Monday, September 14, 2009

wow, what a weekend/Monday... I'm worn out!

Thursday night my mom flew in from Midland due to the weather her plane got delayed over an hour. It never really stopped raining once she got here and here it is Monday night and still raining! Kinda gloomy actually! Once we got home Saturday night Raegan, mom and I hung out and played in Raegan's room pretty late before heading to bed.

Friday morning I picked up a certified letter that was a letter from the Oklahoma State Board of Accountancy saying they were investigating to see why it took me so long to apply for my Oklahoma license after getting my Texas CPA license (aka I had a baby). So now I have to write a letter to explain this in more formal terms of course.

We also went to Once Upon A Child looking for a walker or gate/play yard for Raegan, but instead we just found a lot of cute clothes and bought them instead! :)

Friday I also had to get 3 fillings at the dentist, I forgot how bad those hurt!!! It was awful! I had to keep my jaw open for an hour and a half and didn't get to close it the entire time! My jaws were so sore all evening. Thankfully mom watched Raegan while I was at the dentist. When I came home they were watching an ESPN interview, because my mom couldn't figure out how to change the channel, she should have just given the remote to Raegan she's good at changing channels!

Friday evening we went out to dinner at Chili's where I ordered the chicken club tacos and although I didn't get them until after everyone else had nearly finished their food , they were delicious! I was starving! Oh did I mention, the manager also comped them for us...nice! After dinner Philip and I went out and got gelato, yummy! I got Strawberry/banana and orange and Philip got Chocolate, Chocolate/Hazelnut, and Vanilla Bean. Don't worry we took a walk later to walk off those extra calories ;)

Saturday morning Philip had to head off to work, so my mom, Raegan, and I did some chores around the house, went and got my hair cut at the Blue Lagoon Salon, and then grocery shopping before heading home for a nice long rainy day nap! After our nap we went to our massages mom's was at 3:30 and mine was at 4:30 and we took turns taking care of Raegan in the waiting room ;)

Saturday night Heather, Kierra, Katelynn, Paige, Corey, and Caleb came over after they visited the science museum... the boys played the Wii and the girls played with Raegan... we ordered pizza for dinner... our house was quite a happenin' and busy place =) Mom missed most of it because she went to bed at like 7:30, we found out later she had a fever and wasn't feeling well...

Sunday morning we all woke up (some of us earlier than others... uuhhmm Raegan!) and went to church together and then out for lunch. Kierra wasn't feeling well and had a fever of 101.3 eeks and I had a very sore throat and a weird rash which we thought were ant bites on my torso. After church we let Kierra sleep for a little while and then the gang headed back to Tulsa. Then Philip took me to the Urgent care center (only place open on Sundays) and we found out my "bites" were actually a weird rash called Pityriasis Rosea and the doctor explained my swollen lympnodes as it felt like I was hiding acorns in my throat... we didn't do a strep test, but he gave me antibiotics in case it was strep and I got a steroid shot, there's nothing I can do about the rash and it may last for up to 3 months! yuck!

After such an eventful weekend I wasn't ready for Monday at all... Philip and my mom left the house before 6 am so that she could make her 6:30 flight and even though I was out of bed before 5:30am I didn't make it in to work till 8:20... it takes me so long to pack up every morning... I have to pack:
1.Raegan's diaper bag
-diapers, playtex bottle bags, wipes, pacifier, blanket, etc...
2. Raegan's bottle bag with 4 full bottles and teething rings
3. my brown sack lunch
4. my laptop bag (which I also use as a purse)
5. freezer lunch bag to put pumped bottles in
6. my pumping backpack with 4 empty bottles
and on this Monday an umbrella and exactly $2.50 for parking

packing is probably one of my least favorite things to do!

Philip is closing at work because one of his leaders called in sick... I picked up a hungry, crying baby from daycare (I can't believe I pay $150 a week for incompetent teenagers to watch my child... ugh!) anyways... then I had to get gas and run by walmart to get cleaning supplies before making it home to feed Raegan... so now I'm sitting here writing this blog and watching Jon and Kate which is so depressing now a days... and my back is itching like crazy so I'm going to go jump in the shower before Philip gets home!

Good night!

Monday, September 7, 2009

Labor Day weekend 2009

This past weekend we traveled to Texas for the 3rd time since Raegan was born. This time we went for pleasure instead of work! When we were about halfway to Dallas, I realized I had forgotten our hangup bag, which had our outfits for the wedding in it! ahhh... we decided that we would just buy clothes once we got to Plano instead of turning around to go back and get them and waste 3 hours...

Luckily we found Stonebriar Mall and were able to get in, buy an outift for me and one for Philip (coordinating of course), grab a bite to eat, and meet Philip's parents back at the hotel all within an hour (that's with a baby! :)

Kasey (our friend from Baylor) married Robert Fleming Saturday night... since a picture is worth a thousand words and I don't feel like doing a lot of typing, here are a couple pics from the wedding...
















pic of us before the wedding









Kasey rode in on this white horse carriage, very much a fairytale entrance! :)





Us with the bride and groom










The next morning we took a walk around Legacy Town Center by our hotel and then visited Ikea!


