Archives for September 2008

And today….. 26 weeks

okay.. Really.. Isn’t it exactly the same????

On a side note.. I am very proud of myself for making it 181 days so far without any emergency doctor or hospital visits. But I blew that record today.

This kid of mine is sooooo active. He never stops moving. I love to lay in bed at night and watch my stomach jump and flip all over the place.. and even though I really hate it.. I love waking up to him kicking me all over the place.. It’s like when you’re first married and how cool it is to wake up next to your husband.. Same feeling.. Every morning he wakes me (before the alarm)

Well last night.. He was kicking and flipping like normal the last one I remember was at about 6:30ish.. after dinner at 10pm… he didn’t kick.. and that’s weird.. I got in bed last night.. and nothing… no movement whatsoever.. I didn’t tell Aaron. Didn’t want to worry him.. This morning.. The alarm went off.. I wasn’t awake, I wasn’t feeling him like normal. I had a glass of Orange Juice with Ice and my breakfast. That always gets him moving and grooving.. I always tell Aaron he does his morning exercise video on the way to work. He normally does… but not today..

I worried for a few more hours at work before finally sending Aaron an email to tell him.. I couldn’t focus on anything at work. I finally just went and sat in the bathroom and poked him all over. He loves to play.. when I poke.. he kicks back.. ALWAYS does.. Not today.. I came back to my desk and tried to hold back the tears.. I had a granola bar.. anything to get him to wake up. And then I felt this little tiny flutter, almost like the first time I felt him. Wondering if that was him I went back to the bathroom stool to poke at him more. I poked.. and he kicked.. I poked again and he kicked again. Twice in a row. I felt like I could breath again, but knew it still wasn’t his “normal”

I finally broke down and called the doctor.. I honestly had felt 5 movements alll day.. That’s just not normal. She told me to come in so we could check him. I drove down to office..

It took her soooo long to find his heartbeat.. then she was worried it was mine she found. She checked mine.. and confirmed they were different. And we sat and listened to him for awhile. We could hear some movement that I couldn’t feel but we could hear.

He feels like a brick. He is just laying in one place. I can feel every part of him if I push him.. Apparently he’s just having a “lazy” day. She also mentioned he was laying with his back to my stomach. So I just must be missing the kicks to my back!

But at least he’s okay.. I can breath a little better just knowing…

181 days isn’t bad!! :)

Yesterday was D day for these little chocolaty covered cookie dough buddies..
We packed up and headed to the state fair, we got there in plenty of time. And sat and waited for our turn. You can imagine the way my heart sank when a lady walked in holding these :

My first thought was “Oh my Gosh, did she see those on my blog and steal them???”
I made my way around to snoop at her recipe to find out they were just a dark chocolate truffle. Phewwww.. crisis #1 adverted…

The competition was fun.. and interesting. I was more interested in the experience and learning more about competitions than actually the winning. (Although the $200 would have been VERY nice..)

This is us sitting.. and waiting for things to start..

We were called to start setting up our food, so I handed the camera to Aaron so he could take some pictures of us.. and me setting everything up. Want to see the 2 pictures he took of set up???

Yep.. those are those overhead mirrors so you can see what’s going on.. and those are the pictures we have of set up!!!

As soon as set up was over I went and took pictures of all the entries. I did learn that it is about creativity. A lot.. The display needs to be cute… but a cute name gets you pretty far too..

Here are the entries..

“Deserted Island Soup” I think this was probably a pudding. It looked like pudding..

Umm.. I think these were called something like Chocolate Heaven Cookies
Crispy Creamy Desert .. this looked sooo yummy. I don’t really know what the crispy things were but the judges were impressed at how pretty it looks and how easy it was to make. Basically I think it was something like fried tortillas and chocolate mouse.
White Chocolate Truffle Brownies .. this looked good too. But I didn’t like the gold thing she put them on. It was too distracting..
Okay..so this wasn’t an entry.. but I thought it was funny.. between every few they had these little “cleansing of the pallet” plates and water..
These were my FAVORITE! Look how cute they are! They were called. Little Mouse favorite Cookies (or something like that.) They looked like pieces of cheese with little chocolate chip mice. She had the cutest set up too, with a fairytale book.. So cute..
And these we’re mine.. they looks sooo boring next to everyone elses cute setup’s .. but at least I know better for next time!
I so wish I could have eaten this one. it was Decedent Chocolate and Raspberry Torte. mmm.. still looks sooo good!
And these were the Dark Chocolate Truffles that looked a lot like mine. Thank goodness they were on completely separate sides of the table..

This was the host. Reagen Leadbetter. She is on a morning news program. Man that girl could talk.. and about absolutely nothing! But she was really fun and cute!
Here is one of the Judges reading my recipe.. and counting ingredients and making sure I followed the rules..
And this is the other two (with Reagan) in front of my truffles talking…
Well the night was fun.. and worth the experience.. but sadly.. I didn’t win..

One down.. 2 more to go!!!