Ok So I have been....

SICK! Very sick.
It all started last weekend. Friday night, all day Saturday and Sunday were devoted to Hillary's shower. It is such work to throw a shower. I don't want to get into the shower until maybe Monday because I have so many good pictures of it and wont have them till then.
Well Sunday when all was done and the shower was over I went home to rest. Then my throat started to hurt. I thought nothing of since I had been so busy and stressed. Well Monday when I woke up it hurt more. At first I was excited to call in and get the day off to hang out with my mom. I went over there pretty early and we worked on cleaning up her house. She recently closed her own small business and had to close one of her offices at her job so she moved home two whole rooms of stuff. On top of that she moved out a entire room of accumulation to create a nursery. We worked hard on that Monday till Clayton got home.
We had dinner, went home and I went to bed. Tuesday I woke up and it was worse again so I called in a little less excitedly and went to my mom's. She watched Lilly while I slept a lot then later in the day we cleaned again. By the ed of that day I was pretty bad off and had called the doctor for a sick appointment. It was the next day and my grandmother was going to watch Lilly for me while my mom took me.
Tuesday night was Hell. I felt terrible and woke up every hour or so. Wednesday morning I woke up as Clayton was getting ready for work and decided I felt so bad he had better drive me because I was so bad off. I almost thought I had better go to the emergency room because my throat was swelling shut, there was no way I could possibly swallow anything. I got to my moms and slept a little while because she took Lilly. When I woke up we took Lilly to my grandmother's and off to the dr.
When I got there. I had to tell them about my new insurance and they kept asking questions..I had no voice because of my throat and it was horrible to talk. When I finally got it all out she said, " and Kristen...here." It was so embarrassing to be the only one in the crowded drs office.
Moments after being captured in this photo I realized it doesn't help to not cover my nose!
Well turns out it was just bad strept throat. My dr did not even need to culture it, he took one look and decided to give me a shot. I took the shot and the prescription and went on my way. Within maybe 5 hours I was feeling a lot better. That night we spent the night with my mom because I was still contagious and really weak. It was going to be just me, then me and Lilly and Clayton was sad so he decided to stay with us. It was nice having a night out of out house but I am sure our kitties were not happy. Today was my first day back to work and I was excited but man I am still having a rough time of it.
I am just looking forward to getting better, the weekend, Halloween and Fall Back and hour!

Re-doing that To Do list before this month is over

1. Finish 2 paisley burpies
2. Finish 4 dot burpies (2 for Luana, 2 for Hillary)gonna leave these on to be finished tomorrow or Saturday
3. Cut and finish paisley boppy cover-Move this one to November since it is for me and not in a hurry
4. Cut and finish 2 dot boppy covers- I have finished one and gonna leave it on to finish before November
5. Make handmade labels-November
6. Make Luke's fleece blanket
7. Make Lilly's curtains-November (can't find fabric I like)
8. Holly's tutu
9. Luke's tie onesie-moved to the Christmas List
10. Nick's tie onesie-moved to the Christmas List as well
11. Flyers for Lilly's Frillies- in the process but let's say November
12. Business Cards for Lilly's Frillies
13. Lilly's Elk Bow
14. Lilly's Elk onesie-this might get done tomorrow but it might get scrapped all together
15. Cut squares for Lilly's and Alexandra's quilts-Christmas List but in progress
16. Sew quilts-Christmas List

New and Improved November-for now
1. Lilly's Curtains
2. Lilly's Bedskirt
3. Paisley Boppy Cover
4. Handmade Labels
5. Flyers
6. 10 or 12 more burp clothes to be spread between me, my mom and the nephews

Christmas List-for now
1. Lilly's Quilt
2. Alexandra's Quilt
4. Holly's Quilt
5. Luke's Quilt
6. Niko's Quilt
7. David's Quilt
8. Tie onesies for Niko and Luke
9. French Message board for Morgan
10. Throw for my mom and dad

1. Finish 2 paisley burpies
2. Finish 4 dot burpies (2 for Luana, 2 for Hillary)
3. Cut and finish paisley boppy cover
4. Cut and finish 2 dot boppy covers
5. Make handmade labels
6. Make Luke's fleece blanket
7. Make Lilly's curtains
8. Holly's tutu
9. Luke's tie onesie
10. Nick's tie onesie
11. Flyers for Lilly's Frillies
12. Business Cards for Lilly's Frillies
13. Lilly's Elk Bow
14. Lilly's Elk onesie
15. Cut squares for Lilly's and Alexandra's quilts
16. Sew quilts

It's here!

