17...

How is it possible?

It seems like only yesterday that I brought this babe home from the hospital. He made me a mother.

He changed my life forever.

I had never known a love like this before.

Happy 17th Birthday James!
I hope all your wishes come true.

I know for sure that your birthday wish of a new car is not going to come true, but all your other wishes, I hope those do come true.

Name and a blessing...

Noah's Blessing

7.17.2010

Noah was blessed when we were in Utah visiting our family and friends. I wanted to make him a special little outfit to wear for his blessing. Many hours, blood, sweat, tears and a few swear words went into this project. But in the end I was so pleased with the results. I love this little man so much. I am so glad I could make this for him.

10 months

Mr. Noah Bug is ten months old already. Amazing. He is such a little man. Just some facts about him.

~Loves to eat baby food but not crazy about table food.

~ Follows Myles' around and wants to do everything he does.

~ Loves to sit in my lap and listen to stories.

~ Loves to swing.

~ Loves strangers, especially women.

~Just got his first two teeth.

~Cruises, crawls, scoots his way around everywhere and gets into EVERYTHING.

(his hair is starting to curl. so excited to see how this turns out)

Stats

20 lbs 4 oz.

28 inches long.

(that puts him at 50th percentile for both height and weight)

First Day of School...

September 7th.

First day of school in our new town.

Nervous. Apprehensive.Excited.

Jessie's first year in the High School.

Liam's first year in Junior High.

Since the older kids are in school our days are filled with playing in parks, picnics, bugs, cuddling and a few naps.

memphis 2010

we went.

we played.

we ate.

we had fun.

They turned...

Have you ever been so far behind on a project that you just don't even want to do it? Anyone?? This is my current relationship with my blog. I am so far behind. I really want to just jump in and move forward. This is my attempt...

So in the last three months we have had three birthdays. Jessie had hers in June. She turned 14!! Wow. Happened so fast. She spent her birthday in Utah with Grandma and Grandpa and had a special girls day out with the her grandma, aunt and cousin. She had such a great time.

(pictures go here)

Then in July Liam turned 11. We have a special tradition in our family that on your 11th birthday you get a $100 bill. Liam has been looking forward to this day for a couple of years now. We celebrated in Colorado with Uncle Richie.

In August Myles turned 4. He was so excited. We went to Chuck E. Cheese and had pizza. We were in the middle of a crazy whirlwind move (more on that later) so we went back and had cake in the lobby of our hotel. He was in heaven.

I swear it feels like yesterday that I brought each one of these babes home from the hospital. Time is just going way too fast...