It's Tuesday!

1. What? It's Tuesday and I'm actually doing this! Wow.

2. "Operation baby weight has got to go" started a few weeks ago.. if I had a reliable scale I'd know how much weight I've lost, but for now I just go by the way my clothes fit and look. My pants are fitting a little loose, I can not keep my maternity pants up anymore. The best part is, I put on a pair of my pre pregnancy jeans and got them zipped and button.. sporting serious muffin top, but hey at least I can get them on. Soon I think I'll be able to actually wear the out of the house!

3. Sadly enough, my maternity leave has ended. Today will be a full week that I have been back to the old grind. However, now I am working at night.. 4:30pm-1 am. It really hasn't taken much getting used to.. it's worked out great. Around 3pm, I head to Diego's work.. Cash and I sit and wait for him, we do the hand off, and off to the office I go! Luckily, my work is pretty close to his. Sometimes we get a little bored waiting.. and pictures happen!

4. This is a picture from a while back (I don't think I ever shared it) I don't even think Cash was born yet. What else is an old Bumbo box good for?

5. I think, not sure.. but, I think I mentioned on here that we experienced a flash flood at the greenbelt one evening. If not, we were at the greenbelt.. and all of a sudden the water started getting higher and higher. We had no idea what was happening, until I talked to my mom and it and she said it was a flash flood. It was cool to see, but thankfully it wasn't seriously high water.. or we would have been in big trouble! I don't have a before, but the water was not moving near this fast when we got there.

6. Our yard is looking really good this year! I wish I would have taken a picture of it when got home from the hospital.. it was looking soo terrible! Diego had pulled a ton of weeds, but there were still so many more to go. Aunt Clonda was determined to get all those weeds up and she (with Diego's help) did a great job! After that Diego put Scott's weed and feed on it.. and it got green really fast! Last year I think we would mow once a month! This year, it's about once a week.

7. Random Cash

8. My Aunt Mary, who now lives on the ranch in Lexington, used to live in Austin.. just down the street from our old house. Anyone who knows her, knows she always keeps a nice yard. Diego, and I were driving through the old hood one evening.. and drove by one of her old houses.. and this is how it looks now. We had to stop and take a picture, words just would not have been able to explain what we saw!

yes, that is a frog band.. in the middle.

9. To the cats, no place is off limits. No matter how many times we get on to them, they just do what they please. Regina was nice enough to let us use her bassinet, and I knew.. it was going to be really hard to keep the cats out of it! It's as though they thought we brought it home for them. I keep it filled with stuffed animals when it's not being used and they pretty much stayed away from it. That is until one day, apparently.. I did not put enough stuffed animals in it.. and Mia pushed her way through!

What a jerk! Regina, I promise I will wash it and get it back to normal before I give it back!

10. hmmmmmm... I don't think I have anything else to say, plus I should really grab something to eat before Cash wakes up!

10 on Wednesday?

1. Don't know why Tuesday's come and go so fast! I guess we'll just do 10 any day of the week!

2. Tomorrow Diego gets his wisdom teeth surgery. He is going to Premiere Research and getting paid $250, instead of paying over $1000.. which it would cost with our insurance. Only thing with this is, no one has told him if they are taking out all of them, or just two. Guess we will find out tomorrow. The worst part is that he has to be there at 6 am tomorrow morning! The place is on Red River.. that means we have to leave the house at like 5 something! I usually wake up around that time anyway, but I'm generally not in the mind frame to drive all the way downtown.. but, it's worth it.

3. Last night, we took a mid week break and headed down to the greenbelt. Cash went to hang out with my mom and aunt for a few hours. Early in the year (March, April) the water was flowing pretty well, then with a few weeks of no rain and really hot days it started to dry up. We went out to see what Sunday nights rain did to it.. and it looked better than last time, but wasn't up all that much. While we were out there though.. it got a lot higher. When we got there, the part we usually cross at was party up to my ankles.. when we left it was up to my thigh! It was really weird to see the water just get higher all of a sudden.. My mom said it was a flash flood which kinda scared me.

4. As of my birthday, there are no more two way access roads in Buda. It was a really nice to be able to bypass the really long wait at the stop sign near our house, but.. not anymore. It's taking some getting used to for sure!

5. Cash went to his first (well actually second, but we won't really count the first one) birthday party this weekend! Our little niece Delaney turned 1, she is so adorable.. I just love her to pieces. Hope her second year of life, is as good as the first!

6. I hate this time of year when all my shows end... I know I have summer shows that will start up soon, but this time... Lost will be ending for good. I'm so sad about this!! I've invested a lot of years into this show. I can't believe we watched that pilot episode back in 2004 at the apartment Diego and I had on Oltorf.. we have come such a long way since then! Sunday night, I will for sure be glue to the television.

7. Is this baby weight going to lose itself or what?? Ha, wishful thinking I know. I have to get motivated. Like now!

8. This week is almost over! Which leaves me only one week left of maternity leave. I can not believe this year is already half over. Doesn't seem like 6 months has pasted by since I was pregnant and curled up in my snuggie on new years eve! Boy does time fly!

9. Cash with Uncle Pumkin at the birthday party!

10. Stephanie sent me the pictures I requested from their wedding back in March.. If I can find a slide show I will post more pictures of the wedding soon!

Jumparoo

Thanks Aunt Erica & Uncle Jerry for the Jumparoo!

10 on Tuesday

Wellll.... It's Thursday and I just remembered while running errands today that Tuesday came and went with out my 10 on Tuesday. Sorry folks! I did do some posting so hopefully that will tide you over until next Tuesday!

