Life

First Day..

2011-01-01T20:05:00.001-08:00

... of the rest of my LIFE!!

I welcome 2011 with open arms. This year is going to be a year of Change. I need to get focused on my life and where I want it to take me.

What do I want to do? Who do I want to be?

I have the things I want! Eventually I want more babies though. :) These things that I have.. My wonderful, loving, caring, handsome husband, My beautiful, amazing, "I look at you and can't believe that you are mine" baby boy Abram, My health.. (I am happy for my health.. BUT, there are MANY changes that need to be made!!) My beautiful, spacious, memory making house, My amazing family that is there for me no matter what and never puts me down or makes me feel unloved, My friends - the new and old ones.. My wonderful church, and of course My loving, caring, forgiving God!

Of these things I have, There are things that I need to change with all of them! I want to be a better wife to my husband and do things for him that make him happy. Take care of him like he takes care of me! I want to spend time with him reading the bible and doing our devotions together and praying with him.

I want to be a better mommy to my little Abram! I know someday he is going to have siblings and I want to take this time that is just him and I and daddy and be with him and play with him more. I want to show him how much I love him and give him everything he needs and wants. :) I want him to know that when he is being a "bad" boy that mommy still loves him no matter how many times I have to say "NO, NO!" I want to shower him with more kisses than he already gets.. and that is A LOT! and I want to definitely take in each moment and soak it up and try so hard to remember it all!

My health.. Well, this one is my BIG one! It isn't a want, it's a NEED! I really need to get it together. I have "started" eating well and working out so many times and never follow through. If I keep going at that rate, I will only get bigger and bigger. I am at the highest weight I have ever been (minus being pregnant) And my eating was getting out of control. I am definitely an emotional eater and I am going to change this. I am ready to take this step for real! So if you are reading, please pray for me!

With my house, I want to really make it a HOME and decorate it and make it US. I want it to show who we are. I love our house so much and am so thankful that we were so blessed with it.

My family is amazing and I just want to be there for them as much as they are there for me! I love you all and I am so blessed to have you in my life! Thank you for everything you have done for me.

My friends, I am also very blessed to have you in my life. I know when I go to you, you love me and never judge me. I want to be a friend that you can come to and feel the same. I want you to feel happy and uplifted when we are leaving each other from hanging out. I want you to be honest with me and I will be with you as well. Thank you for the love that you have shown and for understanding me when I try to explain things to you.

My church, I love! I love the messages Andy gives. I have been unable to really listen lately because Abram is having a hard time leaving mommy in the nursery and I feel really bad for the workers when he is crying in there. So something I would like this year is to be able to listen better and apply the messages to my life.

God, Thank You for giving me all that you have! I am so very thankful for every person you have put in my life. Thank you for change! Thank you for helping me through this new year and helping me Change my life the way it needs to be changed. I want to have a deeper relationship with you!

Like I said before, if you are reading this.. please pray for me to be strong!! I need to change, It will make me a better person in all areas of my life!

Love you all!!

Cori

We are IN!

2010-08-16T21:18:00.000-07:00

We are finally moved in. There is still plenty to do, but we are living here and loving every minute of it. It is such a good feeling to be a home owner and make a place your own. I have a feeling we will be here for quite awhile and I am so okay with that! I feel so comfortable here. I sit here with no curtains and I am not even scared! It's weird. We are getting curtains soon though. Abe is loving the freedom to crawl from the living room through the dining room allll the way into the kitchen and allll the way back with a BIG smile on his face and sometimes a little burp with spit up. haha. Hey, it happens! Well, I am going to post house pictures soon, but first I wanted to share one of my VERY FIRST MEMORIES here at my new house (sad that Nate wasn't here to witness, he was being an amazing husband back at the old apartment cleaning the whole place!) But I was sitting on the porch, our huge awesome porch with my sister, Jessica and Abe. My nieces and nephews (minus Ruby) Macy, Nolan, Evan and Avery were getting to know my yard and one of the kids walks up from the back yard with a bundle of grapes.. And asked "Are these grapes???" I told them that yes they are grapes and that we have a grape vine in the back yard. Let's eat some!

[side note] My sister broke one open and had me smell it.. We both looked at each other and were instantaneously reminded our our very first home growing up (our neighbor had a grape vine in their yard and we picked the grapes and ate them all the time). It made us smile! ...

