Loving Lipstick

Oh Happy Day, it's Friday!!!!!

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I don't know why, but lately I've been about lipsticks (which has never happened in my 30 years of life), but lately, I want a little color on my lips. I found a lipstick at CVS that was half off from Covergirl and it was ok, I wasn't a fan of the color on. Then I went to Target on Saturday and found these; Revlon's Colorburst Lip Butter in Berry Smoothie and Peach Parfait. The main reason I picked them up was because I was the sign advertising the price was $1.97. Well heck yeah, I'll try these two lipsticks at only $2 a piece and if I don't like them, then who cares! They then rang up at $6.97 a piece. I told the cashier about the price I saw and she pulled the tag and said you get the $1.97 price. I was then kicking myself and should have picked up the red color that I was debating. But oh well! I tried them on at home and LOVE the colors! They are not too much but give you at least a little color to your lips. 

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Look what came in the mail a day early!!!! I was so excited to wear my new FitBit Charge HR last night. I got it all set up with my computer and phone. Wore it all night long and it killed my right wrist (I write and eat left handed which makes watch wearing on your left hand feeling bulky). So now the FitBit is on my left wrist and I am still not as fond of it. I am thinking it's because it is too small. I ordered the Small size and I have the FitBit on the 3rd to last notch. I cant use the last 2 notches because the piece that holds down the strap doesn't have a place to "lock" it into place. Sooooo I am thinking about sending this back and getting a size Large. We shall see. I love everything else about it though. 

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Mr. Luke has had a cough and it likes to wake him up at night. So we decided to put an "angle" in his crib to help him sleep at night. Well this small angle plus he is moving more in bed had made him wake up vertical when I put him to sleep horizontal in bed. What a silly goof. 

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For Christmas from my Dad and his wife, Deb, Luke received many presents including this little fun number. I found it on Amazon and thought it would be great for his high chair or when we are out to eat and he is bored. It suction cups to the table so it doesn't go anywhere and its fun to look at and spin. You can find this fun little Sassy Wonder Wheel toy here. 

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If you haven't figured out yet, we are amazon.com fanatics!!! This little fun number we order from there too: The Mum & Bubi Solids Starter Kit. We made baby food over the weekend (sweet potatoes and summer squash) and froze them in the Mum & Bubi freezer trays. At first we couldn't figure out how to get the frozen food out of the trays and that's where YouTube helped us out. After we watched a 30 second video we tried the trays and and they came out with little to no effort! Score! I plan on blogging about making baby food next week. But for now, I highly suggest these trays! :) 

8 Weeks to Go!

Another work week down, 8 more to go to my due date!

(In case you missed it, I posted a late 32 week bump date last night.  You can read it here)

I am sure you are all tired of hearing me count down the weeks and days till Baby K 
"should" be here, however; I am just plain excited to get these weeks over with and spend time with this baby!  

1.     The weather in St. Louis has been absolutely GORGEOUS this week!  I am talking highs in the 70's and 80's this week.  Not too hot, but not too cold.  I'd be ok with summer being this weather all summer long.  :) 

2.     Speaking of the weather.....with this weather change comes either allergies or a cold to this soon to be mama.  The weather changed on Monday and since then I have been fighting a scratchy throat and stuffy nose.  I have taken a Zyrtec thinking it was allergies and it helps with the scratchy throat, but the nose is just killing me.  Not only is one nostril clogged (sorry for the visual) but this baby is getting bigger which is making it harder to breathe and then I only have one nostril to breathe through and I am not a mouth breather (insert sad song....) I'll be ok though, just chugging through it all.

3.     I've decided to take a break from my facebook (I have a personal facebook account).  I decided yesterday to delete the app from my phone and stay away from it for awhile.  I'd rather not get rid of it because we have a lot of out of town family and I am sure they would love to have me keep it so that I can post photos of the baby, but I am really sick of the drama that facebook causes.  Not only do things I see hurt my feelings sometimes (I blame that on hormones and really it's my own fault also so yes I take blame....), but I am tired of having people get upset at things that I choose to do with my life and then use it against me.  Plus, I am so tired of people posting animal abuse stories on there....it makes me so sad to see these photos.  If I could, I would adopt all of the animals in the world.  But for now, I have given a home to my adopted animals, Smokey and Keeley.

4.     My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of the Malaysian airlines flight 17 that was shot down yesterday by a missle.  I have a BIG fear of flying (it only get's worse every year....) and I cannot imagine the grief that these family and friends are experiencing in the loss of their loved ones.  

