So Jonathan and I decided yesterday that we HAD to get away soon. With the baby, without the baby, it doesn't matter right now, we just need to get away!
We tried looking into going to Cozumel/Cabo, but since it's so last minute, everything's ridiculously expensive, I have no desire to go to NYC right now (I'm waiting to go with my sister), I wouldn't mind Vegas but the last minute plane tickets are a bit ridiculous, though we can find great deals on hotels... I don't really want to go to Galveston as I've been there so much, Jon wants to go somewhere he's never been before... so San Antonio is out...
Why is this so hard??
Really, all we want to do is be here
or here would be nice
I just don't want to wait a few more weeks, I want to go somewhere like, yesterday.
I need a mini-vacation like none other. I need some time off. To read. To cuddle with my hubby. To eat good food and not worry about anything else but my family.
Ok, so does anyone have any free plane tickets they want to hook me up with? :)
I've decided I really need to get back on the workout routine and start drinking more water because I'm SO lethargic! I just can't get a grip on the whole "rest" thing and really need some caffeine injections.
Sorry I haven't blogged in a few days, chalk it up to the whole lethargic thing... maybe it's a bout of chronic fatigue, or maybe it's a bout of chronically wanting to spend my days outside tanning/reading/playing with my daughter, yet having to be inside under florescent lights getting more pasty white. I think it might be more of the latter.
But hey, I have health insurance (positive thought process)
The weekend went swell as you can tell by my last few blogs. Saturday night we went to the Ranger Game. Tiffani's dad is about to sublet the suite, so it's one of the last few times we'll go. Lyric had a fun time. She thought she was so cute and got really hyper.
She spent most the evening with her mouth open for some reason, see:
Giving Ry-Ry high five, or maybe that's more of a low five
Tired Destiny and Lyric
Then on Sunday we had Church. Austin and I sang a song and I sounded like crap on the chorus the first time we sang it. We only practiced it once and I've only sung along to the song in my head, so actually singing it I had to do it a few times to get it down the way I should sing it. It got really cringe worthy at the chorus, if you don't believe me, go download the podcast, Simon Cowell would have thrown me out of the room! But the 2nd time we sang it, it sounded MUCH better, but of course, that part didn't get recorded. Austin sounded great though, so kudos to him! And my dad preached a fantastic message, so kudos to him too! Speaking of my dad, he and my mom leave in a few days on their trip. They are going to be gone and ENTIRE MONTH! I have no idea what I'm going to do without them, yet I know how much fun they are going to be having. But I'm not sure if that is worse, knowing that they are having ridiculous amounts of awesomeness, and I'm stuck here, in my office with the florescent lighting and pasty white skin. Well anyways, Sunday after Church we had a surprise birthday party for Marian Briscoe at my parent's house. It was great and we had a great turn out! Here is Jesse hiding Here is her surprise:
Yesterday I was suposed to go work out, but then realized I only had time to either 1. workout 2. go to the grocery store (jon had plans that evening)
So I chose food over sweatyness. Court and I both went to Walmart and did all of our food shopping for the week and then came back home (to her house), cooked dinner, ate dinner, put the kids to bed and then watched Charlie Wilson's War.
I got home and Jon still wasn't home (he went out for Josh Briscoe's birthday). Well he got home around midnight and the dog was sleeping with me, when he came in, Jedi went crazy barking, which woke up the baby. The wonderfully sympathetic wife I am said, "You woke her up (though indirectly), you deal with her." Well it took him almost an hour and a half till she fully fell back asleep. I slept right through it, even through the screams of frustration, "WHY WON'T SHE GO BACK TO SLEEP!" I'm so unsympathetic :) Hey, would you like me to start listing all the times he slept through her crying and I was the one up? Well I couldn't because the instances number the stars of the sky.
So that was the last few days in a nut shell.
It is SO gorgeous today! I wish I was outside right now... sigh.
I know this is late, but here are a few pictures from Saeler's birthday!
Pizza!
Lyric chowing down
Emily chowing down
Saeler telling me it was her birthday
Opening presents
Giving big hugs
Happy about all her presents
Saeler blew out her candles before we got done singing the song, she was ready for that cupcake!
See!
