Ode to my Momma

So...as a lot of you know my mom has been watching little baby Jack during the days now that Stacy has had to go back to work.

This has been QUITE the undertaking. I wake up and Jack is there. I come home and Jack is there. This sounds like I'm going to complain but on the contrary. ITS WONDERFUL!!! Our house has bottles out...a bassinet in the living room and our kitchen table has been conveniently turned into Jack's little "changing area". ;)

The best part about having Jack here is getting to see my mom with him. Since I am the youngest, I never saw my mom with a baby. Obviously, through the years, I have seen her with babies...but never a baby that is close to us in our family. For anyone who doesn't know my mom -- I swear she's the baby whisperer. Screaming baby? Hand 'em on over and you'll see your baby giggle for the first time.

Jack is such a good baby anyway (I know Pat and Stacy are thinking, "hey...can't Jack have some credit? and yes...he most certainly can) but my mom is amazing. She anticipates his every need, keeps him entertained, talks to him, walks around with him, shows him everything there is to show a baby at 3 months old. I've heard her talking about Pinnochio and his entourage, gone through the whole cast of Sesame Street, teaches him about instruments (yup...gotta watch out for THAT one), and everything in between. She looooves working out with him. :) She puts him on his stomach so he can "do his pushups for the day" -- and I must say, although at first it looks uncomfortable, I think he likes it! Especially when she gets on the floor with him to keep him entertained. :)

I had a really happy childhood. We never went without anything we needed. We all had such a great time! And it's totally because of my mom. I'm so glad that Jack gets to spend this time with her Grandma. She loves it and it's obvious he loves it. I hope my mom is still willing to do this in 20 years when I have my first....

Mean old battle-ax lady

Okay I literally have not blogged in 2 weeks. Whoops....

I have quite a few things I need to blog about but this totally takes precedence.

So I go to Tom Thumb, right? No big deal. I go to turn right into a parking spot. Some CRAZY OLD BAT is coming through the parking spot direcctly in front of my parking spot. This crazy comes pulling THROUGH her own parking spot into mine, so obviously...I stop and wait for her to back up. Um. no. This nutjob sits here and throws her hand up in the air. And I'm like...SERIOUSLY?? I'm pulling into MY parking spot...what are you doing and why are you half way into mine. So I eventually figure out that she was wanting to be able to get in her car after the grocery store and avoid backing out of her parking spot. So instead of backing into a spot like any other considerate person would do...she pulls through her spot and into mine. (I doubt I'm doing a very good job of explaining this.) So anyway. After she so rudely motions me to move I motion the same to her -- and I end up crossing my arms as if to say "fine you old bat. I'll wait you out...I have allllll day" (which I have done before). So then she pulls up as close to my car as she can, throws her can in park and gets out. So she is now in the MIDDLE of two spots. So...being me I roll my window down to shout "I can't believe you just did that!" but she runs the other way. Not sure that she thought this through because we were both going into the same grocery store. So I run in and try to hunt her down to scream "KARMA!!!" in her face but she can't be found. I kept staking out the ice cream isle (lets me honest...I kept thinking I'd find her there) but no luck. Finally I talked to my girl Sarah who told me to calm down and that yelling at her wouldn't help anything. Of course then I see her (still on the phone with "just be nice" Sarah) so I just gave her the stink eye instead.

This was probably the worst explanation of this encounter but I swear...I was still talking about it an hour later. I was so horrified at the lack of manners -- I'm usually a really nice person. I open doors for people, help strangers out when I can, wave when someone lets me in, etc. etc. So I just couldn't believe it! As I was walking into the grocery store a lady stopped me and said "I just saw that!! That was terrible!! She was so rude!" So I'm glad to know it wasn't just me. I believe in karma and hope that lady gets slapped with it hard one day. *eye roll*

So this ladies car is the taupe one parked in between the others. Ruuuuude.

