DPP December 2

Today, December 2, 2010 I celebrate 4 WONDERFUL years of marriage to the MOST amazing man in the world! It has been such an adventure....lots of laughs.....LOTS of tears....lots of fun....TONS of Blessings! These have truly been the best 4 years of my life! We have moved 4 different times...lived in 3 different states.....moved across country 2 times.....welcomed 1 perfect little girl into our lives and are about to welcome our 2nd! I am so truly blessed to be married to such a loving man who spoils me...loves me no matter what....supports me....encourages me....laughs at me and with me.....Josh you truly are the BEST friend, husband and father I could have ever hoped and dreamed for!

Enough with the sappy talk and on to the gift...which is what my picture is today....in the words of my friend Rachel "You are just as spoiled as Adah!" :

This morning (Josh leaves before I wake up) I got up to this sitting on the kitchen counter and immediately said "Joshua Michael, you are in so much trouble!":

This is what was inside:
I LOVE MY HUSBAND and I LOVE that he spoils me on occasion! I have been wanting an anchor charm/necklace for a long time....to me it just has a lot of meaning to me being married to a sailor!

Quick update on baby D2: We still do not have a name! AAAHHH I know...I need to hurry because I found out yesterday that I will be induced on DEC 22! Thats right just 3 short weeks away...thats if she doesn't come before then! So if all goes well we will be home and spending Christmas with 2 sweet girls!

The hubby is finally home so I am going to go spend 30mins with him before its time to go to bed!

December Photo Project!

We all know that I am not good at keeping up with the blog lately but in my effort to strive to be like Rachel and super cool and good at keeping up my blog I have to decided to join the December Photo Project! Yes, Rachel is doing it too so be sure to check out her daily pictures as well!

The plan is or the purpose of the December Photo Project is to post 1 new picture every day for the entire month of December! I am sure that once the new little princess gets here I will have more than one picture a day and I am hoping that I will have time to post 1 little picture a day!

Here goes nothing! Hoping I can keep it up!

** If you would like to join in on the fun just click the December Photo Project sign here or on the side of my page!**

December 1 photo:

The smallest Christmas tree EVER! This is our new tree for the rest of this year....let me just give you a little history on why we have a little tree! When we first moved to VA the end of October I went ahead and put up or Christmas tree since we are living in a much smaller place for the time being and I didn't want Christmas boxes just sitting in the living room until we decided to put them up bc we would be storing them off the property in a storage facility....well...a few days ago(Val and Rachel may say that I deserved it) our nice big tree just snapped in half and fell to its death! I really didn't want to get another large tree that we would just use for a few weeks and then put in storage so I wasn't going to get one at all...but I have to think about Adah now and that sweet little face and how much she loved the tree and Santa etc so her and I went out today and bought a little 4 foot pre lit tree!

Friday's Fab Five

Not too much exciting this week but here are a few (5) exciting happenings:

1. It was SUPER warm here on Monday so after Adah's nap(or her pathetic attempt at one) her and I headed out for ice cream and some fun at the park. We went to a different park this time...but it is one that we have been to several times! It is called Forest of Fun! It is a HUGE fenced in play area surrounded by trees! Of course Adah has no interest in the play structures but absolutely LOVES to chase the squirrels!

Here is Adah on one of her attempts to catch a squirrel!

2. On Tuesday we went to story time again and like before Adah loved to read all the books in the store! I found several cute ones that I want to get her....my most favorite is Tickle Monster and I want the gift set that comes with the tickle monster gloves! Adah's favorite and another one I want to get her is Llama Llama Red Pajamas! This week we read 2 really cute Thanksgiving stories and the kids got to color a picture of a turkey...Adah was so much interested in the coloring as she was taking out all the crayons and playing with them!

3. For the first time since Josh started back to work, he made it home for dinner on Wednesday! He actually came home WAY before dinner...he was home by 3! Since I didn't plan anything for dinner cause I didn't expect him to be home we decided to go out and eat and celebrate our Thanksgiving a night early at Cracker Barrel!

Adah playing with the toys!

She HAD to have the cornbread...even though she has never seen nor had it before! She also tried fried okra for the first time and loved it! She must be a true southern girl at heart!

4. Since we just moved to VA and don't really know many people and I am unable to travel due to the fact that I could have this baby any second....it was just the three of us for Thanksgiving this year! We enjoyed dinner the night before like I mentioned and just spend Thanksgiving hanging out around the house and getting things ready for the new baby! We did take a look at the paper and all the ads....Adah even had to look through most of them....but we didn't see anything worth waking a sleeping baby over to go out with all the crazies!

Adah checking out the Toys R Us ad to see if there was anything she NEEDED!