When we got back from our trip we had our friends from Amarillo, Jackie, Tim and Maddison (their 8 week old) over for dinner Sunday night. Here are a couple pics...

I think Raegan was trying to trade the necklace for some of Maddie's hair!

Friday, September 4, 2009

How He Loves (w. lyrics) - David Crowder*Band

Really like this new song by David Crowder - check it out

He is jealous for me,
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realise just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.

And oh, how He loves us so,
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all

Yeah, He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves.
Yeah, He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves.

We are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking.
So Heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss,
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest,
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets,
When I think about, the way…

He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Oh how He loves.
Yeah, He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Happy Anniversary!

September 1, 2009

Two years ago
-we weren't married
-we didn't have a house
-we didn't have a baby
-I didn't have a job
-I worked out everyday
-we lived in Texas
-we drove different cars

I'm sure there are a thousand more differences I'm not thinking of.. but my has life changed in the last 2 years!

Pic of us from two years ago...
Pic of us now....




Monday, August 17, 2009

Trip to Dallas

To all of our friends who live in Dallas, please take no offense. The following are our observations upon returning to the city.

  • Apparently you must look like you stepped out of a fashion magazine. Extra large Chanel sunglasses and the Louis Vuitton purse/wallet in hand are staples.

  • Its normal to wear a sweater tied around your shoulders even if you aren't on the golf course or shopping at La Crosse.

  • 9 out of 10 cars are one of the following makes: BMW, Mercedes, Land/Range Rover, Aston Martin, Lexus or Cadillac.

  • Ice Cream shops don't survive in dallas. We seached on google for 3 which we found out are no longer in business (must be the high rent). - the new deal is frozen yogurt!

  • We finally thought we had found a marble slab...actually turned out to be a marble & granite showroom.

  • Free parking is a scarcity

  • A baby in downtown Dallas is very rare, therefore we get lots of stares
Other experiences we've had include:

Tara said "my family" and for the first time was referring to Philip and Raegan, not my parents and siblings.

Raegan got a cultural experience at El Fenix and heard Bill (our waiter) speak spanish to another table. She learned words like "un ice tea" and "Madrid el Capital"

Tara rode in a cab by herself for the first time Monday morning (little scary) but actually enjoyed getting to meet lots of cab drivers throughout the week. Even met one who was 82 years old!!!

Raegan got a weird rash all over her body, we first noticed it Sunday morning and thought it may be hand, foot, and mouth... but she was acting fine and eating well... then by Monday afternoon it was all over her little body, tiny red spots, but she was still smiling and acting happy. Philip thinks it may be a heat rash. It doesn't seem to be bothering her though so that's good. Hopefully it will go away soon! - - - update the rash went away by itself in a couple of days- - -

We spent time with Tara's sister, Jenni, who lives on the same street we did when we lived in Irving! Raegan got to meet her semi-cousin Maison, Jennifer's only child, I mean dog. =)

Raegan and Philip drove to Tyler on Wednesday and Raegan got to meet her 3rd Great Grandma!

Wednesday night we spent time with our friends David and Stephanie, who recently just got engaged! We know them from college and David is the person who introduced us our freshman year at Baylor! We enjoyed good food at Monica's and then yummy frozen yogurt at Yogilicious!
Raegan and Philip strolled North Park mall!
Raegan did extremely well both on the drive to Dallas and the drive back and didn't even fuss the whole way!
Overall, good trip... much easier on all of us than the last week we spent in Dallas, when Raegan rightfully refused to take a bottle (long story)...

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Growing Up Too Fast

Why is it that as mothers we don't want our little ones to grow up so fast

Today (8/13) Raegan was the oldest baby in the baby room when I dropped her off at daycare and this made me cry... pitiful I know... but I remember when she first started going she was one of the youngest, now those older ones have moved up into the next room and she's the biggest one in the baby room! I saw a 5 week old in there today, she was SO tiny!

Does this mean I'm going to cry everytime Raegan shows signs of growing up, like crawling, walking, graduating Kindergarten... oh I hope not! I think its just that I feel like I'm going to miss it!

Monday, August 10, 2009

Around our household, we love Sundays so much, that we've come to dread Mondays, well at least I have... so after dropping Raegan off at daycare this morning I headed on to the Monday morning traffic jam on I-35... Oh Monday I thought to myself, from the looks on other people's faces around me and the people cutting others off to take the faster service road I think others were feeling my Monday morning blues. Then when I finally got up to what was causing the heavy traffic, my perspective totally changed. I saw a bad wreck and a mother standing outside of her probably totalled car holding her little boy who was probably only 2 or 3 years old. I said a little prayer for those involved and thanked God for such a beautiful Monday morning. We have so much to be thankful for and far too often take those little things for granted.

PS- its Monday, that means order pizza night in this Smith household! :)