5.     I have the hardest time finding an eye doctor.  I have had glasses since I was 7 years old and every year I go to a new eye doctor because I just cannot find a good doctor or office.  My last eye doctor experience was not good where the office manager yelled at me because I asked about my insurance and what it covers....Since I am having a baby and will probably be in my glasses more than normal, I decided to go with glasses and contacts.  They both should be here in about a week.  

-     OH!  I also wanted to mention that I found a new FUN photo app to edit and play with your photos.  I have an iPhone so I know it is available for that, I am not sure on the android front thought.  It is called, Photofy and I used it on both photos above.  You're welcome for that awesome information.  :) 

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend and I will chat with you all on Monday!  :) 

Happy Friday Folks!

Oh Happy Friday folks!  

Every Friday when I get ready for work all I can think of, another week down and another week closer to meeting this baby boy!!!!  This week at work has been a little less hectic, thank goodness!!  I am starting to get caught up on things and I haven't been nearly stressed as I was last week.  :)

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Thirty One Zip-Top Organizing Utility Tote

New Diaper bag was ordered and delivered to me yesterday!!!!!!  Where the yellow butterfly is on the tote, I put little man's name on there in aqua thread.  Since I am holding off on announcing his name, you will then have to wait and see the finished product.  I will say, I LOVE IT!!  Now to get a changing pad, several zip up bags (to help keep me organized) and to start getting several travel sized items to start stocking the bag up.  YAY!!

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Cute pants, right......yeah they are not my friend today!  The band is a short one and it either it digging into my lower stomach area or cutting off circulation around a portion of my stomach and then when I sit down they sit around half way down my butt.....#firstworldproblems  At least I am semi-comfy for work today!

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My ghetto rigged backyard set up....yep we are in desperate need of a patio and some nice chairs for the "patio".  I have never spent this much time in our backyard until this year since the basement has been completed and finished and now I am dying to get this patio in!!  The way our house faces we get shade in the backyard after 6pm and it's nice to sit out there and play ball with Keeley.  Notice Smokey in the door wishing he was a dog.....

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I am OBSESSED with this show right now!!!!  Where have I been the last 2 seasons while it's been on?  Well I am catching up and watching all of the episodes that I can.  NBC is offered free watching of Season 2 on their website also, SCORE!!

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Third Trimester over here!!!!!

I cannot believe that I am already into my 28th week of pregnancy.  I have been pregnant for 203 days and have 83 days to go until my due date!  Say what?!?!!!  You can read my 28 week bump date here.

 

I might have to build an ark!

FRIDAY!!!!

This has been a LONG week and I am SOOOOO happy to see Friday finally here!

Holy Rain!  I am beginning to wonder if I need to build an ark because we are drowning here in Missouri!!  I am totally not going to complain about it though because it was nice to have the rain to wash away all the salt, grits and grime from this winter.  The tornado's though, that's another story and they can GO AWAY like right now....  Yesterday the St. Louis area saw 3 tornado's!  Yikes!!  The above Doppler was from Thursday morning.  That ark you see there is NOT a good sign and in that ark produced a small tornado that hit downtown St. Louis.  

My poor babies have been scared of the storms.  Ok well actually Keeley had been so scared of the storms and Smokey knows I don't like storms and ever since we adopted him and it storms, he comes over to me and lies with me to calm me down.  On Wednesday after getting home I was followed around the entire house until I sat down on the couch.  Not 5 minutes later both the cat and dog were right next to me.  AWW!   

 

I'm actually liking this photo of me.... 17 weeks!!!!  So excited to almost be half way there already!!  I took this Thursday morning before work.  If you would like to catch up on my bump date for Week 17, you can click here.  An update from my crabbiness: Thursday night was so much fun and this morning and I am doing a bit better.  Just happy it's Friday and I get to sleep in tomorrow morning!

Lookie who was a VIP last night!  Funny thing is, I never saw the first Captain America so me seeing the second one was kinda funny.....  First, I was apprehensive of going because the weather people were calling for bad weather from 7-11 pm and they were right!  We got to the movies at  6 pm with our neighbors and a friend of theirs and we were treated with a free popcorn and soda.  Then we found out the movie was in 3D!  Bonus!!!   Then when walking into the theater we were treated with free candy.  We sat down and watched a short trailer that Conway Freight made for their company and then BAM the movie started.  Yeah, that's right, we went to a movie and saw NO movie trailers beforehand!  AWESOME!!!  Around 7:30 pm I heard the tornado sirens, que panic because my phone was at home and I wasn't able to track the weather as easily.....  Around 8 pm they evacuated the theater and we were moved 3 floors down to the food court.  Around 8:30 pm we got to go back into the theater and finish the movie. The movie was sooooooo good!  This coming from a girl who doesn't like comic books and had never seen the first Captain America.  LOVED the movie and suggest you go out and see it yourself.  :)  

This week Andy and I have been carpooling to work.  Since I drive a little bit further, I drop him off and pick him up.  NO joke I counted 3 bagel places on my way into work....sesame bagel YUMMO!  So true though, if I didn't have to be in at 7 am because I am hourly, I would have SO stopped this morning.  I will just say that being hourly is good because I would gain so much weight from bagels.

