Life Lemons & Laughter: waiting on baby!

These last few months have just flown by! A few updates on our expanding little family, Jesse got a new job at a logistics company delivering construction materials all throughout Alberta. It is a great job for him, he is able to drive a truck and he is home every night. As for myself, I still work at the hospital and now am currently on my sick leave before baby is here!

An update on our pregnancy, we finally decided a name for our baby girl we are going to name her Macy Jean, Macy because we both agreed on it and Jean named after my mom (her middle name). My pregnancy was going great up until 27 weeks. I got horrible hip pain at 30 weeks pregnant and now currently have what is called a "irritable uterus" that could make me go into preterm labor which can be pretty scary stuff. I was officially put off work at 34 weeks from work because of it. I have been enjoying my time trying to meet up with first time moms and I feel like I finally have a tribe of moms that I like to hang out with. We try to meet up every monday at some point during the day to get together talk about stuff and get babies to interact with each other! It is a great support system that I am grateful for, doesn't make me feel alone with this stuff at all.

I have been going on ride alongs with Jesse at his new job, and his job is extremely mentally draining. Going on the ride alongs has taught me patience while driving, and to allow truckers in no matter what haha.

Eileen and Devon with their babies Timothy and Emie from mom group

We have been trying to get some travelling in as well. We have gone to see Uncle Chris and Aunt Linda a few times. When Jesse was away working at Trican I surprised mom to go see her brother and go to cross iron mills since I have never been there before. There is a huge shop called bass pro shop that nearly everybody told me to go see even the peopel that disagreed with hunting told me to go see it haha. I didn't get why because it is just a store in my mind. Well let me tell you one thing...when we got there a person was at the door and I thought you had to pay to get into the actual store! You could literally take your kids there for a birthday instead of going to a zoo and best part it is free to go see! The other time we went to go see Uncle Chris, Jesse and I went and Aunt Linda wasn't there. Uncle Chris took us to the private lake and we just floated on noodles to take the pressure off my hips. When we went out with the noodles Jesse didn't bring one and he was treading water forever, was quite the workout for him lol. We tried to go on a canoe as well, I guess Jesse had never been on a canoe before and it was 13 since the last time I was on. I guess since Uncle Chris had the card to sign them out he was supposed to be on the canoe with us, but just as he said its ok they are responsible adults we flipped the canoe haha. We only lasted about 2 minutes on that canoe before it flipped.