A few things

(Sidenote:Okay. I give up. I have been trying to organize pictures on this post for almost 20 min. I would have put more pictures on here, but I couldn't get them to go where I wanted them to. So I think there are plenty to look at for one post. I will post the rest of the pictures on Facebook. Now onto the post.)




11 months old!!

My baby is 11 1/2 months old. This last year has gone by so fast. We have been trying to get things ready for his birthday, but also trying to get things ready for Christmas. Its a good thing Logan is so little that he wont remember what a disaster this year will be for his birthday. We will plan better for next year. It has been so much fun watching his personality come through more and more every day. He is definately my little boy. He is a lot like his older sister (Myla), but he has his own weirness that he got from his parents. Example: today I was trying to get him to not touch the t.v. and he would point at it and I would tell him "no touching" and I would point at him. He pointed back at me and just started to laugh. So I would point at him again and he would just point back and laugh. We did this for about 5 min. Its so much fun to hear him laugh.



Before

So Logan's hair was getting long. It wasn't looking too bad, but it started to look like a mullet. After Dave said that he needed a haircut, I tried my best and I gave him his first haircut.

After

I didn't realize how long it really was until I put some in an envelope for his baby book. I think it was only really hard because after Thanksgiving it was one of his last 'firsts'. He is a little ham. All I did to cut his hair was put an attachment on the electric sheers and go over his head. When I put it at the base of his neck he just started to laugh. He is so tickelish it was fun. It wasn't as much of a challenge as I thought it would be. 

 

"It's Me!"


 Sometimes I don't like the fact that our driveway is only dirt becuase when its wet its really gross muddy, but I love it when the girls go out and play and draw in the dirt.


Playing outside

Its been so much fun to see Myla's imagination grow as she starts to play with different things.We were outside a couple days before Thankgsgiving and Myla was drawing in the dirt and she finished and was so excited she had to come show me what she had done. "It's me!" Then below it she had drawn mommy, daddy, and one for Savannah. We just took a picture of the one that you could see the best in the dirt. She was so proud of what she had done. I wanted to share. And of couse we can't take a picure of just one girl...Savannah wanted her picture taken too. 

Thanksgiving Pumkin Pie

  

I know its a week late, but it was a first for Logan. THANKSGIVING! We had a quiet day at home. We had the missionaries over for dinner along with our friend Julia. It was fun to spend some time with them. The girls had fun eating dinner. Savannah's favoite part was the cranberry sauce; just like her daddy. Myla liked the turkey and the mashed potatoes. Logan of course loved the mashed potatoes and the sweet potatoes I made just for him. When it came time for the pumkin pie Savannah just wanted the whipped cream. Myla seemed to like the pie and Logan was just ready to be out of his high chair.

 


First Thanksgiving

 I think one of the highlights of the day was when he was getting fussy becuase he wanted down all I had to do was get the camera out and he would start smiling and laugh at me. He likes the camera and its fun that all of my kids are so photogenic.
    





Late Pics



Ready to go out!

  So I finally found my camera. These pics are a little late, but here they are. The girls were so excited to go out trick or treating. What was great about this year is that they were old enough to get really excited about going out. Logan didn't know what was going on yet, but I think he still had fun with his sisters in thier costumes.

I can't believe that it is November already. This year seems to have gone by so fast. I don't know if that is because Logan has changed so much this year or what, but its been good. I guess time seems to go by fast when you look back rather than looking forward. The days seem to go by so slow, but before I know it there over.


My 'Witch' and 'Remy Rattatouie'

 Today is one of the harder days in November for me. Its the anniversary of Papa and Grans (My mom's parents) accident. 6 years ago they were hit by an unlicenced 16 year old girl in California. They are missed very much and they left a void that nothing can fill. We think about them a lot around this time of year because of the holidays. I am so grateful for all the happy memories that they left behind them and for the examples that they are and for the love that we felt from them. One of the greatest blessings is knowing that they loved us. I'm so grateful for the knowlege that I have that I can be with them again. Thank you Papa and Gran for sharing your love with us.


Logan at the Trick or Treat Street at the High School



With November comes the time for giving thanks. One thing that I love that comes around this time of year is all the wonderful smells. Fall has the best smells ever! Now if only I could find a sent for my Sencey warmer I would be set.

