In a slump :(

Well, to say Thanksgiving was great is an under statement. Somehow on Thanksgiving our first pet/fur child went missing. Bella got out and we don't know how/who let her out. She has never been outside before so I was a nervous wreck and just could not stop crying for 2 days. We made signs immediately and hung all 20 of them up in our neighborhood. She does have a collar on but Adam thinks someone took her. She is a tortoise shell cat so they are not too common of a kitty. I pray whoever has/wherever she is she is safe and is returned home to us. Sasha, Leo, Bubba, daddy and mommy miss you too much Bella! :(

Saturday was however our 1 year wedding anniversary, but I couldn't really bring myself to celebrate. We did go out to dinner, ate a bite of our wedding cake from last year (which was surprisingly still tasty) and had a fire in the fireplace. On top of Bella going missing, Adam left Monday to work out of town for 2 weeks! Sunday was a little better, as we had a great late lunch with my parents, brother and Krystal, my aunt and uncle and my cousin who recently moved to Philadelphia with his wife and will be a proud parent in just under 4 weeks! It was good to catch up with everyone and they all couldn't believe I was showing already! Speaking of showing - I am wearing my first pair of maternity pants today! I ordered them online and was leary of what they would look like, but they are cute and you can't even tell :)

I am kind of up in the air on whether I will go visit Adam out of town this weekend. It is a 4 and a half hour drive there and I would take Leo with me so it makes that drive that much longer! Hm.. we will see. I do need to start packing because we are almost 1 month out from our closing date! I drove by the house and well, of course they are moving right along. All of our lighting is installed besides the ceiling fans. I imagine those will be done today.

We are still waiting on bathroom granite, master shower, carpet, sprinkler system, fence and sod! :)

Thanksgiving!

Happy Turkey day everyone! I am waiting on hubby to finish his casserole then off to my mother in law's we go! We taste tested my dressing and it was delicious! I hope my sweet potatoes turn out that well! We have some updated pictures of the house - just about 1 more month! All the pictures are of the kitchen since that is what they have been working on :)

I can't wait to see it with the tile done and all our stainless steel appliances in!

Happy Birthday Natalie!

Happy birthday to my beautiful sister in law Natalie!!!!!

I left her flowers and balloons this morning and she said she cried when she saw them and the card!

I hope you have a fabulous day!!!

(PS - she would so murder me if she knew I posted this picture of her) :)

Happy Friday/Wednesday everyone! I hope everyone has a blessed and safe Thanksgiving Holiday! I will be spending it with our amazing family!!! We are doing Adam's moms on Thanksgiving and having a get together at my parents house on Sunday because my brother and his girlfriend are coming into town! Yay!

Now, going to attempt to not gain 20lbs this weekend!

Nanmama's dressing!

We had a pretty quiet weekend! I was SO sick Friday night, symptoms of morning sickness but 50 times worse! I felt much better Saturday but by Sunday, my brother in law had it!

Saturday hubby took me to see Breaking Dawn and I was not impressed! It was such a long/slow movie, grr! I really wanted it to be good! The only not slow part was near the end. Save your money and wait for it come out on redbox! Last night we watched the change up with Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds - it was definitely vulgar but hilarious!

I cannot wait until Turkey Day! This year we definitely have so much to be thanful for - our family, health, baby, and new home!

Those who know me, know I NEVER cook unless baking some sweet treats here and there. This year I am attempting to make my Nanmama (Great Grandma's) dressing recipe! She taught my Grandma and my Grandma taught my mom. I know if my Grandma was here she would be so happy - even if it doesn't come out the same way their's did! (I will be really happy if it does). I am also baking some DELICIOUS sweet potato casserole - its so yummy because it has a stick and a half of butter, 1 cup of sugar, and a half a cup of brown sugar!

I will be 10 weeks tomorrow - a little over 2 weeks until my next appointment and get to see this bouncing baby of ours. I am slowly starting to have my suspicions that is a girl! We will see if I am right :) We have 210 days until baby is here and hopefully around 45 days until we move! Let the fun begin!

A new day!

I woke up SOOOO sick yesterday!! I could not keep saltines, ginger ale or water down! I was already told NO MILK so I don't know what got me so sick. My doctor called me in Zofran and it worked like a miracle. I am 9 weeks today so hopefully only 3 more weeks of this until our second trimester!

Our weekend went great! Saturday we had Tiffany and Paul's couples shower at Pine Forest Country Club and it was great! Adam got to see some of his old friends we hadn't seen in years! And we will be neighbors with one of them come January! Sunday was my birthday so hubby took me out for a birthday lunch but that was all I had time for. Tiffany's pregnant friendly bachelorette party went great. All of the girls loved Pinot's Palette!

Saturday we drove by the house and.. it looks like a house! We have walls and all the bricking is done! I believe the drive way, sidewalk and fencing comes next but I am not 100%!

Well I hope everyone has a great Tuesday and enjoys this stormy weather!

WIGGLE WORM!!!

Yay! We got to see our baby for the first time!!! He or she is such a wiggle worm. Every time the doctor poked me its arms and legs went flying and was shaking its head back and forth! I wish I could sit there all day and watch Mr. Bennet Sye Painter or Mrs. Madeline/Britton Louise Painter! Watching their heart beat was amazing!

I have my next doctor's appointment beginning of December and we should be able to hear the heart then. I am not as far as long as I thought, I was about 6 days off! I am 8 weeks and 5 days and due June 25! It was the best birthday present in the world to see the baby for the first time!

Speaking of birthdays.. my coworkers got me again this morning!

