Cutest Baby Announcement EVER!!!

Just had to share my first foray into using Photoshop...

Baby Girl

Here she is! She was born on Sept. 12th, 2006 at 8:08pm. She weighed in at 7 pounds 5 ounces and is 20 inches long. She is beautiful and the pictures do not do her justice. I'll have to take some more in the next few days while she is still "new".













With her incredibly cute older brother who loves her to pieces. Literally.













She really didn't like being weighed, but honestly what woman does? This picture cracks me up. Notice how she's trying to pull herself out.













And this is a pure vanity thing. My hair looked fantastic thanks to my friend Kelli who cut and blew it out the night before. No clear picture of baby girl, but heh, my hair looks good for just having a baby!








I'm sure there will be more pictures on the way. I'm in that half delirious, sleep deprived stage.

My latest projects...

A blessing blanket I made for a friend who is due a few weeks after me... I used Bernat Baby Coordinates in white. Pattern by Terry Kimbrough in Book 4 of Absolutely Gorgeous Baby Afghans. Hook size H.


A baby blanket I am working on for my baby girl due Sept. 16th. Simply Soft yarn in Sage, Pink and Rose. The square is called the Fisherman's Square. Still working on the edging. Size H hook.

And last but not least. My pride and joy. A baby blanket I made for yet another friend who is due a week after I am. The square patterns where from the 200 Crochet Blocks by Jan Eaton. I used Canadiana yarn in Light French Blue, French Blue, Cream and Brown. I love this and will be so sad to part with it.

So, I havn't been scrapping, but at least I've been keeping busy.

A few pics for some friends...

Just a few pictures of me recently. The ones in the pink shirt were taken on July 2nd. The ones with the blond hair were taken July 14th. I got bored and needed a change. My friend Kelli is an amazing hairstylist. I love her and what she can do to my hair!

Does once a week count?

So now that I am feeling better my mind is racing with all of my ideas to get back to working in some capacity. Wish me luck!

I have a wedding in July, maybe one in June. In may I'm speaking at a wedding seminar and will be taking my business cards! I'm hoping to at least get a few weddings from that.

The Baby Girl has started kicking! Now that I know what I am having I feel more of a pull towards my dusty and negleted scrap area. I have so many pics to get processed too! I could scrapbook every day and all day and probably never be "done".

Someday, right?

We're having a girl!!!

Had an ultrasound earlier this week to see how the blood clot behind the placenta is doing. It's still there. So, I'm still on modified bedrest for a bit. NO working. Suckfest. I need money SOOOO bad. I have a cable bill to pay for goodness sakes!

Anyways, while they were looking around in there we decided to find out the gender of this bundle of joy I'm carrying around. A girl!!!!

I finally, finally have a good excuse to buy all the girly scrapbook paper I want. That's if I ever get to go back to work.

It's time we updated this thing.

I'm not a woman of too many words these days. There are a few reasons I suppose. You know, I havn't done a list in a while...

Reasons why I hardly ever blog...

1. I'm lazy.
2. I really have nothing good to say.
3. I'm on bedrest and other than "Hey, I crocheted a sweater today" not much else is going on.
4. I was hurt bad by some friends. Nice, huh.
5. You would be surprised about how much having a blood clot in your uterus hurts when you sit up for long periods of time.
6. A three year old crazy boy running around all over the place is just not conducive to being able to have rational thoughts.
7. I'm lazy.

Seriously, I think I'm the only person who likes having a blog but who doens't actually like updating it. I know, I'm weird.

My quote for the day...

To belittle..... is to be little.

It's alive!!!

My website that is...

www.onicahanby.com

It only took forever and a day but oh, well! Now I'm off to make some brochures for the area florists!!

Onica

Here I go again...

So, some of you who know me IRL know that I do floral design on the side. I've decided to take it a step further and do it more than just here and there. For the past two days I have been working on my website. (www.onicahanby.com) The pain is that I can only upload one picture at a time to the photo album. Slowly and surely it's coming along though.

The plan is to get the website up, get my business cards done and pimp myself out to the area florist shops. Yep, I'm going to freelance it. If I get weddings or events for myself I can still do them and hire my own helping hands. This way I don't have to worry about having a brick and mortar store and the overhead that comes with it.

We are going home at the end of March to see the fam in Seattle for about a week. My BIL is coming home from his mission on the 10th. He's serving in the Ukraine. My SIL is blessing her baby Reese the weekend that we are coming up. Then we are all going to go see Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

After the week in Seattle my DS and I are going to my parents house in Portland. Actually, we'll probably stay at my Sis's house which is literally 5 houses down from my parents. I am very excited about this.

There is a great floral design school in Portland and there is a class that starts on April 3rd. I really want to take it but it's a beginners class and I'm not sure if I will be too bored, etc. I'm still waiting on the info as to how much/how many weeks the program is. I've never had any formal training and I would very much appreciate that the extra training would afford me.

