Easter Blessings

Hope everyone had a great Easter weekend! We spent it with lots of friends and family. Easter morning we watched Everett investigate his basket from The Bunny before attending mass with a very good little baby :-) Then we stopped at my parents so Everett could check out his basket that The Bunny left there. Then we all went on to Mamaw and Papaw's (my grandparents) for lunch with Aunt Suzie, CT, Jennifer & Charlotte. Where The Bunny left three more baskets for Everett. That is one busy Bunny!!

I think the Easter Bunny did good!! I love how sleepy he looks ha!


Ev & Daddy playing with his new car keys at Grandma & Grandpa's!

An Easter nap, doesn't that look nice?

Checking out his Easter basket from Aunt Suzie


Also, an update on my boys and their Cubs. (this post has alot of important animals in it!)

I just love this one I mean, they match! Everett and The Cub

This is his "Its opening day!" face

Time flies!

Hello! I hope this post finds everyone well! So much has happened since our last update. First things first, our house is starting to really come together! Brian and I are so proud of what we've been able to accomplish since we got here. We are finishing up our kitchen tonight, hanging the last bit of trim. Whoa! What an adventure, it was Brian and I's first home improvement project. We make a great team though luckily!

Scary scary wallpaper and ceiling fan in before:
Mommy & Daddy are pretty pleased with after:


Other than that there has been alot of visiting with friends and family. Movie nights, lunches, birthday parties and we even get to meet a new cousin this week!

We want to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our niece Sydney Paige! We can not believe she celebrated her first birthday this week on April 1st! Get a load of our favorite picture from her first experience with birthday cake! hahaha

Here is Everett with his Great Grandma Darene, they met for the first time and were both all smiles!

Also Everett enjoyed a visit with Great Grandpa Bob & Great Grandma Shirley! The three of them can cause quite a ruckus!
Here are some photos of our other adventures:
Everett & Mommy at the Children's Museum

Everett & Bugs, best buddies.

Everett trying to wake up his buddy Olivia after lunch out with all of our friends!

Beth, Everett & Rob at lunch!

Natalie and Everett during their first adventure in babysitting!

And lastly my boys have been preparing all week (or in Brian's case 27 years) for tomorrow. The start of their first Cubs season together.
This year is here.... ? Mommy prays so.

Love you!

*edit* Mommy has been informed the phrase is 'Next year is here', hey what can I say, I'm just here for moral support and to say very important things like 'ohhh who's he? He's good looking.'

Greetings from Indiana!

We are here in our new home and finally getting settled in!
(And we have internet access WOO HOO!!!)

What an adventure it was!

Mommy and Everett flew into Indy on Friday morning the 27th. Everett slept during takeoff and landing and played the whole time in between. He did great for the most part except for one strange incident with the plane being out of bottled water. Seriously? 'Have mercy on these people' is all mommy thought as the little guy started to cry. They did have some juice however which held him over until we were on the ground (poor guy!). Grandma and Grandpa were there to greet us and ooohhh and aaahhh over the growing little guy. He was just a little bit bigger since the last time they saw him! haha.

Here is Everett in his winter coat because it was COOOLLLLDDD!!!!

Daddy and two of his Dallas buddies drove over night to get to Indy with all of Everett's toys (and the rest of mommy and daddy's stuff too!) A whole gang of folks were there to unload that stuffed truck and try to shove it all into our new house. Everyone laughed about Everett's room, saying you could tell which was his because the glow of the paint carried out into the hallway. Mommy thought they were being just a little dramatic, but not too much.


Ev sure was happy to see all of his stuff!


Since getting here we have had the chance to visit with lots of family and friends. Everett has been quite a hit! He loves JaKobi and Mike and thought that they were awfully funny. And he loves watching Uncle Dylan, he thinks he's pretty funny too. I'm sure we will have lots of photos and adventures to post so stay tuned. Next week is going to be great grandparents week as we meet up with Grandma Darene for breakfast on Tuesday and dinner with Grandpa Bob & Grandma Shirley on Friday. Mommy will be sure to bring the camera.

Goofing off with Great Aunt Suzie! Two of a kind.

Mondays are Dancing with the Stars nights so Grandma and mommy watch it together and dish.

During Dancing Uncle Dylan and Everett hung out and distracted us with their good looks.

Here is Everett with his godmother Emily, she comes to visit on Thursdays for Grey's Anatomy and sometimes in between episodes if we're real lucky!

We will also be posting photos of the house as we get everything together. Want to keep everyone 'in the loop'! Until then,
love you all!!!!

Long time no... blog?

To say that Mommy has been slacking is an understatement! I had no idea it had been so long. I guess so much has been going on with us that we have been a little side tracked. As all of you now know we are moving home to Indiana the last weekend of February. Everett and I actually leave in 20 days. 20!! I still cant believe it. For the record I am going to go pack after this. :-)

Everett & Daddy just hanging out!!

Mommy & her little man!!

As far as Everett goes he has been changing so much. Its unbelievable to see him transform into this little person. He continues to have such a wonderful personality. He's always so happy and those big blue eyes make him quite the charmer too. He is now taking rice cereal before bed and a few days a week he will have a breakfast of veggies with his bottle. So far he is loving carrots, peas and green beans. Our pediatrician warned that we should probably start off with veggies at first so that he doesn't get hooked on everything tasting sweet, so fruits are still in our future!


He is also growing like a weed. At his four month check up he weighed in at a little over 15 pounds and measured 25 1/2 inches long. He continues to be basically at the 50th percentile being just a bit longer for his age. He is loving sitting in his bumbo and playing in his high chair.
Most of all he is FINALLY getting comfortable with tummy time especially since he started rolling over so that way he spends no time actually on his tummy. Silly guy!


Around Christmas he caught on to a noise I was making with my mouth. We now call it blowing bubbles and since he started mimicking it, it has become his favorite thing. When he wakes up in the morning and is waiting for someone to get him he blows bubbles, when he jumps in his jumper he blows bubbles, and he LOVES when you blow bubbles back at him. It is absolutely hilarious and he loves that it gets a laugh most of the time. Speaking of laughing he has started doing a ton of it. And its the best kind of baby laughs, the deep in the belly that was the funniest thing ever kind of laugh. So satisfying!

Blowing bubbles yet again!!!

Mommy's newest favorite!!

We will update as soon as possible, which most likely will be March! AGH! We will be sure to post photos of our new house and especially some photos of Everett's new nursery and him visiting with my side of our family! He hasnt seen them since he was 6 weeks old and he'll be 6 months old. WOW!

Mommy reflects on one crazy year!!

Happy New Year to everyone!

2008 will be a tough one to beat seeing as how it was the best year of our lives so far. Thinking back on this day last year, I had passed up on a glass of wine having a secret hunch that on the next new year our lives would be completely different. And completely wonderful. I don't think I've ever been more right. It was a scary, exciting and emotional ride. Being blessed with the birth of Everett is something that I can not put into words nor the love that Brian and I have for him. I did want to share some of my favorite photos from the year, some you may have seen and some may be new to you, but they all hold a special place in my heart. I can only hope that everyone's new year is as great as our '08! Love you all