So Emma's 5th birthday is February 24th, but since that's a Wednesday, we decided to have her party on the 21st. We asked her several months ago what kind of party she wanted and she gave an undisputed answer of "Barbie!" for Christmas when asked what she wanted from Santa, again it was "Barbie!" Needless to say Barbie is the one thing she's hung up on right now. (And the Jonas Brothers, but Mom refused to have a Jonas Brothers party! I don't know, maybe I think she's too young to be hung up on this boy band...they are kinda cute, but she's only going to be five for crying out loud!)
Back to the point, from day one Emma has really wanted one of those Barbie birthday cakes that you insert the doll in the top, and the cake is the skirt of Barbie's dress. The simplest answer, go to the store and buy it. Call me a cheapo, but the cake is $45!! Seriously? So went went down the cake mix aisle, and each box of cake mix was $1, the frosting was $1.18, we have food coloring already, Grandma Barb has the decorating tools, and Emma has numerous Barbies to choose from. Now doesn't it seem logical for me to undertake this myself?? I mean, really, Emma thought I did an awesome job on her Aerial cake last year, could this really be that much more difficult??
As the title suggests, I may be a little bit in over my head. After all, my sister turns 40 and we'll be celebrating her birthday at Mom's the very same weekend. That doesn't leave me a whole lot of time to keep this promise to my angel...but I'm going to do it! Even if I'm up all night, Emma will get her Barbie!!!
See future posts for the results...wish me luck!
Monday, February 8, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Baby Boy Horton and Catching Up!!
Okay, so I've been a terrible blogger. Sorry! Life has definitely gotten busy and a lot has happened since my last blog, so I'll try to keep this short but fill you in on everything going on!
Our most exciting news is that we are going to have a baby boy in May! We are very excited to be adding a little one to our clan. Emma was a little disappointed to find out it was a boy because she wanted a sister so badly. But after explaining that boys play with trucks and dinosaurs and probably wouldn't fight her for the Barbies, she was just fine with a baby brother! My pregnancy is going well. At this exact moment I am right at 20 weeks, so I'm halfway there! Things with this pregnancy are quite a bit different than they were with Emma, but I'm also older and started out heavier than I did with Emma. I have aches and pains, and I'm finally able to sleep better at night. I was having a time where I was just so uncomfortable! Aside from all the normal stuff I have slightly elevated blood pressure, so we're keeping an eye on that so we can avoid medication and bedrest!
Our next exciting news is that we bought a new (to us) Chevy Trailblazer! JC's pickup is on its last leg and we figured we had better do something now so we're not scrambling when something DOES happen! We kept his pickup and it's being stored at his parent's house in Colfax. He's hoping to be able to slowly put money into it to get it back to a well-running truck. I love my Trailblazer. It's a metallic blue color with tan, leater interior. It doesn't have a ton of bells and whistles, but it has enough to be fun! Unfortunately I haven't taken a picture of it yet to share with you...we're waiting for a nice day, so maybe in April or May I'll be able to post one!!!
Christmas and New Year's were extremely fun this year. The youngest in the family, Brayden, is at an age where he'll sit and tear open presents with the rest of them. We had three family Christmases, in addition to one with good friends at the beginning of December. The weekend before Christmas we celebrated with Dick and Connie. JC, Emma and I celebrated Christmas on the morning of Christmas Eve because we had a feeling JC would be plowing Christmas day. We were right! He plowed from 7am to 7pm Christmas day. Knowing this, Emma and I headed North to Mom's house when the roads were safe to travel on so that we could spend Christmas with her. We were there until Sunday. It stunk to be away from JC that long, but I figured with us out of the house he could get some rest between having to go out and plow! Last, but not least, we celebrated Christmas with my entire family on January 2nd.
New Year's Even we spent with friends in Ankeny. It was fun watching the ISU football team win their bowl game, and then we basically just hung out the rest of the night, playing Rock Band and ping pong. Emma got to go this year, so she enjoyed that. In fact, at 1:00 am when I was about passed out and wanted to go home, Emma packed in the car with JC to head to a local gymnasium with the guys so she could run around with them playing basketball! At 1:30 I finally gave in and called it quits. Emma and JC came back to the house to get me and, despite being mad that we were going home, Emma was already passed out in her car seat! It was a great night.
I'm sure there's more I could share, but I think this is enough for this posting. Below are some of my favorite pictures from the holiday season. I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year's. Here's to another decade!!!
Our most exciting news is that we are going to have a baby boy in May! We are very excited to be adding a little one to our clan. Emma was a little disappointed to find out it was a boy because she wanted a sister so badly. But after explaining that boys play with trucks and dinosaurs and probably wouldn't fight her for the Barbies, she was just fine with a baby brother! My pregnancy is going well. At this exact moment I am right at 20 weeks, so I'm halfway there! Things with this pregnancy are quite a bit different than they were with Emma, but I'm also older and started out heavier than I did with Emma. I have aches and pains, and I'm finally able to sleep better at night. I was having a time where I was just so uncomfortable! Aside from all the normal stuff I have slightly elevated blood pressure, so we're keeping an eye on that so we can avoid medication and bedrest!
Our next exciting news is that we bought a new (to us) Chevy Trailblazer! JC's pickup is on its last leg and we figured we had better do something now so we're not scrambling when something DOES happen! We kept his pickup and it's being stored at his parent's house in Colfax. He's hoping to be able to slowly put money into it to get it back to a well-running truck. I love my Trailblazer. It's a metallic blue color with tan, leater interior. It doesn't have a ton of bells and whistles, but it has enough to be fun! Unfortunately I haven't taken a picture of it yet to share with you...we're waiting for a nice day, so maybe in April or May I'll be able to post one!!!
Christmas and New Year's were extremely fun this year. The youngest in the family, Brayden, is at an age where he'll sit and tear open presents with the rest of them. We had three family Christmases, in addition to one with good friends at the beginning of December. The weekend before Christmas we celebrated with Dick and Connie. JC, Emma and I celebrated Christmas on the morning of Christmas Eve because we had a feeling JC would be plowing Christmas day. We were right! He plowed from 7am to 7pm Christmas day. Knowing this, Emma and I headed North to Mom's house when the roads were safe to travel on so that we could spend Christmas with her. We were there until Sunday. It stunk to be away from JC that long, but I figured with us out of the house he could get some rest between having to go out and plow! Last, but not least, we celebrated Christmas with my entire family on January 2nd.
New Year's Even we spent with friends in Ankeny. It was fun watching the ISU football team win their bowl game, and then we basically just hung out the rest of the night, playing Rock Band and ping pong. Emma got to go this year, so she enjoyed that. In fact, at 1:00 am when I was about passed out and wanted to go home, Emma packed in the car with JC to head to a local gymnasium with the guys so she could run around with them playing basketball! At 1:30 I finally gave in and called it quits. Emma and JC came back to the house to get me and, despite being mad that we were going home, Emma was already passed out in her car seat! It was a great night.
I'm sure there's more I could share, but I think this is enough for this posting. Below are some of my favorite pictures from the holiday season. I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year's. Here's to another decade!!!
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