I'm getting around to it!

Danielle (dbryan-danielle.blogspot.com) tagged me, that's ok, I still love her!
Ok,...
1. I talk to myself, alot! I'll have full conversations in my head. I will even use hand gestures!
2. I would rather it be 100 degrees outside then 60. Give me heat!!!
3. I love mindless tasks. I don't mind filing, typing, organizing, cutting, stuffing, folding, or any mindless task, especially when I don't feel like dealing with other stuff!
4. I enjoy getting together and being with people even if I don't talk the whole time. I love sitting back in a group of people and just watch what's going on!
5. I check my blog about 50 times a day, but I'm bad about posting or commenting on others but I LOVE when people comment on mine.
6. I collect Nativity sets. I have about 40 right now!
7. I'm shy! There are a bunch of people that I would love to get to know better but I hate going up to them first and trying to make that initial contact, it scares me to death! I guess I'm afraid of rejection or something.

Well, I guess I have to tag 7 people, uh,... ok, so since this is a random fact tag I'm just going to tag a few random people! Paige Sinclare(paigesinclair.blogspot.com) Clay Meldrum(claymeldrum.blogspot.com) Katie Curtis (thekatiecurtis.blogspot.com) Laura Silver (keepitonthedlsilver.blogspot.com) Brett & Emily Meldrum (meldrumland.blogspot.com) Jen Wecker (theweckers.blogspot.com) and... Jessica Gillespie (gillespiebunch.blogspot.com)

Hope everyone is has a great day. I'll post a better post later, I've just been getting use to work, life, and all the new fun things happening!

Zoey's 6 Month Pictures and More

When I went to Houston, my mom and I took Zoey to get her 6 month pictures taken. Below is the link to see all the pictures. I think she is just the most adorable ever!

Enter Customer name in link below (MELISSA MELDRUM)
https://www.smilesbywire.com/home.asp?AC=LTPP0048103962JCP

Here are my two favorites I think...


So, I've been working for 3 whole days now and I can say that I really enjoy it! It's not bad, the only hard part is of course not seeing Zoey and Clay , and not having enough time in the day to get everything done that I need to. Things are going great though, we found an apartment that I just LOVE. We already put a deposit down and are just waiting to hear back to see if our application was approved! I really hope we get this apartment. I'm even more excited because it's a 3 bedroom and my sister is going to be coming to live with us and go to school here in Dallas! If it all works out then we will be moving Nov 15 (right around the corner!). The apartment is in The Colony which I'm sad is out of the Ward but I'm excited for the new things that life has thrown my way!

I'm also excited because this Saturday will be my first craft how! It is in The Colony in the Community Center from 9am-3pm. If anyone lives in the area you should come by and say hi! My friend Danielle and I got a booth together and we're excited to enter this new world of craft shows! If it goes well then we will find others to do, otherwise it will just be another fun day hanging out with Danielle.

Well, I'm tired and have to work tomorrow so I guess I'd better go to bed! Hope life is going well for everyone!

A New First

Well, it's finally happened. Zoey's sick :( She's had a runny nose the last week or so but yesterday and today it turned nasty green. She also had a low fever last night. Her eyes started to get goopy too so I called the Pedi to see what I can do to help relieve some of her congestion. She hasn't been able to finish a whole bottle at any feeding for a week now and I just want her to be back to normal! He wanted to me to come and and so I did. He checked her out and said I did good to catch it and call early like I did because if I had waited a day or two more then she would have had a full blow ear infection too. So now I have oral and eye drop antibiotics to give her for the next few days. I can tell that she's not feeling her best because she's been sleeping more and has been especially clings and grumpy today.

Well, such is life! At least she's still a mostly happy baby and we caught it early so we can take care of everything and be back to normal in no time!

Good Morning Sunshine!

I love waking up each morning to see my little Sunshine. She is always so happy in the morning! Here is an idea of what I see each morning when I wake up...

At first she would just smile at us from inside her crib.

Then she started to make faces at us! I guess she likes the taste of the sides!
Some mornings she just relaxes until I'm ready to get up and get her out.
Then this morning! I found her doing this....


From where I was sleeping you could only see the top of her head sticking up over the edge. It was SO cute! Zoey has been pulling to stand for a few weeks now but this was the first time I had seen it in her crib, and for some reason it just made her seem so grown up! She loves to pull herself to standing any chance she gets. Yesterday I took the Sampson boys to Karate and I decided to go in and watch them since the class isn't that long. Zoey found the glass doors and stood up and just watched everything forever! And this morning she was standing next to the couch and I had to go use the restroom so I sat her down in the middle of the room, because she's not the greatest at getting down from standing yet (luckily no bruised head yet!) and when I came back she was standing up at the couch again! Oh and the other day I found her trying to climb up the Sampson's stairs! Scary!!!! Guess it's time to get a baby gate!

I Got A Job!!!!

Just a quick update. I heard back today from the company I interviewed with last week and I GOT THE JOB!!!!! I'm so excited! I start Monday (Oct 20) as a receptionist for this property management company. Though working full time was not my dream I am so excited and feel very blessed that things are working out the way they are. I now have an even longer to do list this week though so I better get cracking!!! I'll keep you updated as things hopefully keep falling into place for us!

