GIVE-A-WAY!!!!!!!!!!

Who doesn't like a giveaway, seriously? Well my friend "Low" is doing a giveaway on her blog (click on "Lorinda" on the blog list to the right) of food storage!!! And who couldn't use some food storage-you know what I'm sayin'? Especially with the way the economy is going and such. So go to her blog and enter!!! Good luck, but seriously, I want to win, so don't enter a lot, k? :)

It's Raining, It's Pouring..............

It's been doing a lot of this lately..................


And looking like this...............


maybe you can relate. The rain seems to be giving Kris a complex. You see, we seem to take it with us wherever we go. Both Alabama and Georgia (before we moved to each place) had been suffering from droughts. The first three-four months we have been here it has rained. A couple we go to church with-their farm flooded and they had to go out and rescue their horses in boats!! The same thing happened when we were in Alabama. Maybe that is a good way to predict where we will move next, what area is suffering a drought, hmmmmm...... I digress.

Back to the story, I can only take so many Thomas the Train movies, if you know what I mean. So we have been trying to be more creative.

We have played Old MacDonald....


Played superheroes (who like to eat grapes).......


Jumped on the bed (well, Abram did, he tried to get me to do it-uh yah-sorry you didn't need the visual. And no, of course I didn't-I didn't need an early baby or a blow to my self esteem when I broke the bed.)



Tonight we even put up a tent and played.......




Hope you all have been making the most of your rainy days. Anyone hear of any sunshine coming this week?

Getting Ready for Reese..........

We ordered a dresser with a changing table on top. Kris and Abram put it together. Abram was adamant about helping saying "Abram help! Abram fix it!". I LOVE it, except they forgot to package the knobs. However, the customer service department is amazing and now they are on their way!




More "helping".......


AND I am FINALLY finished with Reese's quilt!!!!! YAY!! I am really happy with the way it turned out (my first quilt so please don't look too close). You have to love (sarcasm) when your camera shows every lint piece and makes the thread stand out as if reflective-it looks better in person, I promise! And yes, I did cut every square and strip out and sewed it by myself, I know, you are shocked, and impressed-go ahead....soak it in :). Autographs later.....




And here is a sneak peek of the nursery/guest room. I still need to make the bed skirt-I just put the material I am using down there to see what it'll look like.


There are a few more things to do (okay, maybe a lot more), but we will be working on them this weekend. At my doc appointment this week we talked about my c-section being on April 22nd!! I don't have much further to go!!!!!

So Fun......

I am feeling lazy about blogging today, my friend Desi put this on her blog and I tried it, it was so cute! So feel free to copy me like I copied her! Thanks Desi!

1. Go to www.flickr.com
2. Type in your answer to the question in the "search" box
3. Use only the first page
4. Copy the html and paste for the answer.

1. What is your name?


2. What is your favorite food?


3. What is your favorite color?


4. Favorite Drink?


5. Dream vacation?


6. Favorite dessert?


7. What do you want to be when you grow up?


8. What do you love most in life?


9. One word to describe you?


10. What do you dream about?

He Thinks He's Human........

......no, really he does.

What? Huh? Ethan?

I have been cutting Abram's hair for over a year now. Usually I do okay, but this last time it grew out a little funky. So I decided to take him to the Barber Shop. Mind you the last time we went to the Barber Shop he was a year old and it was VERY TRAUMATIC (which is why I have been cutting his hair, not to mention it saves money). SO we met Kris on his lunch break and thought maybe Abram would do better if Daddy got his hair cut too.

This was not the case.

Although we didn't get the screaming, bucking bronco of his visit at a year old; the crying was definitely present and he would not wear the "cape" either. Nor would he sit in the chair, so Kris held him while I waved suckers at him telling him he could have one when he was all done. Well, the lady doing the haircut could not hear to save her life.

This I did not realize.

I told her I wanted it short on the sides and longer on top (you know typical little boy haircut). She nodded and agreed and then it hit me when she started with the clippers on top of his head and even though she asked 3 times what his name was, she kept calling him Ethan. This was followed by asking how excited he was to have a little sister, when even the lady sitting next to her was yelling, "He's having a BROTHER!" I tried to be brave, I tried not to cry. I had to hold it in because Abram cried enough for both of us. So now, he pretty much has a shaved head, which I could have done for free. It'll grow, I know :(. And as you can see, with sucker in hand, he could care less. As a fun fact, while the lady was cutting Kris's hair she commented on how their heads are shaped the same.

Right before the cut, tears are starting already...... (oh and to be fair, she brushed his hair forward-it wasn't as bad as it looks)



After...we has to take off his shirt because of all the hair.


Maybe this why I don't like the "shaved look", he looks like he is 4.



Although Kris might kill me for this one (good thing he isn't regular blog checker) I had to post it because Abram was making the same expression!!!

I Have THE BESTEST Friends E-VER........

I mentioned before that it has been a hard week. One of those weeks where you probably need to talk about it, but you would rather be sad and not talk about it, or better yet play the avoiding game. I admit, I am pretty good at it. So today when my doorbell rang during nap time and I ran (yes ran, sorry for the visual) to the door to KILL whoever it would be ringing my doorbell, I found this:



And then I smiled because it had Reese's name on it (I know that they know me too well).......


