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Happy Birthday to our sweet sweet Amelia!! I'll never forget the day you came into our lives and changed us forever. Our little family would be boring and quiet without you!

The party turned out great! Amelia did pretty good considering I did plan the party around nap time. Auntie M has all of the pictures on her camera so more to come later! I am too tired to blog, pin, facebook, even eat so I'll get back to the party later.






ps - I can't help but want another kiddo these days. I figure we make such a good baby, there's no reason not to do it again. Adam's just not there yet.

camera clean-up/amelia obsessions

I'm taking some of Amelia's professional pictures to get printed at Walgreen's this week and figured I would pick out pictures from my camera to get printed as well. I found a few never seen before gems for you guys. Of Amelia of course...

 

Sweet hair, Amelia! 

 

She looves the beach! And the freezing cold water.

 

 

 

She loves her Auntie M. <3

And this is what she looks like after a few hours left alone with her Auntie M. Piggy tails and a swimsuit tube for her outfit.

 

 This one's for you @kfd!

Ok, that's all. I know how great pretty pretty pictures of little ones that are all glammed up are, but I also love real life pictures like these. For the most part, this is how it really is (at my house anyways)!! And I love it. Amelia's so much fun and has such personality to be such a small human being. It's weird to think of how much I love her, and how you really can't put said love into words. It's also weird to think about how my love for her will grow and change so much as she grows up. I feel like my parents don't love me the way I love her, but in the back of my mind I know they do. It's just shown a little differently. Which is ok, because if my mom or dad were to squeeze me and smother me with kisses all day long, that would be just weird. Will I love all of my babies (and by all I do mean one more..) this much?? I feel like I can't love another one this much and that's scary. 

I need a new camera. I need better quality pictures...sorry if these are fuzzy and no good on your computer/smartphones.

<3

indian giver

That's right. I'm going to take back all those nice things I said about April a few blog posts ago.
April, you stink.
You do not rule like you were supposed to.
That is all.




Except that I have the sweetest child. She makes everything a little better. And praise Jesus she is on a good schedule, and I can lay her down for bed at 8 every night and she goes right to sleep without a peep.

Now that's all.

over it

I am so incredibly over the drive to and from Griffin, GA. I only make it through the trip knowing I am there for a good reason. Amelia is so over it too. She, actually, is the reason I hardly make it through the ride. A 6.5 hour car ride is just not to be traveled several times in a one month span. It's a lot to ask of a baby that would rather be walking, crawling, exploring, to sit still in their car seat for that long. We will be heading back home tomorrow, and luckily breaking the trip up halfway home in Enterprise, AL. In Enterprise, we will visit with family, eat delicious food and wear Amelia out so that she will hopefully sleep the rest of the way home. And then we will be home for 2 weeks, and then load up and do it again! SHEESH! Talk about really wanting to click your heels and be home (or at your final destination)..

Any recommendations for keeping an almost-one-year-old happy for that long of a car ride?
Besides turning them around to face forward? Done that.
And besides a dvd player? Got that.
And besides me climbing in the back seat to make funny faces, say silly things and sing songs? Car sick.

I so wish that I had finished my pilot's license. I also wish that I had my own airplane! Travel by air would be my first choice.

Update on the month of April..
Our couch has yet to arrive and they are now telling us that they "dont know why, but the shipping date is showing May 15th." Uhhh, figure out why and get back to us ASAP on why it will be 5 weeks later than we had originally planned for.

The military is taking their precious little time getting some paperwork back to us that we should've recieved over a week ago. Big surprise there.

DON'T PROMISE DEADLINES IF YA CANT FOLLOW THROUGH, FOLKS!!

On another note, a few things have happened this week that have made me want to hold Adam and Amelia extra tight! My friend Jessica had to have her baby boy life flighted to the Children's Hospital in ATL a few nights ago. My heart was so broken, and I can't imagine what their family went through. The huge storm that hit the east coast in the past 24 hours that left behind a lot of devastation. The family in Jackson, GA who had a tree fall on their house and kill a husband and child leaving the wife and other child behind, really got to me! Adam told me I need to go to the doctor for anxiety, because these two terribly sad things really did a number on me!

