Is this not the cutest...

A friend mine from work showed me this website where you can find great smocked stuff at a huge discount. Needless to say I have fallen in love with several of the dresses...but this is my FAVORITE!! I know a certain little Tiger who needs this in her closet!! :)

I hope everyone is having a great Monday! I think everyone in our office is trying to recover from the switch to daylight savings! LOL!

Hair thoughts...

As you may know I have worked very hard to grow my hair out over the past few years, and I absolutely love it long...but lately I feel the need for a change for some reason. We have talked about donating to Locks of Love...and at this point I have enough to donate...but it would mean my hair being VERY short! I go back and forth between wanting to cut it and leaving it alone until it's a little bit longer. I just can't decide...what should I do?

I was looking at the picture on my driver's license this weekend and it reminded me how cute my hair was short. Even if I couldn't put it up, it was really cute. Thoughts??!! ANYONE??

Dogs, goats, and chickens...

We had a great weekend, overall uneventful, but lots of fun nonetheless! As you know if you read this post I had a date on Friday. We had a great time...we had dinner at Thai Taste and spent the rest of the evening talking and getting to know each other. I don't know when we will have the chance to go out again, but I'm looking forward to it!! :) Yes...that's all you're getting!! :)

I came home to a rather unpleasant surprise Friday night. Mimi was up with Walker who had been throwing up since they got home with him. Not a good feeling for anyone! By the time I got home he had been about 20 minutes without throwing up, and after another 25 minutes Mimi decided it was probably ok to put him down for the night. He did fine for the most part on Saturday and we thought it had passed completely. Jodi and Brad found out differently on their way home.

As far as I know he is fine today, unfortunately Jodi and Brad were sick all night. Please say a prayer for our entire family. We were all at their house yesterday, so we are hopeful that they feel better today, and that we don't all get whatever has attacked the Williams family.

Saturday afternoon before Jodi and Brad came to get Walker, we took the babies to the Brock's farm. They have goats, and recently two of the goats gave birth, so they have one female goat and then male twins. Jeff told us they grow up really quickly so if we wanted to see them as babies we should come ASAP! He was right...the twins were born on Valentine's Day, and the female was a week later...they do not look like they are less than a month old!

Alexa and Walker were both a bit uncertain about the goats, chickens, and dogs...but we got some cute pictures anyway! They also got to ride on the golfcart, and Alexa thought that was awesome! She seems to be feeling much better, and I am super thankful for that!

I hope you all had a great weekend...enjoy the pics!

Alexa and Mimi looking at the goats

What a cutie!!

Silly Girl!

Pretending to try and touch a goat :) As soon as one came close she would pull her hand away!

and grin like this!!

She didn't even like the baby goat!

Look at that face!

Alexa wanted to drive!

Just hanging out!

Alexa and mommy

We all love the steps!

Alexa playing in her kitchen after her bath Saturday night!

Retail Rant!

I had a few errands to run in Spartanburg today, and one of them was going to Wal-Mart. Typically this isn't a problem for me, I can actually get in and out rather quickly. Tonight was no different...they didn't have one thing I needed, but no problem with the rest. I went up to the check out, and waited patiently. Finally it was my turn, I scanned my items and proceeded to pay. That's when it happened...someone got in line behind me, and he was less than 6 inches away.

WHY??!!

What is wrong with people? Was he worried that someone was going to get in front of him if he didn't stand on top of me? Was he worried that I was going to take too long? Was he trying to be nosey? I mean there are a number of questions I could ask as to his reasoning for crowding me at the check out. I guess I will never know the answer! Have any of you noticed this? Mama and I have talked about it on numerous occassions, and I just don't get it.

I really wanted to turn around, look at him and say "could you please BACK UP!!!" I didn't because you just never know with people, but it really does bother me. I don't understand why people can't stand back and wait their turn to use the check out.

Ok, I'm done now!

Thankful for Thursday

I am always thankful for Thursday, because it means tomorrow is Friday...and I always LOVE Friday!! :) I have convinced myself to forget about my speeding ticket from this morning, and I'm trying to avoid mirrors so I don't have to see my bad hair day, and I'm going to enjoy this rather cold Thursday! So, for this weeks Thursday Thirteen I think I'm just going to do 13 random things that are running through my mind right now!

