A Visit From an Old Friend

Last weekend I got to meet up with one of my old friends from Harding! Kim and I were friends a long time ago and were in Kojies together...but have not kept up since leaving school. HOWEVER...with this whole blogging connection, we stumbled onto eachother's blogs and have kept up with eachother's families that way. Kim has a daughter, Adalie, who is just a couple months younger than Jillian...and they seem to have sooooooo much in common! They are both wild and spunky, and Kim and I just know they would be the best of friends!!! Who knows, maybe they will be roommates in college one day!

Anyway, Kim and her cousin Sara were in Dallas looking for fun baby stuff since they are both having boys soon! We went shopping and to a long lunch and just had a lot of fun talking and laughing!!! Kim is due with Baby James in November, and Sara is due with Baby Boy in January! I took Baby Jules with me for our day out with friends, and we had a great time hanging out!!

Here are some pictures of our fun day.

Here is Kim feeding Baby Jules...and a picture of our yummy pizza at Campisi's!

Sara, Baby Jules, and Kim (Of course, they are both tall, skinny, and beautiful and barely showing any baby bump! Glad I wasn't pregnant too...I would NOT have hung out with these two!)

Kim and Me

Kim...we had so much fun and can't wait to get all the kids together SOON! Sara...so nice to meet you and hope we can meet your precious boy next year!

Where's Waldo?

100 Things About Me

All my posts are usually about my girls, but this one is about me...and it has no pictures...so feel free to skip on over it! This is a post that I know NO ONE will read except Carolyn. She did a 100 things about me post about a month ago...and I have been working on mine ever since...for about 2 minutes at a time. So, here are 100 things about me. This will be boring to most...so just skip right on over this post!!!! This is for you CJS!

1. I was born in Louisiana

2. I have lived in Texas for the last 21 years...not including college...and plan to live here for the next 50+!!!

3. My maiden name was Brittney Nicole Allison...and all my life I got told how I have three first names. DUH, people!!!

4. I have attended three DIFFERENT universities...Christian Universities too! Harding, Abilene Christian, and David Lipscomb

5. I was FORCED to withdrawal from one of those...but I was set up

6. I still graduated with my 150 accounting hours in 4 1/2 years

7. My parents have 3 daughters and 5 granddaughters

8. I hate being pregnant...I never felt beautiful and special like everyone else

9. I LOVE having children though

10. I think I was made to be a mother...it is the best job I have ever had...and the hardest!

11. I really am married to my best friend...we were BF's for a while before we started dating

12. Seth and I were each others very first SERIOUS relationship

13. We started dating when we were 20

14. I tore my ACL and meniscus playing soccer my sophomore year in high school

15. Seth loves to joke that it was my career-ending injury

16. I have a very small tattoo of a flower on my lower back

17. I got this tattoo with my best friend Carolyn TOTALLY on a whim...had never even considered it before that night. Glad I didn't get anything stupid! 16 year olds can be SO dumb!

18. I hate checking voicemails...I rarely listen to the ones that I get

19. I have a HUGE fear of something happening to my kids because I do not think I could live without both of them. This causes me to have a hard time leaving them

20. I have always been pretty laid back and still am about everything EXCEPT when it comes to my girls

21. My family quotes movies ALL the time. We can actually just have a conversation of movies quotes. Some of our favorites are Christmas Vacation, Big Business and Drop Dead Gorgeous. My little sister is the best at it

22. My Mom, Sisters and I also have this weird language that we speak in when we are on the phone with eachother. I don't even realize I am doing it until I see Seth looking at me like I am nuts! He hates the language!

23. I love to go out to eat

24. Mine and Seth's favorite hobby is going out to eat and sitting on a patio for a long dinner

25. I have always wanted twin boys

26. I think Seinfeld is COMPLETELY overrated! My sis and brother-in-law can relate most situations to a Seinfeld episode and Seth and I can do it to Friends

27. Gone With the Wind is my very favorite movie

28. I have driven a 1997 Toyota Celica, a 1999 Ford Expedition, a 2003 Nissan Murano, and a 2007 Ford Expedition

29. One of my favorite things to do each day is dress my girls...from their bows to their shoes...I love every part of it!

30. My best friend Carolyn and I have the EXACT same handwriting. This came in VERY handy in high school

31. I am an organizational freak...my closet is color-coordinated and things tend to get alphabetized around my house

32. You will find nothing on my walls except pictures of my family

33. Jillian and Jules will be able to learn the evolution of the cell phone by looking at the 12 or so cell phones I have had that are now in their toy box

34. My little sister started out her life as my cousin...we were lucky to get her as a sister 8 months later

35. My favorite restaurant is Anamia's in Coppell...Seth and I could eat there almost everyday and not get sick of it

36. I LOVE 90210...probably my most favorite show of all time and I am NOT ONE BIT ashamed of that. I still watch reruns sometimes...these came in really handy when I was nursing

