Wednesday Loves

I am loving these Tervis cups I got for Christmas.  I always have a drink with me and have been looking for the perfect cup and I love these!!!  They don’t sweat and they keep ice for HOURS!!!  They are a little pricey, but so worth it!!!

Remember these from a previous post….yeah I own these now!!!

The girls at eighteen25 created the cutest covers for the Christmas Card Books.

I am loving my new iPhone 4s!

And I saved the best for last….This week I am loving that Saturday I am headed here…

E and I along with our friends Bill and Linz are headed to the Bahamas for a week!!!

I am loving that we are so blessed to have wonderful parents to stay with our children!

What a great week!

So much iPod!!!!!

Just had to add this pic because it cracks me up!

This is what is usually going on while I am trying to get ready to go somewhere.  The babies are climbing on everything…really safe, I know! Or they are emptying out drawers…which is really fun!

iPod in the bathtub…not a great idea

Love these kids!

23 Months

I can not believe the babies will be 2 this month!!! 

OMG!!!  I REALLY CAN’T BELIEVE IT!!!!

My snuggle bug!!! 

Sawyer loves his big brother Sam and wants to be just like him.  He is OBSESSED with technology and has the iPod in his hands way too much!  He loves his new boots and where’s them around the house every day.  He still loves looking out the window and watching the animals.  He is so playful and so fun!

He is a great eater, there aren’t many things that he won’t eat.  He loves fruit and pancakes.  He wears size 2T and a size 5 diaper.  He is also a great sleeper.  He goes down really good at nap time and at night time.  Baxley always wakes up before he does, but he almost always wakes up happy!

He is a big time mommy’s boy and really doesn’t like me leaving him anywhere.  He has cried every morning that I have left him at Ms. Melinda’s since we started back this month.  He wouldn’t quit crying in the nursery at church and I had to go get him.  I hope it gets better soon:)

The princess of the house.

Baxley is loving Tangled and Lady and the Tramp!  She likes to play with her jewelry and her dishes.  She loves to have races with the boys and loves to count before she jumps to us. She loves to put on different shoes and always makes sure she has her hair bow.  She is so tiny and we just tote her everywhere.

She is not a very good eater, but does love fruit. She wears 12-18 months and a size 4 diaper. She goes to bed well, but for the past week has been waking up crying in the middle of the night and it takes forever to get her to go back down.  Poor little Sawyer J sleeps through her screaming right beside him.  She always wakes up first and it takes her a few minutes to find her good mood.

She does pretty well when I leave her and does great at Ms. Melinda’s.  She is still a Daddy’s girl and gets so excited when she sees him.  Even though Sawyer loves to say “No, No, Sissy,” he adores her!

I LOVE that they are so close and love to be together!

Go Hogs!

We had a great time cheering on the Hogs! 

Baxley’s first pony tail!!!

2012…Going to do Better!

I have to start with the fact that 2011 was AWESOME!!!  The babies became little toddlers and Sam became a big boy…just ask him:) We had so many wonderful family times!  E and I have finally figured out how to make all of this work and our little family is happier than ever!  I feel so blessed everyday!!!

There are a few things that I would like to try to work on this next year…

I get really busy trying to get things done around the house, like laundry (I feel like laundry runs my life by the way), dishes, picking up, etc. and I miss out on some of those moments with my children.  I really want to care less about the house (don’t worry I’m not going extreme) and spend more quality time soaking them in.

When Sam was little we read all the time.  Now, that I have had my hands full, reading to the kids has not been a priority and I really want to bring that back!

I want to get back in a routine of going to church.  I attend a Bible study every week, but I really want my kids to be back in church.  Sawyer has some anxiety issues and we are just going to have to try to work through those.

Towards the end of 2011 I started running again and it made me feel so much better!  I’m not trying to win a race or anything, I just want to feel a little healthier considering I live off of junk and Diet DP.  Mornings are my hardest part of the day and I never felt like that was much of an option for me.  I didn’t want to go after work because I just couldn’t justify that time away from my kids.  Around October my school moved our teacher end of the day release time up and I felt that I would spend that time on some days running.  I change at work and run an area near our school.  I run 30 minutes and am picking my kids up by 4:15.  I feel okay about it and want to continue to do it moving into 2012.

I hope 2012 is as great as 2011 was. 

New Year’s Day

Nonna had us all over for New Year’s Day.

Uncle Jackie was there so of course we had watermelon.

Imagine that, Sawyer with some form of technology in his hand!

I Love this pic, after a long day of celebrating everyone just wants to crawl up in dads lap.  I know E doesn’t look too enthused…ha! I just love my family!!!  They are all I need in this new year!

Happy New Year!

Random Pics

 

Linz came by and brought the kids their Christmas gifts.  Thanks Linz!!!

Audra came by and brought the kids gifts while we were in Sheridan and stayed for a quick tea party with Baxley.

I have had a few questions about the board book I made the babies.  They are hard to find.  I made mine at pintsizeproductions.com.  Super cute!!!