So today my cousin found out she is having a girl...
I was genuinely thrilled when I got the news today. After getting over my initial shock months ago of her surprise pregnancy, having a mini break-down and then becoming withdrawn from her a bit. We rekindled our relationship and I thought I was mentally ready to embrace it.
I knew the appt was today and I'd been excited for her all day. She called and I knew it was a girl...that was my thought all along and I was right! I was over-joyed talking to her on the phone b/c I knew she wanted a girl! She was so excited and I was excited for her. We talked and laughed basically just rejoicing that we get to shop our azzes off for a baby girl. I was all smiles and as soon as we hung up my entire mood changed. I had been at the mall that entire time and then it just hit me. My lip started to quiver, my eyes started filling up so I had to make a mad dash out of the mall to my car before I came un-glued. I made it...tried to regain my composure and then one tear fell. Good I thought, just one..I'm ok. I sucked it up...put the car in drive and I was fine...drove freely about 10 minutes and then got caught by a light. That obviously gave me too much time to think and before I knew it I was full-on sobbing. Ugh.....when will this ever end. Next April will mark the 3 years of this journey and I'm so tired. I just pray to God I'll be able to get my IVF before then. We figured it was smarter to get our house first...I'm starting to second guess that now. I just felt like getting a house was something I could control ya know. I can't really control an IVF..we could pay the 10,000 and it not work and we walk away in the same situation we started less 10,000.
Now I'm in my house and I love it but all I can think is man it's quiet here :(
December 1, 2010
November 14, 2010
Blessed Abundantly!!!
I've always heard the saying that sometimes "God just shows up and shows out"!!!! For some who are unfamiliar with that saying and/or meaning it just means that there are moments in your life that it's becomes unbelievable but in a GREAT way! Now I've always had a pretty charmed life but I must say once I met and married my husband it was love like I've never ever experienced in my life. I mean "ALL IN" kind of love, no holding back, no plan Bs or Cs...just unfiltered no back-up plan having love. Once I let go of my inhibitions, God showed up and showed out!!
Now here we are 3 years into our marriage and almost 5 years together (in February) and we are experiencing some major highs! A lot of first time joys. A few weeks back I posted about something I wasn't disclosing yet. No it's not pregnancy but hey after all this wonderfulness it may be next be the next great surprise!
Most of you know about Tommy's NY project and how he didn't take that promotion but ended up being promoted here. Well once we knew we were remaining in Texas I was ready to house-hunt again. We went out with our realtor/friend Dori Warner to look at four houses. No luck until the LAST house on the FIRST day back out. Found the cutest 1940's bungalow, updated but still had it's original hardwoods and all the charm of an older home. That included but it no means limited to pocket doors, crystal door knobs and in wall mail slot just to name a few! Simply Darling!!! I looked at my husband and said "Babe, I WANT it"! The very next day was our anniversary and after the spa but before dinner we put an offer on it. The next day it was accepted. We got a GREAT deal!! We did a 45 day close and a 2 week lease back to the sellers. That 2 weeks is up on Friday and we can take possession of the house on Saturday the 20th (but they may move sooner)! I have told most of my friends and Tommy's family knows but NONE of my family knows! I will tell my immediate family on Saturday the 20th and I'm sooooooooooooooooo stinking excited it's unreal!!!
The Plan: My family loves to hang out and one of the things we enjoy is piling in the SUV and going to lunch and doing some house-admiring! We look at open homes, model homes, condos, etc! So this coming Saturday I told my mom we are having "family day" and to meet us at our apartment at 11am. I haven't told them what we are going to do yet but once they are here I'm going to tell them that we are going to do some house-admiring, lunch and hit the city lighting ceremony for the holidays! Only when once we pile into the SUV the first open house we are going to will be OUR HOUSE!!!!!! We'll take them in and I'll be like TA DAAAAAAAAAA this is our home!!!!!! My mom will probably cry or something! lol We have lots of furniture being delivered that day, new tvs, mattresses, dining table ya know all the bells and whistles. While the guys handle that, I'll take my mom and sis with me to shop for accessories, curtains, rugs, etc (we all live for shopping)!!! It's going to be a family thing...something everyone will always remember. A super cute surprise of being apart of our first day in our first home!