This is kind of a blahh/long blog post, but Adam's gone to visit a friend and I didn't have anyone here to talk to so I thought I would write it all down, put it all out there and then pray about it!

I'm gonna go try to pull myself out of this funk, and keep working on birthday plans for someone's big party next month!! And probably pin some delicious foods to pinterest, since that's what I find myself drawn to on that site these days. How can I not when the website is filled with deliciousness like these decadent things..

 And then I will sleep...
 Night!

APRIL

2 more days until April, and I am welcoming it with a loving embrace. April is going to be a good month!!


 April is the month of:
Jamaica
The Wailers
Easter
New Sofa
Perma-warm weather
Boat days
Friends visiting me
Sun tan (haha!)
Grilling out on islands


...and one more month closer to Amelia's birthday!! I always like to think of April showers (me crying about being so dang pregnant) bringing May flowers (Amelia)! So lame, I know...but I can't help where my mind goes!

And speaking of flowers, Adam has been really good about keeping flowers in the vase on the kitchen table for me. I think next time I need would love some flowers that look like this....
Hint hint, husband.

And here's a sweet picture just because...

Have a good one!

one year is approaching!

Amelia will be 1 so soon!!!! It's crazy to watch her grow. Everyday she does things that surprise me, and make me so sad/happy that she's getting big. She's going through quite the stage right now. She knows what she wants and when she wants it! The girl is constantly on the move. She's been cutting two more teeth and has been quite difficult the past two weeks. She sat on the couch with me and Adam today, and watched TV and ate my frozen yogurt. A few minutes after, the cat got on the couch, and she had the closest thing to a conversation she's ever had with the cat. Not me, but the cat. Those 5 minutes were the cutest/big girl things she's done yet. I've complained maybe a little too much about how tiring and whiny she has been lately. Unfortunately, it just seems that complaining comes more naturally. My mom said I make her sound like an ogre! So that's been her nickname that her Auntie M and I have given her all week. She has been quite the little ogre lately, but I love her all the same! I love the way she laughs, plays with my hair while she drinks her bottle, gets so excited to see her owls in her room right when she wakes up, the way she whispers to the cat and her toy car, her puffy eyes after napping, her little fingers and hands, the way she loves her dad, the way she wanted the Japanese waitress to hold her at the restaurant today and the way she knows and loves her family. I'm so glad she gets to grow up near my family! It makes me sad that I didn't get the chance to grow up in the same town as my cousins, aunts/uncles and cousins. I do wish Adam's family was closer to us too, so she would have all of her family around. We try to visit as often as we can, but it's not the same!

Here are some pictures from her 11 month photo shoot with OneSix Photography! Great photos and fast timing, so I didn't have to wait long to see the pictures! I love them. 

http://www.onesixphotography.com/

Sorry to my facebook friends who have already seen these! My mom has the whole disc so these are the only ones I have at my fingertips. I'm working on her birthday party this week, and I can't wait to be able to share those photos with everyone!

wishlist

I have a wish list that seems to keep on growing. Unfortunately for me, my birthday is 8 months away and Christmas, 9. Hmmmm..... what to do. What to do.. winning the lottery is really the only choice that I have.

Wanna see my wish list? Here she is...
*my two large items*

King size bed with lots of storage?! PLEASE!!

PRETTY PLEASE!!!!

and....
-OPI nail polish
-personal trainer
-a miracle healing in the family
-a trip to Europe
-a new wardrobe
-WalMart to hand over some contacts that don't irritate or dry to my eyeballs!!!!!!!! I'm tired of not being able to wear my cute sunglasses in this beautiful weather.
-8 hours of uninterrupted sleep.

Really, I could keep going and going and going.

BUT we have crossed one thing off my wish list. A sectional sofa! A big, chocolate, comfy sectional. We are impatiently awaiting its arrival.

