our dog izzy...

this is our dog izzy... she's a pain in my patootie. i was totally out of my mind to think it would be easy peasy to care for a dog and a baby and go to school and run a house. BUT - whatever, she's ours now and she's starting to grow on me - a little. 

when she gets riled up she's like a 3 year old on sugar crack. and she digs holes. lots of them. 

 like this one...

 and this one...

 and here are two of her IN the act of digging up our yard

normally it's just really annoying, but today her digging yielded treasure! and i don't mean the sort of treasure that gramps calls what nuggie puts in a poopie diaper.

a blue marble! wish she'd dig up someone's old diamond jewelry or a stashed box full of cash. i guess a blue marble will just have to do.

rain, rain - go away...

while bub is out i told him i'd mow the lawn. well, it's been icky and rainy for days now and i haven't had a chance to do it yet and it doesn't look like i will anytime soon since it's rainy again today. the grass is starting to look like a jungle! gramps is coming to hang out with us till bub gets back, so maybe i can get him to help? even just to watch nuggie so i can do it? we also really need to weed-eat around the flower beds and such. i haven't ever used that particular lawn tool yet, anyone have advice??

so it's no secret that our house is infested with poison deadly scary bad brown recluse spiders. we've gotten them under control and thankfully don't often see them anymore. but when it's boiling hot outside, like it has been, they rush into the house again because - well, i don't know why - they just do it. i was getting ready to hop in the shower this morning and i lifted nuggie's bath seat up out of the tub and there hiding under it was a huge one! it was about the size of a silver dollar. eeeecccckkkkkk!!! and since i'm playing house all alone this week, i had to hike up my big girl panties and kill the darn thing myself. the old me would have put a cup over it and waited for bub to come home and kill it. i am so so so so SO scared of spiders! but, i had no choice, i had to kill it. so i squashed that bad boy and flicked him outside off the end of the fly swatter. ick, ick, ick!


shannon blogged the other day about 16 and pregnant. last night i totally got sucked in by it! everything she said in her blog was so true. but it's so like a train wreck - i can't NOT watch. it totally broke my heart. seeing a 16 or 17 year old girl handling such a huge responsibility is tough. the episode i watched last night was involving a girl who's dad had kicked her out when he found out she was pregnant and her mom lived in new jersey, so she had to move in with her boyfriend's family. the boy's mom was a spazz addicted to drugs and was just hateful to the poor girl. when the girl's mom showed up to see the new baby it was like looking at another teen mom - she was a wreck herself. this poor girl had no one. in the end she and boy of course broke up and she went to live with a friend. i'm so thankful every single day that bub and i waited to have our little family.

i also totally got sucked into 19 kids and counting last night. i know they're sort of different and old fashioned, but i LOVE them. they just seem so loving and sweet and all those kids seem so well behaved and mature. i want to be friends with them. then mrs duggar can teach me to make my own soap and how to actually get little kids to do chores around the house. 

only the lonely

the hubs is taking off for a work adventure tomorrow morning and won't be back till sunday :-( i really am so excited for him - he's going to be traveling alot the next few months. no out of the country trips make me feel a little better. but i'm really gonna miss him! he's my better half, i rely on him so much! and i don't know about you other mommas out there, but from about 3:30 till whenever gets home, like 5ish, i'm a little frazzled, the babes is always whiny then, the dog is driving me bonkers, i'm trying to make dinner, get the nugg fed and winding down and oh, he's like a knight in shining armor when he walks through that door at the end of the day. even just having him there so i have someone to vent to is amazing. but he's really good about helping and will take the dog and babes on a walk or help fix dinner and i'm so much calmer after that. i'm gonna miss my man :-(

i'm not going to miss what he's done to his head. he asked me not to post a pic, but let me paint you a picture. gone are his thick lovely locks of hair and instead, it's about 1/4 of an inch and buzzed all over. at least he has a lovely round noggin. he tried to tell me some hulabaloo about all the men on his spartan race team looking the same and that's why he committed hair graffiti. crap is what i call it. i guess we're even though - i chopped my hair off and he did the same. we can now both commiserate our short 'dos. i can't wait for mine to grow back out! i can't wait for his grow either :-)

i've got another micro exam tomorrow. let's hope i do better this week! last week was disastrous. i've studied my face off for this one. i. am.ready! i can't believe we're already a month into this thing.

tomorrow starts C25K week 3 and it has me running 5 min segments. holy flying thigh masters - i'm not sure i can handle this! it's a gajillion degrees and casey is gonna kick my saddle bagged behind. if you find me gasping for air in the ditch tomorrow, kindly toss me an inhaler.

