Movin' and Groovin'

This weekend the Husband was pretty busy taking a class all day Saturday and working the sound system at a recital Friday & Saturday nights and Sunday afternoon.  He claims it was worse than torture but I did remind him that he wants a girl and if that does happen there will probably be many more recitals in our future!  He said if we have a girl she can just learn to dance in the living room - I told him we would figure that all out later ;).  

As he was busy makin' dollar bills, I was making a cake for a baby shower we helped host tonight!  Pictures to come soon!  Saturday while I was taking a break from being a baker, I was sitting on the couch with me feet up and kept feeling a weird muscle spasm in my gut.  After about a minute of this it dawned on me that this was not MY 'muscle spasm' but it was the first official baby kicks!  Of course after feeling it and realizing what it was I know realized I've been feeling this for week or two, but now it is much more consistent!!  Baby Robinson continued to karate chop his or her way across my abdomen and I could even feel a couple with my hand!!  I couldn't wait for the Husband to get home hoping he could maybe feel it too.  When he got home nothing was happening, so I went about my business but at bedtime he/she started up again - unfortunately the Husband never was able to feel it, but I'm sure he will soon!  

Time for bed here, hope you all had a good weekend too!  Since I don't really like posting without at least one picture, I'll leave you with a picture of the bump :)

Slice of Heaven

Last Sunday I got myself a little slice of heaven which Miss B promptly claimed as her own...

That's right a kiddie pool!  No I didn't buy this for the kid-to-be, I bought it for MYSELF!!

You see I was quite spoiled growing up.  We lived literally ACROSS THE STREET - AKA WALKING DISTANCE - LESS THAN 200 Ft from the pool!  I got to swim EVERY DAY and it was GLORIOUS!  Here in Lawrence they don't really have such a thing as neighborhood pools.  (Side Note:  If they do PLEASE PLEASE tell me!!!!)  Growing up I also was a life guard at the same pool and it was so relaxed and fun - isn't it like that everywhere?!  NO!  Absolutely NOT!!  I worked one miserable summer here at the City Pool and let me tell you, those kids are NOT fun!  I mean they actually almost drown, you have to SAVE PEOPLE!!  In all 4 summers I worked at the neighborhood pool I NEVER once had to save anyone and I could probably count on one hand the times that other guards had to save someone (my brother is one of those, but that's a story for another day :).  Sorry got off on a bit of a tangent there.  My point is I don't really enjoy going to the pool here, so I've made my own little paradise!  This guy is about 6 ft across and a couple of feet deep.  Just deep enough that I can float on a raft while laying out!  The Husband thinks I'm ridiculous, but if I'm going to grow a baby this summer, I'm still going to be tan and cool for that matter!  Of course Sunday it was cool and rainy, so I haven't gotten to use it yet, but I will.  The Husband even made me a skimmer to clean out the bugs and grass!  He's secretly jealous :)

The rest of Sunday I watched as the Husband and his little helper trimmed trees so our garden will get a little more light.

Hubs hard at work

His little helper - Scar Face. 

Don't worry not a real scar, just dried spit.

 Ooo!  What are we doing with the stick!?

Playing?! Fetch!? Whatever it is it's great!

Hi Mom!

I'm working really hard I need a drink from my GIANT water bowl...

 And I'm back!

Keep Away?!

I love this game!

Need another drink

Gotcha!

No fair!  You're taller!!

I still have the biggest water bowl, so HA!

5 Years in the Making

So the Husband and I celebrated our 5th year of marriage on Saturday!  I can't believe we've been married that long!!  What is really unbelievable is that come August, we will have been together for 11 big ones!!  Yep we were High School Sweet-Hearts.  Started dating on my 16th B-Day in fact.  The even cRaZiEr thing is that I was the one who made the first move.  If you know us at all, that is so NOT characteristic of me!  You see I'm the shy sweet good girl and the Husband is the loud obnoxious in-your-face guy.  (It's true I'm always telling him he is so loud :)  But that's what happened folks and apparently it was meant to be considering we've got a baby bean on the way!  We always talked about wanting to go some where fun on vacation for our 5th Anny, but little did we realize we would be up to our eyeballs in school debt!  So instead we went some where fun - just locally - on a daycation!

We got to wake up to this sweet face...

First we went to the Farmer's Market as that's one of my favorites.  We bought some home-made jam from one of my patients and an apple pie.  The Husband used his bartering skills and talked her down from $10 to $7 - that's MY man.  Then we tried a new place for breakfast and it was awesome!  It's called Mirth Cafe - fun Lawrence atmosphere and great food!  Then we went home a took a nap - things really wear me down these days!  Then we went to the KC SeaLife Aquarium - get ready for picture overload...

Looks like it's wearing lace

 This is my favorite one!

 This guy wouldn't hold still!

Eels are gross

 This creature was kinda cute too, not sure what you call it :)

This one reminded us of Bailey :)  I think it's the eyes

After the aquarium we went to a T-Bonez Game which was so fun.  We were going to get the closer seats, but they didn't have anything left except the bleacher seats.  So we were a bit bummed... UNTIL we got to the seats!  They are completely in the shade and really spread out, so they were perfect!  

