Friday, May 15, 2009

Play-Day!

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I took a few pictures of Anna playing. Her new exersaucer is now a daily routine and she loves it!!
Another new daily ritual is CEREAL and BANANAS! Anna LOVED the cereal but when I tried to introduce the bananas to her she was a little unsure. Now, we mix them in with the cereal and she loves it!
I'll try to get some pictures soon!
Until then....
...I hope you enjoy the exersaucer too!!

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Have a HappyDay!

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8 days to go...

Thursday, May 14, 2009

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9 more days!

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

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Children are such little blessings and I love this "little" with all my heart! Look how sweet she is... and I promise I didn't prop her leg up on the arm of the chair like that.. she came up with that position all on her own! I say everyday that I think she is going to be funny! She is already cracking me up... I wish y'all could be little flies on the walls of my house just to watch her little personality! This morning she decided to wake up at oh..... 4:50! At least she is good to just play in her crib! I got her at 6 and put her in the bed with me... EXHAUSTED, I tried to get at least a few more minutes of sleep but she wasn't having it! She wanted to play "kick mommy until she rolls over and looks at me, smile real big and then pull her hair until we go play in the living room"! So we get up... at 7 I go ahead and feed her and the little angel seems to be soundly falling to sleep as she finishes her bottle. Thinking this is GREAT I put her down for a short nap in the crib. Just the second I'm crawling under the down comforter in my own bed.... she is awake AND ready to play! I think... maybe if I bring her in here she'll sleep some... NOPE. After a little while of that I decide to put her in her crib with the mobile and let her play. That worked.. sort-of... ten minute catnap! So then I decide to get up, down a cherry coke and start the day....

So here I am AWAKE checking emails while sweet angel plays in her exersaucer. Ten (maybe ten) minutes go by and she starts to get upset. I think she's probably tired ot this lets try the playmat.. nope... she doesn't want that. Do you know what she wanted?? To go take a nap!!! Are you kidding me??

She's adorable though!!
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Just 10 more... Aren't these fun?!?!!?!

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Two Years Today!

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Two years ago atop Lookout Mountain at Camp Desoto in Mentone, Alabama Casey and I were living life and loving life. And then and there we started our new life together in the POURING rain!

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I'll never forget waiting in the little wooden cabin labeled "business office".

The phone rang. I answered:

It was phil (the camp director), "Don't worry Molly, I'm looking at the weather right now and this storm is going to clear up and be outta here before we know it!!"

I wasn't worried! I love storms! The weather did clear up...

...but only for just a few minutes...

As soon as "my" music started and my father and I started down the aisle the thunder came, the lightning struck, and the rain POURED! I'm convinced that there was not one soul that heard a word spoken besides me, Casey and our sweet Heavenly Father!
As the choir sang "Oh Happy Day", Casey and I turned to the crowd and started back down the aisle. The storm came to an end, the sun came out, and a rainbow appeared! It was indeed a HAPPY DAY!!

And here we are two years later still loving life more each day!!

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I LOVE YOU CASEY!!! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

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11 more days to go!

Monday, May 11, 2009

new toy!

Anna is almost big enough to really enjoy her new toy that Aunt Say-Say gave her! She already loves it!!
Hope you are enjoying the photos!
I went ahead and scheduled the pictures to automatically upload each morning because my internet is extremely blotchy these days!

Hope you enjoy the little video!




Have a fun afternoon!
I'm off to iron, iron, and iron!

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12 more days!

Sunday, May 10, 2009

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stay tuned for 13 days more...

Saturday, May 9, 2009

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Stay tuned for 14 days more...

Friday, May 8, 2009

our backyard photo shoot...

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Stay tuned for more...
I'll be posting one picture a day for the next 15 days!

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Paint Party!

Anna and I had a fun day of Arts & Crafts today.

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So...what do you get when you mix a baby hand with black and white paint?

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Well, with a little bit of work you can have yourself an adorable little "Moother's Day" Card!!

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Of course Casey's mother collects black and white cows so we put ours in a frame to go along with her collection!

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Aren't they cute?

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

footsie-eater!

