Telling Our Families ...

Before I tell you how we told our parents, I'm going to start this Friday with a little Favorite Fridays.

And THIS week's favorite Friday topic IS ...

Favorite TV Competition Show:

Me and the TV have been good, well maybe even best, friends lately as I go home and don't move until I can pry my tired naseous ever-growing pregnant rear from the couch and take it upstairs to bed I have not been feeling so hot these first few weeks of pregnancy.  This year (although I'm KINDA embarassed to admit the first one) it's been the following two shows ...

Yes, the one show I ALWAYS vowed I'd never watch.  I have no idea why I was so against it, I guess I just couldn't see the appeal of watching people rumba, tango and cha-cha week after week, until I saw the stars line-up this year.  And then I had to watch.  One thing this show did do was confirm my suspicion that Jake the Bachelor was in fact, a HUGEMONGOUS douche (am I allowed to say douche now that I'm going to be a mom?  cause I just did ...) and also that I hate Kate-not-great even MORE than I did when she just annoyed me from the being in Us Weekly, well, weekly.  I'm going to go ahead and throw out that I LOVE Niecey and am pulling for her and her tiny little partner who I'm not sure HOW he doesn't come off his feet and TIP over when he picks her up.  Like she says, she's a thick girl (one of the reasons I love her) and he's a TEEN-NINE-SY little man!!!  And seriously, someone kick Nicole Zesheneywanasamazinger OFF.  It's so not fair.  Her JOB is to sexy dance, and to do it WELL.  Of COURSE she keeps winning everything.  Duh.  Anyways, moving right along, next ...

Yes, I know Paula's no longer there.  I'm just being nostalgic.  Because I CAN'T.STAND.KARA.  Like I literally fast forward (thank you DVR) through her comments because it will inevitably be "Waaaaa, I just didn't feel like you CONNECTED with the song, waaaa, I mean I know we asked you to sing an Elvis song and you're an 18 year old girl, but I just didn't feel like you CONNECTED with it, waaaaaa."  UGH.  BRING BACK PAULA IN ALL HER DRUNKEN STUPOR.  At least she was FUN most of the time and didn't think her you-know-what don't stink.  Kara, you are your biggest fan, no one thinks you're as cool as you think you are.  And seriously, if Simon leaves next season, I MAY be done with this show.  I have loved it for seasons, and it PAINS me to say that, but it just.may.happen.

And that's my Favorite Friday folks.  Click the button above to take you to Jen's little blogster and play along!!!

Alright SO, here we go.  How we told our parents/families.  After I told the Mister the best news EVER I, naturally, couldn't WAIT to tell my bestest friend in the whole world (my momma) who I KNEW would be so thrilled.  And of course the rest of our family, but I talk to my mom on a (bi sometimes tri) daily basis and it was KILLING me to have to skip over this little bit of GIANT news!  Well, unfortunately she'd been out of town with my step-dad and the twins and had just gotten back into town and now had HER in-laws staying with her.  My mom has the busiest schedule of anyone I know.  That's what happens when you have 10 year olds, of the opposite sex that play every sport under the sun and each have places to be Monday through Sunday.  So, in preparation, the day after I told the Mister I went and bought the following shirt ...

And our plan was to show up at my mom's house wearing the shirt and tell everyone (mom, Rich, twins, etc.) at once.  Well I couldn't get my mom to stay still for more than 5 minutes, so finally I decided I was going to go to her.  I told her that I was meeting her at my Mama's house where she was watching American Idol (apparently this is a family addiction) while waiting for my sister to finish soccer practice.  I didn't, however, tell her that I was bringing the Mister with me.  So we showed up and she answered the door and was surprised to see us both but I just said he'd gotten off work early and wanted to hang out with us.  So, as I walk into the house I open my sweatshirt, in a non-flasher way, and say "Mom, I wanted to show you my new shirt" and of COURSE she can't find her glasses so I stand there with my sweatshirt open for what FELT like an eternity until she finally found them and got it.  And then, as her face scrunched up about to cry, she said "NO!  REALLY?  NO!  AHHHH" and then she lost it.  I'm not sure the rest was actual english.  Just a lot of crying.  And then we went in and did the same to my Mama who was just as cute and sobby (not a word I don't think?).  We didn't think we had time, but afterwords the Mister and I decided this was so much fun that we were going to tell EVERYONE that night.  So we spent the rest of the night driving to my dad's house, my brother and Silly's and lastly, my MIL and FIL's house flashing them all in a similar fashion.  By the time we got to the Mister's parent's house it was 10:30 pm and they were both half asleep.  I think we took them a BIT by surprise.  It was a REALLY fun night, one I will never forget.