The night ended quite abruptly due the storm, and a bunch of us went to the Watkins to wait the storm out. Here I am in the back of the van with Ash and Maddy
This is my new fave pic of Judah! He's like, "What?! Are you telling me I'm the only boy?"
The next morning the Watkins left for their super fun mini-vacation to Sea World. Look at the cuteness of my nieces and nephew If you are her friend on MySpace, you can read her blog by clicking HERE
Ok, I think this might be the end of my catch up blogging for the day.
First off, I just want to clarify, As most of you know, we aren't Jewish, so it might seem kind of strange that we keep so many of the Jewish traditions. Well it shouldn't be. The Jewish traditions are so beautiful and meaningful and are centered around God and the family, can it get much better than that? I am a follower of Yeshua (Jesus) and just in case you didn't remember, Yeshua was a Jew and kept these same customs. We SO support Israel and know that God has not abandoned his people or the land of Israel itself and we want to do our part in keeping these traditions alive and also to raise awareness to other Christians the importance of honoring Israel and its people. So basically we celebrate these things to honor our own Jewish roots, as in the Jewish roots of our faith. If you still think it's strange, well sorry, I probably think something's strange about you too.
So obviously since we aren't Jewish, we don't follow all the rules to a T, case in point, my mom made Challah last night :) (during passover you don't eat anything with yeast in it), also the fact that we celebrated Pesach (Passover) last night instead of Saturday.
We have a joke around our house that no matter when a feast starts, we always celebrate it on Shabbat. It's just easier that way, because we are all so accustomed to getting together on that night.
So anyways, the entire evening is a lot of fun and can take hours to go through. We did an abbreviated one, but it still took awhile. The group It starts off with one of the kids asking a question:
And then the lighting of the candles
Then starts the evening. It is really intricate and I don't want to go into it all here, but if you are interested in reading more about Passover and the Seder that we did last night, you can go HERE
Here we are eating our Matzah Ball soup
Jodie and Sophie
Brad about to eat the Karpis (you dip it in salt water)
The Seder plate
Dad about to hide the Matzah
My cutie
Kid's table
Me showcasing some Matzah. During Passover you don't eat anything with leven in it. And boy, in Israel, (particularly Jerusalem), they are so serious about it. During times I've spent Passover in Jerusalem, I've eaten hot dogs with Matzah, sandwhiches, hamburgers, pizza, it was my breakfast toast... you eat it with everything! And you can't even buy beer in some places because beer has yeast in it. No pasta... that was a tough one for me. By the end of passover, all you want is a nice hunk of bread to knaw on.
My niece Ashlyn eating the horse radish
My daughter was bored during the Seder, so proceeded to take all the magnets in reach off the fridge and bring them to me
And daddy put them on his forehead, because, what else are you suposed to do with them!
One of the things is that you are suposed to lounge, so this is Christina lounging
And Jon and I lounging-- Jon has issues
Tiffani was master of the lamb shank
Here are the kids dancing to the song Dayaynu- note that my daughter gets so excited dancing that she has to like do a gymnastic move. She has never done that before, it was so funny! She pulled a Kadyn.
Ashlyn got the camera and so took some pics:
My dear friend Abby and I
My niece Maddy found the matzah that was hidden so she won $2. But then we gave Ash and Kade $1 just because they are cool and got 2nd and 3rd place
The Matzah Winner
2nd place
3rd place
Lyric and I, (you can tell I was "celebrating" by this point, hey it's tradition to drink a lot of wine!)
So as you can see, last night was super fun! Though I did wake up with a terrible headache!
Now to leave you with the traditional ending of a passover seder
I finally got to see one of my dearest friends Mabrie today. I've known Mabrie most of my life and we are forever friends. She moved to Chicago a few years ago and so we don't get to see eachother very often. But it doesn't matter where we are, where we're located, how much we talk or how many times we see eachother, we're just forever friends. Well her husband Jason turned 30 and we went to lunch today to celebrate! We ate at Mi Cocinas at the Southlake Town Center. There was an arts festival going on, so parking was a nightmare, but it was fun to walk around.
Anyways, I snapped a few pics for your viewing pleasure.
