The Mosley's

Catching Up..

2010-09-17T10:29:00.000-05:00

Our SUPER BUSY summer started way back in May! And honestly, I haven't caught up yet! One of the main events that happened in May was when Taylor and Tyler graduated from Auburn University!! We are so proud of them for working so hard and getting their work done! Here are just a few pictures of our trip down to the Friendliest Village.

Our Entire Family at the Ham Wilson Livestock Arena the morning of Graduation. They have an Ag Breakfast where they teach you to make omelets and make several presentations to Outstanding Students. This was a really fun time for all of us to celebrate Taylor and Tyler's Graduation Day!

The Graduates!

The Entire Family again after graduation. Boy was it hot outside!! Fearing slept through almost the ENTIRE ceremony! He was such a trooper! We finished graduation day off at the Todd's house eating one of our favorites...Ribeye Sandwiches-Courtesy of Mr. Phillip who makes an AWESOME ribeye sandwich. It was so bittersweet for us because Katy Beth was leaving Auburn for the real world and this was our last "Weldon-Todd" Family dinner at Katy's place! (Fearing spent his first football season at Katy Beth's with Mrs. Beth and Mr. Phillip and then everyone would end up there for dinner after the ballgame. Those are some of our sweetest memories and we will treasure them forever!

We finished Graduation weekend off with an Auburn Baseball game on Sunday. It was a lot of fun despite that fact that it was 100 degrees outside!

We were So excited to get some pictures made with Our FAVORITE!! Aubie!

Fearing LOVED Aubie once again and we got a really cute picture of just the two of them!

We Love Aubie!

Happy Birthday!

2010-07-09T16:46:00.000-05:00

Today is one of my dearest friends 27th birthday!! I have some really awesome pictures of us with our boys from a few months ago....but they are not with me! So all I could find at work was this picture of us with Fearing when he was 5 wks old and made his first trip to one of our favorite places...Auburn!

I love you sweet friend. You are the best friend a girl could ask for!

Where I have been...

2010-07-08T14:59:00.001-05:00

I know I have been MIA for months (yes, that is plural) now. I really have no good excuses except that I have one VERY busy little boy! Also, my mom, aunt, cousin and I have started our own business. And boy is that A LOT of work!! Yes, work is good but that means it leaves me very little time to do anything other than work and take care of my boys. A quick update on the gang, we are still holding down the fort with my sweet parents, but for a different reason now. We are in the process of working out all of the exciting details for an addition on our house. This has come after much thought and prayer from Beau and myself. We were so torn when it came to selling our little cottage in "tiny town" we LOVE our house. We didn't however love the drive to downtown. But, we feel like we are willing to take the good with the bad and we are REALLY excited about this new adventure for our little family.

In other news, Fearing is doing REALLY well. He has not had any problems with his ears since tubes! Praise the Lord! He did however have a run-in (a 7 day run-in) with the "fever virus" Bless your soul if you have ever had a bout with that...it was horrible. That was over Memorial Day weekend which caused us to miss our sweet friends beach wedding! But luckily Fearing bounced back fairly quick from that!
Speaking of bouncing back... This is really why I have not blogged...I spend all day chasing this!! Fearing is WALKING!! He took his first 'real' steps a few days after his 10 month birthday (June 4). I caught a little bit of it on my iphone (love it, can't remember life before it!). We had a feeling he would be an early walker but I really don't think I was prepared for this! It is exciting, scary and sad all rolled up into one! (Sad because his little life is going by SO fast!). This was right around a month ago so as you can imagine he is much faster and stronger than in the video. I thought I would share for those who want to see. Hoping to be back with a whole bunch of pictures soon!

Fearing's First Easter

2010-04-19T11:41:00.000-05:00

I am really behind on posting about Fearing's first Easter Sunday. It really could not have been ANY better! We had such a beautiful day with gorgeous spring weather. It was a day full to the brim! I worked really hard on Fearing's Easter outfit. I did my first "French Hand Sewn" project and I could not be any happier with the outcome. It was overwhelming and frustrating at times but it turned out just how I hoped it would. Here are just a few pictures from our day.

When Aunt Syd comes home....

2010-03-25T08:43:00.000-05:00

She ALWAYS has a photo shoot with Fearing!

She is such a great aunt and when she comes home his little feet don't hit the ground! She scoops him up as soon as she gets here and he is mesmerized by her the entire weekend!! Fearing loves playing with her pretty hair, and he gives her the funniest smiles! EVER!! It makes my heart smile to know that my sisters(all of them!) love my baby as much as they do.

Lately, we have LOVED skyping with them in Auburn too! It is really funny to see through their eyes how much Fearing changes from week to week. When he first started crawling I put the computer on the ground and accross the room from Fearing and he went tearing toward the computer as fast as he could... his audience on the other side of the screen cheered for him..and it was so much fun!!
We are REALLY looking forward to Easter because everyone will be home together for the first time since Christmas!! Even Uncle Tyler! This next week we are going to Auburn to stay with Aunt Cindy and Aunt Tater and we can't wait!! It is going to loads of fun packed out with LOTS of fun events!

Aunt Cindy teaching me how to play the drums with the old pots and pans and wooden spoons!

***By the way we REALLY miss Aunt Tater too! We can't wait to see you this weekend!

Tubes...

2010-03-03T19:17:00.000-06:00

This is last Thursday morning around 5:30 AM. We were Already at St. Vincents getting ready for Fearing to get tubes in his little ears. WOW was that an early morning. He woke up around 2:30 screaming so I picked him up and held him until 3:45 when I had to get up anyway. I got up got ready and then got Beau up since we had to be at the hospital at 5am for his surgery. I won't lie I was scared that they would have to put my baby to sleep...but Dr. Wag. made a good point, it was probably no more harmful than all of the antibiotics he has already had to be on.

I was shocked Fearing was as happy as he seemed to be. We had to pick him up out of bed and take him to the hospital with NO food or drink...I'm not going to lie about that either. But he seemed to do great.

I don't know why I didn't think to take my camera! But lucky us Daddy has an AWESOME iphone that ~~Mommy really wants~~ takes pretty good pics! I could NOT resist my sweet baby in this tiny gown!

Of course we had to get a 'rear view' photo too.

The closer we got to 6:30 the more ancy someone ~~Beau~~ Fearing became.So we had to do lots of walking, singing and funny faces to keep his mind off the fact that he was probably hungry.

Wonder why Beau looks so tired?

This picture is quite grainy but he finally got extremely sleepy and stayed asleep when the nurse took him from me to go to the O.R.

They kept telling us it was a VERY quick procedure but I don't think either of us were expecting THAT quick!! Literally 20 minutes after they took him from us they called us into the meeting room for Dr. Waguespack to come and talk to us. As soon as we got in the little room I heard them waking Fearing up ( I could hear him crying from where we were) He explained to us how the surgery went and then just a few minutes later they let us go back into the recovery room (Beau and I were headed back there when they came to get us...we could hear him crying and we could not take it!) Once we got back there he was quite ticked off (which we were told to expect) mainly because he was HUNGRY!! All we could give him was juice until we got him home...which needless to say was an awful ride! BUT, once we got home and he got some food in his little belly he was perfect. He was SO happy all day and he actually took a 3 1/2 hour nap (the longest one he had in over 1 month!! thanks to those mean ole' ears!) and so far he seems to be doing great.

Tubes Tomorrow...

2010-02-24T17:03:00.000-06:00

I don't really have a lot of time to post right now but I thought I would share a quick picture of my sweet boy this morning as I was getting ready to leave the house to take him to the ENT.

Please remember us in your prayers tonight and tomorrow...Fearing is getting tubes tomorrow morning. We knew it was coming, we just didn't realize that when we went today they would do them tomorrow. We have to be at the hospital at 5AM! The worst part for me is that Fearing cannot eat or drink after 12 tonight. It makes me cringe to think I have to pick him up in the morning and not give him ANYTHING to eat or drink. I hope he is still really sleepy and doesn't really wake up so I don't have to just completely deprive my baby. I have been told that most likely at his age when he gets out of surgery he will be alert and mad because he will be hungry and not know why he hasn't eaten. So pray for us. I know this is the best thing for him and I am OK with it, I am just feeling a little scared/anxious about everything right now. I will update tomorrow (hopefully).

New Favorites

2010-02-23T09:50:00.000-06:00

I have so much to catch up on but today its not going to happen. See, F is on consecutive ear infections numero 6 and 7. Yep thats right. So to say we are a little miserable would be an understatement. BUT there is a light at the end of this tunnel. We have an appt. with the ENT on Wednesday morning. HALLEJUAH! Yesterday was really rough (poor baby pretty much screamed all day. Even in the Dr's office where usually he is a perfect little angel. I can't imagine how bad his little ears must hurt). I was thinking today HAD to be better and so far it has been better than yesterday but he is SO ill!! So with that said, I will NOT be recaping the last month of our life. Instead I thought I would share some of our new favorite things through pictures.
Sunday was such a beautiful day and our little family of three decided it would be a great day to get out of the house. I have been wanting some of these for quite some time. And now that I have them, I know why I wanted them.

For those of you who don't have them or know what they are, they're TOMS. They are super comfy and come in an erray of colors! But if you wear a size 5 like me, you might just have to get the classic black. Which I am OK with since they will go with all kinds of things! The best part about these super cuties are each time you purchase a pair of TOMS a pair of TOMS is given to a child in need! YEP. Cool huh! New thing too, you can choose the country you want to donate too.

We have a case of alligator skin in this house too so lately this is our favorite! It is very moisturizing and smells yummy too!!

My MOST favorite item that has been a life saver lately is this!

Fearing has been teething for a while now, he has two pearly whites on the bottom and this baby LOVES his paci! So because he has SO much extra saliva and that paci is not going ANY where, he had the worst chapped face. I found this at Publix and it worked wonders!! It is pretty water proof so drool wasn't a problem. His pretty little face is back to normal again!! Thank you Burt's Bees!

And last but not least, The Winter Olympics have been a staple in our house lately!! We have LOVED watching every single night and we are so proud of the U.S.A!! We have our favorites and have truly enjoyed watching this together throughout the past two weeks.

6

2010-02-05T08:18:00.000-06:00

Fearing was 6 months old yesterday! I had big plans of taking lots of pictures and just enjoying a busy day... But Fearing had other plans. Wednesday I took him for his 6 month check-up where he had to get 5 shots which caused him to run a low grade fever and make him feel really ill! So needless to say we ended up spending most of the day in the recliner. All he wanted was to be held and snuggled. I will admit that it was fine by me. SO today my happy boy seems to be back to normal. YEAH!!
In other news, Dr. Millie said that Fearing looks great. He weighed in at 16lbs 10 oz, and was 26 1/2 inches long. I thought for sure he weighed more than that (my arms swear it too!) But he is one busy little boy and really active. He loves food too! He pretty much likes all baby food we've tried except green peas. Can't say I blame him...they don't taste very good!
A quick recap on some of the things he is doing these days...

* loves playing in walker and can go backwards really fast!
* loves playing in jump-n-go (johnny jumper on the doorway!)
* would rather be in the floor rolling around than anything else!!
* rolls from back to stomach then back over (I swear it is like he doing what we call log rolls!)
* gets up on his hands and knees and rocks back a forth
* does the army man crawl
*has 2 teeth through the skin!
*grabs anything and everything he can get his hands on!
*loves to pet the puppies
*loves sitting in his highchair
*loves his daddy to hold him at night!

I could keep going but he just passed out in my free arm which now feels like it is going to fall off!

Totally Random Tuesday!

2010-01-26T14:06:00.001-06:00

I am up to my eyeballs in projects today. I am putting some last minute touches on several gifts for a sweet friend who has a precious little girl arriving very soon! I am also planning on finishing several projects I have previously ~~quit~~ taken a break from...for instance, a cute Johnny for my sweet Fearing. OR there is also the Casey that I had planned on finishing for our Disney Trip which ~~I never started on~~ I did not get much done on. OH well. So much for good intentions. SO with that being said I thought I would share what my morning's have been looking like lately.

Fearing's Nanny and Poppy (my parents) got him a high chair for Christmas. This morning as he was sitting in it I started thinking how did I feed him without it! Well, the truth is I know how I did it and it was a total pain! But I am thankful we have it and he really seems to like it. He loves sitting up like a big boy and seeing everything. He likes to sit in his highchair and play with some of his toys too. Well, I should say he likes to hit them on the tray part and then they end up in the floor and I have to pick them all up...but that is ok. I don't have a picture of this yet but he will close his eyes and start raising his arm up and down hitting his toys on the tray as hard as he can...oh boy am I in for it!! I truly believe he is ALL boy!

