Christmas 2009

Yay! Christmas is over! I know I am probably the worst mom ever, but I just wasn't into Christmas this year. It's. Overrated. Seriously. I felt bad trying to think of stuff to buy, stressing about who I didn't buy for and did I get the right gift and whether or not they like it. Don't get me wrong. I want her to enjoy Christmas and have fun opening gifts, but I don't want that to be the main focus.

Regardless of Mommas stressin', she had a wonderful time! : )

At Poppa&Nana's

Christmas Eve

Love

Hope everyone had a blessed Christmas!

Merry Christmas!!

My, how things have changed!

Join the fun!

Tha' Funk

I'm in a funk. There I said it. I have been MIA for a little over a month. I have a lot to say, but I just don't take the time to share it. Maybe it's because I so behind on everything. Sigh.

Our life has been crazy. Seriously, this is the end of November. What in the world?!? I think time goes by a whole lot faster when you have kids. Which is so not far!

So what has been going on?

I had my wisdom teeth removed Thursday. Not. Fun. Really it's more of an annoyance than anything.

Olivia had her first sick doctor visit Wednesday. She woke up with a high fever that morning and I knew that she just did not feel well. I am not one to run to the doctor for everything, but when her temperature was 103.4. I knew it was time to make the call. Turns out she just had the gunk (cold symptoms) on top of both sets of molars trying to come through. She is fine now. Just waitin' on those teeth to come on in!

I have been getting things lined up to start back to school in the Spring. I am a little nervous, but very excited and anxious.

I have not one Christmas decoration up in my house. I am just not really feeling it right now. I think maybe if it weren't such a big ordeal with getting the tree down, and all the decorations and the fact that our tree is really way too BIG for our living room. Why did we not take that thing back?!?

Me, Carmen and Jordan watched The Blind Side after church yesterday. It was a great movie. I would defiantly watch it again. Forget the Twilight silliness.

It's true. I am not a fan of Twilight. I have no desire to watch any of the movies or read the books. I think it's a little weird people are in love with vampires. I have never been infatuated with stuff like that. Like actors/actresses/movies/bands/etc...I just think it's too much. Maybe I'm the weirdo....I am okay with that.

We aren't having Thanksgiving this year. Well...not our normal family get together Thanksgiving. This year our church is having Operation Thanksgiving. We will be serving a traditional Thanksgiving meal from 11-2 for the less fortunate in the community. The church has been in contact with a couple of agencies in the community and say we should expect hundreds! I am very excited about it. I think it's a wonderful outreach for our church and community. This is what Thanksgiving and Christmas is really all about.

Some of us girls from church went to the Color Palette in town for a Christmas Painting. It was a lot of fun. Even if my face was still a little puffy! : )

Sorry for the bad quality. I took this with my phone. I guess you could say this is the only Christmas thing I have in my house right now. And it's not even really displayed. I just propped it up on the end table just so I could get it out of the car.

And here's a picture of my sweet girl at Gammy's (Carmen) birthday party. She loves inflatables!!

Hope everyone has a great week and wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

Praise Report!!!!!

Remember this post??

Well, yesterday I heard from Mia. My cousin's wife. They got the results back from the amniocentesis and the baby is....

PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was ecstatic! It totally made my day.

Isn't God awesome?!?

Therefore, humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, so that at the proper time he may exalt you. Throw all your worry on him because he cares for you!!

1Peter 5:6-7

Busy-ness

*Edited to add* My layout is the cause for the cropped pictures. Sorry. Hopefully I will get it fixed soon.

Busy, busy, busy!!! I haven't had much time for blogging lately. I had a post I was working on and never got to finish and I haven't made anymore attempts to finish it. There has just been too much going on lately. Untill I get back into the swing of regular posting here are a few pictures from the past couple of weekends.

Thank You for Your Help!!

Thank you for all the suggestions. The last shoe was my favorite too. The only down fall was that I couldn't find it in any stores. I really like to try shoes on before purchasing them if at all possible. I hadn't been able to do a whole lot of searching for shoes so on Saturday (after the Susan G. Komen race for a cure) me and mom went searching!

I ended getting a pair at my first stop DSW. They had to options with a 10$ difference and I happened to like the cheaper pair. : )

I must admit they are kind of funny looking, but when on they look cute. And after looking at about 10 other places it's the only shoes I could find!

They go with the dress perfectly!

Now, I am just hoping and praying it doesn't cost an arm and a leg to have the dress altered!!

I Need Your Help!

I am in a wedding at the end of the month. It's set for outside and I am having a hard time with what shoe to wear with our dresses. The bride doesn't really care what we get. She suggested something with silver tones.

The dress
(tea length)

Here are some options I have been looking at....

DSW metallic shoes. Very close color match. $50

I found these a long time ago when we talked about getting dyeable shoes.

I have a thing for bows. BUT we aren't doing dyeable shoes and these were 115$!!



DSW simple silver. 59$



I like this shoe minus the little crown thing. Looks like you can take it off. These are 65$.





What do you think about the color? I am kind of leaning toward this color. I am not sure how silver tone would look?