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Anna has found her feet!!

First she catches them with her fingers...

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Then she pulls them to her face...

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...and as you know with a near 5-month-old

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everything goes IN THE MOUTH!!

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Here I am...

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showing you a few things I've been wanting to share!

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I know you may not think this is too exciting... but I'm LOVING it! This is our front door and can you believe that for nearly two years it has been completely empty! This look is so much better... it looks like people actually live here! The flowers were pelted by a major storm on Sunday so they aren't looking quite as pretty as they did on Saturday...but they will!
Anyway... Happy Mothers Day to me!

Anna is starting to roll over all the time now. She normally just rolls from her back to her stomach but this morning she went all the way back over to her back! I'm trying to get her on video but it's like if she sees the camera all she wants to do is look at the camera!

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I know some of you (sister) do not like when I put slide shows up because you can't view them at work but sometimes it is just the easiest thing to do! Sorry!!



Have a HappyDay today!!
Going to try and get a video of this little roly poly now!

Monday, May 4, 2009

A visit from the cousins

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Rob, Val and the kids went to the beach last week and on the way they stopped by. They were dropping Tricia off to spend a few days with us but I think they were really just excited to have the opportunity to see Anna! Aren't they sweet!!

We had an eventful end of the week and weekend. Thankfully Tricia was here to help watch Anna. Sam came on Friday to help Casey with a bunch of random outside chores. The yard looks great, Anna was LOVING her Mimi and Paw time, and I really enjoyed the time to do a few things outside of the house! (Sam and Tricia-Thankyou, Thankyou, Thankyou!)

I still have a few things that I'm wanting to post and some pictures to show you... Hopefully I'll get them up soon. Anna is rolling over all the time now. I'm going to try and get it on video so you can see! Maybe tomorrow.

Until then....

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have a HappyDay!

Friday, May 1, 2009

Busy Week!

I haven't forgotten y'all. I have lots to show you and tell you but this week has been pretty crazy. It may be the end of the weekend before I can get to writing you a good post to read. Until then I'll leave you with a little story about customer service:

As many of you may have read I'm trying to work on saving money by using coupons. So far I have been putting my new "savings knowledge" to good use at Kroger and Walgreens.
Last night I went to try my hand at Walgreens. If you are not familiar with their Rewards Program it can be VERY helpful in saving money and sometimes even making a little profit.

In the Walgreens Ad that comes out every week certain items are marked as a Register Rewards item. This means if you purchase the item you will recieve a certain amount of Register Reward Money (RR) back. They are basically like "Walgreen Dollars". You can use them on anything in the store on your next purchase.
Okay, so now that you may have a better understanding of how the system works (or it may have been clear as mud)... I'll tell you about my little trip to Walgreens last night.

I come to the counter with all my little items seperated out in two different transactions. The first transaction was around $13 and I had $14RR. I used one Walgreens Coupon and several RR to pay for these items. I tried to use my $5RR and it wouldn't accept it. I'm not sure why but I ended up paying a few dollars. Well, then it didn't print of my $4RR that I should have recieved. I asked the clerk about it and he said I would have to speak with the manager so I agreed to do that.


WELL.....

The manager comes up and says "Now, what is the problem?"


I reply "I didn't get my $4RR"


"Did you use a RR?"


"Yes, I used quite a few of them"


The manager threw his arms up in the air and gave a little "hmm" as if saying well, there you have it lady.


I said, "Well, I don't think that is like other Walgreens"


"Let me just see your reciept" the manager demanded.
After giving him my reciept he said "Well here is your problem, you used a bunch of manufacturer's coupons!"


"No sir, I didn't use any Manufacturer's Coupons. I only used one Walgreens coupon and several RR"


Putting the reciept up in my face and pointing to certain items he said in a very loud and slow voice, "it says right there, MANUFACTURERS COUPON!!"


I simply respond by saying "Well, I suggest you talk to the clerk because I didn't use any Manufacturers coupons!"

He went behind the counter and spoke with the clerk and learned that I did infact use only one Walgreen coupon and several RRs. He came back and said, "Mam, I'm not sure why it said MFC but we don't print RRs when you pay with RRs".


