Sorry...

Hey girls! So sorry I have been missing from twitter land and bloggy world for a few days. I wanted to stop in and give you all some  updates and hopefully do a normal post tonight or tomorrow sometime.

*The new meds I am on suck. That is putting it nicely ;) They are giving me headaches and making me really tired. Cant wait for my follow up visit so I can tell him I am not a fan of this stuff. So that is why I have been MIA for a while.

* Emma is doing great. She is blossoming everyday and changing so much. I love it and hate it at the same time. I love that her little personality is booming right now but so sad to see her grow up and know she isnt quite a baby anymore

*My dad has missed two treatments now :( his platelets are dropping and they have had to stop chemo for a while. They gave him a shot to try and boost his white blood count. He says he is starting to feel very run down and sick. This breaks my heart! I hate to know he is sick and nothing I can do about it. Please be in prayer for him. As you all know cancer in your liver is terrible anyways but not being able to get the treatments in on time makes it that much harder to battle. I am trying to plan a trip down to see him next weekend. Hoping finances and everything falls into place.. not sure if he needs me but I know I need to see him and hug his neck!

Thank you all so much for the email and tweets asking about him and us. We are all hanging in there and waiting for these storms to pass. I know storms are part of life and our walk with God. I will continue to pray for his peace.

Love to you all!! Promise a fun post later on ;)

Sunday Funday blog hop

Happy Superbowl Sunday Girls (and guys if you are out there.. dont really think I have any guy readers so... ) Today I am going to join in with Miss Keely in the "Getting To Know YOU" blog hop fun! She also has a little giveaway going on but dont even bother checking it out.. I am claiming a win over there ;)

Lets get down to business since I have not even made it to the grocery store and we only have 6 hours till kick off!

The questions this week are:

1. How many piercing's do you have?
Just my ears. I used to have my belly button pierced but that was before I blew up like a balloon and deflated. The belly area is not so cute anymore.. def. dont need a belly button ring attracting more attention to the flab ;)


2. I love the sound of.....?
DH and Emma playing in the playroom. Nothing is sweeter to my ears than to hear those two having a tea party or just laughing and playing. I think I could sit and listen to them all day (it is even cuter when they dont know that mommy is listening ;)  Also love the sound of a laughing child.

3. Favorite city?
NYC! I heart NY. My aunt lives in the city (central park is her backyard!) and I have been several times. So fun and always something new to see. Such a different lifestyle than here in NC. I love the hustle and bustle of the city. I love the melting pot of cultures. I love the unity you feel there since 9-11. I just love NY and all it has to offer.

4. Colts, Saints, or could care less?
Saints all the way baby. I know they are kind of a long shot but it would be great to see them win. Just something about the underdog.. gotta pick them everytime!
5. Frozen yogurt or ice cream?
Ice cream... any flavor any number of toppings. Just need sprinkles on top please!

6. Favorite appetizer?
I love a good app. Spinach dip is always yummy. I would have to say cheese sticks are a fav. to though. Fried cheese.. just doesnt get any better than that :)

7. What item in your closet currently makes you the happiest?
Nothing really... I am in a clothes rut big time right now. In between sizes and needed a total wardrobe update.

8.Favorite facial moisturizer?
I use Clinques three step system to clean and moisturize. Basic I know but it does the job.

Alright girlies sorry to cut it short but I have to run to the grocery store before every hoodlum in town steals all the chips and dip!

Go Saints!

The Par-tay!

Alright time for the Best Day of Our Life part 2. If you did not see the first post check it out here and get all caught up.

After our ceremony in the church we headed to the reception site. It was beutiful both inside and out. We ate (well I didn't eat much because of nerves and excitement) and danced for hours. Oh yea and maybe had a few drinks but not to many ;)  Here are some of my fav pics of our celebration!!

The Reception Site

Our Cake

First Dance

Love him to pieces

Neat shot I thought

Let the fun begin ;)

Twist with the kiddos

My Grandaddy and his two girls ( me and my sis)

I dont know who captured the pouty lip shot.. but its pricelss..hey it works!

Alright girlies! I hope you enjoyed a small peek into my wedding. I am so excited to be able to have access to these pics. Meant alot to be able to share them with you all. Hopefully you enjoyed them as well! 

