Ruined my Record

I was always proud to claim that I had never been admitted to the hospital for any reason other than actually having my child. This morning in the wee hours, I ruined my record.

*Short Story*
I woke up with extreme pain around 2 am, couldn't get comfortable, couldn't do anything to ease the pain. Went to the hospital where they gave me two percocet, didn't help a whole lot, so they gave me some morphine. It's my friend, I was finally able to relax and get some rest. Turns out I had/have a kidney infection. So I'm on antibiotics and lots of fluids to get that cleared out. I'm home now, feeling good, just really really tired from getting literally no sleep last night, and poor/interrupted sleep throughout the day on an uncomfortable Labor and Delivery Bed.

*Long Story*
I'm too tired to tell the story. I'm going to sleep.

Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday of course started out with an egg hunt! Noah very quickly figured out that there were "balls" hidden around the house for him, and they had yummy treats in them! To avoid a complete sugar high we loaded his eggs with gold fish and fruit snacks.



Since mother nature decided to play another prank on us, in the form of four inches of snow, we took advantage of what was likely the last snow storm of the year. We threw on all our winter clothes and headed out. Honestly it was pretty warm out, but the snow pants etc kept Noah from getting soaking wet at least. Zander built is a pretty good sized snowman (which died later that day), and Noah learned that it's pretty funny to have snowballs thrown at him. He also made an involuntary snow angel cuz his mommy pushed him over. Don't worry, he thought it was hilarious.

We had an Easter dinner planned at the Patterson house and I volunteered to bring a dessert. I'm crazy into cooking up new recipes lately, and Noah likes to help with whatever he can. This time he got to help me smash graham crackers for a graham cracker crusted Blackberry Chiffon Pie. It turned out really yummy. We also went to the Indo's for an Easter egg hunt with Eva. Since we had done one earlier in the day Noah knew exactly what to do and was really antsy to go find the "balls" that he knew were hidden for him.

Uh Oh...

My nesting instincts are starting to kick in. The problem is we haven't moved all, or any, of the office stuff out of Kaden's room yet, so I don't really have an avenue to get rid of these nesting urges. So instead I deep cleaned Noah's room this morning, rearranged some of his furniture, and reorganized his closet as well. About halfway through this adventure I realized I should have done some before and after shots. Honestly I'm not totally done though. We're going to go get him a little Noah sized table and chairs to put in there as well.

Another Reminder...

that I have a food blog!

Chef Em

All of the recipes on there are tried and true, and have my personal seal of approval.

Indo-liscious Saturday

Around 11:00 all of the Indo children convened for lunch at Thai Village in AF. Yummy food, funny conversations, and in general good times were had by all. And Noah remembered how much he likes Pad Thai. Then we invited the girls to come hang out at our place. Noah and Eva both passed out (so did Jenn), we ate cookies, and had some more good times.

Z and I had a date scheduled for that particular Saturday so we took Noah over to Dan and Krystal's house so we could go to Alice In Wonderland. Cool movie, definitely worth seeing on the big screen too.
As we get out of the movie the Indo parents call us and invite us to go to Olive Garden. Seeing as how I'm not one to pass up a trip to Olive Garden, we rushed to get Noah, then headed over to the restaurant to have dinner with "Gamaga" and Papa. Zander finally found a meal there that he likes, I loved my food, Noah ate about 5 breadsticks, and the wonderful bartender on shift at that point actually knew how to make my Leaning Tower (a drink that hasn't been on the menu in about 5 years).

Friends, Food and Games

What a fun weekend! Saturday we had a great day cleaning and being lazy, then running a few errands. In the evening Asher and Aaron came over to play games. Asher took up his spot on the couch and played Mario Smash Brothers on the wii for about 6 hours while the "adults" played games. For those of you who don't know, Aaron is our resident game guru. He has well over 300 games, has published one, and is working on publishing another. He knows games, loves playing them, and is a great resource for learning new games.We played Dominion first, which as always, is a fantastic game. We've played it before and love it. This was a different setup than we've done before, which is always awesome to learn. Aaron won, by quite a bit.

Then we tried out Ubongo. It's like timed competitive Tangrams. Whoever gets their Tangram puzzle finished first gets first pick at which gems they want to collect, whoever has the most gems of one color at the end wins. If you don't finish your Tangram in the allotted amount of time then you don't get any gems. Aaron won again.

Next we broke out Cleopatra. It's a days of wonder game that we've seen around a bunch of times but haven't ever played. Essentially you're collecting various materials in order to build a palace for Cleopatra. The catch is that in order to build, sometimes you're forced to gain corruption points. At the end of the game, whoever has the most corruption (me) is thrown into the Nile to be eaten by the crocodiles and isn't even considered for winning the game. And are we surprised? Aaron won this as well.

Sunday we had a nice and lazy day, then Wardles came over. We hadn't seen them in a couple weeks, so it was really nice to spend some time with them. We did a crab boil for dinner with 6 pounds of snow crab, a pound of shrimp, and some fresh green beans. We dumped it all on the table (no plates or anything) and dove in. It was SOOO GOOOD. Then the games began.


First we broke out Witch's Brew. It took me and Z a while to figure out what was going on, but once we did, it was a lot of fun. It's kind of frustrating how little control you ultimately have over your own hand, but still a really cool game dynamic. Steph won this one.

Then we broke out Dice Town. This is a game that Z and I played with Aaron about 6 months ago, then went and bought a few weeks ago cuz we liked it so much. Once we got things going it was a lot of fun. After stealing everyone's property and robbing a TON of money from the bank, Craig ended up winning.

Hair Color

I'm bored with my hair. I don't want to cut it yet cuz it's taken so long to get it this long. i really want to get a body wave, but it's one of those gray areas in regards to pregnancy, so i'm going to wait until later in the summer to do it. So my only other option is to color it I guess. I don't like to do permanent dye cuz then you have to keep doing it, so i just get temporary box dyes from the grocery store. Here's today's before and afters. For some reason they're coming out REALLY red. I promise my hair isn't really this red. even the color on the wall isn't quite right, so who knows what's going on with my camera. Regardless, there's not much difference in color.