Thoughtless Thursday!

Morning glories!  I have just a WITTLE bit to blog today but I wanted to make sure I got my ...



... post up so y'all could play along!!!  Today's version is going to be short and sweet.  No really, I know y'all don't believe me when I say that anymore because it usually leads to novel-like blogs, but I'm sewious, I gots to get going this morning fo' reals.

I wanted to show you a few of the ideas that are going in to little boy's room as SOON as his daddy gets it painted (which he's starting TODAY WROO HOO!)  First is the dresser that my grandma gave me.  It's actually my grandpa's mothers dresser, it's already distressed green wood (which goes PERFECTLY with the colors in his bedroom) so fun and vintage-y.

And I got these drawer pulls to replace the fixtures on the the dresser with ...

Plus this armoire that was already in the room and was actually mine from college will be staying in there as well ...

{There will be a little curtain made from some of the fabric that matches his bedding to pull across that open space where the TV is}

... along with his white crib and the green minky dot glider that should be coming in within the next few weeks!  I can't WAIT to see how it all comes together!

Now y'all grab my button, post your picture randomness for the day and come back here and link up!  I can't wait to see what pictures you chose!!!

Wednesday Bumpdates!

It's Wednesday and you know THAT means!  It's time for ...

And since I promised you a picture of my "I Love My Boys" (because my baby on board, fur baby and Mister are all boys) Cowboys tshirt, I thought I'd use it for my 30 week (or 31 week according to how he was measuring at the last sono) bumpdate picture!  So, as promised ...

Is that too cute or what!?!  JC Penny's y'all.  I feel super country AND Texan saying that justsoyouknow.  So without further further adieu, away we go!

How far along:  30 weeks.  Time for the vajay-jay pic again?  I know it's been missed ...

Let's hope little man's in this downward and outward postion.  Last sono he was breech and this momma does NOT want a C-Section if she can avoid it ...

Maternity Clothes:  No, I have just resorted to wearing tents, moo-moos and tarp like contraptions from Home Depot.


Sleep:  Pretty good actually.  I think I've mastered the art.  I do end up on my back throughout the night but it never makes me terribly uncomfortable and I've heard that whole "having to sleep on your side" every night business is a wives tale.


Best Moment of the Week:  There was this one time, this week, that I was actually able to make it through a shower and into the car, fully dressed, without breaking a sweat.  To which I immediately started sweating when I got in the car but at least I was out the door and out of the air conditioning before it began!  Any day I make it for more than an hour is a good good day.


Movement:  Tons.  I'm pretty sure I'm carrying a monkey.  Or a flippity floppity fish.  Or maybe the Enegizer Bunny.  And I can't get enough.


Food Craving:  Orange Juice, Blue Coconut Slushies from Sonic, Icing'ed Sugar Cookies.


Gender:  Still 100% boy!


What I'm looking forward to:  Painting his room tomorrow!  I have a feeling once that's done this nursery decorating business will be put into fast forward mode.


Weekly Wisdom:  Never sit down somewhere that you're not QUITE sure if you'll be able to get up ...

And that's it from me for today sweet friends!  Happy Wednesday!!!

Weekend (LATE) Wrap Up!

HELLO my long lost friends!  I know some of you are thinking "Dude, it hasn't been THAT long since she blogged ..." but to me (a usual everyday blogger) it feels like FOREVER.  Thanks to all of you for hangin' in there with me.  I will tell you that at least I've been productive during my short blogging vacay.  I think the nesting has begun.  It's about time too since little boy's room hasn't even been started isn't so much done yet, but believe you me, it's ALL there in my head.  However, I'm NOT sure that excuse will work with a newborn that's wondering where he's going to sleep.  We have made some progress in the planning phases though!  The Mister is going to paint C's room this week!  He has some time off between his old job and the new job he starts on Monday (HOORAY!) and one of his items on his to-do list is to paint!  Now let's talk about what a big deal this is.  For me especially.  Not just because we're painting our first child's room, but because we're painting.  AT ALL.  Until now (and we've lived in our current house for over 4 years) we've never painted a room in our house.  Ever.  Every wall you see in the Fulmer household is tan.  A nice tan mind you, but tan.  Why is this?  NOT because Katie doesn't like to paint.  I'd have every room in this house painted and the bathrooms faux finished or possibly even, GASP dare I say, WALLPAPERED (because I've actually seen some that I've LOVED recently and I hear it's making a comeback ...) if I had my way however the Mister?  Not so much.  You know how some people have an unhealthy fear of water?  Well the Mister has an unhealthy fear of painting walls different colors from their original state.  I'm afraid he might even scream in fear when we open the first can of paint.  I'm not kidding.  Ask anyone close to me (mom, Silly, MOH) and ask them if I've been begging bugging the man (sweet as he is) to paint even just the BATHROOMS since we've been in our house and they will tell you I have.  So I'm quite excited about the first painted room in our house.  I'm hoping it leads to more.  What colors are we painting?  Well I'm glad you asked ...