OK I'm ready!

Fearing's new little face he makes. Not sure where he got this, but Beau and I can't help but laugh!

I only wish I knew what he was thinking!

Our life in a nutshell right now could be summed up with "MINE, MINE, MINE"

Fearing is grabbing everything and anything he can get his hands on. On the way to Orlando a few weeks back my sister Sydney joked everytime she would hold something near him he would reach out and grab it and she would say "mine." Like the seagulls on Finding Nemo. It is really becoming a challenge- especially when I am feeding him and he grabs the burp cloth or anything else he can get his hands on and everything goes straight to his mouth!! WHICH now I know why...he has snuck a tooth in on me! Sunday afternoon I felt of his bottom gum and he has a tooth that has broken the skin. I can't see the little pearly white yet but it is just a matter of time!!

Do you soak?

2010-01-25T09:28:00.000-06:00

With Fearing approaching 6 months faster than I can write this blog post I have been pondering how to keep all of his clothes, bibs and burp cloths looking 'fresh'. I am not a big fan stained burp cloths, or bibs for that matter. BUT it is hard to keep everything looking new. My mom has taught me the best trick. Pre-Soak. Everything. Apparently that is what 'diaper pails' were for. I don't know if you have looked for a diaper pail lately but they are few and far between. So, when you can't find the real deal...you improvise. Denise bought me a five gallon paint bucket from Home Depot. Yep, it is bright orange. BUT It works wonders! I have become accustomed to pre-soaking all of F's bibs, burp cloths, and clothes that he gets food on. It is kind of a pain to go the extra step but in the long run it really pays off. All you need is a bucket of cold water, some detergent (we use Ivory snow...I'm not a fan of 'baby fresh' scent, and Ivory snow is just a good clean scent) and just put stained garments in bucket for a couple of hours, then pour the entire bucket into washer. Let me know what you think!

Coming up for air....

2010-01-21T09:27:00.001-06:00

Our world has been a whirlwind over the past two months. Between Thanksgiving, Iron Bowl, Fearing's 4th then 5th ear infection, graduation, Christmas, baby showers, RSV, and rounding it off with Disney World I feel like I am just now coming up for air! I am BEYOND behind...in everything it seems, but I have the best of intentions to 'catch' up sometime in the very near future.
Beside the list above...we have had some very exciting things happening in our family lately. Fearing is growing SO fast and he never ceases to amaze us how 'big' he is! At his four month appt.(and fourth ear infection!) Fearing was 16 lbs 8 oz and 26 1/2 inches long. He had conquered rice, oatmeal, english peas, carrots, applesauce, bananas, and apple,strawberry, banana combo (his favorite!). Fearing loves to jump! His aunt Megan and Andy gave him his 'jump and go' and he loves jumping in it. He loves it so much that when he is not in it and in our lap he still wants to JUMP! He is a really great sleeper, we had a rough couple of weeks when he was so sick there were many nights when our bed was the recliner but as soon as he started feeling better he went right back to his 'normal' sleeping. Which is nice for us too! Fearing is sitting up on his own for longer periods of time and I think it will just be a few more weeks until he can sit up as long as he wants by himself. Most of the time when I sit him in the floor he pulls himself forward over his feet out in front until he his in the crawling position. He gets up on his knees and rocks back and forth. Santa brought him a walker for Christmas and he quickly learned how to go backwards. Now he is pretty fast at getting accross the room backwards. You can tell he REALLY wants to come forward now but he is just not sure how to do it yet.
Last night Fearing officially started the 'army man' belly crawling. Beau and I were amazed! I am afraid that it is just a matter of time until he is off. He is also really into arching his back and throwing his head backwards. Not sure why he is doing it..but can make it difficult to hold him!!
Disney World was such a fun short getaway for our entire family (my side) we really enjoyed getting to see all our Auburn friends. We went to support Aubie as he competed in the UCA National Mascot Championship. He got 2nd place and we were SOOO proud of him!! He actually won the skit portion of the competition and only lost by 7/10ths of a point!! After the competition we had a dinner with all of the students, parents, and "Aubie family" at one of the houses we were staying in. There were close to 80 people there and it was such a fun night. We learned some very interesting things about our little boy too... he is a people person, attention loving little ham! I would not be exagerating if I said probably 50 of the 80 held him that night. He will go to anyone and gives the biggest smile and jabber. Beau and I are SOO in for it. He is a mess. We are convinced he might be another 'Tyler' as he seems to have two speeds...wide open or passed out!
I will go back soon with Thanksgiving, Christmas and some other random events over the past 2 months and hope to include pictures too!

Beau's Birthday

2009-11-19T09:09:00.001-06:00

Fearing with his "GiGi" Mosley

I am only two weeks behind here but I thought I would post some of these sweet pictures from Beau's birthday lunch at his parents a few weeks ago. We also did a 'Suprise" birthday cake and ice cream and singing to him the night before after the Auburn/Furman game. My sweet sister's baked him his favorite "Confetti" cake and it was alot of fun!! NOT To mention he had a HUGE suprise at the Auburn Game.... For those of you who were there you know how boring that game was by the end and a little bird told me that Beau was getting a suprise so I had to pull out my mean wife face and threaten to get really mad if Beau didn't stop suggesting that we leave in the third quarter. Hahaha Oh well, luckily I did not have to be too mean and Beau was glad we waited. Enjoy!

Four Generations of Mosley men. Fearing is the first "Mosley" great-grandson (the first boy to carry on the Mosley name)

Fearing with his Great Grandad Mosley

** Oops gotta go pick him up - he is yelling for me. I will post the rest of the pictures soon!

How Great is our God

2009-11-17T09:56:00.000-06:00

The splendor of a King,

clothed in majesty

Let all the earth rejoice,

all the earth rejoice

He wraps himself in light,

and darkness tries to hide

it trembles at his voice,

trembles at his voice

How great is our God,

sing with me

How great is our God,

and all will see

How great

How great is our God

Ever have one of those days that you see something as magnificant as a beautiful sunset and it makes you really think How Great our God really is!?! This morning has been somewhat of a struggle for me. I have been fighting a serious allergy/sinus attack for two days. My head literally feels disconnected from the rest of my body. Fearing is fighting off the ear infection plus he too has some serious sinus/drainage stuff going on- with a little cough and it would be really easy to have a melt down. BUT then I thought I would look through the camera and start posting pics on Shutterfly (I'm about a month behind!) and I saw this picture that was taken in Auburn one weekend. How gorgeous. It made me stop and realize that no matter what I think I am dealing with this morning- it is all pretty trivial. It reminded me that I have a God that loves me so much that he creates beautiful sunsets just like this...because he loves us.

Do you have any of these??

2009-11-12T09:08:00.000-06:00

Life Saver! Especially being on round three of antibiotics!

Medicine bottle (with measuring marks on the side) My sweet cousin Krista gave it to me for our shower and boy has it been useful!

A "Little Giraffe" blankie. Fearing's Great Aunt Randa gave this to him and it is the perfect size to go everywhere with us. He loves it!! Not to mention it feels like heaven!!

Duckie ( can you tell we are avid NCIS watchers?? Duckie is the medical examiner!) Fearing loves this little duck and we don't leave home without it!

That's all for today folks!

** New Post below too!

3

2009-11-12T08:29:00.001-06:00

The number three has several different meanings around here these days...

Fearing turned 3 months old last week. Blow me away! I cannot believe my baby boy is already 3 months old (well technincally he is now 3 months and 2 wks). He is such a sweet, happy baby. I thought I would tell a little about what he is doing now and about when he started his new tricks! At 10 wks he started rolling from his belly to his back- at first it scared him but then he was so proud anytime we put him on his belly he would immediately push up with his little legs and let his bottom slowly fall over. I will never forget the first time I went in his room to check on him after I heard him making a lot of noise around 3 am. He was on his back (read between the lines if you have any questions or comments feel free to email me and I will tell you my philosophy for my decision.) He had the biggest eyes like 'whoa' so I turned him back over and put his paci back in- then this became a game- every 15 minutes or so and everytime I went to his room after that he would just smile so big and just laugh! It was SO funny- just not so much at 4am. After several nights of this he decided it wasn't that funny because he was sleepy. Now he is a pro and it makes my day when I go into his room in the mornings and he is on his back and smiles SO big. It melts me. A lot of mornings Beau and I both go in there before Beau leaves for work and Fearing just smiles and giggles for his daddy- love it!!

Also, at 10 wks Fearing tasted rice cereal for the first time. He was switched to formula at around 9 wks and after several days of a runny nose, and congestion I felt like something was not right. I started noticing that he would wake up with a clear nose and about one hour after I fed him he would be SOO stuffy again, so apparently my mommy gut kicked in and I felt it was a possible allergy (not that I know anything about that!) I took him to his pediatrician and talked with her about it- and we decided it was most likely a milk allergy. I switched him to Soy formula and that did the trick!!
But I guess the Soy wasn't sticking to his bones real well and he was just acting like he was starving every 3 hours again (after 8 ounces!) SO Dr. Millie suggested to go ahead and try the rice cereal. Fearing loved it!! It was So funny. Beau gave him his first bite and he just kept looking at him and grinning. Although I felt like 1 tablespoon all at once was to much for his tummy so I started breaking it down to 1 teaspoon several times throughout the day. That seem to work alot better and he is doing SO great with it now. Dr. Millie is really 'old school' and believes in early feeding and I think we made a great decision with starting him early- he is so much more satisfied and such a big, happy boy! Last week on his actual 3 month b'day when I went to pick him up that morning he learned a new sound. He is doing this really high pitch squel. It is hilarious!!! Beau has really sensitive ears and I knew he would have a come apart the first time he heard him...but he suprised me and died laughing. It is really funny.

Some of Fearing's other new things he is doing involve his mouth!! Everything is going straight to the mouth! Actually Dr. Millie told me yesterday that she thinks he might be trying to teeth- boy do we have lots of slober! Fearing loves his Boppy chair and reaches and graps his toys that hang down. He loves his mat too- it has a little monster that hangs down and he has figured out how to grap it and put its foot in his mouth! Along with the usual, thumb, he loves soft, silky things and he always puts them up to his face and they usually go in the mouth too. And I can't forget his duck. He has this little Infantino duck and he loves it! It makes crinkle noises and it has several teething rings on it and we don't go anywhere with out his blankie and duck! DID I mention we think he is a lefty?? I am not sure if you can actually tell at this age but his left hand is his strongest not to mention that he grabs Everything with his left hand! Beau's grandad is a lefty and we would love it if Fearing is too!

Now back to the significance of the number 3.... Yesterday I took Fearing to the doctor where he was diagnosed with his 3rd double ear infection! Bless his little heart! I can only imagine where we are going with this- but we are trying this antibiotic for the last time and then we will go from there. So far about 2 wks after he finishes a 10 day round of antibiotic he comes down with another ear infection. He is still so happy and smiling but I can just tell he is not himself.

Oh and he his now Almost big enough for his little johnny jumper that his Aunt Megan and Andy gave him. He loves trying to stand up and he likes to move those legs!! He needs to get a little bigger before he will be ready to get in it for a long period of time. But I thought I would share those pictures!

OK Sorry for the really long post- I have a few pictures to share and I will update again soon!

10.31.09

2009-11-01T15:51:00.000-06:00

A few pictures of Fearing in his Giraffe outfit.

8-4-09

2009-08-24T08:11:00.001-05:00

I know that I am ONLY 3 wks (did I say 3 weeks?!?) Yes 3 weeks tomorrow! late posting this but 8-4-09 was a day that changed my life forever!

We finally welcomed our little boy Fearing Thomas Mosley into the world on August 4,2009 at 5:12pm. I was 40 weeks (YEP! for those who know me best I was convinced or hopeful that he would arrive sooner!!) But the Lord had a different plan. I was brought in to be induced at 6 am on that Tuesday morning. After nine hours it was decided that Fearing was NOT coming the way we had intended and that I would need a c-section. I was mentally prepared for it because I knew that I would finally get to see our boy in 45 minutes. The end was in-sight!! There are alot more details that I could go into but I thought I would instead just post some pictures!! Hopefully I will have a chance to go into great detail and document at a later time!

