Christmas pics!

I'll post more later! I didn't really get a lot of gifts, mostly money. People know i'm picky, haha!

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!!

Half a year old!

I made a little slideshow to "celebrate" Kota being 6 months old yesterday (Tuesday). And yes, I know I spelled 'month' wrong at the end, but thats okay. And turn your speakers on, there is music too! I had a dream, while I was pregnant, and it was like a home movie looking dream. Of me holding a baby (couldn't see his face) and of our little family. And this song was playing in my dream. So I thought it would only be fitting to use it now! :) Enjoy!

Lots of pics!!

Man, did we have a busy weekend!! Thanksgiving was busy, and it was all down hill from there! We avoided going out on black Friday though. Except to Chic-Fil-A. The one down the road from us has these amazing Christmas Lights every year. So me, Mason, baby and my parents took the little guy to go see some awesome lights!



Me and baby in the parking lot with the Chic-Fil-A behind us!




Daddy and baby

We went in and I got one of the holiday milkshakes: peppermint and chocolate chip! It was soooooo good!!! :-D One of the employees was giving all of the little kids balloons and he asked if we wanted one for baby. Mason was like "Nah, what the heck is he going to do with a balloon?" but I said "Hellz yes we'll take one!!". So Kota got his first balloon! :) He kept staring at it bob around. I tied it to his little wrist.




Saturday we drove out to Spring Hill again to spend the weekend. We helped Mason's aunts put up their holiday decorations and lights. They cooked us some delicious Italian sausage (omg soooo good!!!).
When we got home Sunday, Mason put up some lights outside and and put up the Christmas tree. I got to give him the surprise ornimate, yay! It's next to one of our other custom ornamates we had made a few years ago. :)



And over the weekend we made a very special discovery! Kota is getting a tooth!!! Which would explain his crabbyness and extream dooling! Awww! I'm going to miss his toothless smile!

Thanksgiving pics!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and I hope everyone else did too! :-D
Kota had his first taste of real pumpkin pie and whipped cream! He loved it!

Pie face!

Me and baby!

We went out to lunch with my family for Thanksgiving. Kota got to sit in a resturant highchair for the first time!




My toy, mine!!


Then we went to Spring Hill to visit Mason's family. There we soooo many people at his aunt's house! Kota loved all the attention he was getting. He was worn out when we got home!


Daddy, grandma, greatgrandma and baby!



Yes, we are!!

Of course i'm also thankful for family, friends and my hubby. But I feel espeically blessed this year to have my adorable little Dakota here with us!

You will now be graced with his uber cuteness!!!

My little collector!


Having a "blah" kind of day!

Don't be fooled little guy, mommy is always watching!!!

I just want to wish everyone a Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving! I'll be gone alllllll day tomorrow, stuffing my face!

New pants!

I went to Ross and got two pairs of pants the other day. Both Levi's. I've never owned Levi's. I love them, I should of been buying this brand years ago!! I'm happy that I now have pants that actually fit, instead of my pre-pregnancy pants! w00t!

We get to have two Thanksgivings on Thursday! We're going out with my family to celebrate, then we're heading to Spring Hill to go to Mason's aunts house. We always have fun up there. :) The only problem is we may have to drive his mom and grandma back to Tampa with us, which I really, REALLY don't want to do. We would just spend the weekend up there, but we're tiling the kitchen counter and putting insulation in the attic. We've already done half of the counter, and it looks fabulous! It's beautiful black tile! I'll post pics when it's done!!

OMG soon Kota will be 6 months old. SIX FREAKIN MONTHS OLD!! That's halfway to a year!! I can't believe it's been that long already!

From itty-bitty:


To "big boy":

He's growing up so fast!!! My precious little man ♥ ♥ ♥

Fuzzy mothman and turkey baby

Sunday morning hubby was outside smoking and come running in and told me to come outside and "see this awesome moth!". When I think of moths, the word "awesome" isn't usually associated with it... But when I saw it, I had to admit, it was a pretty awesome moth. It was big. And hairy...

