It's Been a Long Time...

Hey there to anyone who is still following my blog.. It has been a long time seems to be the understatement of the year! 

The reason for my absence is a pretty legit one .. I'm PREGNANT! 

Oh yes it is true! Baby Brown is on Board and is going to make her arrival on August 2nd, 2014!

It has been a really looong journey with lots of hormones and morning sickness. TJ and I are beyond excited and feel like we are as prepared as we can get. Being a part of the military lifestyle that is the Air Force we knew there was never going to be a perfect time to have a baby and she was most defiantly the most exciting and exhausting surprise to happen to us! 

So far here is the what’s going on... 

How far along: 28 weeks this Saturday.. HELLO THIRD TRIMESTER!!!

Gender: Girl

Weight gain: Under 20 lbs so far. I hope not to gain more than 30.

Maternity clothes: I have tried to stay far from this as long as possible, but I have caved and I got Gap Maternity leggings and some shirts from target mostly long tank tops and a few dresses here and there. Thank the heavens she is a summer baby! 

Stretch marks: None so far I have been using Mustela since I was about 16 weeks (before I started to show).

Belly button in or out: It is never completely in or out it is flat most of the time and pokes out if I eat too much. 

Sleep: Sleep is going okay hard to get comfortable and stay comfortable having to sleep on my side but pillows help a little bit. 

Best moment this week: Little girl was having a kicking fest and TJ go to feel her and he teared up... MELT MY HEART!

Miss anything: Getting comfortable & being able to breathe. 

Movement: Oh yes! and tons around lunch time.

Cravings: Any kind of potato and peaches which aren't in season yet so all other types of fruit help out :) 

Queasy or sick: Being feeling okay lately after 22 weeks of constant morning sickness. 

Looking forward to: Her making her arrival. I also got the shipping confirmation for our baby shower that will be in Texas! It will be nice to take time and just be home with family and friends. Hopefully we can squeeze in a "Baby Moon" to the river or beach while we are there!

Our Thanksgiving.

So I woke up and realized my parents are no longer in my house and I had to go to work ... Boo! As I really do miss them here I know they are probably happy back in the south were us Jordan's are meant to be... 

This thanks giving had so much yummy food and I thought we would have to black friday shop for a second fridge but we made do with what we had... thankfully. 

Here are some shots from my phone from last week. 

 Awesome pie from Emery's in New Egypt, NJ 

 I'm thankful to be able to provide all of this for my family.

 I'm thankful for my husband, TJ.

 I'm thankful I have wonderful parents who have stuck through everything for 26 years.

 More FOOD!!! 

 I'm thankful my parents were able to meet Eve.

 It is safe to say Dad LOVED Eve and they had a blast, just look at her face. 

 Before we dropped them off at the Airport we were able to have lunch together. One last time. 

 I miss her so much! 

 So happy, we go to go to the mall and act silly together. She makes shopping fun! 

Thanks again to everyone who reads my blog. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. Sorry I wrote about it twice it was just so nice to see my parents. I adore them.

And I adore all of you for your support! 

Holiday House Tour

Welcome to the Holiday House Tour! Remember this is base housing so we are not trying to paint our house at all. But decorating is another story!  

 The nativity is from Hobby Lobby and the hurricane glasses are from Home goods.

 The Joy marquee lights are from Target, they are for windows but we wanted them on the stairs. 

 The tree is from the BX. The lights are classic lights from target. Everything else is from Hobby Lobby and Michaels. 

 For wrapping options we chose a craft paper and green twine and chevron ribbon from amazon. 

We spotted two ornaments at the mall and grabbed them to put on our keepsake tree (not pictured).

I hope you enjoyed this and are have a great Christmas season thus far! 

Holiday Review

Happy belated Thanksgiving. I took some time off to spend time with my parents who I absolutely adore and I am so thankful they came to spend time with us. They leave today so I know there will be tears ahead. 

On a lighter note, Thanksgiving was a huge HIT with tons of yummy food! We got to spend some quality time together and I'm so happy for that. I have missed them terribly!

We didn't do any crazy Black Friday shopping but thats a plus in my book and I'm okay with that we went to Chili's for lunch and it totally hit the spot! 

Until tomorrow I'm going to keep spending time with the most important people in my life. 

1 Week! : Weekend post

With now one more week until my parents get here I have so much to do and more school work on top of it! 

So let's go over my then our boring weekend. 

Saturday: 

1. Cleaned - which means I was on my hands and knees cleaning base boards, doing laundry and acting like I was Cinderella. Still waiting on the bibbity boppity boo...

2. I waited to here that the hubs got home safe - 17 hours later! 

3. Loved on miss Eve! 

4. Did some super pre thanksgiving shopping so I currently have a huge bird in our little freezer... Can we cook him already?!?!

Sunday:

1. TJ came home! I was asleep and he called me and scared me out of my skin. 

2. I slept in past 8:00! 10:00am to be exact! 

3. We proceeded to the following. 

Donuts:

IKEA!!!!

And then assembling the purchases from ikea! 

Which all leaders to this....

House tour preview (currently adding final touches but seriously here is the preview):

Happy week before thanksgiving! I need a few days off and a cocktail! 

This post is also in honor of Zoey. A family member of 13 years. I hope you and Sadie are playing in Heaven.

Saturday Oh' Saturday

Crazy how this time last weekend we were taking anniversary pictures and getting ready to eat fried turkey (which was amazing). Now Im sitting at home waiting to find out if TJ will make it home today. This week has been crazy with all the holidays and memorable moments just around the corner, I'm starting to get restless. 

REALLY REALLY RESTLESS! 

But enough of that I'm finishing up the holiday house tour post and will get that up soon! 

Last night Eve was on a hole different level of bad. I came home she shredded up her kennel pad - was running-RUNNING on the sofa! SO I turned to my awesome father in law and he helped she is doing much better now. In fact we are about to go on a run. :) 

I hope you all are having a great weekend and are at home with your men. Those who are still not home I'm always praying for them, it may not be by name but god knows who I'm talking about! 

Leave comments if you need support or have questions! I'm always here! 

Until next time I'll leave you with a few shots from our one year anniversary photos! (I took them we did not hire a photographer) 

Have a great weekend! 

Jersey Girls Don't Pump Gas

And it would seem neither does this Texas girl... at least when I'm in the state of New Jersey.

In the state of New Jersey you don't pump your own gas, it is supposed to create more jobs for the economy. Well Monday night on my way home from work I went to fill up my car at the East costs version of a Buccee's (You Texan's know what's up when it comes to a Buccee's) its called a Wawa. I stopped by and met the nicest young man since I've moved up here who politely filled Fancy The Ford Focus up. I thanked him before I pulled away and he proceeded to tell me I was the nicest person he had met. My response to him was, "I'm from Texas and we greet every one with southern hospitality"!

This may not be the nicest state in the USA and Texas may not qualify either (Houston Drivers I'm talking to you!) but I will always try to show the the sweet southern hospitalty that I know to the NJ natives!

Happy Wednesday!