Meal Plan....

Mon-Chicken Cordon Bleu
Tue-French Dip Subs (Never made last week)
Wed-Crockpot Lasagna
Thurs-Chicken and Wild Rice
Fri-Dinner group with Friends
Sat-Free Day (Homemade Pizza or Tacos?)
Sun-Parmesean Tilapia
Mon-Taco Soup
Tue-Egg & Sausage Casserole
Wed-Hashbrown Casserole
Thur-Ranch Pork Chops
Fri-Free Day
Sat-Delia's Choice (her B-Day Party Day) Spagetti

Gotta go for now! Have a blessed week!

The "Poo-Poo" card!

So becoming a mother of two I can confidently say has been amazing. I can't say it has been super easy or perfect for that matter but I have truly enjoyed it. Delia has done pretty good, has some jealousy issues but that is totally understandable. But lately she has been pushing my buttons by pulling the "Poo-Poo card."
The poo poo card as I am so lovingly calling it is this: I go to do something and she totally comes up and says ""Mama I have to go poo poo." Which is fine, except I think she holds it until these times and then uses it to get my attention. Here is a few examples just from today.

1. I work out during Donovan's morning nap. That way in the afternoon, I can get stuff done while they are both napping. So I put him to sleep. Get her out some playdough, stickers, scissors, or colors to play with and start my workout on the wii. About two minutes in "the poo poo card" So I stop and take her.

2. We are all playing in the living room. Donovan needs a diaper change so I tell her I am going to change his diaper and will be right back. Two Seconds after I lay him down and get the dirty diaper off. "the poo poo card".

3. Lunch is always fun. Today she just played and hardly ate, but amazingly pulled the poo poo card twice. Once while we were all sitting at the table and I was feeding Donovan his Squash. Second after I fed him I sat down to eat my lunch and she did it again.

I have tried taking her to the bathroom before any of these times because it just seems like a game to her. But even if she goes to the bathroom before. She always has to go again. She will sit on the potty and I swear she can make herself poop even if it is just one little pebble. I am scared to call her bluff because 1.I don't want to clean it up. 2.She goes when she says she has too. She has been potty trained since she was 19 months old so this is nothing new to her. We are working on her going by herself but she hasn't quite gotten the wiping process down.

I know that some day I will look back at this and laugh. But right now it just drives me crazy. I feel like no matter how much planning/organzing I do the "Poo Poo card" always gets played. :)

Have a blessed weekend!!!!

New Years Goals and Meal Planning!!!

So 2011 is here. It is that time again to make resolutions or as I like to call them goals. So lets start out with a little update. I have quit my job. I am now a full time stay at home mom. So it is now time for me to get organized and hopefully have a little more energy to devote to my family. So here are my goals for the year.

1. Get organized. i.e. meal plan, activities for kids, ect.....
2. Read my Bible more!! I have really been a slacker at my bible studying.
3. Work out three times a week. The baby weight is gone but my body is not back so my goal is to tone and shape my body.
4. Run a 1/2 marathon by the end of the year. This is a big one for me. I don't know where I will find the time for this but I would really like to do it.
5. Be the best mother and wife I can be, because they deserve it.

So to get started here is my meal plan for the next two weeks. I have alot of crockpot recipes in here so I am hoping that will help with time. Note: By no means am I a fancy cook.

3rd-Monday-Chicken and Rice Casserole
4th-Tuesday-Wheat Tortellini with Wheat Pasta and Garlic Bread
5th-Wed-Carissa's Chicken Salad Sandwiches
6th-Thur-Steve Sandwiches and Fruit Salad(Thanks Elizabeth)
7th-Fri-Potato Soup (Crockpot)
8th-Sat-Free Day (Parmesean Tilapia as a back-up)
9th-Sun-Chicken and Wild Rice (crockpot)
10th- Mon-Bunko at my House Chicken Annette (crockpot)
11th-Tue-Honey Pecan Chicken with Sweet Potato Chips (Thanks Elizabeth)
12th-Wed-Beef Stroganoff (Crockpot)
13th-Thurs-Taco Casserole (Crockpot)
14th-Fri-Free Day (back-up Hungry Man's Chicken (crockpot))
15th-Sat-Chicken Asparagus Casserole (crockpot)
16th-Sun-French Dip Subs (crockpot)

Ok so here goes nothing! Hope you guys all have a blessed week!!