That's all!!

am i that mom?

Its funny the things that excite you once you are a mom. All week long I've been waiting for Friday morning. The Cash In The Nursery sale takes place twice a year and is going on this weekend! Isn't it sad that every time I saw a sign around town I wanted to scoop it up, so that I would have less moms to fight over clothes with?!? I'm that crazy mom. But I didn't do it..All my monies earned at work this week will be going towards Amelia's gently used/new to us wardrobe. If I don't find what I need I will be really disappointed, because I've been fighting the urge to shop online BabyGap all week long! With the awesome weather we have been having here, I want Amelia to have some fun new threads. Speaking of the awesome weather here in Florida, its supposed to be up to 80 degrees this weekend!!!!!!!!!! YAHOO! I love love living at the beach. Amelia does too, and our new favorite spot is the park at Navarre bridge.This is where we swing, eat sand and slide with Auntie M.

As if we don't have enough pictures of Amelia, we will hopefully be getting some pictures of her this weekend in some outfits her Gi and her Honey have bought her. Happy weekend everyone!


p.s.- I made dinner tonight, and Adam didn't end up having to go pick up Chinese food. Score one big one for me!

birthday pie

Happy Birthday to my sweet hubby! Although you chose to spend your birthday fishing (AGAIN) instead of hanging with me and Amelia, I chose to make you a cherry pie on your special day anyways. I didn't even cheat and buy the pre-made pie filling like many people told me to do. I took some pictures along the way of my first pie making. It turned out delicious!! I meant to take one of those one-bite-in pictures to show the gooey yummy inside, but after just one bite my mind was elsewhere.

Oh, and a tip for anyone who doesn't know this...make sure you match up your size of the pie pan with the size of the crust you're using. Or you might lose some edges in the oven..and have a very smoky house.

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 I'm not sure what "dotting with butter" means, but I think this was a good attempt..

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 Perfect? NO!

 Ooops!

 MMMmmMMm

I've given myself a pat on the back for this one. It was really easy, but so easy I was worried something would go wrong.  I may have started something though. There may be a higher demand for cherry pies around here now. I used splenda instead of sugar, so I would rather him eat mine than McDonald's!

I enjoy cooking when the food turns out right.

online shopping

Sunday morning I got an e-mail stating that my bank account was dangerously low. I ran to Jenna's room to get on her computer and check the account. Thanks Mint.com, for sending me an email that was not accurate, and causing me to exercise far before I was ready (it had been a long night of sippin' and strokin' the night before). Anyways, the good thing is for some reason Mint.com was wrong and there was nothing to worry about. Although, while I was looking at the account I found something. It appears that while I'm at work during the day, Adam does a little online shopping. Something is very wrong with this picture!!! Lots of somethings actually. I should be the stay at home parent, and I should be the one doing the online shopping!! Hmph! I waited until last night to bring up the issue, and I jokingly (but seriously) let Adam know that I knew what he was up to. He just smiled. There was nothing he could say to defend himself. He was caught! When he fell asleep I started to search for all of the things I want to buy online right now. I designed my own sectional couch on Home Reserve, filled up a cart on Amazon, etsy and Target. I'll be honest, the bank account is in much better hands with Adam's online shopping than mine. It's just too tempting. Thankfully we just paid off our debt, and we don't have credit cards anymore. Having credit cards would make online shopping even more dangerous!

I blame this girl for my full shopping carts.

 I want to buy her anything and everything!! Who cares that I have hardly any clothes that fit these days. She's cuter.

By the way, I didn't purchase anything that I filled my shopping car with. Although I am reallllyy considering going back and getting Amelia this dress for her birthday!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Sweetpeanutboutique?ref=pr_shop
I'll need to give the owner of this etsy shop time to make it so I really need to make a decision!

Going to take Amelia to her 9 month dr appt. A little late..she will be 10 months next Tuesday! Can't wait to do some more birthday party planning and see it all come together! :)

Have a good one!