Just Me!

These are some random photo shots taken by Ashley Dungan an friend of mine. These are the only ones I will post and the only ones my son will EVER see! Love you Bubba but those other pictures are for Daddy! :)

Baby Fever

I totally have a case of Baby Fever, thank goodness everyone I know is pregnant or we might have a problem. All options are tied on my end. Catch my drift? This is a picture of Bubba just hours or maybe a day old. Look how red he is and his dark soft silky hair was to die for. I really prayed he would keep it. That didn't happen darnit. He really look as though he was the neighbor's child...who just happened to be Italian!! I see how fast almost 3 years have gone and honestly see the next 20 here at any moment and it is sad! Not enough hours in the day I tell ya! Just wanted to share that baby fever does truly happen, just glad in a way its not possible for me.

Grandparents, Royals, Target Oh My....

Russ and I at the Royals/Rangers Game 2009I honestly LOVE this picture of me and him...its just so us..our life...yoga pants, his camo shorts, ballgames...The good ole us....kid less...
Oh, Bo Duke was there...a little more rough looking than his good ole boy days but still as cool..

Shoe shopping at Target with Bird and Candie, its there haven!

My Grandma and Grandpa Underwood came in....bubba being ornery with his Great Grandma he probably didn't remember he even had!

He thought Grandmas were everywhere.

Gabby, my childs 4 day a week protector drinking it up.....:)

Russ's favorite or seem to be, Josh Hamilton #32...supposedly he has full sleeve tattoos which would make him MY favorite as well.

I took this picture because I wanted proof to show Russ that he wanders off while in the meantime guys or should I say Male Animals are hoopin and hollering at my ghetto behind. Turned out to be a pretty cool pic though.

The New Royals Stadium.... 3rd nicest park in the world!

Grandpa on Dads bike! Taking pictures for the guys back at the lodge!

A cowboy hat brought to bubba by Uncle Ryan and Aunt Christine

Dalton and those darn ice cubes, made me wanna cringe! Being dental all I could think of was DAMAGE!
While Great Grandma Underwood encouraged the fact..OF COURSE she would!

Grandpa and Great Grandpa Underwood

On Saturday morning we headed to my mom and dads house to visit with my grandparents that had came to visit. It was a quick visit but the day was already jam packed before they unexpectedly were coming into town. We had BBQ and then hit the road for Russ and I's date night with two other couples, I was by far the youngest one there. Gabby(Dalton's babysitter) and her husband Jess (Russ's coworker) then Dwight (Bo Duke) and Beverly were the rest of the party. They like their liquor and I enjoyed taking pictures. We got really good seat for really cheap prices and well the entertainment all around was fun. It made my night when Russ and I took a good picture! I also snapped a pic of Josh Hamilton, he is Russ's favorite Texas Rangers player and he is my age FYI. Kind of crazy how we are all at different places in our lives. i could just see the gleam in Russ's eyes last night as he watched the game, that and he had already downed a couple drinks. :) We had fun and will defiantly be doing again real soon. Downfall is we didn't hit our pillows until midnight and that's including Austin and Dalton. It made for some major crankiness this morning.

Candie called and we had to run to Target for A.Coffee and B. Callie's 1st birthday is today and we still needed gifts. It was a good trip and you see as pictured that Cadence loves shoes just like her mommy......too cute!

Lesson #1

Dalton Lee, read this and read it over and over again. You need to treat everyone equally. Mostly women. All of us are beautiful in our own way. May it be our brains, our bodies, our hair, our smile etc. Sometimes the heart is the only beautiful thing but that makes not one person (woman) you know ugly! I have always been bigger than the average woman and I most likely will be the "bigger" mom on the baseball team crew. That is just fine cause my heart and my laughter take me many of places! Plus your Daddy is never complaining....niether did your Poppy! They love them curves! Just be kind and gentle as feelings are fragile parts to all of us!

Finally A Blog Post!

It's been so busy on the home front at the Wood's house. Russ left for Texas on Wed as mentioned in my post before this. I the "go go go" Tracy did absolutely nothing, I napped, napped and napped some more, I now think WTH? Russ is back and I am on the go again. No doubt he is my best friend and lover! YUCK! :) He came in late last night. I saw my sis in law and niece for maybe 30minutes and they were off again ready to get back home which is 2 hours from my house! I don't blame them. Russ and I woke early, grabbed coffee and headed out for our typical Sunday drive. We went to Shawnee Mission Park to feed ducks and saw not one of them...so headed to Antioch Park and I think everyone beat us to them as they weren't hungry for anything but peoples limbs...sorry I hate GEESE!! One of my biggest fears and Russ doesn't get it I swear I am gonna drowned him sometime. Then we drove by my Aunt Jill and Uncle Kevin's house cause she posted on Facebook they were home. LOL~we had a good visit and she inspired me a little more today to write and so I think I am gonna enter a few contests whats it gonna hurt? Then we headed home and NAPPED...woohoo what a surprise right? It was a great one though! So Russ is at ballgames and I am tackling laundry and catching up on blogging. I think I am finally caught up! Ok busy week ahead. Then next weekend already holds big plans like...Royal's game Friday or Saturday with friends, Callie's Birthday and some other odd and ends!

