Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Recent pictures...

Here are some recent pictures we have taken in the past month...just thought i would share some of the cuteness..well i think so. This picture goes out to aunt Lizzie who gave London this coat when she was born. She can finally fit into it but it is still a size 12-18 months...yes she still has some 12 month clothes because she is an ity-bity.
I love shoes!!! I take after my Grandma Rupp!!!


Strike a pose...Vogue...

Brayden with his hole in the backyard he has dug even though he has a sand box too. He drives his cars through it, sits in it, rolls around in it, and then fills it back in all to do it all over again the next day or even an hour later.



I have begun calling London "fluffy". Her hair has curl to it and then when she sleeps on it it gets super frizzy in the back. No amount of combing will contain it after it has gone frizzy except a bath. Her hair is just at the length that it goes everywhere but isn't long enough to do a whole bunch...i love my fluffy, lolly dolly, dolly, baby, and my hey you (all her nicknames)





The other big event, elegance by emily did, in october was our town festivel. We had a both and sold cupcakes. The kids came by to visit and Grandpa and Grandma Rupp took Brayden on the pony ride.




Girls Night Out event...

Elegance by Emily, my bakery, recently did an event called "Girls night Out". We did the event last year and got a lot of business from it and they asked us to do it again and so we did. It is a plastic surgery firm in Atlanta that hosts this huge party/event. It includes vendors like Kate Spade, Dior, and Macy's, and a lot of alcohol vendors. They did free samples of botox and other skin stuff. The caterer was awesome though! We gave away samples and showed off cakes. I brought over 500 samples, even though they had over 1000 people RSVP (i just didn't have the room to store it all as i had another big event 2 days later) and they were gone within 1 hour and 20 minutes of the event starting. A lot of people were mad they were gone and i felt really bad...It turned out really well and i was happy with how the cake, the firm ordered, turned out (the zebra print one) since they ordered it 2 days before the event and i was already super stressed out about all my events that week. It's always nice to go sell and advertise your product to really rich people who don't bat an eye when they are willing to shell out $500 for a cake for a little get togeather ...anyway...just something we have been up to also in the month of October...









couponing...

 
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

one long, unexpected, full of blessings month...

i have been horrible at updating once again...sorry. This past month has been a weird one as we have had a little bit of everything going on at our house.

Amazingly, well i think it is super awesome, in October, i had my hysterectomy surgery. I wasn't supposed to have it until after the new year. But once again i decided, on a Sunday morning as always, to start having problems that led to an immediate visit to the er. According to the doctors, the problem was not related to needing to have the surgery but after losing blood for 48 hours constantly, i need a transfusion anyway so the doctor went ahead and did it. I may have begged the doctors too...anyway, they did the surgery, i woke up to amazing amounts of pain, went through a lot of pain killers, and two blood transfusions later i was good to go. I feel great and am so excited to begin a life without these problems and pain and all that mess!!! note-i feel good in the healing sense and not the doped up on narcotics sense thank you...

On another happy note, Jason got his scholarship reinstated! yay! UGA gave him a scholarship when he applied and got into their MBA program but then took it away because they claimed we were not ga residents. We appealed but they didn't care. Since he started his second and last year of the program, we appealed again and were granted ga residency this time...sadly on the basis that our child is buried in ga...but every little bit of money saved helps! Jason has also been busy with work and his scouts. He has been cracking the whip on his scouts to get their acts together and do their stuff.

All I can say is that, if it is even possible, Brayden fell even more in love with dirt and trucks. The kid can't put two words together but he can tell you the name of every kind of truck and piece of construction equipment. He also loves my in-laws dog max and always asks to go see it. He loves to get down and wrestle with the dog and chase it all around. But no we are not getting a dog!!

London has all of a sudden just taken off. We have left the baby stage behind and are full swing into toddlerdom. She is a talker and has tons of new words everyday. She is working on holding her own against Brayden which causes lots more drama but we are working on it. London also traded her crib for a big girl bed and will finally go down the stairs on her own..most of the time. That has been a long time coming.

Besides that stuff and the normal day to day of life I have also become more obsessed with couponing. I will write a blog about it another time. It is my mormon form of crack. I have also been addicted to crafting this past month and done a ton of stuff. I came to the realization that I do crafts and make things as a way to deal with grief. These past few weeks have been really hard for me as it was Madison's due date. Not that we ever expected her to be born on her due date but it more made me think that maybe, finally, she would be able to be coming home from the hospital and be with our family. Thanks to everyone who gave me support especially Mealina when i called her to vent because i was so angry that the hospital had sent me a "thinking of you on your due date" card.

We are excited for the holidays and i have been scoping out black friday deals...My sister and I have big black friday plans! pictures to come...