Baby's New Car Seat

It came! I was excited to get this new car seat for the baby. I fell in love with this fabric when I saw it so I had to have it.

Thanks mom, for spending 5 hours in the fabric store with me!

O Christmas Tree

We decided last minute to officially finish our tree tonight. I have to say that I am pleased with the way it turned out. It is cozys up the house, and it is actually fun to have! I didn't really think I would put one up again this year, but I am glad I did.
I also posted a stab at my first Christmas Village. It needs more work, but I am not sure I have the energy.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

So Talented

Here are a couple gifts I got at my baby shower the other day. Each one was made by a different friend and I had to post, because they are so cute, and because I am ALWAYS so impressed when people sew and make things on their own.

Something I really wish I could do.

Jenny made this darling onesie with a pink crown....fitting for the new little girl.

And Lindsay made this adorable onesie and hair bow.

I am SO excited for this baby to get here! She will be so cute in these!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY...

To one of the greatest sisters ever!

Happy Birthday to one of my dear sisters and best friends Jill! Hope you have a great day, and something new I have learned about you, is that you treat pregnant woman really great!

I was actually laughing really hard at how accomodating Jill is to her pregnant sister...

1) I spent the night there and I got Rob's spot on the bed (he took the couch)

2) At midnight I needed Unisom so she got dressed, and went to the store (from out of bed)

3) She made me food (usually something dad does, but Jill took over)

4) She let me sit shotgun in the car while her and Rob switched off in between two car seats in the back (VERY SMOOSHED) for 6 hours!

You are great all around, and I love you! Have a great day!

SAY IT AIN'T SO!

Is this some sort of sick joke?

This is what our babies are supposed to look like... Nice how they tried to give her my bangs, nice try! And I am pretty sure she won't be wearing 14 braids anytime soon either.

Don't even get me started with the boy....

TAGGED

Not that I think a lot of people read my blog... but I have gotten quite a few requests to REMOVE THE UGLY HEARTBURN PICTURE....

So i decided to follow up with this tag, merely because I have NOTHING else to blog about....

This tag is the 4th folder 4th picture tag....

Here is what you do. You go to the 4th folder in your picture album, pull the 4th picture in that folder, and post it!

Too bad for me, mine is awful! However; i am playing by the rules....

Oh Hawaii, how I miss you!

100% Sick and Tired of....

Anyone have any good tips??

This Says Enough For Me...

I don't claim to be a political whiz or to know everything about this election. The one thing I do know, is that I will be seriously disappointment if Barack Obama is our next President. For his stance on abortion/partial birth abortion ALONE is enough for me not to vote for him. I think he is a creepy little man that has no real respect or commitment for the USA.

I just wanted to share this...go its worth it:

CLICK HERE

Needing a change:

Should I go back in time? It would be pretty funny if (and they probably will) these hairstyles came back in style.

Senate Bill S 1738—The PROTECT Our Children Act: ACT NOW! We only have until Sept. 26

I don't know if any of you watched Oprah today, and if you didn't.... Don't. It is EXTREMELY disturbing and absolutely disgusting. I won't go into details but it was about child and infant pornography, rape, and molestation, caught on tape. They showed how many people are involved and to what extent. You would NOT BELIEVE how many sick and twisted scum bags are out there harming so many innocent infants and children.... most of them their own children, and posting them on the internet for the sick and twisted friends to watch in delight. The numbers were seriously appauling.

Bottom line there are so many out there and there are not enought people to help stop this. If our Senate passes Bill S 1738 we will get the funding to put these guys behind bars. Right now we simply do not have the resources to do this, so these innocent children are suffering everyday.

You can help, but you have to HURRY!

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Here is what you need to do:

1) visit http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm to find out who your senator is (choose your state from the drop down menu at the top)

2. Click on their "webform" link. This will allow you to send them an email. It also states their number if you would like to call.

3. You can write your own letter or you can use this form letter to get the message across:

Dear Senator:

I know that you believe, like I do, that we must do everything possible to protect children from sexual predators. That is why I am asking for your help.

Last year alone, U.S. law enforcement identified over 300,000 criminals who were trafficking in movies and pictures of young children being raped and tortured. Experts say that one in every three of these criminals has local child victims. Child pornography trafficking over the Internet has given us a trail of evidence that leads straight to their doorsteps, but the vast majority of these children will never be rescued because investigators are overwhelmed, outnumbered and underfunded.

As your constituent, I urge you to do everything in your power to pass the PROTECT Our Children Act (S. 1738, Biden-Hatch). This bipartisan legislation passed the House 415-2, but it is now the victim of petty partisan politics.

Now that we know where these children are and how to protect them, there is no excuse for the Senate to fail to take action this session.

(Your name here)

4. PRESS SEND. It is that easy. When they see that millions of mothers are extremely adament about this, it will help get the ball rolling.

If you didn't see Oprah, just take my word for it, it was awful. You have 15 seconds to spare, and that is all it takes.

