tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75638604632707350942012-01-27T08:19:22.924-06:00As for me and my house we will serve the Lord.. Joshua 24:15Mrs. Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795344042152429323noreply@blogger.comBlogger3371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563860463270735094.post-80041846186540880902012-01-26T22:24:00.000-06:002012-01-26T22:24:16.237-06:00

Well life goes on and this little smiling face has kept me going I am convinced she has made me a stronger person than before I had her. I have begun the all important first birthday preparations,as it is officially 1 month away :(  . I can't even believe we're already here. I feel like we just brought her home from the hospital yesterday, and here she is ELEVEN months old, eating table food,

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Warning: Emotional Post Ahead with no filter, it's my brain dump of how I have felt the last 10 days. It's now been 10 days that my mother has been gone. It was hard for me to get up the morning after her death knowing that I couldn't talk to her anymore knowing that she wasn't here. It's strange the sensation that takes over when you lose the only parent you know it's like the feeling that

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It's not goodbye it's just farewell. Rest In Glorious Peace Mama!09•18•1945 - 01•10•12 You're in a better place, I've heard a thousand times And at least a thousand times I've rejoiced for youBut the reason why I'm broken, the reason why I cry Is how long must I wait to be with you I close my eyes and I see your face If home's where my heart is then I'm out of placeLord, won't you give me

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So today I visited the dentist to have a tooth extraction and implant done yuck. So it's safe to say I'm not feeling the best, it's been a long day and my mouth is very sore. But in the midst of all the pain I felt so blessed my sweet Mr. A took off work early to take care of me and to watch baby Carys so that I could rest. While I was napping on the couch my sweet girl would pull up on the edge

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After posting about losing my wonderful bakery job I received a heads up that another bakery was hiring. I went interviewed and officially accepted the position. Today was my first day and I had an absolute blast. The best part is that I have a part time schedule still so I get to spend a lot of time with my little lady. I always know in my heart that God is faithful and will provide exactly what

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Christmas 2011 was a bittersweet day for me as it's probably the last I'll have with my mama see we've stopped all chemo because her body stopped responding to it so she's staying as comfortable as possible and letting the cancer take it's course. It's hard to watch but I know it's what is best. It was also however the best day because it was my first time to experience Christmas as a mama, my

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before we begin no my title is not a Jersey Shore reference! it is the story of how in four months I landed the single greatest job on earth (err at least for me) and then lost it. So back in September I was told about an opening at a fantastic well known established specialty bakery   here in Oklahoma City for a position as a Sugar Artist-AKA Cake decorator (you know that thing I do on the side

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Ok well I am officially the most terrible blogger in the entire world! I thought briefly of deleting my blog all together. I thought about starting completely over and then I decided that this is my blog and well I tried to be something I am not with the last posts what I thought would be a good project to help me out with my PPD turned into a nightmare in which I felt guilty for not posting so

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There is a big secret out there that new mommas just don't talk about they ignore it until they just can't anymore and then well it blows up into a big mess and your left with one adorable baby and one tired worn out and sobbing mama. Yes my friends I am talking about post partum depression or PPD for short. When I was pregnant with Carys and we took the baby classes our hospital offered there

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Here was our starting point: tan walls and bare room When we had everyone over for Christmas we had our family write prayers to Carys on the wall before we painted. Mr. A writing his prayer: me writing my book uh I mean prayer :) Carys' sign on her door, I bought the C from Hobby Lobby and painted it and added the chipboard letters for her name and the ribbon hanger: View when you look in the

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So I've now been at home with my baby for a few weeks. Life as I know it has definitely changed my boss is no longer an adult but a sweet 3.5 month old. No she's not really my boss but sometimes I feel like since we feed on demand around here. My first fews days at home were completely surreal and I wasn't sure what to do with myself, but by the end of the week I was starting to get the hang of

