A Long Post.....

I have not totally forgotten about blogging, I probably think about it everyday but we have been super busy!! I probably can not even remember what all we have done in the past week but we have been on the go!

Last Monday (a little over a week ago) was MOPS. I really enjoy being in MOPS. The service project for our MOPS group is an outreach to NICU's. I was ask to be on this committee and I am really excited about it. We will be providing baskets to parents whose little one is in the NICU. We had our NICU kickoff last Monday. It was an amazing watching all the ladies in our MOPS group come together and help make the baskets.

After MOPS last week we met up with two of my friends for lunch.  We had so much fun sitting and chatting.  It seems like we just do not have time to do that as much anymore with everyone going 1000 different directions.

If you have read my blog for a while you know I love to coupon!  One day last week the Princess and I loaded up and went to Target.  I have never really couponed there but one of our speakers at MOPS gave us some tips on couponing so I decided to try Target.  I think we did get a few good deals.

The Princess has been teething still.  It causes her to drool ALOT and she tends to get a runny nose when she teethes.  We ended up taking her to the doctor on Saturday morning because she woke up a little before 5AM SCREAMING!!  I started wondering if it could possibly be her ears because I had seen her holding them some during the week.  Hubby finally told me around 11 to call and get her an appointment and luckily they were able to see her at 11:40.  I am so glad our pediatricians office is open on Saturdays!!  Her ears were good and then they looked at her throat.  Yes, she had a red throat again but thankfully no strep throat this time...most likely just the drool and runny nose causing her to have a sore throat.

I subbed in her Sunday School class this past Sunday.  Hubby stayed home with her because we just wanted to make sure she was well!!

Yesterday, we were busy again.  Grocery shopping and couponing all morning and then we came home for the Princess to get a nap.

Tonight was Bible Study and we are getting ready for DNow at church.  Our Bible Study group always does the food for two homes so we worked on that tonight too.

Ok, that is my past week in a glance....I will quit rambling on and on now:)

Have a wonderful Wednesday eveyone!!

Hello.....

I have not forgotten about my blog. The Princess is over her strep, we just had a very busy week. She is still teething though! I think this round of teeth are harder on her than the last ones that came in. I see more of the molars now than a couple of weeks ago but maybe they are still not all the way through!!

I think I am really going to like the time change! I had to run a quick errand tonight thinking that the Princess would still be up when I got home to walk in and Hubby tell me she had already gone to bed! It was only 7:45 when I came in!! I was kind of sad that I did not get to tell her good night but if she starts going to bed earlier that means I might can go to bed earlier...although that is not the way it is looking tonight.

Anyway, we had our Ladies Retreat this weekend at church so I was busy Friday and Saturday with that. Today, we had our Sunday "Potluck" here at the house. We started that last month with 3 other families although only one other family was able to come this month due to other things going on. We had a great time having lunch with them today. We have also been dog-sitting this weekend. You may remember from prior post our friends golden retriever "Holly" that is one of Sadie's playmates. A lab and a golden playing together equals lots of fun for them but you should have seen how dirty the two of them got. They both actually had to have a bath on Saturday afternoon!!

I will hopefully be able to catch up more tomorrow and add some new pictures of the little Princess!!! Sorry, that I am just rambling away.....

I hope you all have a Marvelous Monday!!!

Catching Up, A Positive Test and A Few Pictures....

I was doing so well keeping my blog updated last week and this week I have missed two days. I do have a good excuse though. Yesterday, after two visits to the doctors office I found out that the Princess has strep! We went in yesterday morning after I spoke to the nurse on the phone but her ears looked good and I guess her throat was not red. She just had a low grade fever and did not want to eat her breakfast. She has had a low grade fever on and off and I always think it is teething because she is teething a lot these days. When she would not eat yesterday morning was my sign something was not right. After we left the doctors office thinking it probably was just teething we ran several errands.  We ended up back at the doctors office after her fever went up to 103.4 and then even after giving her Mot*in it was still   100.7 a hour and a half later.  They told me to bring her back in.  I thought she had probably developed another ear infection - I was not even thinking it was going to be strep.  When the doctor looked at her throat it was a little red so she decided to go ahead and test her.  I am so glad I went ahead and took her back in so that we got started on the antibiotics last night!  We were suppose to go to the Pumpkin Patch for a playdate today with my MOPS group. I found the Princess a cute pumpkin shirt and socks to wear today but it doesn't look like we will be going. Luckily, we have the whole month of November to wear it:)!! Here are a few pictures of here while we were waiting on the results of her Strep test.  She actually had a little energy after her fever started going down - so in these pictures she was happy.

