Bailey’s First Christmas

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Here is a whole slew of pictures from Christmas today at my parents house. Bailey got a ton of stuff. Well, we all did! I got a really cool keychain that you can load up to 60 digital photos into and it has like a two inch screen to view them. Perfect for showing off new pictures of my Bug I also got a gift certificate for a manicure/pedicure and some new OPI polish in dark colors! I had been wanting that. Bailey got a ride on lion. That and her Fridge Farm were probably her favorites.

My big gift to Jonathon was a new hard drive… how terribly exciting. But it was a good surprise for him because he had been bugging me for one and didn’t think he would get it because I said that was a boring Christmas present.

It was a very long day. I think everyone had a good time. My dad and grandpa got into a little tiff at the end of the day but overall, there wasn’t any major bickering or anything which is kind of rare with my family! Anyway, here are a bunch of the pictures in no particular order. I am tired and this is the best I can do.

Just kidding

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We forgot to bring our memory card for our digital camera when we went to Oklahoma. We took pics on the video camera and I mistakenly thought there was an SD card in it for the pics, and I could just take it out and put them on the computer. But apparently the pictures are saved to the hard drive in the camera so Jonathon is going to have to help me get them off of there.

But I made sure to take pictures of their tacky decorating and Haitian artwork and Seagull lighting in their house. Also here is something suspicious- their toilet seat is wooden. Didn’t people quit using wooden cutting boards for a reason? Like bacteria? Well I can only imagine how much pee bacteria is in the toilet seat at their house.

Today we are going to my parents house for Christmas so we will have tons of pics from today as well.

I’ll post pictures soon

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from our horrible trip

Today and tonight I have been running around trying to get things ready for our “real” Christmas celebration at my parents’ house tomorrow. I had a few things left to wrap, and I have been trying to unpack and get the endless loads of laundry done from our trip. Our downstairs is still a mess and I feel like I haven’t gotten a whole lot done. I took Bailey to my parents house to play for a little bit because they couldn’t wait to see her. I listed a bunch of stuff on eBay tonight.

Jonathon has been talking about what he is going to do with the Best Buy giftcard from his brother. He really wants to get some sort of flat panel tv for downstairs. He also wants a plasma mount thing to put it on the wall. I told him we should at least get it carpeted before we worry about stuff like that.

Big news: WE ARE GETTING CARPET FOR THE DOWNSTAIRS ON TUESDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quick post

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I am dealing with dial-up and a crappy computer here, but I just wanted to post and say that we are still alive. I can’t WAIT to come home! Our visit has been okay- not as bad as in years past but I am sick of people pawing Bailey constantly and his mother never leaving me alone. She has been napping and going to bed just fine here in her pack n play, but she has been getting up a lot earlier (and we don’t want to let her fuss too long since there’s a house full of people) so we are very tired. I am just looking forward to being home and having “real” Christmas with my family on the 30th.

I will have to tell you all the comical and miserable details of this trip later. I will just leave you with a few kickers. First, MIL got Bailey a USED tube of diaper cream for while we were here. Second, they keep trying to drive off before her carseat is buckled. The other day we had to take her coat off to fit the straps, and FIL was like, she doesn’t need them, just hold her in. He was dead serious. Third, MIL walked in on me while I was peeing and just kept talking to me. Remember how last summer she walked in on me pumping? They have a serious knocking on doors before opening problem here.

funny story before I go

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My friend Jen (Yes, I have a lot of friends named Jen) was telling me a funny story about her mother in law. Jen has a son, AJ, who is almost two. Her mother in law was trying to do Christmas shopping for him and called to ask Jen about a mat that AJ could dance on and watch it on tv. Jen thought that sounded pretty cool. Then her MIL went on to ask about a guitar she found for AJ that could be hooked up to the tv as well… but they needed some kind of “3″ thing to go with it and she wondered if they had that or wanted it.

Jen was like, “Um, you’re talking about stuff for a Playstation 3 and that’s a few hundred dollars! I don’t think AJ really needs that, but if you want to get it for us that would be great!”

