Moo!

Conversation with Jack this morning:

Jack: Mommy, I just heard a reindeer outside!

Me: Really, a reindeer? How do you know it was a reindeer?

Jack: Because it said, "Moo, I am a cow!"

Me: (perplexed silence!)

Cupcake Time!

February 16, 2011

On the night of Lucy's first birthday, we stuck with our family's tradition and had cupcakes after dinner.

Jack was thrilled, as he considers frosting a main staple at keeping a toddler alive, Lucy on the other hand was not impressed.
I am sure as she gets older, she will start to love cake just as much as her brother, but for now, it just leaves more for the rest of us!

Happy birthday my sweet girl!

To the Zoo, Zoo, Zoo

February 16, 2010

After pictures were over, we started the birthday celebration by going to the zoo. It was a beautiful day and we were glad to spend it both indoors and out.

Both kids loved this tunnel, they must have gone through it a dozen times.

Lucy wanted to be in the exhibits, not just looking at them!

Lucy with one her best goofy faces!

This is her more peaceful smile!

She loved the aquariums!

And, she was full of affection all day long!

We all loved spending Lucy's birthday at the zoo!

Lucy is ONE!

February 16, 2011

My baby girl is one! Lucy is the most amazing little baby girl I have ever known, she is so peaceful, so loving, so cuddly, so perfect. The changes that she has brought to our family are fantastic. I have loved seeing the effect that she has on each member of our family. She has even started to tame her wild brother. I will forever feel guilty for her first year being in such chaos around her, but life is calming down, and she has taken it all in stride.

We started the birthday celebration by taking her in for her 12 month photos. It was quite the circus act just getting there! I made the appointment for 9am. I have only left the house prior to 9am a total of 3 times since becoming a mom so this was a challenge! We made it out of the house on time, but halfway there Jay reminded me of the cake that we were supposed to pick up! We turned around, picked up the cake and got back on track. Once we arrived at the photographer's, I realized that I left the bag of outfits at home! We got back in the car, went back home and started all over again! I was exhausted before we ever even started and we were so late that we were getting dangerously close to Lucy's nap time.

I was thrilled with how the pictures turned out. Our little Lucy is such a doll!

Read this!

I bought this book for myself last May. It's awesome. I loved it. I laughed out loud while reading it. I would read a chapter and then call someone to read a few sentences to and laugh with them. I loved reading it so much that I read it in about 2 or 3 days, which says a lot considering at the time I had a 2 year old and a newborn and a house on the market. I wasn't more than a few pages into it before I started to plan out who all I had to lend this book to. You were probably one of them, but as it turned out, only one of you were. I lent it to my sister, who also loved it and also immediately started planning out who all she was going to lend it to. And lend it she did. Or, maybe the right phrase would be that she gave it to someone, as it has not been returned. You see, she lent it to a mom of course, and of course, a mom is busy reading Goodnight Moon and The Very Hungry Catapilliar. Someday she may find some desperatley needed Mommy time and read the book and maybe the book will find it's way back to me and onto you, but I wouldn't count on it. This would depend on the friend finding the time to read it, then finding the time to get it back to my sister, then my sister finding time to mail it back to me, and then me finding the time to mail it on to you. I see way to many holes in that plan, so I would suggest you go to amazon.com like I did and get a copy for yourself! Maybe someday you can lend it to me, as I have Mommy-brain so it would probably be like reading a whole new book!
Enjoy!

Spring Photos

I have been trying to post this video for a year. Seriously, a year. For some reason, Blogger wouldn't let me load it, so it has just been sitting in my computer waiting for me to do something with it. Tonight I tried again much to my surprise it loaded! The video is from photos that were taken in our yard when Lucy was three months old and Jack had just turned two.

My kids did not cooperate at all for this photo shoot. Lucy was sleeping (no surprise there, as she was always asleep at that age!) and it was quite difficult to get a photo with her eyes open, much less one with a smile as well! Jack would not stop running (no surprise there either!) and we could only get him to stop moving by feeding him Reece's Pieces. The photographer was able to get some great shots despite my children's lack of cooperation.

Still Sweet

See? Do you understand now?

It is just as sweet every time.

It is just as cute every time.

So, every time this happens, I must get my camera!

New House

February 2010

We bought a house! In Iowa! We found a great couple from Colorado to rent our house in Minnesota!

We are moving soon!

Packing with an eleven month old and a 2 year old sucks!