Tag, your it!

My great friend. from seriously like birth, has tagged me in a question thingy! Thanks http://theappleberrys.blogspot.com! The Rules: List 10 things that make you happy

1. God. Just his presence in my life lately has been WONDERFUL!

2. My AWESOME family. I don't know what in the world I would do without them.

3. Addie and her dance moves. We have NO idea where she gets it, because Graham and I CANNOT I repeat CANNOT dance. Addie on the other hand is pretty good :)

4. A good dark stormy day, at home with Addie building tents, and reading books (just like my mom did with me when I was young).

5. A new trial run in the kitchen with whatever craziness I can come up with....and it actually be good!

6. A Mommie Addie day! Doing all things girlie. Yes we have only had a few of these but as she gets older we will have more and do more girlie things like Mani's and pedi's instead of just the discovery museum.

7. A date with my hubby..............even it that means laying on the couch watching a movie!

8. Makeup...........allllllllll kinds! They make me extremely tooooo excited!

9. When my sister, Manny and Ali come to TN!

10. Every afternoon sometime between 3:30 and 5 when my mommy calls to see how my day went and tell me about hers. She is SOOO my best Friend!!

I tag whoever wants to do it~! Yeah I am lazy!

The most important decision of the day (for a 2year old)

Everynight, Addie picks up her toys (well out of the living room atleast), puts on her PJ's, takes her Zyrtec, Brushes her teeth and then picks out a story.

Incase you didn't know, It is a VERY VERY important decision to pick out a bedtime story. Sometimes Addie spends 15 minutes looking for the PERFECT book.

She reads a few pages of some of them to see if it is "The One"

And when it isn't, she puts it back and goes for another one.

Finally, she picks one...............Or three.

And these are ALWAYS the ones she picks. Well......you have to throw in The little engine that could, too.

My child has hundreds of books, most of which we have yet to read because she ALWAYS chooses these. I for the LIFE of me cannot understand why kids LOVE Goodnight Moon? I HATE this book, but my Addiebelle LOVES it! My favorite on the other hand is How high is the sky. It is an Usborne book and was the reason I fell inlove with these books enough to become a consultant! If you have never heard of Usborne books please contact me, after one look you will LOVE them!

Give away!

Oh my word!! I have been searching for so many cute things for Addie's birthday and I have fallen INLOVE with http://tomkatstudio.blogspot.com/! She makes some AMAZING things!
If you head over to her blog right now you can enter to win an adorable crown for your little Prince or Princess made by this WOnderful lady http://www.etsy.com/shop/TrueLoveFound !
I HOPE I win one but if I don't I see Addie STILL getting one of these cute cute cute Crowns for her special day :)

Thurs-eeee-day

While we were in Gatlinburg Dottie and I went shopping. We were on a hunt for shoes for me, her and Addie so we went to Rack Room Shoes. After finding us three some Tennis shoes and Addie some Rain boots we saw some CUTE socks for her as well. They have the days of the week on them! I thought this would be a cute way to teach Addie the days of the week......well......It was! But my OCD child has learned to recognize the words too fast and now we HAVE to wear Monday socks on Monday and so on. This morning I tried to put Saturday socks on her and she FREAKED OUT!

Anyways, we all now refer to the days of the week as follows:

Mondy, Tues-eeee-day, Win-seee-dy, Thurs-eee-day, Fridy-day, Satsi-day, and Sunny-day!

Happy Thurs-eeeee-day!

And here is one of the 50 pictures I took of her eating a cookie for the invitation to her 2nd birthday party! I will post more about her party soon! I'm pretty proud of it, it's going to be cute!!

(If you are ever around us again ask Addie to repeat the days of the week for you........its too funny!)

Our 2 1/2 hour trip that took 4 1/2!

Friday afternoon, Graham came home around 3:00, Ellie was picked up alittle before then and the car was packed and ready to go. My plan was to leave for Gatlinburg around 3:30, ofcourse Graham waited till then to even start packing! We FINALLY got on the road at 4:00. As we were stopping to get gas I was trying to get Barney set up on the little DVD player that we have been using of mom's. WELL, that thing has had it, Cale used it, Miranda and Ali used it and we have used it on 2 trips this summer. Everytime I would sit it down it would go off, I told Graham to just stop at Walmart in the valley so I could go get her a new DVD player (something we knew we would be doing sooner than later). Well ofcourse Graham, who has to be incontrol of EVERYTHING, said let's just see how it goes, we can always stop at a Walmart later and get one. FIne, FINE I know how it is going to go, she is going to get bored with the books, colors, babies and other random things she has to play with and then she is going to scream...........and scream and scream. But whatever if you want to wait! We made it to Athens and ate and she was still doing OKAY, but as soon as we got back on the freeway she started, "BARNEY, BARNEY BARRRRRRRNNNNEEEEEYY!" After about 30 minutes of me trying to find SOMETHING to make her happy and nothing working Graham got off the freeway to find a Walmart. See if he had just listened to me to begin with we wouldn't have had to first of all, listen to her scream, and second, waste an hour buying her a new one (not to mention the extra $20 it was in Lenoir City than it was in LV). Finally we got Barney in, and hit the road again. Addie was a perfect angel the rest of the way!
So needless to say Addie got a dvd player for her birthday, those blame things are expensive! We are going to get her one more small thing but yeah thats what she gets, good thing she won't realize it this year :)
Anyways, that's how our trip took 2 extra hours. Because Graham won't listen to his smart wife :)

alot of nothing

- We are taking Addie to Gatlinburg for the first time this weekend! I think she is going to have a BLAST!

