Almost to 10 weeks

I am officially 9 weeks 3 days. Our little peanut is actually about the size of a peanut shell now. ;)

All in all, I am still feeling pretty good. June was a hard month overall, what with all the scouting drama and some stress from work and money (who doesn't have that?) and the car, but we did get some good things accomplished.

We bought some pavers to put a patio together. It would be just our luck that the one week in 3 years we want to use our tiller, our BIL and SIL loaned it to one of Jim's other siblings. LOL. Guess the pavers will just have to stay a while longer on the driveway, plastic-wrapped and on the pallets.

I go to my next appointment on Monday, July 6th. I will be 10 weeks 3 days then. Dr. Lupton may want to try to do the doppler to see if he can hear the heartbeat, but I have decided to ask him not to at this appointment. This will be a really critical week for me. And since I know that it will probably be too early to really hear anything, I would rather just wait, rather than have a chance of what happened with my last pregnancy. They tried for over 15 minutes to find the heartbeat at my 10 week check and were unsuccessful. However, at the intensive ultrasound we had done two weeks later, I was in miscarriage and development had stopped at 10 weeks. I know that "not knowing" doesn't change the truth, but waiting until a better time, does alleviate any unnecessary stress. And good lord knows, I don't need any more of that.

I am excited this is a short week! I have dones a really good job of keeping on top of things at work and encouraging my attorneys to get their work turned in, so I don't really have much concern about being swamped by too much. Hopefully, I will be able to help the others on my team this month.

We have a ton of stuff planned for this weekend. Carolyn said something about getting Jonah's pictures done on Friday. Not sure if she plans on having Duane go. But if not, I may see if she wants me and the kids to go with her. Then Saturday we are going to my dad's in Muncie for a cookout. It should be nice. We don't get invited up there very often and he spends many holidays at different casinos with my step-mom, so it will be nice to spend it with him. Sunday is my mom's family reunion. We have it on the west side at one of our cousin's houses. They have a small in-ground pool and a nice yard. The kids have a good time and the adults usually break out some cards for euchre. Ahhh, euchre! What would a cookout be without it? Unfortunately, Jim has to work all weekend, so he is going to miss out on most of the fun times. At least he got to go this Saturday to the Gwd fireworks with us. It was kind of strange. Every year we usually see at least one person we know. This year, we knew of several people going and didn't see anyone there.

Oh... I went to the NKOTB concert last night. It was great! As great as the one in Chicago. I have to say my favorite part was when they honored MJ. I have to admit, the 'boys' are still H.O.T.T. - hott! My mom, sister and cousin Whisper went with me. We were able to upgrade to pavillion seats for $10, which I am glad we did. Mandy and Whisper were a riot! All in all it was a great night. The show was good, the weather couldn't have been better and traffic getting out of the joint was not bad at all. Hope we are as lucky at the George Strait show the end of July.

Guess that is about all for now. I will update more next week after my appointment. Have a great week!

RIP MJ!