Restless, Nesting, Ready To GOOOO!

Y'all for real, I am so restless.

I want to like run a marathon, or go to Europe, or climb a mountain or do anything but dishes and laundry and dishes and laundry! ha!

It's got to be a combination of the gorgeous weather and the fact that I'm just waiting around on Hadley to make an appearance. I guess part of me knows that once she is here, the chapter of "child bearing" years will be over for us. I will mentally be able to start working more on getting my self back together, ummm losing weight #1. Finding an outlet/hobby #2.

Every day I have these grandiose ideas of cooking crazy things, wanting to start some project on the house, clean out the attic, whatever is ridiculous, I think about it and want to do it..

 
CRAZY Pregnant hormones!

So on a whim and a very impulsive night. I ordered these Veronica Slouch Frye Boots from Zappos, on a Friday night and they were on my porch Monday morning. I have to say I have never, ever spent this much on boots, but I am so glad I did. These are seriously some of the most beautiful hand crafted boots I have ever seen. I know I will wear them forever. No buyer's remorse here! Early Christmas present from Hadley to me. :)

 Am I the only one who thinks about Paris everyday? 

This may seem contradictory since I just posted about splurging on a pair of boots, but I swear it's not. I am so, so grateful for where God has me and my family right now. My cup is overflowing with blessings. My husband is the LOVE of my life, my best friend. My home is my favorite soft place to fall and my kids keep my heart beating. That TRULY is all I need. The boots just add to the fun of having to wear shoes. * 

My Boy. My True Love, Jesse. Makes my heart skip! 

Filet that I cooked the other night. If I had cooked 4 I would have eaten them all. For realz. 

My fake, fat, pregnant girl ring I got for 40 bucks to wear since my wedding bands don't fit! ha FUN! 

Hadley Carrie Ladd

Here SHE is!!!!!! It's a girl!!!! talk about a shocking and exciting day! We were all so convinced it was a boy.

I've gotten over the shock and am super excited about having another girl to raise.

A little background on her name: I take naming children VERY seriously. One of the most stressful parts of pregnancy to me. I want my children's names to be unique, but not weird, full of heritage, but not old fashion, Their initials have to fall in place nicely, no ASS or BOB for initials...haha. No names starting with the same letters. I wanted each child to have their own letter. Picky I know but that's just me.

HADLEY- is a name I have always been fond of. It was always southern sounding but not heard a ton. Then I took a class on Hemingway in college and learned that his first wife's name was Hadley. It is believed that he never really got over her and that she was his one true love for the rest of his tortured life. I LOVE Hemingway, I know people either love or hate him.....Anyway in the early stages of my pregnancy I read The Paris Wife. A historical fiction about the early years of Hemingway and Hadley's marriage. I fell in love with the name again and decided "if" the baby was a girl, Hadley would be her name.

Just recently Benji's maternal Grandmother, Maw Maw passed away. Benji spend many, many days at his grandparents house and was very close to both. Wallace, his grandfather taught him to hunt, he passed away when Benji was a teenager. Jesse's middle name comes from him. 

Anyway back to Hadley, when I found out what his Maw Maw's middle name was, Carrie, I was set! It was the perfect middle name for our next daughter, if indeed we were having a daughter. 

On October 2nd. We found out that in fact there would be no Rocco coming in February but HADLEY CARRIE LADD will join our family! 

Saturday, The Best/Worst Day Ever

 One of Benji's former youth plays in the band for USC. His parents have season tickets and had 2 extra that they so graciously gave us for the UGA vs USC game! It happened to be one of the biggest college games of the season as both UGA and USC were undefeated. ESPN Game Day broadcasted live that morning from the USC campus.

Benji's birthday is today, Monday, so we sent the kids to Georgia and spent Saturday in Columbia, SC.

Obviously, we lost, BIG TIME. :( But we had a great time with some great people from our church. They for realz tailgate in style! We ate lunch at Groucho's Deli, went back to our friends massive motor coach (I'm not even really sure what you call those) but it was air conditioned, had a bathroom and a couch for me to nap on. We watched other football games on T.V. then our friends shuttled us all over to the stadium. Where we experienced the loudest, craziest, game ever.....and watched Georgia get their rear ends handed to them.

We drowned our sorrows in hot coffee and hash browns at the Waffle House (at about 2am) on the way home.  The next morning my body rebelled against our long day and reminded me that I am indeed 34 and 6 months pregnant.

We had a Blast, even though we lost! This week was a long one! Jesse got tubes put in at the beginning of the week. Tuesday we found out the sex of our baby. Sunday thru Wednesday Benji had staff retreat about an hour away so he drove back and forth for Jesse's surgery and my OB appointment. 

Crazy week! but I'm getting used to our life being ridiculously busy.