The Pregnancy Epidemic

My husbands family has always been known for having babies in pacts-it goes like this-My nephew kyle, neice rachel and rob's cousin rebecca were all born in the same year. Then my nephew nathan and friend of the family easton were born the same year. Then there was evan and he was born all by himself. Then my sister in law marsha had her son austin last year and of course alivia was born last year. NOW-my sister in law kelly and rob's cousin's wife amanda are pregnant. Isn't that nuts??? So pretty much if someone in the family gets pregnant you better watch out because you could be next!!!!

Doctors Scale

I went to the doctor today to get "weighed in" I use to hate the Doctors scale because I always felt like it said more than what the home scale said, however, today I love it. According to the doctor's office I have lost 11 pounds since I began my diet on June 12. My home scale says I have lost 8 pounds. Either way, I am back to my pre-baby weight. I am pretty proud of that. I always thought that when I had kids I would blow up and never be able to lose the weight. My daughter will be one on Sunday, so it took right at about a year to get back. I have 60 days left and it's going really well. It's not the hardest thing I've ever done and it's healthy so it's a win/win. I don't have to go to the doctor to weigh in for another 30 days but I weigh myself every morning at home. I will keep you up to date

Babies first fourth!

Here are some pictures of Alivia, Jack and Brayden from the fourth of july parade in O'Fallon. I don't think any of them really cared about the parade but they all looked really adorable!!

Fad Diet Update

I started the diet on June 12 and have lost 6 pounds to date. Only 73 more days to go!!

Weird Crush

My mom took me and my sisters to the Rascal Flatts concert last saturday night at UMB. It was really good. Gary Allan was there also, I don't care for him, he's too whiny but he is cute. The wreckers were there, they were really good. I really like rascal flatts, but more importantly, I have a weird crush on the lead singer Gary LeVox. I don't know if it's the hair or the voice or the shiny clothes he wears but I think he is really sexy!!

I can't believe it's already been a year!

We went yesterday to get Jack & Alivia's 1st Birthday pictures taken, they did so good!

Another Fad Diet...

I'm such a sucker. I'm doing another Fad Diet. It's called One Day Diet. You may have heard about it on the radio, you eat anything you want every other day and on the Diet Days you eat these Chocolate flavored food tab things and you can have all the fresh fruit that you want. I started last monday and I have lost 4 pounds so far. You do it for 90 days and report back to them as to how much you lost, there are about 20 different little things you have to do and send it and if you do it all you will get $1,000 and reimbursed for the product! Unfortunatly, I have no will power when it comes to food so I have to do stupid stuff like this to lose weight and having a baby didn't help that out either! Hopefully it works! I'll keep you up to date with my progress.

Advice to new moms...

Here's some advice to new mothers-it's almost impossible to get anything done at home when your young child is awake. Therefore, I would advise you invest in the following, a good sturdy highchair, the biggest box of cheerios you can find, a good exersaucer and a baby einstein video!! These are the best babysitters you will find. These are the things I use when Alivia is awake and I need to get something done in the house. The other day after working at the diner I was exausted and Rob had to go to work so I put Liv in her saucer, popped in a baby einstein movie, set it for Repeat Play and took a nap on the couch!! When I'm trying to do laundry I will stick her in her highchair and dump a bunch of cheerios on the tray. She eats some of them but mainly plays with them, this usually works for 15 minutes or so. I took some pictures of her cleaning up her cheerio mess the other day. You might think I'm a bad mom for letting her eat food off the floor but I thought it was cute and they were fresh!!
Plus, she's the one that threw them there!

Fun Weekend

We went out two times this weekend. That is very unusual for us! Friday night we went to The Blues on the Mississippi with Amber, Bryan, Brayden and some people from my work. It was a nice night but a little cool. Saturday night we went to a trivia night for my cousin. They raised $20,000. It was alot of fun. These pictures are from Friday night.

Brayden & Livy's first time to the zoo!

Yesterday was such a beautiful day so we took the babies to the zoo. It was lots of fun and they both had a really good time!

What is this world coming to?!?

A couple of weeks ago Alivia & I were in Target buying our normal weekly necessities. I was putting everything up on the belt to check out. Alivia grabbed one of the jars of baby food and threw it on the floor. The bottom of it busted but it was still in the plastic wrapping. I handed it to the clerk and said "I'm sorry, my daughter just dropped this on the floor" She took it and looked at me and said "did you still want it?" I said "No, the jar is broken," and she said "Oh, so you don't want it? Did you want me to put it back?" I said "Um, sure that would be great" Don't you have to have some sort of common sense to get a job these days?!?

THEN-I needed to stop and grab some dinner last week because Rob had a game and we were both runnng late. I stopped by Hardee's thinking they still had fried chicken. I pulled up and didn't see it on the menu so I said to the girl "Do you not have fried chicken anymore?" She said "Spicy Chicken?" I said "Fried Chicken" She said "We have chicken strips." I said "Ya know like a bucket of friend chicken do you not have that??" she said "Oh, no" Then I drove off.

And last but not least... I went with a girl from work to pick up lunch from the diner last friday. I don't know if we didn't notice a low tire or if she ran over something but we got a flat tire. We pulled over on the side of the road. We called AAA and sat on the side of the road for 45 minutes. ONLY ONE PERSON STOPPED TO HELP US!!!! I bet 200 cars passed us while we were sitting there. AAA finally came and got us back on our way I just couldn't believe that only one person stopped. I guess we just figure that everyone has a cell phone these days and we are all too busy to stop and help anyone out!