Not wanting to argue anymore about that I just sighed and said, "Okay, well how come it didn't accept my $5RR?"

Looking at my reciept he saw the total came to $3.36 and said, "we don't give change on coupons"

"Yes sir I realize that but I tried my $5RR earlier and it still didn't accept it..."

The manager interrupted me in yet another loud slow voice saying, "WE DON'T GIVE CHANGE ON COUPONS!!!"


Getting a little upset with how he is treating me I snap back, "Don't be rude to me!"

"I'm not being rude!!"

"Yes you are! You are being very rude and you've been rude to me this whole time!!"

"I'm not being rude I am just trying to explain it and it's like you don't get it!!" Saying this as he taps his pointer finger on the side of his forehead as if to say I don't have a brain or something.

"Yes sir I do get it. I don't think you get it. I tried to give my $5RR first and it wouldn't accept it. That is when I used the smaller ones and came out to have a total of $3.36."

He then looks over my reciept again, makes sure the RR was still good (it was) hands it all back to me and goes back behind the counter. He then finds the machine has no paper.

While going to the back to get more paper the clerk asks if he can check my next transaction out at another register. I thank him and apologize for all the chaos.

At this transaction I used my $5RR, a Manufacturer's Coupon AND recieved my $2RR after the purchase. I turned around to show the manager that you can infact use RRs and still get RRs.

"See, it just let me use my $5RR and it still gave me my $2RR so I should have recieved my $4RR earlier."

The manager threw his hands up in the air like what more can I say and yelled, "MAM, THAT IS NOT MY PROBLEM! I CAN'T HELP IT IF THE MACHINE DOESN'T WORK RIGHT!!"

I grab my bag and turn around and walk over to his counter and I say "Oh yes it's gonna be your problem. What's your name?" I look at his name tag "Don? Don What?" He very defensively tells me his last name and as I'm walking out the door he YELLS out the spelling!

"Oh, I've got it Mr ____ thankyou!" (I'll leave his last name out of it for now)

I was furious! He acted like I was dumb the whole time when all along I was right. Anyway, it makes for a good story. AND... it most certainly will be his problem when I give Headquarter's a call!! I've never been treated like that by anyone!

I'll let you know how that goes too.
Hope you all have a great day and hopefully I'll get some good photos up soon!

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

mmmmm... cereal!

Last night we gave Anna a little cereal for the first time. We just fed her with a spoon. I thought she did pretty good. She sure liked it. At first we tried just sitting her in her little seat and feeding her but eventually I just held her in my lap and that seemed to work much better. Casey took a couple of pictures and videos...

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She wanted to hold the spoon of course!

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I'm not sure how much she actually ate... =)

The video isn't wonderful. I apologize for it blurring in and out and the obnoxious sound of the dryer in the background. But... she was all about some cereal!
Oh, and you may think it is a little weird that I wasn't talking to her... you know, the "baby talk" explaining how 'yummy to your tummy this cereal is going to be, oh yes it is, yes it is...' (you know what I'm talking about). Well, she was totally and completely not into the talking. I'm pretty sure at one point she tried to tell me to just be quiet and keep the spoon coming!! That is why in this clip I'm just plain out feeding her =)

Anyway... I know some of you can't wait to watch so here it is:



Hope you enjoyed it. Here are a few more pictures too.


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Casey's turn to feed her..



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"Oh Mommy, just give me the spoon and let me do it myself!"


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I think here she is thinking.... "What? I'm new at this"


As mentioned in the video... She did LOVE it!!

Okay, hope this made for a HappyDay!!

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

this very moment...

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Anna is out like a light in her stroller. We went on a little stroll down the street and she fell sound asleep. She hasn't been napping too well at all so I decided to just let her "nap it out" in the stroller. Times are sweet right now! =)

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I told you I'd let you know how my "coupon-ing" goes. Well, I haven't made it to Walgreens yet but today I went to Kroger. I didn't buy anything that I didn't have a coupon for or wasn't marked down by "Kroger Plus Savings" (if you have a Krogers card)
My trip went pretty good I shouldn't have to go back to Kroger's for the rest of the week....

