How do you afford a baby?

Nick and I are considering "trying" to have a baby in the near future, and we're not sure how anyone in this world can afford one. So this blog is for people who have been through the whole baby process... What insurance did you get on? How much did you pay monthly? Deductible? Etc... If you have any advice on this, let me know. I have heard from multiple people that you need to be on it for at least a month before you get pregnant, so we kinda want to get on it soon. So would you help a sista out? Thanks guys! :)

Herpes...

Yep, you read the title right. I. HAVE. HERPES!! Okay, okay.. Just a form of it. It's a cold sore. Haha. I know, way less dramatic, but it still is a form.. It's absolutely disgusting. I didn't even feel it coming on, which is super weird because every time I've had one in the past, I could feel it coming on for days. Not this one. Nick left to his Rugby game, giving my smooth lips a kiss, to me greeting him after his game with a giant cold sore. Honestly, it was that fast. Like the blink of an eye. Slowly it is going away, but I just wanted to invite you guys to share my pain. If you've never seen what a cold sore looks like, here is a perfect picture. No, this is not me. I don't have a mustache. But this is the exact positioning as mine, and about the same size.
Hope you enjoy! :)

Baby hungry? Just a little..

So I cannot even express how baby hungry I am!! I always said I would have kids right off after being married,  but Nick wants to wait a year!! So, we compromised... We're going to start trying in February!! Not TOO long away, right? Not!!! Every day feels like a lifetime! So in the meantime, I am just enjoying babysitting my nieces and nephews! It passes the time a LITTLE quicker! We babysat Brooklyn and Miley (Em's kids) not too long ago and this is what we did... Hahaha. Those are bullet bike helmets that we had at our house. They honestly look like aliens because the helmets are huge! They are so cute!! 

Then, I have also been babysitting Druw and Mckynlee too! Here are a few pictures!! I seriously cannot get enough of all of my nieces and nephews!! Call me the permanent babysitter!! I love it! 

And to top off my baby hungryness, here is what I did to McKynlee!

It was the best I could do. She kept bumping them and trying to grab the color on her toes! In fact, she tried putting it in her mouth because she thought it was supposed to be tasty. Next time, I will wait until she's asleep to do it. That way she won't move, and they can dry all the way. It was so cute too because I let Druw pick the color and he blew on them to get dry. When he saw the finished product, he said "Oh....BEAUTIFUL!!" I seriously love ALL my nieces and nephews!! And my love is being spread out more and more now because we just added three more, and one is due next week! Emily had another one about 8 weeks ago, Tina had hers a week and a half ago, Kate had hers yesterday, and Fia is due sometime next week. We just had family pictures in July, and now we have almost 4 more to add to that picture! My family is growing SOOO fast and I absolutely LOVE it!!

Oh, and I almost forgot... Nick is JUST as baby hungry as me! We were at the grocery store the other day, and he saw some sippie cups and he said "Sher, we should buy some sippies!!" I had the most confused look on my face, and then he said "Uh, for when we babysit our nieces and nephews!!" So, we ended up buying some. Then, every time we get free time, he says "Are any of the kids at your mom's? Let's go check and hang out with them!" He watched McKynlee the other day, just by himself, and he told me ALL about it on the way home. "She was so tired, and was fighting her nap. I tried putting her down, but she just wanted to play. So I played with her, watching her try her hardest to stay awake! So finally, I swaddled her up and sang  her primary songs. She watched me so intently until she couldn't keep her eyes open any longer. It was SOOO cute!"  He loves them just as much as I do! He'll be such a good daddy!!

What do YOU do when you've got time to kill?

It's a Saturday afternoon, you're home with just you and your husband, and you have a few hours to kill? What's the first thing that you want to do? Well, I don't know about you, but I wanted to style Nicks hair! He is growing it out right now so he can dread it. (It's one of his life long goals, so I am not about to get in the was of it.) It's getting pretty long, so I wanted to see if I could corn roll it. I figure the first thing I had to do was straighten it so it would be easier to manage. Here's what he looked like with it just straightened. Hahahahahahaha. Totally Asian! He's even doing the peace sign, but it got cut out of the picture. 

So after I straightened it, I began my first attempt to corn roll. Oh how frustrated I got. Finally, after about 25 minutes and about 1000 attempts, I told him I was just going to experiment and we'll see how it turns out. As I was doing it, I was trying to explain to him what it was I was doing, and he started getting worried saying that he was going to look like a little black girl with her hair in rubber bands. I tried to reassure him that he didn't and we just needed to wait until it was finished. Half way through, I ran out of rubber bands, so I ran to the store. I made him PROMISE me that he wouldn't look in the mirror while I was gone. He kept his word. When I finally got home, I did the last few rows, and finished my first "corn rolling" experience. He're is what the finished product looked like. 

We ended up going to a BBQ at his friend Kyle's that night and he put a bandanna over it. He totally looked like a thug, and I loved it! Hopefully he'll let me experiment on him again! :)

Co-Ed Soccer Team!

So I can't stop thinkin about it! I have my first co-ed soccer game today! I am kinda nervous about it, but SOOO excited at the same time. I love how competitive it is when you're playing with guys, but I also hate when they don't pass it to you because they don't think "you're good enough." We have our first game in like 4 hours, and it is all I can think about! I'm pretty dang excited!! I bet you're all wondering if Nick is playing too? Nope. They invited him, but he's playing Rugby right now and doesn't want to risk getting hurt playing on a little indoor team. So, it's just me! But he'll still be there to cheer me on! Can't wait! :)