I can't wait for the info! I really want to go the school. Check it out.... www.floraldesigninstitute.com . I'm so excited. I love flowers and I love making beatiful art with them.

Is your house a wreck???

Mine is! Oh my word, is it a mess. And yes, I do care. Ok, not really. I am way too pre-occupied trying to force liquids down my throat in attempt to waylay any trip I might have to take to the hospital to have an IV shoved into my hand.

My bathrooms.... ew gross! My kitchen... can't even walk into it without immediately running into the said icky bathroom and puking my guys out. DH does a good job trying to maintain the kitchen staying clean, but let's face it, he's a guy. He just doesn't understand that the sight of last nights dirty dishes are vomit inducing.

The bedrooms... look like a tornado has passed through. For some reason I can not stand the smell of freshly laundered clothing. So, all of my clothes are literally airing out in front of the window in my bedroom. They have been doing this for about two weeks now. They still smell sickingly clean. I hate them.

DS's room is equally as messy. But with toys. I clean it, I really do. Toys don't smell or look like icky food. But wouldn't you know, that the one room I clean everyday is the one that gets wrecked again 5 seconds later.

The good thing in all this is that I really don't have to make any excuses for the state of affairs in my household. Everyone who comes over knows I am sicker than a dog. Or they will if they stick around long enough to see me run faster than a jet plane to the bathroom if they merely mention the thought of getting something to eat. It's nice not having that pressure of having an immaculate house.

Hi! My name is Onica. I am an untidy woman. And I don't care.

Home show addiction...

So, is anyone else as addicted to home improvement shows as I am? It's not like I even own a house. I live in an apartment and I'm pretty sure that Lanscapers Challenge isn't going to help me any. I mean really, come on. By the time I could actually afford a house with a yard I will be too old to remotely enjoy planting a kitchen herb garden or making a water feature out of an old sink.

But, oh it is so interesting to see what other creative souls can come up with! The color combinations, the themes, the demolition! I want to buy a house just so I can tear down a wall ala Ty Pennington. (Or in my wildest dreams actually get someone to nominate me for Extreme Makeover Home Eddition and the hottie can come do it himself).

I wonder if I could get away with a New England Nautical bathroom here in So. Cal?

Well, that was weird.

Today I watched one of my good friends son Asher who just turned one. It was so weird! I seriously haven't watched a "baby" since mine was that little. I felt like I was new at it or something. I forgot to put on his bib. Oh, the joys of a one year old with a banana! I had a heck of a time remembering that he probably didn't understand a tenth of what I was saying to him. He was very cute though and a very good baby. I might be tempted to watch him again.

The great thing was that even though he is 2 years younger than my crazy 3 year old they still had a blast playing together. It was great not having to entertain my kid 24/7. DH works evenings so he spent the morning/early afternoon with us. He is such a baby man. I am so excited to be having another one...

Things I havn't had to do for awhile that I did today....

1. Change diapers... ds has been potty trained for a few months now.
2. Bibs. Seriously, the kid was a mess! I should have taken a pic.
3. Formula and bottles.
4. Cutting things up into a million bazillion pieces.
5. Hiding all the little toys so he wouldn't swallow them.
6. Babyproofing the house.
7. Rocking a baby to sleep.
8. Not having a kid talk back to me. Oh, now that was nice!

Must have nourishment...

For flips sake! My dh has the car today and there is absolutely NOTHING in the house that I want to eat. What I really want is a fresh bagel from Bagelicious but that could be hours from now.... oh my bubbling tummy. How dare you get a craving when I don't have a car! How dare you decide that something actually sounds good and you can't even get yourself to the establishment that sells it! Your evil, very evil. You can't do this to a girl on Valentine's day. It's just not right.

Reasons why Valentines Day sucks when you are sicker than a dog.

1. Can't go out to eat, all the different smells make you nautious.
2. Can't order in. Food in general makes you puke. Unless your a bagel from Bagelicious.
3. Don't even dare bring flowers into this house. The sight of the smelly things that will start decaying in 4 days is vomit inducing.
4. You have NO energy to "let's get it on" with your dh.
5. Your three year old has demolished your house and you in no way want to make it pretty for dh as that will inevitably cause you to throw up.
6. Just sitting up to write in you blog is making you dizzy.

A Picture Says A Thousand Words....

As you can see that is a positive pee on a stick test. The result of which has had me sicker than a dog the last three weeks. Needless to say I am on medical leave. I'm already down 8 pounds. I'm almost (like two days away) 11 weeks.

We told our families on Tuesday. Everyone is very excited. My SIL Sara just had a baby end of January and my sister Leslie is having a baby end of July. So there will be a few cousins close in age. Just wish WE lived closer to them.

As for the due date... it's September 4th.

