#14 CHECK

Saturday March 27th I had my first Stella and Dot Trunk Show at My Mom's House. It went great! We are still trying to get orders for the show so that my Mom can get more free jewelry. I would really like to get 2 or 3 more orders. If you think you might be interested go to www.stelladot.com/allisonf and look at the jewelry. You can place an order there as well. Just be sure to put Suzanne Davis as the hostess so you can get the discounted shipping rate. Hope you like the products!

Mom has a tendancy to go a little over board on refreshments! But I love her for it!

It you want to earn free jewelry let me know so we can set up a Trunk Show at your house for your friends! We can do a week night for 2 hours as a come and visit type show, or we can do a Saturday 4 hour come and go event. I really need a party for April so if you are interested or know of someone who would be please let me know. Also, a good way to do it is for 2 people to do it together...just another way to socialize and invite more people!

3/19/2010 Late!

On March 19th Morris and I took Taylor to the park to play. Then to Dairy Queen....to play more! It was a lot of fun! I took these pictures with my phone. I just love them!

  Aren't they precious!?

101 in 1001

I can say in all honesty I have no idea why I am doing this. I saw the idea on Allison's Blog and she got it from 2 of her friends. I originally had NO intention of doing this but for some reason I am doing it.
So basically I'm going to come up with a list of 101 things I want to do in 1001 days. My start day is today March 26, 2010 and my deadline is December 21, 2012. It has taken me a few days to complete my list but here it is. I will mark the items off as I complete them. I hope you all enjoy this and maybe decide to do one yourself. (Allison provided this calculator for determining your deadline) Also feel free to help me mark some of my items off my list.

1. Take my lunch to work at least 3 times a week for a Whole Month (August)
2. Eat breakfast everyday of the week (so far so good 6/1/12)
3. Finish Taylor's ISR lessons (it is harder on me than it is on her...she is awesome!)
4. Find out the gender of our second baby
5. Take Taylor and Mac to an Aquarium
6. Give birth to Morris naturally (no epidural or meds)
7. Provide Breast Milk for our baby boy for at least 3 months
8. Take Taylor and Mac to the Zoo
9. Go to Gatlinburg with Aunt Sharon and Uncle Matt in 2010, 2011, and 2012
10. Clean out the front bedroom
11. Start repainting the inside of the house
12. Decorate the nursery
13. Frame and hang the pictures for the half bath
14. Have my first Stella and Dot Trunk Show
15. Go to the Beach
16. Meet my Niece Blair
17. Learn how to use Adobe CS3 (I have had it for a year now and still don't know what I am doing)
18. Buy a new camera....an SLR or camcorder
19. Install a new center console in Morris' truck
20. Get my hair trimmed before the baby comes
21. Go to my 10 year reunion
22. Start a scrapbook for Mac
23. Let my hair grow the entire 1001 days (except for an occasional trim/layering) (so far so good 6/1/12)
24. Save up and Buy a big TV...and I mean 42" or more
25. Meet My friend Taylor's Twin baby boys
26. Put Taylor through More swim Lessons
27. Start Taylor in gymnastics/dance/ballet (whichever she would like or All)
28. Get back to my Pre-Taylor weight
29. Make a Hall Tree for the Foyer
30. Have my 5th Stella and Dot Trunk Show
31. Go to the McWane Center (never been before)
32. Pay off some Debt items complete-4/6/11
33. Sell/turn in our Nissan Rogue Sold 10/8/11
34. Buy a used car to replace the Rogue (with a smaller payment or no payment is preferred)
35. Buy a Large standing Mirror for the bedroom
36. Refinance my house
37. Test out guacamole recipes until I find the best one
38. Buy a digital food scale like this one.
39. Spruce up the blog with New special fonts
40. Celebrate Taylor's 3rd birthday (2010)
41. Go to a Barons game
42. Visit the World of Coca Cola In Atlanta
43. Get Taylor into a double bed
44. Take Taylor to one of those Jumping places (Ijump, etc.) Had her party at Pump it Up 11/19/11
45. Buy Taylor big girl bedding to match her room
46. Watch Morris stand up for John Mark at his Wedding in Valdosta, GA!!! (we are so pumped)
47. Go Bowling (we love to do this but haven't done it in forever)
48. Sell Taylor's clothes that we don't use anymore
49. Celebrate Taylor's 4th Birthday (2011) 11/19/11
50. See Mac crawl
51. Donate our extra stuff that is taking up space in our house
52. Watch every episode of the Honeymooners (not all at one time)
53. Potty Train Taylor (started June 5th, 2010)
54. Go to Chucky Cheese with Taylor
55. Get new bedding for my bed
56. Celebrate Taylor's 5 Year old Birthday (2012)
57. Read a book the whole way through - I Will Carry You (6/15/10)
58. Do something special for our 5 year Anniversary
59. Get back on the envelope system
60. See Mac Walk
61. Go to TN and see if Sa Sa is still alive....meet her if she is
62. Help plan John Mark's Tool Party
63. Organize my Tupperware Cabinet
64. Get out the Maternity clothes
65. Clean out/Organize Master closet
66. Get more umbrellas that have the open/close button
67. Go putt putt golf with the kids
68. Start/Join a LifeWalk group
69. Celebrate Mac's 1st birthday (2011)
70. Clean out/organize Taylor's closet
71. Frame Mac's Pictures for his 3, 6, 9 month wall
72. Get my hair colored after I have the baby
73. Go to the shooting range with Morris
74. Eat out for dinner only 3 times a week for one whole month
75. Get a family picture of the 4 of us taken
76. Frame/hang our family picture
77. Get a new pair of black boots that will last longer than a season
78. Get pictures of Morris taken at 4 days old (just like Taylor)
79. Frame our Diplomas
80. Celebrate Mac's 2nd Birthday (2012)
81. Buy "dashes" for Taylor's growth Chart
82. Fill in Taylor's growth chart with her information
83. Get a New Vacuum cleaner
84. Teach Taylor to say her bedtime prayer (instead of Daddy)
85. Get promoted at work
86. Clean out the attic and organize it
87. Finish going through my stuff that is at my parents house
88. Enjoy every minute of my 6 weeks maternity leave
89. Sell $4000 in Stella and Dot
90. Make a photobook from Mac's First Birthday
91. Make the bed everyday for a month (maybe then it will be a habit)
92. Actually celebrate Christmas between Morris and I (we haven't bought gifts for each other in 3 years)
93. Buy a Tablet I did this in a round about way...bought a Kindle Fire for the Kids (using rewards points)...nothing for me.
94. Clean up/out the Garage
95. Buy a financial software to help me organize the bills
96. Reorganize the pantry
97. Put the "Pantry" Sign on the Pantry door
98. Put Mac in swim lessons
99. Get a diaper bag like this one. --Modified 5/6/2010
100. Get the Dishwasher fixed
101. To do all the things listed in numbers 1-100

