Our weekend in Dallas!

Thursday, Brad and I headed west to Texas for the weekend for the Bama vs. Michigan game. We drove. Through the hurricane. For 10.5 hours! We will definitely be flying the next time we go that far away!

Before we left, I decided to go get a pedicure so my toes would be fit for game day! I told the pedicure lady that I wanted houndstooth on my big toes and she said she had never heard of houndstooth before. We live in TUSCALOOSA and the lady didn’t know what it was. For real. So once she finally figured out what I was talking about, she said she would do her best. Apparently her best is sucky.

Exhibit A:

It’s laughable, really. But I’m pretty sure Noah could have done a better job! Luckily, a friend recommended Sally Hansen’s houndstooth fingernail sticker things and all was right with the world again!

But enough about my feet. :)

Here are some pictures from our trip!

Driving up to our hotel. The Gaylord Texan is by far the best, fanciest hotel I’ve ever stayed at. It was HUGE and had 5 (I think?) restaurants in it, numerous shops, a water park, etc. There was plenty to do without ever having to leave the hotel!

My sweet hubs on his 27th birthday!

This was Saturday before we went geocaching. Don’t hate.

I took this picture one morning as we were eating breakfast at one of the coffee shops inside the hotel. So pretty!

My grandparents live close to where we were staying, so we got to meet up with them for dinner one night! This is our before-dinner picture!

When we got bored, we just walked around the hotel at night. It was the perfect temperature in the atrium and there were little streams running throughout inside. So romantic!

My game day attire! RTR!

Walking through the hotel’s vineyard

The Dallas Cowboy’s Stadium!! That thing is SO BIG!

We had to walk about a mile in the 100 degree heat to get to the stadium, then stand in a line outside in the direct sunlight for about an hour before we could get in. I thought I was going to die. Or pass out, literally. The back of my hair was dripping with sweat. Gross. This picture was taken as soon as we walked inside the stadium.

We walked around for the longest time trying to find a ponytail holder/rubberband/ANYTHING to get my wet hair off my neck! Luckily a vendor found a rubberband for me!

Our view!

We had so much fun and a nice baby-free few days to enjoy each other’s company. I missed my little man SO MUCH! He had so much fun with his cousins, though. He never wanted to talk to me on the phone for more than a minute! Stinker!

House setback

Hopefully this isn’t the start of a bad trend. After hours of work perfecting our house plans and finalizing everything, we found out yesterday that there is an easement going through our lot so our house can only be 55 feet wide. Our original plan was 65 feet wide. Cue my puppy dog eyes…..

When I first heard the news, I literally wanted to throw up. Brad and I were so excited about the plans that we already had and now all that work and dreaming were for nothing.

So now we are back at square one. And probably set back a few weeks as far as the move-in date goes.

We started looking at plans again last night and we think we found the one! It will need a few tweaks, but overall we aren’t as bummed about the setback as we were at first. The new plan is actually bigger and is very similar to the original plan.

Happy weekend everyone!

I’m no chef

Remember the Protein Brownies recipe I posted? I made them a few nights ago.

My supplies:

Mix dry ingredients:

Then add wet ingredients:

Make into patties and add coconut:

Eat or freeze for later!

Now for my issue. After calculating from the Nutrition Facts of my ingredients, my brownies came out to 199 calories each. NOT GOOD! I need to majorly tweak my ingredients for lower calorie options! Hopefully they will come out closer to 50 calories each on my next try! :)

Our weekend

Friday, Noah came to work with me for a few minutes until his Gammy could come pick him up. He loves coming to my office and playing with my grown-up things!

We were up bright and early on Saturday to get our back-to-school haircut! Noah loves ‘helping’ me put on my makeup in the mornings (although it makes his Daddy cringe!).

Saturday afternoon, we went to a friend’s birthday party.

A bouncey house+cake=Noah’s love language.

Here is the birthday boy and his super cute cake! (Did I mention that my child stuck his fork in to the side of the cake before they cut it? Yes. I was MORTIFIED.)

And I also spent some time snuggling this little guy at the party.

Sunday morning, we headed to church. It was Promotion Sunday so Noah got to move up to the 2 year old room. He was excited about the new toys and new scenery! After lunch and nap, we headed to his preschool’s open house. He was not thrilled about cutting his nap short, so afterwards we made a stop at Dairy Queen for some ice cream. (No picture, bad Mommy). Then we went out for a little caching!

And Daddy gave Noah some driving lessons…

:)

Then we came home and worked on cleaning out/sorting through our closet to get ready for the move in a few months! We did our yearly purging of our clothes to donate to the Honduras missing trip.

It was a busy weekend at our house!

We’re moving!

We finally picked out a lot and we are 99% finished tweaking our house plan. EEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! I don’t know who is more excited about our new house, me or Brad.

I’ve heard that if you can build a house together, your marriage will survive anything. We haven’t really argued about anything yet, just a small disagreement on the paint color for the kitchen. :)

We close on our lot tomorrow and then the real fun begins!

In addition to molars…

So Monday, I noticed an eczema-looking splotch on Noah’s thigh. This didn’t surprise me because just about everything makes his skin break out. I put some medicine on it at bedtime and didn’t think anything else about it.

Tuesday morning, we started noticing a few red dots on his face. I again assumed that his eczema was breaking out because he had been crying so much from his molars coming in and the lack of sleep the night before.

Tuesday evening when I got home from work, I checked on his thigh and this is what it looked like…

The red dots immediately concerned me. I sent this picture to my sister and she said it looked like hand, foot, mouth disease. That’s when I started investing his extremities.

Excuse the cookie remnants on his fingers! :)

He had a few spots on his feet and a HUGE ulcer on the tip of his tongue. It’s bigger than any I’ve ever gotten in my life!

I called the doctor this morning and they confirmed what I already knew. He has HFM. There is nothing you can do for it, you just have to let it runs it’s course. The nurse told me that they are contagious until 24-48 hours after they have the fever spike (Sunday) or if the blisters pop open. So he’s not contagious anymore, but it could take the dots 7-10 days to disappear. :(

We don’t know of anyone at church or at school that has HFM so I have no idea where he got it from. I just hope he didn’t pass it around in the church nursery on Sunday!

I could tell he felt a lot better this morning and the blisters seemed to already be fading. Hopefully he will get better soon (and out of our bed…). I hate seeing him so miserable.

Cutting molars

Sunday morning, the church nursery paged us because Noah had a fever. He had been acting fine all morning so I was really surprised. We took him home and gave him some medicine and let him sleep it off. When he woke up, he started acting like his (almost) normal self.

Yesterday afternoon when we got home from work, I noticed that Noah was really irritable and whiny. Then all of a sudden, he just burst into tears and said his mouth was hurting. I peeked in and saw that his back molars were half way cut through his little gums! It’s been so long since he cut any teeth that I felt like I didn’t know what to do at first! :)

We gave him some more medicine before bed last night, but he still woke up around 9pm crying about his mouth. So Brad and I made the decision to let him sleep in our bed last night (for the very first time EVER) because he would only stop crying if I was cuddling him. Well now I know why we’ve never let him sleep with us before. We all slept terribly. Noah and I both like to move around in our sleep and we kept waking each other up all.night.long. AND at 5:15am this morning, I open my eyes to see Noah’s little face 2 inches from my face saying, “Mommy, where’s the remote? I wanna watch cartoons!”

Look at those little red bags under his eyes! Hopefully we will all get some decent sleep tonight and those molars will pop through soon!