And I'm Back... :)

With our Brand New Computer! Funnily enough it's different than our last one. We had gotten our new one right before Griffin was born (I think back in August) but already Best Buy wasn't even carrying that brand anymore. So now we have a comparable one. The price was exactly the same but different brand, bigger screen, and a faster whatever it is that makes newer computers better than older ones. (I'm a total techie can you tell? :) It's amazing how much can change in the computer world in just a couple of month. But, I'm so glad for it!! Wasn't I just wishing yesterday for something new and exciting? I can't believe that it's sitting on my kitchen table right now!

I'm thinking that I should probably do a random bullet post to get all caught up. It may or may not have pictures to go with it. I'm pretty tired right now. We'll just see how all this goes shall we?

• I finally started to diet. Diet as in DIEt. I think that I'm going to die. No, really. I may. It seems so easy for others. They just have self control that I don't I guess. I am one of those people who eat for many many reason. When things taste really good I eat, when I'm happy I eat, when I'm sad I eat, when I'm stressed...you get the picture. It's only been a little over a week and already I'm praying to God to give me strength to continue. Sweet Bobby is doing it with me though. When we eat our Lean Cuisine's for dinner together I thank him and say "you just bought another 30 minutes of life with me for making such a healthy choice". I should remember that same sentiment.

• I missed everyone so very much while I was gone! I had my MIL's laptop here and there briefly and I tried to jump around when and where I could to see how everyone was doing. Thanks so much for the sweet words for ya'll about being missed. It warmed my starving heart! :)

• Grady's 4th Birthday is coming up soon!We are having his party at a transportation museum here in town. He is sooo all about trains right now its crazy. He is almost to the "I can't wait another second until my birthday party" point. I can't either. I have found some super cute invites and party favors! The colors are aqua, orange and brown. It should be really fun!

• I can't remember if I said this on here yet or maybe it was just on Facebook, but I had found a really really (like 10 years old) old cashiers check in a file folder that I was cleaning out. Ya'll it was for $500! I drove my happy butt straight to the bank to try and figure out how to get the unused funds back. After much searching (the bank couldn't help me because they hand the funds over to the state after 3 years) online, and many phone calls and emails I was able to find the funds! I had to go all the way to the State of Alabama's treasury department but I got them! Well not "got them" yet, technically  it's a 6-8 week wait to have the funds mailed back to me. We might end up with a really fun late summer vacay if my hubby doesn't steal it to work on his truck. :)

• Griffin hasn't changed much in the past couple of weeks. I really need to do a complete 7 month post on him soon. He is still eating off a spoon like a trooper, waking up at least once a night for a lost paci replacement, and trying soo hard to sit up but is still a little on the tipsy side. His crazy cute smiles and giggles make my heart flip every.single.time. 

• I just heard on Facebook that Jennifer over at Maybe If You Just relax lost her little girl this morning. I'm so heartbroken for her right now. :(. How the hell do you loose your one year old on mother's day and ever recover from that? Sweet Ainsley was born prematurely when her twin sister passed in utero . She fought bravely spending almost an entire year in the NICU before being transferred to the PICU. Sweet girl. My prayers are with her and her family today. Go over and leave her some words of comfort if you have a second.

• On a little bit lighter of a note, I read the greatest article this morning about pregnancy and weight loss/weight gain. It's brilliant, hilarious, and oh so truthful all rolled into one. Read http://hellogiggles.com/the-one-in-which-maybe-we-leave-jessica-simpson-the-hell-alone

• I'll be back later today with a proper Mother's Day post! 

A Laptop So Broke That We Are Getting A New One

Yep folks, you heard it right! We are getting a new laptop! Whoot Whoot!

Apparently when you spill large quantities of hot liquids on computers it destroys everything inside them. We got the email today that told us to go back to the store and claim our new computer. Too bad ours was pretty new still. It would have been nice to have had an older computer and then gotten essentially a free upgrade. But beggars can not be choosers and I am just grateful to the nth degree that ours is getting replaced, that they were able to save everything onto our external hard drive, and that my MIL brought her laptop over for us to use almost every other day.

By this time tomorrow I'll be back in blogging business with tons of fun pictures to share!

The Coffee Cup Disaster of 2012

So yesterday I stood up too quickly while I had a fresh hot full cup of coffee on the table in front of me. Let me clarify to say that I was sitting  in front of my laptop at the time. You can guess exactly what happened next.

