Monday Morning Blues

Happy Monday.  Are you feeling tired as much as I am? This weekend I felt like I never slowed down.  Friday night I spent packing up boxes.  I'm having to put some stuff in boxes that is going to storage and some boxes will be going to the apartment.  I don't want to overdue it, so I stop as soon as my feet or back start hurting.  Leven and Trever were a big help this weekend. Thank goodness.  They got the baby bed, carseat and high chair down from the attic as well so I could start cleaning those up.  Not sure what happened to the high chair cover in the last 6 years, but there's not one.  So ebay here I come!

 

Saturday morning Taydem and I took our time getting up and getting dressed.  My nieces party started at 11 so we got to sleep in a bit.  Leven and Trever headed up to Dallas to watch some of Leven's other girls playing club volleyball so they missed out on the fun 2 year olds party!! It was a Mickey/Minnie Mouse themed party.  Too cute! Danin and Chrissy did a good job putting it together.  There were kiddos everywhere! Taydem had a blast, of course.  Tyler fell asleep before we even ate, opened presents or cut the cake.  She was pooped! I had to snap a picture of her!

This is one of my favorite pictures of the two.  It makes me smile thinking about Tenlee and Baylee's future with one another. 

Tyler had just woken up in this picture.  If you wanna see what a daddy's girl looks like, here she is.  She loves my brother more than anything.  You will always find her not too far from him. So sweet!

After the party, we headed back home to finish some more packing.  Just trying to do a little at a time.  I feel like I'm moving right along.  Just pray we make it to closing date.  Here's a picture of Trever and Taydem at church yesterday morning.  Trever has got this long hair and some kind of beard going on.  He needs to clean up the beard, but it does look good on him.

As soon as we got home from church, we started loading up our cars with "apartment stuff."  Since we are going to Carthage at least two days a week for volleyball practice, we figured we would drop off a load at the apartment everytime we pass through Tatum.  So we loaded up some bedroom furniture and all the boxes I had packed up so far.  The apartment has new carpart and it smells like a new home.  It's small, but I think it's perfect for us. 

 

Last night I showed Leven the house plans that I have been working on and he actually loved it and agreed with me.  I couldn't believe it! Once we have this baby girl and get settled completely in the apartment we will take our plans and have them drawn up and the building process will be under way! Hopefully we can save some money while also living in the apartment. 

 

I hope you each have a wonderful week. 

DB

TGIF

Thank goodness it's Friday, right? This week has probably been the fastest week I've had in a long time.  Just flew right by. Late afternoon and last night we had some chilly weather come through East Texas.  When Leven picked Taydem up from school, it was snowing! I missed out.  She was so excited and then bummed out when she got home and there was NO snow in Longview. 

This little girl is not going to be happy with me come Monday.  She has to get a cavity filled AND she's missing the first day of gymnatics!!  She has always done so well at the dentist, but I'm afraid after this trip she's not gonna want to ever go back. And speaking of teeth, she's about to lose one of her front top teeth! She wiggled and wiggled on that thing last night.  It wouldn't suprise me if she lost it today at school.

This picture of Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus cracks me up. 

 I just had to share it!

I have been waiting for Quaker to make this. And finally they have.  I have been hooked on Quaker's Apples and Cinnamon since I was a little wee one.  And it's the only oatmeal I like or will even eat. It's perfect to have up at the office for breakfast.  It's just like the instant mac and cheese.  Fill the water up to the line and microwave for about a minute.  And wah-la! Thank you Quaker Oatmel people! I also brought some milk to the office this morning and a banana.  Feeling healthy this morning :)

Today on my lunch break I'm having to meet Danin in Longview to look for some hostess gifts for the ones throwing us the baby shower.  Then rush back to the office. 

Ugh...I hate being rushed.  Hopefully we find something today!

 

Have a wonderful and blessed weekend!

Stay warm

 

DB

Official(ly)-- the word of the day

We today I am officially 30 weeks pregnant.  I seriously can NOT believe how fast my pregnancy has gone.  10 more weeks! And with the packing of the house and moving, it's going to go by even faster.  Tenlee will be here before we know it. AWH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

The 10 days for the buyers to back out is officially over.  Thank goodness we can breathe a little.  Today the appraiser is coming out to appraise our house.  Once that is said and done, I am gonna start calling all the utility companies and let them know when our closing date is to get everything turned off or switched over.  I also have to call the Tatum Post Office and get a PO Box #.  That will be a first for me.  Just call me Busy Barker for the next few weeks.