The biggest suprise was his size!! My doctor made a guess on Monday that he was probably about 7lbs 6 oz. He really did not think he was any bigger than that. SO you could imagine when Dr. Johnson pulled him out and said that is a big head...we might have an 8 pounder.... then the nurse weighed him on the scale and Dr. Johnson yelled out 8lbs 10 ounces!!! I was in shock and a tad bit out of it and I looked at Beau and said "what did he say?" Beau confirmed yep he said 8lbs 10oz 21 inches long! Needless to say Dr. Johnson was a little off and he said that he was not afraid to admit it when he goofed! We have ALL laughed about this and how well Fearing hid in my belly! Overall it was a really long day but I had a great doctor and fabulous nurse (more on that later!) and really great support from Beau and our family. I will NEVER forget hearing Fearing cry for the first time. I started crying hysterically and I don't think I stopped crying for at least an hour. It was pure bliss. Beau and I are SO blessed and we Thank the Lord everyday for choosing us to be Fearing's parents. OUR CUP RUNNETH OVER!!

This was obviously pretty early on in the day! Beau said he felt like it was Christmas EVE!! So sweet!

Brand New Boy!

My first time to see him! I was in such Awe!

Our First Family picture! That is one loved little boy!!

Mommy's first time to hold sweet Fearing!

One proud daddy!!

Our Family!

2009-07-09T09:05:00.000-05:00

Today I want to wish the best friend a girl could have a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! My dear friend Tiffany has been there for me through thick and thin. She has always been someone who I can count on to pull me through ANY situation. She knows the good, the bad and the ugly and loves me despite of it. Through the past 11 years we have grown closer and it is more and more evident that she truly one of my soul mates. I feel SO blessed to have her and I thank the Lord for our friendship. I love you Tiff!

2009-06-19T16:51:00.000-05:00

I know it has been an eternity since my last post, but we have been swamped lately. I won't bore you with the details because that would be lengthy... I will say that I have one growing boy in my belly. At my 32 wk appt. we had the 4-d ultrasound. Fearing wasn't too excited about that. So he had his arm accross his sweet face the entire time. We did see parts of his face just never the whole thing at once. And he weighed in at 4 lbs 14 oz. The Dr. said he would gain between 1/2 lb to 1 pound per week from then on out. You do the math. I am going back to the Dr. on Wednesday where we will try the ultrasound out again. Hopefully he will humor us. But if not it is looking as if we won't be waiting as long as we had expected for his arrival. In the meantime, I have been doing a little shopping. I found the cutest booties EVER for my precious boy! I can't find them on the web- but I did find another pair I thought I would tease you with.
When Beau and I first started dating he talked about his Nanny and her family all of the time. I had the wonderful pleasure of meeting Nanny, but unfortunately she passed away after we had been dating about 3 months. There were so many family members from Nags Head, NC that came into town for her funeral... The Fearings. They were the sweetest people and you could tell they were so special to Beau and the rest of the Eady family. So I loved (and still love) hearing stories about Nags Head and the "Cottage" (which belonged to Nanny & her siblings). One of the stories Beau always told was about being kin to "Black Beard" the famous pirate. (Turns out this wasn't exactly true...although I know B and I know he will butter Fearing up really well with this story!) SO needless to say, when we decided to have a baby and more than that when we found out it was a boy...we knew his name would be Fearing and we knew that he had to have "pirate stuff"! Unfortunately, I was not cleared by the Dr. last week to go on our vacation/family reunion this week. So Beau is in Nags Head for the "Fearing Family Reunion" I wish SO bad I was there but there will be a trip with our Fearing in tow come this fall. And don't think he won't be wearing these precious little booties on the voyage!

I can't wait for Beau to get home to show him!! I really can't wait to see Fearing in these booties with the day gown his Nanny (my mom) is making him with the "Ahoy Matey" pirate teddy bear smocked on it!!!

Favorites....

2009-06-02T09:42:00.000-05:00

With the summer months finally in front of us, I have found there are several things that I can't live without!! One being a given... WATER! I have never been so thirsty and water is the ONLY thing that quenches it!! Other than that... I have several items that I would consider to be a 'staple' in my daily routine- and a few that are tucked in my bag for the weekends out on the boat.
I have found over the years that I try to block most sun from my face- this comes from a very bad personal experience that unfortunately my bestie Tiff witnessed first hand and can vouch...was a BAD thing!! I burned my face very bad when I was a freshman in college. SO bad that when it peeled I had scars that I thought would never go away!! Since then I do not step into the sun with out this product covering my face!!

I mean it is the good stuff. We like to keep it in the cooler and it goes on like a fluffy cream! I have also become best friends with a hat- I don't discriminate...any hat will do just fine as long as it is blocking the rays from my face! ** This is the only thing I have ever used that does not burn your eyes when you get in the water and it runs...It is A-Mazing!

I have also really come to love this for my lips.

I actually use it on a daily basis... It has a yummy creamsicle type taste to it. It doesn't give that sunscreen chapstick taste either ( you know what I mean!)

And since I am on the "Ocean Potion" I thought I would share one of my all time favorite summer staples:

And I recently picked this up to wear daily and so far..so good. I really like the feel. Not greasy like some can be- it is very light and it smells good too!

AND I have had several people ask what I am lathering my buddha belly in daily to help prevent those pesky little strech marks...

This is it, Bath & Body works- spa works- "Lay it on Thick" it is a creamy moisturizing lotion that is extra thick for ultra dry or ultra stretching skin!! I LOVE IT!! Not to mention that it smells like Coconuts.... OMG take me to the beach daily!!

5-31-08

2009-05-29T10:21:00.001-05:00

While I am quite behind on my blogging these days... I wanted to say that it is hard for me to believe that a year has passed since I married my best friend. I would post pictures from our special day but I have none on my computer at work. So I thought I would share another one of my favorite pictures of us from 2 summers ago... Six years have passed since I met and fell in love with this man. I can't imagine my life without him. This morning I have been looking through pictures from our wedding day and it was everything I could have imagined, but more than that our first year of marriage has been more than I could have EVER dreamed it would be. I am so blessed. And now, we are so thrilled and excited that in about 2 months we will be meeting our little boy!! God is good! And my cup runneth over...

2009-05-08T07:55:00.000-05:00

This precious little cottage has been making my head spin lately... Actually since beach trip weekend! We had a wonderful time on our getaway. I took very few pictures, I had planned to upload those...but seems that my camera is going abroad for a week. To Spain. My younger brother and sister are leaving Sunday for a trip to Spain with Auburn University College of Agriculture. NICE. So they are borrowing my camera for the trip. Sorry you will have to wait for the boring pics from the beach. Other than that not too much is going on here. Except Fearing and my belly are getting quite big. I have a few pics of that too...but they are on the camera as well.
Back to the house. It is on the market. For 6 wks now. We have been 'negotiating' with the same couple since April 27th now. And it.is.making.me. (7 months pregnant) CRAZY. Oh well. Hopefully it will be behind us soon. I will keep you posted.

If you can't find me.....

2009-04-22T09:22:00.001-05:00

It is because I am going here, doing lots of this, with my favorite.

Although I won't be sporting this suit...nor do I look like this any longer, but in a few short ( 2 1/2) months I will be holding my precious little Fearing and it will ALL be worth it!

It will just be a short getaway- but a much needed and well worth it one! I think I can even sweet talk my B into swinging by the outlet mall on the way out of town to pick up some much needed necessities for our boy, as we are quickly realizing will be here before we know it!!

Yes, I do realize it is only Wednesday but once I learned the news that B had booked a condo, my mind quickly drifted away- it will be back...Come Monday.

You can bet your last dollar our weekend will be filled with lots of sand, hopefully sun, and FOOD! Early Saturday you can probably find us at Tacky Jack's sipping on coffee and a bloody mary for B. Well will probably go visit Lucy @ LuLu's too. Oh... how quickly it will pass!

Spring on the Plains

2009-04-20T12:36:00.000-05:00

This past weekend we were lucky enough to make our way down to the plains for the A-Day game. I am SO glad we made it!! We had a wonderful time... the weather was perfect, the food was yummy and we got to see some of our Favorite people!! There is nothing like a good tailgate and then a yummy dinner to follow the game! And since we have somewhat of a celebrity in our family these days... we got to do some extra fun stuff. (secret stuff!) Not really, but we felt important! Anyway. I thought I would share a few pictures from our weekend. I will also throw in a couple from Easter... which is pre-iron-supplement**so my color and my hair look like total garbage!! But I thought I would post them anyway.

** I recently had my sugar/glucose test done and my sugar was just fine but apparently my iron was quite low so my doctor put me on some prescription iron pills and I will say- I didn't realize how bad I felt until I started feeling normal again. I was freezing cold, exhausted and overall just feeling crummy... the meds seem to have done the trick. And I have been told my color looks more 'normal' again...besides the fact my poor skin hasn't seen the sun in months and I living for the beautiful weather that is headed our way come Friday!!!**

Oh yes, the Easter pics...

A little bit of this...a little bit of that...

2009-03-27T09:10:00.000-05:00

I feel as if I have become increasingly worst at my blogging!! But, we have been super busy at work...which is a good thing! And also at home. We decided to put our little house on the market and we have been busting it ever since trying to get it 'ready' to put up for sale. Isn't that the worst part?!? By the time you get it 'ready' it is easy to lose focus on why you are trying to sell it in the first place!! With my current condition ( not really condition but being 5 1/2 months pregnant is something) I was censored on what I could actually help do to get the house ready. For example, I have some pretty mad trim painting skills- which I was forbidden to use! So I have I had to turn over many of the things I would have liked to have done to others...my Beau, my parents, sisters, and my mom-in-law Martha. It was challenging and honestly I think Beau is SO happy that the sign is up in the yard and he is so glad I finally realized that the list was never-ending with a 70 year old house!! SO, I am content with all of our updating, painting, re-grouting etc and the sign is up!! SO....Now we wait. Hopefully our little cottage will be popular and sell quickly just because this waiting part is kind of hectic. Now, as far as where we are going to move say our little house sells....that is a different story. BUT, luckily we both have wonderful parents who have opened their homes to us as well as two lake houses to choose from if we haven't found a new place. We are staying positive and as my best friend tells me daily- this is how I work. If I didn't have a deadline with a million things going on...I would be lost! Its true. Although I may not feel the same way come June if we are still sitting on this house, looking for a new one and Fearing is coming within a month!! I hope we don't get in that situation, but we are trusting in the Lord to give us wisdom and guidance and we know it will ALL work out!!
In other news.... we have had some super busy weekends lately!! Last weekend was jammed packed full of family fun! My sisters were home for spring break and I had so much fun getting to see them and spend time with them. My little brother was home too, until he flew to New York City!!! Actually, since he is a friend of Aubie, he went with the Auburn University women's basketball team and cheerleaders to New Jersey for the tournament. He had a ball!! We even got to see him on tv!! So exciting!! He had a wonderful time just living the 'Auburn Experience' to the max!!! While I am talking about that... Both Tyler and Taylor received a scholarship through the School of Ag and will be going to Spain in May!!! Yep, it is true!! They are hilarious and just the thought of the two of them (along with 3 of their friends they are in their major with and a professor) touring the gardens of Southern Spain makes me laugh. They have the most unique relationship and are such wonderful kids- I am SO proud of them!! And not to leave Syd out- she too is living it up down in Auburn!! She is about to finished with her first year of college!! I can't believe it!!! She is so smart and is studying really hard and I know she will such an awesome builder one day! ( She is at Southern Union and will transfer to Auburn hopefully in the building science program!). Also last weekend my super talented mom organized a wonderful baby shower for my sisters best friend Meagan! Meagan is going to be a mom so soon!! She is not only a 'friend' turns out we are related. Her grandmother and our grandfather are first cousins...I thought I would share a little background of her so you can have a glimpse of why this was one special baby shower!!
When Meagan was 18 (just a few weeks out of high school graduation) she had ovarian cancer, she had been dating the same guy (Jacob) since 9th grade and they knew they would one day marry... so after such a scary, and heartwrenching experience, they decided they wanted to go ahead and get married. SO, they got married on April 12, 2008. My mom made Meagan the most beautiful wedding dress!! And it was such a fun time. So they knew going into marriage they would not wait long before they had children soooo.... guess what?!? Meagan found out early fall that she was indeed expecting their first baby, who we now know as Jakeley Faith!! She will be in about a month and we couldn't be more excited for her!!! It was a fun day where I got to see many old friends from church that I haven't seen in over a year!
Me and Taylor at Meagan's Tea

Think that was busy?? THis weekend will be busy and exciting too!!! I got an email this morning from our friends the Flurry's and it looks like their little boy Carter will be making his arrival within the next few days!!! I am so excited for Justin and Ashley and I know they will be awesome parents. I can't imagine how cute little Carter will be!! I know that when Beau and I get to meet him it will make us even more ready for Fearing to be here!!!

