Trampoline!

Yesterday afternoon we went over the Sheffields to play.  Zoey had a blast swinging with Cora and Joe.  She also was a HUGE fan of their trampoline.  They were sweet enough to let her play on it by herself.  I see many weekends over there letting her play!  I’m very thankful we are close by and Cora and Joe love playing with her.

Steak Night

A couple of weekends ago, Brian and I had a date night. A new restaurant, Neon Pig, in town was having a steak night. We had new clue what to expect but was pleasantly surprised. I didn't think to take a picture of the restaurant but I did get one of each course. The place is a convert local market/meat market and still has the meat market and very limited foods. They are the one of the few places in town that sell tons of the new beer. It is a bar as well as a cafe but you grab your beer from the fridge which they sell from. One of the owners/chef used to work at Hot & Hot Fish Club in Birmingham.

(Pictures are taken with my phone.)
First course: Bun Bowls. Broth with pork belly and homemade buns. I was surprised at how salty this was but I could have eaten a big bowl as a meal.



Second course: Hot & Hot Tomato salad. The chef altered this a bit by soaking it in soy instead of balsamic vinegar and topped with bean spouts instead of brussels spouts. It was divine.



Third course: Filet. Topped with bacon and mushrooms on a bed of fingerling potatoes with shaved horseradish. The horseradish was a delight.



Forth course: Peach cake with carmel icing in ginger lemongrass milk topped with a fig. Oh my!! This was the best cake I have had in a very long time. The carmel icing was to die for; I could not get enough of it. The milk tasted like milk after eating Fruity Pepples.




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Goo Goo Dolls

Sunday night we able to go to the Goo Goo Dolls concert in Tupelo.  Rachel scored us AWESOME seats and Meet and Greet with the band.  I do not have pictures from the Meet and Greet yet, but I will share once I have them (we could not take pictures with our own cameras).  It was a great show, but we all felt bad at the poor turnout.  It was like being in high school again!  Our seats were so good it was like having our own private showing (due to the small crowd)!!  We were the old people and left before it was over; hey, it was a Sunday night and already 10.  I did wish we got to hear Iris, but oh well. 

I was able to snag a video of Name.  I was afraid my camera was going to die on me before it was over, but I got it all.  I forgot how much I like this song. 

Oxford Shower

What a lovely weekend!

Saturday morning was our first shower for Zoey!  Lisa and Rita did a lovely job at making sure everything was perfect for the shower; everything was gorgeous and delicious.  It meant so much to have friends around to help celebrate the upcoming arrival of Miss Zoey.  She will be one spoiled little girl!

Instead of my trying to do justice with words on everything, enjoy the pictures! 

Adorable owl cookies!

LOVE the diaper cake!  I cannot wait to take the name and flowers and put them in a open frame for the nursery wall.  (Lisa has all the best ideas!)

The spread! 

Rita, Me, & Lisa!  Two wonderful hostesses!!

Thank you again Lisa and Rita for such a wonderful shower!!!  We are so blessed to have such wonderful friends!!

Short week, but long post.

What a week! To be a “short” work week, it has been the longest one in awhile. Today I believe is the longest day; it’s only 1:00 and I feel like it should be at least 5:00.

Tomorrow is a busy day for us. I have an appointment mid-morning, then Brian’s step-cousin is getting married in Oxford, and later that night on the way back into town, we will be stopping by to help celebrate Ashley’s 30th birthday! I hope I can make it for at least an hour at the party or longer. I’m going to force myself to make sure we get pictures this weekend. I haven’t had any recent pictures of us and weddings always make for great picture taking times! I do see trying to take a nap late afternoon to prepare for the long evening. If I’m this tired now, I don’t want to know how I will feel trying to keep up with a newborn, much less those late night feedings and earlier mornings.

Thankfully, I think I have finally hit the stage where I am feeling better during the pregnancy. I am starting to be able to eat meat again, still have no desire for chicken unless it is in a quesadilla. Granted I had a moment after eating a hotdog today where I was thinking I shouldn’t have.

