Where have I been?

It's been almost two months since the last time I posted...Sorry about that. Apparently I have been every where but here. So... let's talk about what happened while I was gone!

First of all my little sister got hitched y'all. I still can not even believe that this happened. Can someone please pinch me and wake me up from this dream? Just yesterday she was this cute little blonde headed ball of annoying little sister and then... a beautiful bride? I don't even know how this happened. The wedding however was beautiful and Baby Love stole the show for a second by riding in all kick-backed-like in his little red wagon, tons of tears were shed, I of course delivered a wonderful maid of honor speech in which I threatened my new brother-in-law with my chihuahua-ness, and a good time was had by all. After the wedding though Baby Daddy and I decided we were in need of a mini vacation/late anniversary trip and let me tell you... WE WERE!

We enjoyed a day in the middle of the Santa Fe Plaza, did some fishing in the Jemez, and saw a lot of family including our sweet little Grandma Mae and Grumpy Grandpa. (Also I decided that one day I want to be a rich, yuppie, weekend warrior, hippie, ranch owner who hangs out at the La Fonda on the Plaza sipping Blue Winged Olive from the Wines of the San Juan. I know... that probably sounds taboo to everyone but I don't even care. Make fun of me all you want but it sounds like heaven.) On the way home we picked up a couple of stowaways....

More Aunts!!! We love the Aunts! The Aunts (my sisters-in-law) stayed with us for 2 weeks. During that time we went shopping, ice skating, to the pool, we painted our own pottery, we made smores every night and watched Grav3yard Girl & Eleventh Gorgeous videos, and played with Baby Love and celebrated the fourth... SO MUCH FUN! We also baby sat these cute little critters while their parents were out of town. Sweet little Bear and Bailey!

After that....

Grams and Aunt TayTay came to visit. They brought frogs and suckers and Baby loved it! We also did some pottery painting, crafting, shopping, and Grav3yard Girl watching! Oh and sushi... Aunt TayTay and I enjoyed lots of tasty sushi while Gram's gagged at us. It was soooo tasty.

Now the company has all gone home, back to their normal lives and we are slowly getting back to ours. Baby has recently been getting adjusted to a new sleep schedule and now sleeps in his own crib all the time. (It is however still in our room because. A. I am paranoid. B. I am lazy... I am not walking across the hall way half asleep.) School is about to start back up and let me tell you... I am a little nervous about how this semester is going to go down because my kid is EVERY WHERE and in EVERY THING! Drawers... he opens them, doors he opens them, bags... he tears everything out. I recently moved our entire movie collection into a hallway linen closet which took me an hour to do because we own probably 500+ (This is actually not an exaggeration) dvds and my BabyLove loves nothing more than to rip every single one of them down out of it's place and throw them ALL OVER THE HOUSE! Pray for me this semester. Pray that I find time for sleep and showering!

Speaking of prayers... the one year anniversary of my Grammy joining the Lord is coming up and lets face it... I just have been having a really hard time with it lately. The thing is... it felt like she had kicked cancer's butt so many times before that I think a big part of all of us just expected that she would be able to keep doing it. When she lost her battle I feel like I was just in shock and I still feel like a little bit of that is lingering. I can't not help but think about it a hundred times a day and it makes me feel guilty because I have a lot of wonderful grandparents that I also should be worrying about. It's just that... she was so young, and it's not fair. However... something amazing came from all of this the other day. I was having a down day and was drowning in a lot of emotions over this. I had decided that I needed to unpack some boxes (yes I'm still unpacking... don't judge) while Baby was taking a nap. I came across a book that she had given me and whenever Grammy gave me a book she would always include a special little note inside. This note talked about marriage and love and she included some verses with it. I looked up the verses and I don't want to talk a lot about them because then I start crying and I can't see what I am typing and my mascara runs but basically... she taught me something else. I always said that I idolized her marriage and what she had to tell me made me appreciate my sweet husband a little more then I already do. Baby Daddy and I recently celebrated our second anniversary and sometimes it's easy to get lost in a marriage when you are just going through every day life. When you stay home all day long paying attention to another tiny person and forgetting about yourself it is easy to just want to block every one else out at the end of the day. I am so guilty of tuning out my sweet husband every time he wants to show me the latest camo that just came out, or a new duck call, or a new Sage fly rod, or what GHG is doing this year. I forget some times at the end of the day that he wants my attention too, that he needs my attention and that after our faith, he comes next in my lineup. So anyways.. long story short.. there was Grammy, reminding me, teaching me, and I can't be more grateful for that.