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There's a sisterhood that exists between women of all ages young and old, blonde, brunette, redhead, silver haired, short tall, small, large, it does not matter your marital status, your age, your last name, what college you attended, or if you like a certain color. You only get initiated once but once your in you're in for life, there are lots of trials in this sisterhood, and lots of amazing

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I'm not the only grinning these days I finally caught my sweet girl's killer smile on film :) That smile makes me just melt and I love that I was around to capture it :)

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Hello friends I have been busy grinning my face off the last few days it's been a fabulous week after finding out our wonderful news about sweet baby Carys on Monday!! Our Easter was a beautiful blessed day. We spent it with family and treasured up the memories of Carys' first Easter in our hearts forever! Let me just say when I called the doctor on Friday to see if we'd gotten Carys' test

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We had a beautiful first Easter as a family of three but more on that in another post later this evening. This one will be short and sweet. We got Carys' CT scan results back and her bump is not harmful to her in anyway, does not require any treatment and will possibly eventually go away on it's own. We are most assuredly BLESSED!! Thanks to everyone who prayed for our little girl I speak for all

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PSA: This post is nothing more than a gripe and whine session written by a teary eyed new mom who had to return to work this week if you don't want to read a lot of whining feel free to visit me another day. Well it's Friday and that means a heck of a lot more to me this week than it has in a long time. You see I started back to work this week and it's been pretty much the week from Hades. There

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Hello my sweet friends thank you all so much for your comments on my last two posts. Nursing is improving and I think we're finally sort of settling into a little routine. But I am facing the biggest challenge my faith has ever battled and I am calling out for prayers. For you to really understand my battle let me back up to about a week ago. On Tuesday afternoon Carys and I were doing our usual

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Due to the lovely weather we had in Oklahoma Mr. A and I ended up taking maternity photos just one week before little Carys made her arrival. We are just now getting them back it's a strange sensation to look at these now that Carys is actually here. I wasn't great at taking weekly bump pictures during pregnancy so I am so glad we have these pics to remember my first pregnancy. Later

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Hi Friends, My apologies for my absence from the blogging world lately. I've been loving on a sweet girl and learning to be a mommy which is simultaneously the hardest and greatest thing I've ever experienced. Tomorrow is my sweet Carys' one month birthday and I can't hardly believe it's already been 4 weeks since she arrived. In some ways it still feels like yesterday. I could write a post

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After a stressful few days of dealing with bed rest  due to low amniotic fluid levels the decision was made and we met our beautiful baby girl Friday morning at 7:41 AM after inducing labor Thursday mid morning. Carys Kaylenn weighed in at 6 pounds 7 ounces and was 19 inches long. Since then our days have been filled with learning to breast feed, coping with recovery, and falling head over heals 

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So like pretty much the entire state of Oklahoma we've been snowed in for a few days. We put our time to good use... Mr. A is my hero for putting together all the furniture. Finished changing table. I love this pic of all three of my loves Mr. A working hard while Missy and Finnegan try to help. finished crib with her bedding quilt Little Miss's very pink closet yes it is the largest one in

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So when my husband and I got married we had fun learning each other's lifestyles and discovering our weird little quirks. One such quirk of mine is that I talk in my sleep and not just a little bit, a whole lot like I can carry on whole conversations with people in my sleep. When I was in high school I got grounded many a time for talking on the phone late at night that is until my mom took my

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This weekend we finished painting in Carys' nursery, got the crib upstairs into her room and plan to put it together this evening. We cleaned out what will become my office/craft room, and finished cleaning and organizing in our kitchen. I am seriously doing a happy dance in my office chair this morning because my mountainous to do list is actually shrinking. It felt so amazing to pull up the

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Hey there bloggie friends, Randoms on a Friday is what I've got for you today. I've realized that January is usually a time for me where I just go into hibernation I think it has something to do with the nights being so long and it being nearly dark outside when I leave work. I love the fall and the spring and simply tolerate the winter and the summer. We've been so busy this January with

