YAY!!

I finally got a new laptop!!! YAYAYAYAYAAAAY! Gone are the days of the missing "a", "f," and "c" Keys, the jiggly space bar, the mouse pad with the worn out tapper. This should make keeping up with the blog much much easier. If I can't keep up now, then there may be no hope at all :p

In recent news, winter seems to be on its way out for this year, praise Jesus. I have grown old and crotchety and snow sucks now. When you are a kid, it's neat and all. When you are an adult, its just a pain in the ass. Sure as I say this, a blizzard will hit tomorrow, but I really hope not, lol. I'm ready to wear tank tops again!!!!

Everett is now nine months old, and he has figured out how to crawl. He doesn't do it a lot yet, because he mastered the walker a long time ago, and still prefers to be upright instead of on all fours. My baby is so evolved. :) His main objective in life right now is to figure out how to walk without the walker. Any time that he is not eating or asleep, he is working towards this goal and it is with certain level of fear that I know he will achieve this goal probably sooner rather than later. He will be into EVERYTHING! In a way I want it to hurry up and happen for him, because I know he wants it so bad, but there is a smarter side of me that knows not to rush anything :) He is growing way to damn fast as it is.

It doesn't get much better than this.

This is my son. :) I like to say that, so let's do it again. This is my son :)

You guys out in the blogosphere haven't seen him since November of last year, when he was just a wee little fetus. He is now a super cute 4 month old :)

Becoming a mom is probably the most amazing thing that I will ever do in life. I could go on all day about how life changing it is, and how it goes by so fast, and how sometimes it seems to go really slow, and how stressful it is, and how you get these frequent moments of bliss and pure joy like nothing you have ever felt in your life, but the truth is, you will never get it until you become a parent yourself, and I need to get off of the computer and wash bottles....again. :)

This blog could use a name change

Maybe I should change the name of this blog to "Rachel's Excuses For Not Blogging Very Often. Seems fitting.

Today's excuse: I don't have one. I give up. You guys should know me by now. My follow through with this blog sucks. Sorry :p

So anywho, winter is over! Surely as I say that it will snow tomorrow. :p It's been a crappy winter. We were lucky in the fact that we never lost power for more than a few hours during the snow storms, and unlucky in the fact that our driveway seriously resembles a mud pit, lending us to be shut in for at least two days longer than everyone else. Well, everyone else but Steven. My God, I feel guilty complaining when I think about the torture he and Wayne have been through with that God forsaken driveway of theres. Point of the story? Snow really sucks. It's pretty, and thats all that its good for. No wonder Sarah Palin is a nut. The Alaskan snow is eating at her brain.

So the best part of the spring is no snow, and right below that is the flowers. It does my soul some good to watch the flowers sprout and bloom. The tulip tree in our yard bloomed this year. That never happens. It's marvelous. And the best part of the flowers, other than picking them, is taking pictures of them. Yep, you guessed it, I have Spring pictures to share. :) Enjoy :)

First true sign of Spring. Dirty hands!!

So pretty :)

Elena relaxing with Jango

Gratuitous belly pic

Little daffodils and big daffodils

Mi familia enjoying the pretty weather together. Makes me warm and fuzzy inside :)

Mom and Gina in the garden

Pretending she is a princess bride :)

Here is that Tulip Tree I mentioned :)

Matt and Elena are like tiny specks way out on the Green River Bridge.

Uncle Jim in his element

View of the farm from yonder side of the lake

Hello Darlin'. It's been a looooong time.

Hey guys. Sorry that I have totally let this blog go stale. If any of you have been paying attention, you know this happens from time to time. :p Allow me to do my best to try to catch up from where we left off.

I don't even remember when I last posted anything, and I am too lazy to go back and look. So if I haven't told you already, I'm pregnant!! Matt and I are expecting our first in May 2010 and I could not be more excited. I am 12 weeks along, so almost out of the first trimester. We will find out the sex of the baby sometime around Christmas.

I am already learning that pregnancy has its ups and downs. It's really great to have an excuse to eat like a cow and be lazy. If someone is moving, you don't even have to consider that they might ask you to help. Asking for seconds is the hip thing to do. Bitching is expected, so I will start with that now :) I've been tired almost to the point of being completely useless. I have had a little bit of morning sickness, but thank God that has been few and far between. I constantly feel like I might puke, but most of the time nothing happens. I am happy for that.

Matt has been beyond wonderful with this entire thing. He has kept the house spotless, taken care of the dogs, driven me to Sonic when I know he didn't want to. He is marvelous, despite his sometimes horrid choice of accessories.

So needless to say that is the biggest thing going on right now. Or the tiniest, depending on how you look at it ;) I have a lot of other stuff to say, but I thought I might as well get the major news out of the way first. Now I must simply continue to resist the urge to spend every dime I have on baby stuff. I have been assured that the day will soon arrive when that will no longer be optional :p

I think I'll keep him.

You just have to love a man who puts flowers on your desk before you wake up in the morning.
And he even grew them himself :)

I'm really enjoying your gardening endeavours, Matt. It makes the yard seem so much friendlier. I our little home, our little fur family, and I love you :-)

Happy Birthday Sis :)

Sis, I was gonna send this to you via email but I lost your address. Now everyone gets to see Ebony, and, Sis, you can just steal them from here :) Mikey will know how to do it if you don't already know.

Hope you enjoyed your birthday :)


Eating grass. Ebony's favorite thing to do to pass the time.


I don't think she really likes the flash that much. Or maybe
it was my obnoxious whistling?


Back to eating grass. :)

RiteAid wants the ladies to be more independant.

Earlier today I had to declare a household state of emergency when I realized that I was drinking THE LAST soda in the house. I am trying to quit smoking. If I am depriving my body of all these cigarette chemicals, I'll be damned if I am gonna torture myself by going without carbonated beverages. Screw that.

So I went to RiteAid, because it's close to the house and (warning: too much info starts here) they carry soda and something else that we are out of, KY.

I grabbed my 12 pack of Mountain Dew, and made my way back to the "family planning" section of the store. While looking at the gazillion personal lubricants that they have on the market these days, my eyes drifted a little too far, and I saw that they actually sell vibrators at RiteAid!!!

I'm not talking about a fingertip pleasure machine here. This thing was the real deal. Complete with a "natural contour design" and "discreet carrying pouch." It was manufactured by Durex, the same peeps that make the condoms. It was large. And to show that we have really stepped into a new era here, it was on the third shelf from the bottom, for all to reach, packaged in a bright purple and pink box, with a convenient "look at me!" flap that opened on the front of the box, so that you can take a look at the product.

Vibrator at RiteAid: $19.99
Temptation to buy it and see look on cashier's face: priceless.

I am not offended by this, but I am shocked as shit. I remember back when a woman's personal pleasure needs had to be taken care of via catalog or that sketchy store on Highway 25. It was great when Adam and Eve got and online store. Still, I never thought I would live to see that day when people were selling dildos less than 15 feet away from where my grandmother picks up her Lipitor.