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Siblings!

20 Sep

Apparently “Bubba” felt like his baby sister needed some toy action while she sat in her swing.  This is what I walked into the living room to find…

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If Harper Ann looks a little rough in this picture, it is because she feels rough.  After running a fever of 104.7 yesterday, Urgent Care told us that she has a double ear infection.  Shortly before the ear infection was diagnosed, she vomited all over me and the nurse.  LOVELY!  This is the fourth major vomiting episode in one month.  Her vomiting isn’t consistent with any kind of baby food or formula and really seems to have no rhyme or reason.  Has anyone had a similar experience with any of their bambino’s? 

The Little Man also had his first tball game this weekend.  Word’s cannot begin to describe to you how out of control his practices are.  He pretty much wants to sit in the stands with me the entire time.  So, as you can imagine, we were majorly dreading his first game.  He ended up doing great and scored two runs.  I did have to sit in the dugout with him and since Shane coached third base, I think he felt like his “bases” were covered.  I have to constantly remind myself that The Little Man is only barely three, even though he is the size of a five year old.  I really really have to remind myself of this as he is running in and out of the gate during the entire practice every week! 

Here are some pictures from the game!

Getting ready for his first “up to bat.”

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Getting a little advice from his daddy.

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Enjoying a little post game Mellow Mushroom Pizza

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We’re off to Luke’s first official dental teeth cleaning in the morning.  I am sure I will come home with some stories.  I hope that you had a great weekend!

Lazy Day’s of Summer

23 Jul

I.LOVE.SUMMER!!!  Summertime is most def my favorite time of the year.  I am quite content at my house all day long.  We have spent most of our days with a little bit of this…

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A little bit of that…

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A little visit to the zoo…

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Lazy mornings…

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Some more water fun…

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Last but not least.  A sweet little boy who turned three on the Fourth of July…

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A Yummy Recipe

14 Apr

With the arrival of Harper Ann came some very yummy meals.  Several of friends have been generous enough to provide meals for us every other night for the last month.  We have enjoyed every second of these meals and if you are one of the ones who took the time out of your busy life to bring us one, please know that you are appreciated more than you will ever know!  Now that reality is setting in with two little ones and no more provided meals, it is time for me to get back to getting organized with my meal planning.  Additionally, since I am not working this summer, I am not getting a paycheck.  So, it is extra important that the Hubster and I be good stewards of our money.  Eating at home and me being organized with our meals is a huge way to save a ton of money. Besides, who wants to go out to eat with two little ones two and under.  Getting to the point… last night I had thawed ground beef so that I could make spaghetti.  About an hour before Shane got off from work/when we would eat dinner, I realized I didn’t have all the ingredients.  So,  a quick online search for a new dinner plan resulted in a super yummy recipe that both the Hubster and I agree should be made again.  Here it is in case you are in the market for a new meal:

Homemade Sloppy Joes

Two pounds of ground beef

One can tomato soup

One can cream of mushroom soup

One Teaspoon of mustard

1/4 cup of ketchup

Two Teaspoons of brown sugar

1/2 pack of onion soup mix

Directions:

Brown beef, add remaining ingredients, mix, and bake in a casserole dish for an hour to an hour and a half.  Then, leave me a comment here and tell me just how yummers these were!!!

I leave you with some recent pics of my cuties. 

Before church on Easter.  Yeah for a casual church!!

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ImageThe above pic is after The Little Man mopped up at an Easter egg hunt.  Also, I am noticing I put him in a lot of Polo shirts. 

Lastly, the cuties with their Aunt Chach (my sister).  We were lucky enough to have her here for a week.  I am sure Aunt Chach was exhausted when she went home because she was a ton of help all week long! 

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My Little Leprechaun Is Here!

