Pregnancy thoughts...

No, I am not pregnant and we do not plan to have a litte one for a few more years. BUT it seems like everyone around me is either pregnant or has a baby. My mini-feed on Facebook has BLOWN UP with babies! It's kind of ridiculous.

Anyway, my point for this blog is that all these babies have really made me start thinking about babies a lot lately- again NOT ready for them, but just thinking. If you know me, you know that all I have ever really wanted to be is a wife and a mom. Most of all- I just really want to be pregnant! haha. I think the feeling of someone growing in you, has to be the neatest feeling in the world- not only that but knowing it's God's creation made up of me and my wonderful husband. Incredible thought.

Last night, I was laying in bed, getting ready to fall asleep and I started thinking about just that- a baby growing inside me. And I am not going to lie- it FREAKED ME OUT. This is the first time ever that the thought of being pregnant has freaked me out. What's it going to feel like? Am I going to feel like a different person? Am I going to feel the baby constantly? Am I always going to feel like my tummy is stretching and be scared to lay certain ways?! Then I started thinking about John. How is he going to react to me being pregnant? How is he going to feel laying next to me knowing there is something growing inside of me? Will he still want to have sex with me? I dont know the answer to any of these questions and it STRESSED me out. I always thought that when I heard other women going through these same thoughts and emotions that they were silly, and they might still be and I may just be freaking out a little- I am not sure. BUT I am freaking out a little. Why? I have no idea. We dont plan to have kids for a few more years and this kind of freaking out just proves I am not ready. lol Maybe it's because it's happening all around me? Maybe it's because its a real possibility now? Maybe it's because I've dreamed about birthing a child twice in the past two weeks? I dont know. STRESSED OUT.

That's another thing- I've had these HORRIBLE dreams about having a baby. The pregnancy in my dreams have been fine, but in one of the dreams I delivered a dead baby and in the other I had the baby and they took it away from me and didnt take care of me afterwards and I died. UGH. Those are not fun to wake up after. and they feel SO real. Maybe that is really why I am freaking out. I really dont know.

Anyway, I know when the timing is right God will bless us with an amazing little baby and He will walk John and I through ever step and prepare us for whatever we are meant to deal with. I will continue to pray for healthy little ones, but know that whatever God blesses us with, it's His creation and I will be beyond happy.

Until then though- I may still freak out a little about the idea :D

Friday Favorites

This week has seemed like it has been SO stinkin' slow!!! Oh well, at least it's Friday now! Here are the favorites from the week :D

1)I RAN A 5K!- not an official one where you get a number and stuff, but I did run 3.1 miles. :D! I have NEVER done that EVER and I am beyond proud of myself!!!! That last .1 mile was the worst. but i OWNED IT and kicked it's butt! haha the last 1.1 miles may have taken me 20 minutes, but by golly I finished it!!! :D

2) True Blood- I think this may be a favorite until I finish the books. I finished another book and am now on book 9! They are SO good :D

3) John has today off!- So I get to spend some time with him today and ALL weekend. I am very pumped about that because I had a lot of evening programs this week.

4) Carter- he's a favorite always, but also can be frustrating. The funny this for this week was I threw his toy into the hall and hit an electrical outlet and the cover fell off. He ran up to it and licked the outlet and got shocked. I felt so bad for him, but it was pretty funny. I am such a bad mom for thinking it's so funny. He learned his lesson tho and wont mess with the outlets anymore! He also finally started going down the hall again...hahaha The frustrating thing is he scratched back open the scab on his neck, so he is back in the dang cone. He ALSO did something to his tail so he has a band aid on it. he looks so pathetic. BUT he is great at cuddling :D

5) WE SHUT OUT CAROLINA!!!- I wanted to save the best for last :D AHHHH! IT WAS FREAKING AWESOME!!! :D YAY! I love my Wolfpack boys!!!!!

Happy Friday y'all! I plan to make this a great weekend :D and the count down to thanksgiving is 13 days, which means 12 until we are in RALEIGH!