Nursey update!

Hi!, I have been pretty busy lately and lacking in blogging inspiration! I'm not even sure how that is possible with this cute kid that I could be writing about. I guess what I should say is that I have been lacking in motivation. Especially because......

It's soooooo HOT here and all I want to do is watch this sweet boy play in his palm tree pool! Also I have been reading a lot lately. I go though stages in which I will binge read for a few weeks. I've gone through and started rereading all of my favorites lately... "Favorite Memories of a Country Vet", "Black Heels to Tractor Wheels", "Madame Millie", and "With Love from Baghdad". I also found a V.C. Andrews series that I have read a million times on iBooks the other day and devoured the entire series within three nights. I also picked up "The Fault in our Stars" but regretted reading it afterwards. To soon to be reading books about cancer I think, but still I think it would have been an O.K. book if it wouldn't have tossed me back into thinking about my family's recent loss.

I have also been working on the house, which has not been going well. I just hate unpacking! I do have Baby Love's nursery pretty much done though...

Baby and I have decided to share some photos of it! 

The sunflower yellow peg board is our newest addition to nursery decor! Dang Pinterest has to many adorable ideas and I feel like I need to do all of them! And of course, no nursery would be complete without an old Murph dog!

The Tipi has been the best thing ever! We have spent hours playing in and around the TiPi! 

Baby recently started becoming very interested with his tiny rocking chair from Great Grandma & Grandpa in the corner. You should see him rock in it! So cute! 

We also really love this Melissa & Doug barnyard set from Aunt Nannon! He wants to play with it all the time! 

And of course his new walk in closet! 

I am still missing something for the area over his crib because I was unable to salvage the vinyl ducks sign from his old room. (Parts of it did however find its way into his baby book.) But we are working with the Grandducks Vickie and Randy to figure something out. Our new walls have a very rough texture and V, suggested putting one on a sign but I haven't been able to find anything I would want to put it on yet.

Speaking of his crib, something amazing has been happening lately. Well amazing for me anyways. My son has started sleeping in his own bed! And not just sleeping in his own bed, I lay him down at nine o'clock and he goes to sleep by himself without crying! We started this about three weeks ago. The first night he cried for about five minutes, the second night he cried for a couple minutes, and since then he hasn't cried a single night. I thought that this was going to be hard, turns out the only person who had a hard time at first was me. It had started to become way to hot for us to all sleep in the same bed though and he has recently started wiggling EVERY WHERE! The Baby Daddy can sleep through being kicked and gouged usually but I can not! For now he is sleeping in his own bed in our room because he is still nursing and I am to lazy to walk my sleepy self across the hall way at 3am but soon we will start introducing him into sleeping in his own crib in his own room. 

He still hasn't started crawling either, he does however scoot around on his butt and roll to whatever he wants. He also pulls himself up on everything. I'm starting to wonder if he will be one of those babies who goes straight to walking and by passes crawling. Someone has been hanging out everyday though and encouraging him to become more mobile on his own... 

He wants to go everywhere that his four legged blond brother goes. 

I love these three... and my kids natural faux hawk that has begun to come back! 

Redecorating and Lushin' it up!

What?! Two blogs in a 24 hr period? I'm on a roll y'all. Actually... I have recently been working on Baby's sleep schedule again. With all of the traveling we have done over the past three months his schedule was upside down! Finally after a week of being settled he is starting to get back into his own groove. Thank you Baby Jesus! I was about to pull my hair out.

Anyways... I am writing this to show you all the fun things we have acquired today!

First we will start with Baby Love's new nursery stuff!
So, as you may know, leaving the old house behind was especially hard for me because I was not ready to leave Baby's nursery. There is just something special about a room that you pour all your heart into for your first munchkin. It was the room that I envisioned him in while he was still kicking away at my ribs. It was the room that I spent hours rearranging and searching for just the right stuff to go in. So when we had to pack it up after he only spent five months there... ugh, I was a wreck about it. When we picked out the house we are in now I looked for two things, a big back yard for my fuzzies and a sweet room for my Baby Love. I found both. His new room is huge though! I mean gigantic compared to what he had before so now I am working on revamping the nursery. I have lots of projects in the works which I will show you when I am done but for now I will show you our Amazon score.

How much fun is this? (Sorry the photo is so grainy) This is Baby's new night light! It's a light projector that is supposed to make his ceiling look like the bottom of the ocean! I can also plug my iPhone or iPod into it and it will play music. 