Well, that's my news!

Sorry for the long wait...

But I'm on a bit of a blogging hiatus.

Just know this....


I will be back w/ a vengeance later this week!

Is this really what I want to do?

The last couple of months have been a great diversion. All I do is work. And it's completely crazy hours. I must be hiding from something. Maybe it's life.

The more and more I work the more and more I would just like to stay home and be a good mom. Or have my own business. I figure if I'm putting in all these crazy hours I might as well be doing it for myself.

I read other mom's blogs. It's kind of depressing. They all have funny antidotes about what their kids are doing. Mine goes to daycare. I have no idea what he does there all day. They get to vent about how their kids destroyed there house right after they cleaned it. My house still has some Christmas decorations up and is filthy. They have time to have hobbies. My scrapbook area has a layer of dust so thick I can't even tell what's under it.

I'm not saying that being a SAHM is any easier that being a working mom. It's so not. SAHM are underappreciated by society and maybe even their own families. I just really feel like I'm missing out on the one reason why we had children. To watch them grow.

Sorry folks, no list for me today. I just can't do it.

Apparently I Have Been Tagged

Thanks to Alissa...
I started this a few days ago and am just now getting around to it.

Seven things to do before I die:
Have a bit part in one of my dh's movies
Travel to all the continents
Catch up w/ my scrapbooks
Own a house
Buy my parents a car
Be debt free
Star in a musical

Seven things I cannot do:

1. Keep my house clean.
2. Avoid Hollywood Gossip, heck gossip in general. My life is so boring it seems.
3. I cannot eat hummus again. Ever. Gag. Barf.
4. Stick to long term goals/promises. Like working out. Or eating right. Or keeping my house clean.
5. Stay in touch w/ friends after they have or I have moved away. I have one exception to that rule, my bff Stephanie.
6. Give up eating sweets. Over my dead body would that happen.
7. I cannot stop obsessing about owning our own home.
   
   

Seven Things that Attract Me to My Spouse(not necessarily in this order!):

1. He's hot.
2. He is sincere.
3. He's a great dad.
4. Most day's he's a great husband.
5. He buys me flowers.
6. He lets me do what I want.
7. He came home on his lunch today to make me dinner.

Seven Things I Say (or write) Most Often:

1. 
   What, Gabe?
2. Seriously?
3. I love you.
4. Gabe, stop playing w/ that.
5. Whatever.
6. What time do I work again?
7. How would you like your return?

Seven books I love:

1. Emma
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Sense and Sensibility
4. Persuasion
5. Mansfield Park
6. Harry Potter
7. Historical Novels
   

Seven movies I could watch over and over again: (This is a huge stretch for me as I'm not one who actually likes to watch movies again and again.

1. Ten Things I Hate About You (Oh Heath, your such a hottie)
2. White Christmas
3. Any Rogers/Hammerstein Musical
4. Anything w/ Carey Grant, Doris Day or Judy Garland. Or Bing. Or... ok, I admit to being in love w/ the old movies.
5. Sweet Home Alabama
6. Emma
7. Pride and Prejudice

Seven people I want to join in:
Does anyone actually read this thing that hasn't already done it? I mean really?

The Truth Is Out There... And It Hurts

So, I've been in my department for all of two weeks. And because I want to move into management I am under more scrutiny than most. OMG, I cannot believe how catty it gets there.

Things Onica needs to work on at work.

1. Not being so sarcastic w/ co-workers.
2. Quit being so bossy w/ said co-workers.
3. Be more pro-active.
4. Take ownership of the department.

Ok, so yes, I am sarcastic w/ a few co-workers. Just the ones that are absolutely horrid and total sharks. (A shark is someone who only sells and won't do anything else, a shark also will try to help as many people as they can and leave nothing for everyone else).

There are some serious slackers in my department. Some of them have been there for less time than I have. I know that this "review" is because of them. They are total suck ups to the boss.

So, I will take the advice given. I will also take the advice given by another co-worker....

TRUST NO ONE.

Very X-files if you ask me.

Things I need, desperately.

1. A house with a yard. Gabe aparently is a marathon runner and loves to run. I hate going to the park everyday. It would just be easier on my poor lazy soul if I could just have a yard of my own.
2. Money
3. More time
4. New clothes, mine are getting too loose for me to wear. (Yessssuh)
5. New shoes. I've totally worn out all of my work ones I bought 3 months ago. Plus, they are killing my feet.
6. An actual date with my husband. I think we went on one last on our aniversary... IN AUGUST!
7. Magic fingers like Mary Poppins. Why is it that when I sing and snap my fingers all the stuff in my house doesn't pop back into it's place?
8. Did I mention money? Seriously. Any day now folks.

Uh...

Freak. I'm tired. My legs hurt. I have a headache. AND I get to go to work.

I need a vacation.

