Busy weekend...

We had a busy, but very fun weekend. Thursday night Justin and I headed to KC to watch the Cats play OSU. We didn't have tickets to the game, but ended up getting some for 25 each! The game was awesome and it was the only one I got to attend all season:) So we decided since they won by so much that I was a good luck charm and we must go back on Friday night. We headed up there with my friend Maegan and were looking for tickets again. They were WAY too high priced for us. Like 175 each was the cheapest we could find. Maegan ended up getting super lucky and finding one for way cheaper and it was a single ticket. She headed in and we thought after the game tipped off the prices would come down. NOPE! So Justin and I, along with his friend Ryan and his fiance Brooke headed over to Power and Light(a bar district in KC that is right outside the basketball arena) to have a few drinks and watch the game with everyone else who didn't get tickets. The place was packed!! We had a blast, had too much to drink, and KSU won!!! Thanks to Maegan we got home safely:) Saturday was spent lounging around, watching more basketball, and losing an hour of sleep! Sunday we tried a new church, played and had lunch with Kat, Colleen and their families and then home for more lounging. Overall, a very fun weekend-but I am still tired! I am just too old for those late night parties.

I am hoping that the sun continues to come out all week, it came out late this afternoon and I got in a walk and took Taegan to the park!!! Happy Monday.

Ready for Spring...

I think we are being teased with the weather here in Topeka! Last weekend it was wonderful and since then we have had rain and now it is COLD today. I am ready for 50s and 60s to stay!We have been playing inside this week and Miss Taegan is ready to get out and play everyday. She is starting to go stir crazy now that she has been out there and played and can't go back out. Hoping next week we can most days.

I finished Day 2 of the Shred this morning and WOW am I sore. Jillian is kicking my butt into shape and she isn't playing around. It feels good to be doing it, but then I try to sit down or go up stairs and I remember the pain! Oh well-it will help me.

Justin and I are off to watch the Cats play in the Big 12 tourney tonight in KC and I couldn't be more excited. This will be my first and only game that I get to go to this season and I can hardly wait!!!! My mom and dad are watching Taegan for us-we are so lucky to have our parents here in town with us and willing to help. She loves playing with them and getting spoiled by them. Now I just hope we can bring home a Cats win!!!

See you tomorrow.

Vegas, The Shred, and a cutie

It's official-we are going to VEGAS!!! I will be the BIG 3-0 in July and we are heading there with 2 other couples(it should be 3, but poor Kat has other plans:(). I am so excited I have a giant smile on my face every time I think about it. Oh what fun we shall have. We haven't booked anything yet, but we will after Spring Break. With that in the works, that means Justin and I need to get in the works with our weight loss! So, I am hitting it hard starting tomorrow and I will get on here and report how it is going. I have to be held accountable and this is where I am gonna start. I just went to Target tonight and bought this:

I am hoping that it won't kick my butt too much and I will be able to lose pounds and gain my old body back. I'm really not even sure what it looks like to be honest-but I can't wait to see it! I want to LOVE sitting by the pool in Vegas with a fruity drink in my swim suit and that is only gonna happen one way. To lose weight. So here I go-wish me luck!

Taegan as you can imagine has been up to being cute again-when isn't she? She is getting SO verbal and using her words for so much it amazes me. She can express herself(for the most part) and loves to show off using new words. She has also started to love to dress up and wear cute things. Adores looking at herself in the mirror after I put new bows in her hair, new shoes on her feet, or a new outfit on. It really is the cutest thing to watch her smile and laugh at herself!

These are her new "bling shoes". They have sparkles and rhinestones on them. Daddy actually came up with the name for them and it stuck!

Looking at herself in her tutu and new sandals! Oh she melts my heart!

This last weekend was gorgeous out so while Justin and I cleaned up the backyard she learned how to climb her ladder so she could go down the slide without waiting on us! She is so big.

Loved the slide everytime-laughed so hard!

Then inside for a bath after playing outside all morning-we have found a new product for bath time-Crayola water changers. She picked pink this day!

I am off to relax tonight and get ready for some butt kicking tomorrow with Jillian! What a treat that will be:)

Go KSU Wildcats...

Tonight is the big game between KU and KSU!!! We will be rooting on the WILDCATS tonight. This is the first time in 50 years that both teams are ranked in the top 5 and playing each other....should be a great matchup!!!

Don't you just want to eat her up...even if you like the Jayhawks:)

Yuck...

I wish I could say things are great with us and everyone is healthy-but that just isn't true! We have been battling the stomach flu since Taegan starting throwing up Wednesday night. She was sick ALL night long and I was up with her for the entire thing along with Justin. Poor thing, it is so hard to watch them be sick and not know what to do. We would sit with her on a towel and she knew when she needed to get sick to lean over on the towel. Not the best method(lots of laundry) but it was what was least scary to her. She hated the bathtub or the bathroom at all. She just wanted to cuddle and lay on us, which in turn meant we were covered in it! I have the lowest tolerance for sickness which meant I would be getting it soon. And I did-on Saturday. I couldn't even leave the bathroom. This was also the day that Justin and Dad were working on replacing our shower handle(which meant no water for the house). I headed over to Mom and Dad's with Taegan and was sick there all day while Taegan played away with Mom(Thanks MOM!). Now we have a huge hole in our shower that needs to be fixed...booo!!!

