Rasberries and Dates

I had to share this video - I was getting ready this morning and Harper started blowing rasberries. It cracked me up. Please ignore my EXTREMELY loud annoying laugh.


Who is watching the Bachelorette? Last night she took the guys on her 3 dream dates - zip lining down a huge building, western movie sets and a car museum. Really? Those were her ideal dates? Not sure about Jillian. ha! I was wondering......I know most of you are married but if you weren't and YOU were the bachelorette (or if you were planning a dream date with your husband) - what would it be? I know for sure mine would NOT combine climbing tall buildings or car museums. And if you ARE single - I'd really love to hear........!
Mine would obviously be an SEC football game, shopping in NYC, and maybe just good old Chili's and a round of putt putt.
Right now ....... just eating together at the same time at the same table would be amazing. ha!

P.S. Jillian wasn't my favorite last season but she is really cute. She has amazing style. She is kind of my fashion idol right now. If I was only that tiny...........I'll keep plugging on the Crystal Light. ha!

Monday Madness

Harper and I have had a busy day but nothing really much to blog about. We took a long walk this morning, made Daddy his P90X lunch and dinner, got our oil changed, dropped of dry cleaning, and browsed Hobby Lobby and ran into two blogger friends Ashley and Katie. And in between we did a lot of eating, burping (Harper - not me), and diaper changes.
I just had to share this picture because it's Harper's new thing. She wrinkles up her nose when she smiles. She also sometimes shrugs her little shoulders AND wrinkles her nose as if to say "Oh look at little me - I'm so cute and so shy". I also realized tonight that she has not one but TWO teeth coming in. I'm not sure how long it will take them to be all the way in but I can't wait until I can take a picture of our little bunny with her bottom two teeth.

Thank you SOOOOO much for all of the comments telling me I look thin. Sometimes I feel like a big blob of mess - with crazy hair and covered in drool, spit up and sometimes poop. (Yes Harper has projectile POOPED on me twice today.) I will say that breast feeding is the best workout program known to man. And pretty weather making me want to take Harper on a ton of walks is my other friend. I still have some weight to lose but I appreciate you being so sweet. I'm afraid how I look has taken a complete back seat these days. And I could care less. I worried about how I looked in my 20's so much I am so glad to be OVER that. I'm thankful for my 30's - because I've reached a point where I like to look nice but I'm not constantly beating myself up about it.

For the next 2 weeks - I am taking a little challenge by the people of Crystal Light and trying to drop my Coke habit (the sweet little caffieneted drink from Atlanta - not a drug) and drink more water (made much more pleasant by crystal light). I REALLY need to make that change so I'm going to be blogging over the next 2 days on how it's going HERE and I would love for any of you to challenge yourselves and drop the Coke/Diet Coke/Dr. Pepper habit for a week. Sonic may have to contact the government and declare bankruptcy but my body will thank me.

• Also - a sweet blogger has asked for prayers for her cousin, Rance, who was recently involved in an accident that has left him a quadreplegic.

• And pray for this family - this wife lost her husband in a Navy helicopter accident - they have three children under the age of 3 including a 3 week old baby.

• Pray for Brian and Jennifer - last week they lost their first baby Caswell at 38 weeks in utero. They are both in their late 30's and I know this is a huge loss to them.
  

A Weekend of Firsts and some prayer requests

I hope ya'll had a good weekend. We have had the most beautiful weather this weekend. We tried to get outside as much as we could. We also had a few more "firsts" this weekend. Besides Harper's first tooth coming in...............

We took our first FAMILY walk at the "park" as we call it. Daddy, Mommy, Harper and Dawson. I'm pretty sure Dawson enjoyed it the most. It was nice to get out and do something as a family of 4. ha!
This morning, Harper had her FIRST day in the church nursery!!!! Here we are before church. Everyone working there said she did really good. Our Sunday School is after church so I went in between to feed her and when she saw me - she flashed the biggest smile. It was the greatest thing EVER. She fell asleep before she barely ate anything. So I took her back and let her sleep in one of the cribs during Sunday School. When we went to get her - they told me she had just woken up and was just laying there so happy and she was. And then I figured out why. She had pooped ALL OVER herself and the bed. Probably the worst blow out of all times. What is it with me and POOP???? ha!
Is this not the cutest little sailor you've ever seen? Her JiJi got her this cute outfit - she looked so precious in it!
Church wore this girl OUT! We came home and I fed her and she slept for 2.5 hours. This girl NEVER naps so we are looking forward to more Sunday naps we hope! ha!
(it looks like she is wearing her bib like a cape. ha!)
This afternoon - Scott's aunt and uncle and his little cousin Drew came to visit us. They were in town to see his aunt's brother and his family. I love this picture of Drew - it's so cool with the background all blurred!

This is their family - thanks for coming to see us and Harper!

Before I move on to a few prayer requests - can I just address a little issue?? If you know me at all - you know I love dresses. Especially in the summer. Last week I got a couple of new dresses at T J Maxx and Target. One of which I wore today. Several of you have asked me how I handle that with nursing. Well - I don't. I am not a fan of skirts and shirts or pants and shirts and I have tried to convert but I miss dresses. So I rebel and wear them anyway. And that works fine at home. But when I get to church and realize that I need to nurse and the only way is to hike my dress up to my neck - it's not a good thing. (Don't worry - I was alone in the room). Thank goodness for the hooter hider (great invention of basically a big drape you put over you that hides everything) and a private nursing room. And I don't want to buy special nursing dresses. Because I just don't. So I guess I'll just deal with it. ha!

Here are a few prayer requests sent my way recently. Some have blogs and some don't. I'm afraid a lot requests get lost among my comments and e-mails so if you have one you need me to get out - my e-mail is now on my profile. Please put "prayer request" in the subject.

• Gram's neice is 20 weeks pregnant - baby possibly has down's syndrome and is going to a specialist tomorrow
• Christi - after 2 years of trying to get pregnant - finally did and at the last Dr visit - there was no heartbeat
• Sarah - baby born at 27 weeks to a pastor in Louisiana
• Avery - this baby is from my area and is currently in AR children's NICU. She was born with a heart defect and had surgery this weekend. She has been on my heart because she has been on ECMO and Harper was just hours away from being on that and I just can't imagine. I pray that she has the same healing that my sweet girl had. She is very critical today and they need your prayers.

Don't forget that the blog world is a WONDERFUL outlet of prayer but if you have a need - one of the best places to go to is your church family and your immediate friends and family. Those that know and love you. If you don't have a church family - I urge you to find one. God meant for us to have fellowship with other believers and to have a place to gather to learn about Him and worship Him. It doesn't take place of your personal relationship with Christ but it's an important part of that relationship.