Wordless Wednesday

Almost---

This is how me & Olivia got some cleaning done Saturday morning.

She loved helping me vacuum.

Why???

Who would ever buy this? And Why??

Is it just me or isn't this a bit much?

I know that I have blogged about this before, but I couldn't help post this picture.

I was looking at Etsy for some more bows for Olivia. I ordered 6 custom bows for $10 and free shipping! I thought that was a good buy. These are the bows we like.

Happy Eight Months!

I can't believe it has already been eight months. Time goes by way too fast.

What is miss Olivia up to these days?

She is crawling all over the place and pulling up on things. She loves to play on the dishwasher when I am loading/unloading the dishes.
She has two teeth. She talks all the time. She loves to say Dada and boy does he love it! She loves all baby foods. There is not much she won't eat. She still wears 6 month clothes. She loves to take a bath and has started taking showers with mommy. She is amazed by the shower head. She loves to go on walks with mommy in the stroller. She likes to shop. She is an all around happy baby.

We love her so much. It's funny how when you pregnant people always say, "Oh your life will never be the same and how a baby changes everything." Some people act like it's a death sentence or something. For us it's hard to imagine how life used to be. I couldn't imagine not having Olivia here with us today! She just fits right in!!

Here are a few pictures from this afternoon before we went shopping.

Don't you love the pink overalls? I think they are too cute!

Sunny Buns

Thursday night both me and Chad had softball games. He started supper and I picked up Olivia. When I got home she was asleep, supper was on the stove and he was in the tanning bed. I decided I was going to sneak up on him like he always does to me when I am trying to relax in there. So I peak quietly into the door on my hands and knees, but he wasn't in there. I opened the door a little more and found him like this.

This is Chad's version of laying in the tanning bed. He only does this every now and then. He says he is catching his legs up to his arms and chest. Anyway...it was really funny because he had actually dozed off. I tried to take snap a picture, but was to late. He woke up. I told him to close his eyes, but he wouldn't participate. He also told me not show anybody this picture BUT I am. He shouldn't mind too much...

Fridays Off

Today has been pretty busy. After Olivia had her breakfast this morning. We got dressed and went walking/strolling. She loves to be outside. We walked all the way to the park in our neighborhood, walked one mile and then back to the house. Olivia loved it so much that she passed out.

It doesn't take to much movement before she is out of it. We came back home. I washed some clothes and did a few things around the house. I am getting so bad about not wanting to clean my house. It's horrible. I can not for the life of me make myself clean. All I have been doing lately is just straighten up/wash clothes/load&unload the dishwasher and vacuum. I just always think that the other stuff can wait...I don't want to spend all my time cleaning. I told me my mom the other day that I would love to have someone just come vacuum and mop for me once a week. That's all. Wonder how much that would cost? She said more than I would want to pay...maybe not? Wonder how much it would cost? I might look into it, if our plan other cleaning plan doesn't work out. (See last post for details).

For lunch we went to another park one with swings. We met my mom&dad and Chad. We ate lunch, let Olivia swing a little and fed the ducks. It takes her a little while to "warm up" to the swing idea. You can tell it takes her stomach.

She looks so tiny in the swing. (This is actually from last Friday, when we went with Paige.)

Alright....I am cutting this one short. My eyeballs are getting too heavy. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Thursdays 13

1. Why am I always amazed at what day of the week it is? I can't believe it's already Thursday.

2. Monday was Chad's 26th birthday. We celebrated his birthday over the weekend with the usual Mexican.

3. Tonight we have another church softball game. We play basically every Tuesday and Thursday nights. Surprisingly we are 3-0!

4. I am so glad the weather is starting to warm up. It's supposed to be 85 tomorrow!
I wish the pool was already open.

5. Olivia is already getting her second tooth!

6. I took her to the park last week to swing. At first she was a little scared, but then loved it. It was so sweet. She would just giggle and throw her hands up.

7. If we are going to the beach this year, I have got to start planning the trip. I wonder if Olivia will like the sand and ocean?

8. Next weekend is our Women of Joy weekend in Gatlinburg. I am so excited! Last year I was pregnant and rode all the way to Branson Missouri. It was a very looong ride, but it was totally worth it.

9. I can't believe my baby girl will be 8 months old Saturday! The time has gone by way to fast.

10. Finally, after about 5 months of procrastination, started writing in a journal for Olivia.

11. Stephanie and Paige came over last night. Paige&Olivia are so funny together. Paige loves Olivia. She always tries to hug and kiss her and pat her on the head. They actually know each other... my mom took Olivia to church with her about a month ago and when Paige and Olivia saw each other they just started smiling and clapping their hands.

