35 weeks 4 days

Well ths Thursday will be 36 weeks! Down to the final few weeks. So crazy! Cannot wait. Will miss my baby belly, but ready for him to get out of there. Hopefully he will come a week or more early so it can line up with Derek's vacation days since the dates got put in wrong. I am still working with no end date in the book as of now. Well lots has changed otherwise. First we started up the Martin farm last monday (11/22) and 4 of the original chickens (the reds) came back to live with us. Sadly, today (11/29)we only have three. I didn't get home in time to shut their coop till 8pm when it was dark last night (they put themselves to bed, so I assumed all 4 were in the coop like usual because they always stay together. This morning we let them out into the yard and there were only 3 and as of tonight when I put them to bed, still no number 4.

Another chicken story before I move on... On Sunday afternoon I about had a heart attack. I went out to chicken coop to throw some food out for the night (since they are out in yard during the day) and discovered a visitor... a racoon! He apparently knows how to open the latch to get to where the food is kept. (been finding it open a few days in a row) He got the bag open and spilled out a pile! Ok... really last one... lol... we had the chickens maybe one full day and after picking Macyn up from daycare we go out before dinner to play with and take care of chickens. We look and cannot find the 4th one! So we look and look... cannot find anywhere. Maybe 5 or more minutes go by and Derek says Oh my gosh! The chicken has crushed itself in between a section of the fence and the chicken wire layer on it. Luckly we were able to rescue her. Derek worked on getting her out while I pulled on chicken wire. If we had been much longer, so probably would have suffocated herself. It was so scarry! She walked arouund all crazy for a while. Then she was fine. ************************************************************************************* Ok... moving on! In exciting news we were able to get a amazng deal on a 2012 Chevy Sonic on Wednesday. Derek haggled and got us the best deal ever. Only thing is it is a stick shift. So in order to drive my new car, I had to learn stick. Thursday and Friday after work I had my first lessons. I practiced by myself on our dead end road and thought about driving to my parents house, but was too nervous. Sunday I drove to church, to my parents house, walmart, and back home with Derek. Then after he went to work, I ventured onto 70 to go back to my parents house, It is kinda scarry and stressful, but I am getting it quicker than I thought. Driving in heavy traffic today stressed me out, but I did it. Cannot wait to be better at it so I won't feel that way. Here is a pic. Need a better one that is out of garage during day, but here it is:

********************************** Well I'll post a pic and update later this week, but wanted to share what was going on in our lives :)

Cupholder at church today

34 weeks, 3 days! Today at church LOL built in cupholder :)