It’s been months since I’ve blogged, I know you’re so disappointed! But I am going to try to do better! It's hard because I can't do it at work anymore and my home netbook is not efficient.

I’ve been busy, that’s for sure. After work, my brain hurts so bad I can’t think any intelligent thoughts. Fortunately, we’ve met our major work goal, so I think I may have time to breathe.

Even though I’ve yet to find my talent, I have been given a greater purpose – being a mother that raises a child to love and fear God.

Here’s a summary of what I’ve been up to:

November:

-          Made a banner for Susan’s shower.  I told Susan to keep the banner. Not necessarily for Eli, but proof that, yes, Emily made something.

-          25^th birthday

-     Painted our guest bathroom. Funny story: so it's about 8 am and my mom and I are taping and getting the tiny bathroom ready to paint. I had already gotten the paint can open and stirred it waiting to begin. However, my mom didn't know I had opened it... so she shook it! Purple paint went EVERYWHERE! It wasn't funny at the time so I couldn't take a picture without devestating my mom, so imagine the entire floor covered in a thick layer of purple paint. You can kind of tell the grout is still purple. The bathroom is so small I can't really show you the walls. haha.

            And even the walls and for of the "hallway." This is after cleaning up a little bit. We had to paint the walls here too to cover the purple.

-          2 year wedding anniversary

December:

-          Went to Great Wolf Lodge and the Gaylord Texan with my family December 16^th… for some reason I was exhausted the entire time

My mom, Krista, and Matthew with their parkas on during the ice show

-          Found out on December 17^th why I was so exhausted… I was 6 weeks pregnant! No matter what they tell you, you can still get pregnant after missing two days of the pill even though you’ve been on it for years!

-          Only used 3-4 tags that I made back in October for my Christmas presents.

-          I wanted to blog about gift wrapping, but the super cute Target paper gave me such a fit (and the fact that I cannot cut in a straight line to save my life), I gave up and used bags

-          I made the tray thingy for my sister. She seemed to like it, of course because I don’t like anything I do, it was just “ok.”

-     Sent out our Christmas card

-          Told both of our families of the good news. They, of course, were super excited. It will be the first  great-grandchild, first grandchild for Jay’s family. We told my family by giving my nephews shirts that said “I’m going to be a big cousin." I need to see if anyone has pictures.

January

-          My parents came and helped complete my guest bathroom and worked on the guest room. Once the room is complete I'll take pictures.

-          Started couponing. I need to get my grocery budget down drastically. I even went to a class presented by Tiffany at http://www.mylitter.com/

-          I’m in a recipe club now! We meet every month to exchange recipes. Thankfully I don’t have to actually make anything until December.

In the Future

-          I want to organize all of my “stuff” in the guest room so that the guests actually have room to walk around

-          I need to perfect my couponing skills

-          My best friend Molly and I are talking about a fashion blog. We both love fashion, but not so great at shopping for ourselves.  

Going through my “BLOG” folder on my work computer, I’ve realized I’ve actually written a lot of blog entries but never posted them! Oops! Maybe I’ll recycle them in the future.

My precious, precious nephews

My sister has two boys, Matthew, 11, Andrew, 7... obviously the most precious things ever!

I wish I had better pcitures, but I'm at work. Anyway, here are some conversations from my sister about their Valentine's day:

Me: Did Matthew have a Valentine today?

Sister: He got one on Friday from a girl, and she apparently told him that she was bringing him chocolate today.  I hope she does because he's been excited about the chocolate all weekend.  Not so much the girl, but the candy!

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Sister:

I’m going to try to leave here in time to go to Andrew’s Valentine’s party at school.  I wanted to make homemade cards for his class this year, but the day snuck up on me and I didn’t have time.  So it was just plain ol’ Transformer cards.  He did make one for Mrs. Clark though.

It was funny because I got an email saying to add someone else to the class list, someone named “Ngoc”.  He got mad because I kept pronouncing the name like “knock”.  He said it’s not “knock”, it’s NO-cuh!!!  He was very adamant about it.  He said “Ngoc is special. She goes to special classes”.  He was so sweet!!!

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Sister: See I'm telling you, Andrew is the Teacher's Pet!  I just got this email from his teacher.  

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You have the sweetest boy!  We are doing a graph with conversation hearts and as he was reading his he found one and said, "I am going to give this one to my Mama!". 

Goodness! I miss them!