As you can see, Jocelyn was not very interested in the Easter Bunny. She wanted to go swing instead!

The Easter Bunny is here!

 I can't believe it is already April and time to see the Easter Bunny. I was on the fence about taking Jocelyn to the mall to see him. Luckily, up here in Tennessee, EVERYONE takes pictures with live bunnies! I didn't want to have professional pictures taken because we will probably do that for her 2nd Birthday. So, my friends and I decided to rent one and take our own pictures. Emily over at  Mini Momma called a petting zoo and they rented the cutest little bunny to her for 24 hours. Danielle and her family own a bunny costume, so her husband dressed up and came to our shoot.

On the way to the park, the only thing J could talk about was how she was going to Hug the Easter Bunny, and Take a walk with the Easter Bunny and hold his hand. She was sooo excited. Unfortunately, she was also really excited her daddy met us there and that we were at a park with swings. So after her photo shoot she didn't even care about the big bunny, and wanted her daddy to take her to play!

She loved the little bunny.

Emily took all these pictures with her camera:

A little Family picture. For some reason I was not prepared to do this or I would have put on a little make-up. Oh well!

The Girls and most of the kids

Me and new baby, danielle and Noah, Emily and Charli, Whitney and Lola.

 If I can figure out how to upload a video faster than 2 hours I will post how uninterested J was in the big bunny!

Of course, we didn't get any of the kids together. There is always someone missing from the group pictures. Normally it's Jocelyn because she won't sit in one spot anymore. Yesterday when we took these, it was hot and half of the kids were tired of pictures!

What's that Noise?

After nap activity

Normally, after Jocelyn's nap I am scrambling for things to do until daddy gets home.

The mornings are great, we always seem to have a playdate to go to with a small group of girls,

a meet-up with my moms club, or just running errands.

I am just dragging after nap, even if I have had one myself.

The other day, I bought some finger paints since J is really into drawing and loves to be outside.

She has been asking to do it ever since I brought them home.

Today was the day, since she only slept for about 1 hour and 15 minutes and we had about 2 hours until

daddy got home from work.

What do you think? Did she have fun? 

I am pretty sure she did.

But, she might have liked coming inside and getting cleaned up because I let her sit in the sink

like she asks to do every night after dinner :)

The last 2 months-Warning long post!

There hasn't been all that much happening in the last 2 months believe it or not.


I started to feel better in the beginning of March, finally. Although I am still not 100%, most of the time besides being extremely tired, I feel great. The mornings are a little rough if I don't eat breakfast quick enough, other than that I am just enjoying all the food that I am not depriving myself of!




My sister Kelli came to visit for a week. We went shopping and to the aquarium, and out to eat a bunch. I think we had ice cream every day while she was here :) Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures and facebook won't let me save hers for some reason.


We've had beautiful weather up here. Lot's of days in the high 70's-low 80's and a few in the high 80's! We've gone to the park a ton with our moms group. Luckily after a long day of "finging" (aka swinging...Jocelyn's favorite thing) she is work out and takes a wonderful nap, which is always a plus for mommy!


Now we are getting ready to begin going to the lake! I have never spent any summers at the lake. It's always been the pool or the beach so this will be very different for me. It's strange to think that this is what Jocelyn will be used to, with an occasional visit to the beach. I have a few girlfriends with pools in their community, I am sure we will be spending time there a lot too! We blew up Jocelyn's little pool the other day but the hose water was freezing. She wouldn't even sit down in it. Of course, she didn't want to get out either. I would post pictures of that, but we left her swimsuit in FL and I didn't think it was appropriate to post her in the nude ;)


A few weeks ago, we took a Sunday trip up to the Ocoee river and stopped where they had the 1996 Olympic whitewater rafting. It was a really cool mostly man made spot. Brian and Jocie threw rocks in the the river for a while. She loves to be outside with her daddy.

We got her a new potty too. She wasn't too fond of the one that sat on the big toilet, so we got a little frog chair that we can put wherever and she can just sit and relax! So far we have had absolutely no progress. She sat on it one time, then got up and told me she had to go poopy, then refused to sit back down. I'm sure we'll have plenty more times like that before it actually starts working. Hopefully it will happen before baby#2 is born, but we'll see since I am not pushing it by any means.

Since this post is so long, I'll leave you with some cute pics of the lil' miss!

 At one of our favorite playlands

 on the way home!

 Yummy!

 Chocolate pudding

 giving bunny some water

trying to grow a chocolate pudding beard.

Week 19- Almost half way!

Once again, sorry for the lack of posts in the past 2 months. Time is FLYING by believe it or not. I'll update soon with new pictures of our girl and tell you all about vacation to Florida and the beautiful weather we've been having. But, until then here is an update on how this pregnancy is going.


Current Week: 19

Weeks to go: 21

Weight gain: About 5 pounds (that was from my appt almost 3 weeks ago, before vacation so it has probably changed!)

Stretchies: None so far.

Movement: Very minimal so far :(

Cravings: it changes every day! Greek salad, Chipotle -which we don't have it up here and I only had it once while in Florida :(

Sleep: Excellent actually! Unless Miss J wakes up and gets in bed with us.

Best moment this week: An awesome Sunday with friends and the first BBQ of the season!

Gender: TBA :) We find out on April 21st.

Labor signs:Thankfully nothing at this point.

Belly button: on it's way out! I can't wait, that was my favorite part with Jocelyn!

What I miss: Not gagging all day and being able to go multiple hours without eating.

What I'm looking forward to: Taking Jocie to the lake with all our friends

Weekly wisdom: Hmm, I have no wisdom this week.

Milestones: the baby is the size of a mango 6 in and 8.5 oz