Our weekend....

I thought I would post this picture just because these are my two favorite people in the world. We had a fun weekend although at times I had to count to 10 so as not to let my hormones take over and ruin every one's day.



John left Saturday at 6:30am to play golf in Pawleys Island. He has the SCAm qualifier coming up on July 15th so he has to get in as much practice as possible. Then the Palmetto Brew Club had their annual Pawleys Island Brew Session in Pawleys Island as well so he just stayed down there and spent the night with friends.

Meanwhile, Riley and I had a pretty good time although my patients is not quite what it should be with her right now. My cousin came into town around 12p with her kids and we hung out until 2:30 until they could check into their hotel. We then met them out for dinner later at Broadway at the Beach. AND of course Riley pooped in her pants at the restaurant because she poops in her pants at EVERY restaurant we go to. I hate taking children into public restrooms they touch everything and it just wigs me out. Plus you have to face the facts of cleaning her up fun times. We then went to feed the fish and have some ice cream. The kids were all exhausted so Olivia and Scott took their kids back to the hotel and we went home to go to sleep. Unfortunately, as tired as she seemed Riley didn't finally fall asleep until 3:30am. She kept getting up and wanting to sleep in my room, then she would want to get back in her bed. Then I woke up to her banging on her room door saying "Mama HELP" so I waddled down the hall as fast as I could. Getting to the door only to find that she had LOCKED HERSELF IN HER ROOM!I almost panicked but I told her to chill out and turn the button in the middle of the knob, she did and it all ended well. I asked her who could have locked the door and she said "I don't know" I tried to tell her not to do it ever again, but low and behold she did it to her dad last night at 3am.
Needless to say I didn't make it to church Sunday morning because of being up and down through out the night. Riley however was up at 7am Sunday demanding to go and see her cousins. We hung out around the house all morning until Dad got home at which time I decided to lay back down. That did not work out either because someone is determined that I don't get any rest. Even though Daddy was awake and in the living room Riley kept coming in our room and telling me she needed a drink of water and that I needed to get up. I tried to institute a new rule of "if mommy's eyes are closed don't talk to her." That did not work. So I just got up and we went on over to see Olivia and the kids around 2:30 so they could swim. We had to leave later on in the afternoon because we were in the midst of a full fledged melt down (Riley not me) due to the vast lack of sleep.

Yesterday, Monday I arrived at school only to find Riley in different clothes and back of poop encrusted underwear waiting for me in her cubby. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD throw the panties away. Sorry that was hormones, I just don't want to deal with that at 5pm after a long day of work esp. a Monday.

Riley caught me watching Saturday Night Fever a couple of weeks ago so for some reason last night she kept demanding to watch "John Traboata" on TV. I think she enjoyed his dancing skills as that is the only part of the movie I let her watch. She was pretty miffed that he was not on TV last night. The shame!

I need to send well wishes out to Papaw Setzer who fell at the nursing home and had to get three staples in his head. He is okay but staples sound a lot more painful than falling and hitting your head. Also, John's Dad Dennis is having more tests in Charlotte to determine what is going on with his pinched nerve/numb arm and hand. I pray they figure out what is going on with him so he can finally get some relief.

HORMONES!!!

OK well we have had a busy week in the Setzer house. John has been studying for a test that he took and passed with flying colors yesterday. He is in the process of getting his CLU certification. Some kind of insurance thing for State Farm. He already has his AIC, and CPCU. Honestly, I think they just try and see who can get the most acronyms after their name. Either way the incentive aside from improving your self and your job performance is a paid trip somewhere. This is how we went to Hawaii last fall when John earned his CPCU. So obviously I also reap the rewards of all this insurance education!

