Our Crazy Week!

Man this week has been so crazy. It seems like all these new things are going on and I just can't keep up...with the blog that is. Linc started a new school in the past three weeks, I had to stop nursing him in the mornings because I started a new schedule at work, I had to start doing the grocery shopping, and now I have started a new workout program with my dad. Oh I have realized that I don't like grocery shopping and wish that Craig would do it again, haha! I only like it if I don't have to rush and since I do it after work I feel like I have to rush so I can get home at the same time the boys do. So I have not been able to update the blog because it seems like I have something to do everynight!

To add to it, last night my oldest friend and greatest bud Paula came into town (well actually she came in on Tuesday, but I just saw her last night). She is in the Army and has been on duty for a while in Iraq and she is home for leave. We have known each other since we were in 3rd grade. She was actually the first person I talked to when I started school in Texas. It has been really hard for both of us being apart for so long. I guess we are use to it now since this is her second tour and before that she was in Germany for a year. She finally gets to come home for good in January and I am so excited to have her back in the states safe! God bless her for all she does for our country, she is one mightily Army woman!

In honor of Kelly's Korner Show Us Your Life, I thought I would put this picture of Paula and I at our wedding. This week Kelly is doing the wedding party and flowers, so I thought I would give you a little taste!

My bridesmaids wore turquoise and silver, my sorority colors! The dresses came out great in these colors. Each girl could choose the style they wanted (i.e. strapless, sleeved...). We all had hydrangea flowers in mostly blue tones, I loved them. Since this part is about Paula, most of these pictures only have her in them. Here she is getting ready!

Matron of Honor, Jenny Wappett. We have almost known each other as long, we met in 4th grade. Paula was crying in most of these, so sweet.

Paula and I!

It rained on our wedding day when we had an outdoor wedding, but I will have to save that story for another time. So in this picture, Paula is trying to comfort me, she is so sweet.

Here is our wedding party. I had six bridesmaids and he had six groomsmen. We had 3 ushers, 2 flower girls and one ring bearer.

Linc has been doing good at his new school. I think he finally has a permanent teacher. They switched his rooms after the first week and he had a few different teachers which was upsetting me. I know how hard it is for them to adjust and I just wanted him to see a familiar face each day. But now that problem is solved and he seems to enjoy his new teacher. Right now there is only 2 other children in his class and one is named Zachary just like his best bud at his old school. So they are all getting a lot of one on one time with the teacher which is great. He is also taking a two hour nap at school, which has been great!

As I mentioned above, my dad and I started a new workout program, well that program is bootcamp! I know there are all sorts of versions of bootcamp out there, so I want to tell you how intense this one seems to be. We started on Tuesday and they got our measurements and timed our mile, sit-ups and push-ups. SO that day was not to bad, embarrassing, but not too bad. Just a side note here, I have been wanting to start a new program because I can't seem to get these lbs off from having Lincoln. When I was nursing a lot, I was within 5 lbs of my pre-pregnancy weight, yay! Now that I only nurse him 1 or 2 times a day I guess I have gained some of it back and now I am 12 lbs over what I want to be, boo!

My problem usually isn't the working out part, it is the eating part, and really it is mainly because of my sugar addiction. I am addicted to all sugar, well except sodas, I don't really like those, unless it is root beer, but I only have one of those like a month, anyway. I am so bad that if I know there is desert, I will stop eating my dinner so that I can save room for it. So with this bootcamp I think I will be able to closely monitor what I am doing and also have a more intense workout.

I ran on Wednesday by myself, because the instructor wants you to have 2 more workouts between the bootcamp class. Thursday was our next bootcamp class, and man am I sore. We started out with a jog around the ball field and then came back to stretch. After we ran to a parking lot and did tons of dips, push-ups, and squats. Then we ran to a hill that had light poles and did ladder sprints up and down the hill which was about 300 yards or more each way. After that we had what he called a cool down run, ha! We ran around the lake for about 25 minutes. Once done with that we ran back up the hill to the Y. And we did all this outside in the humid weather, luckily it was not too hot, but it was still hard to breathe. Over all he said we ran about 3.5 miles, which does not seem like a lot. But I guess when you count in all the exercises we did in between, that must be why I am so sore and tired today.

