the glover gang

hello. i love you.

2011-02-08T22:22:00.000-08:00

let's be honest. i suck at blogging. i have too much to update on tonight, so here are some precious pictures of the ones i love/adore/obsess over the most!

cutest boy ive ever laid eyes on!

nine months old! come back time!

nibbling on some crackers

swimming in january one day, preparing for a freeze the next!

bathtime fun!

probably my favorite picture ever!

so proud on the big boy swing!

grayson wins the race!

handsome mr.

my little beauty

BEST buds

handsome blue-eyed boy (dont mind his poor busted lip!)

not sure who had more fun at the park!

happy boy on the slide!

swinging!
she thought it was hilarious!
having so much fun at the park

i simply adore this man!

happy girl

"oh my gosh, mom, did you see the size of sister's bow?!"

precious love

my little angels!

PRUNECESS

(trav's name for gracie)

goofball

someone adores her brother

hah!

gracie bell: 8 months

2011-01-04T13:18:00.000-08:00

i can't believe my teeny tiny newborn is EIGHT months old!

you are the sweetest bundle of joy and a total mama's girl!

you are all over the place now and so busy, so much busier than your brother ever was!

i love comparing/contrasting the two of yall because yall are so similar, yet so different.

you are looking more and more like him everyday. most people think you always have, but i don't see it that often.

you recently have turned into quite the screech owl. it is piercing and for some reason you love to "screech" mostly out in public! oh joy!

you refuse to eat any baby food, although i still try quite often. i couldn't pry your lips open to save my life, if i wanted to.

on the other hand, you LOVE any other food, other than baby food. you love yogurt melts and puffs. and i have let you eat a few things here and there that we eat, that is bland and i can turn into mush.... you have loved everything you've tried.

you still have just your 6 teeth but you are working on quite a few more. your first six all came in at 5 months and within 2 weeks of eachother, so you must be getting ready to have a new "batch!"

on the subject of teeth, you are still only breast fed, but that might be changing soon because you bite like a pirranha! i want to do everything the same as i did with your brother, so im trying my hardest to tough it out til you are the least 10 1/2 months old. you also refuse to take a bottle, so that will be another challenge in itself.

you are a typical girl with mood swings.... mostly when it comes to your brother. most of the time you are beyond tolerant of him and how rough he is with you, and you think he is THE funniest person on the planet, but some days, all he has to do is look at you and you start screaming. haha! yall both just idolize eachother and i could sit and watch yall forever!

your favorite time of day, hands down, is bath time. you could not be cuter if you tried when you take a bath. you can make an insanely huge mess for such a petite young lady! you splash just like shamu and think it's the funniest thing ever!

happy eight months my angel! im so glad God picked me you be your and grayson's mommy!

i attempted to feed gracie yet again today. she hated it (shocker) so i just let her play!

this stuff is gross mom!

LOVE this precious baby girl!

clean-up time

splash zone!

love you grace kampbell. you're my favorite girl in the world.

for your viewing pleasure:

(and bc we can't have a post without joe cool!)

could not love them more if i tried!

happy girl

p.s. im thinking i might make three of these for the babes playroom. i have this one blank wall that needs something, and i thought they could be cute there, done in their playroom colors, obviously! OR i might make the letter canvases, since they have the same initials! not sure. i love the idea of the stripes on the canvases either way!

p.p.s. grayson peed in the big boy potty for the first time last night!!!!! WOOHOO!!! but wasn't interested at all today. potty training....what a joy!

2011 resolutions

2011-01-03T12:28:00.000-08:00

both of my babies are down for a nap at the same time (HEAVEN!), so im going to use my quiet time to blog about what my new year's resolutions are! im hoping that if i take the time to sit down, write them out for others to see, then maybe i will hold myself more accountable! with that said.....

1. i want to read my Bible cover to cover this year. i have started a plan via an ipod app that maps out a reading schedule for me, daily. i don't have to follow the schedule exactly, but it keeps me somewhat on track. i need/like schedule in my life!

2. im not even going to say, lose weight, bc we all know, that goes out the window within a couple weeks or so... or in my case on thursday, when i go have sprinkles with some lovely mamas! so my goal is to be healthier this year!

3. with that said, i want to cook more this year. i dont cook that often, because for 6 months of the year my husband is gone and i hate cooking big meals for just me and gray, bc i dont really eat leftovers. i feel like so much is wasted.... not to mention cooking and cleaning dishes is a lot of work with two kids and no hubby around! but this year i am going to try harder bc soon gracie will be eating too! so im excited to try lots of new recipes.... any yummy ones yall have, please send my way!!!

