I am starting to feel like John Locke on Lost.... we have this fire alarm panel at the hotel that keeps going off every 5-10 minutes for the past week. We have to go into our "backroom" or hallway and push this annoying little "Trouble Acknowledge" button to make it stop. Thankfully, it's not the loud fire alarm, it's just a little beeping sound so it's not bothering the entire hotel, just us as the front desk. It's exhausting though because between running back and forth between the alarm panel and the front desk to answer phone calls/ take care of in house guest issues, I'm getting a real workout!!

For my birthday, Zion took me out to eat at one of my all time favorite restaurants, "Bob Evans", for their ultimate WildFire Chicken Salad (which I have been craving for months...) He had to get a little creative because the closest Bob Evans is about 1800 miles away, so he found the recipe online and had Becca make it for me.

Zion took me out for about an hour (we went to Babies R Us and got a couple of things that I had coupons for off our registry) and then he said we had a reservation for lunch at a great restaurant. He drove me back to the homestead where Jariah and Becca had created "Bob Evans" just for me!!! (Complete with a sign and everything!!!) ) It was so cute, and the food was quite delicious. (Not quite the real thing, but pretty darn close!!!)

Happy Birthday to ME!!

Oh, yeah, Zion and I finally came up with a name we like for a boy.....

........drum roll please............





Obediah Juan Ramirez




and we'll call him O.B. JUAN!!




buh dum bump chish!!




LoL




Kidding....

Justin sent me this, and told me these are Obama supporters. They look like real winners and not like hillbilly Republicans to me...

For Israel:

People are so rude. It wasn't that long ago when they first started to realise that I am pregnant, and now, everyone asks, "So when are you due?" and when I respond with my due date of January 17th, they just raise their eyebrows and look at my stomach like I'm a huge disgrace to pregnant women everywhere and they think I look like I'm about to pop! Rude, Rude, Rude!!! And, what's worse, is that these people are guests, so it's not like I can be equally rude back (and slug 'em or something) I just have to smile and say something like, "Yeah, I've still got a while... heh heh." It's so annoying.

The other day, Zion and I went to Babies-R-Us to try to make sense of what we have to get in order to be ready for this little ones arrival. On the way, I wanted some ice cream so we drove through Sonic and Zion got me a cookie dough blizzard, (it was delicious!) and I decided I also wanted some onion rings. (Weird combo, right?) Zion was quite repulsed when I started to dip the onion rings in the cool whip that topped off my ice cream. It sounds disgusting even to me, but man it tasted great!! Being preggers sure does mess with the old taste buds!!

I had another Dr. appointment yesterday, she asked me if I had been feeling the baby move much right before she stuck the little heart monitor on my stomach and got kicked. I guess the baby answered the question for me!! haha! She said everything looks great which is always reassuring. =)

Oh yeah, and I was sick again on Tuesday night, but it had nothing to do with the onion ring ice cream because that was on Saturday or Sunday. Go figure!

I need help deciding on a stroller.... unfortunately, I haven't found a purple one or even an affordable lime green one, so these are the two top choices. I need feedback!! Thanks!

Option A Option B

You've asked about names, here they are:

For a girl:

Liberty Anne Ramirez

For a boy:

Zane Thomas Ramirez

or

Leviticus Andrew Ramirez

The only problem we are having is that if this one's a boy and we choose Leviticus, (whom we would call Levi for short) and then next time we have a girl and name her Liberty, we'll have to have another "L" name for our 3rd child for a boy and girl! (We already know we want the name Liberty for a girl, that one's pretty much non-negotiable... so don't even try!) We do like the names Lincoln and Landon for a boy, and Larissa and Loralei (kinda... but it might be a little too "Gilmore Girls"....) for a girl.

If we do Zane and Liberty, then we would just need a name that sounds good with those but it doesn't have to start with "L" which one would think would make it easier.... but I'm at a complete loss. (It's possible that I am overthinking this....) I kind of like Honor for a girl, and I like Justice for a boy, but I can't very well have a Liberty, Justice and Honor! That's too much, even for me!!

Thoughts, comments, ideas? We don't want "normal" names, because, let's face it... we are Zion Jeru and Jeshanah! We can't name our kids names that are on the "Most Popular Names" lists!! I do want something pronouncable though, so that my kids in-laws know what their name is.

Well, I had my first stranger recognise that I am pregnant today... (A guest at work) so I thought it was time to post some pictures of pregnant me for Mom, Jess and anyone else who cares. Enjoy!!

Well, it looks like I will be spending yet another Thanksgiving in Arizona. I was hoping to go home for that, since I won't be allowed to fly around Christmas, but the ticket prices are insane nowadays... and it's looking like it's not gonna happen. I'm pretty bummed about it, too. =(

This'll be the 3rd Thanksgiving, and 2nd Christmas not with my family, and I hate it!! Why-Oh-Why-Oh-Why-Oh.... Why did I ever leave Ohio????!! (it might be time for me to reinstate my theme song on the blog....)