Hadley Carrie Ladd: Official Debut

       I can not even stand the cuteness. I have the BEST friends ever, with so much talent. If you're on Facebook go and Like Elizabeth Allison Photography. Especially if you live in our area, I promise she is the best around. She does amazing family and child portraits/senior pictures, etc. Thank you LIZ!!!

9 Days! Brain in Overdrive

Thankfully I have amazing friends and family and they have all set me up with the last minute things I need for Hadley. My GNO girls gave me a super fun diaper shower and I got a ton of wipes and diapers. SOOOO thankful for them and the love that we all have for each other. I seriously prayed for decades for a group of friends like this one. most of them have 3 kids too, So we can all be crazy together. :)

 This weekend we headed to Gainesville to celebrate Asher's FOURTH birthday party. For real y'all, my sister throws the best parties. This year it was a circus theme. SO FUN. Emery and Jesse had a blast and I enjoyed all the circus food a little too much.

Jesse has his 2nd birthday coming up on the 23rd. I have GOT to get prepared for that before Hadley comes and I've also got to get Emery's valentines ready for her class, since I will be in the hospital still on Valentines day. I really am so excited about having another squishy baby in the house. The only anxiety I really have is that she comes out healthy, no issues and gets to come home with us on time.

I constantly feel so undeserving off all the good things I have in my life. I can't believe God is allowing us to raise yet another one of his children. On top of all that I get to parent with the BEST husband on the planet. I seriously mean that. I try not to over emphasis all he does all the time because I realize not everyone has that. But he does more than I ever deserve. I'm trying to rest and relax these next nine days before major surgery and a new baby!

Real Fast Like

I'm beat. Yesterday was the busiest day ever.

But FUNNN!

I hosted the annual GNO: Halloween party. It was a blast. I love my girls and every year our costumes are so hilarious! I started to panic though...say around Sunday that maybe I shouldn't have volunteered. It's the first big thing I've hosted since Jesse was born. (except for Emery's birthday, but that was kinda different).

It was a blast like it always is.

But I am ready for da weekend!

First Day of K3!!!

Emery started her first day of K3 today! I'm not sure who was more excited me or her.

Right now Jesse is napping and I am actually blogging...BEFORE 12 am!!!

I just spent a long weekend with friends at the beach. Such a great time! We slept, ate, laid on the beach and talked and laughed a ton. The beach, good food and good friends are all a balm to my weary soul. Just what I needed after the last 2 weeks I've had.

Benji also got to attend the first game of the season for UGA. They didn't win, boo, but he had a great time and I'm so so glad he got to go.

Things are looking up finally in the Ladd home.

Jesse in his Georgia jersey.



The girls!




We did alot of this..


We ate alot like this!


We did alot of this as well.

Just A Little Bit

I had all the intentions of blogging alot tonight.

We had a great day but I am beat.

Emery had what I thought was a bladder infection. It wasn't, just some chaffing and irritated skin due to summer time heat, swimming you know.

Anyway they needed a urine sample. So I held my stubborn 2 year old over the toilet at the Dr's office for an H.O.U.R.

I really thought they may have to cath her to get a sample. Finally I promised her enough bribes that she let out just enough drops to get a culture.

She didn't have one.

Definitely the worst Dr's appointment experience I've had so far.

Except for the day I had to take Jesse at 6 weeks and they sent me straight to the hospital.

So. I'm tired.

I leave you with two pictures I think are great.

One from Benji's Brazil trip.

One from my GNO last night....SOOO FUNNN!

Hopefully next week during vacation I will have time to blog away.

P.S. Jesse slept from 830 to 530 last night.

Jesse's First Shower

Had my first shower last night with my GNO friends.

As usual we had a blast, talked non stop, ate a ton of food and I got to be showered with gifts!

I had a really hard day yesterday, so coming together with friends who lend an ear without being judgemental was just what I needed to restore my soul.

I thank God for these girls and can't wait for them to meet Jesse.

Red Bowl Tacky Sweater Invasion

I saved my last Phenergan for Tuesday night and I'm sure glad I did!

My friends and I had our annual Christmas GNO. This year instead of a pajama party we headed out for sushi in our tackiest sweaters.....Well, THEY all had sweaters but me. I could not find one that, 1. would fit, 2. wasn't 15 bucks (even at thrift stores) and 3. I have a pregnancy induced fear of being too hot. I think it must come with the nausea.

Any way, so I was the party pooper this time and wore a t-shirt...BUT I put on my festive Santa hat.

There's no pictures of our time at dinner because we inhaled our food.