The birthday boy and me
There were a bunch of kids there and of course they all love Uncle Jason. He's going to make a great daddy one day (hint-hint-- pressure-pressure)
Mabrie and Lyric
Me, Mabes and Jason
Lyric was plum tuckered out by the end of the day and fell asleep in her big girl car seat. That has to be so uncomfortable!
Well that's that. I have a bazillion things to do around the house and I'm not doing anything. I did watch Lost and Grey's Anatomy... McDreamy is going to break that poor nurse's heart... but it kind of irks me to see him so happy. The teaser for next week's show looked really good! I can't wait!!
Ok, I need to go start some laundry so we have clean clothes this coming week. Later people!
You know, sometimes I take for granted some good ol'fashion girl talk.
Last night Courtney and Christina and I decided to go out (Abby was suposed to go, but couldn't make it). I was a bit unsure of going out because I'm sooo tired (I know, it's my anthem now) and most of my evenings the last week have been busy... and I really wanted to see a movie but they weren't that interested in seeing a movie... but we compromised on going to dinner next door to the theater and if we got out in time and wanted to see it, we would go.
Well we went to Hurst and ate at Carraba's right next door to RAVE theater.
We had such a great time at dinner. Just talking, talking, talking. We all shared our plates and drank wine and laughed. It was really a great dinner. We even got dessert! Well we didn't realize it, but we were already 10 minutes late for our movie, so we walked over there and nothing interesting was playing at that time, so we decided to go to Gators and sit out on the patio and have another drink (Which actually came in a bucket). Lot's more girl talk ensued, actually it was knocked up a level due to the bucket'o'drink.
So to wrap it up, I think every girl needs a night of good girl talk every once in awhile. You know the type that would probably make your husbands blush. You get out everything that's bothering you, who's bothering you, and everyone laughs and relates on different levels.
It's refreshing and relaxing.
So that was my night last night. Here's to good friends!
I knew I should have voted... I am just so sad. Carly was my pick for the top 2, her and David Cook. And now BROOKE is staying on? What the heck?! She did incredible on Tuesday, and I guess she can be happy about that. But to leave as 6th place? Come on now! She is so much better than that. It should have been Brooke last night, then Jason, then Seyesha, then David A, then Carly and David C. in the final two, with David C. winning the whole thing.
But no, America went and screwed it all up! :)
Come on people, Brooke has not been good the last few weeks. And that stunt of starting the song and stopping it because she forgot the lyrics, SO unprofessional. Jason last night was not good either. He just doesn't not have the vocal talent to be this far into the season... Seyesha has a great voice, I just don't connect with her (and obviously America doesn't either as she's been in the bottom 3 for awhile now). David A., you all know that he's not my fave.
But David Cook... oh David Cook! I love that boy and I was so afraid he would totally try to put a personal spin on Andrew Lloyd Webber, which I wouldn't have appreciated... but he didn't, and when he hit that high note (which is a very difficult note) I just melted. He's my American Idol! :)
Oh well. I love Carly and I think she left with a bang, which is always good. I really believe she'll have a career.
So we started Lyric on new antibiotics on Monday night. I could have sworn the doctor told me that it was still the same dosage, 1/2 teaspoon (5ml). So I gave her that dosage. Then Jon called me yesterday morning and told me I was trying to poison our daughter because she only needed 2ml. Oops! So I was hoping that it wasn't too bad. She didn't have any advserse reactions, so I figured we were ok. Well Jon gives her the 2ml yesterday morning and then last night I looked at her medicine (what I thought was her medicine) and it sure enough said 2ml twice a day. So I gave her 2ml last night. Well I didn't realize it till this morning that, that particular antibiotic was leftover antibiotic from December when she had that UTI. I had gotten it out on Monday night because I thought they were the same antibiotic and they were and I must have left it on the counter. But the difference is this one said to give it to her twice a day, but her current prescription said just once a day! So basically Lyric has had double the dose of her antibiotic for 2 days in a row. Is that really bad? Should I call her doctor? I tried googling it to see if I'm like poisoning her or something, but I can't find anything helpful. Anyone been in this situation before??? I feel like such an idiot because obviously I can't read a simple prescription. Oh and the antibiotic was Omnicef.