Kids VS Dogs

I was watching the season finale of Grey's Anatomy the other night-I don't even watch that show but there was so much hype about it I had to watch it. Anyway, they put a dog to sleep and it made me very upset-It just made me think about Tiger & Zeus. Then I got to thinking, having dogs wasn't much different than having kids. Last night Alivia crawled under the table and was eating all of the Cheerios that she had dropped from her high chair. The dogs used to hang out under the table waiting for scraps. When we had the dogs we had to put up a gate on the stairs so they wouldn't go down stairs and use the basement as a bathroom, not exactly the same but we need to put up a gate again so Alivia doesn't fall down the stairs (again!) I'll explain later. When we had the dogs they had to have their nose in the dishwasher as I unloaded it. Alivia does the same. She has to play with the silverware and move the rack back and forth while I'm trying to put dishes in it. I had to watch what I had out on the tables when we had the dogs so they wouldn't knock things down-have to do the same for the baby now. Funny......

So I just knew this would happen, I was in the bedroom folding laundry last night and Rob came in and was looking for something in the hall closet so immediatly Alivia crawls down the hall as fast as she can (which is pretty fast!) I yelled to Rob "You got her?" He said "Yep, she's right under my feet" So a few minutes later I hear the door to the garage close, I wait a second and begin to run down the hall-it was too late she had already toppled down the stairs. Rob came running back in-I cussed him out-She cried for 2 seconds-and that was it!! She probably wouldn't have even cried it she didn't see me freaking out, She is one tough little cookie!!

I'm obsessed!!

I'm totally obsessed with EBay. I've been buying things on there for about a year. Well, last week I began selling things. I can't stay off of there. And it's so dumb, I could just drive up to walmart and buy the things that I bid on ebay. But, there's no excitement in that! I need to bid and try to get the best price and wait for it to come in the mail!! I started out last year and bought some maternity clothes, then I bought some baby clothes and now I bought all of the supplies needed for Alivia's first birthday party. Now, I am selling things and that's even better than buying!! I don't even care if I have to sell something for a penny at least it won't be sitting in my basement anymore. I have all that Avon crap that got sent to me "accidentally" that is all brand new sitting in boxes in my closet. Maybe I can finally get rid of most of it. Now Rob is into it too, which is REALLY BAD!! Sorry, have to go and check my ebay account~

Livy's first cardinal game

We had a very busy weekend! We started off by going to the cardinals game friday night. I probably watched about 5 minutes of the game, if you don't know what I mean please refer to my previous blog about the movies!!! Anyway it was fun. After the game was over we got in the car and drove to Cuba missouri where we stayed the night. We woke up the next morning and drove to Springfield missouri. Rob had a bowling tournament so we made a weekend of it. It was alot of fun and Alivia was so good. As you can see from the pictures she did not care for Fredbird!

Jenny and I thought it would be a great idea to take the babies to the movies last night. We took them to what used to be the $1 show. The admission is now $3!! We took them to see Curious George. It was a mess. The night started off pretty good. We started off with them in our laps and then it turned into, sitting by themselves, standing on our laps, laying down on our laps, sitting on the floor, standing on the floor, facing forward, facing backward, sitting in the chair alone and going back to sitting on our lap. Jenny summed it up by saying "It was very stressful watching Curious George!!" When we were walking out I told her to NEVER invite me to a movie again. I was kidding though. They really were good during the movie, they just didn't watch very much of it!! They sat on the floor for a good amount of time shredding napkins!! They had a great time!!

Two Peas in a Pod

Can you tell these two are related? Weirdos..that's all I have to say!

Spring Fever!

Rob has spring fever like no other. Last weekend he cleaned out the garage and threw a ton of stuff away. Every night this week he has been working outside, burning stuff and cutting things down. I told him last night he's either way way up or way way down. What I mean is, he either sits on the couch and does NOTHING but get up to go pee or he works like a mad man until the sun goes down. I guess that's good though. He took the fence down around our pool area and cleaned up all the left over leaves, acorns and whatever else. He burned all that stuff last night and took the pool cover off, we folded it up and put it away. He has been moving all of the rocks from the area by the pool and wants to redo it somehow. He cut down a whole line of brush and burned all of that too. It's looking much better and hopefully will be in full working order for Alivia's birthday party in july!

As I was saying....

Alivia crawled across the living room last night, it's so cute! Then she toppels over. It seems though that she doesn't crawl around just to crawl she will only crawl to someone. I'm sure it won't be too much longer though until she figures out that she is mobile! The other night she rolled over to the coffee table, pulled up onto her knees and starting to pull my party lite centerpiece toward her! Geez, I guess now I have to baby proof and put all my pretty stuff up and get a gate for the stairs. We go to the doctor next friday for her 9 month check up I can't wait to see how much she weighs, at her 6 month appointment she weighed 14 pounds 15 ounces and was 25 inches long. Now she has rolls in her wrists and thighs!! But now that she can crawl maybe she'll work some of that off!

I'm not ready for this yet...

I don't think I'm ready to baby proof yet. Last night Alivia was sitting with her nose about an inch from the TV putting her fingers in all of the holes in the TV where you would plug in video games or whatever. And, her new favorite game is to pull all of the video games and DVD's off of the shelf, and I do mean ALL OF THE GAMES AND MOVIES. It's pretty cute, but I have to keep a much closer eye on her. She doesn't stay in one spot anymore-I'm just not sure I'm ready for this yet-my house isn't exactly baby friendly! She's getting so big and I just want her to stay little forever!
Here's a picture of her all tangled up in the playstation cords and her foot is in the movie shelf. She's a mess!

I like your teeth!

Liv is 8 months old today! Yea! She is so silly here are some pictures of a funny face that she makes all the time.