29/365

Oh to be in school again... I totally want to sleep in tomorrow and be snowed in my house. Just hubby, babygirl and I. It's probably not going to happen.. This sucks.

I love my job. I love my coworker (singular). I love my patients (most). Yet I still find me kicking myself some days over giving up my dreams of my store. I guess I haven't totally given up my dream, but it's gonna be such a pain to go back to school and get a degree in business and management. I feel it would be necessary. Then I also think about how young I am and I have many years ahead of me... Hey hubby, go get a business management degree and I'll just be the creative part of the store. I like this idea better =)

Dear beautiful new sewing machine,
   I have been staring at you the last 3 days that I have owned you. I am lusting after you with my eyes and waiting for the perfect moment to sit in front of you and play. I feel my creative genius stirring inside me =)
Love- your impatiently waiting new owner

28/365

Few minutes until midnight... I must blog for my two lone known followers :) have a good night. I had a great time bowling and babygirl even cooperated after her major meltdowns in public this week.

Saturday 27/365

Nothing to say today. It'd be more of a Dear Diary moment anyway..

26/365

Job, oh job. Sometimes I hate you.. but deep down I'm really glad I have you. (Shh, don't tell anyone) It's hard for people to find jobs today so I'm just thankful to have one. A lot of families struggle and I'm glad mine doesn't have to. It sucks to just make ends meet and only occasionally have extra money. But hey, we're young and a new family.. eventually we'll get to the point of having more than we need, maybe even some blow money.

Speaking of.. crossing my fingers on someone's possible job opportunity. I love that the day I finally take money out of my check to begin tithing again, hubby gets a call. God is always right on time. And I'm gonna start talking like hubby already has the job. God knows what he's doing and does it at just the right moment. Unemployment ends soon and I'm sure hubby's been thinking about the next step.

Doing more than crossing my fingers.... I'm saying prayers.

25/365

Nose hairs... seriously? How can you leave the house in the morning after looking at yourself in the mirror and seeing those nasty black hairs hanging out your nostrils.. Gross.

Wednesday 24/365

SEEEERRRIOUSLY! If you don't work in an establishment, and you are just the spouse of the owner, that does NOT mean you should come hang out weekly. You don't know what you're doing and you screw things up. We have to fix everything you do. Stay away!
Ok I'm done venting.. ugh!

Hubby doesn't know it yet, but I'm dying to stencil my bathroom floor. Whoa whoa wait a minute.. now he knows =) Cat's out of the bag.. err, blog?

I follow along pretty religiously with an amazing blog that brings the craftiness out in me. I have so many ideas and things I want to do to my home that I know he'd totally NOT go for. He already thinks our house is girly enough. One of these days, I expect him to throw his hands up and admit he lives in a poofy-glittery-cupcake loving home =) haha.. ( just wait til my next two babies are girls like I predict ) WHERE'S THE MAN CAVE??!! I can just hear him screaming this in his head..

oh man, I forgot to give him a haircut, yet again.. oops

here are the amazing floors...

Tuesday 23/365

I know, I know. I'm totally slacking on the blogging. Hubby reminds me every night.. you forgot to blog today..thanks babe =)

My craftiness is amazing. Who the heck sits down in front of a 19th century sewing machine and wips together an outfit for their kid? THIS GUY RIGHT HERE!! I obsess over making sure babygirl is always decked out and looking 100% adorable. If I walk out the door ready for the day, looking like crap.. I'm good as long as babygirl is dressed to the T =) My obsession with a little baby boutique in a small neighboring city is kept quiet. If I ever was given a shopping spree to anywhere, it'd be there.. for babygirl. Skip myself! My mom always said your kids come first, even when shopping. I never got that until babygirl came along. Now I understand. The first place I go when entering a store is to the baby department. Sometimes it drives hubby crazy. I can't help it! I like to window shop and just browse through a store and look at all the things I'd love to have for babygirl =)

So back to these outfits.. it's still touch and go. I was trying to argue my "rightness" with dear hubby last night. I have a few flaws to work out before I consider the requests I've already gotten for outfits for friends' little ones. (darn elastic)

start

finish

Monday 22/365

Dumb site wouldn't let me blog...