Happy weekend loves!!!  See you in a couple of days!!!

Thoughtless Thursday: Baby Style

First off, in the words of Dido, I want to THANK YOU for making yesterday so special!  My face lit up with smiles every time I heard the little "you've got mail" indicator on my iPhone notifying me of one of my LOVERLY readers wishing me congrats and well wishes.  So thank you ALL, you sure do know how to make one naseous pregnant girl's day!

Next, for this ...

It's going to be a LITTLE less Thoughtless, but still with a few pictures as I tell you how the first couple days of my pregnancy went.  So to answer many people's questions, yes we were trying.  SO of course I was jazzed to take a pregnancy test our 2nd month of trying (2 days before my "monthly gift" was to arrive) and I did so without the Mister knowing.  I snuck into the bathroom, assumed the "tinkle on a stick" stance and waited.  Pretty quickly there LOOKED to be a slight second line making the result, what I THOUGHT was a plus.

{Pardon the iPhone quality, I thought getting the big fancy camera out MIGHT draw some attention.}

I wasn't quite sure and didn't want to get the Mister all excited about something if there wasn't real cause to.  So I went to work thinking the whole way "No.  There's no way.  You've always thought you're going to have a hard time.  There's no way on month 2 that you're pregnant.  Surely that's a fluke."  Once I got to work I told my boss (who just had a baby, tried for 3 years to get pregnant and knows a thing or 2 about pregnancy tests) what happened and showed her a picture of the test.  She said it LOOKED positive but if I wanted to be SURE I needed to go get a digital test that said flat out, Pregnant or Not Pregnant.  So, at 9am, an hour after I got to work, I excused myself to run to CVS and get one of these "fool proof" tests.  I then had a little more one-on-one time with said pregnancy test in my office bathroom and waited.  And waited.  How on EARTH can 3 minutes take so long?  Meanwhile there is a little hour glass that just keeps flipping itself upside down, kinda like when you mouse pointer is "thinking" about something.  UGH, hurry UP already!  And finally ... 

I'm pretty sure my heart leapt into my chest at that very moment.  Really?  REALLY?  ME?  I'M pregnant?  Is this a joke?  Where's the hidden camera?  So then I proceeded to have the smallest, quietest happy dance in the bathroom all the while my eyes tearing up.  And then I realized I had to wait.  All day.  I couldn't tell the Mister on the phone or through email or text.  It had to be special.  My original plan was to find a cute t-shirt for Koda (the Mister HATES clothes on dogs so I knew this would catch his attention) that said "Big Brother".  But the one I had found before was no where to be found.  So, on my lunch break, I went to Target and got the frame below.

And had it sitting on our bar area that faces the door so it would be the first thing he'd see when he came home.  Now if waiting ALL DAY wasn't bad enough, this was during the time the Mister was very busy with a client and having to work until 9 or 10 every night.  I emailed him and said "Hey do you think you could get home a little earlier tonight?  I got you a suprise on our drive home from San Antonio." and he said sure.  So I get home, with all the excitement of a 6 month old Lab puppy and wait.   And wait ... and wait ... this was apparently the theme for the day (and of the first trimester of pregnancy I might add) and FINALLY 9:30 rolls around and I get a call saying he's coming home.  I hear the garage open and I literally thought I might wet my pants (hey, it happens when you're pregnant).  As soon as he opened the door I pointed (like he couldn't see it right in front of his face) and said "there's your surprise!" and he lit up and he got the cutest goofy smile on his face.  All he kept saying was "No way.  Really?  That's so cool!  No WAY.  REALLY?  That's SO COOL!"  and then he got a little teary eyed (sorry sugar, not trying to take your man card) and we had our little "we're going to be parents" moment, which was promptly followed by our little "HOLY COW we're going to be PARENTS" moment of partial freak out.  Which still sometimes pops in my head.  I'm going to be responsible for nourishing this baby for the next 7 months!  I'm going to be in charge of raising a human BEING.  A puppy I can do.  You just pet him, feed him, let him out to potty and he's good to go.  A CHILD is a different story.  It will depend on us, US, for everything.  For a LONG TIME.  EEEEK!  But I know the Lord will take care of all that.  If He trusted us enough with a child, surely He'll tell us what to do with it, right?  Plus, I've had a LITTLE bit of practice with the twins (my brother and sister that my mom had when I was 18 for you new readers), which eases my fears a bit.

