20 Of My Guilty Pleasures...

 1. Baths!!! I mean what girl DOESN'T love bubble baths, bath salt baths, or rose petal baths?? I love coming home after a long day and my husband having a bath drawn up for me and candles lit. It is amazing!

2. Nicholas Sparks books!! He always knows how to make any of my days better. He also is good at keeping me up at all hours of the night because I can't EVER put his books down!

 3. I may be 21 but I still love to read Seventeen magazine! It's the best! It always has the best fashion tips and gossip. <3

 4. Blankets!!! I seriously am in love with cozy blanky's. I constantly want to buy every cute comfy blanket I see! I really don't think you can have too many blankets though...You never know when the world is gonna end..

5. Disney....I will probably always be obsessed with Walt Disney's magical creations...Even when I'm 80...

6. Dr. Seuss...I love his quotes, books and imagination. I only wish I had HALF of his creativeness. He's an amazing man.

7. Ebay...Yeah I buy WAY too many things on there.....

8. Xtremes...I could eat these all day every day for the rest of my life and be satisfied....So addicting!

9. Facebook...Well I think we ALL are pretty much obsessed...

10. Foot massages. . . . Best thing ever!!!! Sadly, now that I'm married, I don't get as many foot massages as I use to... I guess marriage changes everything lol...

11. Frank Sinatra...He was a magical man with a wonderful voice.

12.  Fuzzy colorful fun socks!!! I love all socks that are fun! I HATE WHITE SOCKS! I always feel sad and depressed whenever I wear white socks...I do wear them sometimes, but I hate it!

 13. Katy Perry...I kind of love her. . . She has a beautiful voice and I adore her fashion sense :)

 14. Keeping Up With The Kardashians . . . They are kind of addicting. . Just saying.

 

15. Marvel!!! I love all things Marvel! I'm kind of a nerd I guess you can say...Well not really because I am not into the comics, just the movies...But still!

 16. Pinterest. I spend wayyyy too much time on this website!!! Quite literally, it's bad. . . Buttt I've also done many projects and got lots of ideas flowing through my brain because of it too...So that's okay...



 

17. RINGS!! I love rings, so much! I'm not HUGE on all other jewelry, but I do love rings..A lot.

18. Baby girl things...I am pregnant with my first baby, and it's a GIRL...SOOO I am OBSESSED with buying girly baby things :). They are all so cute.

19. Photography...I'm wayy too in love with photography...Which I guess a lot of people are nowadays but seriously...Passion for sure.

20. Victoria Secret body sprays, lotions and body butters....I think I have like 35-40 Victoria Secret beauty items on my dresser....It's a good and bad thing....A good thing because I'm guaranteed to always smell good and I RARELY run out of things...It's a bad thing because well...Idk....I guess it's not a bad thin ;D

My Christmas Post..

My husband Jared and I on Christmas :)



So my Christmas went pretty smoothly for the most part......I was, I'll admit, a little bit sad when I looked out my blinds when I woke up to find NO SNOW on the ground at all....But when I looked at my husband who was super excited to get up and around for presents and such I felt very thankful. Being able to spend our first Christmas together as husband and wife was such a blessing!!! And also feeling miss Emerie move around in my stomach also made me feel happy. It's weird to think that next year and every year after that we will have an extra person in our lives to spend Christmas with...It won't just be Jared and I....It's a good thing and also a tough thing too. Mostly a good thing though....Anyway..So we got up and around and went to my parents to open up gifts....I got lots of stuff....From Jared I got a BEAUTIFUL ring, necklace and ear ring set which is aquamarine (my birthstone), an outfit, a scrapbooking set and some other things. My Mom and Dad got me a TONNNN of jewelry, some cute socks and such....Jareds family got us a Starbucks gift card, Beatles coasters, a bowl for Emerie, candy and other stuff. So yeah we got lots of stuff. . . After we got done opening presents at his parents house we stayed and ate turkey and other yummy foods then hung out for awhile....Thennnn we left and came back to my parents house to eat my Dad's famous home made lasagne...SOOOOOOOOOO good.... After eating we hung out for awhile then played a few games of Clue...I won the first game YAY me....Buttt I started getting REAL grumpy and agitated (stupid pregnancy hormones) and had to quit playing...My head started hurting and stomach was cramping and I was EXHAUSTED. So Jared took me home...I took a HOT bubble bath, which was relaxing and then hit the hay...Jared read the Christmas story out of the Bible to me and then out we went :).....Longggg day!

Bad Mood...

