DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM CIRCUIT CITY!!!

I don't usually use my blog for this kind of thing, but we are out $800 and thought I should tell people, before they get the same royal treatment from Circuit City as we have.

So just before Christmas, my husband and I ordered a video camera as our present from our whole family and to each other, to have for when our baby is born. The box showed up a couple weeks after we ordered it from Circuitcity.com. The FedEx guy put the package on the ground and told my husband to sign for the box. The FedEx guy walked away. When Tim picked up the box he realized it was empty. He called Circuit City with in minutes of getting the empty package. Two months later, 20+ phone conversations with Circuit City and FedEd, where we were told no one higher than the trained monkey who answers the phone would ever talk to us, and they closed the case without telling us! No refund and no camera.

FedEx says that we can't file a claim against them, Circuit City has to do it b/c they are the shipper. Circuit City won't file the claim b/c they have our money and don't have any intention of giving it back.

We told Discover not to pay the bill b/c we never received our order, and they said they would "investigate", but Circuit City is denying that they sent an empty package. FedEx told us to send them the empty box, but won't do anything with it until Circuit City files a claim. Circuit City says it isn't their problem, it FedEx's problem. So we are out $800 and no one from Circuit City, FedEx or Discover gives a darn.

Hope whoever the jerk is who stole our video camera is getting plenty of use out of it. Merry Christmas, you awesome person!

CIRCUIT CITY has despicable costumer service, and I will make sure that everyone we know takes pause before purchasing from there again. If you look up reviews on Circuit City, they are horrible. We weren't the first or the last people to get the a raw deal from them. Don't make the same mistake.
to see other reviews on Circuit City. http://www.resellerratings.com/store/Circuit_City

Belly Pix

Some of you have been asking me for belly pix, so I had my own personal pho-tog, Timothy, capture my hugeness. I thought I might as well do it right since this baby is coming in,hopefully, about two weeks. I am a little self conscience about putting these out there, so please keep all obnoxious comments to a minimum. Thanks!

HaPpY VaLeNtInE's DaY!

I woke up to the whisper of, "*Good morning. Happy Valentine's Day*" There was a beautiful man laying next to me in bed, and that beautiful man was my husband and the father of our much anticipated daughter, Arie Alex. Waiting for me in the middle of the nursery was an amazing display of roses, a bottle of non-alchoholic wine, and the most beautiful letter written in a journal that we pass back and forth to each other. I was so moved with gratitude and love over Tim's letter to me and thought, "How can I be so blessed, that God gave me the gift of Tim's love?"

And not just Tim's love, I'm blessed to be loved my many! We have amazing families and amazing friends who are good a loving us well. We are blessed by this bouquet of different types of people loving us in different ways, some of which I didn't know I wanted or needed until God put them in my life to show me His love and celebration for Tim and me.

My prayer is that your Valentine's Day, and the rest of you year, is filled with beauty and the knowledge that you are loved.

Puggles!

Our friend, Abby, (see link for Dragonfly designs on my side bar) came over last week for dinner, and brought her new Puggle puppy to play with king. Her name is Olive and she is a cross between a Pug and a Beagle. If I may say so, she came out really cute!

Olive and King sniffed at each other a bit and as you can see Olive "viciously" attacked our over sized tennis ball. King was mostly just interested in sniffing Olive's butt, but toward the end of the evening, Olive was batting at King with her "huge" paws and scaring him to death. We love Olive and although she probably won't break 7 lbs, hope that she and King can be friends for a long time.

Pick of the Week: The Story of Stuff

Thanks to my friend Drew Lammy for putting this link up on Facebook. It made me start thinking, and rethinking the way we go through stuff! I am just as big of a consumer of stuff as anyone. We don't all have to go out and buy hybrid cars, or check to make sure every tag of everything we buy is made in America, but there are little things we can do. Tim and I started by replacing our light bulbs with the energy efficient kind of bulbs. We recycle our plastic, paper, glass and cardboard. We started using concentrated laundry soap that last longer, uses less packaging and is better for the environment. Those are all little things that we have done with almost no effort. There are a lot of little things we can be doing to help take care of our world and the people in our world better.

My friend Liz Horn turned us on to using cloth diapers for when Arie Alex gets here. Just using one cloth diaper a day, instead of a disposable diaper, means NOT putting 365 diapers in a landfill in one year. We should value things like thriftiness and sustainability. We should be looking for ways that make us the generation to turn around the bad effects that people have on the planet, and other cultures around. We need to be the generation that raises our children to take care of the planet and people better. Okay that's my two cents. Go watch the video. It will make you think about these things and then pass the website on so that other people can think about these things too.

To watch the full video and learn more goto www.storyofstuff.com

Airawen's room and stuff

I told some of you I would post pictures of some of the cute things we have gotten for Arie Alex, and how cute her room is so far. There are some more things to be added, but here are the beautiful curtains and glider Tim's mom made for us, and some of the other baby accessories that now adorn our house.

The fabrics in Arie Alex's room are by Amy Butler and Maddie Schmidt has added the bird's to the curtains.

Snow Day

All the schools are closed, and there over a foot of snow on the ground here. Today is a snow day! King loves the snow. He runs along the ground with his mouth open eating up the snow. It gets all over his nose and he looks cute. Pray that Tim's flight from Cleveland doesn't get delayed this afternoon!

The Last of the Baby Showers

Two weeks ago we had the last of the baby showers. Our friends the Sweeney's and Warren's from church threw us a co-ed shower on a Saturday night and the next day Lori and Christine threw me a shower for Tim's whole side of the family. We were surrounded by friends and family, prayers and generosity all weekend, and got some great stuff for Arie Alex. The biggest blessing about this pregnancy has definitely been the excitement and celebration by the people in our life. We are so thankful for the love of our community and family. It gives me strength and a renewed excitement about our baby girl. It keeps my mind off the pain and fatigue, and is a constant reminder that we have amazing blessing and a life to be thankful for. Here are some of the pictures from the that great weekend. I know I probably say it a lot, but thank you, thank you, thank you for all those surrounding us and holding us up in prayer.