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Christi over at grey umbrella has a great blog party going on every Tuesday called Tea on Tuesdays and I thought this week I have so much to share I thought I'd participate. So come on in excuse the mess our house in right now prepping for a baby is messy. But you're still welcome here. I'm so glad you could come for tea and fellowship since you're here let's settle in for a nice visit. I'd

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So I realize it's the 06th day of the year and I'm just now getting around to posting our New Year Goals but the truth is it took Mr. A and I this long to sit down and truly think about what we wanted this year to look like for us. When 2010 began we were certain we were going to buy a house, and we were certain we wanted to serve others more, what we didn't know is that God had much bigger plans

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Hope Everyone had a fabulous Christmas we sure did we were spoiled rotten and so was our sweet girl. My favorite gifts included a maya wrap baby sling from my sweet husband, and a necklace with a heart charm since Carys means love in Welsh from my mother in law, but my special gift was that my father in law had taken his mother's pearl necklace and had it restrung for me. They are beautiful and

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It's safe to say 2010 is a year Mr. A and I won't soon forget we purchased our wonderful home in March and found out in July we'll be adding a two feet addition next March. God's timing is more than perfect and we are thrilled to meet our Little Lady. Our Christmas this year is filled with anticipation of things to come and dreams of future Christmases with our baby girl. It's safe to say that

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Our baby girl's nursery finally has a plan officially. I was going back and forth not wanting to do pink because everybody does to, to wanting to do all pink. When I really sat down and thought about it though all pink just isn't my style we're adding touches of pink but the walls will be a soft springy green and we'll add in the pink with her bedding and accessories. Then I struck gold and found

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I got the privilege of hosting Mrs. G's shower in my home and I loved every minute of it. Our theme was Pink Winter Wonderland so everything was pink, glittery, and sparkly. We played some fun games and I had an absolute blast decorating for the shower. Here are some pics from the event. My entryway table all decked out for the shower: close up of the pink floral arrangement, yes the flowers

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I've so enjoyed looking at all of your beautiful Christmas decorations as you've posted them this week. But right now my house isn't exactly Christmasy it's baby showered up. My bestie's shower is Sunday and I've slowly but surely been putting out the decorations all week. I'll be sure and snap pics and tell you all about it.I'm so excited to have found my camera cord again after losing it a

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   I'm remembering today to be grateful for all the blessings in my life. Traffic was just awful this morning, and people seem to be ruder than ever this year. I'm trying my best to smile through it and remember my happiness doesn't depend on them but on me. I'm making it a goal to not get irritated by Holiday craziness this year my mother did a great job of spreading Christmas Cheer when I

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Wow this pregnancy has really started flying. I'm so sorry for posting the name and then basically leaving my blog un-attended for a long period it wasn't intentional life just took a turn for the crazy. Thanks for all your comments regarding Lil Miss's name we love it and we know she might have some mis-pronunciation and we're ok with that. We fall more in love with our little Carys every day :)

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Oh my goodness I knew revealing the gender would bring on the name questions and comments, but I just can't believe the number of people who have a comment on what we should name our baby girl. Mr. A and are non-traditional we don't like to be ordinary and we want our little girl's name to stand out. Here's just a few of the comments I've heard: 1. don't name your daughter after family members

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so it's been almost 6 months since we moved into our cute little house and we've been slow getting updates done but we finally do have the living room sort of how we want it and remember that table shopping excursion we had so many months ago well we finally went back and bought the one we liked best. Yay for our house starting to look like grown ups live there instead of two broke college kids.

