Can I Brag A Bit?

This is a post dedicated to my wonderful husband. I have a few things to update everyone on that has been going on with my hubby!

The number one thing I need to update everyone on is the status of his CPA Exam. A couple of weeks ago he finally got a letter regarding both parts of the CPA Exam he had not heard back from. It was good and bad news. The good news is that he did pass the part he took back in May. The bad news is that he did not pass the part he took back in April. Yes, people he did not hear anything until JULY! So ridiculous because he could have already been studying again to re-take the one he did not pass! And the sad thing is they have off months in the fall so he only has a small window to prepare to re-take this part of the exam. Please be thinking about him these next few months in your prayers to help him prepare to re-take the exam and pass this time so he can get this huge accomplishment under his belt.

Moving on to the second update. My husband works very hard at his job. He has so many responsibilities at work and I do not know how he can keep up with it all and be home every night by 6:00 for us to eat dinner together as a family and then take care of Mary-Ross to give me a "break". But, he manages to get all of it done and still be a great husband and father.

Side note: Lemak Sports Medicine is affiliated with Trinity Hospital so therefore Justin works very closely with all of the people at Trinity. Dr. Lemak's practice and all the smaller practices that are associated with Lemak Sports Medicine the most successful, largest, and highest grossing medical practice CHS (CHS is the company that owns Trinity Hospital) is affiliated with. Justin is the CFO of The Lemak Group and Companies, LLC. which manages Dr. Lemak's practice and all of the smaller practices affiliated with Lemak Sports Medicine.

That all being said above leads to the update! :) Since Justin does work so hard and is the CFO of The Lemak Group and Companies, LLC. the CEO and CFO of Trinity Hospital and Matthew Lemak (CEO of The Lemak Group and Companies, LLC.) took notice. So they decided to nominate him for CFO of the year in the $25-50 million dollar category in the Birmingham Business Journal, which is a magazine here in Birmingham. Justin was notified he had been nominated and then was notified he made the cut to the final five. Since he made it to the final five he will be interviewed by the BBJ and featured in the magazine. The ceremony to announce the winner of each category will be held on August 23rd. If Justin wins this honor it will not only be another accomplishment he can add to his list but it will also make his company look great and give them free advertisement which will benefit everyone including our family. I am so proud of Justin for even being nominated much less making the final five in his category. I can not wait for the ceremony in August to see if he wins. Either way I will still be proud of him. I will definitely update the blog once his interview in published in the BBJ and once we find out the results. Stay tuned folks!

Here is the link showing the results of all the finalists:
http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/blog/2011/07/bbj-reveals-cfo-award-finalists.html

Another week come and gone

As we end another week in May the most exciting week ever approaches! Assuming that I am not going to go into labor tonight or tomorrow we will be going into my 40th week of my pregnancy. Many of us thought our little one would have decided to come on her own before now but since she has not it looks like I will be getting induced this week. I better be anyways. :) I have enjoyed my week of not having to be up at a certain time even though I have found myself still be an early riser with the exception of one or two mornings this week. I have been keeping the house very clean and doing all the laundry. All the chores of a stay at home mom/wife. :)

Justin took another part of the CPA Exam on Wednesday morning and we are hoping for another PASS! We still have not heard from the last part he took but hopefully it will be in soon! So that is three parts of the CPA Exam down! One Pass and two unknown as of the moment. He is going to take a break from studying for a few weeks before he starts back to finish up the last parts. We are praying very hard that he does not have to re-take any of the parts.

Justin and I went to a movie Friday night and had a great time like always. I am hoping that was our last movie we could see without getting a babysitter. I know that seems strange but I am so ready for this baby to be here!

So we have one more day until our Doctor's appointment to see if anything happens. I highly doubt it but who knows! If not then we are scheduled to go to the Doctor at 9:30 for an ultrasound to measure the baby and then we will see the Doctor. So I am hoping that my next blog will be updating everyone that we are checking into the hospital to have a baby! But, it could also be about how I am going to start thinking of ways to deliver this baby myself! Let's hope it's the first and not the second! :)

And, one last update! My little sweet angel Blakely is in the hospital due to bronchiolitis. They were admitted this morning and will definitely be staying tonight and possibly more nights. Her sats have been better since she has been at the hospital but she has been running a fever and is still having trouble breathing. They will continue to monitor her and give her breathing treatments. Palmer is starting to show signs that she might need to be admitted as well. Bronchiolitis is only contagious if you come into contact with the person's salvia or snot and you ingest it. So it is very possible little Palmsicle has it as well since they slobber all over everything of each other's all the time. We need to keep both of these babies in our prayers so they can get better! Not to mention Palmer is already scheduled to get tubes in her ears early Tuesday morning. So my family is being pulled in a million directions at the moment!

Until next time......

35 weeks & 1 day...

