A Thoughtful Gift..

Let me start off by telling you that my husband is not Mr. Romantic.. at all! He is not one to surprise me with gifts really or one to even do much on holidays. He is simple and I love him just the same.  That is not necessarily a flaw in him its just who he is and the way he was raised. I on the other hand go to all extremes on every holiday. Love to stretch my budget to the core just to have the neatest most sentimental gift for someone on holidays. Not necessarily a flaw in my just who I am and the way we did things when I was younger?!

This Mother's day (actually recieved my gift last Sunday) my husband was thoughtful in his gift and really kind of shocked me. No I did not get a huge piece of bling or anything ;)

I worked last Sunday (babysat the two girls I nanny for) so he took E to his moms for a bit and headed down the road with out telling me! Which is a shock in and of itself. Early and mysterious I seriously thought DH had a fever ;)

I came home from work and E and DH are sitting on the porch with a bag for me. I opened the bag and found some flower seeds. I was grateful but a little stumped. I proceeded to tell them thank you and hug their sweet necks. He looked at me and said you didnt look when you opened the bag did you?! Look? Who examines the bag before they open it? Not I! LOL  So I checked over the bag and their was a little card that said "Members Welcome Kit" So I thought for a moment and it had hit me.

Derek had gone down to the botanical garden in our area and bought us all a family membership for a year! We can go anytime and participate in all the fun events they have at no additional charge! We can have picnics in the neat little hidden areas throughout the gardens. Carriage rides at night. Festivites and dinner on Thursday nights. I was so excited.  It is the same garden that I wrote about in this post! Emma loves it out there and with me not working come June this will give us one more neat thing to do!

So that was my thoughtful sweet gift I got for Mother's day ( a little early). Oh how I love those two so very much!

Happy Mother's day to all the Mommy's and Mommy's to be out there! You are very special and do a wonderful job!!

((((Y'all))))

Getting To Know You!! Sat. Style!!

Good Morning everyone! (9:15 am here) It has been a looong morning already. I have a sick baby girl in the house who has been up running fever since 6 am. She is doing a little better...ate breakfast..snuggled and back in bed. Hopefully she continues to improve as the day moves on.

Anyways... Keely from MannLand5 host a super fun blog hop on the weekend. (Usually its on Sunday but she is switching it up this weekend) So before nap time gets cut short lets go ahead and get this ball rolling!

1. What has been your most memorable Mother's Day? (with your mom, as a mom, or with your wife)

I would have to say my most memorable would be my first Mother's Day. DH usually is not super romantic or even a wonderful gift "picker outer" but my first Mother's Day he was super sweet and just did little things to make me feel special :)

2. Have you ever been pulled over for speeding and were you able to talk your way out of it?
Oh yes! I have had more than my fair share of tickets.. you would think I would get the hint and slow my rear end down. I have been able to talk my way out of a few of them.. I would say prob 50/50 on tix vs getting out of it. Most of the time just being honest and apologizing.
The last time we/I got pulled over was when DH was driving me to the hospital to have little E. The police offficer was more than sweet and sent us on our way! Since then -with my precious cargo- I have steered clear of trouble ;)

3. What's the oldest thing you have hanging in your closet?
I dont have anything super old really... That stuff is folded and in the attic... but prob. the oldest thing is a Bridesmaid dress from when my Bestie got married. 5 years ago I think?!

4. Do you whiten your teeth?
Yes! I am loooong overdue though. I always use the whitening toothpaste and mouthwash but I am really due for a good whitening.

5. Underwear or Panties..What do you call your "unmentionables"?
Panties.

6. If you could go on vacation right now..today..where would you go?
To FL to see my dad! I miss him soo much. He has not been home in a while and would love to hug his neck.

7. Do you get offended when people cuss on their blogs?
Offended? Nah! I personally dont cuss on my blog just out of respect for my readers. I also usually dont cuss (unless its something really bad.. then I may let a few slip ;) in normal convo..hello talking toddler..so it doesnt come across on my blog.