We also ended up with... 

A (faux) sheepskin rug for the Tipi! No tipi is complete without a furry rug! Duh! Chief Thunder Britches is in love with it by the way. He loves the way it feels. Also, I think I want to live in his Tipi. It's just so cute! I want one for myself. I could put it right next to his and we could be neighbors! :)

Today we celebrated Mother's Day because we were missing the Daddy for the actual day. Baby Daddy has been working crazy hours lately so we hadn't really seen or spent any time with him until today. He and Baby gave me a Mother's Day gift today though. 

First they gave me Duck Commander wine! 

And then they gave me a big ol' bag of Victoria's Secret! 

Nothing says Happy Mother's Day like booze and undies! Actually I think the Baby Daddy has ulterior motives here. He has been talking about another kid lately. He probably thinks this is the ticket to baby #2. Luckily for me... 

 He's at work and I'm being a lush so... that's not going to work. Just sayin'!

Regrets already!

When Baby Daddy comes staggering through the door at 6am after getting off of work I will regret staying up to write this blog. Baby Daddy has one volume, loud. So Ti will hear him coming through the door and he will bark very loudly, which will scare the heck out of the tiny baby that stays curled up against me and then... he will refuse to go back to sleep and I will spend the day exhausted and hating myself for staying up and writing this blog. Yep, that will happen. However... many things have happened since my last blog and so I have no choice but to continue on for my loyal fans. *sigh*

Things I have done since last time...

First I finished burning down the second Diamond Candle and this is what was in it. Once again, more costume jewelry but still very pretty.

 

And then...

 

I bombed my Spanish final!!! My 93 went to a 76.4 with one damn test. I was robbed! Ok, it was all my fault but holy macaroni y'all, I'm never going to learn Spanish! Not that way anyways. Either way, one more semester down and two more to go. (Also... sorry if that photo looks weird!)

 

This happened...

Why yes!, That is a Too Faced Chocolate Bar! I have been in love with/obsessed with/desperately wanting a Chocolate Bar for awhile now and the other day I decided that I was going to take my birthday money and splurge. It's so beautiful.

Ugh! I just adore it!

 

 

After that I experienced my first Mother's Day! Which was glorious! I spent all day with the Boy that made me a Momma! I also found out that my yard turtles were hiding an itty bitty secret!

Apparently Morty and Macy are parents! If you are wondering where I suddenly acquired turtles from... they came with the house and once belonged to the late previous owner. No one ever had the heart to take them away from their home and so now I have become their caretaker. I love them! Baby and I can both spend HOURS watching them! So I was very surprised to walk past the patio door and suddenly see this tiny little girl!

She's so cute! And currently nameless. I have a list going but none that I have decided on yet.

 

I spent the day missing the mothers in my life... Momzy, Grandmas, Great Grandmas, and Sissy!

 

But one mother was on my mind a lot yesterday... Grammy.

Pretty sure I listened to her voicemails on my phone about thirty times yesterday. She'd probably be mad if she saw what a sap I was being. I bet everything was pretty glorious in heaven though.

 

On a lighter note...

I have a new subscription box because Ipsy and having an Ulta literally right down the road are not enough. Maybe Mom is right, maybe I am a makeup hoarder. Anyways, this is a Glossybox and so far I haven't decided how I feel about it yet. It is $20/month but the products are usually full size. This box is worth about $78. Not bad.

 

However....

I received my Ipsy bag today and I am not as impressed this month as I usually am. I just don't like to mix up the skin care products. I am currently having hell with my Clinique skin care system and I am not so sure introducing anything new in is the best idea. I am also upset I missed out on the Too Faced Bronzer a lot of the other subscribers ended up with. :( Sad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diamond Candles!

This blog is coming to you from my very own iPad mini! So excited about this thing!

Baby Daddy was called out on a job today so Baby and I have spent the day finishing up term papers, playing, and watching my birthday diamond candles burn. I told myself when I opened them that I would save them for as long as I could. That just so happened to be about an hour and then I found myself standing at the stove in the kitchen trying to light one with a flaming piece of wadded up paper. A little bit of scorched nail polish later and I had successfully managed to light the Cinnamon Roll scented candle. ( I really need my stuff guys! I know I own about a million boxes of matches, all of which are nicely packed away in a box in Cruces! Lame) After eight hours of being on pins and needles I finally plucked the little golden foil from hot wax and bam.... I had a piece of very attractive costume jewelry!

It looks a lot like the ring from the very first diamond candle but is a little different.