Be sure and come back tomorrow for a little "Getting to know YOU" fun with Miss Keely @ Mannland5

Happy Saturday

Fabulastic Friday Fun!

So glad we have made it to another Friday! Is it just me or did this week drag on to you as well? I am talking went super slow. Anywho! before we get down to business I wanted to say a big thank you to all the sweet comments some of you left on my last post! I am considering (if I could figure it out) how to put a new comment system on here so I can respond back to your comments (prob Disqus.. what do you think?) But again.. Thanks! I have the best bloggy friends ever :)

Now lets get down to the fun stuff. As most of you know and if not then you have been hiding under a rock somewhere very far away that Friday is the day for Mama M's Five Question Friday blog hop! Head on over to her blog and check it out. Be sure to link up!

So without further rambling lets get down to business! The questions this week are :

1. What are you most afraid of?

Well beside bugs, the dark, somebody taking me, my crippling arthritis, death (not really after I die but how I will die more than anything), basically EVERYTHING! lol. I am a scaredy cat! Its ok there has to be one out of every bunch right?

2. Do you use a flat iron or curling iron?
When I actually take the time to fix my hair its flat iron all the way. I have this pain in the arse natural wave going on. If I dont flat iron my hair you will think I stuck my finger in a socket to dry it and walked out the door. Honestly!

3. Hands-free or phone to the ear?
Phone to the ear. Prob should look into a hands free device but havent quite made it around to that yet.

4. Do you have a matching bedroom set?
Umm no! We dont even have a headboard for our bed and our dresser was my husbands when he was in high school. Our end tables do match though (each other.. not the other furniture.. dont get crazy;)

5. Do you believe in the paranormal?
I am gonna say no on that one. I mean I have never had an encounter with anything like this. I know some people claimed to have had these expierances.. so I am not knocking their exp. just saying I have never had an expierance like that. To each their own!
 
Alright girlies.. there ya have it! Cant wait to see what you all had to say this week. 
 
Oh yea and one more thing.. Go Saints!!!!

Looking back on the best day of our life!

I have been really sad since I started this blog that I have not been able to share our wedding with you all. I recieved my computer after we were married and all my wedding photos were just hard copies or in a book ya know?!! My sweet Grammy who is like a picture addict (and thats saying it very lightly..) she went out and bought me a flash drive and uploaded tons of our wedding pics.. from our engagement pics all the way to honeymoon pics. I was so super excited to have all these pics once again!!

First our engagement- We were engaged in Dec. of 2006. I think I shared that story before so we wont go back through all of that... here are a few of our pics though.

Sorry the pics are kind of grainy.. we copied the professionals so we would have them on PC ;)

Have I mentioned to you all that I am a huge daddys girl? Daddy's only little girl. So when it came time to planning the wedding he told me to plan the wedding I had dreamed about. So plan I did! It was alot of hard work and very stressful but fun! The day was everything I could have imagined. The ceremony was more simple but sweet. I poured all my time and energy into the reception. Not that the ceremony wasnt important but I thought the day I married the love of my life called for a par-tay ;) So here are some of my fav pics from before the ceremony 

The three girls: My mom, Me , Grammy

somebody forgot to tell me to bring a robe.. so I literally had a table cloth wrapped around me while I waited to put my dress on! I didnt look to happy about it either ;)

I was really calm during the whole getting ready process and even right up to the final moments. It wasnt until I saw my dad and he began to cry that reality hit me. I was parting ways with him and leaving the nest. I will always be daddys little girl but it will be much different once I walk down that aisle. I regained composure and got goosebumps when those big church doors opened.

Once I made it down the aisle and saw Dereks face all the nerves left my body. I knew marrying him was no mistake. I know that God placed him in my life to balance me out, to laugh with me, to be my strength and be my best friend!

Mr and Mrs. Huffstetler and our Pastor (yes I was sick of forced pics by then ;)

Does it get any cuter than that! That is my godson Landon and fav. little flower girl Kelsey

We had a wonderful ceremony! I didnt want this post to get too long so come back this weekend and I will post some pics of our celebration! We had a blast!!