So we all tasted the grapes and decided that we should make some grape juice! So.. that's what we did. First the kids went and picked a bunch

then we put them in a bowl and smashed them up,

then heated them to a boil,

added some sugar and water and sifted it though a filter,

then added some ice

and drank it, it was pretty tasty. Nolan, bless his heart overheard me say "isn't this how you make wine".. he wanted to make sure he wasn't going to be drinking wine. It was such a fun little memory that I know my nieces and nephews will talk about forever.. And probably want to do every time they come over! ;) I would love for them, when they get older to say, We made grape juice at my aunts all the time! I just can't wait to get all settled in and enjoy sitting around with Nate and watching Abe grow up here. I am going to take some pictures of the house when things all get put away and show you all. So fun! Check back soon.

Ch Ch Ch Changes..

2010-08-12T22:01:00.000-07:00

We close on our house today!

The time has finally come. We have bought our first home! We are so excited to move, but we are sad. The apartment we are leaving has been an amazing first home (technically 2nd, we lived in Wheaton for the first 2 months of marriage) where soooo many memories were made. This apartment was the place we called home for 3 years! We brought our first child into this home! And we may never step foot back in it. That is sad. But we know that this next house is just the next chapter in the story of our lives. It is going to be a fun and exciting chapter. Our house has room for our family to grow and more memories to be made. I can't wait to have our own yard to play in and our own real neighborhood to walk in and have more than one neighbor. I can't wait for FALL!! So we can decorate our house and make it smell like Cinnamon and Pumpkin smells and have little cute kids come to our door on Halloween and us hand out candy, I can't wait to decorate my house in my style and actually see what my style is. I can't wait to watch Nate crawl after Abe and play chase. I can't wait to finally have guests over and cook dinner for them and serve them. I can't wait to watch Abe take his first steps there, I can't wait to decorate for Christmas in our new house and play in the snow in OUR YARD! OH my GOODNESS! I am getting so excited.

So, as it may be sad moving out of this apartment, We are so very happy to move!

123A N. Main, You have been good to us!! Really, Really good to us! We will miss you and always drive by you and say "Abe, that is the first house you lived in!" :) Making memories is so fun!

I'm BACK!

2010-07-31T20:07:00.000-07:00

"i'm as cute as a butterburger is delicious"

So it has been a very busy past 10 months! Tomorrow I have a 10 month old! So crazy! Abe is amazing and I am so very thankful for him! Can you tell I like "!"'s? I just can't believe that he is as many months old as long as I carried him in my womb!! Not sure how to word that.. but I hope you get my drift!
So this month, Abe has learned so much. He is walking around all of our furniture and he can out crawl me when I try to crawl behind him and "get" him. He is letting go of furniture and standing for seconds at a time. Trying to talk a lot!! I am teaching him the sign language for "more" and he does this really cute hand rolly thing everytime I say "more". But... I am pretty sure he is just SAYING it now!!! He is learning "NO" and he stops doing what he was doing and looks at us. He is such a good boy. He is OBSESSED with my car keys! LIKE HE NEEDS THEM! haha! I need to get him his own little set. He will hold them forever but then I couldn't drive anywhere! He has learned to get mad when something he wants is taken away. But he is very easily distracted by something silly mommy does like " ah ah ah ahhh CHOOO" haha. He loves it. He has been doing these really cute silly faces where he squints his eyes. I love it. He loves waking up in the 5 oclock hour.. but always goes right back down after a bottle. Not sure when he will grow out of that! He is everywhere these days and he is so fun. Daddy and Mommy love him very much! He is still working on getting his 2 front teeth and one on the side in. We are very excited to announce that we bought a HOUSE! yay!! We own our first home. I love it. It is a little bungalow her in Washington. Keep posted for pictures.. Below is a pic of the front. Abe is on the porch with my mom. It needs work done outside so when we move in, I will get some bushes trimmed up and make it sooo cute! I can NOT wait!!

I will update as we move in and do some before and after photos. This will be so fun. I have a color scheme that i am inlove with.. not sure Nate is sold yet.. Here it is.. image by www.meetvirginiadesign.com i love her blog! :)
Welp.. STAY TUNED...

What I've been up to.

2010-07-01T00:23:00.000-07:00

Vintique
Www.ilovevintique.blogspot.com

Some friends and I started a little shop on the square in Washington in holiday presence. Come check us out!!

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Reading

2010-04-18T12:00:00.001-07:00

Abe is reading books at Barnes and Noble.

