Long Live Daisy!

Travis and T came home the other day with a surprise. A PUPPY! Whatever, I basically said because I knew what was ahead of me, but was told we could take her back if things didn't work out. So we decided to give a go of it. She was a good dog as far as the potty goes. T loved picking her up and calling her "My pup". We decided to name her Daisy because I thought nothing fit her precious face more. She was a mix of different things, and probably would have become the size of beagle or something, which would have been perfect for Tristan. However because he doesn't quite understand the concept of being careful yet, he squeezed and lugged around the poor thing a little to much for her liking so she would run and hide from him. Of course this made him mad because he wanted to hold "MY PUP". This rat race was just tooo much for me right now, with all the other busyness we have in our lives already, so we had to sneak her out of the house back to her original home. :(


I know how could I do this to that sweet little face of hers and my presh lil boy, that "thought" he loved this dog. However we didn't even get to her biting him with her razor sharp teeth and then him hitting her across the room probably. So with much sympathy, the decision was made that it was going to be the best for all! We took her back yesterday and so far he hasn't said anything, so hopefully it will be forgotten as fast as she came and went! :)

My lil cowboy

So as I've said before Travis is really hoping Tristan loves Martial Arts and takes up with it like he has. Well of course I want him to have some of my passion as well, so he has been riding the horses and roping! Watch out I think we have a serious calf roper on our hands, he already knows who to hold the rope and throw it. Thanks to his Uncle "Dude" Chris.

Excuse the picture darkness and quality, you have to be ready for anything so lighting was too good. However, you get my point, I have a future rodeo'er on my hands! better videos to come because this is just too stinkin cute.

Black Belt

It is with tons of excitement for my hubby that I share the news that he has gotten 2 black belts several weeks ago! He has always been in love with martial arts and been in karate since he could walk. In his older married life he kind of took some time away from it. However when he we had Tristan he decided real quick that he needed to step it back up and get back in the groove because he wanted Tristan to learn all he can about it as well. HOPEFULLY! So he has been working and training really hard the past year to withstand the long hard 6 HOUR test! Yes I said 6 hours of physical testing and mental capability. His hard work paid off because he received not only received 1 belt but 2 on the same day for two different styles of Karate he does! So proud of my fighter. More to come when he has his official ceremony at the dojo!

Future Tristan! LOL

Isn't that just too cute!

New Therapist!

This post come with some much relief! I graduated 2 years after I high school with Massage Therapy. After failing the Board test, because of not being young and not at all serious about my future at the time, I gave up on it. I really loved it when I started out in the class. Trying to plan my wedding, working part time, and school really took a toll on me! So I started getting tired of it while in school and lost interest in ever getting my license once out of school. Now 9 years later I have decided to go back to school for nursing. While doing this unfortunatly I can't quit working all together so I though massage would be a good thing to do part time! Sooo after major self discipline and self teaching I went and took my test again and PASSED!! So say hello to a new Massage Therapist. It take about a month to get my license after I have my application and my whole life history sent to them so hopefully I'll be able to start working some where soon. Until then I'm going to be doing family and close friends out of my house. I kind of have mixed emotions about the because it has been so long but I'm hoping to jump back in there and love it like I did at first! Keep your fingers crossed.

PS. I would love to be able to get certified to massage animals but I don't see me getting too much business with that unless I move! :(

New Floors!!

After lots of saving we decided to invest in hardwood floors this spring. We were so excited and ready to get rid of the carpet we had in our house. We are so in love with these floors and made us want to update the decor a bit as well. We have been in this house for 9 years so it was time for a few changes until we can build.


The process


And yes we have changed the safari pillows on the couch! HAHA

Catch up

Seems like I am always playing catch up. Anyways, we have been so busy this summer and have some exciting things taking place. (More to come on that later)!! Seems like all we get done these summer weekends and evenings now is mowing grass! Yes I did say mowing grass. We got us a new zero turn lawn mower last year and I absolutly love it! Call me a country girl. So we decided to try and make some money this year, so we have 4 yards we mow in our development each week, and both our parent's yards. People don't realize what a great, and easy way to get a tan. Since it has been raining fairly decent we have had to mow them 2x a week and I'm a happy girl! HEHE I am out of school for summer break, and Tristan is out of daycare the month of July. Unfortunatly mommy can't stay home and keep him so he's been staying with Whitney. He's in love now I do believe. There are some other exciting things that deserve their own post so I'm going to do a picture catch up!

