Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Please help before I turn into a cracker!!!

Well.... Morning, afternoon and evening sickness just isn't any fun at all!!! I'm actually doing a lot better than I thought I would be since I have such a sensitive tummy. I am getting Nassau's very easily, my nose is already super sensitive so now it's just out of control. I feel like I have eaten so man crackers in the last few days that I'm going to turn into one! :) Does anyone have any methods that worked for them, I'm willing to try anything!

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Life hasn't slowed down yet

I guess I was waiting to post a new blog when things slowed down and well.... it doesn't look like that's going to happen anytime soon. I don't know if I would know what to do it things actually did slow down. Frank took his last test and he says that he feels really good about it. Last night my in-laws came by and had dinner then we went to their house to pick up a car full of stuff. My mom and sister came home last Wed. so because I was having with drawls from my little bruder and I just wanted to spend some time with my family, I went up to my moms for the weekend. We had such a great time! On Friday we went out to dinner to Babes a place we knew my dad would pick if he were still here with us. We finished my little bruders thank you cards from him 1st birthday and watched movies and did lots of shopping! :) This week I can really see the Lord getting ready to do some great things in my life. Its a little scary cause I don't know the outcome of what's all to come but Im going to try my best to know that the Lord knows and I just need to remember he will be faithful. I have a doctors apt. tomorrow to get a referral to go see an OBGYN. That apt. has been set up for Sept. 11th, please pray that everything will go good and that there will be no problems and possible an earlier opening than what I have now. My mom, bruder and brother are coming this weekend to stay with us. We have a cousins 1st birthday party and my brother is getting ready to move back to the O.C. Life here at the McGuigan is constantly on the go and for now thats just how it is, and it wouldn't be the same any other way.

Update on the pregnancy- Im not feeling too much different. I'm not too big on cheese right now, and Im super tired at about
3:00pm to 5:00pm. Other than that Im having a ton of fun reading and learning about what my body is doing right now. If anyone knows a few good book to purchase any suggestions would be great. I have attempted to buy a couple books and when I got to the book store there were so many I couldn't decide. M hubby suggested I ask my blogging family and friends. What a smart guy huh!!! :)

Thursday, August 14, 2008

My mom and sissy are back!

My mom and sister flew into LAX at 8:10pm last night. I was so excited all day long I just missed them both terribly. The last two weeks have taught me a lot. I had a few things going on that I need to talk to my mom about and well... I couldn't. I know that I can handle things on my own (I mean without my mommy) but I also was shown by the Lord how much I need her! I love being able to call her and just get her thoughts on things.



Here was the sign I made for my mom and sister. When they came walking up we were so excited to see them because they had been gone for so long but I had a surprise for them. When they walked up this was the sign they saw.



Then I flipped the sign and this is what they saw. At first my mom just didn't get it (probably cause she was so excited to see her baby boy). I made her read it again. My sister said "oh my goodness."



This is what I saw. HA HA HA I got them. They were so surprised! So YES YES YES we are going to have a baby. I found out yesterday morning and I don't think it has still fully processed until this morning when I got to tell my cousins and Aunt's. Frank and I are super super excited. I had this really cool thing planned to tell him. I was going to do a scavenger hunt and he would have to follow the clues to find the test, but my bruder woke up three times that morning (he cut two teeth) so I was soooooo tired. I couldn't not tell him. I put the test in our space saver and it has glass windows so when he went into the bathroom he would see it. As soon as he saw it he was like "what is this" "hey this says" "Tiffany are we." Thats right he couldn't finish any of his sentences. I finished all his sentences by saying "yes your going to be a daddy." That is how it happened.

*Please pray for us this weekend, its a bit of a ruff time for us and our family. My father has been in heaven for 7 years tomorrow and we miss him so much!! Especially at this exciting time.

Friday, August 8, 2008

The scariest moment ever!!

