A baby dedication and bootcamp graduation

Last sunday (June 14, 2009) Harry and I stood in front of our church family and dedicated Emma to the Lord. We made a promise that we intend to keep. I know it's going to be a task, and I pray everday that we can teach her all we know, and encourage her to want to learn.
"Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it."

Proverbs - Chapter 22:6

Emma decided she would be funny and had the whole congregation laughing as she pulled off her shoes and ate her tights. The last picture there is her giving kisses to her cousin Dylan!

We had a busy week, we left wednesday for Georgia, my brother was graduation from OSUT. He is now a US Army Infantryman! It was SO HOT...I've never in my life experienced such heat...and of course everything was outside. It was nice to spend time with family after and for the rest of the weekend we relaxed. Of course my camera battery died and I forgot the backup...so I will have to post pictures from my parents camera later :) I did manage to capture my two favorite people on the drive down, the very long 10.5 hour drive that Emma did fabulous on!

A day in my life, in pictures

We started off my packing away all the 3-6 month clothes and putting out all 9-12 months!

Then after nap time, I set up her brand new "splash zone", and a nice big towel for us to play on. We were outside for 2 hours!
She was so into playing that she wouldn't look at me for 1 good picture. And I won mother of the year award when she fell face first into the 1 inch of water and took a deep breath in. I was proud for not over reacting, I just sat her up and gave her a kiss.

Daddy came home from work early, and we got to spend time together as a FAMILY! I love when we are all 3 together at home with nothing to do but snuggle.

After I fed Emma dinner, I had a MOMMYS NIGHT OUT with my friend Meganne. We went to dinner at chilis, which included margaritas and chocolate molten cake! YUM! We shopped around Landstown commons and ended the night drinking wine and having girl talk on my back porch....

SEE MEGANNE, MY BLOG ISN'T BORING!

I'd rather be a SAHM

My baby and husband are sleeping, the house is so quiet! It's nice to have peace, even if I know it won't last long. I am so over working so many hours and being away from my family, I'm not meant to be a working mother. My heart breaks when I'm away and I can't stop staring at the clock...counting the minutes until I see my beautiful girl. So I won't be doing this many hours next month, I'll be spending time at the pool and soaking up every bit of Emma being a baby, because it won't last long. The past two days at work we were "paper charting"! It was so crazy, the monitoring/charting system was being updated, so we had to use paper to trace FHR and cx...that's just crazy. Not to mention JCAHO was in house yesterday while that was going on, but they were almost done when I got there...WOO, barely made it! So far it's been a crazy hectic week and I'm so looking forward to being domestic tomorrow! and spending my day with this cute face...

seriously...who wouldn't rather stay home with a baby this cute?!?!

don't let yourself go

amazing. Always have respect for God, yourself, your marriage. Don't let temptation get a hold of you. Stay true to who you are.


On a different note, I am almost at the end of my third week of weight watchers. So far only 5.8lbs down from start weight. I am hoping to be down another 2lbs this week! It's been hard to make the right choices, because for so long I skipped breakfast and binge eat for lunch/dinner. I'm back to my prepregnancy weight, but I was in these habits long before dear sweet Emma came along!

I CAN DO THIS, I CAN DO THIS, I CAN DO THIS.