I thought we were in the clear when I started feeling better by late Saturday night and woke up Sunday feeling weak, but not sick anymore. That is until Justin started in with it....geez!! He is still recovering today, but at work! Maybe by tomorrow we will all feel 100%. We did end up trying to go to the circus yesterday before Justin was real bad and made it halfway through!!! She really liked it, but it was pretty slow moving and didn't keep her attention through the clown acts and setting up. She got a huge balloon for free and thought she was super cool! I leave you with pictures that are much more fun than the last 4 days have been!!!!

Our sleeping princess after she was finally better.
All decked our for our rainy day last week(thanks for the coat cousin Kinsley).

I thought this was funny-she hate the rest of her PBJ sandwich, but the crust!

Sitting like a big girl at the circus with Daddy.

Turning on her light toy like the other kids.

Sitting on Daddy's shoulder watching the elephants.

Playing and dancing with her HUGE balloon!

These next 2 pictures are what I found her doing last night as I was cleaning up the kitchen...

She is "washing her babies hair"

And now the rest of her body!

Have a great Monday...hope we are better soon!!!

Lazy weekend...

It is snowing here again-I'm not sure if I have mentioned this before, but I am DONE with the snow. We have about 5-6 inches sitting outside right now and I want it to be 60 degrees and sunny. Taegan wakes up each morning, heads to the back sliding glass door and points to her play area outside! Poor thing just wants to get outside and run. It will be here soon, but days like this make me think I could go crazy before they get here.

Justin has been working all weekend so Taegan and I have been playing around the house. Today we colored, did stickers, playdoh, babies, and puzzles. Now she is down for a nap(not alseep yet) and I am going to go read my new book I started. I am reading So Long Insecurity by Beth Moore and it is great! I had read about the book on a few other blogs and it seemed like something I really needed to get my hands on and jump into. Wow-what an eye opener it is!!!

No pictures today because I have been lazy and haven't taken any lately, I will get better. I have also straightened up my scrapbook stuff and will be getting started on that soon too!!! I am super behind, like still working on the pregancy scrapbook and Taegan will be 2 in April-YIKES!

Have a good Sunday.

Happy Valentine's Day

I know this is a day late, but bear with me! We celebrated our special day last Tuesday because Taegan and I were heading out of town on Thursday and wouldn't see Justin again until Sunday-which would have been miserable to go out and fight the crowd. We went to dinner at On the Border, came home and baked cookies, and read books and played the rest of the night. What a special night it was for just the 3 of us!! Taegan is getting much more verbal and interactive so she really helped with the cookies and loves playing with us and having our undivided attention.

Getting ready to put the cookies out...
Loving on Daddy

Putting the cookies on the tray(yes they are the Nestle cookies!)

Enjoying them with Daddy.

Taegan and I headed out on Thursday with my Mom for Oklahoma City. They have a huge craft show there that we wanted to check out. What a blast we had-4 hours of talking on the way there and trying to entertain Taegan, but we made it! We shopped until we dropped and then shopped some more the next day. I love being with my mom and just being silly. We never got lost, and managed to find a lot of good stores! The first night when went to the mall behind our hotel and let Taegan play in their play area...here she is-

This is the little boy she played with-he even pulled her in the boat by her bottom because she couldn't quite get in...mom and I couldn't stop laughing!

Getting a pink heart balloon from a clown-she LOVED watching him make it for her.

On the way home....tired girl!

Sunday was spent relaxing, doing lunch with Kat, Colleen, and Kenzie(cutie!), and more relaxing. We did go get Taegan a big girl potty seat for our toilet that she thinks is the greatest thing! I hope this will help spark some interest in going potty.

Opening her present from Grandma Becky and Grandpa Greg-she loved the M&Ms.

Check me out on my new potty!

Remodel finished and the Dentist...

We are just now starting to get our house back to normal...but we are not even close yet! I thought I would get some pictures up of what it looked like before the carpet and then I will take some after the rest of the furniture is back in there and it is decorated-which I am hoping is this weekend!!! It was a crazy three weeks getting it done, but it looks so awesome. We are so glad we did the new carpet and the basement, what a treat it is coming home to that!

This is a bit hard to see, but the colors in the basement are grey and purple and we did purple around the inside of the windows.
This is the purple wall...where our flat screen will hang.

I promise to get more up really soon!!! Just trying to keep my feet on the ground and get things done. Taegan has loved being able to go up and down on all the floors finally-and play with her toys which were put away for the carpet layers. Yesterday was her first trip to the dentist, and I was nervous. She started not feeling the best on Monday night and did not sleep well at all-so I thought for sure the meltdown would wait for the dentist. NOPE-she did great!!! I was so proud of her.

Laying down with the sunglasses on watching the TV above her!

Letting him brush her teeth, count her teeth, and put special vitamins on them!

He said her teeth look really good and that she can come back in a year!! She was so proud of herself walking out of there with a new toothbrush and a toy. What a big girl:(

Saturday was the KU-KSU game and Justin and I got a chance to go to Manhattan for the ESPN College Gameday and then we hung out in Aggieville until the game. Justin headed to the game and I headed home to watch with Taegan!

Ready for the day!

Love this little girl!!!

Here she is pushing every dolly that she has in the house around in her buggy a couple weeks ago. She even has one in a backpack hanging over the handles!

I got her a play camera because she has become interested in mine and she walks around with it and constantly takes her picture!!!

Relaxing in her chair.