Friday Favorites

I have not done these in what seems like a long time! I hate being that busy. But dont worry- I am back at them :D I know you all were worried! haha

1) My coffee this morning- I got some new creamer. It's cinnamon vanilla and it's AMAZING! I think I will be drinking coffee every morning now. haha

2) I RAN FOR 30 MINUTES! I have never done that ever in my life! I am so proud of myself. 30 minutes is supposed to be a 5k- but it was only 2.5 miles for me right now. lol I am slow. I'll get there tho. SO very happy!

3) Convertible- It's homecoming for Miami and Mahoney's Mister and Miss Mahoney are in the parade, which means I get to drive a convertible for the night. I want one SO bad!!!

4) True Blood- I finished another book last night and went and got the last 3 today. SO excited to read them!!!

5) Halloween!- I LOVE Halloween :D I think it's either my favorite holiday or second favorite. I havnt decided yet. haha Anyway, it was a lot of fun! I just wish we were home to dress up with our friends. One day! :D

Happy Friday!

Double Date!

On Halloween we made plans to hang out with Seth and Danielle. We decided to go to a haunted house that John and I got a Groupon for and then watch a scary movie!

Well the haunted house was pretty lame. lol but it was fun to go. Afterwards, we stopped by Applebee's to get dinner to-go. Well they had a pretty good deal- 2 for $10, which was an appetizer or dessert and an entree. We couldnt pass that up, but it was dine in only, so we decided stay. We ended up having a bad experience with the hostess and our food took FOREVER to get to us. We were there for well over an hour and Danielle asked to speak to the manager because we still didnt have any food. After our appetizers came out, Danielle spoke to the manager and got our entrees boxed to go. The manager was also really nice and took more than half of our bill off and gave us a gift card to come back. She really made up for the bad experience :D
John and I at Applebee's

Seth and Danielle! they are so cute :D
After we got our food, we headed to our apartment and watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It was okay, but it was fun to watch a scary movie on Halloween :D

Sunday we have another double date with them to go paint balling- SO EXCITED! :D

Halloween Murder Mystery!

John and I decided to invite my staff over for a halloween type party. It ended up being on Nov. 1st and we did a murder mystery game! Getting everything together for the game was a lot of work, because of course I didnt look at it until 2 days before the game. But it was worth it- my staff had a lot of fun.

I also cooked a bunch of desserts for them! I was really excited about this because I dont have a lot of people to try new recipes on or to bake for, so I thought this would be a good opportunity! I baked for about 5 hours. I was SO tired- but again it was worth it. Everything came out great :D I was able to try a lot of the recipes I pinned to pinterest :D My menu included: Pumpkin Pillows, Candy Corn Cheesecake Mousse, Pumpkin muffins, Nutter Butter Ghost cookies, Witch Finger cookies, mini pumpkin pies, white chocolate covered pretzels, apples and caramel dip, candy, and witches brew punch. SO MUCH FUN! :D

The set up!
White Chocolate Covered Pretzels
Candy Corn Cheesecake Mousse
All of them..
Witches brew :D I put it in a pot to make it seem more real- that and it was the only thing big enough to fit it all. haha
Pumpkin Muffins!
Pumpkin pillows- aka pumpkin won tons. YUM.

Mini Pumpkin Pies
The witches fingers and nutter butter ghost cookies- the fingers were so big they looked more like monster fingers. lol

When the RAs showed up for the game (i just played hostess and watched) they were all decked out in their characters! It was AWESOME! The game was a lot of fun (different than I thought it was going to be, but still fun). I would really like to find a game where people die during the game- I think that would be more fun. lol

The RAs having fun!
Even Carter had fun.
Playing the game
Anyway, the night was a success and I know my staff enjoyed themselves :D

Carter update

Well I said in my previous post, it was really hard to leave my baby for a week! However, he has been super cuddly since we got home, so I do enjoy that.

