Ready for Change

It is getting near the end of the Summer and I am ready for a change. I am ready for Fall/Autumn to be here and watch the trees change. Looking forward to getting some very pretty pictures. I myself is ready for a change, hair cut, color, makeup, ect. We are going back to church and am going to baptize Shaley in October. We are leaving in a week to go to Vegas for a much needed vacation. We are going to start getting back on our feet. Things are going to get better! Everyone is going through a hard time right now but we need to be thankful for what we actually do have. I am very thankful for what I have. An amazing husband, daughter, and supporting family. Thank you to everyone that has been there for us through our funk...

All I can say is I am ready for that change!

Finger, Sponge and Paint Brush Painting

My all time favorite past time with my baby girl! She is such a great artist and I love keeping all of her art work. We have recently gone back to church and when we went on Sunday we met such a great couple! They have a 16 month old little girl named Lilliana. Such a cutie. We traded numbers and actually got together on Tuesday. Lilly's mommy Kay and I hung out and watched the girls play so well together which made us happy cause our little ladies got a new fried and so did the mommy's! Woohoo! So since they came over we did some painting. What a blast we had! The girls had more fun I think painting on themselves where Kay had more fun painting on Lilly's paper and I had more fun taking pictures (of course). So I am going to share some picture of our time together...

Shaley looking at her like what are you doing??

Than Shaley thought she needed to help her paint on her paper

Sitting on her paper getting paint all over her!

Look at them feet! Covered in paint at the end... oh but look at her feet they are huge!

15 Months Has Gone By Way To Fast :(

So it has been a fast 15 Months. Shaley is now 15 Months and it just makes me sad. She has changed so much and is so smart. She just amazes me how much she does now. I have been collecting on paper everything that she is doing up to this point and would like to share with you.

Things she does:

• Jumps
• Gives Loves (Kisses and Hugs)
• Runs
• Talks alot of baby jibber
• Loves water; baths/swimming/ect
• Tells us how old she is, she will put her 1 finger up and say one
• She loves to color and paint
• Communicates with us. If we ask her a question we ask her yes or no and she will shake her head either way to let us know what her answer is and than says yes or no
• Walking (Since 8 Months)
• Her favorite foods are mac and cheese, pancakes and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
• Mommy and her have planted some flowers and made it a good project to do together, she gets so excited when we get to go water the flowers and says water when we go out there.
• Loves to turn the tv on and off
• Puts her dukes up. I taught her this in about 2 days.
• Cassie at work than taught her to pound it.
• Waves and say hi and bye
• Blows on her food if it is hot
• Climbs stairs no matter how high they are
• Holds your hand when you ask her to if your crossing a street or something
• Loves to Dance! We tell her to shake her booty
• Can show us where her nose, eyes, ears, feet, mouth, tongue and belly button are
• Puts her hands up and says dunno??
• Has gone pee pee and poo poo on the potty
• At this point has 8 teeth
• Hides and loves to scare you
  
• Fishy face
• Eats on her own
• Drinks out of sippy and straw cuppies
• Sits in a booster seat when we go out to eat
• Claps her hands
• Blows Kisses
• Gives Big Bear Hugs
• Gives High Five
  

Now on to the animal noises she makes:

• Lion
• Monkey
• Kitty Kat
• Doggie
• Duck
  
• Horse

Words she says

• I know
  
• All Done
• Elmo (All time favorite thing right now)
• Tux
• I love you
• Dunno
• Gracie
• Oh S***
• No
• Yes
• Momma/Mommy/Mom
• Dada/Daddy/Dad
• Hi Dad/Hi Mom
• Shaley
• Ok
  
• I
• KaKa (Aunt Casey)
• Manda
• Nana
• Poppy
• Ayden
• Car
• Uh-O
• Bad
• Bath
• Bye Bye
• BaBa (Bottle)
• Vroom Vroom
• Ball
• Nose
• Eyes
• Ah Dang
• Up
  
• Water
• Please
• Thank You
• Down
  

I am sure I have forgot some but I will just add to these lists if I forgot anything up till now.


