Thanks Jenny!!!

A big thanks to my friend Jenny for this awesome new template!! You are so creative and talented!! You're the best!!

So we had the pleasure of having Dylan's parents visit us from Oklahoma for a few days a couple weeks ago. Riley was so excited...she doesn't get to see them as often as we'd like. They, as usual, spoiled and showered her with presents. We had a bunch of fun things planned, but the 40 degree weather with 50 mph winds for 3 days straight didn't permit us to do much except sit and visit and drive around our small town. It was fun and good to see them though. We are planning a trip after the 4th of July for Riley to go to Oklahoma with her dad and spend a week at her grandparents house. That will be so fun for her and she'll have a lot more fun things to do with them there!!!






So Riley finally got to ride a horse!! She has been talking about wanting to ride one for months. Well, her little preschool/daycare had one brought to the school for "cowboy week". First, I was told that it was a little tiny pony, so that's what I geared her up for...WRONG...full-grown, adult male horse. Second, I thought it would be something that she would just talk about, but then when it came time to actually do it, she wouldn't do it...wrong again. She just ran up to the horse and the teacher just threw her on there. She didn't want anybody touching her or holding her legs or anything. It was very exciting for her...made her mama proud to see her do that all by herself after watching more than half the "big kids" either cry or only ride on him with an adult.

Save the Date!!

So I went to the doctor last week for my check-up and to schedule my C-section. I'm already in a bad mood, because the nurse draws out the weighing in thing as long as she can everytime!! I step on the scale and she moves the lever up a fraction of a centimeter at a time, so I feel like I've been on the thing for 10 min now and gained 50 lbs in the last 3 weeks. We got people waiting in line to use the scale...I just want to say 'Ya know, lets just move it up 5 or 6 pounds and see where we're at' ! THEN...to make matters worse, when she finally gets to the approximate weight where the bar is teetering up and down between too light and too heavy, we have to sit there and stare at it and adjust until precisely balanced...'oh, too light (adjust)...oh, too heavy (adjust). The whole weighing in procedure takes longer than the actual doctor visit itself!! Anyway, lets get back on track with the point of the story. So after that painstakingly long weigh in and a 30 second "measure the belly/listen to the heartbeat/do you have any questions" doctor visit, I'm walking to the desk to check out still feeling excited because I'll get to schedule my c-section date EARLY!! Well, that hope was extinguished when the nurse looked at the calendar and said 'this is the week we would have you in, but he's [my doctor] going to be out of town all that week'. OF COURSE!!! Why wouldn't he be?? So the date is set...albeit, a week later than planned...for July 31st a.k.a. Dylan and I's 6 year anniversary! I can't think of a better way to celebrate than to have your stomach cut open...how special!! I'm hoping that by some miracle, I can get things rolling the week before as we had planned. If not, then July 31st it is!! Is it here yet.......

The "post mother's day" Post

So I thought that things would slow down for me after softball was over, but they really haven't. And to top it off, my internet at home has been acting screwy, so to get on the internet (and blog...), I have to go to my office. That's where I do most of my blogging anyway...while I'm "working". No...I get my work done...it's just easy to get sidetracked with blogging, downloading music, writing emails, that sort of thing.

Anyway, so I've taken a bunch of cute pictures, and the easiest way to combine all of them was just to do a slide show. So I'll run ya through the slide show. Riley and I spent a nice mother's day at my mother's house (Dylan had to work all day) where I got to spend it with some of the best mother's I know.

Then I was lucky enough to take a few days and fly to Dallas with Riley, my mom, and my mom's mom to visit my little sis Holly, who is expecting a little boy on the exact same day as me. I commend her husband for putting up with a house full of women (2 of which are pregnant and hormonal and cranky) for 5 days in the Texas heat!! Thanks Kimball!! Anyway, we had a great time...ate way too much good food, went shopping, went swimming every day, made some cute mobiles for the babies, attempted to make some slings (front carriers) for the babies (turns out the pattern was made for skeletons without shoulders...or stomachs for that matter... or for little girls to use with their dolls)...wish I would've gotten some more pictures of the sling-making night. If you go to Holly's blog link, she got a good pic that pretty much summed up the night...me sitting at the sewing machine with an imaginary gun to my head next to my mother who has been trying to figure out how to attach the cell phone pocket to the sling for 3 hours now!!! Aaahh...good times...I'm having flashbacks to the kitchen curtains!! We had a great time though.