 

This weekend we have my nieces 2nd birthday down in Tatum (Brit and Tyler are having their parties together this year).  Since we are going to Tatum, we are going to drop off a load of stuff at the apartment.  My mom said the new carpet should be all down by tomorrow.  We had keys made yesterday. I am so thankful for my parents.  They are such a huge support for us.  But we want to bring loads of stuff down to the apartment as much as we can so we don't have much for the moving company to do.  I mainly want the moving company to move stuff to the storage unit. 

 

It's getting official folks! Praise God!

Last night at volleyball practice some of my girls told me to look over at Taydem.  And this is what we caught her doing. Selfies with my phone. This girl is ca-razy! I bet she had about 30 pictures on there.  So I saved a few.

Taydem is more than ready for Tenlee to get here.  She talks about her every day, rubs and kisses my belly and plays with her baby things.  I signed Taydem up for gymnastics yesterday.  Can't wait and I know she's excited.

 

DB

 

 

Keeping our fingers crossed....

Today is the last day the buyers can back out of the contract.  Please say a quick prayer that we can make it to midnight!

The apartment we are moving into, doesn't have much storage.  In the kitchen there is only ONE drawer.  Yes, I said it...ONE! So mom thought it would be a good idea to find something that we could put in the kitchen that has some shelves and maybe another drawer or two.  So I began my search on Craigs List and found this little gem.  And the best part the lady that is selling lives in Henderson.  I talked her down a few more dollars and she's meeting me today in Tatum with the wooden island.  I am going to paint the stools a different color, but the island itself is wonderful.  The kitchen is too small to put our kitchen table in there, so this will be perfect for when Taydem or either one of us want to sit down and eat a quick something.  When we move into our new home, I think it will work outside on the back porch.

I am in love with this picture of Trever and Taydem.  This sums up their relationship so well.  They adore each other and he's just the sweetest big brother. 

I told myself that I wouldn't do Tenlee wrong and not keep a baby book updated for her.  So many times, the second or third child doesn't get everything the first child does.  So I went ahead and ordered her a baby book online and it came in the mail yesterday (along with 3 other boxes! Leven thinks I'm crazy!). I hope I can keep it up for her like I did with Taydem's baby book.

I had also ordered some more bows for Taydem.  Bows are a lot like socks....they somehow disappear! I found a lady on ebay that made 8 bows for only $12.00.  Now that's a good deal. You just have to decide on which colors you want. 

Another box contained clothes from my cousin's little girl.  They have been giving Taydem her "out grown" clothes for like 5 years! Super sweet and to even mail them to us!

 

Speaking of clothes....

I spent about 3 hours in Taydem's room last night going through toys, clothes and JUNK! Taydem and I separated toys that would go to storage and toys that would go to the apartment and toys that would go into the trash! Then we started on her clothes.  Since we got some new clothes from Addisyn, we got rid of all the clothes that were too small for Tay to wear.  I separated all those and put some away for the apartment.  We also ended up with 2 trashbags full of trash.  Taydem is just like her daddy and doesn't want to get rid of anything! OMG!!

By the time I was finished, my back was killing me.  I felt like an old old lady. 

 

Happy Wednesday!

DB

Gave in

My goal of growing out my nails is looking pretty good! Go ME!

I have been going back and forth with the idea of having maternity pictures taken.  I didn't do it with Taydem and I love the idea of having Taydem in some of the pictures with me this time around.  I have been searching Pinterest trying to get pic ideas and an idea on what to wear.  It's so cold right now. Well the weather is a hit or miss.  So I gave in and decided to go ahead.  I asked the lady taking the photos if we could take them ASAP before my big butt got any bigger! So we have it scheduled for Feb. 1. Should be fun at least! I just pray that the weather isn't too chilly. 

Below are a few shots that I like.

This picture is of our friend! Isn't this shot beautiful? She is due at the beginning of March and she's the one that talked me into having my photos taken. She is also the photographer that took our family pictures last year.

~LOVE~

It's getting serious

Check out this "bling bling" pacifier! It's got to be the cutest thing ever.  They didn't have these when Taydem was born.  I'm finding out there are a ton of new things since she was born. 

Our trip to San Antonio was a good one.  Again, thank goodness for our friends and asking us to fly down with them.  It made the trip so much better.  Leven sat up front with Scott and got all the inside scoop on flying.  He wouldn't stop talking about how cool it was.  I was just praying that I didn't get sick anytime in the air.  We were there in an hour! Talk about fast. 

Once we landed we had a man waiting on us (they use the same guy everytime they fly to SA) in a blacked out SUV and he took us to our hotels.  We stayed at the Omni La Del Mansion Rio right on the riverwalk (http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/SanAntonioLaMansionDelRio.aspx). 

