The Bailey Chronicles

Candi gifted me this sweet vintage hankie for my wedding day as my "something old" and it was pinned underneath my dress. It is actually an old Irish tradition which is fitting since John and I are both Irish and our little girl has a very Irish name. My hankie came with a poem that I thought was very sweet and I am proud to pass this tradition on to Bailey when her wedding day comes.

John received his 5 year certificate and his watch from Best Buy yesterday! We still have no word as to what is going on with the restructure, but he did receive the most amazing letter of recognition in his e-mail the other day. Back in October when he was interacting with a customer he had discovered some business needs this customer had and set him up with a Best Buy for Businesses program. Now that this customer's business is growing they have placed some major orders with the company which will end up saving his store from being under budget for the year, and the customer went as far to say "because of John's remarkable level of service in the store and the level of service he received from the business department out of the store he will never buy from anywhere else!" He just secured all of the managers in his store their bonuses that they were in jeopardy of losing! This letter of praise was written by the Best Buy Business Account Manager and was sent to every store manager in Texas and to every District Staff Member! It is always a good thing to have this kind of recognition pointing out you specifically to every store in Texas when there is a restructure in the works. Hopefully with this kind of recognition and his tenure that he has secured himself a job this next year. Either way I am super proud of my man and all of his hard work he does day in and day out! We love you Johnny!!

My baby is 3 months old today! To celebrate she woke up EXTRA early this morning!! It wasn't really her fault though. The apartment upstairs happens to have really weak floors above her nursery that are super loud and creaky and the neighbors are exceptionally heavy footed when they walk. Really I wouldn't have been able to sleep through that ruckus either. I have marked this occasion by packing up her newborn sized clothes because they stopped fitting her at the end of January. For some reason that is a really hard thing to do. Not because I will miss those particular clothes, but because I know she will never be that small again. I can remember how those impossibly small clothes seemed to swallow her whole the first weeks we were home from the hospital, and now they ride half way up her arms and legs. They remind me of being super preggo and holding them up to my large belly trying to imagine what baby Dunson was going to look like. This whole watching your babies grow thing gets easier sometime right?

I took these this morning because she was so happy playing in the ruffles of her new pettiskirt and discovering her feet!