2011 recap (very long post)

2011 RECAP!!!

 It was a gooood year!

Specifically because little brother was brought into our lives ;)

 

January:

We were all starting to settle in with our new & exciting news!

"Big brother coming soon!"

February:

We celebrated our nephew Gabe's 10th Birthday at a local place that has an inside pool.

I started my weekly pregnancy highlights @ 12 weeks.

March:

We celebrated T.T.'s 13th Birthday.

We colored our baths.

We threw away the high chair and started sitting at the table like a big boy.

We started getting some warm weather and we took advantage.

We welcomed Beau Waylon to the Family!

We celebrated Mommy turning 25(Eeeek.) with some family, dinner and bowling.

April:

We made a trip to the Discovery center.

We found out baby brother was a BOY! :)

Tuff & Ada visited the ZOO for the very first time.

Tuff celebrated his 2nd Easter!

and was finally old enough to have his first Easter egg hunt.

We took a trip to Florida to meet Beau for the first time.

Tuff got in a little practice ;)

And I got a feel of what it'd be like with 2.

Tuff got to see the beach for the first time.

I celebrated my 2nd Mother's Day and was feeling really blessed.

We finally came up with a name for our sweet Gunner Blake. ;)

Tori was in the Good Ole Days pageant.

Miss Ada turned 1.

June:

We celebrated Jordan's 2nd Father's Day!

We started preparing for Tuff's 2nd birthday.

We painted the doors and shutters on the house blue.

July:

We celebrated Tuff's 2nd Birthday with a Curious George theme!

We had a sprinkle for sweet baby Gunner.

Tuff turned 2 & had his pictures made ;)

August:

We finished baby Gunner's nursery and patiently awaited his arrival.

Tuff started "school" (MDO) 2 days a week.

Gunner Blake ARRIVED and we were blessed beyond belief!!!

September:

We started settling in as a family of 4.

Grandparents Day at Tuff's school.

Gunner Bear turned 1 month old and felt just like mommy did about it!

October:

Jordan and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary!

Mommy went back to work from maternity leave :(

We welcomed sweet little Kirby to the family.

We visited the pumpkin patch.

Gunner Bear turned 2 months old.

 (& seemed to be happier about it this month)

Hubby turned 27 years old ;)

Tuff & Jace went on their first official field trip with their class.

We went back to the pumpkin patch.

We took the boys to a local Trunk or Treat.

And lastly (Shew! This month was busy), Tuff dressed up as the cutest sock monkey we'd ever seen and went trick or treating.

November:

We lost my Nana in a car accident on November the 11th. That day is remembered for so many reasons. That very day, we also celebrated my mom and dads wedding anniversary. It was also the date that we found out we were expecting Tuff 3 years earlier. :)

I hosted a sprinkle for my sister and the twins.

We welcomed the twins home.

Gunner Blake turned 3 months old.

And we celebrated Thanksgiving!!!

We had plenty to be THANKFUL for.

December:

We welcomed Snitch in our home for the month of December.

We went to our home town Christmas parade.

We celebrated Jace' 3rd Birthday at Chuck E Cheese

We took several photo shoots

Gunner had his 3 month pictures made. (The day before he turned 4 months old.)

And Gunner turned 4 months old!!!!

We had a play date with Harrison

Santa CAME!

Cheers to 2011!!!

Here's to 2012!!!!

"Down in the dumps" blogger

Sorry for being such a 'poor' blogger this week. I will try to be better next week. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I sure am looking foward to mine!

HAPPY, HAPPY Friday! ;)

Happy NEW YEAR & Gunner's 3 month pictures

2012 is here! This is the year the world ends, right? Haha. I kid. I am a true believer that no one knows when the world will really end. If it DOES end this year, I know one thing is for SURE... I have been BLESSED in my 25 (almost 26. EEK) years of life! Anyways, Happy New Year!!! We had a very low key New Years Eve/New Years Day! Our little baby boy was fighting the pink eye (in both eyes) and an ear infection. Poor bud. Luckily the big baby didnt catch it. Speaking of little baby boy, we got his 3 month pics back today. Here are a few of my favorites...