I know it's way late, but I want to shout out to all the great mother's in my life to whom I look up to and learn from. My own mother, my mother in law, my sisters, my grandmothers, my aunts, my cousins, my friends. I love all of you and I think you are all terrific mothers!!!

I've been tagged!!

I've Been Tagged!
How To Play This Game of Tag: Post these rules on your blog. List: 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 random surprising facts about yourself. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog!

3 Joys

1. Doing something productive with my day
2. Hearing Riley sing to herself or to her baby sister
3. Spending time with my mom and sisters

3 Fears

1. Having another preemie
2. Losing a loved one
3. The DENTIST...I have a moderate case of dental anxiety

3 Goals

1. Get my Masters Degree (I've started!!)
2. Lose the weight...AGAIN!! (I'm reeeaaally enjoying my 9 month "baby diet")
3. Be able to manage money better

3 Current Obsessions/Collections

1. Having to know where everything is and double-checking to make sure (I know what you're thinking...I am borderline OCD )
2. I currently have a collection of all the comp toiletries from all the hotels our team has stayed at over the past 2 years (And I dont even use them ever! )
3. I'm kind of obsessed with the sitcom Friends

3 Random Surprising Facts about Myself

1. I'm a very good speller
2. I still use the alarm clock I got as a present at my 10th birthday party...20 yrs. later...still works like a charm.
3. My least favorite food is cucumbers, but one of my most favorite foods are pickles.

I tag Rinni, Mandy, Liz, Ashli, and Myr

Just thought I'd throw this out there...The official movie trailer is out and I am surprised to say that it actually looks pretty good (Usually not a huge fan of the "movie made from the book"). Stay tuned for my countdown ticker to Breaking Dawn. And for those of you that have no idea what this is or what I'm saying....GET ON THE BALL PEOPLE!!! Just start by reading Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. You can thank me later. Happy Reading!!

The Random Events Post

So its been an eventful week. This might be long...you can read it or not...it's ok, we've all done it. Its taken me awhile to gather all of my thoughts and organize them enough to put them all down in this post. I might throw in a few random tidbits...SOFTBALL IS OVER FOR A FEW MONTHS...WOOHOO!! I never would have said such things when I was playing, but coaching is a whole different thing...it really brings out the mean person inside of me. It was a frustrating season to say the least. I can handle having a team that loses games. We knew it would be hard these first few years of the program. I cannot, however, handle losing attitudes. They accepted failure all season long and they were defeated before they even stepped out onto the field. It was very difficult to watch. I think we got rid of all the bad seeds this season and hope we have some winners coming in next year. That is my biggest piece of news...I'm looking forward to slowing down for a few months and getting ready for this baby!! On that note, my parents drove up for a couple days last week. My mom and I have some major organizational projects we want to do in our apartment before the baby comes. Well, on this visit, we didn't get any of those done. We did, however, make some dang cute curtains (or valance) for my kitchen window. Sounds simple, yes? Everything was going great, until it was time to evenly space the hanging tabs across the curtain. Little did we know, you had to have a degree in Mathematics to accomplish this. I should have saved our notes with our equations scribbled on them, but they sounded a little like this: Number of tabs you have minus 2: this is factor A. Take factor A and multiply the length of each panel and then divide by the number of panels: this is factor B. Take factor A and B put them together and multiply them by the sum of the squareroots A and B and divide that by half of the length of the each of the 3 panels: This is factor C. And this went on until the E factor. We worked through the equation 3 times and came up with 3 different answers!! So these pictures kind of walk you through the process that day.
After my idea of just "eyeballing" it and putting them where they looked evenly spaced got shut down, my mother had an equation of her own. She's got it all under control...she just needs a tape measure...


Getting down and dirty on the sewing machine...with Riley's pink foam visor. It helps me focus. Oops...think I just messed up.



The finished product...well, semi-finished. We were spent after all the problem-solving, so the bottom isn't hemmed yet. And we decided it needs more tabs...oh great...I hope I saved my notes...




And since this is the random events post, I'll finish by saying that I am close to 28 weeks pregnant now. I am nearing the time my water broke and I gave birth to Riley. I'm getting a little nervous, but I know that whatever is going to happen will happen, so I can't really stress out about it. But just keep us in your prayers and think happy thoughts about a big, chubby, healthy baby.

Thanks for reading!! More to come...hopefully more on a regular basis now that SOFTBALL IS OVER!!
And P.S. I didn't proofread, so sorry