::Splash::

I sat helpless for a moment as I watched all the liquid disappear between the keys and down into the computer itself. I was able to turn the computer upside down and drain most of the coffee out but by then my laptop was already shutting itself down. :(

After a one mild panic attack and one frantic phone call to Best Buy I discovered that our repair coverage included hot drink spillage. :) Thank God!!

Sadly, I won't have a computer for at least the next two and a half weeks. (Right now I'm using my MIL's computer for the evening). The good thing is that most of our pictures had already been copied over to our external hard-drive. We were a tad bit worried that those that had not been copied over  might all be gone but they were able to recover them safely!! Go Geek Squad!!

I'll be taking a very un-wanted hiatus for a while. Please forgive me if I'm not reading or commenting for a while. I promise that you inbox will be flooded with messages from me when I get back and caught up!

I am missing everyone already!

When To Say Something

Every day I go and meet Graham at his bus stop. And, everyday I visit with the same two ladies who are also there to get their kids off the bus.  Both are older than myself. One is a grandmother (although she acts and looks very youthful) and the other is a mom that is just an older mom. They are both sweet, sweet ladies. I really enjoy our 5 to 10 minutes a day that we see each other and chat together.

We don't hang out or do anything together past our bus stop meetings so while I could call them 'friends' they are not ladies with whom I really count as close.

For the past couple of months there has been some gentle ribbing as to when we "are going to have another baby". The other idea of theirs that keeps getting mentioned over and over is "If you had another one, I bet that  it would be a girl". I laugh along with them and say vague things like "Oh no! We are soo done with having kids." and "We have all we can handle right now."

I find myself lately wanting to honestly answer their teasing questions. I want to tell them that there will be no more little ones for us and why. I want to tell them all about Caroline.

The other day I got brave and wore my "Team Caroline" t-shirt outside. I just knew that they would be nosy and ask me what my shirt was for. I got really scared at the last second though and scooped up Griffin and held him to that side of my chest so that her logo was covered by him. Sure enough, they didn't notice and didn't ask.

Should I just come clean about the whole thing? What if the explanation takes longer than we have to stand there and wait for the kids bus? What if I start to cry and then all the kids get off the bus to me being a hot mess? What if I mess up our fun neighbor mojo with such a sad,serious topic?

What would you do?

Wordless Wednesday

Nadafinga!

Haha. I just couldn't resist. It's my favorite movie and it pretty much sums up Graham right now :).

Last week at school Graham was playing basketball during recess and jammed his ring finger on his left hand. He came with it in a splint from the nurses office and we didn't think too much of it. The next morning he was still really complaining that it was hurting so Bobby and I decided that we should probably have it looked at.

The pediatrician agreed that we should get it X-Ray'd just to be on the safe side.

Graham and I spent the whole day either in my car or in a waiting room. We went from the pediatricians office to the X-ray place, back home for 5 seconds just to get a call that it was fractured and that we needed to head back over to the X-ray place to pick up the film and then go over to the  Orthopedic doctor. We are so thankful that Dr. Phelps is a friend of my sister-in-law Melanie! His office said that we could go right over and they would squeeze us in that very day.

Thank goodness for our Kindle Fire. Graham played games on it until I began to nag his for pictures. :)

Graham got tired of all my requests and began to pick his nose so the pictures would stop. :) Thankfully it wasn't too much longer before Dr. P came in. 

Good news is that while Graham's finger is fractured though the growth plate, he only needs to wear his finger wrapped in a splint for 4 weeks. Poor thing has to give up both basketball and baseball for the next 4 weeks while it heals. 

We are so thankful that it wasn't worse. Here's to a speedy recovery!

Grady In The News!

Ya'll Grady was in the newspaper! :)

"Grady Mueller, dressed like a veteran train engineer, waves three flags as the E-9 Streamliner diesel locomotive leaves the New Braunfels Railroad Museum."

How exciting! He was on the front page of the Metro section of the San Antonio Express News!

My in-laws had heard that there was going to be a really fun old train pulling through New Braunfels and decided to take my little train addict to go and see. He made one seriously cute conductor don't ya think? :)

I'm so glad that he was able to get out of the house and spend a little quality time with his grandparents but he just looks so dang cute and had the best time, I wish I would have been there too with him!

Grady has not stopped talking about the yellow diesel engine that he saw. He is still so excited! We went out today for a little bit to check out a place to have Grady's upcoming birthday party at. He nearly blew a gasket when we pulled up to the Texas Transportation Museum and they had TONS of trains there! 

I hope that everyone is having a great weekend!