It is officially my birthday! 24! It just doesn"t seem real. I know I am married and I am a mommy but I feel like I am still a kid. Maybe that is why I still Love Love my birthday. I am so excited it is finally here.
I get to go to Red Lobster to eat endless shrimp I am so excited.
I am starting to plan all my Christmas presents and crafts. I can't really talk about the presents because some people read this, I know its hard to believe. The other stuff though is ok.
I plan to make our families stockings. I want them to look old timey but made out of felt with thick stitching.
I also would like to make a Christmas fleece blanket for our house.
An advent calender to count down the days till Christmas.
A quilted table runner and matching napkins.
These will all be on my November and December to do lists because I need to save up the funds for them.
I still need to post pictures of my finished tutus and finished burpies. I need to take pictures as I go with my boppy cover and maybe create my first tutorial. That would be exciting. I also bought the fleece for the babies blankets so all I need to do is put them together.
Hillary's shower is this weekend so I got a lot to do for that and I will be taking pictures and maybe passing along some tips that were helpful in planning a baby shower.
Yesterday Lilly took her 3-month pictures and we got 73 good ones. They are mostly halloween centered like in her costume or in a pumpkin outfit but there are some more of her in her tutu and then in just a diaper with me. I love them and can post some of them soon too. Her next pictures are on November 13th her 4-month birthday...if that makes any sense.
Now its just time to lay down and sleep next to my baby.

P.S. I got my first order for flower headbands today. Two actually. So I will post pics of those as I go as well.

I have been...

I have been so tired.
I even had a day of rest when Lilly slept over at my mom's since she is off for vacation. The weekend wasn't stressful but the upcoming one is with Hills shower. I have so much going on for it as the hostess that I have neglected my duties in gift giving.
I have finished her burpies in brown and blue dot but still need to cut the pattern for the boppy cover, cut the fabric and sew the boppy cover. Thats at least an hour of solid work. Do I ever have a solid hour of work? No.
I still need to make fleece blanket as well. Thats like 15 minutes though and that will make two...one for Luke and one for Niko.
I gotta go with my mom to babies r us and get the bought gift which is her diaper genie and I don't know what my mom is getting her.
Then I need to get things for her shower like all the food supplies I need, two cheap-o things of diapers for diaper game, markers, two things of good diapers for diaper guessing game, container for diapers, letters for ABC book, blue and brown spray paint, blue, white and brown tissue paper, blue, white and brown tulle, cups, 2 more prizes for hills, two or three prizes for guests, piggy bank full of change for shaking ans guessing the amount, calender to guess due date, cute thing to go into chair for pics with Hillary and I am sure I am missing some stuff but my brain is dead. Well I am going to bed with my baby since I was without her last night!

October to do updated! (11 days to go)

1. Finish 2 paisley burpies
2. Finish 4 dot burpies (2 for Luana, 2 for Hillary)
3. Cut and finish paisley boppy cover
4. Cut and finish 2 dot boppy covers
5. Make handmade labels
6. Make Luke's fleece blanket
7. Make Lilly's curtains
8. Holly's tutu
9. Luke's tie onesie
10. Nick's tie onesie
11. Flyers for Lilly's Frillies
12. Business Cards for Lilly's Frillies
13. Lilly's Elk Bow
14. Lilly's Elk onesie
15. Cut squares for Lilly's and Alexandra's quilts
16. Sew quilts

October to do list ( 16 days to go)

1. Finish 2 paisley burpies
2. Finish 4 dot burpies (2 for Luana, 2 for Hillary)
3. Cut and finish paisley boppy cover
4. Cut and finish 2 dot boppy covers
5. Make handmade labels
6. Make Luke's fleece blanket
7. Make Lilly's curtains
8. Holly's tutu
9. Luke's tie onesie
10. Nick's tie onesie
11. Flyers for Lilly's Frillies
12. Business Cards for Lilly's Frillies
13. Lilly's Elk Bow
14. Lilly's Elk onesie
15. Cut squares for Lilly's and Alexandra's quilts
16. Sew quilts

