Trick or Treat!

Halloween is so fun! Look at these two adorable little kids! Lexi could have gone all night - just the idea of candy made her so happy!




kelly

PS - a giant HAPPY Birthday to my nephew Joseph tomorrow! Hope you have a gret one! We love you!

She's a big girl now!

Well, my baby turned 3 years old on Friday! She is now much more of a little girl than a baby! It is so sad to see her no longer a baby but is amazing seeing her grow into this little person she is becoming. She has such an AMAZING personality and is so fun to be around (most of the time... she is a three year old you know!) She always makes us smile and also totally makes us crack up most of the time! She has gotten her big brothers flair for being a complete clown. She is so caring - often thinking of her brother and friends before herself and is such a mommy's girl!!!

Happy Birthday my little precious angel! You are so very loved!

Has this happened to you?

So have you ever had one of those moments were you are just going on with your everyday life - trying to get lunches together for kids, everyone dressed, diaper changed, etc... And your hubby says something about being a mom and it totally just hits you - 'I am a mom! A mother!' How completely sureal! So many of my days are just functioning the best I can to take care of our lives and all of our needs and commitments - that I am not sure I truly think about the fact that I am a mother and that these two children depend on me so completely and love me so unconditionally. It is truly overwhelming but completely cool!!! I love this life!!

Best wishes and love to everyone! I promise to post some new pictures soon!

kelly

ps - please keep my girlfriend Michelle's hubby Mike in your prayers. He was in a very bad car accident yesterday and is in the hospital waiting out a spleen injury that hopefully wil take care of itself and he will be going home tomorrow. So if you could just add him to your prayers I would truly appreciate it. Thanks so much!

37 years

Happy Birthday to me! Okay so it is my birthday and even though my dad says I can cut 10 years off my age I will say that I am 37 years old today. And I look at my hubby, my kids, my family and my friends and I would like to say that I am very happy with where I am in these 37 years of life! Thanks to you all for all your love and support! I love you! Still doesn't mean that anyone can call me old okay!!!!

Now onto the reason why I have not written in a while.... We have been to Disney World!!!! We just got back last night and had a glorious time! This was Logan's 2nd trip and Lexi's 1st time! So it was so much fun to see their faces and their wonder at all that was around. It was so sweet cause tonight I was helping Logan work on a journal that he needed to have for school since he missed a week and I was trying to give him some prompts and I asked him 'What he learned there". And his response to me was 'that dreams come true'!! I think I could have cried!!! This was based off of the stage show that we saw in front of the castle one day but it was oh so true!!!!! Disney is definately the most magical place on earth!!

I will have to give you more info in the days to come but I just wanted to drop a note to say we were back and show a couple pictures.

Have a magical day and I will post more later!

And to Shaye: (sung) It's my birthday where's my present... It's my birthday where's my present. To everyone else - it is an old joke we had in high school - not me being greedy! I promise! ;)

Our Adventure

Here it is at 1 a.m. and I can't sleep so I have been checking out some blogs and decided to add to my blog. Lexi and I had a big day today - that I think has me all hyped up and why I am not asleep like I should be.

As you may know, Lexi has had a speech delay and has been receiving speech therapy for many months now. Today we had our second appt at Children's Hospital to have Lexi evaluated for Verbal Apraxia. She has now been officially diagnosed with this 'condition'. What it means for us is just validation that she will be needing intense therapy for awhile to come - actually for many years.

There are several consinants that she doesn't even say and when she does talk it kind of sounds like she is mumbling. She does fairly well at mimicing you when you ask her to say a word but when she uses that word on her own she has a hard time sequencing these words together and correctly as if she has not 'learned' the real way.

Don't get me wrong... the girl talks ALL the time - we just don't really understand her much! Luckily she has the greatest personality and so has not started getting upset very often when her communication isn't going well. The therapist today says that she sees alot of wonderful things in Lexi that she is really encouraged about that will help her and us in this journey and hopefully make it quicker and easier. Including that attitude and stubborn streak - see - it is going to pay off!!! Remind me that whenever she is making me want to bang my head into the wall!!!

So that is enough for now just to update you on our day and our journey - please keep her in your thoughts and prayers - that she can keep this beautiful personality and spirit throughout this learning adventure and be able to communicate to everyone what this girl wants!!!

SIX!!!

Can you believe that my little boy turned 6 years old last week??!!! I am a little late at posting pictures but I wanted to share with you all my little man!

I can not believe that 6 years ago the answer to Todd and I's dreams came into this world. When I had difficulty getting pregnant - there was a time that I was concerned that we were not going to get to share our lives with a little angel of our own. But as always - God took care of us and blessed us with the most beautiful little boy. It has been amazing watching him grow up each day and seeing the little person that he is becoming. It seems like he is going to be SO much like his father. And since I am in love with his father that just is not a bad thing!

I have had a couple meetings with Logan's Kindergarten teacher and she has told me "He is one of my smart ones" and "He is just so sweet and adorable that he is one of the ones that I would love to take home with me." She can't even invision him causing any problems at all! (You can tell she doesn't have any children ;) And these are moments that make me realize that he is just a wonderful little boy with an amazing personality. I hope I can be accountable for some of that but no matter - I love him for who he is!! And I can not wait to keep seeing him grow into who he is going to become!!

Just not TOO fast!!! I do really miss my baby!!!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday my Little Angel!

The Little Things

Just a few of the little things that I love about the kids


* Lexi's amazingly large eyes
* Logan's beautiful blue eyes
* The budding artists they are becoming
* Dora piloting the Millenium Falcon
* How Lexi hugs Logan so hard her eyes close
* Logans engineering brain and his Lego creations
* Lexi 'having' to wear her princess shoes to run errands
* Hugs from my 'babies'
* Their infectious laughs

I just had to capture them! And when I saw this new paper - I knew this was the perfect choice.

Have a great weekend and be sure to enjoy the little things in life! Especially the ones with two legs!