I just found the above shoe on a different website for 10$ cheaper!! It might be a sign!

That's all I have come up with right now. Let me know your thoughts.

Without Further Adieu...

**Updated**

I just noticed (after 2 days) that the pictures are screwy. I really do hate bloggers when posting pictures. The pictures look pixalated and cropped!

And guess what, I am not dealing with messing with them.

Pictures from our Sunday school class 80's skate party.

Aren't we hot! : )

Chad won the best outfit for the guys.

The outfit was just a lil' tight!

The girls

The guys

Madonna and Joe Dirt.

She was the Skating Queen!

Even our pastor, Bro. Adam put some skates on.

Skating and taking pictures!

Uh oh...Carmen had a little accident.

Candace & Chad

Girl/Guy Best Dressed

Everyone had a blast at the skate party. I think we all forgot how much fun it was to skate!

Life in Pictures

I have not had much time for anything on the computer lately....I have had several things I want to post, but there's just not a enough time in the day to do everything I need or want to get done.
So here's some pictures from the weekend and a few from this week.

Friday night (last Friday night)-The 3 of us headed to Target. First we had supper at Cracker Barrel, Chad's favorite. It never fails, he always orders Mama's French Toast, ham and eggs sunny side up! Then we went to Target. We ♥ Target!! We ended up only shopping for none other than Olivia. : )

I was going to post pics, but I am not finding any of the online and I am tired of looking. I do however, love this dress, but didn't get it because I was having a hard time deciding what shoes would go with it.

I think I am going back to get it, because it's just too cute and it's only 10$!! You can't beat that!

Saturday- Me & Chad went to the Alabama/Arkansas game. It poured down rain the whole way to Tuscaloosa. I was not really looking forward to getting get drenched. Luckily we had parking passes for a deck only a block away from the stadium, so it was real bad. By the time we got to the stadium and made it to our seats (which were covered) the rain stopped!! It turned out to be a perfect day and Alabama won! We had a lot of fun. I hadn't been to a game in a long time.

Decked out in our rain gear.

Pouring down

Spell it out!

8$ Banana Pudding!! No, thank you!

Sunday was our Sunday school class get together. We had an 80's skate party at the local skating ring. It was sooo much fun!! I forgot how much I actually like to skate. It's good exercise too! : )

I think the pictures are so special that it needs it's own post. You will just have to come back to see them!!

Will you pray with me?

I know the power of pray. Especially in the blog world. Word travels fast. My cousin and his wife, Mia are expecting their second baby, a boy, in February. She got news today from a quad screening test that the baby might have Trisomy 18. She will have an amniocentesis Monday at 4pm.

This is just heart breaking to me. I know they have not been given a 100% diagnosis, but you know how the flesh can be. I have read, I don't know how many, blogs about women with babies born with T18. It's heartbreaking. I have to admit I actually get nervous thinking about having another baby.

BUT

GOD is FAITHFUL and his ways are PERFECT, even if it's not our ways.

Will you pray with me?

Thank you.

Randomness

Hello life, I need you to slow down just a little bit, please!

There has been a lot going on lately in The Waldrop Fam. And I just haven't had the time for blogging. : (

I am really working on limiting my computer time when I am at home to spend more time with Chad&Olivia. I really wonder how "mommy bloggers" have the time to post every. single. day.

Here's what we have been up to lately and a few things we have planned.

• Olivia had her one year check up Friday. It was the longest visit ever. There was only one doctor to see all the patients. We got called back quickly, only to sit in that tiny room for a little over an hour. Not fun with a one year old. : ) So glad that my mom was there to help me entertain Olivia.
  
  
• Little miss' stats: 18lbs, 27inches, 10th percentile for height and weight. She is a tiny thing, but perfectly healthy. The Doctor said she is right on track to be a 5'1 110lb adult. I am not surprised. I am only 5'1. Plus my dad is on the shorter side for a man and his mother was only 4'11. So, it's in the genes.
  
  
• Wednesday, September 16th was our 3 year anniversary. I really can't believe we have been married 3 years. We didn't do anything big. I bought Chad some clothes from OldNavy where we ended up exchanging everything and ended up with 2 pair of blue jeans and he got me a pair of Emily Rae earrings with pearl charms. Love them! I am now an official dangley earring girl! : )
  
  
• Friday night we went to the big city for dinner a little window shopping at the mall and ended up at Barnes & Noble of places for coffee. We browsed the book isles and joked about all the people there just hanging out and reading. We are not readers. I wished I was though. Maybe one day!
  
  
• We did hang out in the kids section for a little while and browsed through the "Little" books by Roger Hammerstein. They are so cute and funny. We saw this book listed and wanted to get it for Olivia, but they didn't have any. : (
  
  
  
  
  
• Me&Chad have started a bible study based on marriage. It's going really well. It is somewhat difficult to find time to go through it, but we are doing it!
  
  
• We are going to the Alabama/Arkansas game Saturday. I am so excited. I haven't been to game since probably 9th grade.
  
  
• Sunday night is our Sunday school class get together. We are having an 80's Skate Party. It's going to be so much fun! I can't wait to see what everybody will be wearing.
  