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Our extended Anniversary weekend was a blast :) we started out at the OKC Baron's game on Tuesday night this outing was a surprise planned by my sweet man. The  best part we had seats right on the ice :) Then we headed out Wednesday afternoon to the ultrasound that we had oh so much fun at staring at our sweet baby, then the hard part came since we weren't telling family until Friday we had to

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Did you know that October 15 is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day? Many people aren't aware that this day has been designated a national day of remembrance for miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss. The resolution to declare October 15 a remembrance day passed the United States House of Representatives on September 28, 2006. It was the result of tireless efforts by a group of

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I haven't done one of these before so I figured why not :)How far along? 18 Weeks today Baby's size? Our baby is the size of a sweet potato. Weight Gain? 2 pounds. Maternity clothes? started wearing maternity pants this week but still mostly in my regular shirts Stretch marks? so far so lucky not to have any Sleep? Sleep is good.  Foods I am loving? mac and cheese Foods I am hating? Nothing at

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Mr. A and received two challenges for the month of October one during Sunday morning services, and one during our Sunday night small group study. The first was issued from our pastor to our whole church and that was to commit to 30 days of praying for one hour a day. My first initial thought was pray for an hour! Are you kidding me I get distracted during prayer time at church how am I ever going

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 So I haven't yet posted pictures of my clean fall dressed home for you all to enjoy because....I'm a failure. Although the house is cleaner than it was we're not finished :( and the fall decor although we got the boxes down has yet to be put out, but we did make progress and we are getting there so hopefully by Friday I'll have lovely pictures to post.  I'm trying not to beat myself up over

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So I gave the blog a makeover in honor of the first official day of Fall!

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Oh dear I realize that it's time to pull out the fall decorations but I can't just yet. Why you ask well because my house is one big disasterous mess seriously I'd show you pictures but I'm afraid you might stop being my friends :( So here's the deal I have allowed being pregnant to turn me into a slob. Not just a little bit like a whole lot there were things I could've been doing little bite

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Can you feel it. It's there in the air the slightest bit of chill, the smell of pumpkin spice, the gentle breeze, the roar of a crowded football stadium, It's almost officially FALL!!  So I have lots of fun weekend plans this week and most of them have to do with prepping for the beautiful season ahead. Along with week 14 comes a much needed burst of energy, now don't get me wrong I'm still

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Well dear bloggie friends, I've been a blog slacker lately but I've had good reason I've been knee deep in cake and icing. Last week I completed my very first official wedding cake :) It was a giant 4 tier cake and took pretty much the entire week between making fondant,baking 4 tiers of cake, and the decoration. I'm glad my first one is behind me I feel a lot better about it now then I did

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Since a few of you asked here it is the first official bump picture taken at the end of week 12 :) Happy Friday of a 3 DAY WEEKEND!! Woo Woo!! Football games on television tomorrow and 3 whole glorious days of freedom! Hope everyone has a lovely weekend :) Later Alligators... Mrs. A

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First and foremost yesterday we got to hear the sweet sweet sound of our baby's heartbeat. I know other mama's had told me that the moment you actually hear your sweet child's heartbeat is magical but I kind of shrugged it off til now. Oh my goodness the emotion that welled up inside of me when that little woosh woosh was heard was indescribable. It is a most magical moment for sure. Second 

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Ever since finding out about Baby A other than his immediate response Mr. A has been ecstatic he is so excited to be a father and right now he's showing that by pampering me. My nightly routine has been come home change into comfies and pretty much immediately fall asleep on the couch seriously folks it's bad Mr. A's favorite game has become asking me if I want to watch a movie and then starting

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What a full weekend we had. Friday night started off  very peaceful Mr. A had planned a guys night at a friend's house so I had the house all to myself. I got take out for dinner as I didn't feel like cooking and curled up on the sofa with my furbaby and armed myself with a full water bottle and the Netflix instant play account at my fingertips. I chose "Confessions of A Shopaholic" because I'd

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First off thank you so much for all the well wishes and congratulations you lovely ladies are the best :) Mr. A and I are overwhelmed by the love we've received since revealing our news! So here's the details: First were we trying? yes and no We had given everything over to God and were just waiting on his timing. When we found out July 10th at 7:00AM I was late but not super late so I

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have stolen my heart?! Baby A is on the way expected March 2011. Later Alligators.... Mrs. A