Lyndsey

The life of a new Mommy!

So I am now officially the mother to two children. It still seems weird to say that and D-man is already over two months old. He is a pretty good baby. He was a little colicky at first but seemed to get over it soon. He is a good sleeper and went into his own room alot earlier than his sister did. Life has been crazy with two kids, but not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I have always heard that going to two children is really hard. It has been a change but not as bad as I thought it would be. The biggest struggles I have is with "Mommy Guilt". I have a busy, social toddler who just wants to be played with all of the time or be a very big helper aka little mommy. Then I have a newborn that I know isn't getting held as much as his sister. Then I have a house to take care of, a husband to take care of and a part time job. On top of all of this I am trying to start a embroidery business and I have jumped into Spanish once again, trying to get fluent. I definately have to stay more organized as a mother of two and it sure does take alot longer to get out the door. And on those random days when I get a couple of hours to myself I feel guilty for leaving the kids with my husband or my parents. (like I am slacking on the job or something, I know this sounds ridiculous) So all in all life has been great just trying to figure out how to balance life without going nuts. It is hard to explain this frustration and I have no idea if this post is making any sense. So here is to staying organized and not having so much Mommy guilt!
Hope you all have a blessed week!

This and That

So this week is a big week for my family. We will welcome a new little man into our lives. Donovan Luis Perez is scheduled to be delivered via c-section on Friday. I am so excited, nervous, anxious, and a whole other mix of emotions. The nursery is done and our bags are packed for the most part. I have so many different feelings going on. I thought that I would like knowing what day I would be delivering, but now I think it is worse. I am trying to enjoy lots of time with Delia this week, keep my house clean and get the couple of things done on my to do list. I hope the week goes fast but not too fast. I plan on taking some naps, going to bed early and just enjoy this time in general but it is really hard. I am so ready to meet our newest little blessing and to be a family of four. Until I can post pics of him here are some pictures of his nursery. There is more on my facebook page if you want to see them!

Hope you all have a blessed week!

Me at 38 weeks pregnant!

The door!


Yes! We even got a soccer ball door handle!

Crib and Initial Letters!

Wall Decor!

Changing Table!

Blogging world has not been forgotten....

Hello All!

Well to say the least it has been long time since I posted anything. I have been a slacker and have been hearing about it from several people. Good to know at least someone misses my weirdness.
I don't really have a "topic" for today so here is what is currently going on in my life.

-It is raining outside. I love it! It has been raining alot lately but being 9 months pregnant in July I will take the cooler temperatures.
-World Cup is going on. For me I haven't watched one game all the way through but for my husband this is "chocolate". He has been all about soccer for the last month, much to my nesting dismay. It is over on July 11th, so hopefully I can talk him into doing some of the things I think need to be done, but can't do myself. One thing good about the WC is it made Father Day gift buying easy. Just buy something that has to do with the world cup.
-As mentioned above I am very pregnant. I will have a C-section on July 30th. I have very mixed feelings about this. I am excited, scared, anxious, and worried. I still have a little to do but basically we are ready for our little man. I have one last shower on Sat, so after that hopefully I can find the energy to put the finishing touches on everything.
-Delia is getting bigger and bigger. She is one of the reasons I listed all of the above emotions. She has had her Mommy all to herself and know she is going to have to share. I just hope I am not sleep deprived enough that she doesn't feel neglected.

