Oh man. What a terrible sleep. This sucks. I'm always so tired. I dreamt many terrible things too, like i was on a plane that flew a billion miles an hour and my seat started flying and then fell into the floor. Then the next plane i was supposed to get on i couldn't because there was an issue with me having dirty tennis shoes outside my bag. Next, some fight broke out some glass was broken and i had gum in my mouth which resulted in me almost getting shot, glass stuck in my feet and all of my teeth falling out and apart. On top of that ariel has been super active while i sleep so if i wake up at all, i can feel her moving and then that keeps me awake. Ugh. Just thought i'd share.

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Hello family and friends,
It's been a while, and once again I cannot sleep. These days have been busy, fun, frustrating, interesting, scary and well.... I suppose a little of everything.
I'm not sure where to begin. My mind brings me first to the fact that Jerry hit a deer with our car while on his way to work,@ 4:30AM on June 4th. He was fine, but the car was not and the deer was worse off still. We were able to get it in and because we have had full coverage on our car the insurance company is paying for the damages but the $500 deductible. Of which is going to be covered by another program we have, so the damage is really going to cost us nothing. Praise the LORD!!! We took it in on the 6th and we just got it back this last Friday. Hurray! It's been so great having our car back. I didn't realize that I could miss such a thing, but I really did.
Next, Paul has been teething for a while now and I'd say about 3 - 4 weeks ago he cut his first set of molars. Talk about a miserable kid. The night they finally broke through, thanks to mommy, he wasn't really sleeping well and I hadn't gone to bed yet by 2 AM so when I went in to check on him, he woke up right away and then just started screaming and crying. I couldn't figure out what could be so bad so I tried everything. Food, drink, rocking him... he didn't want any of it. So while in my lap, crying and screaming I happened to see the two white spots on his upper gum in the back and then I knew. I got my thumb in there and rubbed so hard til I could feel his teeth and then things started getting better. That was the last time he woke up in the middle night over those teeth. Right after I got his teeth to finally cut through, I gave him some medicine, a carrot and carried him around in my sling for about a half hour. Going to bed this time was soooo much easier than it had been earlier that night.
As of today, the 19th, I am 26 weeks and two days along, and I'm really feelin... a lot. Little Miss Ariel has been pretty active as of this last week and just the other night I couldn't really sleep much because of all this activity. Now tonight, she's been busy, but I've also been a lot less comfortable no matter which way I lay or what pillows I use. It stinks. Tonight I have resolved to sleeping on the couch to see if that helps at all.
If you didn't already know, Paul is no longer walking, but running. Yup. That didn't take long. He takes off like a shot. The cutest thing is when he falls and gets back up and then pats his leg a bunch of times. It's like he's telling his leg not to do that again or to work better next time. I wonder if he does it though because if we are outside I will brush off his knees to get the actual dirt and grass off.
Paul also loves to be outside and if we mention going outside he runs to the door and does his best to say outside and nods his head as he says it. Occasionally, he will ride his trike to the door and say outside or push the stroller to the door. He also knows what the word bath means, and so now when we ask him if he wants to take a bath or if he's ready to take a bath, he will start running for the bathroom and keep looking behind him to make sure you are following him there. Not only that, he pretty much expects the bath to be ready and gets a little upset if we tell him he needs to wait to get in. As well as he's been trying to climb in while fully clothed. Yeah, he's not excited for bath time or anything like that. ;)
Today is also Father's Day, so Happy Father's Day, Daddy! I sent you a card and I hoped you would get it by Saturday, but I won't know til later because I never heard from you or mom as to whether or not you got it.
I'm super excited for Jerry this time around because he's not just getting one card from me, he's also getting a card from Paul. I helped Paul sign it and let him scribble in it too. Just to add a little bit more... love to it. :) Unfortunately, Jerry still has to work today, but I have a few things planned to do for him to make it more special.
 I suppose I should also mention that Paul and I just had a check up, and we are both, well, all three of us are doing great. I put on a pound since last month. Paul now weighs nearly 22 pounds, which is really good! Elli is where she should be at and with a great heart rate too. I just have to go in this Friday to do the glucose testing to see if I am at risk for gestational diabetes. Yuck. Oh well. It will be great when it's done and we know.
Oh yeah, the only other thing is... Our computer kind of ...died. But we've been fortunate enough to be in contact with wonderful people who have offered to help see if they can fix it for little to nothing. Yay! I think that if this happens again, we'll just start looking into getting a new computer. This isn't the first time it's happened and there hasn't been any real clear reason why it does keep happening.
Something else I am excited about... that only a person who doesn't have their own washer and dryer could be excited about, I found out a way to save time and money on doing laundry! Yes, it's super exciting to me to save on both of those things and it's all just by taking my laundry to a laundromat. It's one that is about 2 minutes from our house, super clean and has a deal on double load washers every Tuesday for a buck! Ya! I know it! And then the dryers are super huge so they dry twice as much for the same price as a regular dryer. (I just did laundry at this place tonight, and that's when I put all this together) So it's looking like Tuesday is going to be laundry day from now on and I don't really care who knows it. :)

I think that finally, I would like to touch on how God has just simply been taking care of us and how grateful I am for it all. He certainly protected Jerry in the deer accident(the deer could have rolled into the windshield and broke the glass...etc), He led us into getting this other program almost a year ago(it's good for another 2 years) that is now going to cover our deductible(we would not have had the $500 otherwise), He's kept us all safe in the midst of all the terrible storms and tornadoes that have been breaking out across the Midwest. He's also brought a wonderful family of friends into our lives that we could never produce, replace, or duplicate by any of our own means. As well as, simply, family.
Thank you for reading, it's been a pleasure to share with you our lives.

So, i'm trying to blog and i can't seem to stay on the computer long enough to remember so my solution is to set up mobile posting from my phone. It's going to be easier to post more often, just more of a hassle if i've got a lot to say. I guess we'll see how it goes. Life is good, and this is a test run to see how this texting to my blog works. Uh, yeah, that's all for now. :)