Now presenting...Peyton Brooke!

Happy, smiley Peyton

Proud parents Thankgiving 2007
Christmas picture 2007
So Peyton Brooke is here! And I am waaay late in announcing it! : / She arrived on November 14, 2007 at 10:10pm. She weighed 9 lbs. and was 19 1/2 inches long. She is now 3 1/2 weeks and she is the greatest baby in the world! Seriously, she is soooo good. I couldn't have asked for a better baby. She is absolutely beautiful and we are so happy!

Baby News!!!

Well, at my last doctor's appointment, I was dilated a whopping 1.5 centimeters and after talking to my doctor, we decided that if she hasn't come on her own by Wednesday, we are going to induce. My doctor says she is a good sized baby and we wouldn't wait too much longer after this week anyways, and so we just set the appointment for Wednesday the 14th at 5:30am! So she could be born that day or not, depends on how fast my labor progresses. So wish me luck! The next time I will be posting it will most likely be after our little Peyton Brooke has arrived! Thank you to everyone for your support.

ModBe

I am now officially a ModBe Fashion Consultant (#1712)! Yay! I can't wait to dive into it all, but I am still learning, so be patient with me. If you want to check out all the cute clothes, go to http://www.modbeclothing.com/

If you want to place an order, you can reach me at (909) 579-9711 or e-mail me at cnahorvath@yahoo.com

Happy Shopping!

Recipe of the Week

Chicken Enchiladas
1 cup cooked, diced chicken
1 can cream of chicken soup
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup flour
2 cups chicken broth
1 cup sour cream
1 can (4 oz.) diced green chilies
1 dozen tortillas
3 cups shredded cheddar cheese

Melt butter in large pan. Add flour and broth; stir until thick. Remove from heat. Add sour cream, chilies, soup, chiken and 2 cups of cheese.
Line 13x9 baking dish with 6 tortillas, then half of the chicken mixture. Repeat with 6 more tortillas and remaining chicken mixture. Top with remaining 1 cup of cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour, uncovered.

I need a life!!!!

So Chris and I went to the L.A. County Fair on Saturday. It was pretty fun. We didn't stay all day, but we were there for a good while. I got some pictures of us, not doing anything in particular, but just something to remember it by. My scanner is broken, otherwise I would put up the pictures we took in a photo booth. It was funny because for the first frame, we weren't ready for the picture but the rest we were, haha, oops!

I got a hair cut!! :) I was way excited for the change, and I am pretty happy with it. I just wish I could style it the same way my hairdresser does, but oh well!

In other news, I will be 32 weeks on Tuesday! Craziness! Only 8 weeks left! I feel totally unprepared and still a little out of it because I still can't imagine that my whole life is going to change forever now!

I've also discovered I need to get some sort of hobby or something because I am a totally boring person! haha Ok that'sa little harsh, but seriously! I am not a very creative person, so I don't know if I would be very into something like scrapbooking (although I do have some stuff already that my sister-in-law got for me to do scrapbook pages from our cruise). But seriously, all I really do is read and I like to copy down new recipes to try from my magazine subscriptions I get, but even that gets old. (I wanted to try to start to post a new recipe every week on here that I have tried and think is great, so maybe that will help with that). And this may sound totally lame, but I hate throwing magazines away because I always think that there was an article in there I would hate to not have if i needed it, etc. Well I thought about buying some notebooks for different subjects and then either cutting out the articles and putting them in there or just writing down different tidbits or things that I want to know and remember, so then I can get rid of my collection of old magazines. It doesn't seem like a very worthwhile hobby, but then again, it can kind of be like a journal in a way and it is something that my kids can have to know what their mom was interested in or something. I don't know. So if anyone has any ideas of a hobby I can start, PLEASE tell me! haha I know I will have a little bit of time on my hands staying home with only one baby girl for right now, and I don't want to be a loser and just play computer games or watch TV all day. Some days, maybe, but not every day! :)

The Countdown Begins

(I wish I had a better picture, but it's hard to get all of me and my big ol belly in so I have to wait until Chris has some time to take pictures of me :) ) So the countdown begins! I am now 29 weeks and have 11 weeks to go! It's crazy how fast it's gone by! I still feel totally unprepared! I have my hubby and I signed up for a whole bunch of classes that I am really looking forward to though. We are signed up for the usual hospital tour and lamaze class, but I also signed us up for a breasfeeding class (ok, more for me than for him), and infant care class and an infant CPR class. I sounds kind of obsessive huh? Haha I know it will be totally different when she's finally here, but in my mind, the more I can learn and know now, the better. I am so glad that my mom will be coming down for about a week or so after she is born. I would feel totally helpless bringing a newborn home, like "Now what?" LoL