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Sunny day!

2010-03-10T19:04:00.001-08:00

We went on a walk today. He wore his sunglasses the whole time. Until I layed him down in the seat to nap. :) can't wait for more beautiful weather. So Abe and I can be outside more.

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Cheeky!

2010-03-07T19:54:00.000-08:00

I'm making up for not posting in awhile. My iPhone app wasn't working. Now it is! :)

My sweet chubba bubba. I'm obsessed!!

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Stud

2010-03-06T21:40:00.000-08:00

Abe sporting the SUNglasses. Because the sun was actually out!! Woohoo!

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Almost Sitting!

2010-02-23T18:12:00.001-08:00

Abe is practicing sitting up. He is doing such a good job. He's so awesome.

Scrunch Face

2010-02-13T23:16:00.001-08:00

Every mom does this to their baby at least once, right?

I couldn't stop laughing when I did this! So I had to have Nate take a picture.
Look at that little chin fat making a smile. Haha. He is so cute even when he's scrunchy.
Every day he is doing something different to make us laugh. I wonder what kind of personality he will have. I think he is going to be silly like his mommy.

Sleepy Boy

2010-02-13T10:21:00.000-08:00

Sleeping after being cleaned up from a diaper explosion. I love seeing his bare skin! In the winter time he is usually all covered up. I just had to capture this moment.

Little discovery

2010-02-09T04:36:00.001-08:00

Abram has discovered his tongue! He is always moving it around and sucking on it. We love watching him. He makes us laugh. We are loving every new stage and are so excited to see what's next for him.

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On his own

2010-02-05T21:14:00.001-08:00

Tonight is the night. He's sleeping in his own room in is crib. A little overdue, but remember he likes to be overdue. ;)
I'm hoping this night goes well. I have prepared to lose some sleep. It will all be okay. I love him.

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4 months

2010-02-01T16:50:00.000-08:00

Our baby boy is 4 months old today! We can not believe how fast this time is going. He has been learning so much lately. He loves singing songs with mommy and he loves hearing his own voice. He has had has hands in his mouth a lot lately and has been giggling so loud too. We love it! He is so fun!!!
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Food!!!

2010-01-31T20:15:00.000-08:00

Abe's first taste of cereal. He enjoyed it. I can not believe my baby boy is growing up soooo fast!
We are loving every minute. He is amazing!
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Capturing a moment!

2010-01-27T21:00:00.000-08:00

I was taking a picture of Abe and Nate because he fell asleep on his lap.. This is the first picture I got! He just happened to smile. I love it! We are so blessed.

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Big boy

2010-01-24T17:58:00.001-08:00

8/365

Abe sitting so nicely at church with Nola (Jolene's beautiful baby girl) and a little baby doll. No cheerios and juice for Abe yet.

Rocking with cousin Ruby. She loooves Abe! She baby talks to him. It's so cute. Abe fell asleep in my lap sitting up right after this picture.

So cute!!!!

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The little peeking ear.

2010-01-23T18:35:00.001-08:00

8/365

I love how his ear is poking out in this picture. It makes me laugh!
I put this toy up for Abe and he just recently started playing with it. I love how babies learn so quickly. It is so neat to watch and teach him.

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He's comfy!

2010-01-22T19:38:00.001-08:00

7/365

Now this is the kind of laundry I like!!! Hehe.

This was Abe's bed at Aunt Jessica's today. Haha. He LOVED it! Also as you can see.. He loves the blanket over his face.. If I pull it off, he puts it right back.

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Reminiscing

2010-01-21T20:15:00.000-08:00

6/365

I was looking back on pictures of Abe's birth today! That was such an amazing day! I don't remember much but what I do know is it was something I will never ever forget.

It was a long, emotional day that didn't quite go as planned but it is all okay because I have a healthy, beautiful baby boy!

Another Day!

2010-01-20T19:28:00.000-08:00

5/365

Abe is another day older! The days are going way too fast. Isn't this just the sweetest face? I can't get enough of it. Today i asked Abe to give me a kiss and he told me "NO" haha. We have it on video so be watching for an upload soon.
Loving Life.

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Play Date

2010-01-19T17:58:00.000-08:00

4/365

Judah 2 mos. Bennett 2.5 mos. Abram 3.5 mos.

