It's Been A While!!!

I haven't been blogging here lately but I'm gonna try being more consistent! I know I've said this before, but I am really going to try this time! I have been so busy with school, work and being a mommy! Last Friday I had my test in Athens for Adolescent Psychology. I think I did okay. I did great on my case study though! I made 25/25 which is hard to do! I have never made over a 96 on a case study in all my four years of college so I am pretty proud!!! The teacher made so many comments on my paper! He said one of the best he has ever read, excellent and great analytical statements! I am so happy!!! Saturday night we went to the Cancer Benefit at the Elks. It was fun, and a great cause!!! Taylor ended up watching Brookelyn-Grace! I was hesitant at first just because she had never stayed with Taylor but I would most definitely consider Taylor over anyone else! They both love each other!!! & I can tell that Brookelyn-Grace has a good time when she's with her!!! :) Love Taylor! & plus she came to my rescue and the last minute when Nannie was too late. Sunday I did NOTHING! I sat around the house just as lazy as could be! I love me some lazy Sunday's! I don't get them often but when I do I milk them for all their worth! :) Well this week has been crazy......A lot has gone on.......too much for blogger!!! Work is ridiculously busy and mix that with finals and you have craziness! I have a paper due next Monday and I haven't even started, which not really worried though because I AM BAD when it comes to papers! lol I could knock that out in a minimum of hours!!! (Bragging) ha ha Well Brookelyn-Grace is everywhere! Pulling up on anything and everything she can get her hands on! Her separation anxiety is getting better too :) but she is super attached to her Meme!!! Mom can't walk by her without having to hold her or play! It is so sweet and I can really tell mom enjoys it! :) She is so spoiled!!! But I wouldn't want it any other way! :) I can't believe that in 5 days she will be 10 months!!! Lord she is growing up so fast!!! :( 2 more months and she will be a year old!! I so hope she is walking by 12 months!!!! :)

I was off work yesterday and here is a pic of Brookelyn & I playing dress up! :)

READY TO PAINT!!! :)

Tonight is our painting class at McKenzie Bee's! All the girls are going and I am super pumped!!! I hope KAYSE gets to go!!! We are painting a big cross with earth tones and turquoise. I can't wait! What's so weird is that while we are painting we get to drink. There has to be some kind of irony in there with painting a cross and drinking! (haha) Anyway I will post and blog tomorrow about the whole deal :) I hope I don't buy anything in there tonight! They have the cutest stuff! I have actually been doing better on the whole buying "me" stuff here lately. I usually never by myself anything, but I've gone to the mall twice this week and got some super cute stuff from Maurice's! I am such a tight wod, but I have spent a lot on myself! I think I'm starting to feel just a "bit" guilty! I bet tonight is going to be so much fun! The past couple of months I have really been feeling that I need more mommy and friend time. It's nice to have great friends that you can talk to! (especially Kayse!) I can tell her anything and everything and know I wont be judged! Because trust me...my head, world, and a little bit of everything is crazy right now! So it's nice to have good friends you can lean on!!! :)

4 Teeth!

Well I'm not sure whether or not I have blogged about Brookelyn-Grace's new tooth coming in. She now has 4!!! Can you believe that? 4 teeth at 9 months!!! They are so adorable!!! :) I love making her smile just to see them! She is just too cute!!! (I'm trying to stay consistent with my blogging here lately, but life is so hectic that its hard to find time...too much stress!) So bare with me!!!

EASTER 2009

Saturday night we colored eggs with Brookelyn-Grace. She really didn't care much about it. As long as she had her a plastic egg to eat on she was good. Well since we waited until like 9 o'clock she was getting kind of ill. So I went and put her to bed while Keith finished coloring the eggs. Sunday we stayed in and laid around. Brookelyn-Grace loved all her Easter presents from the Easter Bunny! It was adorable watching her play with her stuff! :) Then we headed to my aunt Angela's house with the family. We had a great time hunting for eggs. We tried to let Brookelyn-Grace hunt as much as possible but the wind was awful and I was so worried that she was going to get ear infections from the wind. Oh and the whole day Brookelyn-Grace would do this thing where she fake coughs! It is so funny. If she wants something and cant have it or wants her Meme she will do it! She is such a D-R-A-M-A QUEEN! lol (I wonder where she gets that from! lol)