  
• We missed church Sunday morning. I hate missing church. It just makes me feel bad all day. I did however pick up in the house and cooked. Which I really need to start doing more of...We watched The Secret Life of the Bees with Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifa and Jennifer Hudson. Such a good movie! It made me cry. I wouldn't be surprised. : )
  
  
  
  
  
• I don't know about where your from, but down South, it has done nothing but rain, rain, rain. Which means little critters have no where to go. So the ants have decide our house would be a nice home. : ) Ugh, no thank you! Thankfully we have not seen any more "guests" since Monday.

Alright, that's enough of my randomness and rambling. Hope it wasn't too much of a bore!

In Better Hands

In Better Hands
It's hard to stand on shifting sand
It's hard to shine in the shadows of the night
You can't be free if you don't reach for help
You cant love if you dont love yourself

There is hope when my faith runs out
Cause I'm in better hands now

It's like the sun is shining when the rain is pouring down
It's like my soul is flying though my feet are on the ground
So take this heart of mine there's no doubt
I'm in better hands now

I am strong all because of you
I stand in awe of every mountain that you move
Oh I am changed, yesterday is gone
I am safe from this moment on
[ Natalie Grant Lyrics are found on www.songlyrics.com ]

There's no fear when the night comes 'round
I'm in better hands now

It's like the sun is shining when the rain is pouring down
It's like my soul is flying though my feet are on the ground
So take this heart of mine there's no doubt
I'm in better hands now

It's like the sun is shining when the rain is pouring down
It's like my soul is flying though my feet are on the ground
Its like the world is silent though I know it isnt true
Its like the breath of Jesus is right here in this room

So take this heart of mine there's no doubt
I'm in better hands now
I'm in better hands now

Natalie Grant

His Word is Living!!

Sorry for my post-less week. It has been crazy around here. My fellow co-worker Charlene is on vacation this week and I am her back up. Charlene, would it be okay if you never go on vacation again? : )

It hasn't really been that bad. And I would also like Charlene and who ever else who reads this to know that I have been getting to work by 8:30! That is pretty huge for me. My normal hours are 9-9:30.



Enough of that. What I really came here to talk about is a lot better. : )



I am have been a follower of Angie's blog Bring the Rain for some time. She is wonderful and has an amazing story. If you are ever having a downer day she will totally turn that around! Well a couple of months ago (I am not really sure when) she had mentioned that she and her family took in a mom, "C", and her two small daughters. She couldn't give a lot of details, but just asked that everyone remember them in their prayers. So yesterday I was checking out my google reader and noticed a posts from Angie entitled, Meet C. She was basically letting everyone know that C now has her own blog and is sharing her story. I headed over to her blog to see what her story was all about. I was quickly moved by her story. The whole time I was reading I really felt God telling me I had to share this story with a friend.



So, I start a new message and begin explaining all these blogs and giving a little background information and start to spill my heart....for the most part. Honestly, I really didn't know what to say. I just knew that she needed to hear/read this woman's story and know that there is hope. You see when we feel like we have reached our rock bottom and that no one cares, Jesus is still there waiting on us.



I ended the email with a scripture that I have read a couple of times and thought it would "sound good." At first I didn't give a whole lot of thought to it, but He had other plans. I had planned on just sharing Ephesians 3:20, but something told me to read the verses before 20.



For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to gasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.



Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than we all ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever!!





Uhm...Hello God, you have my full attention!! : )

I have never felt his presence so strongly. I don't know what it was, but that was just as much for me as it were for my friend.



Lately, I have been struggling a lot with the direction my life is going spiritually. I really feel like God is doing a new thing in my life like never before. Yesterday God really opened my eyes to that. I don't want to be preachy, but it's time for change. It's time to put the worldly and foolish things behind. He wants more from us. He wants us. We only have to acknowledge him and let him in to work in us and through us. When we get rid of all the other "stuff" God will step in and take control, and well...HE KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING!!!

God, Thank you for being so faithful, even when I am not.

Pictures with Amy

Hello. I have been somewhat MIA. It's been a busy week. People have been requesting posting. They are upset when they visit and there is no new post! I want to know all these other mysterious people. If you read, why don't you comment? It's okay to leave some feedback every now and then. You can leave a comment even you don't have an account... : )

So last week I mentioned that we were having family picture/birthday pics made.
Oh. My. Word. They are awesome!! Amy did a fantastic job, just like I knew she would. I have been looking at her work ever since I was pregnant. She is very talented and Olivia took right to her.

The one thing I hate about having pictures made is deciding which ones to get and in what size and then it usually takes me for-ever to have them framed and then decide where I will hang them. And actually the only pictures I have up are her three month pictures. Sigh. It's just so hard to get everything done. And I am so bad about putting stuff off and then well...now she is 1 and I don't even have six month old pictures printed! BUT I did have them made and I have the CD!! : ) Oh well....such is life.

Let me know what you think. For real people. Leave comments. : )

If you're in my area and need or want some awesome pictures call Amy! Tell her I sent you. ; )