jet setting

 This week has been the longest week of my life!!! We find out the sex of the babe on Friday and I'm dying here! Friday cannot come soon enough if you ask me.

In random news it was my sweet Gma's 91st bday yesterday. Happy Birthday Grandma, we love you sooo much! I called her and we chatted about the baby mostly. She wants me to have a girl too.

The rest of this is a catch up post. Ready, set, go...

Because I am a great wife I took off for Maui for 2 weeks and left my sweet husband and our walrus to fend for themselves. I  soaked up lots of rays and ate anything that I felt like eating. I also told my Maui fam about the baby! They were ecstatic to say the least. The baby is already a Maui bum, I can tell.

 Next was NYC...

How have I gone my entire 25 and three quarter years without being to NYC?!?! It was a masterpiece. The entire trip was a dream and I didn't want to come home. We went w/A's family and they were sweet enough to do all of the touristy things with me. Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, 9/11 memorial, Wall Street, Central Park, Times Square, Broadway shows, museums, take me back, I beg you! 

A and I arrived at our Times Square hotel and I immediately nailed a biker with the taxi door. If that doesn't make you feel like a small town chicken I don't know what will. Don't worry the biker wasn't injured. The driver even said in his Indian accent, "It wasn't a bad hit." which I hopefully interpreted as, "Don't feel too much like a fool, that happens a lot to you small town folk." 

Now let's talk about the food for 2 seconds. It was AMAZING.INCREDIBLE.OUTOFTHISWORLD.DECADENT.RICH.

FABULOUS.FRESH.EVERYTHINGI'VEEVERDREAMEDOF.

food. And it was at every restaurant we went to. We didn't have one bad meal.

Excuse me while I clean up my drool.

Oh and remember how A and I showed up at the airport sans camera. This was our conversation...

"Hey did you grab a camera?"

"No. I didn't really think about it. Did you?"

"Nope."

"Oops, oh well."

Luckily Abby brought one but we made do with our phones for the most part. So there will probably be better NYC photos to come but these will do for now.

Part of the food chain

When I was in elementary school about once a month the entire student body of Scera Park Elementary would gather in the lunchroom/gym and sing. One of our songs was a stirring little number about ecology. I loved this one because well, it was a rap. Even back then I had a little swag in me. I taught this rap to my dear husband and every once in a while we'll bust it out. It was busted out on the way to church yesterday. I hope our kids have sing-in's. You Scera Park people know what I'm talking about...anyone else?

oh Scera Park, you were good to me

to hear a sample of my first encounter with rap music go here 

(there's a button that says "play all samples" towards the bottom)

On a different note, I have found the best face cleanser and cream ever!!! I do not normally endorse products on here or anywhere really because like my opinion matters anyway but I found this stuff and I want to shout it from the rooftops! After 10+ years of dermatologists and expensive creams that were supposed to make my face glow to no avail and after being told for years that I have oily to acne prone skin, after harsh chemicals to herbal remedies, all I need to do was walk into Sephora, tell the saleslady a little bit about my skin and voila! She sold me this and my skin is magically better. Not perfect, but so much better. Apparently I have very sensitive skin so I need something very sensitive (imagine that). The line is called First Aid Beauty and there are no fillers or parabens or any of that stuff. And for $18 each, what isn't there to love?

              

     

websites for: face cleanser & face cream

I bought the little travel pack first to see if it would work at all and it came with the lip repair and shaving cream too but I don't think that there is anything special about either of those. Needless to say I am a happy camper and returned about $200 in face creams to Nordstrom.


here's another song we'd sing at our sing-in's during Halloween time. Whitney knows this one really well.

it's a...

WE DON'T KNOW!!! 

The babe was being slightly uncooperative at the doctor's office today. We have to wait until March 30th to do the 3D ultrasound to find out the gender. It's okay, I won't explode with anticipation or anything.

But the experience was amazing. I've never felt anything quite like it. I couldn't stop smiling and staring at the monitor. I don't think I heard a word the doctor said until he turned the screen off. We wanted to know the gender and could have if our little one wasn't so modest and kept those little legs together. He/she was moving around quite a bit but the umbilical cord was in the way at the most crucial moment. 

It just wasn't meant to be.

baby Webb

Yes my peeps, I am pregnant! I think most of you know it already and are probably already sick of me constantly talking about it but I'm kind of excited. I go to the doc's office next week and hopefully get to find out the gender. I really want a girl (is that so bad to say?) but I did see a little boy playing on the beach the other day and it made me want a boy. Obviously I'm just excited for whatever but right now I am slightly partial. 

either way they will be blonde haired, blue eyed little rascals. I mean seriously, how cute!!!

p.s. these are not photos of A and myself, we weren't nearly that cute.