Happy Friday - Birthday Edition!

This morning when my alarm went off, I was so happy to remember that it was Friday!  Not that I had a bad week, just excited to get some sleep this weekend.  This pregnancy is still kicking me in the butt!  

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Baby K is a HE!  We found out on March 11th and we are thrilled!  I'll be honest, I SWORE that Baby K was a she.  I would have even bet money on it, and I am not a betting money kind of girl. To hear that Baby K is a Boy was a shock at first and then I started to get all these new ideas in my head for the nursery!  I even went out with my mama last Saturday to do a little BOY shopping at Babies R Us!  My mom got Baby K, 2 new outfits. 

The turkey butt is SOOOO cute!  The front of it says, "My First Thanksgiving".  We also loved the whale outfit, with the cute little whale feet.  :)  I also picked up 4 pairs of pants at Target for Baby K ($2.50 a piece!) in sizes 3 and 6 months.

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Wednesday marked my 30th Birthday!  My work surprised me with a HUGE cookie cake and a cute Birthday balloon!  It brought me a smile to my face that morning while I walked into my office half asleep.

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For lunch on my Birthday, I met up with my best friend Ali and her two adorable sons Sam and Max.  We ate at Lion's Choice (where else would I want to eat at?!?!!  LOL)  She had these BEAUTIFUL flowers and the adorable baby items for me!  Andy LOVED the onesie and the bip is just TOO cute!!  I can't wait for Baby K to be here!!!  

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My mom is seriously, the BEST!!  We had her stop by our house to let Keeley out after work and feed the hangry animals.  She surprised me with this BEAUTIFUL tulip arrangement!  I also had to screen shot that text between me and her cause I love her so!  I don't know where I would be without that woman!  Can we also talk about how cute that vase is?!?!!  It a big pink mason jar!  LOVE IT!!!  That arrangement is very me.  :)  

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Can we talk about how AMAZING my husband is?!?!!  Seriously, he pulled a HUGE surprise to me by getting me this DSLR camera.  The card has a real whoppie cushion in it and yes we tried it out to see if it really worked.  So funny!  Then in the bag was my camera.  I was talking about how I REALLY wanted my own DSLR camera (even though I have no idea how to use one yet) and he kept telling me that they are too expensive.  I of course knew they were too and was still happy with my other digital camera so thought nothing of him actually getting me a DSLR!  This thing is SO light weight and takes some awesome photos!  I can't wait to get some time this weekend to play with it and really get to know the ins and outs of the camera! Thanks to youtube, I should be able to get to know this camera really well before Baby K arrives.  :) 

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I chose for my Birthday dinner to be at the Cheesecake factory.  Since I do not have a big appetite, I chose a small cesear salad and the appetizer of Fried Mac n Cheese!  We did get some vanilla bean cheesecake to eat at home and you know what, its still sitting in the fridge....that might have to be devoured tonight.  

Spring is in the air!

Oh how I hope I just didn't jinx the weather in St. Louis, but it really does feel like spring is in the air!  I hope spring stays for a bit and then summer comes when it's summer time.  :)  

Also, if you didn't see, I am day behind in getting my Week 14 - Bump Date out.  So I put it up bright and early this morning.  Click above on the link to read it. 

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I have been wanting to grow some cat grass for Smokey and found these seeds at Target yesterday!  The pot I found at Michael's in a "grab bag" for a whopping $1 I think.  Right now the seeds are hanging out, outside in the pot and going to catch some rays the next 2 days.  I need to remember to bring that pot in on Saturday night though.  We are expected to get rain/snow on Sunday.  BOO!

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First dress of the year!  I have worn dresses 4 out of the 5 days this week!  I feel so much more comfortable wearing dresses right now, rather than wearing pants.

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Maternity leggings!  The regular leggings I have were starting to dig into my stomach and I hated the feeling.  So I went out and used my Target Cartwheel coupon (40% of maternity bottoms) and picked me up a pair of Maternity leggings.  They are soooooooooo comfy!  In fact, I am wearing them right now. 

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Andy and I went to Kohl's on Sunday and found these adorable Finding Nemo toys for Baby K! We were originally only going to get the Squirt toy, but then we needed to spend just $5 more dollars to get the $10 Kohl's Cash, so we got the Nemo toy also!

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The start of Baby K's blanket/quilt that I am making.  I think it is going to come out so cute!!  :)