TGIF!!

Yay! Its finally Friday! And its a 3 day weekend for me!! Hooray!

So far we don't have a whole lot planned for this weekend and I'm pretty happy about that! Tonight we are just relaxing at home. I think my husband is planning on grilling steaks, which sounds wonderful to me!

 

We may go bowling tomorrow night to practice for a tournament we're in with my office next weekend. I haven't bowled since last years tournament in January. I was pregnant a majority of the year so bowling wasn't really an option. Jake thought we should probably practice since its been so long for both of us.

Sunday we have church in the morning. Then we'll probably just hang out at home and watch football that afternoon. Sunday evenings we always go to some friends of ours house. We usually have dinner and sometimes will play a game.

Monday I'll probably meet up with my Mom and Sister for lunch and a little shopping with the kids.

So thats my plan for the weekend. Do you have anything fun planned?

Jackson is 12 Weeks Old!

Jackson turned 12 weeks old this past Thursday and had his 12 week Dr. appt. this past Saturday. He weighed 14 lbs. 13 ozs. (he's in the 75th to 90th percentile on his weight) and is 24 3/4" long (he's in the 75th percentile on his length). He's such a big boy. Unfortunately he had to get 2 shots and drink the Rotavirus vaccine. He drank the medicine fine but did not care for the shots at all. Of course Mommy and Daddy didn't like that Jackson had to get those mean old shots either. :-(  It makes me cry every time and Daddy couldn't even look.

The Dr. said that Jackson is doing great. He said he's holding his head up like a 4 month old and growing and gaining weight like a champ!! He's still doing well with 6 ozs. of formula every 4 hours. The Dr. said he can start having rice cereal at 4 months, so we're looking forward to trying that then.

We also tried putting him in his crib at night for the first time this past weekend. He has done great so far. The first night we tried, he slept from midnight til 6:30. Then last night we tried again, but it kind of got messed up because we had some thunderstorms come through and the tornado sirens went off. He slept from around 9:15 til I guess it was around 2 or 3 when the sirens went off. I got him and put him in his little bed in our room when I heard the sirens, but he slept through the whole storm and even moving him into our room didn't wake him up. He didn't wake up again until 5. I fed him then, and put him back in his crib awake (but tired), where he fell asleep on his own and was still sleeping when I left for work this morning at 7:30. My mom said at close to 9 he was still asleep!! He's such a good sleeper and I'm SO thankful for that.

One other thing I wanted to document for this week is, he has been mimicking me blowing raspberries and its the cutest thing ever. He started this on Saturday and I couldn't believe it at first. He was really watching my mouth when I would blow raspberries at him and then he started trying to blow them back at me. He even makes the same sound as me. Its so cute. I really need to try to video it.

I feel so blessed to have a happy and healthy baby. Here's his 12 week picture...

Fill in the Blank Friday

Link up here for Fill in the Blank Friday

1.   The last thing I ate was:  Breakfast egg rolls here at work.

2.   The last song I listened to was:  "The Living Proof" by Mary J. Blige at the end of the movie The Help that I watched again last night .

3.  Using the letters in my name I can spell:  {Amy}...yam, may, my and am. I think thats probably it .

4.  If I had to dress in one color for the rest of my life I would pick:   I guess I would have to say blue because I could wear jeans and there are so many different shades of blue that it wouldn't get too boring .

5.  If you were to look in my bag right now you'd find:  My wallet, gum, receipts, check book, sunglasses, chap-stick, keys, my cell phone, camera and coupons.

6.  When I finish filling in the blanks I'm going to:  Get back to work, Haha!

7.  My all time favorite song to dance to is:  Gosh, I have no idea. I guess I would have to say dancing with my husband to our song, "You're Just too Good to be True" by Frankie Valley.

I'm so glad its Friday! Its been a long week and I'm so ready for the weekend. Tonight I plan on just relaxing at home with my husband, Jackson and our fur-babies. Tomorrow, Jackson has his 12 week Dr. appt. in the morning. I'm looking forward to seeing how much J.T. has grown, but I think he will probably be getting shots at this appt. and I'm really not looking forward to that. Then we are going to an open house at my MIL's workplace in the afternoon. She works for a new company and they're having a open house for family of the employees to come and visit the new location.

Sunday morning we'll go to church and then probably just hang out at home the rest of the day. Then Monday I have a couple appts. and I plan on doing some shopping with my mom, sister and the kids.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Winter, Winter Go AWAY!!!

We woke up to freezing cold temperatures and about an inch or so of snow this morning. By the end of the day we are expected to have 2-3 inches. Yuck!! Yesterday it was in the 50's and this past Friday it was in the 70's. On my way to work this morning it was 20 degrees and its supposed to get even colder as the day goes on. But thats St. Louis for you. The weather changes constantly. :-/

Even though there's only about an inch or so of snow, the roads are terrible!! After dropping Jackson off at my mom's this morning and making the trek down to the city, it ended up taking me an extra hour to get to work. However, I'm grateful I made it here safely and it does look kinda pretty from my nice warm office. I took a picture from my 24th floor office window so you all could see.

 Here's to hoping Spring is just around the corner. I really hate winter!!

Oh How Pinteresting Wednesdays

I'm linking up with...

This is such a cute bib. I really want to get one made for Jackson.

 Such a clever idea.

I really want to do this with Jake and frame it for the family collage wall in the living room that I'm working on.

This is so beautiful and makes me long for summer nights.

Such a cute shirt. I need this for Jackson for Valentines Day!

I'm dying for a DSLR camera! Hoping to get one in April for my birthday!

 I love this bag!

What I'm Loving Wednesday!

I thought I'd join in the fun this week with What I'm Loving Wednesday. Here's what I'm loving...

I'm loving that the final season of One Tree Hill starts tonight!! I know I should probably be over this show by now, but I just can't help but love it. I've watched it from the beginning and I'm even a little sad that its the last season. 

I'm loving that I have another 3 day weekend coming up this weekend with Monday being Martin Luther King Jr. Day!!

I'm loving the movie "The Help". I finally got to see it last week! I had been wanting to see it and had heard how great it was. It was a very good movie and I definitely recommend it.

I'm loving my new vacuum that I got right before Christmas. It works great, especially with having 3 Labrador Retrievers!!

And I'm loving my sweet baby boy, who's sleeping very well at night and in a great routine now that I'm back to work. He's such a good baby and I love him so much. :-)

So what are you loving??

Goodbye Christmas Decor... Hello Valentines Day Decor

I finally got all my Christmas decor put away this past weekend. (It feels so good to have the house back to normal again.)

I figured while I had my holiday decorations out, I'd go ahead and decorate my table for Valentines day. My Valentines Day decor is probably my favorite because I just love the colors. I got most of it at Target last year.

I'd really like to get something different for a centerpiece. I've been scoping out Pinterest for some ideas. I found this cute idea that I might try. It seems easy enough, however, finding the time these days with a 2 month old is the challenge.

Do you decorate for Valentines day?? I would love to see some other Valentines decorations.