Dear Exhaustion - Please GO AWAY!

Oh man am I exhausted after this weekend. I thought I was tired before, it's got nothin' on today! (Though, I am being productive..not sure how that's working!)

This weekend was slammed full of "stuff" - fun stuff, but "stuff" none-the-less.

Friday my in-laws got into town. We headed out to go see my hubby's job, and then out to dinner.

Saturday was INSANE! It was about 98* outside and the "feels like" (aka heat index) was at 113* for a good majority of the day, but our crazy selves decided that grilling out and heading down to Busch Gardens was a fabulous idea! I don't think I've ever sweat so much in my LIFE! We did have a blast though and the kiddo was FABULOUS! We enjoyed playing for the first hour or so that we were there, then headed over to dinner with Elmo (pictures to come later, my camera died so I've gotta get em from the in-laws) and friends. It was SUCH a great time, even the parents had fun! Judy got to meet Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Bert & Ernie, and we even saw Oscar the Grouch poking his head outta his trash can a few times! I was incredibly impressed with how Judy handled meeting the over sized characters, she didn't handle Santa too well this past Christmas so I was wicked concerned going into it... but she blew me away, as usual! :) After dinner we headed out to go find more rides to ride and things to do until the fireworks at 9:30 that evening. The hubby and I got to jump our butts on a few roller coasters (which was a TON of fun, but scary in a way I'd never experienced... walking away from your kiddo to get on a roller coaster is a different kind of fear, that's for sure!) and got to act like big kids while playing a couple of games around the park. Overall, it was a very fun and successful day all around!

Yesterday (Sunday) we were up first thing to head out to church with the in-laws. After that we came home for lunch and to let Judy nap, hubby and I both ended up passing out - we were just too exhausted to stay awake while she napped! Once we all got up we then headed over to a waterpark near our house called Ocean Breeze Waterpark. Judy is SUCH a water baby so she, of course, had a ton of fun! Once again the hubby and I left her with Grandma and PawPaw to head over to ride a few rides, it was fun but being parents we wanted to be with Judy and enjoy our time with her! :D She had a blast splashing around in the water and going down all the little slides (mommy almost knocked a few kids out who were trying to push her out of the way and run her over, but luckily they saw me and kinda ran for the hills before they hurt her!).

One very packed weekend, but it was tons of fun. It was hard to see my in-laws go (shocking, right?! ;) hahaha) but I can already tell it's going to get harder and harder to say good bye to family as Judy gets older. We walked them out to the car and as we waved good bye Judy just kept saying "Where's PawPaw? Where he go?" It's heart wrenching, really! :(

Now, it's Monday and we're back to the grind. Hubby is at work and Judy's napping. I'm doing laundry and dishes and all those fun things a mommy does. Tonight I've got to get some work done (I LOVE working from home!!!).... Oh Mondays - I loathe you!!

Sleeeeeeeeep!

How is it as an adult a person can need a ton of sleep, then said adult has a child and sleep doesn't exist - but that's okay! (????) I have always needed more sleep than "average", I've always been one of those people who needs the "8 hours of sleep every night" .. blahhhh! Since having a child, and working from home especially, sleep seems to be elusive and 8 hours a night just does NOT exist for me... but yet, I run FINE on it (most days HAHA). 4 .. 6 .. some nights even less and yet here I am functioning and working and cleaning and getting things done and running errands and all this and that and still, if I try to go to sleep before 10pm it's like trying to do a headstand from standing up (dang near impossible - COMPLETELY impossible for me!!!) and it never happens.

Strange how our bodies work when it comes to caring for our offspring, huh?

WOW! Where has the month gone?!

Okay - so I know that I haven't written in like, a MONTH, but life has seriously been INSANE! I think today is the first day I've been able to sit down and not feel like I've gotta get on the computer and get my stuff done just to get on the move again!

Let's see: We went to visit my BIL and his wife and new (9 week old) baby a couple weekends ago. I've been working my butt off. I got to photograph a friend of mine whose husband returned from deployment. More work. Cleaning. Oh yeah, a week ago (tomorrow) our stove/oven died so we've been grilling and eating out which is starting to get tough and a little boring... and mighty expensive!!

Hmmmm.. Judy's getting HUGE! She's learning how to associate animals with their sounds (cat = meow, dog = woof) she also knows what an Elephant is (not sure where that came from but she knows it!! She's mastering her body parts (eyes, ears, nose, mouth, belly button, feet, etc) and LOVES to point them out to mommy and daddy :)

We started going back to church as a family last week, it is interesting for me.. I come from a more Catholic background where hubby comes from a Christian background. Picking a church that we're both happy with has been interesting, and more tough for me to adjust to than him seeing as he grew up in the Non-Denominational Church.. Even though hubby had to work today Judy and I still went. (I'm really trying to put in the little bit of added effort...) It's definitely an interesting experience but one that I think I'll adjust to in time :)

Anyways, it's lunch time for me and nap time for the kiddo so I'm gonna head out.. but I PROMISE I'll write more sooner than a month from now! :D