YellowStone

This past weekend we headed up to Yellowstone with our great friends Brian and Amy. We had been talking about doing this for a while, and the time finally came. It was a quick trip, we left Friday night, spent the night in Jackson Hole, and then spent all day touring the wonderful world of Yellowstone. We really did have a great time and it is so nice to be out of the city (or lack there of) and into the Wilderness. It was gorgeous, and I have to say that place is truly amazing! We were hoping to have a close encounter with a bear, unfortunately that didn't happen, but the beauty all around us made up for it (we did get to see some cool animals).

Touring the Park

So pretty (nature), my face is packing on the pounds...

Amy and Me

Sulfur....Sick

Sugar and me at Old Faithful

Thauts and me at the Emerald Pond

SUGAR at Emerald Pond

ITS A GIRL!

LAYNE FAMILY REUNION

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These last two weeks we have been traveling so much. First the beach, then i came home for a few days, to run to Vegas real fast for my cousins wedding, then to head up to Idaho for the Layne Family reunion.

Jon's mom and aunt worked so hard for about a year to pull this off and they did a GREAT job. I wasn't able to be there for everything but I was there for Cousins Week which was a blast. The last four days Jon's dad's brother and sister (and their families) stayed and hung out. There were a little over 50 people for cousins week. It was SO fun for me to get to meet them. Really everyone was so nice and I felt so welcome and just enjoyed everyone's company so much. The food was good, the company was great and I hope cousins week is something we can participate again in the future.

We went to the Cub River Ranch in Preston, ID which was just a nice and relaxing location. We played games, I read futures (ring test), we celebrated Ray's 60th birthday. It was all together a great time. I really wish we would have taken more pictures, Jon and I are both so bad at that.

Beacuse we were in Preston, ID we figured why not take advantage of the Napolean Dynamite tour (I LOVE the movie) We did get a few pics of this.... It was so fun to see everything.

Jenna, you need to send me the picture of me in front of the Cuttin' Curral (there really is a place called that) So funny.

Pedro's house

NapoleOn's house

TINA... Come get some ham!

I have to admit I was quite freaked by Tina, at one point she was trying to snuggle up to my head... no thanks, Tina. I really was scared to get spit on.

Then finally the last day we went to Downatta Swimming pool. The water in the pool comes directly from a local hot spring. The water was so warm! They even had a hose draining cold water to keep it refreshing. We enjoyed a GREAT game of water basketball for about an hour. That was a blast. I wish I had pictures of that.

If anyone has a group shot send it over, I would love to add it.

Thanks for the great week!

My Wonderful Week Away

I am so sad that its over, but we just got back from Outer Banks, NC for our annual family Beach Week. It was so fun, and I can honestly say I HATE TO BE BACK. It is so nice to not worry about a single thing (except when the next time you throw up is going to be). It was so fun to be with family all day every day, I have such a great family and we are so lucky to truly be best friends. Jessica you were missed big time!

We had such great weather! We thought we would be rained out all week, but it was quite the opposite. All day was warm and hot and then around three the clouds started to roll in. It made a perfect ending to each fun filled day.

Here are a few highlights from the week:

A GREAT pool in the backyard
The beach (sorry to say I didn't get in the water once, but I did enjoy myself on the sand)
Great food
Great laughs
Dance party
Karoake
Fun games
Cute kids
Great company
Spotlights on Mom and Dad

There are about a million more, but I won't bore you. Here are a few pics from our week.

Pardon our faces, the sun was really in our eyes!

I KNEW IT, I KNEW IT, I KNEW IT!

I knew DeAnna would pick him, and I am so glad! Anyone that knows me, knows that is who I would have picked. I really felt SO bad for Jason, but I really liked Jesse since day one. I sound like a crazy, I know. Either way Woo Hoo!

Did you agree or disagree with DeAnna's choice?

Yes its True...

I am heavy with child!

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I was going to wait until who knows when to share the news but I have told enough people that I might as well make it public. I am 9 weeks along and we are very excited.

Of course i am going to be happy with whatever I get, but to be honest, I am hoping for a girl!

I just learned that you can sometimes tell what the baby is by the heartbeat. They say girl's heartbeats are fast, and boy's heartbeats are slow.... If that is the case I am having a girl! The first thing I thought when I heard the heartbeat was wow that is fast! The Dr. said it was a healthy heartbeat.

Either way seeing the baby and hearing the heartbeat made me realize how real it really is. When the Dr zoomed in you could totally tell it was a baby, it had the exact same form like it had been in there for 8 months, plus it was so cute cause we could see the little heart beating through its chest. I loved that.

So anyways... What is it?? Boy or Girl?

Bye Bye Graham....

I have to say that I really liked him. He definitely didn't always say and do what she wanted, but I really like him. I think DeAnna is sweating bullets about that decision, because she was crazy about him.

Have you been watching the Bachelorette? Did you like Graham?