Best Friends at Auburn Fall 2008

Happy Birthday Keith!!!

And the most exciting part of my weekend....My best friend & my girl soul mate is coming to town!!!! Woohoo!!! Tiff and her husband Keith (who happens to be having a birthday Today!!) are coming to town for a wedding and not only are they coming to town, they are coming to our house!!! It has been way too long since we have actually seen each other in person... (we talk almost daily but don't get to see each other as often, boo!) It is going to be SO exciting. We haven't seen each other in person since I have been pregnant. Although I finally folded and sent her a 'sneak peek' of the belly! I can't wait to see her... So all in all it is going to be an awesome weekend!!! I will update hopefully on Monday!

I thought I would leave a few pics for the wondering minds...

correction- from previous post

2009-03-10T15:56:00.002-05:00

Fearing is not almost one pound. He was weighing around 12 to 12 1/2 ounces so he has a few ounces to go! I guess he is around 3/4!!

Dr. Appt. Update

2009-03-10T15:34:00.000-05:00

As promised I wanted to give a quick update on our doctor's appointment from this morning. We had the ultrasound and warned the nurse we thought we knew but wanted to double check- reassurance! So as soon she started the ultrasound...WOW... They were right! It is definitely a boy! There was no denying that- Beau and I both snickered obviously this little guy is not modest! So from now on we can refer to him by his name which is.....Fearing. It was Beau's grandmothers maiden name. Nanny was a very special lady who Beau adored! I am so thankful that I had the chance to meet her! Unfortunately, she passed away after we had been dating around 3 months, but I love to hear stories about her and I know she was an awesome person! Also as a side note, Beau and I are going to the "Fearing" family reunion in Nags Head in June and we are really excited to see family (many of which came down for our wedding!!)and tell them the exciting news about our little boy carrying on the family name!
Everything from the ultrasound went wonderful. We got to see a lot of the different parts: cerebellum, spine, kidneys, bladder, arms, PARTS, heart, and the LEGS! I know I am making a big deal about his legs but OMG they are long!! There is no denying he is Beau's son! All of his measurements looked good and he was actually measuring ahead of schedule. Technically I was 18 wks 6 days today but he was measuring around 20 wks and a few days and his femur was measuring close to 21 wks!!! I don't know how all of that works I am guessing I am just having a long legged little boy! Also, he weighs almost 1 lb! Exciting!! So when I had my doctor visit he said according to my ultrasound that my due date is registering about 9 days ahead of schedule...which just happens to be my mom's birthday!! He did not 'officially' change my due date but would not be suprised if Fearing is actually a July baby rather than August! (I am ok with this =) I guess that is all for right now. We got some really great pictures today. I hope you'll understand that we aren't going to put them up on the blog-(we are wanting to keep these kind of personal) But I will try to post some belly pictures soon. Yes, Tiff I have been taking them... at least for a few weeks anyway!! Thanks for all of your fun comments on the maternity clothes issue! Jeeze! Have a beautiful day!

W

Spring has Sprung...

2009-03-09T12:55:00.000-05:00

And so has my waistline. No really, it has happened. That day my mom kept warning me about ( the one where you wake up and literally Nothing fits anymore...) I have a list a mile long from my week last week where I had a bad outfit day over and over again. BUT, that is ok. I was able to wear my pre-pregnant jeans and favorite gap pants until 18 wks...so I guess I'm doing ok. Luckily, I had bought one pair of maternity jeans that aren't that bad and are SO comfy after all. I am just paranoid about my shirt being long enough so the "stretchy waist part" doesn't show- it literally makes me feel like I am walking around naked when that part shows...don't ask why. It's weird I know.
So in light of my recent woes I thought I would share a glimpse into recent shopping trips...that turned into NOT so productive.

Incident # 1:
I woke last Wednesday and tried on my one pair of regular blue jeans that up until that day were my faithful fits! This particular morning they were feeling awfully snug, but I decided I would wear them anyway. I also really wanted to wear a cute long sleeve black shirt that Beau gave me for Christmas, I do not have a black maternity tank top so I thought, well I could just wear a regular black tank underneath no big deal. It was also still a little crisp out so I decided to wear my black clogs. Sounds decent...right? Fast forward one hour later- we are making our daily drive and I realize my pants are feeling quite tight. Like uncomfortable. BUT I thought I would just unbutton the top button and I would be fine. So fast forward 30 minutes. I am now at work and realizing that every move I make I have to tug at my tank and top to keep them down- this is a must considering my top button will NOT button... I begin feeling miserable and decide I would go purchase a black maternity tank top when I went to the post office. Good plan....
So all goes as planned. I go to the post office, stop by Target pick up a black maternity tank top out of the maternity section, and spot a super cute maternity dress they just happen to have in my size. I am in and out of there in 10 minutes top!
So I get back to my office, change tanks and all of the sudden feel as if I am being suffocated. This tank was longer, yes, but Tighter than the one I had on. HOW COULD THIS BE??? I knew I had 2 of these exact tank tops at home just a different color. OMG did I gain like 15 pds over night?? What is going on? In the meantime, I realize that my cute clogs make me feel like my pants are about 4 inches off of the ground. I have Floods. Pet Peeve!! I cannot ever remember being so self-conscious in all of my life. The only thing that kept coming to mind was "fat guy in a little coat" from Tommy Boy. I was miserable!! Then to top it off I had to go to a meeting on the way home. Embarrassing. OK so after feeling totally crappy about myself, we finally got home, I peeled the tank top off to reveal....some really mean person put a 'regular' tank top in the maternity tank top section!!! HOW CRUEL!! They obviously have never been pregnant or they would NOT have done that!! What a jerk! hahaha.... it is funny now but not so much at the time. By the way...to top it off the cute dress that was "my size" is apparently NOT "my size" anymore. I could not even pull down over the the top half of my chest. SO that was just the icing on the cake. Oh well. Good news is I finally exchanged it today for the correct size and I tried it on before I left the store!

Round 2:
After my debacle on Wednesday... I decided that it would be a good idea for Beau and I to try to find me some more pants because one pair of jeans is not cutting it. I had heard that JCPenney carried maternity clothes. So there just happens to be a JCPenney on our way home so I thought we could give it a try who knows maybe they would have something that would fit me. So we go in, finally find the maternity section which consists of maybe 3 racks of clothes. We find some khakis and some other cute brown pants and I find what I thought would be my size yet again. Although in this case it was the smallest they had- they were not really sized based on regular sizes, rather they were small, med., large etc. So I grabbed a couple of pair and made it to the dressing room. I tried on the first pair only to be thoroughly disgusted... they were huge!! Not really that big in the stomach area but in the crotch (which I would not be lying if I said it was almost to my knees!) but in the hips, butt, etc. I leave the dressing room to find Beau to show him that is NOT how they should fit, obviously. In the meantime this sweet lady walks up to offer her advice which goes a little like this:

lady: "oh honey, you need a smaller pair"

me: "yeah, probably"

Beau:" they don't come any smaller"

lady:"well, honey you are going to get A LOT Bigger, I'm talking about A LOT bigger, I mean A LOT"

me: " well, I am not sure, ma'am I am half way through my pregnancy- I realize my actually belly well get bigger but as far as my thighs, butt, length of legs etc. I am just not so sure how big I will be getting"

lady: "well you know what you could do is cut a little whole in the waste and string a shoe string in there, you know just a white shoe string, and then just tie it in a bow to hold them up"

beau: "quietly exits area, calls my sisters and begins laughing hysterically"

me: "well thank you so much for your advice, I think I will keep looking, probably get my mom to make me some pants"

lady: " you should go over to the misses area or petites and get some pants with elastic in the waist."

me:" thanks again" ( thinking I am 25 not 75, I am NOT going to do that, thank goodness I work where it doesn't really matter what I wear so if I need to wear jeans everyday I can!)

We have had several other incidents but I will spare you the details... OH well. I have my mom working on some custom pants for me, and I know that is where I should have turned from the beginning!

In other news, I have a doctor's appt tomorrow morning which is my official ultrasound to reveal the baby's sex and check him all out, take measurements etc. I am really looking forward to seeing him again and getting a little video for our families to see toO!! I will update you on the verdict (well hopefully, the only verdict I will be announcing is that is still a boy! haha and that all his measurements are looking good!)

Lately...

2009-02-18T12:22:00.000-06:00

Considering it has been way to long since my last post, I thought I would give a quick update on our 'lately' After my last post we had a wonderful weekend planned with our dear friends who were coming in town from Colorado. The Bozich's arrived on Wednesday and stayed with us until the following Monday. We had such a great time catching up and playing with Lili. She stole our hearts. She is precious. It totally sealed the deal for Beau ( and me too!) and made us realize how ready we are to meet our little one. But our fun ended quickly as Beau woke up Thursday on his death bed. He apparently got food poisoning from a really nasty place( I will NOT mention the name...it makes me cringe) that I have told him not to eat before. We will not go there. Long story short I ended up having to leave him at my parents house (where we were staying) while I went to work. Did I mention that my dad and brother and mom were in Auburn at a conference so I was holding down the fort by myself at work?? So needless to say it was a very long day for me not to mention it was HORRIBLE for B. It was so crazy! Finally by Saturday he started feeling more normal and we filled our time with visits and driving. We were so sad to see them leave and look forward to visiting with them again this summer ( did I mention Alisa is pregnant too?!?- so next time we see each other I should be getting close to seeing our little guy and she will be about a month behind me- these should be fun pictures!)
The Bozich's left out of Monday- Tuesday I had a dr appt and a meeting as well as I was going to Montgomery with my dad Tuesday morning for business. Tuesday does not start out well for me... I wake up with something... SO SICK- and not pregnant sick! There is a difference! So I end up back in the bed while Beau heads to b'ham for work. In the meantime I have to reschedule my doctor appt and miss my meeting. GOODNESS! My dad heads to Montgomery only to turn around because our Secretary is sick too! Looking back it was totally in the Lord's hands, because my mom had taken my diabetic grandaddy to dr to have his foot looked at and ended up having to have

*** DON'T READ IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH****

surgery and have one of his toes amputated- there was an infection and it got into his bone. Bless his heart. BUT all turned out fine- and my dad was thankfully in town and able to go be with my mom and grandfather. ** Sidebar my other grandfather went to the emergency room on Saturday night after fiddling (that is definitely as southern word huh) with some high powered machine in his basement and nearly ruining his pinkie finger! Luckily after 3 hours in emergency, a tet. shot, 4 stitches and some antibiotics he was on his way!
SO as you can tell our lives have been a little CRAZY lately. But on a good note...

We went to the doctor on Wednesday the 11th where we once again heard our little one's heartbeat! It is so amazing and we are dying to see our baby again since the last time we saw the babe was at 6 wks which looks more like a peanut than a baby. So Beau decided he would ask the doctor if there was anyway we could go ahead and find out what we're having... his answer. NO- he wouldn't do that ultrasound for 4 more weeks...Ughhh...but then he said he had a patient/client who worked for Virginia College in Birmingham and he didn't mind letting us go over there and get an ultrasound done by them, if we couldn't stand it. So after we left the office we decided I would call and get an appt for the Next week. The representative from Virginia College convinced me to come in the next day so we did. They were super nice and it was very professional. This is where many sonogram technicians go to learn the trade. It is a two year program. Our technician(sorry if this is not the correct name) will graduate in May and she was so sweet. They were actually in the middle of their midterms so her exam was to find a whole list of things on baby! It was amazing to see how much our little one looks like a baby now!! It had been almost 10 wks since the last time we saw it. SO of course we really excited to see arms, legs, kidneys, spine, brain, heart....but what we really wanted to see was the gender. About that time the instructor came in and moved the thing around a little and then said.... " that's a leg, that's a leg, and that thing in the middle is not a leg.".. WHAT!! A BOY!!! apparently I got so excited to see Beau's reaction I never looked back at the screen!! I can't believe I didn't even get to see!! And of course the picture is not very clear!! So needless to say we are so excited to be having a little boy. He will be the first great grandchild "Mosley" to carry on the name. In other words there are 4 other great grand boys but none of them have the "Mosley" last name... so Beau is super excited. As was ALL of our family!! I will say I am really looking forward to my actual doctors appt in 2 1/2 wks to see our little boy for myself! But we did see a wonderful view of his side profile- it looked like he was sucking his little thumb then he put both hands up to his face like he was praying... melt my heart! I can't wait to see him again.
One thing they did say is that he did not stop moving the entire time. Our poor tech was trying to find certain things and he was constantly moving around...we just laughed. So basically when I can start feeling him I am pretty sure I will be feeling like a punching bag...ALL worth it I know!

