Happy Birthday!

To my boo. Alex's birthday was today...did you think I was talking about a different boo that I have? Silly you. I love Alex-obviously. I married the kid. So just a shout out on his birthday is nice...I can't believe how old he is...this is our conversation this morning:

Chelsea: "Happy Birthday Boo!"
Alex: "Thanks!"
Chelsea: "How old are you now?"
Alex: "I'm 27!"
Chelsea: "Disgusting."

So as you can tell, I love this kid and his old age. Pretty soon I'm going to have to tell people I'm married to a 30 year old. Gross. I think when I'm 27 the world will run solely on hugs as their currency. And there will be flying cars. But anyway, here's 2 pictures that I think show Alex in all his 27 year old glory...

This is Alex just being a good dad. Kids like water-and he knows what kids like.

And this is actually Alex at 25, but it's such a great picture. You can tell he's thinking about when he'll be 27. It looks beautiful. I can't not laugh when I see these...I'm sorry!

Anyway, Happy Birthday Boo!!

Curlers

I'm sure I've posted something about this before, but I'm going to do it again. When I was little every Saturday night my mom would make me and my sisters go get the foam curlers, a glass of water, and the comb so that she could do our hair for Sunday. I hated it. I'm sorry mom. It just took so long and sometimes it hurt, and then you have to sleep with these foam curlers all night and you can't get them wet in the bath the next morning...there was just a lot of stuff that sucked about those curlers. Of course we all looked adorable the next day with our curly hair, but the price for that beauty was too much for me. I don't know how my sisters felt about it, but I'm pretty sure it was the same. One time Cessy even got her curlers wet and ruined her hair-I think it was so that my mom would take away her privileges of having curled hair for church. She was always the smart one.

ANYWAY, a while ago I was at my local grocer where they sell what? Foam curlers. And so I bought them and last night I thought "hey, why not try those out and see what happens?" So I said to my 3 year old, "Go get your comb. Mommy's going to make you pretty." I realize that sounds creepy, but back off. She's my kid, so I can say whatever I want to her. So I put curlers in her hair. But here's the weird part: She absolutely LOVED it. She was so excited. She even woke me up last night because one of them fell out, and she needed me to fix it so her hair would be pretty today.

Here's the lesson I learned: Just because I hated something in my youth doesn't mean Tessa is going to. So I'm going to start buying tomatoes and fish so she can try those out too. I realize these things have nothing to do with the actual curlers, but I hate a lot of food, so I just don't make it or I don't buy it, but maybe Tessa will like it! I should probably give her the chance.

Who knew that those foam curlers would teach me this valuable lesson?

Probably my mom. She's smart.

No, this post isn't meant to be insightful. It's more of a joke, but I really did think about that...I'm probably still not going to buy tomatoes...

Tessa's Birthday

So I finally got around to uploading pictures of Tessa's actual birthday. I took a billion pictures, but I don't want to take forever to explain them all, so here are a few of them. This is Tessa as soon as she woke up. Don't mind her hair. I don't know what that girl does at night, but this is how she looks pretty much every single morning. Her hair is so crazy. And yes, this is what we let her sleep in. I don't even care. And this is Tessa in her birthday outfit. She only wore it for like 10 minutes because we gave her a big thing of dress up clothes, so she kept changing from dress to dress. And as I said before, she fell asleep at 6. Opening presents. Notice her new dress.

This is Tessa and my dad and Rubie, who snuck into the birthday people shot. It's my dad's birthday this Saturday so we celebrated them together. Rubie just likes taking pictures with people. I don't know why it's such a bad picture....sorry.

Unfortunately for Tessa (and Alex) I was pretty sick on her birthday, most of the weekend, and I still am today. So we didn't really have too much fun on her birthday-next year it'll be better!

Fortunately, it's not the Swine Flu...

THAT'S RIGHT! The Osborne's are becoming a quartet!

OMG OMG OMG. I'm so excited! I can't even tell you people how excited we are! But I'll try...

