And she slept

And so did I.
Life is so much more rosey when you sleep don't you think?

It took her forever to get to sleep. We started trying around 9 and she didn't actually fall asleep till close to 11, but she did and didn't wake up once all night.

Now Jon and I weren't exactly so lucky as I heard a bug and it turned out to be a roach in our room and Jon spent 15 minutes chasing it out from under things moving the bed and end tables around till he got it... ICK!

But besides that, sleep I did :)

She is with Christina today and though she is still fussy, she at least isn't running a fever. I haven't heard yet how nap time went... here's hoping for the best!

I'm so excited about tonight! It's the 2nd installment of our Book Club! We will be talking about New Moon tonight. It should be a blast as we have more people coming this time around. Someone is even bringing vampire cupcakes :)
I got all the discussion questions together and even found a short quiz for us all to take! Food, girls, wine (diet coke), books... can it get any better? I think not.

AND tomorrow! DUM-DA-DA-DUUUMMMM!!!
I have a sonogram tomorrow and HOPEFULLY we will find out if BabyVDP is a girl or a boy! I'm SOOOOOOO excited! I am going to have a full house for spectators as usual. Even my dearest Mabes will be there! I'm so excited! I can't wait to tell everyone... though if it's a boy, I won't be able to announce the name because we still haven't decided on one. But that's okay. Maybe we could have a poll on which name you think it should be. I think we are now between 2 names... but not anywhere close on middle names... sigh.

Anyways, so I have an exciting next 24 hours planned! Good times people.

Thanks for all the well wishes and encouragement on my last blog. Motherhood can be so trying at times... but I think we all know how worth it is.

Tough Weekend

Man this was a tough weekend for me.
It's those types of weekends that moms don't like to talk about. The ones where if they were very honest, they would say, 'I don't want to be a mom anymore'. Although those moments are fleeting, it's still true on certain days when it just seems too hard and too overwhelming.

I've had one of those weekends unfortunately.

Lyric is teething hardcore. Her gums are swollen and red, but those dang suckers won't poke through.

She's run a consistent fever since Friday afternoon and if I say she's been fussy/whiney that would be the largest understatement ever given to man.

Just the slightest thing incites a meltdown. Like she can't get her little person to sit in the car right, meltdown. She trips and falls, meltdown. She wants to grab something she's not suposed to and I say no, meltdown.

Then add on the fact that she won't sleep. You would think if your mouth hurts, sleep would be a happy relief... oh no, she won't sleep more than 30 minutes during the day.

And then when she wakes up screaming, even when you pick her up, she just cries and cries.

Last night was the worst night... she even got choked up and threw up all over me, right after I had taken a shower.

Today I only went into work for a few hours, and then came home with her.

It's just been soooo hard for both of us. Me because I'm trying to be there and be a good mom and love her and comfort her, but all the while my patience is wearing thinner and thinner. Her, as she just doesn't feel good and is in pain.
It's not even like Jonathan can help. She literally won't go to anyone. She just screams and cries. I broke down on Sunday and Jon tried to take her in the other room and she just had a meltdown and wouldn't get off my lap. Jon even went and got a popsicle which she loves and tried to bribe her and she still refused. She just doesn't want anyone but me. I'm her comfort, which is nice normally... but seriously... even comforts need a break.

So, ya, it's been one of those weekends. It's not that I want to be away from her. I'm exhausted, I don't want to be anywhere but home. I just want her to not be so fussy! I want her to nap! I want a good night's sleep!

I did get out of the house once this weekend though. Jon had to go to the Apple Store so we went with him, feverish baby and all. Though she was out of it:


But I was happy to be out of the house. Plus we ate at Uncle Julio's in Grapevine and I have wanted to eat there for awhile. I really liked it. Their queso is YUMMY!


Friday night, Jonathan had gone to Danny McCoy's birthday party and they started "fighting" like Jon and Danny do best. They get twigs and start beating eachother. I don't see the interest in it, but they think it's hilarious.
Here are Jon's wounds:




Then we babysat Ash and Maddy that night when Courtney and Nathan went to a birthday party.
Here they are in my room watching a movie


Then after, Ashlyn fell asleep with Uncle Jon


Lyric did learn how to sing the B-I-B-L-E though (baby style) and I caught it on video :)



So that was my long extended weekend full of more crying and whining than I would care to think about.

Everyone pray that tonight is better... or I may go insane.

A Real Day of Rest

Today has been really relaxing and I'm so excited about it.

I just have chilled. I haven't cleaned (well I picked up a little), I haven't done laundry, I've honestly just chilled.

Jon got up this morning and made Lyric and I breakfast of fresh strawberries and bananas.. yum!

Then he had to go downtown to an immigration appointment, and around this time Lyric should be going down for her first nap. Well she hasn't been taking a very long afternoon nap, so Christina and I decided to cut out the morning nap and make her just have one nap a day. Well she gets so tired in the morning still, so around 10:30-11:00 she was fussy and crying and wanted her pappy (Passy). So I called my sister and she sent down the troops to keep her occupied :) My nieces Ashlyn, Madysen and Kadyn came over and kept Lyric up till 1pm :) We ate lunch together and they played with the Little People, and colored and we watched Princess Bride. Parents of only children totally understand the fabulousness of having other kids over to occupy your child. You just havd no idea.

I just now put Lyric to bed and hopefully she'll have a good long nap that will coincide with my good long nap :)

No shabbat meal tonight as my parents are in DC, so I am hoping that we literally don't do anything all day and all night. I would be fine not even leaving the house :) I feel like I just need a major recoop time and life will become peachy.

Last night I literally woke up 4 times to pee. I am having some major constipation problems and I think it's making my bladder hold even less pee than normal. That was SO annoying! But then I keep reminding myself it's only going to get worse from here... :)

My dearest me (dear meat) friend Missie is having her baby boy today! She went in this morning and I can't wait to hear all the details, and yes she will dish all those details because she's cool like that :) Her blog always makes me laugh :)
So good luck and congrats Missie!