While I'm here though, I would like to give a huge shout out to sweet little Delaney who turns 1 today! I so can't believe it was already a year ago today that Diego and I headed out to Cedar Park after work to see her little face for the first time. So unbelievable how fast time files by! Anyway, Delaney we love you very much and can't wait for your party on Sunday!

Here's a picture from last Saturday.. when we went to see her big bro play t-ball!

Picking Strawberries

We had planned to go to Sweet Berry Farms in Marble Falls to pick strawberries, but my aunts decided that was too far, so we ended up going to Rockdale which is close to their house in Lexington to pick strawberries. It was an overcast day which was nice, otherwise it would have been so hot! I still want to go to SBF.. but, I guess I'll just wait for pumpkin season!

2 months

Cash is already 2 months. Can you believe it! He had his 2 month appointment on Monday, and he is getting to be a big boy! 11.6 pounds.. and 20 3/4 inches long. He has finally out grown his premie clothes.. he's finally in newborns! and one or two of his 0-3 month outfits fit him kinda big. He does have a few premie onesies that still fit.. but, mainly he's in newborns. He can actually wear the outfits I brought to the hospital for him to wear!

at his appointment.. he peed on the scale, and threw up all over me when they gave him the oral shot. Luckily, the nurse was sitting in a rolling chair and was about to get out of the way quickly or she would have gotten the worst of it!

Boogie on his 2 month birthday, leaving Ikea for the second time this week!

Carpet Cleaning Fiasco

I hate carpet. Diego compares it to a sock that never gets washed.. and that is basically what it is. It's gross! Last year, for my birthday.. my mom got our carpets cleaned for us. The company that we used, Kiwi, has a policy that if you have them come back out within a year they will clean the carpets again for $4 per room. (per room that you had done previously) The time was rolling around again so I wanted to take advantage of the deal. I called and set up an appointment. They were going to come out to clean our bedroom, the living room, and the hall way. Of course, there is always a catch.. $4 per room, plus $28 trip fee.. fine. $40 isn't that bad and the carpets needed to be cleaned again. Bad! So we moved all the furniture and waited for them to show up. After several hours of looking at the living room with no furniture and straight up dirty carpet.. I could not wait for them to get there and get the carpets cleaned. This was Wednesday, the kid shows and looks around.. and says.. are you going to vacuum the floor? I said... UHHH, I thought you were going to. He tells me that when they come back for a warranty cleaning, they do not vacuum or move any furniture. I said, well no one told me that. I thought I was getting the same thing I got last time. He assures me that no, he will not be vacuuming.. and tells me that I can vacuum when he is done. I think NOT! We have cats.. which means there is cat litter tracked throughout our house and cat fur deep down.. and I am not going have you get that all nice and wet.. and then try to vacuum later. I tell him to wait a minute while I call Kiwi and find out why the hell no one told me this. The lady on the line says she can pull the tape and listen to the conversation where they told me that they would not be vacuuming.. I say PLEASE DO! Because I was not told this.. otherwise, I would have had the carpets vacuumed or I would have said nevermind. She puts me hold and comes back and says can you vacuum really quickly? or we can charge you another $4 per room to vacuum. Uh. no. I had (at the time) 7 week old baby to tend to.. and I am not going to vacuum, while the kid that is supposed to do it sits there and watches me. No. Plus, I want to hear the tape! They avoid playing me the tape so I give those people a piece of my mind.. and I was not even close to being nice about it. By this time the kid has walked back to his van.. I lock the door and tell the people to make him leave. I'm furious. Now I have to continue looking at this sick ass carpet.

Luckily, Diego heard about some guy on the radio that cleans carpets pretty cheap so we called him out. He couldn't come until Friday... which was a really long time to go with our furniture shoved in the corner.. but, we got the carpets done and they looked so much better. Here are some pictures from our days with no furniture:

Ten on Tuesday

Since I'm not good at blogging anymore.. I am going to take an idea from many blogs that I read. Ten on Tuesday. Just 10 random things going on around me.. that way everyone is still up to speed on the 3 of us!

1. Twenty Seven. Today is my 27th birthday.. Thirty is lurking around the corner, eek!

2. I am copy catting another blog favorite.. A Week in the Life. Recently, few people I know, and several blogs that I read have done this.. and I love it! Just taking pictures of everything that goes on during one week in my life. So far so good. I started last Thursday, I'll try and post it all on Friday.. don't hold me to that though!

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4. Our front yard got a make over recently. One day a couple of weeks ago, my mom and Aunt Clonda came over and gave our front yard a face lift. All it really needed was some shutters and a few plants.. but it looks sooooo much better. I've always battled with the front of our house.. it's just too plain. Now it has some curb appeal, I'm much happier with it.

5. Today, I will be making the trek to Ikea, just me and Cash.. I'm feeling brave today I guess!

6. We got our carpets cleaned last week. It was such a fiasco.. but, the carpet looks great! More on that in my "WITL" post..

7. Sunday night, Cash slept sooo well! He only woke us up at 12:45, 3 and 6:45! best night yet. Too bad the trend didn't continue last night!

8. Can I just call out my diaper champ real quick.. that thing is definitely not the champ of poop stink. We are now only using it for pee diapers.. because poop stinks! :)

9. Uncle David is back! Diego's brother has been in the Marines since 2002... and he is finally reaching the end! He returned from Spain, and is finishing up his last month! We can't wait to see him and have him meet lil Cash!

10. Diego's birthday was few days ago.. Mimi made him a cake!