He's also been a little difficult on our walks. I hope it's just because other people were walking him and not because he's being rebellious. BUT he was being difficult with doing tricks and listening before we left, so it may be both.

John and I have also started teaching him "take it" and "give it." He's picking this up pretty quickly which is exciting! Once he masters these we are on our way to teaching him MANY tricks.

Other than that, he's back in his cone :( He keeps scratching open the scab that is over the bite on his neck :( I HATE him being in the cone. Hopefully, it can come off soon.

That's pretty much it with Carter right now- he's good ;D

PS! Carter is now famous! I was walking him the other day and the prevet club offered to wash him- YES PLEASE! While he was getting a bath, the school paper came and got some pictures and put him in it the next day :D
Bath time! and mommy and daddy didnt have to do it- SCORE.

Checking himself out in the paper...

YAY!

Maryland!

I donn’t even know where to start! We had SUCH an amazing time in Maryland with Krystal and Josh :D It was also a much needed vacation for both me and John.

On Wednesday morning John had to go to work, so I got up early and walked Carter and finished getting everything ready for us to be gone. It was really hard to leave Carter L but it would have been way too expensive to take him with us. I had two of my RAs dog sit/house sit while we were gone. I figured if they stayed (they split the nights) then Carter would do better than if he was alone all the time. Fortunately, he did REALLY well while we were gone! The last day we were gone, Monday, was when he started acting up and even then he didn’t mess anything up, he just wasn’t listening well. I had left my RAs with lots of instructions, but I trust them so I knew Carter would be in good hands. I still cried when I got in the car to leave L It was the first time we were away from Carter for that long. BUT it’s okay- it was very nice to not have to walk him every day. Lol.

Anyway, one of my coworkers took us to the airport, but we had to pick John up from work first. It was the first time I had been to John’s work, so I was excited! I got to meet a lot of the people that work for him and got a tour of the place. It was bigger than I imagined, but that was only because John always talks about how small it is. The people that work for him also all speak Spanish, so it was neat to hear how much John’s Spanish has improved. I was so impressed!

Afterwards it was off to the airport! We stopped and got some food and then got on the plane. It seemed like a quick flight even if it was 2 ½ hours. I think I was just so excited! Haha. Josh picked us up and we went to drop our stuff off at their house. IT IS SO PRETTY! I am so jealous of their home! They have done a fantastic job with it :D After that we went and grabbed Krystal from work and headed to the inner harbor area in Baltimore. We ended up going to place called Power Plant, which was really neat. We ate at Joe Squared and got some crab pizza- DELICIOUS! We also tried out leinenkugel beer garden- YUMMY beer if you’ve never had it! Our last stop in the Power Plant area was Howl at the Moon, which is a piano bar. It was empty, but they played for us anyway. It was a lot of fun and a great time for us to catch up! I love Krystal and Josh to death and we always have so much fun with them. After that we headed home and hung out for a bit - Krystal and Josh brew their own beer and we got to try some- it was SO good!! It’s definitely something our wish list one day! After that we went to bed John and I were EXHAUSTED! Haha.
Power Plant!
The handsome husbies :D
The next day we got up and tried out a new burger joint on our way to a winery. John and I have never been to one so we were both really excited! It was called Boordy Winery and it was really neat to learn how they harvest the grapes for wine. They had just harvested everything, so there were no grapes to see- but it was still neat to learn about the process. Afterwards, we were able to taste a lot of their wines. It was neat to learn about all of the different wines- I had no idea about any of them before! My favorite was a Spiced Wassail- it tastes a lot like apple cider. Before I tasted it was a little hesitant because you are supposed to heat it up, but I wasn’t sure about hot wine. Haha it was DELICIOUS tho :D That night we made nachos and brats for dinner- doesn’t really go well together, but it was yummy anyways ;D
On the way to the winery..