All in all a great daycation for our 5th Anny!!

Hopefully on our 10th we will only be in school debt to our ankles or else NOT AT ALL!!  Then we can take a vacation outside of 30 miles from our house!  :)

Lazy Weekend

I know, two blogs in the same week weekend!  You must think the world is ending... Nope just having a super lazy weekend so far :)  Thought the least I could do was update you on our lazy happening.

Miss B and I have been doing a lot of this...

A little of this - it's KINDA HOT for a lot of this without a pool!!

We did a little running around in the back too.

A lot of this, yep we're pretty boring :)

 Miss B didn't really like us sitting around and she was letting us know about it... LOUDLY

The hubs did a little of this...

And I did a little Chai Tea Latte...

Finally she settled down and just watched

Today I aim to get something accomplished, maybe I'll wash the cars...

Hope you are having just as lazy a weekend as we are!

Tag Tales

Last Sunday we went to early church, so of course I was scurrying around trying to find something to wear.  I have a few new dresses thanks to me madre :) so I was trying them on and as the Husband was yelling he was going to leave me I decided to go with the one I had on.  So I rushed to grab my shoes and then ran out the door just in time to see the Husband backing out of the garage.  He thankfully stopped to let me in and off we went.  During the first prayer, I felt a kind hand on my shoulder and a sweet little lady tell me she was going to tuck my tag in for me.  Immediately my eyes bulged as I remembered I completely forgot to cut off the tags!  So I sheepishly smiled back at her and yanked off the price tag as she tucked the plastic piece in for me.  I felt me checks flush as all this was going on and she gently said "Don't worry no one saw".  I hope she was right!  I slowly recovered and then after church an older gentleman came up to us as we were leaving and proudly announced that he and his wife were the ones who caught my faux pas.  Thanks for being discrete! :(  He summoned over his wife who could sense my embarrassment and quickly changed the subject.  Turns out they have family from Quinter which is where my dad grew up!  Small world!

Better Laundry

First and foremost - 

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!

Last weekend my parents and brother got to come up to visit.  The Husband was on Senior Trip in Branson, so it would have been just B and I had they not come up!  My wonderfully awesome dad brought me a new laundry room when they visited!  We already bought a rockin' washer and dryer from him when we moved in back in 2010 (can't believe it's been that long!)  So to add to it he BUILT - yes with his own two hands - this amazing cabinet for us so that now we have the most amazing laundry room!

Disregard the messy space on the right, I still need to get some hooks to hang up the step ladder and brooms and such!

Here is a better close up of the actual cabinets

Last year he remodeled the bathrooms at their house and of course he built the cabinets that went into those bathrooms too.  I jokingly said you can do my laundry room next right ;).  Then about a month ago he called and said that he was ready to do it!  I was shocked b/c I really didn't expect him to do that for us!!  So we got right to work drawing out the plans and measuring about 10million times considering he was basically building this thing blind!  A little less than 3 weeks later this is what he came up with and it is BEA-UT-I-FUL!!!!  These pictures DO NOT do it justice at all!  Thank you SO SO SO much Dad!  I love ya!

The boys hard at work

STOP TAKING PICTURES!!!

 I think this is my favorite part!  He made slats so I can put all (4) of my serving dishes on display!  (Someday I'll have more so I can fill it up!)

While the boys were hard at work, my mom and had a super productive and awesome (we'll call it an early Mother's Day) day in KC!  First we went to the Farmer's Market in Overland Park which was AMAZING!  Then we walked around their little downtown area and ran across The Upper Crust.  The cutest little pie shop you've ever seen!  We weren't ready to eat right then and plus we figured the boys would want some too, so we got 4 mini pies to go.  We ate them that evening after dinner it was SO SO good!  Then we went to the Penny's furniture store and ordered my mom a new love seat and ottoman for her upstairs nook.  It is gorgeous the only problem is it probably won't be there for another 6-8 weeks :(  After that we went to La Bodega for lunch which was wonderful!  Then she took me to Destination Maternity to pick up some new threads (yes I looked that up on Urban Dictionary ;) for the coming months!  Destination Maternity is awesome!  It's actually 3 stores in one so they have all the price points and they had some decent sales going on when we were there.  Let's just say I'm pretty much stocked!  Thank you SO SO SO much Mom!  After that we were both pretty pooped and hungry!  So we made our way to a Starbucks with a detour to DSW on the way.  We both got just what we were looking for and were super happy campers!  We ended our day with Iced Chai Latte and a blueberry scone - so good!  Thanks for the best Saturday ever Mom!  Love ya and hope you are having a great actual Mother's Day!

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PS: since we are now stacking our washer and dryer we have this great worktop for sale, it goes on top of the washer and dryer when placed side by side.  It fits on any of the front loading models that are 27" wide.  This one is a graphite color.  Highly recommend it if yours are side by side!  We listed it on craigslist for $100 - tell your friends!! ;)