I am sorry for this long absence! The week before last, I was feeling a little bit under the weather but just couldn’t shake it. This last week, I really started feeling bad but couldn’t take any sick time due to the fact that one of my coworkers was out for spring break. I was doing her job and mine so couldn’t afford to take that time off. It was all I could do to finish all the work and get dinner ready before just laying around. Needless to say blogging was the last thing on my mind. I finally went to the doctor on Thursday and have a sinus infection. Now that I have drugs, I am much happier and will hopefully get back on the blogging bandwagon.
Jessica
In June of 2012, I won a giveaway on a different blog for my choice of any dress on the www.eshakti.com website. I chose one of their dresses and wore it to Heather’s Nautical Baby Shower and loved it! I was able to give my own measurements and get a custom dress which is huge for me because unless a dress is jersey or has a very full skirt, it won’t fit me. After being impressed with the first dress that I won for free, I had already emailed some of my family about it just incase they were interested. Then when eShakti approached me about reviewing one of their custom dresses of my choice in their Spring Collection, I jumped at the chance!
We had always wanted a Nikon D7000 16.2MP DX-Format CMOS Digital SLR with 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-S DX VR ED Nikkor Lens
,but since we had never  owned a DSLR camera before, it was way too much money to spend on a camera. We had also heard of a lot of people buying DSLR cameras, and then not really using them to get their monies worth out of them. So, we decided to get a camera we could afford, and make sure we used it enough to make an upgrade worth it later. So, we randomly kept our eyes open for a Nikon D7000 16.2MP DX-Format CMOS Digital SLR with 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-S DX VR ED Nikkor Lens
so if there was a good enough deal we could jump on it.
Sometimes we play games, I’m not a fan of Monopoly so normally we play Phase 10, Skip Bo, Card Games, Yahtzee,etc. Grant isn’t a huge game person other than computer games, but he takes one for the team and will play some with me every once in a while. While family was visiting for New Years, we got to play a ton including Catch Phrase which was hilarious to play. This was mainly due to the fact that most of us females were better versed at communicating and infuriated the men by beating them again and again. Granted, Â if we had catch phrase set on sports we would have probably lost.
A while back, I made a ton of burp cloths for the various baby showers that I attended. The tutorial can be found here. I finally have run out, so, it was time to replenish my stock. I learned a few things to make the whole process go faster. It is sad that it took me so long, but sometimes I like repetitious work over the problems solving work. Below you can see what differences that I figured out to speed out the process.
Lately life has been a little crazy, we have spent a few weekends in Nashville to see Kira and Andrew and to make a Craigslist purchase which I will blog about next. We are still visiting Churches which can get a little bit old after a while so I hope we decide on a place soon so we can try and start integrating as much as possible. We finally got all of our insurance stuff switched over. We loved our agent in Austin, TX since we knew Brent personally. He was kinda enough to call and talk to a few agents here in Huntsville and tell us which to avoid. We ended up choosing one that we are very happy with and are getting more coverage than in Austin for cheaper than we were paying there so we can’t  complain. So finally everything is up to date since our move which is very exciting!