Patience

The other day Ben & I were at Wal-mart and I begged him for one of these cool drink holders with a straw.  Although I knew I was fighting a losing battle because we shouldn't spend the money.  I just pointed out that my birthday was coming up (tomorrow).  No big deal.  

Monday morning, I go to my other job (at a car dealership) and this advertising company had sent us 2.  My boss (and one of my best girlfriends) gave me both!  I am now a proud owner and for FREE!  

Little Monday Morning Blessings for your Friday. 

New Recipe: YUM!

My mom made this recipe the other day, it's Doughnut and Coffee Bread Pudding.  Jeez.  Recipe?  Ok!

12 Day old Plain of Chocolate Donuts, cute into 1 inch pieces
2 cups milk
1 1/4 cup strong coffee
14 oz can of sweetened condensed milk
6 egg yolks
1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar

Preheat oven to 350.
Place donut pieces in 3 qt baking dish; set aside
In a large bowl mix together milks, coffee, yolks, and 1 tsp cinnamon
Pour over donuts
sprinkle granulated sugar and remaining cinnamon on top

Bake uncovered for 40-45 minutes.  Cool slightly and serve.  YUM.

Even her gluten free friend ate this.  Now that's a sacrifice.

Progress: Baby Eleanor's Room

We painted, we put together the crib and we are buying silly little things! Woohoo!  Yes, we know that the mattress is lopsided.  We fixed it!  We also haven't put the drop down bar up on the front, it's been a little tricky.  Isn't the crib beautiful?  It's from our family...we LOVE it.  Also Ben found this little frog friend for her and fell in love with it.  We are going with a coral-y, cream, gold and wood theme in her room.  We sanded and stained a rocking chair from Craigslist, and when I say we, I totally mean Ben because I can't be around stain...or paint.  So this has pretty much been all him.  Although I taped the room (with the help of a few of our campus students).  What do you think?  

A name! A name!

Our little Baby Eleanor is growing like a weed.  I can't wait to see her. 

Mother's Day

The tip toppest picture is from a few weekends ago.  Me and my preggo girlfriends, this isn't even all of them!

Saturday aside from all of the parties we went to, we also were enlisted to pick up all of the flowers for the moms at church.  We went to Sam's and picked up 5 cases of flowers, it was something like 600 roses.  As we sat an unwrapped them and dipped them in water on Saturday, the colors cracked me up. "Hot Princess" was my personal favorite and I felt it was my duty to tell the moms.  Don't worry, I got a Hot princess flower too.  The above picture it 2/5s of what we picked up!  Hope the Momma's loved them!

Sunday morning Ben got me some mothers day donuts and I sat outside reading my Bible and looking up at the sky wondering what next mothers day will be like...We will have a 9 (?)  month old then. Wow!  How time will have changed.  

Also I bought my mom Anne of Green Gables, which pretty much describes my childhood.  What did you do? What did you get your momma? 

Monday Monday

Saturday was one big blur of a party.  

We tried garage sale-ing in the morning, but it was a bust, and so discouraging.  So, we went to a wedding shower and 2 grad parties.  

The wedding shower was for Ben's old roomie, Jason, and his lovely fiance who is from Paraguay and just the cutest thing ever.  They are planning their wedding in a few short months, boy she has been wanting to be married for a while and it's finally 2 weeks away!  Their actual wedding falls on my BIRTHDAY! What a fun way to celebrate, in the Dallas Arboretum.  Anyway, their shower was great and their cake was ah-mazing.  I can give you the contact info of the woman who made them, she's an investment banker, extreme baker on the side.

THEN!  We went out to a high school graduation party.  So much food, and so many family members there!! I hope she got spoiled.  After that we flew to another grad party, this time college graduation.  She finished with a degree in Social Work and we partied at an Italian Restaurant.  The rolls and pizza were yum yum!!  Her family was so stinking proud of her and we had a great time meeting everyone.  

It was a good Saturday, I may have had a backache at the end of it, but the yummy food was worth it!  

Today we are getting some financial planning help!  So excited.  

How was your weekend?

23 weeks

OMG I seriously have no idea how this happened.  But do you like my garage sale top?  Just when I was fed up with all of my "maternity options" I stumbled upon a garage sale and got 4 new maternity tops and a dress for $12 total.  This lady was my size, and so happy to see her clothes go to a loving home.  Loving home, you bet, I can't stop wearing my new shirts.  

So far pregnancy has been ok.  A while ago I cried on Ben until he told me, "I don't think you're going to be one of those women who enjoys being pregnant."  I couldn't agree more.  I don't think I really prepared myself mentally for my body totally changing.  Which I'm happy to do for baby, I just didn't think about things prior to.  We sort of got pregnant right away, after we decided to try, so I didn't have much time at all.  

We are taking a Bradley Birthing Class that has totally knocked my socks off.  I have never learned so much in a short time.  My brain is bursting with information.  But it's fun to go sit with 7 other pregnant women and their husbands once a week, when we can console each other and laugh at the same jokes.  

I have not had any morning sickness.  Extreme exhaustion at the beginning, followed by difficulty sleeping now (I wake up pretty naturally every morning around 6 - that's new!  And wake up MULTIPLE TIMES A NIGHT).  I feel easily irritable or overwhelmed, and can cry at the drop of a hat or sad commercial.  Also, acid reflux, holy cow! 

Strange food aversions: Cheese & Pepper (like peppering your food).  I don't like either of the way they taste.  Cheese in moderation, of course I still like pizza, but I prefer cheese sparingly, if at all.  

Cravings: Oranges, Nutty Buddy Bars (which I have NOT given in to), cereal with lots of milk, lots, and chick-fil-a but I don't really eat it,  we had it around a month ago.  That was the last time.  Can't give in to every unhealthy craving!  

I have also recently had skinny jealousy of people.  I think everyone looks great, and like they've lost weight.  And I'm probably the most encouraging person to hang out with because everyone looks so great!  You look great!!