Spending Time With Family

Wow...talk about a busy weekend. Zach has 4 teeth now. The top two came through.

Friday, we went shopping for some food to make and take to the family reunion. We ended up getting stuff so I can make a white chocolate cheesecake.

Saturday, we got up early, got everyone ready, picked up hubby's dad and took off. Lilly had the portable DVD player and was watching movies. Zach fell asleep for a little bit and I read the material I need to read for my training at work. Almost 3 hours later, we get there. Zach woke up when we were about 45 minutes away and Lilly's movie ended about 20 minutes away. Both were getting kind of fussy.

We got there way too early. They were still setting up tables. There was 2 hours left before it was time to eat and Lilly was yelling that she was starving. She didn't eat her breakfast like I told her to. I did end up sneaking her a strawberry. She was happy with that. Hubby, Lilly, me, Zach and one other little boy went outside and played frisbee for a bit.

Then, it was time to eat. The food was wonderful. There was fruit, pasta salad, sweet potato casserole, spaghetti, rolls, egg salad, grape salad, macaroni salad, broccoli salad, ham, pork, chips, green beans, potato casserole. Zach ate a big bowl of the sweet potato casserole. Then for dessert there was my cheesecake, 3 different kinds of cupcakes, a chocolate cake, apple pie, apple crumble pie, lemon cake, lemon bread, and I'm sure there was more, but I can't remember. I got Lilly a vanilla cupcake with chocolate icing on top. She took 10 minutes to lick the icing off then she took a big bite out of the cupcake and said, "EW!" and showed me that it had chocolate icing on the inside of it too. It was made that way. She thought it was gross. I told her that its the same icing that was all over her face, but she wouldn't eat it. It was actually a good day. Both kids had fun and hubby got to catch up with family. Then we had to drive the almost 3 hours back home. Both kids fell asleep, but Zach woke up about 45 minutes away from home and cried the last 15. Lilly slept through his screaming.

 

(there is something wrong with my camera on my phone. It's making everything look blurry and pixalated. I haven't changed any of the settings, so I have no idea what is wrong with it)

Sunday we got to go to my moms house. It was fun there too. All my little brothers were there and we laughed and played around. Hubby was even having a good time. We all played Uno and it was one of the best games of Uno I've ever played. It was so much fun. Zach and Lilly played around with mom's dog until she tried to bite Zach. Both kids had fun there too. They played and wore themselves out. Zach ended up taking an hour nap there. Hubby went and woke him up so he could visit with my step dad when he got home. We had to take Tony back to my dad's house when we left which isn't too far out of our way. Both kids fell asleep and slept until we got home.

The title is my awesome thing of the day. **spending time with family**

There was ceremonies galore yesterday for police, fire fighters and soldiers. Hubby didn't want to go, but a lot of people from the fire station went. Hubby's dad went to one. Everywhere was packed.

Hopefully tomorrow we are going to look at another house. We had looked at the outside of it and hubby really liked it. I'm not so sure since its up on a big hill. We haven't seen the inside yet because when I called about it, it was way out of price range. Well.... Friday it dropped almost $30,000 and its almost where we need it to be. We are going to make an appointment to look at it and if we like it we can cross our fingers that they'll take less than what they have it listed for.