So off to watch more Law and Order SVU. I'm in season 3 now, and I've already seen season 6 and 7, so only 2 more seasons to go :)

I hope everyone has a relaxing/productive/fun day today!

Shabbat Shalom!

Anxiety Attack

So last night, in the middle of the night I woke up suddenly.
Jon said I started gasping and saying "something's wrong, something's wrong."
I don't remember saying that, but I do remember waking up and knowing that I was in the middle of an anxiety attack.
I couldn't breathe and it felt like sharp stabbing pains in my chest. I knew what was happening, although it has never happened to me before. My family has a history of these things, so I just sat still and took deep breaths. It took about 5 minutes for me to be able to breathe normally and for the stabbing pains to go away.

It was really strange. I of course didn't sleep well the rest of the night.

I think I'm just kind of stressed. Mainly it's just money stress. I wish I knew how we were going to be able to work everything out that needs to be worked out in the coming months. We are trying to adjust our lifestyle to make it rely solely on Jonathan's income and I just don't see how that is going to happen. I mean, I can see to an extent, but it just makes me feel panicky. It's not that we don't have money right now, we are doing perfectly fine. I just know that in the coming months we have some huge bills that need to be paid (Europe trip, $2000 deductible, holidays, etc.) and the whole time we are trying to adjust to living on a smaller income as I know inevitably it's going to have to happen at least for a time after the baby is born. I don't think 6 weeks maternity is going to cut it, on any level, so we are going to have to figure out a way to live on one income for a time.
I just wish I had a plan. I don't, and that's what's stressing me out.

Ok, so I just wanted to write about my funky anxiety attack as I've never had one before.

On a positive note!

We went by Kristina Hippman's toy extravaganza last night and picked up some awesome Little People sets. Lyric is having SO much fun with them. I love seeing her happy and playing, it's such a peaceful thing, when your kid is just happy :) She also loves a Belle doll we picked up from them and carried it around, even to bed last night.

Here is her Little People collection thus far:


I was talking to Jon this morning and Lyric was playing with the castle. Normally she jumps at the chance to talk to me on the phone, especially when it entails holding Jon's iPhone. But this time, Jon couldn't even get her to hold the phone. All she would do was yell hi and not even turn to look at him as she was too busy playing.
I've been replaced by Little People.

Just for fun, let's talk about my belly button for a minute. Normally I have a very deep, innie belly button. When I was pregnant with Lyric, it took quite a while for it to flatten out and it only popped at the very end.
But this time around, my belly button is almost completely flat and the top is already starting to pop out... how strange is that.
For your viewing pleasure, my belly button

I guess it just has sensory recall and decided not to fight it, but seriously, it's kind of nuts.

Finally, my parents left today for DC. They are with the Hogans and are touring around DC today and then tomorrow going to be attending The Call. They are going to have a BLAST! I am so jealous and I wish I was with them. Have fun mom and dad!

Well today is my Friday as I don't work tomorrow. I am wishing the hours to pass quicker as I'm exhausted after last night... pass quickly time!

My aching...

I wish I could sit here and go on an on about this TMI ailment that is "ailing" me... okay fine, I will. I have a case of the roids.
DEAR GOD!
I blame Ryan and Tiffani as if they had not gotten married, I would not have been on my feet for 2 days straight, dancing and carrying around a 16 month old baby who didn't want to be put down... in honor of them, I've actually named my roid after them, I call it Ryffani.
So Ryffani- I curse you and hope you go away very, very soon!

In other news, I'm still tired :)
Yesterday I left church early, only to go home and lay on my side the entire day, hoping that Ryffani would go away once and for all, which didn't happen. Let's just talk about how Jonathan needs to get a cousin of Ryffani so he can understand the pain I feel. He basically just called me lazy all day and everything he did for me, he did so begrudgingly, which is so frustrating when all you want to do is say RYFFANI MAY BE SERIOUSLY MAIMING ME PERMENANTLEY! but he just doesn't get it.
One of these days, he will. He'll be moving a couch, running a marathon or be playing racquetball and he'll come hobbling into our bedroom, begging my forgiveness. "If only I had known how evil Ryffani can be... I would have gotten your diet coke without telling you to get it yourself 3 times. I would have made you a tuna sandwich and remembered to bring you the cheese dorrito chips too... I wouldn't have told you to get your lazy butt out of bed and get them yourself..."
One day Jon, one day.

So today hasn't been the best day for me, but I've been REALLY busy which is nice, except when I have to walk upstairs, that's not nice.

Lyric has hit another talking zone and is saying more and more words! It blows my mind. This past week she started to put together 2 words. "Hi Dada" "Moe pssz" If only I could get her to say drink better. She said "daay" which no one but those who keep her know what she's talking about.
Also, she is getting into that stage where I have to start watching what I watch around her. Yesterday I was watching XFiles the movie and she was fascinated with it, so I had to keep distracting her during the scary parts. I liked it better when she was blissfully ignorant of everything on tv... but I guess that is just part of her growing up!

My oldest niece Ashlyn is GONE!!! She went to our church's Kid's Camp this week. Oh goodness was she excited about it! You would have thought that she was going to Disney World. Courtney got all of her stuff ready, and she got a new sleeping bag and got to pick out her own snacks for the week. I saw her off at the church that morning because I had to be there early. I was able to help her put her tshirt on and her bandanna (she's on the pink team). She is going to have to much fun! Her counselor is Brad's sister Brandi and the Jr. Counselor is Taylor Smith. I can't wait for her to get back and hear all her stories... then in another week or so, SHE STARTS SCHOOL! I swear I view her as one of my own, so I feel this motherly pang when thinking that she is going to start school... she's just so big now!

Well I need to wrap some stuff up so I can get home. I've been craving Olive Garden and Baked Potatoes. Since I don't want to drive to Olive Garden tonight for dinner, baked potatoes will have to do the trick. So I need to get on home to get the oven turned on! Yum!

Later people!