Getting the mower ready for Summer time!!

Easter Egg Hunting

Loving Papaw's "Big Truck"
This child is fascinated these days by big trucks and tractors!!

4th of July Celebration in Concord with wonderful friends.


Travis loving up on Makenna! I think that gave him the fever again, wanting his own daddy's lil girl!!

Tristan playing with papaw at the arena.

On Cowgirl

Getting Tristan wrapped up in the blanket papaw has over his shoulders!

Having fun with his new love Whit!

LOVE THIS!! I actually caught him smiling at the camera! Waiting patiently on the rain to go away so we can go play on the slip and slide again.

Fitness

This is a dredded discussion with me because I am so overweight and never got my prebaby body back and probably never will, butttt I am going to try very hard to get myself back in shape. So last fall I started playing with a Women's league at East Lincoln. The team I am on is alot of the girls I played ball with back in High school so needless to say this brought the kid out in me and I had a blast!! We didn't do to bad either for our first season, we finished 3rd out of 8 teams! Well all of the girls are kind of like me, needing time for themselves and all enjoying the physical activity in it so we decided to keep it up. We just got finished playing a season of Volleyball, which is my favorite sport of all time! This was also very fun however I missed being outside. In two weeks we will start up our 2nd Softball season and I couldn't be more excited. Mostly because of getting to be outside. Spring is my favorite time of year and I never want to come inside, plus it's getting close to bathing suit time and I need the extra running around those bases to shed a few pounds!
Which brings me too my next point. I've started ZX Fitness in Lincoltnon. They have classes at 5:30 in the afternoon that I like to attend. Monday is Zumba, which I completely love because I LOVE TO DANCE. Tuesdays are cycling, tried this 2 times and not fond of it so much, so I go home and do a Bollywood Dance video. SO FUN! Then on Wednesday is a cardio sculpt class, and Thursdays a Dance fit class. Can't you tell how I like dancing! To me this is a fun way to shed pounds instead of boring weight lifting and all the other fitness crap! LOL
Bring on a skinny new me! HOPEFULLY!

This year so far!

Well as I mentioned before it has been awhile so I am going to catch you up on a few of the most important things that has went on this year. The main one being Tristan's health. We had to put him in daycare starting the first of the year. My mom has kept him since I had to come back to work, but she has been having major back problems. So we had to bite the bullet and pick out a daycare and start paying this dredded fee per month! Luckily we got him into Maryvale Daycare. This is a well known daycare that are run by nuns and has been open FOREVER! So of course as soon as he started daycare the SICKNESS begins! And let me say that it has been rough. Back in October last year is one of his first sicknesses and it was virally, well he ran such a high sudden fever that he had a febrile seizure!!! Yess very scary and don't really want to relive it by telling it. Needless to say he was okay and it scared us way more than it affected him but the doctor said that we would need to keep a very close eye on his fevers from then on. So 2nd week of daycare, high fever, crankiness, pulling on ears. Took him to urgent care on a Sunday. His first double ear infection. So out all week with this. Two weeks later another high fever, take him back to dr, double ear infection. Several weeks later another ear infection. This has went on for 3 months now, and with this he has had a cough, runny nose, sneezing, fever and CRANKINESS! The dr finally decided he has had the same infection now for 3 months and no antibiotics has helped it. So he had to get 3 rocephin (spelling) shots, wait a week, still fluid in his ears. On to the ENT to see what the next step was. Last week he had tubes put in his little ears and so far WONDERFUL!! I keep dredding to wake up every morning to go check his head and find a high fever again, but HOPEFULLY this is going to help him.

Long Time!! Busy Busy Busy

I know it has been forever since my last post and I really hate that there is soo much to catch you up on but not enough time so I am going to try and do better from here on out. I have been super, super busy since the last time I wrote. I am going to school part time trying to finish up my pre requisites so I can move on to the nursing program. I am so mad at myself for not sticking with this fresh out of high school and deciding to enter a good career when I was 28 but oh well! So I am a mom, wife, and student and that has most of my life taken up! I try not to think about all the negative because I know that once I am finished with this I will be so happy, it's just very hard to remember that sometimes. My classes aren't too bad, I have 2 online classes and 1 class that is part online, part lab. This is the hardest because it is A&P II. We will be starting with the dissection of cats this Friday until the remainder of the semester. This is going to be quite interesting. I had no idea how complicated the human body was until I entered this class! Now I am very afraid of nursing school. I have a wonderful husband though that supports me 100% and I definitely could not be doing this right now if it wasn't for him! So thank you so much Travis and to Tristan, mommy is doing this for your future so hang on a little bit longer and I'll be able spend more time with you and daddy!