Alex and I have been trying to get pregnant for over a year. I even took fertility drugs and everything, but nothing was working. So after I had a nervous breakdown and cried for a week, we decided to stop trying so hard. And voila. We are now with child! I'm about 8 weeks, so I'm due June 23rd. LOVE IT!!!!

Best day ever.

Happy Birthday!

To my baby. That's right people, I have a 3 year old! Yesterday was Tessa's b-day and now she's older...which happens everyday, but yesterday we actually got to celebrate it! We didn't do a big party this year, we just had breakfast with Alex's family and then tonight we are going to my parents for dinner. And she was only awake for half of the day anyway-she woke up at 9:00 and fell asleep at 6:00. But it was fun 9 hours! This post is boring...when I upload the pictures of her actual birthday it'll be way better.This is Tessa on Day 1. Or probably day 2. She was cute. And this is her last month, at Stone's birthday. Shout out to Stone.

Anyway, I don't want to be a mom that gives updates on what she's doing, because she'll never read this-but just FYI, she's in the 99% for her heighth. That's my amazing fact about my baby. She still can't say 99th percentile, but she's in it! Suck on that!

Don't Worry, I'm Alive

It's been a while since I posted last. I had to go to Lima, Ohio with Alex. Ever heard of it? NO? Well, lucky you. I was trying to figure out how to describe it and all I could come up with "was pretty gray and industrial looking," or "THE THIRD LEVEL OF HELL." One of those probably paints a pretty good, grayscale picture for you. Seriously, poor Alex who has to travel there for half of his life. I feel blessed to be home. Really-I'm not just saying that. It was not the funnest trip of my life, and I think Lima tried to kill my mom. She's got the swine now. Thanks a lot, Ohio. (ps, my mom doesn't have the swine. She's just sick.)

But really, the point of my post is Halloween. I know I'm about a week late on this, but that's all I've got. I was pretty proud of the family this year, we made our costumes. That's right, this girl sews. Who knew? We were a theme family-Tinkerbell, Peter Pan, and Tiger Lily. Tessa really wanted to be Tinkerbell, so I was all, "whatevs, she's kind of trashy, but I guess that's ok. You're only young once." So I made her costume. I have a bunch of pictures, but only half of them were loaded onto our computer tonight, so I'm only giving the good points.

This is our family at my company's party. Tessa wouldn't stand up because she desperately needed Alex to hold her EVERY SECOND OF THE DAY. She missed him. And yes, Alex's legs are better looking than mine. I'm over it.

And we planned a party for Alex's friends, which rocked. Except for everyone sucks at Horror Movie Trivia. Sorry-I had to say it. When I did the trivia with my family, they rocked at it...

I got a bunch of pictures of the party, but I didn't want to wait for them to upload, so this is all you get:

These are most of the friends. And here is what they are (from left to right): Mike and Alysha as Popeye and Olive Oyl, Steve as Dexter, TJ and Rachel as a figure skater and a hockey player, Andy as the robot from Flight of the Conchords, Brock as Spock, Rebecca as Batgirl, Wes is a bear, Adam is himself, John is a chicken plus something, and our family...

All that we are missing is Jake and Heather and Emmett-they had already left. But they dressed up too. Jake was a Bears Superfan, Heather a viking, and Emmett was Batman (so cute!) I was really proud of all the friends, because usually they try to ruin my parties (actually, only John. He ruined my 22nd birthday. And I will not forget it.) But this time, everyone dressed up and participated, and they were all fun! (Not that they aren't usually fun, this time they were fun plus costumes.)And this is how Tessa laid on the couch for most of the night. Emmett and Wesley were there, so I think she was trying to seduce them. Sexy poses for my trashy little Tinkerbell. (Obviously I do not think my child is trashy. But she is sexy, right?)

On Halloween night, we went to both the grandparents house and did the trick or treating thing. I did get pictures but I am not sharing them with everyone, just because I'm lazy and don't want to get my camera out of my purse.

So, until next time. It's Tessa's birthday in 2 days, so I'll probably post about that in 2 weeks. I'm running behind on life!

I blame OHIO...