Nursery Update!

Happy Memorial Day! Thanks to all the men and women who serve/served in our armed forces, so that we can live in this great country!

This weekend Dustin and Charlie (my sister's husband or our brother-in-law) went fishing in Port O'Connor. Since Dustin and I wanted to go to Ty's game on Friday, he got up super early on Saturday to go meet Charlie at the boat dock. He said it was super windy so all they could do is wade fish, but they had a blast. He showed Dustin around, and taught him all about the boat. Dustin even caught a big redfish! I stayed here in Katy, because when you are pregnant you can't do anything...seriously you can't do anything! Getting on a boat is one of the biggest no, No's and it makes me really sad. My sister came in town with the boys so I went to my parents to play with my nephews. Bear and Ryder are so different! Ryder did the funniest thing too. Courtney was nursing Bear and Ryder took his Elmo doll and pulled up his shirt, and sat next to her "nursing" his Elmo. He kept saying "Elmo is hungry". He even took the boppy and put it around his waist. I was cracking up laughing. It just amazes me how much their little minds absorb at 2 years. We also took Ryder to the water park by my Mom's house while Bear napped. WOW that was exhausting. He was "that kid" at the pool. The one that ran around like a crazy, and was climbing up the slide the wrong way while the lifeguard pulled him down. My sister sure does have her hands full!

Today Dustin and I ran some errands, and worked in Kaylee's room. Here are a couple pictures of all the things we hung up today:

We hung the letters above the crib, and put the framed pictures I took of the bedding next to it. I couldn't figure out what to put next to the letters, so I took pictures of the bedding and framed them in some frames I found at Michael's on clearance. I think it turned out pretty cute! Big thanks to my Mother-in-law for buying our super cute bedding, and my Mom for getting us the crib too:


We hung the valance and put up the cork board. I took the advice and found some matching pink and brown damask fabric and backed the cork board with it. Much better!


I took the stars from our livingroom and put them above the bookself. Thanks to my great job we also have a ton of baby books and toys that were FREE:


Christa made us this super cute canvas with Kaylee's name to match the room. We hung it right when you walk in...Thanks so much Christa! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT:

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So Kaylee is getting bigger....and so am I! She is very active...pretty much all the time. I wish she could burn calories for me. Ha. If so I am pretty sure I would be losing weight with all the aerobics she does in my belly all the time. We went to the doctor on Monday, and had our final ultrasound. Everything is measuring exactly on point to her weeks, and they confirmed once again that it is for sure a girl. I made it a point this time to not have any kind of sugar to see if she was as active this ultrasound as she was the last ultrasound. Once again she moved, squirmed, kicked her legs, and threw her arms around. She is just one active little girl. They could not get very many good pictures, because she did not want to sit still long enough for them to get shots. Here is one good one they got of her profile:



Here is a picture of me at almost 22 weeks. See I am huge! Notice the lack of clothing as well. I get very hot way to easy. It is going to be a long hot summer!

Cubs Baseball and The Crawfish Boil

Friday night Dustin and I went to my baby cousin's baseball game. Ty is the youngest of all of the cousins on my Mom's side. I have a close connection with the Schlottmann boys because we all grew up together here in Katy. Clay and I were best friends when we were younger, and did everything together. We even had a frog club...please try to hold back you’re jealously. I babysat Ty and Clay both, and it was an adventure every time. One time Clay even put his head threw the wall...I don't remember all the details, but it was a very dramatic babysitting experience. Anyways my point being I can't believe that Ty is about to graduate high school, and I am so proud of him. It seems like yesterday that Courtney and I were giving him swimming lessons and changing his diaper. He is a really great athlete; being the starting quarterback and starting pitcher for the Brenham Cubs. He will be attending A&M in the fall on a baseball scholarship, and I am so thrilled! The Cubs won state in baseball last year, and are in the playoffs again right now. They won both best 2 out of three games this week so it is on to the next round. Ty even had a homerun in the game on Friday helping the Cubs to a win!

Our Co-hosts the Weisingers came in Friday so we could get things together for the annual crawfish boil on Saturday. It was a lot of fun, and I am exhausted today. I am so glad Brittany is pregnant as well, because I needed some sober sanity among all the drunk people. We barley even had any crawfish leftover. They were delish! Brittany and I made several dips, and all of the other ladies brought something as well. Dustin and I having been cleaning up today, but still haven't finished. We took several breaks today for naps! Hopefully I can finish up the inside tomorrow. It was a lot of fun, and I hope that we can still continue to have one next year with Miss Kaylee being here.