I had my 34 week appointment on Monday the 18th and everything was well! We did not not get many updates since they really did not do anything besides listen to the heartbeat which is always a joy/ relief to hear. We really just talked about my next appointment coming up and what all they will be doing at it. My next appointment is May 2 and that starts me going every week until the big day! I am hoping that when she does the exam on May 2 that maybe I will be showing signs of going into labor. A girl can dream, right? This week has been pretty hard on me. I really have had a great pregnancy besides the sickness and such in the beginning. But, this week I can truly say I was 100% miserable everyday! Anyone who knows me knows I am always cheerful and very rarely not in a good mood. But almost everyday last week I really was being a grouch and did not really feel like talking to anyone, which is also very unlike me. Needless to say I was welcoming the weekend with open arms times twenty! I have been in a much better mood this weekend thank goodness. I am hoping I am not so miserable this week because it makes me so sad and frustrated when I am not cheerful! Luckily I got a lot done this weekend and so it made me feel much better about going into this week. Everything that needed to be washed is done, for now at least! Everything is hung in the nursery with the exception of the shelves, which will be done after next weekend. All of Mary-Ross's clothes are hung that needed to be hung besides a small stack because I ran out of hangers for the third time now! This is no lie by the way! Good thing the closet in the nursery is extremely large so I am able to hang up everything that needs to be hung! That's all the at-home/pregnancy updates for now!


I wanted to say a BIG thanks to all of our wonderful friends who helped host our Troy baby shower. It was a great turn out and so much fun! My generous in-laws allowed us to use there home for the shower and also helped out so much! We are so thankful to be surrounded with such great people. Here are a few of my favorite photos from the shower.

This group of girls were my best friends while I was at Troy and are still my best friends now. I love them so much!

This is us with all of the hosts/hostesses of the baby shower!

Mom, me, & Vicki (mother-in-law)

Justin & I


A little update on Justin and the CPA Exam. He still has not heard back from the last part he took but hopefully we will hear something within the next few weeks. He is studying for the next part right now and is planning on taking it sometime before Mary-Ross gets here. He will probably schedule it after our next Doctor's visit once we get a little more insight on the time frame of her arrival.


We got back our maternity pictures from our session with Catherine Mayo and she did a wonderful job, just like I knew she would. I first meet Catherine through the Sawyer family who I nanny for. They use her for all of there family pictures and birthday parties! She always did a wonderful job. Then her son was in Will Sawyer's mother's day out class so we got to know each other a little better seeing each other all the time. She also took Jason & Emily Fill's maternity pictures and little Hudson's newborn pictures and did a wonderful job. So I knew she was just what I wanted when I decided to book my maternity pictures. Here are my favorites!

This is everything for now but I know I will have more updates soon! Justin is going out of town for the weekend on a Bachelor party so I will have a lot of blogging time on my hands! Till next time...

Updates and such....

I have been slacking on the blog updates! I have lots of new updates!

Let's go back to my last Doctor's appointment. I have had to go to the Doctor twice since my last Doctor update. I went to my regularly schedule appointment but I also had to go a few days earlier as well. I started having some lower back pain on my left side one Thursday while working and after it continued to get worse and worse I decided it was time to call the Doctor. I have luckily not had any back problems before so it scared me a little bit since that could be a labor sign. So they had me come in that next day to check everything out. I love my Doctor's office so much because they always make me feel so much better about all my concerns! Everything checked out at my appointment and they just told me it was just pregnancy back pain! It took a little while but it has finally gone away and I hope it does not decide to return!

I then had my regularly scheduled Doctor's appointment that following Monday. They just did all the routine stuff and I had to see a new Doctor because it was my last chance to see one more Doctor at my practice. She was very nice and I am so glad I had a chance to meet a good many different Doctor's just in case for some reason my Doctor could not be there when I deliver or if I go into labor on one of my Doctor's off days! I am scheduled to go back for my 2 week check-up next Monday, April 18. I hope we start talking about the delivery details and such. I just want to get a plan in place. I already have everything ready to go in my hospital bag besides my toiletries. I have the same dream every pregnant woman has, the dream of my baby coming a week early! :)

The next update we have for the Rolling's is that Justin passed his first part of the CPA Exam! YAY Justin! So proud of my hubby and all of his hard work! He took the second part last week so we are back to waiting again to see how he does. He said he feels very confident that he did very well on this test so let's hope he gets another PASS! Congrats again to you Justin! Love you!

Justin's brother, Hunter and his wife, Emily found out they are expecting a little girl! We are so happy for them and I think our 2 girls will enjoy having someone to play with at our family gatherings! Justin's parents are so excited they are getting 2 little girls to spoil! Exciting time ahead for the Rolling clan!

