Okay, okay......

Yes I know it's been a while since I've updated and I will do my best to start writing on here more often. I honesty forget about this blog sometimes, unless I am really really bored! :) As I am tonight! LOL! So anyway, lets see.....what's new with us.....well...we have some really exciting news to share!!! I am about 8 weeks PREGNANT!!!! :) Yah!!! I am due July 23rd. Today I had my first official OB check-up and everything is looking great! The baby looked really good and had a nice strong heartbeat of 163 BPM. Maybe that will mean it's a girl.....or boy? LOL! :) I'd really love to have a girl, but if God give us a boy that will be fine too. We are just glad to be pregnant with another little baby no matter what! :) Sorry for all the smileys but I am just so happy! Well sorry to cut this short, but I've gotta run for now....I will keep everyone updated with the baby!! Later!!

More Halloween Stuff

A few days before Halloween I sort of got into the season and decided me & Austin would bake some cookies and make some cupcakes too!! We had so much fun and I tell you that kid loves icing and cake batter just like his mama!!! LOL! :) It was so yummy!! Well I was also just in the best mood and so we also made some homemade playdoh too! Although it didn't turn out quite exactly like it should, it still worked! I did however finally find the right recipe from the teacher I used to work with. So now we need to make some more! I think I'll also try some edible playdoh next time too, just so I can taste it! LOL! :) My sister was telling me I should make some like Kate from Jon & Kate plus 8 did with peanut butter! I love me some peanut butter so that should be awesome!! Anyway I wanted to share these pics and hopefully this one video will work! Austin was soooo funny while we were baking!! Later!

Halloween

Okay so I know this is a little late, but oh well! :) Here are a few pictures of Austin aka "Batman" from Halloween! The child is a little obsessed with batman! And I do think he makes a cute one! Enjoy!

Check out his eyes!! They really stand out! :)

Soccer

Austin was able to play soccer this fall!! I was so excited, almost more than he was! They really are supposed to be 4, but they let Austin go ahead even though he is only 3 1/2. They ended up not having enough coaches and so they asked Derek to coach the team. Which that in itself is hiliarious because Derek knew NOTHING about soccer, other than you can't touch it with your hands! LOL! So funny! Anyway, we got my friend Jennifer's husband Jason to be the assistant coach so they could learn about soccer together! Jennifer's little girl Katelyn is playing on our team, as well as Mallory, our neice. It turned out we knew everyone on our team and it's really been a great little team! These soccer games are the funniest sport I've ever watched! It really has surprised me at how well these kids have done! Austin loves it, even though he's probably the slowest runner, and he just kind of runs around free-spirited, he really just has an awesome time! I mean isn't that what it's supposed to be about?? They don't really keep score at this age and they don't even have a goalie, but we like to kinda keep our own score and so far we were undefeated, until this past Thursday night....we lost by like 2 goals! :( Man! The kids had no idea of course but they did awesome and were so proud of themselves! And we are always proud of them too! We have only two games left, but this has been such an awesome experience for us as well as Austin! I can't wait until the Spring when it will be time for T-ball! That's gonna be fun too!! Gosh I'm so excited to be one of those ballpark moms!! LOL! Yeah I know that's cheesy, but oh well! I'm just proud! ha! Well here are a few pictures.....aren't they so cute!!!???!!!



















I will update tomorrow with pictures of Halloween!!
Later!

Our Trip to the Pumpkin Farm

Okay so last Saturday we went to Odum with the church to Poppell Farms. I really love going there, we always have so much fun! There is so much to do there and Austin really enjoyed it even more this year, since he's 3 1/2 years old! Gosh I can't believe my boy is that old now! Crazy how time flies! We first started out with the Corn Maize there! I can't imagine trying to go through that thing at night!! We cheated sooooo many times, just trying to get back out! LOL! The corn wasn't nearly as high as it was last year. It was only about waist high, last year it was over my head! Anyway as you can see Austin had a blast!!




Austin and Shaylee, who is Derek's cousin Alvin's daughter, held hands and ran all through the maize. I got some really cute pics of them!








Next we decided to do some of the activities like the petting zoo, duck races and this homemade slide!!! This thing was super fast and Austin hit his tail when he came flying out! It must not have hurt him too bad because he went back up it a couple of more times. Well some of the adults with us also went down it. Well Derek's cousin Alvin took Shaylee (who's only 16 months old!) up there and let her go down and then he decided to go down it too. Well as soon as he came out, he hit his tail and then stood up to walk off and PASSED OUT!! They thought he had like a seizure because when he passed out, his eyes rolled into the back of his head and his arms kind of drawed up. He also had hit the back of his head when he passed out! It was scary! He came right back too, but the ambulance was called and they checked him out and he ended up going on the Emergency Room to get checked out. Although not in the ambulance! He refused to ride in there! Anyway, the rest of us stayed at the farm while his wife took him....come to find out he broke his tailbone and passed out basically from the pain!!!! LOL! When all this happened, me, Derek and Austin were taking pictures together so we missed the actual fall, but quickly went over there when we saw Alvin laying on the ground. I so wanted to snap a picture of him laying there, but I wasn't sure how serious he was then or I would have! LOL! Because now it is funny and we are still ragging him!! That slide is dangerous though!!! Check it out!!!