12. My mom has come up with idea about keeping our houses clean. 2 nights out of the week we will clean house. One night we will do hers and the next night we will do mine. Sounds like a pretty good idea...just need to figure out which nights will work!

13. I will be so glad when all of this pollen is gone. My sinuses are driving me crazy!!

Hump Day

I can't believe it is already Wednesday. Is it just me or does time not fly bye. My weeks feel like one day. It's just one thing after another of stuff to do, places to go and people to see. My house has been put on the back burner it's not even funny! I feel so accomplished just making sure the clothes get washed! I have some MAJOR cleaning to do and I HOPE to get it started Friday. Keeping my fingers crossed that nothing comes up. I might just have to say no.
Monday is such a blur. Probably because I was so sleepy. I don't think we went to sleep until 2:30 from all the bad weather. We always seem to sleep right through the storms, but not this time. We had both just dozed off around 11:30 ish when all of a sudden a tree feel in our backyard! It landed about 10 feet from our house! Thank you Jesus for protecting us!! Chad was able to get it cleaned up Monday and replace the part of our fence that was torn down. Hopefully this Summer we will be able to replace the whole fence. We need a new one so bad. We tried to see about claiming it on our insurance, but it was going to be more trouble than what it was worth. Besides-I don't think they would have replaced the whole fence. We aren't that lucky!
Do you ever just feel like there is always something that needs to be done? There is always something to be bought/replaced/fixed/cleaned/taken out/updated/redone etc...when you're a homeowner. Sometimes it is so hard for me to see through all the stuff and be thankful for what God has blessed us with.

Last night we had our first softball game. It was fun, but totally messed up my schedule. We didn't get home til after 10. Olivia didn't seem to mind. She seriously is the best baby. She is so layed back and just goes with the flow. I think she gets that from me. In other "Olivia News," she is finally getting a tooth!! You would have thought she had made gold or something. We were so excited!

Easter

Just pictures...



Ethan & the girls. He didn't know what to do.





Olivia & Annalee (3 weeks apart)
























The Waldrop Family

Wordless Wednesday

Dilemma

It was close to Valentines Day the last time I got my hair cut. I usually try to go on Fridays since I am off work. I made my appointment for one o clock to give me plenty of time to get me and Olivia ready. Stephanie told me that she didn't mind to keep Olivia while I went to get my hair cut. So I dropped Olivia off around 12:45 and headed to the beauty shop. As soon as I get there and sit down the girl at the desk tells me that Amanda is running behind and it will be at least 45 minutes. I told that was fine. I would just leave and come back. So, I went back to Stephanie's house (which is not to far from the beauty shop) and watched the girl while she made a quick trip to the bank. By the time she got back and we messed around with Paige and Olivia it was close to 2 o clock. I figured it had been enough time, so I made my way back to the salon. I walked in and the girl at the front told me that Amanda was finishing up and it would only be a few more minutes. I said okay and sat down. Well....I sat there and sat there and keeping looking around the corner at her station. Finally Amanda was finished with the older woman but the woman wasn't done playing with her own hair! By now it was oh 2:15 and I was ill. I end up just walking out. I was so mad!! Amanda never said anything to me the whole time I was there. I just thought it was very unprofessional and rude. I don't have all day to sit and wait to get my hair cut!
I ended up going to a friend to get my hair cut. She did really good, but it wasn't quit the same. Well about 2 or 3 weeks after this happened I get a random phone call from Amanda's mom calling all her clients. She has left this certain beauty shop and is going out on her own. I told her mom my situation and that I was very upset, because I loved the way Amanda did my hair and that you can just tell that is what she loves to do. She would get so excited when fixing my hair. Her mom goes on to tell me that she had a note out by my name to please explain...So it looks like she was having issues at this salon.

Finally-Here we are today. I called her this afternoon to see about getting a cut this week. I called her around 1:30 and she apologized for what happened last time and that she was having issue at the other place. I told her that I understood. Anyway...she was getting lunch and said she would call me back in about 20 minutes after she got back to the shop to look at her appointment book. Well...Guess What??? It's now 4:42 and she still hasn't called me back!?!?! Ughhh....I could scream! I don't know I just have issues with people telling you they are going to do something and they don't!
I think I might just have to give up on her, but I really don't want to. Is that stupid or what?

What would you do?