So that's it for today.  Tomorrow I'll tell you how we told our parents.  I can't TELL you how happy I am the cat's out of the diaper bag because this was NOT easy to keep to myself!  Just a few things, remember (if you've read for awhile) the Temptation Tuesday where I went nursery crazy?  That was the day I found out.  Sneaky eh?  And our anniversary?  Didn't hear much about our "fancy dinner" did you?  That's because we ate pizza (per my request), in my Mister's truck on our way to meet our friends to go out because I am/was so naseous that I can't stomach anything other than bread, i.e. I eat like a 4 year old.  I didn't feel like paying $35 for a steak I was going to either eat 3 bites of or upchuck 10 minutes later made a whole lotta sense. 

Yes, this Thoughtless Thursday wasn't so "Thoughtless" but like I've said before, no 'spalin or lots of 'splain with your picture choices.  Your choice.  Today I chose lots of.  So grab the button and play along, then come back here and link up!  Have a great day sweets!!!

Notice Anything Different?

Maybe that my blog has gotten a super sweet makeover by my eversodarling friend and wonderful blog designer miss Kelly of Fabulous K and Fabulous K Creative!  But why you ask?  Since she already had done a darling job on the first blog design?  Well look a little closer, there JUST might be a life-changing reason for it.  Still corn-fused?

How about this ...

Well that's different to you, but not to ME!  Because I've been keeping a big FAT secret from y'all for 6, VERY LONG, weeks!  Now I know that patience is a virtue n' all but not one when you have the most bestest excitingest wonderfulest news EVER that you just want to shout from the rooftops and you have to do WHAT?!?!  Be QUIET for 8 (or in my case 6, I could only handle 10 weeks) more weeks!!! 

RU-DE. 

Yes my sweet friends of the blogosphere, I'm preggers!  And me and the Mister couldn't be MORE thrilled!  We are expecting our little one on November 24th, the DAY BEFORE Thanksgiving, and we can't wait to meet our little turkey!!!  I will update more tomorrow because there's lots of funny details, stories of my lovely ever constant need to up-chuck and some cute details (like how I told the Mister, how we told our families, etc.) that deserve their very own post.  But for now, I'm gonna be a mommy!!!

Temptation Tuesday!

You know the drill.  It's Tuesday.  And Tuesday means temptation at my darling soulmatey's blog.  Not temptation in the "get you in trouble" kinda way, more in the "I really like that handbag" kinda way.  SO, on this ...

The following little spring diddies have been tickling my temptation fancy ...

(all can be found @ Lucky Magazine bytheway)

Let's start with shoes, shall we?

{LOVING the fringe}

{Dar-ling.}

{And of course I had to give a shout-out to the teal pair!}

Now, let's move onto hugemoungous totes, shall we?

{Just love this.  I'm a sucker for the leather handles on a fabric bag.}

For some reason some of these are not friends with the bigger-sized pictures.  Sorry for the size variation.

{This one I would get in a different color.  Red just ain't my thang.  But I HAD to list it because it's a Joe's Jeans bag called "Katie".  Loves it.}

Jewelry anyone?

 {I'll take two of every color.  Thankyouverymuch.}

{Who DOESN'T love a little Marc Jacobs?}

{Teal.  How do I love thee?  Let me count the bracelets ...}

{Two, three ...}

And last but not least, how about we get a little jumpy in some jumpers?

{Darling.  Love it all.  Right down to the shoes.}

{Oh so feminine and flowy.}

{A little denim never hurt nobody.}

{Does the perfect body come with this too?  I'd like to order one of those online please.}

Now granted being a midget from my belly button section to my "girls" "short torsoed" the whole jumper idea isn't ideally flattering for me.  But that doesn't mean I can't like them right?  Even if they DO make me look Urkel-esque.

Alrighty then, anything tickling your temptation fancy?  Well grab my soulmatey's button, play along and head on over to tell her about it!  Happy Temptation Tuesday loves!!!

P dittle S - Get excited, tomorrow's post is gonna be LOADS o' fun!!!  I'm excited, are you?