Tomorrow we have our 20 week appointment, and last ultrasound. I am 21 weeks now and still feeling really good. I am starting to get tired a lot faster now that I am approaching the 6 months mark. She is very active, and has started waking me up a couple nights with her ninja kicks at 3am. My hair is also falling out! I went to my hair dresser on Friday, and she said it is because the pregnancy is really drying out my hair. I bought a deep conditioner that she would like me to use every 2 weeks. Hopefully this solves the problem. I really don't want to be the bald and zitty pregnant lady. I am hoping to do more work on the nursery this coming weekend. Dustin said that we can do whatever I want to do this weekend, since he has had his fare share of fun these past 2 weekends. I have to say that I think I have been a pretty good sport about it too!

Trigger vs. the Grackle...Happy Mother's Day

This dog seriously NEVER seems to surprise me. This Saturday we left the house at 6am to head to Lufkin for the day for Mother's Day. We decided just to drop the dogs off at my Mom and Dad's for a day with Mimi and Uncle Bub.

At about 7:30am my Mom calls me laughing. She is laughing so hard she can barely get the story out. As we all know Trigger has had an issue with a skunk at my Mom's house in the past. This time he had a new friend. My Mom said she let him and Millie in the backyard and she was sitting in the living room. She looked out the windows and saw a swarm of birds swooping down and pecking at Trigger. Of course he was just looking around at them like his normal tard self. After further investigation Mom found he had found a baby Grackle bird in the backyard. Mommy bird and her friends decided to attack the crazy dog. He was just smelling the baby bird, or maybe even picked it up. Seriously there is no telling with this dog what really went on! She said Millie was just sitting by the door scared, as the 10-15 Grackles attacked Trigger. I am sure he thought of this as more of a game, then an attack. Of course he was just looking up at them, most likely thinking "oh look friends". My Mom said then a swarm of Grackles perched in the trees and sat there all afternoon waiting for Trigger to come back out. He had to go to the bathroom in the front yard for the rest of the afternoon. I have a visual of this in my head and I laugh every time I think about it. I wish she could have got this on camera!

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Dustin and I both had a wonderful time in Lufkin! Dustin and Dennis went to the deer lease to clean up some of the fallen trees from the last bad storm that came through, and put out protein feed for the deer. Phyllis and I went to Nacogdoches to meet Pam, Whitney, and Tonya at a really great baby boutique. Again, Kaylee came out like a champ. She got so many cute things that of course she could not LIVE without. I also got some really cute new flip flops from my wonderful Mother-in-Law for Mother's Day. We had a great day of shopping! We met the men back at the house before we headed to Shrimp Boat Mannie's in Livingston for dinner. It was a long, but super fun day!

Tomorrow Dustin and I head to Weimar for Mother's Day and Popo's 86th Birthday. The Reeve family is also going to make an appearance. Dustin has not had a chance to meet baby Bear yet so he is pretty excited.

Happy Mother's Day to all the lovely and loving Mommies out there!!!

Half Way There....

We are about half way there! I will be 19 weeks this Friday. It is hard to believe that I am almost 5 months pregnant! I had Dustin take a picture of me, and I am so disgusted by how I look I decided not to post it. This weekend we had absolutely nothing to do. Unusual for us since we are always on the go, or have some event we need to attend. It was nice to relax, but we both got really antsy. Since our weekends are quickly filling up till the end of October we decided to work on Kaylee's room.

Dustin went and got all the supplies to hang the TV on the wall, across from where my glider will be. It is so nice to be married to an electrician/handyman who knows how to do all kinds of stuff! He had to move the cable plug and electrical outlet in the attic, and it took him no time at all to do it.


While he was working on the TV I worked on the cork board I got at Hobby Lobby. I thought it would be a cute idea to have it match the letters and bedding. This way we can always update pictures with out having to buy or change out frames. I know a cork board may be so 1993, but I think it turned out cute! We also added the ribbon to the back of the letters to hang above the crib. We took the same ribbon and wrapped it around the border of the cork board I painted pink. I want to get something else to go next to the letters, but I am just not sure what yet. I think both of these little "do it ourselves" projects cost us under 20 bucks! Please give me your opinions or your thoughts of both of these. I mean I may think they are cute, but I don't want other people coming in thinking it looks awful.



Here are a couple other pictures of the room. Notice the closet already has a ton of clothes! Between Dustin and I, my Mom, and Dustin's Mom this child will never go with out something to wear. Thanks to my job too that gives me all kinds of cool stuff like Boon! Also, ignore all the stuff inside the crib. I have not found a place to put all the stuff yet.



I forgot to post a picture of our flower bed that we finally added in the backyard last weekend to hide the ugly utility boxes. Notice "wheres Waldo" in the pictures. He is a very special dog.