37. Valerie Malone is my favorite character

38. Jillian likes to dance to the opening song

39. I started going to Harding when I was only 17 years old

40. I do not drink coffee EXCEPT on vacation or when I am absolutely freezing cold

41. I have only lived by myself once...for my very last semester at Harding

42. When I have taken one of those right brain/left brain tests...I ALWAYS score exactly 0, which is right in the middle. I get my intellectual side from my dad and my creative side from my mom

43.I really HATE the word princess for little girls...it is so overused

44. I probably take at least 10 pictures a day...that would be 300 a month if that month was filled with no holidays of birthdays. The number dramatically increases in those cases

45. Seth and I used to consider moving to the islands one day....this was before our babies. Who knows if we will revisit that thought in the distant future

46. I shoplifted a cookbook for my mom when I was a toddler and in a stroller

47. I have traveled out of the country to Canada (for work), Mexico many times (for fun), Jamaica (honeymoon), and the Bahamas many times (for fun)...but NEVER to Europe

48. I have never been to Europe and I really don't care to go. I am a beach vacationer all the way!

49. I would rather eat cookies in dough form than the finished product

50. My favorite dessert is carrot cake

51. My favorite drink is a margarita from Anamia's...no one can top it!

52. I really do love to work out...not the actual process of it...but I love the results and I LOVE how I feel when I am done. I have had to work out for as long as I can remember

53. Having babies has changed everything about my body

54. One of my favorite things I have done is create my babies nurseries. It is worth having a 3rd baby so that I can decorate another room...Seth disagrees

55. I wish I could sew

56. I have 2 HUGE scrapbooks of Jillian's first year. I have nothing completed so far for Jules...but will sometime in the next couple years. I wish I would have thought about Baby #2 before I decided to scrap each day of Jillian's first year!!!

57. I am a BIG Cowboys fan

58. I have always loved football for as long as I remember. I might be the closest to a son my Dad had before Layton and Seth came along

59. One of my favorite meals is Thanksgiving...turkey, dressing, and everything else

60. I always loved the name Savannah...but now it is becoming too popular. I still love it though

61. If either of my girls were boys, we would have named them Dirk after my Dad

62. My favorite color is green

63. I want a pool in my backyard SO bad I can taste it!

64. Seth and I really want to be a part of the perfect church...but haven't found it yet

65. I start planning my girls birthdays LONG before it is time

66. I have had two dogs that I have loved with all my heart...Miller (RIP 12/19/06) and Tyson

67. Loosing Miller was so hard that I NEVER want another dog

68. I love to read

69. I read 12 book between Jan 08 and when Jules was born in April...and not one book since

70. I also read gossip magazine for fun...but think I have grown out of that stage

71. I am kind of over celebrity nonsense...especially Brangelina...the most overrated of all time

72. The first gift that Seth ever gave me was a stuffed Hog that played the fight song

73. I talk to my sister Summer on the phone at least twice a day...usually for an hour each time. I don't know what we talk about, but we always have something very important to discuss

74. I have never had anything pierced except my ears when I was like 6

75. I go to Sonic almost every day and get a Route 44 water with lemon and a large diet coke. I have to fill up the water twice to flush out that bad diet coke

76. I am SO ready to be back to my pre-pregnancy size

77. I really wish that I could have a little boy, but I doubt that wish will ever come true

78. I love watching the Food Network

79. It makes me want to learn how to really cook and be good at it

80. I would love to take a baking class

81. I hate humidity...it makes me feel like I can't breathe

82. I want my sister to start up a VBS at church...and I want to help her run it

83. I do not like bathroom humor...it is crude and gross

84. I have no desire to go camping...I am an A/C girl...don't take it from me

85. I get hot when I sleep...sometimes I sweat. Both of my babies do too

86. I used to be a big Britney Spears fan...I am still rooting for her

87. I hate to admit, but Jillian LOVES the Gimme More song...she loves to dance to that beat. I always bleep out the bad word in the beginning though!!!

88. Jillian also LOVES to dance to Madonna/Justin Timberlake 4 Minutes song...she gets so excited when it comes on the radio!

89. I am terrible with names. 9 times out of 10 I forget someones name as soon as I meet them. I work on it, but just can't seem to pay attention or something

90. My eyes are sometimes blue, sometimes green, and sometimes gray

91. I love getting spa pedicures

92. I can't wait to go on vacation with Seth in November...it has been about 18 months since we went on vacation alone and we usually go every year. That is what having a baby will do to you

93. I love my sweet Jules. She was not planned AT ALL and now I can't imagine my life without her!

94. She is the biggest sign to me that God has a much better plan than I do!

95. I love that I am so close with my mom and sisters...I couldn't pick a better set of best friends

96. I talk to them every day on the phone even though we see eachother almost everyday

97. I am from Dallas, but Seth now knows how to get anywhere in the city...way better than I
do. I guess being in sales and driving around will do that to you

98. I never let my girls leave the house without bows on...even if we are just in the car to go through a drive through

99. I love my family so much that I can't bear the thought of anything happening to any of them. It scares me to ever think that I will have to deal with that one day

100. I miss my grandmother and know that she would be so happy to see me and my sisters and all of our daughters. I would love to know her now that I am an adult.

