It's a girl! Claire Teresa Born Nov. 1st at 5:53 pm! Weighing 7lb 5 oz and 20 inches long! I will post pictures soon!! She is beautiful!

Pumpkin Patch!

On a different note, my sister is due Oct 31st with her second baby. I can not wait to see what it is! I am soo excited. I love babies. I hope she has it Friday so I can have the whole weekend to see the baby!!! Woohoo!

Addddddorable!

Hmm Debbie in the coffin.

I know, it's doubled. It's because I want you to look closely at how attractive we truly are. Wait no, I couldn't figure out how to delete it.

That giant pumpkin is real! Crazzzy!

Well last Friday we (John, Aunt Jan, Debbie, John, and I) decided to sneak into Rombachs Pumpkin Patch. It was a private party. Our invitation most likly got lost in the mail :) We had a good time. . .

Might as well just go all out with posts. My nieces 2nd birthday is Oct 28th!! Elmo birthday party soon. And new baby is coming soon!!! I can't wait. Very exciting.

John's updates: Recently bought a surround sound. I love Kate. She is great. That is all.

To add: I had an orange hi-c juice box in my car the other night. Got in my car in the morning and noticed the straw to the orange hi-c juice box was on the floor. . . bitten up. Day two, I had a bag of goldfish in my trunk (don't ask) and when I went to grab my school books from the trunk I couldn't help but notice goldfish smashed everywhere! Day three, John's dad gave me a bag of M & Ms. I placed them in my cupholder (unopened). Drove to work today and realize the bag was open and had missing candy. I think I have a friend in my car. . . what do you think?

Sooo sorry. Apparently, I must have been too busy to update this. Let's see, school has been nuts! Soo much work to do now. All my free time is dedicated to that. I have officially moved into John's. So that is exciting and different. We have divorced only multiple times now and are getting alone nicely. I did create a rule though: whoever gets out of the bed last has to make it! Soooo on Monday (first day of work for me) when my alarm went off at 7 he jumped up screaming "you have to make it you have to make it!" It was pretty humorous. Haha. So work is great. I assist the cutest, sweetest, little 5 year old girl! Adorable! She's pretty entertaining. I work then go straight to school then usually bed. Busy life. We also went to Vegas recently. It was John's cousin's 21st. It was. . .rough. Vegas never sleeps. Which means I didn't get to much at all. Well worth it. :)

I like this. . .

View from Paris!

Going to Paris (and back all in one night :)

Jealous yet?

The Chippendales.

Grabbing a beverage before the show.

Courtney (John's Cousin) and I before the Chippendale Show. . .

View from out hotel. Our private pool. Very nice, very nice.

John and I standing in front of the "Flamingo" hotel.

St. Charles-Main street, Dress update, Toes!

Best weekend in September! Delana arrived at 3 on Friday (Skipped a few classes but I am not one to judge) and then off we went!! To the store to buy Delana the proper ingredients for her to cook us breakfast, lunch, and dinner all weekend :) OH and loads of coffee, grinders, and spatulas! LOL. But, Friday we just sat around and "did some homework." Which really means we just chatted all night and planned Saturdays adventure.

Saturday, we woke up early and rushed to Elite Bridal off Mid Rivers off to find the dress of my dreams. Well, they had it. In size 14. IT was amazing!!! Just a little to big but that was the one. We were blessed to have Debbie, Grandma, and Aunt Jan be there with us also! Fun times. Then we went down town Saint Charles and ate at Mother-in-law restaurant. It was very yummy! Then Delana, Debbie, and I walked around for hours in the stores. We managed to open all of the air freshner things at one store, beat a lady to all the pumpkin spice ones, find an elmo ornament for my niece, feel some much hated foot pain from my heels, and man it was fun. What a great day we truly had. Then we called Stacie, went back to Elite Bridal and bought the dress!!! Major purchase done! Apparently, John and I are on top of our game with this wedding. Which is great because school is getting much busier!

Enjoy!

Debbie thought this was cute, I think Delana thought otherwise :)

We need two of these. Putting it on registry!

Debbie and D.


Delana's favorite scarecrow.


Ahh, playing with fake flowers=sooo fun.

I know, I know, I haven't posted for a while. And I'm probably upsetting all my stalkers greatly because hey let's face it my life is SO interesting! :)

I recently started Grad school at UMSL. (Time to brag, bear with me). I am one of 25 accepted into the Masters of Education in Counseling. You may think, eh I can do that. And maybe you can but 140 people did not. So I am very thrilled to have this opportunity. I have class Tues, Wed, and Thurs nights and most likely will for the next 2-3 years. It's a 60 credit hr program (yuck!) that I intend to do year round, full time. I really do enjoy it though. It is amazing to go to school expecting a lecture, powerpoint notes, or maybe a few discussion questions and find that this is nothing like that.

"How do you define what culture you are part of."

This is the question that will make anyone speechless, talk for hours (when expected to give a 4 minute answer), or bring about loads of tears. Apparently, when you are asked about culture you are entitled to bring up anything in your past that has upset you . . . ? So after passing around a box of tissues and holding in my laughter, I was chosen to give empathic words of wisdom to a girl who was upset because she was wait-listed into the program. I told her I struggled throughout school for my whole life yada yada yada. I won't bore you with that though. But overall, I really enjoy this class and the people in it!

Delana is coming to see me next week! I will have her from Friday to Sunday! So we are both thrilled about that. We plan to look at some dresses, eat down downtown St. Charles, etc.

Let's see, John went to LA for a "business trip" last week. He was gone from Sunday morning to Saturday night. Must have been fun-laying by the beach, eating on work's expense, etc. However, now that I think about it, I eat at my works expense, sleep, and am paid to do homework. I guess not quite as much as John but it works :) So then last night (Friday) my mom decided to come stay at Kate's Bed and Breakfast! We went on an enjoyable walk, ate at applebees, had a margarita (mom) and beer (me, of course), watched a movie, and went shopping. It was fun!! And tomorrow we are looking forward to going to the river with my uncle. I can't wait to try out his new jet ski, water skis, and tube!