Catching up!

I have been such a horrible blogger lately. We have just had sooo much going on that I have not had a minute to stop and process everything much less get it all written out and pics uploaded.

This past week I have been battling bronchitis and now E has the croup! Yesterday I cleaned the house top to bottom to get rid of the germs and then we are off to the doc this morning. Go figure huh!? We are starting on antibiotics for the throat issue and running a humidifier and cuddling for the croup. They did some bloodwork on her as well. Just checking some things out but really hoping she is better soon. A sick baby girl just break my heart.

This weekend we celebrated baby girls birthday! We had a wonderful time!!

The Candy Cake!

She was so excited about all the suckers and candy sitting around.

Luckily they were wrapped in plastic still.. so she would just check them out and then I could regulate how much she ate ;)

Ready to dig in!

Sorry I really didnt get that many great pics. I was trying to get a few shots but not let myself "miss" the party by being stuck behind a camera ya know!? Even though I didnt get a ton of pics the party went great! Everyone seemed to really enjoy it.

Glad I was able to catch up just a bit but now its back to cleaning and cuddling. Really hoping I can get rid of all of this sickness quickly!! My bestie could go into labor any minute and I will devasted not to be able to be up there with them.

I can't believe it!!

Two years ago today I was given the best present ever!

My sweet baby girl! It is so hard for me to believe that is has been two years. Sure sometimes the days seem long but friends the years are flying by! It makes me so sad.

Everybody kept telling me soak up every second.. it will be gone before you know it! I had no idea how right they would be. Sure I still have plenty of time to nurture and love on this little girl but hard to believe how much growing up she has done lately. Esp in the last month or so.

Lately she is starting to just talk so much. Using alot of 3 and 4 word phrases and it is adorable. Some of her favs. are

" I do it"

"Love you"

"In a minute"

"no way"

and the list goes on but those seem to stick out the most right now.  She is starting to become alot more social (thank goodness) She loves her friends in Sunday School.. even comes home from church occasionally saying "Drew's cute" I may be a first time mom but I think 2 is a little young for her first crush ;) She loves her some Drew though!

She is very adventerous and has very few fears! She is a true water bug and loves to "ride" daddy's motorcycles when he brings them home from work (she just sits on the seat.. but she LOVES it)

Right up there with her adventerous side though is my girlie girl! She loves baby dolls and playing dress up. She will wear bracelets all the way up to her elbows and as many necklaces as she can get on at one time! She is a pretty good mix.. so far ;)

I love you so much baby girl! I glow with pride as I watch you grow and change everyday. You are one amazing little girl and Mommy and Daddy love you more than you could ever know!!

Last year!

Happy Birthday Sweet Girl!!!

In case you were wondering!

I am still alive... barely though (JK.. kinda) I have been down and out for the past several days  with a pretty bad dose of Asthmatic Bronchitis (sp?!) It has been no fun that is for sure. However today I am starting to feel a little better.

Thank goodness I am on the uphill because tomorrow is my baby girls birthday!! More on that..well.. tomorrow ;)

This past weekend baby Caden arrived! He is gorgeous. He was the perfect size at 7lbs 2oz and 21 inches long.

oh how I love me some sweet baby toes!

Caden and his parents are doing great and he is home waiting on me to get well enough to come take some pics ;)

Also this weekend was my Baptizim  (that never looks right when I spell it!? Baptisim? Baptized?.. either way you know what I am trying to say) The weather was perfect and I had alot of friends and family around to support me and celebrate this decision in my life. Our church had the baptizim at a local lake in our community. The church rented the area out for the afternoon and the families could have picnics until the service began! It was alot of fun.

Little E wanted to go down the slide..

A little sideways.. but loved it! She came up and said "Again Again Mommy"

The pics of the actual Baptizim itself arent that great. I dont have a zoom lense and we were pretty far out there.. but here is one

In this pic you can see the back of my grandfather, my preacher, then I am between them(not sure who the lady to the left is). It was so awesome to be able to have my Grandaddy out there. He is such an inspiration to me and such a light into my spiritual life. I could not imagine doing it with out him! It truly was a life changing moment.

Well I just wanted to catch you all up on what has been going on.. now my girlie is napping and I am going to try and rest up with her! We have a big day tomorrow and a busy rest of the week coming up :) So excited about family coming in to town, parties, bridal showers, and good food this weekend!!

Suggestions welcome!

In just a few weeks (3 to be exact) my husband and I will be celebrating three years of marriage!

He is an amazing husband! He always gives, gives and gives some more. He is working his tail end off so that I can stay home and be with our child. He is the must selfless person I know. Just an amazing daddy and husband!

Now where you step in is... I want to make our anniversary special. I can do the usual date night or something but I wanted to think outside the box a little bit. However the problem is.. I dont have too many creative fun ideas. What are things you have done that are super neat or special.. or an idea you have but have not got around to doing yet. I am up for anything!

Thanks so much.. can't wait to hear what some of you will come up with. I will get my gears turning as well :)

Babies Babies Everywhere!!

