Home Sweet Home

Ahhhh, home sweet home.

It seems this old saying has almost three different meanings as I sit here this morning. Let me go through the three different ones quickly before I divulge into the trip.

First of all, and most imporantly, my dear friend Keeley will finally get to bring her sweet baby Reed home soon after recently getting a brand new heart! We got the joyous news this week while we were gone and tears immediately started flowing! The phrase "Home sweet home" to the White family must have the most amazing meaning behind it! After I think over 10 weeks, that sweet baby could come home in the following days. So welcome home Reed!!

Second, Trav, Kel, and Bennett moved here this past week. I would imagine "Home sweet home" is such a literal phrase especially to Travis. He has been gone for 12 years I think! And so as the nomadic son returns home to his roots, we welcome them with open arms and hopefully will not drive them back to Virgina with our being over there all the time! :)

Lastly, we just got into town last night from the week in Colorado. You know when you have been gone from home for awhile, and the plane lands and you just breathe real deep? Well thats what I did, followed by some sneezing. Welcome to Nashville-Sinus capital of the world.

Our trip home was actually uneventful which is good for us but not very funny for blogging purposes. So let me tell you bout the trip....

We really had a blast snowboarding and its so weird to think next year I will be taking a 7month old with me!! Thank you for all the prayers for our safety! I would usually quit early in the afternoon cause I was tired and cause my pants were half unbuttoned. My stomach is definatley sticking out now. And no----I will not be putting pictures of my stomach on the worldwide internet! That is insane! No one wants to see that! I have to sheild my eyes everytime I take a shower! I will however post some more pics in a second...

As I was "shredding", which means snowboarding down the mountain (I have to explain the lingo to everyone:) I was listening to my IPOD. I found myself listening to Guns-n-Roses, Dave Matthews, and of course Britney and I was flying!!! I mean it!! I probably wasn't but it sure felt like it! I was going in and out of trees listening to awesome music feeling like nothing could stop me. However I didnt account for the tree stump covered by snow that did in fact stop me. I landed hard on my butt, but fortunately for me that area is quite padded so no worries mom!

I am the one completely covered!!!

We did have a great time with his family though. We played games at night and watched movies, and walked through the cute village looking at art that is so expensive its ridiculous. I know I am not the most cultured girl (mom tells me that!) but it was like $13,000 for a glass frog or painting of a moose. Silly silly silly.

But alas, we are home now. Planning on going to see Kelly and Bennett later today and hopefully sweet Reed later this week. Oh and now that I know mom, Mrs. Dixie, and Mrs. Jan are reading this, I will try to be a little more tactful! :) This is random but this is when we told his brothers we were having a baby over Christmas! Whit is getting married in May so it was a very happy Christmas! This one is random but its my favorite! This was over the holidays and we tried to get all the kids to sit still for a second to get a really great picture. Well as you can see, Lainey was having none of it and Bennett was about to lose it any second. Palmer, the pacifist, tried his best to hold down the fort. We may not have gotten the perfect picture, but I think this one is priceless!

It is so good to be home...

More Mac-n-cheese please!!!

So before I go into some pregnancy issues, I would like to tell you some awesome things that have happened and will happen this week:

First and best of all,,,my sweet angel nephew Bennett is out of the hospital today! He was admitted for upper respiratory issues and they feared pneumonia. Thankfully after extensive tests he was allowed to go home this afternoon! I am so excited to see him, which brings me to more news....

Second--Trav, Kel, and Bennie-boo-boo are moving here this weekend!! The prodigal son returns!! (just kidding trav!) I am super duper thrilled to have them home and I can see them all the time! We will be the original couple again like in college! For those of you who didnt go to ACU with us, let me give you some background. This will be fun :)

Kelly transferred her sophomore year, my freshman year. She was the hot ticket when she arrived. Everyone asked her out including Travis, of whom she rejected twice! I told him to forget about her cause she was obviously not interested:) Turns out she and I had a class together. I remember the night we met,,,

It was a night health class and we were in line getting our body fat tested. Every womans nightmare. Seriously! She was a few people ahead of me and someone walked by to ask her if she was going to their basketball game--which in of itself is hysterical. Have you seen Kel play ball? Thats neither here nor there,,,,but its so funny:) love you kel!

So once I put the name and face together, I calmly asked her why she would not go out with my brother? Logical question I thought. Turns out she did want to, but Trav was so slow on the asking part that other guys beat him to it. She had her eye on my bro anyway, so it all worked out. She became my bestest and dearest friend. I am so happy to have her as my sister in law. I really am blessed to have her and Kim who has known me since I was 10 years old. Let me tell you,,,she has some good stories on your girl here. So lets hope she never blogs about it!

But I always hung out with trav and Kelly, so to have them here is truly wonderful. I plan on getting to her house bright and early on Fridays and hang out all day only to leave before Trav gets home! Good plan!

Oh-I also need to get a good Motown cd for Bennett. At my cousins wedding he was laughing so hard his shoulders were shaking to the song by the Four Tops-Sugar Pie Honey Bunch,,,It was hilarious!

One more good thing about this week--the show 24 has FINALLY come back! For those faithful who endured last season,,,let me say that Jack is Back!!

