Pregnancy Update: 36 weeks

Lily weighs a little more than 6lbs! She is now full-term and welcome to come whenever she chooses!

I am actually in my 37th week! We take the picture at the end of each week, so this picture was from last week. It's complicated, I know! ha.

Yesterday was just a blah kind of day. I don't know if it was the yucky rainy weather, or what, but I'm feeling much better today! I'm planning to finish our Christmas shopping and get all the presents wrapped today. I will feel much more prepared once that's done!

I asked prayer for Jacob's Nanny recently, and I just wanted to give a little update on her. The last few weeks she has been gradually declining; some days better, some days worse. She's been at home the entire time with her three precious daughters taking care of her around the clock. I just found out that Nanny has been unresponsive since yesterday morning. Please pray that God would give His special grace and peace to each family member during this time.

Whiter Than Snow

On Saturday morning we woke up to a beautiful dusting of snow! Snow in Alabama is quite a rarity, so we all get excited when we have some...even if it's just an inch! I enjoyed experimenting with our new camera to get some pictures. All while I was taking pictures, I was thinking of this song.

Whiter than snow,

Yes, whiter than snow;

Now wash me, 

And I shall be whiter than snow.

The puppies seemed to like the snow too, but Roo just wanted to come inside and get warm. Ha!

Have a beautiful day!

Not Me! Monday

Just a few incidents (or rather accidents) that have not happened to me lately:

I did not buy 2 packages of almond bark, completely thinking that they were white candy coating, only to get home and realize that they were both chocolate flavored and colored almond bark! Nope, not me! I always pay attention to what I pick up at the grocery store. ha!

When feeding these darling little puppies each morning, they are not so feisty that we have to bring one inside to eat and feed the other one outside so they don't fight over the food. No, we have very well behaved puppies!
Oh, and the other day, the inside-eating puppy did not get so excited about eating that he was jumping around (instead of eating) and his tail most certainly did not slap against his bowl and send little round balls of puppy food all over my entire kitchen, into the living room, and under the washer and dryer. No, no, no, that would never happen at our house!

As I was planning what to have for dinner one afternoon last week, I realized that we were out of shredded cheddar cheese to sprinkle on our chili. So I stuck a block of cheddar in the freezer to harden a little so it would be easier to grate (that really works, btw!).
Well, the time rolls around for me to get supper on the table, but oh no! where in the world did the cheese go??!!! I definitely did not search the refrigerator 3 times and the garbage can twice for the block of cheese before I found it sitting nicely in the freezer right where I'd put it several hours earlier. Absolutely not! I would never ever be so forgetful! And I would also never post such an embarrassing happening on facebook or my blog. Nope, not me!

Head over to MckMama's for more Not Me! Monday laughs!

Hope ya'll have a great day!!

My Wonderful Mom!

I just want to point out one reason why my Mom is so amazing! Of course there are many reasons, but she was just such a blessing to me yesterday and I want to share about it.

You see all these piles of clothes?! There were actually more piles but I couldn't get them in the picture. These are clothes that friends and family members have let us use for Lily! It's amazing, yet overwhelming at the same time. I finally got all of them washed, dried, and neatly piled so they wouldn't get too wrinkled. It was about 10-11 full washer loads of clothes, in case you were wondering!

Well, yesterday my dear Mom offered to come over and help me fold and sort by size all these clothes!

Believe it or not, it only took us about 1 hour to get it all done! Many hands make light work, I suppose. Such an overwhelmingly huge job (or so it seemed to me) was so easy with my Mom there helping.

Now the nursery looks like this...all the sizes in piles. I just have to fill the dresser drawers and totes now! It's such a relief to have this job nearly done. Thank you so much Mom for your help!! I love you.

By the way, Lily has plenty of clothes...from size preemie to size 4T!! Such a blessing!

Freezer Cooking

I participated again this month in Money Saving Mom and FishMama's freezer cooking/baking days yesterday and today. Here's what I got done:

• Chicken Alfredo (2 meals)
• Unstuffed Peppers (2 meals)
• Chicken Enchiladas (1 meal)
• Pumpkin Cranberry Walnut muffins (1 dozen)
• Pre-seasoned, ready to grill chicken (2 meals)
• Cinnamon Rolls for Christmas breakfast at my parents. Now I don't have to worry about them if the baby comes before Christmas!
• Chocolate dipped pretzels in the cute little bag at the front of the picture. I have to make 60 of these bags in the next few days for Jacob's students and three youth orchestras. It's pretty time consuming, but I got about 15 bags done so far. 

I'm happy with all I got done...even though it's not that much. It's a good feeling to have more meals stocked in our after-baby-stash!

Oh, you should totally go over and check out how much my sister accomplished. I'm convinced she has superpowers! haha!

Pregnancy Update: 35 weeks

Lily weighs about 5ish pounds.

The Uppercase Living saying above the crib is my favorite part of the nursery!

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Thanksgiving Weekend

I kind of took an unintentional blogging break over Thanksgiving because we were so so busy! I am so behind on reading everyone's blogs, but hopefully I'll get caught up in the next few days!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and I hope ya'll did too! It was wonderful to spend time with family and friends. This year I've come to realize even more how fragile life is and how much we need to take advantage of the time we have with our loved ones.

Ok, so on to our Thanksgiving weekend festivities...

On Thursday morning, Jacob and I headed out to my parent's farm (only about 10 minutes from our house). I helped Mom with some cooking and Jacob, my brothers and brother-in-law, and several other guys from church went to the back of the farm to shoot skeets.

Jacob was excited, that's all. Ha!

The barn my Granddaddy built...I have so many childhood memories on this farm!

My parent's Great Pyrenees puppy.

We ate Thanksgiving dinner at our church fellowship hall. There was so much yummy food!

I'm so glad my 94 year old Memaw was able to be with us!

After dinner, we all headed back to the farm. My sister and I had a little photo shoot.

Love her!

Then we took pictures of each other's families.

Jacob, me and Lily Grace

I love this picture!

After our photo shoot, Jacob and I headed home to prepare food to take to his family's Thanksgiving supper. We ate at Nanny & Papaw's house so everyone could be together (some eating and some sitting at Nanny's bedside). It was a special time. Before the meal Papaw read some Bible verses on giving thanks, then he prayed the most precious prayer. He is at peace with Nanny going to Heaven, and he prayed that the Lord would give that special peace to each family member.

On Friday we got up really early so Jacob could smoke my sister & brother-in-law's turkey and so we could keep our sweet nephew so his mommy and daddy could go Black Friday shopping!

He was so happy even early in the morning!

Jacob and I cleaned our house, and believe me, that took all morning! The Alabama/Auburn football game came on at 1:30pm and we had invited bunches of people over to watch it...but our house was a disaster. Thankfully we got it all cleaned by 12:30ish! ha. Oh, and it's still clean (amazingly!) so ya'll are welcome to stop by for a visit anytime!!

There were about 20 guys packed in this room watching the game! It was quite intense!

After the game, Myra and I headed to our favorite store...Hobby Lobby to get stuff to make Christmas wreaths. It was so fun! When you get the two of us together, you never know what will happen!

On Friday night Jacob's siblings and my three brothers came over to watch UP. It's such a sweet movie and I think everyone enjoyed it.

Well, that's our Thanksgiving weekend wrap-up! It was busy but so fun, with lots of memory making! I am so thankful for my Heavenly Father, my husband, my family and my friends (that includes all of ya'll wonderful bloggy friends!)