I GOT CABLE!!!!

Yes, it's true! I finally have cable after almost 2 months! You want to know the funny part? I went back with the same company that R.J. cut off for being too expensive! LOL I wanted to go with Uverse from At&T but it's not offered in my area yet sooooo...... I went with Comcast again and didn't sign a contract so when I finally get Uverse in my area and I can switch to it. I got the Premium package too! All the channels that R.J. would never pay for- HBO, Showtime, Oxygen.... it's great! I tried to convince the customer care representative guy that I really didn't need the ESPN channels but he said they come standard. Now, why do all the guy channels come standard and the girl channels you have to pay "extra"?

P.S. Notice the flooring underneath the tv? Yes, that is correct-- I still don't have floors... Guess what my next project is??? :)

Do you want our autograph??

Just kidding.... Some of you might get the Houston Tidbits in your email box weekly. Well, some girlfriends and I went to Pinot and Picasso back early May for a girl's night out. Little did we know they would be using a picture of us for the advertisement. It was alot of fun and I would reccommend it to anyone interested. You don't have to be an artist (believe me!!)-- they tell you where to draw the lines and take you through it step by step. It's very laid back and you get to bring your own wine. I wouldn't have known anything about it if it weren't for Caroline kind of dating the owner-- thanks C-Line! :) Anyway, here's the picture they are using. It's Stacie, me and Ashley.

Brinner at Elizabeth's

Last Thursday I went to my girlfriend Elizabeth's for Brinner (dinner for breakfast). It was so much fun! She made us yummy belgian waffles with every topping you could imagine. She is a great cook and always goes above and beyond for company. Elizabeth and Taylor are also expecting and due at the end of October. She's one of the lucky ones that didn't have morning sickness. So lucky!!! I'm still fitting through mine-- I'm about to pull my hair out if it doesn't get better soon! Since she HAS a normal house with normal floors and furniture in it's proper place, she has already set up her baby girl's nursery. It is absolutely adorable! Elizabeth is very creative and makes pregnancy look so enjoyable (do I sound bitter?!?!) I'm just jealous :) No really, I'm not going to use my blog to be negative and nag... I'm so happy that Elizabeth and I will be having kids around the same time-- more play dates for us!

Blogging...

If you were writing a blog, won't you think your husband would read your blog every once in a while? Well, tell it to my husband. R.J. has only checked my blog once... and that was the first day and only because I forced him too. lol... He doesn't know anything I write. I could technically write ANYTHING about him and he won't know. I know his friends have read my blog a couple of times because their wives have told me comments they made but has mine read it-- no. Everytime I ask him if he checked it today he says he's been too busy. R.J. might be the busiest (non-busy) person I know. Lord help me.

Heartbeat

R.J. and I went to see Dr. Irwin on Friday for our 14 week appointment. We got to hear the heartbeat for the first time. It was 168. So what does that mean... girl or boy? Any takers? Well, I guess you will just have to stay posted around August 21st because that's when we do our big ultrasound and get to find out the sex. Yeah!

Babymoon Vacation

I didn't know so many people read my blog-- I really think my life is quit boring but thanks for all the followers! When I was in Coleman I had people asking why I didn't update my blog for 10 days-- well I didn't have internet service. Sorry guys. Okay, on to important decisions.... R.J. and I are wanting to go on a trip and wanted to get suggestions from you all. We like tropical or cooler weather and it needs to be an easy flight (direct flight from Houston to ....) so it's not too hard on me. I'm kind of scared to go to Mexico because of the water drinking issue/drama right now. I really need to get on this before R.J. changes his mind. LOL... I'm wanting to go at the end of August. We were toying with the idea of somewhere in the Bahamas, Myrtle Beach or somewhere in Canada...Any suggestions?????

16 Hour Nap!

Okay, so I have been having these horrible headaches lately and nothing seems to help. Yesterday I decided to lay down for a short nap around 5. When R.J. got home about 6 he kept asking when I was going to get up and I told him my head hurt really bad and was just going to sleep for a little bit. He was so sweet. He went and put a cold rag on my head which really helped and he kept replacing it all night. I finally woke up at 9 the next day-- that's 16 hours of sleep and guess what-- I feel better. Baby Moses makes me so tired. I don't have any energy these days. Poor little Addy slept almost as long as I did. She's been really sick also with allergies. Don't come over to this house anytime soon-- all we do is sleep!

