Summer Vacation 2010 - Lake Eufaula

Our annual family get together went off this year without much glitches, even the weather KINDA worked with us.
We spent alot of time at the trailer enjoying being with each other, eating, playing train domino's, and even got some lake time in there.
Brant, Stefani and Brock
Loading Parker Wayne on the new jet ski for his turn.
Parker definitely is three! He decided last weekend, I think it was, that he could swim without holding onto anyone. It was so nice not having someone attached to ya. Plus he enjoyed himself SOOOO much more.

Papa G, waiting to load the boat in the water.
Nana and Braden on her new jet ski
this look was half disappointment, that i made them wait to take a photo, and excitement that they got to get in the water!
Flag, water, sun starting to set. BEAUTIFUL
Sun setting on Lake Eufuala.
July 5th, we let off fire works. The Garrison brothers did the show. We need to review firework safety I think, had a few mishaps but no one was hurt. The weather was nice and there was lots of pretty colors, lots of "THAT WAS AWESOME" coming from braden and parker watching with his ear's plugged.


The boys in their Sheriff Woody towels.
They played alot of catch.
The boys just love being out on the water. This past winter we sold our boat to Brock (brants youngest brother). We missed it this week. We will definitely be finding one next year that can hold all of us and do what we need it to do.

Seriously this is the only time....

Seriously this is the only time you will probably see my belly lol, I've had many many requests to see this big belly and well this as good as its gonna get, I will only get bigger and bigger so I doubt I will let a camera within 50 feet of me in the next few months.
SO ENJOY.

Baby Boy #3

We are back home from a very long day, Bartlesville, Tulsa and back. We met with our specialist today, I being the neurotic mom I am was kinda nervous because there was enough of a concern about the size of the baby's arms and legs that she felt the need to let me know but just like most things, everything was just fine. Baby is weighing 13oz's up from 8 oz's and is up from a 10-15 percentile in height to 25% so we are back to being normal. Whatever normal is for 21 weeks. It just amazed me how much baby had grown in three weeks. He seriously doesnt like having the ultrasounds done cause mercy does he throw a good ol' fit! The tech kept saying goodness this baby wont hold still. He at one point decided to just turn and face my back, small gesture of seriously leave me alone. The little guy was still alittle guy lol, nothing fell off and he was very showy with his "parts" just like last time. He definitely is looking like my other two did with the heart shaped faces. So cute. I hope this doctor uses her spiffy machine so I dont have to fork out more money for a 3d 4d one. Since she gets 35 each time I see her. Due date is set for the 22nd of October, but there is no way that will be the date just cause they dont let repeat c-sections go full term. So it will probably depend on how much fluid i retain/ produce so we might have the baby around the 11 or maybe even around my bday. SOONER the BETTER (as long as baby is okay with that). Here are some shots from today.

CUTE lil face - you can see his eye sockets, nose popping up and pointy lil chin.
Little baby boy in all his glory. No doubt.

Did I mention?

Im obviously not a good blogger anymore?

Just thought I would let everyone know that like three weeks ago we found out infact we are having our FINAL
BOY
We are headed to Tulsa again in two days (Friday) to get yet another ultrasound. They have increased my insulin almost double now. Which I have to shoot myself four times a day so it doesnt really matter to me how much i'm giving myself, except my insurance doesnt pay enough lol.

Anyways. We got our market analysis back from one Realtor, waiting on the slow poke other one. It wasnt as bad or as good as we hoped but we know that with the finishing of some projects we possibly might make some money off this property. Which we've already done that over the years. It will be sad to see this home go cause there has been alot of things we have been through and see happen in this house. 8 years in one place. At this rate we have no idea if we will be Bville anytime soon or if we will slow play it and wait.

Im not gonna stress, I'm enrolling Braden in Ponca Schools since I dont know if we will be gone or not.

Right now we have been considering staying in ponca lol, we know we can get more out of our budget if we buy in ponca since the market is crappy. its hard to pay alot of not much over in bartlesville. It is such a challenge to find exactly what we are wanting anyhow.

My brother is moving to the Virgin Islands, St. Croix.... i know.... i hate him too LOL. I do hope that means I can visit someday LOL, when im not pregnant and might not mind being in a swimsuit. Oh yeah and when i can leave my kids at home. LOL. Anyways big changes on the horizon for my parents with both kids leaving ponca within months of each other. Not sure how they will handle that.

I will post on Friday and have photos. I finally figured out how to tether my Andriod phone to my laptop so I can get on the net when we are out of town. We are headed to Eufaulla this weekend so Brant can help on a project. It can be boring for me while I'm there, and being pregnant makes it even more boring so I was so tickled when I found a free app that would connect my phone/laptop. GOOOO ME.