I swear to you we have to be in the middle of baby boom 2010! It seems like everyone I know both IRL and in bloggy land are having babies or thinking babies! I mean I just can not even stand it anymore.. I want to snuggle every single one of them.. then give them back ;) Kidding!!

This past weekend we had a shower for my cousin who is expecting her first baby boy around Thanksgiving! What a wonderful blessing for Thanksgiving huh!?

E hiding under the table at the shower (pretending to be shy!) 

 Mommy's girl :)

 All the shower girls! It was a blast.. sorry I did not get more action shots. I was also in charge of the games so that kept me on my toes ;)

 After everyone left I was just sitting and realized my girlie was quiet (never a good sign..) I went to find her and found this. She found a fork and is sticking it in the icing of the cake! Smart girl LOL

Overall the shower was a blast. I can not wait to meet my new little cousin!!

It is going to be a full week!

This week is going to be slammed pack full of all kinds of fun and special things. So let me just tell ya what will be going on this week in "paradise"

1. Today is baby "A" first day. We are already off to a great start. Her and Emma played very well this am. Emma likes to give her baby dolls and every ball she can find in the house. I am going to have to work with her on the fact that the baby can not catch a ball yet like she can. Otherwise everything is going great. Both the girlies are napping so I am also taking a 5 min breather ;)

2. This upcoming Sunday I will be getting baptized. I have never been baptised and I am really excited about it. What makes the event even more special is my grandfather will be there right along side me (and the preacher of course) It will mean the world to me to have him by my side during such an important milestone in my life. I can not even imagine what it will feel like. To feel so refreshed and spiritually anewed.. just can not even explain it what I "think" it will be like!

3. Also we could be having a teeny tiny scrumptious little newborn around here any day now. Remember this sweet couple? Well she is due any day now and I can not wait to get my hands on that sweet baby boy.. not to mention my camera lense ;) So we will be on pins and needles awaiting his arrival this week!

4. Last fun thing going on this week is that I am going birthday shopping for my girl. I am soo excited for her upcoming birthday party (not this sunday but next)! Not really sure what to get her though?! Do you have any suggestions? She already has a little play kitchen.. thought about getting her a tricycle but thinking that may be better for christmas (she is still a wee bit short for them.. we did a trial run at Toys R Us this weekend ;)   Let me k now if you can think of anything super cool!

Hope you all have a great day..be back this afternoon or tomorrow with some shower pics from this weekend!


Tyler

Some Friday Fun!

Hey everyone!! It is Friday and I could not be more excited about it.. for several reason actually.

1. My lil sis is starting a new job tomorrow and we are going to go visit her. It is at a coffee shop and they said we can request her to sing karaoke for us.. that will be great!!

2. My cousin will be coming into town and we are throwing her a baby shower. See what I mean.. there will be babies alllll around me! No wonder I have baby fever so bad ;)

3. Super fun blog hops roll around on Friday

4. It is the start of the weekend so that means a little more time with the hubby!!

Ok now that I have listed a bunch of nonsense to you lets get started with one of my fav. blog hops evah..  Five Question Friday with the loverly Mama M

The questions this week are..

1. Have you ever visited another country?
Nope! How boring huh! I really wish I had but not yet.

2. Where is the strangest place you have ever been?
Not really sure? Let me think on this one...

3. What is your favorite season?
This is a toughie.. it is a toss up!
Right now I would prob. say Fall because I am SOO ready for fall. I love the crisp colorful leaves, the yummy smells, pumpkins, and football. I could go on and on...BUT after winter has kicked in and Chirstmas has come and gone I really look foward to Spring. The warm breeze, beautiful flowers and visions of vacation dancing in my head. Soo one of those two... thats my final answer.

4. What one song will always cheer you up?
Well I love me some country  music.. but usually an upbeat Kenny Chesney song can bring a smile to my face no matter what. Makes me want to roll down the windows, crank up the tunes and pretend I was young and carefree again.

5. What Disney character do you resemble most?
I asked my hubby because I was not sure of the answer and he said Tinkerbell!?!? Not sure why.. yes I have the blonde hair BUT thats about it. He said he would answer Goofy for himself.. LOL what a goober!
 
Well those were some fun questions this week. A few of them a little difficult but fun. I can not wait to see what you all had to say.
 
 
 
Now I am going to skip on to Macro Friday with Laura from Blogging from Bolivia.
 
I took these shots down at my dads the other day. The butterflies were just swarming this bush and it was gorgeous.
 
Check these out!
 

My official entry ;)

Alright hope yall enjoyed this long wordy but fun post!!

Happy Friday Everyone!! Enjoy it.. Spend time with the people you love the most :)

Having a hard time...

Lately for some reason I have been in a blogging slump. Not sure why?! It is not that my life is so cool, calm, and collected that I have nothing to blog about.. well bc lets be honest.. that is NEVER the case around here! For some reason though I am just having a hard time pulling my thoughts together and cranking out a post. Maybe because there is too much going on around here.. LOL

Anywhoodles....

Lately we have been planning my little E's second birthday! I can not even believe that my little angel...

