Police Academy

Finally after a year of soul searching  and sacrificing on both of our parts Alan finally graduated from Police Academy! Yahoo! Won't it be nice to have a husband again? So far it's been great although he keeps finding himself bored at home not knowing what to do...my suggestions usually include cleaning or moving stuff around to get ready for this baby of ours. Not too fun but you can't complain, but I bet he secretly wishes he was back in school again.

If you've ever served in the military stand up....oh I'm soo proud!

Alan and some of his awards

Happy 1st Birthday Xander

It has been soo long sine I've posted anything. Being busy with 2 kids is catching up with me! Xander turned 1 on Friday May 14! I cannot believe it's already been a year since we had him and just over 2 months until we have our next little boy. We decided to do Xander's birthday party on Saturday since everyone has work on Friday and wanted to make sure the people we wanted to be there would be able to.

 Xander and Cousin Skyler. Almost look like brothers

We're not quite sure why he chose to sit here...

 Anyone know why they make it soo hard to get into kids toys?

 How I wish I could take credit for his super cool Hulk cake...

 Don't take the cake from the baby!

And feeding mommy! How generous!

Week 26

Yet another check up down a few more to go! 

Had my Gestational Diabetes test on Thurday and wont hear back about the results until Monday. Chances are that Im good to go. If I had to watch my diet Im not sure I'd survive without my goodies! She had to take the blood test and when she went to get another vial of blood something happened and my arm stung like crazy and for some reason my blood stopped and would not fill up the vial. OUCH!!! Yup, now there is a huge bruise on my arm because of it. She asked me if I wanted her to prick me again or just do a finger prick to test my hemoglobin. Um finger prick please!
Blood pressure is great like always but I have gained 8 lbs in 4 weeks!!! What??!!! Yes, that makes a grand total of 141 lbs so far this pregnancy.
Other than that there is nothing more to post. I should count it as a blessing but I have boring pregnancies majority rules. She said she'd strip my membranes at 38 weeks and if that doesn't work try again and be induced a week early at 39 weeks. I know the drill. Did this with Xander. Some people may object to being induced but I really do not mind or think it's doing anything against mother nature.

Picture Update

Just a few pictures to keep the blog interesting!

26 weeks pregnant! 

Kymber and her bestie outside posing...

Easter

I think I'm way due for another Albright update post! 

I finally found my camera! This is why Easter post has been neglected...until now!

Alan was soo cute when it came to Easter. He refused to let me help with Xander's basket and informed me that I had Kymber's and he would take care of bubba's. Now, some may think it's completely insane to give a 10 month old an Easter basket, but in my house we celebrate every holiday!

I was beyond excited to find out that it was my holiday with Kymber this year! Her dad had her Friday evening until Saturday evening and we got her the rest of the weekend. We didn't go completely out on Easter although we did get them plenty of candy to munch on!

Flu Bug

Tis the season for the flu and this one seems like it's spreading like the plague!!  It hit my poor Xander first and broke my heart when he'd thow up cause at 11 months old you have zero idea what's going on.Thank heavens it didnt last very long!! It was over with by the morning but I am still, after many days, am still changing bedding and nasty diapers in the mornings. Of course I was the one who tended to him and was closest to him so I caught it next. It was soo bad I was having contractions and the mid wife said it should be gone by the morning but if not to call her. Well, it wasn't. And so my lovely day began of having my mom come help watch the kids cause I could hardly move I was hurting so bad and soon as Alan got home I had to run to the hospital to have the baby monitored and get some fluids in me. A lovely 5 hours at the hospital and I was sooo ready to get out of there. Sure made a world of difference though!
Like I said, it spreads like the plague and it seems like everyone either has had it or is getting it. Alan got it , but Kymber never did. Only as cold which is leaving her voice half way gone and her up all night coughing. I end up on the couch because I can hear it and keeps me awake at night worrying about her. I'm glad its over and now we can start enjoying the sunshine that's coming our way!

23 weeks

The only reason I am posting this picture I promised an updated preggo pic and because my bestie Kristin took the time to take it for me...So here I am. 23 weeks pregnant.  Clothes barely fit and every Sunday I am defeated by my Sunday Wardrobe because I am now too big for any this else but my plain black maternity skirt and maternity dress that makes me look the size of Texas.

Mod Podge Picture frame

This is probably one of the simplest and cheapest projects I've done in a while.I decided to do it just for Kymber. I got her a pictures frame also from the local dollar store so that she could have a project to do and be proud of it. She didn't end up doing much with hers but I had fun with mine!

Mod Podge is prob one of my very favorite inventions. You can seriously make anything from it! This is only the first i will post on here but more to come!!

1 jar of Mod Podge
1 dollar store picture frame
Foam brush (very cheap) or you can you any paint brush I guess
Scraps of paper ripped in pieces or fabric
Embellishments
Picture to fill it with

                                               Before

                                                After

Crafty Monday

Lately I've become quite the crafty person.I think that it keeps me sane mostly and gives me drive.This purse was soooo simple, so I made it for Kymber (my cute little model) 

                             Here are only a few of the many many hair clippies I've been making...

             
This is the bow holder i made to hold them all because I didnt want them all ruined and basically it was an excuse to be crafty. Not the best quality but it works for us. This was taken a while ago so not all   the   hair stuff I made is on it.

Super Saturday

All week I expected Saturday be a not so nice day.Weather wasn't looking too hopeful. That goes to show you to never trust the weather report on yahoo. It ended up being such a pretty day! Little chilly when the wind came up, but other than that. Perfect.
This Saturday just happened to be one of the nicest I've had in a while. It's not every day that I actually have a car to use whenever I want. My awesome brother went out of town for the weekend and kindly left his car for me to use whenever I want. Having Alan have work and school every single day and even school from 8-5 Saturdays has left e cripples with no car. I decided to take full advantage of this.I started the day off doing a much needed visit to my great grandparents Waters whom I haven't seen since Xander's baby blessing. For those of you figuring that one out...it's been hmmmm months? Yes. Bad granddaughter!
Lunch time! I treated Kymber and Xander to a lunch at McDonald's so that she could go play on all the slides.

After that I took the kids to Michael's so that I could find stuff to finish my crafty projects I've been getting into.That will prob be my next post.
After that I made plans to meet at the "Library Park" with my bestie Kristin and her kiddos since our kids are pretty much the same age. Seemed like it's be such a waste of good weather if we didn't make a stop at the park.NOW...what's the sun without an ice cream cone?? So I stopped at Barry's and got us all some. I stripped down Xander and let him go to town on the thing.