Diapers, spiders and housekeeping...

We have been testing out diapers lately... Sick of paying an arm and a leg if I can get the same quality for cheaper. I still want to do cloth but... hubby won't change a cloth diaper even though it will save us money and it's better for the environment etc.

First we had Pampers Swaddlers... they are great! Super soft, holds in (almost) everything except the beloved blowouts. They overall are my favorite! Too bad they stop at 2s in the stores. I have not found 3s in the stores yet.
We have tried Luvs, which I believe if you don't have a heavy pee'er... are great. Jeremiah pees so much and it smells(don't worry we asked the dr he's hydrated and healthy he just has stinky pee sometimes and is very gassy)
And we tried Huggies at the beginning. I don't really feel confident in them  all. Every time we would put one on him when he was first born he would pee out or blowout!!! Ugh!!
Oh and Target. Okay I would only buy target diapers if we had no money and couldn't put it on credit. I would rather buy Huggies!!!
So now we are back to Pampers, not swaddlers though but Crusers and Baby Dry...

New and Improved Cloth Diapers

I really wish he would just let me switch... It would be so much easier. Just pick the color and the size... tada!!!

Anyways...

Camel Spider... GROSS!!!

So Brad was taking the dogs out for a walk this morning. And for some reason he was kicking around rocks... Well while he was kicking around some rocks he woke a Camel Spider... who then chased after Mosley. Oh man. I didn't think I could really hate Nevada anymore than I already did and I was wrong. Oh well!

Well housework is proving to be difficult. Jeremiah's swing is on it's last leg and well we aren't going to buy a new one just for the next couple months. And thankfully, we didn't buy this one either. Just fine with me!

Jeremiah's Tent

So I came up with a great idea. Or so I thought... Jeremiah will sleep all night in his crib but not during the day so I made a tent for Jeremiah to sleep under. I thought it was a great idea, I put him down for his nap in his normal clothes, he fell asleep within mins, only to wake a half an hour later with a puddle of sweat under his little head... poor little guy... :(  
Well now Jeremiah is watching me type and watching Veggie Tales... He's got the life! :)

Finally Uploaded Videos!!

Finally got around to uploading some videos onto youtube. Took forever though.
My favorite one right here:


Our little guy is getting soooo big, and way too quickly!
He's eating baby food, and learning to drink from a sippy cup. He is trying to crawl and is doing pretty good at holding himself up to sit!
It's amazing that every morning we go in to wake him up for his breakfast and he looks a little bit older!

In other news...
I'm looking for a job, something to get me out of the house for a couple hours a week. Nothing big. Maybe just a retail position and put the money away for a trip back home or whatnot.

Brad and I have made a few friends here. We are starting game night with a chaplain's family and then a nice group of mommies here in Vegas have invited me into their group. I'm very excited to meet them this coming weekend! And I'm making Gram's Baked Beans!!


Well I'm off to bed so here are a few photos of Jeremiah!

Me and Bun-Bun

Daddy and I look the same!

Looking cool

I'm cute

HI!!!

Up to no good

Giggles and Grins

I sure do love the water!!!

Future president! Will you vote for me?

Praying for you! Loving and missing you too!

...

Sure are missing family and friends right now. More than ever before. I need time away from the house to just relax with Brad. I don't trust anyone to watch Jeremiah so I go out for a little while, while I go to the store for an hour.
Praying we make some friends soon. Friends who will be willing to watch Jeremiah for a night so I can enjoy spending some time with hubby.
Other than that, the last two days have been hard. I haven't been wanting to get out of bed again. I have so much housework to catch up on. I guess that's what I get... for what I don't know but whatever.

Well Brad will be home very soon, getting ready to go and get rid of Savannah. We really love her but she attracts too many bugs because of the desert.

80* in March??

Hello family and friends! What is up with our weather out here... it's so weird. First we didn't get to celebrate Christmas the way we normally do(tree, lights, hot cocoa, and.. snow. duh) so we are still messed up on the time of the year and now it's March and it's 80* I shouldn't be complaining but I know that these 80* days will soon be 120* days.
I know that the Lord has a plan for us and that is why we are here. But come on?! I like summer but not all year round! lol
So unofficially I can't wait for winter haha! Can't wait for Jeremiah's "first" real Christmas. Unpacking boxes and living around boxes was not Christmas. I kinda wish we lived back in DC at least the heat was only for a couple of months. Okay enough complaining...

Other news! I am getting close to my goal weight! I have about 30ish lbs left to loose! I'm officially at my pre-baby weight and now I'm working towards the goal for my weight that I was working on right before I found out I was pregnant!
All of this breast feeding has gotten me this far and is the best thing possible for Jeremiah!

                      Win Win!!!

I'm starting Yoga today so the rest of the weight should just drop! I haven't done anything really up to this point. So I'm praying that I stick with this. I can do it at home, no need to go to the gym. I have enough room, and I can do it with Jeremiah awake or asleep. It doesn't matter. I can actually include him in it too! Love it! I can't wait to do it after my load of laundry is done!
 I'm excited for my excersise today and also for lunch! I'm making delish turkey cheese wraps with fruit salad! Yummmy!!!