OK, well that is all! PHEW, I am done...thank goodness. I am sure that no one actually finished that whole post, but if you did, I hope I didn't bore you too much!!!! Thanks Carolyn for the fun idea!!!

Outfits Worth Posting About

My mom bought all five GRANDgirls matching outfits from Animal Crackers and they are TOO TOO cute! I definitely thought they were worth posting about! They debuted the outfits Friday night at our family dinner.


Jillian and Jules...just chillin


Jules and Jillian posing in the front yard...a daily occurrence


Emerson (21 months), Jillian (2), Ansley (6), Jules (3 months), Macy (4)

The ghetto picture outside of our Friday night restaurant on the ground...pretty good for 5 young girlies!!!

Jules Update...Hopefully the LAST one!

Jules just MAY be almost better...FINALLY! After a week of breathing treatments, we had to go back into the doctor to evaluate Jules and how she was doing. I had really noticed no change at all in her coughing and I felt as though the treatments weren't really doing anything. So, we go into the doctor and explain our week. Dr. Levy decided that Jules really MUST HAVE had the whooping cough. She said the test could have shown negative even if it was really positive. She just had all of the symptoms and there just happens to be some huge outbreak of the whopping cough in our area at this exact time ( Seth and I saw a story about it on the news the other night). So...that is the final diagnosis...the whooping cough. The good news is that we treated her a couple weeks ago when the symptoms first started...and so she should be in the clear from anything turning dangerous at this point. As far as the cough goes though, it can sometimes take up to six weeks to fully go away. So we may still have a couple more weeks of coughing. I can handle that just knowing that it will go away soon! In the meantime, we have put her on a reflux medicine twice a day because our doctor thinks that the whopping cough could have just upset her and is causing her to reflux a little too. I actually think I notice an improvement these last couple of days that she has been on the medicine. YEAH! I am just so glad that I don't have to worry about Jules not breathing okay anymore!!!!

Here is my sweet girl just grinning at me!

Oh...and if you like this onesie...too bad. Jules had a MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR blowout in it the other night, and Seth and I made the decision to just toss it...it definitely qualified as an infectious linen (ha ha...inside joke with my family!)! Too much to clean up and she will probably out grow it here before long too! See Ya, Be Ya Cupcake onesie!

Sisters

Random Jillian Tidbits

Jillian has gotten REALLY vocal since Baby came to live with us. She just talks all the time and says things that I had no idea that she even knew. I know that every parent goes through this phase of thinking their child is a genius...so please don't think I am braggy! But, she really does seem so smart sometimes! She tries saying every word she hears us say and sometimes her versions of words are too funny. Here are some of my favorites:

1. Bi-cut-cycle (Bicycle)
2. Pot-cut-cycle (Popsicle)
3. Mushca Mouse (Mickey Mouse)
4. Herego Mama (Here you go Mama)
5. See Ya, Be Ya (See Ya, Wouldn't want to be ya...guess who taught her that one!)
6. NemoDory (This is all one word for Nemo)
7. Baby Dooles Mecine (Baby Jules Medicine)
8. Brokie (Broken)
9. Opie (Open...but funny because we call my Great Grandmother Opie!)

Anyways, these are all really funny to us! She has great timing and just keeps us laughing all the time. I was on the phone with Summer yesterday morning and Jillian was watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. When the show was over, I heard her say "See Ya, Be Ya Mushca Mouse!) Summer and I had a GREAT laugh at that one. I think Sum said now her girls are all saying "See Ya, Be Ya Mushca Mouse!!!"

Anyway....here are some funny pictures of Jilly being her crazy self.

Jillian is not allowed to have her passy out of the bed. She knows it and tries to push us, but we don't let her. Well, my mom always makes these AWESOME wreath/mum type things for the hospital doors whenever we have any babies in our family. It is precious...pink and has all sorts of fun things hanging on it: a cross, picture frame w/ Jillian's picture, Jules' name, teddy bear, passies...etc., etc. Well, I still have Jules' hanging on her bedroom door and Jillian has a new "game" she likes to play. Whenever I am changing Jules, she stands at the door and sucks on this fake passy! And I think she is serious about it! Here are some pictures of her in action.


Jillian sucking on fake passy


Here is the girl not even ashamed that she is 2 and has a passy in her mouth!!!


I know I have also mentioned Jillian's obsession with Nemo on here. Well, last week her cousins went to the beach in FL and they sent Jillian a postcard. The card had Nemo and Dory on it and Jillian carried it everywhere for two days. The funniest part to me though...she came to me and said, "Mama, Nemodory brokie." I figured out that she was trying to tell me the card was broken because it wouldn't open like normal cards. I thought this was pretty smart of her...she is used to regular cards and not post cards!!!


Here she is holding her brokie Nemodory postcard


She loves this card...we hear that Cousin Ansley picked it out...Good Job An!


Dancing with Nemodory