Today Abe and I had a play date with Judah Beale and Bennet Barron! We had so much fun. Thank you Tammy for opening your beautiful house up to us! We are excited for our future play dates.. especially the ones that you talk about in your unfinished basement and riding tricycles all over the place down there!
Our boys are growing up fast, girls!

Eskimo Baby

2010-01-18T19:42:00.001-08:00

3/365

He loves his hands right now. He is always sucking on them and gagging sometimes. ;)

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2010-01-17T19:20:00.000-08:00

2/365

Mommy and Abram

I can't get enough of my baby boy. He melts my heart! He is growing up so fast. I knew he would, but had no idea how fast. It's TOO fast!

I am CHERISHING EVERY MOMENT!

Please keep praying for the Locke family! I couldn't imagine losing my only little baby boy! It makes me sick to even think about.

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Hopefully I can do this more now

2010-01-06T16:03:00.000-08:00

I got an ap on my phone, and now I can post from it! I think every post I have said I was going to blog more and maybe I really mean it now. ;)
It's hard for me to get the time to sit at home and actually blog. So now with my phone, I can do it anywhere or while I'm feeding Abe..
Speaking of Abe!-- this is a long overdue post but He's Here!!!! :) and 3.5 months old!!! I know I'm a little late! I love being his mommy and hanging out with him and teaching him things. He is such a good baby. Nate and I feel very blessed! I'm just testing this application out. So more to come. :)
Something I am going to try to do is post a picture a day for a year! I got this idea from my friend Steph. Thanks Steph! :) here is my pic from today..

Here is Abe today listening to Bebo Norman on iTunes and watching the iTunes visualizer. He loves listening to music and watching this. He also loves Baby Mozart and Baby Einstein.

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Check It Out

2009-10-18T15:09:00.000-07:00

www.abramroberts.com

11 days OVERDUE! eeek!

2009-08-29T08:17:00.001-07:00

So, I know that I said I would update more often, but It takes longer than you think.

I didn't have a lot of time to do these pictures this time cause I am trying to have a baby!! But here is a progress picture and you can see how much i dropped! The pics range from 32 weeks to 39 weeks. I will post some overdue pics later. Just hopefully not 2 months later! haha.

I am currently 11 days OVERDUE.. just praying he will come on his own before Wednesday which is when I will get induced.
I had a sono today and they said he is approximately 10lbs 1oz. Large little man.

We have the room finished.. I am hoping to post pics soon. I may do that tomorrow! I am loving the way it turned out! Thank you to everyone who came to my showers! I got so much great stuff. I have very creative friends too that made me some really neat things!

Nathan's mom Tammy made my bedding for the nursery and I love it more than anything I saw in the stores. It is perfect and so cute. She did such an awesome job! Thank you so much!

Also, Nathan has set up a website for our little Abram! So go check it out. abramroberts.com

Thats all for now. Time to go walk!!!

more progress

2009-07-12T14:57:00.000-07:00

24 weeks

25 weeks

I am missing week 26 because we were on vacation. But soon i will upload the beach pictures we took. :)

27 weeks

28 weeks

29 weeks

30 weeks

This is the fabric that is going to be used to make Abrams bedding! I can not wait to see how it turns out!

This is going to be the changing table and the dresser at the same time. I bought one blue bin and I registered for 3 more! Sorry it's all a little messy right now, there is still alot that we need to do.

Here is an old sailboat that we will put in his room somewhere, I am hoping to find some more cute ones too.

Then of course I had to post some cute things I found. There is a lot more cute stuff I have but these shoes I just love!! I can just picture his little feet in there.

I found these awesome sunglasses at H&M and I had to get them! Daddy wears sunglasses all the time. And of course Abram wants to be just like daddy! <3
The fabric underneath them, I found on ebay and I am hoping to make a blanket out of it somehow.

There are still plenty of things we need to buy, like the crib and matress and hopefully we get alot of our stuff from our registry. We changed our mind about the crib. I think we are going to go with this one..

As of today I have 9 weeks and 4 days left. It is just going so fast! I wonder how I am going to feel about that in 5 weeks. haha.
I will keep everyone posted on how the dr. appts go and how I am feeling. So keep checking back.

LOVE IT!

2009-05-31T13:07:00.000-07:00

There is nothing greater in life than growing our little baby in MY belly! There is NOT one thing that I could complain about being pregnant! Not being sick (a little) in the beginning.. not the weight gain, not the swelling, the zits, not being able to wear my ring! I love it all! I love having this belly that I can just rub and talk to our little Abram!

