The best 3 years!!

Wow!! I can not believe my baby boy is 3 years old!!

Baby Conner in the Belly!! As Conner would say "you ate that baby" :)

One happy family!! This was the happiest day of my life.

First day home. Look at those cheeks!!

A couple of weeks after he was home we had a wonderful snow.

First day on the knees. Holly and Trooper were there to help.

Conner's first steps!! I was one proud mommy.

Celebrating his first Birthday at Chucky Cheese

His Big 1st Birthday Party

First camping experience. He had a blast staying dirty the entire time!

Celebrating his 2nd Birthday at GattiTown with Mom and Day

2nd Birthday Party

Our first family vacation

Conner and his best friend Dougie

Celebrating the big 3 at Gattitown with Mommy and Daddy, Meme, RiiRii, Aunt Jiji, Baby Grayson, Aunt Barrie, Aunt Esther, Breana, and Memaw Brady

My sweet Conner, I love you so much and so thankful God put you in our lives 3 years ago!!

a couple of my favorite gifts

Conner had a blast opening his gifts and I was able to capture all of this on camera and video (which I will post later). Since I was the one videoing and snapping away, there were no pictures of me :) I will share a some pics of the gifts I received. I must say that I am beyond thankful for each and every gift!!

A new toilet for our downstairs bathroom!! And yes it was wrapped very pretty up under the tree :)

I receive these fabulous boots!

Awesome perfume!!

If you do not know what this is, you must find out. It makes my hair feel like silk...

My first and probably last of True Religion jeans. These jeans my hubby found 60% off black friday at Macy's and they are wonderful!

a new coach purse :)

Money which is already spent on bills...

Jody had purchased me a new lense but after playing with it over the holidays I decided that I really did not need it so I took it back and purchased this wonderful Keurig!! It was well worth the exchange!

Matching diamond earrings and bracelets from my brady parents :)

I new post will be later today with pictures and an update from Conner's surgery.

For My Husband's Eyes: My Christmas List

Jody has been asking me for weeks what I want for christmas. I keep telling him I'm really not sure and the thing is I really don't need anything. Here is some items that I would that have been on wish list:

I love this ladies recipes!! If you want me to start cooking good, this would be a great stocking stuffer :)

This would really come in handy on some of my long runs in the near future.

I have tried on lots of boots and still can not get these beauties off my mind. I wear a size 7.

Gap Jeans...

I think this sweater would be super cute with those Steve Madden Roady boots :)

another gap sweater

Running shoes, running long sleeve shirt...

And there are 2 other items that are REALLY REALLY BIG but for some reason I can not upload the photos so I will just tell you :)

**~A tRiP tO dIsNeY wOrLd~**

***Tile in my bathroom***

There are other items on my wish list but maybe this will get you some ideas!! I love you :)

Worst Mom of the day award goes to ME!!!

P.S.. I am being a negative Nancy today so please forgive me...

I started out my morning by getting Conner ready for school. I normally pick out his clothes (something that matches then I iron it). This morning I just picked up a brown and yellow shirt and a navy pair of pants. He was soooo not matching and was very wrinkled.  I thought, he is just going to school and who's going to be paying attention to his clothes. I know this is making no sense at all. Taking a few steps back to yesterday, Conner had his Ear nose and throat appt yesterday and found out he is getting his tonsils out and tubes in his ears. back to this morning... When I got to work, I found out that I will have to come up with about $1700 bucks!! This is what I will pay after insurance. I have to come up with half when he has his surgery which is December 15th (this appt was made at lunch by me!) Thats alot of money to come up with right here at Christmas or any other time of the year for us since we pretty much live pay check to pay check. And it will be like this until Jody gets out of school.  I must say that I am very thankful for my family and my husbands family. Without them, we would probably be living on the streets. They have offered to help us out with the cost so will only have to come up with a couple hundred bucks!! God is soooo good!! I could not ask for better inlaws and the rest of his family!! plus my family pretty much Rocks!! I love my mom so much! She keeps me grounded along with our mighty God and my Hubby!!
About five min before quitting time, I found out that i will have to participate in our companies christmas party! I have no talent what so ever or any type of talent that I would want to do in a talent show. My talent consist of running, which is really not talent.   Should I get out the old Saxophone and give it a try?
Right after hearing this AWESOME news I go pick up my child. He was sooo happy to see me. I love the look on his face when I pick him up. We get home and I look on the refrigerator and it hits me!!! My heart sank to the bottom of my feet and the tears started coming and I could not stop. Today was Conner's Thanksgiving feast at his school and parents, grandparents, family were attending. I signed up last week and paid for 2 tickets. Me and JOdy :( I got too caught up in planning surgery and money that I completely let it slip my mind!! Conner was probably the only kid in his class that did not have anyone there. I called Shannon (who is over highland) and she said that it was okay. I was not the first one to forget about it.  This is supposed to make me feel better but don;t think anything can help. I asked her if I could bake cupcakes and eat with his class tomorrow and she said that would be fine. I know that will not make up for yesterday but it sure will make my baby feel special tomorrow.
I know he will not remember this next week but I will remember it and will never forget it. LESSON LEARNED!! I will never let money and other things stress me out enough to forget about something like this again!
I know to some people things like this are not a big deal, but I want to be involved in things like this with my child and I will in the future. Like I said earlier sorry for being a negative nancy and will try to be positive in the future.
I just finished putting the sprinkles on the cupcakes and got my hot bath. I am hoping that tomorrow will bring lots and smiles and laughs and cheer. I am thankful for this day even though it was a bad day to me, I am thankful for the air I breath and thankful for the people in my life. I love my Conner so much and will do a better job from now on. :)

