Friday Fives: 5 Things You May Not Know About Me

1. I am TERRIFIED of throwup. Seriously, absolutely, positively, extremely--MORTIFIED. I have not thrown up since I was like 7.. whenever the first Toy Story movie came out--hold on, let me google it--1995, okay sorry, I lied--I haven't thrown up since I was like 9 years old. I had been to the movies to see Toy Story and threw up once that night, I think I ate too much popcorn! I haven't thrown up since then--if I have told you I have, I lied to get out of something like school or something else I didn't want to do! HA! No one wants to be around someone who is throwing up! I can happily say that I made it through my pregnancy and childbirth and no throw up--I hope I'm that lucky next go round!


2. I killed my hamster with a fart when I was little. For real. But it was only temporary. I had a little dwarf hamster, and I was sitting on the floor and had made a circle with my legs so he could run around without getting out, and I farted--and he fell out. I KID YOU NOT. It was only temporary, but long enough to scare the crap out of me! I ran into the living room crying and told my mom that I had farted and killed the hamster! I think it was too much CO2 for the little guy...ha! He hopped up about 5 minutes later and was perfectly fine, I think I just made him pass out :o) I can't believe I am putting this up here for the world to see..... :o)

This is what he looked like..before he passed out :o)

3. I'm a Britney Spears fanatic. I'm definitely not as bad as I used to be, seeing I have more important things to worry about now, but I use to be obsessed--when I say 'use to be' I mean like 6 months ago and for the past....8 years or so?

4. Owls scare the shadooby outta me! I had a dream in college that an owl was in my dorm room chasing me around and hissing at me (yes, hissing). Ever since, they have really just scared/disgusted me. Blugh. I can't stand to even look at them.

5. I have a whole lotta baby weight to lose.....before I go home in July--any weight loss tips? Anyone?

XOXO,

Friday Fives: 5 Things on my Bucket List

1. Travel to all 50 states

I loooove to travel, and I married the perfect man to do it with! Being in the Coast Guard, it looks like we will see a lot of the country, and hopefully every single state. So far I have only been to a few states:

-Florida

-Georgia

-South Carolina

-Tennessee

-North Carolina

-Virginia

-Maryland

-Pennsylvania

-Alaska

-Colorado

-West Virginia

I have been to other states, but just in airports, so I'm not counting them. We will travel through quite a few states I haven't been to on our cross-country road trip this summer as well. I hope to see every single state before I die!

2. Eventually live (very) close to a beach

When I lived in NC I was only a short hour or so from the beach. Now Jason has dragged me to a place I never thought I would see, and honestly, never cared to see. I HATE cold weather, and it seems like Jason LOVES it. Jason wanted to spend another year here, and I absolutely did not, so we compromised.  Go somewhere else that he can hunt--so to Maine it is! After our 2 years in Maine, I am hoping to be back in NC, and living VERY close to a beach--which won't be hard since he is in the COAST guard :o)  Or even better...HAWAII!!!! I have a few friends living there now, and just seeing pictures from their everyday life makes me SO JEALOUS. It seems like everyday is a vacation! What a perfect few years that would be! I would even be happy with Florida-anywhere really with a beach and warm weather would make me a happy girl :o)

                                         

3. Design and build our dream house

Since we will be moving around every few years for the next 15 years (or so), it will be a while before we can really settle down somewhere permanent and build our dream house. I am fine with that--I knew what this life would be like when I married Jason, and like I said, I love to travel so I don't mind. When we DO finally get somewhere permanent, I want to design our dream house from the bottom up--and have it built. Until then, we will have fun looking at all of our different options, and figuring out EXACTLY what we want when the time finally comes to design our dream house :o) 

4. Have this BABY!

Okay,  I know this shouldn't count, but I'm running out of ideas. All I really ever wanted in life was to get married to the perfect man (check) and have a little family! Sadly, my career goals have always been to be a housewife--cook, clean, take care of my man and children, have dinner on the table, etc. Anyways, since this is relavent and (hopefully) good news, I thought I would throw this little bit of info in here! When I went to the Dr. Tuesday my blood pressure was a little higher than usual and I had some protein in my urine. My Dr. told me to monitor my BP and that if it got above 140/90 to call or come in. So Jason went and bought a BP monitor, and we have been keeping track of it for the past few days. We noticed a few spikes that were over 140/90, so we decided to call the Dr. yesterday afternoon (or my mom told me I needed to). So we called and they wanted us to come in so they could check on everything. After seeing me, my Dr. decided to do an ultrasound and a non-stress test, just to make sure the baby was okay. The baby was fine--wild as ever, and looking to be right at 8lbs :o) Since we ARE in the middle of nowhere, and my Dr. wants as few complications as possible, she decided that she wanted to prepare my cervix, so if she decided to induce due to my high blood pressure, everything would be ready to go. So she gave me a dose of some pill--cytotec--and made me lay there for 2 hours while it dissolved in my cervix. She said that this could bring on labor, or it could do nothing but ripen my cervix. Soooo...we are hoping it brings on labor. Either way, I think we will be having a baby sooner, rather than later--we hope so!