Yeah! I got the job!!!!!!!!!!!!

Few Pics from Houston

Ok, the post below talks about my trip to Houston here two pics I found...

This is Zoey and I at one of the soccer games.

Here is Zoey at the Basketball game. I found her little red basketball shorts that made her look like she should get out and play with the big girls! She had to have the bow though otherwise she looked like a boy! She is so cute!

Update, Update, Update

I know it's been much longer then I would like so I'm going to try and play catch up. I don't have my camera with me right now so I will have to post with pictures later but since the Tulsa trip here are just a few things that we have been up to.

Clay is now working for his brother at Maverick Color. He is enjoying it but working TONS of hours. He is also still working a few hours a week for Amy editing photos for her (she owns a photography studio and does weddings). So I don't get to see him much but that's ok, everyone has to put in there dues sometime right! We also moved in with the Sampson's (I guess we did that right before Labor day but I can't remember if I posted about it or not). Things are great with that right now. The Sampson parents are actually out of town for 10 days so the left me incharge of holding down the place, yes they're brave! We are hoping to be able to get back into our own place before Christmas and it looks like that will be happening!

I took a trip down to Houston a weeks or so ago just to spend time with my family after the Hurricane. Zoey and I had alot of fun! In the one week we were gone Zoey did 5 new things! Daddy missed seeing them all for the first time! I'll post pictures later but the 5 new things she did are...

1. She started to clap (Daddy had been trying and trying to teach her this for awhile!)
2. She crawl crawled not just army crawled. (It was only a few times and now she won't real crawl at all, but she did it, I have witnesses)
3. She learned how to go from crawling/laying to sitting, and then getting back down again.
4. She started to pull her self to standing (she only did this once or twice but now it seems like she's doing it all the time. I guess it's time to get a baby gate for the stairs!)
5. And last but not least...she got her first tooth!!!

Her second tooth should be showing within the next day or so you can already feel it coming up. I was very happy that she wasn't an extra fussy baby. She was a little fussy but not bad at all like I was expecting. I love my little girl.

The other fun thing I did in Houston was go with my Mom, Sarah (my sister), and Maribella and LeeAnna (my sister in laws) to the RS broadcast. It was so good. The things that were talked about were SOOOO good. I LOVED Elder Uchtdorf's talk, as did many people I know. I feel like I have alot of things to be grateful for and alot of things to work on after hearing him and also Elder Bednar (he spoke at our Stake Conference a few weeks before). So, other things I did in Houston beside just seeing family include,... going and eating at the grill my two little sisters Amy and Alison work. Going and watching my littlest sister Alison play basketball (she is SO good). Getting my eyebrows waxed for the first time ever by my sister Sarah (she just graduated from cosmetology school). Going to my nephew Daniels soccer game, then to watch my niece Jade cheerlead, and then back for my other nephew Cameron's soccer game! Hanging with my Aunt Melanie. Shopping, shopping, shopping. Eating, eating, eating. Oh, and watching TV!!!!

So, I'm trying to think if there is anything else I want to mention in this post to get me all caught up... oh, I had a job interview yesterday that went very well, hopefully it will all work out! As always my life revolves around Zoey. She is growing SO big. I am so happy that she is eating so well and loving her solids. She loves to eat puffs and she can pick them up with either hand!!! It'll be interesting to see if she ends up being left or right handed because right now she's both! Here are her stats from her latest Dr. appointment...

Height: 27 1/2 inches (95%)
Weight: 18 lbs 4 oz (90%)
Head Circ: 17 1/2 inches (90%)

Anyone who read this whole post through has my kudos because I know it was not very exciting, I just really wanted to get everything down so that I can start fresh and not feel like I'm so far behind on everything. I'm excited because tomorrow we're going to the Pumpkin Patch and I will defiantly have more fun pictures of Zoey. I will try and do better!

Love ya'll tons -

Beauty and the Beast

Yeah, I know...It's be awhile. Anyways,


So, my last post was about our trip to Tulsa during labor day. Well, one of the coolest things we did while we were there was take pictures of Zoey in "the beast". Now, there's a long story behind this beast, in short,...My father-in-law lived in Texas for like 14 years (that's when I knew them). Then just after Clay and I got married he and his wife with what family was still living at home moved to Tulsa, OK. My father-in-law feels like Oklahoma is his true home! They had bought a truck in Houston before they moved from my brother-in-laws lawn business, but a few months ago they had to sell the truck. My father-in-law was so sad and he told his wife that he wanted to get some sort of trailer that they can hook on the van so he can still haul stuff. Well, this is the trailer he found on Craigs list. It is the back half of an old truck. My father-in-law LOVES it! It is a fun topic among us kids! So when we were in OK we made a special effort to get some pictures of Zoey in "the beast." So, long overdue but here they are...



So you may be saying to yourself...man, Zoey is really good at standing on her own! Well, she's not (at least at that time she wasn't). This is how we had Zoey look over the side without hurting herself.....ME!!!!
Yes, I laid down in the dirty truck to hold Zoey up so that Clay could get some great pictures of "Beauty and the Beast."

These are priceless pictures that I will cherish forever! Enjoy