Well I think that is all for now. Going to go to bed and TRY to sleep! HaHa Hopefully I can keep this updated a little more. Only time, and a new baby, will tell. :)

Hope you all have a blessed week!

Here and There and Everywhere

So alot has been going on the last couple of months and I have decided that even though I love blogging I really stink at it. Before I had a blog I had so much I wanted to write about, then when I got one, I am a total slacker with it. So hopefully I can get better at it. So for now here is a couple of things happening in our life.

1. We found out we are having a BOY! Yea! I am so excited, now to determine a name. We have narrowed it down to two. I know what my favorite is, but Chuck won't pick one yet. :) (I think he already has, but just like to drag me along because he know he is driving me crazy!) So when we get a name I will let you know. The nursery is painted light blue, we will be putting a thick chocolate brown stripe around and a thin orange stripe on either side of that. Me and my mom are going to make the bedding. We will use dinasours and Soccer Balls (are you surprised). We are going to work on the bedding over spring break so hopefully I can post pics soon.

2. I am so glad it is almost spring! I love the Sunshine!!!!!!!

3. My 10 year highschool reunion is in June. Weird, so weird. I have mixed feeling about this but and so excited to go and see everyone! More than just looking at their lives through facebook. LOL

I don't really know what else to write for now so if I think of something else I will just have to post later.

I hope you all have a blessed week!

RIP Papa Lee

Well as most of you probably read on my facebook page my Papa passed away last Sunday night. He had been sick and basically unresponsive for about a week and a half. He was surrounded by his family and just went to sleep peacefully. I am so glad that he is in heaven with my Gaga now. I know that they are happy together. For his memorial service they have asked each grandchild to write their favorite memories of Papa for the Preacher to read, so hear is mine.

Papa Lee loved us grandkids and great-grandaughters and spoiled us rotten. One of the first things I remember is he always had a snickers bar hidden somewhere for me when I came over. He loved to work outside, and it was a real treat if we got to ride on his lawnmower with him. He loved to take his naps and had no problem telling us kids to "hush up" if we were being too loud. We would take bike rides all of the time. (I think this was more so Gaga could get us out of the house for a minute but he still loved it. :) ) He loved to watch his Dallas Cowboy's football. He loved to eat. He always read out of his large print Bible, and always made sure that we read our Bibles. Growing up I always remember him in either red sweat shorts with a white t-shirt and a hat or jeans that had a crease sewn down the front of them, a white t-shirt and a hat. He loved to eat ice cream and drink pepsi and sometimes put peanuts in it. He loved to work with his tools in the garage. He had a large collection of National Geographics in the garage also. He loved to sit on the porch with binoculars and watch his birds. He loved to help people and give them anything they needed. He adored my Gaga and loved spoiling her. He loved to talk to anyone who would listen and tell some of his old stories. He loved the church and he loved God. He loved his daughters and always said they were the best in the world. He was very protective of his family. He was stubborn, courageous, a gentle giant, giving, onery, and a man unlike many in our culture today. He was loved by many and will not easily be forgotten. I love you Papa and can't wait for the day I can see you and Gaga again!

We're Knocked Up!

So the news is out! I really hate the phrase "were knocked up", but you really can't say that when you are telling family or friends, so I decided to use it on here. :) So I don't know alot of detail yet. I think I am due around August 9th, 2010. I go to the doctor on January 4th and will find out for sure then.
I don't really like telling people this early because I have had a miscarriage in the past, but I'm feeling pretty good about this one so we decided to chance it and tell everyone early (for us). Anyhow I will update after I go to the doctor, but until then please keep us (and my nerves) in your prayers!

Have a blessed week!

What I am Thankful for.....better late than never!

