The Nursery Awaits

With all my nesting complete, I thought today would be a good day to display the fruits of our labor. I have enjoyed putting the nursery together so much! It's funny thinking back to when we first moved into this 4-bedroom house that we joked about having too many bedrooms and not enough people (or animals) to fill them. Back then, the thought of having a baby while we were here wasn't even considered. And look how far we've come! Although the house is old, we have made it our own and it will be hard to leave this place when the time comes. Perhaps that's why it's so important to remember Zaylee's first house with pictures she can look at when she grows up.
This picture shows Zaylee's room as you enter from the hallway...

The changing table and rocker (where we will spend A LOT of our time)...
Her closet doors have wall hangings that match her crib sheets. The "diaper cake" was made by a friend for my baby shower. It's so cute, I may not want to actually use it!Her initials on the wall stand for Zaylee Quinn Mullinax...

The little table next to the rocker was found at an antique store for $15. I repainted it (and the changing table) white to match the rest of the furniture...
The last two pictures show the inside of her closet. Look at all her adorable outfits just waiting to be put on! ^_^

Drunk on Chocolate Milk

So, after my post yesterday, I would like to follow up with yet another hilarious story in the continuing epic of our kittens' lives. Have any of you ever had children who discovered a cookie jar and ate every cookie in it before you found out? You walk into the kitchen and there's your child sitting on the floor, fat and happy, with cookie crumbs all over them. Yeah, that's sort of what happened this morning.

Robbie comes in to wake me up and informs me, "Honey got into the milk." No, she hasn't discovered how to open the fridge...yet...but we did have a box of shelf-stable milk in cardboard cartons sitting on the floor next to the fridge. It had a plastic cover over it and the kittens had never bothered it, so we didn't think anything of it being on the floor. Boy, were we wrong! Check out the damage.

Our guess is that they discovered this sometime in the night, so our kittens have been "drunk" on chocolate milk for hours. They're running around like they're demon-possessed! Let's just hope the milk doesn't adversely affect their digestive tracts...uugh.

Our Furry Family

Today is a tribute to our crazy canine, Peyton, and our furry felines, Bebe and Honey. Peyton is 1 year old and was adopted into our family in November 2007 from a family in Birmingham, AL. The kittens were rescued from the Humane Society in April and are about 5 months old (they're from the same litter). Robbie and I have always been avid animal lovers, so these pets have brought us so much joy and laughter (and some not-so-funny mishaps) along the way.

Peyton is a very energetic (and stubborn!) beagle mix who can melt your heart with his big, sad eyes. He's quiet and content most of the time and LOVES going on walks. In fact, he has been one of my biggest inspirations to stay in shape throughout the pregnancy because of the unbridled excitement he shows everytime I put on my tennis shoes! Unfortunately, Peyton also enjoys eating everything and destroying anything that he can't ingest. Since he was a little puppy, we've learned to keep a very close watch on him in the house. He's torn the corners off of pillows, ripped the noses off stuffed animals, mutilated shoes, mauled rolls of toilet paper, ripped holes in blankets, and so on. Dog toys last a maximum of 7 days with this chew monster. Yet, we still love him dearly and he has gotten much better since his early puppy days. Now, we couldn't imagine our life without him.

The kittens were my birthday present this year. After losing our little kitty, Maximus, to a feline virus last Christmas, a hole had been left in my heart unfulfilled. Now, with these two crazy furballs, it is full to the max! They are sisters in every since of the word. They go everywhere together, sleep together, play, fight, give each other baths, and even gang up on Peyton every once in a while. They are the cat version of the two dogs in "Where the Wild Fern Grows"- completely inseparable. And they're SO cute! They both have a lot of spunk to them and get in trouble often. They've torn down curtains (rods have come completely out of the wall!), scattered toilet paper throughout the entire house, severed the cord of our cell phone charger, and broken a vase or two. They are forever curious, loving, and hilarious. I hope you enjoy some of the pictures and videos showing some of the best moments captured on camera of our furry family!

Beware of Pregzilla!

So today was a pretty rough day for me, thanks to the wonderful effects of pregnancy hormones. You could say the trigger was my dear little dog, Peyton, who decided today was a good day to chew up my best pair of sandals. I discovered what happened when I was getting ready to go to the mall with Robbie (it was raining and there was nothing else to do), and needless to say, I got a little upset. Okay... a lot upset. I yelled and threw the shoe at my confused little dog and put him out in the rain. Then I cried all the way to the mall. I realized how stupid and out of control I had acted, how Peyton honestly had no idea what he had done, and how very ready I am to have this baby.
I'm sure many mothers can relate to this phase of pregnancy - the doctors tell you, "You're already dilating! Don't expect to make it to your due date." So then you get all very excited, fix everything in your house in preparation, pack your hospital bag and set it by the door, and then...nothing happens. A week goes by with not so much as a Braxton-Hicks contraction and you think, will I ever have this baby??!! Yeah, I'm there.
I don't want to complain. I've had the easiest pregnancy I could have imagined - the last thing I want to do is ruin the whole experience for myself because of a little impatience. Today was yet again another lesson in being content with the circumstances you find yourself in. Live life for the present, take each day for what it's worth, because once it's here, it's gone. Just wait - you'll probably see a blog sometime in the future when I admit I would do anything to have my pre-baby days back!

The Beginning of Something Great

Today marks the momentous occasion of my very first blog post! Thanks to the recommendation of a friend, I decided that this would be the very best way for the people I love, my family and friends, to see what's happening in our everyday lives, especially since many of them are at least a day's drive away. Plus, it allows an avenue through which I can spend my very pregnant days of boredom and then eventually, brag about my baby girl, who will be making her debut in just a few weeks (or less?). So far, this pregnancy has been a blessing. I would even say its been a total breeze. God has blessed us SO much in the past year - a new home in Mississippi, new careers, a new church family, a new Air Force family, two kittens, a dog, and the expectation of first-time parenting. More so than ever is the great appreciation I feel everyday for what God has given us - it truly is so much more than we deserve! So to all of you out there who will be visiting my blog occasionally (or frequently), I hope you enjoy it! There is nothing inadvertantly spectacular about our little life, but I hope and pray you can find some encouragement, inspiration, or just a good laugh from us in the future.