Big things!

Where to begin? 

Oh how about with... I'm 16 weeks pregnant! We found out super early (at 3 weeks) and I was feeling great until about 5-6 weeks. I started having some bad pains and went into the ER. They ran all kinds of tests and kept me for hours and finally said it was a cyst causing the pain and that my pregnancy wasn't going to make it. They said I had 3 gestational sacs but no fetal poles or heartbeats. 

Well they were wrong. 

About a week later (on Valentine's Day) I was able to get in with an OB and they found heartbeats. Yes, you read right, heartbeats. Three to be exact. TRIPLETS. I was shocked and not very excited to say the least. I went into somewhat of a depression for the next couple weeks trying to cope with this news. I got very sick and couldn't keep much of anything down, lost 4 lbs and was just out of it completely. My Mom came and stayed for those weeks to help with Bailey and keeping my house running. 

I have slowly come around to the idea and I am doing MUCH better now. I don't know why I had SUCH a hard time with this news but it was just something I never expected and all that I could see in my future was never leaving my house alone with my FOUR kids under age 3 and having to have a quad stroller to go anywhere, having to buy two new vehicles just so we can all fit and the financial side of things and I just kept getting myself more and more stressed and scared. I was also very scared about the pregnancy and delivery and what it will do to my body and also the babies. I was told everything that can go wrong at my first OB visit and google is not always your friend in these situations so scared didn't even come close to how I was feeling. 

I definitely cannot say that I am not still scared and overwhelmed about this but I am doing I would say a good 90% better! I still have my freak out moments/days but I know it will all work out and everything will be fine. Life is about to change BIG time! I have closed Designs By Alex and do not know if or when I will reopen and I am just trying to enjoy every moment with Bailey as my only child before our family of 3 becomes a family of 6!

 Just this week I have started looking at nursery ideas and have started to get excited! We will find out the sexes in a couple weeks and then the real planning begins! My feeling is it is 2 girls and 1 boy or 3 girls. Eek! We will see! Can you imagine 4 girls!!?? I can but it would be fun to have a boy in the family! 

The next big tasks- Name picking and nursery designing! Both fun but not easy!

These were our announcement photos taken in February.  

I would love to say that I will blog often and document everything well but we all know I won't so I won't say it! I want to try though because this is such a nice way to look back at evrything!

Happy February!

This just happens to be one of my favorite months! It's my Birthday month! It's also the month of love and I love all the hearts and pink that go along with Valentine's! I've had my Valentine's mantel done for a couple weeks now, I just couldn't wait! I've had trouble getting good pics to share though because of all the gloomy days we've had around here lately and the way the windows are placed in my living room but it is nice and sunny today so I'll try again!

Yesterday I decided Bailey's room needed a little re-organizing which I love to do! Her room is never finished, I am always changing it around and changing my mind! I've also had cute frames that I painted on her wall for MONTHS now and half of them still don't have anything in them! I must get on that..... one of these days! 

Until yesterday we still had her changing table in place of that book/toy shelf and the shelf was in her closet but I decided we needed more toy storage since her room doubles as her play room and I just hate all the clutter! So I switched them, the changing table is now in the closet to collect all of the stuff I don't want her able to reach!

 

I love the change! It opens the room up and she's loving having bins to pull out and dump! Since she is a climber I can't put anything too enticing on top of the shelf like I would like to so it's just diapers and her night light. And yes, half of those frames are empty like I said above, I just haven't decided what I want in them. 

 

As soon as I take this pic and turn around to get one of her organized toy corner I see this....

 

 

Not so organized anymore! 

 

And then I walk out for a moment and come back to find this...

 

Told ya she loves dumping those bins! 

 

Possibly one day when her room is clean and she is occupied in the living room I will get my nice camera out and take photos of her whole room to share! Maybe I will even fill those frames.. I said maybe.. don't count on it! 

 

Hope you have a great February!

 

 

New photos!

Oh what a slum I have been in lately! I have had writers/creative/you name it I've had it BLOCK lately and it's totally bumming me out! It has been super cold and gloomy the past couple weeks which makes it so much worse! I picked up some stuff for a couple projects today so hopefully tomorrow I will get back with it! I spent most of Bailey's nap on Pinterest today trying to get inspiration! 

I've been spending some serious time trying to better design the blog and in the process realized I really don't have any recent photos of just me! Hub's took a few yesterday that turned out pretty good for now and maybe I'll get some more soon! 

This is my fave out of them all!

 

 

Bailey wanted to be in a picture too!

  

Speaking of designing the blog, wow it's not easy work! I see why most people use design companies! I'm figuring some of it out but it is a process that's for sure! Any tips would be welcomed! 

 

Happy New Year! {A little late}

Well I'm only about a week late but Happy New Year!! 