I can not wait to meet him, but I am sad that my belly will go away! Maybe we will just have to get pregnant again right away! hehe just kidding!

But really, I just want you all to know that this is so fun and I LOVE being pregnant! Besides.. its a good excuse to eat a lot of yummy food! <3

Update on the nursery.. we got the divider hung and I think the IKEA lady told me to get the wrong thing.. so we are going to keep it up for a bit and see if we like it. Tamara my mother in law was here this weekend celebrating Nathan's Birthday and Tammy and I got to chat a bit about the making of our nursery bedding that she will be making for us! I am so excited and Thank you SOOOO much Tammy! I can not wait. Our colors so far are going to be DARK Navy, White, Gray, Black, and Mustard!! :) we picked out some fabric and got some swatches to start planning! I also think we found the crib.

Well thats all for now, we have to leave for Nate's softball game now. GO LGC TEAM!!

Progression! and our 2 Year Anniversary is today!! <3

2009-05-25T09:17:00.001-07:00

20 weeks

21 weeks

22 weeks

23 weeks

Wow, 23 weeks I really popped out! :) I am feeling little Abram kick harder and more often now. It's such an amazing feeling! I feel great! I have an appointment tomorrow with the midwife and I am really excited!
I really think things on my blog are going to start picking up more. I am over half way and more things start happening now, like getting our nursery ready, which today I am going to put together my first nursery item which is a bookcase from IKEA that I will be putting on its side to make a changing table! I am so excited. And my baby showers are going to start getting planned. I can not wait. I will be posting more pictures as the nursery progresses and from my showers and stuff. So hopefully no more long wait between my blogs! :)

Nate and I are also celebrating 2 years of marriage today! This has truely been the best two years of my life! We have had so much fun and now especially with a baby on the way! Life if just moving right along for us!
In about 2.5 weeks, we are going to be going on vacation with Nate's family. We are treating that as an anniversary gift. I will also have Nate take ocean belly pictures of my belly! :) Then I will post those too! :)

Until next time fellow bloggers..

It's a BOY!

2009-05-05T09:49:00.000-07:00

So today I am 20 weeks and 5 days! We found out last week that we are having a boy! This is all so exciting. Now I am trying to figure out what to do for this little baby boys room! We are so excited to meet our little guy! I am feeling him move a little every day. I can't wait till i feel it all day everyday! The name so far that we like is Abram Scott. :) We will call him Abe! I think he is going to look like Nate! Oh I can't wait!!

13 weeks!

2009-03-14T12:03:00.000-07:00

Here is our most recent sonogram. Baby is 12 weeks here.

Every Thursday is when my weeks switch over, so this past Thursday I turned to 13 weeks. I am feeling pretty good. Still tired but good. On Tuesday, I did not feel good all day which ended in bowing to the bowl. But I am hoping that it was a last hurrah! :) I am feeling some ligament stretching, which can be a little uncomfortable at times. But its totally fine and worth it!
Nate has been taking growing pictures of my belly so when I am ready, I will post them. I have popped out pretty quick, so I am just trying to get past that just feeling fat stage.

Nothing else is really going on. Nate is with his family in Yorkville visiting and when he got there, he got a horrible earache! :( I feel so bad that I couldn't be there with him. HI EVERYONE IN YORKVILLE!! LOVE YOU! :)
The reason I didn't got to Yorkville is because I am heading out of town with some girls for a hairshow. We won't be back until Monday night! It should be fun though.

I have added a ticker at the top of my page, so check back often to see what the baby is doing! :) I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.

Guess What?!

2009-02-12T17:47:00.001-08:00

Nathan and I are going to be Parents!

We started trying to have a baby at the beginning of the new year.. and to our amazement, it worked on the first try! :) I tell you, charting temperatures works! I have been off of birth control since November 07.. and have been charting since.. and right when we started trying, it worked on the first try! :) Baby Roberts is due September 17, 2009.

We are so excited to meet our baby! Yes, we are going to find out what it is going to be.

I found out that we were pregnant, only 10 days after i ovulated! I took a lot of pregnancy test. We just couldn't believe it. I have known for about 4 weeks now, and we kept it secret for awhile just to make sure everything was going to be okay! We told our family at at about 5 weeks and our close friends at about 6 weeks and everyone else at 8 weeks.. today I am 9 weeks and 3 days. I can't believe how fast it is already going!