You know what's really gross? Nose hair.
Seriously.. how can someone look at themself in the mirror and not see giant nose hairs hanging out of their nose? Gross!

Sunday 21/365

No time today... But tomorrows will be good!

Promise.

Saturday 20/365

Friday 19/365

Cancer.
Why can't it ever be fully gotten rid of? If it shows up somewhere, it's bound to come back with a vengeance in a new area. It truly is the disease of our day. =(

Why can't I seem to be silly anymore? Did getting married and becoming a mommy really age me that much? I look at pictures of my hubby and I from when we were dating, or pictures of friends and I.. they were good times! Everything was so carefree and just, dumb! I guess life just took a different road and I got settled into a routine.
Wake up. Go to work. Usually come home on lunch break to feed babygirl. Go back to work. Get off work at 5. Come home. Eat dinner. Sit on the couch watching TV for a few hours with babygirl and hubby. Go to bed. Wake up and do it all over again. Look forward to my day off on Thursdays and for the weekends.

ARRGH! I'm so stuck in this routine, it's a never ending circle. But on the flipside, I honestly have no other complaints with my life.
I have an amazing hubby who is my everything and I couldn't imagine my life without him. Sure, we've had our ups and downs but who doesn't? Three years of marriage has brought us a long way. He's truly my best friend and I wouldn't have it any other way. He's my rock, supporter, and biggest cheerleader =) I know I always have someone to lean on and vent to. He loves my sun up to sun down. Even on my worst days when I feel like I don't deserve it.
Babygirl is my whole world. The reason I wake up every morning. My sunshine. My life revolves around her. Well, actually hubby and I's lives revolve around her...cuz if baby ain't happy, ain't no body happy! I learn something new everyday as I am teaching her new things. The only thing that would make me happier is being able to stay home with her everyday and see her grow and change. But I'm honestly so thankful that at least one of us is able to be home with her and we are able to raise her ourselves.

Dear brother-
This is your personal shoutout so you won't feel left out..
Thanks for following.
I luff you flabby
Love- me

Thursday 18/365

Painting. You are a pain, but the end result is fun =)

Is my child teething? Sweet Jesus she randomly is screaming and having a meltdown for no reason today. On several occasions. Nothing like being in a restaurant and having your baby scream uncontrollably for some unknown reason. It's times like these that I want to lay her down and leave her be for a little bit, but I can never bring myself to do it. What if something's wrong? Something's bothering her? She just wants to be cuddled and soothed? ARGH. I have no answers at times like these. This is probably the ONLY time I'd agree with my hubby that I wish she was just a little older to tell me what was wrong.

Wednesday 18/365

Dear Winter:
 Normally I love you, but you can take your ice back where you came from.
Thanks- me


Oh Em Gee. I am feeling crafty. All our patients except for 3 cancelled this morning due to the ice. Therefore, I had 2 1/2 hours to do nothing. I spent the morning surfing the web and finding free patterns to sew baby things. Why pay umpteen million dollars for boutique baby clothes when I can spend a few dollars on cloth and sew them myself thanks to youtube and my awesome vintage sewing machine. I'm way excited to get started but I have prior obligations this weekend.
Thanks to me offering to re-do my mother's bathroom since mine turned out awesome and the fact that my dad hates to paint.

Dear Husband-
 I love you and thanks for following my blog. You're awesome =)
Love - Me!

Tuesday 17/365

So one of my two followers has complained about my boring blogs the last few days.. I love you too honey :)

Family. Aren't you supposed to be there for one another and support each other? Just a thought . I still love my family even when someone makes a decision I don't agree with, so I would think I would be treated the same way.. Hmmm

Million dollar money drop. What a dumb show you are. I think there is a test to see how low you IQ is in order to be a contestant. It is hilarious to hear my Hubby walk around the house mumbling under his breath as to how stupid the contestants are.

Monday 15/365

Is so not feeling the blogging this evening.. I even had some fun and witty things to say. But I'm sucking it up and posting a blog...

and here it is.

 reading uncle joe's dirty texts =)

Sunday 14/365

And once again I've forgotten to post for the day. So I'm blogging from my 10 am "break" at work. Lame. Sunday was uneventful and semi-relaxing. We arrived home at 6:45 am and both crashed in bed. My awesome babygirl slept through the car ride only waking up twice to eat ( fatty) and then let mommy sleep until 11 am. Oh it was heaven.