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As I sit here typing this message I am angry with myself and searching for an answer as to why I have become such a people pleaser lately. Seriously I cannot say no to people and I find myself caring way too much what others think of me :( Why is it that when I take my focus off God I shift it back onto myself and  I become obsessed with pleasing people when I should be worried about being a good

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Excuse me can anyone help me I seem to have misplaced the month of July anyone care to help me find it? I cannot believe that July has gone so quickly don't misread me I'm thrilled about that it just means I'm one step closer to my favorite time of the year but dang this year needs to slow down it'll be 2011 before we know what hit us. So since I missed blogging in the month of July almost

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First of all thank you all so much for your kind words for Mr. A's grandmother she's in a better place and we are at peace with that. Sometimes it's hard when you have family pretty much across the country from you but we make it work and have resolved to spend more time in Florida in the future. My weekend was very full actually my wonderful friends took it upon themselves to make sure I

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We lost my husband's grandmother on his father's side of the family on Thursday afternoon thus losing the only living grandparent either of us had. So with that said Mr. A is spending some time in Florida with family and well I'm left all by my little self in our great big house well it's not really that big but it'll seem like it without the hubs hanging around. So I have plans to tackle a few

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So you'd think being born in June and all I'd have this innate ability to ignore june bugs umm no not so much. They are the bane of my existence! They are just plain creepy they make that awful buzzing noise when the fly and the tend to go precisely where I don't want them to go IE in my house. So last night I was sweeping our front porch for what seems like the 100th time in the last week or

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So I'm going to be real instead of posting a belated Happy Father's Day I'm just going to go against the grain and say that Father's Day is not my favorite holiday. To be completely honest it doesn't even scratch the surface of my top ten. My biological father and I haven't spoken since I was 7 and my stepfather left my mom right after I graduated highschool. To say the least the father figures

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First off by popular request here's the cheeseburger cake I made for a dear friend's husband's b-day :) I have been a real blogging slacker lately as life and it's complications weigh on my mind. I still love my little peice of the internet, but it has become difficult lately to post as there are just things that don't need to be voiced here.  In happy news my mom gets a break from chemo

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That's Right I turned 25 today. Officially a quarter century old. The day started off great with sweet gifts from Mr. A he got me the Glee soundtracks Volume 2 & 3 I already had 1, and the season 1 DVD. I got to work greeted by my lovely friend's beautiful strawberry shortcake :) which happens to be my fave. I'm being taken out tonight but I don't know where I was told it's a surprise. I got 

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So the lovely Lindsay of  Just The Two Of Us tagged me for this award a few weeks ago and because I have an awful memory I'm just getting around to posting it. The rules are you're supposed to post the award and tell 7 things about yourself and tag 7 other bloggers for the award. I think I've told you all most of the weird little quirks I have so instead I'm going to tell you 7 things I hope

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So Mr. A and I have now been homeowners for nearly 2 months. In that time we've unpacked boxes, re-arranged furniture and made plans for what we're going to be doing to our home to make it truly ours. We don't plan on moving and bought our home with room to grow so there are some big changes coming to our home to make it a space we'll love for years to come. We're starting with a pretty blank

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What a week of sweet surprises not all of which I can blog about yet. But I'm so excited that my best friend found out that she is pregnant on Mother's Day!! I am so excited for Mrs. G she will be such a wonderful mother :) My husband surprised me after my cake class on Tuesday night with flowers just to tell me he's proud of me. My students have officially made their first cakes and they were

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in Max Lucado's book "The Cure for the Common Life" he says that to live life in the sweet spots you must do what God has given you a talent and desire for. I have been exploring this concept and praying and God certainly has laid it on my heart to continue with our church kids even though the musical is over. I had an absolute blast working with the kids on Sunday nights for the last three

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Do you ever wake up in the morning when the alarm goes off and feel as if you've only just closed your eyes for the night minutes before? Ugh that's how I felt this morning when my alarm went off. It probably didn't help that Mr. A and I went to a Redhawks game last night and didn't get home til late. The Redhawks is Oklahoma City's minor league baseball team. It was fun but chilly. The weather

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Our weekend was awesome but seemed incredibly short. I hate to admit this but I'll be happy when the children's musical is over so I can have my Sunday evenings to myself again. Friday evening we visited with Mr. A's parents for a while and then headed out to our favorite little hometown spot called Lush Berries it's a frozen yogurt place and it rocks we met our friends Mr. & Mrs. G there.