4. work on my patience. until i had grayson, i had absolutely no patience, so i have come leaps and bounds since, but im still not all that wonderful, all the time. travis is currently working 3 weeks on, 3 weeks off and by about mid-week 2, my patience reallys starts wearing down, bc im ready for a break, need a break! so, to my precious babies, i will try my hardest everyday to be the most patient i can be!

5. pray more. i pray alot, but there are times when a few days and, even a couple times, a week or so slip by me, without praying. it is important to me to pray more, count my blessings, and thank God for everything he has done in my life!

6. i need to make more of an effort to dedicate more alone time/date nights with my sweet husband. for some reason i feel guilty wanting to steal him away for some alone time bc he is away from the kids so much already, but i also know it is important for our marriage and relationship to have that time. starting in february travis will be going to libya to work for the next 1-2 years, with a month on, a month off schedule, so i know it is more important than ever that i get good quality time with him when he's home.

7. potty train gray. prayers are appreciated... haha! not looking forward to tackling this obstacle!

8. be more punctual. since i have had grayson, i am consistantly a good 10 mins late for everything. even if i try leaving 10 mins early, i still manage to be 10 mins late. i dont like it about myself and it irritates the hubby. so i am going to focus on that!

9. be better about my blogging. im going to try really hard on that, solely for the fact of documenting moments with my lovies.

10. go to bed earlier at night. im a night owl and a morning hater, always have been. i tend to stay up WAY too late and then wake up when the kids get up, so i think i could be a better mom with more sleep.... and it will probably help my patience too!

11. soak up every single second of my little angels because they are growing up so riduculously fast, i can't stand it!

here's to hoping i can keep all my resolutions til 2012! what were some of yall's new year's resolutions?

2010: glover style

2010-12-31T14:24:00.000-08:00

we started off 2010 with grayson looking like this:

and gracie looking like this:

2010 was a wonderful year for our family, started off a little rough, but ended so great! God definitely reminded me many times this year that He is in control, not me. And what a good reminder that is!

JANUARY

i was put on strict bedrest at 26 weeks for the remainder of my pregnancy. travis was sent to korea for six weeks. my mom and mother-in-law helped take care of gray and i had to learn how to ask for help and be dependent on others (not a fan.) most of our days were spent like this:

FEBRUARY & MARCH

spent mostly in bed. grayson became the biggest daddy's boy imaginable and it's stayed the same ever since.

APRIL

celebrated Easter. started getting out of bed a little more, bc i was almost full-term.

MAY

my brother married his best friend.

God gave us, yet again, another perfect blessing!

our Grace Kampbell was born may 4th.

precious, perfect, and adored.

i wondered how on earth i would ever be able to love anything the way i love grayson, but when i looked at her for the first time it was like God opened my heart and just kept pouring more and more love in!

i had the best mother's day ever adoring my two precious gifts from God.

the rest of may was spent adjusting to being a family of four. bliss.

JUNE

june was mostly spent outside in the pool, staying cool. we celebrated my niece's birthday, my MIL's birthday, and my 24th birthday. we also celebrated travis's first father's day as a daddy of two! my in-laws moved to singapore.

JULY

a virus hit our house and made the rounds.

spent Gracie's first holiday, 4th of July (and her 2nd month birthday), hooked up to IV's at TX Childrens, praying to God every second that she didn't have viral meningitis. thank God she was only diagnosed with bacterial meningitis, but it still scared me to death. God is good!

AUGUST

nothing too note-worthy happened in august.

SEPTEMBER

sept 4th was travis and i's first wedding anniversary. he was at work, so it was spent showering one of my best friends, Haley and angel baby Owen!

haley and her mom suprised me with this cake, even though we were supposed to be celebrating her! sweetest friend ever!!!! haley sturgeon, i am so blessed to have you in my life! i love you!
showering haley. celebrating owen.

my baby boy got his first haircut and in just a few snips, grew up before my very eyes!looking like such a big boy now!OCTOBER

october is always an awesome month!

haley and jeremy became the proud parents to the precious and perfect, Owen Ross!! (aka my future son-in-law!)

my hubby turned 25, but he was at work. we didn't get to celebrate properly bc by the time he got home, we were in full swing 2nd birthday party mode!

my first baby turned TWO! i still can't believe he is a toddler! how did time fly by so quickly without me even realizing!

gracie celebrated her first halloween as the cutest and chubbiest little lamb i ever did see!!!
cowboy grayson made a pit stop at mimi's while trick-or-treating, for a drink and some kisses!

NOVEMBER

we celebrated thanksgiving. so thankful for my angel babies, my husband, my family, my friends, our health, Jesus and a million other things. God has blessed us beyond belief! travis was at work and my in-laws were in singapore, so for the first time in 9 years, i only had one place to be on thanksgiving. AHHH heaven!!! my brother and sister-in-law hosted thanksgiving at their new house and both my mom and dad and stepmom and all our other family members were all under the same roof! it was SOOO nice! we had the best time enjoying everybody's company and i was able to relax and not have to worry about getting to two other thanksgiving feasts!

grayson had a blast playing with my bro and SIL's new dogs, hank and mimi!

