4:30 mornings and Red Velvet cake

So I've starting setting the alarm clock for 4:30AM...I thought it would be tremendously hard to get out of the bed at this hour but it's way easier than the multiple attempts I would have to make to get out when it was set for 6AM.

I don't quite understand why it would be easier but go figure!! Maybe it has something to do with getting TOO much sleep if I go to 6AM.

Anyway my friend Kansas Queen gets up around this time...and for years I thought she'd lost her mind crazy and just couldn't agree with it at all. But since having baby C 4:30AM is the only time when I get me time. Some how Big C seems to find me time at any given hour (not sure how he masters that one) and I can't seem to find any during the day.

It feels so revitalizing getting up at that hour, I seem to get so much done and feel like I have so much time (well duh you do, you getting up before the darn cock has even crowed! LOL). This morning I got up, picked out an outfit for baby C, but mine and Baby C's lunch in my car, put Bid C's lunch and something for him to return to Babies R us in his car, started a load of laundry, folded a load of laundry from the dryer, ate something for breakfast (you get hungry being up at this hour, I usually eat breakfast (oatmeal) at work), took a shower, photocopied my marriage license 10 times for different things, mailed off 3 deposits, oh and showered and got dressed all before big C even got up.

By the time big C left I still had so much time on my hands before I was due to leave that I kind of got bored and just left for work early!!! I stopped off at a grocery store right by my job to pick up some #2 coffee filters (oh yes that's the other beauty of the 4:30 thing...being able to start a brew of coffee and actually be able to drink it and not have to save it for iced coffees!! LOL).

Anyway while in the store look what I found!!!! Big C loves red velvet cake and of course his grandpas pineapple upside down cake!! So while he is at swim practice I plan on making it to suprise him, that's as long as baby C cooperates!!! I won't even attempt to make a pineapple upside down cake...it would end upside down for sure if I tried! LOL

Big C suprised me and took me to Rhode Island for my birthday...I was so excited not knowing where I was going...he booked us in at the Marriott Courtyard...I was a little scared as I'm used to staying at the Marriott Residence Inn as I love the full kitchen you get in the room and now with baby C we really need it. But the Courtyard was excellent, it had a microwave and a fridge in the room...what more could I have asked for!!! We had an awesome time and we were just a few minutes from my little cousin who goes to Brown, so on the way home we took her out for brunch and got to hear all her college stories!! She's so cute! I was bummed that I forget to take a pic of her holding baby C :0(

But here are a few pics from that weekend...only the ones taken with my phone...I didn't upload the ones from the camera:

We were in Khols and Big C put this hat on
baby C, how could I not take a pic!


I have no idea why Big C looks intoxicated!

The bed looked so inviting that big C threw her up there, couldn't she get you to buy the pillows and comforter!!! Don't you know a passer by wiped out her camera and took a pic of our baby, I guess she thought she looked just that cute!

Just a random pic you notice baby C is the only one watching me right!!! DO you see those cheeks...Big C used to joke and say they are so big she can barely open her eyes!!! LOL