Jonathan and I got married almost 3 years ago and filed for his US residency in August of 2006. WELL, since we were married less than 2 years when we filed, then you have a conditional residency for 2 years and then we have to submitt a document to show that we are still married. We have to submit birth certificates of our kids (if any), copies of lease/mortgage to show we live together, bank documents to show we share finances and 2 affidavits of people who have known us the entire two years and can attest under oath that we are married and that we love eachother and that Jonathan didn't just marry me for a green card. :) How funny is that!?! But here's the kicker. When we did this process in 06', the fee for this was $170. Well we had heard that immigration fees were going up and I just checked today and the fees are now $465 plus an $80 fingerprint fee. But he already had his fingerprints taken... I guess they want to make sure his fingerprints didn't change in 2 years. You never know what marriage can do to you I guess :) That's an almost $400 increase in price! So ya, add an extra $600 to the list of crap that needs to get paid for! :) It has to be done by August, so I have some time to work it all out. So I just felt like complaining about the outrageous immigration fee hike, oh well! I think they may be trying to discourage immigration, but I wish there was a way that those of us already in the process could get grandfathered in with the old fees. We were thinking about getting Jon dual citizenship, but not anymore. It's too expensive. Well we are going to the Lowries tonight, so I better go. Later!
I need something to look forward to. You know what I mean? I've gotten into this rut, where my life is the same, day in and day out. I'm not totally happy with where it is, yet getting out of the rut seems daunting and I feel like I'll be stuck here forever. I want to keep my life moving forward, not standing still. I keep trying to figure out what's it going to take for me to be completely content. But you know what? I don't think there is an answer for that. I think there will always be a part of me wanting something more, I think it's a God given desire to never be satisfied and always wanting more. But there is a place where I need to come to that I can be content. I'm not content right now. I feel like I work too much and there are things as a mother that I'm neglecting. There are behavioral issues I see forming in my extremely strong-willed daughter that I know I can nip in the bud now, but it's hard when you just spend evenings and weekends with her. I need to finish school, come on people, I have 3 classes left and just can not find the time to be able to get-her-done! That's ridiculous. I just don't have anything to look forward to right now. No vacation anytime soon. No special event. Just the regular monotony of life. It's honestly beating me down. I think I'm so blah right now probably due to the lack of sleep, but the facts are true. I'm just not happy with my present life schedule and have no idea how to change it.
Any ideas? I'm almost willing to try anything that would get me home more and allow me to have insurance. But there is also a thresh hold of how much money I need to make per month, so it's not like I could just quit and work 20 hours a week at Starbucks.
I need guidance. I need an "And Suddenly" moment like never before.
Well my little munchkin still has a double ear infection. She started acting a little strange again on Saturday and Sunday, especially Sunday night, where she didn't sleep very well. Then Monday Christina said she pulled on her ear a lot, SO yes, I left work a little early and took her to the doctor and sure enough, she still has fluid in her ears and they are still red and inflamed. Good times. So they gave her a different antibiotic and now we'll see if this ear infection goes away. It really stinks though because one of the worst things about your kids being sick is that you don't get any sleep either. I was almost in tears because I just wanted to sleep and that kid kept crying and crying. Finally I brought her in bed with me and fell asleep and I assume she did too. BUt then she started tossing and turning and Jon got up and put her back to bed and she stayed asleep. I feel so bad for her, that must totally suck to be sick for almost 2 weeks now. But she still is cute! Here's some proof She obviously felt the stroller tasted yummy
Today has been an okay day. I'm just tired, so it's hard for me to be perky today. AND Brenda was out for the day so my office was quiet.
Here are the pictures from when we went to the zoo on Saturday.
Lyric and her baby. She has to be holding a baby all the time. She wouldn't let this one go almost the entire day.
Hanging out with Daddy
Thinking she is hot stuff
Right before she fell down
And got this, which is her first big owie that bled as much as that did. There was blood trickling down her leg and for those who know how I am with blood, you'll be happy to know I didn't pass out :)
She thought the elephant was super cool
Too much fun for her, so she just passed out
The happy parents
Then later that night (before the massive cleaning of the house), we ate fajitas outside and had so much fun. None of us got bit by any mosquitos either.