-I have only started packing (maybe an outfit in her bag and mine), and we are leaving around 3:330 this afternoon.

-My sweet Delta sister had a baby boy yesterday and I am SOOOO in love with his name: Haize! In't that too cute?

-I had a dream that I had a baby last night..................it was an alien?????

- I FINALLY orderd the 30 day shred dvd (I used to just do whatever workout was ondemand) and it came Tuesday.....I did level 3 for the past two days and OH MY WORD, talk about kicking your butt! And I'm a pro at levels 1 and 2, I can do them both very well keeping up!!

- Graham and I had a heart to heart last night about the JUNK we have in our office, the dresser in our room and the garage. I told him I would give him till he finished his MBA in April but after that WE ARE THROWING THIS STUFF AWAY!!!!!!!

-We are going to leave Addie in the room she is in now, but still paint it. After much consideration, I decided that Addie NEEDED her own closets and I am currently using the closet in the bigger of the bedrooms (Our closet in our room is TINY!). So if we put a baby in there, we can paint the Amoir from our room and put it in there and use it as the baby's closet.

-Now I have to look and buy a chest of drawers for our room and a new dresser (we currently have Graham's from his parents house in there and I HATE it!). I also want new end tables in the living room, a flat TV for the living room and an antique buffet thingy to go under the TV, and when we have another baby I will need to get him/her a chest of drawers!

-I'm tired thinking of all this!

- Oh yeah Graham ALMOST finished my wall (yeah it's been 6 months), and I am trying to pick paint colors for the living room.

- Two times this week I have been doing dishes and the girls have coming running in screaming.......................BUTT NAKED! They think it is so funny to take all their clothes off and run around! Crazy Crazy girls!

Makeover

Yay! You like the new look???

Help Haiti

During my run through of blogs this morning I have been even more touched by the outreach going to Haiti. I cried for the people when I heard the news, wondering why? why does this happen to the poorest country. God said he will never give us more than we can handle. It just makes me think that maybe the people of Haiti are in reality very strong (spiritually) people. I dont know it was just a thought. Anyways here are a few websites that you can just click to donate, or text and donate. Even $5 would help, just think if everyone in America gave $5....that's ALOT of money :)

http://www.hope-for-haiti.blogspot.com/
https://www.compassion.com/contribution/giving/disasterrelief.htm?referer=105120SocialSponsorshipBlitz

You can text "Haiti" to 90999 and it will donate $10 to Red Cross and the $10 will be added to your phone bill.
Or you can text "disaster" to 90999 and it will donate $10 to the compassion's disaster relief program.

Please post these websites to your blog! And lets help send Haiti what they need to get back on their feet.
Now go DONATE!!!
And keep Praying!!!!

Christmas Eve.....WAY LATE :)

Christmas Eve morning, I got up and made a big breakfast for me, Graham and Addie. Then we let her open presents from us. I made her a Princess Blanket, Graham got her a Thomas the train set and we also got her a Barney. I failed to take a pic of the train (which indeed was her favorite) but here is her blanket. I like to make a present each year for her. Last year I knitted her a baby blanket, I guess I will have to make something besides a blanket next year :)

We started off our evening at Papa John's eating dinner and then opening presents. I LOVE this time, we have done it this way since I was little. It is a blast being with all my aunts, uncles and cousins and watching the kids opening presents!! Here is Addie making Papa play babies!

Next we went to Mee-Mee's house for Christmas with the Jones. I'm horrible I just got a few pics here but here is Addie and Keely playing dress up in all Addie's new Princess gear from Aunt Terri! We had a blast, then we headed home to get in bed for Santa to come :)

When we got home we took some pictures in our pj's my mom made for us then we read The Night Before Christmas with Addie and she went right to sleep.After that Uncle Sam and Graham spent an hour or so putting Addie's big presents together.

Here we go....

So the holidays are over, Graham went back to work, and I HAVE to get this BLAME weight off and be healthy! I am not going to lie, I do want to be skinny for all the vain reasons. But since I had Addie it has become more important to me to be healthy, which goes right along with being fit and skinny and looking good. I want to be able to keep up with her, I want to make sure I live long enough to see her grow up.
I haven't been so good at REALLY working out every day. I probably do it on average 3 days a week. But that isn't enough. I want to get back to the 5 days a week. That's when I saw results, I felt better, and Graham started to notice that I was looking and feeling better! So I have picked Thursdays to weight every week and I am going to report to ya'll so you can hold me accountable! I want to loose 25 pounds by the summer. And be totally Hott by my next anniversary since we are thinking Vegas or a Cruise! So come on Jullian, and no more pigging out infront of the TV!