Our weekend

We had a great weekend and made lots of progress with getting baby ready! :) Friday night we went out to eat at Guiterrez. Lyla was a mess from all the salsa! The girl loves to eat salsa and loves to eat it by herself which normally doesn't leave a thing clean!

Saturday, Lyla was up bright and early and so we started cleaning around the house. Once Sean got up, we started organizing the living room to make room for the baby swing. The swing was washed and now sits in the corner waiting for little brother. It's been a pain trying to keep Lyla away from it, but at least we have a little time to work on it! That afternoon, I went to a friends baby shower who is due about 5 days after me. Don't freak when you see the picture. I'm huge. I know. Oh, and this is her first kidlet and she's tall. So those are my excuses for being so round! :)


While I was at the shower, Sean took Miss Ly to the city pool for a bit! After that we just kinda hung out! I started my sewing projects and I loving how everything is turning out!

Sunday, we headed to church where we heard a great message by a great speaker! Definitely kept our attention. Then we headed to Arby's for lunch. After a nap, we headed to Russell where Sean's parents met up with us at the pool! We spent 3 fabulous hours there! The pool is my haven right now! Lyla loved going down the big slides and I bet Sean took her a good 10-15 times all together! I think she was saying more before they were sliding into the water!

And this is how the weekend ended. I was upstairs sewing and came down to this! :) Love them!

And that was our weekend. Simple but great. Reminds me just how blessed I am! :)

Life

I'm feeling overwhelmed. I would have thought that I'd be less overwhelmed since I wasn't working 2 jobs anymore. On the plus side, my business has skyrocketed and I've had more client inquiries than I ever thought I would. Con side: I feel like I can't catch my breath. Then there is this cute little girl that completely melts my heart and there is no way I can say no to her when she brings me books to read all.day.long. Except her attention span last 3.2 seconds and she's up and off to the bookcase once again!

Anyways, so life has been crazy lately, as I'm sure every one else's is as well. Seany boy surprised me and put up Christmas lights outside last week while I was gone. But other than that, there's no Christmas spirit in our house yet. I'm just not feeling it, and not sure why because I love every aspect of Christmas. I kinda skipped over Halloween "cuz I just wasn't feeling it" so I'm hoping Christmas won't be the same. I think our game plan is to decorate next Monday for Christmas. I am, however, looking forward to decorating Lyla's Christmas tree. Last year was zebra print, this year is black, white, and teal! Love it!

Lyla's last day of her HRC class is tomorrow. I had to miss last week since we were out of town so it's kinda sad that it is already coming to an end. That is one thing I wish we had more of in this town. Not sure what Lyla and I are going to do after this. We may do a painting class at the HRC and story time at the library might not be to far off in our future as well. I've been looking for some type of programs/preschool ideas to do around our house. You know the music, game playing/teaching type things. Basically something similar to the class we've been doing! Anyone do something similar at their house with their kiddos? Love any ideas or links to get me started.

And I leave you with a picture of Lyla and I the other day!! Cheers!

Random day...

It is freezing outside! So cold outside that the inside was freezing. When we woke up this morning it was a frigid 66 degrees. A quick call to the hubby to inform him the heat was going on and voila...10 minutes later it was a nice 70 degrees in here. It's a-mazing what a difference 4 stinkn' degrees will do.

So given the weather, it's been a lazy day around here for us. Have I mentioned how much I love being home with Lyla. I called up to the office today and was informed I only have 21 days until I'm back at work. Ugh. I got an awful feeling in my stomach at that sound of that. I only have 3 full weeks left with Lyla at home. Then a lady, that is not me, will spend majority of the time with Lyla. Let me repeat that... someone that's not me. It sucks. But financially we can't do it right now. Our goal is by the time we are about to have 2, I'll be home. The sooner the better. Oh, and about that second one. We keep getting asked if we are ready for another. I am. Sean's not. I absolutely love being a mom. I don't feel stressed. I'm incredibly happy and wouldn't want it any other way. But I'm not ready to wish for another because when we have another one, then that means Lyla is older. And that's not something I'm ready to deal with.

Oh, Miss Lyla. This girl has been full of tears today. She's incredibly tired today probably given she slept pretty much from noon until 7:30 yesterday, only getting up to eat once. Then we woke her up to eat and play for a while but the child didn't want a thing but to go back to sleep. So a quick bath and some food and she was out by 11. But instead of those great 6 hours she has slept the past few night, we were up about 3 times last night. Yuck. This girl doesn't have the sleeping ability like her mother. I have a feeling she'll be like her dad in the sleeping department. Darn it all.

Oh, back to the tired girl. Anyways she is down for her 3rd nap of the day. And so far she is beating the other two as they only lasted about 20 minutes each. I've learned so far that I need to be quick. I got a lot accomplished in those 40 minutes. Laundry, lunch, pumping, putting out fall decor, and spending too much time finding cute clothes on the Internet. Darn etsy. Darn Gymboree. Darn Gap. Darn blogs that have cute kids with cute clothes that I *have* to find. Darn. Darn. Darn.

Oh, guess what. I'm married again.

Yup. You read that right. Wanna know why?

Because my wedding ring finally fits back on my finger. Sean and I joked about not being married since I couldn't wear my ring since about 28 weeks. It fit just perfect whenever I got married so to save it from being cut off, I just took it off. And finally yesterday I got it back on. I'll be honest. It was weird wearing it again. I almost felt like when I first got it because I just kept staring at it. I know. Nerd.

Well, guess whose awake. I guess she beat her last two naps by a whooping 10 minutes!

Have a great day! And stay warm!!