So that is our lately!

**btw The first thing I saw on the monitor was a leg stretch out and I thought to myself...OMG that is the LONGEST leg I have EVER seen in my life!! So if he has Beau's height- I feel sorry for me come JULY!!!

I will update again soon. Hopefully sooner rather than later!

Whitney

When life gives you lemons....

2009-02-03T16:55:00.000-06:00

So I know it might seem extremely random to talk about Lemons on this cold January day, but it is with good reason. For those who don't know... I am pregnant. And according to my weekly update... our little baby is now the size of a lemon! So weird to me. But I can say it was better than last week's visual which was a shrimp... not a good visual for a seafood lover like myself.
I am currently in my 14th week, and I can honestly say I have had one(yes that is one) "good" week since we found out. In other words, On Tuesday of my fifth week I began getting sick. I am not talking about feeling sick I mean literally getting sick. After 6 straight days of vomitting throughout the day I was forced by my sweet husband to go to the doctor... where I had my first ultrasound and we saw a little peanut and heard a very loud strong heartbeat.
From there I was sent to the labor and delivery floor where I was admitted into the hospital for dehydration. For those who know me best... I am terrified of needles... so by the fourth attempt to get my IV in my patience was wearing thin. IT WAS AWFUL. I told the nurse to begin with that I had tiny veins, and being dehydrated made it much worse. So after she had burst the 2nd vein she called in a helper... She finally got it in the fourth time. OMG. Ok so just when I think I am done being the pin cushion... one of my tubes of blood they taken had clotted and she had to take more blood from my harm. FOR THE LOVE. After 2 huge bags of fluids and some anti- nausea meds they finally sent us packing. Unfortunately I am allergic to phinigrin (this is an entirely different story which involves "Petey the Parasite" which I brought home from our Dominican Republic honeymoon), So they tried a different anti-nausea med called Reglen (forgive the spelling) and it had very similar effects on me that the Phinigren did minus the convulsions (yes I said convulsions... if you would like a re-enactment please ask my sweet husband or one of my sisters as they too witnessed this phenomenon and love to show their version of the story). Needless to say, I did not sleep at all once we got home... therefore Beau did not sleep... and we were miserable on the following day. Little did I know that would only be the beginning of the next 8 1/2 weeks. Everyday, all day, and night too. It was awful.
I thought I was never going to make it through this pregnancy and I felt very overwhelmed, scared,confused and alone at times. Why is it that when things are going great it is so easy to be close to God. Then in times like I just experienced it was as if I was so sick, tired and weary and yet I somehow just felt like I was going through the motions... rather than relying FULLY on GOD to get us through. I have really struggled with this and it is not how I was raised OR how I have really delt with things in the past. Maybe it is because for the first time it was ME going through something... not my dad or grandparents, or mom etc. (does this make sense at all?)
SO all of that to say... last week (Tuesday to be exact) I woke up just like any other day and felt...NORMAL!! I was starving. I took full advantage of the newly refreshed appetite and I have been starving since. I had one bad day on Thursday but I think it was the vitamin I took mid-day on top of a not so good salad that I really don't like to remember... but since then I seem to be going strong. Physically that is... The Sunday before I started feeling better I really started to feel overwhelmed again ( I think this would be normal considering I had been sick for almost 3 months straight)I realized that I had been trying to handle everything on my own. I also realized that I had to change my thought process. And after a huge melt down, I felt much better on Monday and overall I have a better mental state of mind as well.
Sometimes I get really irritated when people post information that I find to be "really personal" on their blogs, facebook etc. BUT through everything I have been through the past three months I realize that maybe I am supposed to share what I have been through so others will know that everyone is different, and the crazy feelings are OK- I probably had them too. AND the Lord has delivered me from that valley maybe so I can be an encouragement to others who like me are not experiencing the "pregnancy them dreamed of" hahaha. As a side note, almost ALL of my friends who have been pregnant have commented how they never felt better and I have seen girls talk about how they loved being pregnant... AND I am happy for them. BUT honestly, I look forward to meeting our little gift from GOD but this has been one of the hardest and most challenging things I have ever gone through. That is for me and for Beau. Let me please brag on my husband... He has been right by my side... NONSTOP. Through the nitty-gritty, he has done the laundry, washed the dishes, folded the clothes, organized my drawers, re-organzied our closets, done the grocery shopping, cooking and the list goes on. I could NOT have made it the last 3 1/2 months without him. He is my best friend, my other half and my soulmate, I am so blessed.

Thought I would share a few pictures of my favorites that I could eat NONSTOP!

Yearning for Spring....

2009-01-21T12:01:00.000-06:00

Yes, I do realize that I months behind on my blogging... but with good reason. I won't go there today... but soon. The truth is I have looked at my sad little blog with good intentions and desire to update but when it comes right down to it, It just didn't happen. We have a lot going on these days... We just returned from Orlando (my first trip to Disney!!) It was a really exciting/exhausting trip (Drove down on Thursday and back on Monday). We went to cheer on our favorite mascot...AUBIE, as he competed for the UCA National Mascot Championship title... and he deserved it but was a close 2nd place behind "Chip" from Colorado. I will save my thoughts on that one, and say it was still really exciting for all to be (1st runner up) but a tough pill to swallow. I hate being 1st runner up! Oh well.
In other news, we are having plans drawn up currently with the thoughts of adding on to the house. This is a potentially big deal/overhaul but one we desperately are needing for various reasons. ONE being storage. AND a garage (a two car garage!- with an upstairs storage room/man den for B). In the meantime, I have a million things I must get done TODAY but hopefully in the next several days I will get back into the swing of things.... meanwhile I am yearning for spring. I hate being cold. I hate getting into a car with the outside temp (where we are parked) reading a frigid 18 degrees. WE live in Alabama NOT New York. I am SOOOO ready for the spring for SO many reasons...

Whitney

....

2008-12-18T16:27:00.000-06:00

one day I will blog again. I have not given up....I have just been a little out of whack. Hopefully I will get back into a routine soon... Until then.
~whitney

I feel like.....

2008-11-26T08:35:00.000-06:00

THIS!! I will hopefully feel up to par COME MONDAY. Between the office move and the drive and the unpacking and the... well the list goes on. I hope you all have a beautiful, enjoyable, stuff your face kind of Thanksgiving!! I know we will.

~Whitney

The LEG Lamp!

2008-11-18T08:38:00.000-06:00

In honor of my wonderful husband and my MIL who gave me my very own mini leg lamp to display in our home... I added the infamous LEG LAMP widget.
~whitney

HO HO HO

2008-11-18T08:03:00.000-06:00

Considering that I have posted more than 3 posts on Christmas and my overflowing excitement....I decided to give the blog a new look for the Christmas season!!! We are officially on the countdown at the Mosley house. Actually, I noticed on Sunday that the Family Channel is on the Countdown to the Countdown to 25 days until Christmas. WooHoo!!! I will admit I am half way finished with our gift shopping...except for B. This will be our 6th Christmas together.... our first as Mr. and Mrs. Beau Mosley! Hard to believe in a few weeks we will be married for 6 months. We love it more than either ever expected!!!
In the meantime, We relocated our office on Thursday and Friday so I will be a little out of pocket most likely for the next couple of days until I get my self organized and situated in a new location. So no music post for me today. Hopefully tomorrow...
~whitney

Christmas Dishes

2008-11-11T09:44:00.001-06:00

I have fond memories from throughout my childhood of going with my Nanny to take my Big Nanny(my great grandmother) to ceramics. I don't remember how often she went but I do remember it being quite a bit. She would often give ceramics as gifts for various occasions. So last Christmas when I finally had my own home,even though it was in the middle of renovation, my Nanny went through many of her Christmas items and gave some very special things to me for our house. This year will be the first year that we will be in our house on Christmas and I can hardly wait to decorate...obviously. Also, last year my sweet Nanny and Grandaddy went to a ceramics shop and bought me my very own Nativity set. This is a BIG deal in our family. As both my mom and Nanny have very elaborate Ceramic Nativity sets. So you can only image how excited I am to have my very own. Now these are not your average Nativity scene. These are gorgeous!! My Nanny spent countless hours painting them, having them "fired" repainting them, putting the "magic bondale" on them (this looks like real clothing!!) So right now my set is just the green ware (white) so I have alot of work to do to get them ready. First I will have to paint them with a brown color all over, then I will have to have them fired then I will paint the colors on them and have them re-fired and then I will have to put the special touches on them. This obviously will NOT be finished before this Christmas, but I am hoping to work on this for many Christmases to come. So although my Nativity scene will NOT be finished, I will have some new Christmas dishes... My mom and I have been working on some beautiful cups and dessert plates that will adorn my table this year. So I thought I would share the "before" with you. I have 3 plates left to paint and then I will take them back to the ceramics shop where they will be "fired" then I will glaze them with the clear shiny coat and have them re-fired and then I will have my very own personalized Christmas dishes.

** these now have polka dots too!!

'Good Things'

2008-11-10T16:28:00.000-06:00

Today as I made my daily round of website visits I happened upon a NEW find!! Thank You Martha(Stewart that is, not to be confused with my MIL) for introducing us!! B and I have several peeps that are difficult to buy for Christmas... so I have been looking for something that is not typical to suprise them with...ALTHOUGH, I will admit unless my stupid stimulus check finally makes its way to me they will probably not be receiving any of these gifties since they could be a little out of the newlywed budget... but I thought I might share just in case someone was looking to get me a little something EXTRA unique...hahahaha or just want to look at a few things I found very interesting.

How many of you out there like to take an occasional Naner with you in the morning?? Well I sometimes do, yet I slip it into the bag (better known as the black hole) where it can be quite unrecognizable by the time my craving hits.. SO though the site of it looks a little questionable and weird this is very ingenious... don't you think??

So I have a soft spot for "tea pots" or kettles... this comes from my mom. She loves them too. I recently took up with my adorable Martha Stewart blue kettle that a very good friend gave to me as a wedding gift. I LOVE using it. It is so quick to boil water and I am loving me some 'cider' these days... so I thought this was super cute. If I had $100 I would buy this one for the mom for Christmas.

OK- so one of my bff gave me the CUTEST chalkboard glasses at our Tool and Gadget party. So I have kind of become obsessed. Yes I was the child who got in trouble for writing on the board at school. It is SO much fun. I would love love love to have these....Although I am not going to lie, I think I will try my craftiness out and make some....SOON.

SO I love my choping boards. BUT I would love to have these... the bright colors combined with the stainless would match the kitchen PERFECT. Plus they are super creative. I get kind of weird about cutting fruit on the same board I cut meats on- even though I de-contaminate.

So while we are on Chopping boards I love the ones I have because they have cool handles and it is easy to take it straight to the stove BUT sometimes it is hard to get everything off the board into the pot or skillet...BUT this would be awesome and maybe a little more helpful! THEY Fold!!

Just thought these were kind of funny...

This is cool. I wonder if it is as easy as it looks?

OK- For what ever reason this reminds me of our friends "the Bozichs" It is very modern and simple but very COOL. SO if you read Alisa and I had $110 I would get this for you and T for Christmas! Basically these bowls balance themselves when you fill them with snacks etc. Cool huh?

So if you have the bowls you need these too. Supposedly they will rock back and forth but NEVER fall over...

So if you want to check it out yourself go to www.MoMAstore.org

Christmas is Coming!!

2008-11-06T10:09:00.000-06:00

I mentioned in my previous post that I am so excited about CHRISTMAS!! I have always loved Christmas, but this year there is something different... I feel like a child waiting on Santa Claus!! It all started on Saturday November 1st when I realized that a local radio station has started their annual NON-STOP Christmas music!! WooHoo! So B has been so sweet letting me listen to it non stop if we are in the car. ( I think he secretly likes it too). Beau and I have been mapping out our christmas gift giving strategies too. We both have such a large family that we are learning to be very creative... but we are both really excited! I thought I would share a few pictures of some christmas pretties that I love and most likely will be on display in the Mosley home for the holidays!!

Last year we had our little "donated" tree that we had up at the house last Christmas. Granted, neither of us were living in the house and we would only plug it in when we were down working on the weekends. But it is still special. We are going to be using this in the guest room this year. Obviously we will be setting it on some type of table since it is a little vertically challenged. Also, I think we are going to be "flocking" it (shh... B doesn't know yet!) I found this cool kit online I am going to have to order....

