Simply the Smith's

Well our streak is ova. My nugget love has Hand Foot and Mouth. He started pulling on his ears Sunday night but no sign of fever and was still eating. I figured it was just teeth no big deal. Monday still being a goof ball and laughing like crazy but sleeping a little bit more again blamed the teeth. Then  Monday night my fat boy refused his nighttime bottle. He only drank about 4 ounces when he would normally drink 13-15 ounces. I waited for the mid night wake up because he was hungry. Nope he only woke up once and then put himself back to sleep before I could waddle in there. Yesterday was just a shit show. Thankfully my hubby was home with him. He was running a fever off and on and even with Tylenol he was still hovering around 99-101 which meant the fever was really high. Then he would not eat. All morning he only had a few puffs and 5 bites of applesauce. My kid normally eats a bowl of cereal and a million puffs before 10. This freaked me out so I called and got him in th

It's 8 on a Monday and I have no desire to do anything productive at work today. I have a list a mile long for things that I'm dying to do at home. I got up early and did laundry and got some things organized around the house. I just wanted to stay home and do all the things that will make my mind feel a little less scrambled. We had a busy weekend. Friday was G's art show at school and it was so awesome. The teachers there? Are so amazing. The time and effort that they put into that art show is just amazing. I know he is only one but check out how cute these are!!! I can't wait until we get to take them home. Saturday I got up at my normal time because I had to get myself and G ready and out the door by 8:15. I was early as a matter of fact which was awesome and once I got the nugget settled at my parents I was off for the day. It was dress shopping day for my best friends wedding and let me just say for the most part it was a blast. The first

It's Friday and to celebrate the fact the a mere 7 hours separates me from the weekend I'm linking up with Darci and the gang for 5 on Friday 1- My new curling iron comes today!!! A few weekends back as I was curling my hair I dropped it and it broke into a million pieces. So that just meant that I needed a new one. I went with Hot Tools Professional Curling Iron with Multi-Heat Control 2- I also ordered a new day planner. I had gotten a funky cool one but it just was not working for me I went back to my old standby and I can't wait to get everything organized in it. 3- It's dress shopping time!!!! My best friend is getting married in October and tomorrow we are going shopping for her dress and out bridesmaid dresses! I'm so excited for her and excited to finally get the dresses picked out! We are in full on wedding/bridal shower planning mode! 4- Grayson has an Art Night at school tonight. Yes we call his daycare school because that is what they li

Writers block hit me hard and fast this morning and then I started reading blogs and Stephanie from Wife Mommy Me saved my butt with her I must confess post . So here it goes I must confess..... I get incredibly overwhelmed and stressed if Michael is going to be gone for our bedtime routine with Grayson. This happens maybe twice a month but it is super hard to not have any help with bath time and bedtime. I have not been eating the best this week. All the chocolate in my house is calling my name and I have been answering every.single.night. Blah I have taken over monitoring our bank account. I have easier access at work to look at it everyday and I have been keeping my own spreadsheet to have a more accurate idea of where we are monthly. In two months we have saved over $800 and that makes me happy but it still feels like a lot of pressure on me to know where we are money wise at any give time. I contemplate going home early 4 out of 5 days when I'm at work. I have

Since G goes to a daycare affiliated with a church they are closed on Good Friday. Michael and I however still have to work. My mother who is a saint and a teacher was off and offered to take G that day. Well since I have to be to work at 7 she always offers to take him overnight that way it is less rushed in the morning. I never disagree. She asked if she could pick him up around 4:30 on Thursday and I never argue with my mother. I then text Michael and asked if he would like to go on a date with me. Once we had the bambino packed up and shipped off to my parent's we got dressed and headed to our favorite Italian restaurant. I ordered the pizza which is my favorite. We both put our phones away and just enjoyed each other. After dinner he was all "Hey want to run to Home Depot and price out some stuff for our yard projects?" Normally this is a Noooooooo because either G is on the verge of a meltdown or we have to relieve the babysitter. But last night? Oh ye

So excited to be linking up with Suze for back in my day link up I'm going to highlight the top 5 things I remember being popular in high school 1- AIM was life. I was cool and my away message used to be "Chillin like a Villan" or "Hanging out at Rachel's IM me on her name" We would spend hours talking back and forth about god knows what all while eating cookie dough, frosting, and slim jims. Ahhh to have that metabolism back 2- I wore these with socks almost every day of my 9th and 10 grade year. It's what all the cool / preppy kids did and I was so in that crowd. The entire basketball team dressed like this. It started because of sports it was just easier after a game to slip on the sandals because you were never allowed to wear your "sports shoes" off the court. But then we got lazy and wore them like that all the time. At least back then our socks matched. 3-My Cell phone looked like this and I had never heard of tex

