Woo Hoo!

So, I thought Chris was the only one of us who had all the luck. I guess I have a little too! My meeting at work went really well. I talked a lot and asked a lot of questions during the meeting which I don't ever do. People looked at me pretty strange though since they've never seen me work there but knew everything about the account. I told them I was a home rep. They didn't really care about me after that, ha ha!

So afterward, I asked my team leader about the scheduling issue that I was concerned about last week. He didn't quite know my situation of wanting to keep weekends work-free. I asked if there was anyway of me staying Monday-Friday. He said well, if you take 2:30-11pm then I'll get you weekends, I'm like hell yea. Whats an hour more? And I get more time with Pooder in the afternoons and maybe I won't need to pickup my mother in law since it would only be 45 minutes between the time I start work and Chris comes home from work. I think she really likes it though so maybe we'll keep doing it for her sake.

I don't know, I'm just in a really good mood about it. It seems like its too good to be true so we'll see. And I don't know when I'll start going from 2:30-11pm but hopefully soon, I can't wait to have a longer afternoon with my son!

uh oh!

So I woke up today craving eggs, I made myself two eggs and toast. Then I started craving something sweet so I made cupcakes this afternoon...I hope its not what I think it is but you never know. Maybe I'm scaring myself...even if I was the 'P' word, I wouldn't have cravings this early in the game, right??

Corey slept through the night again in his bassinet! He woke up at 7:30am and went back down for a nap at 9:30am and stayed asleep until 1pm! I had no idea 10 week old babies slept that much! Maybe he's got his mommy's traits and just loves sleeping. I could stay in bed alllll day long. It was so cute how he would stay asleep while I changed his diapers and when he stirred, I put him to breast (nursed him) and he ate all the while sleeping...yes he is my son!

A roofer came to give us an estimate on our roof on how much it would be to get it replaced. $6,500! We have the money but we also have been wanting to keep saving that money up. Oh well, we gotta do what we gotta do. When we bought this house, we knew what we were getting ourselves into and we knew that we would need the roof fixed within the 1st year. We just loved the house too much for that to be a deal breaker and we never thought of asking the sellers to knock off some more for the roof since they were already agreeing on paying the closing costs for us. Either way, we are excited about the new roof, its a good investment and it will give the house more value. I love our house but I can't wait to get new paint, carpeting, cabinets in the kitchen, curtains, decorating...when that happens, it will finally feel like my home:)

I go into work tomorrow, I'm not looking forward to it...we'll see how it goes.

Gotta love weekends

We have had such a good weekend! Even though I worked on Friday night, I made the most of the afternoon shopping and running errands. I spent most of my shopping time looking for jean shorts for Corey and spent $50 on 5 pairs of jean shorts, 1 cotton pair, and a set of Cubs onsies for him! Since the weather was in the 80's that day, I thought it would stay that way and he'd need them...today: 60's and rainy:( oh well, I got 6-9 months on 4 out of 6 of his shorts so he will fit into them in June/July!

Saturday, I woke up bright and early singing the theme song to Mr. Rodger's Neighborhood to Corey, which made him laugh and smile then he went back to sleep. I, on the other hand, got up took a shower, cleaned the house and made 2 fruit pizzas. We had a cookout/NFL draft day party to go to and then at night I was going to my mom's to see my step-grandparents and show off the baby to them and my step dad's family. The pizzas turned out very good! They better had since Chris and I had to go to the store 3 separate times to get forgotten ingredients. Anyways, I like making fruit pizzas, I think its my favorite thing to eat and make.

We got to the draft day party all decked out in our 49ers gear and it was the first time we had Corey in Niner stuff so we were super excited and giddy to show everyone how cute he looked. (see picture above) It was such a relaxing day and I loved hanging out with friends and family. My mom called me 5,000 times though to figure out when I was coming over to see her husbands side of the family...I had to disapoint her and tell her we weren't leaving until we saw who the niners were going to pick up. We got Michael Crabtree, a wide receiver from Texas Tech. Not my favorite school since they are Texas' rivals, but oh well. I was wanting them to draft a quarterback namely Mark Sanchez...oh well, again.

We finally made it mom's house with Corey around 8:30 and we had dessert there. Corey was a hit with everyone. My grandparents loved him and would not let them go and they couldn't take enough pictures. My grandma gave me a really nice gift. I think they're called willows. A willow figurine. I'm sure everyones seen one they are carved wood with no faces. Very pretty and special.

I made my mom's day by letting her take the baby for the night even though Chris and I didn't have plans. I cried and cried. Everyone who was there laughed at me. It was embarrasing but we finally left and caught a late movie in Pekin. We watched Obsessed with Beyonce!! O man, it was good. Scary...man that girl was off her rocker obsessed. We then went out for a drink and it was nice just the two of us.

Even though I only had 4 hours of sleep I woke up at 6am and got ready to go get my son. When I got there, everyone was sleeping still. By everyone I mean my mom, step dad, brother, step grandparents, and step uncle. They had all stayed there that night. I woke them all up, even Corey! My mom said he hogged the bed trying to stay close to her all night and he only woke up once at 12am and once at 6am (when I got up, weird). Since I was there, I was talked into staying for breakfast. I love my grandmother's cooking so I stayed and it was good:) I stayed until 1pm and when I went home, I took the longest nap ever since Corey's been born. Most of the time, Corey was asleep with me, too. We woke up to take a walk with Chris to Jimmy Johns and then to Dairy Queen. We live down the road. We then went to wal-mart for some grocery shopping and I went back home to nap some more.