I do admit though when I see a blog with alot of cussing (not just the occasional cuss word) it does turn me off sometimes.

8. If you had to give up one luxury item, it would be....?
Hmm... I dont know! I guess cable. It def. would not be my internet. No way I could survive with out my cell. So I guess it would have to be TV... even though that would not be easy either ;)

Alright now that it is 10:00 am and the phone has rang twice and the dryer buzzed little E is up. Back to the sick girl.

Hope you all have a fabulous Mother's Day weekend!! Be sure and check out my 5QF post if you missed it last night..I had a fun surprise!

5QF.. I am Famous!

Hey everyone!! Sorry I am a little late in getting in on the Five Question Friday action with the loverly
Mama M . I have had me a pretty pitiful little girlie today. She started with a low grade fever last night and then woke up this morning burning up. Despite my best attempts with Mortin and Tylenol the fever could not (and still can not) be broken :( Doc said it was "viral" (hate that word when it comes to doc visits) and that if she was still bad on Sunday for us to come back.. so frustrating!!

Anywhoodles lets get down to business!

The questions this week are.....

1. What is your worst memory of your siblings?

I dont know if I have just one?! All I know is we fought like cats and dogs growing up. I mean over everything.. I feel so sorry for my mom now that I think about it. She was a single mom, working multiple jobs, always cooked a full meal, kept the house clean, and dealt with 4 fighting kids ALLL the time.

One thing I do remember now that I got to thinking is that my brother's room was right under my bed room. He was real into music.. like guitar... type stuff. He had a really loud amplifier and turned it up reaaallly loud. This my friends made me SOO angry. It bothered me while I watched tv, talked on the phone, and even messed up my beauty rest. I still cringe when I hear him play that thing.. even though he is pretty good.. I guess ;)

2. What was YOUR naughtiest childhood memory? (Must be something YOU did, no pawning it off on someone else!)

Me?!!?!? Naughty?! Never!!

I guess most of my naughtiness happened in high school. I went through a "party" stage where I *may* have done somethings that could be considered a little naughty...but I dont know. I totally bombed this question.. Sorry!

I plead the fifth.. does that work ;)

3. Where do you like to go to relax?
My couch with my lap top.  At the end of the day when the baby is sleeping and the "chores" are done I take a little bit of time for myself. I prop my feet up on my couch (DH controls the TV) and I enjoy my computer, catch up on blogs, and facebook stalk ;) Yep! Its one of my favorite times of the day.


4. What was the last thing you won?
Well today I hit the jackpot!! Our local weatherman has a twitter account and I follow him ya know to get the local weather and Thunderstorm warnings. Really comes in handy! Anyways he is super cool and does the #FF on the Friday evening news... SOOOO this week.... guess who happened to be on the #FF? Yep! You guessed it... your's truly! Check it out....

http://www.twitvid.com/QH62Q

Ok.. yea I know that was a little lame on my part... but totally made my day!!

5. If you could be on a game show, which would you choose?
Wheel of Fortune! I totally rock at that show. Hubster gets "mad" because I beat him everytime we play. Yes.. we are old farts and occasionally watch Wheel of Fortune.
Yes.. we are really competitive and even compete in silly little game shows like that.
 
 
Alright now that I made myself look like a total goober who gets excited over the six o'clock news and likes Wheel of Fortune I think I should close this post ;)
 
Have a wonderful weekend! Be looking for my Mother's Day present post.. prob Sunday!

5 Things That Rocked!

This week I am going to join in the fun and do the Thursday Five with miss sicky.. Keely

If you want to join in head on over to her blog and give you all the deets. Its really easy all you have to do is list five things that made you happy this week!

*~*1*~* This week I got my Mother's Day present early!! It is the best most thoughtful gift I have ever recieved from DH! What? You want to know what it is? Sorry you will have to wait.. I am saving that for this weekend sometime ;)

*~*2*~* I have really enjoyed hearing my girl talk this week. It is like everyday she is gaining a few words to her vocabulary. It is so neat to watch her grow and change every. single. day!

