Well, my Friday anyway. :P

Only 2.5 hours left of work and I can go home. The next three days are going to be INSANE and most likely fly by so quickly. Here is a tentative timeline of the next...72ish hours

4am-8am HOPEFULLY SLEEP OMG. If Maddy cooperates anyway.
8am-12pm drool all over myself CHUG COFFEE while trying to keep Maddy entertained/fed until her nap and my conference call
12pm-1pm Work conference call!
Sometime tomorrow afternoon between Maddy's naps I need to get my nails done. They're growing out and they're SO LONG and clack clack clack so I'm getting them filled in and filed down.
5ish pm Mom and Grandma arrive! Time to start cooking and baking. Woo hoo!
If all goes well I can go to sleep by midnight >.<
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Breakfast at 7:30 made by Grandma. Finish all remaining cooking, get everything ready for lunch around 11:30am.
Afternoon nap? Sounds like a good idea in theory but will Maddy let me...
5pm Up to Joe's parent's house for dinner! Woo hoo!
8pm Spencer comes over!
9:30pm Time to head to Walmart so I can get that new TV! IT WILL BE MINE (The Emerson 40") We'll hang out there until right after midnight after we grab the electronics we need.
12am After Walmart it's off to Kohl's!
1ish to 3:30ish I would say take a nap but hahahaha that's a joke.
3:30amish head off to the mall! JCP and Sears for final Black Friday shoppings.
5ish HOME TO NAP WOO HOO!
I'm going to beg my mom and grandma to take Maddy that morning so I can attempt to sleep in. Noon would be nice.
Then....Christmas decorating time!!!! I think part of me is most looking forward this. lol

And then my work week starts all over again...

But most of my Christmas shopping will be done as of Friday. All that will be left are Joe's parent's and one brother. He can deal with getting their presents. :P

I'm so hungry. I hate being hungry all the damn time! I'm ready for some green bean casserole fo sho.

Alright I think I'm cracking so I'll leave you alone from my random babbling.

Well I guess anyone who reads this knows that I don't really post as "friends only" anymore. Some entries I will still f-lock but most of the time they will be public. I guess I just don't really feel like I have that much to hide anymore! It's crazy how much I've grown up in just the last year.

I haven't posted any pics of Maddy in quite awhile. I just went back and read everything I had posted since having her and it only took me like 15 minutes. I can't believe almost an entire year has gone by without me updating. I guess while I was reading back I realized why I post here to begin with - for me. So I can go and look back on my life and remember in better detail of the things that happened.

So, here are some pictures from the last week or so :)



Really cute picture of Maddy from our session yesterday.



Nomming on some pizza :)



Spencer and I got stuck in the snow after leaving my mom's house on Friday lol



Maddy and her friend Anousone playing while I babysat him.



Future boyfriend? Maaaybe



Big smiles :)

Alright. It's almost midnight and I have a big day tomorrow. Cleaning must be done in preparation for Thanksgiving! My mom and Grandma are going to be getting into town on Wednesday evening and staying until Friday. Joe helped me clean the living room today but the rest of the house has a lot of work that needs to be done!

It's that time of year again guys! Christmas card time! I have quite a few addresses that I rounded up last year (and yes, I'm awesome and organized enough that I found them again this year!) but if you've moved or don't know if I have your address please leave it in a comment here for me! Even if you're not sending cards out I would still love to send you one.

It's the first year I'm able to afford cards besides the cheap Walmart ones. This makes me happy. Joe, Maddy and I got our family pictures taken yesterday so I'll be including a picture in them as well. You know you want one! :)

Comments are screened of course, so no worries about someone (besides me) stealing your identity ;)

Yup, it's been a very long time since I posted. Maddy turns 9 months old on Monday! I can't believe how fast time has flown by.

Today was my dad's birthday. He would have been 56 :) I miss him so much.

My mom is in the hospital right now and my grandma is staying here with us. She's supposed to get out tomorrow so hopefully she starts feeling a bit better. They figure she has an auto immune disorder but can't get in to see a doctor for it until after Christmas. Ridiculous.

Work is going okay. My schedule is changing to 5 days a week sadly. And I can't work from home anymore because a couple of MTs complained about hearing Maddy in the background. So frustrating :(

I started watching some new shows and I really like them! Community, Big Bang Theory, Merlin, The Walking Dead and Happy Endings. Now that I'll be working in the office 4 days a week with nothing to do I'll most likely start watching a few more new shows. Any suggestions? (I can stream Netflix at work so anything on there would work.)