Turns out her MIL was going to get there almost two year old Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero for Playstation! I just thought that was funny

This is AJ. Isn’t he cute?

In honor of her first snow, and other things

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Bailey wore this dress to church on Sunday and then again later this week to our nursing group, in honor of her first snow. She hadn’t worn in yet, so I thought this was a great time to bust it out. The snowflakes on it are embroidered with silver thread and I just love it. You know how you just fall in love with some of their little outfits? This is one of them.

My pregnant friend Sarah- she is right at 15 or 16 weeks in this picture. Just starting to get that little baby bump and I think she looks beautiful! She is my BFF from high school (we were seriously inseparable for a while) so I was thrilled to find out she was pregnant. I know she is still a good friend and nothing will ever be like high school again (thank God, right?) but I hope we can become closer again.

Bailey in a Christmas shirt that I got for her last year at an after Christmas sale and almost forgot about! She is really more concerned with chewing on the chapstick I got from my friend Jen.

Playing with her toy pig that she got for Christmas from Alison (the little girl I watch sometimes on Fridays). It vibrates and shakes and plays music, and she thinks it’s pretty funn

Over Christmas Break

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Yes, it is called Christmas Break when your hubby gets two weeks off work. Other than traveling Oklahoma (a.k.a. big fat miserable waste of time) we are planning to look at some furniture stores to get some ideas for downstairs. We are also going to an 8-hour carpet sale on New Year’s Day. Yeah, have big holiday plans. (By the way I am seriously dreading going to Oklahoma. I have tried to think of tons of excuses for Bailey and I to stay home. Last year I prayed that I would get sick, too sick to travel. It’s that bad).

I am just so tired of looking at the downstairs and how awful it is… not to mention that last night Jonathon dripped rotten potato juice all the way down the stairs and across the basement floor on the way to the garage and then didn’t clean it up. I wasn’t home at the time and I got home and asked him why he didn’t clean it up. His answer was that he thought we weren’t going to keep that carpet anyway. Lazy man. Then when he finally DID clean it up he used Fantastik bathroom cleaner and paper towels. If you want something done right you might as well do it yourself.

Wow, this turned into an unexpected rant about my husband

Great Grandma’s 82nd Birthday

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I have some pictures from my grandma’s birthday a few weeks ago that I wanted to post. They aren’t the greatest pictures of anyone, but it was a fun night and so they represent great memories

Great Grandpa with Bailey- he just gets such a kick out of her. I haven’t seen him that happy in a long time. I need to make an effort to stop by more often with her so that they can play with her.

Bailey is crazy in love with Mylar balloons. We had a Care Bear one at our house for like two months that she would play with all the time. She likes to pull the string and watch it float up and down, or pat/slap it with her little hands.


Gram with her cake- I don’t know if I have mentioned this before, but her nickname is Babe. In fact, most people don’t even know her real name. It’s always funny to introduce my grandma and say, “And this is Babe…”

Four generations of women in our family- my grandma, my mom, me, and Bailey… of course we finally take the “four generations” picture and we are all a mess that day!

To all you other bloggers,

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Please update your blogs. It is really disappointing when I check my reader and I have like two new posts to read. I need some entertainment.

I know it’s the holidays and all, but please think of me and my reading needs before your family or your job or your health. Is that too much to ask? *smiling*

Sincerely,

Bored

(early) Wordless Wednesday

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I just found out

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that a friend of ours has a private student loan of over $100K, plus some Federal and/or state loans on top of that. It makes me feel not so bad about paying off Jonathon’s loan. His is microscopic in comparison to that. It just seems like we have been chipping away at it forever and it hasn’t really gone anywhere

Eight Months Old

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Where has the time gone? I feel like I can’t do justice to Bailey by just summing her life up in one blog post. She is like the missing piece in my life, and everything is complete now. She is my angel, my bug, my love, my sweetie, my wild woman, my muffie, my stinker winker bear. I love that girl.