So it's Christmas eve and I'm in a bad mood....Wanna know why??? I'll tell ya why....For one thing my husband and I have like less than a week to get our house all packed and ready to move SOOOOOOOOOOO we spent today working nonstop on packing and cleaning. It wouldn't suck so bad if I wasn't pregnant  and if it wasn't Christmas eve.... It's hard to maintain motivation when you are completely and utterly drained all of the time. My back is KILLING me, not even exaggerating, my feet are quite literally about to fall off, my calves feel like they are swollen like a balloon and I'm TIRED. I'm just done, really. I hate every single bit of moving. The only good thing with moving is when it's all done....The process is the worst thing ever, well one of them anyway. Another reason I'm in a bad mood is because my acid reflux is going HAYWIRE like constantly. My Dr. prescribed me some meds for it and they are SO  SO not working...I'm still having to pop Tums like crazy. So that's really annoying. Also, so far, there's NO SNOW!!!!! WTH???? It is WINTER and we haven't had one decent snow day, which thoroughly upsets my heart. It is, however, suppose to snow tomorrow, which will totally make my life better. But now that the news has got me all set on a white Christmas I'ma be a scrooge if I wake up tomorrow to nothing....So yeah I'm just a Grinch today, I guess. Hopefully when my lover and I get home from my parents house I'll get a GOOD back massage.....I sure do need one! Well merry Christmas eve ya'll....Hope my negativity didn't ruin your night...Tomorrow will be better. .

My day...

So today has been a longish day....Here's why...

1. Had to be at the Doctor's at 9 AM....That SUCKED because Nicholas Sparks kept me up all night....I did finish "The Choice" by 1:30 AM, but that didn't leave me with too much sleep. So now I'm tired and grumpy...

2. My Doctor's appt today was for the pregnancy glucose test and lets just say EWW....I've decided that the closest thing that could describe how awful the stuff was is: it's basically the "Moonshine" of all sugary drinks......If it's possible to have a sugar buzz, I'm pretty sure I did...Yuck....I got stuck with two needles...One for the glucose blood drawing and the other was a pertussis shot.....The good thing about the appt was that Emerie's heartbeat was a good 130-150 and she was in the right place....So yay :)

3. After my appt Jared and I went to MFR and ate breakfast....

4. Went to Aurora to pick Ellie up from school....

5. After picking her up we went BACK to Monett because the Land Lady at the Apartments we are wanting to move into said she had a couple papers we needed to fill out....

6. Went and got Ellie some BK for lunch

7. Went to my Grandma's to make out a GAME PLAN sheet since we have 7 full days to be ready to move out of our house....

8. Went back to Aurora to make sure Jacey got off the school bus okay...She did.

9. Came back to Monett after work and am now at my Grandma's about to PASS OUT!!!


I'm so done with today....

Sad day :(....

So I'm seriously at a loss for words on the "Conneticut Elementary School Shooting".....I can't even fathom how someone can even have the thought or desire to shoot anyone, ESPECIALLY innocent children who still have their whole lives ahead of them....It breaks my heart so much to even think about it. Those kids didn't even have a chance at a full life. They didn't have time to make plans, or fulfill their dreams. Their lives were cut short because of some selfish people who have no value of life. Those people don't understand that life is precious, especially the lives of little children. Those kids had a future, they had a purpose to fulfill, but it was all cut short, WAY too short. Maybe one of those kids would have one day been the president of the United States, or the next Joan of Arc...Some of those kids could have been world changers...But we will never know....And to think about what the poor parents are thinking and going through. They didn't have a chance to say goodbye to their babies, their precious, sweet babies. They had to identify their children, their dead children. I cannot imagine the hurt and pain that they are feeling, and it hurts my soul to even try. Nothing that anyone says or does can ever replace the lives of their babies...They are going to go through heartache over and over again because of this....I would absolutely die if something happened to my Emerie, and I haven't even seen her face to face yet....This goes to show that in life we never know what's going to happen....When they say that "life is short", they aren't kidding....It truly is....We are here today and gone tomorrow....It's weird to me how our whole lives can just end from one bullet to the heart.....Everything we've went through, all the happiness, pain, EVERYTHING can end in a blink of an eye....I'm learning that there's no point in putting my faith in this world, because like I said, my life can end instantly.....I want to cherish my kids with everything in me...I want to be wrapped up in love, happiness, peace, joy, and above all else, Christ...I don't want to get caught up in temporary things....I want everyone I love to KNOW that I love them and care about them before I die....And If I were to die today, or tomorrow that I would have impacted people in a good way.....My prayers and thoughts will continue to go out to all of the families affected by this tragedy....It's going to be a long, rough road for them, and the only one who can help them truly cope with their losses, is God....This is just heartbreaking : (....

Just a boring old post....Nothing special...

