Eight Months

I was trying to catch Hunter sleeping on his side. He looked so sweet but the pic doesn't do it justice.


He also broke in to his Daddy's hair gel. His shirt says Born to be Wild. Hee hee.

He's had some serious teeth coming in these days. He's had a runny nose for 3 weeks and he drools like crazy because his top two teeth are coming in. He already has four on the bottom. One night he woke us up right before midnight crying. It's so rare for him to wake up in the middle of the night because he sleeps like a champ. I had to go get him and rock him and it was just such a sweet time to be rocking my baby I made Korey take a picture. I've found that the trick to calm him down is sing "Jesus Loves Me" to him. He will stop fussing and look at me and smile. Melts my heart!

Without the flash.

While I'm getting ready he hangs out in our bed in the mornings. You can see his four teeth on the bottom.

Hey Ladies!

These last ones were taken on his actual eight month birthday - today! He's checking out our light fixture over the kitchen table. My dad is an electrician. Maybe it's in his blood, too.

And finally my dad is holding him after we finished dinner. He doesn't know how to sit still haha.

My Birthday

For my birthday I took the day off of work and we took Hunter to Celebration park in Allen to have a picnic. It was super cold in the shade and windy but we had fun. The weather was beautiful!

We put Hunter in the swing for his first time and he didn't like it at first.

But then he calmed down and just stared down the whole time.

Here we are under the shade trying to stay warm and eat at the same time.

Korey looks so super agent sitting with Hunter.

That night we took Hunter to my sister's and went to Whiskey Cake. It was delicious! But a little loud in the restaurant. We're becoming old like that. My sister took these pics of us after we got back so we could have a family photo.

As is my tradition I like to make my birthday stretch out over several days. Since the actual day was Thursday and I was out of the office I got a cake at work on Friday and then on Saturday we went to my parents house and celebrated.

I got tulips (my fave) and these super-large, yummy cupcakes!

Not sure what Hunter's face is but I wanted to show him holding the ball.

Little man already has four teeth on the bottom so he is a drool machine. I never think to get him a bib to wear.

Seven Months

Eeeeeekkkk!! It's going by way too fast. If you had told me when he was a newborn that he'd be trying to feed himself and splashing in the bathtub I wouldn't have believed you.


He's officially a sitter! He still teeters some but I can now sit him up in the bathtub and he splashes away. He loves, loves, loves bananas and applesauce and hates the homemade green beans I made (I used the steamer kind) because he sticks his tongue out and makes a gagging/choking face. And his face shrivels up like a bitter beer face. The boy now has 4 teeth! 4! They are all on the bottom. He loves watching the dogs play while he's in the high chair and reaches out to try to pet them. We are teaching him how to nicely pet the dogs. He knows how to scream in a shrill voice when he's ready to get out of the high chair or be held in general. Not that we ever give in, haha. Ok we do. He's just so cute. I stopped swaddling him mostly because he outgrew the swaddle. Lately we've been noticing that he's trying to do a fish face where you suck in your lips, probably because his momma does it to entertain him. And he's been turning his tongue sideways. Not sure if he's trying to curl it up but I know I don't have that gene. Oh and he can click his tongue, too. And he HATES the stroller. Help! He hated the carseat at first so I'm hoping this is just a phase because whenever we go anywhere we have to carry him in. He just cries whenever he's in the stroller. Haven't figured out what it is about it he doesn't like.


Morning time with Daddy before we went to work.

Whenever we drive from Houston back to home on 45 we stop at Bucky's. It's the best gas station ever! We got him a t-shirt before he was born when we knew we were having a boy. We're redneck like that.

A pic from February where he's holding the card his Nana gave him.

Cirque de Soleil - Ovo

For Christmas Korey and I won tickets to Cirque de Soleil in the Right/Left game. The tickets weren't until Feb and so we got to go the day before Valentine's Day. The show was in Frisco. You probably saw the big tents in Frisco by IKEA.

These pics are backwards. This is before the show started and before I got told I wasn't allowed to use my camera. I have no pics of the show but you can check out their website to see what happens. Let me just say it was A-MAZING. The tricks and acrobatics they do are surreal. I was watching them and I kept saying, "No, no, no" like you would if you were about to see a person jump off a high building. But they don't listen to you and they do it anyway and with grace and finesse. They take the circus to a whole new level. I think our favorite act was the "ants" that spun these round discs on their feet and then they passed people around on their feet while they were laying down. In sync and without missing a beat. Incredible.

Before the show started and crammed into our tiny seats.

These were literally tents that had huge steel poles in the middle to support them. I can't imagine being on the crew that has to put these up and take them down for every show. They were stationed in a parking lot and they had driven huge nails/anchor things into the concrete to anchor the tent. The first thing I said when we walked up was where was the bathroom! But they had portable bathrooms. Not a port a potty but an actual bathroom trailer thing.

A random pic from December. We were in Pottery Barn Kids and I sat Hunter in one of their chairs. Too cute.