It's hard taking pictures of a baby at 3 months old because they are at that awkward stage where they can't sit up on their own and if you try to "prop" them up they slide and fall anyways. So I give kuddos to my friend Anita for being able to capture as many good ones as she did. And of course since he is mine, I'm in LOVE with them all. But I do have a few favs. I do know we have some stinking cute kiddos... after seeing these pics, that was double confirmed! ;)

What are ya'lls favorites?

I have to take a minute to brag on our sweet Gunner baby. He is officially sleeping SO much better. I guess I should say he's sleeping through the night since the Dr. would consider 6-8 hours straight sleeping through the night. But until he's sleeping as long as big brother, it's not sleeping through the night in our house. HA! Anyways, he's been sleeping 8-9 consecutive hours every night after his night time bottle. Depending on when he eats it, it's been awesome! Last night he ate at 7:30, went down at 8:30 and didn't wake til 4:30! WOOO HOOO!!!! Go Gunner Baby!

Gunner has also found his toes. Now that he's found his toes, he can't seem to get enough!!! Every time he's laying flat this is how he looks....

I think we have a little acrobat on our hands ;)

Happy Tuesday!

Candlelight for you, Nana!

My sister snapped this picture and I just had to steal it.

I love how both of our sweet boys are staring at the light in amazement.

As my sister said here, we all know Nana was there in spirit.

Bring on the New Year!!! :)

Christmas Eve & Christmas 2011

Our shopping trip on Friday afternoon was MUCH better than expected. I got off early at 2 and Jordan and I were completely done and back to my mom's by 6 to pick up the babies. I was pretty happy about that. I was expecting the lines to be the worst part and they weren't bad at all. The traffic on the other hand... wasn't so great! Saturday morning was spent mostly in the kitchen cooking & baking things for our Christmas Eve party at my sister's house. We attend the candle light service every year at my sister's church on Christmas Eve afternoon and then we usually go to a family member's home afterwards to celebrate Christmas together. The candle light service is my favorite part of Christmas Eve. It's something we've always done, no matter where we've lived, because it's something my NANA always wanted to do but also something we've all grown to love. We've always spent Christmas Eve with my NANA. It was hard her not being there this year. I kept trying to remind myself that she's having her best Christmas ever this year!

Tuff got some fun stuff from my family. Clothes, toys and this bad boy.

I think I was more excited about it then he was. While we were shopping I asked Jordan if he wanted to get him one and he replied with "Naw." I said "Why? I loved it when I was little." Anyways, we decided to pass. So I was super excited when he unwrapped it. Too bad he hasn't had ANYTHING to do with it yet. HA! I took it for a spin before we left my sister's house. I told everyone "it doesn't work as good as it used too." Definitely not because I weigh 100+ pounds more. I didn't take TOO many pictures at my sisters. And I didn't get any of Gunner. He was asleep not long after we got there. Poor Gunner always misses out on all the fun. We didn't even get to open his presents. We had to take them home and put them under the tree for Christmas morning. Here are some of the pics I did get.

Tuff opening his very first Christmas present for 2011.

Sit n' spin! YAY! ;)

Truck from meme & pa

Blocks from Uncle Kevin

Sweet Greer.

 He loved his Discovery Table.

Sophie. In her adorable Christmas-wear.

Harrison.

Tuff was excited about Santa Claus coming to see him Saturday night. He kept talking about him and he went to bed without a fight! :) He didn't forget to leave him some cookies and milk first. He woke up a few times throughout the night before Santa came and the first time he woke up he said "cookies." I told him Santa had not came yet (Jordan was up putting together his Santa gifts) and we had to go back to sleep. Then when it was finally time to wake up... he was sleeping like a log. We had to wake him up since Gunner woke up before him because I wanted them to be able to open gifts together and Gunner was due for a bottle 30 minutes after he woke up. Tuff was pretty excited when he saw what Santa brought him.