Seriously. I worked like a dog from October to Christmas. I had one week of not so busy at work and then I transferred departments. HOLY HECK! I thought I was busy before. That's nothing compared to what I do now. Seriously, I should videotape myself at work. I would be a blur.

Luckily I don't have to be at work until noon today. I think I feel a list coming on...

Things to Do Before Going to Work

1. Eat
2. Take a long hot bubble bath
3. Get dressed
4. Hang out w/ my family
5. Maybe, just maybe put away the Christmas decorations.
6. Enter the HGTV Dream Home Giveaway.
7. Put on makeup. I look like death warmed over.

On second thought, I'll get to the Christmas decorations tomorrow.

Crap, My Christmas Decorations Are STILL Up

It's the 5th of January people. The FIFTH and my Christmas decorations are still up. And do I care? A little, but I'm so freaking tired just thinking about putting it all away is giving me a headache.

Yesterday..... Oh yesterday. It was like my first day all over again. Except this time I know how to use the registers and all of the logistical crap. Whole new floor (I used to be on the third floor, now I'm on the first), and new product that I know almost nothing about. I'll catch up fast. I'm a smart girl. So yeah, first day in a new department is a little overwhelming.

We are starting to potty train Gabe. I don't know how we will accomplish this with our crazy-never-the-same schedules. He's doing all right, but it could be better if I could take a week off and just work with him at it. It really helped a lot that my in-laws were down here for a week right after Christmas and worked with him on it.

THINGS THAT I WOULD DO IF I HAD MORE TIME...

1. Read my scriptures
2. Potty train my son
3. Go back to school, or at least do the fun things like band and drama
4. Scrapbook more
5. Clean said scrapbook area
6. Heck, clean my house
7. Go walking to the park w/ the Gabester. He loves that.
8. Go on vacation, to someplace other than home to visit family that I never get to see
9. See more movies w/ my DH.
10. See more movies w/out my dh (chick flicks!!)
11. Paint my toe nails.

Moving on up!

So today is my first day in my new department at Nordies. For the past 3 months I have been in the infants/toddlers department and have been doing rather well. But, I want to go into management and my store manager doesn't really like to promote out of the kids wear departments and wanted to see me in something more challenging. (Screaming mothers isn't a challenge?). My new department...

Accessories.

Scarves, Hats, Belts, Sunglasses, Hair Accessories. All designer of course. And not one freaking thing that I can afford. Not like I need any of it. See, that's the hard part about working retail. This overwhelming feeling that you have to keep up w/ the Joneses. Well, I'm trying hard to beat that feeling down. So far, so good.

The good thing about Nordies... I make commission off my sales. The bad... They deduct any returns from my sales. Sucks. Thus the reason for moving into management. Granted I will have WAY more stress, but...

Reason why management would work well for me...

1. Salary PLUS commission
2. 33% discount (I only get 20 right now)
3. Never really have to close ever again unless I want to.
4. I get to make my own schedule.
5. Managers are only required to work 1 Sunday a month. Right now I work all of them.
6. I get to be bossy and have a darn good reason for it.

Not too shabby. There are some minuses. Like during sales (three times a year) you have to put in 12+ days. But to be home every night by 6 for the most part would be wonderful. More time w/ my family and a more steady income. At least my personal life would be less stressful.

Where's the M?

So this is my 3rd stab at blogging. I'm not kidding you. Maybe this time I will be better. I stopped blogging because my free trial was over. Let's face it folks, I'm freaking poor. No way in heck am I paying for something that I can get free.

For those of you who don't know me, my name is Onica. Sounds like Monica but without the M. I'm a married for four years, working mom to a 3 year old, devout Mormon who secretly wishes she was famous. I scrapbook, crochet and spend too much money on clothing and the aforementioned hobbies. My starving artist husband and I live in the vicinity of Los Angeles. Oh, and for what it's worth we met in a chat room. There, I said it.

So, that pretty much sums up who I am right now. Oh, and I'm a list maker. People who have read previous vestiges of my blog know this.

Here is my list for today:

Onica's New Years Goals (a few days late, but whatever)

1. Lose the last 15 pounds from when I was pregnant... THREE YEARS AGO.
2. Sell as many Gucci sunglasses and Hermes scarves as I can (I work at Nordstroms)
3. Become a manager.... buy myself my very first "Handbag" (I'm going for a Chanel one!)
4. Never, ever be late paying my bills again. (This is a hard one folks, I can't ever remember to do anything lately)
5. Read the Book of Mormon again.
6. Get pregnant and have a healthy baby.
7. Quit eating so much freaking ice cream.
8. Spend more time w/ my son when I get home from work.
9. Go on dates w/ my dh. Real ones. Taking the kid along does not count.
10. Scrapbook more, be lazy less. Seriously I have a fortune in scrap supplies. Can I please use them?