Hello all, so I know I have totally been a slacker with blogging but life has been a little crazy. In October my cousin got married. I did a whole desert room for her that included several goodies, a fully stocked chocolate fountain, mini cheesecakes, oreo balls, mini fruit tarts, mini chocolate eclairs, and mini cream puffs. Also punch and milk. So for about two weeks my house and kitchen were a wedding explosion. It was a blast and I was glad to have the opportunity to do it, but I was glad when it was over. Congrats Jessica and Brad, I am glad you found your prince charming.
Also in October was my husbands 31st birthday! I should have been a good wife and blogged 31 reasons why I love my husband or something like that but instead a friend let us borrow their cabin and we went for an overnight trip without Delia, after a dinner at Shoguns. We enjoyed our evening and then went fishing the next morning and ate orange icing cinnamon rolls for breakfast!

And finally in October I planned my churches fall festival for the kids. I had to organize food, games and more! I had lots of help thankfully, it went off without a hitch and I think both kids and adults enjoyed it. Me and Delia went as Dorothy and Chuck went as the scarecrow.

In November my Mom celebrated her 50th birthday. I decorated her office and threw her a surprise party! She hates things like that, but hey you only turn 50 once, besides she doesn't look 50 so it is ok. I got her a "NANA bracelet" that has mine, my brothers, and Delia's birthstone on it. I will have to add others as the come. :)

Thanksgiving was good this year, just a dinner at my mom's house. I love cooking for my family! This year I only made deviled eggs and greenbean casserole, but after all of the other planning and cooking over the last couple of months that was fine with me.

And then Christmas........I really hate shopping, I think it is the country girl in me. I just like the quiet outdoors. Not noisy, smelly stores with rude people. I bet I could never go to the mall and would be just fine, maybe my children will not know what the mall is. :) I am trying to make most of my gifts and so far I am having luck! I enjoy making things for people and I hope they enjoy them to and don't just think I am trying to be cheap. (Even though it usually is cheaper to make gifts!) Well I think that is all for now, that should update you from my last post until now so I just have to get better about this blogging thing. Hope you all have a blessed holiday season and a Merry Christmas!!!!

Have a blessed week!

Some pics from our Cabin getaway!

Random Thought Tuesday

So lately I have been realizing that maybe I am too hard on myself. I think I am a great wife and mother, but you just have mommy guilt sometimes. I need to realize that I do what I can and as long as my family is happy and taken care of that is what matters. Everybody says that time goes so fast and I want D to remember a mom that spent time with her not one that stressed about the house being clean all of the time.

I need to spend more time studying my Bible. If I studied the Bible as much as I checked my facebook, read emails and blogs I would be a whole lot better off.

I am thankful for who I am and what God has given me. I have recently come to this realization. I used to be really self conscious and worried about what people thought of me. Some of that was just me and some was listening to what other people thought I should be like. I have finally decided that I am just going to be me and you either like it or you don't. I am tired of being a people pleaser or being worried about making someone uncomfortable.

I worry too much, this is a big struggle for me. I trust God, but I don 't trust God. I have a hard time letting things go and knowing that God will take care of me and my family. He always has and I have no right to doubt that but I just have a hard time giving up the reigns.

I am tired of the "mean" stage that D is in. She tries to love on babies but is too ruff. She is really into pinching and sometimes I feel like all I tell her is "no" all day long. I don't like that but sometimes I don't know what else to do. I am definitely ready for this stage to be over with.

