Tenley's First Christmas!

We had so much fun!! It's so sad that it is over already...geez now waiting another year? Anyway, Tenley made out pretty well with the total of 9 parties that we attended.  Yes, 9. I love my family, but sometimes this gets a bit exhasuting.
Here are some pictures from the weekend!

She was really into the pretty paper!

She thought it was pretty cool that the toy was playing music.

My cousins and I.  Each baby is about 8 weeks apart.  Starting with the oldest, left to right.

Tenley's new hat. She just looked so darn cute in it.

Just looking at her brings tears to my eyes. When I married Justin, I thought to myself...how could I ever love anyone more than him? Now that Tenley is here, I can't imagine loving anyone as much as I do her.  It's crazy! I can't wait to give her more than I got as a child. I can't wait to show her how to do daily chores. I can't wait to watch her play sports or whatever she chooses to do! I can't wait to tell her everyday just how much I love her and I can't wait for her to understand just how much she means to me and Justin.

Busy Weekend...whew.

First let me start off by saying that I love my family.  I really do.  However, this weekend was a little much. You ever have those weekends that you need another day to rest from your weekend? Yep, this was that kind of weekend and I completely know that the rest of the month will be this way too.Sigh.

Anyway, it started out with cookie day!  For those of you (basically all of you) who do not know what cookie day is: It is the greatest day  of the year.  My whole family gets together and bake cookies from about 8am-8pm. Give or take. This year we broke our record and made 229 dozen. Holllerrrrrr! Here are some photos from that crazy day:

My momma.

My brother giving the kids a blanket ride!

Little kids frosting cookies (I did not give these to people lol)



Counting the cookies




Christmas Wreaths!



Justin and my sister.  She is 20 weeks pregnant! :)



Tenley :)

Taking some time out to play with T.


Sunday, we had our first Christmas party! It was a lot of fun and the food is fabulous! Here are some photos from it:

Tenley and me :)

She wasn't too sure about him, but went along with it. ha

My immediate family.

After the party, we celebrated my dad's birthday.  Here are my nieces with Tenley.  So stinkin cute.

Sorry so many pictures, but it was so fun and Tenleys first!  Have to document it!

4 Month shots= Fail!

Tenley had her 4 month shots Last week and it did not go well at all.  She was screaming the entire time and I could just not get her to settle down.  It was sad and I felt so helpless. Afterword, I layed in bed with her until she fell asleep and Justin took off work to stay home with her. He is so great.  He has not once complained  about watching her while I am gone or watching her while I run errands.  Tenley is so lucky to have him...I am too.   Here is T after her shots, this face seemed a bit permanent for about an hour. :( boooo

Also, Tenley has been a little sick lately.  She has an extremely stuffy nose which makes her not able to sleep very well. I am also on pins and needles because I get so nervous she will choke on that nasty stuff.  Last night she was a sport...extremely happy through out the evening.  Night time- not so much.  Justin and I were up from 1:30a till we had to go to work. Eeek.

Here is T with Justins college baseball stocking cap on.  Go Dragons!

I have so much to be thankful for...

Seriously. Let me start off by saying thank you, God for letting me go through my past. If it weren't for my previous 6 year relationship with my high school sweetheart, I would not have married Justin.  Therefore, I would not have my beautiful daughter, Tenley. So, thank you to the man above for making me waste my time with that guy.

On that note, here is my awesome family.

If Justin were to read this, I would tell him how much I appreciate and love him.  I appreciate him:
-Taking the time to be an amazing father to Tenley
-Putting her and I first
-Cleaning the house
-Working at a job that he hates so much to provide for us
-Not leaving me during pregnancy because I was so crazy (literally)
-Being extremely dependable

I'm really trying to get better at telling him this often. It may sound annoying and sappy, but he truly is wonderful. Ok, I'm done talking about him lol

If Tenley were to read this, I would tell her how much I love and enjoy every second I am with her. I could sit here and make a list of all the things  I love about her, but that would go on and on. She is amazing though and is the main reason I now drive better when  I am by myself (and with her in the car). Justin and I are incredibly blessed to have such a healthy/happy baby. wow. Here is my baby eating cereal for the first time :)

I hope everyone had a great holiday!

Obsessed much?

My mother in laws 50th birthday was this weekend.  She is absolutely obsessed with the wizard of oz and has a huge book case full of collectibles. So, my IL's and I decided to do a surprise Wizard of Oz themed birthday party.  We might have gone a little over board, but she loved it! 

Justin was the scarecrow. ha.

We had the party at our local bowling alley. There were close to 100 people that showed up! Tenley is sleeping on my chest in this pic.  It wore her out!

On a Tenley note: We put her in the saucer this past week.  At first she didn't like, but as soon as Justin started hitting one of the toys with his forehead, Tenley opened up with laughter.

Extreme Couponing is not for me.

