Lovey Day

Happy Valentine's Day!

I am so happy I get to spend tonight with my 2 loveys.  Today I am reminded that life can throw you for a loop and there will always be things that are upside down and inside out in life, but love is always there. 
Love for God
Love for your friends and family (Happy Birthday to the greatest Mom ever!)
Love for your spouse
Love for your children
Love for your LIFE
Having Logan taught me a different type of love. it is never ending.  My heart is bursting with love for my little boy and my husband.  They are my whole world. 

Let's celebrate love today!

I will think about it tomorrow.

So I have not been a very good wife lately--I admit it.  I have been stressed out with the wreck and the new house.  I need to slow down a bit and take a deep breath and in the words of Miss Scarlett O'Hara, I will think about it tomorrow.  You see, if you know me (and if you are reading this blog you more than likely do) I am very timely and want to get things done, not slow down.

Work day:
6am-wake up
hair/make up
make bottle
baby changed, fed, HAPPY
make coffee
pack diaper bag
Suki outside and fed
change clothes/brush teeth
pack lunch
out the door to take Logan to school

Work 8 hours, but I love my job!

After work
pick up baby
feed and change baby
play
cook dinner
do dishes
laundry (sometimes)
bathe baby
story time
bottle
bedtime for Logan

After all that all I want to do is take a shower and fall into my bed! My husband reminds that I need to stop sometimes, life should not be about scheduling and lists (oh but I DO love them!!) We need time together too.  Even if it is 30 minutes on the couch watching the news.  Something.  I really want to try and stop trying so hard to get things done and just RELAX! But honestly when I see boxes in our living room and we have been in our house for 2 weeks now, it still makes me cringe, I can't help it!
Bryan is laid back, calms me down and that is why we are so great together---we balance each other out.  So to my hubby I am sorry about nagging about the curtains not being put up, that you forgot the clorox wipe Logan's high chair or that you left the shredded cheese on the counter, or dishes in the sink. I will work on it, I promise.  I have the most perfect little boy and best hubby in the whole world! We just bought a nice house and have all the love in the world between our family and friends. Who needs anything else?!

Heartbreaker

Logan got this onesie as a Valentine's gift from his Aunty Kelli.  Boy, is it true!

Love my *almost* 10 month old! Have a great weekend!

Heartbreaker, look out girls here he comes!

Favorite toy right now, a Scentsy Buddy Mollie the Monkey

LoVe

A boy and his dog

Look at those bottom teeth

Forget my toys mommy, this looks like more fun

Oooops, I am caught!

People I love-Steph

Stephanie and I met in '04 when I was going to Blinn and let me tell you I did not like her at first.  Let me explain why:  My sister and I were living in a ONE bedroom apartment and I got home from work one day and saw a bed and clothes in the corner of our living room.  I was confused.  My sister came home and said oh this is Stephanie she is going to live with us for a while.  I was so mad! I did not even know this girl and she was going to be living with us?! I did not stay mad long.  Stephanie and I just clicked and we became best friends.  She is loud, crazy, speaks her mind and if you don't like it there is the door.  That is what I love about her, we are a lot alike. You either love her or hate her there is no in between.  We have so much fun when we are together, sometimes a little TOO much fun.  We call it "Sharon and Bethanny times".  If you saw us together, this would totally make sense.  It seems like when we are together there are fun times followed by some drama or trouble, oh well that is just us! We were roomies for a while and then she went to A&M and I went up and visited her like every other weekend. 
There is one New Years Eve I will never forget:  We were ringing in 2006 and I had a rough year.  It was just me and her and we decided to go to a club in Houston.  One of the best nights ever.  I don't think we stopped dancing the entire night.  I think I even lost a shoe...lol, it was great!
We have been through a lot, but she is always there for me.  She is "Aunty Stephy" to my son and comes and visits us every once in a while.  It means a lot to me that after all these years we are still as close as we are. 
There are so many memories: the lake (like every Sunday), Rhonda, old school jams, Northgate, Houston trips, Nelly, credick, scrawberries, river trips (the short bus), kareoke, parking garage (Northgate), throwing shoes, dancing until our legs are jello, Renn-Fest (oooodelaleyyyy), WIC juice, Friday After Next (pimpin, pimpin pimpin, Holy Moly Donut Shop, X-tra medium...the list goes on and on!)

New house and new car!

Yes I have a feeling 2012 is going to be GREAT!

We finally got a new car (after driving a rental for 2 weeks) and I really like it. My old car (even though it was not old, only a 2010!) was a Civic and although I really liked it, it was very hard to get Logan in and out, it was just too small.  So we wanted to look at some small SUVs.  After comparing the Honda CRV, Toyota Rav4, Mazda CX-7, Nissan Rouge and the Ford Escape, we went with the one that had the best safety ratings, the Toyota Rav4. I have NEVER had a brand new car and I must admit I am liking it! It has been so easy getting Logan in and out of his carseat and it is so much more roomier.  It is a lease so we will have it 3 years, which is perfect because by the time we trade it in, Parks #2 will be in discussion (or maybe even on the way!) so we will trade up for a little something bigger. 

Tonya the Toyota!

