Journal Entry 1/4

So I kinda listened to myself yesterday and swore I would grab a selfie- 

I got one with Emma :) still sorta counts. Still not really happy with it. 

Well I had the first Saturday off since august which called for a special day right? We all slept in until noon... Which never happens. Then we went to the home improvement store 

We picked up a saw some wood and paint for our pantry remodel. I also grabbed some additional colors for a very special project coming soon!! 

Then we had lunch at el jimedor 

One our favorites

And finished the afternoon off working on the pantry remodel. Hopefully this won't be too time consuming. I totally had to remove popcorn ceilings so idk it may take awhile 

Journal Entry 1/3

Tonight is one of those night where I'm doing a lot of reflecting. These are the nights that I'll tend to flip flop my emotions so much. I try to stay positive and I try to be brave while I'm reflecting on my word, my life, my choices, my health, and my happiness and where I'm at with these things. I'll tell you I'm not happy with it... I know I want to get there and hopefully I will. 

So in reflecting on my word brave- I feel empowering doing it. It is very inspiring to look at the word and see confident, strong, and heroic. When I read quotes like - refuse to be average; let your heart soar as it will by aw tozer, talking about how I want to be fearless, and I want to be the leading lady in my own story.. Is all amazing, but then I look at things like my health. Before I started writing what was I doing? I was drinking a soda and snacking on some twizzlers. Wtf right?? How are the decisions I just made leading me in the right direction? They're not!! So why do I do it? I don't know. Was I stressed? Was I unhappy?? Was I just bored??? These questions I need to get to the bottom of so I can stop it from happening. It seems to be a habit more than a choice sometimes. Like I literally just do it! Well after I finished reflecting and did some cleaning which is seriously one of the best stress relievers for me... I looked to grab a snack but this time I  thought about it and stopped. I had read tonight about others saying how they can't keep snacking, the others doing 5ks and Zumba, and then looking at the photos of ones who just completely let themselves go. It's really starting to open my eyes. Hopefully as I continue this journey I'll continue to be successful, fearless, and confident. 

(I also still don't have my selfie taken again more on the stressfulness of recent life choices which has lead me to be super unhappy with how my face is breaking out. I'm 27 I shouldnt still have that issue but never the less I do. Heh. Tomorrow I will get up and face the day stronger!)

I will get that selfie!!! That's my goal for tomorrow. Like I said I'm living with bold intentions and strong commitments. 

Birthday week

So today is my birthday and I hit the big 27! Spent it with the two coolest people around- you and daddy. Also worked on project life.

August 2013

Months without an update... I know I'm such a slacker, but I actually was attempting to use a different type of blog media.. I wasn't keeping up with it either, so I'm back to blogger. Besides this blog contains all the old stuff. 

Now what's been up??

-we are moved in and making our new house our home. I think we made the best decision ever! 

- you are regularly seeing a speech pathologist. She's a new one and she is helping so much! You've come so far in such a short time. You've hit so many new milestones since you've started working with her.

- life is just passing on in a blur!! Everyday seems to just be flying by. We are enjoying every minute of it. Mostly we are completely surrounded by work, family, friends, us time, home projects, learning and developing your communications, and relaxing every chance we get.

- coming up things are about to get crazy as we roll into the month of September. We hit the peak of business at my job which adds on meetings, more hours, and more stressful days. We are hitting everyone's birthday.. Including yours!!! You'll be hitting the big number 3 :) after you turn three we will begin to go to new special preschool classes, starting a dance class, and riding horses. It's all part of the program you are involved in to help your speech skills grow. It's also time to start planning a birthday too. Going fun and simple this year. Ill share some of the details later.

Well I'm ready for it!! Feel like ill be embracing my one little word again- change. It's seriously been the most fitting word for this year. 

Guess I will have to give in and buy this-

I'm just bending my own arm backwards ;) I even sent your dad an email saying how much a want. I don't drop tiny hints.. They are more in your face :)

Ill do my best to keep up here and so far it's looking promising since I'm liking this new app.

