Highlander Pics

I realized I hadn't posted any pics of our (new to us) Highlander since we got it about 3 weeks ago. Here they are! The interior is tan/leather with wood trim. Pretty sexy if you ask me, but I might be biased b/c it's mine. :) We're still looking for a pet guard to keep the dogs in the way back part, but we have until Christmas really, since that's the first time we'll travel with the baby and dogs together. Wow, that will be her first trip to WI!


Yesterday, Adam and I went our separate ways in the morning and met back at home around 1pm. He went golfing and I was working on the rummage sale, which was a bust that day. Then I did some light housework while Adam mowed, weeded, and some other things outside before we went to Saturday church at 5:30. While we were at church, things were fine and dandy until about 15 minutes in...and then the BH contractions started...and continued...and all of a sudden I had two very separate ones in about 5 minutes and decided I better get up and walk around to see if that would help. It must have, b/c I likely hit the 6/hr (then call the doctor) before they finally subsided for a while. Got a little nervous there...but I'm fine and they haven't come back that active since. Whew! Then we had a nice, quiet fire outside where it was almost too hot out to have a fire until about 10pm when we gave in and went to sleep...long day I guess.

Today we decided to research some things we've been looking at - cribs and a nice camera to take pics of the baby - before heading to the Quad Cities for some shopping. We (well, mostly Adam) learned some great things about cameras and we decided we'd just order her crib and dressers when we got home. The camera thing...whew. My friend, Abbie, has the Nikon D60 and loves it. She's let us play with it a bit and it IS amazing. Completely. I can see us using it to take pics of the baby and her siblings when they're in sports in high school, it's that good. However, the price is sort of killing us b/c we both have a set limit of what we'd like to spend and we'll probably end up going about $100 over that easily if/when we go for it. We've also looked at Canon and Sony, but I think we will like the D60 better. The picture quality is just SO amazing...anyway, just another decision we're grappling with. Secondly, I hit the maternity clothes JACKPOT at JCPenny today! I got three pairs of capris, 2 tanks, 2 tshirts, and 3 dressy work shirts that should all work until the very end - for next to nothing! Some of the shirts I had before today that are nicer for work are just starting to get to the point where they are just too short in the belly (again!) so it was time to find a bit more. To top it all off, a clerk told me while I was looking that it was "friends and family" day so our entire bill was an extra 20% off! Thankfully Adam also found the running shoes he wanted there so we saved almost $40 on top of all the great deals! I love that kind of shopping...makes me happy. :)

Now Adam is playing in a softball tournament in the Quad Cities (we dropped his truck off there) in this extreme heat. I would have normally stayed especially since he's playing early and I don't have to work tomorrow, but it's roughly 90 degrees with heat indices of 100-105 so I decided to just go home to the a/c. He's going to roast, poor guy. They play until they lose so who knows how long he'll be in that heat.

On a sidenote, the upper left belly nerve is really giving me a hard time today. I really don't want to buy a belly support, but am guessing that this is what Dr. Coleman is going to tell me to do if I whine about it since it's mostly a gravity/stretching thing (it doesn't hurt when I'm lying down). Ugh. That just makes me feel fat. Lastly, I've attached a picture of the dogs in their kennels when I came home this afternoon...pay special attention to Jessie (on the right). Apparently 78 degrees in the house was too cold for her...I love our dogs...fuzzy little furbabies... :)


PS. I'm a little sad that Tuesday is my last day off of work before the school year is officially kicked off with meetings and organization days. It will be great, I know this, and I'm sort of looking forward to it, but it's just another step that's going to take a lot of thinking/organizing and such and gets us to the baby's arrival that much sooner. Whew. It's getting closer faster, isn't it? :)