Have you ever been faced with the question right after Passover... what do I do with all this leftover Matza. One year we decided to have a Matza eating contest and see how many sheets of matza you could eat with only one glass of water... but if that doesn't sound fun to you, here are a few more options
My day has been sooooo good! I really needed a day like this...
We woke up and ate leftover Challah with strawberry jelly. Then we got our cute buns out of the house and headed to Dallas to go to the zoo! It was a lot of fun and Lyric loved to see all the animals. She was ooh'ing and awwing over them. Of course she only cared about them when they moved though. She could care less about the sleeping animals :) We walked up to the monkey area and these two monkeys were playing tag with eachother and going crazy. She loved it!
I took some pictures with my mom's camera, but I don't have the sync cord with me, so I'll have to post them later. But anyways, we got there a little after 10am, and Lyric ended up falling asleep in the stroller around 1:30, so that's when we decided to leave. We decided since we were in Dallas, we needed to go visit Ryan who was working at Uptown Pub... I mean, what's the big deal, a baby in a bar! :) Then we went and saw Tiffani at their new house. They haven't moved in yet, they are still renting it out to the lady who they bought it from (long story), but Tiff was doing yard work, and we were able to see their super cute house! I'm so excited for them. I really liked it! I can just imagine little kid birthday parties in the backyard :)
Then we came home and everyone napped, but I couldn't fall asleep, so I just caught up on my tivo'd shows.
Then we decided to make fajitas. Jon suggested we move our little kitchenette table onto our back porch so we could eat outside. It was so much fun! Jon grilled the fajita meat on the grill and Lyric and I danced to John Mayer and then we ate outside together (I have pics of that too).
Then here's the kicker. I started cleaning up the kitchen and maybe I was just fed up with my dirty house, maybe it was the malibu and diet coke I had with dinner, but Jon and i went on a cleaning rampage. We cleaned the entire house, I scrubbed the bathrooms, cleaned Lyric's room, dusted and cleaned out from under the crib (which can always be scary, but also always lead to a discovery of more passys.) I went through her clothes and pulled out the ones that were too small. Then went through the box of clothes I thought were too big and of course most of them can fit her now. So she has a bunch of new clothes, a lot from her family in Belgium that now fits and a lot that were Saeler's. So I can't wait for her to start wearing them. Heck she'll be wearing some tomorrow at church! So the bathrooms are clean, floors swept and mopped, rugs vaccuumed, everything dusted, I put up ALL of the laundry that I have been avoiding dealing with for the last week. Everything is just clean! Well except my bedroom didn't really get cleaned (though it is all picked up), just the master bath, but we are going to work on it tomorrow. We are going to clean out the closet/dresser and get rid of shoes and clothes we never wear. That's just too big of a task for tonight after we've done so much work already tonight.
Speaking of tonight, tonight is the first night of Pesach (Passover). This is the first night in a long time we aren't celebrating as a family. Mainly because my family is pretty fragmented right now. The Watkins are on vacation and Landon and Holly are on their honeymoon. It's still a little sad though. Pesach always brings back great memories. When we first started celebrating it as a family, all of us kids would laugh at all the traditions and my mom would get so mad at us. Obviously as we got older, we really embraced it and it's so much fun now, but I still remember the first time we decided to honor our Jewish roots and celebrate Passover... good times! :)
Well this blog is pretty boring because I don't have pictures, so I'm going to end it now.
I can't remember a time where I've wanted my work week to be over so bad. Nothing awful is happening, and it's not like I hate it, I just really was ready for the weekend, like on Wednesday! I kept trying to think of a good reason to take today off... but I just couldn't come up with one and didn't feel like burning a precious day off for no good reason!
SO, ya. Here I am, in the last moments of my work week! Yippee!
Last night was Saeler's birthday party and the night was TOTALLY cut short due to the imminent threat of thunderstorms, hail and tornado's. It didn't even end up being that bad, but the party ended quickly and I felt so awful that we all bailed. I mean, I wasn't even scared. We should have stayed longer, but I think we got caught up in the mass exodus of the evening. A group went over to Court's house to hide in the basement. Well before the mass exodus, we had a great time eating pizza and hanging out. There are a lot of babies around here! Goodness! It's fantastic! I love that my daughter has so many kids her age to play with and I love that I am so blessed to have Christina watch her while I'm at work. It's so nice to be able to totally trust that your daughter is being cared for and loved on when I can't be there.