I think our little tree would be beautiful in the blue room with the "flocked" look going on with sand dollars and star fish hanging as the ornaments with soft blue or white lights ( I can't decide!).
NOW, In the living room I think that I would like a very traditional tree- I can't decide on the colors yet... maybe the reds and golds but maybe greens and blues and yellows..hmm... I will have to keep working on this one!!
I do know that our comfy room (our den) will be featuring another "palm" (we have the coolest palm tree lamp that B gave me for the 25th..remember?!)And last year after Christmas I ordered this...

We are planning on having it in the den with our gifts to each other! It is really cute and of course I went overboard with ALL of the ornament to go on it as well.
Now for the outside... We are going to be using the garland/white light mix again that I worked so hard on last year. Although we are going to have different 'bows' adorning the handrails and mailbox. Also I will make a new wreath for the front door. I haven't decided on what it will look like exactly but I found a few ideas that I really like. I love love love using the bright red with the lime green!! SO cute. I thought this was a really cute wreath-

Maybe with a bright bow!
Also, B and I have decided we will definitely be doing this, or a rendition of it anyway!!
The wreath part- we will use simple grapevine wreaths and hang them with the same ribbon that we use on the handrails and mailbox. Oh- and spot lights on the house.... this is a must for us this year!!! Ok- next post will be on our favorite Christmas music... some we have...some we want... stay tuned. ~whitney

My latest...

2008-11-04T10:13:00.000-06:00

Beau has been sick since last week....actually I felt bad starting last Sunday- but I began self-medicating with Alka-Seltzer...and it seemed to do the trick for me but not so much for Beau. So I sent him straight to the Dr. on Friday- TB cough and all. Two shots and minor run in with a not so nice nurse later- he was back to work for a few hours and then ready for a pretty lousy weekend. I can't remember the last time Beau was sick. He just doesn't get sick that often. But I felt so bad for him ALL weekend. Saturday we went to the lake to visit with his parents and grandparents for a few hours and watch our poor little Tigers get killed....AGAIN. Then I was off to Birmingham to emcee the Miss Clay-Chalkville pageant. Leaving my sick one at home to fin for himself for a while. I felt so guilty leaving him there- he was really sick with a fever and all. But he mananged. Sunday I went to church... by myself and when I got home Beau was ready to go. He refused to sit at home all day so we went to BAM and picked up a few Christmas presents and a new Jimmy Buffett CD for ourselves and then to BB and Beyond to return a duplicate wedding gift and then to brunch at O'Charlies. Then we made our way to Bust Buy to check up on our latest want... a new tv for our bedroom. After a little while we finally made our way back to the house where B ended up on the couch for the remainder of the night. Monday came quickly especially for Beau who was still feeling pretty lousy but after watching our favorite Monday night shows I think he perked up just a little. Finally this morning there was light at the end of the tunnell!! He seems to be on the road to recovery. PRAISE THE LORD! So that has been our latest... Today is busy for us, like most of you I am sure. We have work, vote, Election watch party with the Republican Committee and then we are staying with my parents so we don't have to make the trek home.
On a side note I wanted to just say how pumped I was when I turned on 96.5 yesterday and realized that the CHRISTMAS music has begun!! Thats right. From now until Christmas they are playing it ALL 24/7. B even sacrificed Finebaum on the drive home for me to listen to my FAVORITE!!! I feel like I am seven years old- I really can't remember being so Pumped about something, but I am so excited about the Christmas season. In light of that I decided to post a second post to share a few ideas of what our decor is going to be looking like at the Mosley house in less than one month!!

Super Cute!

2008-10-28T14:10:00.000-05:00

Not a big fan of these in 'real life' but I do love this and wouldn't mind this little cutie perching on my porch!!

~whitney

Remember This??

2008-10-27T16:01:00.000-05:00

If you love Kate Hudson and you daily read "People" online then most likely you remember this particular pic of our favorite Goldie spawn. I love,love,love these gray boots that she so perfectly modeled. Unfortunately, I do not live nor do I have immediate access to Kate's movie star income....therefore once again I was shot down on the gray boots! That is until my beautiful middle sis comes out of the bedroom at my parents with these on........

WOO HOO!!!!!

As you can imagine my little heart lept for joy when she told me the good news that they were from our fav...TARGET!! or TARJAY as we like to say. So for a mere 34.95 you too can have these adorable boots. So they are not just like ol' Kate's but...I have tested them for 2 days now...and they are practical and super cute!!!

And if the shoe fits....buy it in every COLOR!!! (since I wear a 5 but pulled off a 5.5 in these beauties, I followed my own advice and ordered them online in dark brown too!!)

ENJOY!

~whitney

If I had a $100....

2008-10-24T15:57:00.000-05:00

I would buy these.....

I am hoping to get them soon. They are Chaco...waterproof...really cute and I bet they would super comfortable and warm on this rainy cold day!!

I DID IT!!!!

2008-10-24T15:36:00.000-05:00

After deciding I was totally incompetent to have a blog considering the trouble I have already gone through for thing!!! I finally did it!! My friend Erin kept telling me to go to this AWESOME website called "the cutest blog on the block" and I would and I found several backgrounds I LOVED!! the problem came in with the set up of my blog. I have been feeling so lousy about it! Mainly because if you go to the cbotb site it gives you STEP BY STEP BY STEP directions on how to apply a FREE background. OK so I would go to the dashboard and follow the steps and end up with 2 hours wasted and NO FREE background!! Long story short when it would say go to Layout my blog on said Template. So it tells you to customize your design, blah blah blah and then there would be a button to click on that would customize your blog yadayadayada well it never showed up until TODAY! SO then, I thought I was home free! NOt quite, but after a little patience and a lot of trial and error- I finally figured out that I had to add the gadget/gidget whatever to add the Html/javascript to see the screen that said content....and VAVOOM!! It worked!! THis has been such a pain in my bootae but it is done!! WOOHOOO. Now this is temporary until I find the one I really love!! If you are having any trouble with this too...YOu are NOT incompetent!! Message me and I will walk you through it!!

~whitney

I know.... enough Already!!

2008-10-21T13:17:00.000-05:00

I sware...seriously, that this is the LAST time I will change the blog name. I am a bit indecisive on occasion but this is ridiculous I know. I guess I feel the need to once again defend my finicky state of mind and justify the new name..... Beau read the blog yesterday. So I guess all along he has know one existed but he hasn't paid much attention to my blogging...that is until yesterday. I am not really sure exactly how this happened but all I know is that it caught us both off gaurd. Him, by realizing that I have been a pretty dedicated blogger. And me because, well he laughed at the name and when he realized he hurt my sensitive little feelings he tried to play it off like it was the cutest thing he had ever seen. Then this entire process made me really think about it and I felt like it was definitely in the market for a new name...it was cheesy!!! So, I think this might be better. Hopefully. Ok so if I could only figure out the following: 1. How do I show the blogs I follow on my front screen. 2. How do I apply the really cute background stuff from Cutest Blog on the Block??? 3. How do I make my pictures look bigger and have a cute boarder around them?? I suck at this format situation. I need a blogger friend to help me... walk me through it step by step etc. That pretty much sums it up for this morning.

~whitney

Rainy Days

2008-10-17T13:57:00.000-05:00

So this morning Beau and I were going to be driving to work separately, typically I fall out of bed around 5:45 and start off the morning getting ready for work, B usually rolls out around ten after 6 and we leave our house no later than 6:30 to go by our favorite little gas station pay $1.50 for 2 larges coffees and listen to our favorites (Jay, Al and Tony on THe Opening Drive) on the trek into Birmingham. But today was different. B had something certified at the post office that he needed and since they don't open until 8 I volunteered to drive in a little late so that I could retrieve this mail for him.
My morning started out awesome! B woke me around 6:30 (yep I got to sleep in!) to tell me he was leaving. So since I am an early riser and I was feeling wide-eyed and bushy tailed after my extra 45 min. of sleep I stumbled my way to our den. First I stopped by the kitchen and fixed a pot of coffee to enjoy as I listen to the rain and watch a little of the local news.

I did this for about 20 minutes and I began feeling kind of bored. Mainly because there are a million things at my house that I would have liked to have done but I knew I really didn't have the time since I still had to go to work!! So I called my mom, chatted for a few minutes and then went back to watching my favorite morning show, GMA. And then all of the sudden......KABOOM!!! the house goes pitch black and shook!! I honestly thought someone had hit my house, or something had crashed into it! And then the lights start coming back on but I notice they are extremely dim...so I set out to do a little investigating.
So I go out of the front door to see...

I am not even going to lie... I was scared to death!! And to top it off I could not get in touch with B so I was even more terrified! So I go out in the pouring rain to my precious neighbor Mr.Moore (he is in his late 70's and looks after us youngens!) I explained to Mr.Moore what happened and he assured me it would be fine. He also suggested that I go throughout the house and turn off the lights that have made their way back on. SO I did and I called Alabama Power and reported my situation. They put in a service call and so I waited... Actually, Chica and I both waited for the AL Power guy to get to our house. And waited, and waited, so I decided to take a few pictures of our front porch for those interested. And a few of what our little street looks like on a rainy day.

And a few more....

Then finally.....

What a relief! Mr.AL Power was very nice and not to mention, speedy! In approx. 45 minutes he had me up and running again. I stayed on the Front Porch for most of the time he was there mainly because I was curious as to how he would repair the line. I will be the first to admit that I was quite impressed. I also have an entirely new respect for the AL Power repairmen!! That has to incredibly dangerious!!

A few things to be thankful for:
* that I was home!! If not, we could have been facing a major problemo!! B and I have dinner plans in the Ham for 7 so we were not going to come home until after that which would have put us home around 10. With no power! And some major problems because apparently the neutralizing wire is what snapped that is why I still had some power but it would have most likely burnt all of our appliances, AC and not to mention ruined the fridge/freezer!
* that the limb did not fall on our cars or house!!
* that God has blessed me with such a wonderful group of neighbors, especially my Mr.Moore!! This is not the first pickle I have been in unfortunately!
* that the Lord TOTALLY had his hand in this and protected us and our home!!

You did What?

2008-10-16T09:32:00.000-05:00

Ok so before you laugh too hard.... I know this might seem a little out of character for muah, but I actually agreed and I had a wonderful time....

So this is how the story goes... we are just on our way home yesterday, stuck in traffic as usual, and I mention that it would be nice to start our brisk walk/jog back when we got home ( yes we did this twice... in June... and we just haven't gotten back around to it) so then Beau said yes that would be fun but you know what we could do.... is go hit a few tennis balls. Then I reminded him that we don't have any tennis rackets at our house... so we thought we would go by Wally world and pick up some cheap ones. Then I suggested we go to Academy and we could pick up a whiffle balls too ( OK I forgot to mention that we play whiffle ball a few times a week in our backyard... just us...it would be really fun if we had friends to play too, but we are out of luck right now considering we are the youngest couple on the street by 30 years, moot point) OK so we decided that would be a better idea considering wally world doesn't carry whiffle balls... yes we have already checked... then Beau suggested we play homerun derby on the tennis courts.... So we decided that would be really fun and we would go ahead and pick up our tennis rackets for another day. So I am not really sure how this happened but we ended up leaving Academy with two of these (mine is blue, b's is red) :

Yep, I got a bike. Actually, Beau and I both got new bikes. Hehehe. SO I am thinking you might be curious as to what in the world would make me of all people want a bike, seeing as I don't really do a lot of outdoor adventure seeking etc.Still not really sure how we got to this point, but we did manage to grap the whiffle balls and NO tennis paraphanella... which honestly did NOT hurt my feelings, seeing how I am married to a man whose family was once the Alabama Tennis Association Family of the YEAR!!! Just imagine me, hitting a ball with the racket. I tried this once and it resulted in our very first relationship fight several years back..... NOT FOR ME> Let me know what you think! Also in case you were wondering... we did manage to make a quick ride through town last night (approx. one mile) and needless to say I thought I was going to die!! But I am looking forward to our new adventures on our bikes.

House Update

2008-10-15T09:15:00.000-05:00

Ok so this morning I was looking through my blog as I am still struggling to re-vamp the thing and I sure appreciate all the input on good websites for free design. Unfortunately I have tried several times to change the format of the site to get off of the HTML and each attempt has crashed and burned. Point in case: tried to add the free hit counter...it should not be this difficult. I think the pilot is just a little confused. ANYway, back to my original post, as I was looking through the previous posts I realized that I never gave the updated house photos a chance on the blog.... ummmm... sorry. So I thought I would post a few pics of what our little cottage looks like now, most of the time.

