A Very Special Day

Last night was a very special night for Nick. He graduated from University of Baltimore with his masters in Busniess Administration. He has worked so hard to get to this point and I am so proud of him. I know that it had to be hard finishing up this last semester with being a new Dad and all so I am happy that he has succeeded in what he set out to accomplish. I love him so much and am glad that he is mine. This is just another step towards his altimate career goal...whatever that may be. Anyways I just wanted to post a few pictures and to brag about how my man now has a Masters Degree! Yay Nick!!

Nick walking in to the Lyric Opera House in downtown Baltimore:


Him receiving his diploma:


This one is a little ruff looking but it's him being "hooded" which is a sign of a Master:

Handy Manny and Stuff

Well every weekend my little guy and I have what we like to call our Mommy and Me time. Saturday morning he wakes up around 7 and while everyone else is usually in bed or at work we go downstairs and watch Playhouse Disney while Mommy does laundry. I love our Mommy and Me time together especially since it's so early in the morning and usually thats when he is in the best mood. So this weekend while doing some Mommy and Me time with Handy Manny, I decided to capture some photos since I hadn't updated this blog in a while...so here they are....

And here is a video of that little guy in what Big Papa likes to call the "jungle"....haha






He just gets so into that Handy Manny!

Landon at 3 Months

Weekend in Williamsburg

This past weekend we (Nick, Me, Becky, & Austin) decided to take a trip down to Williamsburg to get away for the weekend. Unlike my OLDER brother and sister-in-law, we had a little bit more of an enteraining weekend. So off to Grandma's Landon went and then our "so called" relaxing weekend began.

It started off a little rocky on the way down Friday night. We had stopped at KFC to get some food to eat in the car and must of waited like 45 minutes for our food and then got to the window and they gave us the wrong stuff! They finally gave us another bag of food and it ended up being wrong too but it was to our advantige because there was more food in the bag then what we had ordered....haha. Then of course the guys talked me into going to the liquar store in La Plata since it was going to be too late to go when we get to Williamsburg. Needless to say that was a BIG mistake becuase by the time we got to where we were staying, the guys were WAISTED!! So it was pretty much off to bed when we got to our room.

The next morning was so nice. I got to get up (after sleeping all night through...yay!) and take my time taking ahsower and getting ready without Lando needing to be passified. We took our time getting ready and then went to cracker barrel for an early lunch before we went to Busch Gardens. We had such a nice time and of course it was Austin's first time at a Cracker Barrel I think which you can tell by his amasement and concentration in this picture...


After lunch, we were off the the park. I don't ride rollercoasters or anything like that so I just walked around as Becky and the guys enjoyed the rides (plus a few Bud Light Limes were envolved in that walk, which made it better.) Here's a few pics from the park:

Concentrating very hard on where the heck we were suppose to be going...


Of course Nick can never walk anywhere without grabbing me, so I grabed back...haha


I thought this was a good one of Beck and I in Germany...
Then there is Nicholas again, always trying to be cute...


When we got done with the Park, we met up with the OLDER couple Tom & Jen for dinner and drinks. They decided to come back to our place to hang out before going back to their hotel. Of course they bought like 2 things of beer and between the two of them only drank 2 beers and left to go back to their place at like 10....just can't hang anymore...haha. So needless to say we had to try and consume SOME of that and this is what is looked like....enjoy!



Nick's Feet smelled so bad!!!!


Becky was trying to take a picture of the two of us but she kept cutting herself out...haha

I also have a video but am waiting for Becky to upload it for me...will have it up soon!

You made my Day!

Had such a good weekend this past weekend. I went and visited my family in southern Maryland and got to share in a very special day with Nan and Pop (my sister-in-law's grandparents) as the celebrated their 50th wedding Anniversary. Unfortunetly it went by way too fast and back to Baltimore I am.

