Busy, Busy, Busy!!

I know it has been a long time since i've updated this thing but we have been SO busy and I never feel like it!

We are busy because we set a wedding date!!! Yay :) October 3, 2010.. i'm so excited, but gosh I didn't know this would take so much work. The place we're getting married at is on the Arsenal called the Rustic Lodge, it's over looking the river.. but it needs alotttt of decorating since it's so old and rustic I guess you could say, and i'm not good at decorating AT all! I have a friend helping me out though so hopefully we will get some ideas and everything will turn out wonderful. So thats the reason I haven't been updating much.

Today me and abby are going to huntsville with a couple of my bridesmaids and i'm going to get my wedding dress :) It should be a fun day, I love hanging out with Katie and Krista!! For an update on Abby, she is talking SO much now, allllll the time... and boy is she sassy, ALL girl :) Yesterday she was laughing at Krista with her hand over her mouth like all proper and you could tell it was sooo fake and she would say "thats hilarious" and then throw her hand out in front of her like prissy you know? haha it was sooooo funny! She just is her own little person now and she's really fun!

btw I probally won't have any cute pictures on here for a while because I lost my camera :(

I'm going to go get ready for my day though, have a great weekend!!!!

Painting!!

We decided to start a little painting project today and it turned into us painting ALL of our bedroom furniture. Over the past few years me and Gerald have been together we have gathered a lot of furniture that was given to us from family members, none of it really matching. So you can only imagine how our bedroom was starting to look and it drove us crazy. Here is a picture of what we did to it though for only TWELVE dollars..nothing too special but it looks 100% better and we are so proud we did it for that cheap:)

I didn't take a picture of what they looked like before but they were just a wood color and didn't match. We did our bed too but I haven't gotten a picture of it because we're still in the process..just taking a break. I'm exhausted!! Oh yeah, got my hair cut short yesterday and I love it. SO much easier to get ready now which means everything with a 2 year old :)

Well gotta go finish putting our room back together...that should be fun right?

Happy Hump day everyone!

My Joy In Life

February 1, 2008

Abigail Leigh Newsom was born :)

"The moment a child is born, a mother is also born. She never exsisted before. The woman exsisted, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new."

She is pure joy and i'm so thankful to be her mommy.
Even though most people say it is not right to have a kid at our age, I know that God blessed us with her for a reason. Don't get me wrong, it was very hard to adjust, but I am a firm believer in EVERYTHING happens for a reason, and wouldn't change a thing! 


Abby can make anybody smile, I am so happy that me and gerald are her parents and get to watch her shine as she grows up :) Speaking of growing up..I can't believe this is my third Mother's Day! She has already grown this much:

Daddy helped her write this

She picked these for me from my aunt Kim's house!
When she walked in the door with them she said
"Happy Mother's Day Mommy" ♥
haha they are a little dead looking but it's the thought that counts right ;)

"Virtue and Happiness is mother and daughter." -Bejamin Franklin


"Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart going walking around outside of your body." -Elizabeth Stone




I love you with ALL my heart Abigail Leigh and
I hope all the moms out there have the BEST day tomorrow :)

Finally Fixed

So Gerald has been working on our friend Hollywood's boat for a while now. He bought it from a young guy that let it sit out in the rain without a cover, it was brand new and it totally destroyed the interior, but other than that it's a pretty nice boat. Seriously who would be so careless to not take care of a boat, some people just take things for granted.  Well anyways, Gerald took it to his brother-in-laws house the other day so he could give it a try because he's a mechanic. Well they finally got it fixed and we were able to go ride on it today. I love being on the water and haven't been in a very long time so it definately made my week :)

Tomorrow, we are getting up really early and taking a little fishing trip on the boat. We've been going fishing a lot here lately. So far I really like it! Abby went with us the first time we went and she loved seeing us "catch the fishies". I caught my first fish ever that day..haha I never have had ANY luck in the past. Also it was the first time for me to do any of the fishing things.. like putting a cricket on the hook, taking the fish of the hook.. stuff like that. I was clueless but thankfully I have a Gerald. He is such a outdoors guy, he knows a little bit - to a lot about EVERYTHING, seriously!

I caught so many, and would post a picture but my computer is messing up so maybe later. They were all little except one. It was pretty big but it broke my line because I was too excited and somehow messed it up reeling it in... Gerald wasn't too happy about that ;)

Well i'm gonna get to bed.