5. Be the best Mom & Wife that I can be

I don't know if this really qualifies as 'bucket list material' but I'm putting it up here anyways. I know that raising children is the hardest job that I will ever have, but I am so excited and cannot WAIT to get started. I want to raise well-behaved children (who doesn't?) with good values, good manners and fun, loving personalities. I want to be the mom that decorates the house for all of the holidays, sends packed lunches with notes and sandwiches cut with cookie cutters that coordinate with special days of the week or holidays. I want to make breakfast every morning, and have dinner ready every night. I want to start and keep family traditions, and teach my children how important your family is. I want to give my children everything they need, and a lot of things that they want, but also teach them how important it is to give to others. I want to teach my children what my mama taught me, and be as good as a mom to them as she was to me. I also want to be the mom that my kids can come to for anything, and tell anything. I also want to be this kind of wife to Jason because he deserves that and I know he will be the best husband and father to my children that I could have ever asked for :o) And that's as mushy as I'm going to get.

                                                        

So there is my bucket list! I know, kind of boring but it's the simple things in life that mean the most :o)

Happy Friday! Hopefully there will be a baby post to follow very soon....

XOXO,

Friday Fives: 5 Things on my 'To Do' List

1. Write a paper

I am taking two online classes this semester--and might I add that these are the last two classes I have to take before I graduate, whoo HOOOO!!!!--anyways, I have a paper due at the end of the semester, luckily it is a group paper. We have to write a paper about Apple's new iPad, talk about WHY it isn't targeted towards 18-24 year olds,and find ways to target the product towards that age group. I know there are a few mac users out there--any ideas??

2. Work on a group project

For my second online class I have another group project due. This one looks like it's going to be a pain in the butt, and I honestly don't even want to think about it now. I have only read over the requirements once, and it gave me such a headache that have decided to put off anything to do with that paper until AFTER Spring Break. Then I will have a screaming baby to deal with and will probably fail the class. Yeah, that's probably how that will work out. Just know that I do have good intentions.

3. Eat everything I can before Paislee comes

For the past few days I have been thinking about how great it has been to be able to eat everything that I have wanted for the last nine months, without feeling guilty about it. That is probably one of the only things I will miss about being pregnant. So I have been thinking about all of the foods that I want to shove down my throat before Paislee gets here, because after that--it's DIET TIME!

4. Pack my hospital bags

My name is Ashley, and I AM a procrastinator. A BIG one. I DO have Paislee's diaper bag packed, and her outfits (and bows) picked out, but I haven't packed my bag yet. I just feel like once I go into labor I will have plenty of time to deal with all of that--but it is on my 'to do' list :o)

5. Have a baby!!!

Woo hoo! Come on Paislee girl! This week my Dr. FINALLY checked me--I was 75% effaced and 2cm. dilated. Only problem--baby girl doesn't want to drop. She is so busy bouncing around in her little personal playground, and doesn't have any plans to come out anytime soon. The Dr. did say when we were leaving " See you next week unless I see you before!"--that kind of got my hopes up. We do have some guesses down on our calendar--anyone want to add their's in??

Jason: March 8--came and went, no baby. So now his guess is March 27th.

Me: March 14th or 15th

Mariah C.: March 16th

Jodi: March 17th--the date of her and John's very first date :o)

Alex &Valerie: March 25th (Alex's Birthday!!)

Mom: March 26th

Jason: March 27th

Andrea: March 28th

My mom also mentioned that a lot of babies come on nights with full moons. Out of curiosity I looked and the next full moon is March 30th--please Lord, NO!!!

Anyone have a guess as to when Miss Paislee will grace the world with her sweet little presence???

Hopefully sooner than later!

Happy Friday! Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend, and I hope I'm right and am in the hospital on Sunday night having a BABY!!!

XOXO,

Friday Fives: Thing's You Will Never Catch Me Doing..

I found another blog to stalk! This blog does something called 'Friday Fives' every week, and this week it is: 5 things you will never catch me doing. So here are my Friday Fives!

1. You will never, ever in a million years catch me scuba diving.

Yes, I love the beach, Yes, I loooove a nice cruise vacation--but I am TERRIFIED of what lies beneath the surface. Marine life and just the unknown scares the crap out of me and I do not care to see what lives beneath the ocean's surface. Pictures and videos are fine for me, thanks.


2. You will never catch me eating oysters.

Nope, not even try them. I've never tried them, and have no desire to. They stink like crap, they look like crap--God knows they have to taste like crap. All of you that like them--power to you, that's more oysters for you because I will never eat one.

3. You will never catch me in another wedding dress.

One time was enough for me, thanks. If Jason decides to leave me or if the un-thinkable were to happen and I ended up getting re-married I would NOT go through the stress of finding and fitting into another wedding dress. Nooo Thank YOU.

4. You will never catch me dying my hair red.

It just isn't my thing. End of story.

5. You will never catch me driving a Minivan.

SUV's will work for me. I'll be a soccer mom, a ballet mom--an anything you want mom--but I will NOT be a mom that drives around pimpin' a Minivan--I'll leave the Minivan driving for you Jodi :o)

XOXO,