Sunshine On My Shoulders Makes Me Happy

Looks like the awards circuit is on the move again! This time it’s the Sunshine Award!  This one totally makes sense to me, you get nominated by someone who thinks your blog posts brighten their day!  What an nice compliment!

I have been awarded this Sunshine Award by two awesome bloggers who’s blogs brighten my day every day.  Miss Kate over at The Widgeon Nest, and Miss Kimmyyyyyy from That’s The Thing About Destiny. 

Here are the rules if you get nominated:

1. Include award logo in a post or on your blog (above).
2. Link to the person who nominated you
3. Answer 10 questions about yourself and write 10 questions for your nominees to answer.
4. Nominate 10 bloggers to receive the award. Link your nominees to the post and comment on their blogs letting them know they’ve been nominated.

My questions from Kate:

1. What's your personality type? (Myers Briggs, C. Jung, CVI, Sex in the City character survey, whatever). (If you've never taken one and don't have the time, just describe your personality!)    Bubbly, chatty, protective, helpful

2.What is the hardest thing you've ever had to do?   Say goodbye to the baby

3.What's in your car's trunk?  jumper cables, a blanket and a first aid kit for those boo boo’s at the park

4. How many times have you been to Disney World or Disney Land?  Zero

5. What's one thing you've been putting off?  Dusting so I can put up my fall decorations

6. What do you have going on this weekend?  TAILGATING and cheering on the amazing IOWA HAWKEYES (GO HAWKS!)!!! 

7. Wine, beer, or mixed drinks? What kind?  If ever I do drink, I like Moscato and the occasional beer at the bar

8. If you had to legally change your name, what would you choose?  I did that already when I married Andy!

9. What cheesy line do you tell yourself to get motivated for a workout/run/whatever?  If I get on the treadmill then I can sit and read blogs after I’m done, but not before.

10. Bill Murray or Will Ferrell? I mean, if you had to choose.  Give me some good old fashioned Stripes, Caddy Shack, Ghostbusters and Scrooged.  In other words, Bill Murray!

 

My questions from Kimmyyyyy:

1. Favorite desert recipe?  Cherry Cheese Pie!! (A cream cheese mixture poured into a graham cracker crust, when set cherry pie filling poured over top.  It’s not Christmas w/o Cherry Cheese Pie!)

2. Song you could listen to on repeat for days?  Any of my favorite oldies!

3. What would your last meal be/?  Pagliai’s Pizza, their palace special no onions

4. What is the 17th picture on your phone?  I just got my phone back from being fixed and they wiped out all my pics, so no 17th pic…yet.

5. Must See TV show for fall you can not wait to start?  Nashville!

6. Favorite sports team(s)?  Uh, do I need to say it?  Okay, I will! IOWA HAWKEYES!!!!!

7. What did you do on your 21st birthday?  I don’t remember, and not b/c I was drunk, b/c I wasn’t, it just wasn’t memorable b/c I was lame! Ha ha!

8. What’s your favorite thing at Taco Bell? (don't pretend like you do not like it!) Doritos Locos Taco Supreme

9. Favorite Reality show? American Pickers

10. Cats or Dogs?  Hmm, I like cats but not their shedding. I like my own dogs (don’t have any now but when I was growing up our farm dogs) but I don’t usually like other people’s dogs.  I don’t own either.

 

My questions for my nominees:

1. What makes you happy?  A yummy dessert?  A butterfly flying by?  Finishing a good book?
2. What song makes you sing your heart out every time you hear it on the radio?
3. Do you have a full set of teeth or did you have to have some pulled as a kid?
4. What’s your favorite Tootsie Pop flavor?
5. Would you rather go a year without shaving your legs or your armpits?
6. What is your favorite kind of dressing for your salad?
7. What is your favorite app on your phone (or website if you don’t have a smartphone) BESIDES those social media ones (i.e. Facebook, IG, Twitter)?
8. Which is better: Full House, Saved By The Bell, or Boy Meets World?
9. What kind of scent do you like to burn in your house? (Floral, Baking, etc.)
10. In your opinion who’s hotter: John Slattery (yummy), Vince Vaugh (adorable) or Matthew McConaughey circa 2003 (I die)?

 

My nominees:

Jodi @ Love and Crayons

Alicia @ Brew Mama

Annie @ One Crazy Mama

Sami @ Simply Sami

Kaitlyn @ Wifessionals

Desiree @ Macke Monologues

Shelli @ Beauty and the Baseball Coach

Sam @ Counting My Blessings Instead of Sheep (name that song/movie)

Chrissy @ Mama Chrissy’s Chaos

Shannon @ Life After I ‘Dew’

 

Please go check out these lovely ladies I nominated, they are sure to brighten your day, too!  Thanks to Kate and Kimmyyyy for nominating me, you made me feel special!

Erin

Fall Favorites

Walking on crisp leaves

Filling my Scentsy warmers with Spicy scents

Wearing boots!

Making pies

Going to the Apple Orchard

Picking Pumpkins

 

 

 

 

 

Trick Or Treating

Cooler temperatures

Tailgating (Go Hawks!)

Watching football

Getting out warmer clothes

Jeans!

Leaves changing colors

Oranges, browns and yellows

Craft shows

Colorful Mums

Cuddling under a blanket

Turning the furnace on for the first time

First fire in the fireplace

Hot apple cider

Riding in the combine with my dad

 

What are you Fall Favorites?

Erin

16 Week Baby Update

At my appointment yesterday my doctor suggested I get the Quad Screening test done.  I have never done this test before, but with our history from the last pregnancy Marther’s thought it was a good idea to just do it.  So off to the lab I went for them to draw a vial of blood.  There are a couple of outcomes that could come from this test.

1. It comes back negative and we get the reassurance that nothing is wrong with the baby (i.e. Down’s Syndrome, Spina Bifida).
2. It comes back positive and we go to the big hospital in the big city to have a Level 2 Ultrasound done. 

This can go 2 ways also. 

1. It shows something wrong with the baby, or
2. The screening came back with a false positive, meaning nothing is wrong. 

My dr. told me if it does come back positive to begin with, that more often than not it is a false positive, so not to worry until we get the L2 US done.  Easier said than done.  I’m just going to keep praying until we get the results back that it is negative and we can rejoice and move on.  There’s always something to worry about when a mom, right?

I forgot to ask how long it takes to get the results back (I think it’s weeks) but when I do I’ll let you know what they are.

My next appointment (my 20 week appointment) is Monday, September 30th!  Wow, 20 weeks is only 4 weeks away?  How did that happen?  I’ll have my regular ultrasound that day also, can’t wait to see this little lumpkin again!

I do have to admit that in the hours leading up to my appointments (which are all at 11:00) I do nothing but think about our baby we lost.  My thoughts are overwhelmed with the little guy, wondering why we are now statistics.  Why that happened to us and to him.  Was it to teach me a lesson to be more compassionate?  Or to not take life for granted?  If that’s the case I don’t understand why the little one had to suffer for me to learn a lesson.  Doesn’t everything happen for a reason? What was the reason for our loss and our pain?  These are questions that I’ll never have answered.  But these appointments make me think… 

Looking forward to my next baby update, Week 20!

Erin

A Quick One

I’m heading out the door to my 16 WEEK!!! baby appointment, I will have an update on this tomorrow.

In the meantime this is the week to sign up for the Cara Box exchange.  It is a quarterly exchange, you must mail your box by October 31st and post about it by mid-November and link up (unless you are a non-blogger, than no link up required).  Click on the Cara Box image below and sign yourself up!!! This quarter’s theme is Fall!!!!!  Yippee!!!

See you tomorrow!

Erin