While I feel like I’m getting energy back, most food does not appeal to me still. I am having to make myself eat due to if I get too hungry I start to feel sick. Crazy how that happens, it’s a Catch-22. You are so hungry, but yet when you try to eat something you have to stop before you regret it. Mornings have been pretty rough in that category for me this week. I wake up STARVING, yet nothing appeals to me and I cannot get it down. If anyone out there has any tips on how not to wake up STARVING in the mornings please share. I am really struggling with this. I have never been a breakfast person as it is, so it’s been a challenge for me to eat something before I even leave the house. Typically OJ will help raise my blood sugar to help the sickness go away, but then nothing appeals to me to eat.

I think after 4 months, I’m starting to “show” a little bit. I am still able to wear my normal cloths without any un-comfortableness at all. While I’m ready to start looking a little pregnant, I’m not sure if I’m ready for the plunge of maternity clothes yet. I’m hoping that I can still fit in the dress I’m planning to wear tomorrow night for the wedding. While I haven't gain any weight yet, I feel “different”. I am hoping I can hold off any weight gain for at least another month. I know it’s ok to gain weight, but I’m not quite ready for that either. I guess I’m afraid that if I start to gain weight, I might gain too much. I eat healthy(ok so I try to) pretty much and watch what I eat, but I’m just worried. I try to tell myself that I have about 7-10lbs to play with due to I have lost about that much since becoming pregnant; so even if I do gain weight, I won’t be too much over my original weight I hope. Fingers crossed.

My next doctor’s appointment is next Friday; I really like these Friday afternoon appointments. The office is pretty much empty (ok, so it was last month) and you are called back quickly and out quickly. I was really hoping to have another sonogram done this time so we could find out the sex of “it” (it will be nice not to have to call it “it”), but I’m not scheduled for one. So one more month of waiting!!!! It really sucks having to wait another month. People have asked me what I want, but I honestly do not care for many reasons. One, I just want a healthy child, two, this is one time I honestly have no control over; so why get attached to one sex or another and it not turn out the way I want it and be upset, and three, three, ok so there is no three only two reasons I don’t care. I don’t have any feelings either way either. The only thing that I have to go off is the heart rate and from what I have heard from others. Both times the heart rate has been 172/171; which typically leans toward a girl. I am curious to see what the heart rate will be this visit since it supposedly slows down some. Go ahead and start placing your “bets” on what it is!

Cheers to the weekend!!!

Happy October!

Happy middle of October!  I know I say this all the time, but man, seems like time goes by faster each day. 

This weekend my parents came for a short visit.  Friday night was low-key with dinner out at Lost Pizza.  This is slowly becoming my favorite new pizza place.  We watched the Tupelo vs. South Panola game on TV (how crazy is that to see a high school game on national channels); poor Tupelo got slaughtered.  Saturday I planned to take Mom to see the quilt show which was set up at Oren Museum.  I have never been to Oren so I was not sure what to expect.  The quilt show was more of a small display the museum had, but still nice.  We toured the rest of the museum while we were there.  I was pleasantly surprised at everything there.  I got several great pictures of the grounds outside. 

Here are the rest of the photos.

After the museum, we headed over to Heirlooms Forever.  I knew she would like this store, but she LOVED it. She picked up a couple of patterns for the girls.  This store always makes me wish I knew how to sew more and quilted.  I need to get back to my quilts I’m slowing making, but then again what do I not need to be working on! :)  I picked up the fabric for two Christmas presents.  If everything goes according to plan, I hope to cut them out this weekend and work on them.

Saturday afternoon, Brian and I went down to Aberdeen for a blues festival.  The festival was blah in my opinion, but I did have fun taking pictures at Blue Bluff.  I don’t know why Brian hasn’t taken me here before!  I really want to go back and get some more pictures.  I also LOVE pictures taken with Hipstamatic app.  If you have an iphone and do not have this app yet, go and download it NOW.  Here are a few of my favorite pictures from Blue Bluff.

 

Here are a few “normal” shots of Blue Bluff.