that bird just don't cut it...

ok, i'll warn you upfront, don't get excited, although very cute these beauties are very overpriced. ok, well still we can admire from afar can we not?

cuties of the day:



and this sucker is my favorite of all times:


guess how much that beauty is?
$8, yea, that'd be great.
$12 I might pay for that
$17 maybe on the list for a stocking stuffer
oh no, this baby is $39! how rediculous is that?

for the love. oh well that's why we are admiring from afar. To check out more cute stuff you will wish you could buy, look here.

things that make you go Mmmmmm...

alright, i admit, i was doing some blog stalking the other day and was browsing Heather's friend Kellie's blog.

Here i found a most amazing, ingenious and brave project I am prompted to share with you all. Kellie was inspired by the decor in a Fossil catalog and decided that she could reproduce the beauty in her own home. So, she grabbed a paint pen and started drawing on her walls, at 7pm. Yes, started drawing on her walls with a pen, at 7pm. Now, this is a girl after my own heart. Click here for the story.

Here's one quick shot of the finished project...amazing!

Other thing i found i love...

these alphabet stamps...they are great, i can't copy a picture since it's in flash, but click here to see them in all their glory. Lots of cool artsy stuff on this site....mmmmm, love it. some of it is a bit too scrap-booky for my taste but the design is good.

here are some other great pics that make me smile. all from this site.

gotta love the Dr.

i want to wear an old over sized dress and a big hat and go here...

just because...

oh, so cute kid toys...

ok. that's all for today folks. enjoy.

Catch up

Well, we have a lot to catch up on, eh? As you super-observant observers might have noticed the ultrasound was dated in March so as of now I have made it to the highly anticipated and sought-after land mark of 14 weeks. (large collective sigh).

You probably want to thank me that you haven't been subjected to blog posts regarding those last 10 or so weeks. Yea...I'll give you a quick little over view and you'll understand. But first, some FAQ's...

1. How far along are you?
-ok, you haven't been listening, i'm 14 weeks, try to pay attention.

2. Why did you wait so long to make the announcement?
-well when your friends and family are spread all over it makes telling everyone harder. We told my family at 8 weeks and Trevor's at 10 (during appropriately placed vacations). Then we had to tell friends and really when you feel like dying you don't feel like calling to share good news that much so it took a lot longer.

3. How are you feeling?
-ok, you asked for it...let's just say this was 1,934,996,795 times harder then i'd ever imagined. I was sick, very, very sick. I wanted to die for about 6 weeks. I'm not being dramatic, i really wanted to die. It was horrible, awful and every evil bad word you can think of. That's the hard truth folks. Ok, well the good news is i've slowly been returning to the land of the living. I'm feeling good most of the time and even though i still don't have much energy, it's TONS better then I was and i'm so incredibly grateful.

4.When do you find out if you are having a boy or a girl?
-In 3 weeks! Isn't that crazy?! Yea, technology man, it rocks. So yea, very excited about that.

5. What do you want, or think you are having?
-Jenn, please ask Ella so i can answer this question appropriately. ;) I think we are having a boy and we would prefer a boy first. But then i think about having a girl and i want a girl. I think either way i'm going to be disappointed. If it's a boy then i'll go, "Oh, i wanted a girl", and if it's a girl I'll go "Oh, i wanted a boy". And no, don't even think it, there is ONE baby in there!

6. What's your due date?
- October 28th. Our 4th anniversary is October 8th, Kaley's birthday is October 11th, our niece Autumn's 1st birthday will be October 16th and Chaz's is November 1st...not to mention Halloween (which i refuse to have the baby on) so lots of dates to work around there.

7. What will the baby's favorite color be?
-What? that's not a frequently asked question? Fine. but the answer is still blue. ;)

ok, did i miss anything? everything? Who knows, i'm new at this so fill me in peeps!

Baby Baby

Baby, baby I’m taken with the notion
To love you with the sweetest of devotion.
Baby, baby My tender love will flow from
The bluest sky to the deepest ocean.
Stop for a minute Baby, I’m so glad you’re mine.

Baby, baby The stars are shining for you
And just like me I’m sure that they adore you.
Baby, baby Go walking through the forest
The birds above a’ singing you a chorus.

Stop for a minuteBaby, they’re so glad you’re mine
And ever since the day you put my heart in motion
Baby I realize that there’s just no getting over you.

Baby, baby In any kind of weather
I’m here for you always and forever.
Baby, baby No muscle man could sever
My love for you is true and it will never

Stop for a minute Baby, I’m so glad you’re mine
And ever since the day you put my heart in motion
Baby I realize that there’s just no getting over you.
And ever since the day you put my heart in motion
Baby I realize that there’s just no getting over you.

Baby, baby Always and forever
Baby I’m so glad that glad you’re mine
When I think about you it makes me smile
Baby, baby be mine


I'm understanding this song better every day.

picture of the day...

Canon Rebel take 1: Easter

Back by popular demand....

short update:
-had a great birthday
-got a Canon Rebel (what?! oh yea!)
-took some awesome pictures at easter (see below) and for the record i have NOT photoshopped these pictures in any way. I am mentioning this because once my training with Heather starts you will begin to notice a huge improvement and so i did not alter them at all to better show the vast range of my hopeful improvement. so consider these the before pictures...taken in auto mode without any adjustment of such things as ISO or other acronyms i don't yet understand. I did post the best ones though and not all the duds, but still...ok enough intro, there the are..

enjoy!

the beautiful bird cake Em made for my birthday... hard to tell at this angle but it's a bird on a branch on top.


Emily's Titus with his one easter egg...


Heidi's Avery with Kyle looking for eggs...


Em's Isabelle checking the candy content of her eggs...


Heidi's Maddy sharing her one egg with Izzy...


this is my favorite shot of the day...


all that excitement and no candy in her egg!


comparing and collecting


Sweet Maddy...

Birthday....snow??!

Come on spring, are you gonna let winter treat you like this? It's April for crying out loud! Apparently Spring doesn't care because it's April 7th and it's snowing. Yes, snowing, in Chattanooga. It doesn't even snow here in January, oh but it will snow in April, right when you don't want it to. sigh...

Reminds me of my (11th?, 12th?) birthday. I had it all planned out. All my best buds were going to come over and it was going to be super warm (not sure how i had deluded myself into thinking it would be super warm in April in Virginia) and we would all get to go swimming. So, i called all my friends to have them bring their bathing suits for the big swim party i never got to have. I think my birthday was on a Saturday that year (isn't that the greatest?) so everyone spent the night on Friday and we woke up Birthday morning to....snow. Oh yes, the dreaded birthday snow. We got a good 3-4 inches too. (I am very hesitant to include any details in this story since i know Becky will be reading it and has a memory like a brainiac elephant...go ahead and correct me where i'm wrong, B. ;)

I wish i had the picture of all of us girls with our snow covered clothes smiling through the glass doors to post here....no idea where that sucker is... ahhhh, memories.

Anyway, needless to say, we did not have swim party, nor have I ever had a birthday swim party, oh how i envied Naomi and Jaime and their summer birthdays.... ;)

Well, tomorrow's the big day. the big day. if it's snowing today can i expect super warm weather tomorrow? somehow i think i should not get my hopes up...