So much goodness going on this week...and today is our 7 year anniversary!

 

I'm pretty sure I fell in love with Ronnie on our first date but I never knew that all this time later, we'd be here, sharing this life together and a daughter! I know it's a cliché but I truly don't have the words to say just how much I love this man. I never in a million years could've imagined a better friend, love and baby daddy :)

Thank you, honey for putting up with my crazies, making me laugh all day, every day and for loving me no matter what.

Thank you most of all for Violet and for being the BEST father.

I love you always!

 

I'm pretty sure you've heard enough about it but tomorrow is THE DAY. V turns ONE.

Wish me luck tonight. Not sure how much sobbing I'll be doing :(

Also, PLEASE come back Friday for a super exciting announcement and GIVEAWAY!!

Seriously, you know I wouldn't screw with you - it's awesome.

Shout Outs and Giveaway Talk

I have no shame so I'm just gonna start off with my excuses for why I've been a bad blogger and commenter lately:

1)Ronnie and I just moved over the weekend and that sucked. I may not have done the moving but supervising and cleaning are big jobs! But thanks to my amazing rockstar of a fiance and his friends, we are all moved! We're so glad to be outta there and have vowed to never ever live in an apartment again! We now are living with my parents for a few months to save money for a bigger place and for the bebe...and I guarantee in a few months we will also vow to never ever live with parents again. Seriously, I can guarantee it.

2)I used to be lazy for no reason but now, I have a reason. This babe is driving me to many many naps...uncomfortable naps too. My lower back hurts constantly and my stomach growls 24/7 which makes for very little sleep. I can hardly believe I'm now 10 weeks into this gig! :)

3)Being as tired as I've been also means I don't even have the energy to pry open my laptop when I get home from work each day. I swear it's a workout and it's always much easier to plop down in front of the TV with my big glass of ice water and bowl of fruit that I'm craving constantly.

So y'all can understand me, right? I WILL be a good blogger again one day! But for now, it's time for some shout outs!

• Last week, my amazing, hilarious blogger friend, Elizabeth at The Life of David, Elizabeth and Peyton, did the nicest thing ever by mentioning me in one of her blog posts. Just by her being so thoughtful, I gained 4 new followers! I am so grateful to her for doing that and I want to return the favor. If y'all haven't checked her out, go over there NOW. She tells the funniest stories and has the cutest pup ever! (after mine of course :p)

• Over the weekend, I received my first preggo gift from another sweet blogger friend, Kara at Lovin' A Farm Boy! She sent me a really cute card along with a pregnancy book that she's enjoyed through her pregnancy called "The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy". I've already read a couple chapters and it's so funny and sarcastic and has some helpful advice. Thank you again, Kara!! Be sure to go over to her blog too! She's so sweet and is expecting her first baby, a little girl, later this month!
• Kellie is another fabulous blogger over at The Real Housewife of H20Ville and she is giving away an adorable cupcake apron and a cupcake cook book! She's pretty stinking funny so you'll like reading her blog too! Be sure to enter the giveaway before Aug. 4th!

Speaking of giveaways, thanks to my newest followers, I am now at 101 followers!! Which means... it is seriously time for a giveaway. This giveaway will have TWO winners and I'm so excited to start it, hopefully next week.

Thanks for sticking with me and I really wish I could give all of you a gift because y'all are the best blogger friends a girl could ask for :D

a long annoucement story

Thanks for all the comments on my last, overly serious post ;) All is MUCH better now and I'm focused more than ever on being happy and excited for this baby...Haters gonna hate (as so many of you reminded me ;) and there's nothing I can do about it.. All I know right now is life is GOOD!

As of yesterday, I am now 9 weeks pregnant! And I am feeling GREAT! I tell everyone this but I seriously knock on wood every time I say that out loud. I'm just worried that this is the calm before the storm and that the morning sickness is about to come out of nowhere! But I am grateful for feeling so good right now. I'm just tired all the time and hungry every few hours but a girl can deal with that! :) I only start feeling queasy when I've put off eating for too long. I'm craving cold stuff like fruit, smoothies, yogurt, and lots and lots of water! I guess that's not a bad thing because I've lost 2 lbs. It's probably all the soda I gave up! :)

So here is my long story about finding out I was pregnant.
Nothing crazy, nothing planned. It's just a funny story I'd like to always remember! :)

Three weeks ago on Thursday 7/7, Ronnie and I went together to pick up a cashier's check for the deposit on the place he was going to rent in New Braunfels, near his school. Before he dropped me off at work, I asked him to stop at Walgreen's because I wanted to buy a pregnancy test. For about 2 weeks before that day, I'd been feeling extra tired and the fact that I was waking up hungry when I've never been a breakfast person really had me questioning things. Oh yeah, and did I mention I was 2 weeks late? ha! So I bought 1 box of 2 tests and he dropped me off at work.

