Pic Update

A little update on us through lots of pics!

One of Colt's faves....playing IN the dishwasher

My Stella & Dot Trunk Show

Sign me and Colty made for Daddy on his big move to Nashville

Colt loves this step in our house. He just chills there.

In Daddy's guitar case

Going out to dinner for the big 3-0

Attempt #2 at making "30" with our fingers....

Attempt #1.... Had to fix it! HA!

On a playdate at Sophie and Spencer's house. Colt LOVED this car.

Pic of our 10-12inch snow!!

Watching the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics with Great Grandpa

Me and my fave new brand: BoyMom Designs. Next post is solely about this.

Jordan couldn't get his car to pull in the driveway because of the ice! So we had to leave it parked like this for the night! Ha! Nice snowball, honey.

My 30th Bday Party

Niki, Skeet, little Ollie, Nestor, and Chandry

Us with Amy and Sam

Us with Chan and Nestor

Sally (Jordan's mom) and Aunt Suz

Uncle Phil, Steph, and Cliff (Jordan's dad)

cousin Ellory

Not sure about Jordan's face

Colt and Aunt SuzPrincess Sophie

Wii

Two of my bestest friends...Chandry and Shelly. I miss them already. boo.

Me and Shel

Colt and his new TOMS from Aunt Pam

In order for me to give Colt a haircut I had to let him be distracted by playing in the sink. He was not happy about getting out.

So there is the past month or so in a pic album! Been crazy trying to get everything ready to relocate. Jordan nor I can sleep at night with so much racing through our minds. We are coming to TN to house-hunt in a couple of weeks....wish us luck!

XOXO

BIG NEWS!!!!

NO, I am NOT pregnant.

1. We are moving to Nashville in April!!! I am still in shock mode. We knew we would eventually get moved somewhere with Jordan's job, but never imagined it would be to TN! And you won't believe the story behind it!!!!

About 6 months ago I emailed the President of the company's wife. (We are friends. They are actually some best friends to Jordan's parents.) It was right after a trip to TN, and I was homesick. I told her that I had just gotten back from TN and there were empty factories everywhere and lots of people needing jobs. It would be the perfect place for a new Martin Sprocket plant and I knew just the guy who could be sent there!!! (wink! wink!) They have like 30 plants worldwide, but closest to Nashville WAS Atlanta....so that is where I was praying to be sent! So about 5 minutes after I sent her that email I was so embarrassed! I should not have done that....so I thought!!! Next time I saw her I apologized and said I was just homesick. She was sweet as pie about it though. WEELLLLLLLLL....Monday Jordan was in his weekly meeting with all big wigs (he is in like an executive training program with the company) and they told him they are going to start a new plant in NASHVILLE and wanted him and a few others to go get it going!!! OMG. Jordan was like, "You have no idea how happy my wife is going to be!" They were like, "think it over and get back to us." Ummmm.....no thinking needed!!! : ) Now the good part.....Jordan gets a call the next morning from the President of the company. He asks Jordan what I thought about it all. Jordan said I couldn't be happier. Then the President says, "Well, that plant was supposed to be somewhere else, but then after Linda got that email from Lori, we had it moved to Nashville!" I KNOW!!!!!!! HOLY COW!!!! I am humbled and in awe of their kindness and thoughtfulness! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? I sent him a text that said, "You are my HERO. Thank you from the bottom of my heart." And he replied, "You told Linda we needed a place in that part of the world. I'm just doing what my wife tells me to do!" Hahaha! Isn't that AMAZING!!!!??? Yes, we sent them flowers.

So now that I just got us unpacked and settled here, I will start packing for Nashville. I will say, however, that we are very sad to leave all our friends and family here. It's like one minute I am jumping for joy and the next I am boo-hooing. It is the ultimate bittersweet. I LOVE Texas. I love my friends here and I love Jordan's family. We will be back often to visit though!