I'm sure it's harmless. Besides eating your clothes. But you know if that thing would of flown at me I probably would of shit my pants and ran. :-/

I made Kota's Thanksgiving babylegs today. They are so cute! They match his Thanksgiving onesie perfectly! Good job, Mommy! :-D So I decided to work on his 1st Thanksgiving pics too. He didn't want to cooperate, he just wanted to play with the pumpkin and drool everywhere.

Silly baby, lol! :) ♥ I'll probably get some better pics this weekend. I want to make Thanksgiving cards for his grandparents. I was looking at some fall leaves decorations at Walmart, thinking it'd be cute to have him sitting in the leaves for his pictures. Then I looked at the price tag. $7.99. Eight friggin' dollars for a strand of fake leaves!!! I don't think so, scooter!!! I'll gather some up from outside and rinse them off and use those, it's cheaper. :-P

$Cha-Ching!$

Alrighty people, I did something I don't get to do very often. It's something I think everyone should do once a month (if possible)...

SHOP! For yourself! I mean balls to the wall, see it. want it. buy it. SHOPPING!

It feels so good. I needed to get that out of my system. Ok, now that i'm back to broke, i'll be good for another month. Maybe.

But, I did get two things I swore i'd never buy.

1. A plaid shirt. Can we say 'redneck chic'? I always made fun of those shirts. But I found one that was uber cute.

2. Leggings. Another thing I hated! Till I bought a shirt/dress a few weeks ago that would look perfect with leggings. So now I own some.

My first stop was good 'ol Walmart! I hit the clearance rack and the makeup section! I got my leggings from Walmart (Miley Cyrus brand, hahaha)

My "bat wing" sweater type thingy. I'm not really sure the actual name for those kinds of sleeves, but they remind me a bat wings, so i'm going with that. :-P


Grey pants, straight leg. I bought them in Khaki too. All of my pre-pregnancy jeans were too big, so I tried on a pair that were two sizes smaller than I used to wear. They fit. W00t!! So I bought two pairs! :) When I got home I put them on and as I was walking around the house, they started to fall down. Maybe I need a smaller size, still? ;)


3 things from Hard Candy: a lipstick, a colored lipgloss that came with a free lipliner, mascara and Cover Girl eyeliner. I've tried both the lipsticks and they are both AWESOME! Plus I love the tube!





And then, at the mall, Charlotte Russe was havinga $4.99 clearance sale. So I got...



My one and only plaid shirt! :-D


Cute blue stretchy ruffly shirt. My camera kind of screwed up the color, but thats ok, you get the idea.


A mix of accesories I got from Charlotte Russe and The Icing (they were having their 5 for $10 sale!)

And my last stop was the custom ornament kiosk in the mall! Mason and I got one made in 2006 when we first got together. I figured, since we have a little family now, it was time to get another one. So i'm going to surprise him with it once we put up our tree! :)




Oh, and I have like, the best news EVAR! We don't have to move!!!!!!!!!!! The landlord agreed to lower our rent to $750!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!! No apartment living for us!! :-D

Ah moving we shall go!

So we've settled on two apartment complexs. One is the townhouse and another is a 3 bedroom apartment. We also found a house we're going to go look at tonight at 6pm. They're asking $950 on rent, but, they're willing to go to $750 "if they like us and thing we'll be good renters". *rolling eyes* $750 would be great for a house! I hope they like us. I mean, what's not to like? We're a quiet little family. Most of the time....

So since we are for sure moving, i'm having a moving sale this weekend to get rid of a lot of junk we have. Plus Kota's grandma is getting him a walker for Christmas. Just what we need. A baby flying around the house knocking crap over, lol! So i'm selling a lot of the breakable knick-knacks we have.

I think Kota needs a hair cut. Poor baby's hair is starting to get really long, and it hangs down in his eyes.

That's after a bath. I "spiked" his hair, haha!

Weekend updates!