DECEMBER

december was all about celebrating Jesus's birthday! it really is the most wonderful time of year! it is so fun celebrating with the kids and starting new traditions and keeping up with old traditions. however, Christmas felt a little off this year, because travis had to leave to go back to work the day before Christmas eve, so we celebrated early! (if you've been keeping track, travis has pretty much been gone for every holiday this year! it sucks so bad! im just so thankful he was here for Gracie's birth and Grayson's bday!) i was sad he missed gracie's first Christmas, but good thing santa brought me a new video camera so i got everything on tape! now i can document all the precious moments he doesnt get to be here for!

2010 has been a truly incredible year. i can't even imagine what 2011 has in store, but im looking forward to all it has to bring!

weeds.

2010-08-20T11:34:00.000-07:00

the only thing growing faster than my kids these days are weeds! i mean, what the heck, in two months grayson will be TWO and gracie is already almost 4 months. i know ive said it a million times, but i wish time would just slow down before my babies are teenagers in need of an attitude adjustment!

gracie is really coming into her own little personality, laughing and smiling all the time. she is such a happy baby! ive been so blessed to have two very easy going children, that are both awesome sleepers! she is busting out of all her 3-6 months clothes. i put her in some jammies last night that were 6-12 months and they fit her jsut fine. SERIOUSLY gracie, slow down!!! gracie started rolling over yesterday. i knew it was coming soon. it's so weird bc she has been slightly early or right on time for everything developmentally for age... grayson was so behind on everything he did, so it's definitely change for me!

everytime grayson wakes up from a nap or in the mornings i swear he looks older and grows more hair...haha! hes starting to get taller and thin out. before i know it im going to have a lean two year old! he has mastered swimming this summer and loves the water and has NO fear, AT ALL which is good and bad. he would rather be in the pool than do anything at all. he is OBSESSED with a few certain foods: peanut butter, hot sauce, fruit (esp. grapes) and chips of any kind. peanut butter takes the cake for him though. EVERY single day, multiple times a day, he heads for the pantry to get the jar of peanut butter and wants to eat it by the spoonful. i wonder if his love of peanut butter has anything to do with the fact i craved (and therefore satisfied my cravings) peanut butter sandwiches every day i was preggers with him?! he is so in to the mechanics of how everything works, and it takes him no time at all to figure it out. he definitely gets that from his daddy and his grandfathers! he's really starting to grow up and help me with things around the house. it's so weird! its so insane to me how absorbant their little brains are and how it only takes seeing something one time to learn it.

here's a few pictures of my babies while they are still babies!

grayson smothering his sister and gracie having to take charge of the situation

grayson thinks he is too cool for school with his new shades

gracie bell and her cousin, taylor kay

slumber party at grayson's with his cousins

grayson and his best friend

(travis had to go back to work last night and grayson already is missing him. it breaks my heart)

my little fish! such a good little swimmer!

my pride and joys

grayson got his first job: the new pool boy

my beautiful blue-eyed girl after a swim

grayson or gracie? i normally dont think my babies even look related, but i know this picture is one we will look back and wonder which kid it is..... she looks just like grayson as a baby here.

i know when gracie gets older shell kill me for showing this pic to the public, but it cracks me up. she is SUCH a girl. grayson was all over her (as usual) and she was getting so pissed. you could totally tell. and this picture simply proves how aggravated she was with her brother...haha!

grayson just hanging out in one of his drawers from his playroom

sweet girl, literally one second before she rolled over for the first time

blah.

2010-08-13T12:12:00.000-07:00

Blah. Ive been in a blog funk bad. I cant seem to get out of it bc everytime i tell myself i need toblog, if only for the sake of keeping track of my babies, i get so overwhelmed of thinking about where to start. SO, im going to try now, get caught up by list of everything going on since my last post (like 5 years ago) and then start fresh!

1. gracie is a month old

2. travis and i have our first evening out sans children to celebrate some sweet friends getting married!

3. my in-laws move overseas to Singapore, so we postpone our house hunting and move into their house for a year while they are gone.

4. i celebrate my 24th birthday.

5. we celebrate travis's first father's day with two precious angels!

6. grayson is 20 months old!

7. we had our first health scare with gracie girl. ended up in texas childrens for a weekend, including her 1st fourth of july and her 2 month "birthday", with meningitis.

8. grayson said "i love you!" TEARS OF JOY!!! this was like music to my ears, heaven on earth, especially considering my little bitty rarely ever talks!

9. gracie bell started smiling and cooing.... more music to my ears! so precious!

