derek blessing

ok....so this is totally an expression of this little boy! he is always trying to attack and eat anything that comes near his mouth!

I love this picture of my grandpa and Derek. I treasure all the memories I have of them with my kids! They love them so much and drop everything they are doing when we go down there to play with them. I am glad that all our family and friends came on our day with Derek. It was such a nice blessing. Layne gave such a good one! I have it written in my journal and am so glad I have that! We have one of the best support systems out there with our family and friends. It was such a nice day for us!

our life.....

So we just colored easter eggs. My calls them eder eggs. She was so hyper when I showed her what we were doing. It was so fun watching her get that excited over it. I will definitely be doing this again next week. I think my girl is starting to learn to pose for the camera! I bought her cute apron from baby bintz! I love it on her and so does she.

Layne took me shooting the other weekend. I was supposed to stay home and paint my studio. I am trying to decide what to do in there and think I have figured out the painting situation. He mentioned shooting and the studio was out of my mind. I've never gone and I loved it. It was just so nice getting out and doing something different. Our two kids were in the truck. My had a movie on and Derek was sleeping. Didn't even have to pay for a tender for this date. Might have to go do it again!

So My has 5 little cousins on the Harris side that are all within 6mo of each other. The moms have decided to start trading and having little play dates. We are missing Karlie in these ones but they have SO much fun together. Mylee was a boss hog cause it was at our house but I was laughing so hard at them the whole time they were here.

I lined them up and painted their toes. They were in heaven. They didn't move!

No I'm not a bad mom letting my kid play out in the snow in her princess dress. She is SO stubborn!!!! I got so sick of her begging to go play in the sand box so I thought she would come right back inside once she felt how cold it was. Nope, she hung out out there for about 5min. Luckily the wind picked up and she came running in saying it was cold. She didn't bug me again after that!

She LOVES her baby Derek! He smiles like crazy when she is around him. He loves her. It is so fun to watch them interact together! She calls him baby Derek. She is our little mother hen to him. She is on Binky patrol all the time and he never gets too many squawks out. Even when she is rough with him he is smiling at her. I love that they have each other. I love watching them together! Derek is getting HUGE! His nickname around our house is beefcake. I love all his rolls. He is smiling and talking so much now. I swear it happened over night. This week has been crazy! They are both up all night with croup! I hate it! They can't breath and there is not much you can do for them. It has been a crazy week for me. I've had some medical tests and these two with croup. Layne has been working TONS! I am so grateful for the work right now, it's just kicking my butt with everything else going on. We are good though and hopefully will be back to normal soon. I'm headed to bed now. It is 12:40 in the morning and Layne just finished working. Yup, started this morning at 8. I better go get in so I can see him today:) If this post doesn't make sense you now know why. Goodnight!

I Love these two!

I was listening to this song that I heard off of someone elses blog. I imediately got all chocked up as I was holding Derek. I love my two little kids and don't know what I would do without them. I couldn't imagine them being taken away from me. They are what give me life, and drains me too:) I am so greatful I get to have their little spirits in my home. I LOVE these two! Here is the song that I heard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOufqWodFNo

Derek's 2months!!!!

I can't believe my little boy is already two months! I know he's still little but it makes me sad how fast the newborn stage leaves! We went to his 2mo appt. My cousin Heidi and good friend Melissa work there. They gave him his two month shots and he cried so hard. He is getting huge! Anyone can testify that has seen him lately, that he has a nice set of cheeks. He is 23inches long and a big old whooping 12lbs 6oz. He has some major thighs too. His new name is beef cake! I am loving him so much. He has just started smiling the past couple weeks and this past week gooing more. He is such a happy baby and I love being a mom of two! We love him so much. Mylee still can't get enough of him and is such a good big sister most of the time.

The three kids...

These are three of the five great grandkids of my grandpa and grandma. I love this picture. Grandpa and grandma are so into their family!!! Especially the newborns! They love to snuggle them. My cousin Kar was in town so we went over to her moms and hung out one afternoon. I was so much fun. I was cracking up over her dog. It's as big as me with dredlocks! Anyway, back to the kids. The girl is kars, mine in the middle, and Josee's on the end. Mine is only like 5 days older then Josee's! He is a tank! He was number 71 of greats for my grandpa and grandma! Can you imagine our family parties. Pretty crazy! I chearish the memories I'll have of them with my kids. Nothing better!

random pictures

Check out this hairdo! Their aunt Heidi did a good job on it. We were laughing so hard. Mylee woke up from her nap wondering where her friends were so we called Karlie to come sleep over. They were wild monkey's the whole night. They had so much fun. They ran around the house playing all night.

The other night I found Mylee sitting on the couch with my cooking chocolate. She gets into the pantry and climbes up on the step stool and gets what she wants. I was laughing when I found this. She thought she was ok to eat it and wasn't in trouble when the camera came out but there was a major fit when I took them away.

st. george

We got invited to go to st. george with joel and shelley. It was so much fun! The kids loved the pool and park. It was so nice to go and have some good weather. We made lasagna and had a candle light dinner with all the kids. The guys went golfing and when they got home us girls went shopping and for pedicures. It was so much fun. Mylee couldn't get enough of the pool. She LOVED it. There was a major fit when she had to leave. Luckily she got to go back with her dad and loved the big slide. He got his workout going up those stairs so many times with her. Thanks Joel and Shelley for the invite! It was a way fun trip!

what do you all think?

So I kinda have this new idea and wanting opinions! I am wanting to start selling some small things out of my photography studio. I have thought about putting some kids shoes, baby legs, burp clothes, car seat covers, bracelets, moomoos, etc down there. Do you think I can get word of mouth out and sell things? I'm thinking it might be a fun little spot people can by baby gifts or things for themselves? What is your opinion?

Oh CRAP....

So I wish so bad I had a picture of this. Last night, I was changing Dereks bum and I was holding him up to show off his new fat rolls. We were trying to get the attention of Brandon, my cousins husband. Well next thing I know, there is a very loud, wet fart that came from Derek. (That got his attention.) I looked down and realized he had pooped all over me! We all were laughing so hard. I just held him up laughing my head off. I couldn't even put his diaper back on cause I was laughing so hard. Layne grabbed the video camera so we would never forget that one. I guess he didn't like me showing off his fat rolls and he let me have it. It was so funny!