Red Bowl Asian Bistro is sooo good. It was PACKED on a Tuesday night. Not everyone in our group eats sushi so this place was great because they have a ton of menu items. I think my sushi was gone in five minutes. I totally would have ordered more but I was splitting my check with another girl and we were heading to one friends house to indulge in desserts and gift exchange next!

You should have seen the looks we got as 15 girls in THESE sweaters headed into the chic Asian bistro! Hilarious.



Waiting in anticipation as the gift exchange begins. There's me in the background in my party pooper T-shirt still dreaming of more sushi.



Amy had the BEST sweater! It was like Easter and Christmas all in one. Individual snow flakes covered the neck, the sleeves and the back. Amazing!

GNO Thanksgiving 10

This week we had our 2nd annual GNO Thanksgiving feast.

I love these girls. I say it all the time. But I am so so thankful that I have them.

We had a blast, Amanda's house was beautiful, and we ate like royalty!

I even had to rest on the couch for a few minutes after dinner. Baby Jesse wasn't making enough room for the two plates of food I had.

Our Christmas GNO is coming up soon and I can't wait.

24 Weeks

Well we already take less pictures of the 2nd kid and he's not even out of the womb yet.

Honestly it's mainly because I'm fatter this go round so it's taken longer for me to really look pregnant, even though I'm bigger this time. And my camera memory card is full so we've resorted to using Benji's phone. It is SOOO convenient to be able to upload pics instantly off of his phone.

Any way, it's late, and I just got home from our GNO Thanksgiving dinner, we had a blast as usual. Hopefully by tomorrow there will be some pics to steal off of facebook so I'll have some to share.

Oh yeah! haha that is why there's whipped cream on the counter in the picture. :)

I was about to walk out the door for GNO and was taking it for my dessert dish.

Halloween GNO 2010

I am super worn out tonight! I know, I know nothing new. We had a great but busy weekend. We had our family/Emery's 2year pictures taken this Saturday. Sunday after our normal church routine we went to Stewart Farms with Benji's small group leaders. It was so fun. We picked pumpkins, had BBQ, took a hay ride and walked a corn maze.

Tuesday was my monthly GNO. Our annual Halloween night. We ate out, IN our costumes then went back to Ange's house, had dessert and carved our pumpkins. GNO is a balm to my soul. I am so blessed to have these girls in my life.

In baby news, I realized I had not started taking belly shots yet. I felt like last night was the perfect time to start the series! Haha! I'm getting super excited about Jesse's arrival. I'm getting baby fever and can't wait to feel him in my arms.

Girls Labor Day Weekend

This weekend my sister and I headed to the beach with some of my friends from church.

We shopped. We ate. We slept late, laughed a lot, lounged on the beach, read trashy magazines and had a BLAST!

The plans are already being made for our Labor day trip next year, only difference is we will be adding an extra day. :)

Something Unpredictable

So....

If you know me.

You know that I have always said.....

I only run if I am being chased.

So this is a stretch for me.

I ran my first 5K.

Yes. 5K. Which amounts to about 3.1 miles. It was fun.

And I am planning on doing it again.

Charlotte

Girls weekend 2010 was awesome!

We went to Charlotte, N.C.

We stayed at the Omni Hotel which was AMAZING! And we got it for a great price. I totally want to go back to this city with Benji.

We found out after we had planned our weekend that The Pioneer Woman was going to be in Charlotte for her book tour the same weekend.

So we shopped until we were ready to drop at the crazy awesome mall in Charlotte and then we waited to see the legend herself!

~This is me, Jocie, Carla and the PDub...Ange our other girl on the girls weekend wasn't as obsessed with PDub so she went to get the car! haha.~

My Sissy's BFF, Dana,(my dear friend as well) and my friend from highschool Kimmy were also there to see her. It was such a fun time.

Great girls weekend away. I think we are planning on hitting Asheville next year.

It's That Time Again

Last year we went to Atlanta.

This year Charlotte.

Annual tradition? I hope so.

Girls weekend awaits! Just two more days...I think I can make it.

GNO Christmas

I know you've all been waiting for GNO pictures from December.

Well here we are, in all our pajama glory. We decorated ornaments with adorable stencils from this website, uppercaseliving.....

Then we all exchanged ten dollar gifts in a white elephant swap.

And of course we ate way to much! I love these girls...it is truly the highlight of my month.

GNO Turkey Style

Our monthly Girls Night Out group got together this month for a Thanksgiving meal..... Have I mentioned how much I love this time? Every month I look forward to our night together.


Our host, Carla, is a graphic designer and wife to Matt, who took Emery's one year photos... Two artist in one family means her house is super cute!






I have to give props to Amanda and Carla for these pics! I was too busy stuffing my face and talking to get my camera out. :)