Kids and Christmas

This is a great little movie to kick off the Christmas season. I love the views children have...wish I could be more simple like them every day of my life.

| 7 Years |

Bryan and I have been married for 7 years. Our anniversary was yesterday. I can't believe it has already been 7 years, and that we have 2 kids now. I am so in love with him, and can't imagine my life being any better than what it is now. We were able to take a little family trip this last weekend and celebrate our anniversary a bit. I loved the time I had to just sit back and laugh and chat with Bryan in the evenings when the kids went to bed. Life is good, I definitely have no complaints. I love this man. Happy Anniversary!

| Mitchell 6 months |

Man time sure has flown by. I am amazed at how quickly my little man has grown. He is such a fun little guy to have around. CONSTANTLY smiling. Mornings are so much fun at our house, he wakes up squealing in delight waiting for someone to get him. And I think he is most excited when Kayla is the first to run in there. He can hardly hold back the joy!

And yes, I know he may quite possibly have the chubbiest cheeks on the planet. I don't think there is a single shopping trip where someone hasn't stopped dead in their tracks and made some sort of comment about his cheeks. I love it. So funny. Even the dr made some wise cracks! But those chubby little cheeks are deceiving. Everyone is sure he must be a big baby. But he isn't. Here are the stats for his 6 mo. appointment:

Height: 25.5"—15%

Weight: 16.15#—35%

Head: 16.9"—25%

He is definitely short. I will give him that one. 

He has LOVED the new freedom of being able to sit up on his own. He has been doing it for almost a month and a half now. He loves when I stick a basket of toys in front of him to dig through, I can't just pile them, they MUST be in a basket. So funny. He will dig through it for quite some time too. He definitely is quite the fan of baby food. Although he does pull quite the funny faces when swallowing some foods. He is quite the momma's boy. I have tried to avoid this a bit, but only because it makes it hard to go places when he just cries for momma. Luckily as long as he is entertained, he tends to "forget" for just a bit. I will say I do kind of like the sweet quivering lip that emerges when I come into his sight again. Kind of makes all my hard work feel like it is being noticed :) And Kayla and Mitchell are definitely the best of friends. What a wonderful treat!

| Halloween 2010 |

We had a wonderful Halloween this year! I have a million photos too. So here I go...

Kayla all dressed up in her Cinderella costume. She LOVED it. I am so glad it turned out. I enjoyed getting to make it for her. And now she can dress up as Cinderella anytime she wants!

And no Cinderella is complete without her prince! Bryan was such a good sport, Kayla had been telling him for weeks she was going to be Cinderella and he was her prince. He had no problem dressing up for this girl!! 

Here is a the kiddos and I. Yes, I went with the lame, traditional, "witch" costume...at least I dressed up right?!? And Mitchell was a dragon.

Kayla had a carnival at school the day before. It was SO much fun. I can't even believe how much stuff was there to do for these kids. She was one lucky girl!! 

This is Jacque, Kayla's speech therapist. And let me just tell you, Kayla LOVES her. She was so excited to see Jacque dressed up as Snow White.  

 Later that night we carved Pumpkins. Oh I love this part of Halloween! Kayla refused to touch the guts. WHY?!?! I wanted her to so bad, but she refused. Oh well. She was quite proud and happy with the finished product, so that's good enough for me!

 Mitchell was quite the helper too, can't you tell? He sat and ate whatever he could find, a toothbrush, fingers, fist...whatever :)

 On Halloween we did all our rounds of visits. These are are few shots of Kayla and Mitchell at the Ahlberg's. I just love them, in all their goofy glory!

| family pictures |

We just got our family pictures taken this week and the photographer posted a few of the pictures from the shoot. I absolutely love how they turned out. I couldn't be happier. Leah was such an awesome photographer (I HIGHLY recommend her), and she seriously did such a good job at keeping Kayla some what put!

Go visit her blog here, to see more of the shots from our shoot. I will post more when I get all the shots back from her.

Images from leahmillerphotography.com

| P- to the O- to the t-t-y! |

Just in case that made no sense at all, KAYLA IS POTTY TRAINED!! Yipee. I can't even hardly keep my excitement in over this wonderful feat we have accomplished. This is not my first attempt ever, the first was a not so good experience. She was barely over 2, and let's just say, definitely NOT ready. This was probably our third attempt. I don't really feel it should be an issue that should be pushed, so I never pushed it. (oh trust me, I wanted too,  I wanted her out of diapers SO bad). This time around Kayla saw a potty at the store and told me she was a big girl and wanted to use it. So we went for it. It took a little time, and patience, but man oh man when she figured it out, it was smooth sailing! She is a champ. And so proud of herself. And one of these days I will have to get the potty dance on video, quite funny. I just love my little Kayla.

I had to snap this pic of her the other day in her undies. Super funny. More funny because she LOVES hanging out in this bouncy toy. I usually have to fight her out of it so Mitchell can have his turn. (she had a skirt on this day, hence the exposure of those little cheekies)

And since I am TOTALLY terrible at blogging, and have a million and one things to catch up on blog wise. Here is a cute pic of Mitchell taken on Bryan's birthday. We threw quite the mean 30th birthday party!

| busy, busy, busy |

Life as a mom of two is definitely much more busy...but is INSANELY busy when you add work into the equation. I am lucky to have the business I do. To be able to be at home with my kids, and still help provide for our family financially. This summer has been CRAZY busy with work, but I have sure had fun getting to work on some of the projects I have. Here is a little of what I have been up to....