3 Months!

I cannot believe she is 3 months. My little baby is growing up so fast. She is out growing most of her newborn size clothes quickly and now fitting into 0-3 months. She looks so cute and not so newborn-y. She smiles all the time, laughs a lot especially at mommy and daddy, she grabs toys occasionally, she drools enough to fill a swimming pool daily, she is getting more used to tummy time, and today she rolled over from back to stomach all by herself. How special! I love her so much! I can't wait to see what the next month brings us and out little Lilly-O.

It has been a while

I know it has been a while since I wrote. It is because of the weekend we had. We had been referring to this weekend as the weekend from hell all along.
It all began Friday.
Clayton came to my school for community helper month. He came in full scientist regale and it was so fun. The kids were just as excited about him being my husband as him being a scientist. They were so cute! They said things like, "You must be filthy rich". After that we went straight to MIL's house and then to dinner and on to Lilly's first Burleson Elks game. I already showed you her bow I made her but I failed to finish her onesie in time for the game. This turned out to be ok because it was freezing and she was bundled up completely for the game. No one would have seen it had I finished it. If I get it done we could go to the final home game on 10/30. IDK though if we'll go. My only regret of the night is we did not take her picture at her first game! Sad times.
Then Lilly spent her second night away from mommy and daddy and her first one away in 2 months which was really hard. I cried. She stayed with Clayton's mom so we could go to his cousin's wedding the next day. So when we woke up (early unfortunately) we showered and I actually got to fix my hair and put on make-up. The wedding was at a beautiful church at TCU and then the reception was at the renowned Reatta restaurant. Fabulous and traditional.
We got home from that to get Lilly at about 3:30. The on to my parents because we were all car pooling to West together for my great aunt and uncle's 50th wedding anniversary. It was fun because a lot of the attendees had not seen Lilly yet. We stayed there until about 9 and then went home. Finally got to our house and settled by about 11pm.
Woke up the next morning and had to get ready to take hubby into town for laundry, Lilly to my mom's for the afternoon and I had to go to SIL's first baby shower. It was really fun but just work and time away from Lilly. Once we got home about 6 or 7 FIL wanted to see Lilly so we took her to his house and ran home to make dinner, and finish all dishes before she came home. We got a lot accomplished but it was the weekend from hell.
Luckily Monday was a holiday so Lilly and I slept in (when do we not) and then went into town to eat and hang out with my mom. We got home about 7 and had already had dinner. It was nice. We just sat around, talked and played with Lilly.
Today was supposed to be Pictures and then staying with Sandra but the Photographer is a friend of the family and does it out of her home. Well her son went to hospital Sunday night with Swine Flu so we canceled in case anything was in the house that might make Lilly sick. So instead me and Sandra went shopping for Hillary's baby shower not this weekend but next. When we got back to the house with lunch Lilly was having a bad time with gas, she screamed for a good while and it broke my heart she as in such pain. Between her pain and my still overly tiredness from the weekend I ended up calling in sick to work. I was really worried she was coming down with something. Sandra went a head and kept her though and let me nap. I woke up and Clayton was home. We got Lilly and made dinner, watched some tv and I worked on some stuff.
Then my mom called and said my aunt called and said my cousin was in the hospital since Sunday with Swine flu and he was at party Saturday night so now I am more worried about Lilly than ever.
That brings me up to now. I am better rested and ready to face the rest of the week. AND we have no plans for next weekend! Yay!

October to do updated!

