Late night thoughts

First I should be going to bed but as I was driving home, I was just feeling so very thankful! 

Like seriously blessed, I have so much! I was thinking back to how I am very glad that I got to go to a Christian school, where we learned about the Bible, and were required to learn memory verses and I was thinking on September 11th of this year, how awesome it was to be at a Christian school when those tragic events occurred. We prayed and sang and were thankful to be there. I had amazing teachers who genuinely cared and LOVED their jobs!! One teacher in particular always had a prayer request and PTL(praise the Lord) column on her blackboard and we would start class by saying our requests and praises. And it didn't matter how long it took, she made that a priority. How awesome is that?! *side note I'm crying as I write that, because I'm just so impressed and know that Mrs. Weaver loved praying for us and wanted to know how we were doing and loved seeing God work. 

I was thinking how amazing it was to have an incredible radio station like way fm, and how much music can impact ones life. It was so cool to be able to go to so many Christian concerts. I'm thinking of that because it's the Allegan county fair this week and there were so many great concerts there! Gosh I was so blessed! Also such a blessing to have a Mom who knew how important it was for us to listen to good music and always encouraged us and went with us to so many concerts. 

And right now as I lay in our spare room with my crazy cat who I didn't think was going to live a couple weeks ago(that's a whole other blog post) I am thankful for this beautiful home that we get to call our own! I love this house and the memories that we have made here already. I am so thankful for the sweet and stubborn almost 9 month old sleeping next door and for my husband sleeping across the hall. 

Well that's all, I'm tired and need to go to bed since 7am comes way to fast! 

I'll leave you with a cute picture of Noel :-)

 

Night time ramblings

I'm just laying in bed, and I should be going to sleep but decided to blog just now. 

I just rolled some lavender EO on the bottoms of my feet so I'll be tired here soon. 

I'm thinking that it's crazy that Noel is over 8 months old now! Guess what? She finally crawled today!!!! Yay!! :-) 

The farm season has begun and I may or may not be LOVING it! Last weekend my mom, Noel and I did some shopping which was fun and even went to Starbucks! 

The weather tonight feels like fall! Yes!! 

And all of a sudden I'm real tired! 

Goodnight blog! 

All of us girls at auburn last weekend 

Hello blog!

Well hello there!

I'm clearly not cut out to have a blog or at least not one that's very noteworthy as I'm quite a fail at keeping up with it. Sigh!

Oh well, I'll do a quick update! Ummmm seriously Noel is almost 8 months old?! How in the world? She's so darn cute and may or may not be quite stubborn already. Oh man! She has two little teeth on the bottom which popped through about a month ago! 

I mean seriously how cute is she?!

I haven't been able to get a good picture of the little teeth yet but they're cute 😉 I'm not anywhere near considering having another baby, I seriously get asked that question WAY to often!! Maybe adoption someday at an appropriate age. Like potty trained, able to communicate etc.

Currently Noel is napping and I should be doing any number of things around the house but so far I've taken a nap on the couch, checked Facebook, and am now updating my probably one or two readers on my life. I should go pay some bills tho.

Oh and my mom and I have been running now for about 3 weeks and I'm feeling so much better. We've been doing 3 miles 3-4 times a week! Woot woot!

 But I'll leave you with some more adorable photos of Noel. :-)

Happy Fathers Day!!

A very Happy Fathers Day to Jared!

I know he won't read this, but I'll still post a few pictures and say that I'm very thankful for him and the dad that he is to Noel so far :-) especially since he's really liking her now! lol

Terrible blogger

Yep that would be me! Ugh, I just always run out of time! But seriously, Noel is getting soooo much more fun and I'm just loving it! 

Can she be any cuter?! Eeeeee!!!! :-) She got her first ponytail yesterday and even laughed lots yesterday! Oh my goodness! 

This child could still really use a lesson in just closing her eyes for a nap! Ugh!! Frustrating! Like today she woke up at 7:45am and proceeded to stay awake for Grandma until 12:30pm. Wtf!? I felt so bad! Oh naughty girlsy!

Ok I gotta leave work! I'm still going to write Noel's birth story so be on the lookout for that! 

Hi Ho Hi Ho its off to work I go.....

While that title may seem happy, I'm not very excited. Well parts of me are excited and others not so much.

I am looking forward to going back and seeing all my work friends, and the surgeons that I enjoy working with. And I'm not gonna lie its going to be nice to be away from baby girl for a few hours.

Its going to be really hard to be away from baby girl, as I haven't really yet done that.  I also am not looking forward to the drive to GR, ugh! But I guess I choose to work in GR so i'll have to get over that one.

I still really need to get the rest of Noels announcements out because next week she is going to be 3 months old!? What the heck? Time goes fast, well yes and no, lol. 

Because somedays it seems like it won't ever be bed time for the little lady and/or monster as I've taken to calling her. 

I still need to write a blog about her birth story and just go on and on about how wonderful a home birth with a midwife and doula really is :) be prepared y'all!!

Thoughts on being a new mom

SO I'm sitting here while Noel is in the swing, going back and forth because she starts crying if she spits out her pacifier, sigh...

I thought I would write a little bit about how I'm feeling..

I do not like newborns, yep they are real cute but that's about as far I'll go.

I don't like not knowing what she needs/wants.

I don't like that they don't much at all.

This whole stage has been hard, although I knew that it was going to be before she was born. Don't get me wrong I love her to pieces but I have had numerous crying spells because she won't stop crying and I feel like a super crazy person. 

Well I better go get her because she's just starting to wake up in the car seat and if I wake her up she's usually much happier than if I wait til there's wailing from the car seat.

On another note, Noel is 7 weeks old today!! And I think she had given us some real smiles, so that is pretty fun ;-)