This month she has changed a lot. She now feeds herself lots of different types of food, pulls up on anything she can find and cruises, crawls quickly, has a tooth, imitates noises, and consistently sleeps through the night (11-12 hours). Wow.

I wanted to share these pictures because I think they’re funny. Bailey REFUSES to take a pacifier, normally. We tried every brand/size/shape we could find when she was small, because she had such a high need to suck on something. This weekend, she found this pacifier under her bed and had about an hour-long obsession with it. Then, she promptly lost interest again and won’t touch it.

My Ring

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I really wish I could get my wedding ring back on my finger. Some days it fits and other days, it doesn’t. I was going to get it resized until I found out that the engraving on the inside of the band would get messed up. I am hoping that if I can ever lose some more weight, it will fit again. In the meantime I am wearing random gemstone jewelry because I like to still look married

Jonathon’s Birthday- pictures

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These first few pictures aren’t from Jonathon’s birthday. They were the other day when Bailey had on a Happy Heinys diaper and I wanted to get a picture of it. I’m not sure that I like the diaper. It seems to absort/hold okay, but it is HUGE (it’s a large) and the material is really, really stiff. I am kind of glad I only got one.




Blowing out the candles on his ice cream cake… see how three plus two equals 32?? Aren’t I clever. Actually I forgot to get candles…. Oops

I love this picture of Bailey with her Grammy and Grandpa. I couldn’t get a really good “posed” picture of the three of them, but I just love this one!

Mommy and Baby

I told Jonathon to “look cute” before I took this picture. So this is what he did.

Bailey standing up with her new toy- I’ve posted pictures of it before but lately it’s like the ONLY thing she will play with. It’s about her shoulder height and has tracks/tubes that you can drop balls through. It lights up and does some other stuff, but she’s fairly sure that it only exists for her to pull up on and walk around

Now this afternoon Jonathon is ditching out on me to go see I Am Legend with some guys. I am sooo glad I don’t have to see it with him. Isn’t that awful? I would rather sit through a business performance management course than a movie without dialogue.

My Sweetie’s Birthday

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Jonathon turned 32 this week. I can’t believe it… where has the time gone? It seems like just yesterday that we met and he was like 26 and I was 22 and had just graduated from college. I feel like he always gets shortchanged on his birthday, since it’s in December. I have usually already started my Christmas shopping and tend to just use one of the things I bought for Christmas, for his birthday. I’m sure his brother gets it even worse, as his birthday is December 31st.

Anyway, this year I decided I was going to make a point of doing something special for his birthday. We had his birthday dessert over at our house (I did not want to try to cook an entire meal, we’ve just been too busy lately) and I even put up streamers I will have to post pictures of that later when I get a minute.

I also made an effort to do my shopping in advance for him. He got two big gifts. The first was a wine of the month package. Like from one of those wine clubs. It turned out to be cooler than I thought it would be. At first, I couldn’t figure out why we were getting a FedEx shipment that an adult over 21 had to be home and sign for in person. Duh… I have just been doing too much online shopping lately and forgetting what is coming when!

Our neighbor ended up signing for it so I went over there to pick it up. It included a newsletter and a little score sheet for judging wine. There are two bottles, one red and one white. It also said on the package that a gift card was included, but apparently it was just a “greeting card” and not an actual gift card Anyway one of these nights we will have to do a date night and try our wine.

His other gift was a pocket knife. Not like a high tech Swiss Army one or anything, but a cool personalized one with his initials engraved on it. I tried to take a picture to include, but it wasn’t turning out well because the flash was reflecting off the shiny silver. I think he was pretty excited about the pocket knife. My dad and my grandpa both have one and they are always busting theirs out when something needs to be opened or cut or whatever. My grandpa was commenting last night that his was dull, so I might order him a new one for his birthday. I think it’s too late now to get it for Christmas, unless I pay for super mega fast shipping!

Oh, and we went to Outback on Jonathon’s actual birthday night, while my parents watched Bailey. We sat at the bar after dinner and had a few drinks. It was so great not to have to try to entertain her while we ate. We haven’t gone out alone in a few weeks, at least.