Swim baby Swim!

Summer is here! YEA! We are so glad that summer is here so that we can finally enjoy the pool! Cannon loves getting in the pool! There is a splash park, a big water slide, and the pool is shallow enough that he can walk around without a problem! We have been there almost everyday. Our skin tone is starting to show it! I am going to look like a bronze goddess before the summer is over! Praise the LORD! Maybe this winter I won't be so ghostly white! Here are a few pictures we took today! You all need to come join us sometime this summer if you can! It is a lot of fun!

Welcome to our neighborhood pool! Looks inviting huh!

Adilyn Leigh Grace

My niece Adilyn was born tonight! She was born at 8:51 p.m. and weighed 6 lbs 5 oz! I am so excited to have a little girl in the family finally! It has been fun buying girl stuff instead of boy stuff! I am so anxious to hold her! But it will make my baby fever even worse! I am so ready to have another baby. My heart and body yearn for it! It is really weird how that happens. I try to explain to Andrew how I feel but he is not in the same place. He doesn't feel the need to add another person to our family yet. I love him with all my heart, but it is so hard sometimes to like him when we are so far apart on this issue. He says he doesn't know when he wants another child. He will just wake up one day and decided it would be nice, but I don't know why I have to be the one to give up what I truly desire. I guess that is just part of life. Andrew said he is 85% there so hopefully it won't take too much longer to reach 100%!!! I might have to take matters into my own hands if he waits too long! ;)

And the Craziness Begins!

This past weekend was the start to my many trips to Oklahoma this summer! I will be making one or two trips up to Oklahoma each month from now until September! Wow, that is a lot of traveling! Especially with a 2 1/2 year old boy who wants to be running around instead of sitting trapped in a seat for 4 hours! I found out as long as I keep going and don't make any stops the whole way he does better.

This visit to Oklahoma was to celebrate Dana's wedding shower. She had a great turn out at her shower and received tons of great gifts. She was very pleased. I was scheduled to leave Oklahoma on Sunday but I ended up staying a couple more days because my step-sister thought she was going in to labor. Well she actually was in early labor but they still sent her home. BOOO! I was so mad, as was she. We were so ready for Adilyn to be here!! But by Tuesday morning my husband was growing impatient so I decided I better head home.

While I was at my mom's house we took the kiddos to the Tulsa Zoo. It was fun going back to the zoo I grew up going to. But it was sad because one of my favorite things about the zoo was the Polar Bear and it had died 2 days before we went. We were sad! :( The little boy in the picture with Cannon is Gage. This is Cannon's cousin, which is Stacey, my step-sis, the one who is having Adilyn, little boy.

Hope the Neighbors Don't Join in!

Yesterday was one of THOSE days! I was very glad when it was over. To list a few things my precious little boy did:

1. He woke me up at 7:30 on my day I could sleep in.

2. He peed through this night clothes and sat on the couch soaked!

3. He later pooped, took his diaper off in my bathroom and discreetly came and sat in the living room without me noticing. Then stood right in front of me holding himself saying "Look Mommy!" I then noticed the poop everywhere.

4. He decided to use a phone charger as a weapon. He swung it a the TV a few times after being told not too, he starting aiming for my HEAD!

5. The above pictures are from his 3RD set of soaked through of clothes. I took off his clothes and then diaper and he escaped! He ran outside naked and had a grand ol' time!

6. I took him to the park where he decided he didn't want to play anymore and ran away from me. Anytime I would get close he ran further away! I was screaming at the top of my lungs for him to stop, but he just laughed and kept on running! I was so scared he was going to run out in the street.

7. At dinner he threw mash potatoes at me.

8. When I asked him for a kiss that night, he spit in my face.

Wow! I was so ready for that day to be over. God was just making sure that my previous post was true! He was testing my limits on how blessed I really thought I was. I still feel very blessed. I have a feisty little boy that can run and do all these things. Who is happy and full of curiosity. But when Andrew got home, I wanted to cry. I wanted to just go to bed and be done. But my duties as a wife and mother still had to be finished for the day. I survived. On to a new day! Let's hope it is better!