5. We got most of our Christmas shopping done for Adah today and I got ALL my shopping done for Josh (that includes Anniversary, his Birthday, and Christmas)! We also got the babies bed set up and her room pretty much all together! Now we just need her to decide to come!

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Friday Fab Five

I have decided to copy by BF Rachel because she is just so awesome! No but really she is so good at keeping up with her blog each week and I have decided to strive to be as good as her so therefore I am going to copy her and do a Friday Fab 5 and share 5 FABULOUS things each week! If you haven't yet checked out her blog you should because her son(Adah's boyfriend and future husband) is one CUTE dude! You can check out her blog HERE!

Now on to my FAB 5 for the week:

1) I have been trying some new recipes lately and on Monday I tried this new Taco soup recipe that a friend had on her FB and had gotten of THIS blog! It was SOOO easy and YUMMY and Adah even LOVED it!



2) On Tuesday Adah and I went to the Virginia Beach Aquarium with our new friend Stephanie and her daughter Caitlyn! Caitlyn is about to turn 2 and her mommy Stephanie is due 1 month to the day after me with another little girl...not to mention they are from TEXAS! Stephanie has a membership to the Aquarium so we were able to go for free! The girls LOVED it and followed each other around and would even walk around holding hands! It was the cutest thing EVER! After walking through half of the aquarium we decided that it was time for a picnic lunch! After lunch we loaded the girls up and headed over to a cupcake place were Stephanie had a Groupon for(check out groupon HERE!) and we each got 3 YUMMY cupcakes!

These are my cupcakes: peanut butter chocolate, red velvet, and Vanilla bean

Adah checking out the fish!

3) On Wednesday I had my 34 week OB appointment and finally met the other doctor in the practice and really liked her alot! Adah went with me to the appointment and was a complete ANGEL! Looks like baby girl #2 is measuring a week ahead and completely healthy! I go back on the 1st of December and start going every week after that! We found out that this OB practice does not like for you to go past your due date so at my next appointment they will have a date on the calendar for me to be induced given that the little princess hasn't come by then! I'm hoping that she stays put and they induce around the 20-21st! I am TERRIFIED to go into labor on my own since I was induced with Adah a week early! I am however thankful that I have had little to no swelling and no issues with my blood pressure this pregnancy. The OB here has been running a lot of tests and keeping a close eye on me so that she can catch it early on if I start to have signs of pre eclampsia again! I am even still wearing my wedding rings which is AMAZING since I wasn't even wearing them halfway through my second trimester with Adah! I know people keep asking and think that we may be telling some and not others but believe it or not we do NOT have a name for our little peanut yet! We have a few we keep throwing around and nothing seems right to me yet. Hopefully I will like a name by the time I see her! haha! I want uncommon/not popular names....I hate that there are a MILLION people with mine and Josh's name! If you haveing any good ideas of unique or uncommon girl names feel free to share....

4) Also on Tuesday Adah had her 18mth well baby check up! I wouldn't exactly classify this as a FABULOUS event by any means but it was exciting to find out some more accurate states on her. She is quite the growing girl! We did find out that her stats from last week were off bc she is such a squirmer and HATES the doctor! She is 27lbs (80%) and 32.5 inches tall(95%) and I don't remember the exact measurement of her head but I know she was in the 75%! It was quite the eventful 2 hours at the doctor...like I mentioned she HATES the doctor and to be touched.....she cried all but 15 combined minutes of the entire 2 hours! She even had to have blood drawn from her arm for the first time and it took me and 4 other nurses to pin her down so they could get the blood! The good thing is she no longer has to take a vitamin with iron in it...at her 9mth check up they said she was slightly anemic(sp) and she is no longer so we can stop the iron vitamin! After getting blood drawn she had to get her Hep A shot...but thank God she doesn't have to get anymore shots until she is 4....of course other than the seasonal flu shot each year :(!

Here is her little bandage from getting blood drawn! Poor girl!

5) Thursday and today we have tried to get out and about and enjoy the weather and outdoors! Yesterday we went to toddler story time at Barnes and Nobles! It was our first time to go to anything like that and Adah loved it! She got to color and hear a story and her and I walked around and read books for what seemed like forever to me but she could have sat there all day and never gotten tired of reading! Adah LOVES to read...she plays with her books more than any other toy she has. She even refuses to get in the bath at night because all she wants to do is read....so now we have to read 2 books to her while she is in the bath in order for us to get her in there and for her to let us wash her! Today Adah and I checked out another local park in the are...this one is on a lake and was so pretty! You have to walk down a short trail through the trees to get there but I think that was Adah's favorite part because she loves trees and got to pick up leaves! We can't wait to go back to the park (hopefully this weekend) and show daddy!

Hope you enjoyed our first Fab 5!