Okay so Jared and I are going to go look at an apartment today here in Monett.....I'm REALLLLY praying hard that it all works out and we can get it!!! We only have till Feb 1st to be out of our current house due to them selling it....SO it would be VERY convenient and nice if we could find something now and begin the process instead of it dragggging out ya know???....Anyway, so that's that.....We are trying to sell our car as well so that we don't have to worry about car payments anymore, what with me not working anymore after this month and all....SO there's a lot of things we are just waiting to happen for us....So I'll be continuing to pray that it all works out in the right timing, but I guess it's all up to God right??....

On a lighter note.....I had 2 dreams last night, both were odd......The first dream was about me having Emerie February 12th, which would be 4 weeks early...She weighed 5 lbs 6 oz.....She had brown hair, brown eyes and dark skin lol....Jared has indian in him, but idk...LOL.....And the really weird thing was I woke up at my house (in my dream) and was so confused because my "belly" was gone and I had no recollection of why.....I started freaking out and Jared told me that I had already had the baby....That she was in the NICU for a week or so due to her being so early....But I didn't remember going into labor, delivery OR ANYTHING!!! It was the scariest feeling....I was so panicked! When we finally got to bring her home I got so mad because everyone kept taking her from me, and as far as my mind knew, that was the first time I had seen her and didn't want to share lol....Then I woke up and had to pee....


Second dream was about the Amish Alcohol's Anonymous lol...I don't even remember much except a bunch of Amish alcoholic women.....Weird...

Some things that just tick me off....

So I, along with EVERYONE else have some things that just annoy me....Don't even act like you don't have things that bother you! Here are some of mine...


1. When hangers get tangled together!!! UGHHHH
2. When you go to plug something in and you have to flip it over the other way
3. Bad breath
4. B.O, YUCK
5. Whenever my hair will not do ANYTHING it's suppose to
6. When my makeup is orange looking, so not attractive
7. When people have to CONSTANTLY point out the negative in situations, even situations that are suppose to be happy...For example marriage and having babies...
8. When people say they are going to meet you somewhere and don't show up or call
9. When people come up with really lame and dumb excuses for WHY they ^ stood you up...
10. Slow computers
11. Reba's VOICE, you KNOW who I'm talking about...
12. Snobby people with sticks up their butts
13. When people criticize me for my beliefs
14. COUGHING fits, and sneezing fits
15. Being sick in general
16. When I hit EVER SINGLE red light on my way to work or just when I'm in a hurry....When I'm not in a hurry all the lights are green? GO FIGURE
17. When I get behind people going 40 MPH on a 60 MPH road!!! Grr.
18. When I ask for no tomato's at Taco Bell and they instead give me EXTRA tomato's...Really?
19. When the toilet paper runs out...Always happens to me
20. When people make fun of other people for things they can't change....Looks mainly...
21. BEING IGNORED, OH that one realllly sets me off....
22. Selective listening..This is mostly one that applies to ALL of the men in my life....Dad, brothers, JARED...Lol
23. When I go to Walmart for hangers (or whatever) and then get home from the store just to realize I bought everything in the store BESIDES hangers...I do that A LOT
24. When people try to make me feel stupid
25. When I get up in the middle of the night to go pee and run into the wall...
26. When the remote just magically disappears
27. When socks magically disappear....
28. Monotone teachers or professors OR preachers!!!! Anyone who you really have to listen to what they are saying..
29. When you drop something on your toe, or stub it...
30. When one thing goes wrong and then suddenly EVERYTHING else has to go wrong too....
31. Getting hit on or whistled at by men that could be my Dad or Grandpa...Eww.
32. Getting hit on or whistled at by women....That's awkward.
33. Porn scenes in PG 13 movies!!!!!!!! Makes me OOBER angry
34. When I see parents dressed up nice and clean and then their kids are dirty and hair unbrushed in shabby clothes...
35. When it's freezing cold outside and I see a kid with NO coat on!!!!
 

Rain rain go away....