That's right.  We're doing an ACCENT wall!  The Mister went from no painting ANYTHING to being okay with an accent wall!  That's one small step for the Mister, one GIANT step for the Fulmer household.  Ahem, anyway the accent wall will be the green color, the rest of the room will be the blue closest to the green.  We'll put the crib on the accent wall since there are some green furniture pieces that will be incorporated into the room.  I can't WAIT to see how it turns out!

Now, back to what the title of this post pertains to.  The weekend!  Since I am continuing to swell like Violet Beauregarde from Willy Wonka (I DO like gum) ...

And feeling this way makes it hard for one to get around let alone get around without sweating since it's almost fall and still 95 degrees everyday we are tending to make our weekends more low key.  Pretty much like last weekend.  Even though this weekend did include two birthday lunches (thankfully on different days) for two of my favorite family members (which I didn't take  but one picture of, I don't know what's WRONG with me these days friends!?!?!) it was still, like I said, low key.  Friday night involved some of these ...

{My all time favorite candy.  Candy Corn.  Especially when the Candy Corn pumpkins come out.  Mmmmmmmmmm}

And some watching of Inglorious Bastards.  Word to the wise.  If you like keeping your dinner (lunch, anything you've put in your stomach within the last 24 hours) down DON'T watch this movie.  And I'm pretty much convinced any of Quentin Tarrantino's other movies.  The man is sick.  Sick I tell you.  And on that note I'm going to stop because I'm feeling like I might throw up in my mouth a bit ...

Saturday involved the birfday lunch for my Mamo (dad's mom) along with the one picture I DID take of her all dolled up in her birfday gifts ...

And yes.  Her birfday's on September 11th.  Doesn't that just stink?  But we made the most of it and made her feel special on her special day.  Saturday night started with the Mister and I watching more football than I'd ever like to admit and had pizza and some more of these ...

{And I wonder why I feel like Violet Beauregarde ... ?}

...and ended with me going to bed from a sugar high crash at about 9:45 pm.  Sunday we went to church to serve communion and then I went to celebrate my aunt Belinda's birfday at my mom's house with a pool party with all the girls.  We had a blast.  And oh how I wish I could show you.  But I left the camera at home along with my brain.  And to top it off we ended the day with watching the Cowboys ALMOST pull off a win if it weren't for some awesome holding penalties.  I know it wasn't ALL his fault (and that's only because my Mister told me that, don't be impressed) but nice job Barron.  I'm thinking maybe it was my fault because I didn't wear my new "I Love My Boys" Cowboys tank top to cheer on the Cowboys on Sunday night.  I'm not going to lie, I got the tank because it says "I Love My Boys" and due to the fact that I'm carrying a boy, my dog's a boy, my fish's a boy and, obviously, the Mister's a boy but it does show love for the Cowboys.  I'll take a picture of it when I actually remember to wear it.  It's pretty cute.  Even if it for REAL makes me look like Violet Beauregarde.

And that's it from me loverlies.  Thanks again for hangin' in whilst I've been M to tha I to tha A.  I promise I'm striving to do better.  And I'm pretty sure there's more that I've failed to tell you, but good news is I have FOUR more days of blogging this week to remember!  For now, nighty night loverlies!!!  I will leave you with a darling picture of Koda bear that my Brother in law took last time Koda was being babysat by his Memaw, Pepaw and Uncle Mike.

{Idn't he just so handsome?  I can barely stand it ...}

This Is Getting Ridiculous ...

So apparently as the time for little man's arrival draws more near I become a horrible blogger.  I'm not super busy in any way shape or form, but I am realizing there are a lot of things to be done in the 10ish weeks I have left before we have another life here to care for.  EEK!  And also Wednesday mornings are now Bible Study mornings which means the blog is not getting done before lunch time which USUALLY means, it's not getting done.  There's really no excuse except to say I'm sorry and I'm TRYING I promise!  In the meantime y'all haven't missed out on much except that it torrential downpoured here all day yesterday (which is EXACTLY what we needed) and for the first time (since I was laid off) I got to just lay in bed and listen to the rain and SLEEP.  And was it ever glorious.  I may have even convinced the Mister to snooze a million few more times than he usually does and Koda didn't seem as urgent to get up and eat and go trotting outside in the rain (i.e., he's a wimp and HATES getting his feet wet or going outside in the rain, but LOVES the pool?  go figure.) like HE usually does.  We all thoroughly enjoyed the morning.  Last night we went to a fellow preggie friend's house and had the most amazing soup EVER.  It was pretty much queso in soup form.  That's how good it was.  With some yummy cornbread, not to mention just all around great company.  Today I have nothing to do whatsoever.  So, with that I'm going to start (REALLY late) ...

