What We've Been Up To

I feels like forever since I've blogged and so much has gone on since the last post. I'm going to attempt to catch you up on our busy lives.

• My cousin's wedding was last weekend and it went very well. R and I had MUCH MORE responsibility than we realized and were pretty much the wedding/reception managers so we were dead by the end. I thought we were just going to be passing out programs and bubbles but as it turns out we were coordinating when everyone went down the aisle, pinning corsages and boutonnieres on the important people, paying the DJ and cake lady, dropping off my cousin's dress and taking a bunch of other things to the reception site, saying 10 million times, "please sign the guest book, the table to your left if for cards and presents, drinks are inside, appetizers are outside." and the list goes on and on!!!!!!!!!!! It sure was an experience, but we had fun. I think R and I could start a business after our experience :o)
• On Sunday we figured out that Little man gets carsick. About 2 months ago we had fed him dinner in the car on the way to my parents house and as soon as we got here after driving about an hour he threw up all over. I wasn't sure if he was coming down with something or if it was in fact car sickness. On our way home Sunday we stopped for lunch and continued driving for about an hour to go to a birthday party. About 5 minutes from our destination he threw up all over himself and his car seat. He definitely won't be eating and then riding in the car for an extended period of time again. We also now have a vomit bag next to him, "just in case."
• The birthday party was okay. It was my best friend K's daughter's first birthday. First birthdays are always hard because the kid has no idea what's going on and it's more for the adults anyway. We stayed for food and cake and then headed home after a long fun filled weekend.
• We attended our first of two refresher childbirth classes and we were actually practicing the lamaze breathing "hee, hee, hee, who" That part was a bit much. I wanted to attend the class because it includes a lot of information about the hospital and what they have to offer and we get a tour next week so I figured it would be worth our time. We did practice a lot of different relaxation techniques and things we could use to relax so that part was interesting. R and I need to seriously get refresh our memory with the Brad.ley method so we can incorporate that this time. A refresher course for that was just impossible because it's too lengthy and far away.
• R left for Pittsburgh on Tuesday morning. I drove him to a coworker's house at 5:30am so he could ride to the airport with her. My mom came home with us from the wedding weekend so she could watch Little man while we went to the refresher course and then we came back to my parent's house because I didn't want to be alone all week since R is gone and I have to get my dress for the wedding I'm in altered. We have a woman that is really cheap and does a really good job. Rather than finding some unknown person around me and paying an arm and a leg, this worked out since we were going to be here.
• I finished my last class yesterday. I do have a few revisions to make and I have to tie up some loose ends, but for the most part I am DONE with my master's degree!!!!!!!!!!!! It feels very nice!
• My mom is beginning to get on my nerves. It's weird because usually that doesn't happen but today she's been very opinionated and preachy. She's always complaining about the price of gas and the nearest bigger city (by bigger I mean it has a Wal.mart and Tar.get) is about 30 minutes away. Since we were in town I decided that we better hit all the places that we both needed to go because it would be a waste to drive up there anytime soon with gas prices at $4.25 a gallon. It was getting late (near Little man's nap time) and she needed to get a baby gift for her niece so I said "let's just stop at J.C. Penn.ey's since we are in town." She argued that Little man had gone too many places already but I knew he was going to have to go to the bathroom and we had ate lunch not long before so I wanted to stop to kill a little time and use the bathroom. She argued with me but went anyway. Then she picked out several outfits, couldn't decide what to buy, and put them all back, walking out with nothing. For someone who is always complaining about the price of gas and not wasting it, I was pissed that she didn't just pick out a couple cute ones and call it good. Everything was on sale and there were a million cute outfits, but she couldn't decide.

Well I'm sure there is much more that I forgot to write about but I'm sure I've bored you to death with our recent events so I'll write more another time.