Well while Alvin was at the ER we went on the hayride to the pumpkin patch. All of the kids had a really good time. And we did too! :) I was wore out by the time we left! We had a whole day of fun!! Here are some of my favorite pics from the day!

I am going to start doing better with these blogs and try to keep them updated with our everyday life!!! Until then.........

New Van!!

Well we finally got a new van!! :) Yippee! We got a 2008 Nissan Quest! I really love it! We had a 2004 Quest but were starting to get a good bit of miles on it and besides that, the thing was getting raggedy! It had gotten to be so noisy and rattled all the time! When I'd take it in to be checked, I was told that it was just normal vehicle noises!! Which was NOT true!! My sister-in-law has an 2004 Quest too and her van didn't rattle like that! But oh well, the thing is gone now!!! My new one is so quiet it's unbelievable! So I am pretty sure it was just my old van and not the vans themselves! We got a really good deal on the '08 because it was like a demo, and has about 9,000 miles and did have TONS of stickers all over it, but they did an awesome job cleaning it and buffing everything out! I was amazed! The bad thing is that it's white again! It's okay though, it looks really sharp because it's got chrome handles/roof rack etc. Our old Quest was a basic model, nothing extra. The new one has the dvd player with headphones and remote, back-up sensors, power everything, including driver's seat, both side doors and rear liftgate! I am so excited!! The only thing it doesn't really have is leather, which doesn't really bother me at all. I'm not a big fan of leather. So my cloth is just fine! It drives so smooth and is so quiet I really can't get over it! It looks sharp and I'm proud to have a new van! We were looking at getting a Tahoe, but I think we made the right decision! The van is just so much easier with kids! Plus we are leaving for Texas on Wednesday and we get to drive it out there! We're heading out there for mother-in-law's family reunion! I will post pictures of the van soon, hopefully this afternoon! :) So enough for now......

Later~

How dumb?

Okay so how dumb am I? Last night I completely forgot my pin number for my debit card!! I mean how many times have I used that stupid thing!! This is just ridiculous!! I have no clue as to what it was!!! The more I try to remember it, the worse it gets!! After 3 attempts to key in my pin number, your card automatically gets frozen for 48 hours!! However, I did call this morning and they took that off, but I have to go to the bank to fill out info to get a new pin!! That totally sucks! So in the mean time I am trying to rack my brain to maybe pull out the right pin number! This same exact thing actually happened to my sister Shannon about a year or so ago! And I thought it was the funniest thing ever! And now look at me!! LOL! I guess this really just proves that I am getting old!!! LOL! I still just can't believe that I can't remember it! I usually am so good with numbers, especially remembering them. I guess I got so programmed into just punching the numbers in that I can't remember it at all!!!! And I have no idea if I even saved the paper that my pin number came on, if I do have it, I don't know where either!!! Gosh I'm crazy!! Well hope that everyone has a great Friday! I know I am ready for the weekend! I need some R & R!!! In the mean time....I'll be trying to remember my pin number!! LOL!

My first blog...

Well this is my very first blog on here! I have been reading some really incredible blogs lately that have really inspired me to start my own! I don't know that my blog will be any good, or even compare to some of those, but hopefully it will! I have got to learn how to make mine really neat looking with cute little backgrounds and stuff, but the pre-made template will have to work for now. If anyone has any good tips, feel free to help me out!
Okay enough of the technical stuff!
For those who want to know about us, let see...I am 29 years old and I am married to my best friend Derek, who is 23 years old. We have been married for 4 1/2 years and we have one little boy so far, named Austin Steven Rowe who is 3 years old! He is our pride and joy! He is so smart and can actually be a little too smart at times! LOL! I am a stay-at-home-mom and I absolutely LOVE staying home and raising my child. Working mothers miss out on so much of their child's life and I feel so blessed to be able to stay home with my child. I am so grateful to my husband for working so hard so that I can stay home with Austin. We don't have any other children yet, but we are working on that! ;) We are praying that the Lord will bless us with another child soon!
I don't really know what else to add to this first blog, so I guess I will just end it. I have so many topics that I think will make great blogs, so I hope to be posting more very soon! Thanks for reading and stay tuned!