I really can't complain because overall I have had an amazingly easy pregnancy, but I am starting to really feel pregnant and it's not so fun anymore. : / My ankles and feet keep getting swollen and it is so ugly and I hate it. I want to wear pants all the time but it is so hot, that at the same time, I don't want to!! I am grateful I work in a nice air conditioned office all day though! Sleep has been harder and harder to get. I am up every night at least once (usually more) to go to the bathroom and I just get so uncomfortable that I wake up and I am constantly changing sides all night. I have a body pillow and that helps a little bit, but not a whole lot. My face is still breaking out, which sucks, but hopefully it will go away after my little one is here. I am constantly thinking about how badly I want to lose all this weight after she is born, and that makes me depressed now because I can't really do anything about it for awhile longer. My back has started aching more and more, and I am constantly having to get up and work and try to stretch it out because it hurts even after sitting down for awhile. Ugh. But those are all of my complaints! So glad I can get it out here, now maybe I'll complain less to my hubby!! :)

I still can't wrap my mind around the fact that in 11 weeks, my whole life will change and it will never be just the two of us until we are old and all our kids are moved out!! It's so crazy to think about.

I would write about my life, but I have a pretty boring life to be honest. LoL Being pregnant is the most exciting thing really! Work is just work. My last day is November 2nd, and I cannot wait to get out of there! I think I started counting the days and there are like 45 more working days or something, haha. My calling at church is still the Young Women's secretary and the Beehive advisor (so I guess I mean callings). Same old is happening there! Other than that, I don't do much but keep the apartment clean and read and do random stuff here! Pathetic, I know! But it's hard because Chris has been working a lot and so I try to keep myself occupied!

I guess this is kind of interesting. This guy at my work who has 5 kids (and he's only 25!!) all ages 1-7 told me the other day that I shouldn't complain about work because only a couple more months and I would be going on a nice long "vacation". Vacation????? I would call it anything but that! I thought that with him having 5 kids he would realize that raising children is no vacation, but maybe he means because I only have 1 right now, I don't know. It just got me thinking about how people think that being a stay at home mom is so easy and that it has lost a lot of credit and there are so few moms who are fortunate enough to stay home nowadays. I am extremely thankful my hubby is so willing to work so hard so that he can provide enough for our whole family and I can stay home and raise the kids. He is so sweet and said he would work 3 jobs if he had to just so I could stay home. (awww!) I have been thinking about doing something where I can make money at home. A friend of mine sells ModBe clothing. It's an online clothing company that sells modest clothes and bathing suits for women and little girls. All she does is online orders and she doesn't even do the whole part where she hosts parties and she makes a little extra money on the side, so I might do something like that. We'll see.