My life as a Mother

Being a mother is something I have always wanted. There was never a time in my life, as far as I can remember, that having children was not an option. I loved babysitting, I couldn't wait for someone I knew to have a baby so I could hold the baby, and I would most definitely volunteer to do the dirty jobs just to get the chance to hold the baby longer. It was very important to me once Andrew and I got serious to know he wanted to be a daddy and that he agreed to my four children minimum! He was right on board. What he was not on board for was getting pregnant just after our first year of marriage! I, of course, wanted it to happen ASAP! The moment I found out I was pregnant I felt the connection with my little boy. I wanted to do everything possible to ensure his safety and I worried constantly that something would happen to him. Thankfully, God saw the desire of my heart and blessed us with a healthy baby boy. I quickly took to my role as a mother while carrying Cannon in my womb. I read to him, sang to him, and talked to him as if I were already holding him in my arms. I made sure everything was just right and ready for his entrance into this world. And I also knew even before the sonogram that he was a HE! I just had that mother's instinct I guess. On September 11, 2006 my life changed forever. I held the most precious gift from God. I cried and cried as I finally saw the face of the little boy that I fell in love with as he kicked, hiccuped, and squirmed inside of me. The first few days were so hard. I could not sleep because I had to make sure my little boy was breathing as he slept. I had been waiting for this moment, and I didn't want anything to go wrong. My dream of being a mother finally came true! It was so hard to adapt to the demands a new baby and truthfully, I am still adjusting to the demands of my baby, but I am enjoying every minute of it. Cannon has brought so much joy and happiness to me and my family that life would not be the same without him. He is a great mixture of Andrew and I and I love seeing the little personality he has develop daily. I am so blessed to be a mommy and I hope that one day soon I will have another baby to love as much as I do Cannon. My goal as a mother is to ensure that my children love the Lord with all their heart, mind, and soul. If that is accomplished then I will be the happiest mommy in the world!



I had a wonderful Mother's day! We were in Longview with Andrew's family this weekend. We went to their church and in the service I won the award for the youngest mom! I was really shocked! I didn't expect it at all! The prize was a beautiful vase of red and white roses. Unfortunately, I forgot them at Travis and Bequita's. So I hope you are enjoying them for me Bequita! Andrew fixed breakfast and lunch and did an amazing job! He is such a wonderful husband! Happy Mother's Day to all of my Moms! I love you and you all have been a blessing to me and my family!

And the Answer Is...

PEP-PEP-PIT!!! Get it! Clearly he wants a PEPPERMINT!! Come on! It wasn't that hard! Good guess though! It was a little tough. I will have another one soon for you to guess. We are having a great time in Longview visiting the Mileur Fam. Can't wait to see my family next weekend! YAY! I will post a longer blog tomorrow on my wonder job of a Mother in honor of Mother's day!

Can you guess what he is asking for???

Andrew and I make Cannon to repeat this as much as we can get him to because it is so funny! Can you figure out what he is asking for?

I will give the answer on my next post! Enjoy!

Thanks so much!

Thank you to my THREE loyal fans! I am so glad to know that people look forward to reading my blog, so therefore I shall keep on blogging! Dana was complaining that all I ever talk about is Cannon, so she didn't read it. (What kind of Aunt is she anyway? :) ) Cannon is my life! He is the only person I am around all day, pretty much everyday! He is my happiness, my mess maker, my stress builder, and my pretty much my employer! The entertainment around him is endless! I am so blessed to have such a happy child. He does have his cranky times and I get a little too irritated at him, but the best thing about that is he always forgives me when I do.


Today was such a great day besides that fact that Andrew had to go in to work for a while. I decided it was time to do some spring cleaning. I swept and mopped all the tile floors, cleaned the bathrooms top to bottom, and vacuumed and shampooed the carpets of practically the whole house! Talk about back breaking! They funny thing was Cannon wanted to help me so bad! Anytime I sweep the floor he wants to do it and today when I was mopping, he wanted to do it! That is all well and good but very frustrating when you are trying to accomplish something and he just wants to play! So I let him play with the mop for a little bit and then continued my job. We he decided that since I wouldn't let him play with the mop anymore he would just play with the water bucket. I look back and find him bathing himself in the dirty mop water! YUCK! Then as I was down on my hands and knees scrubbing the spots he put in the carpet he decided he wanted to give that job a try as well. He decided that wasn't as fun. And my favorite was when I was shampooing the carpet he got his push popper, which he refers to as his "vacuum". and as I went back and forth with my shampooer he mimicked me. With his and on his hip and all! I have a feeling in a few years he won't think all these things are as fun as he does now!


This picture wasn't from today but he loves getting the shark vac out and playing with it!

When Andrew got home we sat on the couch together and watched a little Hannah Montana. A pretty big thunder storm came through while we were sitting there, so Andrew gets the idea to take Cannon running outside in the rain! Cannon loved it! They were both SOAKED when they came in and of course messed up my nice clean floor! Oh well, it never lasts very long anyway! :)