5 On Friday

TGIF! 

Can I get an ayyyyyy-men! 

Here are 5 randoms for this Friday. 

1. Today officially makes us 10 days out from our due date. I can't believe it's almost time for CT and me to meet Kingston. We are so ready for him to join us. Our house is ready (I think), his clothes are washed, car seats are in the cars, and our bags are packed ... now we are just waiting on him. Some moments throughout the day I feel like I could be pregnant for a few more months - and then I'm quickly brought back to reality with the various pains I'm feeling. Hurry up already little man!

2. I added a few more Puff Quilts to the Etsy shop last night! I am so thankful for the ladies who have purchased from me these last few weeks. I hope this little venture continues to take off - and hopefully we won't be struggling as much as I think we will while I'm on maternity leave. 

3. Speaking of maternity leave - I'm officially on break starting next Wednesday. 

I'm already dreading heading back and I haven't even left. For all you mama's that went back to work -- what helped with the sadness? 

4. I'm about half way through the book Baby Wise. If you haven't read it, it talks about parent directed feeding and how to get your child to sleep through the night by 8 weeks. This is a very controversial topic but I think it's a great idea. My friend sent me a quote today that perfectly describes the process: 

" As parents, we teach our kids how to be good humans. We teach them how to say please and thank you, how to drink from a cup, how to get dressed, and how to tie their shoes. No one would argue with this. Why then, do we shy away from teaching them how to sleep and eat at normal times? It's not cruel, it's a service to them. A gift even. And I'm a much happier momma and productive person when I've had sleep as well" 

I would love any feedback or tips you have on this process! 

5. Bentley has been extra cuddly lately and I love it. In a few more days his world is going to be turned upside down and I hope he takes to Kingston like we do. He's usually jealous if anyone has our attention so I'm interested to see how this all pans out. 

Can you tell my mind is 100% on baby? 

Hope you have a good Friday and if you are stopping by from the link up - I hope you will follow along as I try and navigate this new journey of motherhood! 

My First Son - Bentley

His whole world is about to get rocked - like drastically changed. 

He has been a mama's boy since the moment we brought his little 1 lb. body home. He follows be everywhere, spins a hundred circles when I come home from work each day, goes to bed when I go to bed and wakes up with me when my alarm goes off. 

Lately I've noticed that he's becoming even more clingy. Like he knows a human is about to come and take over his spot in our home and in our heart. 

He's been the 'king' of our home for almost 6 years and now the real King is about to arrive. 

CT took him into the vet last week for his yearly appointment and they told him he is 1 year away from being considered a senior citizen. How sad is that? I can't even imagine what our lives would be like without him. I am so thankful for our little bent/bent-tail/puppers. He has taught me what it's like for someone to depend on you for their every need and in return show you nothing but unconditional love. I think he's helped me prepare for this thing I'm about to embark on: motherhood. 

I pray that during this new change in all our our lives that I am able to still show him the same amount of love and attention as I previously have. 

How do I make sure this happens?  

My Dream House: According to Pinterest [4]

Linking up with Michelle for "Oh How Pinteresting"

Feel free to check out my dream house part 1, part 2, and part 3.

 

Before I start, I just want to throw this out there: Pinterest is the deadliest website ever. 

It has my expectations so high for how I want my future home. 

 

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• How magnificent is all the natural light coming in from the windows and doors. I love the color on the walls too.
  Mint is so hot right now!
• How sweet is this little dog bed. Bentley would love to have his very own hide-a-way. And it's so chic. 
• This is the perfect breakfast nook. I don't think anything could make this  any better. I love the mismatchness of the chairs and pillows.
  Absolutely perfect.
• This closet has me drooling. CT and I would be set for life. And a plus, there would be no need for dressers because of the built in drawers. 
• How fab is this great room? Exposed wood beams, the walk way upstairs, the floor to ceiling stone. WOW!
  
  
  
  Do we have any of the same tastes?

52 Lists: List Why You Love Someone Special

Jumping in mid series to link up with Moorea!

Summer Break Envy

So today I was having a really bad case of the blues.

It was CT's first day on summer break and no work. It was also my first day as an assistant director having to close the spa. 

Those two things together made me a sassy little lady today. 

Luckily, I got to sleep in with CT today and we both got to take Bentley to his vet apoointment. What I didn't get to do was go to Salina with him to watch some baseball.

Needless to say, I'm envious! 

I should have became a teacher. 

A FACS teacher! Cooking, crafting, sewing.. the life!

 Plus paid summers off. 

What was I thinking? 

Praying for the Victims

So the past two evenings we have had horrible weather mixed with lots of deadly tornadoes. On Sunday evening we had to head to the basement because down town Wichita was in the path of a F1 tornado. 

I packed my bag, which you can find more about here, and headed down the elevator with Bentley. CT likes to be super cool and super brave and wait until the very last moment, so we left him upstairs. He later came down, but none the less I was super annoyed. 

I don't mess around with mother nature and tornadoes. They are probably the thing I am most scared of. 

