Sunday, March 28, 2010

Our weekend! Well... Our weekend was nice and peaceful. Lots of time to relax, and nap! I got a nap both Saturday and Sunday while Corbin was napping. We were able to get the house all cleaned up today and had CARE group tonight.

I guess I will go over the highlights of the weekend for my blog today. I think that is what I will start to do every Sunday. Let's see... I will tell you my top 5 highlights of the weekend every Sunday, starting today. Here it goes (in order of when it happened):

1) Friday night Softball- I already blogged about this so I won't spend too much time on it, but our league started this past Friday and we won one and lost one. The one we lost (I was already home with a sleeping Corbin) was still a close game, so I think that our team stands a chance this season. Good stuff!

2)Dinner with Rachel, Matt, Jessica, Clynt and Corbin on Saturday night. Rachel and Matt cooked up some great filet mignon and potatoes and we all hung out and watched Blind Side. It has been nice spending more time with Rachel and getting to see Jessica a little more. I have fun with old friends come back into my life. There are so many memories that pop up! For instance, Jessica and I roomed together for our soccer camp at Arkansas University (I think that is what the school is called... it was the home of the Razorbacks). She had this crazy alarm that you recorded your own voice on and we recorded "Wake Up! Your room is on FIRE"... We were losers, but the point that I am trying to make is that there are so many memories that you dont think about until you reunite with old friends! I love it! So, that was a great night :)

3) Clynt invited the couple across the street to church today, and THEY CAME! We were so excited and I was so so proud of Clynt for inviting them. They really seemed to enjoy themselves, and said that they will be back for Easter. It is such a blessing to have a hubby that wants to share his love for Christ with others! Have I bragged about him lately? :) He is wonderful! It was also very nice to spend a little bit of time with our neighbors, I had never really met them until today, so that was really nice all the way around.

4) Cleaning the house and Sunday naps- Okay so that is kind of two things, but if I wouldnt have gotten a Sunday nap, I probably wouldnt have cleaned the house! lol. I was able to nap about an hour and then clean the kitchen a little, dust, pick up toys and then Clynt was able to vacuum. I am excited that I will soon have much more time to spend cleaning up the house and doing it more on a regular basis so that it doesnt get overwhelming. Our house is never a complete disaster (well other than Corbin's toys) but I never have the time to do the nitty gritty stuff, so I shall soon have a little more time! :)

5) Our CARE group study. It was nice to meet after a couple of weeks off, and the study was an AWESOME one at that. It was about being a stay at home mom and the influence that we have on our kids. Which, as you all know made me feel wonderful since we are making a big sacrifice in losing my income. It is all totally worth it and this study really made it feel even more "right". Me and another mom in our group are both having our last day of work this week. Well, she is going to go down to one day a week, but still pretty much staying at home. We are both soo sooo excited and feel so blessed to be able to have this opportunity. Wonderful!

Okay, well that was my five favorite things about this weekend.... and tomorrow is my LAST Monday of work! wooooo hoooo!!
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Friday, March 26, 2010

Excellent Day!

Today has been a wonderful day! I had my exit interview for work today and I was really nervous. I didn't like the idea of having our whole executive committee grill me on my experience at KPB, but it was not at all like that. They really wanted to hear what I had to say and were completely supportive of me and told me how wonderful of a job I did at KPB. I was even asked to join a particular committee, which really made me realize that it was all okay. I did do my best work while there, and now it is time for a different chapter in my life. This chapter is one that I am incredibly excited to start. My little man is growing up so so fast, and these days are never going to come back, so I want to be here to savor as much of it as I can. I am so blessed to have this opportunity and I couldnt thank Clynt more for being supportive of this whole adventure.

Tonight was our first softball games. Corbin and I went for the first game, and my mom and I switched out some and watched Corbin while the other was in the game. We looked HORRIBLE the first inning, it was 7 to 0... I always stay positive so it didnt really bother me but I know there were a couple of people that were upset. We ended up coming back and going into overtime and we actually won. Do you believe it? I told another player on the team that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. And obviously we could. I got one run, bc I was walked and then another player got me. It was nice to get out a be active again. We might have stayed for the next game but it was cold tonight and I didnt want Corbin out too late in the freezing weather! So we came home and now I am waiting on the call to find out if we won or lost. Either way, I am so glad that Clynt is having fun and enjoying himself.... It is great!

