So Ryan and I are going to be busy for the next two weeks! Yay!

Starting tomorrow my awesome friend Sandra is throwing me a baby shower. I think I may be more excited to see her than the actual shower! She's here from Illinois with her whole little brood: her daughter and twin boys. All under three. I am amazed by her for just that. I figure if Sandra can handle three young children and be an awesome mom than I can at least be a good mom to one little girl still on her way!

Then on Thursday we're heading up to Utah for a Kimball family reunion. I can't wait for that either!! While I have only met and seen Ryan's cousins a few times I love spending time with them. They make me feel like I've been in the family forever. His aunts, uncles and grandparents are awesome too! His grandma makes the best pumpkin syrup EVER. I don't know what she puts in it, but I can never get enough of the stuff when she makes it. And her chocolate banana smoothies are awesome too.

My birthday is on Sunday, so yay me! I'll be 24 years old. Finally the same age as most of my friends! I shall celebrate my birthday by driving home from Utah. Lol.

Monday through Wednesday I work. Not super exciting, but my fellow office girl will be happy that I'm back for a brief time.

Thursday I'm off to Carlsbad to spend a few days with my parents, step-grandparents, aunt, uncle and cousins. I haven't seen them since, I think, last year. I could be wrong. I do have pregnancy brain and recalling things more than two days ago is difficult. I plan on making the trek down to the beach at least once, but I think for the most part I'll be staying up by the campsite as I do have a stomach now with a little being in it and she tends to get upset when I walk too much. (That's my story and I'm sticking to it).

And neat little bit of fact - the picture currently of Ryan and I on this blog is from the last Kimball Reunion (a month before our wedding). We're not big picture takers but I am trying to change that because I do not want ot miss a moment of Zoey growing up. So hopefully we I can update one famiy reunion photo with another. :-D Click HERE to read more!

Going over to my parents to for our annual BBQ and to enjoy the company of family and friends. Hope everyone has a safe and happy day! Click HERE to read more!

I posted this on facebook a little while ago, but decide to share it with everyone and even added a few. These are mostly my "driving" pet peeves, but yeah. As Sandy pointed out my sharing these are totally hormonal, though Ryan will attest to you that most of these existed before I was pregnant. Enjoy reading them!

1. People who get over at the last minute - especially if you're on Daycreek Blvd trying to cut in front of everyone and get into the lane for the 210 West. If you see a blue-gray Jeep that is being a jerk and not letting you over that's me. :-D I'm doing it to let you know that in the future you should be smarter and get in the correct lane before Highland and Daycreek. I will do all in my power not to let you over.
2. People who can't park in their own parking space. Oh, this is a biggie. If you catch me in an especially bad mood (call it my Latin temper) and you do this next to my car I may just open my car door wide enough to put a dent in your car. I have no shame. I park inside my lines (unless I'm parking next to an island/bushes, then I'll hug that side), the least you could do is the same. This does not however apply to someone who has to park crooked or over the line because the idiot in the spot next to them started a trend of parking crooked.
3. People who do not signal when getting over or turning. Seriously people, how hard is it to use your dang blinker?! You use that little blinker as a courtesy to your fellow driver behind you to let us know "Hey, I wanna go this way." If you hit another car and don't use it, its soooo your fault so have fun paying for that bill. And if you hit me, I want to let you know that you'll not only be paying my car off but for my daughter's college education. Just an FYI for the future. :-D
4. People who do not accelerate onto the freeway. Seriously people, the on ramp is your chance to get up to at least the speed limit. I can't stand it when the car in front of me is still going 45 mph by the time they get to the end of the of ramp. GO FASTER dingbats! If I had one of those cattle guards on my Jeep I'd be sorely tempted to "help" you go faster. Or at least push you off the side of the road. And if for whatever reason you find yourself (or your car) incapable of at least getting up to 65 mph do us all a favor and pull over to let the people who actually know how to use the gas pedal to go around you.
5. People who still use their cell phone (without a hands-free device) or text while driving. One, it against the law, no matter who stupid you think it is. I am not afraid to honk at you if you're sitting there at a green light chatting away. Nor am I afraid to have one of my passengers call the cops on you. You hit me or someone else while doing either texting or talking on a cell phone you're just as horrible of a person who drinks and drives. And again, I will take you to the bank if you do hit me while doing either - you'll pay for my medical bills, what I owe on my car and Ryan's truck, Zoey's college fund, and a house for all of us. Is that too much? No, you deserve to be taken to the bank if your that STUPID enough to continue to talk on your cell phone or text. Like I said, I think of such people no better than drunk drivers (its actually been proven cell phone talkers are worse drivers than drunk people). So keep that in mind. (P.S. I laugh silently when you complain about getting a ticket for talking on your cell phone while driving. It just makes me feel tingley all over.)
6. Tailgaters. My rule of thumb is if I can't see your headlights in my rear view mirror you are waaaaay to close and I'll tap my brakes to let you know to back off, which people usually do. The other thing I ticks me off is when I am the passenger and someone else is driving and tailgating - AND THERE ARE TWO OPEN LANES ON EITHER SIDE OF YOU!!!! I won't say anything, because I don't want to be a backseat driver, but know that it bugs me. Why do you choose to tailgate the one car in front of you when you have no cars on either side of you and you can just go around? One, its seriously dangerous to do that. You don't know what that car in front of you is going to do. They could blow a tire and loose control of their vehicle and take you with them. They could have to slam on their brakes and you go into the back of them. People, play it safe and keep at least three seconds worth of space between you and the car in front of your. (What is 3 seconds of space you ask? Pick a mark on the side of the road. When the car in front of you passes starting counting in Mississippi's [i.e. One Mississippi, Two Mississippi...] and if you get three Mississippi's or more by the time you get to that same spot than you have a good cushion of space between you. If you don't than lay off the gas!)
7. Staying in your own turning lane. Apparently this is hard for people to grasp or even accomplish. Now, when there are two turning lanes (either going left or going right) stay in your own FRIGGIN' lane. The car closes to the curb/divider take the inside, while the other car takes the outer lane. DO NOT TRY TO SPEED UP AND CUT IN FRONT OF THE CAR THAT HAS THE INSIDE LANE BECAUSE YOU ARE TOO STUPID TO GET IN THE RIGHT LANE. Again, if you hit me while doing this I will get many things accomplished for myself and my family. This apparently seems especially hard for people turning onto North Mainstreet at Victoria Gardens.

