can you guess what this is?

um, this is the "after" photo...but blogger won't let me move my pics around right now :)
hey, I found what makes the noise in the bottle when you shake it...

if you said "arterial spray" you have been watching too much CSI! Lol please step away from the crime scene, investigator!

litereally 2 seconds before this happened I had THIS thought: "i'm just gonna go ahead and put those stupid lock deals on these doors in here even though they are a pain in the butt to do it i'm just gonna do it and i'll do in in a few minutes after Cash falls asleep." instead, he throws said bottle of red (the red Jess gave us for our toes for her wedding.) polish to tile and voila! instant mess! how fun the next 25 minutes were, trying to sop up polish with cotton balls. i am fresh out of cotton balls and low on kleenex now! I had put Cash in his bed (he was whiny and tired anyway) after he did this so I could clean it up. He cried himself to sleep while I was scrubbing the floor. I felt a teensy bit bad because I actually meant to go in and hug him once more before he did fall asleep, and to tell him it was alright. It's nite nite time now for mommy too...now I lay me down to sleep....I pray dear Lord to see the morning, and my sweet Cashy's face in his crib when he wakes!

Lindsey's Baby Shower!

one of the delicious cakes!!

maybe i should have taken this pic before half the punch was gone.

it really tasted better than it look in the pic!!

I gave my friend Lindsey a baby shower on Aug 22nd. It was really great! She had lots of family and friends show up. I was really concerned about the food....that we may have too much. Or that people would not eat the chicken salad sandwiches I made. Turns out they really liked it! It was a recipe I googled, I had never even eaten chicken salad sandwich. I totally guessed on how it should "taste"! We didn't have an over-abundance of leftovers, either! I ended up eating the remaining chicken salad sandwich rolls. :) Lindsey and Luke got lots of goodies...diapers, wipes, clothes, lots of necessary things! I may have mentioned before that i LOVE baby showers! I thought after Lindsey's that I was "done" with parties/showers for a while....then I got to church Sun morn and I got invited to another one, for THIS SAT! yay! All my friends are having babies at the "same" time! :) I think after this one I will be "done"....then I get to start meeting the actual babies!

1st Family getaway

here's us watchin the cows get fed. for some reason i was unable to move this pic down in the blog :)

First time swimmin! Cash loved to splash and splash. This was my fave part of the weekend!

Daddy and Cash

Me and Cash in the "river" lol poor Blanco, they have had no rain!

Daddy gave Cash his first taste of lemon at the Gristmill in Gruene. Cash seemed to enjoy it!

Yep, we are def tourists :) We got t-shirts and everything!

Aug 14-16, 2009

had our first little family vacation. although i don't think of it as much of a vacation, since i still got to take care of little man the whole time! lol now i understand "that"....you know, when ppl leave their precious kiddos behind with granny while they go off to the beach or wherever :) Friday afternoon we went to Gruene and walked around...it was only like 109 that day...or it felt like it! Sat we went to Luckenbach and then Fredricksburg. Sat evening we stayed in our little cabin by the river(bed) and watched "view from the top"--they had movies in the cabins...not saying they were GOOD movies...but you take what you get and you don't get upset! haha Jon's friend from work, Phil, and his wife came down with us. They stayed in the cabin across from us and we went shopping everywhere with them. Cash and Phil had lots of fun playing! Phil loves kids, he would swing Cash around and throw him in the air. Cash loved it! We also got to visit Granny Pat a couple of times since our cabins were across the street from her and Opa Al. We went out and fed the cows (i mean, we watched Al feed the cows lol). It was fun to get away from "here" for a few days, but I was real ready to pull back into our drive! I think i've turned into a real homebody!

what i did at 3:15am today

If you know me, you know how I have loved Steven Curtis Chapman's music for so long. His music ministry has had such a huge impact on my life for many years. This video of Maria Sue's memorial service is about 30 min long. Yes I bawled watching it. What struck me most while watching it was: we will never know this side of Heaven how through this tragedy God has moved in people's hearts. We will not know how many lost lambs will return to the flock because of it. I just wanted to share this link and if you have 30 min (turn off the tv...you want reality tv? here ya go.) watch this intimate video. Let's always be careful to give praise to our God for everyday He gives us to live.

http://www.showhope.org/AboutUs/RememberingMaria/MemorialService.aspx

year one

my baby is a year old today! i'm so thankful for the past year, the ups and downs, the experiences, all of it! Praise be to God for allowing us each and every day with the awesome gift of our son, Cash!

just a couple of things

if you are now, or ever, going to build a home. or buy alllll brand new appliances. i would just like to share the following things that i wish i had known when i was doing....said building and buying.

number 1: stainless steel front refrigerator. looks cool but is not magnetic. get the one that just "looks" stainless. you can put all the cool magnets on it!

number 2: black stovetop? bad idea.

number 3: hardwood floors? pass.

please don't think for a SECOND that i am complaining about my home! i love it, i know i am truly blessed to live here and have such nice things. just wanted to share. and it's MY blog, i can do that. nah-nah.

since it's almost been a month...

Yep. Just under a month since I posted an entry! What's new in my world? Cash is walking! He's gettin' around pretty good! and he's mighty adorable I may add. He's getting more teeth too. Needs a haircut, but I still don't wanna :)

if you aren't reading this blog you should be: http://www.hoodmamamel.blogspot.com/

add her to your faves! Melissa, you make me laugh almost every post. Even if it's not a particularly "funny" post...you somehow manage to throw in a one-liner! My favorite part of being a reader of your blog is how I see God using you guys! You encourage me, SO many times, to do more. To be more for Christ! Our God is awesome and I'm so glad we are a part of the "family of God"! :)

My current fave praise song is by Phillips, Craig, and Dean, and I think it's called "redemption song" or "revolution song"...i'm thinking it's actually the first one. anyway...i LOVE it and I feel it is a very powerful song. A few sundays back at my church home (www.willowparkbaptist.org heehee) my friend Bethany sang it. It. Was. Awesome. One guy stood up in front of me, and I wanted to too but I was chicken. I did get an arm raised in worship--but INSIDE i was exploding with a desire to stand in AWE! I love worship and I'm so thankful we have it! God is so good. He has everything worked out. Why can't it be easy to feel that so strongly each and every day? I just read that team Alexander has a court date of Aug 12 to go get their new family member! At least...I THINK that's what the court date means...forgive me if I'm wrong :) Stacy, Tim, and Libby are back in Arlington! hooray! Lots of showers coming up in my future. Well, showers and a certain special little mister man's birthday numero one! I'm also getting to have a mini-reunion of sorts with the sunday school class I attended back in high school! We had a very special group of girls, and a special teacher. She lives in Arkansas (I think...I can't ever remember haha) where her husband is the pastor. She will be coming in soon and we are all planning a get together Thurs July 31. Aug 8th=Cash Birthday Party, Aug 9th=Jess's Shower (whoop!), Aug 22nd=Lindsey's baby shower at my house....oh and sometime in-between there Jon, Cash, and I are planning a mini trip to Blanco in the hill country! I think that's pretty much everything...oh and I'm still working too...busy busy!

I love my friends and family soooooo much!

Holy Holy Holy....is the Lord God Almighty

Who was and is and is to come

With all creation I sing

Praise to the King Of Kings

You are my everything

And I will adore You!