This looks like a cup  cake but it is a huge cake! I love Ooh Lala! The cake was yummy!

In other exciting news.. this is Penelope, Penny for short! She is roughly 6 months old and crazy! I found her last weekend and she was an inside cat so I had to take her in! She is supposed to be going with Natalie and Chad when they get an apartment next month but I want her for myself! :)

Yay bricking! This photo was a few days ago, they are supposed to be wrapping up all sheet rock and bricking by early next week! I will drive by tonight and see how it is coming along :)

Long week

I can't believe it is only Tuesday, on the bright side I am starting my third month of pregnancy today. I can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel!

It has been a long week, I have Alex's memorial service on Thursday and to make things even harder on her mom (my friend), her 3 dogs got out late Sunday night! Ugh! To lose your daughter and your pets just days apart? I can't imagine. My sister inlaw and I made signs for them and hung them up last night. We are going to call Special Pals today to see if hopefully someone turned them in.

Now I am just counting down the days until Friday until we get to hear our little peanut's heart beat for the first time!

This weekend will be a busy one. We have Paul and Tiffany's couple shower this Saturday and Sunday I am hosting Tiffany's pregnant friendly bachelorette party since Ashley, me, Megan and Cindi are all pregnant! I am hosting it at Pinot's Palette - I just love that place! And we are doing dinner at 3 Olives afterwards. 3 Olives catered our wedding and it was AMAZING! If you are ever off of 99 and Westheimer Parkway you must check them out!

RIP sweet angel

I woke up to a devastating text message this morning. My dear friend and neighbor across the street lost her 17 year old daughter last night. Words could never express how deeply sorry I am Shireen. Adam and I love you and will always be here for you, just like you have always been here for us. Alex was such an amazing, beautiful young woman. I will miss seeing her everyday and chit chatting about her upcoming senior prom. Shireen.. I hope you know that you will never be alone and you are surrounded by a wonderful support team.

Everyone needs to remember the power of wearing a seat belt!

God has gained a true angel!! Rest in peace Alex Baker.

Halfway there..

Today we have our second meeting with the builder. This is our "pre drywall" meeting and marks the halfway point to closing! Yay! Hopefully our home will be done early January! and hubby and I both get to take off work early! That's always a plus, especially on a Friday!

Anywho, I am still on the morning sickness and sleepy train. I had to leave work early a few days ago because I was so sick! I had a little break yesterday and hopefully today will be too! I bought a pair of skinny jeans the week before Vegas that fit me so well! This morning I had to do the hair band trick... so depressing! At this rate I would expect our baby to weigh 20lbs! Speaking of a slightly larger belly.. check out my lovely lady bump!

I was having a bloated day on Tuesday so I am definitely not this big today! Still close though!

My birthday is next weekend and I ALWAYS decorate my cubicle at work for Christmas. Last birthday my lovely coworkers did it for me! BUT next week is a payroll week meaning I and everyone else will be swamped! So I decorated today! I am going to go get some lights during my lunch break and decorate some more :)

Well I hope everyone has a great weekend! This weekend is Tiffany's first wedding shower! Yay!



Roughly 2 months

pregnant! Ah.. I can't believe it! I should know exactly how far along I am at our VERY FIRST doctor's appointment next week! (I will be 9 and a half weeks pregnant then). My doctor will only first see you between 9-10 weeks. I am sure because she is super busy, but we are dying to see our little peanut for the first time!

We had a great weekend! Hubby's birthday was a success. I had NO idea what to get him and his "I don't need a present, get you something" answers did not help. Finally I remembered... he has had no working radio in his truck for over 3 years! I headed to Best Buy and picked out an amazing system he can hook his I Phone to and play his music from there too! He was so happy and was not expecting that at all! Chad and him spent Saturday morning installing it! My mother in law had a garage sale also Saturday. I picked up 2 matching side tables to our patio set, a tacky Christmas sweater I am dying to wear to work, and of course some neutral baby clothes!

These are all the baby clothes I have bought so far.. gosh I don't even want to know how much I will spend once we find out if our baby will be Bennet or Maddison!

Sunday we had a lazy/clean house day. I steam cleaned the whole house and we watched football. How about them Texans?!?! What an amazing game! And it's always better when the Coyboys lose!

We drove by and walked through our house on Saturday and man oh man - they are moving right along! The bricks should be going up this week, all the wiring and plumbing is done, fireplace installed, whirlpool tub installed and doors and windows are installed! My real estate agent doesn't think it will take long at all. He thinks will be in BEFORE Christmas. If so, that would be amazing. We are so ready to get out of the neighborhood we are in and our drama filled next door neighbors do not help. Here are some updated pictures of our house!

Looking out from our garage

 Kitchen

 Back of house

I hope everyone had a great Halloween! My oh so adorable nieces came over and we had a family Halloween.

Mad Hatter - Kayla on left

 and a Girly Pirate - Katelyn on the right!

 Waldo, Chad and I stayed home passing out candy for awhile. Chad was dressed up as this...

and scared the $%$%# out of all the kiddos. The girls were back before 8:00 so we decided to ALL pile in Mechel's car - Chad in this costume and Waldo in this scary clown mask and go take the kids trick or treating again. We had a blast! Any kids that saw the Jig Saw and Clown coming down the street all started to scream and run to their parents. Even the parents were laughing their butts off!

Today is my close friend of 20 something years' birthday! Happy Birthday Kristi! I hope you have a blessed day! Also tonight I have Tiffany's dress fitting! This will be my first time to see her in THE dress! I know she is going to make a gorgeous bride and can't wait to see it on her!