PHEW! Been a LONG week!

Operation: CountDown to Daddy


Catch-up Post (again):

We are almost at the three week mark! It has been tough and I know to the rest of this year, this time would have been a cake walk. Daddy will be home in 12 days!!! YAY! SO excited!

Goings-On:

Matthew and I had a busy week. Will try to break it down by day....


Tuesday:







We bought Matthew a sandbox last weekend. We have been playing with it EVERY day since. He loves putting water in it...makes me think he would have been more happy with a water play table.

This was also our first day with a new babysitter. We have a neighbor girl who is in high school and I figured it would not hurt to ask her if she wanted to babysit. I had a ladies coffee to go to for my husband's work, so it was a perfect time to see. She is AWESOME with Matthew. I am SO OVERJOYED that she worked out well (we have had NIGHTMARES with part-time babysitters...don't get me started). I like to have on-call sitters to come watch him instead of asking our daycare provider. She sees him ALL week long and I wouldn't want to overload her after hours. Having the sitter come again Saturday evening so I can go get my hair highlight and recharge the Mommy batteries.


Wednesday:

SLOW day. I have been needing to work on my second round layout over at The Scrapbook Site and Wednesday was a perfect day...or so I thought. Had the whole thing sketched out and could NOT, for the life of me, make it work in my favor. HATED it when I went to bed on Wednesday. Walked away when it was about 75% done and just called it a night. Even told dh on the phone that I may just stop the contest because it was stressing me out. He told me to "sleep on it" (as Janneke would say to me too) and look at it again in the morning. Sure enough, sleep helped. Finished the embellies Thursday morning and uploaded before I could tear it apart.

Make sure to register for their forums! The link is in my post below. Round One voting ends today! Here is my second round layout's link:


Never Met a Stranger...


Cannot post the layout on here yet due to contest rules so make sure you register and check it out!

Thursday:

Did BK for dinner (SO WW-friendly ). Then walked again at the track near our house. I feel like I have been working out and watching what I eat and yet the lb's just don't want to budge! VERY irritating but it is also making me work harder. Wonder if its year 28 rounding the corner that is making it so hard...

Friday:

Came home from work to find some scrap goodies waiting for me on our doorstep! YAY! Energized me so much! Loaded up Matthew into the Nitro and off we went to find the on-post pool. Felt SOOOO good to swim again. I LOVE the water. And my little guy does too! TOTAL fish AND a total flirt. Gonna have to watch him as he gets older...


Saturday!!!:

The day I have been looking forward to ALL week! Planned on taking Matthew to see his VERY FIRST movie in a theater! He did AMAZING! I am so completely proud of our little man! We went to see...

WALL-E

When we first arrived in the theater, there was no one in there. So guess what Mommy did...you got it! She took pictures!

PROUD MOMMY MOMENT!

So that wraps up the week for now. Sitter will be over around 6 pm to watch Matthew and my hair appt is at 6:30. SO looking forward to being pampered. Will post before and after photos when I get home tonight. Maybe I will go daring...


Love you all and miss you so much babe!

-Brianne (&Matthew)