Not too sure what we are doing this weekend, but it is supposed to be beautiful, so we will see... I hope to be taking some pictures of the Corbinator. We may be going to Navasota, we are such late planners! Still don't know .

Okay, I will post soon about the weekend and hopefully include some pictures of the little man!


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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Today is a good day

So, one more week until I am finished with my time at Keep Pearland Beautiful and today has brought several small bits of excitement. Nothing big, but enough to perk up my otherwise incredibly boring day! To start, a lady in my office gave me a Miche bag cover that I had been wanting. She had a party and I was going to order this particular cover with picture frame slots on it and the day she needed to order was last Monday, which I dont want to re-discuss, but I forgot to order it. Today, she came in my office and just gave one to me. That was such an incredible, sweet, unexpected suprise, it really made my morning. Then I found out about a CARE group for stay at home mommies, which is SUPER exciting! They let you bring your little kids and interact with other mommies. I have been searching for free or cheap things to do to keep both Corbin and I in interaction with others, and this seems to be an answered prayer! How great is that? It will be a little time for me to interact with other Christian mommies and I think with me staying at home that will be well worth it! YAY!

So those were my two exciting moments for the day. Well, and lets not forget that my wonderful mom brings me a diet coke from sonic every morning! That is always a good spot in the morning, first- I get to see my mom, and second- I NEED a diet coke to start my day... So I guess really I have had 3 spots of excitement today.

Well, I am on my lunch break, but I thought I would post a blog talking about my day so far. Wouldnt it be amazing if you not only had 4 days of posts in a row, but you also got 2 in one day. We shall see what tonight brings. I know taco soup is in the plans. Maybe I shall do a food blog tonight. Well see!

Blog out!
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Grown Up Time

So I just posted on my Facebook page that I was going to have a glass of red wine and watch a movie with the hubby. I got a response from someone that I love and respect in my life saying that it is so important to make time for each other once you have little ones and all. This is something that I SOOO much struggle with. I don't EVER let Corbin go anywhere. It is so so hard being a working mom and having to leave Corbin everyday, then when I am with him, I don't want to leave him. So I notice so so often that Clynt gets put to the back burner. The last thing that I need in my life is for my marriage to suffer. This is another reason why I am going to stay home and focus on Corbin. If I can focus all of my day to him, I hope to want to focus more time on Clynt. He is such a wonderful husband and provides so much to our family, and is so supportive of me staying home with Corbin, he really deserves more of me. So that is my goal of the next couple of months. Clynt deserves for me to stay up late with him at least one time a week to watch a movie (I hate movies and Clynt loves them!), and once a month, I need a babysitter, so that I can go to dinner and a movie with him. He deserves at least that from me.

So, that is my goal now... hold me to it!

On a side not, my Easter cards went out today! Woo Hoo.. Do you believe Easter is so soon? This will be the first Easter that Corbin really knows what going on so I am so excited! We will definitely need an Easter egg hunt for him.

Softball practice tonight was good, but I am tired. I had to leave work, go get Corbin, go home, cook, eat, go to practice, come home, get Corbin a bath (well, Clynt did than... see, wonderful!) and then get him to bed. Long day, but all worth it.

I love my life and am soon to love it even more! :)
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Monday, March 22, 2010

More about Life

My family has started a softball team this season. I say my family, and if you know my family, you know that that means my dad. My dad started a softball team and we are playing Friday nights. Clynt and I used to play before I got pregnant with Corbin and we would have a lot of fun. The problem now is that we have Corbin and the games are late, so Clynt and I will likely have to take turns playing in order to be able to take Corbin home for his bedtime. But it is still fun to get out and be active. Clynt really enjoys playing, and so do I (other than having to have Corbin out late). So the season starts on Friday and I will keep you updated on how many wins (or losses) we have!