Post-Wedding

Well after the wedding we sent Lyric with Gigi and Poppy.

*ps, Lyric was a trooper. She functioned the entire 6 hour wedding in addition to the whole crazy day like a trooper. She ended up falling asleep on my mom around 9 and slept for about an hour while I shook my booty on the dance floor. She did really good though and I was so proud of her!*

We weren't the only ones who got a hotel room that night at the Magnolia in downtown Dallas.

Courtney and Nathan, Landon and Holly, Abby and Brad and us all stayed. We got back to the hotel and decided we were hungry. So we changed clothes and headed out walking to find some place. It was after 1am, but we found some pizza place and partook :)

Then we all went back to our rooms and met for breakfast the next morning.

Here is before bed


And the next morning


I slept till almost 10, but then I didn't go to bed till late, so I guess I didn't sleep that long.
We ended up going to get Lyric around noon ish and by 1, the entire house was asleep and we slept till 4. Isn't that lovely!

I'm so exhausted after this weekend, and if I wasn't on the team tomorrow with Parra, I would be skipping church FOR SURE. But oh well. I hopefully will get into bed tonight at a decent hour.

Oh, look how pretty my bridesmaid bouquet is


I must give a special birthday love to Abby and Holly! I'll try to write a better birthday blog when my brain can think a little better :) But regardless, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Weekend Wrap Up/ Breaking Dawn

Goodness my weekend went by in a blur!

Even with having the extra day off it was quick, I don't even want to imagine how tired I would be if I had worked on Friday.

First off, let's talk about how awesome it is to have Fridays off now... you just have no clue! It's like... awesome! :) I would have never thought by just cutting down my work week 10 hours a week, how much it has totally changed my energy level. That and the fact that I no longer have evil 1st trimester symptoms.

Anyways, you've already heard about my crazy laundry intervention and surprise anniversary night as well as Korbin's birthday party... just those 2 events alone took up most of the weekend. But one thing I didn't mention is what took up the REST of my weekend... Breaking Dawn.

Can I tell you how sad I am now that I've read it? It was like I didn't want it to be over, but I couldn't put it down. I HAD to finish it last night because I knew I would be thinking about it all day today... and let me tell you, it was every bit the book I wanted it to be. It caught me totally by surprise. I mean, I was really surprised by the events that occurred on page 449. I really did not see that one coming, and I normally have picked up on all her twists so far... but that one I was reeling!

But now it's over... at least from Bella's perspective (from what I read on her website). Here is what she said in an interview:

Question: Are you going to make any other books in the series after Breaking Dawn and Midnight Sun?

Stephenie: The series at book four, and Midnight Sun kind of like book one point five. Book four will pretty much, it will be the last time Bella would narrate *crowd whines*, but if I wanted to go forward. The stories couldn't go on forever. If they did - no, no, no, if they did it would get old. Bella and Edward would have the same problems in every book and they overcame it and then faced the exact same thing again, it would get really old. There comes a time when the story needs to end. There are other stories with other characters. I might go there, I might not. There are some other things I'll do first, so it wouldn't be, like, right away, but I do have outlines for five and six.

So at least that makes me feel better that it won't be the end of the series, like I previously thought.

In other Twilight News, Stephanie and her sister Michelle made it in the Fort Worth Star Telegram for their awesome costumes they made when attending the book release party. They looked awesome! They were dressed as "newborn" vampires. Here is the link.

So ya, good times reading that book all weekend. I started it Saturday evening around dinner time, then read for a few hours... unfortunately, like I've noted before, when I'm pregnant, reading for long periods of time gives me motion sickness. I don't realize how bad it is, till I stop reading. On Saturday night, after reading a good 3 hours or so, I puked so hard that I burst all the blood vessels around my eyes.

Then I decided to sleep in on Sunday, Jon took Lyric with him to Church, so I had the morning all to myself... so what else is a girl to do but read! So again, dry heaved into the toilet after a 3 hours reading session. I decided to give myself a break for the day, so Jon and I went over to my parent's and we ate lunch, then Jon and I went to see the new Mummy movie (which totally sucked by the way- and I like Mummy movies). Then after spending the evening hanging out, we went home and I finished the book last night around midnight.

I was sad, but happy at the same time.

So all in all, it was the most awesomest weekend! It was really busy and fast paced, but was filled with my favorite things- my husband- lots of lovin'- my daughter- friends- nieces/nephews- Mexican food- and READING! :)

Bath Time - Fun Time

Last night was quite productive in the Vandeput household.

As I've previously mentioned, our house is in chaos. When our house is in chaos, it feels like my life is in chaos. I don't like to move as I'm too overwhelmed with the ridiculous state of my household and I just don't want to do anything as I know it's going to take a lot of work.

Well enough is enough. So I sat down and wrote a long detailed list that I could just check off throughout the next few days.

Jonathan became the world's best husband and when I got home, he already had the living room checked off (besides that i need to re-sort toys and get most of them back in Lyric's room) and the kitchen done.

I proceeded to go through and collect all excess dishes, throw away all the trash. Go through the mounds of mail, sort dirty clothes, etc.

I then proceeded to make a scrumptious meal of chicken spaghetti. Before commencing all of this, Lyric and I went down to Aunt CoCo's house because she was standing in the kitchen crying "dado" (which means CoCo) because she is used to going there directly and we deviated because I had groceries. She is quite in love with her Aunt and her cousins.

Well upon our visit, I decided to bring Kadyn home with us to entertain Lyric while Jon and I continued to cook and clean. It worked out nicely.

Then we ate and the girls got SO dirty, that I decided to give them a bath. Here is the cuteness of the bath time-fun time!





Lyric fell and bit her top lip. Look how swollen it is:


Here they are swimming (yes the floor was soaked)


So it was super cute and super fun.

Jonathan also decided to COMPLETELY rearrange our room. I don't know how much I like it, but I'm sure I'll get used to it. It just emphasised how much we need to get a bed frame (yes we are ghetto like that).

