Friday, September 30, 2011

Happy HALF BIRTHDAY Abigail! Love, Mommy xoxo

I can't believe my baby girl is 6 Months Old today! Time flies by so fast while your raising a baby! And I love EVERY moment of it! She gets her 6 month check up this coming up Tuesday so I am not sure about her stats yet. Another month has flew by and watching her grow up is amazing. She completes me!

Abigail has been trying to roll like crazy now. NON-STOP! She's currently trying to crawl. So she basically gets on all fours (hands and knees) and rocks back and forth like she's trying to move. It's so cute! Lol! I took her to my aunts house today and my mom was there playing with her and she put Abigail on her tummy about 2 or 3 times and she kept getting on her hands and knees and attempted to crawl. My mom kept yelling "LOOK! She's trying to crawl everyone!" Haha! And knowing my mom, it's rare she gets that excited so I am definitely glad she was! Something new and surprising ;)
My buggy-boo has been coo-ing all the time lately and my family thinks she's going to talk in no time. Ha! I hope not too soon because I've heard when they talk..they can TALK and won't stop! Knowing that I talk a lot, I'm pretty sure Abigail will do the same. LOL

Well, since she's 6 months today..ALREADY..=(..I haven't had ONE outing without her. She's either with me or daddy. I can't believe we both haven't been out without her. It's so hard to let my baby girl go. I want to be by her side or her daddy to be by her side at all times. I can't believe I'm so clingy. My family's been bugging me to baby sit and watch her. Today, my mom kept asking me when she was going to get to baby sit (*gasps* my MOTHER? and baby sitting? in one sentence? haha). So surprising! My aunt told me that I need to have alone time with my S/O. But I just can't seem to want to even let her stay with anyone. She even tried telling me to drop Abigail off with my grandma for 2 hours so we can go to the gym. I couldn't do it! So we had to take her to the park and work out outside. I hope soon..I can fight and get courage to at least let my family keep her for a bit. I know I will have to soon. But does it have to be NOW? =(

I can't wait until my baby girl can do all that she wants to do because it just brings joy to my heart that she's growing each and everyday! And one day I can finally just say its okay to let her go and understand that as she grows everyday..she will be more independent but she will always be close to my heart. xoxo

Trying to be a big girl already! =(



Happy 6 Months Abigail! Mommy loves you SO MUCH! :-)

Day 11: Black and White - Photo Challenge

Day 11: Black and White....with a touch of pink of course.

Another fun play date with her future best friend.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Day 10: Whatever You Want - Photo Challenge



Day 10: Whatever You Want -- Daddy' s girl -- A day at the Museum of Fine Arts 09/24/11

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Day 7: Silhouette - Photo Challenge

It's been a while. My deepest apologies. Like I said before, I have been extremely busy with school couponing. ;)

Oh and a baby that gets frustrated because she is now trying to crawl! :) My buggy has been doing the I guess you call it "army crawl", has been getting on all fours just like the picture above and moving slowly but surely across the bed, room, or wherever she has space. It's so cute because she gets so frustrated.

Had to post this picture because it reminded me of Abigail!

Sunday, September 18, 2011

This Sunday's Coupon Brag (9/18)

I had a pretty good day today. I'm a little sleepy but manageable. Please bare with me on this brag. I can barely keep my eyes opened lol. Sorry once again for the bad resolution. I usually get a little bad on doing my breakdowns on how much I spent and what I used to get these items but this time I'll do it for everyone. =)

Total: $15.50 Saved $55.38 (picture is missing one more Blistex lip balm sorry!) -- I went home with 10 RR's and 6 ECBs plus had my old ECBs from last weekend. 



Items Bought:

Walgreens
- 2 Blistex Lip Balm (Used NO coupons got back 2 Register Rewards part of this weeks deal) FINAL COST - FREE
- Hylands Cough and Cold Childrens Medicine ($4.99 and no coupons got back $4.99 in RR's) FINAL COST - FREE

- 2 SoftSoap Hand Soap (B1G1 Free @ $3.29 Used 2 - $.70 cents off coupons) FINAL COST - $.95 cents per bottle
- 3 Pantiliners (3/$9 bucks used 3- $2 off coupons got back 3 RR's) FINAL COST - FREE

CVS
- 1 Scotts Paper Towels ($5.99 used $1 manufacturer coupon got back $1 EB) FINAL COST - $3.99
- 5 Ready-to-Feed Formula (Used 5 - $2 dollar off RTF coupons. Got back 10 EB) FINAL Cost $5 bucks
- 1 Revlon Lip Gloss ($6.49 --used no coupons got back 5 EBs) FINAL COST - $1.49
- 1 package of Candy Corn ($.99 cents got back $.99 cents in ECBS) FINAL COST - FREE

Now when I mean these items are free it means I get cash rewards from those stores which I consider free after those rewards.
Sorry for my lack of updating my 30 day picture challenge. I will update on that soon!

xoxo

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Day 6: From a Low Angle -- Baby Moon -- 1 week before labor!

