Six on Saturday

1. I watched Sean and Catherine's wedding on Sunday night. I thought it was totally cute. Although the pre-show with the boudoir photos and the lingerie shopping was soooooo awkward, and I wanted to hide behind a pillow. Don't get me wrong - I think it's awesome that they saved themselves for marriage but I didn't need to see a camera in the honeymoon suite with the maids making the bed. O.M.G. BUT Papa Jay totally stole the show. He did such a wonderful job at officiating. Don't you agree?

2. We've been cooped up in the house all week. E has been sick and after the scariest moment of my life, I was fine with a low key week. I'm not going to lie we have been hanging out in our pajamas for several days. I am happy to report she is on antibiotics and is slowly starting to feel better.

3. My essential oils that I bought came on Thursday. I am so excited to start using them. I put some in a diffuser last night, and they smelled heavenly.

4. I finished The Book Thief last weekend, and I can't say enough good things about it. So so good.

5. I made these cupcakes today for a friend of mine. One was just plain vanilla with vanilla buttercream and the other was chocolate banana with chocolate banana frosting. On the plus side: they were dairy and egg free! I had one of the chocolate ones. They were delicious!

6. Tonight I am working on two projects that I found on Pinterest. The first one is learning about God's love with little hearts and then finding them around the house each day. I think this will be fun to do this year and the years to come.

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The second one is writing something I love about E and putting it on her door. I will take a picture at the end when we get to Valentine's Day. I bought hearts from Hobby Lobby today so I'm excited to get started.

 Hope you are having a good weekend!

Weekend Fun and the Scariest Moment of My Life

I know what a title right? Well the last part I will get to in a moment but let's talk about the fun first.

We drove up to Oklahoma on Saturday morning to see Jason's brother, wife and 2 kids and to celebrate our niece's birthday! We were excited to go see their new house and have some fun together. E had woken up with a slight cough but she was acting fine and didn't have a fever so we went ahead and continued with our plans for the weekend.

We made it to his brother's house and had a fun afternoon of playing and hanging out.

Look at E on the big girl swing with barely any help. Don't worry - we weren't swinging fast.

  Cousins having fun in the car

We then went to our niece's birthday party! She turned 5, and it was a Fancy Nancy party at the bowling alley. It was a good time.

Little sister bowling

Birthday girl making some really cute stances as she watches her ball hit the pins

E didn't bowl but she had a grand time walking up and down the stairs and ramps and cheering for everyone. 

Singing Happy Birthday 

Now for the scariest moment of my life: About 20 minutes before the party was over, I felt E's forehead, and it felt kind of warm. I told Jason, and I figured we would check it when we got back to his brother's house. I wasn't too worried because she wasn't acting any different and had been playing for the last 2 hours. When the party was over, we got in the car and headed back to his brother's house.  When we got there, I carried some stuff in and Jason got E out of her carseat. As I was setting stuff down in the room we were staying in, I heard Jason yelling for me. I walked out into the living room and Jason said "Something is wrong". I ran over there and E was stiff and twitching and had turned gray and was foaming at the mouth. I started screaming and crying. Jason's brother called 911. Jason brought her over to the couch and laid her down. She was still seizing but was breathing (Thank God!) and Jason was rubbing her chest. After about 4 minutes, she came out of it and at that point the ambulance showed up. They looked her over and told us she had a febrile seizure. We took her temperature and it was 103! So they told us to take her to the hospital which was 5 minutes down the road. So we took her there to get looked over. She tested negative for flu and RSV. So we were told to alternate Motrin and Tylenol every 3 hours. We headed back home in the morning so we could be closer to our doctors.

Hanging out in the triage room with Daddy

Getting antsy at the hospital and it's past her bedtime

Ya'll I can't tell you how scared I was. I was so hysterical. I am so thankful that she is ok now. I took her to the doctor today and it turns out she has strep. So we are on antibiotics and hoping it clears up soon. She still has a fever, and it is still spiking at times so we are giving her Motrin when needed. Thankful for the Lord's protection over her. So so thankful! 