I have pictures from the party, but they are on my camera, which is in the possession of my sister, who is in San Antonio with her family... so no pictures for the entire weekend. What on earth am I going to do??!
I hate that she left without me. She will learn that she will never want to go on vacation without me again. It's way too boring to leave me behind. And I'm going to figure out a vacation to go on and not invite her just so she can see how it feels! It's going so awesome too! Waaaaay fun, and you're not invited Courtney! So there!
Tonight at Shabbat we are having a bunch of people over who are going to Israel with my parents in May. It should be fun. I don't have time to cook anything so I'm just bringing my chicken spaghetti leftovers. It was a bit on the cheesey side, but what's wrong with that? Huh?!
Well I need to wrap up the day. Much love to everyone and Shabbat Shalom! Pesach is tomorrow night, so remember to say a prayer, thanking God for all he's brought you out of in your life.
It looks like I won't be going part time any time soon. I talked with my supervisor today and she said most likely that wouldn't happen the way I need it to happen, so we are going to just let the matter drop. (though she hasn't actually talked to the big guy- this was just her take on it)
I'm sort of dissapointed as I started to think about how great it would be to be home more. But I also can't work part time without insurance, and I also don't want to quit here and get a part time job somewhere else as I really enjoy what I do.
For a minute there I thought I was going to get the best of both the stay at home mommy and working mommy worlds... but I guess it was too good to be true.
Lyric has been going to bed too early lately. I miss my late night girl! Though it is kind of nice to have the evening with just Jon and I. Yesterday she went to bed at 8:30 and tonight a little before 9. You can ask her if she wants to go to bed, and normally, if she is tired she'll nod her head yes. She has really learned the meaning of the word "No" and she uses it all the time now! It's seriously adorable! I mean, she seems too little to start using words, but she does. I know that she really knows what she is saying too, because if she wants something, she'll answer yes (or nod her head at least). Here is a video of it per Mabrie's request :)
I watched Enchanted tonight. It's a cute movie, not my favorite, but cute. But the real goodness was American Idol. I was quite sad when Kristy got voted off. She actually has a great voice, and she loves horses... I love horses too... and country music! We are like the same person! I honestly would have rather Brooke left than Kristy, because Brooke has sucked it up the last few weeks. Anyways, I'll miss my little bit of country on AI, however, she'll do great, just like Kelley Pickler (also wasn't in the finals of AI), who has gone on to country fame and rocked it out at the CMT Awards a few nights ago. So ya...
While watching Enchanted/American Idol, I should have been tackling this: Laundry, shmaundry. I just am NOT in the mood! I did cook some yumpty chicken spaghetti though! I have so much left over. I'll probably take it down to Courtney's as it will not get eaten in this house. We don't do so well in the leftover department. We need a bigger family to make that work better. More kids! (hint-hint)
This week has passed really quickly. That is soooo nice! Still no word on me going part-time... I really hope I hear something soon. I'm getting a little tired of feeling like I'm in limbo.
Well, that is basically all I've got tonight. I need to get in bed. I'm reading a good book by Terry Brooks.
Lastly I just want to send a special shout out to the Shulls. I love you guys and will always be here for you. True friends are forever friends.
The day passed really quickly, which I always love. Busy as a bee. Or a queen bee if you may because, well, I'm the queen (or at least the queen of my own world).
I so didn't follow my diet today, but does anyone really care? Nope! I don't think I'm going to work out tonight either. I'm in recovery mode. In recovery mode from the last 3 weeks of stressing about parties. Dad's party, Lyric's party, the wedding... too many events, too many full evenings, too much money spent!
Now, I'm calming back down, bringing BALANCE (or trying to find it).
How is it that my life got out of balance? Busyness. Which brings us back to the queen thing, which I am.
Well I really need to get home, so I can start cooking dinner, so I can be sitting comfortably on the couch eating dinner (because eating dinner at the table is for losers) and greatly anticipating who will get kicked off American Idol tonight. I'm voting for... actually I can't remember who I disliked the most last night, but even though she did good, I still hope Seyesha goes home. I'm just not feeling her. Her OR David Archelletto (do you like I how I just make up the spelling of these people's names). David bores me too. Just like folding laundry bores me, which is why I haven't folded the rest of the laundry. Just like cleaning the bathrooms bore me. Just like writing the word bore, bores me.