The weekends are never long enough. Unfortunately I didn't win the lottery or find a crap ton of money so I'm back at work today. Friday when I got out of work I ran some errands and grabbed the last minute things I needed for Easter Sunday. I picked up dinner for my whole family, picked up Michael and we headed down to my parents house. I was so excited to see G. I missed having him with me in the morning since he spent the night at my parents house. We ate dinner and then we did Easter baskets. My mom still hides eggs for all of us and does an Easter basket. Once that was done we dyed eggs. It was nice to have a low key Easter celebration with my parents Saturday I had to run G to the doctors. He was having some issues but they are all cleared up now and all is good. Then around 3:30 Chris called and said his sister was in town and wanted to know if we all wanted to get together for dinner. We headed to the DRI which is supper awesome bar/restaurant. We got so many comp

Happy Happy Friday everyone!!! I'm so ready for this holiday weekend!!! I'm linking up for the wonderful 5 on Friday!!! One- My nugget love went overnight to GiGi's house last night and I was sent this wonderful picture. Scrunchy nose close up pictures are my favorite. Also I love that Face time exists. Even though he was not home I still got my morning kisses. Two- Ice Cream!!! The ice creams stands are all open and since we were on a date last night my honey and I got ice cream for dessert!!!  Three-  This Lilac Candle It smells amazing and just reminds me of spring!!! Four- I need to find a dress for a wedding coming up in May. There are some really cute ones at Target looks like I will have to go shopping Five-  It's Easter weekend. I'm excited for the Easter egg hunts and dressing G in his super cute Easter outfit! I can't wait to give him his first Easter "basket" and watch him d

Spring is in the air and hopefully it is here to stay. We have a long list of things we would like to get done outside this spring. So what if it was just snowing on Tuesday and only in the 30's yesterday. They keep saying that it was the last of old man winter and I'm praying they are right because I'm sick of him already. Anyway back to the lovely list that we have. Yesterday we got a quote to get the tree removed and that should be happening in the next week or two. Once that is done we will be putting up G's swing set and boxing it in. Once that is done we will add the rubber mulch. And then start knocking off the other items on the list. The goal is to really get the most bang for out buck since we are working on a fixed budget. I can't wait for the nice weather to be outside and have it all cleaned up from our horrific winter. What does everyone else have planned for their to-do lists this spring?

This will technically be Grayson's 2nd Easter and that poor deprived child still does not have an Easter basket. Why? Last year I was 12 days out from having a toddler ripped from my mid-section. So to say I was a blob on the couch crying at everything would be an understatement. I was still recovering and trying to figure out why they let me take a baby home and how my body even grew a 10 pound 4 ounce baby. The last thing on my hormonal mind was an Easter basket. The only reason he had an Easter outfit was because my sister wanted to get it for him otherwise I'm sure it would have been PJ's the whole way. Anyway this year I was all " We have to do an Easter basket for Grayson!". And then I got thinking about it. Dude does not need a ton of candy so let's do a practical basket. And then I had the best light bulb moment ever.........let's get him the infant/toddler swing for his new swing set!!! Perfect I ordered it from Toys R Us. Well crap that

Friday my husband met me at work and brought me a plant for my new office Then we both went and picked up Grayson from daycare. G and I both had a chiropractor appointment at 4 so the hubby had to come with me to hold the rascal when it was my turn. There is nothing like getting aligned. I love it. I go monthly for maintenance. Plus since we started taking G a little over a month ago he has gotten completely off of his acid reflux medicine!! This is huge! So Grayson and I both go once a month, now if I could just talk my husband into it. After we left the doctors the boys headed home and I ran and picked up dinner. I really wanted pizza but we got salads from Panera instead. The chicken Cesar salad is my favorite and not to bad on points for my whole dinner. I had to go grab diapers for the monster and of course I accidentally went down the ice cream isle. I got the skinny cow Carmel truffle ice cream bars and oh my heaven they are 100 calories and hit the spot. I'm in l

Follow through Friday is here and I'm getting down in funky town talking about my weight crap It has been two weeks since I started Weight Watchers or as I like to call it the Dubbyou. There have been a few days where I have just not tracked. Why? Because I ate like shit. Pizza, wings, cake 10 beers ya know how it goes. But for the most part I have been eating my daily points and about half of my weekly flex points. I do NOT track my activity in the app because I don't want to even be tempted by having that extra. Now what you all care about. I started at 171 and now I'm down to 166.6. Boom! I'm firmly in the 160's and I have to be at 163 to win my $25 dolla make ya holla back. I think I can lose 3 pounds in 2 weeks. Since the weather is nicer out lately the walking will begin. I'm hoping this will help shed the pounds. I have been doing my ab challenge when I can but I'm trying really hard not to be so tough on myself. My old habit was crap I mis

Or can I confess some things? My baby is sick. Ear infection, pink eye, and sinus infection. Plus just for good measure he is teething and he just drools non stop. I was holding him the other night and he drooled on me and I looked at my shirt and I had a flashback to when my boobs used to leak at the end of my pregnancy, I freaked for a second and then realized it was just from the vat of drool that it my child. I almost went ape on a nurse practitioner last night because she tried to put my child on 2 antibiotics that do not work for him. One he his immune too the other oh yeah that's right he is allergic!!! Read his effing file before you get all willie nillie prescribing shit. I made the office lady note in our file that we do NOT want to EVER be seen by said NP. Yesterday was my Mom's birthday and I still feel guilty that I missed her dinner because of having to taking G to the doctor. We still made it for cake and she totally understood but it still bothers me.

