Springing Forward!

Well this weekend marks the beginning of my first Spring Break as a Teacher!! Let me just say that last week was the most amazing week at school. It was very relaxing and encouraging. I just wanted to stop by and do a quick update before Im computerless until David gets off work tomorrow. This weekend the weather was GORGEOUS to say it simply. We had 75 degree weather with plenty of sunshine! David worked on his mustang engine which is making GREAT progress. More pictures to follow on that while I did some spring cleaning...I say I but really should be more of a David. I basically made the mess that he then had to clean up. Having a belly does stop you from bending over some. Aside from that I have a clean car Woo Hoo!! David did yard work this afternoon after we did family brunch and donuts. Tomorrow I have a hair appointment and Im going in the search for an awesome rolling pin. I've been making homemade tortillas for the past couple weekends for our breakfast and my goal is to make them this whole week as I'll be OFF!!
On PEANUT/TANK news....we don't see the doctor until next week and then his doctor till the week after that. This weekend I took inventory of his closet....10 hangers of outfits and 3 pairs of sock shoes!! And I think my favorite at the moment is his little Ralph Lauren Polo ONESIE that I bought for him last weekend!! And just think that is just whats at mommy & daddy's house not at either grandparents or aunts house! I do have to say that we're more than blessed to have such awesome families!! Peanut/Tank will have tons of love!!
Well off to bed early morning to make breakfast for David and get the day rolling!! Too bad we have rain in the forecast!

From snow to Homemade TORTILLAS!!

Well to start last week off we had a wonderful SNOW Day and it was wonderful to not have to go to work and hang out at home with David. Amazingly I slept in...which is hardly happening these days. As I was uploading some pictures I completely forgot that I never put a picture of our wonderful Valentine's pizza up!! Here is a picture of what our street looked like this past Tuesday...talk about a Winter Wonderland!!

We went to see Dr. Maberry on Wednesday and we found out that Peanut aka "Tank" is 10 oz. and 8.5 inches long which makes him as he's still 95% a "him" still 2 oz. bigger than Clara when she was born but the same length. We have a week before we go back to a Dr. and it'll be to see Dr. Bass. Our appointments are getting farther and farther apart which makes me both nervous and feel calmer all at the same time because it makes us a tad bit more "normal".

Well onto our Saturday...lots of new things happened this weekend!! We got a new table from my parents, battery and fuel filter for the Tahoe and knocked in our storm shelter. Well actually David and his friends and Tim did. I'll get those pictures later. I am very proud of myself for making a true "mexican" breakfast Sunday before I headed off to church. HOMEMADE TORTILLAS and chorizo & egg. It was wonderful to have breakfast at our table on a Sunday morning!! Later that night I made red beans & cornbread!! I don't know what exactly my new found cooking interest is but Im loving it!! Tonight I made tostadas that were YUMMY!!

Dr. Bass is back!!

Well my doctor is offically back! Its almost been 6 whole weeks since I've seen him but we saw him on Thursday and he said things are going GREAT and that my surgery is working PERFECT!! That is such a good thing to hear. I will see him again in 3 weeks and next week we see our specialist! I say that the "mommy" check up went great and that our next appointment is for "Peanut's" check up! I've decided to offically wait until one more confirmation from the doctor before choosing anything for the nursery just so that we're sure that Peanut still has a Peanut!! We have colors and lots of ideas on what we'd like to have in the room just a matter of figuring things out. My mom & dad are going to be buying the crib as that is our family tradition and here pretty soon I'll actually get to go shopping for it. David wants me to wait until after 24 weeks before I start actually making purchases and I respect his decision on that so just 6 more weeks!! I am really excited about my cradle finally making its way back to me!! Its a very bittersweet circle that its made. My grandfather bought the cradle for me when I was born and since then its been used by Lauren, Andrew, Mark & Alexis, Oriana, Maddie and Louie!! So 7 babies later its Peanut's turn! My mom is on a blanket making frenzy and they are going to wonderful with all of the warm comfy clothes that Jomi has bought Peanut!! I think that I've felt Peanut some days to say "Hey Mom I'm Here"! David says that he's lazy because every time that he talks to him or messes with my stomach to get him to move he goes still. He says that now wait till its completely obvious that he's moving and we'll see who is lazy LOL! There are so many things that I'm looking forward to getting for Peanut once he's here...we'll have our Lil' Eagle FAN!! The ladies at work joke with me that I should just make his nursery Black & Gold to "brainwash" as the Cooper fans say early!
Well Lent has started and that makes my choices of food a bit different as Im always craving chicken and the latest craving is Chinese!! For Lent this year I've taken on going to church every weekend because I feel that regardless of where we've been in the past couple years God has given us so many blessings! We were blessed with a wonderful Daughter that will never be forgotten, with a wedding and for Peanut! I can also say that though this year has been hard for my sister I can say that my family is truly appreciative of the time we're given and continue to pray for her healing that God has given her!
David is out shooting at the farm again this weekend and I am about to start working on Lesson plans!!

