My Plum Baby

Today, I'm 12 weeks and 5 days. I am so close to my second trimester I can smell it! This time around has been pretty different than when I was pregnant with Alex. Everybody keeps telling me that it's because I'm having a girl, but I just think it's because this time around I have a 1 year old to take care of!

I'm due April 21st, 5 days before Alex turns 2 and I REFUSE to be in the hospital for his 2nd birthday. Mental note: must get Dr. K on board with this plan as well!

Emotionally, I'm excited and a little in denial about the whole thing. I can't wait to have a newborn in my arms again. But, I'm also in denial about the decisions that have to be made before the little one comes. Such as, will my work situation stay the same? Will daycare stay the same? What about our bedroom situation??? Some questions are more important than others, but all relevant questions, right?

I still have a good 6 months to figure this stuff out, so right now I'm just focusing on making it through each day (waiting and dreaming of the second trimester "babymoon").

Updates & Random Pictures

So, I've been terrible about updating our blog since we moved into our new house! I wish I could say I've been spending our time organizing, decorating, and the like, but I can't! We've been busy with BBQ's, weddings, birthdays, and the list goes on. I have been able to get a few pictures along the way so I'm finally posting them. Do not judge me, each of these pictures came from my BlackBerry! We have a better variety of quality pictures on our Mac at home, but when am I ever on that computer?? Never.


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Yesterday we got up early and headed to the Zoo for the morning! We hit it just right. Got there right as it opened up and didn't have too many people to compete with near all the animals. We got to see the Elephants wake up and get their morning treats, and got to see the Lions wake up for a quick yawn, then fall back asleep on the huge sun rocks they were sunbathing on. Alex LOVED it. I love that he's old enough now to recognize the animals.












Off to the beach for the day! I always forget how great it is there. It took Alex a few minutes to get used to walking on the sand, but by the end of the day he loved it so much he was even trying to put fist fulls of sand in his mouth!







Pool party in the backyard!







Loves!!





With Great Grandpa Guillory (GGG), watching the cars go by...




Soon to be camping buddies.





Bathtime!




This is how he woke up one morning. I'm thinking he was a little uncomfortable!




Getting ready to help Mama paint.

Home Sweet Home

We have finally moved! After 3 offers, and 2 rejections, the third time was a charm, and I'm very happy with how everything turned out. Here is a quick picture of our new place!



As of now we still have boxes everywhere in the garage but the house it looking better and better each day. We definitely need to paint but other than that we don't have to do anything on the inside. Which feels great, considering we've lived in a fixer-uper for over 3 years. Gussie is loving our new back yard and antagonizing the neighbor dogs already. And Alex is enjoying all the new places to explore!

Happy Birthday Baby Boy

It all started a year ago today. My water broke at 3am and I haven't slept since... j/k! I love my little boy so much it hurts. Watching him turn 1 is very exciting and very sad at the same time. I miss the tiny tiny person that I held for hours upon hours. But I also love the boy he's growing into, so happy and curious. I'm not super sentimental, but I'm pretty sure I won't make it through this 1st birthday without crying.


















Thanks to my amazing cousin, Shonda Barlow Photography, I now have a new family photo, 1 year later.

Alex

Does this look familiar to anybody...


Thanks Whit ;)

Updates..

Although the first few months of the year always seem to take the longest due to the weather, we've been super busy lately!

Right now we are in the middle of selling our home, planning Alex's first birthday (ahhh, 1 year already) and just finished our visit with Uncle Casey who was home on leave from Afghanistan.

More updates to come shortly! =)

Greed

Greed

"We suffer, often unknowingly, from wanting to be in two places at once, from wanting to experience more than one person can. This is a form of greed, of wanting everything. Feeling like we're missing something or that we're being left out, we want it all. But being human, we can't have it all. The tension of all this can lead to an insatiable search, where our passion for life is stirred, but never satisfied. When caught in this mindset, no amount of travel is enough, no about of love is enough, no amount of success is enough.

I am not saying that we shouldn't explore our curiosity and venture into the unknown. I very much want to experience the world and love to encounter new people in my life. What I'm referring to here is that seed of lack that makes us feel insufficient, and then, somehow, to compensate, we start to race through life with one eye on what we have and one eye on what we don't.

Greed is not restricted to money. It can work its appetite on anything. When we believe we are behind or less than, we somehow start to want more than we need, as if what we don't have will fill in our pain and make us feel whole, as if the thing we haven't tasted will be the thing to bring us alive. The truth is that one experience taken to heart will satisfy our hunger to be loved by everyone".

- Mark Nepo


Wanting to be in two places at once.... ha, this has become the story of my life! I thought I'd share this little message that I read last night. Somehow God always sends me the encouragement I need to make it through my days.

Holy Moley

Alex has had a mole on the bottom of his foot since, maybe about 3 months old. It wasn't there when he was born, and just appeared as a speck one day. I actually thought it was dirt and tried to wipe it off. Gradually it grew and grew. And gradually I became more and more freaked out. A few months back we took him to my dermatologist and she looked at it and said it looked fine and that it was growing because his foot was growing. She told us to keep an eye on it and make sure there weren't too many changes going on. Well low and behold, a darker spot appeared inside this tan mole. And over the past few months this dark spot grew and grew. So, yesterday we had it removed! They are going to biopsy it and make sure it isn't anything to worry about. Alex did great. He did the no tears cry thing when they were numbing his foot up, but that only lasted a few seconds and then he was fine. Just sat there watching the doctor remove his mole. After we got back home Alex didn't seem phased. He was crawling around like crazy and pulling himself up and standing just like he always does. Here are a few pictures of him playing and hanging out!

Patience is a Virtue... or is it?

They say patience is a virtue, but is it just plain dumb in certain situations?

Colt and I put an offer in on a house that we absolutely fell in love with on December 3rd. Here we are, going on 2 months later, and we are still waiting to hear a response. Why is it taking so long? Because it's a short sale. Anybody who knows me well knows that I am NOT a patient person. Waiting to meet Alex for 9 whole months was ridiculously hard and taught me that good things are worth waiting for. But what about in a situation like this house? I just got an email from our realtor, who happens to be my uncle, saying that the banks are planning on doing a second appraisal on the house. This process can take 90 days or longer... basically saying that we might not get a single peep from the banks for another 3 months. To top it all off, there has been a second offer on the house and we don't know how much that second offer was for. Patience I can handle if we were guaranteed the house, but in this case we might be the lower bidder and wait around for 5 plus months to hear that somebody else got the house.

It really is a great house, for a GREAT deal. So is it worth waiting for? 85% of me says yes. It's the other 15% of me telling me to move on that is so hard to ignore.

Christmas Flip

We got a flip for Christmas and have been having a lot of fun with it. We have a nice camcorder we got when we got married but it's much bigger and not as easy to use so we don't end up taking many videos with it. Now with the Flip we just grab it and press record! This is NOTHING exciting, I'm more or less just playing around and seeing if I can get this to actually post, hehe.




We had a great Christmas, by the way. Hope you all did too!