A storm's a brew'n!

Tropical storm Fay seemed like no big deal. We had some rain going into work last night, and this morning had a downpour on us to the car, but no rain on the way home. I guess it has decided to leave our state via Daytona Beach ( where I work.. thank goodness I am not back until sunday!) then it is going to wade in the Atlantic at a rediculously slow speed, build and build until it becomes a catagory 1 then it is projected to reenter out state via Flager or St. Augustine.
Okay so we live in Flagler county! We are 8 mionutes form the beach! SO... who knows what will happen. The made thing is to worry about flooding , losing power, and tonados. Yikes! We ahve been so blessed to rnot be affected by the storms, especially in 2004. So I guess it's our area's turn. Just keep us all in your prayers. I'm sure everything will be fine. But is going to take a long time to move into Jacksonville, so basically the eye will be hovering over us for a while. You know I am no expert, but that is what I've been hearing.

We will keep you updated!

Oh and in other good news... Shandy Baby recieved it's very first sale at our new store... www.shandybaby.etsy.com
I am so excited! It only took about 2 weeks, and we have just been trying to get it together still.
But I am excited. I love to create things. It is so satisfying! Oh and I start school back on tuesday ....ughhhhhhhhhh. It's been nice having a break =)

Growing up sooo fast!

Brayden 8-13-08 already 23 and 1/2 months old!


I haven't been a very good blogger. We are surviving the about to be terrible 2's...which have already started with tantrums and bad attitudes, but for the most part Brayden is such a sweet little lover. He is getting sooo big! He 's about 29 lbs and at the last Doctors visit over a month ago, he was 3 feet tall! His birthday is just around the corner! I can't believe my baby is going to be 2! I just celebrated my 26th birthday on Monday! Crazy! I am closer to 30 than 20 now.. yikes! Well.. I had a great day . I went shopping for craft stuff and had lunch with my friend Shandra, and then I came home to find roses and a card , along with my wonderful husband. I have to brag on him. He is so wonderful to me. As you all know I have started a side business with Shandra and it is slowly but surely coming along. We both love making things and are pretty good at it =) We sell the hair clips I make at a consignment store, and in the first week she sold 7 of them.. not too shabby, seeing as she isn't a huge establishment. She is a pleasure to work with and we really appreciate her for selling our items in there. She also is selling our burp cloth sets and some art clip magnets we've made. Okay.. I digress, but Faron has been so supportive of my taking over the dinning room table and working on that instead of cleaning. He is really my best friend and I love that he is so supportive of me =) Anyhow... We dropped Brayden off at my sister's b/c my parents were going there for dinner, and they watched Brayden over night at there house. We went to Bone Fish grill and had yummy appetizers, and then saw the Dark Knight... very good! I was grabbing Faron's arm the whole night! Very suspenseful!
Oh and I got gift cards from my boys and one from my sister Katie, and money form my parents and my Mema! Thanks guys! Oh.. and we did cheese cake and had candles and sang.. before we left my sister's. We had a lot of fun.

I have a million pics to post.. will do it soon.

our little crib climber/jumper

(Poofy moorning hair!)
here are pictures from a few days ago. He loves to get into the crib and just jump. Today I took him to "the jumpy place" in South Daytona, and he had a blast. I am so mad at myself though... I forgot my camera! We will definately go again... so keep your eye out for pics at a lter date.

Well.. it was toddler time which was nice, only up to age 5. Most of th e kids were about brayden's age. It is a big indoor area with inflatables. I think there were about 8 of them. They were so much fun. We especially loved the slides more than anything! Yes.. I said we... I did everything he did. It was a goog motivator to get in shape. I felt like I was draggin. A lot of the moms just sat and watched but I was there full force. We did have one fiasco. I heard this mom complaining to anothr mom about her son. I didn't really hear what she said. That same boy came in to where brayden was jumping, and I had just gotten out, and wanted Brayden to come too, but he wanted to stay in. So when the older boy came in Brayden tried playing with him. He was fine. Then I couldn't see Brayden( there was a center peice that you could jump on) and I saw the other boy kind of rough housing, so I moved over to see Bray and he was laying down and laughing, and then the boy jumped od the center peice and jumped and then jumped onto brayden... like his feet into my baby's tummy. I yelled so loud at him to get off of my child, and I scrambled into the jump house and he ran out and his mom yelled at him and said "That's it" and she walked out with him. Brayden was crying, but he was okay. He didn't even want to leave the jump house. So... that was kind of crazy. But the rest of the time was fun. Brayden was getting tired and was upset when he wasn't getting what he wanted , right when he wanted it, but, agian nothing new. So, we left when it was over, and we went to Sinic for lunch.

We have all been sick with sore throats and a cough, and it's just now getting worse. I think brayden was coughing, and not chewing he food completely, and he ended up throwing up.Thankfully we were parked and I was able to help him with out too much of a mess. He was so cute, I kept asking .."are you okay?" and he would throw up, and then smile... and say "okay".
Wow.. what a doll baby I have at times. He took a long nap, and he ate a good dinner and had a good bath. So now we are watching "Cars" and just relaxiong in our jammies.. even though it's on,y 5:30pm. Ha! It's just the two of us tonight anyhow, and I am tired. Faron is at a race.Well.. I better get back to watching Cars...

What we've been up to...

I know.. I know.. it's been a long time since I have posted anything. I have just been really busy!
Lets see... since I last posted I finished my second semester of nursing school with a high 'B' ( 10 people failed... so I was pretty stoked with my grade.) That was a really time consuming and mentally challenging semester. I was so happy for it to be over!

