Lazy Night

Chris is at the KU game tonight, and the boys are sleeping so I took this opportunity to mess around with a new photo editing software that got a few weeks ago. I made a collage of my pregnancy with Chase. Now, it doesn't look that special, but it took me a while to do, just because everything is so new.

Thank goodness this program came with an instruction booklet (it's seriousely a little over and inch thick!), or I'd be completely lost. It's really cool though, and it can do a billion things. I just need to get a printer that will print 12x12 pages, and then I can make a picture into a background page for scrapbooking! That will be awesome!

But for now it's baby steps, and little things like this.

Chase's New Toy

So if you gave the little guy money or a gift card for Christmas, and are wondering what it went towards. Here ya go...

I had given my Johnny Jump Up away before we found out that we were expecting again, and Chase loves to jump, so I went to Wal*Mart and got this cute little (well, it's really not that little!) thing.

He really likes it though, and it's so cute to watch him. He really gets his legs going! I have a video, but it's sideways, because I forgot that when I hold my camera lengthwise to film, it doesn't automatically adjust and flip the image. Once I figure out how to rotate it, I'll put it up.

Oh a bit of his money is being put back so we can start a savings account for him too. We didn't blow it all!

A BIG thanks to everyone who helped with this purchase! My arms thank you too!!

New Years resolution...

Working out of course. But not for me...

YAY FOR TUMMY TIME!!!

He's starting to get really good at holding his head up longer. His new favorite thing is jumping. Unfortunately I got rid of the Johnny Jump up before I knew I was pregnant again. I do however have a few gift cards left from Christmas for Chase. So I'm going to o this week and see if I can find one of those free standing ones.

For now at least it's a good work out for mommies arms!

Blog trouble

Whew! I thought I was going to have to start a new blog!

I have no idea what happened, but I couldn't get anything to work right, and things were showing up in the wrong places. I deleted a couple of my old posts and things started working again. So hopefuly it stays that way!

Christy, thanks for your comment on the christmas blog, It got deleted when I was trying to figure everything out. I just wanted to let you know I did see it, and I appreciated it!

Christmas was really great this year. The boys had a ton of fun, and got a bunch of new, cool toys! Each year just gets better and better. I think it's because the boys are finally getting old enough to get excited really excited about Christmas and all it means. Not just the Santa part (which is really fun to do), but the magic of Christmas, the giving, seeing other people excited, and the miracle of Jesus' birth.

This year we had a few changes in the schedule from the previous years. But we still felt like we were running and going the entire holiday.

First, We had Christmas with Chris Grandma Unkel and the whole Unkel side of the family 1 week before Christmas. That's always fun because we get to see people we normally don't get to see during the year. It's absolute craziness though. That side of the family is sooo huge! It's fun for the kids though, because there's never a dull moment, and there a bazillion other kids running around.

Then we had Christmas with Chris' mom and his brother's and their families the Sunday before Christmas. They all came over here to our house, which was nice, because we didn't have to get everyone loaded up and get out! We had a table full of snacks, and we ordered pizza too. While we waited for the pizza to come, we decided to open presents. Gavin got a really awesome bike from Chris mom, and Dylan got a Hot wheels track and some cars. She also gave them a Spider Man lamp for their room, which they think is the coolest thing ever! They both got more than that, but those were the "big" gifts. Oh and Dylan got some Lightening McQueen crocks for Aunt Shara, which he absolutely LOVES! The kid wore them the entire night, slept with them and put them right back on when he woke up! I wish I got a picture of him, but I didn't... he was wearing nothing but his underwear and his crocks... it was hilarious.

Christmas Eve we spent the morning and afternoon at home, then it was off to Chris' brother Kevin's house for Christmas with the Greiving (Chris' mom's) side of the family. We were there until about 10 or a little after, then we came home and got Santa's cookies ready for him, and left some carrots out for the reindeer.

After the boys went to sleep it was time for Santa's elfs to get to work on setting up the presents! And while this elf was busy with that, here's what the other elf was up to... The boys woke up about 8:30 Christmas morning and look what they saw! Santa Came!!! He left a little note to let them know he enjoyed the cookies and chocolate milk, and appreciated the boys leaving carrots for the reindeer. He also let them know that their stocking were downstairs (because they normally hand on the fireplace upstairs), so they wouldn't think he took them!
After reading the note Santa left, we headed down to see what he had left behind for them.

At about 9:30 that morning my parents, brother, and grandparents (from AZ) came over and we opened presents from them.

After everyone left, we sat downstairs and played for a while, well, Chris cleaned up (I swear he has OCD!). then we all fell asleep, and took about a 3 hour nap! It was great!! When we woke up we got ready to go over to my parent's house and eat dinner and exchange presents with my sister and her girlies.

After dinner, and opening presents we broke out the good 'ol twister game.

Luckily none of us old geezers broke anything while playing. And to think I used to think this game was a breeze! I guess that's one of the joys of getting older. lol

On the way home from my parents house Christmas night, we stopped by the video store and bought a few movies. We camped out in the basement that night and watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! It was really fun, and the boys got to use their new sleeping bags. :)

Well, that's about how our Christmas week went. Sorry it took me so long to get it all posted. I will get better at keeping it updated... sometime...I hope y'all had a great Christmas too!

A day in the life of a mom

My friend Jess had this on her page, and I just had to add it to mine. It's just too good to not share.

Just some pictures

I finally got around to taking some pictures of Chase on Monday, so here they are.

He's now 18 days old, and probably weighs close to 9 lbs. Things are going really well, and we're back to life as usual. Sometimes I wish things would stop just long enough for me to catch my breath, and take it all in, but that would make life way to easy :)

The boys love Chase to death and are always begging to hold him. If I put him down for a second they think they can go get right in his face. Dylan is the worst about not giving the kid any personal space. I guess he thinks if he's not right in his face he can't hear him! Gavin is a really good big brother, and loves to help calm him down if he starts to cry, and he does a really great job at it. Dylan also loves to "help" and will follow me around bringing me anything and everything I leave behind in a room, for example a blanket, paci, diaper, etc...

Here is a pic I took this evening of all 3 boys. I'm planning on doing some with the black background, but it took me a while to get them together for this one, so we'll have to wait and see.

(And I added the "bad" pictures too, just because I thought they were funny)

"Everyone look at the camera!! Gavin Smile... no give me a real smile!"

"123... smile... Oh Dylan! Look at the camera!! Gavin... SMILE and look at me... come on boys!!"

"Finally!!"