Lastly her is the most recent selfie- 

And the currents-

Coming soon...  

Much love kiddo 

Currently February 2013

Drinking- the usual... Mt dew. Though I haven't drank so much since I was pregnant

Eating- snacking I should say, but those octopus sour gummy things I'm hooked

Listening- I'm loving the song Radioactive by Imagine Dragons

Watching- the Vampire Diaries

Wearing- my work clothes still. It's a keep calm fight cancer promotional work tee, a pair of silver jeans, and my boobies make me :) smile bracelets

Reading- the hunger games

Feeling- anxious!! We are closing on our first home in only a couple of weeks

Weather- cold but getting warmer.

Wanting- to start decorating out new home! The whole thing from paint to picking out frames

Needing- to continue to pack but I keep browsing Pinterest and watching vampire diaries to do it

Loving- Pinterest!!!! Like everyone

journal entry 2/2

I'm sitting here with you processing photos and getting our January Project life caught up as we take on February!

I have to say this was one tremendous month-

a month of amazing news

and tons of change all positive which of course was my hope.

this was the big one-

as we come into February we have already have it, we are just waiting on some of the final details.. speaking of I really need to do the rest of my CHECKLIST I have that our Mortgage broker keeps sending me... I'll do it RIGHT NOW!

Okay finished. I will have a happy mortgage broker now ;)

Next big thing is YOU ARE TALKING. 

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day in the life 2013 intro

The plan is to do a day in the life 2013 

Wednesday 30, 2013-

what is that???

a day in the life w/ Ali Edwards

I've done these a few times with her, and I make a smash book section with them. This year I'll combine that with putting a section in my Project Life album. 

I honestly don't think that the smash book will come right away. I'm so overly focused on my project life that I just want to keep everything in one spot, then after time I could go back and add it to the smash book.

my goals for this day in the life?

1. PHOTOS!! I want to snap and snap some more.  

Sadly I wont have my new Iphone 5 until Friday, but tomorrow is such an important day I just couldn't pass up a full day documentation. So I'll mostly try to use my camera phone and instagram to capture. I'll carry around the Canon too.

2. DOCUMENTATION!! I'll be using every method that I normally use to document. I'll use facebook, instagram, my journal, and my calender. 

3. INSPIRATION!! I can't wait, but I want to get on Pinterest and just search and come up with great prompts, stories, layouts, and implement all that into my seafoam project life kit to document it.

I can't wait to capture tomorrow, we already have a busy day planned out...

11:30 am- Meeting with Mortgage Broker to sign paperwork for the new house.

1pm- Meeting at the new house with the Home Inspector.

2pm- Speech Therapy appointment. 

I can't wait to walk around our new home again. We don't actually close until the 28th of February tho.

house hunting has finally paid off

so after 8 long and excruciating months o  house hunting we found the perfect home. it seemed to be one of the hardest choices I've made in my entire life. every choice up to now has been hard sure, but making sure I did everything right to get the perfect home for you to grow up in made it that much harder. I couldn't even count all the emails, late night zillow searches, dirty bathrooms, and indecision on this home search journey. The entire process was amazing, but now I'm moving on to part 2-

 purchasing our first home. this part isn't any less stressful, it is just stressful in a different way. we knew off the house before it went on the market and we loved it immediately.  we seen it and put in the offer the same night. our broker wrote it up in a day or so and had me write out a note to the seller. she was do touched by the note she countered offered only a little and said it was the note that touched her so much she wanted to sell her house to us. we accepted immediately and the house was ours. we go Wednesday to the inspection and to meet with the mortgage broker and we will close on February 28th. I'm spending my time searching pinterest and talking to insurance salesman.

I can't wait to make this new house our h home.

Mommy+Me Journal + January Update

So we are off to a great start so far. The only thing that I haven't been doing is keeping this blog more up to date like I had hoped I would. 

