Random

I apparently suck at blogging. Sorry 'bout that.
I feel like I am living in the movie "Groundhog's Day." All my days kind of run together lately. I get up (way too early). Get ready for work. Nurse Lizzy. Get her ready for daycare. Run out the door (usually about 10 minutes later than I wanted to). Get to work. Sit here hating my job for 9 hours. Eat for too much food b/c I am so bored. Leave at 4. Pick up Lizzy. Get home. Either go for a run or do the 30 Day Shred. Wash the bottles and my pump from the day. Make dinner. Make lunches for the next day. Give Lizzy a bottle (she hasn't nursed at night in a couple weeks, she screams bloddy murder). Put Lizzy to bed. Shower. Go to bed. Rinse and repeat Monday -Friday.
I feel like I have no time for my hubby, and if I do, I am too tired to do much.
Lizzy is still getting up in the middle of the night. She gets up once to eat, the other times we just put her nuk in and hope she goes back to sleep. I would really like to cut out that feeding but I will wait until we go in for her 4 month check up next week. She is still screaming when I try and nurse her at night. The only time she will nurse is when she is mostly asleep (1am and then at 5/530 am if I catch her before she wakes up too much). At first I was sad she didn't nurse more, but I have gotten used to it and it is kind of nice to know how much she is getting.
Pumping is the bane of my existence. I hate it. It makes me cringe hearing the sound of that thing. But I use it four times a day and I should get used to it I guess. I don't know how long I will actually make it past my goal of 6 months. If I can pump that long she will probably have enough milk from the freezer to last through her 7th month. We will see. I would like to keep breastfeeding/pumping til about January but we will see. I am over it right now.
And to add to this debbie downer post, I hate my job. I get paid well and I have good benefits. Those are the only good things I can say about this place. The oldies I work with are complaining about something all the time. The new system we just got, the fact that they are moving our desks around, the sun shining, the clouds....anything they can think of. I'm over it.
But I have a cute kid, a husband who tolerates my moodiness b/c of my sleep deprivation (and offers to get up with her but really its not worth it b/c I just lay there awake until he comes back to bed), and a paycheck every other week. Life is pretty good :)
Here are some pictures from the last couple weeks (off of Facebook...so if you are my friend there, these are repeats). I have some video I want to post but I haven't put it on the computer yet.

We were napping on the couch together in this one and she was just so darn cute!

 Super smiley baby!

 She wore this dress and a cute black bow on her head to her Uncle Alex's wedding. She kept eating the dress :)

 I turned 29 on July 26th. Don got me a balloon :) (And tickets to see Cavalia)

 

And because he is my first baby here are a couple pictures of Leo. Love this guy! :)

First horse show of the year

This will be a picture heavy post. :) I had my first horse show this past weekend at the State Fairgrounds here in MN. It was so much fun! My horse was awesome, and I have a feeling this is going to be a good year! I had 5 classes. I got two 1st places, one 3rd and one 6th. I think my horse was over it by Sunday afternoon and he was getting really tired, hence the 6th. But I had multiple people come up to me and say I got screwed in that class. But oh well. 

The first two pics are after our first win on Saturday. Don't you love the high leather boots? Hot, I know.

 

This is us warming up...

 

After one of our classes...here is the top of the extra hot show outfit ;) Leo (my horse) didn't look thrilled with the pictures..

 

My sister brought my nephew down on Friday. He is the cutest child on the planet (not that I am partial or anything). He was so happy all day, he slept on me in the coliseum and then decided when he woke up to eat the class list. Good God, he is adorable! :)

 

Excuse the nastiness in this picture that is me. I was a sweaty mess from showing... But Ben is cute :)

 

Here are some action shots that the husband took (yes, he is the greatest husband ever and comes to every one of my shows).

 

So there ya have it.... I had a great weekend but I was exhausted and sore and had a killer headache Monday morning so I skipped work :) I hope you all had a great weekend too!

My Expensive Hobby

So it is my Friday off of work today, but since I havent posted in a week I thought I probably should!
So something I havent talked about yet is my horse. I love him! I seriously adore him. He is my first horse that I have owned. Before him it was all hand-me-downs from my sister or my mom.
Leo is my baby. I love him to pieces. I show him in Hunter Pleasure at Arabian horse shows. We usually do about 5 shows a year...I hope my mom sells her house so we can do more next year.
So without further ado here are some pictures of my baby...

Excuse my look..its always sexy to wear tall leather boots and spandex pants ;)

It was about 40 degrees and windy at our first show of the year...we showed in winter coats..It was ridiculous

So yeah. Theres my little guy! I cant get enough of him.

On a different note...Its my birthday this weekend! We are going up to my dads cabin tomorrow morning with my sister, her fiance and my friend Laurie! I cant wait to sit and float all day and just lounge! I cant wait!

Have a good weekend!!