(THE FAKE COUGH!)Then we packed up and headed to my aunt Deb's house. Almost everyone had already left, but it was still fun. Tiff made Brookelyn-Grace some bows that are just adorable! :) Then we headed back to the house and waited on the bad weather. It was horrible last night! I was devastated! I hate bad weather!!! We ended up in the basement because of course I heard the sirens going off and I was so scared! lol Well then our power went so that mean....curly hair day...All I haft to say is thank goodness for natural curly hair! lol

Athens

Well its been a while since I blogged..Sorry..I've been so busy! Well Friday was the BEST & WORSE day all combined! I went into work Friday for a little bit but ended up leaving about 10 to go to Athens. I studied hard for my Psychology class and I was kinda looking forward to a nice, quite, relaxing drive. (Kinda like rode trips lol) On the way was GREAT, AWESOME & YESSS ALL OF ABOVE! LOL Well on my way to Athens I have a blond moment and end up going past my exit about 2-3 miles lol So I was headed to Nashville! Well I get turned around and pull into Athens. I get there at about 1:10, but my test started at 1:00. I walk in turn my assignments in and get my final. I get to question number 40 and the sirens start going off in our classroom. It tells us that classes and all finals have been canceled and either to report to the gym and get in the basement or leave campus. There was a tornado warning in Limestone Co, which is not far from Athens. So my teacher tells me I have enough time to get on 65 and head home. So I am like 80ing it all the way to the interstate. All of a sudden these horrible black clouds appear and the rain gets louder and louder. I soon realize that it is hailing!!! It was the size of GOLF BALLS! So basically everyone on the interstate pulls off the rd. I was so scared. I couldn't get a hold of anyone. Finally I get my mom. I told her what was going on. I was so scared! I have never been so scared. I was tearing up and could barley talk! If you know me at all then you know that I am a regular James Span lol. I know when there's a thunderstorm coming! lol I am terrified of storms!!! I'm talking about breaking down hysteric crying scared! I kind of held it together though better than I could even expected! I HATE BAD WEATHER! It can be thundering and lighting at night and I will wake up just to check the T.V and my phone! Well anyway as soon as it stopped I got back on the interstate and flew! I found myself at some times going 90! I was so scarred! Well I finally got back into Jasper and rode around a little bit before it was time to go get Brookelyn-Grace from her sitters. I loved the trip because I got some great me time!!!! :) Well needless to say the bad weather was a blessing in disguise because I knew a lot of the answers on the test but I was not prepared enough!!! So I haft to go back this Friday to Athens, which sucks on GAS! Especially since that was a wasted trip, but with GREAT BENEFITS! Friday night I went over to Kayse and Wes's and looked through Kayse's yard sale stuff. Got some super cute Express and American Eagle jeans! Then saw little Liam! I love him!!! :) He is so handsome! Then Kayse and I went out to Bill's with the girls :) Fun, Fun..Then of course we topped it off with the Office and headed home!

Well as for today, Saturday I woke up sick feeling. I felt dissy all day! No clue what was going on with me, but I slept late then took another nap. Then Meme watched Brookelyn-Grace and Keith and I went to the mall. I got a super cute black bra and looked for some heels but Belk didn't have anything! Then we headed back home and colored Easter eggs with Brookelyn-Grace. I'll hopefully post the Easter blog tomorrow night with bunches of pics! :) If not then Monday! :)

GREAT, GREAT, GREAT WEEKEND! :) :) CAN'T WAIT FOR TOMORROW...BROOKELYN-GRACE'S 1ST EASTER!!! ;)

The First Weekend of April!

I just put Brookelyn-Grace down for her 2nd nap for the day so I thought I would get on here and update everyone on the busy weekend we have had. Well Friday night Keith had to work up at our new house. They are still sanding, but tomorrow is the last day. Tuesday they start staining! As soon as the staining is done we are moving in! Although our Master Bathroom will not be done we are just going to go ahead and move in and just finish that up on the upcoming weekends. Well Keith got home Friday night around 9 o'clock so we loaded up Brookelyn-Grace and ran to Wal-Mart to get a toy. We get her a new toy every Friday :) She got this really cute mailbox. I know that sounds weird, but you like put mail in it and it sings. It also has a lot of stuff you can play with on it that makes really cute noises. She loves it!

