the day before

***We’re going to pretend that this is Monday, November 5th, ok?!!!***

         my last belly pic :(

• How far along?  36 weeks and 6 days
• Total weight gain:  40 lbs…the last 6 lbs were put on in a week due to fluid gain! yikes!
• Maternity clothes? everything that I wear!
• Stretch marks? none
• Sleep: eh…
• Best moment this week: my doctors appointment (which I will elaborate on below)
• Miss Anything? being able to do anything without getting out of breath
• Movement: all of the time, more so at night. and sweet girl has daily hiccups
• Food cravings: still chicken strips from Whataburger
• Food aversions: none
• Gender: GIRL! :)
• Labor Signs: contractions everyday
• Belly Button in or out? in
• Wedding rings on or off? off. I’m wearing my Target cheap-o band.

random views of the bump for the last time

My last night of work was Halloween night and it was CRAZY busy. About 4 or 5 am I started feeling really bad. I had a horrible headache, was dizzy and just felt like crap. So I took my blood pressure and it was 160s/100s. and I took it multiple times. My coworkers tried to get me to go down to triage, but I had too much work to do still, so I just tried to sit as much as possible and chug water. I had my 36 week OB appointment later that morning so I knew that I would be checked out soon.

My BP was still extremely high and I had “cankles” up to my knees! Dr. D sent me to triage to be monitored for a few hours and if my BP didn’t come down, we were having a baby THAT day!!!! EEEEEEEK! I was so nervous! After working for 3 nights in a row and being sweaty and stinky, the last thing I wanted to do was labor a baby! Thankfully, my BP did come down after some rest and fluids. But Dr. D wanted me to come back on Monday night to  be induced!!!

art festival

We went to our downtown art festival back in March. We normally just walk around and then eat a snack from the yummy vendors. But this year, they had a kids area where they could make crafts for free. Of course, all our kids wanted was a cowboy hat and Kole didn’t even want one of those! They also got some balloon animals and after the second one popped, we decided to go eat a snow cone and call it a day!

only one week left…

I can’t believe that Christmas is only one week away. It just doesn’t seem possible. Maybe it’s because we spent Thanksgiving day in Louisiana and then didn’t have our Florida Thanksgiving until a week later. So I feel like I have an extra week until the 25th. My Mom and I went shopping last week for like 12 hours and came home with sore feet, sore legs, and a cold but 80% of my presents were bought! ha ha!

Presley helped Mamaw and Papaw decorate their tree before we left Louisiana. She was admiring her hard work!

And this is our tree. Presley decorated the bottom half with the unbreakable ornaments. They are all discombobulated and moved on a daily basis, but I just embrace it because that’s how our life is right now! That big  black mark on her forehead is where she gashed her head open on my nightstand. :( There’s still a mark today and she did it almost 3 weeks ago!

I know this next week will fly by. I just hope I can cram everything that I need to get done into it!

more phone pics

Here are some more pictures from my phone. Some of them are a few weeks old...oh well, better late than never I guess!

Presley has been so into "drawin" as she calls it! She loves to color with crayons, markers or chalk. She likes for you to draw choo-choo trains and happy/sad faces. If you draw a smiley face, she'll say "he sad" for you to erase the smile and make it a frown. Then she'll say "he happy now" for you to put the smile back on it. It's cute but it gets a little exhausting after a while!

This was on the way home from church. She was getting fussy, so I climbed into the backseat and played paparazzi! :) She looks like such a little diva here.

One night at my parents' house, Presley decided to get all decked out in a nurse's scrub top, a pink hat and a sequined pink purse! She has been getting into dress up stuff lately. I foresee Christmas presents of the like.

P helping her daddy play the bass and Kole twirling a drum. They made a great little trio! :)

phone pics

I was looking through pictures on my phone the other day and remembered I hadn't ever posted these. I really wish cell phones had better cameras because it's more convenient sometimes just to whip out your phone for a picture!

At cousin Chloe's birthday party last weekend. Chloe put the helmet on Presley and told her she had to wear it when riding! ;) Then she pushed Presley around on it!

Chloe's amazing cake!

Presley brought her sheep outside one day to play and pushed it on the swing.

Modeling a new outfit that Karri bought. This kid cracks me up on a daily basis! She always wants to try on clothes and says "piddy"! And then this pose is something new & quite funny!

Trying on some cool shades at Old Navy!

Helping Daddy sort out the wood for her swing set, months ago!