By 11 am I couldn't wait any longer. I took those 2 pregnancy tests into the bathroom at work and did my thing. Not even 10 seconds later, I saw 2 pink lines. The second line was lighter but it was definitely there. My hands were shaking and I couldn't believe it was real. So what's a girl to do? Call for back up! From the bathroom stall I called my co-worker who was in the office and asked her to meet me in the restroom. She said she knew right then why I was calling.

As soon as she showed up, I handed her the test (in the wrapper, with only the results window sticking out) and she said "I would say this means you're definitely pregnant but go buy a digital test to be sure because I never trusted these." So off I go to the HEB right next to our office and I bought 2 more tests. On the way there I called Ronnie and told him "Honey, I'm kinda freaking out right now. I just took the pregnancy test and I saw 2 lines".... Which was followed by nervous laughter. He said "You're pregnant?! It's awesome if you are, we'll just have to figure out some stuff. But don't stress. Just hurry up and take the other test and let me know!".

I rush back to work and take the digital test. By this time, my co-worker had found her way back to the bathroom to check on me. I opened the stall door, handed her another wrapped up pregnancy test and let HER read it. She looked at it and "Yeah. You're totally pregnant". I freak out for a few minutes, I cry, I laugh and then I realize I need to call Ronnie! I tell him "Well, it definitely says pregnant" and he laughed even harder this time and said "Momma, you're really pregnant! I'm so fucking happy! Are you happy?" to which I replied "I am but I'm so incredibly shocked right now. But you are happy?" and he says "Yes! I know it's unexpected but we can do this and it'll be perfect. I'm coming to get you for lunch in 5 minutes!"..

Can I just say now how lucky I am to have him?

When I met him outside in the parking lot, he was standing outside the car with the biggest smile I've ever seen on his face. He hugged me and I cried and he was beyond excited, I was beyond nervous. We talked about the future and all the while I was in a total haze. I was just in complete shock. That night, I did my remaining 2 pregnancy tests and of course, they said the same thing. (Was I expecting anything different?) I was still in shock and Ronnie was over the moon. He wanted to take this picture so we could remember that day. I was a bit funky and swollen from crying and Ronnie had cried a little too ;) And two weeks later I can laugh at how freaked out I was because I'm just so flipping happy now and know that I just needed time to let it sink in. It was definitely a good day no matter what :)

On the mushy side

"I'm in love, I'm in love and I don't care who knows it!" {where's that from? Go!}

Ok so ever since we came to the crappy decision of moving, Ronnie and I have been stressed beyond belief. We've had trouble sleeping, we've been getting headaches and we have been majorly on edge. We should be planning this whole move but instead it's like we're trying so hard not to even think about what it's like to not live together. {Geez, we sound like weirdos.}

Last night we went and picked up some burgers from one of our fave hole in the wall places. Nothing out of the ordinary but since we were near the Zoo, I had the idea that we should go eat at the nearby park instead of going home. So we set our "picnic" and got to enjoy a nice breeze and a pretty sunset. We could hear the sound of kids laughter from the softball game down the road and it was just so peaceful and relaxing. Afterward we crossed the street to the Japanese Tea Gardens to take a romantical stroll where we pretty much acted like we were just dating again. And it was perfection.

And here's where I get serious. Doing all of this made me realize that despite spending most of our time together, we actually have forgotten to focus on living in the moment together and making things special. Cheesy but true. This impromptu date was nothing fancy but we ended up having the best time that we've had in a while! And today, I'm actually kinda looking forward to the move. Crazy huh? I know it will be good for saving money and all but when we do finally get to see eachother that one time each week, we are going to cherish the hell out it! And that part is pretty exciting don't you think?

Who knew a cheap date could work such wonders! :)

Apparently there was a crew filming at the gardens but we saw no sign of them, just their very professional signage warning us we might end up on their film. If they were there, they probably caught some good PDA ;)

Thanks for letting me get all serious for a moment... It's just nice to have something change your perspective in a good way!

Have a great Friday, y'all!

xoxoxo

What I'm Loving on this wonderful Wednesday!

I guess WILW is always the best and easiest way to jump back into blogging, huh?! :) I've missed all of you ladies and I hope you're all doing well!

Things have been nuts around here and to be quite honest, this week has been pretty shitty. I found out some stuff at work yesterday that isn't helping any either BUT I am reminding myself to stay focused on the positive because when I stop and think about it, I have so many amazing people and "things" in my life to be ecstatic about. The stupid negativity needs to GO!