Wordless Wednesday

Emma and her Pappy (my dad)

What a sweet little duo these two are when they are together :)

Nobody told me....

***UpDaTeD**

I am still linking up with the one and only Mama M but this time we are doing a Mother's Day Mania!! I already had this post so just thought I would link it up.. enjoy!

Today I am joining in with Mama M and doing a little blog hop where everyone shares their birthing stories. So be sure and join in the fun.. head on over to Mama M's blog and link on up!

I am not sure exactly where to start my birthing story since I had several things that kind of lead up to the main event so I will back up a little bit.. but no worries I will get there ;)

While pregnant with Miss Emma (in case you are new to my blog.. is my one and only little one.. 17 mo old) I had a pretty normal pregnancy. What I thought was normal anyways.. until about the 7th month. I woke up one morning and noticed I had a TON of swelling in my feet and hands.. I am not talking just a little bit of swelling that is normal with the heat (it was July). Or the type of swelling that you get after working all day and proping your feet up does the trick. This type of swelling was after I had been asleep and rested. I could push my finger into my foot and like leave a finger print. Oh it was terrible and painful!

So I headed on into the doc.. long story short it turned out to be the beginning of some mild pre-eclampsia. I had the whole high blood pressure and everything going on as well. They put me on bed rest and was supposed to go to the doc twice a week.. yada yada yada. Well after being in and out of the hospital three times and a small tear in my placenta (talk about freaking out.. try waking up to a ton of bleeding while you are 8 mo pregnant.. total freak out!) Yes I was THAT sweet young mother that Mama M talks about  in her shop talk ;)

After a long 27 days of all this mess going on they finally decided it was in everyone best interest to go ahead and induce. I had waited like a month to hear those words but when she finally said it is time to head on over to the hospital.. I became a nervous wreck! I had wanted this baby for so long. Dreamed about meeting her BUT now she was about to be here and there was no stopping it! AHHH

My hubby rushed home from work.. we picked up the bags we had packed and headed on to the hospital.  I got all checked in and started the Pitocin. I was having some minor contractions but nothing major. A few hours later the doc came in said I had dialated to about a 3 (not very  much) and that she wanted to go ahead and break my water.

Alright so I was kind of excited.. lets get this show started is what I was thinking! I will never forget that feeling of having my water broken. I was so embarassed. I know I know.. he has seen and is about to see alot worse than that.. but my gosh it was terrible! I felt like I had peed all over the place.. ugh that was one of the worst parts! The very next contraction was like none I had ever had! OMG it hurt so bad.. it was instant! I asked the doc. what the heck did you do! She started laughing and said "now were cooking" gee thanks!

I then proceded to have four very long hours of back labor. It was the worst pain.. but I had the best nurse in the world. She was to good at getting me to calm down and to show my husband things to do to help as well. I will forever remember her sweet face. I remember after only 10 min. of these hard contractions asking for an epidural. She told me I needed to make it to at least a 4 before we should give the epidural. So relucantly I said ok. For the record YES I am a weenie! I dont like pain and did not enjoy those contrations! I am an epidural all the way girl :)

Four long hours later the best man in the hospital walked in. No I am not talking about my husband. The Anes. Doc (not I dont know how to spell that but you know what I am talking about.) I did not care how long his needle was I did not even think about the possible side effects.. all I could think about was give me that drug and give it to me now!! After my epidural it was nap time :)

Hard to believe I could nap after all that I had been through and all that was going on with my body but this girl was exhausted. An hour later I had fully dialated and was ready push. Who knew that would be the easy part?! Four or so pushes later and they lay the most beautiful, perfect little girl on my chest. The look on my husbands face is forever etched in my memory. He was in love at first sight. We were both so happy she was here and safe. So happy to be embarking on the journey of parenthood  together. So happy to just be our little family!

She was super tiny! (considering all the weight I gained I was hoping more of that would have been her and not mine to loose ;) She was 6lbs 2oz and 18.5 inches long. I remember having to buy preemie diapers for a while. Oh how I would love for those diapers to be that small again :)

Nobody told me It would be love at first sight. Nobody told me I would instantly forget all the things I has just been through. Nobody told me she would be the best thing to happen to me!!