Morning Sickness!!?!?!?! UGH!

I feel like I have been run over by an 18 wheeler! Am I ever going to get over this morning sickness? I'm 13 weeks and I THOUGHT I was feeling a little bit better. Obviously, I don't know my body....ha ha... I felt better in Coleman and then as soon as I got back to my house in Houston I have felt yucky again. I swear Addy is sick too. Maybe it's allergies. We both are sneezing like crazy the only difference is I'm so nausead and feel like I'm going to throw up. HELP! Some people might say it's all in my head and it probably is --who knows. All I know is the worst is yet to come I'm sure. This morning sickness should be over and I should have a couple of weeks of feeling good, right? I just hope to feel better soon or else we will be adopting from here on. (Sorry Mom!)

Meijers

I went to see Laura and the quads this past weekend while I was at the lake. I always have so much fun visiting with Laura. The babies are growing so big and are so cute! I have never seen such happy and beautiful babies :) Not to mention Super Mom Laura looks great as ever. I still can't believe that almost 8 months ago she had quads. It still blows my mind. I remember when she called to tell me and I was in shock. R.J. was the funniest though. All he could say was "Shut Up--Really--No, Shut Up--Are You Serious?". Laura is so great with them. I mean, she's got all the babies (Mr. Landon, Parker, Kale and Miss Gracie) on a schedule and makes motherhood look soooo easy! I couldn't have made it without her these last couple of months. She's my "go to" Doctor/friend-- I call her Dr. Meijer. :) I swear she knows everything about pregnancy and babies. R.J. laughs and says she's super mom. He's right! Too bad he's stuck with me... LOL!

Day Ranch Resort and Spa a.k.a my parents house :)

The back porch. It's really nice in the morning and late afternoon. We would eat breakfast outside and then play "42" at night.

I love all the lounge chairs-- they are so comfy!

You gotta love the infiniti pool overlooking Lake Ivie.

Well, after a nice and relaxing stay at the "Day Ranch Resort and Spa" a.k.a. my parents house in Coleman, I'm finally home. I was gone about 10 days and it was great. I didn't do anything but eat, sleep and relax in a NORMAl house with normal carpet and finally cable. Needless to say, I'm all caught up on my tv shows plus some! It was great seeing my family and my mom waited on me hand and feet. She's the best! She made sure I had everything I love (food!!)-- homemade chicken strips and steak fingers, homemade mashed potatoes, homemade maccaroni and cheese, bread and gravy, roast, homemade sweet tea, white chocolate cake, Neiman Marcus cookies, homemade strawberry ice cream and these are only to name a few!! She also drove into town to sit with me while I ate my "must have" restaurants in Coleman like Best Fried Chicken, El Taquito and Owl's Drug (she hates these but I love them!). Gosh, it's great being home. They just finished their pool so I thought I would put a couple of pictures up of their "resort" :)

R.J. and I spent this past weekend at Lake Conroe to help break up my long trip back. I finally got home last night and remembered very quickly why I left. Nothing has changed with the house. Before I left, I joked with him and said I wasn't coming home until I had cable-- well I should have had someone investigate that for me before I agreed to come home. R.J. out smarted me. I STILL DON'T HAVE CABLE! He got some antenna box from his dad that changes our tv from analog to digital-- I mean really.... am I living through this?!?!?! Who doesn't have cable these days! Don't worry, any of you that know me know that by the end of this week we WILL have cable. I'm calling tomorrow to get a provider. I looked today and there are so many choices. I wonder if they will give me a discount if I tell them that we don't need any ESPN, CNN or stockmarket channels.... I mean, if R.J. has done without these channels for almost a month I don't think he needs them. After all he has hulu.com. LOL!

Project Day

So, as you might know, my friend Lane and I are getting together for Project Day every week (sometimes twice a week). We both have quit our jobs and are trying to fill our time. This week we got together for a workout video at Lane's house. It was some 80's video. It was pretty funny! I took a picture of us. I don't know why we are doing different moves, but you get the point... ha ha... Afterwards, we went to the grocery store and Lane made us Chicken Piccata to feed to Jonathan and R.J. Way to go Lane-- you are such a great cook!! :) Can I get that recipe sometime??!?!

