BuSy WeEkEnD!

Well we had a busy, busy weekend!!! Friday night we went out to eat for Ryan's birthday with some friends at Gauchos! It was so yummy and we had a good time! Here are some pics from Gauchos...

Saturday I drove to Monticello for the baby shower that Kelley and some of my highschool friends were hosting for me! Alex had to work... I had so much fun and got so much cute stuff!! It was fun hanging out with everyone and telling old stories!! We are hardly ever all together at the same time!! Here are some pics from the shower!

The Hostess' were Kelley Rasco, Lacey King, Skye Atkins, and Lindsay Shue.. they got the white toy box and had Hudson's name painted on the top of it and filled it with toys and other goodies!! Kandace got him the UGGs which I think are sooo cute! He got alot of good gifts!!

The dresser has FINALLY come in too so here are some pics of his fabulous nursery!!!!!

I am so proud of his nursery!! It is so cute to me! All we need now is him! :) I am going to the Dr again tomorrow and will be 34weeks! It is almost time! My stomach is hard as a rock!! I feel like its about to pop! I have been pouring bottles of lotion and oils on my stomach to prevent stretch marks!! LOL Luckily I haven't gotten one..YET! Well Saturday after I got back to LR from my shower and Alex got off work we headed to Texarkana to his moms house for his little brothers bday party that was on Sunday! He just turned one and is walking and so cute! He had his own little bday cake that he tore into! We had a good time visiting with his family but had to head back Sunday night because I had a test this morning :( My final is Wednesday and I will be out until January 12th! I am so pumped!! Well thats all I know for now!!

It has been a while since my last post because I have been super busy!! We had a great Thanksgiving... Thursday we had lunch with my dads family and supper with my moms. It was good to see everyone and Alex and Ryan and Jarrod all went hunting! Still no luck for Alex though :( I had the whole week off for Thanksgiving break but kept myself busy... we put the tree up...and I made a special gift for all of our family members for Christmas (cant tell what it is though because I know they all read this!) Of course I went shopping on Black Friday! We have all of our shopping done except for maybe 3 people so I wrapped some presents too! Alex put up some Christmas lights outside and we have a cute light up reindeer in our yard! Ill have to take a picture when it gets dark and post it! Its cute! All of our neighbors have put lots of decorations up too! We have a very festive neighborhood! We had planned on going to Texarkana Saturday when Alex got off work but his mom wanted us to wait and come this weekend because its his little brothers 1st bday! Plus I was feeling sick all friday and saturday... I think I overworked myself that week I had off!
This is our pretty tree and fireplace! It looks much better in person and when lit up! I cannot believe it is already December! Christmas will be here before we know it! Then little Hudson! His dresser is supposed to come in Monday, hopefully, it has been backordered twice so far! Other than that his room is pretty much ready for him! I have been washing his clothes and getting things ready! Alex and I are getting more and more excited each day.

Saturday I am going to Monticello for a baby shower my friends are throwing for me! Im excited about seeing everyone! Then we are heading to Texarkana afterward! Going to be alot of driving..blah. I finished my last day of Clinical for this semester today!! WOO HOO!! And tomorrow is our last day of class! I am so excited! It has definately not been as easy being 8 months pregnant and I am proud of myself for staying strong and sticking with it! I know next semester wont be the easiest but I know I can do it. Especially with the wonderful support I have from Alex. I have already made my schedule for next semester and I have clinicals on Mondays and Alex is going to start taking Mondays off instead of Saturdays so he will keep Hudson while Im at clinical. Then I have Tuesday and Wednesday free and Class on Thurs and Fri from 12-3! So mom is going to drive up and keep him while Im in class! It is going to work out great I think. I will have Tues, Wed, Sat, Sun and half of Thurs and Fri to spend with Hudson! That is the ONE good thing about Nursing School..class is only 2 days a week and then one day clinical! Anyways...... Im about to start studying for my final!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!!!

**i LoVe My FrIeNdS**

Alex headed back to the deer camp Saturday afternoon when he got off work! When I talked to him this morning he still hadn't seen the perfect buck so hopefully he had some more luck this evening! We are keeping our fingers crossed! My mom came up yesterday afternoon and stayed the night with me but I am all alone tonight :( Hannah said I could come stay with her so I may head over there if I get scared alone! Ha

Well Saturday my friends Hannah, Beth, and Amber hosted a baby shower for me!! It was so much fun! I was so excited just to see everyone because we have all been so busy with school and some people with work that we dont get to see each other as often as we used to! They had tons of yummy food prepared and the cutest cake ever!!! Not to mention it was delicious!

Everything was in browns and blues since those are the colors of his nursery! We played a game that was so funny....they melted different chocolate candy bars and put them in diapers (to look like poo) and we had to pass the diapers around and sniff them to guess the candy bar! HA! It was actually kind of hard but it was hilarious!
Most of my friends who were invited were able to make it which made me happy! I didnt get many pictures with my camera but I know other people took more so I will add more later! Well I dont have class all next week!! I am so excited! Me and mom finished up most of the nursery decorations while she was up here so I dont know what I am going to do with myself all week! Maybe wrap some Christmas presents :) Thursday we are going to Monticello and Star City for Thanksgiving with my family and then Friday we are heading to Texarkana for the weekend! Well thats all I know for now! Hannah just called and Im going to head over for a sleepover with her!