Luckily, we escaped with only hail damage to our cars. I can't say the same for some other people around town and tragically the people in Oklahoma. 

My heart aches for all the people who lost their belongings, homes, fur babies, and family members. 

I pray specifically for the moms that lost their children to have peace in knowing their babies are now playing up in heaven with Jesus. I can't imagine the amount of pain they are experiencing. 

God, please give them the strength and hope needed to get them through the upcoming darkest days of their lives.

I came across this touching video on facebook about a woman who thought she lost her furbaby in the storm. Fortunately they were able to catch them being reunited on camera. 

You can hear her say at the end of the video that her puppy was her life. 
You better believe it. I shredded a few happy tears for this woman. 
Even in tragedies, God is good. 

Please continue to pray for everyone effected by these storms. Unfortunately, this isn't the first and won't be the last of these deadly tornadoes. 

10 Happies

I wanted to jump on the bandwagon again for today's blog everyday in May post. 

What are 10 things that make you happy?

1. worship music

2. Bentley being happy SO happy to see me when I get home

3. my mom's meatloaf

4. watching funny home videos when people run into glass doors/windows

5. planners

6. playing volleyball

7. going to or watching movies with CT 

8. blowing up firecrackers

9. my tv shows: Grey's, Scandal, Arrow, Beauty & The Beast, Single Ladies, The Client List 

10. naps

11. margaritas 

12. giving gifts 

13. color coding 

14. chapsticked lips

15. traveling 

Sorry, I couldn't stop myself at 10! 

Home - It's What You Make It

  I came across a pretty cool link up that Erin at Love, Fun, & Football is co-hosting, discussing first homes and apartments. Here is to a day of firsts!

First apartment or house on your own (away from you parents!)

First room you decorated or would like to decorate

First thing you bought for it, or would like to buy

 

First apartment or house on your own (away from you parents!)

After moving out of my parents house I moved into a dorm with 4 other girls and CT. Technically he wasn't really my roommate, but since the first day we hung out we stayed together every night. Out of the 9 months I lived there, we only got caught on 2 different occasions, so I'd say we were pretty successful!

Some of my volleyball teammates/roommates!
(Boy would I love to have my hair like this again)

Let me tell you a story about the first time we stayed together. CT and I were up all night talking and when we eventually fell asleep we ended up sleeping on top of the covers, not touching each other, and CT had his shoes on. Thinking back on it makes me laugh so hard. We were so young and so awkward!

After the dorms, I moved into a house on campus with 4 other girls and eventually my first pet Bentley. Luckily, after drawing straws, I got the massive bedroom that was converted from a garage, and it was away from all 4 of the other rooms. This room was ginormous with a huge closet and just enough space to get a puppy! 

(Man - I'm such the rule breaker - having boys stay over in the dorms and getting an animal on campus!)    

My roommates and I trying out our hand at painting!

 

 

 

I loved this closet! When we end up purchasing a home- I won't settle for anything less than this! 

  

After the house on campus, I lived with another girl for 8 months and then moved into the apartment I'm in now. CT and I currently live above my uncles business, so we get the family discount. We have a 2 bedroom 1.5 bathroom apartment downtown and pay a whopping $300 a month in rent. We are so very blessed!

 After we got married and purchased new cars, we had the itch to move somewhere with a garage and more storage. We ended up checking out some places to rent and quickly realized how fortunate we are for how much we have for so little the cost.

  
First room you decorated or would like to decorate?I really enjoy decorating! I wish I had a home where I could make more permanent decisions, but I think I'm doing an okay job at working with what I have. 

 

My current problem is the lack of storage space in our apartment. After our wedding I wanted to move so badly that I kept all of our wedding gifts piled in a corner, unopened and unused. After we figured out we were going to be in this apartment a little more long term, I started getting things out, decorating, ect. 

 

This was my most recent organizing/decorating accomplishment. I switched our dining room and 'hobby room'. You now walk into our apartment to the top picture, which is way more inviting than what it use to be. 

Our new hobby room is much more put together and organized than the before picture, but I still need to find a solution to organizing fabric and some cute storage for all my little nick-nacks. 

Any ideas or recommendations of what works for you?

First thing you bought for it, or would like to buy?

The first major thing we bought as a couple for our apartment was our set of couches. We used our first tax return as a married couple and splurged on a nice couch and love seat.

What I am currently keeping my eye out for is the perfect buffet table. Something with some closed storage so I can hide a few things and preferably red. 

Anyways, I made my first batch of no bake cookies today and they are so good, so addicting, and so not healthy!

I also went to re-activate our YMCA membership today. We officially don't qualify for reduced membership pricing because we made to much last year. That's a first! I can't decide if I'm happy about that or disappointed. =) 

  

Link Up: Insta-Lately

 

This evening I am linking up with Jenn over at Perfectly Imperfect.