I had a total of 5 days off, and then I started into my third semester, Mental Health/Psych. I have to say I really enjoyed this class. It was so much less time consuming, but it was packed into a short six weeks, so it was alot to learn quickly. We had a total of 2 test and a patient care plan, and that was all our grade consisted of. I loved my clinical experience. I was a little nervous to be working with these types of patients, but I really came to enjoy my time with each of them. It was not physically draining, but emotionally exhausting at times, because you really have to use your mind. You have to think before you speak and you are always assessing behavior. Our whole group really came to love the people we were so blessed to serve. If anyone needed a kind word and attention , it's these patients.
Well, the six weeks litterally flew by, and I finished 6/20/08. I came through with an 'A'. I was so very excited!!
It's been nice to not have to do anything, and to be at home with my boys. With my work schedule, I still only have Brayden the weekend and two days out of the week. We ended up doing some shoping one day, and the next we were lazy and spend time around the house, but we did manage to go to the park for an hour. Man was it hot! He had fun. He mostly wanted to play with anything that wasn't a play thing, trees, sticks, climbing stairs, but not going down the slides. He's so funny. We definately have an active child, and he loves to be outside. We really wish we had a fence! It would be really nice. I think next Thursday we are going to go to the jumpy place. It has theinflatables indoors, and on thursdays it has a "toddler time." So, only 5 and under are allowed, which would be perfect for my little guy. I'll have to let you know how that goes. I am pretty sure he will love it, because he is really into jumping. right now. He takes our hands and says "I jump!" And we lift him up and jump. He also loves to get into his crib, hold onto the sides and jump. So, I think this place will be a little bit of heaven for him.

So, in Brayden news...
* He turned 22 months on 6/23/08
* He climbed out of his crib for the first time 6/7/08--- toddler bed in the near future ( he hasn't done it upon awakening since, but frequently does it while playing.)
* He loves to climb up the changing table, then dives into the crib from there
*Climbs onto the arm of the couch, stands up and then procedes to jump off and land his backside onto the back cushions of the couch---Completely freaks me out... a BIG "NO NO", but he insists on trying to do it still.
* LOVES "Finding NEMO", "CARS", and "TOY STORY."
* 6/25/08 started to poop in the tub again. I quickly rushed him from the tub onto the toilet. So my big boy went poo poo on the potty! YEAH! Too bad it wasn't because he said "Mommy I poo poo" and then I put him on the toilet. We are going to begin the venture of potty training soon. I think he is ready.

Alright... well... in other news... Even though I am out of school for two months, I am still really busy. My friend Shandra and I have started a business. "Shandy Baby" . It is a children's boutique. we handcraft all the items and we started going to children's boutiqes in town to get our name out there. We got really good responses from the 3 that we visited. We even got our first order! So, we are totally excited. It's something that we LOVE to do, so if we can make some money of it, even better. We are just starting out, but if you want to check out website www.shandybaby.ecrater.com I 'd love to hear what you think! ( Prices are a little high, because we are selling wholsale to boutiques, but if you are interested in anything, we can do it for a cheaper price.) Our items make really unique baby shower gifts and can all be personalized =)

We have three girls at work that are about to pop, and have done stuff for them, and it's been a great motivator for us to get this up and going.

I will post pictures tomorrow. I am sure that I have tons to share.

The sweetest thing

Yeah!
4-11-08 So cute!
saturday 4-26-08 Striking his best model pose
beautiful blues
our little "stud"

FUN TIMES

Well.. I have to say Farona nd I had a lot of fun on Saturday. My dad came and got Brayden and we went down to Altamonte Springs and ate at Bahama Breeze. We ended up getting a few appetizers and side salads. Very tastey! From there we went on to Orlando to SAK comedy club. It is an improv club ( the show is very simular to "Who's line is it anyway") that is Family friendly... so no bad words =) It was so much fun. We laughed a lot. It was so nice to be out on a date with my hubby. Then we went back to my parent's house and decided to just stay the night, so we wouldn't have to wake Brayden up from the middle of his sleep.

So... that was our day! Yeah... fun times !

I know I have not been blogging much and my blog has been absent of pictures. I have a bunch of cute ones from 2 weeks ago. My sister Amy and her fam came to visit from Kansas and we took pictures of the 3 cousins and we got some cute ones of all of them together and some really cute ones of Brayden. So... stay tuned. I will try and put them up this week. I have a busy week ahead. I have a test tuesday, a oral presentation thursday, wedding rehersal Friday, and I am in my friend Heidi's wedding on Saturday. Then next wednesday is my final, and I am done with school.. yeah!!! But my freedom is short lived, because I start back to school on the 14th ... just one week off. But the summer course is only 6 weeks, then I have 2 months off. Yeah! I really can't wait!

Happy Anniversary!( 4 down... eternity to go...)

Four years already??? I can't believe that it was four years ago today that I was sealed for time and all eternity to my sweet husband! I have to tell you, he has been the best husband and friend I could have ever hoped for. I take him for granted alot, but, he does so much for me and really takes care of me =) Since I have started back to school, he has been an incredible support. I can't express how much I appreciate him for that. And he has exceded my expectation of him as a father. I always knew what a special daddy he would be, but man... he's awesome! The bond that him and Brayden have is incredible. I am truely thankful for the love and time he spends with our son. Thanks Babe!
Well.. I had clinicals all day, so we are going to have pizza and a movie. When I got home, there was a dozen red roses with four pink gerber daisies( he says " to represent our four years of marriage) mixed in. Saturday we are going to actually celebrate.I'll let you know how it goes.