I have done more on the re-design end of things so that's a plus I suppose. I did what took me the longest 

editing each post to the correct label for better organization.

that's one thing off the list of things I hoped to do in January. I've set out to change things and organization was one of those things to work on. 

I picked up a new mommy+me Journal so I'm pretty excited with this one. It was a simple random find and a must do to my strange obsession with notebooks. Though this one in its simplicity has captured exactly what I needed from it. Memories.

first entry dates December 28th 2012 and so far I've kept it going until today... and I'm halfway through it already. It contains:

Journal Entries

To Do Lists

December Project Life Notes

Project Life 2012

Layout Designs 

3x4 card designs

Emma's Doodles

One Little Word 

Project Ideas

Yearly Goals

January Goals

In the Moment.. Moments 

Blog Organization

Blog Design

Baby Edition Project Life

Muse/Family Trip Planning

Emma's Developments

 Shape Practicing

Emma+Mommy Conversations

and all that in a 2 week breakdown. Something about having a little notebook and pen in my hand gets so much work completed.

Dear Emma

I’m so happy to be relaxing with you on the couch. You fell asleep watching your ALL time favorite movie Tangled.

You actually love this movie so much you act out bits and pieces of it and run around the house dancing. Tonight you fell asleep watching it. 

Enjoyed another amazing birthday. I turned 26 yesterday.. even though I worked and it was a LONG day. Daddy bought me a gift I've wanted to awhile a new-

KINDLE FIRE HD!!

I love it, and I'll do a little product review on it soon.

I thought I would share a little end of the year “bucket” list turning 26 kinda of list. I get so many things going I lose track so I have to stop and setup a list-

Finish the Blog (Design) Love course I’m taking over at A Beautiful Mess. It is a fantastic E-Course that’s teaching me about html/java/and blog design. The new blog will reflect it… once I complete it 

Finish at least ONE DIY project for the new house. I have a couple in mind… I just hope to complete at least one of them. 

Keep up all of the Project Life pages and December Daily pages before the next year begins. I was caught up but fell behind again.

Well that isn’t too bad… just add that into – running a retail business through the holidays, 2 thanksgivings, 2 christmas, 1 black friday, buying our first home, working 50+ hrs a week, daddy working full time, both of us watching you full time………

yep I can make it happen!! Keeping everything simple and exciting!!

much love Mom.

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Hello, ladies!

If you haven't already, definitely enter to win the gorgeous Cranberry & Oak Beaded Necklace from my little sister's shop The Mint Collection, definitely enter to win here!

You can also enter to win a copy of Disney's Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups here!

Also, come on over this Saturday for a wonderful new blog series called "The Mom Connection!" You don't want to miss out on parenting tips and advice from some of your favorite bloggers, so put this Saturday, November 17th on your calendar! We will be discussing the topic of teaching your littles to be thankful!

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Welcome to week 17 of the Mommy-Brain Mixer, ladies!

Last week we had 74 link-ups! Please help spread the word so the Mixer keeps on growing!

If you haven't noticed, one of my favorite things to do here at Two In Diapers is to share stories about motherhood and my littles. One of my favorite things about sharing these stories is your comments with stories of your own children!

Welcome to...

At the Mommy-Brain Mixer, we will be linking up our writings about anything and everything motherhood!

We want to see funny posts, serious posts, sweet & sappy stories, mommy-brain episodes, memories from when your older children were younger, thoughts & lessons learned, and anything related to motherhood or little people. You know that post you wrote yesterday about your teething baby? Or that hilarious post you wrote about your 2nd grader's school play? Those are perfect, so link 'em up! 

The Mommy-Brain Mixer is the perfect place to find some great new blogs to follow, make some wonderful new blog friends, and enjoy some entertaining new reads!

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Head on over there after your finished here and link up your recipes, DIY, arts & crafts, and sensory activities!  

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Making History- Columbia first SEC game...

Our home town is making history... 

We have become the only town in Missouri to make it into the SEC. 

The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the southeastern part of the United States.