Weekend Fun

This was weekend was pretty low key but it was still just as fun. And because I just love a list here is our weekend in number form.

1. I bought some window cling decorations at Hobby Lobby and E had a blast with them all weekend. She has had fun putting the hearts and stars on the door window, and squishing them together too. 

2. I had lunch with a dear friend on Saturday. We had fun catching up while E had a fun time in the playground at Chick Fil A. I love watching her play there. She started saying "slide" the minute we pulled up to the parking lot. That girl is obsessed.

3. The weather was so beautiful yesterday that Jason and I took E to the park after her nap. She had so much fun swinging and going down the slide. We played there for over an hour

4.  After church today, I decided that E needed a little backpack to bring to the nursery instead of the diaper bag that I carry around all the time. Lucky me found that Pottery Barn Kids was having a sale on some of their backpacks! This backpack was on sale for $18 plus free shipping! You can't beat that! It's so cute!

5. The weather was again beautiful today so we went on a family walk around the neighborhood. 

This is how you know E is comfortable. One foot propped up always! 

How was your weekend? 

New Years Resolutions

I really debated about putting my New Year resolutions on the blog because you know ACCOUNTABILITY but then I thought even if I don't complete all of them I am at least moving towards the goal and that is all that matters. At least that is what I'm telling myself. I made 12 "resolutions" ..yes 12. Again moving towards the goal is my focus.

1. Get rid of one bag of stuff for donation or trash EACH MONTH. (The amount of stuff in our house is just ridiculous. I want to simplify.)

2. Organize one area of the house EACH MONTH. 

3. Make a pregnancy book for E

4. Make one year book for E

Please don't judge me on 3 and 4. I have all the pictures and thanks to this blog all the documentation but I just I haven't been able to put one together. 

5. Fill the picture frames with no pictures in them. (I'm horrible about having frames displayed with nothing in them or with the fake family that came with it.)

6. Blog more often. 

7. Read at least 1 leisure book a month. ( I have a growing list of books)

8. Be a "YES" mom. (In the sense that if I'm just saying no because I don't want to do it right now or I'm "busy" then I will say yes. Ex. Play in the mud (sure instead of not wanting to because E will get dirty) Does that make sense?

9. Learn photoshop.

10. Become more natural/crunchy. I want to learn more about essential oils and more natural ways. I'm excited about it. 

11. Don't let someone be a priority when they only make you an option. 

Last year I spent way too much energy trying to be friends with people who didn't really reciprocate or make much of an effort with me. I know there are times with one side of the friendship is more proactive than the other but there comes a point where you realize you find them more important than they do you. Feelings are hurt. AND it's just NOT WORTH IT. I want to spend my time with people who want to spend time with me. 

12. Be present not perfect. My house may not be immaculate, I may not have showered that day, I may not have it all together but I will treasure the moment especially the ones with my family because I will never get that day back. 

Did you make any resolutions? 

Five On Friday

1.  So last weekend, I decided to purge the emails in my account. It was just getting out of control, and it was full of junk that I didn't need. I was so proud of the number that was left when I was done.

Exhibit A

And then Exhibit B

Isn't that just seriously awesome? Or am I just a complete nerd?

2. I'm going to first MOPS meeting today! I found out that I made it off the wait list on Tuesday and I can't wait to start!

3. The Golden Globes are this weekend! I love this time of year because of the award shows. Now this year I probably won't be able to give much of an opinion on who should actually win based on the acting and movies so I will just go with a guess (a.k.a. who I really like or who has the prettiest dress)

4. The Bachelor started on Monday and once again I have been suckered into it. It's so bad of a train wreck that I just can't turn away.  My favorite probably so far right now is Clare. Yes the girl who faked a pregnancy.

