Life in a Small Town

So its a little after 8 and I have just gotten home actually. I would usually probably be in bed by now and even though its Friday, it most likely wouldn't have mattered. However, tonight has been a good afternoon/night that I got to spend socializing and catching up with my Wonderful friend, Heather Coleman. I decided to stop by the Banner office to visit a little before I headed home today from work and just as it usually does, my few minutes turned into much, much longer. SUPRISE, SUPRISE...For those of you who know me, know that I would spend my life talking if I had someone who would listen and occasionally chime in and Lucky for me...Heather does just that. LOL. Usually any time we have the oppurtunity to visit it turns in to much longer than expected. Thats okay though, I mean really what else was I gonna be doing??? We decided to go to Farm Boy for supper and ended up being there for about 2 hrs. Yes...Two hrs at the Farm Boy and it was great actually because we were able to see sooo many people and to tell you the truth, it makes me appreciate my small town life. I kinda like being able to sit down for supper at a restaurant and knowing 90% of everyone around you. Its so funny because everyone is somebody in Morgantown. Its either a sister of a friend, an old teacher, a classmate, a friend of an sibling, a church member...You may not know who you are gonna see but you can almost guarantee that you when you do see them, you will know them. Oh me, Its the joy of life in a small town and you know what...I kinda like it!!!!
HOpe that everyone will have a wonderful weekend. It may snow?!?!!?? Who knows what the weather will consist of around here...Rain, lightning, wind, ice, snow....You never know in KY.

Baby Overton

Well we got to see our little baby yesterday afternoon at the ultrasound. The lady doing the ultrasound said immediately "That is one active baby" as soon as he/she came up on the screen. It was soo cute how it was moving around and using its arms and legs. We could see its little fingers and toes and they were soooo tiny!!! We actually suprisingly enough, at only 12 wks, even got a pretty good idea that ITS A BOY!! Its not written in stone and is too soon to say FOR SURE but its more than likely an honory little boy...LOL!!! Of course, Jeremy is thrilled and I am okay with it too. It really didn't matter that much to me. I wouldn't have been upset with a little girl...Thats for sure but I think its time for a lil boy in the family. Like I said though, We aren't gonna start buying blue yet. It is exciting though and each time we get to hear or see something new, it all becomes that much more real. Everything was PERFECT the lady said and we should have a perfectly healthy little one in about 6 1/2 more mnths. I know everyone wants to see the ultrasound pic so I will put one on here. Here is your first look at Baby Overton...

So Jeremy had to head back to Paducah after we got home from the Dr and of course, he took a pic with him to show the guys at work. He is sooo excited and I am very happy for that. I just know that he will be an amazing Daddy and that makes me a very happy Mommy!!! Hope everyone has a good week. Monday is over atleast :)

Already Sunday

Well this weekend hasn't been anything special and really nothing to talk about. I did get to see Little miss Raigan on Friday night and I hadn't seen her since The 1st of January. Her and Kristin were in Muhlenberg at Kristins mom n Dad's while my Brother has Army drill so I went by and visited after work. She sure is growing and getting to be pretty smart. She knows her letters and several colors too. She is a cutie and I was glad to get to see them both. I think Josh is going to stop by moms today when he gets done with drill so I'll probably get to see them all today. Yesterday I stayed home all day and did some much needed cleaning here at the house but other than that just watched TV and took it easy. Jeremy got home this morning and I am looking forward to spending the afternoon with him since he will be going back tomorrow. We have an ultrasound tomorrow afternoon so after that, he will be headed back to Paducah for another week. I am looking forward to the ultrasound and seeing our very tiny baby for the first time. The ultrasound we had very early on of course, didnt really show anything so this will be the first time we actually get to see the baby. Its exciting!!

I hope everyone else has had a pretty good weekend. Too bad its already Sunday and tomorrow its back to work once again for another lovely week!!!!

