playing catch up

I have failed my faithful blog readers (aka my mom) by not posting anything since November 9. So let's catch up...

We had our final ultrasound and Baby Wyatt managed to behave long enough for the tech to get the measurements we missed a few weeks ago. She did not behave, however, when mom and dad wanted a good 3D picture of her face. Here's what we ended up with...

My mom and I met in Dallas for our annual girl's shopping weekend. We had a great time shopping, eating and visiting with family. After two trips to an accessory store called Sam Moon, Baby Wyatt now owns over 50 bows. I sure hope she has hair!

While I was away accumulating more stuff, Jon was being a wonderful husband and sitting out in the cold having a garage sale so we could get rid of all the stuff that has been displaced due to the need for a nursery. He did a great job and it's so nice that most of our "trash" became the "treasure" of others.

We are slowly getting the nursery put together. Painting is next on our agenda and will hopefully be accomplished during the Thanksgiving Holiday.

brushing up on your current events

November 7

Emily turns 29 for the first time.

November 8
Winston is 3.
He is not a vicious puppy dog, he just got finished eating his birthday
wet food and is licking his chops.

November 8
Tech is 10 -0

weekend update

Since I celebrated Halloween twice this year, I decided to change up my costume a bit. For the mall Halloween event and a birthday/Halloween party, I made an appearance as Juno...much more comfortable than my Madonna 4 layers of white.

Tech 39 - Texas 33

Jon made it back in plenty of time for the game. I wonder what Baby Wyatt thought about all the noise?

raider alley

Here's a picture of the students camping out for the Tech vs Texas game scheduled for Saturday at 7 pm. CRAZY KIDS! Jon is scheduled to be home at 6 pm on Saturday just in time for the game. If he is not on a plane in Dallas by 5 pm I am selling our tickets. They are up to $500-600 a pair. Mama needs a new pair of shoes...better yet, a glider!

while you were out

Jon is in Gainsville, FL this week attending a conference so here is what the girls have been up to...

This is The MAiZe. It's a big field of corn that gets cut into a different maze every year. I visited it our first year in Lubbock but was with a few little ones who really weren't into wandering around in corn that was 3x's as tall as they were. I vowed to return but haven't been able to convince Jon of it's potential coolness. So, I drug another victim, Shelbi, out there solely for my own entertainment. We picked to follow the clues about Music and Movies and completed the maze in 35 minutes after taking at least a dozen wrong turns. I bet it's fun for the guys who sit up in the towers to watch people act like mice hunting for a hunk of cheese.

Here are a few of my most recent Martha Stewart moments. The cheesecake has 4 blocks of cream cheese in it! I was given permission for 25 pounds not 65! I love carving pumpkins but was cut off last year by my less than enthused husband. I tackled a small one on my own and was slightly disappointed that my holes were a little big for my mice. Martha always does it better which is probably why this pumpkin was on the msn homepage this morning.

The remaining man of the house was very pleased to find peanut butter smeared inside of his new kong. Ahhh, the simple pleasures in life.

Dad & Mom aka Prince & Madonna

Halloween is my favorite holiday of all. The house is decorated, my office is decorated, I have carved and baked and am still waiting to find the batch of cat vomit laced with fake spiderwebs. We attended the annual Orthopedic Halloween Party on Saturday night and were dressed up as Prince and Madonna.




Jon will be out of town for all of the Halloween night festivities so Prince has made his one and only appearance and I am pretty sure I am going to have to make some revisions to my costume. 4 hours in a corset did not make Baby Wyatt very happy!

because putting it together twice is way more fun

We picked up the changing table on Saturday morning and carved out some time to put it together because surely it couldn't take that long, right?!? After working at an efficient pace double checking ourselves we found that close to 2 hours had gone by when we slid the last drawer in. No worries about the amount of time, better to take it slow and get it right than to have to redo it. Ha! If only we were so lucky. As the top drawer went in, we noticed 2 pieces of hardware that were on the front of the unit. I had noticed them along the way but figured the top drawer would conceal them and Jon was sure some sort of plugs or covers would take care of them. Alas, no. We had simply put the piece on backwards. And of course we have to pretty much disassemble the entire thing to get to the piece of backwards trim. Oh well, more quality time together assembling baby furniture!