Anyways, today is my Friday as I don't work tomorrow, but it's already shaping up to be kind of stressful because the restaurant we are going to today refused to give us the back room by ourselves and we have a meeting where we need to talk, so we are going to have to be louder than normal... and of course this will be my fault, but I just now got ahold of the manager this morning to try to talk to her. But she said she could do it if we moved the lunch to after 1, which of course we can't do...

sigh.

Anyways, happy times.

I think this weekend is going to be great!

Oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KORBIN!


Korbin turns 2 today and he is such a great little boy! Just ask him what a horse says and you'll be rolling with laughter :) His birthday party is Saturday, so be expecting a fun kid picture filled blog soon! :)

Ok, back to the grind!

First of Many

I know, I know. I have been a horrible blogger as of late.
I can't help it! Would you like to take a look at my weekly calendar? it's nuts. I'm doing something like every night of every week.
Though I can't complain all that much because this weekend, I had my first of many long weekends. Yes that's right. My work schedule changed to 30 hours a week and now I don't work Fridays.
How amazing is that! It was so nice to fall asleep on Thursday and know that Friday morning your alarm wouldn't go off (though your 1 year old alarm and your baby dancing on your bladder would). Jon woke up when he heard the baby, I guess out of routine and got her up and fed her breakfast and I didn't wake up till after 9.
I then proceeded to do a boat load of laundry, which has hence found itself on the floor of the guest bedroom.
I also didn't get our house cleaned... and to many of you that doesn't seem that big of a deal, but we are now into the 3rd week without the floors/bathrooms being cleaned... it was not ok. But once again, we were busy all weekend.
Friday the Frederick's flew in from Cyprus to help prepare for Ryan and Tiff's wedding. We also celebrated Norm's birthday that night too.
Here are a few pics:


Praying over the birthday boy :)


Ashlyn Rose


Dad singing with the birthday pudding


Norm orchestrating his praise (please note he is not 55, but 51, however my mom could only find 2 fives)


Judah is now 6 months old, he is getting SO big!


Ry and Lyly


Maddy showing her braid


Landon, Austin and Hannah


Lynn and my mom


Court (looking oh so busty), Christina and moi!


Then on Saturday I finally cashed in on my Mother's Day present, and I got a "I survived the 1st trimester" pregnancy massage. OMG, it was glorious. I did not want it to end. I still have enough left on my gift card to get another massage, so I'm thinking I will wait till November then have a "I survived my 2nd trimester" massage. I get relaxed just thinking about it. sigh.
After that, we quickly had to leave for Ryan and Tiff's house in Dallas where they were moving in. When we got into Dallas, we discovered that 75 was shut down. So it took us forever to get to their house. Lyric was getting bored, so we stayed entertained by making silly faces.




She is getting so big!


I was of no help, but I did play house nanny (my sister and all her kids were there). We played hide and go seek and let me tell you. Lyric is the worst hider ever. She follows me and stands right in front of me smiling saying "mama" and pointing. I would be like, "go away" and she would just laugh. She totally kept giving my awesome hiding places away.
They also have a cute swing in the back that Lyric had fun on:



Sunday I actually got out in the sun for a bit. But I realized why I'm so white this summer. it's because I hate to be hot! And you can't go outside without getting hot.
We did find a way to ensure that my daughter does not drown in the pool. We put a floatie swim bathing suit on, with floaties. She resembles that kid from "A Christmas Story", you know the little brother Randy that has to wear that snow get up and he can't move or put his arms down? Ya, that's Lyric, but she has the summer version. But she doesn't go under and she can float around the pool without me holding her (or being in a floatie) which is what she wants because she thinks she's 6 and can swim by herself.

Anyways, this weekend was so nice. I can't wait to have a repeat this weekend! Working 30 hours is rockin' my world! :)

I WON!

This is the first time, after entering drawing after drawing on all my favorite blogs, to finally win something!
On Celebrity Baby Scoop they had a drawing for Sweet Dreams T's. It's a company that sells super chic clothes and all of the "stars" have them for their babies! It's expensive too! I'm talking for a simple onesie, $80+!
Anyways, they had a drawing and I entered for the 3-6 month onesie thinking if I won I would give it to my beautiful niece (by choice) Sophie. Well I did! Sophie will have herself the most expensive onesie ever :)
Click HERE to read the details if you want.
I got an email from them this morning telling me they were shipping out the onesie today! :) Yippee!

On an entirely different note, I have the most awkwardly placed zits that will NOT go away! I call them my scowling zits, as they are two zits, parallel to eachother, in between my eyes. If I make a scowl, they fit almost perfect in my scowl face lines. Jon says I need to be happier then I wouldn't get scowl zits... well regardless, it's TERRIBLE! The gunk will just not stay out, I've had to pop them like a billion times. Seriously, how embarrassing is it to be talking with students at work and then you go to the bathroom and those stupid zits have reemerged with nasty white heads. ICK!
I think the one on the left is almost gone, but the one on the right quite possibly may be with me until I die. Please note their glory:


Pregnancy Forget Me Not #9585777389
FREAKING ZITS LIKE A PUBESCENT BOY WHO EATS GREASY FOOD EVERY DAY THEN SMEARS HIS FACE IN IT!

Today marks a momentous day for me. It's the last Friday I have to work at this job. Yes you heard that right, starting next week my schedule is going from 40 hours to 30 hours a week! Yippee! You have no idea how much this is going to help me. I was supposed to start my new schedule LAST week, but unfortunately, communication lines were crossed, but I am starting next week now. I can't wait to have LONG weekends every weekend! It's going to rockin'!

So I'm determined to keep my energy level up today, even if it means sipping on a diet coke in one hand and a glass of water in the next! I will have a productive day that passes quickly!!!

Ok, well early Shabbat Shalom to you all and I'm out!

BLAH

That's how my day has been today. Just blah. I woke up with a headache that has yet to go away. I had to change plane reservations which is a pain in the butt, still blah. Worked on the work website and can't get the changes to stick, blah. Did some internal PR work, blah. Hosted a table at a student lunch, blah.
Everything I am doing today I feel like rolling my eyes at it.