Newborn Picture (a couple hours after she was born)

1 Month Old-Very Happy Early On

2 Months-Sitting in her high chair being a big girl

3 Months-In her camo from her aunt and uncle

4 Months

5 Months-In her winter hat and jacket

6 Months

7 Months-What an evil face

8 Months

9 Months, Listening to her Ipod that her daddy got her for Christmas

10 Months

11 Months

12 Months, She is 1 years Old!!


13 Months

14 Months

And finally! 15 Months, best 15 Months of our lives!
Loves to pose while I take pictures

Such a lover, loving on her Mickey Mouse

And even though it is a picture of her sleeping, it is still a precious picture

My happy girl


Brushing her hair with the broom haha

Days go by so fast!

We had a fun and busy weekend....

Saturday we started off by helping out with a pancake breakfast for little Tyler man. We had a slow start but than picked up and ended up having a great turn out! James worked his butt off to help out and I was so thankful for that! Because of things like this the family is helped out financially and can concentrate on their little boy.

Saturday night we went to the drive in. Shaley has never been so it was her first actual movie. She did pretty good. She didn't understand what the movie was and why it was on that big board but it was alot of fun and can't wait to do it again!

Sunday we went to church for the first time at the catholic church. (James is catholic, I am not but am working on becoming one, taking classes) I enjoyed the church and ended up meeting a great couple! Kay, Liliana, and Dave. After church we ended up going to Booms Day. I was looking forward to this all week. I have never been but it sounded so fun and it ended up being such a blast!
Daddy saying Shaley look at me

So amazed by the goats

This picture is Shaley at the petting zoo but she was more interested as to what was coming out of the goats butt haha...

Shaley and I playing




Smile baby girl

Amanda, Casey, Shaley and I

Husband and Wife

Grandma got Sha a new light toy

Monday we went to Dollywood. We had a lot of fun but would have really had fun if it didn't keep raining on and off. I love dollywood and love everytime we go. Shaley has a blast and it was nice to have James there with us this time.
This picture is from the bubbles that she was trying to eat haha


Very fun weekend!

Surprise Visit to Brooke and the Twins!!

On our way to Louisiana James and I were talking about what we should do Sunday before we left. We were talking about going to the beach but than James said hey why don't we go and see Brooke, Tony and the little ones?? I said That is a great idea! They live right outside Jackson, Mississippi so we did have to detour a little more and added 3 hours to our trip but it was so worth it! Lily and Jake are 2 weeks younger than Shaley. I was so happy to see my biggie sissy and her babies as much as I was excited for her to see us and Shaley! We planned on leaving Sunday night and driving half way till we got tired and got a hotel room so the drive wasn't going to be that bad on Monday but we ended up just staying the night there and leaving early Monday morning. It was a very long day! We drove 8 hours and than I had to get to work to close. It was a long long day but so worth seeing them. I think with all that was going on though and being around our nephews Shaley and I are both now sick. So what we ended up doing is surprising them, they had no idea we were coming to see them. That is the best way to do things! We had a hard time finding their place due to their house not being on google maps or the gps so we had to stop at a gas station asking where their road was, no one knew what we were talking about so we found a cop there and asked him, he brought up their names and told us where to go. We finally made it and parked a little ways from their house so they couldn't look out the windows to see who was there. Tony answered the door completely surprised and don't really think he knew who we were at first haha. I asked him where Brooke was and he said in the kitchen, I went around the corner and the look on her face was priceless! She jumped and screamed and gave us a big hug. She kept telling us how shocked she was to have surprise her and actually pull it off. It was so nice seeing them all! They made us an amazing dinner. It was stuffed chicken, salad, chips, dip and broccoli. They were very hospitable. We had a great time though so I am going to share some pictures from our time with them...

Jake being so goofy, he cracked me up

Jake trying to love on Shaley

Playing... they are such good babies!

Lily got up in her inflatable pool they have blown up in the house

Lily and I

Brooke on the floor playing with the babies, so cute

And than of course Shaley had to have her play time too haha

Being cute on the fire place

We took the kids for a walk down to the lake

The daddies pushing the strollers


We put the kids in the baby pool they have in their neighborhood while the daddies fly fished

Look at that smile from Lily

Splashing, Brooke and I were soaked!

Jake trying to get away, he thought he was so big

Playing so good together