Another thing that I have noticed as I have gotten older is I like the color brown a lot more. The fall red I have always enjoyed but now I really like the brown and the orange that come with it. I know its wierd to think about colors, but its not that weird when you have family pictures on your mind. I think around Logans 1st birthday we will do family pictures and his 1 year pics at the same time. That may be our christmas this year is sending out our family pictures to our family and friends. Okay....I'm done being boring. Until next time. I'm thankful for all my friends and family. Sending my love to all!!!

Boring

I was going to post picures, but I can't find my camera. I thought I would post something anyway. It has been a while sence my last post so here goes. We have gotten into the swing of things with school easily. Myla and Savannah are loving going to school and I enjoy my alone time when Logan is taking his naps when they are gone. Logan has three teeth now and is working on his fourth. It will most likely break through in the next couple days. If I can find my camera I will get pictures. Dave is gone today at a Knowledge Bowl meet so I think he probably just took the camera with him.

On the 28th of September I found out that I was pregnant again. Well on the 3rd of October I started to bleed. I was able to get into the Dr's office on the 6th, and I had miscarried. I'm doing okay I think. It's hard one day and not so hard the next. Its just an up and down rollercoaster until I can figure out how to cope with the loss. It wasn't a planned pregnancy, but we were still excited about it. I am still very lucky that I can still have kids and that I have three wonderful angels already. I love my kids and I would like to have one more, but now we are just going to wait for a while longer. I know most women don't talk about having a miscarrage all that much, but I need to talk about mine to figure things out. I do better when I can talk through something and then I can figure out emotions and thoughts. I already know all the encouraging thoughts and sayings....I have been telling them to myself since the bleeding started, but I have to say that all I want to hear now about it is "I'm sorry". Its hard, but I will be okay. I dont' want to forget that it happened, but I don't want to dwell on it either. I'm not angry about it anymore and I still try hard not to blame myself for it, but somedays its still hard to get out of bed. Okay...I'm done with the sad part.

I will post picures later when I find my camera of Halloween and what we have been doing the last little while. I'm looking forward to a cold, but wonderful fall. There is always something that needs to be done. So we just take things one day at a time. That is why I titled this post boring, because we have our daily routine and nothing exciting really happens. That and I think a post is more fun to read when there are pictures.

Teeth

 Its offical....Logan has teeth!!! He got his first one last week and he got his second one today. Its a pain when they teeth, but its fun to see how fast they grow up. Logan is now taking steps too. Its hard for me to belive that he is 8 months old already. He is trying to keep up with his sisters. It was so much fun when Myla and Savannah took Logan for a walk around the house. Logan was laughing the whole time and I think Myla and Savannah enjoyed helping their little brother.  I don't know if Logan is going to know what to do when the girls go to school. It will just be Logan and I two days a week while they are both gone at school. It will be nice to have some good Logan time.

Dave has already started shool this week. He had been a little stressed about getting things done, but I know he does better than he thinks he does. The students usually respond better to him than he thinks they will. He is really excited about his Latin Amberican History class. This is the first year he is teaching it and he is so excited about it. 

 Myla and Savannah will start on Wednesday. They are excited to be going to school and I'm excited for them to go and learn. Savannah is super excited to start her first year of Preschool and Myla is excited to be going back. They are both so smart I'm excited to see how much they change this year.

Pool and the Park

 It has been so nice outside here lately the kids were driving me crazy so Dave and I decided we just needed to take the kids outside more. We have been going to the park and the other day I gave in and set up the pool. When I took the camera out Myla started doing her poses, but my favorite one was her hugging the tree :) Logan loved the swing! It took Dave a while to get a good picture because the swing was moving, so we had to stop the swing to get a good pic, but Logan didn't like that very much.

Savannah and Myla have started to play on the bigger swings rather than just wanting the baby swings. Logan wanted to get out of the swing and crawl around after a while, but the playground has gravel so he just had to get mad because I wouldn't put him down. We had fun at the park and the rest of the day was a lot less frustrating for Dave and I because the kids didn't have so much pent up energy.

 It has been getting into the 90's the last week and its supposed to get into the 100's this week. I finally gave in and pulled out the kids pool. We lost/broke the pump we got for the pool so I had to blow it up without it. It wasn't as bad as I thought and Logan loved being in the water. I was tired of being hot so I put on my suit and sat in the pool with the kids for a while. It surprised me how much better I felt after just sitting in some cold water. Myla and Savannah had a blast just throwing the toys in and out of the pool. It will probably start to be a regular thing playing in the pool now. I think I will need to get some more sunscreen though.