Time to Blog...Potty Potty Potty

OK, so wow it has been way to long since I wrote on here. We have been crazy busy apparently and looking at my calendar it doesn't look like it going to stop any time soon. In the last month I have prepared for school, we went and saw Chuck's mom in Lawton, had family pictures taken. Between fantasy football drafts, Chuck going to the OU/BYU game, baby showers, wedding shower for my cousin it never seems to stop. On top of it all last friday Delia decided she was ready to go potty on the big girl potty. I should be really excited about this but I think it just caught me off guard. Don't get me wrong I had the potty, and knew what "signs" too look for but she really wasn't doing anything that I thought was big and then bam she ran into the bathroom trying to pull down her pants and sit on her little potty say "Potty, Potty." So we let her try and she has been doing it ever since. She doesn't stay dry all of the time but she is doing better and better. She is starting to wake up dry from naps and at night she is almost dry. I am kinda excited but also it makes me sad, she is growing up so fast and I feel like I have no idea what I am doing when it come to potty training. I feel like I have a newborn again(I know it is not that big of a deal but it feels like it). I don't know where to start, pull-ups, panties, or let her run around naked. Get on to her when she has an accident or just gently guide her in the right direction. I guess I will just figure it out like when having a baby, but man it is just as much work for mom as it is for Delia. Now we can't just go, I have to make sure that we have sat on the potty, and remember to let her do it in public which totally grosses me out. :) All in all it is not that bad, and kinda exciting to start this new journey in our life, and hope it doesn't take forever. But hey the one good thing is "NO MORE BUYING DIAPERS", so potty little Delia and Mom and Dad will be proud. We love that girl and want to cherish every moment, even if we are not ready for them. Here is one of the new family pictures, the rest can be seen on my facebook profile. Have a blessed week!

To stretch or not to stretch?

MEN: CAUTION READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION!

So this is a more what do you think post. This is kinda a touchy subject for me lately just because I'm really paranoid of mine. I know it doesn't matter to some people, but I tend to hate mine. So what am I talking about? Well......STRETCH MARKS!

In my head I have categorized stretch marks into four categories:
1. Tiny white/clear lines....that don't even count as stretch marks really. :)
2. Deep white trails.
3. Deep purple trails.
4. I had a baby and they were purple, but now they are white. But still noticable and very annoying. (This is the category I fit into.)

So I am bringing this up because of an incident that happened while I was at the pool today. I myself now wear a one piece to cover up my left over stretch marks, that look like an old map. I would like to wear a two piece but I'm not sure if that will ever happen again. So today at the pool there was a pregnant lady in a bikini. That part doesn't bug me I think pregnant bellies are beautiful. The lady was walking around, swimming, laying out and doing whatever she wanted. She also had huge and very dark purple stretch marks all over her belly. She looked like she could pop at any minute. She told me and a friend that was with me that she was due in Sept. So then I just felt bad for her because she was already so huge. So here is what I want to know. It didn't really bug me that much that she was wearing a bikini. I figured if she was comfortable with doing that more power to her. But there was several people staring at her, I even heard one lady say "someone need to go get her a cover-up, that is gross and I don't want to see it". I didn't really know what to say to that. So what is everyone's opinion? Do you cover them up, or are you proud and just realize that it is a part of that so just deal with it. Are you comfortable and have enough confidence to not worry about what other people think? I'm not sure what I would do, I think I would cover them up. I don't want my daughter to have self esteem issues when she gets older, but I'm not sure how to tell her that I think strech marks are beautiful. ???
Sorry if you read this and you didn't want to but that is what I was thinking about today so I figured I would write it all down.

Hope you all have a blessed week! L

To do list

So I don't know how many people know this my husband certainly does, but I like to make lists. I feel like they are stuck in my head driving me crazy until I write it down so that I don't forget something. I usually have two or three different list floating around my house, and probably one in my purse. I might even be a little OCD about it. Right now in my head I have a To do list/Goals for myself. So I decided just to write them down here.

1. EAT LESS SUGAR! I have become a sugar aholic. Seriously when you can sit down and eat a pound of peanut butter m & m's and not get a stomach ache you know you have a problem.
2. WORK OUT EVERY OTHER DAY...this is going to hopefully become my new addiction, something that I can't live without. So far I have made my abs so sore it hurts to move any which way.
3. SPEND MORE TIME PLAYING WITH DELIA DURING THE DAY...I think I am a good mom but sometime I am so concentrated on cleaning the house ect. that at the end of the day I feel like I didn't play with or read to D enough. GOAL: Read her three books a day!
4. MAKE A HOUSE CLEANING SCHEDULE...I don't mind doing some house work but I really had sweeping and mopping, cleaning the tub and the toilets. So I think if I had a schedule I would feel like my house was cleaner most of the time.
5. HAVE DINNER READY WHEN CHUCK GET HOME....this one I think is still in the dream stage, it is something I have always wanted to do, but I just don't seem to manage my time well enough in the afternoon to get this accomplished.