10. grayson becomes crazy, obsessed, attached to "brown bear," ironically just 2 days after i had told his ped that i was so glad he wasn't attached to anything that he just had to have in order to leave the house. jokes on me!

11. continue to fall more and more in love with my little angels everyday!

12. gracie started laughing.

13. grayson turned 21 months old. (is he really that close to 2?)

14. Gracie Kampbell is 3 months old. Seriously, time, where are you going?

OKAY! So i think that brings us up to date! Hopefully i wont fall behind like that again!

And here are just a couple more pictures of the ones i love the most!

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!

embrace.the.camera::day 4

2010-05-29T22:40:00.001-07:00

hello lovely bloggers!

i hope everyone had as wonderful of a day as we did. nothing that special went on, but it was just one of those really good days! we got up this morning, threw some clothes on, brushed our teeth and headed out the door to... TOYS R US! as promised by granny, grayson got a really awesome pirate ship water table for being such a good big brother (and to make grayson feel special, bc his sister seems to be getting quite a bit of attention these days)! the pirate ship is so fun and has so many cool little things to play with on it. it was quite a success! we are super into pirates right now. grayson's 2nd birthday is going to be pirate themed. is it too soon to be planning? i mean it is only 5 months away...haha! anyway, we grabbed lunch and headed home for an afternoon of playing! we were having too much fun to even think about the camera, so i have no pictures but it's not the last time he'll be playing with it! i totally forgot about "embrace the camera" today, so here is a quick shot just before bath time! and just a couple others of my lovies just for smiles!

first attempt- gracie about to let out a scream and grayson about to smack me in the head with his yogurt melts and make them go flying all over the bed and floor!

second attempt-gracie's still not into it and grayson is sad i removed the yogurt melts from his hands!

my perfect little princess

boys will be boys...this picture had me ROLLING laughing. it looks nothing like him with those mud-caked eyebrows! he was covered head to toe, and couldnt be happier about it!

embrace.the.camera::day 3

2010-05-28T21:04:00.001-07:00

bitty and mommy before going over to the sturgeon's

(apparently grayson was looking at something else with the left eye- haha)

mommy kissing on gracie girl

gracie trying to nurse mommy's nose it was another low key day around here today. grayson played in his "mud pit" and i watched and laughed hysterically, while soaking up some sun myself. gracie slept. and ate. repeat. later this evening, the babies and i headed over to the sturgeon's, jeremy's parents, and enjoyed a yummy BBQ dinner with good company! grayson got to love up on aunt haley and uncle jere, play with some of baby owen's books, and eat lots of food; he was a happy camper! gracie slept and got snuggled up by jeremy's parents. you can tell they cant wait to be grandparents! wont be long before sweet owen is here! hope you all had a happy friday!

grace kampbell glover

2010-05-27T22:40:00.001-07:00

ok i am finally getting out of my blog funk, so i figure first things first, i need to introduce

GRACE KAMPBELL GLOVER

to the blog world!!!

so here's her story: we checked in bright and early at 5 a.m. on may 4th. by 5:30 all the paper work was signed and it was time to get the ball rolling.

trav and i right after we got checked in

at 6, they hooked my IV up and started me on my pitocin. it wasnt long before my contractions started getting pretty rough, so by 9, i was ready for my epidural. they had quite a problem getting it in right, so it took about 45 mins.... torture to be stabbed in the spine amidst multiple progressing contractions. by 11 a.m. i was practically crossing my legs to keep gracie in bc i was trying to wait for my mom and bitty to get there. for some reason i had it in my head that i really needed to see grayson before i had her. not the case, gracie had a different plan. she wasnt waiting for anybody. 8 minutes of pushing and 6 contractions later, here she is....

grace kampbell glover

may 4th, 2010 11:52 a.m.

7 lbs 12 oz and 20 1/2 inches long

our first family picture- epic fail yet so priceless

grayson has since warmed up quite nicely to his sister, smothering her with kisses ALL day long. he had more of an issue warming up to me, but once travis had to go back to work, he didnt have much of a choice. its been quite an adjustment with two babies, but amazing nonetheless. im learning new ways to adapt every day and things NOT to do every day! for example, today grayson chugged some tea then leaned over gracie's car seat to give her a kiss, and puked all over her. note to self.. dont let grayson chug tea and then go in for a kiss! poor gracie! it's been quite interesting! now that im out of my blog funk, there will be lots more stories to come of laughs, joys, frustrations and such of being a mommy of two!

embrace.the.photo::day 2

2010-05-27T22:33:00.000-07:00

i didnt participate yesterday but i am now!
a picture of mommy and my little angels!

the bump

2010-05-03T12:23:00.000-07:00

one more day til i get to hold you in my arms, sweet girl

look, you can see her hair flowing.....

