THE Blanket

Since Olivia was about 6 months old she became attached to this beautiful, soft pink Amy Coe blanket, given to her by Donna. She has slept with this blanket every single night and carried it with her everywhere. No other blanket would ever do....EVER! I used to think she was so precious when she would curl up in her crib with her blanket and suck her thumb. These days the blanket is definitely a darker shade of pink, covered in stains from a well-traveled toddler and does not seem as big as it used to. I'm sure she will have this blanket forever.

Then she discovered this quilt. It was made by my FSIL, Jenny...it's navy and red and has Olivia the Pig on it.



Oh the tears that were poured out because she wanted to carry both blankets with her to run errands one afternoon. It was one of her more, shall we say, passionate fits and luckily I had my camera near.



What's a mommy to do? I suppose she'll carry them both until they get too heavy. She's very determined.

LIKE FATHER, LIKE DAUGHTER

Spending Saturday night with panties our our heads and snacking on Oreos. Don't the Jasmine panties look great on Chris?

Silly Liv with her favorite Dora panties...





Posing with Mommy

Happy First Day of School!!!

Tonight at our study we will finish up C-O-U-P-L-E of the Energizing Cycle so come if you can....

Next week on Labor Day and we will do Chapters 15-18 over C-H-A-I-R-S

on Monday, September 8th we will do Chapters 19-22 over C-H-A-I-R-S

and then our final week of study will be on Monday, September 15th and we will do Chapters 23-24 over the Rewarding Cycle

Hope to see you there!!

Pregnancy Brain

Being the sweet wife that I am I have decided to let Chris not only name our baby boy, but pick out his bedding! Surprise, surprise it's a TxDOT related theme!

When it came to ordering though I had a little bit of a problem.

This is what I was supposed to order:




And this is what I actually ordered:



It came in the mail and Chris said, "Where are the dump trucks and the orange cones?"

Hmmm, I thought the colors were a little different, but they are pretty much the same to me!

I have ordered the correct set and it's on it's way. Who knew how important orange cones were??

Now if I can get him to forget the idea of making a lamp out of a TxDOT hard hat!

The Official Baby Name

We have decided on JONAH DANIEL

The story from the beginning...when Chris and I were dating his paternal grandfather John Daniel (J.D.) Reed passed away from pancreatic cancer...we always said that if we had a son his middle name would be Daniel. Olivia was almost Ava Danielle but we thought hey 50/50 chance our next one could be a boy so we saved it....

After we got pregnant this time Chris was flipping through a baby name book and found the name Jonah (which actually means dove *wink, wink*) He said he really liked it and that the kid would have not only his grandfather's middle name but his dad's (Jerry Don) and grandfather's initials. We had a boys name.

Enter Peter Jones} He discovered a way to make fun of the baby's name and make Chris change his mind completely.....so much that he was almost willing to use Jonah but not even Daniel!! Silly Peter....we still love you.

Then we found out it was going to be a boy...we poured over baby name books and involved fellow bloggers with my poll! I really loved Jonah Christopher, but Chris did not.

FINALLY, Chris decided it was going to be Jonah Daniel because of his grandfather and he didn't care what other people thought and no matter what the name was the men were going to come up with nicknames!

So to make a loooonnnnggg story long - there you go!

my 13 thoughts

1) i've got to finish our time cards
2) i've got to reschedule that juvenile hearing
3) i've got to do this 2008 planning calendar for Childress County before 3 p.m.
4) today is our 4th anniversary....i can't believe i actually forgot!!
5) Praise God for cool weather
6) my desk is NEVER going to be clean
7) now i'm addicted to dr. pepper & BLOGGER
8) liv either needs more sleep, more spankings or both
9) 8 more weeks
10) i'm tired of saying mean things that i don't even MEAN....silly, CRAZY CYCLE
11) i miss my mom&dad
12) i can't wait for thad's wedding
13) i hate dog hair and waterproof mascara

I had the best garage sale! For some reason I am one of those crazy persons that enjoys having a garage sale. I just LOVE bargains...finding them, selling them, etc. About a month ago I started going through my house, every room, closet, storage area, the garage...everywhere! I put everything into an empty bedroom and started sorting through it a week before.

Two nights before I went to Wal-Mart to purchase tons of big and little hangers for all of our clothes. I told my mom it was all about presentation...she laughed and said no one cares what kind of hanger it's on...."Mom, it's not about the type of hanger it's about having them hanging instead of folded in a box.... "
**edit** before I could even use all of my hangers I was selling them to people for the full price I paid...so I got most of my $$ back......but now I know that SHARON not only has lots of tables but hangers also!!! I also sold the stepstool I was using to stand on to hang my clothes up....I could've sold anything that morning....

The night before I worked until 1 a.m. taking everything out to the garage and placing it on tables some of my good friends loaned me. (Thanks to everyone else that offered tables and names of babysitters!!)

I woke up at 5 a.m. to finish taking things outside, hang my signs and price everything....but I didn't get to price anything or hang up any of my clothes because a huge crowd showed up at 7 a.m. a whole hour before I was set to "open." I had another friend that was going to have it with me but she ended up getting sick...so I was flying solo 7 months prego.

Fortunately, Chris was able to run to the bank for me, bring me breakfast, plastic bags and keep me hydrated throughout the day. It was so crazy...I had made over $100 before 8 a.m. and most of the stuff I sold was either 25-75 cents or $1...that just goes to show you how much stuff I had.

Women were laughing at me because I was practically giving my stuff away and I had about 7 people that came back to buy more. I really had a great time laughing with people and just freeing myself by letting go of stuff I had for over 10 years.

By the end of the day I had made over $500 and my husband was pleased with the outcome...my hard work had paid off.

Here are some tips on having a great garage sale:

1) Have it around payday...preferably the 1st

2) Don't price anything and sale it all really cheap--especially if you're just wanting to get rid of it--if you're wanting to make more $$ then I would suggest trying Ebay first

3) It's all about presentation - hang clothes so that people can see them better, organize things in groups of the like such as kitchen stuff, bathroom stuff, kids stuff, books, etc.

Watching the Olympics at the Reed's

Chris: "Man, Michael Phelps just won another gold medal and broke another World Record."

Olivia: "That's crazy!!"

Biggest Loser starts on September 16th....I am so fired up about this. Last year was the first season I watched and we both loved it!!!

For weeks I have talked about doing the Biggest Loser contest with Chris after I have this baby. I told him that if I lost the weight I wanted to buy a Louis Vuitton purse (something I have wanted forever, but can't justify spending $800 on).

Last night we were discussing the contest...and I enthusiastically say, "I hope I lose X amount of lbs. and get a new purse....what are you going to get?"

Chris says, "A skinny wife."

I laughed forever....I know you just had to be there....but he was so quick-witted and at the moment it was hilarious to me and even a little sweet....I hope I can get a new purse and give him a skinny wife....

Last week when I would ask my daughter to do something or tell her it was time for bed she would look up at me and sweetly say, "No thanks."

This week her excuse for everything is, "No, mommy I too big." or "I too little." As in too big to take a nap? I don't think so missy. Not yet anyway.

DON'T BE LATE...FOR A VERY IMPORTANT DATE...

MY HOUSE tonight AT 7:30 P.M.

LOVE AND RESPECT STUDY