This is just a couple of things that are floating around in Lyndsey world right now. I will add to it later, I guess when I think of what I forgot.

Have a blessed day!

Only in Arkansas

Me and My Babe

D loved the river!

So last week we took a family vacation. We went to Ponca, Jasper and Eureka Springs Arkansas. It was Me, Chuck, Delia, and My Mom and Dad. It was so nice to get away. We rented cabins while we were there. The cabins were kinda a bust for the price of $300 a night. They claimed to be luxury cabins, but the kitchen was full of mouse poop, disgusting, and a few rather large ants. But other than that the trip was fun. The town of Ponca was a very small mountain town that has no cell phone reception unless you drive to the top of the mountain and the whole town has absolutely no TV reception. :) We went horse back riding, the men went fishing and we all enjoyed swimming in the river and just relaxing. The last day we stopped in Eureka Springs and did some shopping and got some Old Timey Pics taken. Me and Chuck had one of these pictures taken on our honeymoon at the same place so we had one taken with D in the picture now. They were a blast.

Delia loved the river! She loved to throw, chew and play with the rocks. The water was very clear and she was fasinated with all of the fish you could see. My pics are on facebook if you want to see them.

As a result of our trip we kinda liked to make fun of some of the things in AR, cause come on you are in AR you have to especially being an Okie at heart. Some of my closest friends are from AR and so I know everyone is not this way. We thought some of them were very funny but maybe it was just one of those we have been in the car to long listening to "Baby Einstein" videos moments. But we compiled a short list out of fun of "Only In AR", I hope you enjoy!


Only in Arkansas......


....will you see a "Johnny Jimmy's Gourmet Sandwiches" by a "Joe's Pizza and Pasta".
....will you see a man wearing camo shorts with a women's black bikini top on.
....the local convient store/grocery store is the biggest hangout for the locals.
....see a salon called "Twisted Scissors Hair and Day Spa" out in the middle on no where.
....see a 4-wheeler and a golf cart driving down a main highway.
....see a Confederate Flag on every other house or mailbox.
....see two family names on one mailbox.
....see a lady riding a horse down the side of the road wearing wranglers that are tucked into her jeans, a bikini top and drinking a bottle of beer.
....do you have to drive up the mountain to get cell phone reception.


Hope you all have a blessed week! Lyndsey

Should I write this???

So there are these people that we sometimes go out to eat with and I think that we won't be doing that any more. Let me explain. Every time we go out with them they complain about the food, the service, the menu, the price, ect....you get the picture. But they go even further than that. They are the kind of people that get their meal and eat 3/4 of it and then complain about it to the manager and refuse to pay for it, not just the one dish, but everything they have ordered. I understand if something is wrong and asking to have it fixed but that should be done when you receive the meal not after you have eaten most of it. They have done this more than once so much so that other people we are with or ourselves just cover the tab so that we don't have to suffer the embarrasment. I kinda want to talk to them about it but I really just don't have the nerve. I just hope their kid doesn't grow up thinking this is how it is done and that you don't have to pay for food at restaurants.

This is me...

So I have decided to start blogging I don’t know how often I will write or what I will write about or if anybody will even want to read it. Somedays I just have random thoughts that I would like to write down and get out of my head. If you know me you know that some times I say way to much so I am sure to offend somebody. I don’t want to hurt people but I am tired of trying to be someone to make other people happy so I am just going to be myself and if you don’t like that then don’t read it. So here’s to blogging and to showing the world who I am!