Boordy! So pretty in the country
Where they make the wine
Where they store it
They filmed the engagement party scene from Runaway Bride here!
Out front of the winery :D I love this picture of us!
YAY! :D
Friday, Krystal and I had made appointments to get massages. I was beyond excited. The last time I got a massage was when I was 16. Yes, that’s right 10 YEARS ago. I am so old. Haha. I am always trying to convince John to give me a massage too, so I was super excited we were getting one! While we did that, the boys went a found a disc golf course and played. When we got home we were all starving so Krystal made a delicious Asian pasta (which I am totally going to steal from her :D John LOVED it!). We also made Crab Rangoon for the first time. It came out really good too :D We also got all the food prepared for tailgating the next day. We tried to go to bed early that night because we were getting up EARLY (4am) to drive to Charlottesville for the game.

It was really pretty where they played disc golf! Fishing a disc outta the creek :D
Saturday morning we had to drop Bailey off at one of their friends house so she wasn’t alone all day. As a side note- Bailey is ADORABLE! Pictures to come don’t worry! :D Once in Charlottesville, we met up with Hutch and Ken (Josh’s cousin) and we had picked up Kallie on the way. We stopped by the bookstore first to get our souvenir shot glass, of course :D Then we found a place to tailgate and had an awesome time! I forgot to mention that the weather was AMAZING and everything was beautiful everywhere we went. It was so nice to see such pretty leaves and to have a break from the heat and humidity of South Florida. While we were tailgating, we got to see some old college friends. A friend from high school, Matt Mastin, even came to tailgate with us. We share the same birthday, so we call each other 10-07 now. Haha. John and I were really good friends with him in high school and hanging out with him again was like nothing changed! I cant wait to hang out with him when we go back again :D In the game, I also got to see one of my old RAs who I became pretty good friends with. It was an AWESOME Day. To top off an amazing day - WE WON! :D It’s always nice driving home from a win.
Me and Bailey in the car :D

She was so sleepy at 5am!
We made it!
me and the bestie
the boys
John and Kallie
the 10-07's
Inside the statium and our original seats- SUCH pretty views!

Krystal and Josh after the big WIN!
Husbie and I :D GO WOLFPACK!
Kallie and Chris came back to Maryland with us and Sunday we all went to a pumpkin farm! We got to go on a hay ride and went through a “corn maze”. It ended up being a walk through a bunch of corn and there was only one path. LoL it was still fun to do. After that we got to pick out pumpkins. John and I got two small ones since we would be leaving the next day. The plan was to carve them when we got back, but we couldn’t find the carving kit, so we just hung out. Again, a lot of fun :D
The gang waiting for the hay ride
SO pretty there
John being silly in the "corn maze"
Goofy boys!
Monday morning John and I had to pack up L We were flying out Reagan so we all had decided to spend the day in DC. Of course I got our flight time wrong, but luckily that meant more time to hang out! We went to the National Harbor and walked around for a while. We ate some lunch and checked out the Gaylord Hotel, which was really neat! I wish we had more time there to check things out, but after all that it was time to head to the airport. Traffic was terrible, but we still made it in plenty of time. The Kinlaw’s came in the airport with us and hung out with us until it was time to go. I was so sad to leave them. It was really nice getting to spend time with our best friends. BUT we get to see them at Thanksgiving, so at least it’s not that far away!!! We had a wonderful time and I cant wait to go back and visit them again :D
At the National Harbor!
Me and hubs :D
I love this picture of them :D so sweet
At the Gaylord Hotel
We saw BATMAN!
Once we got back to Miami, the heat hit us hard. Ugh. AND it’s still hot here! When we got home, Carter was on the back patio and FREAKED out. Lol I was afraid he would be mad at us, but he was beyond excited to see. He kept running back and forth between us giving us kisses- he couldn’t decide what to do with us. Haha. The next few days he was more cuddly than usual and acted a little weird, but he’s back to him old self now. I am glad he gets to come home with us at Thanksgiving; I don’t think I could leave him again!
Carter and John cuddling :D
YAY! for an amazing vacation! Now I need a vacation from it ;D