This may have to do with the fact that I am silently protesting my husband's lack of presence this week. He's been needing to be busy all the time, so when it comes to staying at home at night with me, he bails. Once dinner is eaten, he's gone. Up to the church, out with the guys, it doesn't matter as long as he's not at home.
That's fun huh? Real nice when you've had nausea and headaches, coming home after a long day at work...
And now I just found out that he is going to be gone literally the entire night on Friday and all day Saturday getting home after I've already gone to bed... how's that for ya.
Then dealing with unnecessary drama throughout the day has been an unnecessary addition to my already blah day.
Thank God tomorrow is Friday! That is the one good part. That and I have plans with my wonderful sister for Saturday. I finally got her hooked on the Twilight Series. She even admitted to developing a crush on the lead character, a crush which is inevitable when reading these books. If you've never thought you could develop a crush on a fictional character, I tempt you to read these books, really read them, and then tell me you don't have a crush on Edward, I DARE YOU! :) Ok, maybe Brad S. didn't get a crush on him, but other than that, you know you will. I'm so ready to re-read them. I just can't figure out who has my 3rd book! I lent them out to people so that they could get hooked, and now don't have one copy at home. Court has #1, the Shulls have #2 and I don't know where #3 is which makes me sad because I want to re-read the entire series before #4 comes out on August 2nd.
Good times! :)

Ok, well talking about Edward just got me a little more perky, so I'll end this blog on a perkier note quite possibly.

My round ligament pain hasn't been as bad today, thank God, but instead I woke up with a pounding headache that hasn't gone away no matter how much I overdose on Tylenol. Ok, I'm not REALLY overdosing, just 3 pills every 6 hours isn't too bad right? Well it's not really working, just makes the pain a little more dull...

Apparently some people think I complain too much on my blog, so I'll stop that train and just end right now.

Later.

Oh so relaxing

Today has been nice.

It started off gloriously with Jonathan getting up with the baby and letting me sleep in till 9:30! That is the latest I have slept since I don't even know when and it was SOOOOOO nice!

Last night was Austin's birthday shabbat. We had a good time, but I was really out of it most of the night due to my incredibly tiring day yesterday.

Here are just few pictures:








We went and saw HellBoy later that night. I thought it was really good, but I am a huge fan of stupid comic book type movies.

Then today I slept in and then Lyric and I took Maddy to Build-A-Bear to celebrate her 1/2 birthday! :) She had so much fun!

Maddy helping to fill her bear up


Getting the heart ready to go in the bear


Giving the bear a bath


After "Lyla" was all ready in her pink and rhinestone outfit


Then we came home and ALL took a LOOONG nap and then decided to go to Olive Garden where Aaron Goodman waited on us and I proceeded to eat waaay too much and now am sitting on the couch trying not to upchuck my dinner while Jonathan is playing xbox and Lyric is playing with her babies.
She has a baby packnplay that she likes to climb into. Here she is:




Tomorrow Jon and I are on Aaron and Christina's team. I need to get Lyric bathed and in bed and somehow manage to keep my dinner down. So wish me luck!

Why Lyric? Why?

I've already been ridiculously tired all week. Like someone has sucked all the energy out of my body and given it instead to my 1 year old daughter.

Because it seems that the more tired I am, the more energy she has. Why is that? I figured I can suck the life out of anything if I'm in a bad enough mood, but she seems to sustain her energy despite anything.

Well after an evening of a hyper daughter, I get her bathed and in bed. She went down like usual without a fuss. But then, an hour or so later, up she goes.

I think she had a bad dream. Jon was watching Pans Labyrinth and she was interested in it and there are these scary monsters. I kept trying to distract her, but she was mesmerized. So I think she had bad dreams of scary Pans Labyrinth Monsters.

Long story of getting up and calming the screaming daughter down resulted in finally at 3:30 this morning her falling asleep in our bed. Which of course resulted in me having to do some sort of special forces move to get untangled from her and out of bed without waking her up.

This morning I was tired. After lunch I can barely move or function. I don't think I've ever been this tired in my entire life. I'm sure that's not true, but still it sure feels like it. And to make matters worse, I have a butt load of things to do, so it's not even like I can just call it a day and leave work early...

I need to sleep.

A Day In the Life

Yesterday was a typical day for me... typical meaning random.
That's how most of our nights are. There isn't ever anything planned. It's not always KNOWN that we chill out at home on week nights.
With all my family living in a 2 mile radius, and more specifically my sister living 4 houses down, it's always a draw where we'll end up.

Last night Jonathan informed me that he was taking a pastor who was in town from Belgium out to dinner. Not speaking French all that well, I was able to easily get out of having to go with him.

So... what does an extremely tired pregnant, full time working mother of a toddler do? Calls her sister with 4 kids under the age of 6. No one can be more tired than her right? True, but still even though she's always crazy busy with 4 kids ages 5, 4, 2 and 5 months, when I'm super tired, she always helps out with Lyric because she's super mom!

So she told me they were going up to the Church because the youth group (which my BIL is one of the pastors of) is having a summer party complete with dinner and a bounce house. At first i was like...nooo... I'm tired! But then she gave me the whole, "Lyric will have so much fun..." line and I figured I better do it. And Lyric did have so much fun. My niece Kadyn and her always have a great time playing together, and so they kept eachother company.
Here are some pics:

Aunt CoCo and Lyric on the slide




Kadyn and Lyric playing






We didn't stay too long because it was freaking HOT, which caused me to get a headache. We did stay long enough to snag some food for the kids and catch a bit of Princess Bride which they had playing in the Atrium.

Then I went and got Courtney and I some Pei Wei's and we went to her house and watched So You Think You Can Dance.

Good times had by all!

I was just thinking about how random my life is. It's not scripted in anyway. Jon and I rarely get into routines. But it's nice. It's fun. It's different. I like that.

