Southern Barbie is BACK. Again.

So...I can't believe it's been 1 month since my last post. Sorry about that. April was so eventful, it was crazy. The weekend following my birthday Jakey got a cold and then I caught it and it turned into 2 ambulance rides to the ER and a 3 day hospital admission! My asthma really got bad and my oxygen levels got very low and it was SUPER scary. Having said that, I am doing great now and the last few weeks have been great allergy wise and asthma wise. I'm taking all my meds...way too many meds...but I'm taking all of them, and using a really good filter for our air conditioner and using 2 air purifiers in the house. My allergies have pretty much disappeared and I haven't felt like that in YEARS, despite 2.5 years of allergy shots. Don't waste your $$ on those, they are for suckers like me who would do anything to have days without allergies. If I had only known life could be this good with air purifiers I would have done that years ago!

I'll post new pics soon and won't go so long without a post again!

:)
S.B.

Squinchy-nose face!

I just love him so much! He's the cutest thing ever. I know everyone says that about their kids, but it's true! Don't you just want to hug and kiss this sweet boy?? He's adorable!

Video #2

Finally...a video!

This is sweet Jakey in the office and I decided to experiment with the video function on our camera and seeing if it would work to post it on the blog...it did!! Yeah! This will revolutionize my blog you know. Get ready cause lots of videos are on the way!

An AMAZING day.

Yesterday I turned 32. That's right, and I can't believe I just typed it 3-2!!!! It sounds scaryingly close to 35 and then 40. Ooohhh man! Anyhow, it was an AMAZING and WONDERFUL day. I received calls and cards from family and friends afar, I spent the morning (after sleeping in and a wonderful breakfast made by Jeremy) with Jakey and Jeremy shopping at Costco and the grocery store, preparing for a special birthday dinner of my favorite...fajitas...made by Jeremy. He had invited his brother and wife and their kids over for dinner. This is my sweet sister-in-law I've told you about before that is letting me use her breadmaker and helped me with my wedding and threw me bachelorette party, and then when I was pregnant a baby shower and is just all around WONDERFUL. I don't know what I would do without her. Well...would you believe my DARLING and THOUGHTFUL husband planned ahead of time all these fun surprises and even secretly connected with a fairly new and wonderful friend Steph (who became a good friend through football season last year when Jeremy was coaching with Chris)to invite her to the dinner also! I was S-H-O-C-K-E-D. This is the first time I think I have been truly surprised by Jeremy. Usually I'm good at figuring out surprises, but not this time. I had no clue. Especially since I had coffee with her on Friday night and she didn't let anything slip! We had so much fun. Jeremy made margaritas and Kadie brought a SUPER YUMMY bean dip and we had the most wonderful fajitas ever followed by a wonderful cake that Jeremy made. We had the best time. I always have fun when Chris and Kadie are here and it was even more special because Jeremy was thoughtful enough to plan it out and invite Steph as a surprise. It was an AMAZING day and as I laid in bed Jeremy and I talked about the evening and a recap of all the funny and special moments and I just thought about how truly blessed I am. Jeremy did such a wonderful job planning this out, and buying me thoughtful gifts, and working hard to have everything perfect. I just can't believe that I am married to such a wonderful man. As time goes by I think I realize more and more that I am so lucky and that he loves me so much and just how blessed I really am to have him and Jakey.

So now, at 2:59 in the morning, I'm up blogging about this because I have the worst gas ever and it woke me up, so I'm sure it woke up Jeremy too. So, since that's so wonderfully embarassing and pitiful for sweet Jeremy to have thrown me an amazing party and be so great only to be woken up by his 32-year-old wife passing gas at night...I'm blogging in the other room, hoping the gas has passed and it's safe for me to get back in bed. GROSS and EMBARASSING.

You tell me...

I can't decide if I love this picture or hate it. I can't decide if I look really good or really bad. It's really bothering me. I sorta love it and I sorta hate it. Also....that's a pretty ugly tank top. Kinda like a wife-beater for women. It was cheap. It's from Ross. I get pretty hot sometimes, so yeah, I wear a tank top when it's still cold outside, and at night, when no one's looking, I run around the house with my weave and makeup and a tank top on. So this picture was taken by me (like you didn't know that from the MASSIVE fat arm (you can't even see the bottom of my arm) --but that's another post---sticking out in the picture) BEFORE I did the highlights. Jeremy helped me with pulling my hair through the cap. He's such a good man. And he loves saving money. I reminded him of how much money we were saving since we were doing the highlights ourselves and how we weren't paying for someone else's time and products, and then a tip too! Jeremy wants to know where his tip is. I told him he may get his tip this weekend, if he's good and doesn't annoy me for the rest of the week. I'm pretty sure he rushed to the pharmacy right after that to get me a refill on my anxiety meds. I've been out now for almost a week and let's just say it's been a LONG week.

Frumpy to FABULOUS in 50 seconds flat!

Who is sitting at a messy desk right now blogging instead of studying? Me.
Who is drinking coffee at almost 11pm (so I can stay up to study)? Me.
Who is drinking that coffee out of the cup/saucer from her wedding china? Me.
(I love that china. Someone's GOT to use it, right?)
Who goes to Great Clips to save $$$ on a haircut and gets their hair jacked up? Me.
How often does this happen? Everytime I go to a cheap place.
Who has been talking about getting extensions for like 15 years? Me. (Don't laugh - it's true)
Who got them? ME!~
How do they look? AMAZING!
Who wants an instant self-esteem makeover? Everyone.
Who should try extensions? Everyone. Even men...that's so metro.
Who helped me do my own highlights so my hair blends in with the xtensions? Jeremy
Who pulled my horsetail-thick hair through every 5th hole in a teeny-tiny-cap? J-train!
Who likes my weave? Everyone.
Who is sick of all these dang questions? Everyone!!!
Who is totally delirious and should go to bed but can't cause I have TOO MUCH TO DO? Me.

See-ya! Night ya'll!

xoxo
S.B. ---Suddenly Beautiful...thanks to my WEAVE! :) These extensions are so good that when I went to Sally Beauty supply to get some "product" and asked where to find it, the lady said...."Girrrrrllllll----you got xtensions?" I'm typing that in my best older African-American lady way....and I smiled and said yes mam!