*~*3*~* I recieved good news from the doc this week! I had really been fretting the results of all these test but turns out God had it all under control. If you have no idea what I am talking about then you can catch up here!

*~*4*~* Also because of the test results he started me on some new meds. They are the first meds that have actually given me some relief.. yesterday was the best I have felt in months! So excited to get some sense of normalcy back.

*~*5*~* We had a really fun Cinco De Mayo celebration at home last night. Cooked Fajitas, had cheese dip as an app. and topped it off with a corona! Yumo!

Oh yea and one bonus one ;)

*~*6*~* I found out yesterday that my best friend is having a little girl! That means I will have a new goddaughter to love and spoil. A wonderful godson and now a goddaughter.. PERFECTO!

Alright now I am off to wrangle in these chaps that have gone a little wild while I was typing up this post.

Hope you have a great Thursday.. only one more day till the weekend! Woot Woot!! :)

The results are in!

Hey everyone!

As some of you know I had my MRI done on Monday to help further diagnose some of these issues I have been having. (For those of you who are new around these parts..you can check out what has been going on here)

The doc called me late yesterday afternoon and told me he had my MRI results. I stumbled and tried to catch my breath as I listened to what he had to say. I was very nervous (was not expecting the results that quick) He quickly assured me that the results were pretty good. *Huge sigh of relief here*

I do have one fusion..BUT only one fusion.. in c6 and c7 around the base of my neck. There also showed some mild degenerative arthritis in c5 and c8 but other than that everything else looked really good! He said he would call this a very mild case of AS!! I was so excited to hear those words. Mild were the words I have been longing to hear since the diagnosis a couple of weeks ago.

Now that we have a "mild" diagnosis that also means I am not on restrictions about when I can have a baby.. and let me tell you.. that makes me feel SOO much better!

This little girl may need a bro or a sis one day ;)

We will have to keep a close tab on everything to make sure it does not get worse or progress any further but I can handle that. I am going to eat well, exercise, and enjoy life to the fullest!

Thanks so much for your prayers and support!! I have the best readers around ;)

Weekend Recap

Happy Monday everyone! If you are like me then you are glad Monday is almost over! It has been on heck of a crazy day.

This weekend Emma recieved her first invite to a little girl's birthday party. We were both very excited...well... who am I kidding she didn't even know what the heck was going on ;) Anyways the party was at Build -A- Bear and was super cute!

*~* BeWaRe poor pic quality ahead.. I was rushed and the lighting was terrible ;)  *~*

Picking out which dog she wants.. tough choice ya know!

Everyone went around the circle and named their new furry friends! Super cute!

We all  then marched around the store saying a chant and holding the "bear"

"Maggie" the dog getting her bows put in her hair! Emma loves her!!

I realized *just now* as I am writing this post that some slack blogger forgot to take a picture of the final product.. oops! Sorry she is tucked in bed with E and there is no way I will wake the beast ;)

On a good note today though I was named "Commenter of the Week" over at Mrs. Keely's wonderful blog!! I am so super stoked and have 4 new follower as well today! Thank you all so much for coming and hanging out! Look foward to chatting with you and coming to visit your blog!! :)

Have a great night!

We found...

A new park that we just love!!

It has this adorable little Train. Emma just loves it!! She spent the day crawling in and out and pretending to be the conductor.

This park was also wonderful because she could do the slide herself. Normally they are a little steep and she has a hard time getting her chunky short legs up the steps ;)

Go girlie go!

Even Grandpa got in on the action ;)

This was the coolest little chair! It rocked like a rocking horse but much more fun!

It was a wonderful time I can not wait to go back!

Going to go and get ready for a little birthday party action this afternoon! Emma's first invite.. I think I am more excited than she it ;)

Have a wonderful Saturday everyone!!