Which brings me to blogging. My sister is about to start up on her own blog. I'm sure that is going to be really interesting as her life is FULL of crazy stories.

Are you BLOG deprived and interested to know what other Mom-Type blogs I read on a daily basis? Come on, you know you are a sucker for reading about other people's lives! Don't try to deny it! Well here is what is in my RSS Feed in alphabetical order.

Adventures in Baby Wearing- I really enjoy her posts. She is a SAH mom of 3 boys and is pregnant with her 4th which is a little girl! She posts a lot and it always seems to be upbeat and genuine. It's a great read.

Chicken and Cheese- I just recently started reading this blog. She is also pregnant with her 2nd child... though she is just about ready to pop.

Culture Feast- This one isn't a Mommy Blog. But it's a blog with many different authors and just talks about life and culture as it relates to the DFW area and other random things like book reviews, movie reviews, political analysis and more.

Dooce- I mean, can you seriously have an RSS feed and not include Dooce in it? She's basically one of the most popular bloggers in the world and always has something wildly inappropriate and over the line. She talks a lot about her daughter and her life as an ex-morman. Really funny stuff, if you don't get offended easily. She also has a new picture of the day, a new dog picture of the day and a new style section of the day. Dooce is one of my faves. I was watching an interview with her and do you know she makes like $40,000 a MONTH off of her blog. Wow.

From Dates to Diapers- This is a mommy of SIX kids AND she homeschools! Wow. Mostly this blog is a product review, but she does giveaways ALL the time. I have yet to win, but I'm going to keep on pluggin away!

Her Bad Mother- Ok, this one is a bit crude at times, but still always makes me laugh. She just had another baby about a month or so ago and a rough time at it. And boy does she let you know! It's a great blog though!

I Should be Folding Laundry- Once again, this is a great blog. It's a mother of 2 who recently just lost her identical twin boys when she was around 20 weeks pregnant. She is openly grieving and I find her blogs so raw and honest and I really enjoy them. She also is just a great blogger.

It's Not Me, It's You- Which is my friend Liz's blog. Though she doesn't update NEARLY often enough... but when she does, they are always fantastic blogs!

Jessica and Her Boys- another friend of mine's personal blog. She has two boys and is pregnant with her 3rd boy.

Motherhood Uncensored- once again a little R rated, but I love this blog. It NEVER ceases to amuse me. She is OH so honest and OH so blunt about it seems everyone in her life. I wish I could be that blunt on my blog, I think I play politics too much... Great blog!

Musings of a Housewife- Ok, I just subscribed to this one today, but in reading it over, I think it's going to be a good one!

Savvy Auntie- This AMAZING website is going to get it's own post very soon. I just need to get it all together. But if you have EVER thought of starting your own business, you need to eat up all the wisdom from Melanie. She is absolutely awesome and gifted.

Alexis Neely- This woman is a lawyer focused on the family and helping families have the right kind of planning in bad situations. She's pretty stinkin' cool from how her blogs and Twitters portray her. She doesn't update super often, but I always enjoy it when she does.

Twilight Series Theories- this site will give you ALL the goods on the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer. This site updates A LOT, so be prepared to have a full RSS feed every morning.

Penelope Trunk- Her blog subjects don't always apply to me. She writes a lot about business and what not. But they are always great reads.

Of course this doesn't cover all the MySpace blogs I keep up with, plus a few others I peruse via Twitter links. But those are the ones I read daily in my RSS feed. I encourage you to click on a few of the links and check them out for yourself!

EXHAUSTED

That is exactly what I fee like doing. Passing out somewhere.
For some reason, when I woke up this morning, I felt like I had been hit by a truck.

Unfortunately, nothing has really changed all day and I've continued to feel exhausted and just plain tired.

On Wednesdays, part of my job description is to have a student "treat" on Wednesdays such as root beer floats. Well I just got done making like a million root beer floats, with ice cream that was as hard as a rock.
It took forever, now my arm and my hands hurt, and I still just want to go back to sleep.

Thankfully I'm off work in about an hour. Today has been semi-slow as I'm waiting for the final edits on a newsletter. Then once I get that it will be a flurry of activity again.

We had dinner last night with some friends from Cyprus, Sam and Ashley. It was great to see them and catch up and introduce our kiddos. Lyric kept wanting to hold Isaiah all night, she just doesn't get the difference between live and fake babies yet. Hopefully she will before Baby VDP gets here.

I didn't get into bed too late, so I just can't figure out why I'm so tired (besides Baby VDP sucking the life out of me... maybe he's growing an organ or something today).

We are trying to plan a weekend getaway with some friends, but I don't know if it is going to work out. Especially in light of all the bazillions of expenses we are going to be paying for...
Jon's $545 immigration fees, RyTy wedding expenses, $1800 deductible I have to have paid for by my 7th month, and then of course the Belgium trip in October...(though we already have some money saved for that- but still need more). All in all it's almost $4000 EXTRA income in the next 3 months... this on top of me getting a pay cut to work 30 hours a week starting on the 21st. We'll figure it out somehow, it always seems to work out doesn't it? Well we are sure going to put that statement to the test! :) I'm a little stressed, but not too bad.

Ok, maybe it's because I'm not 12, but can someone please explain to me why the Jonas Brother's are cool? I just don't get it. I listened to their song on the radio the other day and still wasn't that impressed. I just don't get it.

Well I think that does it for me. I'm outta here.

Relapse

(hold on while I stem off the feeling of vomiting up my lunch... okay, better)

SO ya. Today has been a day of relapse. Maybe I just had a hormone SURGE or what, but I woke up today and puked and have felt PUKEY ever since. Even eating hasn't squelched the rolling of my stomach nor the icky feeling in my gut.
YUCK!

