3...2...1....surprise!

so dave's surprise party was a hit. i think he really enjoyed it! though seeing rob in the window as we were driving up the driveway sorta let him on that we were up to something....i think he was surprised! after a day of golfing with his good buddy lee, i surprised dave to a little cubbies surprise birthday at his parents house. the boys played basketball, everyone played a good game of kickball with the oversized ball that jes and rob gave dave. then, after the sun went down we all had s'mores around the fire! it was a great time. happy birthday honey, i love you!

(pictures to come later...)

twelve loads of laundry later....

...and i'm still not done.

lately i've been feeling pretty lazy lately. like, i have more than enough to keep myself occupied with- my son, setting up in our house, organizing all our stuff, cleaning, general day to day cleaning, and of course- laundry. but the past couple of days it seems like i can't do any of it. just like the intense heat and humidity of the day is causing me to work at a snail's pace. or just not work at all. and james has been really good and content lately (may i add that he's started to crawl?) so i do have lots of free time where i could do the immense work on my list of things to do. and yet i do none of it, but at the end of my day when i reflect back, i can't really say what i've done...any of ya'll have times like that? any ways, maybe if i publicly declare my sluggishness, things will change. we'll see.

also, i'd like to get my life in order- be more on top of calling people back, writing notes to people, exercising, eating right and so on...but i can't seem to get on top of that either. maybe i need a life coach or something.

the only thing that i can say i really have been doing is reading a lot! thanks to my wonderful s.i.l. i have completed some good books. "little earthquakes" but jennifer weiner was a delight. for have a 5 month old to take care of i dare say i completed it very quickly. i recommend it to anyone. and since i loved jennifer so much i'm on to "in her shoes" and it's turning out to be good as well. at this point i will give out a shout out to the richland area library because i think it's one of the best ever. it even has "i love lucy" to rent on dvd's! what girl could be happier?

my husband's birthday is coming up. he'll soon turn the ripe old age of 24. weird to think that we got married when we were 21! yikes! i'm excited to celebrate him, and i'll give more details later on what i have in store for him...

james is being ridiculously cute and wonderful lately. could i have asked for a better son? like i said, he's just started to crawl (still needs a bit fine tuning, but i'll count it as a crawl) and for no good reason he started laughing at me yesterday. he's eating solid foods on a semi often basis and pretty much rocks.



and i have to thank my again wonderful s.i.l. for the past two pictures. every time she comes to visit she takes the best pictures. i definetly can not take the credit for that!

and traci is coming on the 11th and i'm pretty excited to see her. oh! and my friend nikki got engaged as well!

so that's about all for now...more to update later...

real quick

i sometimes feel like i am somehow always rushed...like i need to get done with this thing so the next can happen. and right now isn't any different.

mainly for the fact that i am at the my mother in laws house and soon (29 minutes to be exact) have to be home to nurse my son. something i am very happy to do.

but i thought i'd give ya'll a quick update.

we survived moving in 24 hours, the visitation of my dear friend rebecca and my parents and brother and sister in law. each visit was so wonderful and dear and i am very thankful for friends and family alike. and on the bonus side- all the time out on the lake with the visitors gave me a pretty nice tan....ye-ah.

yesterday was the massive cleanout of the house. in about 4 hours dave and i managed to get everything organized from the big dump of all our stuff that happened only a week before. things are now organzied and settled and i feel like i live in a home again...though there are still massive mounds of laundry to pile through- but the house has a dishwasher and laundry machine, hurrah!

and that's about all...i have to go do some important business for a certain sister in law of mine who is soon to be one year older....


a certain young man who has captured my heart

we're homeless

...to an extent


meaning that right now we are sleeping at dave's parents' house, our stuff is living at his uncles house, and our previous apartment is now emoty. except for my flowers, whom (who?) i deeply miss.

yep, in less than four hours, with the help of multiple able-bodied men, we moved all our stuff out of our two bedroom lakeview apartment. rats. it seems so fast that i have not had closure yet. and that feeling of being unsettled is just the worst, isn't it?

well, that's about all. tonight i fully plan on eating my emotions and drowing my tears away with a good ol' drumstick and captin morgan's.

at least james is fast asleep, yes?

and thanks to all the many people near and far today who helping with moving or talking or just being there for me to vent on this huge blog-o-sphere. you are deeply appreciated.

let's see what tommorrow holds, because it sure is amazing what can happen in 24 hours!

flooded waters

a couple interesting turn of events yesterday....

a pipe broke in our apartment last night.
our apartment flooded from about 12-1245 after the breakage.
we came over to our in-laws at 130 to stay the night since our apartment was soaked.
and james woke up at 615.

so basically, i'm tired. and have a broken apartment.

and to top it all off, my friend rebecca is coming in from california to visit on saturday and i just don't know what to do.

sometimes, you wish life would just give ya a break, ya know?