplies..kinda didn't have much else left..haha

so then sunday i cleaned house and well all the stuff that we had in the babies closet that we cleaned out..had to go out to the shed..and as much as i love orion..he kept putting off getting that shed cleaned out..so what do i do 7 months pregnant..i drag my happy fat butt as well as my procrastinating husband out there and got it accomplished..we did the same thing we did with the babies room..we emptied out that entire shed and went through it all and trashed was needed to trashed and kept what needed to be kept..god i swear there was more trash that storage in that thing..i organized the shed to where you can now walk in there and not have to trip over shit everywhere..now i know i shouldn't have been lifting certain things at the time..but i really wanted to get things done..so i kinda pushed myself a little too hard..

monday i woke up and my back was absolutely killing me..i had so many body aches it wasn't even funny..so i called in for the first time at work..i needed a day to rest..since well i hadn't done that for the previous 3 days at all..

orion had the day off also..so i sat in my nice lawn chair and supervised as he bagged up all the shed trash and mowed the lawn.. all this stuff needed to be done..and as much as i love my husband..he doesn't seem to want to do any of this on his own..he just needs a little push ya know..so thats what i gave him..just a little nudge..haha

alright so now this weekend i was supposed to nebraska yet again with my mom..but she really doesn't have the motivation to drive back home two weeks in a row..that and we will be pretty much driving all weekend..we will drive the 5 1/2 hour there tomorrow morning..rest for an hour or so..then head to the grad party for my cousin jennifer, after the party we will head back to my grandparents and then get up sunday and come home..we really wont have much down time..plus sitting for long periods of time really puts me at discomfort now..so not sure sitting in a car for 11 hours of the weekend is the best idea..ugh..

ok so the original plan was for orion to work 2 jobs and for me to stay home and take care of the house and baby...good idea except we really didn't think about where family time fell into place..haha i mean every spare moment would be him sleeping and not worth a damn ya know..so we came up with an alternate conclusion..he is going to work his two jobs till i go back to work after my maternity leave, and then he is going to just stick with walmart (which he loves) and i am going to come back to us safety..i'm going to work my same hours. 8-5, and he is going to work his same overnight hours 10-7...see this works out great..ill get home by 530..we can eat dinner and then once savannah and i are headed to bed..orion will be headed to work..and once i am getting up and getting ready for work..he is coming home from work..and he is going to sleep when she sleeps and agreed to take care of the house so i wouldn't have to worry about it once i get home from work..which is fantastic cause he is a much better cleaner than i am..

well i think i have covered about everything that has happened in the last month or so...

if you haven't already done so..please rsvp for the shower on the 31st..i cant wait to see all of you there..

well leave some love all..

you never seem to realize how precious life is till its dramatically stopped for a moment..

i was in a horrific car accident on friday night..it was a head on collision..totalled my car for sure..screwed up her front end really bad too..but i tell ya this was the worst accident i have ever been in..the air bags went off..my front end was all over the road..roads were slick...just not a good situation all around..me and the baby are ok..a little bruised up on my tummy and hand..but i count my blessings cause it could have been a ton worse..

on a good note..my 7 year old car is no longer..haha...you all know how bad i wanted to get rid of that thing...granted this wasn't the way i had planned..it works regardless..haha luckily we have orions car..and both him and i work opposite schedules so there isn't really an issue there..i can take him to work once i get home and all is good..another good thing to this whole ordeal is that we don't have to pay insurance on a second car..we don't have a second car to fill up on gas..and well we didn't put any extra money into it that would have just been wasted..ie (fixing the transmission that was shot, getting new tires, oil change wipers..ect) there was so much that needed to be done on that car...but now we don't have to worry about it..i now have a car that has new breaks, great transmission and drive soooooooo much smoother and better than my pos ever did..

we actually had a very eventful weekend...orions sister jessica came over saturday to get the computer desk and tv stand that we were getting rid of...which worked out perfectly cause we needed to get those out of the house to start working on other projects..

we also found a better home for tipsy...kaysi was kind enough to take her in..i mean she isn't a hard dog to deal with, but at the same time..with a new baby on the way..we really don't have the patience to potty train a puppy and take care of a newborn..plus it wouldn't be fair to her cause all our attention and energy would be going to our little girl..i hear that tipsy is happy as a clam at kaysi's..she has two other dogs to play with..and a huge back yard to run around in..she is going to be very well taken care of...it was the better more responsible thing to do on all ends..

so yeah we are done with dogs for awhile...we just need a break from all the pee and poop and barking..and so i think we are going to get fish..haha i know a big change..but orion has a kick ass tank and  well i really like fish and they are easy to take care of..oh and the poop and pee in their own homes..haha not our carpet..so thats a big bonus..

we are now going to be getting rid of our huge sectional and cant wait to get it out of the house and replace it with a whole new set of things..i think we want to get a recliner and a couch with two end tables and a new coffee table..we found a really good deal at nebraska furniture mart...but we will see how things pan out..

got to get the babies room done first..or at least worked on..haha

oh yeah and we are getting our crib next week...we are swapping our full size bed with his brother for his crib that he used for his little girl..i so cant wait...that will be one of the big obstacles out of the way for the babies room...yay!..

hmmm well i think thats about it for now..

lots of things are going on and a lot still has yet to be done..

but ill keep you posted..