~Whitney

Happy Fall Ya'll

2008-10-14T14:47:00.000-05:00

Is that not fun to say? Happy Fall Ya'll!?!?! For those who know me best... I am a summer girl to the very core. I absolutely love any and all things that involve summer... especially Southern summers. I am a beach girl who some how got mistakenly placed in the city.... I still haven't figured this one out. BUT, I will admit, lately I have really been excited about "FALL." Now realize that Alabama is not your typical Fall place, meaning it still feels like the dog daze long into the Automnal Equinox (September 22 for those curious stalkers). For instance, my sweet Beau and I decided that since we had the weekend off (Auburn played in Nashville, thank the Lord we didn't make that trip!) we would visit a farm about 25 minutes from our house and pick us up a few Pumpkins.
I must warn you our quaint little town looks as if the Automnal Equinox exploded in town square.(literally, each and every lamp post is adorned with corn stalks, a bale of hay and sometype of "fall" decor. And each and every business has some type of decor outside or in the store front... I will get a picture ASAP!) Because of this I have found myself yearning to be festive. And I will say once I got into the groove of telling myself that I like fall.... I am actually enjoying it!! I thought I would give you a little peep into our adventure to Old Baker Farm which is beautiful farm about 25 minutes from our little town.
Little did we know that it was going to be a several hour adventure which left nothing out....including the petting zoo,horseback riding(at the tune of $3 a pop), the tower of hay (the youngens were climbing this like it was no big deal!), a hayride to the pumpkin patch, a chance to pick cotton and not less than a hundred little ones running around!! THat is right, actually I am pretty convinced we were the ONLY two there without a little one in tow (but we had fun nevertheless!).

Beau and I would highly suggest this outing to those who are looking for something fun to do....unfortunately fun comes with a price tag. I will give you a break down for those wanting to put Old Baker Farm in your budget!!

OLD BAKER FARM BREAKDOWN:
$9 (X 2) A PIECE TO ENTER- THIS INCLUDES HAYRIDE AND ONE PUMPKIN EACH!
$4 BURGER,CHIPS AND A COKE
$3 2 HOT DOGS AND A DRINK
$3 (X 3)BALED HAY FOR YARD DECOR
GRAND TOTAL: $34 BUCKS FOR A 3 HOUR ADVENTURE!

Enjoy the photos. OH,... and since I was being festive I decided to make a couple of wreaths for our home. I am also posting these for all to see. THis was my first wreath making experience (by myself that is) and I have to say I am pretty pleased with the outcome. The wreath on the front door also has a beautiful fall bow adorning it... I will have to retake a picture soon!

Look Ma I got a new name!

2008-10-10T14:55:00.001-05:00

Ok for those who follow...which is painfully low I realize, who do I think I am? hahaha. The blog has a new name! After much thought and some intense blog stalking, I finally made the decision to change the blog name. Obviously, there are several reasons....obvious to none other than mawah. So in case you are interested in the reasons... here goes.

1. Since the inception of this blog I have been constantly floundering on what exactly my blogging was to be. I have no children, no pets, I don't go that often to any far away place that I can blog about...strange food I ate, historic sites I visited, etc. Although I do have this one story about a far away place and some strange food I ate, and the parasite I brought home....but I will save this for another day. It is not that great of a story....actually it is but I don't think I have the energy to tell it today, got my drift?
2. I have read so many inspiring blogs lately that I almost felt as if my blog just freaking stunk! It wasn't anything really. I have been so worried about what I wanted my blog to be that I wasn't getting the "big picture" the simple matter of it is that I don't need to conform my blog to be like others, so with a lot of thought and a LOT of inspiration and some encouragement from my bestest friend in the big ol' world..... I am officially going to blog about me. me and my loving, aggrevating, adorable, sometimes needy, athletic, tall dark and handsome, favorite brown eyed boy...beau. and the things that I dabble in. Yep that is right, I am a professional dabbler. You know I have to be doing something all the time...not always a good quality. I come from a long line of dabblers. You know the saying Jack of All Trades, master of NONE. I think that would describe me to a certain extent. Let me give you a few examples and then you will ( feel certain) believe that I am a dabbler.
** I smock, write, sew..some, do calligraphy, paint ceramics, plan parties, plan weddings, make corsages at the last minute, paint, create new ideas, decorate my house, refinsh furniture,cook,clean,sing,scream,laugh,make wreaths, and bows! And volunteer for everything... My bestie would say I should wear a sign saying...."please shoot me before I volunteer again".hahaha.

~ So with having all this out in the open that is why I decided that " A little DABBLE do ya" would be appropriate. SO drop me a line or two and let me know what you think!

Breathing....

2008-09-23T09:57:00.000-05:00

Ok so I would bet it safe to say that I officially suck as a "blogger" This is very hard for me to grasp considering I ponder on more things than ANYONE I know. Meaning, I am constantly blogging in my brain...just finding the time to put it down on virtual paper...or my blog...seems to be IMPOSSIBLE!!! I really want to improve my blog so there are a few things that I am going to work on this week. First of all I am going to try to post at least every other day if not daily. I am also going to try and post something of at least minor importance rather than the boring diary type entries I have been posting. OK... Hold me to it.

Also, if any of my fellow bloggers out there have any tips on blog designing... please let me know. I would like for my blog to be a little more personalized. UCK.

Remembering

2008-09-11T09:38:00.000-05:00

Today marks the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 Terrorist attacks on our country. It is almost unreal to me that it has been seven years. I would venture to say that the 9/11 attack on our country is for my generation what the Kennedy assassination is to the baby boomer generation. Meaning that we will NEVER forget where we were when as Alan Jackson would say "the world stopped turning". I can give you a very detailed account of where I was, what I was doing, my first thoughts, and subsequently the days to follow. I can also give you an account of where Beau was too. Even though I did not even have the slightest clue as to who he was at the time. It still gives me chills thinking about the day, this morning Beau and I had a short drive to work. We stayed at his parents while they are out of town, so it only took about 20 minutes to get to work. So for 15 of the 20 minutes we listened to a recap of events that took place on that dreadful morning. We both sat there in silence as we listened to each recap minute by minute of what happened. It is strange that this very time seven years ago ALL of our lives changed....forever. We will never look at flying the same, never look at New York the same, never see many things the same. I could not help but weep this morning reminiscing that day. It is still so fresh on my mind. As the radio station played the recap chills went up and down my spine, my skin looked like chicken skin all bumpy and cold. I sat there just crying. Remember every emotion and fear that set in on that warm September day. I feel like giving an account of what my day was like might help me to remember those we lost that day. It might help to get my feelings out and not feel so bottled up today.
I remember September 11, 2001 like it was yesterday. I was a freshman in college at UAB. I had an 8 o'clock class that morning that got out a few minutes before 9. I was walking across 12th street in downtown Birmingham. I remember the walk light turning green and starting across the street from the UAB library to the Arts and Humanities building. I remember two women probably in their 30s dressed in suits talking on their cell phones with panic in their voices. They were crying. There was an Eire silence throughout campus. I just remember them saying that the Pentagon had been attacked. I remember thinking... what? I kept walking when I got to my next class there were several other students, in the class just talking about their speculation of what could have happened. At this point the second plane had just hit the WTC. Needless to say our classes were cancelled for the rest of the day. I had a University Class that I went to and we discussed our feelings and thoughts. Somewhere I have a paper I wrote during class about my feelings at that time. Gosh, I wish I knew where that was. I remember feeling so scared...even here in Alabama. I ended up at my parents by mid-afternoon I sat in the living room with my mom for hours upon hours watching the news. I have never felt such sadness in my life. Heartbreaking sadness. I slept on the couch that night...actually, I wouldn't say slept. I lay on the couch that night so glued to the television. I saw grown men, newscasters.... you know the really hardcore ones who show NO emotion, just weeping on screen. It was horrible. The real test though came in the weeks and months to follow. The people who posted pictures of their loved ones that were missing. The firefighters who lost their lives saving others. The ENDLESS stories of hopelessness. Then there were the ones like Lisa Beamer. I am sure that she would have loved to go the rest of her life just being Todd's wife, and mother to her babies. I am sure she did not want to be catapulted in the spotlight as the woman who's husband and peers on flight 93 (I think that was the one) over took the highjackers and crashed in Pennsylvania before making it to DC. I am sure she wish a thousand times her husband wouldn't have been the one who is an icon with his bravery and words... "Lets Roll"... I can't imagine her life today. There are so many people in our lives that have been devastated by the terrorist attacks and War to follow. I encourage you to remember those people today. Think about where you were that day. Write it down.Remember today.

A Tradition Begins

2008-08-28T12:07:00.000-05:00

So as most of you know the 2008 Auburn Football season kicks off in less than 72 hours. It would be an understatement if I said we were excited and looking forward to this year! My precious husband reminds of a child on Christmas Eve. And to say that I did not feel the same would not be exactly honest. You see this season will mark the beginning of a very important tradition in our family. Since March 2008 my love for Auburn University has taken on a different role. What was once just a fun place to visit some of mine and Beau's very best friends... is now a place that goes much deeper into my heart. I know for those who do not know me very well I probably sound like a crazy person. But for those who know me best they understand. I will try to fill in others although I am very limited on what I can "actually" say. I will say this.... thanks to a very special person in my life.....in our lives..... our entire family is a part of the Auburn family in a much deeper way. OK. SO what does this mean? I am not exactly sure at this point. I do know what I have been told. I have been told that this family is FOREVER. Once you are part of it you are always part of it! I know that the last two Auburn events I have attended I have cried like a baby when the chant "Its great to be an AUBURN tiger" is mentioned with such fire in everyones voices. It is like nothing else I have ever experienced. This weekend will mark a family tradition that I am sure(a hope and pray) will continue for many generations of the Weldon family. We will all (our entire family) be down on the Plains on Saturday... cheering for our Tigers, celebrating the new season, enjoying the fellowship with friends of all ages, both new and old. There is nothing like a 6pm game too. We have ALL heard and seen when people say " You know God loves Auburn because the sky is orange and blue on the plains when the sun sets" And it is true!! Amazing and true. I am praying for clear skies and a beautiful sunset. As the next two days come to an end, I encourage everyone to say a few extra prayers for our team this year. Pray for the safety of our players, cheerleaders, dance team, band, and our favorite mascot AUBIE. I really feel like it is going to be a great year.... Looking forward to seeing you on the Plains. WAR EAGLE.

Newest Pictures

2008-08-27T09:45:00.000-05:00

Just a quick note to say that after several failed attempts to post the updated house photos on my blog....I gave up. No really I just posted them to our facebook page. SO if you are interested and you have not already done so....check them out.

Whitney

Feels Like Home to Me

2008-08-21T12:51:00.000-05:00

As most know, at least by now that is, Beau and I embarked on quite a journey pertaining to our first home. When Beau and I began dating five and half years ago we candidly spoke of what our vision was for "our" home. Those "One Day" conversations almost always encompassed what we would refer to as our little beachy cottage. I did not grow up in a tiny little home but it always felt so comfy! I remember always telling Beau that one day I wanted a little cozy home that had a quilt thrown over the back of the couch(more on that in a moment) to snuggle with even during the summer. Just a place where our friends and family could take their shoes off, fix themselves a glass of tea or lemonade, snack, spill stuff, just BE. I also remember thinking I did not want a brand new house. Nothing against new homes...believe me I realize there is certainly something to be said for a New home!!.... But that just wasn't me...it wasn't Beau, just not at this point in our lives at least. For those wondering little minds...a side note about the quilt thing: Throughout my entire life in our home if you were cold you covered up with a quilt. Not just any quilt though. Quilts that were handmade by my Nanny and Big Nanny(Great Grandmother) as well as other family members. SO with that being said, quilts as silly as this sounds, are a big part of my life. OK now with having that out... when Beau and I first started dating and we were in that snuggle on the couch and watch a movie stage(come to think of it... we are still there) pre-wear warm clothes or at least comfy clothes stage... we were at his parents in their living room and I was freezing! Beau went to the trunk and pulled out none other than a QUILT!! for me to cover up with. I jokingly tell folks that is when I knew I would marry him! (But in a way I am not joking) Ok enough about that. Now back to the cozy.comfy. house. Last summer when Beau and I got engaged we were trying to figure out where in the world we would live. One week prior to our engagement night I was hosting a lingerie shower at my cousins home in Columbiana (Shelby County for those who were wandering were that might be). So one of my other cousins knew I was in the home market and told me about a cute little house that was across the street from Alana's. She said it had been empty for about four or five months and that it was probably going into foreclosure. For those who do not know anything about the process... once a home is in the beginning of the process it can take several months to actually get to the point where the home is up on the market. So we waited and waited and waited. Then one day we realized it had been listed. The kicker is our house was a HUD foreclosure meaning the person who was foreclosed on had an FHA loan. SO this meant major hurdles for us! Little did we know at that point. HUD goes a little something like this, the house goes on the market for a listing price, you bid a "closed bid" meaning you don't know who you are bidding against...if anyone. Then eventually after I think 10 days they list the highest bidder....and boom you are now in a whirlwind of excitement and emotions as you have 48 hrs to fill out all paperwork (contracts etc) and have it turned back in. YEP 48 HRs. Talk about stressful!!! I will never forget those 48 hrs in my life. We wanted this little house from the moment we stepped foot inside. We saw past the nasty, the neglect, and the wear and tear. We knew this house had potential. So as you might have guessed....we were the highest bidder!! We closed on the house the end of Sept. 2007 and our work began. With the help of my very talented dad (McGuyver as Beau affectionately refers to him) and older brother Josh, mom, Taylor, Tyler, Sydney, Tyler W., Lindsay and a few others we started renovating our little house. It took approx. 7 months. So before I show the pictures of our house now I thought it would be fun to show those who care pictures of the raw...BEFORE. Do not worry my friends I did not sleep in this house until much much later. I don't think you will recognize it once I show the after the after pictures. Please enjoy. Go ahead you can laugh...we do...Often! We joke if we don't laugh and had we not laughed we would have cried. Well actually, we did cry. It was a long journey. But well worth it. I will post updated photos tonight. Feedback palease!

