Baby girl had her 6 month doctors appointment and shots this morning so I’m a little behind on getting this up… please understand! but….
Today is the day, the day to reveal my gift from the Country in the Christmas link up.
Hosted by these wonderful ladies!! This Uncharted Rhoade, COUNTRY LINKed, Diaries from the Dirt Road and The Ranch Wife Chronicles So we were given a person to shop for, by the way, I had fun going to our local Amish store and getting her some of my favorites, including but not limited to: crinkle cookies! and even a present that came from Ft. Worth, Texas. My blog gal I was to shop for was none other than Jent from Jents Front Porch. I hurried and sent my gift off to her and then waited patiently for mine to show up. It’s always soooo exciting to get things in the mail, especially when it isn’t bills… yuck!
So then one night when hubby came home from work he brought my package in to me from the garage. Now I was supposed to be hurrying so we could leave the house but heck, I just HAD to open my present! Leaving the house could wait!
My package came from Rebekah at Cooped Up Creativity. I was soooo excited I had to go hunt her down on facebook and thank her immediately.
So I got Cherry Jam, honey, chapstick, corn, a table runner, a scarf, a Christmas card and a letter.
And one tip to know you have a baby… the first time you wear the scarf, you already have to wash it because baby girl spits up on it. sigh! But I absolutely LOVE the scarf and it washed up great!!
Thank you soooo much Rebekah and to all the ladies who did a fabulous job of hosting this link up! So much fun. Bring on next Christmas!! 🙂
The 5th Annual Review Extravaganza is now officially over!
First I would like to thank my co-hosts for all of their work, for recapping with me and helping share the word about this review. I also want to thank all of you who linked up. It has been so wonderful meeting new bloggers. I also have loved seeing the responses and seeing how by recapping and looking at the year as a whole has helped many realize that with time, things do change and can get better.
First a Big Thanks to all the hosts! Make sure you are following these ladies if you already aren’t.
We’re now at not only the end of the month but the end of the year. How did we get here, it just seems like it was January 1st. But it’s time to link up with EmmyMom with her 10 Things to Smile about mem so here we go, in no particular order:
1. Our 2014 Christmas Tree. Baby Girl has already walked her walker over and started playing with her ornaments or the lights or the tree :). I hate to say it but I absolutely LOVE it!
Welcome to the final round of the Review Extravaganza! If you’re still wondering about the rules, check out this post, otherwise grab the button and let’s get to this thing now! 🙂
October 2014
I did the Blog Everyday in October so there should be something for everyone, right?
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Welcome to the third round of the Review Extravaganza! We’re quickly winding down on this year but you still have time to link up with the fun!! If you’re wondering about the rules, check out this post, otherwise grab the button and let’s get to this thing now! 🙂
July 2014
From the time I had baby girl on the 26th, I don’t really remember much… I’m so glad I have this blog and I forced myself to keep blogging so that I wouldn’t forget. Come the 3rd of July we went to our first Fourth of July celebration at Dive Club meeting. Again I vaguely remember everything but I’m soooo thankful for this blog and the fact that I forced myself to blog about it so I can remember. I was in such a sleep deprived phase for a while.
We had the worst luck this hay season, tractor broke down completely, borrowed a tractor and had 2 flat tires on it, the mower broke a few times, the baler caught on fire twice within 20 minutes, you name it, we probably had to deal with it. Hubby took 2 weeks vacation around the time baby girl was born to help out and spend time with his new baby and instead he spent that whole time in the hayfield dealing with these issues. I grew up on a farm and know things happen but at that time in my life I hated farm life, I blame the hormones. Toward the beginning of July we FINALLY got all the hay mowed and I was never so happy in my life. Like I said, I blame the hormones.
I made baby girls hand and feet prints in ornaments. I still need to finish painting the hands and I need to hang the ornaments on the tree still. I’m a slacker!
And then there was the night I came home from Lit Theory so upset and frustrated because the theory we were talking about wouldn’t let my head shut down. Don’t worry, it happened almost every Wednesday night for the whole semester. We learned New Criticism, Freudian, Marxist, Feminist, and many others.
I finally got my Birthday present and my Camera Bag. So the story on the birthday present is my husband ordered it, it got lost in transit and we had to turn a claim in on it and it finally arrived almost 2 months after my birthday!
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Welcome to the second round of the Review Extravaganza! If you’re wondering about the rules, check out this post, otherwise grab the button and let’s get to this thing now! 🙂
Pregnancy wasn’t always easy on me, but I was given one heck of a man to go through it with! Then I pondered where we’d be had we not gotten back in each others lives.
I changed my blog title from Life’s a Beach to Midwestern at Heart this month. It was a big step but I feel more at home under this name… I liked the other but when I wanted a .com, lifesabeach.com was a realtor in California.
We took a class trip to Oxford, MS to check out William Faulkner’s old stomping ground. I also left my pillows at Comfort Inn down there and it would have cost me $30 to ship them home :(.
The end of school stressed me out with the amount of work I had to finish at the end of the semester, but I did find time to participate in Tbug getting scuba certified and I made a Kentucky Derby Pie, hello YUM!
A story about “I don’t dance” and we’re not talking about me.
Mother’s Day 2014 and I got my Cherry Pie.. YUM! Actually I think I made it but maybe not, I can’t remember… maybe we should both go read this post?
Baby Squirrel got a party in her honor! (That would be baby girl in case you you were curious :)) She had the absolute best party thrown by 2 very close friends of ours!!
So I should mention that I ate a lot of Cheeseburgers right before baby girl was born. That was the only thing that sounded good.
We celebrated Father’s Day. Hubby actually got his present almost a month before Father’s Day because I had 2 different coolers picked out but wanted his final decision, plus I needed the truck to haul it and while I was at it I made him carry it too.
All that bad with the pregnancy didn’t matter as Baby girl finally made her appearance, right on her due date (by our calculations not the doctors. And we told the doctor my due date all along…)
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