Anniversary

Yesterday marked our 8 year anniversary. It's hard to believe it has been 8 years ago since we got married. Seems like only yesterday I walked down the isle to the wonderful man that is now the wonderful daddy to our precious baby boy! We have had a blast these past 8 years! We had a lot of time to enjoy ourselves and come and go as we pleased. Finally decided last year to start our Family and now we are enjoying being parents and enjoying learning new things together! Travis, I just want you to know how wonderful you are to me, and how happy I am of the life that we have made together! I can not wait to grow old with you and watch our life unfold to all that our future holds! Happy Anniversary baby! I love you!

PS. And what more exciting than to be able to celebrate, on this special day, as the first steps of Tristan!! My grandmaw was watching him while my mom went to the dr. and she called me screaming, I thought something was wrong. She told me he had took 5 steps several times! Just in time for the beach, as we are leaving this Saturday for a much needed vacation and Tristan's first vacation and I CAN NOT WAIT!! It has been several years since we have went anywhere so it is time!

More B-Day Presents!

I am behind!!!!!! Last Wednesday on Tristan's official birthday his mamaw Towery and Kelsie came up to give him their gift for him. Another car that he can ride and push and it makes all kind of noises! He loved it too! Also Betsy sent his present home with me from work and he got to open it as well. It was a blow up train that you put balls in for him to play in! This was a big hit at his party for Kayden and him, even though they were trying to throw the balls out!

Car

I thought I had already posted this but must have just been thinking it! Last Tuesday for Tristan's birthday my mama cooked supper for us and we had a mini celebration at their house because my daddy drives a truck and he wasn't going to be home to see Tristan for his birthday. We had yummy Chicken and dumplins and brocolli cassserole. After we ate and was entertained by Tristan for a while, she gave him his birthday present from them. He loves riding ANYTHING! So she thought he would enjoy a car. It is battery operated so he can ride it himself, it has a bar that comes out of the back for the parents to steer with until the child gets the hang of it. Well we thought that it had a button on the bar to be pushed to make it go as well but it doesn't. So we are trying to teach him to press the GO button! He absolutely loves it!!!




ALready Chillin!
After watching Tristan ride his car, Madilyn decides to get her bicycle out while we are all sitting on the front porch. She still rides her little bike that had the training wheels on it, just to be funny! So she breaks it out and we are laughing at her because it looks like a clowns bicycle because it's so little. Well Chris decided to get on it and we just knew the tires were going to blow out. We laughed so hard!!

Unfortunaltey I didn't get the camera out quick enough to get more pics of Chris, but we made Travis ride it too!

Help!!

Can somebody please tell me how to change the font on my page????? Thanks!

Birthday Weekend!

This past weekend was very hectic and busy for the lil man's party! Friday we did the yard work so it was fresh and neat! Then we went to mamaw's to get the tables and chairs for Saturday. When we came home we were greeted with helpers!! Stacy and Madilyn were there and Haley and her crew were there ready to help! So Tristan went with Aunt Stacy while we unloaded the stuff and decided the game plan for Saturday and where everything was going to go. When lil man went to sleep it was a much needed beverage time for me!! HA Saturday was up bright and early to get started. Mom, Tristan, and I went to Walmart and Bi-Lo to get all the last minute things and off to Wanda Reep's, who made the cake. It turned out really cute, and she made a small cake that was eggless for him. All day it looked like it was going to pour down rain at any moment! Well of course it waited until about 2 hours before time for the party to start for it to start raining! Just enough time for everything to get soaked, couldn't put up the jumpy thing mama had rented because it couldn't get wet, I couldnt decorate because of the rain! What a nightmare! I was soo upset. Finally it stopped come party time but was still very nasty out. The grass was wet, nobody wanted to get in the grass to sit at the tables because of this, so everyone ended up piling in our very small 1 car carport! Didn't bother the kids though, who spent all their time in the jumpy thing. Needless to say despite all of the weather issues we had fun and everything turned out great. Tristan was such a good boy and enjoyed every minute of it and was quite the silly little entertainer for everyone! After all the excitement, fun, and fellowship with good friends and family, he was tuckered out, but I think his mama was even more tuckered out!!!!!!