Hopefully I catch a big one tomorrow,

if so i'll be sure to post a picture! :)

Fun Week!!

We have had a pretty fun week so far! Tuesday we went to Riverside Park with Cathy, Kayli, & Chase. It was beautiful by the river, I loved it. We ate and played, and put pennies on the railroad track for the train to smoosh them. Hadn't done that in forever haha, Abby and the kids loved looking for the pennies after the train ran over them. I don't have any pictures from that day though because of course I forgot my camera :(

Oh yeah we also went to Delano Park with the same people Monday..here are some pics from that:

Going down the slide with Kaylie because she won't go alone, she is terrified :(

Wednesday we got up early and met Jaime and Addi over in Huntsville at The Little Gym for a mommy & me class. Oh yeah... ride there sure was a challenge, everything was going great until Abby got choked on her juice and spit up all over herself :( So of course that freaked me out, and she was crying, I missed my exit, got off on an exit on accident because I wasn't paying attention to what lane I was in, and ended up on some random street. hahaha I was like great, but thank God I left early just incase something like that happened. So I don't know how but somehow I turned on a street called Pratt Avenue (that one looked familiar thanks to Frankie's!) So i'm going down Pratt about to stop and ask how to get on University Drive as I look at the sign of the street I was on and it was University Drive! So I was like holy crap how did this happen?! Anyways, long story short, I had a angel in the car with me this morning because if not I would probably still be lost in Huntsville ;)

Once we finally made it to the Little Gym, I quickly changed Abby and hurried in to meet Jaime and Addi. I didn't know what to expect with how Abby would act around all of the kids. Well she was shy at first but started to warm up a little about half way through it. They sang songs, shook shakers, banged sticks, played on the gymnastics stuff, kicked balls, blew bubbles, and all kinds of stuff! I think it really would do her good to start going, and I can see were she would learn a lot from it :) It's kinda far to drive once a week but the website says there is one coming to Decatur so hopefully I can get her in something this year!

After the mommy and me class we took the girls over to Big Spring Park to feed the ducks & fish, huge fish!

Haha here are some pictures:

 Today i'm going running and working out ALL day, because I am so fatttt!!!! haha...We also have some people coming to our FHTM meeting tonight so hope that goes well..have a great day :)

Inside Peanut Butter, Outside Jelly!

You might wonder what is up with my post title, haha well I will clue you in. We had a famous person join our downline in FHTM today, YAY! He might not be in the spot light now days, but he still is singing and he still knows a LOT of people that are. You still wondering who it is?

Okay it's this guy:

Donald Sharp, Aka "Cadillac Don". He is a rapper! Remember my title? Well that is his most famous song, (that I know of) it was popular in 2006 (my freshman year of highschool/gerald's senior year). I know you must of heard it haha ;) Anyways, Dj Hollywood (I talked about him in a post the I wrote a while back) knew Cadillac Don really well so we did a meeting with him and his wife and they loved it! It was cool to meet him, he was VERY nice. Hollywood is really doing a great job, it seems like he knows everyone and their mama haha! We are very excited to bring fame to our downline..plus we are excited to see what he does for our business!

Anyways, on another note here is a cute picture of Abby's hair braided for the first time. Wanted to put it on here for when I print this thing out one day and make it into a baby book.

Abigail, I showed it to you in the mirror and you just loved it - Although your mommy is not the best braider ;)

What a cutie you are :)


Here are some more pics from our day:



Haha you love when I make these grass bracelets for you, it has become almost a daily thing.

& last here is you and daddy, I thought it was cute how little you are compared to him :)






Hope everyone has a great weekend!!
Love,
Tiffany

Park

Today I took Abby to the park at Delano. This was her second time to go play there..her first was yesterday. She played yesterday with her new friend Addison! They had a lot of fun, and we loved being out of the house so much that I had to take her again today. Other than that today was a little laid back so this is going to be a really short post. We have a FHTM meeting begining anytime now... here are some pictures of our last two days at the park:

Gotta get to the meeting
I'll post again later this week :)