2010-04-17T08:38:00.000-07:00

just a quick little pregnancy/ Gracie girl update:

Miss Grace Kampbell will be here absolutely no later than May 3rd!!!! AHHHHH!!!! i am so excited, i dont even know what to do with myself! we went in yesterday for my last visit to my specialist and found out a few things about our girl:
1. she has extremely chubby cheeks :) love a chubby baby!
2. she has a dainty little nose, like our bitty
3. she has plump lips.... not sure where those came from bc we all are lacking in the lip department on both sides.
4. she weighs 6 lbs 6 oz.... already bigger than her brother was
5. SHOCK FACTOR: gracie girl apparently has a full head of hair..... they tried to show us her hair flowing when they jiggled her..... ill have to see it to believe it! a newborn with hair, and an 18 month thats still bald.... haha! i cant wait to compare all the similarities and differences in my little angels!

so our gracie girl is on the right track and doing wonderfully! i'm still doing good too, however my fluid levels have gone WAY up again, which is why my dr will induce no later than may 3rd, if she hasnt already come! if my water were to break, i would lose a GALLON of fluid! talk about a mess. that gallon of fluid i have weighs just over 8 pounds.... thats ALOT of fluid! hopefully my water doesnt break out in public.....CLEAN UP, AISLE 5!

the bump

2010-03-22T13:48:00.001-07:00

32 weeks and cooking!

i cant believe there is only 8 weeks left, or less! just as long as gracie girl stays in my tummy til trav gets backs home! can't wait to meet our baby girl!

a little sigh of relief....

2010-02-24T10:22:00.000-08:00

i am so happy and thankful to say that this gruesome thing known as bed rest is doing the trick!!!! thank you God! monday i went in for my typical OB check-up and everything looks great with our sweet girl, weighing 2 lbs. 12 oz right now. and tuesday i had an appt with my specialist. lately ive been getting very nervous about going to these check-ups bc theyve only been filled with bad news. i have prayed and prayed that some how miraculously God would make my cervix better,which i didnt even think was possible, until yesterday when my doctor told me that my cervix WAS indeed better! Praise the Lord! it is so reassuring to hear that and know that my bed rest IS paying off! i couldnt have been happier, however, with that huge sigh of relief, we are now entering into a new problem.... for some reason, in the past couple of weeks my uterus has excess fluids. my doctor has eliminated all the serious causes which is GREAT, but the only concern now is if my water breaks, the immense pressure from the decompression of all the excess will cause the placenta to rupture too! so now i praying that if/when my water breaks, this is not the case! but other good news, my doctor thinks i will be able to carry full term (woohoo!!!!) and that i'll be able to keep little Gracie Girl in, until her daddy comes home from Korea! what an answer to my prayers that would be! Travis leaves next week for Korea and will be home April 18th, so pray Gracie stays in mommy AT LEAST until then!

i have to say that Travis has been an absolute rockstar these past couple of weeks! it amazes me what an incredible dad he is! and Grayson could not adore him any more! he absolutely idolizes him. he copies everything he does and i just LOVE watching the two of them together. its been an incredible bonding experience for them and i think travis realizes now how exhausting it truly is to be a mommy, but worth every bit of it!

in other news, quite belated, BUT congratulations to some of the most incredible friends out there, on their first little miracle in the making..... THE STURGEON'S. they will make the best parents and i cant wait for many playdates! Looking forward to another October baby!!! love you both so much!

i think there must be something in the water because an amazing number of people i know are preggers! i love it!

in other OTHER news, my prayers are with the Greer family, as Jill fights this battle of breast cancer. there is not a doubt in my mind that she will kick the cancers butt! she is so surrounded by prayers and love. it's amazing! praying continuously!

im taking recommendations for good books, so let me know what you have read that was really good. im currently reading, The Shack...so good so far, and have a few good reads to follow thanks to my sweet, sweet friend haley! suggestions?!

hope everyone is having a great week so far, sorry i have no pictures to post!

heartbreak

2010-02-09T20:37:00.000-08:00

how do you tell a mom, whose world revolves around her little boy, that she isn't going to be able to hold him for the next three months?