"When it rains it pours" is a HUGE understatement of what I'm going through right now....2012 Has been a pretty good year up until now....I need to vent, so this may sound pretty negative, but that's the good thing about blogs right? You can be yourself and be as honest as you like.....Anyway...I'm expecting a baby in March, which as you probably know can be stressful. I'm not stressed about the fact that I'm going to have a precious baby, but I'm stressed about what the baby is going to be born into. I want everything to be settled and peaceful when she arrives (as most parents do I presume). I know that things aren't ever going to be perfect, but that's what I feel like they should be, I guess that's the problem...Okay so it started to "rain" a few days ago when I was told that my last day of working would be the end of December....I hadn't planned on working passed Feb, but I HAD planned on working up till then....The lady I watch her kids for has already found my "replacement", which I totally am cool with.....It's just that we are now losing 2 months of income that we had been banking on....We are selling our car because there's NO WAY we can afford car payments and full coverage insurance with one income....So it's "raining" a little harder since we are trying to find someone to buy it for the amount we need to sell it for.... it's because of the fact that we are having a baby is why the things we are going through seem so extra stressful....So today I got a letter in the mail from my land lord telling me that on Feb 1st our "residency will be terminated".....That's the day that our lease is up, but my husband and I had planned on signing another years lease and staying there....I've already got the nursery all pretty and have begun nesting.....Well anyway, I called him and asked him what was going on and if we had the option to stay and he told me that they are going to be selling the house......WTF???? SO now as you can see, it's begun "POURING".....I think more like flooding actually....But that's just me....I have so much to be thankful for, and don't get me wrong, I am VERY thankful that things aren't any "worse" than they are.....It's so hard to focus on good things when it seems like life hates you so much, which is how I feel right now..............So I'm at the point now where I either need to let go and let God, or drown.....Hmm I think I'm going to go with the God option.....He's the only one who can save us from this nasty mess of a situation....I'm going to be seeking him more and more and trusting that he KNOWS what's best for our family and that things are going to work out for his purpose. It's funny because we always come up with all of these "plans" and ways that WE expect things to be, but in reality God is the one with the plan, and his plan is what's going to be fulfilled, not our own....So I'm comforted by the fact that I have someone so powerful on my side pulling for me......Just gotta pray and trust now. It'll all work out for the best, I know this....I just need to keep believing that....

SO much to do....

Man....It really sucks whenever you have SO MUCH STUFF TO DO.....Well it does for me anyway....As of now I have a ton of things that need done,  yet no motivation to do any of it....Here's a list of the things I need to get done...

1. Laundry...I'm like 4 loads behind...Whoops, sorry babe.
2. Organize our office/desk area...There is SO SO SO much clutter on our desk it's ridiculous! We also need to get Jared's filing cabinet from his parents house so we can have somewhere to FILE all of our bills and such, so that they don't pile on the desk ANYMORE!...
3. Clean up the laundry room
4. Scrub the bathroom, it's due for a good deeeep cleaning, not just wipe everything down with clorox wipes cleaning....
5. Organize the pantry a.k.a storage closet...
6. Break down the billion boxes we have sitting in our laundry room and kitchen...
7. We have like 4 important calls we've been needing to make but keep putting it off...
8. Wrap Jared's Christmas presents...
9. Give Sinatra a bath (that's our dog)
10. Go grocery shopping...Our fridge is pretty empty...
11. Clean up our bedroom and organize Jared's closet
12. Go through Jared's million pairs of jeans and get rid of all the one's that don't fit him anymore..
13. Work on our Christmas bucket list
14. Go see the lights at the park
15. Buy a gift for the ladies Christmas party at Cheri's house this weekend
16. Get stuff for sushi night this Saturday night....
17.  Vacuum our car out, eww
18. Get our calender/budget filled out and get started on it!!!....My last work week is the end of December, after that we will be relying on Jared's checks alone...Scary.
19. Pick up my clothes from Top Hat that I had fixed...
20. Sell the twin size bed in the nursery, it needs to get out of the way!
21. Finish the Lord of The Rings series...


So yeah, I think that's all, but I may have missed something....Holy cow!!! It's hard to focus on anything else when all of this needs done!!! I'm stressing out!! GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Anyway..

Radical.

So I'm reading this book ^ "Radical" and it is a big punch in the face. I haven't felt more convicted reading a book before in my life. David Platt is a man who knows what he's talking about. And it's funny because the things he brings to your attention in the book are things that are straight from the Bible, things that we should already know to do, or  not do rather. I'm on chapter 4 so far and have already learned so much. I've read this before, but I didn't really let it sink in like I am this time. So far he's pretty much let us know that current Christianity is selfish. We paint Jesus out to be someone who WE want him to be, someone who is more comfortable to "follow". But in reality, Jesus calls us to give up EVERYTHING for him and for the father's glory. All of our possessions mean NOTHING. It's okay to have things, but our "things" should never ever get in the way of serving God, which is clearly our soul purpose in life. Another thing that the book has brought out is that we are all called to missions. We are suppose to go out into the world, ALL NATIONS, and make disciples. We aren't called to just spread the gospel where we live, but we are suppose to go out of our way, out of our comfort zone to do God's work, keep people from a fiery hot hell.  Something to think about, really. Makes me want to change my life, COMPLETELY. My focus hasn't been on the right things, my priorities are so out of whack. Anyway, that's where I'm at now. I'll probably blog more about this book the further I get into it.