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One of the reasons I adore Mr. A is because he is such an encourager to me. He is constantly encouraging me to follow my dreams and I try very hard to do the same for him. Just yesterday I was bemoaning having to be in the children's musical I said that people would wonder why I'm in the musical because I can carry a tune but I'm no Idina Menzel, he just looked at me and said "but why not

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Our weekend was jam packed but full of fun. Friday evening we played it low key we had plans to work in the yard but it was raining so Mr. A worked on some writing and I started sorting through the mass of instructor manuals that have taken over my coffee table as I prepare to start teaching cake decorating classes in May. My schedule is officially on the calendar and I am so excited!!

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I had a craptacular day yesterday everything that could go wrong did and everyone that could say something to make me feel stupid said it. Just a horrible no good very bad day. But then something amazing happened I went home into old clothes and got to work in my garden finished planting the beautiful gerbera daisies around our mailbox, and finished putting the mulch down in the front flower

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What a busy busy weekend. Friday started off with a trip down memory lane as I attended my high school friend's mom's funeral and saw people I haven't seen since the summer I graduated high school. It was a a little awkard to go back to a town that hasn't changed in the years I've been out of school and I've changed so much such is life though. That evening Mr. A and I attended a wedding of a

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First off thank you all so much for your sweet comments yesterday while you all see pretty cakes I see every flaw in each one. I'm going to be making a display cake soon and I promise to post pictures of the process. Also some were asking about fondant and I thought I'd share the marshmallow fondant recipe. So here it is for your enjoyment. This is my cake instructor's recipe and it is awesome to

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after posting about my part time teaching/cake decorating gig I had a number of comments asking to see some pictures of my cakes. So here's a few for your enjoyment :) course 1 final cake: let me preface by saying I abhor the buttercream icing rose I am awful at them and would prefer gum paste or fondant roses any day of the week! course 2 fondant bow cake: this was my second attempt at that

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Hi Bloggie world, My house thanks you for the love it has received and all the comment compliments. Mr. A and I just love it and still get giddily excited when we turn the corner into our housing addition :) There's a lot of work to be done and we decided we're painting our trim in the whole house so stay tuned for house project updates. Exciting things and sad things have happened since I last

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The official post with pictures we finally found the camera cord in a box tucked away in the study at 10:45 last night :) I just want to say that buying a house was one of the most stressful things ever. There was so much anticipation surrounding it and I often felt like my faith was slipping because I worried so much about whether or not things would happen the way they needed to. I broke

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As of Friday March 26th at 10:45 AM Mr. A and I are officially homeowners!! Closing went very smoothly as did moving. Let me just say Mr. A and I are truly blessed with amazing friends and our move only took about 2 1/2 hours. We're still getting acquainted with our house and the dog is sure enjoying her new backyard. As soon as I find the box that I packed my camera supply cord in I'll post

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Sorry I've been MIA bloggie world with packing we don't have computers at home now so it's much harder to blog. I can occassionally blog on my breaks but unless I've planned something in advance that doesn't work very well. We are now just 11 days from closing on our home everything looks great but I find myself irrationally freaking out over every little thing. I'm making myself sick with

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It's been a while since I've done a wedded wednesday post trying to get back in the habit cause I really miss the marriage reflection that comes with wedded wednesday posts. Anyway today I'd like to discuss self confidence. See before I met Mr. A I was severely lacking in this department. Mr. A brought out the very best in me and continues to do so. Not a day goes by that he doesn't build me

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As often happens when I sleep really well I woke up this morning with a hymn stuck in my head and I was singing it over and over. This morning my song of choice was "Count Your Blessings" I believe it was The Father's way of telling me not to get so caught up in our house buying that I forget to take notice of the blessings around me. It's safe to say that buying a house is easily one of the most

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Being the sentimental sap that I am I have already starting thinking about all the memories Mr. A and I have in our first place.We moved in right after our honeymoon in October 2007 and we've made some great memories. We celebrated our first married Christmas we started our Annual Christmas Eve get together which has evolved from just us and our parents to include more family and even friends.