We shall call Gama and Pampa's house a FARM. Dad purchased this hauler for the back of his lawnmower to strictly pull the grandkids around. Bubba was the first to try it out. I don't think he liked it a bit...do you?
The NEW toy standing alone. So shiny green!

The TOY in action...on Pampa's FARM!

Only a 1/4 of a 1/4th of the tomatoes.

unloading the "tractor" it had been to the shop...

Dalton climbing up to help unload. He had been helping my Dad all morning unload the trailer full of moving boxes and such, he was actually a good helper! I was surprised!

Oh look the TREE HUT...you all haven't seen pics yet of the TREE HUT because it takes my sister 90 years to get me copies off her camera of the 4th of July..This tree is cool once you go under the leaves its all open, like a weeping willow but little, it was a fort and tree tent then a HUT! The kiddos love it! Again on the FARM!

The morning drinks if you visit the Farm....Mango Malibu, cranberry juice and orange juice...Yummy!

Dalton and his DARN feet! GASP.......

Me and My Bub's

Picnic time! With Daddy gone and 70 degree weather it made for a great picnic on my FREE picnic table! You are not throwing it away Russell!

My Friday with Ashley consisted of going to Cici's Pizza....Lacey could careless, Austin content and Jojo...well she is just COOL, don't bother her

Thursday the 16th with the work family for Val's belated bday at a Japanese Steakhouse for my first time. We had a blast as usual.

Jennifer and Owen

Me and Des at my cousin Sarah's Bridal Shower

Val and Doc

Not So Wordless Wednesday

My hubby's cousin Jenny was killed in a plane crash over the 4th of July coming from NY back home to FL. I had never met her but heard many things about her and overheard conversations Russ had with her. She was and is absolutely gorgeous. Russ and Sis grew up with her and her brother Greg while living in Texas as kids. So getting to my point...Russ and sis leave today to head to Texas for the visitation and funeral. I'm upset that A I will not be attending and B Russ is my BFF and anywhere from 6-12hrs is tolerable for me. Anything past that I need my teddy bear! So I am gonna try to put all my whining aside and get through the weekend. I have Des coming over tonight for coffee. Thursday night its a night out with the office staff including Doc. so far I got nothing for Friday and then a BBQ on Saturday night. I do plan to check a few more things off my TO-DO list as well. Hopefully :)
Prayers to Jenny and her family please!

I AM LOVED.......

A special delivery from my Sister-In-Law......They are absolutely delicious and so pretty right???? I love them and her! Thank you so much for the pick me up Sis....I needed it more than you will ever know! Now if these strawberries could just do laundry and mop floors man would that be a package deal? LOL! Excuse me while I go indulge....BTW The chocolate is unlike any kind I have ever tasted! Screw laundry and floors just keep licking the chocolate...

FREEDOM FRIDAY.....

This day has been amazing thus far. I got to sleep in until 645am cant tell you the last time that has happened. Got up got dressed and headed to Starbucks and then to drop Bubba of at daycare, Yes I do that on my day off. This is why.....I brewed some homemade sweet tea! Love it now it just needs to hurry up and get cold already! Russ is gonna be in heaven. Its a South Carolina sweat tea recipe. Oooohhh Oooohhhh and please acknowledge the radio hanging under my cabinet that was a check off of the honey do list that Russ did complete!

Ohhh and I want to show what relaxation is to me....a clean picked up no mess living room on a cloudy day with lamps on, and yes that is garland above my windows and you can make fun all you want but I love the ambiance it gives off. Mind you this is my furniture I got for dirt cheap( no lie, they lady was a spoiled woman who got her new dream furniture, she may as well just handed me the stuff for FREE) at a garage sale! Its in awesome condition. Theres a oversized chair and ottoman in the left corner you cant see.
I bought some "frosted glass" spray paint and took off the old yucky blind in my bathroom and WAAALLLLAAAAAH! Not sure what the little hole is in the upper right window, its not really there. The before pic is below.

Cool huh? Remember WE RENT!

I have also scrubbed bathrooms, swept and mopped floors, done laundry and watched 4 episodes of Home Improvement reruns. The ones with Tim Allen! Love him!
Its a great stay at home day as the rest of the weekend will move rather fast! Tomm. is my cousin Sarah's personal shower and then Sunday is my friend Krista'a baby shower! Russ plays ball tonight 830/930 and you all know where I will be....Home alone and loving every minute!

WDYTW

Face in Water..Holy Moly he was trying so hard, he just hates it but baby steps are better than nothing!