Saturday
Something amazing happened! Kota sat up on his own!!! :-D I had him propped up with pillows on the bed and I was getting ready to go to the mall, and he kept trying to sit up (he's been doing this for a few weeks now). He stiffens his arms and balls up his little fists and strains to sit up. This time HE DID IT!!! He sat up!!! He was a little wobbly and eventually fell over, but omg, he sat up!!!

Of course, right before I took the pic he started to fall forward, so I have my hand ready to catch him. LOL!

I'm so proud of my little guy *tear* he's becoming a big boy!!

Sunday

Another big event! Kota turned 5 months old! YAY!!!

My big boy and daddy!

We also went to look at a few townhouses and apartments this weekend. We saw one that was HUGE and I loved it. Of course, Mason hated it. He said we couldn't fit our couch in the front door, so it was out of the question. He said we'd go look at these townhomes his grandma used to live in because they were really nice and cheap. So while he was at work today, my mom and I went to go look. I'm not impressed. There's no gym, no washer/dryer hookup so you have to use their laundry room ($1.50 a load) and it just doesn't seem that big to me. Plus they have closed in porches, but your porch is connected to someone elses, only divided by a screen. That would be kind of awkward. Mason smokes, so what if he goes onto the porch to smoke, and the person next door doesn't? That could mean problems. The townhouse itsself isn't horrible. It's bigger than our house now, but I don't know, it just kind of feels weird to me. We'll see I guess. At least there is a pool and playground there! I guess I could go jogging around instead of using a gym. Or I could just sneak and get a gym membership somewhere else! ;)

What's really good though, is that the townhouse we'd get is one on the end of the building. So there would only be other people on one side of us. Which is what we wanted! :-D

Shop till....the baby starts crying.

Read my other blog from today! Click here!

So I took my stuff to Plato's Closet. I got $32. Not even worth half of what I paid for the stuff I gave. But whatever. I need winter clothes. So what did I get?

Not winter clothes! Ok, maybe one sweater type thing, but no jackets or long sleeved shirts. Not even any shoes! I just couldn't find any I like!

But I did get 4 really cute shirts! :-D

Wet Seal - $4

Forever 21 - $3

(My fave!)

Takara - $7

Lux - $6

Yay for new shirts! The blue one fits a little small in the chest area (damn you, breasticles!) but thats okay I guess...

And no, i'm not trying to really model, I was just being goofy. :-P

I was at The Closet for about an hour. Kota started to get crabby so I decided it was time to leave. I still have $13 in my pocket and I really want to go tanning, but my car is running on fumes (aka the gas light is on and i'm on E). So, gas up my car? Or go get myself bronze?

I'll probably put gas in my car. Only because I don't think I could make it to the tanning salon and back with whats in my gas tank, haha!

Update of the weekend!

Friday night we went to a carshow at Dairy Queen. They had a couple cars decorated for Halloween. There was a black VW Beetle that they put huge spider legs on. It was so cute! Kota wore his cute Halloween onesie. :)

Saturday was Halloween! Kota was in his pumpkin costume looking cute as usual. ♥

We had lots of trick or treaters! I made 30 treat bags and they were all gone in about 10 minutes! We actually had to break out our own stash of candy we were keeping for ourselves! Around 10, after all the kids were gone, we went to Taco Bell and got the free Black Jack Taco. It was so good!

Saturday morning we went to look at another house. Except this one was for sale. It's valued at $100,000. But it's in foreclosure, so it's being sold for $50,000. So tomorrow, Monday, we're meeting with the relator and the bank to see if we can get approved for a loan for the house. We LOVE this house. It's a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 1200 sq ft, HUGE back yard! Pool! Love, love, LOVE this house! Hopefully we'll get approved for the loan. If not, Mason said he could take the money out of his 401K for a down payment.

I took pics while we were there....

(me infront of the house haha!)

I'm going to be praying we get this house till we hear from the bank! Everyone keep your fingers crossed!!! :-D