Today I had a doctors appointment (doing the five year plan)...haha and when I got back to work I had the best email waiting for me that any Mommy would love to get. It was from Nick and it said:

NEW SCHEDULE FOR THE BABY; U HAVE MON AND TUES NIGHTS, I HAVE WED AND THURS. WE WILL ALTERNATE FRI SAT AND SUN… I.E. I TAKE FRI, U HAVE SAT, I HAVE SUN, AND THEN THE FOLLOWIN WEEKEND U HAVE FRI AND SUN AND I HAVE SAT

Nicholas Conley

Associate Manager

Mariner Finance, LLC

7682 Belair Road

Baltimore, MD 21236

(410) 882-5200 (Office)

(443) 461-0010 (Fax)

I was so happy! It made my day!! I was in such a bad mood last week because I felt like he never wanted to help out with the baby and if I asked him to he would always get an attitude. I wrote him a long email explaining how I felt and that I really needed him his help because I can't do it all on my own. It feels so good to know that he appreciates me and the way I feel. We are a family even though we aren't married and I feel that it takes both parents to raise good children. I am willing to help him and and do things for him while he finishes up school but on nights that he doesn't have class, I expect him to be Daddy and do things Daddy's should do. So needless to say I am having a very good day and am very excited that he has come around to helping me out. I love you Babe!!

The hardest part of being a Mommy...

I got a call yesterday from Nick's cousin Becky, who is watching Landon for us this week, to say that my little guy wasn't feeling well. I had noticed he was a little congested the past couple days but I figured it would just go away on it's own. Unfortunately, it has gotten worse. That poor little guy can't even keep his ninny in his mouth because he can hardly breath. So I did what any first time Mommy would do...called the doctor. Well that was a big waste of time!! They said to run a vaporizer, which I did last night, and to put saline drops up his nose. Ok so has anyone ever actually tried putting saline drops up an infants nose?! He hated it! I felt horrible!! Needless to say I only did it once and that was the end of that.




I have come to realize that the hardest part of being a Mommy is your baby being sick and you can't do anything to help them because it just has to "run it's course." I feel so bad for him. I just want to make it all better and I can't. He woke up like four times last night crying and all I could do was comfort him until he fell back asleep. The worst part is that he didn't sound any better this morning and I had to leave him to go to work. It's so hard to sit here and go about my work day when I know he's home not feeling well and needing his Mommy. Poor little guy...

St. Patrick's Day

As far as today's post goes, I just wanted to take the time to remember someone very special in our family who had to leave us way too young. Chandler loved John Deer tractors and his Mommy very much.

Happy Birthday Chandler, we miss you buddy!!

So what's so cool about this blog thing?

So...I was nicely encouraged to start a blog by my wonder and beautiful sister-in-law, Jennifer. I really hesitated to do one because I didn't know if I really wanted to keep up with it and didn't know if I would always have something interesting to write. But after many days of contemplating, I decided why the heck not. So here it goes.

First of all I guess I'll tell you a little bit about myself. I am 22 years old and work for an attorney in Cockeysville, MD. I have a degree from Frostburg State University in Liberal Arts with a concentration in dance. I live with my boyfriend, Nick, who I met back in September 2005 while going to school at Frostburg. Nick was a Finance major and Accounting minor and is now pursuing his MBA in Finance which he will graduate with in May of this year. We have been through a lot these past few years and through it all I can truly say he is the love of my life and my best friend. Ok so that's enough about me...now for the reason I decided to do this blog...

















LANDON THOMAS CONLEY

This is Nick and I's 2 month old son and my reason for getting up each day. He is the best thing that has ever happened to me.

Landon was born on January 14, 2009 at 8:48 p.m. at St. Joseph's Hospital in Towson, MD. Labor wasn't actually that long, I did most of it at home so by the time I got to the hospital I was already 5cm dilated and fully effaced. After a few hours of laying in a hospital bed (feeling good thanks to that nice epidural) and only an hour of pushing...he was here and he was perfect! The shape of his head...his face...and his little fingers and toes were all perfect! I don't think any other time in my life past, present, or in the future would or will ever top that experience.

As far as this blog goes, I will be mostly writing about him and all the cute and new things he does. I hope to write daily, but if not, at least a few times a week. He's always doing something new so I can't really run out of things to write about.