Out 'til Monday

So, I'm not going to be here to post anything tomorrow or Friday. I still might see how to go about posting from my phone. I need to figure that out before maternity leave anyway that way I can at least post pics of the baby....or try. I don't know how to go about doing that unless I directly email the picture to my blog. I don't know. I'll just have to figure it out.
No new news on my cousin just yet. Mom hasn't woken up to give me an update if she has one. I want to go see her today if she's still in the hospital, but I don't know if I'm going to be able to. I'll still try.
Lilly's heading off to her father's today. I took an extra long time to tell her bye this morning. It still breaks my heart every time she goes. I thought that having all this extra time with her would make our departures a little less teary eyed, but I think they are getting worse. I just can't believe that I'm not going to see her until Monday after I get off work. I wish I could have her all the time. It wouldn't be fair to him though, or to Lilly really. But I do stuff with her. I play with her and do crafts with her. We talk, we cook, we clean, we walk, we play, we run, we watch movies all cuddled on the couch, we do so much together. She really is my mini me. When I get her back after she's been down there, all she does is complain cuz daddy won't play with her and his gf made her eat something she didn't like.
Ok, while I'm sitting her crying, I'm going to change the subject to help dry my eyes out.
2 days 'til major shopping! I won some money off the radio yesterday, so that's going to help out a little. I just hope I can do it. My stomach has been hurting more the past 2 days. The stretchy, ripping feeling is getting worse and the baby keep moving around causing me a lot of pain. He's been pushing down a lot to. I don't know if he's stretching and that's just they way he chooses to stretch or what's going on, but it hurts and it brings me to my knees sometimes. I just hope that the pain will be bearable on Friday and I won't be too tired. I don't want to have to quit shopping in the middle of a good sale just cuz I'm exhausted. I'm hoping my body will hold out just long enough for me to get everything done. I am going to try to sneak in a little nap this year. In past years, we just stay up and head out, but with the extra strain on my body this year, I told my bff that I need to try to nap so see if that will help me make it through the day.
I don't get to see Lilly at all this year on Thanksgiving. Hell...I don't know if I get to see any of my blood family this year or not. I still have no clue what's really going on. I know we are going to hubby's sister's to eat, but I don't know what I'm doing after that. If I go visit some of my family, they would have already eaten and probably gone home...so I don't know where I should go and who I should visit. Everyone lives so far away from everyone one else. My brother above me and my brother under me both have to work. And if I do get to go see someone, I don't know if I'm going to get my nap in or not. I did promise my little brother that if he didn't get to eat somewhere after work, I'd bring him something. He's been dying for some apple pie.
So hopefully I will survive Friday. Oh, maybe I need to make a shirt that says "I survived Black Friday." LOL

Intro to myself

Its tax day! Fortunately, I have already filed my taxes. Wasn't too happy about the outcome of it all, but at least it was better than last year. Everyone here at work is running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to get everything done by the deadline. I work in the trust department of a bank and we basically have to do parts of clients taxes and get them mailed out today. They should have done it a long time ago Well...they do, I don't. I work in the corporate trust department. Most of our client are businesses and such. Procrastination gets the best of everyone, though.
Ok, now that I have said that....I will move on to better introduce myself. I know I probably don't have anyone out there reading this....but just in case.
Born and raised in WV in the country. I am a country girl. I love 4 wheeling, camping, hunting, fishing, getting muddy and just basically being outdoors. I'm 23 with a 5 year old daughter. Got married almost 2 years ago to a volunteer fireman. I moved out of my country setting when I got married and took my child to live with hubby in a small city. Well, I don't know if you would call it a city, but its certainly not a town. I volunteer for Relay For Life. My boss here at the bank is the team captain. I have one really good friend from high school. She is the only one who has stuck with me. Love her to death. She already moved 2 hours away last year and now she is getting ready to move 5 1/2 hours away. I cried last time, I'd hate to see what I do this time. Cling to her leg and beg her not to go?
I'm pretty quiet, love to read, cook, spend time with my family. I have never been to a beach or on an airplane. My next step in life is to get a house and have another child. Hopefully the house will come first. There are 3 of us squishing in a one bedroom apartment. All of my stuff is in storage. I don't really have any of my belongings in the apartment. Some clothes, that's it. My daughter has most of her stuff. I just wish we had more room.
Did I mention that I love food? I don't love food so much that I am extremely overweight or anything. Look at my picture up there. I know I'm not skinny....I'm healthy. So anyways.....I love Chinese and Mexican food. I'm trying to perfect making Chinese food at home. I love to experiment in the kitchen. I'm always trying out new things and making up my own recipes. They aren't always the best, but I learn from my mistakes.
My life revolves around my daughter. She is my world. I would do anything for her. She reminds me so much of myself. She acts so grown up and is so smart. I know most parents probably say that, but she REALLY is. She can get along with just about anyone. She is kind, articulate, empathetic, bright, and happy. She learned how to write her name when she was 2. She can count to 100 and beyond. She can cut a straight line with scissors, which is more than I can do. She uses big words that I don't think any other 5 year old will know. She wants to be a doctor when she grows up. I know that will probably change. I use to want to be a professional ice skater at her age and I couldn't even skate.
I went to college for Biology, but dropped out after a semester and a half because I had my daughter. My scholarship wouldn't let me take time off to have a child and I had no other way to pay for it. One of these days I will go back. While pregnant I was a full time student with a full time job. After I had her I was a full time mom with a full time job....and I still am. Times are tough sometimes. Trying to split the time between me and her father. We are due to go back to court next Friday.
So...that's basically me. I'm happy where I am in life but I have big dreams for more.
I hope everything came out ok on this post since I copied and pasted it.