Playing with my keys.  She is trying to say "keys" these days too.  I guess she does say it because I can understand it when she says it.....

It was cool here last night but I dressed her in short sleeves and I had on long sleeves but since she was running a fever I was trying to cool her off.  She looked so cute in her pink t-shirt with her pink tennis shoes. 

I included this picture because I think she looks like such a big girl in this one! You can also see how much hair she has gotten lately in this picture too:)

Poor baby girl has had a restless night.  I am thankful that is seems her fever has stayed down throughout the night.  I was up with her about every 2 1/2 to 3 hours all during the night though.  She would just cry out alot while she was sleeping and then sometimes she would wake up.  I have been alternating the Mot*in and Tylen*ol all night.  Since she fell back to sleep right before time for her last dose I am just waiting until she wakes up again - since her fever seems to be down right now.  Hopefully, we are almost past the fever part of this!!

We had a cold front come through here. It is in the 30's according to my phone this morning. Yay!! Cool weather is here....I wonder for how long??

Sometimes the Princess will get the pillows off the couch and play with them.  A couple of days ago I had walked out of the room for a few minutes and when I walked back in this is what she had done!

I just realized that all the pictures in this post were taken with my iPhone.  
Hope you all have a Fantastic Friday!!!!

Shoes!!!

One thing the Princess really likes to say right now is "shoes". She loves shoes! If I take my shoes off and they are where she can get to them she goes and gets them and will usually bring them to me. The other day I had left my shoes in the living room and caught her trying them on! It was so cute!!!

Another thing she likes to do is help me when I fold laundry. She does not actually fold the laundry but she will usually come and find a few pieces that she would like to play with. In the picture below she had gotten a couple of her washcloths!

We had a busy, busy day today and the Princess went to bed early for her!! I plan on staying in most of tomorrow and hopefully getting a few things done around home. We have been up and out early every morning this week. Sunday for church, yesterday for MOPS and today I had a meeting so the Princess stayed with a friend. I think I could have gone to bed two hours ago I am so tired right now:)!! I have a few things to do and then I think I will call it an early night or early for me anyways!!

Hope you all had a Terrific Tuesday!!!

Before we left for church on Sunday I wanted to get a picture of the Princess in her outfit. The outfit she has on was given to us as a gift for Kate and I think it is adorable! I remember pulling it out when we pulled all Kate's stuff out to see what the Princess could use and wondering if she would be able to wear it because she was so little when we brought her home. The outfit is an 18 month - ok, I did not realize she would be wearing 18 months when she was around 12 months so yes, this does fit her now because she is still wearing 18 months right now. She was in a very happy mood before church as you can tell from all the pictures.  You should be able to double click on the picture below to make it larger.

Let's Color

Last Friday, the 15th of October I got out a coloring book and colors that the Princess had gotten at a birthday party she went to a few months back and we colored! I taped two pages to her highchair tray and gave her the colors. I did turn my head one time and she put one of the colors in her mouth. I think she liked coloring though.

A Simple Friday

So, we did not have much going on Friday. The princess and I just hung out at the house most of the day and mid/late afternoon we ran over to a friends house for a quick surprise that I had for her. The princess had fun playing with her kids while she and I got to chat and she gave the princess a ton of books that she had after cleaning out her kids bookcases! The princess loves, loves, loves her books lately. I actually tried to get a picture of her where she had taken the pillows from the couch and put them in the living room floor and was laying on them looking at her book...it was too cute! By the time I got my camera out she had already moved and then wanted me to pick her up instead of taking a picture!! I decided to play around with my camera a little. I used a different setting with no flash, edited one of these a little and this is what I got. 

Friday was also Mom's Night out.  We went for coffee and had a great time! The Princess and Hubby hung out together for the evening. They actually went and bought a movie that just came out for the Princess and watched that or I guess I should say Hubby watched it. He said that she only watched part of it.  The Princess was already in bed when I got home.  I am sure they had a blast together!

These are more of my favorite pictures of her as is the first one on this post! I am thinking we are going to have to have one of these from this day blown up and framed!  Wow, picking which one will be really hard because we took so many that day and I like so many of them!!!

Hope you all have a Super Saturday!!!