Nursery

Here are pictures of the wall color in the nursery. It's a really pretty grey color, Cathedral Grey to be exact. It looks great in the room. I plan on adding accents of a soft yellow. I need to get busy picking out fabric for the bedding. I have looked and looked and looked for bedding I really liked, but the only thing I found was WAY expensive. I just couldn't justify spending that much on bedding when there are so many other things that need to be purchased.

19 Weeks!

So it's been a while. Life has been a little crazy with the pregnancy and everything else in between. Thought I'd try this blogging thing one more time :-) I'll do a little recap. Thomas and I found out I was pregnant on January 31st. Found out it was a little GIRL on April 28th! We could not be more excited to be having a little girl. Her name will be Hailey Grace

How far along? 19 Weeks, 5 days

Stretch marks? Ugh yes. Not excited about them, but I guess it comes with the territory.

Sleep: I've slept better. I tend to wake up somewhere between 1-3am and am wide awake for a while.

Best moments this week: Feeling little Hailey moving around like crazy and getting to see my family over the weekend.

Movement: Yes! Lots in the evening and I'm starting to feel her moving around a lot more in the morning time now.

Nursery: Thomas finished painting the walls over the weekend and he will start laying the wood floor this week. I just LOVE the grey paint we chose. I'll post a picture here in a minute of the progress so far.

Food cravings: This week it was sweets. Nothing but sweets.

Anything making you queasy or sick: No

Symptoms:I'm getting pretty bad back pain this week and the gas is starting to set in. Yuck!

Wedding rings on or off? On

Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy!

Looking forward to: The weekend!! Garrett's party and working more on getting things in the nursery going.

Recent thoughts: I'm getting terrified of whats going to be happening to my body after delivery. I need to stop reading articles on the internet about it all. It's doing nothing but making me want to keep this little girl in forever!!

Surprise!!!

Thomas and I are having a baby!!!! We found out at the end of January that we were expecting a little bundle of joy. Baby L is due October 10th!

Ranch Parmesan Chicken

I tried a new recipe tonight and I must say, I LOVED IT!!! I love chicken breast and have really taken a liking to baking it.

Kraft makes a great kit called Fresh Take. You can get it in a few flavors and they are so easy to use. Tonight I wanted chicken, but didn't have a Fresh Take so I got on Pinterest and found this recipe.

Ranch Parmesan Chicken

3/4 C Corn Flakes
3/4 C Parmesan Cheese
1 Ranch Dressing Pouch (1 oz)
1 stick of butter
4 Chicken Breast (skinless, boneless)

Mix together the corn flakes, parmesan and ranch dressing packet. Next melt the stick of butter and dip the chicken in the butter. Roll each chicken breast in the corn flake mixture until evenly coated.

Bake chicken on 375 for 35 minutes.

Your kitchen will smell amazing and your tummy will be even happier once you eat!! I was so pleasantly surprised at how amazing this chicken tasted. I dare to say that it was better than the Fresh Takes!

Johnson City Lights

Every year my immediate family and a few cousins and aunt and uncle take a little road trip to Johnson City to see their annual Christmas lights. Johnson City is about an hour away from where we live and a beautiful drive in the hill country.

Saturday evening we all met up at my parents house (aka grand central station) and loaded up and took off south. We made our usual stop off in Dripping Springs to eat some tex-mex and break up the hour trip for the kids. 

After eating we loaded back up and headed west. We made it to Johnson City in record timing. Last year when we went it wasn't too crowded, but boy this year was a different story. There were people EVERYWHERE!! It was kind of daunting actually. Large crowds and myself don't normally mix well haha. It's such a small town, it has a city courthouse that they string with lights and then a few blocks away they have an electric company that seriously wraps every single tree from top to bottom. They have a ton of trees on their property so they start wrapping in August!! It's an unbelievable sight to see. It's so gorgeous and breath taking. I could sit under those trees all night. It has a great way of making you feel like you are the only person there, sitting in silence surrounded in that heavenly glow.

Wordless Wednesday

Gobble Till You Wobble

Oh Thanksgiving, my most favorite holiday of the year!

We had Thanksgiving lunch at my cousin's house this year. Thomas helped fry a turkey and I baked rolls and brought cranberry sauce :-) We had SO much food and trust me, we tried to tackle it all. There were lots of naps happening that afternoon and then we all woke back up for round two!

Seriously though, the fried turkey was unbelievable. The skin was crispy and the inside was soooo juicy and flavorful. I typically don't eat turkey on Thanksgiving because it tends to be on the dry side. Not this year! I ate turkey like it was going out of style. It's really sick to think about how much turkey I really ate. Hey, it's good protein right??

Friday night a few of us went to a "movie's in the park" type event and watched Christmas Vacation. We had blankets, hot apple cider and kettle corn to keep us warm and content. I just absolutely love that movie! After the movie they let everyone do a flash light corn maze. This place uses their corn maze during the fall and in the winter they have just started up a Christmas movie marathon where you can go through the corn maze afterwards with your flashlights. It was SO much fun. Of course the guys had to disappear and scare us!

Saturday was spent lounging around and finishing up the hardwood floors....yes that little project was still going on :-) barf!

Sunday we went down to visit Thomas' parents. They both had to work on Thanksgiving Day and his sister lives in CC, so this year they opted out of a Thanksgiving meal. We were glad to be able to visit with them on Sunday though and go out to lunch.

Today is back to the daily grind. It's times like this that remind me how thankful I am for my job. It really is a wonderful place to work with low stress. It is SO great, that it was just named one of the top 10 large companies to work for in 2012.