Be My Valentine

Jason and I have this joke still going a few days after Valentines Day. Where we are waking up in the mornings, and one of us will tell the other one, "Happy Valentines Day!" even though it had passed a week or so.

We like to do the same thing with birthdays, you know, purposely say "Happy Birthday" when it's not the other one's birthday, or Merry Christmas for like a week or so.

You should try it; it makes you laugh in the mornings because it is so DUMB!! :)

Most people think I am the only silly one or, dumb one......

Now you know why are children are scatter brained and silly...... They got it in 2 GENE POOLS!! :)

But, he's still my Valentine!!

This year the youth sponsored a Candlelight Dinner for the adults; they did all the serving and some of the cleaning. :) I helped with it, and it was a lot of fun. Here are some pictures from the night. Some of the decoration ideas are mine, and some are not, but I will say the chocolate fountain was hit with young and the old.....

Our youngest guest!!

We had a "Not So Newly Wed Game" of couples that have been married for various amount of years. Travis and Kaci won, obviously, because they have been married only 3 years, so they still remember everything.

Mom and Dad were in the game, and Jason was laughing so hard because when asked, "What was your first date?", my mom answered "The Show". He thought it was hiliarous that she said "The Show" instead of the movies. I'm telling ya, he is goofy!!

For the Record

I have to go back and do Jaxon’s 6 month post, for the record, you know.

He turned 6 months old, 2 weeks ago!! I can’t believe.

- weight: 15 lbs. 10 oz. --> 25th Percentile

-height: 24 3/34 in --> 5 -10th Percentile

- has come a long way on eating baby food. He now eats and LIKES, applesauce, bananas, sweet potatoes, prunes, pears. He still chokes down carrots and green beans. But it is better.

- he is in his big boy bed, since 5 months.

- eats once a night, usually around 2:30 or 3. But has been going until 4 or 4:30 a few nights.

- wears 3-6 month clothes

- size 2 diapers

- don't you think we could get a commerical going or something for Pampers.....:)

- still kind of grouchy during the day and evening hours. But is better. Has at least a few happy 20 minute spells in there. But now I think we are getting to the “attachment” phase….

- his hair is not real thick feeling, but there is kind of alot of it. This was right after his bath, and you must comb it down or it will go crazy, like this!!

- has eaten crackers, yogurt melts, cheetos, vanilla wafers, and puffs. Does okay with them, but still have to watch him.

- nurses every 4 hours

- is more animated and hyper than his 3 week older cousin

- not so sure if that is a good thing, you know!!! :)

- when he gets real excited, he throws his arms down like this and looks down real fast

- doesn’t like the car seat

- when you put him on the floor, he can get up on all 4 knees by himself, and rock…. EXCITING!!

- can sit up on the floor for a good 2 or 3 minutes without getting wobbly, sometimes longer.

- likes his bath time, and loves to lean to one side in the seat and splash real hard with his arm, a good way to annoy your sister and get mama all wet

But something is interesting to me with his immunizations this time around, and wondering if any of you had problems like this. We got his immunizations on a Wednesday, by that evening he had a runny nose, and was coughing a little. By Thursday, he had the full fledge, runny nose, cough, was running a fever, and was hoarse. On Friday, the same kind of thing, but really no fever. Then on Saturday, he still had all of this, and was running a pretty high fever and he was so inconsolable, which made me kind of nervous. Then on Sunday, he was fine, still hoarse for a few days, but other than that nothing. I looked up about the immunizations, and it said this could be some side effects. I've never had this happen with Kylee or with his first months.

Poor baby in the bath when he was not feeling good

- but here he is happy

Where in the World.....

have you been? Don't you think you could talk to me a little more than once a week. What kind of friend are you?

Okay, blogger, please accept my apology for slacking......

Where in the world have I been????

Right here, all along, but I guess I got busy last week.

So, I'll play catch-up

- made football cookies for Awana's on last Wednesday night. My cookie cutter was like about a 2inch football design, and after the cooked they blew up big time into like 4 1/2 inch Easter eggs..... But after I decorated them they looked like a football again... :)

- Went and ran twice last week, striving for 3 times this week. The weather is AMAZING; we are enjoying it. Kylee has been driving her Barbie jeep around, and to much surprise she is actually a little better than she was last summer. Not running into quite so many things.

- The kids and I went to the Wall girls basketball game Friday night in Abilene; guess I'm glad we went.......

- Having cousins is a GREAT thing when getting to share clothes and shoes. You see, everything that is "cute, not stained, and worth saving" is passed down like this:

Addisyn to Kylee now on to Lexi

Karter to Jaxon

And with Kylee being a first child, and having a shower for her, and having a mama who likes to shop for little GIRL clothes, let's just say, little Miss Lexi has ALOT to choose from. Anyways, I was organzing Kylee's old clothes, and getting some spring/summer clothes out for Lexi, which would be around size 12 month. When digging through the 12 month clothes, it is all clothes that Kylee wore last summer, and Lexi is going to wear THIS summer!!! They are nearly 2 years apart.

Just reinforces how small Kylee is. :)

- We went to the Rodeo on Saturday. Here's our fabulous family picture.

We went with Brianne and Duane and Travis and Kaci. We had a good time. The opening ceremony with the National Anthem was so Good, and powerful!! Makes me want to just scream, "I love America!!" The announcer put so much passion and pride into the American flag, and the national anthem. I think we've lost that.