A Receptionist's Worst Nightmare

As a receptionist, I believe that people are generally nice and patient. There are always exceptions to the rule and every so often, a rude person will surface.
Never before in my 20 1/2 years of life have I ever encountered someone like I did today.
After lunch, I get a call from a woman who is basically soliciting and trying to talk to someone to sell their product to. At my company, to avoid these sales calls, they have implemented a policy that will not allow me to transfer the person unless they know the name of the person they want to speak to. Well, this woman had no such name. So I kindly told her "I am sorry but I cannot transfer you unless you have the name of the person you would like to speak to" and she proceeds to tell me "Well, I don't have a name and that is why I am calling." I again told her I was sorry but it was company policy and she hung up on me. OK, all done, right? Wrong.
I get a call a minute later and I can tell it is the same woman because the background noise is exactly the same. She waits for me to answer, then hangs up. OK, great. But she wasn't finished. She calls back again and when I answer simply says "Wa-wa" and hangs up.
Now to make this story shorter than my ordeal, for the next 2 hours, this woman continued to call and at first, simply hang up on me and then she would call and stay on the line, but not say anything. I told my boss, and the next time this lady called, my boss answered it for me. The woman didn't respond and my boss said "OK, let's use the caller ID and call her supervisor." She promptly hung up.
I finally thought it was over...she didn't call for about 45 minutes. Next thing I know, she is calling again but this time it sounds like she is no longer at work but on a cell phone. Are you kidding me? What kind of person does this? Finally, after a few more phone calls and waiting on the line, she actually responds.
"I keep calling and you keep hanging up on me, so I would like to speak to your manager."
"OK, can I have your name please?" (Again, another company policy. I need to have the name of the person calling in order to transfer them, otherwise the person they are calling will not take the call.
"I am not giving you my name."
"Well then I am sorry, but I am not able to transfer the call" Click, she hangs up on me.
Again, she calls, and this time, she is mad.
"You b****, I want your f****** manager." Click, I hang up on her.
First of all, who has the power here? Does she think that by speaking to me that way she was going to get what she wanted? Heck no! She proceeded to call 3 times after that of which I promptly hung up on her. She didn't call back after that, but who knows what tomorrow will bring.
Is this a sign of our times? People who do not get their way, call and harass people thinking they have gotten some sort of twisted justice or that they will get what they want? Unbelievable.
Now, I hate to let these kinds of things get to me, but at the same time, how can you not? I am powerless to just not answer the phone because it could be a real customer. Needless to say, my blood pressure was through the roof for awhile there and it took all of my might to calm myself down. Now, I just want to laugh at it all. What kind of a sad person this must be, that harasses someone not only while they are working, but then uses their own personal time to do so. If she were reading this, I would have one thing to say to her:
GET A LIFE!

20 weeks and counting...

So right now I am 20 weeks pregnant. The halfway mark. I still can't believe it. It's so weird I have this big ol belly, and I feel my little girl moving around all the time, but it's like I still haven't accepted the fact that I am pregnant and in 20 more weeks I will be a mom to a baby girl!!! My mind just doesn't want to comprehend it or something, I don't know.

I really have had a wonderful pregnancy overall. The only compaints I have are the breakouts!! Yuck, that has been the worst part. I have not even been wanting to take pictures of myself because I think I look horrible. Other than that, I have had leg cramps a couple of times and lately my ankles have been getting a little swollen, but other than that, I have been symptom free pretty much.

And I have been doing a ton of reading lately (about being pregnant and about babies in the first year) and I feel like I have learned SOOO much but at the same time, I am sooo confused!! haha The thing that sucks is that I don't really have any close friends who are pregnant or who have been there, done that, that I can talk to! And I know there are people I could call, but I am so bad at being very much of a phone person. Ugh. I just need to get over it.

Other than being pregnant, there really isn't much going on. I am just working my 40 hours a week as a receptionist and dreaming of the day I get to stay home. I have started doing all of Chris's administrative work for his business and it seems like it will work out really well. I don't think we'll have a problem with money at all, but it always worries me. It would be a whole lot easier if my family were close, so then if I had to work, I could leave my baby with family and not with a sitter. Like I said, I don't think I need to worry about it, but I do. I really do miss my family too and it has gotten a lot worse since I found out I was pregnant. I didn't have the best relationship with my mom growing up, but now we have this wonderful relationship and it's just hard with her being so far away. She even told me the other day that her biggest regret moving was leaving me behind, but they knew it was right, and they did it. I think I might want to move up there someday, who knows. The way California is going, I am afraid for my kids to go to school here. But I have awhile left to worry about that.

What I have learned

Things I have learned recently:
You never leave high school. At least it feels like it. No matter where you go or work, there is going to be drama. So get used to it.

There is always someone you know who thinks you are beautiful/handsome. No matter if you're single, married, etc.
Just when you think everything is going right, something will go wrong.

You still get zits even when you aren't a teenager anymore.

Not everyone is someone else's number one on myspace.

Everyone has taken one picture that they absolutely love of themselves.

If you aren't always trying to change yourself for the better, you're lying to yourself.

It's ok to be jealous. Just don't take it to extremes.

Racquetball should be a sport. It's harder than it looks.

Trying to save money is a lot harder than it sounds.

So is shopping less.

Some girls are still beautiful even with no hair.

We are a society that puts way to much emphasis and importance in entertainment. Actors/actresses and sports players are grossly overpaid.

Sometimes even if you have been using a product for a long time, you can still have an allergic reaction to it.

We never stop making new friends.

You learn something new everyday.

I love my family and I regret taking them for granted.

I miss dancing all the time.