One of Ariyana and I .....

Raising Ariyana Right!

Here are a couple of pictures from my little busy bee's party yesterday. Robb took these with his new camera (same camera I have) and he did a great job! As you might not be able to tell, I gave Ariyana a little UGA cheerleading outfit (will post pictures of her in it after this coming weekend) for her birthday (along with some books and foam toys). When she opened it she smiled and Robb, Zach's mom and I (the only UGA fans) said "YAY, Ariyana" and she started clapping. A couple of gifts later she got the same thing in GA Tech (Zach and his dad's side are all Tech fans) and she just gave this deadpan look like "what the heck is this ugly thing" It was so classic. Robb didn't get a picture cause we were laughing so hard but hopefully I did. I am going to go through my pictures tonight and will hopefully be able to post it tomorrow.

Here she is holding the outfit (so you can't see it that well but look how happy she is).

I also gave her a little UGA picture book to put the cute pictures of her in her outfit in :-) She liked that too and you can see from the picture below.

So tired....

Oh my gosh! I got up at 8 yesterday to take pictures and then went to help with the wedding at 11:30....I didn't get back home until 2:30am...and that whole time was pretty much spent on my feet or carrying/holding stuff. Oh, and I didn't get to eat until 11pm!

Today I got up at 8 again and did pictures this morning then went to Ariyana's birthday party and just got home about two hours ago. I will elaborate on it all later but right now I am so tired!!

My big wedding debut...

Tomorrow I will actually get to shoot some pictures at the wedding I am helping with tomorrow. I am really nervous about it but I hope that I will do well and pull it off. Luckily I don't think that I will be shooting anything that is super important, just shots of people at the cocktail hour or something similar. It still makes me nervous though. I also don't know what time I am supposed to be there or where I am supposed to be. I have emailed the photographer and called him twice with no response. Pretty sure it is like an 11am-midnight thing so I would like to know for sure. UGH. Hopefully he will let me know soon. In order to protect the innocent I will post the details on my private blog after tomorrow. If you don't have access and want it, just let me know. I just don't want random people to find it....too easy with google these days and I like to vent on that one..though not too much venting lately!

My tummy hurts today...not sure why but I hope it goes away soon. Also, the meeting I spent a lot of time preparing for this week got cut REALLY short today..that sucked!

I did it!

I outlived the great gas crisis of 2008! Today I had to run to Target to get some things and the QT right by it had gas! Since I was down 9 gallon (only had 4-5 left) I decided to get gas. NO LINE! I pulled right up to the pump in the middle with no problems. I laughed a little to myself because people were still "getting in line" on the end pumps but there was really no need to. I think that they were just so used to it that they did it automatically.

Today was a rough day in some aspects for me. I close on my rental property on Monday and this crazy closing coordinator, Piper, was driving me nuts! She needed me to mail her something yesterday so I did and told her 3 times that I did but she kept sending me emails and saying that if she didn't get it then we wouldn't close on time. Then I decided to get someone to drive me to her to bring her the freakin contract that was coming in the mail that day anyway and after that she still sent out an email that she hadn't gotten it. She was sending it to everyone (including Drena on vacation) and finally I sent her an email saying "if you read below, I said that I am bringing it to you in person right now, please stop emailing everyone and telling them that we will not close on time" To which she responded "oh, I replied before I got your response. Really, cause you responded to the email where I said I was bringing it to you ...whatever. My loan lady and I had a good laugh about it, apparently she had been a pain all along. I just felt bad that Drena had to deal with it on her vacation. Oh well, hopefully it will go well.

My sister told me that they took Ariyana to her doctor's appointment today and she was only 5% for weight for her age but her head was like 75%..does that mean she has a big head? Big head=big brain? She was only 25% or so for her height...guess all the other little ones caught up to her cause she used to be tall for her age. Alyson also told me that the doctor discovered today that my little busy bee has a heart murmur :-( She said that it will probably clear up on its own but they will watch it. I hope it is nothing serious. If you check out Ariyana's World then you will see pictures from her birthday cupcake yesterday. Her real cake is on Sunday but isn't she cute?

I went and got Ariyana's birthday present today! I would tell you all what it is but it will be a surprise for my sister too so I have to wait in case she reads this! I will be sure to post pictures though.

Tomorrow night I am getting together with one of my really good friends from high school.....she is going to head this way and we are going to do dinner and a movie (which used to be our staple Friday/Saturday night in high school). She said that she hasn't been to the theatre in forever and she hasn't seen anything that didn't have Mickey or Sesame Street in forever (she has a 3 and 1 year old...I think that oldest is 3). I love hanging out with people like that because they always think that my single, city life is so glamorous...yeah right! I guess the grass is always greener, but it does make me feel cool sometimes.

One year old cuteness

I saw Ariyana on the camera to night for her birthday. She was cute and started smiling as soon as she saw me and heard my voice. Then she reached for me to pick her up....how cute is that? I have trained her to just lift those little arms and she knows I will get her :-) Probably not the best thing to have trained her to do but she doesn't get to see me that often and I love to hold her when I do see her so I figure it isn't that bad :-)

Gonna try out this boxing that Rebecca raves about in a little while....I will let you know how it goes! edit: I love the boxing...I get way too into it! I think that my arms will be sore tomorrow but I won every time. I still haven't mastered how exactly to work the punches and I am trying to use both arms so that I don't have one strong arm and the other will be weak :-) I actually think that the boxing is a better workout than some of the things in the Wii Fit.

Happy Birthday to Ariyana, my little busy bee!

Today Ariyana turns ONE! I can't believe it! I decided not to drive up there tonight since I will go on Sunday and since I have been swamped at work. I do have a webcam and my brother in law has one too so they are going to call me tonight when it is time to sing happy birthday! I wish I had a recent picture to post but I will get some on Sunday!

Also, didn't mean to offend anyone on the gas crisis thing...I know that none of you are like that and I understand that people have to get places, I am more annoyed with people who have alternatives but don't use them...it would be like if I filled up every day on my way home even though I only drove 20 miles because I wanted to make sure I had gas...that was what I was complaining about.

So, I thought I was going to be in town for a while but it looks like I will be heading to New Orleans in a couple of weeks....actually a little outside of New Orleans but I am hoping to sneak into the city one night. I also have a friend that lives there who just had her third!!! Yikes! She is the same age as me! Anyway, I haven't met the new little one and if I do then I can cross that off my list of 101 things (until someone out of state has another one). I also only have 2 and a half weeks until vacation!! YAY!!

I did spin class today and it was the hardest that it has ever been! My legs were burning but it was also the third day in a row that I worked out so maybe that had to do with it. I wanted to try the Pilates class tomorrow but we will see how I feel. After reading Rebecca's post I want to try out the boxing (haven't played that one yet).

Hope everyone has a good night and finds gas :-)