My "Almost Mother's Day" re-cap

Well, it wasn't technically Mother's Day for me, but I call it my "almost Mother's Day". It was very nice and relaxing, thank goodness!! My husband greeted me with Bojangles for breakfast (sweet Lord I love this man!) and a book on aprons called "A is for Apron".It's fantastic, especially since I have a secret obsession with aprons. It goes through the history of aprons, pictures of vintage aprons, and a crap load of patterns for aprons. It's realllly an awesome book. Then, I got control of the remote control. Sweeeet!~ My hubbie has been on a kick of having to watch seasons of tv shows instead of actually watching them on tv. So, we're on season 5 of CSI right now. Needless to say I'm sick of bugs, guts, and maggots during my dinner/down time. I was nice though. I watched some of my favorite shows that have been sitting and waiting for me on the DVR, and then I let him watch some of his CSI. We had a taco-bake for dinner. Ohhhhh, it's soooooo yummy! It comes in a little kit in the grocery store, and it's basicly just layers of tortillas and taco meat. It's usually one of my favorites, along with the queso dip that we had, but not so much anymore. People always told me that if something makes you sick when your pregnant you'll never eat it again and I never believed them. Yup, I definitely do now. I was up alllll night with my arms wrapped around the toilet or a trashcan. *****Ugh.... wont do that again....***** I guess I can thank my lucky stars that this is really the only sickness I've had since I got pregnant!
I gotta make this short and sweet, but I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day and got to relax, at least a little bit. I gotta get back to work. I am leaving for a week at the beach this Friday, so I gotta make sure everything at work and at home wont fall apart while I'm gone. See ya later :)

Friday... part deux

My co-worker just gave me my first Mother's Day present. Things are on their way to looking up. Thanks Nelia!~ :)

Friday.... at last!

All day Wednesday I had the mentality that yesterday was Friday. I even came to work in my jeans (which is an "only Friday" thing we can do). So, it made it very hard to get through the day. Today, Lord, it's another story. I had the hardest time getting myself to walk through the doors at work. I just was nooooot feelin' it. Ugh~! Today has been another one of those emotional days. I was looking through some OLD pictures on my 'puter and it just reminded me how far from home I am, and how I wish I were closer. Could you guys send up a little prayer for me? I'm really needing it today, especially since I'm gonna miss having Mother's Day at home with my mom. I can't imagine what's it's going to be like having my first Mother's Day w/o my baby when it's old enough to move away.

Wordless Wednesday

Video of our belly check this morning. Listen real hard to hear the baby's heart beat :)

CVS deal

I'm feeling a little past the point of sleepy this morning, so I'm keeping this post short and sweet. Today is voting day, so I'm off to the polls. Have a great day guys!

I was in CVS last night gathering cards for all the mothers in my life, birthday's this months, and unfortunate deaths. I wandered around the store a little more and then decided to check out the ads. They have amazing deals going on with their makeup right now, but even better is their steal on laundry detergent. They have their bottles of Tide (100 ounce) liquid detergent on sale for $4.99 with the CVS discount card, regularly $7.99. Attached to the tops of these bottles is an extra dollar off coupon. Sweeeeeeet!~ So, needless to say, I snatched up 6 bottles (the max) for a purchase price of $3.99 each! All 8 cards I bought cost more than the laundry detergent! Woooot!
P.S.... it's official.... this thrifty girlie has gone over-board! :)

Babies, babies, and more babies!!!

This past weekend was a fun filled, and baby filled weekend. I got to see Monica, her hubbie, and their new baby, Parker. Parker is the sweetest and cutest little bundle!!! I just loooooved snuggling him and smelling his sweet baby smell! Then, I went home and spent the weekend with my neice who had "Hand, foot, and mouth". That pour baby had blisters all in her mouth, on her chest, and on her hands where she had drooled and the infection caused more blisters. She wasn't infectious by the time I got to visit with her, but she was still pitiful. Then, the next day, I got to see my nephew and Phillip's side of the family his baby shower. Poor Brian, Melissa, and Jacob were just overwhelmed with all the people they had to meet and all the thing they had to do at the shower. I'm not looking forward to doing that myself for our baby showers. Eeeee-gads! Just a warning to my readers, I'm about to post a crap load of pics, and attempt to post video of Paisley crawling. She's so stinking hilarious b/c she looks like a wounded war victim when she crawls! Oh, and my diaper cake turned out FANTASTIC!!! Behold the John Deere diaper cake that has gotten me a first class ticket to hell:

WARNING: Here comes a crap load of pictures!

Now here are pics of our visit with sweet Parker:

Tired daddy!!!

He's a total natural at this stuff.... it makes me feel good :) !!!

SOMEBODY FOUND THEIR THUMB!!!!

I'm sooooo ready for my own!

Now, pics of my time with Paisley-baby:

Grandmudder and Paisley's feet

"This Cheerio WILL go in my mouth!!!"

This is a video of Paisley trying to get Gizzy's toy. She's just learning how to crawl and doesn't move one of her legs so she looks like a wounded war victim:

Last pics.... I promise!! Here are pics from Jacob's shower:

Phillip, Jacob, and Brian (P's brother)
Melissa, Jacob, Brian

Going to hell in a hand basket

I am going home this weekend for a baby shower for my new nephew, Jacob. I'm not really sure what to get him since his whole registry was purchased before they even adopted him. I think we'll probably just do a gift card and let them get what he realllly needs, but he's been with them for almost a month now, so they probably already have everything.... who knows?? Anyway, my mother-in-law was at the baby shower we threw for my sister when she was pregnant and loved the diaper cake I made for her.

She has asked me to do one for this shower. I'm not really sure what the theme is, but his side of the family is very country and love the whole hunting, fishing, manly life-style, so I figured I couldn't go wrong with a John Deere theme. My problem came when I stood in Walmart for an hour and a half trying to find John Deere toys for the top of the cake that were age appropriate for him to play with now. So, I eventually settled a pack of J.D. tractors and other J.D. vehicles (for ages 3+......eh, oh well, let's hope he doesn't go chewing on the wheels!) and needed to find some animals and other things to decorate the cake with. So, I walked down the road to the Dollar Store and COULD NOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME find a pack of barnyard animals there or Walmart. So, I look behind me and there is this glowing pack of figurines called "Noah's Ark". It's Noah, his wife, a few animals, and some fake food. SCORE!!~ I bought two packs, got everything home, and started assembling my cake. As I was ripping open the Noah's Ark pack and pulling out the plastic bread, corn, pumpkins, and hay, I noticed that Noah and his wife got discarded and put into the trash pile. So, seriously people, pray hard for me. I really think this is a first class ticket to hell for me.... all in the name of a diaper cake!
...(and look there is a even the all important little dove in the package that I ditched... sweet Jesus please forgive me!)

Here is the cake in the beginning parts of assembly- before I decided it was too small and added 40 more diapers.

I'll put up more pictures when I get the ribbon, John Deere stuff, and half of Noah's crew on there. Have a great weekend. Probably wont be able to post til Monday!
(...oh and P.S.... don't know if you can tell but the Food Network Challenge is on in the background showing the scene where the chef passes out and falls out in the floor during the "Surprise Proposal Cake" show...... needless to say, she didn't win... bless her heart!)