A Lightning McQueen Tricycle that says a ton of phrases in his actual voice from the movie.

He also got clothes, CARS 2 (since we could practically quote CARS we thought Santa should bring CARS 2), a CARS umbrella (he loves playing with my umbrella), a remote control Tow Mator, a buzz light year and a basketball goal with basketball. I might have left something out... but I did my best to remember it all. He seemed to enjoy everything he got. This was the first year he actually got into opening his presents. The only problem we had was him wanting to play with everything he opened before opening everything else. It was exciting. He LOVED his Tricycle the best. It took us a little while to get him off of it to open all his presents.

Buzz

Basketball goal

Loaded up and ready to drive off ;)

Gunner didn't rack up as much as Tuffy this year because let's face it. He's just too small. First of all, it's nearly impossible to buy for a baby so small. So we went with things he *needed* We did get him a play mat. So that was somewhat fun. Santa also brought him a high chair and new clothes. Here is what our sweet boy thought of all his stuff.

Getting ready to open (or watch mommy open) all his presents.

"Look mommy, a play mat"

(Mommy didnt want to be in the picture)

He LOVES his new high chair. Can you tell?

Right now he's really into trying to pull his self up and sit up so I think that's why he likes it so much. He can sit up and look around at everything/body.

Here he is sitting up in his boppy.

You can see how happy he is to be sitting up "on his own."

Hope you're Christmas was as Merry as ours!

Oh, almost forgot to post the note Santa left for Tuff.

(Couln't leave Snitch out of Christmas)

;)

Sick Day

Mom called me at work Wednesday around noon and said Tuff was running a low grade fever. I thought "wonderful." Nothing like a sick baby a few days before Christmas. I told her to keep an eye on him and let me know if he got worse. She called back around 4 when he woke up from his nap and said he was fever free. I knew we probably weren't in the clear though. I picked him up after work and we headed home. He was fever free all night and acted fine before bed. While I was up feeding Gunner at 230 yesterday morning Tuff comes trotting in. Burning up. I gave him some tylenol and got him back to sleep. He woke up around 7 burning up again. I figured it'd be best to go ahead and keep him home for the day. He didnt really do much that involved moving from the chair or couch all day. Poor bud. I really know he isnt feeling good when he doesn't get up and move around all day. I don't really know any 2 year olds that sit that still ever unless their sick. I hate seeing my babies sick. But I have to admit, I do love the extra snuggle time. He didn't sleep too well last night and he still wasn't back to his normal self this morning so I'm not sure what's up. I really think its something viral since he hasn't had any other sypmtoms. Let's hope so since it's the day before Christmas Eve. Anyways, we watched a lot of cartoons yesterday and Aunt Amanda brought by cookies.

Nothing a cookie and some E.E. (Curious George) can't cure.

I am at work today but they are planning on letting everyone leave early. Since everything is a secret around here, I'm not sure what time yet. The rumor is no later than 3 but we're all hoping they break down and let us go a little earlier. We'll see I guess. Jordan and I plan on getting all of the boys Christmas shopping finshed/done this afternoon. I'm not really looking foward to the last minute crowds but I'm praying it won't be too terribly bad. HA! We'll see.

Gunner Bear is still sleeping 8 hours after his night time bottle every night before he wakes for another bottle. This is a HUGE relief in our house. Praying it stays this way! Now if we could just get him to hold off until later to eat his night time bottle we'd be set. The child can't seem to stay awake past 7-7:30. He wants to be laid down so I don't know what to do to fix that. If he could eat at 8:30 and sleep until 4:30 for another bottle, this would be one HAPPY and rested mommy! :) Maybe Santa will bring me a sleeping baby for Christmas! Ha Ha Ha. Or should I say Ho Ho Ho.

Well I'm sure you won't be hearing from me until after Christmas so