Wedding weekend: Part deux

Sooo when I last left you, which was entirely too long ago, I shared a few pics of us getting ready for the wedding day last weekend. Here are a few more to finish off the beautiful day :)



There is nothing like pairing a beautiful dress with an awesome pair of Superman undies. I'm tellin' ya, this girl knows all about her accessories.



I'm pretty sure you have never seen two cuter girls in your life. I DARE you tell tell me differently. Go ahead, try. I'll punch you in the face.



Here we are in our 'princess dresses', as Liv likes to call them.



Keeping my legs closed for any extended amount of time is increasing with difficulty lately. At least I shaved those puppies, huh?



And while you may think I'm sacrificing in the greatest way to pin this aisle runner, you would be mistaken. Thats just a front. It actually feels DANG good to let the old belly hang like that. So, thought I would do something productive while I was down there.
I still don't get why they made me get up when the wedding started. Whatever.



Here we are, all of us girlies, in all our hair-sprayed, make-up plastered, glory.



And here we are in the food line. Please make note that I am the FIRST one in line. I would like to tell you that they made me go first because I'm 'the pregnant one who needs to eat', but that would be a lie. I'm just selfish.



And finally, here I am with my beautiful Miss Magoo. Isn't she stunning? She looks like a model right out of a bridal magazine!

Thank you my precious friend for letting me be a part of your big day. You mean the world to me and I love you to pieces!

Wedding weekend: Part 1

It was a humdinger of a weekend.
I know, that was a stupid word to use, but I've always wanted to use it in a sentence and now I have, therefore I can officially now die happy.

It's taken me a while to blog about this weekend, well, because between being up every hour the night before the wedding with braxton hicks contractions, and racing with a 3 year old all weekend, I'm kinda pooped!

I think for now, I'll just scratch all your itches by sharing some fun pics, then I'll detail about it all at a later time....cool? Cool...


Here we are at the rehearsal dinner, the bride is the one sitting next to me in the white shirt.
All but one of the us went to high school together! It was fun to all be together again!


Here we are spending the night in the hotel room. As you can see, Liv is WAY more excited than I am. It could have something to do with the fact that I don't fling MY limbs all over her while I sleep or that I don't start yelling gibberish about not being able to catch the butterflies in the middle of the night and scare the pee out of her. I'm just sayin'...



Here we are 'getting our hair did'! She likes it when I get her hair tangled in the brush when I'm blow-drying it. She really does.


The finished product! This weekend I taught her 'pain is beauty'. She'll learn to appreciate it in time.
The second picture is of her and her bestest friend Miss Kaylee, who is the bride's daughter. The bride is also my dearest friend, so it was just an extra special time for all of us.



Mommy and Livie all purtied up! We clean up pretty nice, huh? :)

Wedding weekend: Part 2 coming soon...

Trying to let my guard down....blog style!

This morning while visiting My mom at the church office, Pastor Greg came down the hall and mentioned to me that he would appreciate it if I would just open up on my blog a little more. That I just seem so guarded and hesitant to share much of anything on here. So, I'll work on that a little more in the future, but just for you Greg.

Note to self: try to feel more comfortable writing about poo and contraction inducing love making. Check.

Well, as most of you know, Liv and I are in a wedding this weekend. Myself, as the maid of honor and Livie gets to be co-flower girl with the bride's (my dear Megan's) daughter.

I called my sister at the beginning of this week with a very important question. The conversation went something like this:

Me: Hi sister, I have a gross question for you....

Sister: Ok! (said with a hint of excitement, because she's just weird like that) :)

Me: I can't for the life of me reach my toes without feeling like this child will be squeezed up and out my throat, so do you think you could take my old nail polish off, and repaint my toes for the wedding?

Sister: Oh yeah, of course. I thought you were going to ask me about some weird discharge you were having or something.

Me: *dry heaving in the background* EWWW no!! Just my toes! Paint my toes!!

Sister: yeah, no problem, geez, thats not gross....

Hows that for opening up?

So there you have it. Momma's got a new set of SAWEET looking tootsies:

Try not to be too jealous of the totally awesome flip flop tan lines. I know you want some just like them, but we all can't have what we want, now can we??

Baby bash!

No, I don't mean bashing the baby, I mean bash as in party. Oh, nevermind....

This post is long overdue (as most of my posts seem to be), but I wanted to share with you the lady bug themed baby shower that a few precious friends of mine decided I needed to have for baby #2 Saturday afternoon. Never mind the 8 bagillion 18 gallon tubs of clothes I have left over from Livie's baby days, this child needs to know how great a brand-new un-spit up on onsie wears! I'm so blessed to be so spoiled by such wonderful friends :) (In case you were wondering about the lady bugs, that is the theme for babys nursery as well!)



This is where I spent most of my time during the shower. There is nothing like food made specifically for a pregnant woman. I'm pretty sure if you were to go back, the imprints from my feet would still be there in front of the table. PURE HEAVEN.



My awesome sister made me this for the nursery! In case you can't make out the little poem, it's says: Ladybug, Ladybug on the tree; Fly down here and sit with me; Rest on my hand, I'll count your spots; 2...4...6...8 Polk-a-dots!


Grammy got Livie and Sam these precious matching dresses!


