Click the link below to check out a 2 min clip that CBS Dallas ran on Pink Pride Brides this morning! Tickets are $10, proceeds go to women battling breast cancer, and who doesn't love a little bridal fashion? Buy you tickets {or donate!} now and join the cause!!
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Friday, October 14, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Teeth & The Paci
Little Cam Cam did super awesome at the dentist! She cried (of course) while the x rays were happening, and while they were feeling all around in her mouth, but stopped IMMEDIATELY when they were done (which was seriously shocking) and was just a jolly little nugget full of smiles and waves for everyone! Super thankful for that.
The x rays looked good...no root damage! Woohooooo! They think the teeth will gradually move back into their normal position. They WILL bruise (just like a normal body bruise, but it lasts for 6-12 months. Yikes.) SO glad it's her baby teeth and not her permanents :) Their only real concern is the damage to her gums & the looseness of her teeth. We're back to the diet of a 6-month old. Nothing firm or crunchy. Only super soft foods and NO MORE PACI (this was a terrifying revelation for me) for the next 6 weeks so that her upper teeth/gums can try to heal.
The food is no biggie. The paci, however, made me almost sick. Breaking Avery from her paci was one of the most horrific experiences of my life as a momma. To this day, I think it was the most traumatic thing Aves has ever been through. I'm sure you remember my emotionally burdened state when I wrote this post or this one. Our experience with Aves led us to the decision that we would take Cam's paci BEFORE she hit "2". Well... this just came a little earlier than we had planned. Oh well :) Still though, the thought of taking her one form of self-soothing from her at such a traumatic time made me SO sad!!
The outcome? Her first paci-less nap-time consisted of about 50 minutes of IRRITATED screams/crying. Then about 30 minutes of sleep. That night when I put her down... NOT A PEEP. And same thing for naptime and bedtime today. NO CRYING! Whoa. Thank you JESUS for sparing me from the paci-weaning-induced emotional treachery I am all too familiar with :)
Yay Camcam! Hope you reallllyyyyy like boiled carrots, brocolli, & yogurt, my sweet!!
Fashion Show to support Breast Cancer!!
So I'm super excited about this Fashion Show that I get to be a part of next week. Kimberly Rhodes' inaugural Pink Pride Brides event is taking place next Tuesday from 7-9p. It's a Fashion Show featuring 2011/2012 Bridal & Bridesmaid looks {from Mockingbird Bridal Boutique in Dallas} and all the proceeds go to a super cool non-profit, The Bridge Breast Network, that supports un- or under-insured women battling breast cancer! If you live in or near the Dallas area, you need to come out, enjoy some GORGEOUS bridal looks, and enjoy beer/wine/hors'devours/cupcakes...all for only $10! There will be some cool door prizes (mostly packages from weddings vendors, photographers, florists, event planners, etc...)
Mainly though, come out to support the fight against breast cancer! If you know anyone who has fought this disease (and I would guess that you do!), you know it is a big-time financial burden...well, a burden in every way, really. Please take this chance to alleviate some of the financial burden for a few women by buying a ticket to Pink Pride Brides, OR by donating to the cause!
Monday, October 10, 2011
If you drink coffee, you MUST read this!!
Like I said before, one of my very best friends in the universe (basically my seester!) and her hubby have begun the process to adopt a sweet little bundle of love. Just Love Coffee is a supercool organization that supports couples trying to adopt by offering them a small percentage of their coffee sales to go toward their adoption costs. PLEASE PLEASE support Lance & Kayla by skipping out on buying coffee from your local joints, and buying super delicious imported coffee from Baby Agan's Just Love Coffee Website! They offer gourmet coffees from Costa Rica, Honduras, Rwanda,& a bunch more!
I'm placing my first order today! Something even cooler? 2 bags ships for the same price as one! If you drink coffee, you might as well help provide a home for a sweet baby in the process by clicking here to choose your coffee and make the PURCHASE! For each bag purchased, Lance & Kayla {and baby Agan!} receive $5 into their adoption fund!
Can't wait to meet my sweet little niece :) AND can't wait to see these 2 be super amazing parents to a super blessed little lovebug.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Tx-OU Weekend...