So we have light in the Vandeput household again. Thankfull it cost us not one red cent. Well I take it back, Jon spent like $40 on crap from Home Depot trying to fix it, but thankfully he can return it all. Anyways, Spence came over yesterday and gave us the great news that it wasn't an issue with the box!! Yeah! Something about needing 240 of something, but only getting 110. So ya. Jon calls the electric company, they come out, fix the problem, restoring electricity to my house, and even trim two trees and tightened the lines (which were sagging a bit). How awesome is that! Apparently it had something to do with the storm. So that is one financial crisis adverted!
It gets better. I get home basically just in time to throw my workout clothes on and jump in Court's van to go to the workout class with Abby and Courtney. When I get back, all the laundry from the 10 loads that was in the kitchen was sorted and in the living room. How fun is that? So I cook some dinner and then have to run to the petstore to get Jedi some more food. Then Lyric and I go to the bookstore to get my new book... seriously. That kid is hilarious. She loves books and loves to read them. She was just laughing and walking around like she owned the place. We got her these new Converse high top shoes that are so stinking cute.
So when I get home from the bookstore/petstore, half of the laundry is put up in the right place! I don't think my husband has done anything laundry related in the whole of our marriage. He said he just didn't want to hear me complain :) So half the laundry is put up, so that's a start, right?!
Lyric is feeling much better. The medicine is really kicking in and she is in a much better mood. Almost back to herself. We got home a little late after the post-dinner errands and I still had to give her a bath, so it was 9:30 by the time we were finished and she was so tired, so I just quickly put her pj's on and put her in bed. 15 minutes later I realized, crap! I didn't give her her medicine! So I had to wake her back up, but thankfully she went back to sleep.
So today, I was suposed to be here early because Natalie is gone so I am covering for her all day. But I totally forgot and remembered right about the time I was suposed to be there! oops! :) So I was late this morning unfortunately.
Jon has really been helping out alot more recently. It's been so wonderful. I think he's just seen how tired I've been and he is really kicking in and taking up some slack. I am so grateful that I married a keeper! :)
Now if I can just get that house clean, my life will feel more at peace. I know it may sound silly, but it's hard for me to relax when I know there is so much to do. We just need to do a really good spring cleaning. The garage needs to be cleaned out. The closets. The pantry. The cabinets.... one of these days I'll get the energy. One of these days in the near future.
On a sad note (but happy for them) my sister and her family are leaving for an extended weekend and they are going down to San Antonio and going to Sea World and all of that fun stuff. They are going to have a blast and the girls are SOOOO excited! I wish I was going, but this will be there first family vacation, just them, so they need to go have fun as a family... but I just want to see the girl's reactions to Sea World, I know they are going to love it!!
Ok, well I'm starving and I need to figure out what I'm going to do for lunch.
Well there we go! The reason for my daughter's random fever, extreme clingyness, outbursts, incessant crying... I finally took her in yesterday to CareNow as I couldn't wait anymore to take her to the pediatrician. She has a double ear infection. Her left ear(I think it was the left one) was so bad, the eardrum was close to bursting. Poor little thing. I had taken her in last Monday because I thought she had one, but he said no. So either she did have the beginning of one and he didn't catch it, or she just developed one really quickly, really severely. No matter what, she is now on antibiotics and already woke up feeling better, with NO fever! Yeah!
Oh, but the mass craziness of my weekend doesn't stop there.
We get home from the doctor's on Sunday and half the house doesn't have electricity. That is the kitchen, guestbathroom, dining room and living room. The only rooms with electricity are the bedrooms and my bathroom. It's a breaker box issue, so Jon went to Home Depot and got some new breakers, but still nothing. So we had no electricity all night. I just kept Lyric in my room and we watched movies. Jon was frustrated with everything and left and he and Spencer went to a late movie last night. So ya.
Oh and to top it all off, the 10 loads of laundry that I did on Saturday are piled up in the kitchen, unfolded.
My house still didn't get cleaned, just picked up.
