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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Jelly Beans in my Bed

Dear Blog world,

Welcome to another edition of Blogging with David. It is not as fun as Blogging with Shantel, however, Shantel is very pregnant and as such, can ask for anything she wants... Including a blog post from me. So without further ado... I bring you Jelly Beans in my bed.

First, you need to know that Shantel has to get up before me. She has to be at school at 7:15. Usually I like to be at work early if I can, but that is usually around 8, because often that is the earliest we can be at the client's office.

The other morning I woke up to this.

Two jelly beans in my bed. Seriously. Just laying around...I thought, "What are these jelly beans doing in my bed." Shantel was already gone and I was just baffled as to why there were these jelly beans in my bed.

When I got home from work that night the first thing I asked about was these jelly beans. Turns out, the night before we had climbed into bed, but I had to call my mom back first. So while I was talking to my mom Shantel was snacking on some jelly beans (she is pregnant, she can eat Jelly Beans at 10 PM). She got to the bottom of the bag, and there were just two jelly beans left. Shantel being the kind, sweet wife decided to save the last two jelly beans in the bag for me. So she held the little jelly beans in her hand....and I kept talking....and she held them in her hand....and I kept talking...and her eyes drooped...and she fell asleep and the jelly beans dropped right into our bed. I finished talking to my mom and then turned out the lights. So of course when I woke up in the morning, my wife was gone and there were just two jelly beans sitting there. I am so grateful for a sweet wonderful wife, who saves the last two jelly beans in the bag for me, even if that means they end up in the bed when she falls asleep.

The end.

Also as a side note...we will be having a baby any day now. Like any day. Look at this picture.

Our baby is due in 10 days. So that will be pretty much awesome. Over the last few weeks we have crossed several to do's off our list.

Pack our hospital bag: Check
Baby Bouncer: Check (Thanks to Shantel's Mom)
Stroller/Carseat travel system: Check (Thanks to my mom)
Haircut for me: Check (What? I want to look like a respectable Dad for my baby girl)
Pick out a name for our baby: Check (You will just have to wait for details on that after she comes, we need to keep some suspense, right?)
Lots of baby clothes and things: Check (Thanks to lots of friends and family who were so kind to us)
Last big pre-baby date: Check (We went to The Secret Garden at Hale Center Theater and it was awesome, like amazing awesome, but from now on we will have to find a baby sitter when we go on dates...any volunteers?)
Teaching baby girl about basketball: Check (I explained everything, college, NBA, she should be covered)
Making a 10 day dinner meal plan that may go out the window if we have the baby this week: Check
Stopping by Sonic on Saturday night for 99 cent Mozzarella sticks: Check (Oh sorry, this is not really related to preparing for our baby girl to come...oh well)
Shantel finishing all of her lesson plans: Check (Big Check)
Getting more and more excited every day: Check

The next time we blog...it may be just a random post because baby girl is a week late...or it might be a post about the newest member of the Peaden Family. Stayed tuned next time to The Peaden Life. 





Saturday, March 17, 2012

Things I love...

I have lots of things in life that I love. Here are some of them:
(In no particular order.)

1. Having long, shiny, "full of volume and beauty" hair. Those pre-natal vitamins have sure been good to me!
2. Making smoothies for dinner.
3. Wearing Davids extremely large Tennessee Titans shirt. (Pretty much has become my favorite shirt to wear while being pregnant.)
4. David.
5. Celebrating David being done with the CPA exams. Oh, we found out about that three weeks ago? Yeah - we are still celebrating on a regular basis.
6. Trying out names for our little girl. That day was "Payson." I liked it - but there were others who shall not be named that just couldn't get over the P.P. initials. Oh well....
7. Being with David.
8. Deciding to attend "The Tower" Bridal Fair for Red Ladder Design last minute - and being SUPER successful.
9. Being able to watch this handsome boy in action at said Bridal Fair - all day.

10. Waking up on Wednesday mornings to little presents celebrating being one week closer to having our little girl here.
11. Running Saturday errands with David.
12. Having my sisters come and visit/sleepover.
13. Eating cherry-mango popsicle deliciousness.

14. Spending the day with my long-lost Idaho residing sister.
15. Wearing David's Tennessee Titan shirt. (Yes, I love it that much.)

16. Eating homemade chicken alfredo pizza.
17. Finally looking "REALLY" pregnant. 
18. Living the good life with my wonderful husband and sweet baby girl.


What things do YOU love?

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

David the CPA

Today we are celebrating at the Peaden house. In fact, we just might be celebrating every day for the next full week. Why? Well... after lots of long hours spent with books like this:


...and lots of date nights with guys like this:
Learn more about Tim and Peter here.
... David finally got his score back from CPA exam #4.
Regulation 
Score: 86

Hallelujah! That means that David scored 86 on two tests and 96 on two tests. All you need is a 75 to pass - in fact - many Accountants have the philosophy that if you get higher than a 76, you studied too hard. However, nothing could be better than passing every section the first time. 

I am so proud of David and really feel that I married the smartest, hardest working, most wonderful boy in the world. I am grateful for how hard he worked, and how much he sacrificed, in order to achieve this amazing thing.

So... from now on - you may all address David as "Mr. CPA". I'm sure he will love it. I know that I am loving it! We honestly won't be able to celebrate enough to commemorate this awesome occasion. However, I'm thinking tonight is definitely going to be homemade milkshakes, tomorrow will probably be pizza, and Friday we might just have to splurge and go out to the movies or something. Any other great celebration ideas?