So I was trying to figure out what picture to post that I took "from a low angle". I went through our Baby Moon pictures and I found a couple I loved. =) Oh and I will add one that's not from a low angle. But its a picture of my pregnant butt 1 week before I had Abigail...LITERALLY! I did not know my water was going to break! We took our Baby Moon 3-20-11 and I had her 3-30-11! LOL!

For our Baby Moon we went to San Antonio. We've been there numerous times and were thinking of going to New Orleans, LA. But I decided why not just go somewhere we know already since I was 35 weeks pregnant and could have popped any moment!

Pictures from a low angle. A random picture in San Antonio
So I lied in the last post. This was the LAST picture before I had Abigail

Monday, September 12, 2011

Day 5: Whatever you want - 30 Day Photo Challenge

Day 5 is a picture of whatever I want. Now this one's a bit easy. But I just don't want to post ANY picture. I want to post a meaningful one (well lets make it two) :)


This was a couple of weeks before I went into labor. The day of my baby shower. It was our last time as just another person in the world. We were going to enter parenthood and we were going to actually be important and part of someone so special to us in life. This was the last time we slept in late, put ourselves first, and did whatever we wanted to do and traded it for sleepless nights (well kind of not really lol), diaper changes, bottle feeding, and baby-cries.

I have a lot of people ask me "Is it hard? Are you tired? Your so young to have a child". If you say 22 years old is young then I wonder what people would say if I had a child at 17 or even 18 years old? I don't think it matters how young or old you are. You can be any age and you can STILL be the best parent EVER! So I think that's a huge misconception on other peoples part.

These two pictures are dear to me because the first one...was part of my baby shower game and this was just so memorable of Abigail's father and I. We had so much fun that day and I will NEVER forget it! I am so blessed to have such a great man in my life and now I have a wonderful daughter that we can both watch grow!
The second picture really made me feel sexy at 33 or 34 weeks pregnant. I felt good and looked good which is rare for me at times. LOL! This was the last time I would ever be lonely again.

I love my daughter Abigail Skye and I wouldn't trade this life for anything!

This weeks coupon brag!

So every Sunday my cousin Nancy and I go on coupon trips. It's now a new ritual!
Here is my CVS and Walgreens trip. I forgot my CVS Allergy Medicine in my purse =( So sorry that's missing from the picture.



 
 Total OOP: $12.46
Total SAVED: $76.45
Walked out with $12.48 ECBS for next week! 
w00t! I am so excited! I have been trying to stock up on toliet paper and paper towels because we go through those like crazy! We now have enough Puff's tissue to last through Christmas season! We tend to have the sniffles around that time! I HAD to buy the Huggies Wipes! It was such a great deal! I couldn't pass it up! (Not that I don't have enough wipes anyway LOL) 
The CVS magic coupon machine spit out a coupon for a FREE Ritz Crackerfuls! Yay! Those things are yummy! Like I said I am missing my CVS Allergy Medicine in the picture! =(

Until next time,
xoxo

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Day 4: From a High Angle -- 30 Day Photo Challenge

Sorry I have been slacking on my 30 day photo challenge. School has been kicking my butt! Literally! And other things occupy my life like "couponing", my baby girl, and life =)

But I'm kind of doing a messed up 30 day photo challenge. Please bare with me!

Day 4 was kind of tough. I didn't have any pictures from a "high angle" because I lost all of my pictures from about 2-3 years ago when I went to visit my family in Connecticut. But here's a picture of the Empire State Building =)

Compliments of PhotoBucket
Back when I went to visit my family in CT...they took me to New York! It was my first time..I was one year shy of 21 years old so we were kind of bummed that we couldn't go out to drink or to bars. But we did get to see the top of the Empire State Building!! It was so much fun besides the fact that we had to wait 2 hours in line...stay up there for only 30-45 minutes then it took an hour and a half to come back down! It was pretty fun. NYC was a great experience and I wouldn't mind going back again minus the huge crowd around Christmas season! I will always remember this day! It was so much fun!

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Abigail's playdate with Vivian AND FIRST Gymboree Class

So I decided to look into Gymboree classes. Wanted to do a first trial and see how Abby would like it. I thought why wouldn't I just invite one of my March Mommy friends! I am so glad I did! Abigail and Vivian had so much fun! They loved each other!