Anyway, I'm pumping now before bed so I wanted to pop on and say hello at least. I don't think anyone reads this anymore anyway. I miss the old days sometimes but I know that having a kid changes so many things! I wouldn't take it back for the world.

She finally started sleeping longer at night again. She had been waking up like every hour and a half for the last 3 months. It was awful. Last night she only woke up ONE time at 5am to eat. It was glorious. I hope this keeps happening!

Alright, time to go download my shows and check Facebook before bed.

I miss you guys! ♥

Ugh. It's been awhile. Too long :( I wish I had the dedication to post more. I really miss LiveJournal.

My grandpa passed away on Friday morning :( I knew it was going to be soon I just was caught off guard with it happening so suddenly. The funeral is on Wednesday so Maddy and I are flying down to Texas tomorrow. I'm nervous about the flight - I really hope Maddy does okay with traveling.

The good news is I get to see Felipe, Jill and Wanda while I'm down there! It will most likely be the last time that I will be in Houston for the next few years. My grandpa was the last relative besides my uncle and I'm pretty sure he has at least 30 more years to go. The only reason I've gone down to Houston since I left has been for funerals. Which is sad.

The house is a disaster with trying to get everything packed. Suitcases are all over the living room. I have quite a bit to do this evening after Maddy goes to sleep.

It's almost football season! I can't wait. I need to get Maddy some Seahawks gear.

Alright. That's all I got.

Happy 4th of July guys! I wanted to come post a few pictures that I took today when we went on a family picnic to the Finch Arboretum here in Spokane.



Getting ready to go





Tasty Arboretum flier!





Sitting up like a big girl :)



Playing with Daddy



Sticking her tongue out at me



Lunch time for the baby!



Baby feet!





Smiles :)



Good picture of us!



She finally fits in her stroller without her infant carrier!

Happy Father's Day to Joe :) He got up with Maddy this morning so I could get a little more sleep. Then I made him breakfast in bed and he ate before passing back out. *rolls eyes* It's now 1:30pm and he's still asleep. Silly boy.

Work is slow today, I have yet to take a phone call. It's pretty awesome.

Maddy is napping and then at 4:30 Joe is taking her up to his parent's house for dinner. I'll head up when I get off work at 7.

Spencer seems to be enjoying Spokane. He's excited to have the house to himself tonight.

I need to cut my nails. It's hard for me to type with long nails plus I keep accidentally scratching Maddy.

Annnd I wrote this two days ago and never posted it. I suck! Here goes though :)

I always liked Easter Sunday as a kid because my church always did a cantata instead of a normal sermon. It wasn't nearly as boring and almost always got finished at least 15 minutes earlier than normal Sundays.I just realized this but you'd think it would have been obvious to me so many years ago that church/religion just wasn't my thing. Ah well.

In any case we had a great Easter Sunday here :) Maddy got her Easter basket and she was dressed up in her My First Easter outfit (which ended up being too big but it worked anyway). I got a bunch of great pictures :)

Joe and I spent most of the time she was asleep playing Rock Band 3. I've gotten pretty good at the keyboard and it's a lot of fun.

Now it's very late and I'm passing out at the keyboard. So until next time...:)

We finally have a washer and dryer!! Only 21 days later than we originally thought we would but at least we have one. I started a load as soon as the Fred's Appliance guys walked out the door. I have a shit ton of laundry waiting to be washed now but hopefully I'll be able to get through it all today. I was going to wash diapers next but Maddy is currently in one that would need to be washed so after she wakes up from her nap I'll put a prefold on her so I can wash all of her diapers before giving them a good stripping.

Tomorrow I go back to the doctor about my granulation tissue in my vagina. I'm pretty sure they'll have to freeze it with liquid nitrogen again. Ugh. I just want it to get better and stay better :(

My mom and grandma are coming down tomorrow because my mom has a doctor appointment. Me and Maddy will go with her to her appointment and then we're going to Walmart for grocery shopping. We're going to make homemade pizza for dinner :D I'm excited. And now starving from thinking about it hehe.

Maddy is growing up so quickly. I can't believe she'll be 3 months old a week from Saturday. That just blows my mind. Where has the time gone?

I go back to work full time a week from Monday. At least it'll be overnights and I can work from home. I signed up for two extra days of that week too so that'll be nice. And Joe grabbed another day so we'll make pretty good money from that check.

Joe got his tax refund so we picked up a convertible carseat for Maddy - a Graco MyRide 65. They only sold that color at Babies R Us and I was pretty sure we would have to order it online to get that color. Well we went into BRU to take a look at the seat and they had the color we wanted! So we went ahead and picked it up. I can't wait to install it :D

Ahh, Maddy is waking up from her nap so I have to run. ♥