Our first trip to the Dr. was so fun! I was really nervous to get my blood drawn since I had never had that done. It wasn't that bad at all.. I just can't look at the needle! We heard and saw the babies heartbeat! It was absolutely amazing. I have dreamed of this moment for so long! The heartbeat was 130 and it was strong! Some say.. BOY! haha. we will just have to wait and see!

I have been feeling really good. I just have moments where I have to stop and eat! If I don't, my stomach gets a little quesy. I hope it doesn't get any worse!

I am so excited to share our journey with all of you! This will definitely be something to blog about! So check back more often now! :)

I Feel the Need to Update!

2009-01-29T18:59:00.000-08:00

So today is Thursday..

I have Thursdays off work and I always spend the day with my mom and sister (and her adorable kiddies). We used to go shopping and spend lots of money and eat out for lunch (that we could never decide on), most likely we would get a "fretzel" how Macy used to pronounce Pretzel when she was younger, and sometimes a coffee type of drink!

Well this year, is the year of change. My mom had a great idea to take each Thursday and spend it at one of our houses and whatever project we are working on at that time, everyone helps! This Thursday was my moms day. She is in the process of finishing their basement, so we went through some of our old stuff and helped mom get rid of it.. several times, she stuck her hand back in the garbage.. "wait, i think that nick wore that necklace alllll the time" haha.. my sister is good at helping get rid of things. I say.. if you dont know what is in there, then you haven't missed it, so throw it away. Last week, we were at my sisters helping her organize her storage closet. And the week before, we were at my house putting together an organizing system so i have somewhere to put all of my stuff. I do have a confession to make though.. My mom and sis are better at the organizing things .. so i usually feed the baby, rock the baby, talk and play with avery and evan, get them more chocy milk.. walk around, make more of a mess. Hopefully the more we do this.. the better i will get at actually helping clean and organize. What is my problem!?

Someday I will learn!

Well tomorrow my mom goes to chicago for surgery! :( she has a little issue with her eye! it crosses ;) so, she is getting if fixed! please say a prayer for my mom that she would not be scared and that she won't feel sick like they say she might. and that the dr. does an awesome job!

Thats all for now, sorry its been boring around here lately, it should pick up here soon.. when i get MORE MOTIVATED! Sorry no picture update either.

Bye Bye for now!

Christmas Shopping

2008-12-16T21:51:00.000-08:00

Christmas is coming so quickly! I still have so many people to buy for! :) I love giving gifts! I heard a quote recently that my friend steph reminded me of:

"Some people give a gift out of joy.
others give a gift for the joy that comes from the reaction."

- christy rose

Christy teaches bible study at our church and I really enjoy hearing all that she has to say. :) (sorry i totally took that from you steph) :)

This year, I am trying to pick out gifts that make people happy and things that they love, instead of getting something because i want to feel good.

I am getting close to being done with my shopping, now I just need to hit Hobby Lobby which I will be doing with Steph (who is oh so creative and beautiful!) on Thursday.. then I can get all my wrapping paper!

I know I have not blogged in awhile, but Its a busy time of year and it seems I have something going on every night! 2009 will slow down. I think this will be a good year! :) I can not believe that it is already almost 2009! WOW!

Well I took some pictures of the kids the other day at my moms birthday party, and I have a couple of hilarious ones of Nolan, he is the jokester of the family. You should hear this kids laugh! HE is so funny and so fun to be around! He found my moms glasses and picked up the bible and this is what came of it..

Here are some recent pictures of Ruby Duby Doo! She is getting so big! She is 1 month old already!

And i just had to add a picture of cute little Avery! She is so fun! :) Getting so big and talking so much! She is awesome!

This is my moms birthday cake that my sister made from Crepes of Wrath my sister changed up up a little with milky ways because that is my moms favorite candy bar! :) It was probably one of the best cakes I have ever had! Everyone should go to Crepes of Wrath she has some great recipes and great pictures!

Here is the birthday girl! Love you MOM!

Ruby Grace( continued)

2008-11-17T20:53:00.001-08:00

On November 15, 2008 Jess and Andy went to the hospital to be induced. Things were going pretty slow... they didnt have her pitocin up high enough!

Every half our or so they came in and turned the pitocin up. So at about 9 a.m. my mom and I met them up at the hospital (we didnt want to miss anything and Jess goes quickly!)

