He is...

all grown up...my brother that is. For those who don't know, I have one sibling, a little brother who is 5 years younger than me. He is now a SENIOR in high school, can drive, has a job and has now even treated US to dinner. He really has grown up to be quite a wonderful young man, very bright, smart, and handsome. He has goals and plans for his future, honorable ones too. He plans to join the Military (special ops or air force I believe are the too things he is interested in), this something he has been working towards since he was like 3. NO JOKE...by the age of 5 he could name WWII plans for you, by 11 or 12 he was giving tours an air field, joined ROTC in high school and excelled in that...SHOCKER, NOT. Of course we know that doesn't fully prepare him for the real thing, but I believe he was born to this.


I must say I am very proud to be his older sister. To have had the oppurtunity to teach him to read, help him with homework, our summer walks to Burger King or McDonalds and then Target just so he could by pokemon cards or Bionicles and I could buy well whatever I thought was cool at the time(probably clothes and make-up haha), and watching his dorky shows with him just to make him happy, cooking our lunches and dinners and making them look gourmet even if it was just romen and a grilled cheese sandwich(yes, its a talent haha), and all the times I let him sleep in my room when he was afraid, or being stuck playing Halo the day I stayed home sick with him when he was having hallucinations(the goal was to kill the bad guy to save our dad...weird long story), and just flat out being there for each other. Through the good and bad, yes we went through both, and both came out great people...well I think so at least.

I had the privilage of getting to do his senior pictures this past weekend. He is such a dork, and goofed off most the time, and yet that is why most of the photos turned out so great. Here are a few of the pictures.
















Love you Shane!



IN OTHER NEWS...

We had our first ultrasound last week, and saw a healthy 7wk and 3 day old baby, and could see a wonderful little flutter for a heart. Of course baby is now 8wks and 4days. The due date was set for March 30th with a scheduled c-section about a week before then, the ultrasound tech said the date may or may not change since the baby was measuring a few day behind what we were thinking. I am fine either way, just excited to have a healthy baby. We see our doc next week so we can talk to him and see what his plans are for us. I will keep you all posted!

On this day, God wants you to know

"...that God sees you as you truly are, - a holy child of light: I see you strong and whole. I see you blessed and prospered. I see you courageous and confident. I see you capable and successful. I see you free from all limitations or bondage of any kind. I see you as the spiritually perfect being you truly are."


This was on my Aunt's facebook, I read it and loved it. It was kinda the perfect thing I need to hear(well read) today. I thought I would share it...

New Home..New baby?!

I never have very long to be on here, so I am just giving a mini update. First off we have MOVED! Had to on a short notice, stressful but all has worked out and to be honest I am in love with our house! I really couldn't be happier with it. Funny thing is when we came to see the house originally just to check it out, we left not as into it as much as we thought we would be. It ended up being the house we got approved for plus everything price and time wise for the move out date was right for us, so we took it. Heavenly Father must have known we would love it!(of course he did) Exactly what our little family needed...which leads me to my next second bit of news

We are PreGnaNt! (again...finially) I feel like it took forever to get this news again. For those who don't know, we lost our last baby in January early in the pregnancy and then had to wait till April to start trying again. Every month was an unfortunate negative, but we kept up hope and knew our time would come when Heavenly Father felt it best. And it has!

Estimate Due Date= APRIL 7th, 2011...then take off a week for scheduled c-section, if my new doctor does the same gameplan as my old OB doctor would have(I have to switch doc's mine stops delivering after december)

Now I am not for sure how far along we are since the miscarriage messed up my cycle. My 2 guesses are either 4 weeks and 4 days or 6 weeks and 6 days. I am going to go with the lesser simply because I would hate to loose weeks at the doctors office when they figure out for sure how far along I am. I figured I will either be right or close enough, or wrong and possible further then I thought(which would be great!) My first appointment is next friday, I am excited! I will keep you all update.

I do have one request... if you all could send good thoughts and prayers for this baby and his or hers health and strength, I would be beyond greatful : )

Love is like a Painting...

For those of you who may not know I LOVE to paint. Unfortunately I don't get to often, but when I do its such a relaxing peaceful thing for me. I really enjoy canvas painting best, but getting to paint and decorate a room definately comes up close behind. So I have 3 blank canvas's laying around and had the strong urge to paint something, but couldn't think of anything. Then we were watching Tinkerbell with Scarlette, which is also the theme for her room and suddenly I realized that is what I wanted to do with them. I figured as she grows she will always have something her mommy painted just for her (until she becomes to cool for that), or if we move they can easily go with us and be the start of decoration for her new room. So here are the 3 paintings I did, sadly I haven't actually got them put up yet or else I would have just put a picture of them up in her room : )

Side note: the quote is from Shakespear's "A Midsummer's Night Dream" said by Titania, the Queen of all fairies, it was the first Shakespear play I ever read, and probably my favorite.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

So Scarlette officially turned 1...a month ago. : ) I know I have said before how much she amazes me. But the other day I was watching her and realized in one year she has brought joy and a smile to my face DAILY. I have awed over her accomplishments, almost cried at how overwhelmed I feel with how much of a blessing she is. Then it really hit me...its only been ONE year, and she is only our 1st child. For parents who have older children and more than 1, do they continue to do this to you daily(or almost daily, I am sure being able to talk back doesn't help their cause haha)? Seriously though, and to think I can't wait to have more and be awed by what they can do. It's funny, I don't know that my heart has anymore room between Scarlette and the happiness Jacob brings me, yet I can't wait to find out. Now all I need to do is get pregnant, haha.