It's no secret that we love our Texas Longhorns over here @ The Bradford Casa. Brian and I have season tickets (to all the home games) every year, but since the Red River Rivalry is played at a neutral location, we have to enter a "lottery" for those tickets. Since we got married, we have YET to get tickets to that game. Bummer right? Wellll this year we broke our streak and finally got tix. Woohoo! Brian proposed to me 5 years ago (from Saturday), so it was the perfect little celebration. Funny story actually...
Back when was in college, I made the trip to Dallas EVERY year for Tx-OU weekend. It was one of the highlights of every year! LOVED it. Love the atmosphere. Love the neverending sea of maroon & orange. Love the intensity of the rivalry. Love the fair. Love the roadtrippage. Just...SO much fun in SO many ways. So... since Brian and I were dating during my senior year, we discussed the weekend plans, and he didn't want to go!! WHAT?!?? I was SO ticked and annoyed with him. But, I'm pretty sure I was super nice about it :) Thank goodness. Because it turns out he had some pretty sweet plans up his sleeve. He totally surprised me by popping the big question. I thought he was just being extra nice because he knew I was superbummed we weren't going to the game. Um. SO beyond worth missing the game haha. :) One of the greatest nights of my life!
Anyway... B-Riz and I were pumped to enjoy an entire game of UT football without any interruption from babies :) We enjoyed the pregame and 1st quarter. We didn't love the start of the 2nd quarter. Could barely stand the end of the first half. Annnnd headed out to the fair at halftime! We caught bits and pieces of the game as we passed screens and kept up on our phones while enjoying yummy food & drinks at the fair before heading home.
I was on a mission to try something weird & fried. BUT...I couldn't pass up a frito pie, roasted corn (YUM!) & frozen sweet tea, so there was no room in my tummy for anything else! Seriously... we grill corn around here all the time, but roasted corn from the Texas State Fair canNOT be beat. AND...that frozen sweet tea was the most delish and refreshing drink I've ever had in my life! I'm pretty I'm going back to the fair JUST for some corn & frozen tea. Who's with me?
So... although the Horns game was ROUGH, there are a couple of positives to note:
Back when was in college, I made the trip to Dallas EVERY year for Tx-OU weekend. It was one of the highlights of every year! LOVED it. Love the atmosphere. Love the neverending sea of maroon & orange. Love the intensity of the rivalry. Love the fair. Love the roadtrippage. Just...SO much fun in SO many ways. So... since Brian and I were dating during my senior year, we discussed the weekend plans, and he didn't want to go!! WHAT?!?? I was SO ticked and annoyed with him. But, I'm pretty sure I was super nice about it :) Thank goodness. Because it turns out he had some pretty sweet plans up his sleeve. He totally surprised me by popping the big question. I thought he was just being extra nice because he knew I was superbummed we weren't going to the game. Um. SO beyond worth missing the game haha. :) One of the greatest nights of my life!
Anyway... B-Riz and I were pumped to enjoy an entire game of UT football without any interruption from babies :) We enjoyed the pregame and 1st quarter. We didn't love the start of the 2nd quarter. Could barely stand the end of the first half. Annnnd headed out to the fair at halftime! We caught bits and pieces of the game as we passed screens and kept up on our phones while enjoying yummy food & drinks at the fair before heading home.
I was on a mission to try something weird & fried. BUT...I couldn't pass up a frito pie, roasted corn (YUM!) & frozen sweet tea, so there was no room in my tummy for anything else! Seriously... we grill corn around here all the time, but roasted corn from the Texas State Fair canNOT be beat. AND...that frozen sweet tea was the most delish and refreshing drink I've ever had in my life! I'm pretty I'm going back to the fair JUST for some corn & frozen tea. Who's with me?
So... although the Horns game was ROUGH, there are a couple of positives to note:
- It's a teeny bit satisfying to me that all the Garrett-Gilbert haters can no longer pretend like he was the reason Texas struggled through so many games. When your line can't give you any time, it doesn't matter how good you are, you're not going to be successful. Props to OU though. Those dudes are good.
- When you come home to this level of cuteness, it doesn't matter HOW painful the game was. Life is good ;)
Hook 'em!!!