Saturday Brookelyn-Grace had her second pageant. It was Easter and Summer wear. I chose to put her in her Easter dress that she had her pics made in. Well there were 10 little girls in it. They were beautiful and the competition was intense! So we all haft to line up on stage to just let the judges do a quick look of the front and back of their dresses. Then we were called individually. Brookelyn-Grace was number 10. Well it gets to her turn and she is getting so ill behind stage. I was thinking this is not good. She is going to do terrible. Well as soon as we turned that cornor she turned it "ON." She is a big performer. It is so funny because most kids act up in public and are angels and home. Not Brookelyn-Grace, she is the opposite! She was clapping for herself, smiling and then when we got to the very end of the platform she reaches out to the judges and yells "Dada." It was adorable! She did so good! I had so many people walking up to us saying "Omg she had so much personality!" "She is most definitely going to win"
Of course I was just on cloud 9! Anyway so we haft to go back on stage to win the awards such as; best dress, prettiest eyes., most photogenic ect... Well Brookelyn-Grace got prettiest eyes! She also won that in her first pageant!!! ;) After that we had to exit the stage again and wait to be called. Well all 10 babies and mom's are behind the stage waiting. All of a sudden they call out 5 girls to come back onto the stage. I automatically think these are the top 5, they are going to be crowned ect, ect. So me and the other mom's are like "Oh okay well we didn't get anything." No one said anything but you could tell we all wanted to be like "What!" Well anyway they tell the 5 girls on stage that they are "Future Dream Dolls" and to exit the stage. Then they say "...and your 3rd alternate is." I about passed out. Me and the other moms kind of looked at each other like "Thank goodness!" Well it came down between Brookelyn-Grace and another beautiful little girl for the title of either Princess or Queen. I wold have been happy with either one!!! But they called the other girl for Princess. I was like OMG YES! SHE WON AGAIN!!!! So everyone in my family is going crazy yelling, especially Meme & Dada! Then they said, "& your Queen for the entire year until the title is presented again is...Brookelyn-Grace Tolbert." Brookelyn-Grace loved all the attention! She even clapped for herself again! Haha Also listen how cute this is! When they called out her number this is what I put down....Brookelyn-Grace Tolbert, Brown hair, Blue eyes, Hobbies: Watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Wrapping her daddy around her little finger, and stealing everyone's heart that meets her. Her ambition: To become the president of Disney World so that she could play with Mickey and Minnie Mouse everyday! I thought that was CUTE! :) I was so proud of her!!! Of course I DON'T NEED ANYONE TO TELL ME MY CHILD IS BEAUTIFUL!!! BUT....It will be a great experience to look back on and say "Yes Mommy put you in these pageants and look at your sashes, crown's and trophy's." I told Keith when we first started these pageants that I just wanted a couple sash's, crown's and trophy's to put on her dresser! Haha. We came & conquered! Now were done with pageants! Ha ha!!!

Saturday night was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I went out with Jill, David, Kayse & Wes. I was the 5th wheel for a little bit until all the girls got there! Keith stayed at home with Brookelyn-Grace because he was going on a big fishing trip today and didnt want to be away from Brookelyn-Grace two days in a row. So I had a mommy's night out! :) I had a blast! We went everywhere! I ended up making it home about 2 something. I haven't donethat in a while!!! But I HAD A GREAT TIME!!!!! :)

Sunday: Keith went fishing and now he is back at the house cleaning and getting everything ready for stain. Brookelyn-Grace and I have had such a lazy day!!!! I did not want to get out of the bed this morning at 7 a.m. but had too! Ha ha I have been battling a headache all day! I guess that's what I get for Saturday night! Oh and Brookelyn-Grace's other top tooth is coming in!!!! Yah so now we have 4 teeth!!! 2 on bottom and 2 on top!!! ;)

EASTER 2009 PICS BY: LITTLE LADY BUG PHOTOGRAPHY: SHA UPTON

Here is a couple of Brookelyn-Grace's Easter pics that Sha did! :) I will have more Saturday :)