Then to top it off, for like 20 minutes last night I was so ridiculously dizzy that I thought I was going to pass out. Like my face drained of all color, I started getting tunnel vision and when I talked I sounded to myself like I was at the bottom of a well. I just sat still, trying to will myself back into the land of the living. Jon doesn't know what to do in situations like this. So he immediately stands up and starts cleaning the living room. I know, strange. But he would rather make himself busy then stand there and watch his wife pass out. To each his own, but he at least cleaned up all our dinner mess :)

Hopefully this is just a relapse day and I will be back to feeling good tomorrow. Ick. I hate feeling nauseous. Though I am craving me some pickles like something fierce! I remember I went through a pickle phase around this time with Lyric too. They are just glorious. I could eat an entire jar!

Zelda Update. I'm rockin that game out. I am the most awesome Zelda Nintendo DS player to ever rock out a planet. Go me!

Ok, my head hurts and I need pickles and so I need to skidaddle.

Smoke Break

Give me a T-A-Q-U-I-T-O

So this morning after I dug into my wallet and realized that my husband STOLE MY DIET COKE MONEY I sat there in stunned silence. How was I going to get through the morning with no diet coke?

I quickly call Jonathan to inform him that due to his theft, he has to drop whatever he was doing and drive to the nearest store and buy me a diet coke. He gave his Belgian giggle, called me crazy and told me he was in downtown Dallas at a client. Well who cares! There are consequences I tell him. So he gave me his Belgian sarcasm and told me he was on his way.
ya. right.

So then I decided I was just going to have to leave and make a Whataburger run for not only a large diet coke, but while I was out, let's throw in a taquito too, cuz I mean, why the heck not! And I knew it would take me only about 5 minutes or so, as the Whataburger is just right up the street. So I grabbed my purse and walked out and informed the receptionist that I was going to pretend like I was taking a smoke break and I would be back in 10 minutes. If anyone asked for me, I was smoking.

Because seriously, smokers get way more breaks than non-smokers. So I was just doing my part to bring equality back into the work place.

So here I am, eating the last part of my tasty taquito and slurping on my large diet coke.

It's been a good morning so far.

Jolly Ranchers

I enjoy them a lot. Especially the green ones.

So this weekend really kicked my butt. I got to bed REALLY late on Friday, then didn't sleep that well Saturday night and by Sunday night, I was so exhausted that I think I tossed and turned in my sleep so I don't feel rested. I actually woke up ridiculously tired. So now, I think due to the exhaustion, I feel sick to my stomach (though vomit free am I).

I mean seriously. Right now, I can hardly keep my eyes open.

I have been having trouble sending some documents to our ABQ affiliates and it is driving me crazy. I also helped video tape one of our pilot grads follow up interview for The Bachelor. He is one of 20 finalist to be the next Bachelor. It was pretty funny and I had to stop myself from laughing out loud quite a few times. Some of the questions he had to answer were about past relationships and why he is should be the next Bachelor.... :)

So I think Jon is going to buy an Xbox 360 this week. He has an old Xbox and he sold it at a pawn shop and then is taking his father's day money (which should have bought new shoes that he has been wanting.) and some extra money he made and is buying it. I think it's a waste of $300, but whatever makes him happy. I'll play my DS and he can play his Xbox and we will both be happy :)

On another note, one of the greatest (and almost a sister-in-law) friends Jennifer Nickerson just put out her first album called Girl Next Door. I was really impressed by her song writing abilities and her desire to just go for the gold and push for her dreams! You go Jennifer! Everyone go check out her music on her MySpace Music page http://www.myspace.com/jennifernickersonmusic. I am so proud of her :) I think my favorite song is "Girl Next Door" or "Dear Prince Charming", but go check them ALL out!

Well anyways, I need to sleep. I'm SO exhausted (I don't know if I've mentioned that enough lately), but I'm finally 10 weeks pregnant. So that's nice. I always like when I finally get into double digits! I can't wait till next Wednesday where I finally get a picture of the little peanut! :) I'm almost out of my 1st trimester, this pregnancy thankfully is passing pretty quickly and has been so much more of a pleasant experience than with Lyric. I still don't think the difference in pregnancies mean I'm having a boy though, I'm still pulling for that 2nd girl! :) Though a boy would be nice, don't get me wrong. I guess only another 8 weeks or so and we'll find out! :)

Ok, enough interlude, back to the grind.

Oh Zelda

So I need a new game for my DS and I want Zelda. My silly husband has a $50 certificate from Best Buy and doesn't know what to buy (I know, a shocker) so I am trying to talk him into buying me Zelda. He tries to tell me that he can't spend it on me, because that would be an equivalent to an IT sin, but it expires soon and he needs to just freaking buy me a present because I am awesome and I deserve it for my stop puke present.

Because, yes, you heard me right. I am vomit free once again. Not only vomit free but nausea free. This is so freaking glorious. I just don't even know what to do with myself.

But let's talk about something that is not good. Weight gain in the 1st trimester. Yup. Not good at all. I'm already beginning this pregnancy 6 pounds over my pre-Lyric weight and so this is so no bueno for me. But I swear I can hardly button my pants. Thankfully the scale as far as a few days ago, still showed that I hadn't gained any weight, but I think that may have changed this week. I just feel heavier if that makes any sense. I need to get my bella band back from Courtney. I know, I know, I'm not even 10 weeks, but I swear my waste has thickened. I'm not "showing" but I've definitely already thickened around the waste and it's uncomfortable to wear these pants all day long. I've heard you start showing faster with your 2nd, which I think I might enjoy more. I genuinely enjoy maternity clothes as they are SO comfortable. Plus with the clothes I bought, Abby's clothes, Courtney's clothes and Morgan's clothes, I am hooked up for all occasions as far as maternity goes. I am definitely not a maternity clothes resister! :)

Well anyways, I am so happy it's Friday as I'm ready for the weekend. My new schedule of working 30 hours a week starts on July 7th and I am pumped about it!! Yippee! I know that is going to help out SO much as far as my extra energy thing goes. I won't know what to do with myself having a long weekend, EVERY weekend! It's going to be glorious!

Lyric is feeling better and only woke up once or twice last night, but went straight back to sleep. I hope that phantom fever stays far away from us. It sucks!