Riley also got to reap the rewards this week because Daddy got two days off this week to prepare for his test and he let Riley stay home with him so she did not have to go to school. She was rather disappointed this morning when she had to get up and go. Luckily tomorrow is the weekend and my cousin Olivia and her family will be in town and we can go hang out with them! On the potty front we are still having issues with #2. She holds it sometimes for 2 days because she is determined not to use the potty. I can't even count the number of panties I have thrown away. For some reason the school puts the poop panties in plastic bag and stick them in her cubby for me to bring home. OK NEWS FLASH, you can't get that "stuff" out and panties are cheap throw them away. I don't want a bag of dirty poop filled panties after a long day at work I will buy more. I know it's a little wasteful and lazy of me, but seriously the stuff doesn't come out.

I have a bad case of pregnancy hormones raging through my body so watch out! Basically I am a Bitch on Wheels. Sorry to everyone in advance I will return to normal hopefully soon. Mostly my husband takes the brunt of it, but others have also fallen victim as well. One of my current pet peeves is that for some reason we can never find the remote. So I am going to invent the REMOTE ZAPPER. It's simple really if anyone mainly said man of the house, tries to take the remote out of the room he will be electrocuted. Not at a high voltage just enough to make him but the thing back where it belongs. This is a result of me finally finding our remote out in the TRUCK.......?!?!?! Who takes the remote in the car with them???? (See that was hormones.)

In other breaking news on the home front, the Japanese (J)beetles are still present and reeking havoc on my basil. I ordered some spray stuff that is supposed to kill the grubs in the ground so that they do not re hatch for next year. Until then, we just have to spray to kill them and hope most of them find their way into the bug n bag.

Last but certainly not least, we have chosen a name for #2.........Lyla. If you are not cool with that name just keep it to yourself :). Some people like to over share when you announce the name of your baby as if it was their baby to name. (Sorry hormones again)

Until next time....I will try to tone down the hormones for my next posting and for my poor husbands sake as well!!!

Happy Birthday Olivia

Happy Birthday Cousin Olivia!

We will see you in a week!

PS I stole your skydiving picture :)

Going to the Chapel.....

One of the many gifts Riley received on her birthday was this wonderful wedding dress from David & Kate. She loves it and whenever she has it on she INSISTS that we leave to go to the wedding. I asked her who's wedding we are going to and she answers "mine". She says she is marrying her mommy and daddy. I thought that was sweet. Although she kind of gets a little pissy when I don't get up and take her to her wedding.

We have been busy at work and school. Riley has her first field trip today EVER! Her class is going bowling. She was pretty excited about it this morning. Nana is going along as a chaperon. Riley has been bowling once before and did okay with the help of her dad. We have been under siege by the Japanese Beetles they are eating my Crepe Myrtle and my rose bush, and my basil. (Assholes) So I have gone on the defensive I bought those bag a bug bags that you see with the plastic yellow thing at the top and let me tell you two bags are almost half full after 24 hours. HA TAKE THAT!!! Riley is really impressed and asks me constantly to take her out to see the Japanese Jeetles. We are easily entertained.

The pregnancy is still going well. I have been given about 4 different due dates so I have chosen to go with August 30th. Which makes me further along :) so that means I am 29 weeks and 4 days. First they told me August 30th, then August 31 not a big deal one day difference. Then it was like September 5th and then the 7th and I told my Dr. I wasn't coming back if they didn't stop pushing my due date back. I don't even ask now how I am measuring so who knows when the blessed event will be. My water broke with Riley at 36 weeks so she was a full month earlier than her due date. They have given me the option of C section (due to the crazy delivery last time) this time and I am just not sure which way to go. Rest assured there will be drugs. I really admire everyone who can do it cold turkey but I am just not that tough. Well I need to get going this morning so until next time....

Riley is THREE

Well it has been a very busy week for us. Riley turned three on Saturday so most of last week I was caught up in making her day as special as possible. I decided to make a "Barbie Cake" which my grandmother Patty used to make for us girls back in the day. I got directions from her plus I did a ton of online research just to make sure I did everything right. My friend Daryl who went to Culinary School and has a degree in Pastry Arts let me borrow all of her cool cake stuff. It was a big hit with Riley and it wasn't too hard.