i went in for a check-up today to be sure my progesterone injections were working. i have prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed some more that these injections will do the trick to avoid any further complications. well, it seems that God has a little bit of a different plan than i was hoping for. the injections are not working and my complications are worsening quickly, and i have now been put on bedrest at 26 weeks, will have to be hooked up to monitors to monitor my contractions, and be given meds to try to stop the contractions intravenously through the leg! this is what i was so afraid of. i am allowed bathroom and showering priviledges, that's it. i tried explaining to my doctor that bedrest simply couldnt be an option and she was quick to tell me that it was my only option or i could very likely end up in the hospital with a preemie, suffering from cerebral palsy or blindness. im scared, terrified, helpless, but hopeful. this broke my heart to hear that, but when she told me that i couldn't hold my little boy for the rest of my pregnancy, my eyes instantly filled with tears and im pretty sure they haven't stopped since. never in a million years did i think something like this would happen to me. what makes this whole situation even worse....in two weeks, my husband leaves for korea for 3 months!!! i have already been having such terrible anxiety thinking about him leaving bc i worry he wont be home for the arrival of miss gracie, but now im anxious in so many more ways. today has easily been one of the worst days, im so emotionally exhausted, yet cant sleep. im sick of this stupid bed already and it hasn't even been a full day. how do i do this for three months? how do i keep my sanity? what will i do once travis leaves? how do i not love on my little angel for 3 months? i have so many questions and not a single answer! i have faith that God knows what he is doing and that it will all work out and He can do immeasurable things. for now that is my only answer.

the bump!

2010-01-24T12:23:00.001-08:00

24 weeks.... and growing!

currently wanting....

2010-01-23T22:01:00.001-08:00

her precious leopard baby legs!

mommy and baby jammies for the hospital in pink leopard (thanks to mrs. tich, im obsessing!)

gracie's newborn photo sesh outfit

how precious is this?!

milk bands for nursing mama... love the lavender

this whole outfit with leopard backdrop included..haha!

high maintenance.

2010-01-22T22:12:00.000-08:00

everyone has always said that girls are high maintenance. well, my little miss gracie in the making is no exception. as ive mentioned earlier, im seeing a prenatal specialist with this pregnancy so we dont have any early suprises like last time! well i went in for a check-up with the specialist today and exactly what they were afraid might happen, has started happening already. everything is going perfect with the baby, it is me that has something wrong. i wont go into the details about it bc i dont know who reads my blog and dont want to share too personal of details, but we are doing all the steps to prevent anything from happening pre-term. i now have to receive weekly, to the day, progesterone injections to the hip and im supposed to not squat or bend over or anything strenuous...but hello, i have a 15-month old that is needy for attention and mama's love! there is only so much i can do in that department. so, im praying the injections do the trick. naturally, it has me very nervous but thankfully, i have a very supportive husband that reassures me, everything will be ok. and i have all the faith in the world it will, but this is my little angel we are talking about here, can you blame me for being nervous?!

on a different note, gray has been sick since sunday and has been just pitiful, but i think we are finally on the uphill slope! it's not fun having stay in with this beautiful weather! im looking forward to getting out, going to park and going for walks, just enjoying the sunshine!

im 24 weeks today, and miss gracie is a busy, busy girl! i swear she is training for the u.s. olympic gymnastic team! my belly is just growing, growing, growing! i swear i will get some pictures soon...i just have no idea how to work the self-timer on my new camera! so far i haven't had any food cravings, but i never really had any when i was pregnant with grayson. grayson is quite amused with mommy's growing belly and he likes to pat on it, like he's saying hi to sister, then he lays his head on it. to me, it's so sweet, like he knows his little sister is in there! i just love it!

grayson is into anything and everything. he is ALL boy, constantly covered with bruises on his forehead from falling into everything. he loves playing with his crazy coupe, anything with wheels, turning his toys on and off, splashing likea mad man in the bath, grabbing the wheels on my car in the driveway, daddy's bp hat, po-po his polar bear, giving granny's dogs WAY too many treats, torturing the cats to no end, eating anything and everything in sight and anything that could get him in trouble! he still isn't much of a talker, but im not worried.... he has done everything else on his own timeline, so i expect the same with words and talking. he is such a blessing! i cant wait to see him interact with Gracie!

it's been a long day, off to bed! hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!
p.s. sorry there are no pictures! ive been taking millions trying out my new camera, but im still getting it figured out! hopefully, next time!

hook 'em horns!!!!

2010-01-07T22:33:00.000-08:00

tonight, i feel so proud of my longhorns. even though we lost the championship, it was one hell of a game. gilbert played a fabulous game....his first collegiate game and it was the national championship! i mean come on!!! he pulled it off great!!we had 6 minutes on the clock and were down by 3, with a 2nd string quarterback in the national championship game!!!! he should be very proud! i feel incredibly sorry for colt mccoy. you know he was absolutely devastated to not be able to play his 1. last college game for UT and 2. the national championship. i also feel really ticked off that people that are native Texans are going against Texas....you live in TEXAS people, hello?! support your state!
with that said, i feel extremely proud to be a texas ex! i am proud of my team, and proud of how they played! hook 'em horns!!!!!!

Grayson's going to have a LITTLE SISTER!!!!!