And then I smiled because the best kind of friends know that when you are hurting and don't feel like talking, chocolate always helps..........



I love you guys, and miss you more than I can say. Wish I could be at the reunion this weekend.

And again........my doctor might just kill me.

"Pi Day"

I have some friends here that celebrate "Pi Day", meaning March 14th (get it- 3.14) well they were telling me about this family tradition and how it started as a joke, etc etc. But basically the jist is, once a year on "Pi Day" all they do is eat pies-for every meal. Although a bit cheesy, I thought it was an awesome tradition to do with your kiddos (and I thought of you Low). Well, their weekend was kinda crazy so they decided to celebrate it a bit late and invited us over last night-




My doctor is going to kill me.......

Tennesse Aquarium

Our family (along with extended family) has been going through some hard things lately, nothing that I feel like blogging about. We have been spending a lot of "family time" this past week, which has helped a lot.

On Saturday we drove to Chattanooga and went to the aquarium. Abram LOVES aquariums! I hadn't been to this one in over 10 years. It didn't seem like much had changed. Abram loved it, except for the butterflies. He liked them when they were still, but once they started flying around and landing on him, it was a whole different story. I prefer the one in Gatlinburg over this one, however we still had a lot of fun and it was fun just being together. Although, I don't recommend going if you are 34 weeks pregnant because you will suffer for it the next day (all of the walking). It was the perfect rainy day activity, I love my boys.

BIG Mama...........

So you know when you are pregnant, and you are getting pretty close, and everyone obnoxious person in the world-you just so happen to run into? You know the ones, they say, "Are you sure there is just one in there?" or "When are you due? OOhh, you look like you could go ANY DAY NOW." Or the famous phrase of the South "Well bless your heart." So I have been running into those people everywhere. I asked Kris to take a pic of me at 34 weeks and 1 day (this past Saturday) and this is what I got. It was then that I realized why they were saying such things. I laughed when I looked at the pic, because it all makes sense why the doctor asked, "How big was your first baby?" when I replied, "7 lbs 11.6 oz." she said in disbelief, "Really?!"

The best part is that I am wearing one of those tank tops underneath that suck you in and support-so I am not even unleashing the "full bigness".

SO Much For Being "Thrifty"........

The past week, Abram has been falling out of his bed. He is the biggest wiggle worm EVER when he sleeps. No big deal, except for when we go in to get him-Kris is the muscle, I am the comforter-he gets hysterical and won't go back to bed. Which leads to him sleeping with us, which leads to him trying to play for an hour, then falling asleep, then wiggling all over the bed and kicking the one next to him, which leads to the one next to him waking up with a dinosaur in the back-you get the picture. I thought maybe it's just a phase sorta thing, until it happened over and over again. We thought we could rig his bed, but the more we looked at it, he is about half a foot from being too big for the mattress anyway. Ugh, so we talked a lot about it and weighed the pros and cons, and talked more and yesterday we bit the big one and forked out a bunch of moola for a twin. Reese will be able to use that mattress anyway. I thought Abram might be upset and miss his car. This wasn't the case at all. He loves it, and no falling out last night-he has plenty of room. Which is good, because for what we paid, he'll be using this until college.

On a brighter note, Grandma Raisor came to visit yesterday and spoiled us. She took us out to lunch and while Abram took a nap, she and Kris went out on the "town". We were really grateful she was able to come and see us. Abram was so intent on her coming everywhere-it was really sweet "Grandma come too?" "Where Grandma?" over and over. He loves his Grandma Raisor.

p.s. As a side note, I am still quilting, I think this quilt might actually work out. Which is good because I finally started ordering stuff for Reese on Friday. I figure with 6 1/2 weeks left, better get into gear!!

The Little Jokester.....

Abram has been "joking" a lot lately, and he thinks he is so funny. Like when we pull into the church parking lot he'll yell, "We're home!" and when we pull into the driveway he'll yell "Church!" or when we go around the family talking about who is a boy or a girl, he'll say "Mama a boy!" and start laughing. I have to admit, it is pretty funny-but for some reason last night he cracked me up pretty good-in fact, I laughed about it the whole night. Hopefully you'll find it funny too-especially if you know Kris.

Abram has really good manners, he just seemed to pick them up. Anyways, we are eating dinner last night and Kris heated up some garlic bread. He gave a slice to Abram, and without missing a beat or changing his tone, Abram said, "Thanks, Dora." You should have seen the look on his face-Kris jaw dropped and Abram with a cute little smirk. I cried I laughed so hard. He has also started calling Kris, Kris. Which is funny too. I am trying really hard not to encourage these things, but it is so funny. I love that my little guy has such a great sense of humor already.

Before/After

Here is what the guest/junk room looked like before we started (when people came over it looked much more clean). This is right before we started painting......


And a nice look at the sponge painting (although this picture doesn't do it justice on the tackiness).


After the first round of paint.....


And here are some "after" shots.....


I made him a small blanket to go on his bed....


Yes, we latched the bookcase to the wall....


I think it turned out awesome. We still have some things to hang on the wall, and Kris wants to paint his dresser (red maybe?) but other than that-room complete. Abram loves it, although it makes every other room in our house look really boring. :)