I'm cramping.
And I just wish I could be home getting stuff that needs to be done, done and taking care of Lyric.
I just feel like crying.
I'm just so tired and worn out, yet I still have so much to do...
That's what I've been doing all day. That and taking care of a sick baby. Lyric woke up with a fever again today and has refused to eat anything but one package of fruit snacks. Well I take that back, she ate a little bit of breakfast earlier this morning, but nothing else since. I've offered her, her normally favorite foods all day, but she is not interested. She doesn't even want to drink. Her fever has fluctuated between 100-102 all day... poor thing. :( She still has her little cough too. I just don't know what's up with her!
She has been sleeping basically on and off all day. She only wants to be in my arms. She just lays against me. She doesn't want to play with her toys, just hold one of her babies while she lays on me. and that is how it's been all day.
But! We did get her a big girl car seat! This is going to be sooo much easier than lugging her infant carrier around! She was way too big for that thing! Here she is in her new car seat. We went and got breakfast at Cracker Barrel this morning. You can see she doesnt' feel good. She's almost falling asleep in her seat and she just woke up!
So ya, she basically has just passed out on and off all day. She'll just be laying by me or on me and fall asleep. She just doesn't feel good.
She got a book for her birthday from her Mami et Papi in the mail today all the way from Belgium! She did sit up long enough to read it for a few minutes before she wanted to lay back down.
Here is my sick girl. You can tell she doesn't feel good just looking at her eyes.
Ok, well I have to go switch a load of laundry. I feel like that's all I've been doing all day. Laundry! I've done 6 loads so far today.
I haven't even touched the rest of the house though. Currently the house is not just dirty, it's filthy. Sigh. Maybe I'll work on that tomorrow. I don't know if I am going to church tomorrow... we'll see. I'm suposed to be on worship team, but my voice is out right now. I've been coughing all weekend.
Ok, Lyric is fussing, so I better go tend to my sick baby and deal with the laundry. I've been on the computer too much today already uploaded all the wedding pics! :)
If you were at the wedding last night and took pictures in the photobooth, you can go to www.shullphotography.com and click on online proofing and then click on Landon and Holly's wedding!
They look great!
If you love your picture(s) you can buy it online!
Okay, well it was beautiful. Every detail, every aspect, just beautiful! And it also helped that the bride and groom were also very beautiful! It sure makes for great pictures. Speaking of pictures, Landon and Holly were blessed to have FIVE professional photographers at their wedding! Thanks to Shull Photography for setting all that up and of course Sarah Kuglin for being there to capture the video!
It was so great and these pics and videos are going to last them the rest of their lives and bring constant reminders of their love!
Ok, well let's start with the wedding rehearsal
The sanctuary looked beautiful!
At Mercado Juarez for the dinner
There was a slideshow playing in the background throughout dinner of Landon and Holly growing up
Brad and Abby Sophie is getting so big Korb and Lyric hanging out Kisses! Court and I The dinner Lyric and Korbin (mostly Lyric) got most of her food on the ground. Landon and Holly felt it was time for an impromptu dance Taking pictures with dad Okay dad Ok, I'm done! Vandeput family Jon and mom and dad
The wedding:
Holly looked gorgeous! Just like a magazine bride!
Ash and Maddy were flower girls and thought it was so cool they wore princess crowns (aka diamond tiaras) Madysen
Ashlyn
Mom and Meme
Mom and Holly. They both look gorgeous!
Good lookin' boys!
Cousins playing before the wedding started
Mom and Sherry lighting the candles. You can see how BEAUTIFUL the wedding canopy was!
Mom and Dad walking Landon down the aisle. This is such a special tradition as it honors both the mother and father for raising their son and they walk him down the aisle and release him, signifying that they release him to be a man of his own household. Both Holly's parent's walked her down too, signifying the same thing.
Landon was laughing and so excited while he waited for Holly, but when he saw her, he started sobbing. It was so cute!
(I stole this from Brad, but this just SO captures it!)
Flower girls
Who gives the bride away
Kiss the bride!!
This was the song they picked to walk back down the aisle too! So cute!
So Jonathan and I decided yesterday that we HAD to get away soon. With the baby, without the baby, it doesn't matter right now, we just need to get away!