Packing to go on a trip isn't so bad. It's the unpacking and putting everything away that bites.

Saturday 13/365

Last official day of vacation. Crap. I'm SO not done. Not ready to go home. We're actually leaving here in about 2 hours when babygirl is good and sleeping. Back to the grind on Monday. Vacations spoil people...siiiighs

Had the hubby and babygirl all decked out in their new boots today. I swear, I'm nonexistent when that man walks around carrying her... it's all eyes on the adorable twins =) haha

 hot mama boots

Spent the morning at Ripley's Aquarium. Babygirl slept every minute of it, I think her daddy was a little bummed about that. He's a fish lover. I adored the little penguin exhibit they had. Who knew some penguins came from Africa? Really?

The rest of the day was spent walking the strip. We walked at least 2-3 miles. Poor hubby endured it like a champ in those shmexy cowboy boots! Babygirl cruised like a big girl in her stroller. No blisters for sweetpea!

 big girl stroller because I hate my carseat

It is seriously such a drag to go back home. I'd love to grab all of my family and plant them down here with me. I'd run away to Nashville in a heartbeat. One of these days...

Friday 12/365

Day 2 of our vacation. Spent the day at the Titanic museum which was amazing and Dixie Stampede. I was wondering how that would go having babygirl with us. She slept the whole time. It was great.

Went on a boot hunt for my hubby. I officially have a SHMEXY HUSBAND! Woo!! =)

Gonna deck hubby and babygirl out in their new boots tomorrow. I'm super excited.

boot-scootin-boogey 

I love having a cute kid. I don't have a big head over it.. but I love how I can't ever go anywhere without someone stopping me to see babygirl. Our waitress at a diner tonight was flipping out over her and brought every single waitress in the restaurant over to see her and talk to her. Hilarious. I must have an adorable husband because all these women tell me babygirl is so adorable and looks exactly like her daddy... =)

Thursday 11/365

Jet lag from a road trip?

We arrived in Tennessee and had a lazy day in the hotel room. We were able to check in at 9:30am after contemplating what to do about our reservations at the nasty cockroach infested hotel. *Shudder* At breakfast this morning we decided to check the latest reviews on our hotel because when we booked everything was about 50/50. The latest reviews from Christmas Eve had us calling again, to ensure our reservations were canceled.

Now I sit here updating my blog with babygirl playing on a clean, king size bed with the fireplace roaring and the hubby relaxing in the jacuzzi.

He fell asleep at 11:30 and finally at 4pm I was bored and ready to get out into this fabulous state! AGH how I wish I could just uproot everything and plant myself here.. wiiiiishes. We ventured next door to Pizza Hut (why is it that the breadsticks are different in every state?) and started our boot hunt. Two years ago I fell in love with a pair of pink cowboy boots with chains and I am still kicking myself today for not getting them. I would love to find anything remotely similar in a decent price range. I'm also working on turning dear hubby into a shmexy cowboy =)   (Ooh baby)

Who do you think walked out of the store with a new pair of cowboy boots? That's right. Babygirl. =)

red boots just like mommy's when she was a baby

we'll grow into them.. just 2 sizes too big right now

couldn't pass them up for $13.97

mommy's thrifty

Wednesday 10/365

Once again, my post is a little late. This is due to the fact that we drove through the night to get to our vacation =) Our first family vacation and I wanted the road trip portion to be a success. Our original plan was to leave at 10:30 pm when she usually goes down for the night. But..

I am THAT friend.

I don't mind at all. I'm the reliable one. The one my friends know they can always count on, whether we just spoke yesterday, or 5 years ago.

Anytime a friend of mine is in need, I'm there. At the drop of a hat. It may take me just a little longer now that I have a 16 lb mini-Riley to cart around. =) But regardless, I'm there. Whatever the reason.

So our trip got pushed back a little and we weren't able to get on the road until 11:45. But my amazing baby slept until 4:15am. I'm thinking she only woke up because the road got crappy and bumpy and I think she was jostled awake. So I fed her and buckled her back in her seat and off we went. I attempted to sleep all night in the backseat as well, but due to my minor anxiety attack about the weather and roads around 1am, my sleep was crap. I probably got only 2-3 hours max. Lily woke again at 7:10am and we had just pulled into Cracker Barrel and we 2 miles from our hotel.