They say the only way to get ride of sore muscles is to work them out again, so did the elliptical today at work and then stretched. Maybe I will get one more low key workout in this weekend. My dad did so good, I really am proud of him and glad he asked me to do it. 5 more weeks!!!
So I wanted to close with some fun pictures.

One of Lincoln's favorite past times is to get into the dog food. He loves to get out the scoop, with food, and put it in the doggie bowl. Most of the time he will then take the dog food out of the bowl and put it in the water bowl. I think he likes to watch it expand. He decided this would be fun to do on Thursday and so I caught him in action. Such a silly boy.

Here he is with the dog scoop, the clean side in his mouth of course.

He just started reaching for the camera when I take his picture, so it is hard to get a good shot. He is so aware now!

Dog food in the water bowl, classic.

Mmm, body splash!

Bye, Bye!

Success!

What a weekend. I think I always talk about how tired I am after the weekend when they are suppose to be for rest, but with a little one, rest is hard to find. Thursday night was the start of my weekend since I had Friday off. Linc had a bath and Craig called me in to find this.

What a cute hair do, he looks like he was from Whooville.

Friday Craig went off to play golf with some work friends. We decided to take Linc to school so that I could get some things done. Craig kept telling me to just relax at home, but I wanted to go workout first. I was planning on going to the Y but as I was driving there a woman exiting our walking trail in Benbrook reminded me it was there. My grandpa use to walk there all the time, but I had not been in a while. It was still cool out so I decide I would do my run there first and then head to the gym for weights. The trail was so nice I had ran 3 miles before I knew it, of course I was tired afterwards, but it was so nice out there. I think all the trees give you the shade and oxygen you need for a good stroll or run.

After I finished up at the gym I was contemplating doing some house work, but got sucked into doing a blog about my wedding dress instead. We have three computers in our house and I never know which one has our pictures on it, in this case it was our desk top, and a very slow and old one at that. It was the one I had in college, so it is like 7 or more years old. All my wedding pictures are loaded there so I had to do my post on that computer. Needless to say, I think it took me 2+ hours to do that post. Plus once I got to looking at my pictures I had to look at them all and remember our beautiful wedding.

After I got done with that it was time to shower and then get Linc to head over to our play date and Natalie's and Owen's house. We had not seen them in a while and so we wanted to catch up. Owen is now 20 months old and Natalie is 16 weeks along with baby #2. This time the boys actually seemed to notice each other and play with one another. It just shows you how much they change in a few short weeks. They were even laughing together, it was so cute.

Linc kept getting this medicine topper that Owen wanted and they chased after each other to get it part of the day.

Here is Mr. Owen, look at those eyes!

Sharing the medicine topper.

Hugs! Lincoln has started to give hugs when you ask him for one, it is so cute.

He got the topper back.

Sitting like his Grandma (Craig's mom). It is so funny to see, because I try to do that and it hurts. I have only seen Craig's mom do that so that must be where he gets it from, haha.

On Saturday we got invited to Asher's 1st Birthday Party. Asher was in Linc's class at the Montessori. He had a Luau themed party and it was really cute. Asher's parent's had set up the whole backyard with a bunch of baby pools for all the kids to play in. We all know how Linc loves the water, so right when we got there he changed into his suit.

"Why are you taking my picture?"

Here is the Birthday Boy, Asher.

Linc swimming in the baby pool. Although you can't tell here, there were tons of people there. And a lot of babies, which was fun.

Asher with Linc's cup, he was thirsty. I never got a pic without some kind of drink in his mouth, haha!

Here is Linc and Will, another classmate from the Montessori. It was so great to see them again and they seemed to remember each other.

