Spring Blizzard....

I think the blizzard has bypassed us. Though, the forecast says over the next 3 days we'll be getting a hefty 8 inches dumped on us. Hm. I guess I'll let you know if it happens or not. The weather has been quite pleasant lately. Highs in the upper 60s/low 70s and the lows in the 40s or 50s at night. The next few days are supposed to be fairly wintry. It could be interesting.

*shrug*

Just curious...

Has anyone actually kept their kiddo's baby book up to date? Does anyone complete their kid's book? I know my book, as well as my siblings' baby books are not finished. I think they all stopped after a few years. My sister has the most complete, then mine, and I think my poor brother has the least in his. I know it is because with 3 kids, life rarely gives you time to update the books. I only have 1 kid and I find it difficult to keep up. I was working on it earlier today and realized how far behind I am. I haven't gotten around to printing needed photos. There are many pages that I still need to fill in. I can't imagine being able to keep up with more than one book. It seems near impossible. Do normal mommas keep up with the books? Or do I have to be super scrapbooking momma with an insatiable love for having the books up to date at any given moment? While searching for baby books, I found the ones that go up to 18 years, and then the ones that are lifelong books that get passed to the kid, and they finish completing it with their kid's info and such. That's pretty freaking hardcore. I settled on a 5 year book. I just hope I can finish it....and finish my next kid's book as well.

That's all....just curious.

I'm on a roll....

edit: the ghost of myspace past ate the photos...nothing to see here. I left the descriptions so you'd know what you're missing.

Since I've found an easier, quicker way to upload the photos, I'm on a little spree today. Don't expect this every day. I have other things I need to cross off my ginormous "to do" list for March.

So, here are some photos from the last few months...


My silly little bathing baby..she loves bathtime

Playing at Auntie Erika's house
Sporting the "s'curl" at my parents' house
Christmas pic....lotsa coaxing and distracting to keep her from crying

Christmas Day....riding the pony from Aunt Amanda
Partying after midnight on New Year's

My little snow bunny....taken on a trip to the Rocky Mountain National Park

My flexible little girl...her legs look so long!
First spaghetti...she refused to have it in a bowl

Mmm...fingerpainting with pudding (vanilla pudding with red, blue, and yellow food coloring...she decided she liked eating it more than painting with it....very fun afternoon)
Gnawing on a stick at the park

My pretty little baby contemplating eating some more "nature" at the park

Modelling for me on Valentine's Day

"haaa-t" (super cute shirt eh? Thanks Aunt Jamie!)

Me and my baby girl being silly

I hope that's enough pics to hold you over for a bit. Sure, I have more...but they probably won't be uploaded for a while. I guess...stay tuned for another massive photo update in 3-4 months! :) I hope it doesn't take me that long. Really.

Jezebel's 1st Birthday (11/28/08)

edit: no photos courtesy of the ghost of myspace past. Here's what you're missing:


Jezebel amongst her presents

Getting help from all the little girlies

Everyone is so very content to be playing with Jezebel's loot

Nana and Pappy

My crazy little girl...full of sugar
Too much sugar?
Jezebel wanted to share her icing with Daniel and me

My babe is awake, so more photos will have to wait. Sorry!

My blog got all Wacky McCrazy Cockamamy when I added that last post. Something about the photos and not sure what else caused it to get all shrunken and overlapping photos with text and all kinds of other chaos. The only remedy I could find was changing the layout. Possibly making it even lamer. I need to follow the twins and make mine super cute...one day.

Here's a photo update.....

edit: the photos were hosted elsewhere (the ghost of myspace past), but have since been removed. So...no photos. I left the descriptions, just in case I decide to hunt down the proper photos one day.


I'll try to upload some pics. It takes so long though...and I'm too lazy to manually resize my photos before uploading them. I did that for a while...but then grew tired of it. Anyway...I've been needing to update with photos for...MONTHS. Yeah, I screamed it (in my head). :) Hey..I just realized that I could do a little "copy image location" from my myspace photo albums and easily upload them here. Super quick too. Pretty easy. :) So...how about some photos? Here's some way overdue photos from our visit to Louisiana in November/December.