The Blogs I Read

This blog keeps me grounded. I stumbled across this by accident and I still can't remember how I found it. But it makes me rethink my materialistic ways and attitudes and reminds me that this world is not about me, but God. And it reminds me that I should be doing something with my life. I talk to Korey about this blog alot. It's an American family with four kids who live in Haiti and they are making their life's work to minister to the poor and needy. The wife works with a ministry called Heartline that teaches women how to take care of and breastfeed their babies. Many women don't understand the basics of this and struggle to keep their children fed.


I'm hoping this blog will make me skinny.

This blog makes me laugh. And makes me want to cook all the time.

This blog is from someone real. She is a wife and a mom and doesn't write fluff about her life. Oh and she happens to be Beth Moore's daughter.


And this blog reminds me to budget when I'm at the grocery store. It IS possible!

Last, but not least, my newest discovery....this blog reminds me that Korey and I are normal!

Decisions, Decisions

Not too long ago Korey and I started talking about buying a new house. Probably because my sister and her husband were in the process of looking. We have a 3 bedroom house which was purchased by me before he and Hunter came along. And before we got two dogs. So I had plenty of room. That's how it happens though. I bought the house in October 2007, met him in November, and we were engaged by March 2008. By then I had two dogs. Big ones. We got married, he moved in and we got settled. July 2010 brought along Hunter in his own room. Then Korey quit his day job so he could work from home. He settled into our last bedroom which also holds my desk and the dog crates. And now it also holds the baby swing. Guests have to sleep on our sleeper sofa in the living room. We are cramped. But cozy. If we don't invite anyone over it's not because we don't love you but because we don't have anywhere to put you. Our kitchen table is even backed up into the corner and if 4 people sit there one has to squeeze around to the back. I digress.

With loan rates being so good we looked at refinancing but it wasn't ideal. We talked about moving. We prayed. Do we stay in McKinney? Or go somewhere else? Where do we ultimately want to be settled? Or do we get new floors? We had many conversations and weighed the pros and cons. When I first bought the house I knew that I would need to change the floors out and it was on my to-do list. But then along came a husband and a baby and other priorities took place. But don't think I haven't let Korey forget that I want them! I talk about them constantly. "Hey, look there's a sale going on!" I'm sure it irritates him to no end. I have even told him that's the only thing I want changed on the house. Nothing else. :)

After having numerous discussions about moving vs new floors we decided we didn't want to move yet so we would get new floors. HOORAY!! We got a recommendation from our realtor and started the process. Korey went to the store and picked out samples and even took measurements to them so we could have an idea of what it would cost. We tallied everything up and decided we could do it. A rep from the store came out the weekend before the ice storm hit to do the actual measurements. The next week because all of the metroplex was shut down we weren't surprised that we didn't receive an estimate. Then the next week came and nothing. I called. I got a voice mail. I left a message. Someone emailed us the estimate. It wasn't the right one. I called again and left a voice mail again. On a Saturday of all days because noone was answering the phone. Korey called, too. He was told that the owner had the estimates and would send them to us. 3 days later we got them over email. They were still wrong. When I say wrong they had the old measurements. Not the ones that the person who came out had measured. We were frustrated and disappointed. It had taken us 3 weeks just to get to that.

By this point there were rumors that my company was for sale. We have been in bankruptcy since September. The official news of the sale came and changed everything. We decided that we would have to put off floors again. Needless to say I'm in the process of looking for a new job. I have been with the company for 6 years. We revisited the question again about where to move. I expanded my job search beyond the metroplex. We would ultimately like to live around Austin even though I will go there wearing Maroon. But so far it looks like there are more job possibilities here for me. Obviously this post isn't about floors but about where God is leading us. And so we wait to see what happens next.

6 Months

This is my favorite son! :) I can't believe it's already been 6 months. Sometimes it's hard to remember what he looked like as a baby and when Korey and I see pictures of him when he was smaller we can hardly believe it. He is changing every day it seems. I love every minute I get to spend with him.



Dear Hunter,


At 6 months your face lights up and you smile whenever you see either me or your dad. You love your stuffed monkey because he helps you go to sleep at night (thanks LD and Nanners) and you are moving away from the paci unless it's a really exhausting day. You scream in a very shrill, loud voice whenever you are tired. Thank goodness we have figured what that one means! You love playing with your feet and can even suck on your toes. Wonder if I ever was that flexible. You babble constantly and say da-da, blah-blah, and we are working on ma-ma. You are doing well with the solids you are eating although I think you are still getting the hang of the fact that the spoon needs to go in your mouth. Your bottom two teeth have already come in, too! You immediately calm down whenever someone plays patty-cake with you or reads you a story. You have already rolled over and we are working on helping you to sit on your own. You are even starting to notice the dogs and your eyes follow them around the room whenever they wrestle each other. I think I saw you smiling at Camo just this week. We love you very much and we're so proud to be your parents!