26 Mar

Image  After a very tiring February and half of March, Harper Ann Moody has arrived.  As my doctor suspected it would, my blood pressure made a quick rise, which resulted in an induction.  Since my induction with Luke was more awful than I could have ever predicted, I had hoped to avoid going down that road again.  However, with the seriousness of high blood pressure in pregnancy hanging over us, we went ahead with it.  The experience this time was so much better I can hardly even believe it was an induction.  I can’t help but think that my body was already heading into labor, making it all so much more pleasant.  Without further delay, here are some shots of Harper Ann.  She was born on Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 at 10:37 AM.  (yes, I now have a Fourth of July baby and a St. Patricks Day Baby.  This is very fitting for me since I LOVE holiday’s and tend to decorate for even these small ones. Plus, I am Irish, so how fun is that??)

The picture above was taken about 30 minutes after she was born.  My dear friend Dezirae took all of these.

The following two pictures were taken when she was a week old.  The Hubster, someone I consider a VERY manly man, came home to Harper Ann dressed in a tu tu with a flower beanie on.  He just said, “she’s just a toy to you.”  Duh…  A toy and so much more!!

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Shortly after delivering, I was on the phone with my Grandmother, who lives out of state.  She said to me, “Well, did you thank God for an easy delivery and for Harper Ann?”  Of course I thanked God, and I thank Him again and again.  We are so very undeserving of all He has given us.  I am so very thankful for these two sweet kiddos that He has trusted Shane and I with.

Some More Progress On Our HUGE Project

31 Jan

Between last weekend and this weekend, we have gotten a ton accomplished. Actually, let me back it on up and say, I have not gotten a ton accomplished at all. The Hubster and some very loyal friends and family have gotten a ton accomplished.  I have done nothing more but make a few Home Depot runs and made sure their bellies are full. 

At any rate, here are some pictures…

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This is Shane and our brother in law “Uncle B”, digging holes for the plumbing.  A thrilling part of the entire project, I am sure.

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ImageYou are probably noticing that the siding on the addition does not match the rest of the house.  Our goal is to eventually add concrete siding to the entire house and then paint.  So, we made the decision to go ahead and add concrete siding to the new part instead of having to come back and do it again.

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I really wish I had a before picture of this!  I took this picture standing down towards our current bedroom door. Where you see the carpet end is where the end of the hall was just 48 hours ago.  The Hubster knocked out this entire hallway, which included The Little Man’s bathroom and closet, all since Friday.  Needless to say, he is exhausted and still remains the hardest worker I know.  I can tell he enjoyed the demo part more than anything so far!   So this is where we stand. 

I am 33 weeks today.  We still have a lot to do and my house is a sheetrock dust bowl.  However, all of this progress and mess is a definite means to an end!

Progress is GOOOOOOD….

22 Jan

With the news of a baby on the way, we knew it would soon be time to start adding a bedroom onto our two-bedroom 50 plus year old home.  After some discussion, we made the decision to add on a master bedroom and bathroom, move the Little Man to our current bedroom and give Ms. Harper Luke’s current room.  Typing that all out is enough to make my blood pressure rise just a few numbers, because that is A LOT of work.  Additionally, when I say add a room and bathroom onto our home, I mean Shane, and some very very generous with their time, family and friends are adding it on.  We aren’t just moving furniture from one room to another as soon as the hired construction crew finishes!

I wanted to make sure and document this whole experience, so here are some pictures of our progress…

A before picture of the part of the house we are adding onto…

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Along the way…

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ImageThe most handsome, hardworking handyman on the planet…

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The most adorable little “helper” I have ever laid my eyes on…(it is a CHALLENGE keeping this little cutie from the middle of all of the construction.  He is his daddy’s boy and all he wants it to be out in the middle of it all)

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I am so very thankful for The Hubster and his family and friends for all of the hours they are putting into this.  We have a workday planned for tomorrow, so I will post again next week with more up-to-date pictures.

Another Funny

5 Jan

I have found that I am kind of using this blog as Luke’s baby book.  One of these days I will go through the blog and record some of these Luke-ism’s to his baby book.