It was such an amazing weekend, I can't wait until the next, MAY!

oooo noo!

I think I created false hope for my mother this weekend. She was joking that she should have Corey spend the night. I said yea right but then I said hmm maybe not such a bad idea, Chris and I could go out and hang out with some friends. She sounded happy about the idea, but now that I think of it, I'm not sure if I'm ready to have a night without him. I called her up and told her this but she thinks hes ready. I know he's ready and he'll be a good boy for his grandma but the thought of him needing me, especially since I nurse, is making me not want to do it. What if he doesn't have enough to eat?? I have him on a strict breast milk-only diet so she wouldn't be able to give him formula or water, oh well I'll sleep on it for a couple of days...

Has it been a week already?

Oops! I really forgot to do updates for 7 straight days, it has been pretty busy. Corey has been sick with a cold for this past week and that was exhausting.

I've been back at work for 4 weeks now and just getting used to it but then my work decides to change my schedule up in May so I'm not guaranteed weekends or 1:30-10pm like I have now. I'm pretty upset about it but but I am trying to look at the bright sides of things like if I had Monday's off, I could go see my cousin on her 1 day off and if I got a 12pm start time, I could get off sooner to be with my boys??? O man who am I kidding...I want my schedule to stay the same:(((

Anyways, we had a good weekend, I saw my cousins on Saturday and hung out with Austin. We also got Corey's 2 month pictures a week late, the pictures weren't very cute so we picked out a silly pose with him sticking out his tongue! He is so cute in it and he looks really devious and we can tell by his expression he is going to be a handful!! I love it;)

Yesterday, I took him to get his first shots, I was so nervous about it. My mom knew how I wanted someone there so right before the nurse gave him his shots, she walked in and held him for me. He screamed his little head off but it was only for a couple of minutes then he was good, I took him home where I nursed him whenever he wanted to eat and gave him tylenol every 4 hours so he never had a fever, I was grateful. Next time, I'll be able to do it myself.

This weekend is going to be jam packed. NFL draft party at my in laws and dinner with my step family...Sunday night hoping to go see my aunt and her family, we'll see:)

I love life:)

Oh I have so much to be grateful for today.

*I'm happy for friends like T & E who check up on us to see how we are doing, I'm excited to see them this weekend.
*I'm happy and grateful for my mother in law who came today, she was so helpful and even did my dishes:) At one point when I was working, I thought I heard Corey crying so I ran to the hall and was about to go down the stairs when I heard not him crying but her singing to him and I went back to work:o)
* I'm so grateful that we have our health and that we have God to get our loved ones thru tough times with health issues. Our grandmas are not doing too good and I'm praying for them that they get better. I'm praying that they get to see our son grow up.
*I'm grateful for our jobs, that we still have them and I'm hoping I will have my job for a long time. I'm so happy i can stay at home and not send my baby off to daycare:)
*I'm happy and grateful for my loving marriage, after 8 years of knowing him nothing has changed except for the love I have for him grows more and more:)
*I'm grateful for my mother, she is so awesome. We talk so much throughout the day, I love it! Its so nice to come to a point in life where you're not fighting with your mother, she's actually a best friend!!
*I'm grateful that we waited to have a child because we wouldn't have this child. He is everything I wanted and imagined my baby would be:)
*I'm grateful for food, water, clothing, & shelter...of course.
*I'm grateful that I have a good supply of scrapbooking stuff so I can send cards to people...my brother in particular who's bday is Thursday and I have to make it and mail it by...tomorrow, lol.

If you are having a bad day, think of all that you can be grateful for, it will lift your spirits up immediately:)))

weekend and today's updates...

I've been so busy this weekend, I haven't had time for any updates...Friday night not much going on except I dropped my phone in soup and it got fried. Saturday did all the laundry which I'm very proud of since I haven't done it since I got pregnant...Chris wouldn't let me lift the baskets or bend to fold so he's been doing it ever since and he started to like it, lol! We went out to dinner with his parents who had his niece and nephew so we invited them to watch a movie at our place and while they were there we colored easter eggs for the next day, it was so cute...Corey couldn't care less though! Sunday we lounged around and I got him all dressed up for Easter but we didn't go to church like I wanted to.

We went to my moms house and had dinner there...so nice:) My aunt and her daughter came over to see the baby for the first time and she had told us that they had to put down their family dog the next day (today) and you could just tell how sad they were. My uncle and their son would've came she said but they were too torn up to see anyone. I was thinking about them all day, I hope they made it through the day...

Today was pretty tough for Corey and me. He was pretty sick with a runny nose, sneezing, and coughing...throwing up a lot as well. He barely ate anything today considering he couldn't breathe with a stuffy nose, so he would eat maybe 5 minutes at a time. I think hes getting better though even though he still only eats 15 minutes at a time. He has no temp so thats good. Both my sister in law and mom came over to check up on him (both nurses) and they both think its allergies/sinuses so we'll see...

Though it was tough, I couldn't imagine what my friend is going through right now with her baby who has been in the hospital since he was born and now needs a blood transfusion. I emailed her and let her know what a brave, strong person she was and how much I admired her. Its so sad but I'm praying for her as much as I can.

Tomorrow, I have my mother in law coming to help watch the baby during the lapse between me working and Chris getting home. Its about an hour and a half and since I've been working I've been trying to get him on a schedule for him to sleep that hour and a half but its not working so she's coming to help which i'm thankful for:)