Girly sunshine

I spent my Sunday planting with my mom! Learn something new everyday, right? I remember planting a sunflower at our old house that grew about...8 feet in like, a month. It was the craziest thing ever! So anyway, our house looked so drab before. Remember my reference to Heidi Montag's "time away"? Well....consider this the first breast augmentation. This weekend I plan to do the second (from a D to a G) and then hopefully eventually we can aspire to an "H" for Heidi. It's nice to know we all have the same goals.
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And our new DDs


It's finally Spring!!

Howdy Pardner

Jack sprat graced up with his presence on Saturday and entertained me for hours. His outfit (the cutest thing you have ever seen in your life ) was a gift from Elizabeth Bailey. Elizabeth also made the little blue and red hat that made Jack into the cutest bird ever seen. I've never met Elizabeth but she must be fabulous (since she picks things out for my nephew that are beyond cute). Moving on...Jack is much more "active" these days instead of sitting there staring at nothing because he can't focus yet (I wont lie....now that those days are over I can say with no shame...he freaked me out a little bit when he would stare off looking at nothing). The pictures pretty much explain our day:

Peanuts Visit

I went to go see my peanut Jack today. He has this new thing where he has discovered his tongue. He also looooves sucking on his fist. Not his thumb. His whole fist. Thankfully he looks adorable with his tiny little tongue out. Pat came home and sat on the ground and started singing "everybody was Kong Fu fighting". Random lullaby choice but it was cute just the same. I managed to get some of it on video.

So I think Jack is looking more and more like Pat. He is so squirmy it's hard to get a picture but this is the best I could do:

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It's the MOST wonderful time!....of the year.

Gather round your friends of mine. We're Wilderness Girls and it's cookie time. We work hard and we live here, so buy a box and do your share.

If you want the best taste that you can find, (yeah, yeah!!) Chocolate chips are one of a kind. (yeah, yeah!!) Our peanut butter dreams will blow your mind. A box of them would be so niiiice (try some!!) Cheap at even twice the price (buy some!!) So come on down, come on down, it's cookie time, it's cookie time....

Ladies and Gentlemen. It's cookie time. Can you smell the peanut butter and coconut in the air? Thin mints and Tag-a-longs !!! Ooo wee!! I can honestly say the air just smells better when it's girl scout cookie time. I had my first girl scout cookie this year at a bowling alley. I was talking to the cashier about them and she pulled out a bag of thin mints and made my day. And thus, Spring began. Ahhhhh, I can taste the chocolate and mint right now.

So funny story here. A couple of years ago when I was in college I literally, kid you not, ordered girl scout cookies on ebay (smart little Girl Scout who hawks them on ebay by the way...) and made myself have a heart-attack by eating too many thin mints. Actually....not a total "real life" heart attack per say....but I DID go to the emergency room thinking I was having heart issues. Yatta yatta yatta, three hours later I was diagnosed with heart burn from too many thin mints. Bahahahaha....

And just because this conjures up memories of my childhood we're gonna throw out one more "Troop Beverly Hills"er...."Her recommendations for a campsite were totally unsuitable. There were no outlets. And there was dirt, and bugs, and... and it rains there. So anyway, we've found a place that's much more us: the Beverly Hills Hotel."

Geek out time.

There is an iphone app that is soooooo nerdy that I LOVE. You literally keep a fish tank. That's it. But you clean it, feed your fish, buy fish, breed them....it's actually sort of fun. I feel like an 8 year old girl...but really....it's sort of entertaining. Okay. That's it!

So I don't know...if you're bored.........

Threedaysthrowninonebutmakingitintooneverylongpost....

Well, well, well. I have a few things to post but SOMEONE (my brother...boo) told me that my blog is terrible and that Anne's trumps us all. (I would like to say, "Game on Anne!" But let's be honest...Pat never updates his blog so I don't really care). Instead, I am going to continue to post my most likely uninteresting posts.

First off, on Saturday Anne came over and the three girls and my mom moved furniture all day.

I must say, we made some pretty serious progress with no men around. Anne (hopefully) will have her dining room set up and we have our living room set up! There were several pinched fingers, apparently Anne has gang green, and bruises...but all in all, we accomplished what we had hoped to. (after 6 hours.....)