These are posted a little crazy but this was the view from the hallway looking into the dining room. There were only 2 closets in the entire house. The right side of this picture is where the huge hole in the floor was where the washer set, and on the left was the dryer. Nice I know.

This is picture of the guest room which we refer to as the "blue" room. Mainly because it is blue. This is the room where I lived until Beau and I got married. Sometimes we still sleep in there because there is a tv. We haven't quite been brave enough to move the cable by ourselves.

This is our "master bedroom" Yep the walls were purple. And there were places were you could literally see to the crawl space through the holes in the floor. YIKES.
This is a view of the hallway from the guest room/blue room doorway. The floors were peel and stick fake parque. That was a fun night when B and I decided to demolish that crap. It took about 3 hours to pull up. Should have left it down. You could see the ground when we pulled it up.
Ok this is the infamous Green bathroom. TOO bad I don't have the picture of the wall that had the "my pond friends mural" on the wall. It was AWFUL!!
The front of the house.
Kitchen from the den. This is taken from the now island in between the kitchen and den. The only soure of light in the kitchen was that nasty ceiling fan.
This is a picture of the den from the kitchen. Please notice the "built-ins" Beau actually liked those! Yuck
This is taken from the doorway of the green bathroom. This is the backside of the den.Closest to the kitchen
This picture is taken from the doorway in the kitchen looking into the front of the house into the diningroom first and then the living room. These walls are tongue and groove wooden boards. The floor looks pretty but it was sooo thin because it was actually the subfloor. Therefore our insulation sucked. Also there was No trim, no crownmolding etc. You could barely tell where the floor ended and the walls began. Our house was built in the 1940's so you can imagine the character marks it has! Can't wait for you to see the updates. Can you??

The Beach recap

2008-08-20T07:57:00.000-05:00

Ok so vacation was restful. Probably the most rest I have had in years. I want to give a quick recap of our trip, for those who care or don't care but are addicted to reading blogs...like me.
So as long as I can remember my family has taken the annual "Weldon Family Beach Trip". And for those who know us you know that the trip never consisted of just the Weldon family. Because once you have five children....you never just have five... there have always been boyfriends/girlfriends, best friends, random friends who have happened along the way etc. But that is what makes our trips so memorable. I could tell you at least a hundred stories of beach memories..but I will save those for request only. SO back to this year. I remember clearly our trip in 2007. My dad had been on chemo for a year, he was finishing up the last of his treatment and he seriously felt like pure garbage. Beau and I had just become engaged after 4 years of dating, Josh and Lindsay were there and beginning to talk about marriage, it was just busy in life. We were all so tired from taking care of the business, my dad and all the other things that fall by the waste side when someone in your family is sick. I remember talking to my mom about " next year Beau and I will be married when we come to the beach with ya'll" In a way it seemed like forever away!
So the point of the recap is to say that it was so much fun being at the beach with my ENTIRE family! Especially my husband!! Beau and I have gone on many beach trips together but I will say I really felt like this trip was the BEST!! The beach was Empty!! I am talking about NO one being there!! It reminded me of the days back in the early 1990's when no one went to Orange Beach. It was awesome!! We had such a great time. The weather was perfect. It wasn't too hot, there was a nice breeze it was overcast several days, it rained none stop one day... but overall it was perfect. We got just enough sun, some got too much and stayed in the last day we were there. But Beau and I were in heaven. I took lots of pictures and I will post those very soon. It was just a blast having all ten of us under one roof. We played Baggo (or corn hole for some) like it was going out of style. Yep, I played it... I will admit it. AND for those who don't know.... I am NOT a game player type gal. My parents even played. It was really fun. We also played lots of Wii. Well I watched while others played. It is so funny to watch others play! Then each night we cooked, and all gathered in front of the tv to watch the US in Beijing. Michael Phelps ruled our week.... and Beau became SOOO inspired. He raced everyone in the family for most of the week. He loves a competition! And given that he has the height thing going for him, he is a pretty fast swimmer. He is so funny. Beau and the Tyler's (my brother and Syd's BF) entertained the family with their Olympic style entry into the poolside with goggles they found at the lost and found box, a beach ball and a hot pink tube that Beau squeezed into. It was hilarious!! Taylor had the Auburn Fight song on the i-pod and we played it for their entry... as we all sang along! It was great. Tyler had to leave on Friday which made us all pretty sad but we were so happy he got to come on the trip at all. Overall the week was full of rest, laughter, tears and the pure joy of our family being together and just relaxing after a couple of crazy years. It WAS definitely a beach trip that will not be forgotten. OH and also, to make the week even better... for my entire childhood/teenage years our family went to the beach with some our dearest friends the Dowe family. The Dowe family which consists of Edmond, Linda, Meagan, and Bricy are from Montgomery. They own Rebel Pest Control. Almost all of my beach memories include them. They are sooo special to us. As we got older we were not at the beach at the same time but we remained close to them... keeping up with the latest in their lives. Last August Mr. Edmond was diagnosed with Colon Cancer and went through a surgery very similar to the one my dad had five years ago. It broke our hearts. But unfortunately Mr. Edmond has had cancer appear in several other areas and has had one hell of a year dealing with all that goes along with cancer. So the point being... the Dowe girls were at the beach with some friends and went to dinner with our family on Thursday night. It was so wonderful seeing them!! It was like old times.... we just wish Edmond and Linda could have been there too! Please keep their family in your prayers as Edmond has just started taking some really strong medicine with some terrible side effects because several of the spots on his liver have grown a little. Ok so I will try to post pictures of our trip before the end of the week. God Bless you friends!

-Whitney

Slow Down

2008-08-08T15:14:00.000-05:00

Well it is official. I pretty much stink at my blogging ability these days. I would give you a brief overview of why...but we all know I am never brief. That is why you read right!?!

This week has been soo busy for Beau and me. We have worked late, been in Birmingham late every night and even stayed unexpectedly one night because we just couldn't force ourselves to make the drive home. Busy is a good thing though...right? It is for us, I mean we like being busy. It makes the weekend come sooner...or so it feels. But do you ever feel like you are so busy that the time is going by soooo fast and you're spending your entire day chasing the daylight. (that is for you TIP) I didn't mean the pun but it slithered out of my fingertips and I know if anyone appreciates the total SH rip-off it is you right?

Today that is my life. Beau and I are going to the beach with my entire family on Sunday. We began our work days until the beach countdown at #10. I thought this day would never get here. But it has arrived and it is going to be over quicker than it appeared. How is that?? Is it because mentally I have been on vacation since day 10 or is it because I am so incredibly UNorganized and I feel quilty leaving my disaster behind. I think it is safe to say it is a little of both. But I am trying to just not think about it. I have way too much to do than to analyze why I have only an hour and a half left in my work day with about 3 hours of work left to do. Ugghhh.

I guess I will get to my point. I wanted to write a little about slowing down. I went to the most hated chain store EVER today, I had a very specific reason for going there. Tire shine....yep that is right. Tire shine and armoral (spelling) wipes. (I am showing my car this afternoon). But....while I am in there I end up purchasing three CDS. Does anyone besides me still buy CDS? It is such a waste. Especially for me. But today I bought some really random ones. One that takes me back to UAB- don't really want to go back but I do sometimes. BrushFire Fairytales by Jack Johnson. You know with the really good singalongs like inaudible melodies (think that is the name), and Bubblie Toes or something like that. Also Sugarland for the one song I know and then I picked up my dad the Doobies greatest hits. (Great find for 7 bones). So back to my point. I put in the JJ cd and the first song chorus is "Slow down everyone you're moving too fast... yadayadayada" and it hit me. OMG that is the truth. Everyone is moving so fast all the time........another story about this later when I am not panicking about time management. It is a funny grocery store story. ALL of this to say....this next week I am slowing down. I am planning to take FULL advantage of beach time. Maybe I will blog. Maybe not but the life will be beach living at its best. Care Free and Stress Free...except maybe the choices like...should I get a bloody mary or coffee this morning while I watch the boats come in from the gulf. One thing I do know is Beau and I are going to purchase our very own camera before we depart so that means beach pics for sure!!

OH Yeah

2008-07-31T08:07:00.000-05:00

Today Beau and I have been married two months!! It feels like longer, But I think it is cool! Yeah for us.

These Days

2008-07-31T07:46:00.000-05:00

So I must admit since the creation of this blog I have been doing a lot of thinking about what it is I want to "blog" about. There are so many of my fellow bloggers who are so eloquent in their writing and I will be the first to say that even though I am a writer by nature I feel as if I am needing to revamp my skills. It has been over three years since I have actually done any writing....of this nature anyway. SO I am feeling a little rusty. Hang in there with me. Hopefully I will get back on track soon.

I must also say that when I created this blog I thought I would update every single day and be very informative of what is going on in our life. But, life has happened. Beau and I have been so busy with work this week. And then at night we have been tuned into "Shark Week" It is a tradition for us so we can't miss it. You should tune in too! It is very informative about you know...sharks. So I guess the point of my story is that while I hope to be able to blog daily... it just might not happen. I really want to let everyone know what is going on in our little Mosley world. I feel like the days are going by so fast and before I know it, a new week is beginning while I am still trying to figure out where last week went. I think for me that I am learning a good lesson. So often I think ok...I have got to get organized and get ready for you know, LIFE: dinner with friends and family, going out with old friends, going on trips ,etc. I am a daydreamer for sure. But what I am learning is that life is here..... everyday is what you make it. While I have been busy "planning" my life is happening. Am I making sense? Does anyone else feel this way?? Or am I alone in this craziness. I guess what I am trying to say is that while I want to plan everything and think.....it is happening. I do not want to miss it! So my newest goal is to try and life everyday in its self. While I do think planning is a necessity in life... living and enjoying everyday to its fullest is more important to me right now. OK so I don't think I have made this point to clear. Hopefully you are not sitting at your computer feeling confused and wondering what I have been drinking this morning. It is only coffee... I PROMISE!! Ok enough banter... I've got work to do!

I finally did it!!!!

2008-07-29T15:04:00.000-05:00

Hello friends, family and fellow blog stalkers. Several of my closest friends know that I have been secretly dying to have my own blog!!! I finally did it! Thanks to a little encouragement from my friend Alisa(thanks! even though you didn't even know you were encouraging me!) I did it. I finally created my own!!! I am super excited. If you are wondering how I finally took the leap. I read Alisa's blog today and I love reading about the recent events going on in the Bozich household. Tommie and Alisa are some of our dearest friends. Beau and I painfully miss seeing them as they are all the way in Colorado! But, I feel like I am right there with them for the most part thanks much to Facebook and Alisa's blog that she is quite dedicated to. So today, I read her most recent post and I notice at the top of the screen it says...create a blog. So I DID!!! Beau is probably going to laugh at the fact I have found yet another thing to obsess over! YES! Oh well. I guess it is just how you look at it. I am hoping that I can get Beau excited about it too. But for those who know us....probably not. I am definitely the talker in this family!! Ok so enough for the first post. I will update soon.
WLWM