And of course Liv felt the need to put hers on IMMEDIATELY!! and prance around the rest of the shower with multiple layers of clothes in the 100 degree-plus weather. Thank you Lord for air conditioning!! *whew*


And one of my dearest friends, Emili. Thank you, my Emili, for making an uncomfortable pregnant gal forget her aching uterus for a day. I love you!

Boats, bellies and bbq

Next time I get all excited about camping on an air mattress while 8 months pregnant, punch me in the head. Hard.

Oh, I kid, it wasn't all that bad, other than the fact that I swore if I rolled over too fast in the middle of night John would go flying off the other side. Oh, and the sore back which left me feeling like someone had sawed me right in half.

AWESOME.

Other than that, it really was a super fun weekend camping/reunioning with family.

Yeah, I totally know that reunioning is not a real word. Get over it.

We had the incredible opportunity to have 5 generations together for the weekend. FIVE!!
How many people can say that? It was a pretty special time.

The last day we were there, Johns grandparents surprised everyone with bringing a photographer in to take some family pictures. Above, is one of the most special pictures taken. The older woman in the picture, (no, not me, but thank you), is Grandma Cody. She is Livie's great-great-grandmother. She is also a great-great-grandmother to the two unborn babies in picture: one that I am carrying, and one that my sister-in-law is carrying. Grandma Cody will be 96 this year, and she is a spitfire!! I expect to see her around till well past 100.




Liv and John spent the weekend throwing rocks, floating on the river, and catching snakes. Yes, I said snakes. Miss Olivia shocked us all by desperately wanting to hold the snake that daddy caught. Weirdo.


Momma spent a lot of time supporting that which was my aching back, and contemplating just how big of a splash I could make if I decided to belly flop into the ice-cold river....

For the sake of my child, I decided to continue day dreaming about the idea, rather than following through. I'm a giver, what can I say.



Sister-in-law Amber and I did get some laughs in at the looks on peoples face as two big bellies waded their way into the lake. I will tell ya, there is NOTHING like letting your big ol' belly float in the water. Ahhh sweet relief. The shock of the cold cold water did give baby Samantha some good hiccups, that was pretty cute.



I gotta tell ya, something about camping brings out the 'special' side in our family.
And thats all I have to say about that.

TOTAL bummer

So Johnny left for work this morning and as usual Liv and I stood at the screen door hollering and waving goodbye, when I see him get back out of the car and slam the car door shut while shaking his head. There may have been a flying banana aimed at our garage door as well, but thats neither here nor there....

Turns out, some giant butthole broke into our car last night and ripped, and I mean RIPPED the CD player out of our car and majorly broke and tore into the ignition, taking it, and ruining what was left to the point that we are unable to drive the car now, let alone even start it. So here we have what was a perfectly running Honda Accord sitting in front of our house, now un-driveable.
Ooh, and want to know the best part of all?? Since getting our new car, the Honda has soley been used for John to commute to and from work, so being the genius' that we are, we took it off of full coverage. AWESOME.

It's such a violating feeling to know that someone took that much time to ruin something that we worked so hard for. Those giant snot rags sat in OUR car and broke it. I found Livie's little jacket in the backseat earlier as I went out to inspect things, and that just makes my skin crawl, to think they were in the car with my precious girls jacket. So I smelled it to make sure that it didn't smell like nasty, bad people.
I'm weird like that.
But because I KNOW you secretly want to know, it didn't smell. It still had Liv's sweet juice stained smell on it.
So there is a plus.

Oh what a way to start the day. And we are leaving for camping this weekend, so that was a lovely way to start the weekend off as well.

I suppose if I start getting to bummed out about it, I can just sit and look at this:



because thats what I've been doing for the last two days, while peeing my pants from laughing so freaking hard at the fabulousness of the glasses on my daughters hilarious face.

Can you dig it man?

Livin' in the 70's, we would have been the coolest cats on the block.

We would have been stickin' in to the man, and runnin' from the fuzz.

Pretty sure EVERYONE would have wanted to be friends with us in the 70's.

I'm just sayin'....

Please, don't scream.

Some of you may be a bit put off by this picture. In fact. some of you maybe even be so horrified that you are plagued with nightmares for weeks to come after viewing it.

I apologize ahead of time.

You have been warned.


It's true. I'm still INCREDIBLY pregnant. 33 weeks my friends, and I'm certainly not getting any smaller.

*note* please excuse the nice looking man picking his nose in the background. I only claim him on every other Thursday. This was taken on a Sunday.

What a man, What a man, What a mighty good man...

Yes he is!!

Hopefully I have successfully gotten that song stuck in your head now. No need to thank me, I'm just fabulously obnoxious like that naturally.

This right here is the sole reason I fell head over heels in love with this guy.

He's just special. There is no other way of putting it.




Good thing he decided to put on Liv's princess helmet. 'Safety first' is our family motto by golly.

Yes, I still have a child.

No, I haven't sent her off to boarding school or set her out by the garbage can for the nice garbage man to take home....yet.

Kim decided it was time for some updated photos of the infamous Olivia.

So, here ya go my little kimmy poo. These are just for you :)

Here she is practicing her princess wave at the parade a few weekends ago. Watch out Miss America: you ain't got nuthin' on Miss Olivia!


Here she is laying in her wagon on our walk last night. It's all about the comfort, ya know?

And last but not least, here she is in her flower girl dress. We are both in a wedding at the end of this month-you'll see more pics like this then!