just hangin around

hey...i think you forgot something...

smile pretty girl...

Movie star in the making...

With this boys amount of personality and how photogenic he is, I see a future heart breaker for sure!

Playing with Stratton

After I got Strat out of the bath the other day, he was in a pretty content mood, so I decided to try and snap a couple shots while the morning sun was filtering through the window.

Kylie's Preschool graduation...

I can't believe its already been 5 years since we welcomed my sweet Kylie into the world. Now she's all grown up and getting ready to start kindergarten in the fall. This past week, we headed to Whistle Stop, her preschool, to watch her and her friends 'graduate.' Nana, Dampa, and my Uncle, who was in town for training came along as well. My mom even thought ahead and bought Kylie a wrist corsage with tiny pink baby roses that she was able to wear.

I thought I'd be a bit emotional about the experience, but there were so many people there it was pure chaos. Add trying to keep both the boys still and quiet, and there wasn't really anytime to get emotional.

All the kids got to walk in, do the pledge and sing, 'God Bless America', and then proceeded to sing a couple songs. It was quite impressive what they were able to do. They knew all the continents, named all the states in the United States, went through the phonics alphabet while doing sign language to go along with it all, and counted to 100 by ones, twos, fives, and tens. Each child was able to come up and get their diploma while the director of the school shared info about each child. Kylie shared that her favorite color was purple, that her favorite thing to do at school was color, and that when she grew up she wanted to do gymnastics.

After the graduation, the school had an open house, complete with a bounce house, petting zoo, pony rides, balloon artist, train rides, and more. Ky and I were both exhausted when we finally heading home around 8:45, but she had a blast and that's all that matters to me!

Here are a couple of pics of my sweet girl, due to the amount of people and inability to really move to take pictures, none of the shots really turned out all that fantastic, regardless, I'm very proud of my biggest rugrat!

Singing, two separate times she knocked her and her neighbors hat off while doing the motions to songs. The teacher told the kids whoever sang the loudest and did the best job would win a popsicle. Ky took this challenge VERY seriously...in the end, they all 'tied' surprise, surprise, but she was happy anyways.

Filling into the main room.

The set up before the kids entered.

Before leaving the house.

Stratton @ 12 weeks

Saturday Morning...

Jason asked what I wanted to do this past weekend since it was mother's day weekend and I told him that I wanted to have a lazy Saturday morning. I asked him to make me his pancakes from scratch that I love and then we loaded up the kiddos and took them to a new park not far from our house. Aside from the wind, it was a gorgeous morning. Stratton slept in the carseat through the whole thing, and aside from fussing a little, let us focus on Ky and Beck. The kids loved checking out the new playground and building sand castles on the volleyball court. I enjoyed the hour just BEING...instead of trying to mark stuff off our to-do list, which is never ending and encompasses most of every weekend we now have. All in all, it ended up being a wonderful day! I am very thankful for the family that God has blessed me with. I am thankful for the women in my life who are moms themselves, and I pray for the women in my life who are trying to become moms also. I am thinking of my mom, and all that she has done for me, which, as I grow older, I see more and more and appreciate more and more. And I am thinking of my three adorable babies and the two that we will see in heaven one day =) Happy Mother's Day to all the amazing moms out there!

Ky and Stratton...

It never ceases to amaze me what an amazing young lady my Ms. Kylie is turning out to be. She truly has a gift for entertaining babies and a deep LOVE for her brothers. These are a couple pics I took while the kids vegged out on the couch this past weekend.

Strat @10 weeks is starting to 'talk' to us now. When he makes eye contact with you he'll kick with excitement while he giggles and coo's, I LOVE it! Also, he gave me a 7 hr. stretch last night, which is the longest he's ever gone! I consider that some major progress! Now, we just have to keep it moving in that direction. He's doing great bottle feeding, and I'm so OVER pumping, so we've been integrating formula and I hope to be done with breast milk all together over the next week or so.

This is one of my fave. pics right now, I only wish I could have gotten some of Ky's facial expression in the shot as well. Just like Beck was and still is fascinated with her, so is Stratton!

Making funny faces...well, Ky is at least