       

         

• 2 for $22 candles at Bath & Body Works. It's an addiction. I have to get some every sale.
• My new KU shorts!  
• Who doesn't love a little scripture to start your day?
• How CT makes the bed and how I make the bed. I really shouldn't complain though, at least the pillows got off the floor and on the bed! 
• My definition of 'work swag' with a little arm candy.
• This is the true definition of hogging the controls.  
• Making some custom grey and yellow pillows for Ashley with Events By Ashley!
•  My grandma just past away, and I received her old sewing machine. It's super special to me because it's the same one I learned on as a little girl. I'm excited to start cranking out some projects. =))
• The dress I wore for our wedding reception. Boy am I in love with this. I wish I had another occassion to wear an all white dress that's completely covered in jewels.
• I went pole dancing for a bachelorette party, and it was the most fun and most difficult thing I have ever done in my entire life. 
  
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Family Weekend

Weekends like this one make me miss my home town and my family. It's always great to get away and be a guest in someones home -- even if it is your parents! Makes me feel like a kid again. No dishes, trash, or laundry duty, someone else cooking dinner, and the list could go on. =) On the other hand, it's always nice returning home to your own house and especially your own bed!

 

Me and my mini me! (Don't judge the awful hair that was yet to be straightened!)

 

 

My dad is an art teacher, and was asked to set up a booth at this years river festival. All of his art work is from found 'scraps' aka junk! 

 

Bentley throwing a fit and not laying in his bed on the way home. He hated it back there!

 

 

 I love getting away! This weekend we are heading to St. Louis for a long weekend away + a baseball game = mini vacation. I feel extremely unprepared because we don't have a hotel yet and I don't have anything else planned besides the game. Any ideas of what to do it St. Louis besides visiting the arch??

 

Friday Letters

Today I am linking up with Ashley from Adventure of Newlyweds for Friday letters!

Dear Dentist, Thank you for giving out FREE teeth whitening to all of your new patients. I plan to get these teeth sparkling white before long. Dear back, I wish you would stop breaking out since getting off of birth control. You make me self conscious in my swimming suit and I feel like I'm 14 again. Dear husband you don't need a new phone. I find it ironic that your phone starts messing up every time Sprint comes out with a new Evo. Dear interviewers, I may not have experience because I just graduated college, but that doesn't mean I'm not an extremely fast learner or hard worker. HIRE ME! I need the money and I'm an awesome employee. Dear Bentley, I am getting extremely tired of retrieving your ball from underneath the couch. You are too cute not to help, but after the 50th time it gets annoying.   

Love, Tiffany

Back At It

May = the best month of the year! Pools open up, school gets out, and it's my BIRTHDAY month! I celebrate all 30 days of it, especially the last week leading up to it. By the time it finally arrives my husband gets so relieved. He no longer has to hear 'but it's my birthday month' or 'but its my birthday week'. What a trooper that guy is! 

Speaking of him, aren't the two men in my life the cutest things? 

Well I sure think so! I'm beyond blessed to have them both in my life. They make my heart happy and they truly bring me so much joy.

Christian gets out of school the 23rd of may but he will go back for 12 days in June for summer school PE. I know he is so ready for a break! We are trying to plan a trip to Vegas in July for our 1 year anniversary and we are also going to St. Louis at the end of June. YEY for vacations!!

I'm going to put more effort into this whole blogging thing. Practice makes perfect I guess. I just have to stick with it! 

Meet My Men

I have two main men in my life that completely fill my heart with some much love and joy. With as much love I have for the both of them, I can't even imagine how much love I will have for a child someday! 

Meet my husband -

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• Christian - but for blog purposes we will call him CT
• Age 25
• He is my college sweetheart - met the very first week I was at college (2007) and have been together ever since 
• He played football & I played volleyball
• High school PE teacher 
• High school Baseball coach, college football coach (head receivers coach at Friends University)
• KU Jayhawks, Dallas Cowboys, Los Angles Lakers, & St. Louis Cardinals fan
• Sports fanatic - And when I say fanatic that's an understatement. We have ESPN on constantly in our home and we attend either his high school or our alma mater sporting events weekly. It's extreme! BUT he is not a 'gamer' so I would take this over him playing call of duty any day. 

(this would be him as a 'superfan' - top photo was the guys dressing as women & the bottom was white trash night)

God definitely worked his magic and matched us up perfectly! We are each others best friends, we have so much fun together, and we compliment each other very well! I am beyond blessed! 

Meet My Son (Fur baby)-

• Bentley
• Age 4 
• 7 lb Maltese
• He is beyond spoiled 
• He enjoys walks, spinning in circles when he gets excited, and playing fetch with him self (He has a cat ball that he tosses around the whole house)
• He is way smarter than I give him credit for - When my alarm on my phone goes off, he knows its time to come up to where I am and get rubbed. When my phone ringer goes off and someone calls, he thinks its time to go downstairs and let someone in the door.  He hates when I put all his toys away in his basket. He will immediately go and get them all back out.

He brings so much joy to each of my days! Everywhere I go, he goes! Right now we are cuddling on the couch as I type this up. =) 

Someday I hope to add more men to my life, but until then I will spoil these two with all my attention!