Valentine's Weekend.

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Happy Birthday to Me!

It's my birthday shout Hooray!  Okay, well my birthday was a few days ago and it was a good celebration. What am I saying?? It was a GREAT celebration. It's safe to say that I partied. All week long.And it was wonderful. Birthday weeks. That is what I believe in. And when Xander is older, he will have birthday weeks. and he will LOVE them!

My favorite day was Thursday. I hadn't been feeling well at ALL  Wednesday, it had been one of those days... you know, where the sweet baby isn't feeling well for some reason and is just crying and crying, the kitchen was a mess, Hurricane Laundry had hit my living room, and the lack of sleep was catching up to me. When Husband got home from work I was so happy I could just KISS him. So I did. Then we started talking about what we were going to do that afternoon and  I was reminded he had a meeting at church from 7-9 that evening and all the relief I had felt when we walked in the door left as quickly as it came. I wanted to just sit down and cry. But I didn't, I kept telling myself we were gonna be blessed for serving... I'll leave it at that.
He went to his meeting and I SURVIVED. I gave baby Xander a bath-FED him- and started rocking him to sleep. As I was rocking him to sleep I wondered how I was going to make it through the next day. I prayed to Heavenly Father for help and I felt that everything was gonna be alright. I would be okay. I realized that  being a momma isn't always easy, but it's DEFINITELY worth it. So I went to bed and he slept like a CHAMP. Woke up at six and realized hubs was still in bed... so then I freaked out inside and told him how late he was to work, and the next words out of his mouth felt like a million bucks. " I'm staying home today." Whhaaaat? I thought I heard wrong. In fact I did hear wrong. I though he said he was staying because he was sick. What he really did say was that he was staying home because I was sick. What a SWEETHEART. So he made a bottle, I fed baby and Baby and I fell asleep for a couple more hours and when I woke up, I got the best present ever. The house was spotless and laundry was folded. And angels were singing in the back of my head "Hallelujah!"

2 months!

It's incredible how  time goes by in a blink of an eye. It seems like just yesterday that I was holding my baby boy for the first time.  Although it makes me happy to see him grow, a part of me is so sad that my little baby isn't a newborn anymore! This little man has stolen my heart and is never giving it back. But that's okay. I can live with that :). My life now revolves around sweet Xander and my wonderful hubby.

It's amazing how much your life can change from one night to the next. My reading time has turned into singing time for Alexander. My exercising has been replaced by carrying baby and playing with him. I have learned to make it through the day on 3 hours of sleep, never though THAT would happen to me. I love my sleep!  Who knew that getting all prettied up would become a luxury??? I am lucky if I get a shower in for they day! But when I see his eyes light up when he sees me, I know it's most definately worth it. The feeling I get when he recognizes me...nothing can compare! My little baby knows me!  It's taken me all day to write this post, but I was determine to post! Here's some photos of my sweet baby!

Hello!

Why is it that baby feet are so precious??

Where's Xander? :)

This post was written yesterday... never got around to posting!

Luvs.

So in Love.

Friday afternoon on 11/11/11 at 5:29, we welcomed our beautiful baby boy into this world.
6 lbs 8 oz and 19 1/2 in of pure sweetness.
Meet our little precious
 Alexander Leo

I don't have the words to describe how incredible this last month has been. One of the things I want to use this blog as is my journal. I've been meaning to write in it for the past couple of weeks... but it seems like anytime I have " free " time, I shower... and then my free time is up....not complaining though. Alexander is the best blessing his daddy and I could have recieved. I've been a momma for 32 days and I am loving it. Being a mother is such a blessing, I feel very fortunate that our Heavenly Father trusted Josh & I with this precious soul. He is my love. My heart. My everything. We are So. In. Love.

Pictures to come.

Dear Sweet Baby Boy

Just look at how BIG you're getting. Honestly,  it's a wonder how you fit in there! I'm sorry I have a short torso and you're not fitting very well, only a few more days left, and you'll be able to stretch your cute little arms and legs as far as you want. I'm a little bit worried because the doctors are concerned you're too small, you still have some growing to do! Doctors are estimating that you weigh 4.3 lbs... which isn't very much so we have to eat a LOT during these next couple days and hopefully that will fatten you up! Those extra chubs are important!It's a good thing I love you so much baby, because all the food I'm eating and  the pills I'm taking are making me sick!

 Let me tell you something baby boy, you are very lucky. You are already the center of your dads world.  Your daddy is so excited to meet you! He talks about all the sports you're going to play and how he will be at every game or event that you're in.  It's sweet. He talks to you everyday and makes sure I get enough food in for you to eat. He's gonna be an awesome daddy, dont you think?

I think about you all the time little baby. I think of how I want to be the mom that's not afraid to get her hair wet when I go swimming with you. I want to be the soccer mom on the block who is not afraid to get sweaty with you. I think about being the PTA mom that goes to all the meetings. I have even dreamed about you. My favorite is when your daddy and I are cuddling you and playing with your cute baby toes. I'm so excited for you to meet your adorable cousin Max! He comes and pats you every once in awhile and says "Hi Xander". You will love him. He is so fun. You two will have so much fun growing up together.

I can't wait to see you my little Alexander. To hold you. To smell you. I hear that babies just smell delicious. I can't wait to see your little toes and fingers and to cuddle with you all day. I'm ready to birth you too. You are just perfect. Just right for my body. Perfect for your daddy and I. You are just perfect, baby. We love you so much.

Love, Momma

Meet my sister

Meet my beautiful sister Ruby Annette.
She has been contemplating changing her hair color, so she asked me to get some pictures together of what I think would look good on her, the thing is...  I absolutely LOVE her hair, so after looking through hundreds of pictures... this is what I got together... Sorry the hair colors are similar sissy :/. But I think any of these would look FABULOUS. She is blessed. and has the perfect hair already. But, every once in awhile we (ladies) get tired of our hair and want to mix it up a bit. Enjoy!

This is my Seester. Beautiful right? & my gorgeous nephew Maximus!

LOVE this color. It'd be a shade or two darker than her natural hair color, but would really bring out her brown eyes.

Spice it up a bit with some dark thin carmel highlights.

 My sister (right) & I.

A darker Ash brown color

                            & last but not least, a dark chestnut with some lowlights in it

Hope this helps! Love ya!

Finally! I feel like I’ve been running past my whole life. I ‘m always so excited about what’s coming next that I sometimes forget to enjoy the moment that I am in and just slow down.    There are so many things in my life that I don’t want to forget and as a solution I thought about starting a blog. Great idea… right? Right, it would have been, but the thing is… I have been THINKING about it for YEARS.  Anytime that I would sit down and tell myself, okay this is it, just do it… I would think of something more productive I could be doing, so I would stop and tell myself I’d do it later and later never came. But the reality is that life is going by way to fast and I am scared of forgetting all the little moments that take my breath away. So here I am. New at this blog world…a little bit scared because I have no idea what I’m doing, but I did it, I made my blog, and I am so proud!