So, I had a horrible experience at Kroger the other day.  My friend told me that I could use 3 coupons per one item.  She has been doing it for the last month, so I decided to try it.  Shopped for an hour..got to check out adn the cashier say's they will be checking all coupons and the limit is one per item.  Apparently they were giving giftcards to the extreme couponers (my friend) because she would go over in coupons.  The cashier almost lost his job. Needless to say I walked out because the amount would be almost $400.  No thank you. Just to give you an idea- this is what my cart looked like.

I went to wal-mart last night and price matched a ton of stuff on top my coupons.  I ended up saving almost $50.  Not bad for my first time :) I will continue to do that...no extreme couponing for this girl!  If anyone has any good tricks let me know!

On a side note: Tenley slept from 8:30p-5:00a! Here is the big girl after her 5am bottle.

So much for keeping up with the blog.

Yes, it has been sometime.  Not like anyone is reading it lol. I guess I am just doing this for myself. A lot has happened! Of course, we had our beautiful little girl, Tenley. She is amazing...I never could imagine loving someone so much. Every day she makes my life more interesting and I'm so thankful for every minute I get to spend with her.  Justin is wonderful. He amazes me everyday and is such an awesome daddy. Tenley is really lucky to have such an incredible father...one day she will know this.

Here is our little family the day after she was born.  The labor was pretty eventful.  I labored for almost 24 hours...switching positions frequently. I was 8cm when Tenleys heart rate kept going down...I had to be on my hands and knees for about an hour when they decided they had to do a c section. It sucked...I cried...a lot. I was worried about her and about having the surgery.  All in all it went well, but the recovery was awful.

Here is Tenley's first smile. Talk about completely melting your heart.  That was amazing and I am so thankful I got to witness it first.  This is her at one month. :)

Here she is at 2 months! Her smile is so beautiful!

Here we are today at 3 months! I can't believe ho w fast it has gone....seriously...3 months?? The best 3 months of my life, thats for sure.

Here is daddy with his little girl. Never expected him to be so great to be honest.  I knew he would love his daughter but wow...words can NOT express how lucky Tenley and I am for him.

I really hope I remember to keep this up.  I really want to.  Maybe I should put a reminder on my phone or something..hmmm...

Oh my!

How far along: 21 weeks

Weight gain/loss: Still 18lbs

Maternity clothes: All the time

Sleep: Still not sleeping well.

Best moment this week: My husband felt the baby kick!

Food cravings: Any!

Gender: Girl!

What I'm missing: My old body

What I'm looking forward to: Getting the baby furniture in!

Half Baked!

How far along: 20 weeks

Weight gain/loss: 19lbs eek.

Maternity clothes: Always

Sleep: Getting really hard to fall asleep

Best moment this week: Just feeling her kick more often throughout the day/night

Food cravings: Any food.

Gender: Girl!

What I'm missing: Having a small bladder.

What I'm looking forward to: My next appointment!

19 Weeks :)

How far along: 19 weeks

Weight gain/loss: Still 15lbs

Maternity clothes: Always

Sleep: What sleep?

Best moment this week: Feeling her kick harder :) also, finding out she is healthy :)

Food cravings: Any food.

Gender: Girl!

What I'm missing: Tanning!

What I'm looking forward to: Being half baked ;)

18 Weeks

How far along: 18 weeks

Weight gain/loss: up a total of 15 lbs...wowey

Maternity clothes: Yes!  Im showing really quickly.

Sleep: not so good

Best moment this week: Feeling baby kick!

Food cravings: Any food.

Gender: Girl! They could tell early!

What I'm missing: Being nice to my husband :(

What I'm looking forward to: anatomy scan Monday!!!

geez..I really gotta get better at this.

Again, playing catch up.  We had an early ultrasound at an u/s clinic about an hour away from our house that typically only does gender predictions.  Well, Justin and I made an appointment to find out the gender and get measurements and everything.  The baby looked great! Moving around like crazy...to our suprise it was hard finding out the sex because she wanted to be a little lady and cross her legs!  Yep, a little lady :)  We're so over the moon happy! I mean either way we would have been thrilled, but wow...a little girl!  Just feel extremely blessed.  We also got a ton of pictures...and some 3d ones as well.   It was really cool to see Justin excited...he knows that she will be a daddy's girl and he couldnt be any happier. :)

Here is our little angel. :)

Gotta play catch up..

I started this blog because I thought it would be fun to keep up with the pregnancy and I also just love reading everyone elses :) Anyways, I haven't been doing a good job at it..but it's my goal to have an "interesting" blog. 

In the beginning of December, we had our first ultrasound and everything looked wonderful! I thought the heart beat was low, but the Dr. said that was ok.  Baby was measuring just one day behind..which is normal, right?

My dr. said she wanted to see me again in a few weeks so, we scheduled the next one on December 29th.  I was really nervous because over Christmas I was really sick and not keeping any fluids in me.  Luckily, I have a bad ass Dr. and she couldnt wait to do an u/s to check things out. 

Baby was measuring at exactly 9 weeks with a strong heart beat! The nausea is definitely paying off. We scheduled our next appointment where we will get to finally hear the heartbeat not just see it.  It's January 21st and I can hardly wait.