{Link up over at Jamie's blog!}

I am loving my honey. He is my rock and he makes me laugh constantly through the tough times!

I am loving that gas prices in my area have actually dropped around 20 cents. Pleeeease keep dropping!

I am loving all the craziness coming up in the next few weeks - my cousin's wedding, Ronnie's family reunion and then Father's Day. Yay for time with our familias!

{me and my sibs last week}

I am loving that at night I've been reading instead of watching TV {Water for Elephants. LOVE!} and listening only to music. Perfection I tell you!

I am loving that my family and friends are safe and sound despite the awful tornadoes in their areas.

I am loving these boys as usual. I am so grateful for the unconditional love of the sweetest boys around!

I am loving actually making calls lately instead of texting. You catch up on so much and it's nice to actually HEAR your friends and family!

I am loving that I've managed to save money and keep from shopping for myself for 2 weeks now! That is indeed a milestone around these parts.

(Buuuut because I can't help myself, I have to share some shoes I am loving from Steve Madden! ;)

{BETRAYY}

{KORTSHPL}

{SPARRK}

{TURNPYKE}

What are you loving this week??
I hope you have an amazing Wednesday, ladies!!

What I'm Loving Wednesday

Oh how I've missed you, WILW!

Link up with Jamie and share what you're loving this week!

I am loving that I'm totally caught up at work and am actually now a day ahead! Holla!

{via}

I am loving that Ronnie had his last final this morning and is DONE with the semester!! I'm so proud of him! :D

{via}

I am loving that we might finally get some rain today. We've had NO rain since before March!

{via}

I am loving We Heart It way too much lately {apparently}. It feeds my need for pretty pictures!

I am loving these Kate Spade beauties!

Brushstroke Bow Anabel

{I wish I had an extra $122 y'all cause it's on sale!}

Flicker Bon Shopper

Shady Side Small Karen

Wink Necklace

Double Bow Ring

{it matches my blog blackground so obvs I need it!}

I am loving this man like nobody's business! I found this old picture of us and it made me happy <3

So how's your week going so far?

It feels like the longest week ever over here. I NEED Friday!

V.I.P. is for me

Do you know what it feels like to have money out the wazoo and be able to afford VIP treatment everywhere you go? Yeah me neither.

But last night I got to hang out with the rich folk and pretend like I was one of them for a bit. And let me just say, they are some lucky ass people.

They get to spend money on ridiculously expensive things like box suites at basketball games and get all gussied up just to head down to the game. A girl like me could get used to those kinda things. And I don't like being jealous of material things but for real, I am totally butt crazy jealous of the richies. After the game, Ronnie and I talked about how if we could just come up with extra money {and some rich friends}, we could toootally get our own suite. We might have to now too because I am now forever spoiled and refuse to go to another game unless I'm in a suite. No seriously.

yes, please

I swear I've never seen him smile so big <3

just a quick blurry shot of our suite

the crowd was crazy as usual. Our city is nutzo over the Spurs!

one day I WILL learn how to take good self portraits :/

after the Spurs totally shocked us and freaking WON!!!

Such a good night, y'all. I currently have a sore throat from screaming like a fool, my palms sting from an INSANE amount of clapping and I twisted my ankle because jumping up and down, also like a fool, will do that to ya.

 

It was a crazy fun experience and I feel so lucky that we got to be there. I'm BEYOND grateful to the people who invited us too because I have never seen Ronnie more excited! I'm all warm n fuzzy just thinking about it :) I seriously wish we could do things like that more often.

So now, my newest goal in life is to get our own suite at the AT&T Center...

But who am I kidding. We'll see y'all at the nearest bar for the next game ;)

Sure as shit...

I have the flu.

I'm currently down to whispering because I've coughed enough since yesterday to fully lose my voice. Earlier one of my always mischievious dogs was trying to get to the cat's food so I actually had to yell out for him to get away because he couldn't hear me whisper-yelling and I swear I nearly passed out from pain. OK maybe not passed out, but it did feel like someone had just shoved knives down my throat.

Oh yeah, I also have body aches and chills, a slight fever, stuffy nose and congested chest too.

Oy I'm such a whiny baby when I'm sick but I'm so lucky to have an understanding fiancé who's helped me so much despite being extremely busy with school. He's picking up a couple of bean and cheese tacos for me while I type because that's the only thing I'm craving. ha!

I also have these brats keeping me company while I'm out of work. (I go back Monday!)
They look so sleepy here. I guess watching their momma watch the Today show is not the most exciting thing to happen to them.