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!