Where is your cell phone?.........................Desk
Your significant other?...............................Sweet
Your hair?.........................................Awful

Your mother?.............................Wonderful
Your father?....................................Amazing
Your favorite thing?.............................Cleanliness
Your dream last night........................Perverted

Your favorite drink................................Water
Your dream/goal..............................Money
The room you're in..........................Office
Your children?...................................None

Your fear?.......................................Psychos

Where do you want to be in 6 years?........Home
Where were you last night?.........................Thauts

What you're not?....................................MOTIVATED
Muffins?.........................................Pumpkin

One of your wish list items?.............................Furniture
Where'd you grow up?..................................Vegas

What'd you read last?...........................Twilight
What are you wearing?.........................Garbage
Your TV?.........................................Lifesaver
Your pet?.................................House

Your computer?...............................HP

Your life?.....................................Great
Your mood?................................Blah
Missing someone?............................Family
Your car?.........................................Pimp

Something you're not wearing?...................Earrings

Favorite store?..................................Sev

Your summer?....................................Beach

Like someone?.....................................Jon

Your favorite color?................................Pink

Last time you laughed................................Lunch
Last time you cried?.....................................Friday

I TAG ONE AND ALL!

DRAB to FAB....

Come one come all! If you have something you have found and fixed up, or maybe even something you found for a steal... post it! Jennifro, gave us this challenge... I am going to share two items: 1) something that was drab, that I turned into FAB. And 2) something that I had wanted FOREVER that was about $450 that my mom ended up getting me for $20... I guess I didn't find it, but props to mommy... i still consider it my gain!

I turned this blah galvanized bucket into a cheery vase....

I saw a bucket similiar to this in a magazine so i decided to make one to call my own

Second is this (not the bucket) striped set of drawers that I had wanted forever!! You can't really tell from the picture how great the colors are, you get the jist.

If you have something you would like to share first leave a comment on my blog, then head over to Jennifro's blog to see what she has shared along with the many others!

Gas Prices Got You Down??

I thought this was pretty interesting and fun. It actually does put things into perspective.

• Lipton Ice Tea 16 oz $1.19 ..........$9.52 per gallon
• Diet Snapple 16 oz $1.29 ... $10.32 per gallon
• Gatorade 20 oz $1.59 ..... $10.17 per gallon
• Ocean Spray 16 oz $1.25 ......... $10.00 per gallon
• Brake Fluid 12 oz $3.15 ...... $33.60 per gallon
• Vick's Nyquil 6 oz $8.35 ... $178.13 per gallon
• Pepto Bismol 4 oz $3.85 .. $123.20 per gallon
• Whiteout 7 oz $1.39 ....... . $25.42 per gallon
• Scope 1.5 oz $0.99 .....$84.48 per gallon
• And this is the REAL KICKER... Evian water 9 oz $1.49..$21.19 per gallon! $21.19 for WATER and the buyers don't even know the source (Evian spelled backwards is Naive.)
• Ever wonder why printers are so cheap? So they have you hooked for the ink. Someone calculated the cost of the ink at...............(you won't believe it....but it is true........) $5,200 a gal. (five thousand two hundred dollars)

So, the next time you're at the pump, be glad your car doesn't run on water, Scope, or Whiteout, Pepto Bismol, Nyquil or Heaven forbid, Printer Ink! Just a little humor to help ease the pain of your next trip to the pump...

My Weekend Away...

Last weekend I headed back east to see my east coast family. I left Wednesday and got back on Monday. It was a quick trip but it really was SO great to see everyone and be back in Maryland. I really love it there and seriously just think it is so pretty! My trip started off at the ribbon outlet on Thursday. my sisters have been wanting to go for quite some time so we headed off to see what we could find...

Most of this is Jenn's ribbon but you get the jist. It sort of was a hole in the wall place, but they really had GREAT stuff and it was SO CHEAP!!

Later that night we had Nicholas' big baseball game. It was a great game, we bbq'd, chatted, and froze our tails off. It was really windy, but still really fun

Friday day we just hung around. Jill and I took her kids and went to grab lunch and after wards I took Caroline back to Jenn's and we had the little girls play while Jill took a nap.

Friday night the five of us below went to dinner at this great Mexican place called Tia Queda and went to see Baby Mama afterwards.

Finally the day I have been waiting for... Saturday the guys took all of the kids and the girls headed to Lucketts, and antiqued all day. We dined at LightFoot for Lunch and that was delish. I didn't find anything I had to have, but it really was a fun day and I was glad I finally got to go and see Jenn's store (DARLING BY THE WAY)

Jennifer's store is was one of my favorites, I loved the outside and I loved this big pink and black thing, I am not sure what they are called. I could do this day all over again.

Finally, Sunday. We went to church and afterwards headed to Jills for a delicious BBQ. That was the perfect way to end the trip.

Last but not least... Nick had the little kids over for a trampoline sleepover on Sunday night. We all hung out there for a while, and read stories, and heard Nicholas play the guitar.

The trip was definitely too short, but really it was so great to get out there. I miss everyone already, but am sure glad to I got to see everyone. I can't wait until we get back together in July for the Beach!

Thanks East Coasters!!