Riley got a lot of wonderful cards and gifts from our family and friends. Thank you to everyone who made her birthday so special. We had a small family gathering at Nana's instead of a big blow out with a bunch of kids. She seemed to be just as happy and it was certainly a lot less stressful for me.

In other breaking news we are now pooping in the potty on a more regular basis. As a reward she gets ice cream every time she does the deed. So occasionally she will say she has to go #2 when really its just a ploy to get more ice cream. She kicked her dad out of the bathroom last night because she told him she needed "privacy."

Happy Father's Day to John you are a WONDERFUL father and Riley and I love you!


In baby news, I had an OB appointment on Thursday I gained 7 lbs in four weeks. Which is way more than I had hoped so I am going to have to cut out some candy and other treats to keep myself in check. The baby is coming along nicely, and other than nearly peeing in my pants every five minutes I feel pretty good. She moves a lot. I think she might even kick harder than Riley did.

Above I posted pictures of Riley's new room with the new princess comforter, and a couple of pictures of the Barbie Cake I made. I posted more pics on picasa however, my camera died so I have more posting to do tonight. Hopefully the batteries will be charged and ready to go.

Until next time....

Happy Birthday Grandpa/Dad

Happy Birthday to my Dad aka Grandpa! We miss you!

Happy June!

Well I don't have any pictures to post so please don't fall asleep while I bore you with the details of our life. Let's see what has happened since last week when I posted.

I will start with my husband. Now, those of you who know John know that he is very handy and likes to fix things and is always involved in some sort of project around the house. Well, Saturday he decided to changed the oil in my truck...he has done this several times before in the car and it always turns out fine. (I would just assume pay the $20 to some Jiffy Lube type place.) Well something happened with the oil filter and the seal so after completing the oil change he got in the truck to crank it up to let the new oil do what ever it does. Well, this is usually the end of the oil change...........NOT TODAY. The oil filter blew off the bottom of the truck oil exploded into the garage, on the other car in the driveway, covered the driveway. Basically, it looked like the Exxon Valdese just slammed into our house. He tried and tried to figure out what was going on, and again more oil just spewed. He finally gets so aggravated he comes inside and announces he is getting in the shower he is over it. (I knew he was going to a cook out with some guys so this kind of got me mad thinking about my truck covered in oil, undrivable in the driveway, while he goes off to drink and have an awesome time with his buddies.) So I responded with "well that is fine I will just call AAA and have them tow the truck somewhere where someone can fix it." I know feed the bear don't poke him. Anyway after a few words that we can laugh about now he called his friend who is a mechanic and figured out that the seal from the old filter stayed on the truck and then he added a new filter with a new seal which made it not seal. Problem solved, and the best part about this story is John promised me that we will now be having our oil changed by professionals.

As for Riley, she is doing great. She moved up to Ms. Amy's class and is loving it. The only problem we are having is with #2 she would rather poop her pants than go in the potty which is a problem at school and they said they will have to move her back down to the 2 year old room if she doesn't get the hang of it SOON. If anyone has any ideas let me know I have tried bribes but nothing is working. In other big Riley news she decided that she would change rooms. So she has officially moved to what used to be our guest room. I am in the process of decorating it in the Disney Princess motif per her request. She was talking to the baby Sunday night and I said look she just kicked so Riley pulled her leg up to my stomach and said "do you want me to kick her back?". The other cute thing she said recently was on Sunday night when she was not cooperating about going to bed and John told her she would not get to watch any TV if she didn't listen and go to bed she responded "But Daddy I haven't been to the office today." Which I reminder her that that was indeed true but only because she had NOT been to school that day either. We are now counting down the days to the big 3rd Birthday June 14th!!!

In baby news, I am now finishing up my 27th week. She kicks and moves alot. NO, we have not decided on a name. I am feeling a little slower all of the sudden and it's starting to get pretty hot here which does not make me happy at all. I am also hormonal at times. So I will just apologize now and please remember in a few months I will return to somewhat normal......I hope.

Almost forgot, Congratulations to Shanna Riggsbee on finally being in labor I hope Avery makes an easy and somewhat quick arrival!