Scared Tee-Tee

I am very sleepy, have a load of towels sitting beside me to be folded and I am blogging BUT I had to go ahead and post this. Or I probably won't do it later. Tonight we got in from church, eating mexican (the only food choice in Jasper), filling up the tank, picking up the Jasper office mail and running to Wal Mart. And it was in that order! So by the time we got home Olivia was asleep. Chad was wanting to lay in the tanning bed and I was using the bathroom. When I heard Olivia crying. He ended up getting her out and taking her to her room to change her diaper. If she ever has a dirty diaper he will always holler and and act like it is the worst thing ever. So, I walked back there to see what was going on and found the poop filled diaper in the floor. I asked why he put that in the floor and he said that he was trying to wipe and not let her feet get in the poop AND that she started tee teeing everywhere. Why he had to put the diaper in the floor. Who knows? If she ever tee tees while getting her diaper changed it is always with Chad for some reason. So we decided to just go ahead and give her a bath. I throw the diaper away (by the way it didn't get in the carpet) and started running the bath water. Chad brings Olivia in there dancing around and playing with her in the mirror and she started tee teeing again!! All over him and in the floor!!! He was like Whoa!!! What is that looked down and realized what was going on. It scared Olivia half to death. Which mad her cry and then she started doing it again!! Poor baby. We felt so sorry for her, but it was so funny. She has never done anything like that before. I think she might have had to much juice.

The rest of our weekend was filled with shopping for the most part but should have been more cleaning. My house is in desperate need of a spring cleaning. I just don't want to do it though. I need a maid!

Friday we ate lunch with Danielle and Ethan and then headed to Birmingham. We went to Target and the outlets.

Saturday we had a Spring Fling at church. We were the there the biggest part of the morning and afternoon.

Later that night some of the girls from our bible study went to McKenziee Bee for Jasper's version of Sips N Strokes. I wasn't really to excited about going, but I am so glad I did! Here is my finished product.

I am taking this one to work. It is going up in my cube!

Alright...my eyes have had enough. I am going to bed!

My Man

I have a few preferences when it comes to the way Chad looks. The main one being his facial hair. When we first started dating he was always pretty much clean shaven. And then we got married and he would let it go a day or two or three at the most. Now he hardly ever shaves and sometimes (most times) it just bothers me. I do not like facial hair on MY MAN. I don't mind the 5 o'clock shadow or the little patch right under your lip, but of course he doesn't like those styles. Go figure.

So lately he has had a spotty beard. He has a few spots where his hair doesn't really grow that well. I haven't said much about him not shaving until Sunday afternoon. We were getting ready to leave for the Lovelady Center (which by the way was Awesome!) and Chad had already left the house. We went separately since he had to be there earlier to set up everything. Well...he hadn't been gone to long and he came back to the house with his beard shaved. BUT not completely. He only shaved the sides and bottom part. He has a stash with sides going down towards his chin.

Here is an example. Except Chad's is not full. I thought he was just joking with me, but no he wasn't. He actually went out looking like that! I couldn't believe it. I must have to say I was somewhat embarrassed that he looked like that. I know your probably thinking, "Beth, get a life." But I thought he looked ridiculous. I think what makes the hate worse is that Chad knows that I can't stand for him to have facial hair. So I feel like he does it out of spite. It's just a huge turn off, I can't stand to kiss him and it makes him look old and goofy.

Today is Wednesday and he still looks like that. I thought it would be gone by Monday morning, but no such luck. I know this is probably the stupidest thing ever, but I can't get over it. He knows that I am irritated and even made the comment that I have been blowing him off and ignoring him. And honestly I have. He says he is not doing it just to make me mad, but I sure do feel that way. He always says, every time we have a facial hair discussion, that growing facial is what little boys think about all the time and it's just a guy thing, and that he is tired of people trying to look like him. So he wants to be different. And who is he trying to impress? He don't make comments about my hair or my clothes or the way I look. But I always ask his opinion because I do still care what he thinks. So is it so wrong for me to feel that way?

I have to end this post with positives. Chad is a very caring, loving, helpful husband. He is a Godly Husband and Father and that should be enough in itself.

He has by far exceeded my expectations as a Father. He adores Olivia. And it melts my heart to see him take care of her the way that he does. Play with and talk to her in all of his crazy voices.

I have loved Chad every since the first time I saw him. Way back in 9th grade. I just thought he was so cute!! I still remember the first time we met each other. He came to a softball game to watch his cousin Megan. I was so nervous and thought he would never give me the time of day. Who would have ever know way back then that he would be MY HUSBAND!?

So it's not the end of the world. It's Just Facial Hair!!

I LOVE YOU MR!!