We did the Play and Learn 1 classes for children 4-6months and it was not bad at all. We sang, interacted, laughed, and talked to our babies. The whole time Abigail would grunt/squeal. She would not stay still and she was so hyped up! LOL My child is such the party animal! Her and Vivian kept trying to grab each other! I just told and SHOWED my S/O the pictures. He said it sounds like she had so much fun and he would pay for us to go the next class! w00t! He wants us to go out and have fun since he understands that Abby and I stay home a lot. The only reason why is because it is so hot! But when the weather gets cooler Abby and Vivian will go on many trips!

Tummy Time Mirror. Abby loved it minus all the drool she put on it.


 



Play time! Her deflated ball! LOL
I love this!
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Vivian and the rest of the Gymboree gang
Future BFF's <3

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Day 3: Your Favorite Place to Be -- 30 Day Photo Challenge


Day 3: Home is where the Heart is (Sorry I googled this picture lol)

My favorite place to be is at HOME. I love staying in and relaxing. I love just being here. It's my comfort zone and a place where I can have some peace of mind...

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Reorgranizing/Mesmerizing....MY STOCK PILE!

 So as everyone knows, I am OBSESSED with my stockpile! I showed it off in one of my prior posts but it was such a MESS! I really just threw everything in one closet and kind of brushed it off. I'm pretty embarrassed and I hated living like that. It was kind of hard to find things and I just felt like everything was "cluttered". So I REDID my stock pile! w00t! I moved around Abby's diapers and wipes. To make it less clutter-ish! My S/O thinks it looks A LOT better than before. I also REDID my stockpile full of health and beauty things! I LOVE IT!
Diapers, I put it on the other side of the closet. Which makes it easier access than to put it under her hanging clothes. Sorry some diapers are opened already because I had to get access to those reward points =P


Oh and I also organized my purses/tote bags/ etc. I had so much and just stuffed it in the closet or drawers. Thanks to Pinterest I now have an organized purse hanger (SOME SHOWER HOOKS!).
This was the closet of all the things I had (our towel closet). It was CLUTTERED. I just stuffed everything on top of each other. I took it all out and left some in there.
This is now in our guest bathroom (Thanks to the suggestion of my S/O lol). This is the RIGHT side.
This is the LEFT side of our guestbath room shelf.
I am so happy! I think I need to stock up on some more goods! I am OBSESSED! I have a huge pantry closet full of canned goods (in case of emergencies) and like 8 packs of 24pk water bottles, paper towels, etc. =)

Day 2: What you wore today -- 30 day Photo Challenge

Sorry! I am a couple of days late on my 30 day photo challenge! I just get indecisive on what picture I should take/post! I actually have to take out the time and take a picture then upload, etc.

Day 2 is what I wore today :) It was Labor Day! So I decided to "fix myself" up. Something I rarely do...


This was AFTER we got home. So I kind of look tired-ish. I should've took one before I left. Oh well. Like I said I rarely dress myself up. Today was the day I decided to have guts and do it. Haha!
Bare with me on my 30 day photo challenge. I actually have to take the picture so usually I forget or it takes a while! Sorry!

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Grateful Secret Sister Saturday - Dedication Post =)

So this past month..my birth board has started a Secret Sister program. I think it's a great idea to bond with someone and it's a complete secret until we reveal ourselves in December. =) I am so blessed to have such a wonderful, sweet, caring, and giving SS! I love her random emails and getting to know her. I have my own SS that I stalk and I love doing that too! But I thought this would be such a great post to share for everyone. Sorry if I embarrass you SS! LOL

I am so thankful to be able to converse with someone who I have no idea about. I love the suspense of a "Secret Sister" even though I figured out your postmark of being in Canada! That makes it even MORE special and that much more exciting! Seriously, I love that I have someone from far far away that I can get to know. Especially in another country! =) I love hearing about the things that go on somewhere else that I have never seen or been to in my life. Although, I would love to go see Canada one day! Or live there because I'm just adventurous like that lol =)

Yesterday I received a package from my wonderful Secret Sister. I love all the things that she was kind enough to give me and my LO. Thank you again!

xoxo

Friday, September 2, 2011

Day 1: YourSelf -- 30 Day Photo Challenge

I haven't been in the mood to take pictures of myself during my Post-Postpartum stages. But I have to do it sooner or later!

Thursday, September 1, 2011

30 Day Photo Challenge!




  •  Looking through my Pinterest account (which BTW is addictive)...I came by this:

I am going to start this. I think it would be so much fun. Considering I like to take pictures just for fun! Well, mostly of Abby!

Day 1 will start TOMORROW!

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