1. Finish 2 paisley burpies
2. Finish 4 dot burpies (2 for Luana, 2 for Hillary)
3. Cut and finish paisley boppy cover
4. Cut and finish 2 dot boppy covers
5. Make handmade labels
6. Make Luke's fleece blanket
7. Make Lilly's curtains
8. Holly's tutu
9. Luke's tie onesie
10. Nick's tie onesie
11. Flyers for Lilly's Frillies
12. Business Cards for Lilly's Frillies
13. Lilly's Elk Bow
14. Lilly's Elk onesie
15. Cut squares for Lilly's and Alexandra's quilts
16. Sew quilts

What an eventful night

Just as we were all crawling into bed to go to sleep Clayton handed me Lilly to feed and I realized she was poopy and it was coming out her leg hole of the diaper. It was dark in the room so Clayton looks at his hand and it had poop all over it. Then he gets up to get her cleaned up and it is all over my boppy pillow. He goes into her room and I follow. It is all over his boxers, I mean all over. The I come back to our bed and it is all over his pillow and his side of the sheet. He said he felt warm liquid but thought it was her drooling cause she does do that a lot. Yuck. Poor Lilly. Poor us. We had to change all bedding when we were ready to climb in for the night. Of course I got some pics. Mostly it is Lilly propped up in the bedding while we change sheets.

Lilly's firsts

Not too happy at the cousin's birthday party but got all the family with her and it is her first time to ever wear blue jeans!
Sam day sans jeans but first time to wear crocs!

First time in her highchair!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nothing new to eat but she looks content.
First time with her new play gym!
Shirt says "I yell at midnight too" love it!

First Aggie game!

Humpin it!
Trying to Gig 'em!
She does things everyday for the first time but there are recent and I am trying to keep track of all I can!

Last night

Last night we drove the last 15 or so miles until my trusty old friend went over 100,000 miles. My Toyota Corolla has been a great car. Its a 2004, I got it September 2003 and it was a great graduation gift from my parents. We have hardly had to have any work done to it. I hope she can make it another 100,000. This was a big moment for us and my husband was so cute when he said since we started dating a month after I got the car that means we put most of those miles on it together. Either us driving around, me driving home from college to see him or our many trips home together after he came to college together, with all of that it surprises me we haven't put more miles on it!

New Bow

This is my newest made bow. I love it! The following pics are a little bad and don't do the bow justice. It doesn't help that I let it get smushed in my purse and fairled to fluff before pics.

The colors match my high schools colors and tomorrow night is Lilly's first time to go to a football game so it is to match her not-made-yet outfit to commemorate the occasion.


I am going to make a couple more out of these colors and ribbons for my soon-to-be etsy store.

What Lilly's Old room looks like now!

This is what we are doing with Lilly's old room
Of course the rest of her stuff is still going to leave and go to her new room, it just hasn't yet!
It was meant to be a dining room to begin with so we decided to go with that!
There is even a place for Lilly's highchair! yay!
This is the table and chairs we got for our wedding and I love them. We had never used it before with the leaf in it and it is even better than before. It so beautiful and once we paint the room and hang our pictures and wall art it will be the most gorgeous room in our small house.

Holy Cow

I am so sick. I don't know if I am getting really sick, if I ate too much or my seafood from last night is not settling well. No matter, I am sick. I could barely write this. I thought I was going to explode. I think I reached that point, first time since I was pregnant, that I cannot eat anything and everything that I want. For the first time since after baby, I have not lost weight but gained back like 2 pounds. So I guess I need to stop with all the donut sticks and fudge rounds. It was fun while it lasted.

Lilly's old room

Before we redid all the walls and stuff we built our baby's crib. It is beautiful and it would have went smoothly if we had not used the wrong screws first and had to redo it all!
Clayton removing wallpaper from what is going to be Lilly's room before we move in. It is actually the dinning room!
He's happy to do it.
Clayton refinishing the old dresser that was his dad's when he was little. Its going to be really special for Lilly to have growing up. It also is perfect for a changing table.





I am so proud of him because Texas summers are really hot and he worked so hard!


Besides missing a drawer he still has yet to make, and luring kitties into it, the dresser is perfect for my little Lilly and I love the green changing pad cover!

I know you shouldn't paint when you are pregnant but I was going crazy and all I did was cut in. I can't believe she was born 8 days later and I was put on bedrest that week.

MIL painting her picture frame on wall!

Daddy putting letters in picture frame box!



Doesn't it look nice!
I love love it!
This is Lilly's first room. It was adorable but since it was in a dining room it had no doors and was only against that one wall. It just wasn't the best it could possibly be and her new room is going to look just like it.