I guess I have to update on the last two weeks b/c I haven't been around much to keep you all posted.
Last week was good. It was a bit of a slow week, but I was excited for my shower last weekend in STL. Well we went to the lake 2 weekends ago to hang out w/ Jeremy's family. I had taken the 3D/4D u/s pics, cd & dvd to the lake to show Jeremy's parents. Well Sunday as his mom, grandparents and me were about 20 minutes away from the house on our way shopping I remembered I had forgotten all the pics. She said we could go back but I knew it was too much of a hassle that I said no and she told me she would bring them to me when they drove through in a couple days (we were going to meet Jeremy & leaving straight from shopping). I was pretty disappointed b/c I was having dinner w/ my fam that Sunday night & had wanted to show them the pics, but I knew that it didn't make sense so I left things as is. Anyways, I was thinking in the back of my mind that I knew Jeremy's mom would take some of the duplicates the lady printed and the control freak in me had wanted to show her which one she could take and know which ones she took. So they dropped the pics off last Tuesday and on Wednesday morning I noticed them and thought I better see what she took. I had told her at the lake that there were duplicates and I wanted her to have some, but I had everything separated out and like I said, I wanted to know what she took. So when I opened the envelope and it wasn't in the order (OCD, I know) I had put them in, I knew she had at least looked through them again. So I went to separate out the sepia photos to find which ones still had duplicates b/c when I left them 3-4 had duplicates, one of which had 2 extras. Anyways the only one left w/ duplicates was the pic that had 2 duplicates of it, she had taken all the others. I could feel the heat rising in me, and I was completely fine when I had woken up, but my hormones starting pumping like crazy and I could feel myself about to burst into tears. I went into the bathroom and opened the shower curtain (Jeremy was in the shower) and asked "did your parents take pictures?" At that point I started sobbing uncontrollably and could barely understand what I was saying. At first I think I thought there was only 1 duplicate left and I had wanted to take one to work for myself (& would have liked to pick out which one I wanted) and then I definitely wanted to give my parents 1-2 pics and didn't think I'd be able to b/c I wanted a copy of every photo for our home to put in an album. Jeremy tried to stay calm and said I could print out extra copies w/ the cd we were given, but I explained that "it won't be the same!" Then he said that he would bring home the couple he took to work, but I explained that "you should have what you want at your work!" He then said he would call his parents and tell them they had to return them all, and I said "no I wanted them to have 1-2 but wanted to be able to kind of give them what I wanted." He said, "You are pregnant and you can have whatever you want." I have to admit I enjoyed him saying that, but didn't want to come off as a brat. I finally started to calm down and realized there were 2 duplicates left (even if it was the same photo), and that I guess that would just have to be the one I took to work and the one I gave to my parents. I finally said to him "I think I may have just overreacted," he agreed. So anyways I composed myself and realized I had had quite the pregnancy meltdown. I begged Jeremy not to mention my meltdown to his parents to which he agreed, but still tried to convince me his mom probably didn't take any, however, I reassured him I KNEW she had. I was still a little annoyed that his mom just took the pics. I mean even though I did tell her there were some in there for her, I just think that it would have been nice of her to ask if I cared which ones she took rather than just helping her self. I am still a bit bitter about it, but what do you do. I won't let that happen again though.
****Addition to the story, last night at dinner w/ his parents his brother was saying that he hadn't seen the pics yet. His mom starting pulling out some computer printed versions of them and I am thinking to myself where are all the ones you took from me. And then what do you know she pulls out the duplicates she took and says, "and these are the ones I took, I mean you left them at my house." She did it in a tone that was like, "he! he! I got to pick the ones I wanted" Jeremy kicked me under the table and then said, "what so you thought you'd help yourself to them," but I don't think she heard him or ignored him if she did. Anyways I know that the story makes me come off a bit of a brat, and I am not trying to be that. I wanted her to have some of the pics, I was just upset by the way it all happened.
Friday, my work surprised me w/ a baby shower. I was so excited. I kind of knew something was going on, but had no idea exactly what. They did such a great job planning it and it was so fun to hang out w/ everyone. They got us our high chair, the umbrella stroller, a cd, and some gift cards and an outfit. I had loads of fun and was so excited & appreciative to have them do that for us. Jeremy even surprised me and showed up for some of it.
We traveled to STL for the weekend for our Couples Shower, my best friends from college threw us. It was so much fun. I will post pics so you can see everything. They made a board for people to guess the birth date & size of the baby and everyone had to put money in her piggy bank that they bought in order to guess. The cake was amazing. You just have to see the pics. The party did go downhill a bit after Mizzou lost to OSU, but what do you do.
This week has been another long one, but thank god it is finally coming to a close. We got new windows this week so this weekend Jeremy is touching up the paint on them all. We are also painting a tree on the baby's wall so I will take pics and attach those next week.
Have a great weekend!
Beth