And that's it for my driving pet peeves. If I offended you, I'm sorry. If you think I'm mean spirited or evil or whatever I am sorry, but seriously insert tons of sarcasm in the above and know that these are things that REALLY tick me off so I am going to write about them with at least a little passion. But seriously, these things are no brainers and people should be doing them or avoiding them to begin with.

P.S. Please excuse any spelling or grammar mistakes. I am not a perfect, and never claim to be, being and typed this all up fairly quick. Click HERE to read more!

See by what I mean about not posting everyday!!! Lol!

Ok, so I thought for I'd post for everyone what we got as Zoey's bedding. We were looking for something that wasn't all pink and not super, super girly. We had one bedding picked out, called Delilah, but in reality it was way to expensive for us to buy with a clear conscience.

Then one day while we were at Baby Depot at the Mills we stumbled upon a collection called Sundae. It had the same colors as Delilah, made by the same company, and is a 6 piece set! The only big difference was that Sundae has butterflies on it, which is fine, and was signifiantely cheaper than Delilah...

Above is a picture of our bedding collection (not our daughter's room). I love it. Just girly enough so if you see it you'll say, "Well, obviously its for a girl," but not pink.

I have nothing against pink, I just haven't ever been a big fan of the color. Yes, I understand she'll probably be wearing pink most of other time but that doesn't mean I wanted her room and crib to be decorated in the same color.

Anyway. That's it for now. I'm working putting belly pictures up. Click HERE to read more!

Ok, I felt I couldn't just leave you with "Hi, I'll post occasionally, bye!" and decided to give you a little background about us, in case I don't post in a while.


::waves:: Hi, I'm Vicky and hopefully most of you know that. If you don't, thank you for stumbling upon my little blog here. :D I've been married to Ryan since August 2006 and we live in Alta Loma, CA - close enough to the beach, mountains and desert that if we wanted to waste gas we could go to all three places in one day. We're Californians and look forward to raising our family in California.

I'm currently working in customer service for a houseware & furniture store full. Ryan is currently a mechanic (cars, diesels, RVs, trailers, railways cars, etc.).

We're expecting our first child, a little girl, sometime in late September, early October. Yes, we've picked a name; Zoey. Yes, we are spelling it with a "y" at the end. Just in case you're wondering.

And hopefully this will suffice for now, seeing as I'll be putting up thing about us later.

~Vicky
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I've deciede that I should probably start blogging, or something akin to it, to give friends and family an update on our expanding family. I can't promise I post everyday or even once a month but I will try to post often enough that you'll know we're alive.

And this my friends is the first post about Ryan, I, and (in 3 months!) Zoey.

~Vicky

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