Running Races...

no time for posting here lately!! To give an update I finished my 1/2 marathon in 2 hrs 13 min. THis is way better than I was expecting. I run the first 10 miles without stopping at all. At mile 11 my knee started giving me trouble so I decided to walk for a couple of minutes. This was probably a mistake, I'm not really sure what I was supposed to do but when I started back running my knee was aching some kinda bad. The last 2 miles there was a lot of walking that really hurt my time. I am hoping for my March 1/2 marathon for a 2 hour race. Thats my goal anyway. Today I had a 5k. This was the chillin and grillin 5k in Taylorsville. My time was awesome!!! 26:38 :) I did not place but was the 2nd overall female. They combined the males and females in each age division so of course the boys ruled! But that is fine because I am very happy with this PR I completed today. I wore a knee brace today thinking it would help. And it did while I was running but now I am in pain. Did I mention that I ran in freezing conditions. I think it was 34 degrees. Yep.... That is a little to cold for me. I believe I will find a race to run  in that is has some warmer weather.

Less than 2 weeks away!!!

I have not updated lately cause it seems everytime I find time to get on the computer at home, the dog needs to go pee outside (MCQUEEN-will update on him in a min) or Conner is telling me to get off the computer or play legos and I need to go potty (this I am not complaining about)!! Our little house hold grew a little on friday. We have a new puppy turning our lives upside down named "Lightning McQueen". We were planning on getting Conner a puppy for Christmas but someone happened to be selling some friday afternoon on the side of the road and Conner fell in love!! How could we say no???

I have less than 2 weeks until my 1/2 marathon and I am very excited and very nervous at the same time. My knee is still giving me problems but yesterday I was able to run 6 miles with an average of 11:00 pace so I feel pretty good right now. Conner loves to watch me run in the neighborhood or on the treadmill.  I think he wants to be a runner one day too!! I would absolutely love to have him as a running partner one day!!

Fun things to know about Conner as he is approaching 3:

-He loves his new puppy and his Dougie!!

-He would rather live with his grandparents than live at our house. (They spoil him)
-He is super excited about the fair that we can not mention that word b/c he thinks he would need to go

-He loves to sing!! Country music especially. He thinks he knows everysong on the radio, he just makes his   on words up

-Monster trucks are the coolest thing ever invented!!

-He's right all the time!

-Orange juice, honeybuns, and cherios is what he looks forward too in the mornings!!

-He is starting to sleep in his bed (when it is not piled up with clean clothes)

Now the not so fun stuff:

-still not potty trained. We are working really hard and MAYBE by the time he is 3 he will not like to sit in poo for a while

-very bossy

-impatient

-temper

-does not like school too much. I think he would rather work at Napa for the rest of his life and he would be happy!!

still can not go to public eat areas :(

 There are lots more but not enough time!! I love this boy to pieces and I thank God for him everyday!!

I hope everyone has a great week!!

You are my sunshine

recycled projects...

The past couple of weeks I have been thinking about christmas presents and money. We really want to build conner a playhouse but looking at the designs and cost to build these things is pretty much RIDICULOUS!!!! $1200 and higher!! I have researched and researched and if you know me well I love GOOGLE. I came across a website that gives directions on how to build a playhouse out of wooden pallets!

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Isn't it crazy that this playhouse was made of wooden pallets. It cost roughly $200 to build this playhouse. This was including paint. After finding this, I started searching other things that could be built with wooden pallets and I was shocked. Check the pictures out below. 

I have the sudden urge to do some building. Happy Wednesday to all!!

It's that time of year...

Well, its that time of year that I have to start coming up with ideas for Christmas and Conner's Birthday. He has been wanting a bike so Santa Claus will be bringing that to him and then I started thinking about Birthday presents. I am thinking it is time for him to have a play house. I came across these designs and really think it can be built by my hubby and his awesome dad!! (Conner's Pawpaw) I would have loved to have one of these as a kid so I'm gonna guess that he will love it too!!

I really want the play house to be tall enough to have a loft.

I think we will go with this design for the inside.