1. I still can't believe I got a speeding ticket this morning...I mean I know I was speeding, I guess I can't believe I got caught! LOL
2. I need to go back to Ingles to see if they have ever gotten any soy creamer in...I have been at least twice when they have been out, and Food Lion doesn't carry it. :(
3. I just don't understand why my office is always freezing...no matter how much we ask them to change the temperature it's always freezing. I guess I should be thankful I'm not working outside!
4. What am I going to wear to work tomorrow...and then on my date tomorrow night...hmm. Lots of obviously important decisions there!! :) I'm so excited! Maybe I can try to pick up a new shirt tonight after class.
5. I can't wait for Lindsey to have children so Stephanie and I can repay all the "favors" she has done us by teaching Alexa and Perrin any number of things to try and get their mothers to pull their hair out! :) Lindsey...I would like to remind you of what they say about payback!
6. I wish I had a venti soy caramel macchiato to drink right now...it would help me warm up, and they are super YUMMY! It's a good thing Starbucks isn't convenient, and I'm always late because I could definitely see myself forming that habit in a hurry!! :) It's a nice treat, but it would cost way too much to do it every day!
7. I am so glad Alexa is feeling better...her poor mouth has been giving her fits! She didn't get her first tooth until she was almost a year old, and then slowly added others, well within the last week we have seen 5 new teeth begin to emerge. She has been in so much pain, and she just hasn't been herself! I know that if we can see 5 of them there are probably more we can't see, so it's been a lot for her to deal with! I don't like it when my baby doesn't feel good!
8. I need to set up a time with Jodi to take the babies to have their pictures made again. We took them for the first time together last year when they were 6 months old...we were supposed to go again at a year, but the time just slipped away from us. Not to mention that since they were both mobile at that point it would've been hard to get them to cooperate!
9. I am excited about my date tomorrow night...have I already mentioned that?? :)
10. I need to get a new mat for my cricut...the one I have is totally shot! I am on the verge of withdrawals because I can't use it until I get a new one. Mer, we would both love to craft with you again soon...let us know when you are going to be in town and have time to get together. I know how busy weekends are, especially when you're only here for a few days!
11. I am really ready for spring...this cold weather is driving me crazy! I used to think I wanted to live in NYC at some point in my life...I have recently decided against that! I can't stand being cold, and while I would like having lots of cute coats, hats, and gloves for the weather I would hate going out every day! It drives me crazy here and it's not even that cold! Not to mention that I have some really cute sandals I'm DYING to wear!! :)
12. I am doing really well with my no dairy thing...and there are really only two things bugging me...the first one is pizza. I got a pizza from Sidestreet a couple of weeks ago and it was GREAT...but all of the girls in my office have been ordering personal pans from Pizza Hut, and I and I can tell it wouldn't be the same without the cheese! The second thing is milk, and it really only gets to me when there are cookies involved! On Sunday I made chocolate chip cookies from scratch, and when they were done all I could think about was how yummy it would be to dip one into a really cold glass of milk. Oh well for that one!
13. I am so ready for tomorrow...this should be a great weekend! :) I think I might have both babies Saturday morning, which is always so much fun! I love watching Alexa and Walker play together, and I hope they will always be close. Hopefully I'll get some good pictures this weekend...I've been kind of slack on that lately!

I hope you all have a great Thursday...and an even better weekend! :)

**UPDATE** I wrote this earlier, and forgot to post it...LOL! Anyway, when I got home from school tonight Alexa wasn't feeling well again. You can tell it's her teeth, but I would ask you to pray for her. Clearly cutting so many teeth at one time is very painful!

Bad Hair Day!!

Do you ever have one of those days when you wonder why you got out of bed. Well, today is one of those for me! It all started this morning when my hair would do absolutely NOTHING! I guess that's not completely true, it didn't fall out so that was a good thing! :) Then, because I am habitually late, I got a speeding ticket on my way to work.

AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! What a frustrating day! I'm over the ticket at this point...no sense in getting too worked up over it, it's not going to make it go away! LOL! My hair on the other hand, will bother me all day long...WHY? I absolutely believe that my attitude dictates what kind of day I am going to have...so on a day like this is it just that I want to have a bad day? Do we just need days to be in a bad mood?

I'm not really sure...(deep breath)...I'm going to have a good day regardless of everything that has happened. I'll just think about my date tomorrow and that will make me smile!! :)

I hope you all have a fabulous Thursday...if I can think of 13 things to post I might do that later!

It's been a long time...

Most of you know that I ended a long relationship with Alexa's daddy after Thanksgiving this year, and I have been doing the single mom, and single girl thing since then. I can honestly say it hasn't been easy the whole time. I had forgotten what it felt like to be single! I knew that I didn't want to rush into another relationship because I needed some time to just be me. I won't go into lots of details here, but I needed time to heal some wounds. Since that time I really haven't been looking for anyone, mainly because I am super busy, but also because I felt when the time was right I would know it.

Well, two weeks ago one of the girls I work with decided to play Cupid! LOL! Anyway, long story short, she introduced me to a guy and we have been talking ever since. We are going on our first date this Friday, and I am really nervous! We have talked on the phone and in person multiple times, but something about a first date just makes me anxious! Again I'm not going to go into lots of detail here, because you never know who might be reading...LOL! Yes...he reads my blog! I did want to share this with all of my readers because I am not just nervous, I am really excited too!

It's been a long time since I've been on a first date...I'll let you know how it goes!! :)