Project 365: Week 2

Week 2- check.

I've officially stuck with this longer than most of my relationships.

Kidding.

Sort of.

So my pictures for the week. I could realistically just put up a picture of a frozen over parking lot and that would sum up the whole week. Or a girl sliding on the ice. That would do it too. Because that was pretty much my week thanks to Snowmaggedon 2011.

But let's not and say we did.

Sunday, January 9th.
I put Baby Girl's formula into her sippy cup for the first time just to see how she did. Didn't even phase her. She killed it.


Monday, January 10th.
This was our snow day, the day we got blasted with a ton of snow (for the South) and Mr. Perfect, BG and I holed up inside all day. Our apartment complex was covered in at least six inches of snow.

Tuesday, January 11th.
We moved BG up to the big girl tub. She took a minute to fall in love with the idea, but now she's totally digging all the extra space to thrash around in.

Wednesday, January 12th.
I had a meeting up in Seneca, so I took a little drive up there on Wednesday. Somehow I got super lost and ended up driving 45 minutes out of my way trying to get home. But I found my future home, so not a wasted trip.

Thursday, January 13th.
BG has been taking some awesome naps lately. Like, not even moving. So when I went to get her up and saw how hard she'd been sleeping on her hand, I had to take a picture. You know that's the mark of a good nap!

Friday, January 14th.
We ventured down to Columbia to meet up with Hudson and Erin for a bit. This was the best picture I could get of the little ones. They're quick!

Saturday , January 15th.
41 weeks. My how I love that smile!

Pumpkin Carving = fun for everyone!

So a couple weeks ago (yes I suck at posting on time), the bff, Mr. Perfect, and I got together for dinner and some good 'ol pumpkin carving. Dinner was delish (thanks AP!) and carving was awesome. Until my dog had to go rustle up a rattlesnake and creep me out for the rest of the night. Thanks Duke.

But I digress.

Mr. Perfect and I make sure we carve a pumpkin every year. It's one of those sappy little traditions that I love and can't wait to do long term with my little family. Of course having Mr. Perfect and AP together gave me perfect opportunity to practice for little children.

Super excited about our carving kit.


The pumpkins.



Mr. Perfect decided he needed to take off the top of ours with a samurai sword. You can see how excited I am about it.

It didn't work.

Scooping out the seeds. Apparently Mr. Perfect thought it was a smelly job.

I think I was the only one taking this seriously....



Some serious carving...



Finished products!

belly dancers, lambs, and fire oh my!

A couple weekends ago, my BFF, Jay, and her boyfriend came down for the weekend from Chucktown. We decided to head out to this Moroccan restaurant downtown with some friends.

I should admit that I don't really like a lot of food. AKA I am ridiculously picky and don't like to try new things. It is why I would easily eat Mexican food everyday until I died if I could.

But I went along to a place where lamb is readily served and I tried to find something to eat.


E getting her hands washed before dinner.


We actually had a great time. The boys loved the belly dancers...


The girls did not love the fact that the belly dancer wouldn't take no for an answer when she dragged us into the middle of the room to dance. Yes, I totally tried to use my 4 months pregnant status as a reason to stay seated. Shameful I know, but don't worry, the belly dancer didn't buy it.

Don't let my smile fool you. I was not impressed to be up dancing around some drunk guy I don't know with a huge water stain on the front of my dress from our waiter "washing" my hands. Or my dress, whichever.

I'll admit it, Jay and I have no rhythm. We looked ridic. At least our friend E could hold her own!

All in all.. The food? Not horrible. Although I barely ate it, at least I gave it a try. The atmosphere was a blast and our company was awesome. Not such a bad Saturday nite. I'd do it again.

Easter... Just a bit late...

Yea.. so my big 'ol 100th post.. not gonna be on the 100 mark. But it's coming. Just not in time, because I'm a grade A procrastinator. Simple.

So last weekend was Easter. I'm posting about it this weekend. Seriously, procrastination at it's finest here folks.

My lovely parentals decided to tell Mr. P and I that they were coming down on Tuesday. Nice advance notice there folks.. We had already made plans to go up to Mr. P's hometown so we weren't going to be able to do Easter with them anyway. They made it down here on Thursday though, so we got to spend some time with them.

The Marine took his new girlfriend, Lora (name has been changed to protect the guilty), out to my parents camper for the official meet and greet on Friday while I was at work. Not sad I missed that actually. I always hated going through that! But apparently all went well.

We headed out to the Crab Shack on Friday nite. Mr. P of course drove like a maniac and almost made me kill him. He does this when my parents are in the car for some reason. He says it's payback for how my Mom drives... Whatevs.

Mis parentals waiting to eat...


Mr. Perfect and I



The Marine and Lora..


The 'rents and I


My Mr. Perfect and I... Yea, he was eating when I was trying to take pictures.


Leaving the Crab Shack sufficiently stuffed.


We decided to head on back to the house and have a Wii Dance Off. Did I mention that Lora is a dancer?! She pretty much made the rest of us look stupid so the boys switched to tennis. We all know I try to not play that with people around...


I have a bad habit of ruining pictures...

Check out the concentration!





Saturday we packed up and headed to Smalltown, SC. We went out to eat with Mr. Perfect's parents Saturday nite, then hit the hay. We got up Sunday morning and went to church with his Dad. It's fun to go up there and see the church Mr. Perfect grew up in and hear his stories of the people he knows. We didn't really like the sermon though. Kind of blah for an Easter service. I'm used to a way more emotional service on Easter and this pastor's just didn't deliver. But it makes his Dad's day for us to go to church with him, so I'm all for that.


We left right after lunch. It was a pretty small, tame gathering as Mr. Perfect's family goes. There's a freakin' ton of them, but most weren't there so it was pretty quiet.

We got home and spent the rest of the evening hanging with my parents. They had gone down to Lora's family's place for Easter dinner. I think that's weird, but whatever. I have mentioned before that Lora's cousin is my ex-bff right? Yea. My parents and brother spent Easter with her. I haven't decided how I feel about that exactly. Or maybe I have and I'm just not into going into it. But I digress..

Overall it was a nice Easter. I think we've decided next year we're definitely doing Easter at our church. Let's see how all parents go for that.

This weekend was pretty lazy. I ate everything I wanted since I start my liquid diet of fun on Tuesday. Can't wait for that! (insert sarcastic grin). Mr. Perfect had inventory all weekend, so I really haven't seen him. And then I was bad and didn't even get up for church this morning... In my defense, I think I might have been in a small coma. I could not budge.

So..... I'm going to go ahead and do what so many before me already have. I'm doing a Q&A! Everybody says "yay!". Even if you don't get that excited, send me your questions folks. I'm pretty open, so I'll answer about everything, and probably with pictures because that's how I do. Email me at perfectlyimperfectlife@gmail{dot}com with your questions.

And if you don't mind too much, say a little prayer for this surgery because this girl is FREAKING. Not about the cramping or anything like that because I've been through that, but about the pain from the incisions in my abdomen. I'm seriously stressin' here folks.

Oh yea. And about that liquid diet thingy and the other ahem prep work... Not fun.