I wanted to show y'all the necklace I recently got to represent our little upcoming family.

{In case you can't tell, that's a big "M" & "K" for mommy and daddy and tiny "C" for little Caleb!  They're stackable strands, I LOVE them!!!}

I've been wanting something that represents the three of us for awhile but haven't found what I wanted until I saw these!  Now, for all you Koda fans (like myself) out there let me just tell you that I wrestled back and forth between getting a tiny "K" for Koda bear (my first child) but what it came down to was money.  I would've had to pay for another strand and just didn't want to have to do that.  But believe me, the fur baby is loved in more ways that any little furball should be.  And he will be until he's old and gray.  I had a talk with him and he's okay about not being on the necklace strand.  The treat I gave him seemed to suffice ...

And speaking of being thoughtless, just a fun little tidbit about pregnant me yesterday.  It was about that time to get some gas so I pulled into the closest gas station and went inside to pay for my gas (we're an all cash family, no credit cards so this is why I was doing it the old fashioned way) and came back outside after paying.  To do what?  Get in my car and drive off.  Thankfully I realized "Something's wrong with this picture." when my gas light was still going off AFTER I left the gas station and went back before anyone got in my spot.  Oh pregnant brain rears it's ugly head again.

And that's all from me today loves!  Thanks for hangin' in there with me as I've become a horrible blogger lately, now off to read what y'all have been up to!!!

(Also P dittle S - I read all your TT posts last week, my little Notebook computer I have wasn't/hasn't been letting me comment for some reason these days, but I just wanted to let y'all know I read them and to thank you for playing!!!)

Feeling Better On This Gloomy Tuesday ...

Morning glories!  I don't know what the weather's like where you are but it's rainy and gloomy here which gives me NO motivation to do the things I need to do.  Like work on my our closet because it looks like a shoe store exploded on the floor.  Or work on little guy's room since it looks like this ...

And he's going to be here in about 11 weeks (10 if we induce on the 17th which might be an option at this point, especially since he's measuring a week ahead) EEK!

And speaking of being here in 11 weeks, here's what my 28 week (almost 29) belly is looking like these days (please pardon my morning hair, I literally threw on clothes to take this picture, the hair and lack of makeup are straight from sleeping the night before) ...

Yep, I feel gigantic.  And I still have 10 weeks.  Hopefully it will all go straight out into the belly and less into my face, arms and hips!  Thankfully I DO feel much better (thank you for all your well wishes, they were felt!) and am just dealing with a little drainage grossness but the sneezing, coughing and sore throat have pretty much cleared.  HOORAY!

Due to me not feeling so hot and the Mister needing some time to relax and regroup (i.e. wanting to spend the whole weekend watching college football) after having a few weeks of telling his current employer he's leaving, interviewing and accepting another job and getting everything in order to go from one job to another (SUCH a blessing, thank you Lord!) we laid low all weekend.  Friday night we watched a movie and had dinner at home, Saturday we went to dinner with the Mister's aunt, uncle and cousin that were in town from Fort Smith, Arkansas, Sunday we did church, came home and spent several hours being completely useless in front of the television and grilled out some delicious burgers on the grill.  Yesterday we watched my little sister's club soccer team win the championship (way to go Ally belle!) and came home to watch more college football and the Bachelor Pad with pizza and beer (on his end, milk on mine) and called it a night.  And that was our weekend.  Low and slow.  Just the way I like it when I'm preggers.  I'm sure once the baby gets here and I feel like my normal self again I'll want to get out and go out more but for now, staying home suits me just fine.

I hope y'all had wonderful, relaxing LONG weekends as well and are excited about the four day week ahead!  Happy Tuesday ladies!!!

Sick, Sick, Sick

So much so that I'm posting from my phone because I'm too lazy to go upstairs and wait for my computer to turn on. I don't know if this is a cold or allergies but I DO know that I'm pretty sure I won the contest for the most sneezes in an evening. Ever. And let me tell you sneezing when you're pregnant = try not to wet your pants at the same time as trying to ignore the feeling that you're going to give birth with each sneeze. Fun. So that's all to say I hope y'all have a great LONG weekend and hopefully I'll be back on my blogging a-game next week!!!