Easter

Today was Easter Sunday so the easter bunny brought Abby a basket full of goodies. Last year Abby didn't really understand, but she was SO excited this year! She kept saying "the easter bunny bought me this".. it was sweet. We didn't get to go to church we really wanted to but we usually tag along with Gerald's parents to First Bible, but they coudn't make it this year. Anyways, after that we went over to our friends Krista and Michael's house to hunt eggs! Abby had so much fun & she really did a good job with it being her first egg hunt! She played with Krista's neice Kiari in the tree house/ "space ship" haha, thats what Michael told Abby it was. They also played with bubbles, and other fun stuff! Me and Gerald had soo much fun helping her hunt for eggs for her first time, it's times like that, when I see her face just light up with happiness, that makes me so happy and thankful to be her mommy. She is such a sweet little girl and I am so happy that we are her parents and get to watch her grow, and learn! It will just keep getting more and more fun over the years, it's very exciting that we are blessed with this opportunity! If we could go back in time I wouldn't change our life for anything :)

Anyways, enough with the mushy-ness haha! Now we are headed home from Nashville, we got another addition to our family. Her name is Gia and she is a all white gorgeous pitbull. Gerald is going to breed her with Jock and sale the puppies. She is sooo sweet and Abby loves her! Well we are going to go home and introduce Jock to his new friend :). Then we will definately be relaxing the resssst of the night, i'm exhausted!

Here are some pictures of our Easter fun, enjoy :)

Well I would add more but the uploader is messing up :(
Oh well, i'll post again later this week.
Happy Easter!!

Very Behind

I have not been very good at keeping up my blog here lately! I would write about what all has been going on, but it's alot haha and my memory isn't that good. So I will just start with this weekend... Friday night me and Gerald went bowling with our friends Jennie and Jason. It was a lot of fun, I actually won for once! I usually absolutely suck at bowling. Gerald makes fun of me because he says I look like i'm just slinging the ball down, I have NO form. It worked for me this time though :)

Here are some very blurry pictures, I was bad at taking pictures while we were there.

One cool thing that happened to me there (don't know if I am going to get in trouble for saying this haha). Anyways, Gerald, Jennie, Jason are all 21, i'm only 18. I'm the baby believe me I know they can't stand it because I can't get in anywhere fun. Well Jennie had a friend that worked at the bowling alley and we came up with this stupid idea to tell her I was 21 but forgot my ID. I figured she wouldn't believe us, but she DID! I know this is nothing big, but it was fun to me since I never get to drink when we go places and I got to this time hahaha! I was still kinda nervous even though I had a arm band on. Hope this doesn't get me in trouble.

Anyways, well Saturday Abby went to visit my friend Mary Caitlin and she had so much fun. Here are some pictures that Mary took of their day:





This is her and Mary Caitlin:



She takes the BEST pictures of Abby, i'm definately getting some of these developed and in frames!! Mary also bought her some cuuute pj's (that Abby is wearing in the pic), some really cute flip flops, and a Hello Kitty back pack that she has carried around all day today! It was so nice of her, she has always been really good to Abby!


Well today, Sunday, we have spent the day at Gerald's parents. Abby is having so much fun spending time with her Nana and Pappy. We just got done eating some yummy hamburgers, and are about to go home in a litte bit. Oh yeah.. Gerald's sisters dog, Ellie, had 2 puppies today! She is a tiny maltese and is in alot of pain because she had to have a C-Section :( ..hope she gets better soon.. but congrats to them!!


Thats all for now =)
Love,
Tiffany

Starting to feel like spring time :)

We have really enjoyed the weather this weekend, it is so beautiful!

Saturday we took our dog to the river and fished.. we were going to have a picnic but it was too muddy and crowded! It was fun though, Jock loved it. It was his first time to the woods and river so he was in heaven with all the space to run around! Like I said it was VERY muddy because the water was so low. He would run out towards the water and start sinking in the mud, then run back and splash it everywhere. It was hilarious!!

Look at how dirty he was:

Definately rode in the back on the way home, which he hated!

Today we took Abby to a little fishing spot by the river bridge. She learned how to throw rocks in the water and make a splash! That went on for a while haha. Oh yeah, when we got there Abby told me "Mommy I wanna go swimmin in the bath tub!" haha it was so funny, I had to explain how it was a river and it wasn't like a bath tub. I told her how fish live in it and all she said was "WOW." I thought it was cute! Anyways, then we took her to the playground at Eastwood! She is really scared of slides, but I managed to get her to go on one by herself.
This is when I was talking her into going:


Look at the face, she was terrified :(

So the rest of the day, mommy and daddy went down the slide with her!
Over all it was a fun day, can't wait for summer time.


Love,
Tiffany


 Here are some more random pics from the weekend!