Update - Baby/Insulin/Doctors

So final baby garrison got yet another ultrasound today cause he couldnt find the baby with the doppler again lol which is fine i like seeing the baby.
I hear now that I'm high risk lol I'll be seeing alot of this baby.
They increased my insulin to 25n 15r 15r 15r 20n - he thinks he is still low balling it but doesnt want me to bottom out.
Dr. Holmes has a wonderful bed side manner and seems to talk to his nurses alot cause all my conversation I had with the nurse he knew about and addressed each concern.
He tried to relieve some of my stress by giving me a different outlook then I've been taking which is very comforting he would take that extra time to make me feel better.
He spoke to me about this specialist that I will be seeing and talked to me about how we would handle the 32 weeks and beyond part which seems very intense with many visits to him. But I like that he is going to monitor everything and can take the baby if there is any cause of concern.
Ultrasound machine said i was 16 weeks 4 days which means it wont be too long and we will get the big ultrasound.
He asked me today what i thought I was having and I told him.... well, my body sure is reacting differently to this one so I was thinking girl, but everyone I know around me is having girls and I think they are using up all the girl spots LOL, so probably another boy LOL. He chuckled at me. Anyways. Here is a decent ultrasound profile shot. Baby was in deep thought and started moving around during the ultrasound. Always nice to have window into their lil world.

With that I'm gonna head out for a late lunch and a haircut.

Branson Vacation

Well I guess I'll tell this story in reverse since the darn photos went in opposite order.

So as many know I've been a gestational diabetic with all three of my pregnancy's. Braden I could control it by diet alone, Parker it was with the diabetic pill and now with final baby I've been put on insulin. I'm giving myself 5 shots a day. Plus pricking my finger all the freaking time.
Not enjoying the shots. I just might keep a count down of how many times i get to prick myself again.
We vacationed in Branson MO at the end of April.
We enjoyed the Dixie Stampeed ALOT. The boys loved the horses and the food. Braden loved the soup so much he chugged it (no silverware) and Parker just ate everything he could see and then proceeded to throw up while in the backseat.
Family photo at the Stampeed.
Boys loved the swimming pool. They were so excited. I didnt get to participate I was up in the room sick. The boys of course caught my crap a few days later and we have been miserable together.

This weekend has not been good. Been getting used to the insulin trying to eat all the time, trying to keep the boys semi entertained while they are cranky and not feeling well. Just very overwhelming. Glad the weekend is over. I have two doctors appointments this week. One with Dr. Holmes my OB, and then one with my Diabetic lady. I'm sure they will be upping my dosage of insulin cause my numbers still arent where they want them. But I've been fighting this cold and alot of stress so that isnt helping my numbers one bit.

Easter.

Easter was soooo nice!

Parker in Blue, Braden in Brown. This was about as nice as it got for both of them looking at me without some horrible cheese, funny face look.
Parker was a great egg finder.
Braden was a total spaz while trying to find eggs.

Okay I'm a horrible blogger. Horrible. SLACKER. LAZY BUM. But I think there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Tomorrow will mark the start of my 12th week of pregnancy, and I'm finally starting to feel human, still spontaneously taking naps, fall asleep after dinner, and have moody episodes of tears. My appetite is still odd. Feel hungry, eat two bites get real full and cant eat anymore.
Brants job with conoco will be moved to Bartlesville on July 15th. May 15th we can start the process of getting the house on the market and all that fun mumbo jumbo. So as you can see we have alot of changes coming our way. New town, New baby, new new new challenges. Braden will be in Pre-K this coming year. I'll be in a town other than Ponca City for the first time in 32 (almost 33) years.
We dont know if we will be in Bartlesville, myself personally would rather be in Bartlesville. Husband is wanting to live closer to Tulsa, in Collinsville or Skyatook or some town inbetween. While I think it wouldnt be that bad, I still really like the idea of the boys getting to be in a large ward family like they have in Bartlesville. So I'm hoping we find a property that we all love and is affordable inside Bartlesville. We have our eye on a house that meets almost all of our wants. But with the price the way it is I doubt we will get the chance cause it is priced to sell.

Anyways. So, this is baby number three and final baby for Jill. Im closing the baby factory after delivery. Which is another thing. Love my new OB in Ponca, he is a DO which, for some reason I adore their bed side manner and laid back caring approach, I dont know if i wanna change, but I dont know if I wanna drive back and forth all the time for the end of my pregnancy which will be full of stress tests and all that crapola. SOOOO I have some decisions to make asap.