At about 11:30 am things started progressing faster! She got the epidural and we hung out for awhile and at about 1:15 she told the nurse of some back pain that she was having so the nurse decided to check her. Good thing she did, cause the baby was coming. The nurse was getting prepped and all the other nurses came in. At 1:32 the nurse was ready and Jess said "do you want me to push?" and the nurse said, "nope, she is just coming." So Ruby Grace was born at 1:34. It was about a 30 second delivery. Crazy! Now I hope when its time for me to have babies that it goes that well! :)

Here are the Kids just before they met their little sister for the first time. (We make shirts for them every time.)

Kids meeting her! It was so sweet! Evan asked what "It" was and when they told him a boy, he was sad! Then later he said, "I am so happy it's a girl, she is my best sister in the whole wide world and I love her so much!" Since then, he has been talking about her non stop and saying how much he loves her and asks if he can hold her all the time. I love it.

First Brown Family of Five Foto!Avery, Evan, Nolan, Macy, Jessica, Ruby and Andy Brown!

What a Beautiful Family!

Ruby Grace Brown

2008-11-15T22:14:00.000-08:00

November 15, 2008
1:34 pm.
7.9 19 in.
Lots of dark blonde hair.
Amazing Delivery!

She is so sweet and very alert! We love her so much! I will post more pictures from my camera when I get more time. It is time for bed!

Boston Lewis Blick

2008-11-12T21:02:00.000-08:00

Look at this big boy!

Parker and Boston

Mommy Daddy and Boston

Ohh Little buddy! Look at that smile!

Everyone is doing amazing! Tired but amazing!

Halloween Brown Kids!

2008-11-11T15:41:00.001-08:00

Okay so I am way late on updating these.. I wasn't going to post them because it was so late, then I saw them again and I just couldn't resist. I had to post! Nolan has been really into Mario Kart this past year so he decided that he wanted to be Luigi for Halloween! After they decided on that.. Jessica (his mom) decided it would be a great idea to just make all the kids dress up like characters from Mario Kart.

Nolan, Evan, Avery and Macy

Here is Macy being Princess Peach.. I think she has the princess part down pretty well!

Here is little Miss Avery as TOAD.. She wore that hat ALL night! I can't believe it! She loved being Toad.

This picture of Nolan (Luigi) CRACKS me up! I love how he is in character!! His arms are hilarious!

HAHA. Jessica colored their hair brown even. I just love the looks on their faces! I had to post this one.

So there you have it. The brown kids!

Update on Jessica and baby number 5!..

She is being induced on Friday, November 14th so I will keep you posted on their new baby girl!
Any ideas for next years Halloween!? haha

Update on Robbyn and Boston.. They came home Monday night. Boston is doing really well. Robbyn hasn't gotten much sleep lately. When i visit her next, I will get some updated pictures!

This has been a crazy busy week.. and I dont think it will slow down until the beginning of the new year!

As for Nathan and I.. We are doing awesome. Being so busy, we are trying to slow down and spend some time together! Clean the house.. You know all that Marriage stuff. I just gave him the cutest haircut too. Now only if he would put that "Stuff" in it.

Until next time..

Boston Blick!

2008-11-08T22:38:00.000-08:00

Quick update..

Boston (not sure of middle name yet) Blick was born November 8th.

10lbs 10oz. 21.5 inches long.

Huge Baby. Naturally! NO DRUGS! Robbyn is one stong woman! Keep them in your prayers.. Bostons Oxygen levels are a little lower than what they would like, so he is going to be monitored for 48 hours.

Here is HOSSton's picture.. Sorry its not very good quality as it was taken with my awesome Katana Sprint Cell Phone! ;) He has a little bruising on his face from the birth cause he was just so big!

I will update more with better pics later. Just wanted you all to know.

Hope you are having a wonderful freezing cold weekend!

Motivation!

2008-11-03T23:09:00.000-08:00

I'm in a slump that i need to get out of!

My goal in these next few months is to get up off of my butt and do the things that I want to do. Here are a few things that I have really been putting off.

Working out!

Make a calendar for our busy lives and make it cute and fun.

Be Creative. I have SO many ideas stirring inside me that its crazy.

Learn how to really Knit!

Get out my sewing machine.

Make a Craft area/bin and keep it organized.

Set weekly lists of a deep clean day!

Go through all my clothes and take them to consignment or goodwill!

Organize and get rid of stuff that is tucked away in drawers.