1.  A couple of weeks ago Luke was walking behind me through the house. (This is kind of where he stays and it really is adorable that wherever Mama is, so is my Little Man)  I dropped something on the floor and bent over to pick it up.  Of course since he is RIGHT on my tail, he bumps right into my rear end.  He quickly say’s, “Sorry about your booty Mama!”  I just BUSTED out laughing and thought yeah it’s right out there, and I am sorry too!

2.  Lastly, not a funny, but a fun thing.  Luke has gone a week wearing “undies” while awake.  He hasn’t had an accident so far.  This is due in part to me pestering him about using the potty and him remembering he has to go and telling me.  He goes back to school today and so I have about one hour to decide if I put him in undies today.  This decision seriously had me up a couple of times last night. 

I leave you with some cute Luke pictures from the holiday season…

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Luke enjoyed making Christmas cookies.  He was concerned that he wouldn’t get any since I told him that they were for Santa.  Like his mama, he was gobbling up all of the raw cookie dough.  That’s my boy!!

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On Christmas Eve Luke got to open up his present from my dad and Ellen.  He was so thrilled by his “workbench,” that he got going on some projects right then and there. 

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Then the following day he still insisted on wearing his work goggles around the house.  I guess it is safe to say that he LOVES his Christmas gift from Pops and Ellen!

We had a wonderful Christmas and I hope that all of you had a very Merry Christmas as well!

That’s A Wrap!

3 Jan

**warning–this post involves a lot of jumbled up thoughts that are poorly written and full of grammatical errors.  Hopefully you can still understand what I am saying!

I am having a hard time believing that 2010 is already here!  The years since Y2K have absolutely flown by.  The other night I was on my way to meet my best friend from high school for dinner.  As I was dancing to Lady Marmalade playing on the radio I began to reminisce on just how many positive and negative eventful happenings have gone on in my life over the last decade.  So, for anyone who might care, here is a review:

1. December 2000- My family’s house unfortunately burns to the ground in what is assumed to be some sort of dryer fire.

2. May 2002-I graduate from college with a degree in Speech Communication and leave my two dear roommates.  One of which I lived with for three years and the other who moved in with us for the last two years.  I love you both!!! 

3. August 2002-I accept a job in North Georgia, working for a school I had hardly ever heard of.  I am having fun making (a very little amount of )money and living on my own, but am also very homesick for my family who is five hours away.  That fall I begin to apply for jobs in Tampa because I am determined to live there with one of my childhood buddies. 

4. January 2003-Woah, I meet my future husband!  I always knew he would come packaged with dark hair in a tall frame, but who knew he would come with hunting rifles and a big truck!  NICE!!! 😉

5. February 2003-I bring this big hunk of cute fella home to meet the fam.  By all standards, including mine, it was WAY WAY WAY too early to be bringing a guy, whom I met while out on the town with a girlfriend, “home.” The fam loves him, especially my sweet mom.

6. April 2003-My sweet mother suffers a stroke.  After a few days on a ventilator, my dad, sister, brother and I are forced to make the decision to pull her off.  So the grieving process begins…

7. August 2003-My dark-haired hunk proposes to me. It doesn’t take a fool to figure out that I should most definitely marry  this hunk of man who is CHOOSING to tolerate me in my grieving process and possibly the worse state that I will hopefully ever be in during my life. I make the decision to move to the county where he was born and raised.  I did this only knowing he and his family there.  (a plug about his fam as well–I am very thankful for some great, great, great, very normal and laid back in-laws!  God worked that one out for me too! Phew…)

8. May 2004-We get married, buy a house and a car all within weeks.

9. December 2005-I complete my graduate program and gain a Masters in Leadership.  I do think however that my sweet sister should at least have half a masters degree in Leadership since she spent HOURS proofreading my gazillion papers!