Speechless

So I titled this post "Speechless" simply because I couldn't truly put I title that I thought gave this post justice. Today Jacob and I did Scarlette's pictures since she will be 1 in less then a month and I wanted to get them done, edited, order prints, and get them sent out on time. While editing them I began looking over her past photos. Tears came to my eyes when I realized how fast time has gone and how much she has grown. I have decided to share her growth and the bubbly little person she has turned into. If only I could get the video's I have of her to work, then I could truly share her personality even better with you.

Day 1- one week past due date...june 9th ,2009
9lbs 4oz...no I did not push her out

One of her first full smiles!


Day of her blessing...Aug 2nd. Almost 2months old

Sitting up alone at 3 1/2 months

Scarlette and Summer...they love each others company

She is a true pizza lover...just try taking it away
Jub Jub and other furry creatures bring her smiles

She likes and eats almost anything!

Games bring her the greatest laughter and squeals just like the "Chase Me"
game with her Daddy!

Oh and of course peek-A-boo...now played through our legs : )
She shares her food AND even feeds her cousins. She has also become a big helper at spoon feeding other babies with mommy.

FISH! She LOVES fish...or as she calls them "Zshuzsh"
and Finally she is almost 1...it amazes me how much she has changed and grown. She went from a sleeping lump to standing at 7 months, walking at 8 1/2, to running away when caught in the act of something naughty by 10 1/2 months. The things her little mind understands boggles me. At times just watching her makes me speechless. Everything she does brings joy to my life(well minus the fits she have learned to throw haha)

I just love her!

Here are a 2 of her 1st year pictures...Tutu, bow, and Tinkerbell necklace made by her Aunt Natalie for her birthday! They turned out wonderful!


Well, I have just been informed I have a poopy diaper to change...can't wait till potty training beings...

Mmmm...Plastic Eggs

Yes Easter was last month...yes I am way late.

So the first of pictures are the Easter Egg Hunt with my dad, his girlfriend Jacquie, and friends and family. It was nice, mostly kids under the age of 2 so Scarlette made LOTS of friends. One little boy just a few months older played with her most of the time, they were too cute...yet I never got a picture. : (

The next few is the Easter Eggs hunt with the O'Haver Family, which is always fun and interesting!

apparently after "finding" like 2 eggs she needed a break



If you notice Tate dropped his basket in Scarlette's and then proceeded to

jack her blue sucker egg.

The giant batch of children...minus Taylor, Trey, Tryston, and Brynleigh

So here are pictures of the projects I did for visiting teaching conference. I should kick myself for not getting better ones on my good camera. I took these pictures on my phone just to text them to a couple of people, with the intention of taking better ones and forgot. Shame on me.

Anywho, this is the 6ft by 3ft mural I guess you could say of Emerald City, no I

didn't paint it slanted, I just took the picture slanted.

This is the house the lands on the Wicked Witch, I actually added a couple of touches

to it after I took this picture, like the white opening on the side roof was covered and painted

to look more finish.

I have to admit I so proud of myself for being able to stand by my promise to do this for the visiting teaching conference and still do my in-home daycare, workouts nights, and of course all the other things that come with being a mom and wife. I actually felt somewhat accomplished.

Eggs, Smiles, and Polka dot dresses

So we got a new camera and thought it would be fun to go take Easter pictures with and give me a chance to use the photo editing software a little more. These are just a few I really liked...the first is actually the one we used for easter cards. I can't believe how much she has grown since we last did pictures at thanksgiving. Even more I can't believe she is only 2 months away from her 1st birthday!

ps...taking pictures with a child who loves the outdoors, can just up and walk away from you with her easter egg, and finds the chase after funny is not easy.

You can't pinch me

These are just a couple pictures from the family St.Patty's day party, unfortunately I didn't take more. It was fun though...good food and trivia with candy prizes.

Zoo Outing

Our trip to the Zoo, now this wasn't her first trip BUT it was my first trip with her. So unfortunately most of these pictures don't look there best due to the fact my actual camera died by the time we got to the petting zoo AND I can't even find the USB cord to upload the good pictures. So these are all camera phone pictures.

this was her "I am ready for the zoo" picture

followed by the "I hate this hat picture" luckily

once there she let it stay on

My attempt at trying to get her to pet the goat hiding under the bench,
as you can see there was no luck

Yet Tate tried to get every goat to come out for him



Summer and Hunter helping brush the goats

It was a long day, she passed out right before we got to the car

Day of Love and Cupcakes

My nephew Tate and my sister-in-law Natalie threw a little Valentine's Day party for all the little girl neices. Of course Tater's was late to his own party... it must have been a good nap.

Here is Tate just after he woke up and joined the fun

and after he made his cupcake and then shoved his face in it
Summer decorating her cupcake

Scarlette trying the icing...which she loved and freaked when I would give her more fast enough

Scarlette and me

Angela with Brynleigh and Brenna,

Brynleigh is her's and the oldest of the 4 baby neices and Brenna belongs to Briauna

and she is the youngest of the 4 baby neices.

Scarlette's card to her daddy, she helped me push down

the stickers