2009-12-15T17:02:00.001-08:00

today we found out we are having a baby girl! we could not be more thrilled! i don't think it has really sunk in that i am going to have a DAUGHTER!! AHH! sooo exciting! i know in my post yesterday i said i wasnt going to find out the sex because Travis wasn't there, but here's the story! So i am laying there getting my ultrasound and the dr. asks me if i want to know the sex of the baby, and naturally, i practically scream out yes! so she says, "it's a...." and i say, "but you cant tell me!!" she looked at me like i was cuckoo or something but then i explained to her i couldnt find out bc my husband wasnt there, yadda yadda yadda! So she says she understands and that if i would like she could write down the sex of the baby and put it in a sealed envelope and we could open it together when he got home! I agreed! So i call travis as soon as i get out of the dr and told him about the "special envelope" i had in my posession and thought we needed a Skype date tonight bc i didnt think i could wait til friday when he got home. i thought i could open it while he watched on skype! he agreed! so i was super excited! but not even 5 minutes later he called and told me to open it now bc he couldnt wait either! SO in the middle of Westpark Tollway, i rip open this envelope to find this note (above) saying: "IT'S A GIRL!!!!!!" i nearly had a heart attack and wrecked my car! i am still in disbelief, but we are beyond ecstatic! Now if only we could find a name! there is only one name so far i am in love with that i think is JUST right but the hubby doesn't agree! We cant seem to find one that we both love. if it were up to me, i would have already made the decision. however, travis at one point was totally opposed to the name Grayson, so you never know! hopefully the name i love will grow on him!

one week!

2009-12-14T16:08:00.000-08:00

because grayson came 5 weeks early for no known reason, my doctor is recommending i go see a perinatal specialist just for precautionary measures. my appointment is tomorrow and im so wishing the hubby was in town bc i have the chance to find out what our precious blessing is!!! BUT since he's not, we will have to wait til monday to find out at our next check-up! it's only one more week, but it seems so long since technically i could find out tomorrow. but im not... i promise, because i want all three of us to be together when we find out. needless to say im so excited for next monday! with as much as im dying to have a baby girl, lately ive been wanting another little boy.... so i will be tickled with whatever God blesses us with! i was 18 weeks on friday and my tummy has just popped out, just enough that if i wear a fitted shirt i have that nice chubby look...haha! ill post a picture soon! my energy is definitely coming back and im feeling a million times better! i think we have finally picked a boy name, but still on the hunt for a girl name..we just cant seem to agree on one and im not going to settle for just okay...after all, it is our childs name they will be stuck for for life!

these days Grayon is into EVERYTHING and so so curious! he is so close to walking it's scary! i think all it's going to take is for him to not be scared to let go and then the chase will be on! he gets so proud when he takes steps without help and it's so precious! aside from that, im pretty sure he is part whale because of his insane love with taking baths and making as big of splashes as possible. im in the splash zone every night! he has so much fun in the bath! he absolutely loves food...of all kinds! if i fed him all day, he would eat all day. im so glad hes not a picky eater like i was as a baby! aside from ma-ma, da-da, ba-ba, and po-po, his favorite thing to say is uh-uh (like uh uh , no way). everything is uh-uh... i thought they weren't supposed to talk balk til later...haha! he is just so full of life and it is so fun watching him discover everything new and how everything works! my house is a disaster bc of this though, but oh well! ive just learned to clean up after he goes to bed at night bc otherwise as soon as i clean one thing up, he tears it up seconds later! little toot! he loves nothing more than to scatter the tupperware cabinet across the house and his basket full of diapers! oh joy!

on another note, i havent even started Christmas shopping, nor do i have the slighest idea of what to get anyone this year! i hate giving a gift, just to give a gift. i want it to be the perfect gift, well-thought out and just right for that person! so this week and next week ill be hitting the stores along with all the other procrastinating shoppers! not looking forward to the crowds and lines!

hope everybody had a great weekend!

a blessed winter wonderland.

2009-12-05T09:18:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was up there with one of the best days ever! Everything about Snow Day 2009 was fabulous! 1. it actually snowed. 2. it actually stuck to the ground. 3. the family was all together to play in the snow. 4. Travis built the first snowman ive ever seen!

I made an attempt to take some family pictures but Grayson was not a fan of the cold, so our first attempts with the self- timer didnt work out. Thankfully, the snowmen Travis started building attracted quite a few viewers, so they offered to take our family picture! Here are a few pictures from our fun-filled day!

our family

my precious snow angel

my little bitty NOT enjoying the cold

mommy and bitty

the glover's with our 1st snowman

the glover snowman family

daddy, baby, bitty, mommy

Thank you God for yesterday because it was incredible. I'm so glad that i live in Texas, or better yet, in Richmond, where it never snows because it makes us so much more grateful and thankful for when it does snow! It was so beautiful watching the snow fall and cover the grass and rooftops with blankets of white! When it really started coming down, im embarassed to admit, but it brought tears to my eyes... i'm just going to blame that on my pregnancy hormones though...haha! I loved our snowman family that Travis built.... hands down, best daddy ever! We had all kinds of neighbors stopping to take pictures and telling Travis how cool and special that was! But some hoodlum kids came and knocked them down! RUDE!!!! But what was so cool, was when we came home from dinner, somebody had put them all back together for us! I thought it was very sweet! The only downside of yesterday is that my Uggs are still saturated with water :( ! Oh well! It was well worth it! I hope all of you had as wonderful of a snow day as we did! Stay warm this weekend!

snow day.