 The Missouri Tigers took on 7th seated Georgia Bulldogs today. As a family we aren't big into sports anymore, but we are strong supporters of local teams. 

http://www.mutigers.com/

Columbia was on fire today and the town was united and buzzing. Sadly we dropped the ball in the fourth quarter and ended a sad score of 

No. 7 Georgia 41, Mizzou 20

Mizzou Drops SEC opener 

Hopefully we will recover our spirit and prepare for the rest of the season. We've jumped up to the top teams out there!! We will prove ourselves and hold our own. 

toddler chores.. why not right??

they love it so why not right??
what I let Emma do-
swiffer the floor- yeah you'll for sure have to follow, but she'll have so much fun with it.
wipe off the table- I sprayed she wiped.. got it clean!
load the dish washer- she did pretty good, looked like her uncle john did it ;)
push up a chair to mix stuff- you'll always have to mix a second time.
put groceries away- be prepared to have everything thrown in there.
pick up toys- until they throw them back on the floor.

I'm sure in a creative rut :(

ohh my

I've just been in such a creative rut, and I might be able to get back on here and share some inspirations... maybe ;)

I thought I would share with you whats been going on the last month and its the reason why I'm so caught up in other life stuff.

I'm down to less than a month before I take over my own store at.... 

SPENCERS!! that's right I'm the new manager 

and I've been just focusing on family life and my career and just relaxing. 

here are the things I'm loving right now-

daily life- Instagramed

oh how I love you! its honestly a facebook for photos.. since thats all I really use facebook for, I love it more.

blah that front facing camera phone looks terrible!! I guess I need to do the phone flip ;) 

Journal: Refusal to wear a diaper.

So here I'm sitting on the computer looking through all the amazing blogs, blog hops, stats, and all the logistics to make this blog keep going and continue to grow.. blah blah right? 

While I do this you sit and watch your Preschool Prep company videos. Literally the best learning tool for learning Alphas, Numbers, colors, and shapes... but at the same time THE MOST ANNOYING videos for mommy. 

M... M... M... M......... M........M............ M M M M

yeah that continues until it switches to

N... N.. etc you get the point.

I peek up from my laptop to look at you, like I always do, and you are just sneakily staring at me. You reach one had up and start to pull at your diaper... You KNOW what you are doing but you keep doing it. You then go after the other side. 

yep no more diaper.

I really feel like you are ready to take on this potty training stuff, but at the same time I'm unsure if you are completely ready! 

The only solution I've found to have you keep the diaper on so I don't get poop on the floor is to put you in overalls!! ha you haven't managed to learn how to remove those yet. 

I'm just going to continue to watch for the potty training signs, keep talking about it, and continue to see if you are ready. 

Dear Emma 7/26

Dear phone licker-

You've turned a 200+ dollar phone into a chew toy. Is it taste?? I wonder what it would taste like, it seems to have your attention. Usually you use my phone for its more logical uses such as making phone calls. Whoever you call it seems to go like this " ahah la ahh ehh i uv u - then it always freaking sounds like dada. I uv u dada!" I always seem to continue to give into the insane idea that my cell phone became a chew toy.... or else this happens

I have tried to solve this issue with your play flip phone...

but its only somewhat cool. Hopefully ill have my phone slobber free one day

Love wet phone owner

Everyday Stories- True love

So many times i get asked how i make it work. How have you and your husband made it 9 years?? Is it that storybook romance of true love ... in a way yes, but it never came as easy as some would think. Fairytale loves never do. Look back at everyone of those Fairytale couples, they encounter real life hardships in metaphoric ways. Belle struggles the beast as do we sometimes- that hidden resentment and anger one might feel and need to overcome. I see Ariel who would do anything to change to be with the one she loves. She evolved herself into the person she WANTED to be and found the love she was looking for with him. Like them my fairytale love didn't come without sweat and tears. They still occur even now 9 years later. You actually find yourself unable to know yourself without the other one. You no longer are one but two in one. You find that you would sacrifice everything, give your entire being to that other person.