Go on more date nights with my wonderful hubby! :) We went to Alexanders last night on a date and it was a blast!

This year is going by so quickly! Its going to be 2009 before we know it. I have so many things to look forward to (besides my list above).

My dear friend Robbyn is due to have her 3rd boy last Saturday ;) So any day now!! I will post when he arrives! I went on a walk with her tonight to get things going. So hopefully I will get "the" call soon. My beautiful sister is due in 2 weeks with her 5th baby! This will make her 3rd girl! I can not wait to meet her. I will post when she arrives too! :)
Robbyn dark hair, Jessica Blonde

Then Thanksgiving is coming up. With being married now, there is a lot more planning that has to go on with Holidays! Coming from a divorced family, I already had two Thanksgiving meals to go to.. so now we have 3! WOW! Before we know it, its going to be Christmas and we travel a lot with that too. We go to Kansas to visit Nates Grandma. Last year, our first Christmas together, We went to Kansas to visit his Grandma AND Grandpa and this year sadly its just his Grandma.. It was a very sad visit the last time as the night we got there was the last night Nate would see his Grandpa! :( It was a very sad first Christmas we had no idea it would happen like that. But now, Christmas just holds an even more special memory of Jack L. VanLear. :) He was really a Great man! The Thanksgiving before Nate proposed to me his grandpa said "When are you going to marry that girl!" :) So.. after that little Schpeel.. (is that how you spell that?) Christmas is going to come and go so quickly just like it does every year. And then we go to VEGAS! YAY a vacation! We will be heading out Jan 2nd. What a way to start the new year... with a vacation.

Okay well, as you can see, I felt the need to write tonight.. not sure if any of it really goes together but oh well. I am a random person. You should see more posts cause remember I am going to be more organized! YAY.

Church

2008-11-03T10:07:00.000-08:00

Living Grace is my church.

The best messages I have ever heard!

Visit our website Living Grace Church

Refresh

2008-10-01T22:22:00.001-07:00

Every few months or so, I venture back to my good old blogspot. I love reading blogs and always think to myself.. i should have one! WELL, I do have one! I just never use it. I don't really have a lot to blog about. I just need to start blogging about anything I want. Its not like many people, if any, read this. :)

Tonight we had Jarod and Julia come over and we made dinner together. We made this really yummy soup with my awesome new soup bowls that i got from DOLLAR GENERAL. I will be posting a picture of them soon. I am already ready for bed so i am not going to do it now. Anyways, we had a lot of fun with J and J. We watched to Cubs game and I even wore my Cubs shirt. But.. not such a good game! :( Oh well, tomorrow we will get em!

While the guys watched the game, Ju and I made her a Blogspot! :) YAY! So now i have another buddy to follow. :) Thanks Jar and Ju for coming to our house tonight! We had so much fun. We need to do it more often!

tanning

2008-07-09T18:01:00.000-07:00

So i am starting to tan for Rebekah's wedding.

I AM BURNT! gaaahhhh

What happened to me? I never used to burn and i tanned sooo well! oh well.

So Rebekah went to pick up our dresses today annnnddd... they were WRONG. I can't believe it. her wedding is in less than 4 weeks. I really hope everyones dresses fit well. eeekk..

We will see how it goes.

July Already

2008-07-05T20:24:00.000-07:00

I cant believe it is July already!

This next couple of months is going to be crazy and go by even faster than the last few. This coming weekend is my best friend Robbyn's birthday so we are going to have a Party for her, then the next weekend is our good friend Laura and Micah's wedding, the next day is my other good friend Mardel's wedding. The next weekend is my bf Katie's birthday, the next is my sister in law Rebekah and Troy's wedding which i am in. The next weekend is our good friends Hannah and Justins wedding. Then i have a few weeks then its my Cousins wedding in the end of August. Then... Babys galore in the next few months.

Robbyn is due in November along with my sister. Robbyn is adding another BOY to their family. So that makes 3 little boys under the age of 3 and my sister will be adding her 5th child. :) A little baby girl. This will make her 3 girls 2 boys under 7. WOW! I need to start soon and catch up!

We have had a great 3 day weekend! I do not want to go back to work. I never do.. who am i kidding. haha.

News of the week.. Nathan will be starting a new job in about a week! He will be working for Vgallery in Morton, IL. We are so excited to see where this leads.

Nate is currently playing halo.. He makes funny faces.

What a random blog that nobody reads. Goodnight