I am 15 weeks and as of now due on my birthday (August 22). Happy birthday to me! I've had a pretty easy go at it so far. Little nausea, little fatigue, very little patience, aversion to eggs and an increase of saltine crackers into my diet. But don't get too jealous because there has been a whole lot of pregnancy crazy going on at the Webb household. I feel like I'm 13 again and between the acne and the mood swings I can't tell you which way is up. Someone needs to help my poor husband. On the way home from church a few weeks ago I started crying over nothing and didn't stop. The tears, the ugly cry face, the snot, the HORROR! It was bad. Now imagine that just about every other day and you will be inclined to nominate my husband for sainthood. Oh how I love that man.

I'm excited. A is excited. The fams are excited. We are also moving in 8 weeks and can't be more excited to be around our families when this all goes down. We're going to be living at the ranch for the summer and I keep telling A that he's going to find me everyday naked (well, not naked...probably), belly up, floating in the pond. 

this will be me. just imagine a lot of moss, swans, fish and probably a muskrat or two.

Who wants to go for a dip?

our boy

If you don't know, we have an English Bulldog, his name is Kipling. He is 60 lbs of pure sweetness and sometimes spurts of crazy. For example, he is scared of our kitchen. He's always a little trepidatious when entering or exiting the kitchen. While sitting at the dining table tonight I heard a little scrambling in the kitchen and found the boy desperately trying to get out of the tile dungeon. After a few moments I grabbed my phone and caught the last few seconds of Kipling's close encounter with the kitchen. I love how he had to back out just to be sure that nothing was going to get him.

I am totally one of "those" dog owners. Everything he does is hysterical to me. Next thing you know I'm going to be wearing this 

and decorating my home with lamps like this

(but I'm not paying $149.95 if the shade isn't included)

I get it, I totally need help. But before I do I am going to order one of these for each of you for Christmas, I think you're going to L-O-V-E it!!!

so long yakkity yak

We have sold the yak (and when I say we, I mean Andrew. I had about 0% to do with the whole thing) all but 50 yak have been shipped out to far reaches of the country and they should (cross your fingers) be out by the end of the week. A very short lived and interesting adventure has come to an end. This summer will be a whole lot of poop clean up at the ranch, get ready for an exciting post about that in mid May.

bye guys, have fun! write me!

Remember last Christmas when we got the yak? you can go here to refresh your memory.

Just to mix it up a bit I'm following Tia from Pretty Little Word Vomit's example and filling out this little survey. You can go here to see her answers. You should fill it out too, just for fun.

A. Age:  25

B. Bed Size: King, king, king. Never going back to anything else 

C.  Chore That You Hate:  Anything to do with the bathroom. And then there's the laundry...oh I loathe laundry

D. Dogs: Sir Kipling Ludlow Esquire, the most regal English Bulldog in the whole world

F.  Favorite Color:  blue, any shade. it's glorious

E.  Essential Start To Your Day:  Life cereal, I'm 5 years old

G.  Gold or Silver: wow, you can never make me choose

H.  Height: short

I.  Instruments You Play:  I can play (not very well mind you) exactly 3 songs on the piano, one being "Tale as old as time" from Beauty and the Beast, and 2 songs on the guitar.

J. Job Title: Salesperson at Nords for exactly one and a half more weeks, HIP HIP HOORAY!!!

K. Kids: a 60 pound wrinkle face who has really bad gas

L.  Live: in the Clevey-Stevey

M.  Mother's Name: Victoria Lynn, so graceful 

N. Nickname: Styles-given to me by my sweetie while we were dating because of his fascination with Teen Wolf and/or he thought my clothes were cute

O. Overnight Hospital Stays: no no no

P.  Pet Peeves: girls who come into my work 15 minutes before we close and want to try on every sparkly dress we have, just for fun. open mouth chewers. bad drivers. rude people.

Q.  Quote From A Movie:  "Chancho. When you are a man, sometimes you wear stretchy pants in your room. Just for fun." Nacho Libre

R.  Right or Left Handed: Righty

S.  Siblings: 2 brothers, one older and one younger. 

T.  (? There was no T) So let's pretend it said  Toothpaste:  Colgate something or other

U.  Unicorns: totally real

V.  Vegetables You Hate:  onions, I want to like them but I don't.

W.  What Makes You Run Late:  slow drivers, Kipling taking a long time doing his business before I go to work, waiting 20 minutes for the shower to heat up to at least luke warm. I live in the Cleve remember?

X. X-rays: just my arm when I was in first grade from rollerskating down a slide

Y.  Yummy Food That You Make:  spaghetti, Mexican food, crepes

Z. Zoo Animal: otters, they are so funny!

your turn! GO!

a little man in black

It feels like a Johnny Cash day today

my parents used to sing this song to us and my dad would play it on his guitar, us kiddos would always come in on the "yippee ki yay, yippee ki yo" part. We were really good at it.

and my personal favorite, not written by Johnny but incredible.

You look like you're goin' to a funeral...

Maybe I am.