I didn't get any pictures of the cake or anyone else, because about 30 minutes into the party Craig had to leave. Our air has not been working great for the past couple of days, so he had to meet the repair man at our house soon after we got to the party. Luckily, Asher lives in our same neighborhood, so Craig just ran back down to our house. He didn't make it back before I left, but Linc and I enjoyed some wonderful cake from Bluebonnet Bakery, yum! I have to rant on swim diapers again. Since I was alone I had to get Linc into the house to get his towel while he was still sopping wet so we would not miss the cake cutting. I picked him up and when I sat him down on the towel, the whole right side of my dress was sopping, no kidding. It was so gross that I had to leave shortly after the cake cutting. I felt bad for leaving early, but the party was a huge success and Asher seemed to have a blast.

So my post is titled Success for a reason and now I will get to it. Remember from a previous post about us setting up Craig's parents house so Linc could stay the night, well this Saturday was the night. We had a game night to go to at my friend April's house. We dropped Linc off at 4:30, but stuck around with him for about an hour. After that we were off to game night and Linc was starting his first sleep over. We had a fun time at game night and that distracted me from thinking about it. We got home about 11:30 and I made the excuse to go see if the spare room was cooler (remember our air is not cooling so great). What I was really doing was going into Lincoln's room to make sure he was not there and that I was not dreaming we took him to his grandparents house. I know that sounds weird, but I was just so nervous about him not being in the house. I was excited to sleep in, but I was tossing the whole night because I was not hearing his little movements on the monitor. I woke early, but didn't get out of bed until 8:30. I did relax at lease even if I did not sleep well. Craig slept fine, as he normally does and woke at 9:30. We decided to run a few errands before picking him up and arrived at their house at 11. Linc was so excited to see us and we got a great report! Youg said it was hard for her to let him cry when she put him down, so she did rock him to sleep, which I understand, it is hard to hear. She put him down around 7:30 and he didn't wake until 6:10 on Sunday. I was really excited to hear this. The funny thing is Yong said she could not sleep either because she was nervous to have him there, so funny how moms are the same! So the sleep over was a big success! Wow that was a lot of writing and a very big weekend for us, I think I will go have a brownie!

Show Us Your Wedding Dress

Kelly's Korner is hosting "Show Us Your Wedding Dress" this week! I'm excited because when I started this blog our wedding had long since past and I never got to put up pictures. It is so funny that she decided to do this the week after we cleaned out our garage and I found a whole bunch of wedding stuff. Anyway, I really loved my dress, it was a Maggie Sottero that I got from our local wedding shop called O'cones. It was the third dress I tried on and one of my bridesmaid actually picked it out for me. When I looked at it I did not like it, but Lara (my bridesmaid) insisted that I try it on. Man am I glad she did, I really loved that dress. I will start the show with a dress fitting and finishing with us leaving the reception. I hope you all enjoy!

Here I am at O'cones for my first fitting! It took 5 months for my dress to come in because I wanted a special color, diamond white.

Kiss Kiss in my dress.

Cheesy picture, but aren't all brides suppose to look innocent?

This was the final fitting. Craig's mom and Jennifer came with me!

Man my hair was long!

Bustled up.

I loved the lace on the bottom.

I love all the detail at the top of the dress.

Yong (Craig's mom) helping me fix my veil.

Veil and all!

These next photos are from my bridal portraits, most of them before I get my pictures taken. Here my sister-in-law, Ginger, is helping to lace me up and tie the bow.

Oh yes, that is tight enough.

I just loved the back.

These are still of my friend Paula taking the pictures.

The photographer getting ready to shoot.

The photographers pictures.

This is the one that went in the paper, I loved it.

These pictures are from our wedding.

My favorite picture of Craig and I.

Dad and Mom, thank you for such a wonderful wedding!

Me and my hubby getting some time alone on the dance floor.

We are all done, time for the honeymoon!

Hope you enjoyed the show. Hop over to her blog to check out other people's wedding dresses. That was fun, glad I could use my wedding pictures again. You pay so much for them, it is nice to get some use out of them!