Friday, October 7, 2011
Camcam's Teethies
I took C-Lil to the doc this morning for a follow up on her fall-induced mouth injuries. My little preciousness is healing up well, but Dr.Bain confirmed that her front teeth have been jammed up into the gum and caused some "significant trauma". Bummer dude. We have to see a pediatric dentist next week to assess the damage and let them tell us if it will heal itself or not. Praying for the former!! It's totally making me sad to watch my little Caminator push all of her food to the back of her mouth bc she can't use her front teeth!
On the up side of things... UT v OU manana!!! Can't wait to catch the fair and the game w the hub!!! Hook em!!
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Baby Agan in Ethiopia!!
One of my very most bestest friends in the whooooole wide world {and her terrif hub} have official begun the process to adopt a sweet little soul from Ethiopia! Keep up with their journey and stay up to date on their prayer requests through her blog: Our Happy Life
There are few things I can imagine would make me happier than the thoughts currently swirling around my mind of my dear Kayla Jane becoming a mommy, the thought of some super-blessed little child being raised and loved by Kayla & Lance, or the pictures in my mind of my kids and Kayla's kids growing old together as friends for life!!
Love you Kayla Jane!!
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Twitter Consolidation!!
Since I launched my Fitness Business, I have been managing 2 twitter accounts: 1 personal, 1 business. WHOA. It gets a little OOC to try to keep up with TWO separate accounts. I have felt SO limited in what I can "tweet" about with each account. Because there have been 2, I feel as though I'm not "allowed" to tweet about anything fitness/business related with my personal account, which limits my accessibility. On the other hand, I feel like I can't tweet about anything relating to ME or my life when using my biz account, which makes my biz account completely void of any personality. Solution? CONSOLIDATE!! Next week, I'm deleting my business twitter account {@thegoodlife_tx} and sticking to a single account! I also JUST decided to change my "handle" from @roxybradford to @RoxyBGoodLife. Nice little combo of me AND what I represent :) Feel free to follow to hop on over to twitter and follow me to keep Hangin' with the Bradfords, AND for access to relevant fitness/health/wellness info! Yay :) Burden Lifted.
Our First ER Visit
I feel as though a trip to the ER, once you become a parent, is a rite of passage...one which we have yet to experience....until yesterday.
B-Riz, Cam-cam, & I were hangin' out in the garage yesterday afternoon (B&I: cleaning, C: playing). Camerton is in a big-time climbing phase... and unbeknownst to us, had begun scaling a folded up stroller which was propped against the car parked in the driveway. At the sound of her blood-curdling scream, we whipped around to find her laying with her face smooshed against the concrete...you know that little 2-inch step where the garage meets the driveway. As I scooped her up, I watched in HORROR as blood just flowed from her sweet little mouth to the ground. B ran inside to get Aves out of bed and off to the ER we went!
Our ER is about 2 miles away from our house. AWESOME in a time like this. They were super fast, super sweet, and as helpful as they could be... but there was nothing they could do! They don't stitch mouth wounds unless it tears through the skin OUTSIDE of the mouth. They offered little Camo a popsicle and a teddy bear; neither were big hits. Once we got back into the comfort of our own home, she was FINALLY able to stop crying and relax a bit.
Sweet Aves was a super-cool big sis and gave a Avery a giant sticker (big time kudos for that one. that's a BIG deal around here!) I was really taken by surprise at the fact that Avery never shed a tear through the whole process. Usually, when Cameron is upset, Avery is just as upset. But, it's like she sensed that we all needed to be brave for sweet baby seester in the midst of her traumatic and PAINFUL experience. What a cutie :) Aves hung out with daddy most of the time that we were in the ER, because I'm pretty sure if they would have stayed in our room during the actual eval, Cameron's screams would have broken Avery's wall of bravery.
The damage: LOTS of BIG DEEP gashes across the entire inside of Cameron's bottom lip. A torn {thingy that connects the top gum to the top lip...don't remember the name?}. A scraped up & bruised chin.
The solution: No salty or crunchy foods. Lots of milk & water. Non-suction sippy cups. Baby Pain Reliever/Anti-Inflammatories every 4-6 hours. Lots of snuggles and love!