Sweet Memories

When I was younger my family would go to my grandparents house on friday nights for dinner and the adults would play cards. The 2 meals I remember most from Friday dinners was Scout Stew and Spagetti....Memaw style (it is more of a brownish sauce...nothing like your Preggo from a jar). I hated both as a kid. My parents would force Lee and I to eat it. As I got older it became less difficult to force them down. I just did it quickly and moved on. Well, last night my mom made dinner for Morris and I and she made Memaw's Spagetti. I was really excited about it for some strange reason. I sat down with my first helping and couldn't eat it fast enough. She even made the same kind of bread that Memaw always made/burned....except this time Morris and I cooked it so it wasn't burned. I returned to the island for a second helping with both my mom and Morris looking at me kind of funny. I am not a spagetti fan at all. But something about that spagetti! It brings back such sweet memories! I didn't know that a memory could make your taste buds broader, but I am glad that it can!

March 10th

Today is a very special day for Morris and I. Today marks our fourth year of marriage! It doesn't seem like 4 years since we got married and went to Italy! Time has just flown! I have been reflecting on all that we have done in the past 4 years and it is pretty crazy! We just don't know how to slow down...I guess we like it that way. Morris and I have had the same song since the day we met. It is Tim McGraw's She's My Kind of Rain...here are the lyrics. This song still makes my heart skip a beat and I can't help but to just stop and listen.

She's my kind of rain

Like love in a drunken sky

She's confetti falling

Down all night

She sits quietly there

Like water in a jar

Says, Baby why are you

Trembling like you are

So I wait

And I try

I confess like a child

She's my kind of rain

Like love from a drunken sky

Confetti falling down all night

She's my kind of rain

She's the sun set shadows

She's like Rembrandt's light

She's the history that's made at night

She's my lost companion

She's my dreaming tree

Together in this brief eternity

Summer days, winter snows

She's all things to behold

She's my kind of rain

Like love from a drunken sky

Confetti falling down all night

She's my kind of rainSo I wait

And I try

I confess all my crimes

She's my kind of rain

Like love from a drunken sky

Confetti falling down all night

She's my kind of rain

She's my kind of rain

Like love from a drunken sky

Confetti falling down all night

She's my kind of rain

She's my kind of rain

Oh, rain on me

She's my kind of rain

Thank you to everyone who has supported us 100% during our relationship and life together! You all mean so much to us!

Catching up!

I am doing my best to try to catch up! I haven't felt like doing much lately so there are a lot of pictures that I haven't posted. So I am going to just post them all in this post.

2/6/2010: This is the precious shirt that Aunt Laura made for Taylor. We got it in the mail less than a week after telling her! So thoughtful! We just love it! Taylor is pretty proud of it too!

2/13/2010: Don't you just LOVE this hat! Taylor wouldn't take it off that day...which was fine with me b/c I love seeing her in it. Morris brought it to her when he came back from a business trip in Seattle! He got me a new coffee mug from Pike Market Starbucks----the FIRST starbucks! pretty cool! WE were so happy to have him home!

2/14/2010: Valenites Day! Morris and I decided just to do V-day for Taylor this year. It was fun! As you can tell she loves her backpack! She is going to start helping mommy and daddy carry her toys and books!

2/15/2010: Many of you know that Taylor is not a fan of having her hair touched. We finally figured out how to get her to let me comb it and put it up. We bought her a set of combs that are just hers. If we use one of those then she will let us mess with her hair.

2/17/2010: I just love pigtails!

2/28/2010: Julie and I took these pictures with our phones at church! They are so sweet!

Hopefully I will have more soon!