My Dad and I have always been pretty close. He is the perfect parent. There when you need him but not overbearing on a day to day basis. He never wants to be a bother and is super relaxed about everything. Back in the fall there was a Living Social deal for two photography classes at a cheap price. My dad has always loved photography and has a couple really nice cameras. I asked him to take the classes with me. Well you know life we just finally got around to it. The classes were amazing. Way better and more than I thought they would be. Sometimes when they name a class camera basics I worry that it will be all this is how you turn on your camera. It was so much more than that.We learned how to take action shots use our ISO and shutter speed. We had fun being together and we went out to dinner and just talked. It was a nice break in the week and nice to spend some one on one time with my Daddy. We did get a few side eyes when we walked in. I know people were trying to figure

I didn't blog yesterday........did you miss me? I'm going to start closing every Blog with a question because Holly says to and I always follow the cool kids. Now if I could just figure out how to respond to comments via e-mail we would be all good. Moving on..... My family is about as bat shit crazy as you anyone can imagine. Sure we help each other out and would do anything for each other but the other 95% of the time it is all about politics. There are some rules in my family that are not negotiable 1- Never turn down a beer or a shot. Unless your with child and then you must still tag along on drinking binges because hello built in DD this includes day drinking and night drinking. It's always drink o'clock in my family. 2-A happy birthday must be wished on the day or it doesn't count. Example- Party is on May 28th actual birthday June 2nd. I attended the party and gave a gift but if I don't call on June 2nd I'm on the shit list. 3- Thank you&

This week has been one for the books and I'm so happy it's Friday 1- I'm so thankful for coffee. The sleeping this week has been crazy. I'm normally in bed by 9 at the latest and did not get to bed until after 10 two nights this week only to have G wake up at 3:30 in the morning. If it wasn't for my Folgers I would be a zombie 2- I'm so excited for tomorrow we are celebrating Easter with my brother and my dad's side of the family. We do it early to have more time together plus my brother and is family go out of town with his in-laws for Easter so it works out. Also we are celebrating my mom's and sister in laws birthday. I can't wait to give my mom her present all of us kids went in on getting her the new kindle paper white ! She had the first Kindle that came out and it just recently stopped charging. I'm so excited that we could get it for her! 3- Michael's truck broke on Wednesday. It would not accelerate any more and he

Fresh out of ideas on what to blog about today without sounding boring I came across this fun link up on Sarah's page so join or just read below either way enjoy! 1. My baby he melts my heart 2. My husband- he just does it for me still after 6 years and even though I would rather kill him than love him sometimes he's mine and I'm proud of that 3. My job- I know shocker but it really is the best for my family and gives me more time with the ones I love and is super flexible. 4. This made me laugh 5. Sunglasses- I love them on a sunny day. 6- Spring colored nail polish 7- Hershey's bar with almonds 8- Hearing my boys laughing together during bath time because Michael taught Grayson how to splash. 9- My engagement ring- I love looking down at it every day. 10- My parents- They save the day more times than I care to admitt and are truly my hero's. Plus the way they love my baby makes my heart melt. 11- Southern Co

So what that I'm geekily excited that it is getting warmer out............ Being outside makes me happy. It makes me more active. This winter has been looooooooong. Too long for my liking and I'm just over it. My boys are going stir crazy too. Grayson loves to be in his stroller. Lately we have been struggling I think it's just been too much togetherness in the house. I cannot wait to get home tonight and get in a nice walk/run. I'm thinking about loading up and going to the park that has a nice trail by it and letting the boys play on the play ground while I run/jog/die. Yesterday was beautiful and if I didn't have a date with my dad to go to photography class you bet your bottom dollar and your top one that I would have been outside. I woke up so happy this morning just thinking about getting to be outside with my family. Plus flip flops are my favorite footwear and my feet are more than ready for them. Happy Wednesday and be sure to link up with S

When I started this blog I never intended to have weight loss posts. But guess what reading blogs is what motivated me to get my wide load in gear and get in shape. So if your not into it skip this one k? I need to do some form of exercise twice a day to shed the pounds. I found this on facebook and am going to be doing this every morning. I will also be doing the 30 day ab challenge this month. I did it last year and it kind of kicked off the craziness that is trying to lose weight  Weight watchers will be my mistress and will keep my binge eating in check. So now here are my pictures and no you don't have to adjust your monitor  Man my ass is hungry because it is eating the crap out of those swimsuit bottoms I posted yesterday that over the weekend I saw the 160's. Let me clarify I saw 169.5. I gained back that .5 pounds and started my diet bet at 170 even. To win I need to get down to 163.2. I'm shooting for 160. I bought this