Well, I am going to start cloth diapering Corbin. I would have from the get go, but not many child care facilities offer that service, so we have been using eco-friendly disposables, but they are just piling up in the landfills, so we have decided that since I will be stayng home with Corbin, we will start on the cloth diaper venture. They actually make one size diapers that can adjust from 7lbs to 30lbs, so we will be able to use them on future kids also. I have been on complete overload lately though in the massive amounts of information and types of cloth diapers. There are all these different kinds and all this different lingo to learn. Do any of you have any suggestions for me? I am lost. The ones that I really want to try are called Best Bottoms and are made my Nicki's Diapers. You shoudl go check them out. The problem that I am having there is that they are ALWAYS sold out, making it really hard to order. They are ensuring me that they will have more this week, so I will see. If they have them, then i plan on ordering them and giving it a shot. Yall all wish me luck!

Well, Clynt is not feeling too well still. He isnt running a fever anymore, he is just a little bit yucky, so keep him in your prayers! Also, my MIL was thrown off one of her horses this weekend and wound up breaking 3 ribs. I know she must be in a lot of pain, so please please keep her in your prayers. I havent gotten to talk to her since she found out, but I know it is going to be hard to be unable to ride for a little while. Poor thing.

Well, this was 3 days in a row for a blog, arent you proud? Im trying! Hopefully Im be back on tomorrow!

Much love! God Bless.

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Sunday, March 21, 2010

Okay, Im better!

Today is the first time since Thursday that I have felt well. I am pumped. Yesterday's blog was completely random and a close friend of mine called today asking me "what's going on?". Sorry to have left you all hanging like that and to have spun you all in big circles. Today, I am going to just give updates on this wonderful family of mine! :)

I am working on getting our Easter Cards out today. Sorry to all of my friends who dont get one, we are just sending them to family, bc, well, we are cheap! LOL... no, but seriously, when you have families as large as ours, we had to order 30 cards just to send to our close families, so for Easter, we decided to just do that! You can visit the Picture Me Chic FB page and see a copy of it though! :) Anyways, I finally have them all addressed and they should be going out tomorrow, I am so excited! I, of course, took the pictures... and Amanda, my creative sidekick created the card! I am going to learn, come April, how to use this new program of mine, Photoshop... Maybe we will make a trip to Austin for a training with Amanda. :)

So, Corbin is learning all kinds of new things... He says some of the most random things now, he really picks up some random words. He loves the words sock, ball, no-no, hi, and so many more. He has a little attitude and it is so so cute! He hates being around big groups of people and he just clams up and attaches to his daddy... He thinks that EVERYTHING is a car, and he gets on stuff, straddles it and says "na-na, na-na"... Which is his vroom, vroom... It is so cute! I just love that little guy to pieces and CANNOT wait to be able to spend more time with him.

Clynt is now on the couch sick. Poor thing.... He cracks me up when he is sick... He all of a sudden cannot function for himself. It is cute. (okay, well, sometimes... not so cute, but when it starts....cute.) Please say a prayer that he gets feeling a little better!

Okay, well that was a short post for today, but I had to somewhat redeem myself from my post last night :)
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Life these days...

So, things have change sooo much since my last blog post almost 2 weeks ago. I have blogged and then decided not to post, until I could be in a more positive mood. So here it goes. I gave my resignation to Keep Pearland Beautiful last Monday. This has been a very long time coming. Ultimately, I need to be at home with Corbin. Corbin needs more of me and a more happy me. Yes, there were things that I did not like about my job, but that is everywhere. I am an emotional person and take things more personal than many people would. There is no reason to get into the personal issues that are involved at all, as that is not what matters. What matters is that this decision is the best one possible for me and my family.

I am just going to be so much happier and healthier being able to spend more time with the loves of my life. Clynt and Corbin are so so important to me and I dont like coming home stressed out after not having seen them all day. It is not fair to anyone in my family.