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Well hello bloggie world how are you today? Sorry I've been a bad blogger lately been digging through financial paperwork and all the good stuff that goes along with purchasing a home. I've also finally allowed myself to start planning out our rooms and ideas for our future home. Mr. A made fun of me yesterday evening cause I went to Lowes on my lunch break and just wondered around cause I didn't

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Good Monday morning friends. Hope you all had fabulous weekends I spent my Valentine's Day at church helping take care of kiddos so the mommies and daddies could go out to dinner and have couple a time. I had a blast playing duck duck goose and red rover. :) Not to worry my sweet husband took me out to dinner the night before and I got to wear my fabulous headband I got from Mrs. Katie!But wait

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Oh goodness Oklahoma isn't getting the snow dump that some states are but we're having our fair share of gloomy gray weather which has made for an unusually long and boring work week. Which means I'm more ready for the weekend. I don't have a jam packed weekend planned just coaching on Saturday and then church on Sunday. Mr. A and I don't have big Valentine's plans just dinner and a netflix movie

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Well after what feels like the longest weirdest weekend in history we are officially going under contract on a house. So here's a few pictures from the MLS listing. Barring nothing happens during inspections we're on our way to being homeowners set to close March 26th if all goes well!! outside in the front:living room with sellers things.and my fave room in the house the kitchen!!

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This fabulous lady brightened my day with the sugar doll award. The rules are post 10 interesting facts about yourself, and tag 10 other bloggers. Since I'm pretty sure most of the blogs I read have been tagged for this fabulous award I'm tagging anyone who hasn't received it.Here's my ten interesting or ridiculously boring whichever way you want to read it facts.1. I'm a gemini and although I'm

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Well after touring houses and seeing 12 in the area we know we want to be in and in our price range, we've narrowed it down to a very promising two houses both of which we really like. We're going to tour both again on Saturday and hopefully make our decisions from there. It's both exciting and nerve wracking that we're literally days away from putting in an offer on our very first home. Everyone

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Wait...that's not the way the state song goes! Well maybe not but it sure feels like it on days like today where OK has pretty much shut down in anticipation of Ice Storm 2010.As much as I love my home state and I really do I love that I live in a state that embraces the values of a helping hand and if you're stranded in Oklahoma you can almost bet some friendly person is going to help you out.

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Why Hello dear bloggie world,Hope everyone is doing well this fine Monday. While I like many others suffer from the Monday blah's I do have some cute little cheerleaders that practice on Monday nights that I get to coach so it makes Monday's bearable :) Coaching is going great we're officially into our season now and had our first games over the weekend :) Don't worry you know I got pictures I

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Over the weekend I was given not one but two fabulous blog awards!! I love these they brighten my day. Both Lauren over at The Lucky Laymans & Katie at Katie's Journey Tagged me with the Happy 101 Award! I love both of these blogs Katie has such a great story to tell and she's finishing up her education, and Lauren and I are in such similar places in life that I really feel like I can relate to

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Yesterday evening Mr. A and I attended the first meeting of our churches small group study over the book "Unchristian" by David Kinneman. Great book by the way if you have a chance I highly recommend you check it out. Anyway in our discussion we talked about how people have this view that Christianity is the safe choice and bad things won't happen to Christians etc... We talked about how we

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Mrs. Katie over atLoves Of Life is hosting another swap like the fall scarf swap back in October. Hope you can join in and spread the love!!