Now-Pregnancy. I know it seems like I complain but I am not meaning too! I am truly thankful for this miracle because it really is a miracle. Have you stopped to think about the details that go into this? Everything has to be perfect! But, without the other details, you all know what I mean:) get your minds out of the gutters! :)

We ate at J Alexanders the other night and I ordered a salad. Good right? Oh-no worries cause I got my own side of mac-n-cheese. Had too-its too good. For breakfast saturday I did well up until a certain point. I had egg whites and turkey bacon, some yogurt with fruit also. But,,,then I made cinammon rolls. The mini ones that are squares? Yep-well---ate about,,hmmm,,,12 or so? Then I just licked off the icing of the rest of the rolls. So much for the healthy breakfast.

I am starting my 15th week and I think I may be experiencing heart burn. Never had it before but I think I do now. Is this normal? Surely it cant be my sporadic eating habits! :) I feel like I am throwing up in my mouth sometimes, but I really am not. Does that make sense?

So I watched some of the Golden Globes tonight. Mainly to see the dresses and my leading man Leo!!! Shout out to Leslie!! How many times did we watch Titanic in our dorm room after chapel? too many!! All those women who have had kids and they are so tiny!! Sickening! Oh well. Bet they arent really happy anyway. :")

So, Trav and Kelly move Saturday and we go with Ash's family to Beaver Creek, CO to do some snowboarding next week. That is if I can fit into my ski clothes. :)))

Hope everyone has a great week!!!

Happy New Year

Happy 2009 everyone!!

This will no doubt be the best year of my life and I am so excited to get it going! We just got back last night from an amazing trip to Lake Tahoe. The beauty of the lake is indescribable, but there were a few things that were,,,,um,,, a little drabby. :) Let me walk you through it:

Our flight left Nashville Tues night and of course we had a delayed flight in Vegas. I mean--the city that never sleeps? Get your planes in on time!!!!! Anyway, so I was one of the people who slept on the floor at the airport. We were about an hour late and it was already almost midnight. I kept myself full of food thanks to Sbarro Pizza and strawberries and cream frappachino. Oh-Vegas Sbarro is NOT the real Sbarro. No idea what that was but I ate it anyway...I digress.

We finally land in Reno and had to rent a car. All the car rental places were closed and so Ash had to talk to someother car place. We got the car--Volvo Wagon,,very sheek,,,and drove an hour or so to the hotel. Scratch that--ASh drove---I slept. I am pregnant--I do what I please. :)

Got to the hotel/casino and we got placed in the wrong room but it was almost three in the morning and I was done. Those that know me know that I go to bed like 9:30-10 in true Speck fashion.

Got moved bright and early the next day into a gorgeous room on the top floor overlooking the lake. The bellman told us the New Years eve party in the street was so "righteous". Are we surfing??? He said there would be 50,000 college kids there and we should go. I looked at Ash like---there is NO WAY I am going. Way too old for that. I got the look of agreement from him that we were on the same page. Love the looks you can give each other after so much time together---I got his all down. He is such a dead giveaway.

So we had fun snowboarding--I was careful!!! We ate breakfast buffet every morning,,,I prayed I would fit in my ski clothes everyday and i did thank you very much. At night we ate at several different restaurants throughout the hotel. My fav was Cabo Wabu---the had the best guacomole. Seriously. TDF. It came in a martini glass so I ate the whole thing and nibbled of his dinner. That must not have been enough for me and baby so I had strawberry sundae delivered to the room. Nice. I mean-- I am not even trying to watch what I eat. Yeesh.

Oh-So ASH played Blackjack at night. I didnt go to much cause it was so smokey and I didnt want Baby to come out holding a Marlboro. He lost of course--bless his heart. I played for a few minutes one day after breakfast and was up $75 before I quit. Ash was so excited for me! I was like--this is easy--just walk away when you are winning. Any nimrod could do this,,but oh no. Not Ash--he played till the bitter end:)

So, after days of snowboarding and eating guac and breakfast bars, I was good to go.
Our flights yesterday were somewhat uneventful. I fell asleep on the first one and felt myself jerk. You know when you do that in church or someplace? I did, it woke me up and the dude next to me was totally laughing. I played it off by trying to get something out of my bag on the floor. Next flight I should have one an Oscar for my performance on making our middle seat seem unavailable. I messed with my purse and bag the whole time till people finished walking by/ (tee-hee) So I stretched out that flight.

Last flight I was not so lucky. I tried but ended up moving over to the middle cause heaven forbid Ash sit there. This lady, who had just finished smoking 10 cigs, came to sit by me. She had little to no teeth which is an issue for me. She also kept asking a million questions about out trip. I should have been nicer but I didnt want to inhale that smoke! Baby Clayton was in peril!! So I causally turned myself almost completely sideways and leaned on Ash for about two hours. I had the air full blast on me too. I got a lecture from him to be nice but I was more concerned about baby. Then as er got closer to land she asked if our streets were always this wet looking. I replyed---"Yes. We water our streets everyday." This got a nice nudge in the ribcage from Ash. Obviously it was raining so I answered her ridiculous question with a ridiculous answer. Being preggo has made me quite bold.

so, we are back in one piece. Ash wants us to try to east better. I think its crap cause its the one time in my life I can eat bad and he wants to eat better. Unbelievable.

well, I hope everyone will have a safe new Year!!