Love, Happiness and Heartbeats

Just a quick lil note about our drs apt today. We went for the first visit today with Dr Trevor, who by the way, we really liked. He is very personable and makes you feel right at home (despite the stirrups and open back gown)...LOL!!! He was a very nice man though and I am pleased with our decision to go there. Anyhow, we got to hear the heart beat for the first time today which was very amazing. Blows my mind how something so tiny could have such a strong lil heartbeat. The heart rate was 160 which Dr Trevor said was Perfect!!! Monday we go in for our first official ultrasound and then we will get to c the little booger and hear the heart beat at the same time. Thats exciting. Of couse, we still have a while to find out what we are having but that will be VERY exciting!!!! Lots of people say it must be a girl since the heart rate was so fast but I think thats just hear say. We will have to wait and see. It will be time to find out b4 we know it and then, next thing we know it will be time to rush to the hospital and add that special little someone to our wonderful life. We are very blessed and Very happy with everything. Its amazing how happy we have been with eachother and its sooo exciting to be bringing a baby into the picture to share our love and happiness. I just have to say that at this point I just dont think life could be much better!!!! I thank God daily for all that he has given us and am very careful not to take it for granted!

This N That

Well this week has been a pretty typical week for me. Nothing exciting or out of the ordinary going on with me. Pretty much life is good and I have no complaints. I could stand to have my husband home with me instead of on the road working but I am making the best of it, which is what I usually do. I really get sooo tired of these people who think that there life is just so terrible and who ALWAYS, ALWAYS have something going on that they are just so upset about. One thing about life that I have learned and have figured out how to deal with...Life isn't always easy...SUCK IT UP!! Just because times are a little more difficult than usual really doesn't mean that your life is awful and honestly doesn't give you a reason to feel sorry for yourself. For those of you who know me, you know that I have never been one to get too terribly upset or dipressed and that usually, despite the extreme of the circumstance, I am going to find the reality and the optimism of it and move forward. I have always HATED to feel like someone is feeling sorry or sympathetic for me and I dont want a bunch of attention to come my way. Maybe thats what makes it so annoying for me when some people seem to always have something going on that makes there life worse than everyone elses. I really think people need to learn to say...Its not that bad, its just life and move on. Sorry, I have never been a real sympathetic person and I tend to see think in Black n White but I just had to get that out there. Occasionally things get tough and maybe you need a friend to lean on, I will be there, but everyday...COME ON!!! It cant really be that bad??!!!!?!?!!!

Sorry, Call it pregnancy hormones if you want, but that was DRIVING ME CRAZY and I just had to share. I plan to head to Paducah again this weekend to spend Valentines day with my Honey!! We may or may not come home on Sunday but wherever we are...I will be watching the Daytona 500 to hopefully start watching Jimmie Johnson start kicking butt already. :) I am sooo excited about Nascar starting back. I swear, I am a true fan and 3 yrs ago, I had never even watched a full race. Now I can sit in front of the TV for 3-4 hrs and watch every lap!!! I know, its crazy and I cant really blame it on Jeremy because, even though he is the one who got me interensted, he doesn't really enjoy watching an entire race from start to finish. I dont know what it is but I LOVE IT!! Heres to hoping my Hendricks boys...Johnson N Gordon have a great season!!! Tuesday is my first Drs apt so Jeremy will be in for that and we both excited to go and make sure that we have a healthy lil baby that is growing and developing just as it should be. It blows my mind sometimes to look at my belly and think there is a little person growing right in there. Its crazy!!! Very excited though and to think that I am already almost through my 1st trimester is really mind blowing. Time Flies...Well...
Everyone have a Wonderful weekend and A Happy Valentines Day!!!!!!

Goodbye...AGAIN!!!

Well its Monday again and not only are Mondays bad because its back to work for me but they are especially bad because it is also back to work for Jeremy. With this job, he gets to come home on Sundays since its only 6 days a wk but since he works nights, its early Sunday morning b4 he can get home and then I have to leave early Monday morning for work and we dont have nearly enough time together. This weekend I went to Paducah on Saturday so we could have that day together also and we had a good time. We had planned to go to Patti's and have lunch but since they hadn't had power and had just gotten everything back, they weren't open on Saturday so we opted for Texas Roadhouse and that was okay too. We went down to the river walk in Paducah, which is actually VERY neat. I didn't realize there was soo much to c in Paducah but its a pretty neat little town. Of course, Jeremy had to go to work Saturday night so we didn't have a hole lot of time but we did get to spend the afternoon together and anything is better than nothing. Once he left for work around 530, I just crawled in the bed in the Motel rm and never got up again. It was kinda nice actually with the exception of the very loud and abnoxious people next door. :) We drove home as soon as he got off of work Sunday morning at 4am and slept for a while after we got home before getting up and enjoying a very beautiful Sunday afternoon and evening. Now he is back in Paducah for another week and here I am at home. Oh well, I will manage, its just a part of life. Sometimes there are sacrifices that have to be made and I know that he is sacrificing as well. Hopefully, the weekend will get here soon and I will once again be able to spend some time with my wonderful husband. Its actually suprising how well I manage here at the house alone. Much, much better than I thought I would b4 he left this past fall to go to Knoxville for about 10 wks. I have impressed myself and him too actually. This job will only be about 4 more wks though so it will be over b4 we know it and then he will be back home with me!!!
I guess I am going to go and find something for supper before settling in to watch The Bachelor tonight...YAYY!! I love that show!!