2. Big news #2! I started a new job as a Stella & Dot Stylist!!!! If you look at my previous post you will see that I was hosting a Trunk Show. Well I did, and I LOVED it! All my friends and family LOVED it too. As a hostess I racked up in free jewelry and the Stylist did very well too. I have been looking for something to do from home and felt that God led me to this. I am VERY EXCITED! The best part is there is NO sales pitch at the show and NO pressure what-so-ever. Just get girls together, try on fabulous jewelry, and gab! What is not to love? Stella & Dot is not really in TN yet, so I am excited to bring it there! It is made alongside Niemans and Prada jewelry. Been in InStyle, Lucky, seen on Paris Hilton, Debra Messing, and LOTS of others to name a few! Check it out....it sells itself!

So you TN gals, how about picking out your favorite thing and letting me do a Trunk Show for you to get it for you free!? I am going to need your help to get it going in our new home of TN!!! : ) (and anywhere else within a couple of hours!!! KY, GA.....)
http://www.stelladot.com/lorim

Let me know what you think about the jewelry! And really, I do want to know everyone's fave pieces so I can add them to my collection to have at the shows. I am trying to get as many opinions as I can so I have a good variety to display.

Stella & Dot Party

Hey, friends! I am having a Stella & Dot party and wanted to let you in on the goods if you are in the market for some new jewels! I LOVE all their jewelry and posted some of my faves below to give you a sample. Feel free to go online and place an order by Jan. 30. Look in the top right corner where it says something about FIND YOUR HOSTESS. Hope you get to get something REAL PURTY! : ) http://www.stelladot.com/deanapeterman

Some Pics...

I love this cowboy-esque vest Colt got from Ellory for Christmas!
We met Daddy for lunch last week. How cute is that hat?!

Chomp that chip, Colt!

Two things Colt is majorly obsessed with: balls and toothbrushes.

I left him a book to look at when I put him down for his nap last week. A couple hours later I hear all this adorable talking going on in his room. At least every other word was "ball." When I went into his room he was reading his book and it was opened to a page with some balls on it! My son is a genius, y'all!

Here is a cake I made last weekend for someone whose wife was turning 30 (obviously).

Heard of Leddy's boots? Well Jordan has played their Christmas party for 2 years now and instead of getting paid, he gets to have custom boots made! It took over an hour, maybe closer to 2, to get perfectly and precisely measured for his boots. Guess how long until they are ready? 10-12 MONTHS! Isn't that insane!? So maybe by next Christmas he will have his custom made boots. I will tell you that they cost more than our mortgage payment! I mean, holy cow! I am one jealous wife!!! One day I plan to have my own pair too! I am thinking the next 2 years he will be playing parties towards the credit of MY boots!

Here she is tracing his foot into their book. They say the boots feel so good that you will never want to take them off. Well I'd say so!She had Jordan try on at least 10 different boots and made notes about how each boot fit his foot.

This is similar to what Jordan's will look like. He chose smooth ostrich skin.

We spent the weekend in San Angelo visiting my sister Julie and helping her get situated in her new rent house. Jordan insisted we eat at Lowake Steak House. It is famous in those parts and in the middle of NOWHERE. We decided to split a T-bone....it was 28oz! It was bigger than Jordan's head people!!

Jordan, John, and Julie play some Super Mario Bros on Wii

Today while I was unpacking our bags from the weekend, Colt found some chocolate candy. This is how I found him:

Like I was saying about toothbrushes.....Colt has a collection. He carries one around for a good part of the day. If he sees you brushing your teeth, then he will have a meltdown of you don't give him the toothbrush so he can brush his teeth too. The dentist will be so proud. This WAS one of my new toothbrushes until today.

Apparently Sophie needed fresher breath. He can now add this toothbrush to his collection because I certainly don't want it back!Poor Soph. She gets followed and annoyed ALL day, but she is getting so sweet with him. He was all about snuggling with her today, and I couldn't believe she let him! I think she is giving up!

Something is wrong with this picture: Colt is in the dog bed and...

Sophie is in our bed!

Man, what a fun week! I am telling you what, there is never a dull moment around here! Colt makes me the happiest Momma in the whole world! I can't even begin to put into words how much I love and adore him. If I had a dollar for the kisses I give him, then we'd be billionaires! What an honor that God let me be his momma.

