Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas!! Hopefully everyone had a great holiday. This year we did something a little different. I had to work from 1215am-0615am. Not fun. I really didn't think I would have to work the whole thing, but I did. Luckily that kind of shift doesn't interfere with any Christmas plans, but it sure makes for a long tired day. Which you can tell from the pictures that I am in. We started Christmas morning with breakfast at our house with Josh's family and my parents. Oh, and a lovely picture of the 8 month belly in front of the tree:

(see, don't I look sleepy? I was)

Josh's sister Randee and nephew Riley

Josh's mom Kathy and sister Jessie

Me and my mommy!!

My beautiful Christmas tree

Josh, me, and the baby in the belly

Me and my dad

Later I headed over to my Aunts house for some more Christmas festivities (and presents) and then to my Grandmas. We ended our holiday for some good old N64 Mario Cart at Josh's sisters apartment. Yea for the holidays!!! Bring on New Years!!

fit for a princess

So the nursery is finally finished! I am really happy I changed my mind and redid some things. I love the way it turned out. Sorry there are lots of pictures, but you have to try and get the full experience.......

Sergeant really wanted to be in one picture. He doesn't like the nursery. He tries to get the stuffed animals in the crib and the one on the shelf. He is helpful.

These pictures are not in the order I wanted. Oh well

The plaid wall!! It turned out so cool. Lots of paint and time. Totally worth it!!

I can't decide if I like the plaid wall or the crib better. Okay, I love them both.

It is crazy that it is done. We have had the crib and the dresser for over a year (both were amazing deals I just couldn't pass up) and I had made the bedding while Josh was on his mission. (as previously posted, the quilt I made last week) So excited she will be here in just over a month!! We are ready!!

A Nursery Sneak Peek

We are getting so close to having the nursery finished it's crazy. I did however decide about a week ago to change several things, and Josh decided to paint a wall plaid. Yup, you read that right, plaid. It is starting to look awesome. I made a new quilt because the one I had based my original idea on just wasn't doing it for me. So, here is the new quilt......

Yup. All the pink, black, and white you can dream of. Talk about taking an idea and running with it. It is all coming together and I am loving it!! I just have the curtain, the plaid wall, and we have 20 yards of tulle we have to wrestle with. (seriously) This nursery is going to be insane. I am so excited!!

we have officially picked her name!!

Everybody keeps asking me if we know what we are going to name our little girl, so I figured I might as well post it since we knew what we were going to name her the day we found out we were having a girl. Ready for the big reveal?

yep! Payton Griffith it is! We have talked about that name long before we were even pregnant, so when we found out it was a girl, we knew we were going to name her Payton. We decided not to do a middle name because I never had one and didn't miss it. Whoo hoo!! Time is going by so fast. I have to finish some things in her nursery and then post pictures of that too!

i'm 22!!!

So last Monday was my birthday, and what a crazy day it was!! We didn't have any major plans, just some shopping and probably dinner. Well, Saturday night Josh was complaining that his stomach was hurting really bad. I figured he had just eaten too much or too little, and this was the source of the problem. He didn't get any better after taking some tums and then started throwing up and couldn't keep anything down. At about 9pm he decided the pain was not going to go away on its own, and he wanted to go to an insta-care. So a trip to insta-care and $40 later, all they had to tell us was to go to emergency because they thought it was appendicitis. About 3am Sunday morning, the ER doctor told us he had a blockage in his small intestine that could only be removed by surgery. He told me to go home and get some sleep, and I could pick Josh up at about 9am after he was in recovery. So this is exactly what I did. When I went back to the hospital in the morning (thinking we were both going home) they told me that there was some sort of bump or something on his intestine that they had to remove and the surgery was a lot more serious than they thought, so he was going to have to stay in the hospital for at least 2 or 3 days. WHAT???!!! it was crazy. So Josh was in the hospital, bored out of his mind for 3 days. He is doing much better now, and we ended up celebrating my birthday his weekend. I did however get to go to lunch and shopping with my mom on my actual birthday, so that was a lot of fun. Isn't life unpredictable?

I am a dork...and so is Josh

Halloween fun!!