 I get to be pampered this week too and I'm so excited about that. I have a friend who is a student at LCC in the cosmotology and she is going to use me to do my nails. It has been a long time since I have had my nails done so it will be fun. Now I just have to think if I want anything fun done with my nails or just get the white tips. Either way it will be nice to have some time for me without the kids for a while. This is also the last week of Dave's summer school and he is very excited about that. He does great with the High School students, but he says that 5th graders are a lot harder on his patience than the high schoolers. It will be great to have the extra money from that though. So now all I have to do this week is figure out what we are going to do for Myla's birthday on Saturday. I know we are going

 to do at least cake and ice cream so now I just have to decide if we are going to do anything else special for it. I'm sure we will I just have to figure out the details. I just can't believe she is going to be 4.

Nursing

Logan is 6 months old now. Besides the fact that I can't believe how fast that went I'm getting tired of not having my body to myself. I know nursing is the best for him and I enjoy the bonding, but I still feel like a cow ever now and then. I was also just called to be in the Young Women presidency in my ward. Don't get me wrong I am super excited about my new calling. Its a great opportuity. My confusion is when I'm at mutual on wednesday nights Dave will have to put Logan to bed, and that will make it easier for Dave if Logan is on a bottle. I posted on my facebook status about starting to wean Logan and his 6 month shots and its not the people who posted, they were incouraging me to keep nursing. So because I'm a woman it made me feel bad that I wanted to stop nursing. I didn't nurse Myla for very long (6 weeks) and Savannah I nursed until she was 9 months old. I guess when I posted my status on facebook I was looking for encouragement, but I didn't get it. I shouldn't let it bother me what other people think, but for some reason I can't let it go. It has been bugging me ever since. I want to wean Logan to make things easier for Dave and to make it so he can help me out more with Logan and the girls, but I don't like feeling that I'm a failure as a mother becasue I'm not nursing as long as some people think I should.

Okay I'm done venting. I know I need to do what is best for me and my family it just helps to know that I have friends and family supporting me no matter what I decide.

Crazy Day!!



Mary and Tracy in the saches that Julia made.

 This morning I went to Tracy's Baby Shower. It was a blast and it was nice to get out by myself without the kids. Tracy is a good friend and her Mother in Law is a wonderful lady who has 'taken me under her wing' so to speak. This will be the first grand baby on that side of the family and they are both super excited. I feel blessed that they have wanted to call me a friend/ adopted me and my family into theirs.

When I got home from the babyshower it was great to be home with my family, but Logan was not happy. He was so tired and he was fighting going to sleep. Which had Dave frustrated like anyone would be with a half an hour of two kids crying. (Savannah was in trouble for not following directions) Its nice to know that my family wouldn't run the same without me or without Dave. I have to laugh out loud when I hear Myla cheering on Dave when he is playing Mario "Don't die, don't die,....you got hit....you did it daddy!"

Tomorrow is Fathers day and I feel so bad that we aren't doing anything special for dinner. We didn't plan in a special dinner into the menu, because I didn't realize it was fathers day. So tomorrow we may just have to be stuck with a hamburger helper or something like that. Well Dave seems to like his present so that will have to be enough. Thats okay because Dave has thanked me at least two times a day since he found the picture, and that is good enough.

6 Months old

Logan is 6 months old today. I can't believe how fast that has gone by. Time runs in a different frame when you have kids. Things seem to change so much faster. I have to remind myself that they will only be this little for so long then this time in their life will be over. There are some days that I wish it could go faster, but most days I try really hard to just enjoy it. Before I know it they will be grown up and gone and that is when I will miss these days. I just hope that they don't look back on these days and only remember that I was frustrated most of the time. I try and not let the small things bother me, but when Myla and Savannah smile when they are in trouble it bothers me. I guess its still is and always will be a learning process. Logan is already crusing along the couch and trying so hard to walk. He is trying so hard to catch up to his sisters and I want him to stay little for a while longer, but I don't think I have a choice in that matter.

Well Fathers Day is on sunday and Dave found his present early. Thats okay because I was really excited to give it to him. Its a picture for his classroom at the High School of me with the kids. I'm just really glad that he likes the picture.

Logan's 6 month pic

Lets try this again

I had a blog before but once we moved to Lamar I stopped blogging. Now that we have internet again I'm going to try this process again. I usually don't have much to say about our day to day lives, but I still like to write and post pictures of what is going on in our little family. With the other blog I don't feel too bad about forgeting the username and password because I only had two followers. I'm going to see if I can get more than that to follow this new one. So lets see what happens this go around. :)