- Kylee has been in her twin bed, and Jaxon in his crib for 3 months now, and I am wanting to post pictures of their rooms, but I am so frustrated with finding things to decorate them with. Jaxon's room is "vintage cars". I can't find anything. I ordered some prints off of Etsy, but other than that I have nothing. And Hobby Lobby, though they have LOTS of cute stuff out right now, they have nothing as far as cars go, just sports. And with Kylee's room, I am trying to find flower things to hang on the walls, but no luck there either.

- we have been taking lots of baths lately, riding bikes, and planting some Texas Sweet Onions

- be on the look out, for Jaxon's 6 MONTH post, and our Valentine Dinner at church post. I tell you, I am seriously playing Catch-up.

Valentine's 2011

I've been singing "Going to the Chapel of Love" all day today!!! And I can't help but think of Stephanie's wedding!! They danced into this song!! So cute!!

Valentines Weekend has been a fun one this year!!

We had our Valentine Dinner at church saturday night, and it turned out really cute. I'll post pictures later. But, here is Jason and I sitting in the LOVE chairs!! :)

Jason took the kids to town Friday night, and went shopping for Valentine's day for me. I got 2 "Star wars" suckers, a bag of carmel chocolates, and a MacArthur Study Bible. Jason has one, and he likes it; I think I'll like it; I don't really agree with everything MacArthur does, but we'll see!! :)

And Kylee got to get a clear case of about a "bazillion" tiny beads to make bracelets with.....you know when she went with Jason to town.....he let her get it....I mean he bought it for her, but still......and Jaxon about to start crawling around on the floor......but she made me this beautiful bracelet she is SOOOO proud of.....

I got Jason that bag of BIG marshmallows I posted about, some peanuts, a sucker, a Roy Orbison CD he wanted, and the DVD "Expelled" with Ben Stein.....It's political...he'll like it....

Jaxon got a CRACKER for the FIRST time.... I think he liked it!!

Then he borrowed Jason's big sucker!!

And back to the cracker....

He got a little more than a cracker for Valentine's day!! He's my little prince charming!!

Kylee got an outfit, and some stickers, and some other little things. She was so cute this year; she really got the idea of "getting" and "giving" valentines away to her "friends". Yesterday morning at church, I heard from a little birdie that when her friend Emma got to church she ran and started yelling, "Emma, Emma, Emma, here you Valentine...here you valentine...." Then they hugged!! Kylee had made a valentine for her. And then last night at church, another girl gave her a card Valentine, just a card no candy attached. She carried that and treasured that card around all night. So cute!!

Today, she got to go to McDonald's with Jason's mom and Grandma for a little Valentine Treat. Here is she dressed ready to go.

Emma gave her a Valentine bow!!

And, I better go get ready......I have a hot date tonight!! :)

Sorry for the lack of posting.....It has been a busy week!!

We did go visit my friend, Eve, who had her baby boy on Monday. Him and Jaxon are sure to be Best Buds!!

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday I ran around town trying to pick up a few last things to decorate for the Valentine Dinner at church that I am helping with.

As we speak right now, I am listening to the hum of the Cricut cut out 50 hearts for placemats, and 50 dinner cards for the place settings. Headed to church later to decorate. 2 Homemade cheesecakes are in the oven. Getting the chocolate founatin ready. Made a rose topary today as well.

Kylee and I colored Valentines for our friends, and made goody sacks one day this week.

Jaxon and I went to our Bible Study this week; Kylee went and visited Mamaw.

Went to our 6 month checkup will do a post about Apple Jax later on that, but I think we came home with something because poor Jaxon has the roughest little cold right now. Let's just say I resorted to driving him around in the car at 1 this morning. :)

Catch you later!!

BIG Week

We had BIG fun this week!!

Kylee decided to wear her BIG hair bow.

We roasted BIG marshmallows in the fireplace.

Kylee and I found these BIG marshmallows at Walmart, and Jason loves roasting them, so they were supposed to be for Valentine's Day, but somebody opened their BIG mouth..... :)

Kylee pushed around her BIG baby....

We all knew this day was coming..... The day Kylee would put Jaxon in her baby doll stroller, and pretend that was her BIG baby.

Poor Jaxon!! (At least he was buckled in correctly.....)

But, Kylee woke up this morning saying her tummy hurt, and has been sick on the potty several times this morning, so I am cloroxing the house BIG time in hopes that no one else comes away with it.

We have a BIG week coming up, with lots of fun things going on.

Tomorrow Jaxon turns 6 MONTHS OLD. We will go to our well check up this week, hopefully get back on track with our Bible Study that was cancelled, along with Awana, I am helping host a youth sponsored Valentine party at church this weekend with entails alot of decorating and setting up, and Kylee's really sweet friend Emma is going to be a BIG sister tomorrow. Can't wait to meet her little brother.

And a BIG thanks for all the help with my questions.

Of course, the day I post about Jaxon's problems, and with a little less than a week to go to the dr, he starts acting right...:) He has eaten some applesauce, bananas, and sweet potatoes, and choked down some green beans. He also seems to be more happy and content for short amount of times. Thanks for all the advice!!!

Kid Size

Well, since we're "in" to having kids these days, why not make a "kid size" snowman??

Doesn't compare to our 2010 snowman.

Remember this!!

But in all seriousness, there isn't enough snow right now to make a life size one.

So, Jason and Kylee made a "kid size".

We didn't get a "real" family snow picture this year because someone had to take the picture.

I guess this can count as our family snow picture

Pictured from Left to Right:

Kylee, Jaxon, Me, and Jason

Kylee wanted Jaxon to have a stick out of his head. And they made me last, so I didn't get any facial features...... And Kylee has an icicle stuck out the top of her head!!

Stay Warm!!