We did it! We bought a house and let me tell you, it was a long time coming! This house was actually the first one we looked at and we loved it.  It is a little ways out of town (about 8 miles) but it had everything we wanted.  3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, updated kitchen, garage, BIG fenced in yard.  All that it needed is some paint in 2 bedrooms, other than that it was move in ready.  It is a great first home and I am so thankful that we were able to finally OWN something and stop wasting money on rent.  I can't wait to watch Logan grow up in this house.  When baby #2 comes, we might be looking into something larger, but for now it is perfect for us.  Now on the the fun stuff....MOVING! But I will gladly move boxes knowing that this will be the last time we move for a LONG time.  :) Here are some photos from when we went and looked at it, I will be posting some after we move in and change some of the paint colors!

Living room

Logan's room

Guest bedroom, yes the highlighter blue room is being painted!!

Guest bathroom, this color has grown on me but we still might paint it

Master bedroom, painting this one as well

Master bathroom, no painting needed!

Kitchen

Ringing in 2012!

Happy New Year!
We rang in the New Year with 2 of our favorite people, Ben and Shawna.  We decided that we would have a PJ Party over at our place and make appetizers and play games.  I made some delish pepperoni rolls, mini quesadillas and brownies for dessert.  Shawna and Ben brought some yummy food from Chili's and chips and dips.  We played Scattergories (I found out I am not so good at that game!) and we also found out that Shawna thinks there are salad bar ninjas and Ben loves round cheese.  Yes, you had to be there! Fun times were had by all and I think I even laughed so hard I cried.  Logan was put in bed at his normal time, he was def not going to make it to midnight! We had a champagne toast at midnight and of course a New Years kiss from the hubbs. :) After that, we decided to play Outburst girls vs. boys and the boys showed us up! But we did pretty good, even after 3 re-matches! It was so fun and Bryan wants to make the PJ Party at the Parks' an annual New Year Eve tradition, spending the New Year's in my house with comfy pjs on surrounded by people I love?? Sounds perfect to me! 2011 was by far the BEST year of my life, but bring it on 2012! I have lots of great things to look forward to: My nephew being born, plus tons of new babies in the Parks family (a total of 4 new babies this year!), weddings, travel, but the biggest is my sweet baby boy will celebrate his 1st birthday!!!

Scariest day of my life

So after I posted about our fabulous Christmas, I did not want to be a downer and post how sore I was in Laredo....this is why:

So Thursday, December 22nd started out like any other day.  I was rushing getting Logan ready to go and head off to work.  I had lots of things on my mind that day as I drove.  We were heading to Laredo that night to spend  Christmas with the Parks side of the family so we needed to pack when I got off work and try and hit the road by 7ish.  Logan always falls asleep on the way to school and I looked up and saw him asleep in the mirror and I smiled and thought, hopefully he will be that good for us tonight on the road! We hit some traffic being that it was close to 8am. We were in the turning lane turning into Logan's school.  All of the sudden I saw a maroon car heading straight at me and I could not do anything except brace myself and close my eyes as I felt the impact of the car hit me straight on.  The airbags deployed and my car slid back about 30 feet.  My first thought as I was sliding is Logan, I heard him screaming and I needed to get him out of the car.  My door was jammed and I pushed it open with all my strength.  I opened the door to get Logan out and he was not in his car seat.  Where was he?! For a split second I checked the windows to see if he had gone through (I can barely type this without wincing at the thought).  He was on the floorboard on his belly screaming his little head off. He had been knocked out of his carseat by the impact. He was buckled in and the carseat was still strapped (the police officer has no idea how he slipped out, it was a good carseat too, a Graco that had wonderful safety reviews...) I grabbed him, held him so tight and just cried in the middle of the street.  Thank you GOD that my baby was not hurt. All of Logan's teachers came running out to help me and I handed Logan over as I tried to calm down and stop my hands from shaking.  I called Bryan bawling and a Dad from the school called the police and the ambulance.  The other driver said he fell asleep at the wheel.  It was 8am, really?! Grrrr. At least he had insurance and they are covering everything! Logan and I rode in the ambulance to the hospital and Bryan was right behind us.  By the time we got there I was a little more calm, but still very shaken up.  My chest felt as if someone was sitting on it and I was having trouble taking a deep breath. All I cared about was my baby boy.  They checked him over and monitored him for an hour and he was fine.  No bumps or bruises at all. My Dad works about 40 minutes away and Bryan called him and he was there not long after that.  When he came in his eyes were red.  My Dad does not show emotion often, and this made me cry even more.  I had a chest x-ray and everything was fine.  I had a big bruise from the seat belt and I was very sore.  My right shoulder still hurts. We left the hospital and needed to go to my insurance agent's office, buy Logan a new carseat, get a rental car and go get everything out of my car. We got everything taken care of and hit the road to Laredo that evening.  It was a LONG drive being so sore but we made it and had a great time.  This Christmas I reflected on my life and how things could have been different.  I had a guardian angel watching over me that day.  This was by far the scariest day of my life.  I can think of all the ways it could have been worse, but it wasn't. We are here, that is all that matters.  Cars can be replaced. Lives can't.  It was somewhat ironic that I was listening to KSBJ (I do everyday) and right before I got hit, they were telling a story about how important things in life aren't things. Man how true is this?! Don't EVER take life for granted.  Kiss your loved ones, tell them you love them, you never know what could happen. 

Wanda the Honda squished!

In his new "big boy" car seat!