Oh super cool thing happened yesterday, I went on  tour and got to see some pretty nifty planes that the Air Force fly's! I took some photos and got to watch the first air show of the season!
Well I have to go! Laundry is done, that means YOGA TIME!!!
God bless ya'll!!

I'm Expecting!!

Well Brad and I, although not Catholic, have decided to fast for lent. Brad started on Ash Wensday and had a very long list and me... well I'm starting this coming Monday(as in tomorrow).

F.R.O.G.

We have decided to better ourselves by removing ungodly things from our home.
Today we went through our DVD collection and threw out any DVDs that we thought would bring us back to where we have been. We want to be a Christ following family. A Christian family that Fully Relies On God!
We want our home to be warm and inviting to those whom are not christians and those whom are. No matter their faith we want them to feel at home within our home.
So we are "deleting everything bad from our lives. We are going to bless our home and we are starting fresh.

A few questions I know you may be asking:

• Why now?
• Well to be perfectly honest, why not now? We have a beautiful baby boy who is growing up in a terrible society, and who needs to have the security of our Lord with him at all times no matter his age. I can't speak for Brad but I know he feels the same way. We should have done this before I was pregnant. We should have been doing this before we where married. We where late so we are doing it now.
• What are you going to be doing? 
• We are re-dedicating our lives to the Lord. We want a relationship with him that is above any other here on earth
•  We are removing things from our lives that are unholy and that do not help us with our walk with God

The one thing that I am giving up for lent is Facebook. Most likely that is one of the only reasons you are here reading this. And if you actually read this far you will now know that my "I'm Expecting" update was just a attention grabber.
I will be back on facebook after 10 days, but not to the extent that I have been recently.
I found myself on my phone after midnight(I got into my bed around 11pm) and I was looking at everyone's updates and I asked myself...    "Why am I still online? What is so interesting about someone's life that I need to know where they ate that day and what new something they bought was."

Then it hit me "I have a problem with facebook" Instead of staying on fb for hours on end I should be reading my Bible, finishing laundry, playing with my adorable son(Don't worry I already do this a ton but come on he's a cutie and could use more than 8 hours a day of mommy time!), playing with the pups, exercising, trying a new recipe, etc.

So that is it! Bye bye facebook for 10 days at least. If I can't do 10 days then I'm deleteing my facebook altogether. Starting over fresh like a new baby... (hence the "I'm expecting")
I will be updating on here, I also realized that I have been niglecting this blogg, I made it so that family and friends would be able to see what we are doing and watch Jeremiah growing... I haven't been doing that and I really need to

Finally!

So after months of trying to figure this blog thing out I have got it! hehe... One of my new years resolutions was to keep our family updated on our life out here in NV. I wanted to do that on here, that way they can come online and check out what we are up to rather than try to call and most likely miss them or interrupt dinner or wake them up. (stupid west coast)

I have lost a total of 50+lbs from my pregnancy. 40 more left! All of this weight loss is thanks to a better diet and Breast feeding!! I am so thrilled that I have lost so much! Now the real task begins: working out or more like... making time to work out! So happy we have a pool at our complex, and in a couple weeks I will be going out there to get a hour a night workout along with going on the elliptical for 30 mins!

My little lover boy

"Standing" in his crib

Oh man... He didn't want to go to bed.

Update on Jeremiah, he is 15lbs! And in the 75% overall of his age group! I love my boy!

So our new suv... Brad hates it. I love it, but it doesn't have enough room. But we did get out of the high apr from the Camry and got a brand new car along with enough space for the dogs in the back when we drive. Overall I think it was a good purchase, when it gets paid off I'm getting a bigger suv though or a mini van pimped out... 

Rims, and lowered... Fiber carbon hood

Love this!!!

Yeah that's a tv in there...

I would never want to get out!

I just had wayyy to much fun looking up those photos. Hahaha!
I hope you enjoyed today's post! I had a blast writing and updating you all! Tomorrow I'm going to upload videos! Yesss!!

Off to make my spicy manicotti and some homemade vanilla butter bread! Yummmy!

3 Months Already??

It has been three months since our little man was born! He was weighed Tuesday and he now is at 14lbs 17oz and 25.5in!! God is good!! And as I type this he is chilling out in his little bounce chair relaxing telling me about his day!

In that time we have battled with two types of infections for myself, dealt with him not wanting to nurse, packing up our home, flying by myself with a newborn, Brad driving across country with two dogs and a full car, living in temporary housing that smelled like wet dog for a week, and moving into our new home.

Sure a lot to deal with in only a couple months!

On the plus side... God has brought us through with flying colors! And we are doing good out here, we even got a new SUV with a very very low interest rate, so much better than the Toyota!!

We are all doing very well!! And we just wanted to update you all! Love yous!!!