Happy 25th!!

Well Thursday was David's 25th Birthday and we welcomed it with SNOW & ICE. I didn't have time to get a picture of the snow so this is a picture that came from bigcountryhomepage.com. Luckily David did not have to go to work...sadly I did. I drove about 20 mph the entire way to work in blinding snow but Im glad I was only 5 minutes late for work. I left work as soon as my kids were gone for the day and spent the rest of the day with David on his birthday!! We had rented movies and had his birthday dinner just the two of us the night before so we were able to just make dinner and relax Thursday night! I made him Green Chile Casserole a family recipe that we will certainly continue as our own family recipe. Here is a picture of our casserole.

Friday however we were lucky because we had a late start to school and the roads had cleared up enough that there weren't many issues driving. So around 8:30 ish we both headed out the door for work. Friday was David's last day working in the office for BCBS and I had my Valentine's Party with my kids. My kids truly enjoyed their party as we had nuggets from Chic Fil A and lots of yummy treats that my kids had brought with them! I must say that David was extremely happy to have his last day and come Monday he'll be working from home! Later that night we had David's actual Birthday Party at Lytle Land & Cattle Co. It was wonderful to spend time with family and friends. We had David's parents, my parents, both my sisters and their families and some of our friends!! Sadly I forgot to take pictures but we had a whole side of the room we were in just for our party. We had a wonderful dinner and a YUMMY cake...it was poker themed!

Today David went shooting with his dad and Dave Lee. Im glad that he finally got to use his gun and go shoot! While he was shooting I did some laundry and went to visit my sister while working on some lesson plans. After he got home we went to get some color samples for Peanut's nursery and will continue thinking of how we want to decorate his nursery. We are currently getting our fill of the Winter Olympics!!

Peanut's 1st Onesie & Drum Roll......

Well I have been trying to set up this blog for the past 2 days. For some reason my phone would send to my blog but the blog itself actually wouldn't post.

Here is a onsie that we have bought for Peanut on Monday while out shopping. We bought as neutral a color as we could find but of course it had to have STARS on it!! Peanut has a hand me down from Clara already...a very cute Nike Texas Longhorn sweatsuit...from Uncle Oscar & Aunt Kannika!! Our house will be divided...Hook'em Horns and Wreck'em Tech! David's parents got Peanut some wonderful longsleeve onsies, which I can say you can never have enough longsleeve stuff regardless of the weather outside!

Work has been kinda crazy for both us I can say this week...juggling doctors appointments here and there and trying to get David ready for work from home in the next week.

But on a good note I can offically say that:

100th Post

Well this is our 100th posting!! Woo Hoo triple digits!! David has been getting on to me for not updating the blog so I am finally taking the time to update today!! Life has been pretty decent lately. We've been getting ready for David's new Work from HOME!! Yes he will no longer have to commute across town to work but rather just get out of bed and log on and work...MUST BE NICE! I wish I had that luxury. Speaking of work its been going good. I got my laptop and all that stuff is set up at work so if push came to shove I think I could do alittle of my work from home as well but could only accomplish lesson plans and newsletters.

Today I woke up late for church which was a bummer because I've promised myself that I was going to start trying to attend more regularly than I have been since the year started. But it did give me a chance to rest and then I woke up to make us some breakfast. Its nice to have breakfast at home. We had bacon, sausage, eggs and biscuits! YUM! After breakfast we relaxed a bit and then some nesting kicked in. WE cleaned the ENTIRE pantry and kitchen...so now we're in relax mode for the rest of the day. Later today we'll be going to David's parents for the Pro Bowl!

On baby news: According to Whattoexpect.com Peanut is....Week 16 of Pregnancy: Baby's Hearing DevelopsThis little one's a looker — with a face that has both eyebrows and eyelashes — but a skinny looker since there's no baby fat yet. Baby's crown-to-rump measurement is between four and five inches, and weight is around three ounces.
This week we see both doctors...Specialist on Wednesday and then Dr. Holt on Thursday. We're praying that everything is still looking good and that Peanut is doing fine. Aside from the occasional nausea I've been pretty good. My eating habits though I seem to be hungry all the time my speed of eating has slowed down! Hopefully after this appointment Dr. Bass will be back and we'll start seeing him again but if not then Dr. Holt is a very nice doctor and has wonderful bedside manner.

Bedrest & Hospitals!!

Well I am writing this from bed as that has been my second home for the past 3 days and will be at least until tomorrow and I'll be on a modified bedrest the rest of the weekend. Hopefully by Tuesday things will be back to normal and I'll be able to go back to work. We don't have a follow up appt until Thursday next week and hopefully all goes well!!

Tuesday was Clara's birthday and we decorated her grave super cute!! She had pinwheels & giant birthday yard signs!

Thursday we were in the hospital for half a day for my surgery. We got to get home around midnight and then it was amazing to get to sleep in my own bed and I know that David was happy to be home. Well meds are kicking in so Im gonna rest again.