(notice the binky is like as big as her whole face.. lol.. she was just soo tiny)

is going to be 2!! Where O' where did the time go!??! I still can not even believe that.

Also in other news around our house.. we will be adding a weekly visitor next week. I have decided to start helping a friend out and keeping her little girl a few days a week while she starts to go back to work. I think having a little one around the house will be fun but also will help teach little miss two year old some valuable lessons about sharing etc.

"A" Emmas new playmate :)

Her mommy brought over all of her stuff today.. and I must admit that having all of the bottles and baby things in the house made my heart feel so full but so empty. I have baby fever in the worst way right now. I am just going to try and love on all the little ones around me for the time being though ;)

Well I just wanted to pop in and say hello to everyone. I hope you all are having a fab. week! Sorry I have been in a slump lately.. hopefully I will get back in my groove soon. I know I do have a few cool Macro Friday shots for ya this week.. so that will be fun!

See ya soon!

Off to a good start this week!

Yesterday was a good day. We woke up and went to church (we had not been in like a month.. wwaayy past time to get back in our groove ;)

Our band sings this song and I have always loved it but for some reason yesterday it just hit me in a totally different way. I guess because everything that has been going on with dad. I have been struggling with having faith through all of this and the song just reminded me that our God is bigger than this cancer and he is total control of the situation!

Check this out.. so awesome.


Now go and enjoy your Monday! And just know if "Our God is for us then who could ever stop us?"

Awesomeness!

Happy Monday everyone

We have been up too..

Birthday fun!!

It has been a crazy but wonderful week. This past wed. was my bday!! The big 2-6 baby ;)

The celebration started with a family dinner on Tue night. Since my sis and I are only 5 days apart (and 11 years) we decided to celebrate together this year. 

Birthday Girls!

We had a yummy dinner and a wonderful visit with family. The next day I was treated to a full day at the salon/spa. It was heaven on Earth. I wish I had a pic of my hair after she fixed it.. but no dice. Sorry!

Then Saturday afternoon was my besties baby shower!! It was so much fun. I can NOT wait for baby Claire to get here.

The lady did a wonderful job on the cake for me. We all loved it.. BONUS: It looked as great as it tasted :)

Watermelon baby carriage

The mommy to be opening up all her fun girly gifts!

After a wonderful time at the shower I headed out to my moms to help her with a bday party for my sis. She had 30 fifteen years olds hanging around for 5 hours! She needed as many sets of eyes as she could get on the situation. Everything went great though!

My little bro, E, and my little sis (the bday girl)

My girl was LOVING the party! She was high fiving all of the boys and...

getting right in the middle of their football games ;) They were all wonderful sports with her though!

I think Maggie (Laurens friend) had to be her fav. though. She would go running to Maggie and want to play.. as well as copy everything she did LOL It was soo cute :)

cool shot from the party I thought!

What have you been up to this weekend? Sorry I have been such a slack bloggy friend. Hopefully I will get back in gear the first of the week. I have missed you all.

Now.. I am off to go swimming down at my dads for a bit :)

Happy Sunday Everyone!!!

Camping Days!

Now that we are home, unpacked, rested up, and debugged ;) I thought it was time to share with you about our trip!

We headed out Sunday morning.. luckily only about an hour and half drive..to our camping destination. I was really dreading it to be honest. Excited to be with my dad and doing something fun but not even the least bit thrilled to be camping.. BUT when we got to the campground and my uncle showed us the tent we would be using (we dont not have one.. and I was not rushing out to buy one for 1 night adventure) I decided this might not be so bad after all!

This tent even had little hanging racks in the "closets". We had enough room for E's pack and play, two air mattresses and still had plenty of room to go!

Last time I camped (wwwaayy back when) you could not even stand up in the tent! Much less have little closets :)

Dad jumped right in! He pulled out his fav. "toy" his remote control boat and had a great time. 

This is the creek that was right beside our campsite.. gorgeous and so peaceful to listen to.

Emma loved the water as well.. her fav. part was throwing rocks. (she was trying to skip the rocks like her daddy ;)

That random piece of hair in my face adds a nice touch huh!?

Daddy and Emma looking for sticks for the fire

Roasted lots of Marshmallows for our smores (SO yummy!)

but all E could do was sit back and watch.. she was exhausted from all the exploring she did!

So over all we had a much better expierance camping than I thought we would. Hey, who knows, I may even want to go back before it gets to cold ;)

Safe!

Finally... Home Sweet Home!! 24 hours in the wilderness is not for me. I will update you on our "primative" camping trip in the next day or so ( have not had a minute to get any of my pics uploaded..and lets be honest.. that is what makes a fun post ;)

Anywhoodles.. as some of you know I did a "photoshoot" for one of my friends the other day. She is the cutest mommy-to-be ever. If I looked like that...

I would stay pregnant!

Are they not soo adorable?!

Probably my fav. shot of the day! Love that you can see the reflection.. wish the water was a bit more still so it would be a little more clear but ya can't control everything ;)

So sweet!

Very soon baby Caden will make his appearance and we can not wait! So excited!!

Congrats you two!!