10. July 2007-We welcome our sweet, hilarious and adorable Little Man into our lives!  Those 40 hours of induced labor were worth every second!

11. July 2007-We also make the decision for me to begin my stint as a stay at home mom.

12. My BFF from high school and I run a half-marathon.  I would consider this one of my bigger physical accomplishments.  Who cares that my body hasn’t been the same since and now I have tendonitis in my knee.  Geez…

13. April 2009-I am contacted by my Alma Mater about recruiting for them. At this point I am getting the itch to head back to work part-time and this is exactly what they offer.  This job literally fell into my lap.  When I got off the phone with my now boss, Luke and I were in the backyard.  I let out a huge joyous scream and so my almost two-year old cutie joined me.  I love that kid!

14. June 2009-We find out we are expecting another baby who will soon come to be known as Harper Ann Moody!!  She will be here, March 2010.  The Hubster and I are both super excited and shocked that we are having a little girl.  (A dear friend told me that she just knew God would give me a girl because of the close relationship I had with my mom.  I love that thought and pray that I can be half as good of a mom as she was to me.)

So, here we are.  January of 2010.   I feel like I can confidently say that my life has run the gambit of emotions and experiences since 2000. 

Some lessons that I have learned:

1.  God’s plan for me has worked out so very different from what I could have ever dreamed up.  For that I am thankful. God is a whole heck-of-a-lot smarter than me! It was God that prompted me to take my new beau home WAY TO EARLY in our relationship.  Had I not, he would have never met my mom and she couldn’t have ever approved of him.  It is God that randomly led me to my college recruiting job at a random private school in North Georgia.  Had I not lived up here, I would have never met The Hubster and additionally would not have provided me with the job experience to be able to have the job I currently have.  The results of God’s plan in my life go on and on and on. 

2. I like North Georgia, I love the town I live in, the church I go to, the little house I have and the buddies I have made right here in my community.  When I began to embark on my new life as a stay at home mom, I kindly asked God to give me some girlfriends right here where I live.  He didn’t give me just girlfriends, he gave me GREAT girlfriends!  I have some GREAT quality girlfriends right here, across Atlanta and in Florida.  Good girlfriends are hard to come by and mine are all better to me than I have ever or could ever be to them

3. Lastly, family is the most important thing I have.  This extends beyond my husband and my son.  Kissing my mom goodbye the morning of her 50th birthday and never getting to talk to her again really put into perspective how important family is and how we are never promised our next breath.  I am thankful for that lesson learned and will NEVER ever take a family member for granted. 

So, those are my thoughts from this decade–all brought about by Christina Aquilera and Lady Marmalade!  I am hopeful for what the coming years might hold, but not wanting to rush one second.  I love the spot I am in, and am so very very thankful for all that God has given me!

Some Luke-Funnies As Of Lately

16 Dec

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A major purpose in having this blog is to catalog some fun and funny family moments.  So, with that I give you, some Luke-funnies!

1.  Luke says to me the other day, “I’ll be right back!”  I asked, “Where ya going?”  Luke replies, “To get your brush.  Your hair is crazy!”

2. Luke had, for what seems like the hundreth time, brought a stool to the kitchen sink.   He was spraying the sink with the hose that most kitchen sinks come with.  I then hear him say, “Sorry about your oven!”  This was after turning the hose out and spraying half of the kitchen.  Nice.

3. After flushing his number two down the toilet he informs me that, “when we flush the potty, our poo-poo goes to the septic tank.”  Always good information for a two year old to know!  😉

4. Whenever you are home and cannot see nor hear your two year old son, you always need to figure out where he is.  Earlier today when all I heard was silence, I called out for Luke.  He stuck his head out of his bedroom and in kind of a sing song voice, looked at me and said, “Call me when you need me!!”  Um, that is what I am doing I thought.

I Kid You Not…

30 Nov

I really saw this on someone’s truck the other night.

Reason 5,025 you should keep your camera with you at all times. 

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