I know I told everyone already but Justin and I joined our church Riverchase United Methodist yesterday and Justin was baptized. I re-committed my faith to the lord so they blessed me as well. We are so glad to join the Riverchase family and can not wait to get to know more people that attend our church as well. Justin's parents, my grandparents, and my sister, brother-in-law, and the girls all came to support us. My parents could not make it since they are coming into town next weekend for a baby shower for Justin and I in Luverne. So we missed them but understood! We then all went out to the country club for a nice family meal. So happy we make this special decision! Can not wait for Mary-Ross to get here so she can be blessed as well!

Yesterday afternoon we took our maternity pictures at Overton Park in Homewood with Catherine Mayo. Can not wait to see them. Justin was a little upset that we were scheduled to take our pictures at 6:00 pm, right when the Master's were finishing up but he acted like a big boy and got over it! Hehe. Thanks babe!

I washed more of Mary-Ross's clothes, blankets, etc. this weekend! That child has one million articles of clothing but oh well! Justin said we will have to change her every few minutes for her to ever wear it all. Hahaha. A girl needs options doesn't she? The nursery is basically finished! Lynlee finished the bookcase and is so graciously delivering it to us on Wednesday night! Can not wait to see it! We got the shelves in as well and so all we have to do is hang them and 2 prints and I am still waiting on a frame I had made but it should be shipping out soon! Can not wait for it to be 100% done! On Saturday I had a lot of errands to run! I used some of our gift cards we have gotten to get more baby supplies! Also, I had to exchange some things and got a lot of stuff. We are almost prepared for little girl but we still have some things to get.

This weekend we will be heading to Luverne for our baby shower given by all of our dearest friends. So excited to see everyone and have basically the last weekend to visit with all of our good friends. This will be my last weekend to travel anywhere. I will be home bound for here on out!

These are all of our updates we have for now! I will post maternity pictures when we get them back! Hope everyone has a great!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone! I hope you have someone special to spend this day with and if not at least a friend or family member. I am so thankful that Justin and I have each other and that we get to spend this special day together. We are going out to dinner tonight at Fleming's and we are both so excited. I am especially pumped about the Chocolate Molten Lava Cake they have! Yum Yum!

Another weekend has come and gone so quickly but we got so much done around our house this weekend and a lot of relaxation so that was really nice. We cleaned out and put away all the clutter and made more space for miss priss! I just know how much stuff you need and you get when you have a baby so I know we will need all the extra space we can get. I spent all Sunday morning re-arranging and cleaning out the cabinets so little one will have space for all her baby stuff. Justin attempted to hang the chandelier this weekend but was unsuccessful. It ended up being a lot more complicated than we thought and so he went to Home Depot to get the things we needed in order to hang it properly and once he got there he spoke with a knowledgeable person about it and realized that maybe he was not the person for the job. So he called his company's builder/ friend and luckily he is a sweet man and is sending out one of his electrician's to properly install the chandelier for use. We do not want to take any chances on it falling or the wires catching fire. Our most precious little baby will be in that room so it must be perfect! :) So once the chandelier is hung I'll post a picture. I painted the mirror and got the ribbon to hang the mirror with. Now I just have to find something cute to nail into the wall to hang the mirror from. I did find some knobs for the dresser and changed those out and they look great! So those are the only updates on the nursery.

Yesterday I went and picked a part of Justin's Valentine's gift and gave it to him early. It was a heart shaped cookie cake for my Valentine. He was so happy. It might have been the happiest I have ever seen him. Haha. I enjoyed the beautiful day in my maternity swimsuit in the backyard trying to get some sun on my pasty white skin. Sadly, it was not for very long because I had to go pick up the cookie cake and by the time I got back my tanning area had been covered up by the shadow from the fence! I am going to take advantage of all sunny days in the next few months because I have to get a little color back into my skin. YUCK!

This week my parents are coming into town and so I am looking forward to spending time with them. My sister and Jeff are going to the beach for the weekend with friends so they are coming over to keep the kiddos. I am taking AK to one of her friends birthday parties on Saturday right by my house, so that will be fun.

I just wanted everyone to be thinking about Justin as he prepares the take the CPA exam. He began taking it back when he first graduated from grad school and passed a section but after he moved from Georgia to Birmingham he stopped studying and ended up losing the one he had taken. So his New Year's resolution was to start studying for it again and sign up to start taking it again. I have been so proud of him because he has been studying so much. He stays late at work every night studying and has been studying for hours on the weekends. His goal is to take and pass all the parts by the end of the summer. He is about to sit for his first part so please pray he passes it the first time. The CPA exam is one of the hardest exams that you can take after college. It ranks right up there with the Bar Exam and all the other hard ones. So this is something that is really respected in the business world. Justin is very smart and I know he can get this done.

These are all the updates for now but check back soon for more Rolling family news! Oh and I have 2 new recipes I am using this week so check back for them!