Anniversary Weekend Wrap-Up ...

Good MORNING loverlies!  I hope everyone is as well rested as I am as I sat my pajama-wearin' lazy hiney on the couch ALL day yesterday and didn't move had a very relaxing day yesterday and a wondermous weekend!  First off, I want to brag on my darling husband and show y'all what I came home to on Friday ...

{I LOVE me some roses and star-gazer lillies.  Mainly because they smell so good, but HELLO how pretty are they!??!}

And then my momma got us this little number that I had my eye on at a Christmas home party she had at her house during the holidays ...

{I'm not sure if it's going over the fireplace or on the wall yet, but one thing I AM sure of, I LURVE it!!!}

And last but not least, we had ourselves a FANTASTIC time with some of our favorites, the Milams, whose anniversary is the day after ours.  We met them at Fox Sports after our seperate anniversary meals and had a blast (per usual) celebrating our 5 years and their 6 years.  And YES, I took pictures!!!  Aren't you proud!?!?  AND I laid out on Saturday and got myself a LITTLE sun-kissed ... well sun-PUNCHED may be more like it.  I MAY or MAY NOT have not worn any sunscreen ...

{My Mister agreed to take a few pictures, Happy Anniversary to me!}

{Me and Mrs. Milam.  Yes we were aware we were both wearing teal.  The color of greatness.}

{ANNNDDDDD group shot!  Amazing we got the boys to put up with us this many times ...}

And that's about it for my anny-weekend-wrap-up!  Stay tuned this week, there are some fun goings ons coming your way!!!

Favorite Friday, Remembering Loved Ones & Happy 5 Year Anniversary!

Today is, of course ...

And TODAY'S topic is ...

FavoriteHome Decor Blog and mine is a COMPLETE no brainer, it would be NONE OTHER than my darling friend, blog designer and the fantastically talented Fabulous K!

If you don't ALREADY read/obsess over/stalk her blog, you will want to add it to your list PRONTO and if you ever are looking to spice up your blog look with a LOT of fabuloucity, well then head on over to her design blog, Fabulous K Creative.  I mean seriously, there's nothing this girl can't do.  AND she's an awesome friend, ifIdosaysomyself.

Next, even though this is our anniversary and a happy day to celebrate, I have to share with y'all something else that will always be on my mind as of 2 years ago to this day.  My mom's oldest sister, my Mama's first born, was very sick with cancer for several years.  Two years ago, very early on the morning of our annivesary, my aunt Sharron lost her battle with cancer.  All her family was with her, she died at home, but it was still very hard to see someone we cared about so much in so much excruciating pain.  She was such a fun, encouraging woman, and she always made me feel like I could do anything or be anyone.

{Aunt Sharron with her son Mikey on his wedding day}

Then, unexpectedly, my Papa (my dad's father) passed away the same morning.  Papa was absolutely a shock.  He wasn't even sick (granted he was older, but hadn't been in the hospital or really had any signs of this happening) he went to the hospital for some tests on some problems he was having while sleeping and died from a massive heart attack in his hospital room.  My Papa called me his Princess.  I will never forget when I was little, he took me on a Valentine's date, told me to get all dressed up and that we were going to Neiman's Tea Room for lunch and then proceeded to buy me the most beautiful dress and anything else my heart desired that day.  It was a day I will never forget.  Papa was my last grandpa.  I lost my sweet Papaw a few years before and ever since, when I see a darling old man, I have this uncontrollable urge to hug them and ask if I can "adopt" them as my grandpa.

{Me and my Papa at my Brother and Silly's rehearsal dinner}

Matt has had to be out of town on a client every year for our anniversary except this year.  So this was exceptionally hard not having him with me, but I have a very large family who was all supporting each other.  I love you Sharron and Papa and I miss you dearly.  But I know you're celebrating YOUR most precious anniversary with the Lord in Heaven, of the day you went to be with Him.

That all being said, I am just going to PICTURE SATURATE in honor of our last 5 years together.  These are in no particular order, just ones I like of us.  Happy Anniversary to my Mister.  My love, my best friend, my soulmate, my everything.  I love you sugar.

And here's ONE last wedding picture for the week.  Happy Weekend LOVES!!!  Hopefully I'll have pictures of THIS anniversary for you next week, we'll see if the Mister cooperates ...