Playing Catch up

So I have finally found the motivation to sit down and catch up a little on my blogging. The last time I wrote it was just a short lil note on the craziness of the week before and I said that I would write more about my experiences and thoughts regarding the ice storm later. Well I guess today is finally later. I was one of the lucky ones and cant complain too much at all about how things were for me during that time. We knew it was going to get bad on Monday night and that the power could possibly go out so I went to stay at Deana Jo n Brandons just in case. We dont have back up heat and Jeremy was out of town so of course, everyone was worried that I may get cold and maybe even sick so I didnt' argue. I figured it was for the best anyways. So I ended up staying over there until Wednesday evening when I went and stayed with my sister n Brad in BG for the night. On Thursday I was back home with power and running water. Not too bad of an experience. Tuesday morning Deana Jo and I couldnt' decide whether or not we wanted to try and make it to work. The roads weren't terrible but the trees and power lines were the concern. We figured what the heck, we would give it a shot and boy what fun that was. We headed out around 830 and got a bite to eat and then on to Muhlenburg Co we went. Just for the record...If its bad in Butler Co, its TERRIBLE in Muhlenburg. They do not do much to there roads and Tuesday was no exception. We went under trees, over trees, through trees, around trees....All on hwy 70 from the county line all the way to 431. We made it though. In my lil hot rod work car, I really wasn't concerned about a few scratchs or dents for that matter. The real fun wasn't until we decided to take the haul rd home though. This was an ADVENTURE to say the least. We laughed and laughed at ourselves and how ridiculous it was that we were even trying it. You know what though...We made it. Its a thousand wonders how we got from one end of that road to another but we did and all we lost was the passenger side mirror...HAHA!!! Wednesday we didn't try it but stayed home and played in the snow a lil with Blake. Fun in the snow is always great. When Blake went down for a nap, DJ, Brandon n I settled in for a little game of Monopoly. What else was there to do with no power?? We had a good time and Brandon was actually the winner. Thursday was a pretty normal day for me...Work and home. Everything was as usual.

The hardest thing for me about the entire situation was not being able to get in contact with Jeremy through all of this. He was in Paducah where things were much worse than they were here and it was not all okay with me when I couldn't just pick up the phone to make sure he was okay. We were luckily able to get in touch with one another maybe once a day, usually late and it was WONDERFUL to hear his voice and know that he was okay. Same with him, he was worried sick knowing that I had been out on the roads and not being able to make sure that I had made it safely. It put things in perspective for me a little bit. The power and all the ammentities are really not as important as we may all think they are. Its our family and loved ones that really matter the most. As long as you have them and you know that they are safe and taken care of, everything else will be fine. Until next when I will try to catch up on this past week...I hope that everyone is doing well and has had a wonderful weekend.

CRAZINESS

Okay so its been a very crazy week for everyone I know and there has been no time for blogging. I know that I am not the only one who has gotten just a lil bit behind. In times like this has been, there really isn't time (or the capability) for blogging. Our internet and phones got back up and running last night so I just thought real quickly I would write. I completely intend to write a few different blogs on some of my experiences over the last week and what some of my thoughts have been. I do believe that in times like these it definately humbles you and causes you to rethink some things. Right now, however, I am going to go have a bowl of homemade vegetable soup and lounge on the couch since that is what my pregnant self is telling me to do. I have definately gotten a case of the laziness with this hole pregnancy thing but thats okay with me. I dont mind having a good excuse to lay around and do nothing most of the time :).

Most importantly, Jeremy n I are both safe and warm as I hope everyone else is too. He is in Paducah and it was very hard to communicate last week which made for some tough times but now things are getting back up and going so maybe, just maybe soon everyone's lives will be getting back to normal. For the time being just be thankful for what you do have. If you are still without power..Just keep reminding yourself that no matter what, it could always be worse.