'Tis the Season for THIEVIN'

Our Groom's Cake

I hope you are sitting down for this one. Remember all those monthly pics of Colt with Jordan's guitar? Remember our AMAZING groom's cake that was made to look like Jordan's guitar? Remember how you NEVER saw Jordan play a show without his guitar? Remember how my name was in the heart on the guitar? Remember how Jordan was looking forward to passing his guitar down to Colt one day? WELL....

A week or two before Christmas someone busted out Jordan's car window in the middle of the night at our house and stole all of his music stuff including his precious guitar!!!! I KNOW! We are just devastated. We can't bare to even talk about it out loud. I asked him last night if we could just pretend that it never happened. We did file and police report and called insurance and all that good stuff, but the guitar holds so many memories for us. It isn't worth much to pawn or sell now that Jordan has drawn all over it, so I just wish they would bring it back!

And you're gonna love this part...

I posted an ad on Craigslist, "Stolen Guitar REWARD." And put a couple of pictures with it. We got a couple of really nice responses from some men going to help us scour pawn shops and Craigslist. THEN last week Jordan gets a phone call from a guy in Chicago, IL. He says, "Hey, I was calling about your guitar. I think I have it. I am a truck driver and I was driving through Texas and someone sold it to me at a truck stop for $85. Can you describe your guitar for me?" Well Jordan and I were singing and dancing through the house, as you can imagine. All he wanted was for us to repay him the $85 and pay his shipping for him to send it back to us. He wanted us Money Gram him the cash so he could get it shipped. Jordan asked him how he got his number and he said off of my Craigslist Ad. Yes, I was gleaming at my genius idea. So Jordan asked him if he could send us a picture or something of the guitar to prove that he had it before we just wire $150 over or that we could pay him once we received the guitar and the dude starting yelling at Jordan something about here he was doing this out of the goodness of his heart and just forget it, he would sell it to someone else AND HUNG UP ON JORDAN! Jordan freaks out and tries calling him back, it was dramatic, and he would just keep hanging up on Jordan telling him that it's over because he got an attitude! WHAT?! Then the guy randomly calls Jordan and says he is at the UPS store to ship the guitar. He just wants a tracking number for the money gram and then he will get us a tracking number for the guitar. We were close to getting the money sent when about 5 minutes later he calls and asks if we want a signature at delivery. Jordan said yes and was all pumped again. THEN we remember we have several friends in Chicago who can pick it up for us, see that he actually has the guitar, and pay him on the spot. That would be easiest on everyone and we would know we were not being scammed. So Jordan calls to tell the guy this new idea and he gets all crazy again saying, "You made me come all the way to the UPS Store for nothin'? Man, this jus' keeps gettin' weirder and weirder every second. You know what, just forget it." At this point we knew we had been strung along like a poor puppy dog! So Jordan goes, "Man, are you straight up scammin' me? You are you BLEEP BLEEP!!!" (sorry, but he was really MAD) "I'm gonna give your name to the police!" Dude goes, "Fine. Give my name to police!" and Jordan hung up. We were so almost totally scammed!!!!!!!!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT!? What a low life JERK! And let me tell you, he was a professional scammer! Calling us to to ask if we wanted a signature at delivery? Now that's good. URRRGGG!

So now here are again, without the guitar and sad as ever. So, my dear blogging friends, be on the lookout for us!

Oh, and, if the theif happens to be reading this, PLEEESE bring our guitar back. No questions asked! Just drop it off in the middle of the night or something!

Some Holiday Pics...

My sweet boy at dinner last night (kinda random, but...)
Dressed for our winter weather....such a cutie!

Santa came!

Checking out the presents! PS-the brown box is a present to me from Jordan. Ended up being my favorite gift of all...a zoo membership!! YAY!!! Colt and I are going to be zoo junkies for sure!

Jordan found this remote for Colt. Colt is obsessed with remotes and phones. Good call, Daddy! And, yes, the morning hair is glorious! Poor kid doesn't stand a chance!

Christmas lunch at Uncle Britt's. Colt is one-sockin it.

Christmas Eve. We actually DID have a white Christmas in TEXAS!