However, I still have one more to go! 

 

This candle has only been burning for about four hours but so far I can see the top of the tiny foil packet. Resisting the urge to go get tweezers and pluck it is so hard! Oh the torture!

See that little shadowy looking area on the left side? That is the ring! Only four more hours or so until I pluck it! Maybe. If I can contain myself.

 

Anywho... I'm off to pack for our trip to NM in a few days to retrieve the rest of our junk, and to finish off yet another term paper. Is the semester over yet? I need a break!

 

 

Just a little Birthday Update

So it was my birthday the other day... and now I am three years away from being thirty. Can you believe that? Trust me when I tell you that I can't. I still feel like I should be around 21ish but then I look around me and think... why would anyone ever want to be 21 again? One word... hangover. That's all I can really remember about being 21. Even more unbelievable news... On my birthday someone turned seven months old, guess who that could be....

I feel like he should still be a teeny tiny baby! :( We have recently learned so many things. He is trying to crawl, knows how to turn light switches off and on, sits up, and my personal favorite... says Momma. I had been working on the Momma thing for weeks and during playtime the other day he said it while reaching for me. Smarty Pants. Melted my heart. He now says it all the time and Baby Daddy got to hear it the other day. We are working on Dada now.

 

Also, speaking of birthdays... let me tell you, that Baby Daddy knows how to make me happy.

For my birthday I asked for this... 

 

For the past two years we have been sleeping on a hand-me down set that sat on a metal frame. That bed was the first bed that I had ever slept on that didn't have a headboard or footboard and for whatever reason that just bothers me. When we got married Joseph refused to sleep on my full size, which I don't blame him but I missed not having an actual bed. So I started begging for a new bed as soon as we found out we were moving. Yay! So excited about this. I have always wanted a sleigh bed! Also I can not wait for the rest of my furniture to be here. It looks a little strange in an empty room.

 

But then my Baby Daddy decided to spoil me a little further with these...

What?! iPad Mini and Diamond Candles? That guy! He knows how to treat a lady y'all! The candles just got here today but the other night I was looking at the Diamond Candles site because I had seen that they had new scents out and I really wanted the Mountain Air scent. So... when I opened the box and one of them was Mountain Air I was pretty impressed that he has me so figured out, and also, he could never go wrong with Cinnamon roll.

 

Anyways.. off to write a few term papers that are due tomorrow that I have been avoiding. Slacker. :(

 

P.S. Happy Birthday to one of my little sisters today! Pretty sure they were all just babies yesterday!

 

Slow Down!

I should be doing homework but... I would rather waste my time doing this. Between all of the traveling, school, house hunting, and child raising I have not had time to just sit down and blog lately. We have been moving so fast for the past month that I haven't really had the time to just enjoy life. However... I do have some news.

First...

 WE FOUND A HOUSE!!!

And it has red tile in the Kitchen which I am super excited about because all of my kitchen stuff is red!

I am not particularly fond of the wood paneling in the living room though. I mean what is it about Texas and wood paneling? It's all over the place. Ick. I am excited about the tile floors though.

Smurph dog and Ti are going to be excited about this! A HUGE back yard with big trees and a patio that has a built in smoker and fan!

Baby and I are heading back tomorrow so the Baby Daddy and I can officially sign the lease and start preparing to move all of our stuff in which is still in Cruces.



 

 

Second...

Baby, Aunt Tay, and I traveled to Clayton for Aunt Stupie and Uncle Tyler's engagement party! A great time was had by all, Baby got to meet those he was named after and...

 

All of the sisters had the opportunity to be together for a little bit. This is a rare thing!

 

 

Third...

 

This happened...



This is probably one of my most favorite things ever. So... I have always had this thing for vintage campers even before having a thing for vintage campers was cool and my great grandparents have always had this, the Silver Streak. I have always been infatuated with the Silver Streak so when my Mom called and said, Grandma said they are ready to sell the Silver Streak I was like, "Sold! Right now! I'll send the check!" And then I immediately went to Pinterest and started day dreaming and going through my glamper board. I can't even tell you guys how freaking excited I am about this. Ugh! I know this is going to be a huge project, (thankfully I married a very talented contractor) and the husband and I may end up killing each other over it but I just can not wait to start traveling around with it, taking Baby Love on little adventures!

Grandma and Grandpa said they think it's either a 56' or 58' but they cant remember exactly. How crazy is that to have had something like this for so long that you can't even remember what year you got it? That means this baby is 56 years old or older. Wowza!