Pappy and his sweet granddaughter

I know mom would hate this pic of her...but she avoids the camera...so I have to be a ninja when taking pics. But...when being a ninja, the result isn't always the greatest, especially if taking the pic within minutes of mom awakening from deep slumber. Anyway...I still love the pic. I like seeing Nana and Pappy with my sweet babe. :)


Uncle James with his little Ayden and my little Jezebel

My brother and my daughter

Amanda, Esten, Jezebel and me at my parents' house

Esten, Daniel, Jezebel, and my dad (Pappy to the young ones)...and Madeline's butt

Visiting with some of my favorite people :)

Daniel, Jezebel and Jonathan

Erika, Jezebel and me....being silly as usual

Some of my most favorite people EVER (how do you like the wide range of baby expressions?)

Kailey and Jezebel

Silly silly little girls...Allison, Kailey and Jezebel


Alrighty...so that kinda sums up the visiting with lovely lovely people. Kinda. :)

Hey...

I'm still alive. Sorry I've been neglecting this blog. Computer time seems to be a rarity lately...and when I'm on, I'm too busy catching up on other things. I don't feel like organizing and uploading photos or doing other blogging things. Lazy? Perhaps. Always seeming to be behind on everything? Yes.

I have a sicky baby right now. She's had a bad case of the runny bottom. What makes it even worse is that it keeps leaking. So, over the past few days, I've washed countless pants and changed her bedding several times. This stinks.

So, there's my update. Still no pics...but hopefully soon. :)

Visting with Erika

I miss Erika so much. It hurts. She's making me mention my visit with her though. I had a wonderful visit. Lily had to go to sleep, so I only got to see her for a little while. Josh cooked us a delicious gumbo dinner crafted from leftover turkey from Thanksgiving. It was very yummy. We had other stuff too...and cookies. Yay for cookies! Jezebel loved them. She didn't eat much of her dinner, but oh, she loved the cookies. She has a wicked sweet tooth. I don't know where she got that from. Hmm. After dinner, we all hung out for a bit. I loved on Erika's fur baby and she loved on my flesh baby. Josh and the Dan hung out while Erika and I made out. It was awesome. I'd post a few pics, but I don't think I have any G rated ones. Oh, you didn't want me to go there Erika? I just did.

Oh yeah, crafty Erika made Jezebel a super cute shirt. Jezebel's foot print was a Rudolph's head and her super squishy messy handprints were the antlers. She glued some googly eyes and a red pom pom nose on to complete the reindeer. She also wrote Jezebel's name on the shirt with thick yummy paint. It was really cute. Jezebel kept trying to eat the paint and wanted to squish it around rather than help Erika make a shirt. Silly girl.

Josh and Erika sent us off with some fresh homegrown oranges. Woohoo! They were yummy...and traveled all the way back to Colorado with us. In fact, I couldn't bear to eat the last couple of oranges because it'd be like eating my visit with Erika. So, they're slowly starting to decompose in my fruit basket. No mold yet! :)

Wait...I found some clean pics, to prove I visited with Erika...and loved it!


Happy now? :)

Oh yeah...

my baby is weaned! It took about a month of distractions when she really wanted the beeb and substituting cow milk, but it finally worked. :) She doesn't even freak out when she sees me without a shirt anymore. In the past, she would get all frantic and NEED the beeb immediately. She saw me before my shower yesterday and just pointed at them, said "beeb" and "bebe" a couple of times, and gave them a hug. :) Then she went back to playing, no big deal. Yay for being weaned!

So, 2009 is the year I'm reclaiming my body. For the past 2 years I've been either pregnant or breastfeeding. This year, I'm neither, so I'm making it my goal to work out more, lose these last 10 or so lbs, and be healthier so I can keep up with my little munchkin. :)

Hey, guess what...I'm going to the gym now. Seriously. :)