jinx, you owe me a coke

yeah, i should have known better than to blog about how great everyone was sleeping in our house... the last two nights have been rough! sweet nuggie knew i blogged and said, oh yeah mom, i'll show you! and she's decided not to nap or sleep at ALL! well, ok, that's a little dramatic. but the napping part is the whole truth. she's just cried and cried through nap time. then she's dog tired by 5pm. but that's so early to put her down. so she'd sleep till like 8 and then was ready to party... last night was a little a better. daddy kept her up and happy till 7 and she only got up once. from now on i just can't blog about how great she's sleeping...

sweet cakes turned 8 months old on wednesday - i promised a photo... here she is :-) she was very serious when i was taking her pics and this was the closest thing to a smile i could get.

it's father's day weekend! i want to treat the hubs to a wonderful first daddy's day... i've got some special little things planned. i think gramps is going to be with us as well, so i'll have two dads to celebrate. i'll be thinking of my own dad this weekend too. he wasn't much for presents or fuss or anything, but you could always give him sweets! if he was still with us i'd probably give him a big bag full of peanut butter cups, reecie peice's and starbursts. he would have loved nuggie so much, i'm so sad he never got to meet her. hug your dad's this weekend if you can friends...

8 months old!

our sweet little nuggie is 8 months old today! how is this possible??? she's still snoozing away, but when she's up and i've had a chance to take her pics i'll be sure to post them. she's getting so big! and, i've been hesitant to post this b/c i don't want to jinx things - but... she's sleeping through the night AND napping in her crib!!! things were getting so tough around here with her starting to only want to sleep if i was holding her and no one was getting much sleep. so we did a little work, set up a good routine and presto - the little sweetie is sleeping like a dream! you know those last couple of months in your pregnancy you don't really sleep well and then 8 months of having a baby who doesn't sleep - well, 10 months later, we're ALL getting some good rest around here! sleep, i've missed you! it's so nice to get reacquainted!

class is chugging along. we're about a month in now. it's a really hard class - microbiology. i'm not doing too well if i'm gonna be honest. i need to study more. it's such an interesting course, i do enjoy the material, i'm just finding the pace of it and the amount of info we have to know to be a little overwhelming.

the couch to 5k is coming along well. i started week three yesterday. it has me running in 3 min intervals now. that is the longest i've ever run, EVER. it's so hard, but such a great feeling to be working towards something like this. not really losing any weight yet :-( but life has been really crazy, hectic and stressful the last few weeks, so i'm guessing that may have something to do with it? i'm going to keep at it - weight loss or not, i'm loving learning to run. i ran with miss casey again yesterday - such a great cheerleader!!!

well, i best take advantage of my sleeping babe and fit some study time in!

pics!

 gramps helped us out this week! he watched nuggie while i had class since miss d was out of town. nuggie adores her grandpa and they had a wonderful time together this week :-)

 nuggie helped daddy clean out his car. she's really close to pulling herself up on things in the house and grabbed the steering wheel and pulled herself up on that! she's such a big girl!

 nuggie had a soap suds goatee last night in the tub!! she's been doing this thing where she leans forward and dunks her nose in the water. she usually snorts and gets water up her nose... i'm not sure why the heck she finds this so fun!

the super generous miss claire passed along to us her baby bouncer. nuggie LOVES it!

happy friday everyone! bub and i have a very rare date night planned for this evening. we had a living social deal for movie tickets we needed to use up - so we're going to see that new steven spielberg movie - super 8. sweet miss kate is coming to watch the bambino - woot!!

sleeping beauty

well, we had a much better night last night. only one wake up from miss nuggie and she went right back to sleep after having a little bottle. it's amazing how much better you feel after 6 hours of sleep!

gramps and i are taking the nugster to the farmer's market today for lunch. bub is gonna meet us there since it's so close to his work. after lunch i think we'll wander around a little and check out what sort of goodies we might be able to find there.

is anyone watching the bachelorette? i don't normally find myself getting sucked in to this particular reality tv show, but there is nothing else on this summer, so i got hooked. i'm awful though and already went to www.realitysteve.com and found out how it ends. what is my deal? i can't help myself! it's like when i read a book - i've got to know how it ends before i start it.

couch - 5k week 2 day 2 was today. i went alone since grampy is here and could watch the nugg. i'm slower when i'm alone, but i did about 2 miles with a 12 min/mile avg when i was jogging. i'm trying to get my average down 10 min/mile.

it's another hot hot hot day - stay cool my lovelies.