5.  And let's not forget about Downton Abbey! So excited that show is back for a new season. However, my DVR decided to have a freak attack on Sunday night, and it didn't record the first hour of the show. Luckily for me, PBS will be showing that episode in it's entirety before the new one on Sunday.  I'm dying to find out how Mary is doing.

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Hope everyone has a great weekend!

16 months!

*Posting this a week late..sorry*

Here's what you did/ are doing this past month:

- Continue to add more words to your vocabulary. Some words can be understood by strangers, others are words that we know what you mean. New words that I remember this month: cupcake, danger, cold, good girl, kick, pool, eyelashes, la lee (Lucye), up, sad, cad (scared), floor,

- Love to help mommy and daddy make their bed by bringing all of the pillows to us.

- Love to help us put clothes in the dryer. We hand you some clothes from the washer and you throw them right into the dryer.

- You also like to spill water on the floor or table from your cup and then grab a towel and clean it up

- Your favorite word is no =).

- You will now ask "go?" when someone or something leaves or disappears and then throw your hands up in there.

- You will hide things underneath you or hide them underneath something and look at us and say "go?" and then pull them out again and laugh because you obviously tricked us

- You have discovered a new love of olives! You love them! I think you would eat a whole jar in one setting if I let you. You even say "olibes". So cute.

- You are getting really good with feeding yourself with a spoon. Sometimes you use it and sometimes you use your hands but you would prefer to feed yourself with the spoon than for us to do it. You like to use your left hand with the spoon more often. We will see if that persists.

- You attended your first cookie decorating party this month.

-  So you are doing these really hilarious grumpy scrunchy faces. You get our attention and then you make these faces at us and wait for us to them back to you and then you just laugh and laugh. I really need to get one of these on camera because they are so funny.

- You are learning what hot and cold means and tell when things are hot or cold. You recognize cold better than hot but that's probably because I don't let you touch hot things.

- You had your first round of antibiotics =(. But you did really well on them and bounced right back from it.

- You played in the Chick Fil A playground for the first time and loved it. You climbed all the up to the top without any help.

- Have discovered spinning and think it's really funny.

- Are starting to throw balls and can do it pretty well.

- You can do a five piece peg shape puzzle by yourself and with a tiny bit of help you can do an 8 piece peg shape puzzle.

- You will say sad when you hear kids and babies cry

- You are starting to say "cad" (scared) for when things scare you. ex. Lucye barking loud, loud noises, Daddy's foam roller etc. You will come over to me or daddy and say scared and then grab our arms and hold tight. Sometimes even a buried head in the shoulder. It is so precious. We just reassure and it lasts about 10 seconds.

- You can tell us what a lion, sheep, and dog say as well as bees and owls

- You call Taylor Swift "Ca". I have no idea why but it's hilarious.


You still nap twice a day. I don't know your official stats for weight and height. You wear size 3 diapers when using disposables. You go to bed around 7:30 and wake up at 6. You are still waking up 2-3 times a night.

My sweet little sugar pie!

Five on Friday

1.  On Sunday, Jason and I went to see White Christmas at Fair Park in Dallas. It was my Christmas present from him! The musical was so cute and I enjoyed all the songs. White Christmas is one of my favorite Christmas movies so I loved the live production.

2. I used some of my Christmas money to buy an Erin Condren life planner. I got the one where I made a list of my favorite things and then it was put on the cover. I LOVE IT!! I don't know why it took me this long to take the plunge to get one.  I am so excited to use it this year.

3. I bought a dress for E for next Christmas on Zulily this week. Yes - for next Christmas. I'm a sucker for a good holiday outfit. They only had 2 left in the size I needed, and I snatched it up. So excited.

4. My best friend is in town this weekend from Seattle. A group of my college friends are going out to dinner tomorrow night and I can't wait for our little reunion. Yippee for girl time!

5. And BOOMER! I'm so excited that the underdog of the Sugar Bowl won last night. What a game!

Happy Friday everyone!