Besides that blessing- everything is just falling into place...the home is in the area we want to be in, we purchased a new car the other day b/c we only had one since I worked and lived downtown, after years working on our credit it is FABBBBB, we were able to find and purchase furniture with no problems. That amongst a million other things have just been coming together wonderfully! We are soooooo excited it's unreal! We have been wanting to get our first home for a while now but it was always something from the possibility of moving to NY or ATL, once we lost a bid on a house while in the middle of the carribean in St. Lucia! Just random drama! Now we see it was God saving and directing us to something more tailored for our lives! Like I said just Blessed Abundantly!
I'll let y'all know how the home reveal goes! I have A LOT to do this week!
Now here we are 3 years into our marriage and almost 5 years together (in February) and we are experiencing some major highs! A lot of first time joys. A few weeks back I posted about something I wasn't disclosing yet. No it's not pregnancy but hey after all this wonderfulness it may be next be the next great surprise!
Most of you know about Tommy's NY project and how he didn't take that promotion but ended up being promoted here. Well once we knew we were remaining in Texas I was ready to house-hunt again. We went out with our realtor/friend Dori Warner to look at four houses. No luck until the LAST house on the FIRST day back out. Found the cutest 1940's bungalow, updated but still had it's original hardwoods and all the charm of an older home. That included but it no means limited to pocket doors, crystal door knobs and in wall mail slot just to name a few! Simply Darling!!! I looked at my husband and said "Babe, I WANT it"! The very next day was our anniversary and after the spa but before dinner we put an offer on it. The next day it was accepted. We got a GREAT deal!! We did a 45 day close and a 2 week lease back to the sellers. That 2 weeks is up on Friday and we can take possession of the house on Saturday the 20th (but they may move sooner)! I have told most of my friends and Tommy's family knows but NONE of my family knows! I will tell my immediate family on Saturday the 20th and I'm sooooooooooooooooo stinking excited it's unreal!!!
The Plan: My family loves to hang out and one of the things we enjoy is piling in the SUV and going to lunch and doing some house-admiring! We look at open homes, model homes, condos, etc! So this coming Saturday I told my mom we are having "family day" and to meet us at our apartment at 11am. I haven't told them what we are going to do yet but once they are here I'm going to tell them that we are going to do some house-admiring, lunch and hit the city lighting ceremony for the holidays! Only when once we pile into the SUV the first open house we are going to will be OUR HOUSE!!!!!! We'll take them in and I'll be like TA DAAAAAAAAAA this is our home!!!!!! My mom will probably cry or something! lol We have lots of furniture being delivered that day, new tvs, mattresses, dining table ya know all the bells and whistles. While the guys handle that, I'll take my mom and sis with me to shop for accessories, curtains, rugs, etc (we all live for shopping)!!! It's going to be a family thing...something everyone will always remember. A super cute surprise of being apart of our first day in our first home!
Besides that blessing- everything is just falling into place...the home is in the area we want to be in, we purchased a new car the other day b/c we only had one since I worked and lived downtown, after years working on our credit it is FABBBBB, we were able to find and purchase furniture with no problems. That amongst a million other things have just been coming together wonderfully! We are soooooo excited it's unreal! We have been wanting to get our first home for a while now but it was always something from the possibility of moving to NY or ATL, once we lost a bid on a house while in the middle of the carribean in St. Lucia! Just random drama! Now we see it was God saving and directing us to something more tailored for our lives! Like I said just Blessed Abundantly!
I'll let y'all know how the home reveal goes! I have A LOT to do this week!
November 1, 2010
My weekend, Trick or Treating and November Already!
Boy did we have a kid-packed weekend!!!! OMG!! My 17 yr old sister and 3 yr old nephew came over Friday for the entire weekend. Then on Saturday afternoon my 7 month old TEETHING god-son came over for the night. Let's just say it was the most un-relaxing weekend ever!!!!! Noise, noise, crying, screaming and whining! Ow!
It turned around on Sunday though b/c all the kids went back to their rightful owners!!! Sunday night we went trick or treating with my nephew and family in my mom's neighborhood. He was Batman and he was both super excited and afraid at the same time! ha ha I'm sure going to hate when he outgrows this age! It's just the cutest sweetest thing ever!
I can't believe it's November already! Thanksgiving is in 3 weeks and before we know it Christmas will be here!! What the heck happened to October??!!! I'm just amazed how quick the year passed! It'll be 2011 in a matter of minutes! I can't wait to see what next year has in store!