I think I am finally feeling back to normal after vacation and being sick. We went to Florida the 27th to do our Christmases with the families and day one my sister came down with a stomach bug, day two it hit my Dad and Grandma, day three- Bailey, four- Me and Patrick, five- Bailey again and finally day 6- my Mom. Can I just say I have NEVER been so miserable in my life! Oh my gosh that was no ordinary stomach bug, it knocked me off my feet for a good 4 days and it was still another 3 days after that before I actually wanted food again. Talk about a vacation killer! It hit everyone a little different but I was one of the few that got the worst of it. Lucky me.

 

Anyway...

 

We still enjoyed the time we spent with our families and friends before and after the sickness!

 

{I planned to share a couple photos but for some reason it's not working and since it's already past my bedtime it'll have to wait.}

 

Back home now and trying to get back to normal. I have been doing a little rearranging to make room for all the new toys! I packed up all the baby toys and moved the lay-z-boy out of Bailey's room into the living room. That actually makes me sad and it may go back in there. I haven't decided yet. I like it in the living room and I love the extra space in her room but not being able to rock her in there is sad for me. I'm going to give it a few more days though {maybe} before I decide. I may not be ready for this step yet!

 

I got my Valentine's decor out today! I just couldn't wait. I thought I had more than I do so I have a lot of projects ahead! Yay :)

 

To bed I go...

hubby is getting sick so I must get sleep to do my best to prevent getting sick too!

 

 

Where has this month gone!?

I am feeling pretty bad that I haven't blogged in almost 3 weeks! Geeze! I didn't even realize how fast these weeks were flying by and every time I sat down at the computer I got distracted with something else and thought "I'll get to this tomorrow". Yea right! 

Anyway.. It has been a crazy/fun month so far and I am beyond excited for Christmas!!! As I said a few weeks back I knew even though I got a great start on shopping I would still end up last minute finishing and I was not wrong! I still have about 3 more presents left to buy but all are for family or friends in FL and we're not leaving until after Christmas so I have decided at this point I will wait until Wednesday to finish up! Maybe I'll catch a sale?

We had our Marine Corps ball on the 15th. It was in Myrtle Beach so my Mom came to stay with Bailey and it was the first time I left her overnight! I expected to cry but I didn't! I think I was ready for a little getaway even if it was only one night! We had a beautiful room on the beach and really enjoyed our time away! We were kicking ourselves for changing our reservations last minute from two nights to one! 

I forgot my camera which NEVER happens so we only have Iphone pics from the night! 

My Mom stayed a whole week so we had lots of fun hanging out with her! We put our Christmas aprons to good use and baked some cookies one night! 

 

This was the first time I let Bailey help this much and she had SO much fun! We laughed so hard at her :)

 

That sweet face melts my heart <3 

 

 

This is when she decided to add some extra ingredients! haha! Good thing the cap was still sealed or we would have been eating detangler cookies! 

 

We also went to see Santa and went on a hay ride through Christmas lights while Mom was here! I will share pics of those experiences later! 

 

Hope you all have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! 

 

 

   

Mail is so much fun!

Looks fun right?! 

 

Bailey got a box from my Mom and Dad (Nana and Pa Pa) today and she could not have been more excited! It was ah-dor-a-ble watching her dig through the box! She would say "Party" every time she threw a bag or tissue paper!

Elmo got left at Nana and Pa Pa's when we were down there last time so he jumped in the box! She was like "Hey where have you been?" lol 

 

She got a ton of Christmas outfits and Pj's and a Christmas apron hand made by Nana! 

 

How cute is she in her little apron?! I love it! Ready for some Christmas baking! 

 

Mom made a matching one for me too! 

 

Maybe I'll share a pic of us in them together later! 

 

I am even more excited now for Christmas morning after watching her open this box! She's going to have so much fun!! 

 

 

Happy December!

Although it's after midnight I'm going to pretend it's still December 1st! 

I had a fabulous day to kick off this holiday month which included some Christmas shopping ALL.BY.MYSELF.! 

I can proudly say I am pretty much done with Bailey's gifts! Crazy right? 

I'm the one who finished shopping for her last year on Christmas Eve when there were just a few random people running through Toys R Us as they were closing! 

Don't get me wrong, chances are good I will still be a last minute shopper this year but I am very excited to have gotten such a great start! 

I almost hate shopping early though because I am way too excited for her to open everything it's going to be hard for me to wait! 

I will wait though! 

I can't believe how fast this past week flew by! We are finally well in our house and things are starting to get back to normal! 

I have been playing with the new camera and I'm starting to understand more about it but still have SO much to learn! 

This is one of my favorite ornaments I made a few years back and it was a fun little model for me to take pictures of while playing with settings! 

This year I am having trouble decorating. I threw out a lot of old decorations last year that I was so tired of and thought I would buy new this year but with being sick and having lots of other things to do I just haven't gotten to it yet so I am left with a half decorated mantel and random decorations around the house! 

I have a lot of DIY Christmas decor projects I want to tackle also just have to find the time!! 

In other news... Patrick's recruiting package was approved so we will be moving somewhere within the next 6-12 months or less. More on that later. 

Lots of emotions for me with all of this.