It snowed in Houston today. It snowed, and snowed, and snowed. I have never seen this amount of snow down here. It rivaled many snows I've been in in Michigan though!

( Snow! )

My baby, my precocious, happy, alert, FOUR MONTH OLD baby is starting to crawl. I was a very early crawler at 5.5 months and I thought I would at least have that long! Tonight she army crawled across her playpen on two separate occasions, and then after her nap, decided to get on her hands and knees and try to for real crawl (twice). She didn't get ( Read more... )

Chris and I had some maternity pictures taken while we were on our "babymoon." I'm really happy with them!

( These are my favorites: )

OH MY GOD. I woke up this morning and was shortly in the MOST pain I have ever been in in my life.

Let me qualify that a little bit. I used to be a figure skater. I have (at different times) skated on stress fractured feet, with broken ribs, a broken collarbone, severe tendonitis in both knees and shin splints. I have had 11 stitches put in my ( Read more... )

I wish weirdo cashiers would stop saying they're SURE I'm SO ready for the baby to be here already. I'm not. The thought that she will be here in 3-7 weeks TERRIFIES me. The thought that legally my midwife can attend me at home in only 6 days TERRIFIES me. As far as I'm concerned, if baby would stop growing, she could just stay in forever. It's ( Read more... )

Chris was kind of offered a 5 year stint in Qatar. One of his managers was kind of feeling him out on it. I'm kind of like, "Let's do it!" Move to Qatar, see a little of the world. We would lock up the house and go. No kids, one dog, why not?

They pay for housing and expenses.
They fly you back to the states every three months.
We would have 5 years ( Read more... )

So two people on my friendslist have posted this meme, and I am really bored.

What have I tried?

( The list! )

I realized last night that I could make Peanut Butter Cup Blizzards in my KitchenAid.

And they are soooooo good.

I was reading my wedding day story again yesterday. We really did have the most perfect wedding ever. I almost want to cry looking through all the pictures.

With two sets of close friends engaged, several more in relationships, and 3 pairs married, I have to wonder who's going to pop out the first kid in the group. :p

So, Chris and I love older homes because they have more character than newer homes. Example 1: Windows.

Windows in newer homes look like this:


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