Wordless Wednesday- Happy Halloween!

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Christmas Shopping

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I have been doing a lot of Christmas shopping already- most of it online because it’s so much easier than toting Bailey around everywhere. I have never been much of an online holiday shopper- I always thought it was impersonal- but I have found some really cool stuff.

So far we got Jonathon’s parents some car-related things that they have wanted (on eBay) and I got my mom something for her china set. We have finished shopping for my grandparents entirely. I would never have really thought to buy people gold lockets for gifts, but I found a website with some really cool ones so I ordered one for my grandma.

It came in the mail and it looks really nice. It’s white gold and you send in a digital picture to be printed in the locket. They sized it for me (remember when we were little and you had to cut down a picture and try to tape it inside your locket necklace?) and then I had something nice about great grandma engraved on the back. It’s going to be Bailey’s gift to her

Also we decided in my family that instead of spending like $100 on each person we are going to just get like one nicer gift for each person, from each person/family. It is really getting out of control, now that Jonathon and my grandparents celebrate Christmas with us, and I’m sure now that Bailey is here it will be even crazier. Plus, we have to buy for his parents, brother, our friends, etc.

My goal for this year is to be done with Christmas shopping by the end of November, and to have everything wrapped by Jonathon’s birthday, which is in early December.

Back to how it was

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For the past four nights Bailey has only gotten up once, around 3-4 a.m. I can handle that. Only today she woke up for the day at like 7 and refused to go back to sleep. Which means it will be a long morning because I work Tuesday mornings at my church and she will be in the nursery… so probably no nap for her because she thinks there is something she’s going to miss if she goes to sleep.

But then I realized the reason she was so wide awake is because of our neighbor’s PITA dog. She has three or four of them and they bark ALL THE TIME and no one likes her. So there crazy lady. No one likes you.

Last Week- in Pictures

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I realized I am (once again) totally behind in posting pictures, so here are some from last week. One day I went to the Botanical Gardens with my mom and grandma (click here for a cool video made by a friend of mine) and Bailey seems to enjoy just riding around in her stroller there. plenty to see, and good exercise for her chunky Mommy!


Bailey and her Grammy- great grandma was there as well but we didn’t manage to get any pictures of her. She (MY grandma, Bailey’s great grandma) was in a wheelchair that day (my mom insisted that she push her in one because she knew she wouldn’t be able to walk very far) but anyway, I think she didn’t want it to be caught on film.

I wish this picture turned out better. It was in the Japanese garden area where there are giant koi fish that you can feed. I bet they are at least 25 pounds each.

After the Botanical Gardens, we took Bailey by to see my grandpa. He always gets such joy from holding her and playing with her. Which is funny, because apparently he wasn’t really “into” his own kids at all when they were little. I guess age and perspective can change things!

Last Friday, my mom and I went to the mall, and Bailey is a very good baby and likes to ride in the stroller, but we try to give her a break and let her out to play every so often. She liked the little cars and stuff that you pay 50 cents to ride on. This was her first driving experience.


Normally we strip her down for dinner. This is one of the rare occasions where she got to eat wearing more than a diaper

At night we went to a barbecue/sit around the fire evening with some friends. We had Bailey with us because we didn’t plan on staying very late. But it got cold fast, and we had her wrapped in a fleece blanket. She kind of looks a little KKK-ish in this picture, but that wasn’t our intent.

Bailey with my friend Renee (whose wedding I was in a few (three– already!) months ago.

I really enjoy dressing Bailey up. One of the perks of having a girl, I guess. I wish I could figure out where those eBay people and such get their wholesale clothing because then I would become a huge eBay seller, and keep the stuff I liked for me!

Actually, there are a lot of things I would do if I had the time and if I could figure them out. I would learn a lot of cool crafty things to do. I would host estate sales. I would volunteer for Big Brothers Big Sisters again. (Okay, so that’s really more of a time issue than know-how). Yeah, someday I will have time and I can research all these things I want to try. Right now I feel like I do well to make it through the day and have the house somewhat in one piece when Jonathon gets home!

This part of my life is over, maybe

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Sometimes I get sappy about things that were supposed to happen or could have happened before, but now that we have Bailey they won’t happen. Like I always thought we would take a trip to Europe before we had kids. We got pregnant much faster than I expected (and if you really care, YES we were trying but we thought it would take longer than it did for a variety of reasons). I LOVE LOVE LOVE to travel, and I want to travel more. Last fall we had a trip planned for Las Vegas. I mean it was actually booked and everything, for this same weekend last year. I was in my first trimester of my pregnancy in September, and I was exhausted. I could not fathom going on a vacation or being in casinos near smoke. I knew I would not be able to have anything to drink- okay not that I’m a drunk, but seriously, what’s Vegas without a few drinks here and there? Anyway we ended up cancelling our trip and we were only out $100… but sometimes I regret that. I wish we would have had the extra cash to take a nice vacation when I was like five months along. I wish we had the cash now. I would take Bailey with us and then pay a nanny to watch her so we could go out at night sometimes or relax by the pool Yeah, dream on. I just don’t want to think that part of my life is completely over. I guess it’s just “put on hold” for a while, really. Anyway, it’s too late and I’m rambling.

so sleepy

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9:30 pm- Bailey went to bed-

12:30, 3, 6:30- those are the times she has gotten up (so far)

My six month old is resorting to newborn sleeping habits

I am exhausted.