Besides a super fat face (MUCH fatter than yesterday) and a masssivvvve bottom lip, we're doing okay! There are a few more tears than normal, and bedtime is a bit challenging, but Cam-cam is well on her way to a full recovery :) Super thankful that our first trip to the ER was did NOT result in a serious injury!
Just for the record... I somehow knew that Cameron would be the source of our first need for emergency medical attention. ;) Adventurous little nugget...
B-Riz, Cam-cam, & I were hangin' out in the garage yesterday afternoon (B&I: cleaning, C: playing). Camerton is in a big-time climbing phase... and unbeknownst to us, had begun scaling a folded up stroller which was propped against the car parked in the driveway. At the sound of her blood-curdling scream, we whipped around to find her laying with her face smooshed against the concrete...you know that little 2-inch step where the garage meets the driveway. As I scooped her up, I watched in HORROR as blood just flowed from her sweet little mouth to the ground. B ran inside to get Aves out of bed and off to the ER we went!
Our ER is about 2 miles away from our house. AWESOME in a time like this. They were super fast, super sweet, and as helpful as they could be... but there was nothing they could do! They don't stitch mouth wounds unless it tears through the skin OUTSIDE of the mouth. They offered little Camo a popsicle and a teddy bear; neither were big hits. Once we got back into the comfort of our own home, she was FINALLY able to stop crying and relax a bit.
Sweet Aves was a super-cool big sis and gave a Avery a giant sticker (big time kudos for that one. that's a BIG deal around here!) I was really taken by surprise at the fact that Avery never shed a tear through the whole process. Usually, when Cameron is upset, Avery is just as upset. But, it's like she sensed that we all needed to be brave for sweet baby seester in the midst of her traumatic and PAINFUL experience. What a cutie :) Aves hung out with daddy most of the time that we were in the ER, because I'm pretty sure if they would have stayed in our room during the actual eval, Cameron's screams would have broken Avery's wall of bravery.
The damage: LOTS of BIG DEEP gashes across the entire inside of Cameron's bottom lip. A torn {thingy that connects the top gum to the top lip...don't remember the name?}. A scraped up & bruised chin.
The solution: No salty or crunchy foods. Lots of milk & water. Non-suction sippy cups. Baby Pain Reliever/Anti-Inflammatories every 4-6 hours. Lots of snuggles and love!
Besides a super fat face (MUCH fatter than yesterday) and a masssivvvve bottom lip, we're doing okay! There are a few more tears than normal, and bedtime is a bit challenging, but Cam-cam is well on her way to a full recovery :) Super thankful that our first trip to the ER was did NOT result in a serious injury!
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| Ouchies result in extra snuggle sessions with mommy & daddy, AND staying up way past bedtime!! :) |
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Bootcamp in McKinney!! $69
Hey peeps :) {I NEVER thought that word would be part of my day-to-day lingo, but lately I have found myself spitting it out here and there. It's a little catchy right?}
Okay so my first McKinney bootcamp starts in ONE WEEK! If any of you are located near McKinney, check it out! It's $69 for a 4-week outdoor camp that meets Tues & Thur mornings from 6-7am. We'll focus on strengthening & tightening the core, toning the arms/legs/buns, and meeting friends/having a GOOD time :) Interested? Email me @ roxyb{at}thegoodlifetexas.com or check out more detailed info on my website: The Good Life by RoxyB
Yay! Will totally be fun. Promise. Even if you hate me while you're there, you'll LOVE me (and your reflection) afterwards ;)
Okay so my first McKinney bootcamp starts in ONE WEEK! If any of you are located near McKinney, check it out! It's $69 for a 4-week outdoor camp that meets Tues & Thur mornings from 6-7am. We'll focus on strengthening & tightening the core, toning the arms/legs/buns, and meeting friends/having a GOOD time :) Interested? Email me @ roxyb{at}thegoodlifetexas.com or check out more detailed info on my website: The Good Life by RoxyB
Yay! Will totally be fun. Promise. Even if you hate me while you're there, you'll LOVE me (and your reflection) afterwards ;)
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