Jaden on the way home Saturday. He said it was his happy hat. Silly boy!

country kids

**So before we get on to the main post, can I just gush about Presley's shirt? Isn't it adorable? Natalie from The Punky Monkey made it. She's a friend from Mommy & Me who has amazing skills! Presley has one of her play mat creations and a bird monogrammed onesie that when she was a baby was one of my favorite things to put her in! It's now hanging on her wall! :) And I'm sure this shirt is going to be in regular rotation...we both love it! Do yourself a favor and go check out her stuff!**

Ok, now to the boring stuff ;)
We went back to visit my grandparents in Mississippi for a few days this past week. It was a short, sweet, and last minute kinda trip. Just my mom and I took the kids as my dad was putting tile down in their house and Jeremiah was working. We decided last week, I think, that we were going to go! We didn't really do much of anything; The only shopping we did was at Dirt Cheap...love that place! & we went out to eat twice. Otherwise we were just lazy, but it was still nice to see them. The first morning we went to feed my Grandaddy's cows. in the rain. and rain in mississipppi = lots of mud. yuck! So we trucked it out there in the rainy mud to see them. The kids loved it! I wanted to take my camera but was too afraid I would fall and drop it. Maybe next time there will be pics! Kameron drove the tractor a bunch and of course I don't have pictures of that either. I'm a slacker aunt!

The kids LOVED the wide open spaces (anyone singing Dixie Chicks?) to run free and crazy in!

This picture cracks me up. Kole came up to me with this distraught look on her face and said super dramatically "I just don't have ANY energy left!" Ha ha!

Close up of Presley's fabulous shirt!

And one last picture of the Mississippi country.

happiness in pictures!

Just wanted to share some pictures from our day! Jeremiah's dad and bonus mom are here so I'll post a lot more detail later on. :) Hope you had a happy Saturday!

I'm no Pioneer Woman,

but I can follow her directions! Ha ha! MAN her cinnamon rolls are delish! I, no, WE made them yesterday. I say we because I drove my husband batty with "but they don't really look like hers do" and he so lovingly rolled them out with me! :) So I'm giving him some credit! Everything is from scratch so they took forever to make. Seriously, like hours. But I think they were worth it. The recipe made 48 rolls, so we gave away a lot, ate a lot and still have some in the freezer! In true Pioneer Woman fashion, I took photos of the process. ;) Well, not all of it, because my hands got kinda messy!

raw dough, then below sprinkled with the good stuff

all rolled in a pan...the second batch came out MUCH prettier!

YUM! the finished product!

The icing is very maple-y, coffee tasting. It's good, but I will probably try some other icing recipe next time just for something different. Oh, and her orange rolls look insanely tasty. You better believe I'll be trying that recipe soon!

our day in pictures

I know that no one is going to care about this post, but I wanted to do it! Today was definitely not the typical day in our household, but I drug my camera around everywhere to remember a day in the life of Presley anyway.

Our morning started out crazy. I'll just say it involved puke & presley. :( I think it was just a fluke because she acted fine the rest of the day. Anyway, we went with our friend Karri to Pensacola to finish up our Christmas shopping. We went to Five Guys for lunch. Yum! How does it get better each time we go?

Then we went to the mall for a few things. We went to Claires and Presley tried on this Santa hat headband. I couldn't believe that she was still enough for me to take a picture.
Next up was Old Navy where Presley made a fast friend! Ha ha! She told the dog just "Hi" at first and then branched out to petting it on the head! She was so cute. Presley has only ever been around just a few dogs and I guess she thought she would take advantage of the one that didn't move! Ha!

And no girls shopping trip would be complete without a trip to Starbucks! =)

Presley and I came home and played for a little bit before the kids got dropped off and Daddy came home. Kameron, Jaden, and Kole are spending the night and spending all day tomorrow with us! It should be fun...hopefully I'll still be sane by tomorrow night! Ha ha! Just kidding, they are really great kids and we love having them over! :)

Isn't that a funny picture above? It makes me laugh because I was trying to get a picture of her cute shirt (that was totally a dress from last year! score with 2 years of wear!) but she just kept coming up to me wanting to sit in my lap.

Tonight we ate some pizza and then headed over to Pensacola again to look at some Christmas lights. There is this house on Cove Ave (the 2nd street on the left going west past the Lowe's on Nine Mile) that is decked out with lights. You can tune your radio to a certain station and the lights dance to music! It is so cool! I love going every year and the kids definitely enjoyed it! We didn't get over there until about 9 pm and the lights were still going when we left 30 min later. I think they start at dark & the radio station is 103.3 FM in case anyone wants to go and already have their radio tuned. I highly recommend going...it's a Pensacola must!

Not too great of pictures I know. But I had to take some and this was the best I got. I need to figure out how to shoot in the dark!

Hope you all had a great Friday!

polka dot play

There's not many things to say about this post....the cuteness speaks for itself!

She was spinning in the next two pics! :)

Jeremiah took this one...I was pleasantly surprised at his skills! ; )