Okay, moving on... I havent the last couple of days. I am finally starting to feel better, but today was a perfect day weather wise to sit around and do nothing. So that was what we did. I cooked dinner for my sister and Matt and we watched a really lame movie and just sat around. It has been a nice weekend of relaxing, I just wish that I would have felt better.

hmmm.. I am having a lazy blog day. Sorry, more like lazy blog month.. just think, soon, I will have much more time for blogging. This blog is completely off though, because I have so much that I want to say, but I really can't discuss it. There have been 2 times this week (once today, and once yesterday) that I was completely thrown off guard, and I really dont have words to describe either. All I seem to have are tears. One of the situations no one really knew about, and I dont really feel like talking about, and the other situation being today, in which I was expecting something completely different than what came, and I was a bit disappointed and hurt. Sometimes a simple apology would solve so many problems. I dont know why it is so hard from so many people to just give a simple apology. If more people would just say their sorry and not put blame or "but"s with it, there would be so many less un-happy people around. So why dont you go and apologize to someone? Even if it is not completely your fault, take the credit and apologize for it! You will feel better I promise!

Okay this whole blog was so random! I am super tired, upset, sad about a certain situation that I cannot talk about, and just in shock. Good news though- The Lord is with me and will always be with all of us. Enough said.


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Monday, March 8, 2010



So I have been really slacking on the blog front recently. I have done so much since the last post that either you will have an incredibly long post today, or you wont hear about it all. Or maybe I will blog about some today and some over the course of the week, we will see how it goes.

Well let me go back to last weekend. I did a photo session for a friend's 6 week old. That was quite a session. He wasnt very excited to be taking pictures so he cried most of the time or he would just wiggle out of the oh-so-cute positions he was put in... He was a little cutie though and we still managed to get many very cute pictures! It was a lot of fun. Here are some of my favorites from that session:





I had a lot of fun working on these and learned so much about working with little ones! It was an excellent experience for me! Thanks guys!

So last week I went and bought a book on photography, within the first few pages, I learned more than I could ever have ever expected. It was something that if I had known when I started, I would have been 100X less stressed out. But that is why that particular person makes so much on his book, I guess. So then Amanda, my business partner, came into town for the weekend. We were able to hash out so many little details that are so hard to do over the phone and internet. Her little guy is so cute and Corbin and him had so much fun hanging out. Clynt and Stephen, her husband, had a lot of fun hanging out also. All was well. Good stuff!!

So we took some pictures of a good friend of mine and her preggo belly and her family. Here are some of my favorite shots that I was able to get of Lindsey and Jeff this weekend:






I LOVE the ones with Joshua running off... It totally marks the entire session. Thank you guys for letting me takes yalls pictures!!! I can't wait for Ryleigh to get here for some more pictures! :)

Okay, so I have also taken pictures of Rachel and Matt and also of Michael. So I will be posting those pictures tomorrow. They turned out too cute also!!

So, now about the life. Amanda and I have a Picture Me Chic blog and facebook page. I wont be posting all my pictures on my personal blog after tomorrow. I will putting them on the Picture Me Chic blog. There are no posts on their yet, but you should go follow it so that you know when we post one. It will probably be tomorrow and it will have a lot more information about our wonderful weekend shoots. So, wait till you finish reading the rest of my blog and then go to blogspot.com/picturemechic and follow us. Then while you are on your computer with nothing else to do, go to Facebook.com/picturemechic and become a fan. This week will be announcing a prize for a lucky winner who is a fan and/or follower of our FB or blog. Good stuff!

Ok so that was not about the family. I am very stressed lately. I am very emotional and I dont really want to talk about it, but please keep me in your prayers. I am ready for some things to change. Clynt's work is super busy and he is not getting much time to devote to other things, so I know he is stressed also. Corbin, on the other hand is not stressed! He is a very happy 14 month old. He his getting around very quickly and he is such a happy little man. He is saying several random things, and everyday is something new. I love it! He is so so much fun to come home to. I love that little smile. Right now, he is feeding the dogs cheerios. He has figured out that they will actually come to him if he does... it is rather cute! I love that little guy. I am going to go play with him now, so this blog is about to be over.

Remember to go and become a fan and a follower. Pretty soon, you wont get all of my photos on either of my personal accounts. Amanda and I are moving along so so well, and it is so much fun to do this! Please also pray for our success as we begin this new adventure!!

Love you all! Blog out!

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