Dear Emma- 7/25

Dear sippy cup thrower- 

How I feel right now, is angy. I had a really hard, very sturdy blue munchkin sippy cup hurled at my head. You have the tendency to be very demanding when you want a drink. Usually you force your cup into our hands. We are trying to get you to say more like juice or milk.. which you do sometimes. It sounds more like uice and choc milk. I do not know what was behind the very angry demand for more to drink that proceeded the head bashing. I literally had blood pouring out of my mouth. That is not an understatement either. Oh by now I'm completely over it, its just the one thing I'm working on with you. You have hit those terrible twos and the hitting and meanness has started. Hopefully this wont go on for very long, but I seriously doubt it. I'm figuring it will end 15 years from now :)

love one very understanding mom.

currently: Meet the Robinson's

so a little recap on current loves, likes, life, and all around details of the Robinson's... 

oh and yes I went there ;) let's Meet The Robinson's

oh wait that's not us... not terribly far off though. 

So lets start off with you of course.

Emma-

loves Preschool Prep Company videos-

these videos are an amazing way to learn your shapes, numbers, colors, and letters. I would really recommend these to any parent with a toddler.

and
Mott's medley fruit snacks-

they are so delicious I even steal them ;)

Mommy-
 is just loving this show- true blood is based on a favorite set of books called the Southern Vampire Diaries or Sookie Stackhouse novels. All in all just a crazy show that I've become strangely hooked on. Don't ask me why...

and i just love like always to keep up with my project life and my smash books, though it wouldn't seem like it since I'm days and oh wait weeks behind. I swear by the end of October I'll have documented your entire 2nd year pl style and have completed your entire 1st year Smash Book style. Then I'll stop and think nice and hard about how I want to document your 3rd year.

and Daddy!!

He's been hooked on this new game- Portal 2. its a really unique mind and puzzle game. He's awesome at it and I'm trying, and I've really gotten the hang of it.

and he's always checking out reddit. Its totally the guys version of pintrest.com. They post funny articles, pictures, and all around total dude stuff.

A new outlook on life... new motivation and new love for life.

So I've spent so many days and so many nights trying to simply understand myself and my life. Yeah it sure takes a lot out of me. Its been recent that I just came to the final decision... I'm tired of coming up with excuses, I'm tired of just being tired. So I'm doing it and I'm writing it here to keep myself accountable to you. When you are old enough to remember mommy she wont be this overweight self conscious girl she'll be the strong and confident woman that I pray for you to be. I've been surrounded by family members either struggling with weight loss or doing what needs to be done to fix it. There is two who are my most inspiring people. Your Uncle Ryan and your Aunt Shannon. Let me see if I can find a before and after photo of your uncle. Well it looks like I don't have one before, but this one is during the process in 2008...

and this is after in 2011...

your uncle lost over 100 pounds, shoot I want to say 150 even. One day he decided he was going to eat better, exercise, and just loose the weight. He made the decision and followed through with it. Now sadly I'll show myself when I was young 2004 when daddy and I first met...

then in 2010 after I gave birth to you....

I put on over 100 lbs. since christmas of 2010 I've been doing better but to be honest we are coming around 2 years later and I'm maybe only back down to 170. hey 30 lbs IS A BIG DEAL! its just that I know I can do better. This is me now.

you can see a different but not as much as I would like to see. I'm getting older and the pounds wont shed off just eating slightly better or walking a little more. I need to actually step it up!! 

My goal

for the first time actually check and document my weight 

read blogs and motivational information

use spark people 

start the couch2-5k.

I've tried the couch25k in thought only and I used sparkpeople.com for like a day.... yep thats it, but I was reading a blog by a woman who lost a ton of weight in a short time and thats exactly how she did it.

http://www.mamalaughlin.com/2010/08/just-girl-who-used-to-be-fat.html

So here it goes... DAY 1 ;)

always have to start somewhere. I'm going to go buy a scale, find my weight, and do my first run couch25k style, and start my spark people profile.