Well anyways, I think that is it. I don't really have anything else to talk about. So I'm out.

50 Things

1.I love my family something fierce
2.I'm not always very positive
3.I'm good with making conversation with people I don't know, but I hate it! Awkard conversation is the worst!
4.I'm really loyal to a select group of people
5.I'm the best aunt who ever walked this planet
6. I'm head over heals in love with my daughter
7. I really enjoy popping my toes
8. My husband hates when I pop my toes
9. I love to write, about anything and everything
10. I have no style in my clothes. I just wear things extremely mainstream
11. I tend to be the leader of the pack
12. I think I am hilarious
13. I get over things REALLY fast unless they hurt the people I love most in life, then you are in trouble
14. I always say my eyes are blue, but really they are green/blue
15. I have a pudgy stomach now, even though my daughter is a year old
16. I resist change, but once it happens I embrace it
17. I am terrible at folding clothes
18. People who don't know me very well think I'm upbeat
19. I can tell in 5 minutes of meeting whether you should break up with your new boyfriend/girlfriend
20. I only confront as a last case scenario, I prefer non confrontation because I don't trust my temper
21. Reading is my favorite hobby
22. I can read fast due to my dad teaching me how to "chunk" in jr. high
23. I keep up with the finances in our little family
24. When I start laughing really hard, my laugh goes really high pitch and I can't breathe
25. I'm organized in all business aspects of my life, just not personal
26. I really enjoy working, but love being a mom more
27. I'm excited and passionate about my future
28. I can't wait to see where I am when I turn 30
29. I am forever grateful to Yeshua for his unconditional love
30. I'm horrible at fixing my own hair
31. I wish I had a better reason to not vaccinate my kids other than, "I don't feel good about it"
32. I used to think dancing consisted of dropping it like it's hot. Like for reals.
33. I don't really like kids unless they are related to me.
34. I love to throw parties- showers, dinners, you name it, I love it
35. I used to be the life of the party, now I sleep through the party
36. I never marvel at sunsets or how pretty the moon looks
37. I love politics and keeping up with politics
38. I'm a great sister
39. I'm a great daughter
40. I try to always give thoughtful gifts
41. I NEVER enjoy working out.
42. I love when Abby does my hair
43. My husband is my best friend and the most amazing man I have ever met and I literally thank God daily for bringing him into my life
44. I'm always up for an adventure
45. I absolutely LOVE to travel
46. I hated planning my wedding
47. I have a high pain tolerance, unless it's child labor
48. I love to make memory books, though they are never that snazzy
49. My husband and I argue almost nightly about when I should stop reading and turn off my light
50.I love my life. My family. My husband. My daughter. My baby in my belly. My friends. My smelly dog. I am truly blessed.

Wow! This was really hard for me. I got stuck like a million times... try to think of 50 things about yourself, it's HARD!
Ok, I was tagged so now I tag Carrie B.

Back from Internet Silence

Wow. This is really unusual of me, but I haven't even so much as LOOKED at a computer since Friday. I'm so not joking, like I have no idea where my laptop even is (though it's somewhere in the house- I haven't actually looked for it yet).
But you know what I was all weekend?? SICK!
OMG, I'm never getting pregnant again! I know I said this with Lyric, but I just can't do it! I told Jon he needed to run off and get a vasectomy while I still remembered the AWFULNESS of morning sickness! All I want to do all day long is throw up! And this weekend, I puked each morning. Even this morning. I puked. I even puked at work, and that is AWFUL to puke in a public restroom. I swear someone had just done their business in that toilet that I had my head in. Which of course only made me puke more.
However, one semi-cute thing has come out of this. Now my daughter Lyric comes with me into the restroom and while I am up-chucking, she puts her hand over her mouth and makes gagging noises. It's quite adorable and I even manage a smile between heaves! Even after I'm done, she keeps up her performance. She wants to be just like mommy! :)
The one thing I need to keep reminding myself is that it's not NEAR as bad as it was with Lyric. My worst time this pregnancy is when I wake up and when I'm going to bed, but the day is semi-manageable. I've only thrown up in the morning so far.
Which brings me to my 2nd point. I've decided that I'm pregnant with twins. Why, you may ask? Well let me tell you. I don't think I can do this whole nausea thing again, so if I am pregnant with twins I am going to bet that we wouldn't have anymore, as long as at least one of those twins are a boy. SO yes. I am putting the thoughts out there that I am pregnant with twins so as to not have to go through this again. Hey, it could happen, My grandmother was a twin and I have twins on both sides of my family (though none on Jon's) I know, that's a HUGE stretch, but until my doctor tells me otherwise, I am going to keep on believing that I am having twins, thus this is the last time I will ever feel evil morning sickness again. Whatever gets me through the moment :)

Well as you can imagine, I didn't really do a lot this weekend. We had a great family shabbat on Friday though. It was SO good to get the family all back together. We had a really awesome time of prayer over eachother which was really encouraging.
My camera was running out of batteries, so here's all I got, and some of these are from the iPhone.

Two of the most adorable girls on the planet


We continued the head shaving trend with my little brother Preston






We kept Preston's hair like this to freak out Abby


Little Lyric


Family Shabbat- it doesn't get better than this:


Lyric and I


Family fun








Preston shaving off his Jewish curls/Mohawk


At one point in the evening the two year olds (Kadyn, Korbin and Saeler) decided to all sit on the piano bench together and play. It was SO cute as they were dancing and laughing. Of course, I didn't get the cutest part on camera... it always works like that doesn't it. By the time you get the camera, the cute-ness is all but gone. But I did get a video:


The two year olds playing the piano:



Then on Saturday we went bridesmaid dress shopping with Tiff and Sunday I did NOTHING all day. Like seriously nothing. Only getting off the couch to pee. I laid there like a dead fish as I felt HORRIBLE all day. But Jon and I ended the night by watching Dexter Season 1. which was fun.

Well anyways, I've been working on FAA compliance stuff all day, and need to get back to it.

Later people.

Eating Alone