I'm so glad you couldn't see me a few hours ago because I was a reck. It was one of those times I needed my mommy super super bad to calm me down and she's not here right now. I just about lost it when the Lord knew and had my cousin Misty call me. She was just calling to see what time we were going to hang out tomorrow but little did she know the Lord was going to use her in another way. She listen to me cry and ball my eyeballs out and did just what my mom would do. She said "lets pray", as soon as she was done I felt a sense of calmness come over me. Thank you Lord for my cousins who are always here for me!!! So.. you wanna know what happened? Im sure you do so I will tell you.

I got a call at 10:45 this morning from a lady I didn't know saying "I have your dog Fanny", at that moment for whatever reason I couldn't process what she was saying why and how would she have my dog? I then said to her "what do you mean you have my dog." She then went on to tell me her daughter saw her running in the street and was almost hit by a car so she pulled over went to Fanny and she laid down. The lady picked her up and called my in-laws house because thats the first number on her tag. (we haven't changed it yet we were waiting until we moved and from there life just got busy, tonight they both will be getting new tags!!!!) The poor lady just trying to help got to talk to my father in-law who told her his life story because he wanted her to understand why he couldn't come get Fanny. In his own way he was trying to help but kinda scared her, he's pretty intense like that. She called my cell phone number. (which was the next number on the list) I kept pretty calm when I was talking to her just because I was shocked out of my mind. She told me she had to pick her daughter up from piano lessons and then she would bring Fanny right to me. I hung up with her and then broke down. It was just Fanny where was Dash? Was he at home? Did he run off with her? My heart sank, my tummy filled with knots. I called Jaime and asked her to come home so I could just go check and make sure he was there. She was home in a split (big dog lover) and I rushed over to my house balling my eyeballs out still. I opened that door and there he was jumping and happy to see his mommy and he had no idea how happy I was to see him. The lady and her daughter brought Fanny to Jaime's and she jumped into my arms, I took her home where her and Dash were too happy to see each other. So... I bet you are wondering how did she get out? That's funny well not funny but this morning as Frank and I were walking to our cars for work I said to him "honey you need to put that 2x4 down in front of the gate so the dogs can't get out. Frank said "I will do that this weekend." We leave the doggie door open so they can go potty but Fanny never goes out there she likes her potty pads in the house. I never ever for one second thought they would actually get out. For some reason at the bottom of our gate its flimsy. Thats what I get for thinking. Im doing ok now but I'm sure when I tell Frank I will fall apart a little and then next Wed. when my mom comes home fall apart a little again, but for now Im doing good.

The little girl told me she just got two new puppies so I got her a doggy scrapbook kit and made the mom a thank you card and will be sending that those to them on Monday. Thank you Jesus for keeping my kids safe.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Gotta love the toilet

I remember as a child always needing to talk to my mom, ask her a question and complain about something. She didn't like it when we would bother her in the bathroom. I can't imagine why. :) Never the less you know we did cause we needed our mom right then and there it just couldn't wait. I remember her saying that should be the one place she can just get away and have some privacy. Good luck with that right, well now I know why that is. I think this story is the best yet. I guess the good old saying "what comes around goes around" is in full swing, and I don't have any children of my own yet. I have to go potty and I think I close the door well I guess I didn't and who comes in with me... that's right my little bruder. Im trying to pee and he's opening the cabinets and pulling the toilet paper off Im trying to finish and keep him away from the toilet paper. I think he thinks he is a kitty cause thats usually what he goes to first. He's doing all this with one hand cause he has a remote control in his other hand that Frank gave him to play with so he wouldn't want to play with the ones that go to the tv in the living room. I finish get up pull my pants up and Im getting ready to flush and that little turd threw the remote controller in the toilet. I so didn't see that one coming and out of instinct I just grabbed it. Yuck I just stuck my hand in my own pee. I guess it's better than someone else's pee but still. I was so grossed out I washed and scrubbed my arm until my flesh started peeling off. Ok well maybe not peeling off but it was super super red. While this all is happening Frank is laughing telling my bruder good job little guy, and you know the little guy is laughing too. I guess all there was to do now is join in on the laughing so I did! Mom Im sorry that I never gave you the alone time you needed in the bathroom. I will try my best to give it to you now!! :)

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

You know just what I need!!!!