Patrick came over (Patrick we wont even discuss your "situation"....) and helped move one cabinet and was "so tired" and needed to go home. Blah blah blah Pat. HOWEVER, Baby Jack and Momma Stacy came home last night...so I would have wanted to go home to see them as well. By the way...many of you have noticed I haven't posted any recent pictures of Jack. Well...that is because Patrick hasn't given us any updates..cough...your blog stinks....cough.....(maybe this will encourage him to give us all more pictures of CHARRRRLIE) but also because the latest picture of Jack, Amy "claimed" for her facebook and I wasn't allowed to put it

up. :/ Boo. BUT!! You can see it here.

Anyway, only a couple of pictures of moving, but cute just the same

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ANYWHO. NEXT SUBJECT. SNOW!!!! It snowed last night like crazy though on Tuesday it's going to be 74 degrees and it was in the 70's a couple of days ago. Oh OH and did I mention it's almost APRIL! On a positive note with the weather however, I bought a hammock. Verrrryyyy excited about THAT one and am pretty sure when the snow melts and I get it up, that will warrant it's very own blog post. But back to present. The snow is fun and all but I'm a little annoyed with it...especially since I have TWO FLAT TIRES! Wah wah this week has been one thing after the next! So now I get to deal with that today when I was supposed to have a lazy sunday. :( Oh well. It happens to everyone, right?

So I have been trying to pick up Jack's baby quilt again. I had totally abandoned it for atleast a month and really need to finish it!! Just a little teaser....hahaha. I act like it's a new episode of "Gossip Girl"...don't they do teasers? I don't know. Pat's right. My blog does suck.

Birthday fun!

Poor Shepherd's birthday was taken over this year by having his wisdom teeth taken out. We went to Billy Reid to pick out a couple of shirts and ended up having to explain his ridiculous turrets-like behavior to quite a few people. Always funny to see people on pain medicine after surgeries.

Anywho, After that we went to dinner with his parents at Nonna. It was amazing! Everyones food was great and as always, it was great to see the Robinsons. Really cute little restaurant.



Momma and Pops



Birthday boy!!!

Love my friends. Happy birthday Shepherd!!!

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A Mighty Green Day

So one of my favorite holidays...Saint Patrick's Day, was a huge success this year...as always. We were talking in the car on the way to Greenville that everyone always says this is the one thing that Dallas does right...and I have to agree. I always have the best time! This year Anne, Amy, Mark and I went to a couple of parties on Greenville. Instead of being responsible and going home and going to bed at 7:00 like I usually do, I went to the Mavs game with Shepherd. So much fun! Floor tickets and then Ghost Bar. Was home waaaay too late, spent way too much money and slept all the next day, but all in all -- the weekend was a success.

Anne will kill me for posting this picture of her dancing but I couldn't help it. It was my favorite picture from the whole weekend.

And Amy...there are just no words.

Office Space

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Fresh start

I start my new job with DVS tomorrow. I'm a but nervous, as it's always difficult to start a new job. It's like being the new kid at school AGAIN. Bad news..no recess. Hopefully this is the beginning of a long stay. Wish me luck!

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Post from Defensive Driving snooooooooze fest.

I know you have all been there. I have to do defensive driving. *snore* I am sitting in front of my computer and then have my laptop in front of THAT computer so I can sort of pay attention....sort of not. :/ Is that bad? It's FIVE HOURS!!!

This is supposed to be a "comedy class". TERRIBLE. They have Elvis, the teacher from Ferris Beuller, Christopher Walken, and on and on teaching this class. I'm falling asleep literally as I type these boring words. Kill me now. This is literally my screen right now...

Real world post

Looks like I might haves job, folks. Everyone can let out the breathe they have been holding. :)


Does this mean I can't babysit as often anymore?? :( yawn....

Amy the Crip

As if Amy needs anything else ridiculous to happen to her...she broke her ankle falling down a flight of stairs. And when I say that, I mean she tripped over one step and twisted her ankle but the first sounds sooooo much more entertaining.

So now Amy has the excuse she has always been looking for....