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Girlie Fun

Ok girls. I am so excited that I now can fully enjoy LITTLE GIRL STUFF! Here is my latest creation inspired by my friend Wendy Lee who had some at her fun boutique she had at her house. The pink one is size 0-6 month and the purple around 1-2yrs, depending on the child of course. Brock fits into the purple one nicely ;P He'll be 2 in Oct.

I'm thinking of doing custom orders. For example - The price for these would be $20 not including shipping.

These prices would be for sizes 0-2 yrs at "ballet" length. For larger sizes and an option for longer length, the price would increase. I'm unsure how much because I haven't made a larger one yet but I'm thinking around $35. Also, swavarski crystals could be added (think sprinkles of sparkle) for an extra $10.

When I get my bracelet thing going (hopefully sooner than later) I would love to do a set with a matching bracelet. HOW CUTE WOULD THAT BE!?!?!

I think I might be making myself one for Halloween. Options: Cute Witch, fairy, angel, princess. I'm leaning towards witch. Black leggings, black sparkly toile skirt maybe with either orange or purple toile and ribbon sprayed down with the fun fabric glitter, black shirt and a fun withes hat! So simple and so fun. Although, It would be fun to do a princess themed one to go with my tiara. ( I keep one on my jewelry armoire to remind me that I am of royal birth, a daughter of a King as Jenny Philips would say)

NOTHING CAN TURN AROUND A CRAPPY DAY LIKE PUTTING ON YOUR PRINCESS BALLET SKIRT AND A TIARA. ALL PROBLEMS NO LONGER MATTER. WHY??? CAUSE YOUR A PRINCESS!!!!! Bran has come home to me wearing my tiara before. "Bad day?" he asked. "Not anymore" I said.

Anyways..........

I totally hate trick or treating but I love dressing up with the boys.

Beware

Beware of the game: " Would you rather....."

It is a rated game for 18 and older. It's developed for fun and conversation, not for winning and stratagie. It was way fun and funny! There are some questions or challanges that I would black out off the cards, or throw the card away (which it suggests in the description on the game) Example: Give a lap dance to a same sex team mate. Funny to read but not really appropriate to do.

Here is an example of the questions: Would you rather jump out of a plane with no parachute, be swimming in the ocean with a great white shark swimming agressively twards you from 30yards away or be out exploring in the snow and spot a grizzly bear running at you from 30 yards away?

Here are some of the challenges that the guys had to attempt. Craig- Break dancing for 60m seconds which he attempted but I didn't get the spinning on the floor part, and Bran- generously sucking on someones toe (my toe) .

We don't have any pics or clips of the girls cause we never landed on Challange.

Sorry about the sideways video. I was thinking I'd be able to flip it.

Water works

Ok just a note about being prego with a girl........ HELLO SUPER EMOTIONAL, UNVALID WORRIES AND HIGH ANXIETY!!!.

Those of you who know me best know I am emotional by nature but holy cow this is a whole diffrent level for me. I seriously, no joke, cry everyday, and when I 'm not crying, I totally have the biggest lump in my throat. The littlest thing can send me into a water works show. And it doesn't help that not only am I having the "I wanna ball in my bed for a few hours" sort of feelings; triggered by something that is no big deal; I am also now upset because I'm upset which as you can imagine, does not help the situation what so ever! It's so intense and real in my head, like there's a little monster in my brain who is taking all my insecurities and worries and twising anything that I hear into something really horrible. Like for instance, A lady in my ward just found out that I was pregnant yesterday and she said, "I had no idea you were pregnant." Instead of my usual attitude of: " I must not be showing as much as I feel" I think with a large lump in my throat..." WHAT?! How could you not? I'm totally showing. I must just look totally fat!!!!!" The flood gates of past insecurites and worries, that with self discovery and life experience rarely are an issue anymore, all come flooding back at once.

I also experience intense jelousy and feel very defensive. I met a girl a few weeks ago who works at Nordstroms. My great friend Jen Wagner took me there to meet up with this girl, to pick up some fun parfume samples. So this girl starts saying how she just got off work and needed to go home to get some baking done and that she LOVES football and is having a party. This girl is gorgeous in everyway that I can see and instantly I'm feeling defensive and insecure while thinking, "So this is what it feels like to meet your husbands dream girl in real life!!!" Not only did I suddenly feel very "lacking in every way" I also felt so STUPID for even thinking something like that! DUMB I KNOW!!!

Also, I have really weird and frustrating dreams that feed of my emotions. I wake up so tired in the mornings.

The Good news: I did mention my extreme and really frustrating "ISSUES" ; P to my doctor. (Thank goodness for good docs and nurse practitioners by the way. I have great ones!!!! )

She told me to really pay attention to my feelings and if my anxiety increases I need to let her or Doc Huish know and I can start a safe treatment to help me feel like my normal happy self. She also said that I need to keep in mind that these extreme hormone changes could also increase my chance for Postpardom depression! YIKES!

Did any of you girls go through anything like this with any of your pregnancies?

HEY!!!!! GUESS WHAT????

The confirming ultrasound photos of our 1st Turley Girl.

They are more clear on the big screen in my doctors office. Which is awesome by the way! In the ultrasound room they have a big screen on the wall so you can see much more clearly what is on the techs computer screen. The tech would zoom in on anything she was explaining to us. At one point she was checking out the heart and we could see the 4 chambers just pumping away. Every Baby Doctor should have it! It's fantastic!

So we have a name and it's rare for us to choose a name before the birth. We usually have options and then go with what we feel fits best, but we love this name so much and just have to use it! Of course, unless we're strongly inspired otherwise when she is born.

~TESSA LOUISE~

It was going to be Tessa Nichole but I told Bran, " Our 1st boy is named after his grandpas, our 1st girl should be named after her grandmas." He agreed to that. Of course, if there is actually hair on her head when she gets here, and it happens to be red in color.... (and we all know the deal about redheads...) we might be inclined to switch back to Nichole as a middle name to get the too perfect inicials "TNT" Nickname:Dynamite.

NOTE: I am totally in shock still! All I can say is...

WOW! REALLY????