Long time, no blog.....

Well, since I last posted..........

*I did indeed make it to 30. Jeff had a big birthday dinner for me the evening before my birthday at Plano Tavern with about 25 of my friends. We had a really great time! We were kid-free for the evening so we got to stay out until MIDNIGHT.....wow!!....haven't done that in a while!

*Korley is eight weeks old now. Crazy! Time has flown. It's amazing how big she has gotten. She has started smiling more and more and interacting with us. She is such a cutie!! She has also slept through the night twice now!!

* I kept Landry out of school most of last week and we spent a lot of time together. She is getting to be such a big girl. She is so darn funny and so fun to be around. One day last week I took her to get her hair cut and they fixed it so cute (at least I thought it was cute. They are really just twists, but Jeff thought they looked like cornrows) that on a whim I just decided to go get her pictures made. They turned out really cute (see below).

*I'm going back to work tomorrow. Booooooooooo Hooooooooo! I'm so sad! However, maybe I will have more time to blog!

*TV...well, all of my shows are over. We still haven't watched the last two episodes of Lost. Hopefully, we'll find time to watch them this week. Taylor won AI and apparently my mom and I are the only two people in America that didn't like him. Cheesy!! The series finale to Alias was terrible. Still don't know what Rambaldi is. Grey's Anatomy was Grey-t! I don't even remember what happened in the finale of Desperate Housewives, so it must not have been that great.

Goodbye Roaring 20s.....Hello 30s Depression

Well, today is the very last day I will be a twenty-something. Tomorrow is my big 3-0!

I'm a little sad to be saying goodbye to my 20s. My life changed dramatically during this decade. I graduated from college, moved to Dallas, dated, became engaged, and married Jeff, changed jobs three times, bought two houses, and last but certainly not least had two beautiful children.

Turning 30 is so much different that turning 20. It's weird when you can start a story with "I remember about 10 years ago....." and actually remember 10 years ago. I can't say that when I turned 20 that I remembered "10 years ago" so well.

However, I am excited for what the future holds. I am blessed beyond belief with a wonderful family (both immediate and extended), caring and fun friends, a great job, and a safe and wonderful place to live.

Besides......since 40 is the "new 30" I suppose I'm turning 20 all over again!

My Mawmaw's Day

Mawmaw....this is what Landry is calling me right now. Not mom, mommy, or even momma but MAWMAW...like a grandma. I like it, though. It sounds cute coming out of her mouth....like a little southern belle. Well, truthfully she calls me either Mawmaw or Courtney, which is very bizarre. Yesterday when I went to pick her up from her classroom at church she saw me at the door and said "Courtney!!!" and came running to me. She also made her Mother's Day card at church to "Courtney".

We had a really nice Mawmaw's Day. Jeff made a big breakfast for all of us and Landry and Korley each got me a rose, although Landry insisted on taking her rose to her "God teacher" (this is what she calls her Sunday school teacher). It was fine, though, because the God teacher was very touched.

We spent most of the day relaxing at home and then last night went to dinner with Jeff's family at Joe's Crab Shack. It was a nice day!!

Also, a super Happy Mother's Day to my mom! She is the BEST mom in the world!



My angels!!

Korley Korley Bo Borley Banana-Fana fo Forley...

Many people have asked me where we came up with Korley's name. I'd love to have a great story about it being a family name, but unfortunately there is really no interesting story. (Well, it's not interesting unless you find my OCD interesting.) If we had wanted to use a family name (of an older ancestor), we would have had to go with something like.....Hulen, Homer, Marthell, Velma, Elmo, Dorothy. All of these people were wonderful and I'm sure at some point their names will be popular again, but we didn't want to use these names for our children.

Corley was the last name of some family friends of ours from Abilene, but this is not who Korley is named after. Truthfully, I was reading a wedding announcement one day and saw that the flower girl in the wedding was named Corley and thought it was cute.

Why did we use a "K" instead of "C"? Well, this is where my OCD comes into play. Landry's name is Landry Laurel and I wanted to use Kendall for the middle name. Kendall is my brother's middle name. So, because Landry's initials are LL, I had to have Korley's initials "match"....so KK it is!

Here are some other names we considered for Korley's name and the reasons why we didn't use them!

Griffin Grace......I love this name!! But, Griffin doesn't end "y", it doesn't have the same number of letters as Landry (6) and the middle name doesn't end in "L".

Ansley.....I love this name, too. Ansley has the same number of letters as Landry, but we couldn't think of a middle name we agreed on that started with an "A".

Hadley Hannah.....of course I love this name. Hadley is my dad's name. This would have been great because Hadley and Landry have the same number of letters, so do Hannah and Laurel. However, Jeff said he would feel weird calling his daughter the same name he calls his father-in-law. I can appreciate that; I would feel the same way if it was reversed.

Hallyn Hadley...... Hallyn was a name I put together. It's a combination of Hall (my maiden name) and Lyn (my middle name). I REALLY liked this despite the fact that Hallyn didn't end in "y". I was really on board to use this until I ran it by Jeff and he looked at me strangely and said "Like "Hallyn" a**? or "Hallyn" Oates?" Okay, we don't want the "haulin' " jokes.

Now that Korley is here and we've gotten to know her and learn her personality, I can't imagine any other name that would have been more perfect for her!

correction

Forgive me, readers. I have a correction to my post from April 3. It's "stork bite" not "snork bite". Sorry...typo (or however you spell "typo"!!).

Can't think of a title.........just read

Dang! We had some LOUD thunder last night. I highly anticipated both Landry and Korley waking up. However, with the help of all of the box fans we turn on when we sleep, they both slept right through it.

A couple of funny Landry comments:

Yesterday, she was telling me about how a butterfly becomes a butterfly. She said it is a caterpillar and then it goes into a "raccoon" and then it comes out a butterfly. I can only imagine how disturbing that must be in a four-year-olds mind's eye!!

Last night she wanted me to sing the "wolf" song for her at bedtime. I told her I didn't know what she was talking about and she said it's Baah Baah Black Sheep. I asked her how that was a wolf song so she sang "Baah Baah Black Sheep, have you any wolf?" I tried to explain why it was "wool" but she still insisted on "wolf"--three bags full of wolf.

I included the below picture 1) because it kind of looks like a black sheep in the background and I thought it was fitting to the previous story (I DO KNOW it's not a sheep, though!) and 2) this picture makes me laugh. My sister took this of Landry the day she took her to the San Antonio zoo. It was HOT that day. Really hot. When they left the zoo and got in Lindsay's car, her car thermometer said it was 111 degrees!

Have a great Friday!!

One and one hundred

Today is Korley's ONE month birthday and this is also my 100th post!!

I can't believe it has already been a month since we were blessed with our second daughter! She has been such a joy to our family.

Some things about her:

*She has lots of hair!! But, she seems to be losing it and it is getting lighter.

*She snorts like a little piglet when she cries. It's so funny!

*She has a "snork bite" on her right eyelid. It kind of looks like a little red birthmark. The dr said it would fade away in a few months, but I think it's cute!

*She has us all (even big sister Landry) wrapped around her little finger! It's amazing how much someone so tiny that basically only eats, sleeps, and poops can bring such joy to us all!

Well, gotta go!! That bundle of joy is now crying!

Have a great day!

Random thought.........

Finally!! George O'Malley cut his hair!