Thoughtless Thursday and Yes - I AM Alive!

I know, I know.  Two days in the grand scheme of things isn't a long time BUT it's a long time for me to go without blogging!  And I kinda (not really) have an excuse.  Well Tuesday I'm not sure what happened to tell you the truth.  I'm pretty sure that was just straight laziness.  But yesterday I actually did have an excuse.  My mom and I started a Beth Moore Bible study on Wednesday mornings at 9:30 and yesterday was the first one.  There t'aint NO WAY I was going to be a-bloggin' before that, especially when I had to get up to shower (which, again, I don't even know why I do anymore since I proceeded to sweat all the way through Bible study) and then after that I had plans to meet my MOH and sweet little P and have lunch and hang out together.  THEN I ran home, cleaned (part of) our house and went to meet some girlfriends at the dollar theater to see Eclipse.  Yes I just said Eclipse.  And yes your count is correct, that would be my 4th time.  Can we just talk about how I was a LITTLE disturbed by all the random MEN in the theater?  And I don't mean guys dragged there with their girlfriends.  I mean grown men, BY THEMSELVES, going to see Eclipse.  Does anyone else see something wrong with this picture?  Cause I sure do ...

Okay, but on to my actual legitimate excuse, which I think just became illegitimate considering I just told you how I spent my day running around being busy, but here it is.  I'm also "sick".  And by "sick" I mean my allergies are sucking something BIG TIME.  As in sore throat, sneezing, stuffy nose, just down right ANNOYING!  I know it's allergies because I don't have a fever and by all other measures feel just fine, until the symptoms decide to buddy up and become friends making my head a big groggy, stuffy mess.  Then I feel like I need to lay down and not get up until this baby gets here.  So, for now, I'm trying to do as my sweet Mister is so sweetly demanding suggests and drink lots of fluids (i.e. water which is NOT my favorite), rest and "rake 'er reasy Gus-Gus"!  And if you can name what movie that's from I will love you forever.  See, can you tell I don't feel well?  I'm not making much sense right now.  I DO have something fun to discuss for TT though ...

Now y'all know about my Soulmatey.  My online bestie that I've never actually met in real life but feel like I have known her forever.  We met through reading each other's blogs and starting email fests that might as well been real time conversations.  Then we decided "We both have gmail, why don't we chat?" which moved to "We both have cell phones, why don't we text?" which, on Tuesday turned to "We both have voices, why don't we USE them?"  That's right friends, my Soulmatey and I had our first phone date on Tuesday.  And don't worry that it ended up lasting over an hour.  I was a little nervous thinking "What if she doesn't like my voice?  What if I say something stupid that I can't "backspace" like I could in a text?  What if I'm BORING in real life!?!?"  Thinking all these things, you'd think talking on the phone to someone who's voice you've never heard or face you've never seen (in person that is, I've seen plenty of pictures) would be akward.  Truthfully?  Not. one. bit.  As well it shouldn't be, we've been texting/emailing and/or gchatting for ove 8 months now!  And HOPEFULLY we'll have some pictures to post of ourselves TOGETHER as my baby shower is coming up and if everything works out, we'll get to meet in person that weekend.  Now some of you (ahem, my Mister and every other person in my life) may think this is weird.  Or crazy.  Or dangerous (and let me just confirm that after hearing her voice on Tuesday, she is DEFINATELY not a dirty 40 year old man behind a cute blog exterior)  And truthfully, in most situations I would too.  It's not like this is something that happens on an ordinary basis.  But I say a friend is a friend is a friend.  Sometimes you just meet them under different circumstances.  And this is one circumstance I'm very VERY thankful for.  I love you Soulmatey!

One a note of complete randomness (keeping with the theme of TT of course) I thought you should look at the cuteness that I had to cuddle with last night ...

{All cuddled up with the pillows on the couch ...}

Now, last but certainly not least, just to bring you up to speed with what's been going on with us lately, THE MISTER GOT A NEW JOB!  I will post more about this tomorrow but all I can say is this is something that has been a long time coming as he's been working at a large accounting firm for some time now and by working I mean, TO THE BONE and has needed to find something else for his own sanity and a lot of the time, health.  Needless to say we are THRILLED and I couldn't be happier for him.  Congratulations sugar I'M SO PROUD OF YOU!!!

That's it from me today (not that you didn't get more than an eyeful!), happy Thursday loverlies!!!