Hello!

Hey, just thought I would pop in for a minute to let you know that I have not forgotten about you! I think about my bloggy friends all the time, but I have just been enjoying time with my kids.

We have been busy with soccer, a 9th birthday, potty training a 2 1/2 year old and just trying to keep up with laundry!

I am hoping to be back to projects and blogging again really soon, but now I am off to watch my kiddos swim as it is 90+ degrees outside.

{Recipe} Vanilla Coffee Creamer

I love me some Vanilla creamer for my coffee, but when I read the ingredients I was a little freaked out.

It's filled with things I cannot pronounce. No bueno!

I played around and came up with a recipe that I love and that doesn't gross me out.

Ingredients:

2 cups Milk

1 1/2 TBS Vanilla

1 can Sweetened Condensed Milk

Yep. 3 ingredients. 

I removed the label from an empty creamer container and washed it really well.

Poor all 3 ingredients into bottle and shake shake shake!!!

I love the pour spout and the easy close lid.

This is my new favorite mug.

L.O.V.E. Owls!!!

Enjoy!

Note:

This does not last as long as store bought creamer because it is made with real ingredients and has no preservatives, so use it up within a few weeks. I go by the expiration date on the milk that I use.

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Declan Everett

Hello! I have been away from the blog for too long, but I am back(I hope). I had my baby a little over 5 weeks ago and my days are spent snuggling with him and playing with my older kids. I have missed blogging and am going to try to get back into the swing of things.



37 weeks and 1 day.

Last preggo photo!

My water broke while picking my daughter up from AWANA and we took a goofy "We're gonna have a baby!" photo when we got home. Dork status fo sho!

Declan Everett

Born 2-2-12 at 11:11am

6lbs, 14.6ozs

18.25in

 Our first picture as a family of 5!

Declan

Pronounced Deck-len

 I am so in love.

My three children.

Brooklyn and Travis pretty much adore their new baby brother:)

This is my life and I love it.

{WORD} Wednesday

Patience.

It is one of the Fruits of the Spirit. (Galatians 5:22, 23)

God is currently working to grow this fruit in me.

If you read my post from yesterday you will see what I mean.

He is showing me that patience is needed to see fruit form on a tree...it doesn't happen overnight.

Isaiah 40:31 (KJV)

"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;

they shall mount up with wings as eagles;

they shall run, and not be weary;

and they shall walk, and not faint."

So now I am learning to wait upon the Lord.

Waiting for His perfect timing in life and in the birth of my child.

{Bump} 36 Weeks

Warning: as this is a post about pregnancy there may or may not be some "lady business" talk.

My face in this picture pretty much sums up how I feel right now:

I am so tired! This past week I have had two false alarms. Such a TEASE!

Thursday evening my contractions were 5-7 minutes apart for an hour, then 3-5 minutes apart for 45 minutes and then they went to 2-3 minutes apart for 30 minutes before I decided to head to the hospital.

They had me on the monitors for 4 hours with contractions 2-3 minutes apart and had to send me home because there was NO progression.

Friday evening I lost my "plug". (Can't believe I just wrote that...Eeew)

Saturday evening the baby dropped.

Monday(yesterday) I had contractions all day and then in the evening they picked up to 2-3 minutes for 2 hours and were much lower than on Thursday night. I headed back to the hospital 

and after an hour was sent home...AGAIN.

Blarg.

Apparently I am having a crap ton of useless, but perfectly timed, contractions that have done NOTHING!

Nothing, that is, except turn me into a freaking basket case who has had to do

the Labor & Delivery ward "Walk of Shame" twice now in one week:

Get dressed, look around to make sure you have all your belongings.

Was I wearing a bra?

Walk down the long, brightly lit hallway hoping nobody sees you with

yesterdays mascara smeared under your puffy eyes.

Wait for the elevator just outside reception, which takes FOREVER considering its 2AM.

Walk out the door, past the same people who buzzed you in after hours, avoiding their looks of pity.

Climb into your cold car and drive home to cry yourself to sleep.

I know that I am early, but with all these signs of labor, I am just tired of the guessing game.

Just FYI:

My daughter was born at 35 1/2 weeks and was 6lbs 10ozs.

My son was born at 37 1/2 weeks and was nearly 8 lbs.

So for me, having the baby now would be perfectly normal.

Oh, and with each of those pregnancies I did not feel a single contraction until I was in the hospital in active labor...so this whole contraction thing is new for me.