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No deer meat yet in this house!! Alex had a great time roughing it at the deer camp with his dad and brother and I enjoyed my weekend in Monticello/Star City with my mom! Friday night I drove down and picked up Kelley and we went and ate at Cowboys and Lacey and Amanda were working! After we ate we went to the Monticello High School football game! Kelley is obsessed with football! LOL Plus my sister Jordyn is a cheerleader so I got to watch her too! It started to sprinkle and was so cold so we left after half time!! Larry stayed overnight in the hospital Friday night because he was having chest tightness and difficulty breathing and the Dr wanted to run some tests and monitor him overnight. So i slept with mom and our 3 dogs! The doctors think that he may have some asthmatic symptoms! It makes since though, he works on a farm around all that dust and chemicals and allergens! The Dr prescribed him an inhaler and some steriods and so far the treatment has brought improvement! Saturday I got some studying done and headed back home Sunday night to see my much missed husband!

This has been a busy week just like all the others! I have a big test coming up on Friday so I have been hitting the books all week! My clinicals this week are at Easter Seals which is a non profit organization for disabled kids. It has been such a rewarding experience! I first assumed that it would be a Nursing Home type play but it is so much more. They take in disabled children and help promote independence. Its more of a rehabilitation center, they have school for the school age children, physical therapy, and for those from ages 18-21 they have a work force. The nurses were amazing too. We will be out all next week for Thanksgiving and I am looking forward to that break!! Then we will just go back for one more week and be finished with this semester! It sure does fly by! THANK GOODNESS!

Alex is heading back to the mountains in Mena this Saturday to hunt again! My baby shower is this weekend so I am staying home! My mom is going to come up and stay with me! I am so excited about my shower! I feel like I havent seen anyone in forever because I have been so busy with school! Well thats all I know for now! Gotta get back to the books!

** MATERNITY PICS**

Well I told yall I had maternity pictures made but the ones that I ordered came in an album... its not individual pictures though to where I can scan them onto my computer and upload them!! Iv had lots of ppl asking me about them though so I went ghetto and took pictures of some of them with my camera! LOL So if they dont look great uploaded then get over it! Its the best I can do! I only did a few of them though because of course Im pregnant and I find nothing about my body attractive! Its just something that I did for my husband and I really and so I can remember this awful look! LOL I was 6 months in the pictures so my stomach isn't too big and she had a hard time getting shots to where I actually looked pregnant! I guess thats a good thing though~ Let me know what yall think!!

*Deer Widow*

Well this past weekend Alex and I rode down to Monticello to visit my dad and step mom! Alex had to work Saturday so we didnt get down there until about 4:30 but we ate burgers and visited until around 8:00 then we had to head back so Alex would be able to hunt the next day!! I guess I am going to be a deer widow this year! ha!That is him in the picture above if you couldnt tell! He is planning on going to Mena this weekend too so that he can hunt! His dad hunts off of a lease and they paid for Alex to hunt there too this year so he wants to make sure he gets his moneys worth! Hopefully he will get a big deer!

Mom and Larry are back from Cancun and had a safe and wonderful trip! I am going to go stay with Mom this weekend when Alex goes to Mena so I can get some studying done! My second test is coming up next week and I wont have alot of time to study this week because I have clinical Tues, Wed, and Thurs of this week so that we are able to be off the week of Thanksgiving!

So tomorrow I go back to the Doctor for a check up, no ultra sound or anything special though. I will be 30 weeks! :) Dad and Kara have agreed to come up to our house for Christmas since I wont be able to travel and since Ryan lives up here too he can come! So I am excited about that. Hopefully Grandmother will be able to come too so we wont have to miss her either... She is getting old. Well its about time for me to start cooking supper!!

Hope everyone has a good week!

** I put Ella's Halloween picture up! She wore a pumpkin shirt for the trick or treaters! LOL

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I guess its time we take our spooky Halloween decorations down now :( We will leave up our fall ones though! We had lots of trick or treaters just like we expected! We also got to meet all of our neighbors too so it was fun! Some of the costumes were so cute! I look forward to dressing Hudson up next year! We actually didn't run out of candy this year either! We had tons! Ryan and Dawson came out to hang out with us too! I made some Halloween treats, wish I would have taking a picture of them to put up! They were cute!

Saturday night Alex and I went to dinner at On the Border and then to see the movie Saw V! It was good but not what I expected! I thought it would have been better! But i guess once you get to the 5th one what can you expect! Sunday morning we went to Church and afterwards Alex went to Ryan's to play golf with him and Vinnie and I had to study all day! :( This morning was my first test in Pediatrics... it was a 2 hour test and extremely hard. We only have 3 tests this semester so it is crucial that you do good on every test, just one mistake can cost you the class! Its so stressful! I am so ready for Christmas break!

Mom and Larry are in Cancun this week so keep them in your prayers! I always get nervous about ppl traveling so far away! This Friday Kelley is coming up and we are going shopping at Holiday House! Im excited because Iv always heard about it but I havent been! I have already started Christmas shopping too since we have so many ppl to buy for!! I know Christmas is going to be hard this year because I will be in my final month of pregnancy and will be unable to travel very far, if Im even able to travel at all which makes me sad because Alex and I dont get to see our families near as much as we want to as it is so missing a holiday is hard! Hopefully they will come see us (hint hint!) LOL Well since I have a break today I am going to try and get our china put up and into the china cabinet! Woo Hoo!