Stella's Favorite Store

Can you guess what store is Stella's favorite?

Cabelas

Andrew takes Stella to Cabelas for father daughter dates.

She talks about it non-stop for days after each trip.

Updates

Andrew is pretty much done with school.

He has 8 weeks left

with a couple med school pre-requisites

and some stupid elective credits.

But before you know it...he'll be completely done!

We're so excited!!

This fall will be his first

in a LONG time without school.

So he's already dreaming nightly

of his hunting adventures.

He's hoping for another dead head

to join Ernie.

Who BTW now resides in a storage unit--

not the baby's room.

YIPEE!!!

He left our house over

the 2nd floor balcony...

can you picture it??

Andrew, Jordan, and Jon and me (el prego lady)

taking this monster off our 2nd story balcony.

You should have seen the looks on people's faces.

Priceless...

P.S.  If you are interested in things like this.... went to doc for my 37 week appointment.  Was 1 cm and 75% effaced :)  --ahead of most women at that point.  Then went for my 38 week appointment.  STILL THE SAME.  Depressing.  Doc said I probably won't inch my way closer since I was so far at my first check.  I'll probably just stay where I'm at until I go into labor.  Which is hopefully soon---but with the Ballantyne curse I'm not so sure.

Black Friday & Thanksgiving

Andrew thinks the best thing to do on

Black Friday

is to go hunting.

I'm glad I'm where it's warm.

Tonight we're gonna go watch

Jazz vs. Lakers

on my parents big screen.

Yesterday, we spent Thanksgiving with the Dibb's.

I made the turkey.

I was nervous all week because

you can't mess up the turkey!!

Luckily, it turned out good.

I actually was able to enjoy some Thanksgiving dinner.

But then regretted it last night and today.

I'm 16 weeks....

shouldn't I be feeling better by now?

I wanted to maybe go shopping this afternoon,

but it doesn't look like that is gonna happen.

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving!!

Labor Day Weekend

This was my outfit over labor day weekend.

Apparently it's absolutely necessary

that everyone wears full camo on the archery hunt.

Yes, I'm a GOOD wife.

The trip started off pretty good,

but not long after getting to the very top of the mountain

We got a flat tire.

Not a good time to find out that your husband

doesn't have a spare tire or jack.

I kept saying,

"And you call yourself and Eagle Scout...

You are NOT prepared at all"

Luckily this is 2010

And if you get to open areas

You have cell phone service even in the mountains

 

We waited a long time

for Kevin and Heidi to come rescue us.

Eventually they came

and took off the tire

and took us down the mountain.

Andrew was pissed he missed peak hunting

And even more pissed because

he had to spend the next morning fixing the tire

and NOT hunting.

Don't feel too bad for him.

I'm certain he'll go hunting

PLENTY more times this year.

He’s back!

If you're wondering how my Monday mentioned here ended. Well let me just tell you…it ended with the return of this creature originally mentioned here.

When I walked around the corner and caught a glimpse of Andrew and Ernie the Elk…. I almost peed my pants. I was scared. I put my hands over my mouth and said "It's HUGE! It's HUGE!!! It's HUGE!!!!" I didn't even want to go into the room. You seriously can't believe how massive this thing is. Andrew is in heaven. He loves it. I think Ernie is so scary and wherever I go he's always staring at me.

As you can see from the pedestal that Ernie is resting on, he is taller than the garage. So the reason he's on the floor in our house is because he's taller than our ceiling. I have no idea what we are going to do with this thing until we can buy a house with a room, the man cave, where Ernie can live and I don't have to look at him everyday. The room is going to have to have 12 foot ceilings.

Oh man, I wish you could imagine how I feel at this very moment, trying to blog but at all times keeping the corner of my eye on Ernie because he's so lifelike I swear he's going to move. And if he does move I am going to have a conniption!!! I'll be coming to your house for a sleepover.

Wow, I must be the world's best wife.....a NERVOUS wife that is. This is seriously going to take some getting used to.

Widows Weekend a.k.a. opening of the bow hunt

Will he or won't he get one this weekend?

Am I am gonna have to figure out what do with another dead head?!?!?!