We loved it! It was in the perfect location for all the attractions and walking distance to the Convention Center where our volleyball games were.  Once we got checked in and took a little time to freshin' up, we met up with our friends for dinner at The Hard Rock Cafe.  After eating, we walked up and down the riverwalk until we found a little pub with some good music playing.  I'm sure everyone was looking at me thinking why on earth is a pregnant woman in a bar. But as long as I don't see or smell cigarette smoke, it doesn't bother me.  I LOVE music and I could sit anywhere and listen all day/night! We had a blast!  

Now our volleyball games didn't go as good as we hoped.  Some of our girls were scared to death.  You could just see it all over their face! We are a team of 14 and 15 year olds and we were playing in a 16's bracket.  So yes, the teams we were playing had more experience, but we wanted to show our girls that level of play and show them how the speed of the game is so much faster.  We lost every game on Saturday and on Sunday we finally won our last match.  We have so much to work on and I'm already looking forward to practices and our next tournament.

 

While we were away, Taydem was in good hands.  Her and mom went to the movies Friday night and she played with Brittyn some on Saturday.  Mom and Dad went to Tatum to clean up the outside and inside of the apartment we will be living in and I'm sure they just dropped Tay off at my sister's while they cleaned.   Moving into the apartment is getting a little more real folks.  This morning the buyers had someone come out to the house to measure for a fence.  They also wanted to bump the closing date up 6 days.  So now we have 3 weeks until closing.  Talk about fast! After Wednesday (that's the last day they can back out of the contract), I'm going to get my butt in gear and finish packing the house little by little every night.  My parents are putting new carpet in the apartment and once that's complete, we will start bringing stuff and putting in the apartment a little at a time.  All our other stuff will go into a storage unit. 

So today at lunch, I headed to get myself a pedicure.  My feet and legs needed a good rub down and this little guy did an amazing job.  I'm sure he saw the swolleness in my feet! Oh, and I also got my eyebrows waxed!!

It's out there

Here's a picture of me at 19 weeks and a picture of me at 29 weeks.  Huge difference.  I didn't realize until after I looked at the picture long enough, but check out my leggings in both pictures.  They are pretty stretched out in that second picture.  The belly isn't the only thing growing! I look at the first picture and think that I'm pretty small.  Geez! I'm actually starting to get pretty miserable.  Leven noticed the other night that my calves are starting to swell.  I didn't believe him until I took my sock off the following night and they had made an indention in my skin.  Yikes! I think it has a lot to do with me sitting behind a desk all day.  I need to start taking a few minutes out of the day and walk around the office or somethig.  I hope I can make it this weekend in a gym ALL day! I can already tell that my back will probably start killing me towards the end. 

 

Tenlee's kicks are more in my stomach now.  So hopefully she has turned heads down now.  I just started noticing this yesterday. 

  Last night our scrimmage went way better than I had expected.  I was so proud and pumped for these girls.  We beat an older elite team in 3 games.  We still have quite a lot to work on, but being that was our first time to even really go over the rotation, I was excited.   I can't wait for Saturday.    We are so thankful to have such wonderful friends in our lives.  Our good friends from White Oak have a daughter that is also playing in San Antonio this weekend.  He is a pilot and owns several planes and they fly everywhere when they travel.  So they asked if we wanted to fly with them to San Antonio.  You talk about one happy pregnant woman! I wasn't looking forward to driving 5-6 hours in a car.  This makes the trip oh so much better.  Get down there faster and home faster! My parents are watching Taydem for us for this tournament, but she will make the rest.  She is just as excited about getting to stay TWO nights with them!!   I can't remember if I posted this or not.  But my niece Austyn, had surgery yesterday to get a mysterious blue "something" out of her ear that she put down in it.  She went in for her 4 year old check up last week and the doctor noticed something blue in her ear.  She tried to get it out but Austyn screamed every time.  Molly took her to the ENT on Monday and Austyn screamed again.  So they had to schedule surgery.  Aidan told Molly and Dustin that he has seen Austyn put play doh in her ear before (thanks for telling the parents!!). So after learning of this, Austyn had told her other grandmother that she was pretending to put her hearing aids in her ears (aka, the blue play doh). I know it's not funny to them, but I thought it was so sweet that Austyn wanted to have hearing aids like Taydem.  She loves her TayTay! Surgery went fine and they recovered the mystery blue that was deep down in her ear.....play doh!   Happy Thursday! Make today a good one! DB