I should go take a nap instead of screwing around online looking at stuff like Arizona luxury real estate

I am horrible at wasting time.

Costume Party

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My little Tinkerbell She didn’t seem to mind being dressed up at all!

Today we went to Bailey’s first “costume party” ever! Our nursing group decided to dress up the babies today. I took tons of pictures and I’m posting them here for anyone who wants to snag pictures of their own kid. I know there were a few moms without cameras or without a free hand.

Princess Kaitlynn



It was really hard to get pictures of happy babies all at one time. Plus mine kept tipping over because there was stuffing in the butt of her costume.


I’m sorry Ella, but your mom was trying to suffocate you. where is your face?? Just kidding, Emily


Freya the very cute skunk




After our nursing group, I decided to go up to my mom’s work and let Bailey pass out candy. My mom loved showing her off, and everyone got a big kick out of seeing her dressed up

Snot Eater

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For the past few days Bailey has been very cute with her tongue. She sticks it in and out constantly, and really fast. Especially when she is eating- she loves to lick the food off her mouth.

Just as I was admiring her cuteness, I realized she’s not just playing with her tongue all day. She is eating her snot as her nose drips. Lovely.

Wordless Wednesday- Sweet Potatoes

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Last night Bailey was being a stinker at dinnertime, so I just dumped out her sweet potatoes and carrots on her tray and let her play in them!

Aaron and Mo’s Wedding

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A@ron and M@ureen’s wedding, October 2007
-Jonathon was a groomsman. Bailey stayed with Jen during the ceremony and then came to the reception with us. The reception was at the City Museum, which turned out to be a really cool place for a reception.

Faith and I went to Starbucks to kill time between the wedding and reception, while Jonathon was off doing groomsman things. Bailey “tried” her first Starbucks drink

Big girl at the dinner table!

Jonathon did a great job entertaining Bailey at dinner. Somehow we got stuck at the “groomsmen with kids” table instead of at the table where all of our friends were seated. That was a big bummer. We didn’t know the other people we were sitting with because they were all from New York. Sometimes you really get screwed for having a kid.


Jonathon and the groom, Aaron

I thought the back of her dress was really cool. It was SO sparkly during the ceremony!

Maureen and Me- ug, this is NOT a good picture of me but I couldn’t leave out the picture of the bride, so here it is…

Stupid Stroller

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We are on our way to BRU to exchange Bailey’s stroller. It’s a Graco Metrolite, and we love it except for this: The little compartment underneath, where the diaper bag and stuff go, well the clip keeps breaking/coming off/getting crooked and it won’t stay latched. Today at the Bot Gardens her stroller was held together with some link a doos. That’s high class, my friends.

But, she looked cute at BG and we had a great time I will post some pics later.

Five Month Picture

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Bailey’s 5 month picture- once again, I’m behind on posting because we’ve had these for quite a while now!

Getting Better All the Time

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Today we had a garage sale. We got rid of a TON of junk and brought in almost $400. It was worth my time setting up.

Bailey did not see the need to sleep last night. I went to bed at like 2:15 after working on setting up the garage sale so I could just pull the stuff out of the garage in the morning. She woke up at about 3:00ish and stayed up until 6. She was crying, yelling, grumbling, etc only I would let her cry- which I hate doing but she is a manipulative little girl (saying that with a smile)… but then when I would finally give in after like an hour and go in to try to “fix it” she would smile at me and want to play. Little booger. So I slept for literally 45 minutes last night.

The garage sale was super busy. The first crazy showed up at 6:15 (before we were even open, while it was still pitch black and we were setting up!) and it didn’t stop until about 11:30. Most of the time there were several cars of people there. We stayed open until a little after 1 and a few people kind of wandered in and out for that last hour or so. It was such a nice day so Jonathon and I were just kind of enjoying sitting there with Bailey and chatting with some of our neighbors by that point.

I am convinced that people will buy anything. I sold a bunch of mostly used stuff from Bath and Body Works, used tanning lotion, really old track lighting that we took out of our kitchen, cabinet hinges, stuffed animals (which grosses me out because you can’t wash them- EW I would never buy something like that used!) My personal favorite was the used cat brushes that still had cat hair in them. We sold three of them. Really, I have discovered that you can sit anything outside and someone will want it.

ANYWAY, after all that was over, Bailey took a nap and Jonathon pulled everything back into the garage and let me go take a nap. He only got like 3 hours of sleep, tops, so I was thankful that he did that for me. Then, we found my car keys. YAY, now I don’t have to get another set made tomorrow. I can put that off a few days. Because what’s better than procrastinating?

Now I am going to eat dinner (at 9:30 pm) and read a magazine for a few minutes before heading to bed. Oh, and tomorrow Jonathon and I are going out for lunch and Bailey is going home from church with my parents. It’s been a few weeks since we’ve had a date

I am an idiot

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I lost my entire keychain. Seriously. And I have Jonathon’s car here today and no spare key. Grrrr I missed a playdate with friends My mom might pick me up later and take me out.

Wordless Wednesday- a day late

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I love to watch Jonathon with Bailey when he comes home from work. They are so cute when they play together. It’s the first thing he does every afternoon






Who needs Cowboys tickets when you have this kind of entertainment in your own living room?