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This week has been a tough one dear friends. 2010 started out a little rocky for our church family. On Sunday our children's minister suffered a brain aneurysm and left this earth on Monday morning. Mr. Gibson was a friend, mentor, teacher, and a wonderful man of God. Our church has certainly suffered a large loss and there are some big shoes to be filled!! It shook every person who knew Mr.

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Well I'm a few days late posting this but when I sat down to write it on the first my heart just wasn't in it so I took a few days prayed over my goals and came up with a concrete 5 goals that can all be encompassed in one word I would like to govern my year. That word is serve.1. Serve my heavenly father through ministry and jump at the first opportunity presented to me.2. serve my husband by

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As 2009 draws to a close I find myself going back and reading posts I've written over the last year. It's clear to me now that 2009 was a year of great change for me I started out the year in a very bitter lonely place and praying for guidance for things to be different. I had been hurt deeply and didn't know where exactly to turn. my reflections here revealed a lot about my thought processes and

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Well it's over :( I can't believe as fast as Christmas snuck up on us that now it's all over! We had a fabulous Christmas at the Mr. & Mrs. A house even though we did pretty much get snowed in for 3 days!! Christmas Eve we woke up to thisMy wish came true I totally got a White Christmas!Missy loved it!!Why yes that is a snow drift up to my over 6 foot tall husband's knees.so needless to say our

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The Christmas post of randomness:They're predicting snow in Oklahoma tonight and tomorrow. Here's hoping we might actually get a white Christmas. I have just a little bit of baking to do and I'm finished. I can't wait to carry on mine and Mr. A's tradition of one gift on Christmas Eve then watching a Christmas movie and drinking hot chocolate out of cute snowman mugs that was a sweet gift from

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Wait did you hear that? It's the sound of any free time before Christmas flying out the window. We're officially in Christmas bustle. Last night we celebrated Christmas with our sweet friends we received some awesome gifts but more importantly we all rejoiced in the fact that this Christmas we have been given the best and most perfect gift any of us could ask for the gift of friendship! The

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One of my very kind bloggie friends just pointed out to me that Christmas is two weeks from today!! UMM wait wasn't Thanksgiving like last week?! Needless to say I've got to get in gear. I've got a very long to do list that includes lots of sugar and gingerbread cookie baking, at least 3 cakes, and our annual Christmas Eve Party :) UMM YIKES!!But all that will hae to wait til after this evening

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I've been reading a lot of engagement stories in bloggie land lately. Since I started blogging in December 2007 after our wedding in October I never shared our engagement story. So I thought I would now just because it makes me smile :)Our engagement November 18, 2006Mr. A had asked me a few days earlier to spend Thanksgiving in Florida with him that year and I had agreed. I was suspicious of a

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I stole this off someone's blog if it's you let me know I'll give you credit I don't remember where I got it but I liked it :D1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping... its way more fun to open a present when its been wrapped and I love putting special touches on my gifts2. Real tree or Artificial? oh if I had my way it'd be real but Mr. A won't have it so it's fake3. When do you put up the tree

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Today is Mr. A's grandfather's funeral he went home to be with the Lord on Saturday after Thanksgiving. I only met granddad once he lives in Florida and I flew out there and spent Thanksgiving with them and all the extended family right after Mr. A and I got engaged in November of 2006. My heart is with my husband in Forida today as they honor granddad and celebrate his life. We love you Grandpa

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Our Thanksgiving Day was fabulous to say the least we split the day between families and even made time to spend with some sweet friends who don't have family in the state. We ate to the brim and when it came time to go around the table to say what we were thankful for. It wasn't hard to see how truly blessed we all are. Mr. A and I are truly thankful we've found a church home we can grow in and

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Rules: Thank the person who gave you the award and link to their blog. Share 10 honest things about yourself. Present this award to 7 other whose blogs you find brilliant in design or contentThe lovely Mrs. Lukie tagged me with the Honest Scrap award! Thanks so much Mrs. Lukie this is my second ever blog award and I'm thrilled that it's this one. now on to the ten honest things about me:1. I wear

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