Just when I need it!!! It has been 4 1/2 days since my mom and sister headed off to the Philippines for their Missionary trip. I am watching my 1 year old brother for my mom while she is gone and we are both missing our mommy and sissy very much. We have been watching home videos 3 or 4 times a day. We look at pictures throughout the day but I just needed more. I was told they wouldn't be calling and most likely they wouldn't be able to email. I prayed Sunday night "I just need to hear her voice Lord, even if it's for a few seconds." Well..... yesterday as I was talking to my cousin my other line started beeping I almost didn't answer it because I didn't recognize the phone number but it was a number in the desert so I decided to take it, the number was so close to my moms cell phone number. It was my MOMMY!!!!! We got to talk for about 30 seconds and as soon as my bruder heard her voice he started smiling and getting very excited. I got to tell her how great he's doing and not to worry. I told her he's sleeping and really fast told her all the things we were doing, she told me they landed fine and she was watching a 5 pound baby. She said devotions were going great and they were being so blessed. Then the dreaded words came "sweetie I have to go" that's where we both lost it started crying kept telling each other to pray and we loved each other. Then the called was done I was so sad cause I'm use to talking to my mom 2 or 3 times a day, then I remembered I asked the Lord just to talk to her for a few seconds and that's what I got and I was so great full for those few wonderful seconds.

Monday, August 4, 2008

Look what I left for sissy...

WOW.. WOW... WOW... YOU MOTHERS ARE AWESOME!!!!!!




I have been having a awesome time with my bruder! We have been having lots of laughs and making great memories, but this by far has been the best one and made Frank and I laugh so hard out loud! Now their are still 10 more days to go so there could be better laughs but this by far is the best so far.

We are ending the night with a bath, then we play for a while and then in his own cute way (usually winning) he lets me know its time to go nite nite. This night was a little different cause he skipped his second nap so at 7:30pm he got a bath, played in the water for a little while (cause the pool wasn't enough :) and then I went to get his clothes got him out drained the bathtub and started to get ready to wrap up the evening. I put him down about 8:30pm and thought to myself I would love to sit down for one moment, but there was so much to be done. I needed to get everything ready for the next day, do dishes, get a couple loads of laundry done, I needed to get my scrapin room up and running, rinse the bath toys off, seal the grout on the tiles in the front bathroom and finally clean the million of toys all over the front room. I got the whole list done in about an hour. That was the fastest hour ever!! The last thing I had to do was rinse the bathroom toys and seal the tile, when I went in the bathroom it was stinky. I looked in the bathtub and well it seems that someone (can you guess who? Just think who was the last one in the bathtub?) left me a present in the bathtub. I told Frank to come in the bathroom and we were laughing so hard.



I couldn't believe that he went in the tub. I dont know why I was so surprise though cause I have lots of cousins (no names) and a sister and brother that went in the tub. Im sure I did too. I got the tub cleaned up bleach the tub and sealed the grout. I went and sat down by the hubby at about 9:45 and said "ok I think Im going to hit the hay." We headed off to bed I laid down and said "wow what a day huh I wonder whats next." I spoke way too soon and I will never say that again. My bruder woke up and was ready to play, yes that was his second nap or at least thats what he thought. We played until about 11:00pm and then I gave his a bottle and down he went. Things are never dull in the McGuigan home or at least they wont be for the next week and a half! :)



Dog update. In our house our dogs are our kids, because we have no kids yet. Dash is loving having bruder there but is getting a little ok a lot jealous! I have to remember to play with him too and spend some time with him as well. Fanny is kinda just staying out of the way, she is being really good and being a little more cuddly so that is a good thing!