My nephew on every Halloween so far- (except 2007 he was only 10 months old and his costume was Spiderman. He took professional pics that yr since he was too young for trick or treating)
KEY AS BATMAN (2010)
KEY AS A BOXER (2009)
KEY AS THE LIL STINKER (SKUNK) (2008)
It turned around on Sunday though b/c all the kids went back to their rightful owners!!! Sunday night we went trick or treating with my nephew and family in my mom's neighborhood. He was Batman and he was both super excited and afraid at the same time! ha ha I'm sure going to hate when he outgrows this age! It's just the cutest sweetest thing ever!
I can't believe it's November already! Thanksgiving is in 3 weeks and before we know it Christmas will be here!! What the heck happened to October??!!! I'm just amazed how quick the year passed! It'll be 2011 in a matter of minutes! I can't wait to see what next year has in store!
My nephew on every Halloween so far- (except 2007 he was only 10 months old and his costume was Spiderman. He took professional pics that yr since he was too young for trick or treating)
KEY AS BATMAN (2010)
KEY AS A BOXER (2009)
KEY AS THE LIL STINKER (SKUNK) (2008)
October 20, 2010
Where has the time gone!
Time obviously got away from me so let me do a quick update-
Nothing on the fertility front. I've been getting lots of messages and questions about our timeline. It looks as though we will be waiting until next year for sure. Right now we have other things on the horizon. Starting a family is still priority but in order to relieve some stress we agreed to move it back. Tommy's schedule is crazy right now with all the growth in his company and next month he will start traveling again. It's the price we must pay due to his promotion. We are blessed beyond comprehension so we have accepted that our time-line may not be God's. I will update you guys as soon as we start back on the fertility wagon. Thanks for your concern, support and all of your wonderful stories.
In other news:
I started my second boot camp last week and guess what?! My hubby joined!! Turns out he really loved getting his azz kicked on friends/family week last month! We go to some classes together but I'm a morning chick and he prefers evenings. I also put my self on repeat registration for the next 6 months! I'm hoping to see some killer results!!
We've been on a super-tight budget but my hubby managed to get us to a Cowboys game two weeks ago and to a Rangers play-off game last Saturday. I'm a sports chick so I was thrilled!!! I love the energy of professional sports and going to games is always a treat for me. This Saturday I'm going to see Anjelah Johnson at House of Blues and to dinner with some friends. For those who do not know Anjelah- she's freaking hilarious. I was introduced to her through this clip below and I've loved her every since! I can't wait to see her live!!
This is an oldie but goodie and it'll have you yelling "SEKURITYYYYY"!!
Nothing on the fertility front. I've been getting lots of messages and questions about our timeline. It looks as though we will be waiting until next year for sure. Right now we have other things on the horizon. Starting a family is still priority but in order to relieve some stress we agreed to move it back. Tommy's schedule is crazy right now with all the growth in his company and next month he will start traveling again. It's the price we must pay due to his promotion. We are blessed beyond comprehension so we have accepted that our time-line may not be God's. I will update you guys as soon as we start back on the fertility wagon. Thanks for your concern, support and all of your wonderful stories.
In other news:
I started my second boot camp last week and guess what?! My hubby joined!! Turns out he really loved getting his azz kicked on friends/family week last month! We go to some classes together but I'm a morning chick and he prefers evenings. I also put my self on repeat registration for the next 6 months! I'm hoping to see some killer results!!
We've been on a super-tight budget but my hubby managed to get us to a Cowboys game two weeks ago and to a Rangers play-off game last Saturday. I'm a sports chick so I was thrilled!!! I love the energy of professional sports and going to games is always a treat for me. This Saturday I'm going to see Anjelah Johnson at House of Blues and to dinner with some friends. For those who do not know Anjelah- she's freaking hilarious. I was introduced to her through this clip below and I've loved her every since! I can't wait to see her live!!
This is an oldie but goodie and it'll have you yelling "SEKURITYYYYY"!!
October 11, 2010
Gladiator Games 2010
Saturday the hubs and I competed in Gladiator Games which was basically a fitness challenge event put on by my boot camp. It consisted of a 5K, exercise stations, obstacle course and other competitive events. It was super challenging but very very fun and rewarding. Oh and it just so happened that I ran my best time in the 5K! It was 36.28 and I seriously believe I could have done better but my shoes are horribleeeeeeee!! I was just hoping those bad boys wouldn't fall apart while I was running! lol So yes new shoes are on the horizon! I can't wait to do more events like this with my husband. We really enjoyed all the activities! Here's to a happier, healthier and more challenging life-style! Live Life Adventurously!
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