Road trips with an infant aren't as bad as everyone makes it seem.

all buckled in and ready to go

Tuesday 9/365

House Re-Do.
Stress for the husband, fun for the wife =)

Our love of rubber duckies had us decorating our main bathroom with them since we first got married. But after 3 years, we decided it was time for a "grown-up" bathroom. After the paint catastrophe, which involved a red bull...we managed to finish it up. We are very satisfied with the result.

BEFORE

 AFTER

Monday 8/365

Oh Monday, you are up to no good, as usual. My poor girl woke me up every 2 hours last night, which equals a rough morning. We ran out of her reflux med this weekend so the poor baby had to deal with heartburn all night long.

crazy niece at Smoothie King like iCarly

Sunday 7/365

How can one tiny person make me late for church almost every Sunday? No matter what time I start getting ready, I can never seem to get out the door at the time I set for myself.

I think the devil lives in my living room wall. We have an accent wall that is red and black. Lily will stare at that stupid wall, laugh and talk to it. Within minutes, she is bursting into tears and screaming, all while still staring at the dumb wall! I'm not sure what offends my child about my red wall, but I swear the only conclusion I can come up with, is it's the devil's hiding place! =)

 my big girl playing

Saturday 6/365

Oh US Army, how I love you. =) You deposit money into my husband's account at exactly the right moment.

Spent the day with Miss Lily while hubby was playing Army man all day. Did some damage at Hobby Lobby for Christmas next year, gotta love 90% sales.

Hankie project for my momma

Managed to just about finish up sewing all the hankies for my mom today. Had to find a bobbin for my vintage sewing machine before I could do anything else. I feel crafty all of the sudden... like I want to learn to sew awesome things for my baby girl =)

Friday 5/365

Fridays at work... BUSY! Every patient demands to get in before the weekend, as if we'll disappear and not be there on Monday. SIGH! The mole on your forearm will still be there in 3 days, sir. haha.

Saint's Meeting at church this evening. Oh man, hilarious. Pastor Sanchez was just making it plain. I love my church. I love how there's all of 30-40 people in the meeting tonight and yet it was just a big open 'family' discussion. Everyone is always made to feel included.

skip the double chin, my baby has a triple chin!

Thursday 4/365

Ahh Thursdays, how I love you.

the view from my wake up

My weekday off work. While pregnant, it was my -catch up on sleep- day. Now it is -Lily, mommy, & daddy- day. I usually try to stay at home and be lazy or catch up on some housework.. it never usually happens though. I'm not too much of  homebody. I get bored easily after catching up on my soaps.

So far it's 3:15 and I have yet to leave my house..

Wednesday 3/365

I tried for two hours last night to get on here to update, but the dumb site was messed up for a while. It's only day three and I'm already slacking! Good thing nothing of importance or exciting happened that I needed to get out! :)

1 shake

+ 2 straws =

favorite aunt status 

Tuesday 2/365

Yay for new phones! Hubby got us new iPhones today and they are amazing.

Family time on the couch after mommy got off work

notice new phone in hand  =)

This was day 2 of our church's 20 day fast and boy did I struggle! I'm not sure how fasting and breastfeeding works it I'm already seeing some struggles there too.

I wonder why my husband gets so embarrassed when I walk around in a store feeding my baby. :) I think he likes to walk in front of me and pretend he isn't with me! Hehe caught you!

Running into old friends is always fun. It's hard being so close to someone then losing touch for some reason. Makes you miss that person much more. I wish I had made better choices regarding my friendships when I got married. That's something I regret. I got caught up in my new life as a wife and abandoned just about every friend I had. Sometimes it's lonely when I just need some girl time. Sigh.

Monday 1/365

I used to blog but got away from it. I meant to start a new one when Lily was born, then again on January 1. But as a new mother, Lily distracted me and I never got around to it.
So here goes.

My goal is to get a 365 project going about juggling being a working mommy and wife.

Lily before bed after DebbieLynn's birthday party



Lily on 1-1-2011

I'm starting this year out as a new mommy, with a wonderful husband, having a good job, and in a new church. I'm looking forward to what God has in store for our lives in 2011