I Found My Happy Place

Ok so it still majorly needs work but I knew all along I missed my bath time the most. Before I met Russ, like my Mom I would bathe everynight until I was a prune...one day I hope to be blessed with a jet tub! Until then, simple will do. The last three nights I have decided to fill the tub HOT water and I mean Hot Tub hot, Ease into it while your skin turns red! Love it!Tonight I headed to Target to hit up the end caps where there are clearance items and low and behold BLUE candles! All shades and blue mainly comes in that CLEAN scent...Yeah me!

You will see above that the window is my candle haven! NEW blinds and window treatment coming soon....GROSS Blinds...mind you I am in a rental. Below is my toilet again not the prettiest but on clearance at Target was this blue and white pinstripe white wicker basket UUUggghhh Love it too.

The plush toilet cover, NOT ON SALE but only 8.99...Trash can as well 2.00 with the Target bag showing because unlike Dwayne I get endorsement money...yep mailed right to me! LMAO!

My towels already bought with the shower curtain when I moved in....Oh and by the way this is also the MAIN bath in our house, in our room is a shower and toilet! The star wooden thingys are G-Sale buys for 1.00 a piece! I need a saying to put between the stars like Tracy's Spa or Bathe in cool lettering....

So all in all, I am in total pure love! Things I still need....Light fixtures, new switch plate preferably star...shower caddy, window treatment...I have rugs coming that I ordered off of Lakeside Collections....
If you dont know what that site leads to dont worry about it cause your money will lead there too. :) As you can see I honor Russ's Dallas Cowboys in My bathroom, I think I have just claimed the bathroom that EVERYONE uses as mine. We might have a problem.

I am so excted to make my Tea...called Relax and then bathe...Oh yeah!

A Happy Place

A friend got me thinking tonight.....about a happy place. Where do you go when everything and everyone around you is falling apart? I cannot fix..I hire out remember! :) Lately I have been feeling blah, so I dye my hair, do my nails, buy some clothes, shoes, sonic drinks, surround myself with friends and love and still I am unfulfilled! I went to the Dr. today because its been 2.5 years since my last physical and I weighed in at TWO HUNDRED NINETEEN POUNDS! That my friends is disgusting! Do I feel that big? Sometimes! Mostly not though, cause Russ doesn't let me, or even bring it to my attention. I am majority of the time bubbly and bouncy Tracy, no pun! See...there I joked but its not funny inside! I'm angry, I am tired, I am lazy and I am hiding....I hide in bigger clothes, I stay in my bubble and I seem to be OK most of the time. I am a nervous wreck at family functions because I know what they are thinking. I can see it in there eyes. Great now I am in tears.....Damnit! I want to fix this, I don't sit on my ass everyday, I come home, I feed the family, I pick up after EVERYONE, I clean, I then bathe, blog and go to bed EXHAUSTED! Just to do it all again tomorrow. Yes I chose this life and I am blessed in many ways but I don't feel good inside! So this is my meltdown...this is MY vent and its OVERDUE! So whats next right...well Dr. Madison drew 5 viles of blood today... see 3 years ago I was borderline diabetic and tested to having NO progesterone in my body...So he wants to check all that and if still the case start my meds up again. Could be a huge weight contributor....I am also scheduled for a ultrasound of my ovaries and gall bladder for other reasons. Can you imagine menopause at 27? He said it does occur more than you think. Hormones are a huge imbalance and if they aren't right then you turn into a headcase...kind of like me right now! So I will get up tomm...do my hair, makeup and dress pretty cause I am going to work, which I love and then to lunch with my sister n law then home to my hubby who will hopefully be better. Wont cross my toes on that one!
I have to add a short prayer list to the end here because this is the sadness that has brought this blog about.....
To my friend Jen Ulmer....I'm so sorry you are having troubles, I love ya and am praying for you to be well...if not well then to feel strong and happy. (Jen has had diabetes for as long as I have known her and she needs kidneys and a pancreas STAT as she would say!)
Amy Mott~I love you and I am so sorry to hear that you are ill too. You are strong and so is your faith and you can and will conquer.
To my Wood family...I am so sorry about the loss of Jenny...she is truley gorgeous and although I never had the chance to meet her I feel I knew her through Russ's stories and talks with her as we drove to Texas! For all who don't know she was killed in a plane crash over the 4th in Virginia coming from New York home to Florida! Sad story....
Ashley...my sissy~god bless can they just hurry up already and fix you. I dedicate one of my ulcers to you. HA! Love ya!
Ok goodnight I am so much more worn out!

Stolen Pictures....Oooopps!

I couldn't help myself I had to steal these pics from Dearing's blogspot....I had a talk with the hubby and we WILL find a way for me to have a camera that does good things. I am missing out on great photos ops with my 99.00 piece of junk! Yes it does the job but not a GREAT one.

I love the whole dirty feet problem he has....

A really great motivation to start dieting again! Stupid playground equipment

Tongue out when concentrating just like his brother

If she would hold still long enough I would smooch on her cheeks all day long!