Oh, and we are recruiting other stay-at-home moms.... any takers... LEAH!?!?!

11 Weeks and Counting--

Baby Moses now has all it's vital organs formed and functioning (as far as we know). It has all it's toes and fingers formed and is looking more and more like a baby each day. This week the baby is growing teeth, fingernails, toenails, and hair folliacles. It's almost 2 inches long and is about the size of a large lime. It weighs about 7 grams or .3 ounces.

At our last doctors visit, R.J. and were able to see the "little person" kicking its legs and punching its arms in the air. It was pretty cool. We weren't really expecting it to move so it made it that much more real. I'm not sure if that is a good thing or bad thing its so "lively" already! :)

Ash & Ash

I wanted to give my BFF Ash a quick "hello" because she has to work all summer! Poor thing-- it's not fair everyone else at school gets the summer off or at least reduced hours. Hang in there! I still love ya :)

You know, Lane and I are recruiting stay-at-home moms.... all you have to do is get Kelly to pop the question (COMING SOON-- I JUST KNOW IT!!), get married and then pop a baby out and you can stay at home too! Won't that be fun?!!?

House Pictures

What the heck... I guess I will show everyone how bad my house is really... here you go Leah!!! This was my house before the flood. I don't know why I have this random picture but I found it in my picture folder and thought I would share. This WAS our sitting area in front of the fireplace. (Hey Laura-- that is your baby shower gift sitting in the chair... ha ha).

This WAS our kitchen.

This WAS my favorite piece of furniture because it displayed some of my goodies... :(

This WAS my entry way. I painting these diamonds all by myself.

This WAS one of our spare bedrooms.

This is my fireplace after the flood. Random stuff piled on top with nothing on the bookshelves. I don't even know where the stuff is!

This is my kitchen floor now. I've started a new trend... pull up your wood floors and see what yucky blue painted tile you can find!

This is our hallway leading to the bedrooms. Gotta love the tack strips along each wall and the nasty glue-stained concert. The brown tile was a surprise! We found it under our entryway wood floors.

This is a picture of our exposed baseboards. I'm trying to pick new tile in case we have to stay in the house. Don't you love the exposed concrete everywhere?

This used to be my living area. I've tried to make it as "homey" and back to normal as I can. Everything is just piled up and moved to a corner.

This is the rest of the hallway that leads to our bedroom. I tried to put plastic down as runners but it doesn't really help. Don't you love the crazy glue and tack strips??!?!

This was an office but now it's a storage room.

This was a spare bedroom but now it's another storage room. I don't know where ANYTHING is!

This is our guest bathroom.... stay clear!

This is another view of our sitting area in front of the fireplace. We couldn't pull up all the carpet in this room because we orginally moved everything into this corner.











I don't know if I mentioned or not, but R.J. got mad at Comcast when I went to Dallas a couple of weeks ago and turned off our cable. I could have probably survived a couple of weeks with one or two channels if our nation hadn't converted from analog tv to digital but since they did I don't have any tv. Not at all... not even one channel. Therefore, as of this Thursday, I will be staying in Coleman until circumstances change around my house or I at least get cable. I would like to say you can contact me on my cell, but I don't get service in Coleman. In case you haven't gotten the memo already-- I am living like a cave woman.

Trip to Virginia

The Virginia hillside.

I caught 4 fish that day. The first one I caught on my first reel out. R.J. couldn't believe my luck... I told him it was because I was from the country... ha ha

A small baptist church right around the corner from R.J.'s family cabin. It looks like it should have its own postcard.

Our cabin... the weather was great. I was actually cold most of the time (low 50's). Sure does beat the 100 degree heat here in Houston!

Another view of the cabin. It's nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains and is within an hour of where they filmed the movie Dirty Dancing.

For the most part, I am feeling better. I'm still nauseated but hopefully it's getting better day after day. The traveling really wore me out (especially since we sat on the hot runway for 2 hours in Houston and then had to spend the night in Detriot because we missed our flight).

This will probably be our last trip up to Virginia for awhile. With the baby coming, I'm not really sure next year I will be up to hauling cribs, strollers, carseats and all the other must-have newborn essentials through 2 plane rides while trying to care for a newborn baby at the same time. The closest hospital would be over an hour away and I just don't want to go down that road. I guess there will have to be sacrifices made!