2009-12-03T18:43:00.000-08:00

tonight, i am praying for snow! i hope so badly that the weatherman is right. i realize more than likely it wont snow, but oh how wonderful it would be! we are behind on Christmas cards because we have no family pictures recent enough, so im really hoping to catch a few moments in the snow with the family for the perfect Christmas card pic! when i started this blog, i realized how terrible i am about family pictures. i have a MILLION of gray, quite a few of daddy and gray, even less of me and gray, and i think a total of FIVE, yes five family pictures! TERRIBLE! so im on a mission to also be a better "family photographer!" which brings me to the fact that i would LOVE a new camera from Santa this year! i hate that my camera takes about 10 seconds to take the picture, bc gray moves ALOT in 10 seconds, so i dont get to capture all the precious moments i think im capturing. SO, any suggestions?!?!?

speaking of Christmas, a fellow facebook friend of mine had this as her status yesterday and i loved it! i thought it was special and honest, and that i should share it with all you fellow bloggers!

CHRISTMAS GIFT SUGGESTIONS:

to your enemy, forgiveness

to an opponent, tolerance

to a friend, your heart

to a customer, service

to all, charity

to every child, a good example

to yourself, respect

-Oren Arnold

new & improved

2009-12-02T00:16:00.000-08:00

so im not the worlds best blogger and my attempt #1 was a complete failure. so im hoping that the new and improved blog will help to inspire me to be a better blogger! i was sitting looking at gray tonight thinking how quick time has gone and how he already has a different smile and a different look and a different face for everything than before and i got really upset that i wasnt good about documenting. so I'M BACK for round 2 and hopefully better than before! although it wouldnt take much of an attempt to be better! anyways, i figure i would start off with some things going on in our lives right now!

1. As most of you already know, Grayson is going to be a big brother in May! In just three weeks we find out if our "little bun in the oven" is a boy or a girl. Everyone (including me, most of the time) thinks it is going to be a girl, going off of how polar opposite my pregnancy has been this time in comparison to my pregnancy with Grayson. However, i also feel that since everyone feels so strongly that i might get a curveball and it will be a boy. I'll take either gladly! But how i wish i could have a real- live doll for dress-up! Horrible i know!

2. Travis leaves next month for Korea for a month. I have very bittersweet feelings about it. Bitter because he will be gone for a month, and sweet because he will finally have his job back to normal. They shut down the rig he was on in September, so its been a tough few months, which i sure many people can relate to!

3. Grayson was 13 months old yesterday, and i still cant believe he isnt my little newborn anymore. i wish so badly i could freeze him, but he his personality shines through more and more everyday and he keeps us rolling laughing. He has been the absolute greatest joy.

4. Im so excited for Christmas season. Something about this time of year just makes me so happy....could it be the trees, the lights, the music, the weather, the christmas cards, the family time?!?! I can't believe my little baby wont fit inside his stocking this year. tear.

5. I am finally starting to not feel naseous everyday. Thank you God! I never thought i was going to reach that day.

6. I wish I could have just about every item on Etsy.

7. I can not wait til we get our first house so i can decorate it. I fantasize about that day. It shouldnt be that much longer!

8. Im dying to see The Blind Side. I havent been to see a movie in theatres since The dark Knight!

9. I have met some wonderful new friends this year, gotten closer with some old friends, and lost a few friends. All of which i am certain has happened for a reason! I feel very blessed to have those in my life.

10. I always talk about how much i love grayson, grayson this, grayson that, and forget to give credit to my hubby far too often! He has been the most incredible man throughout this pregnancy. So helpful in every way! I dont think i could have survived the first trimester without him! Travis couldnt have been laid off at a better time. God always knows best! Now im feeling back to normal and it's time for Trav to go overseas! I love you boo boo, so much! Im so proud of you!

11. Speaking of Travis and Grayson, i could watch the two of them play forever! They are hilarious and Grayson just looks at Travis like he's his hero. It's precious. They melt my heart multiple times a day!

ok well it's late and im off to bed. i promise to be a better blogger!

p.s. im trying to put pictures up, but they keep going to the top of my post, can someone please tell me how to put them in between the different parts!