This is my norm

Ok, so I must send out an apology for all you blog readers out there. I know…my blog has been slowly but surely, Ok, so it dropped off the planet as far as content is concerned. Its pretty embarrassing I must say. My posts are mere updates and picture fests and there is hardly any meat to them whatsoever. Blech.

I was reading back over my blog from when I first started it and I must say…it was quite interesting. It was neat to watch the transformation between college student to mother. But I must say my journalism abilities have sadly been lost somewhere in between.

So, my early new years resolution is to search out the things going on in my life and find the deeper more meaningful stuff along the way. Not to say that Hayden’s word list is not important by all means. It’s just, well….I do really have thoughts going on in this head of mine, I promise.

And in tribute to the new outlook and refreshing of my blog…I give you an old blog that I just recently had published. Go check it out here.

Well I have done it again. I have taken on a new venture to make some extra money. I’m really excited about this one for sure. I am an independent consultant for Notable Style. It is a company bringing affordable, customized stationary products directly to you, at home.

I can show you our dazzling assortment of invitations, announcements, note cards, holiday cards, and so much more–all of which can be customized and designed to match your unique style. Your Notable Style!!

So contact me today for all of your printing needs!! The holidays are coming soon, so if you still haven’t ordered your Christmas cards, its not too late!! We can even personalize them with a photo!

If you are a business owner we also have labels, letterhead, envelopes, rubber stamps and much more.

Today I took Hayden to get her one year photos and Christmas pictures done. They shoot was horrendous…I was literally chasing her back and forth and by the end I was sweating…I mean seriously, my hair had sweat dripping down the back of my neck. GROSS….and I thought there would be not a single good picture but that guy caught some cute moments amidst the chase-fest.

Check out the pics at www.s121.com and then go to photos online and then click the Woodlands link and then you can enter our last name for the password. The pics are too cute.

Now I know why I don’t do this very often…I am pooped from a 30 minute photo session. Ha.

Everyone asks me ..”what words can Hayden say?” So! I decided to compile an ongoing list of the words she says….the list grows daily…so I’ll just start with the ones that I can think of off the top of my head.

Eat
More please
Night night
Map (which actually means “nap”)
Bath
Dog
This
Shoes
Eye
Ear (EEEy)
Nose
Brush
Caillou
Ok
Girl (Gee)
Boy
Paw Paw
Go
Bye Bye
Hi
Banana (Nana)
Dada
Momma
Hey
Fish
Hot
Baby
Ball
Snack
Juice
Book
Tree
Keys
Dora (Dooah)
PooPoo
Thank You (day dee)
No Ma’am
No more
Gone Gone
Bear (bee)
Light
Out
Kick kick kick
Barney
Bottle
Balloon
Cookie
If you know of a word that she says that I am missing…leave me a comment!

Ok for those of you who faithfully check my blog, I just wanted to let you know that since the holidays are here, and since I sell Mary Kay, I wanted to give you an opportunity to pick out some items that you might want for Christmas and then I can call your “Santa” i.e. Husband, parent, significant other….and men there are things for you here too…so pick out some things you might like and I can call your wives/girlfriends/etc.

I’ve already had a great response with this and wanted to open it up to those who might not be current customers of mine.

Click here to go to the wish list and catelogue and start filling up your wish list today!!!!

We have a busy weekend ahead of us, but should be fun!! Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!

You know what is fun..getting out of the car and loading a child into a stroller, while rounding up the diaper bag, my purse and then strapping the child into the stroller, all the while holding a gigantic umbrella in the POURING cats and dogs rain. Let me tell ya, holding and umbrella ( the big kind) and pushing a stroller is a skill. Trust me. SO then the second I walk into my dentist appointment…….the rain stops. Hayden and I looked like we took showers IN our clothes. Fun.

Too funny not to post…..this made my day 🙂 I laughed so hard when I saw her !

The funniest part…she hates wearing hats, bows, anything on her head, yet she left this on with no fuss….little stinker!

Also…we went and saw The Prestige today….Great movie! You must go see it…go go go! Oh…and I carved my first ever pumpkin today…it looks horrible I know

Here is the super

duper stroller that i mentioned…i went online and found if for you Mel….its super pricey, but! you have to know that this thing was AMAZING!

Here is a link to the description of it 🙂

Stroller

We had a really busy weekend filled with lots of fun and old friends 🙂

We kicked it off on Friday night when we attended a wedding at a gorgeous venue Parasio Maravilla. It was so beautiful.

Then we got up Saturday morning and drove to Waco for our 2nd Baylor Homecoming!! But one bad thing is that Hayden did not sleep the whole drive up there and so when we got to the game at about 1:45pm she had been awake all day. Not good. So we thought we might be able to entertain her long enough for the game to end and then she could take a nice nap. Well I knew the weather would be cold on Sunday but I did not count on the blazing sun being straight in our face. (last year I don’t think we sat on the student side and we were in the shade) So, we get to the game and meet up with our sweet friends Courtney and Tim. Well the weather is blazing hot….do we have any sunscreen….NO! So the whole game I am not even able to concentrate on the game because I am worried that my pastey daughter will get roasted. Plus she is cranky and hot so she is moving all over the place, trying to make friends with the neighbors and such…well, by halftime we have stripped her down to her diaper and t-shirt. Poor thing, is sweating and red-faced. As am I, but I don’t think twice about it. So, Courtney and I decided to leave the unbearable heat and get the little munchkin home for a nap.

Oh…may I mention that at this point we were also losing the game. sad sad.

So, we get home, change clothes, get Hayden down and collapse on the couch. Fun times 🙂 A while later the guys call….Baylor came back and won the game by one point right at the end of the game and they were taking the goalposts down!!! WHAHOOO!!! and of course we have missed this. Oh, and also, this will be the first time ever that Baylor has won three Big 12 games in the same season!! Double WAHOO!!!! So though we missed the fun part, it was very exciting!

So then the guys got home and we went and saw our friends Matt and Sarah and their girls. We ate dinner outside in the nice weather and caught up with everything. It was great. We got to tour the world hunger farm and see all the crops, some of the goats, and the gift shop. I also got to push this really cool dual stroller…supposedly its really expensive but I have got to get one when we have another child…this thing was the lightest stroller ever, and it had two children in it.

Then Sunday we went to our old church Antioch….oh how we have missed you! It was great. Hayden had a lot of fun in the nursery and then we went to the always yummy, Ninfas. If you have not had Ninfa’s in Waco, you have to try it…It is totally different then any Ninfas anywhere else. Yum! The guys saw some local sportscaster and proceeded to be totally and incredibly “socially awkward” (as Court would say) 🙂 Fun times fun times……

So that was our weekend…we had a great time…and yes, have basically no pictures to show for it. I do have some of Hayden playing with our friends’ little girls but I haven’t uploaded them yet. I’ll get on that eventually.