things i'm craving...

waffles...

chocolate covered donuts...

cookie cake (only the kind from the great american cookie company) with white icing all over it!...

oatmeal cream pies...

can you see a trend now? hopefully i don't weigh a trillion pounds by june 2nd!

zippers

while getting ready for church this am, i broke the zipper on one of my only dresses! i guess i'm a little bigger than i was the last time i wore it, but i am carrying a little one inside my belly. i was for sure i could make it work...oh well. hidden zippers just don't like me. this little incident took my mind back to another hidden zipper memory i had. entertain me by letting me tell you the story of my most embarrassing moment to date...

i walked into a cute little alteration store in habersham to pick up a bridesmaid's dress that i was wearing two days later. the sweet little hispanic man with limited english that had altered the dress for me asked me to try it on, with broken english and hand gestures, just to make sure it fit. so i tucked into the changing booth, slipped the dress on, walked out with a sign of acceptance on my face, twirled around in front of the mirror, and then tucked back into the booth to put my street clothes back on. if only it had been that easy. (you see, the dress was strapless, so naturally i tried it on without my upper undergarments on...since i didn't want sweet little hispanic man to see my brassiere and because i wanted to make sure the little black dress fit perfectly.)

while unzipping the dress it got stuck half way down. have i mentioned the dress did in fact fit perfectly? which means no room for error...no double cheeseburger meals until after the big day. well it did and when that zipper got stuck i tried to first pull the dress over my head...strike one. then i tried pulling it down past my waist...strike two. panic mode then set in. i tried moving the zipper up and then down...not a budge. so i walked out of the dressing room with my hands holding my dress to my chest and motioned to sweet little hispanic man that my zipper had just bit the dust. then i motioned that it wasn't coming off and i needed him to rip it off me. his face took on a shade of bright red and he shook his head, "no!" i then shook my head, "yes!" and said, "you have to. its broken and i can't get it off." so he tried to zip it himself...nothing! then i said, "come on, just rip it. its ok. i need you to rip it." he again shook his head, "no" and the shade of red on his face got a little deeper. remember now, he is being asked to rip off the only thing separating him from a sight of me in my birthday suit! bless his heart. i can still see the fear in his eyes. finally, i persuaded him to rip it off and after getting a seamster's tool i had never seen before off his desk, he pulled on the zip and off she came. after running back into the little booth to hide my nakedness from him, i put on my clothes and walked out with the dress in my hand. he took the dress from me, changed out the zipper, and sent me on my way. i will never forget how embarassing that moment was...and i'm sure he has tried to forget it ever since.

hope my story brightened your day. and remember, watch out for those hidden zippers! they can be little boogers sometimes.

*note to readers, my editor (a.k.a. hubby) will be out of the office for a few days, so forgive the grammatical errors or parts that don't make sense

days 30-38 0f 2011

saturday picnic pics

saturday we took advantage of the warm weather and had a picnic at the baseball field. here are a couple of pics of eli checking out daddy's workplace...little does eli know, by may he will know this place like he knows his home!

days 20-29 of 2011

here's what we've been up to...
check out the bonus video at the end

go away winter!

i have decided that my mood is highly effected by the weather. when it is cold outside and i am stuck inside with a 15 month old, it makes for long days. i have noticed it has gotten harder and harder to get motivated during the days when it is freezing outside. all i want to do is sit on the couch and dream of warmer weather. eli is bored out of his mind and so am i! well today the high got to 51 degrees so we headed outside to swing and explore. i can already tell my mood has changed and eli, well lets just say he was all smiles and pitched a fit when we had to come inside for a nap...though he fell asleep sitting up after 5 mins of drinking juice and watching olivia. isn't it crazy how the weather can do that to our mental state?

so, here's to warmer weather soon...i hope! or this mama is going to go insane! and by the way, eli has been asleep since 2:30 and its 5:15...i think i wore the little man out.

Asheville and Cosby

Chris surprised me back in November with tickets to see Bill Cosby in Asheville for our 5th anniversary. The way he told me was through a riddle and I just have to share it because it was so clever and it took me nearly 10 hours to figure it out.

Chris Jett, Holly and Rob
Notre Dame football and Avery Dodd,
Raider football 2001
This Bud's for you and this riddle is done.

I know most of you are saying, "What the junk?" because when I heard this riddle for the first time, I said, "That is a ridiculous riddle and I'm not going to play." And I know all the people in the riddle, you don't! But then he added another part that helped me out...

I'm glad you decided to play along.
The name of this game is six characters long.

I was still so confused but over time I started to understand. Let me explain...
Chris Jett= one of Chris's best friends that happened to date a girl named Justine at one time.
Holly and Rob= Chris's cousins who have a little girl named Clarie.
Notre Dame football= Rudy, duh!
Avery Dodd=a former ball player who has a brother named Bill.
Raider football 2001=our coach was Theo Caudwell.
This Bud's for you=Bud

Once I thought of Justine and Claire, I figured it out and knew we were going to see Bill Cosby in person. So Saturday afternoon we headed up to Asheville. We had a great time relaxing on Saturday night, sleeping in Sunday morning (this was my first night without a little Eli nearby), and then thoroughly enjoyed listening to Bill Cosby tell stories about grandchildren, marriage, and parenting.

I could tell you the things he talked about but you probably wouldn't think they were funny. It is the way he goes about telling his stories, with his gestures and faces, that make them funny. We truly did laugh so hard.

This pic is from our actual show.

This is a pic taken by a press guy while waiting to be seated.
Sorry for the closed eye...I am truly the least photogenic person I know!

It was the perfect weekend spent with my hubby. We had a blast and I got his undivided attention for over 24 hours...which is perfect timing since baseball officially begins next Monday. Thank you Chris for a great weekend. I love you more.