TGIF!

Yay! It's Friday...today I went and got a couple more things to hopefully get these rooms finished and got a birthday gift for Bayleigh. Once I got home I started getting all of my camera equipment together for a wedding I am shooting tomorrow. It is a early wedding and over in Ft. Walton, so I have to leave by 5:30 in the morning! ouch.

After that I headed over to my parents to spend my last night with Kylie. We went to the pool, played games, and ate dinner. How cute is she?! :)

And last but not least, we took a picture of our "club" We started our club this summer, but last night in our club meeting, Kylie decided we needed some gear. So we took care of that today :) Don't be jealous haha

Well, now I am off to watch Jerseylicious...I am sad to admit it, but I love that show!! It's about the Gatsby salon in Jersey. :) Then time for a shower and my bed ♥ Have a great Friday night!!

Don't leave

My sweet little Kylie...

I cannot believe that the summer break is already ending for you, and you will be heading back to Jacksonville for school to start. I also cannot believe that you will be in 2nd grade! I just want you to know how proud your Aunt Racey is of you. You bring so much joy to my life. It amazes me how well behaved and sweet you are. It makes my day when someone compares us to each other. :)

I hope you know how much I love you. I try to squeeze as much love for you into the small amounts of time we get together. I never take our moments together for granted. Thank you for loving me the way you do...always running up and giving me a huge hug when I walk in. This summer has been so much fun! Playing loaded questions, our sleepover, playing wii, taking cosmo on walks, your birthday party, our trust game haha. I hope you enjoyed your break...keep up the good grades in school this year, and I cannot wait to see you again!! I love you!!!

Randomness

♥Drake and I have been busy the past few days working on the house. What started as a guest room transformation, turned into me changing the guest bathroom, and painting the "office" We call it the office but it is an empty room that has the computer in it. We got rid of everything else thinking we were going to turn it into a nursery right away...so I guess I can say I painted the nursery :) Anyways, I have a list of things I have to finish by next Thursday when Drake's mom gets here. I will post pictures when we are through, right now we are like halfway done with three different rooms=craziness!

♥I rarely post recipes, because, well...I don't like to cook. Sorry to disappoint. BUT this is a recipe that we had up when we went to Kori and Briana's place, and I had her send me the recipe. I love it! I make mine without onions or mushrooms because I am the world's pickiest eater :) But here is the original...

Chicken Spinach Lasagna
SERVES 8-12

1/8 (10 ounce) package frozen spinach, thawed and drained
2 cups cooked chicken, shredded
2 cups cheddar cheese, grated
1/3 cup onion, chopped
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 (10 ounce) can cream of mushroom soup
1 cup sour cream
1 (4 1/2 ounce) jar mushrooms, drained
1/3 cup mayonnaise
6 lasagna noodles
1 cup parmesan cheese, grated

Preheat oven to 350.
In a large bowl, combine spinich, chicken, cheddar cheese, onion, cornstarch, salt, pepper, soy suace, soup,sour cream, mushrooms and mayonnaise.

Put a layer of noodles in the bottom of a greased (9x13x2 inch) lasagna pan.
Spread half of the spinich mixture over noodles.
Place anothe layer of noodles on top and cover with remaining spinich mixture.
Sprinkle parmesean cheese on top.
Bake for 1 hour.

♥Kylie is leaving to go back to Jacksonville for school this Friday. I am gonna miss my little buddy!

♥2 more days of the work week! Happy Hump Day!!

Our Weekend...

...has been great :) Yesterday Drake worked until 3:00, so I took care of a few things around the house. Once he got home we got ready and went to dinner. I got a gift card from work for Fridays, so we headed in town to use it. After that we stopped by Kirklands and looked around and stopped by Marble Slab.

Today we got up and headed to the river with my parents, brother, and Kylie. It was so much fun! We took a cooler with lunch, went kayaking up stream and then just coasted back, and Drake and Kyle did the rope swing. It was a great day ♥

The weekend is here!

Ahhhh...Friday :)
Went to the pool with the fam...
Dinner and a movie with Jenn and Ronnie...
The weekend is off to a good start! ♥

Busy Bee

Hey! I feel like I just had the first chance in the last few days to sit down and write! I have been busy...yes working on making a baby, but other things too! :) Yesterday after work I went and did a shoot for my good friend Jenn, I hate that I can't post any pictures...they are for her husband only. :) But she looked gorgeous! We had so much fun, except for the part where I had two massive pieces of cactus stuck in my foot! It was so painful. Anyhoo, today was another busy day at work and then when I got home our new guest room furniture was here! :) So we have been putting that together all afternoon and just got back from taking Cosmo on a walk. I also just ordered our guest room comforter set...I hope we can get it all set up and ready by the time Drake's mom comes to visit in a couple weeks! Well, that's all you get for now...have a good night ♥

I'm smiling...and so is my pee stick :)

So...I am ovulating! Yay! I was doubting my body after the doctor said to test so they could make sure I was not just getting positives because of clomid before. They had me start testing on CD12 and today is CD17. So every morning I have been anxiously waiting. The one I took this morning was negative, but I was having good 'ol egg whites last night and this morning (sorry) and I didn't understand why I wasn't getting my ":)" So I was kind of crampy today and I read how you can have a negative OPK in the morning and a positive by the afternoon, and that was all I needed to hear :) I popped my butt back in the bathroom when I got home from work and there she was, this beautiful smiley face looking at me.

Mondays

Good 'ol Mondays...I was super busy at work today and then came home and got a workout in before Drake got home from work. Today was his late day, but the rest of the week he is off early, so I am super excited to have some time together in the evenings the rest of the week. Once he got home we went to my parents so that we could drop off my brother's birthday gift. He turned 30 on Friday! This is him giving a nice fake reaction for the camera :)

And this is the awesome t-shirt that he can now sport around town. He loved it.

After that we hung out for a little bit and played a game.

Now I'm off to bed...have a good night ♥

no way

The weekend cannot possibly be over already?! Today we officially started turning our weight room into a guest room. I am so excited. Drake does use the weight room a lot, but we cleared out half of the garage so that he could just transfer his weights there, then we went to Lowe's for paint.

We actually picked a color pretty quick and we were both happy with it :) Once we got home, we started moving things out and just got done painting our first coat. I would normally hate painting, but when I get to do it with this guy, it's not too shabby ♥

Time to shower and relax the rest of the evening. Still hoping for my positive OPK this week. xoxo

Slumber Party!

Last night Kylie came over for a slumber party :) It made my day hearing how excited she was when I asked her if she wanted to stay over. When she got here, the first thing she had to do was make a list of everything she wanted to do while she was here. haha She is definitely related to me :)

My parents dropped her off and hung out for a few minutes before going to spend some time together ♥

After that the playing started! A very important part of her list was doing make-up...which meant she wanted to do Uncle Wake's make-up! haha He is such a good sport :)

After that we played on the wii, watched a movie, and played with Cosmo.

Then it was off to bed. I asked Kylie if she would still come over and have slumber parties when she was a teenager or would she be too cool to hang out with me. She promised that she would never be too cool for her Aunt Racey. I will hold her to that! :) We had a fun night!