Total before Savings: 61.47

savings in coupons: 7.25
savings in KPS: 7.78
Total saved: 15.03

Amount Paid: $46.44



Well, I better go... the little is waking up!
Hope you all have a great day!

Monday, April 27, 2009

A Girl's Best Friend!


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Anna loves to be outside. Now that the weather is so nice we go out a few times a day and stroll around the driveway while Huntley runs around... Only he doesn't really run around. He guards the stroller and watches Anna. She just stares at him the whole time

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They will certainly be best buds!!

Thursday, April 23, 2009

hand-made!

With Anna's HANDS!!!
Casey's uncle had to have triple bypass surgery last week.
He is home now and doing much better so we sent him this card.
I had to post it incase you have a sweet baby hand that can
be made in to some little fish for someone!

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Hope you all have a very HappyDay today!

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

HappyDay!

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just one minute!

Here is a short little minute long video... nothing too exciting!

(REALLY- I don't know why I even put these on here
except I have a dear friend up north telling me
she and a co-worker watch them all day long... haha!)

I thought maybe Anna would roll over for you but she decided not to
cooperate this morning! Maybe I'll get it next time. She's
rolling over a lot these days!
Hope you enjoy anyway!




On a side note- I'd like to thank my friend Hillary for sending
me to this site to learn all about coupon shopping. I've been
learning how to be FRUGAL and it's been a lot of fun. There is
definitely an art to coupon-ing and I'm hoping I can figure it out!
I'll let you know how my journey goes!
So far it's just been pretty fun researching the deals!

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

results

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Just talked to Anna's doctor...

Everything is good. No murmur or anything!

Just a false alarm - better safe than sorry though.

Thank you all for your prayers!!

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I did get batteries today! Thanks to sister for reminding me!

More to post later...

HappyDay!



Monday, April 20, 2009

I'm home from the store....

Would you believe I FORGOT to get batteries? I did! I can't believe it really. Some where deep in the back of my head I knew I would I guess. But REALLY!
Okay... I plan on making a trip to Walgreens later and SURELY I'll remember the batteries!!

Sorry no pictures... Maybe tomorrow!

Sunday, April 19, 2009

A Look Through Our Window

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If you were standing here with Huntley you would see eight piles of folded laundry that hasn't been put away, an ironing board loaded with shirts in need of ironing, abandoned baby toys on the floor (more than a 4 month old could ever play with), birthday presents and easter baskes needing to be unpacked and put to use (good use!), a hungry 4 month old, an exhausted daddy, an even more exhausted mommy (that is debatable really), AND a camera with great photos and no battery life!

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Sorry... no way to upload my most recent photos until a trip to the store to get batteries. Maybe I can make a trip tomorrow and HOPEFULLY I won't forget to get the batteries... it's definitely if-y these days!



Have a SweetMonday!

Friday, April 17, 2009

all in black and white

Anna's echo cardiogram went well today. She did wonderfully and the nurses just loved her. Unfortunately we won't know any results until Tuesday. I'm confident everything is just fine! I of course took a picture or two. I couldn't use a flash so they are a bit grainy.


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You probably think I'm crazy for taking pictures at doctors appointments.. I may be BUT, I'm glad I have them. AND I'm SO happy to have this next photo. I love it!!

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She is so funny! She gives her "pokey lip" face to strange/new things that she is unsure about! We love it! She normally doesn't cry or anything she just gives a "pokey lip" and after a little while she's happy!

Well, she's pretty unhappy right now. I think she's sick and tired of me and just wanting her daddy!!

Y'all have a HappyWeekend!!

Thursday, April 16, 2009

same blog - different name

So I hope you are all still with me. I'm sorry for any inconvience. I've been wanting to change my blog URL for a while. Something about having my last name out there...

So now I'm Sweet Mondays... don't ask why. I don't really have any real insightful reasons for "Sweet Mondays" I just like Mondays.. I know- I'm weird!

Hope this works like it's suppose too!!