Well hellloooo! I am finally. freaking. back! (in case you didn't see my previous post stating the exact same thing ;) What an insane 11 days, y'all! MAJOR thanks to my friends who guest posted for me while I was gone. I was SO happy knowing my blog was in good hands!

So my work event went so great and we had the best time. BUT this was my fifth year taking this trip and while it was a blast in my non-baby days, it's now just over the top to be away for so long. Ronnie held down the fort like a champ though and shout out to my mom and MIL for helping him out. I can only imagine how tough it all was.

I've told some of you about my job before but I'm too nervous to post the details here! :/ But if you follow any baby stores/blogs/companies on social media, you may have heard them talking about a show recently. That's where I was! That's the huge event we work on! I just don't talk about it here so that my blog won't pop up on any searches for my company. Ya know? Aw-kward.

The trip included a three days of set up, four days of event, then tear down. The days are long and there's not much time for sleep but the bosses make it up to us in tons and tons of food and drink. So if you follow me on IG (colormejesss) you've seen most of these already!

The food! and the drinks! Oh my. I'm sure I gained at least 5 lbs. If not more.
And funny how I mostly took pictures of the drinks. Shows you where my head was at! ;)

I did actually get some scenery/random pics in though, don't you worry!

It was cool and so Fall-ish there that I almost didn't want to come back. Almost ;)

Of course I had more important things to come home to! When Ronnie picked me up at the airport, I hopped in the backseat with V and her eyes went wide, as if she was in shock! ha! We made a short drive to a restaurant for dinner and the whole way there she couldn't take her eyes off me. Holding her again was the absolute BEST.

Since then, I've taken about a hundred pictures of her (making up for lost time, right?) and we're getting her back to her usual self. Because what I failed to mention here, on Twitter or on FB is that V had a visit to the ER while I was out of town. Talk about freaking out. It wasn't serious but still scared the hell out of me and I know it was awful for Ronnie and his mom to see her in pain...But she's good now and more on that in the next post.

Now, it's back to work, back to my family and back to the usual. I couldn't be more excited!

Day 2.

Thank you so much for all the sweet comments yesterday. I truly hope I didn't come off as being ungrateful for our baby girl or for our life now. That's not at all how I feel. I just wanted to keep it real (especially on my own blog for my own memories) and update everyone on where I've been! I just appreciate all the support and understanding, it's been a rough few weeks for us but I'm optimistic and I know things can only get better!

So today is Day 2 of being back to work. Yesterday was pretty rough on only 3 hours sleep but I didn't have any bouts of falling asleep at my desk so I'd call it a success! :) Violet did so great at her Maw Maw's house and I honestly felt so refreshed when I went to pick her up. Ronnie took over last night since he's off school today and could afford the lack of sleep so I got FOUR whole hours of sleep last night...it was glorious!

I'm not loving being back at work of course but I know it's gotta be done and I'm trying to make the most of it. Maybe one day I can be a SAHM but until then, I'll just be working for the weekend (more than I ever have before!!).

and you didn't think you could get away with not having to see my daughter today right? ;) I'm missing her and her gummy smile (even the gummy cry) like crazy!!