Have A Safe Trip Daddy!

Daddy is off to Hot Springs for work. We will miss you daddy! We love you....xoxo

We can't stop ourselves!

Here are more pictures of Benjamin because....well... we just think he is so cute! I can't believe how much he looks like my baby pictures in the second photo of him smiling. There is some of me in there somewhere!!

Benjamin is 3 months!

Wow! How the time flies....our little man...I mean big man, is 12 weeks old tomorrow. Here are the pictures I promised GG and Papa. We love you. Oh yes, and Ben gave me a huge laugh out loud giggle tonight while I was changing his diaper. So cute. And....he has almost found his thumb. We will be glad when he does because he is sure giving himself a workout. He getting lots of his fingers in his eyes, nose, and down his throat. Lots of gagging. Any day now and he will have it all figured out. ON the home front....my new attempts at being frugal are paying off. I got 2 big boxes of Cherrios for FREE today and a coupon in the mail for free organic yogurt! I only owed tax at checkout today. That was fun. : )

Back to life...

I have been wanting to finish up vacation pictures, but this week has been so busy. We started back to school this week and I am still catching up on laundry and unpacking. Today I tackled the school room. It looks really good now but was an all day project. Wow...I'm exhausted. It hasn't helped that we have been staying up late every night watching the Olympics. Again tonight. I just couldn't miss the Olympic history being made as Michael Phelps won his 8th gold medal. Amazing! The girls and I stayed up late Thursday night for the women's individual gymnastics competition. They now both want to be olympians. In olympic fashion, Benjamin broke his sleeping record last night by sleeping 11 hours. I pray he keeps this up. Now if I can get some other people breaking sleeping records we will all be in good shape.

Benjadoodle

Before I get back to vacation...





Benjamin is holding his head up so well. He has decided that he prefers to be sitting up instead of laying down. Whenever I try to recline him on my legs he spends all of his time trying to get back up. He has started holding himself up with his arms while on his tummy so he can look around. He is just soooooooo cute. And that is not enough so for how cute he is. I have also noticed that he has this tiny round patch of red, blonde hair on the right side of his head. It is a perfect round circle of hair that is lighter and more red than all the hair around it. I don't know if it would show up in a picture, but it is a defining feature. And boy, does he love being talked to. Avery and Scot have both gotten him to giggle. Abby talks to him in a way that his whole body gets excited and his grin is HUGE. He is really starting to interact with us so much. Now when I'm feeding him, he has decided that he would rather look up and smile and coo and talk...than to eat. So feeding him is taking much longer. But it is just adorable. Oh yes, and did I mention he is a CHUNK!

A little setback...

We are home and I can't wait to talk more about the trip, but I have had a little setback and I am EXHAUSTED. I will be back soon.

Pictures!

What are egger deggers?

We are having so much fun here!! On Sunday we went to church, ate lunch at Marina's, played at a softball game, and ate Rosatti's pizza for dinner. A yummy day. Monday we got ready and went to Matt and Erica's. She whipped up a healthy, delicious dinner. The kids had so much fun playing Pretty, Pretty Princess and watching Ella Enchanted. Tuesday was Erica's birthday. Happy birthday Erica! Matt cooked a birthday breakfast of waffles and egger deggers. "What are egger deggers?" Avery asked. Eggs. : ) We took the girls to see Kit Kittridge. They loved it!! It was an awesome movie. We went out to dinner and had Portillo's chocolate cake for dessert. Erica said she had a great birthday. I will post pictures soon. Hi Mila!! We told everyone you said Hi. : )

Chicago!!

We are here! We decided at the last minute to change our vacation plans and go see my family in Chicago. I'm so glad we did. Hi mom and Marie! Wish you were here too....especially since we've been to see fireworks, laying in the grass all together, and today we ate Italian beefs. So I am sad you are missing this.