Spring is here!

Spring has sprung and what a beautiful day it was today. It was one of those not so planned perfect day! We went to church and I ended up staying for both services, when Ben came back to get Mason and I he forgot the carseat! Ha... no worries we borrowed one from Mandy. Then we headed to lunch while the girls hiked with Grammy at Tanyard Creek...
We gathered our materials for the flower bed and got hard at work..

We had such a great time and the weather was amazing!

Before

Front our house

After!

This was our start, I plan to plant more once we are sure it's not going to freeze again.

Mason is 8 months!

This baby boy is growing up so fast.. I honestly don't know where the time goes. I do have to say I am enjoying the older more mobile baby! He is so much happier now that he can sit up and some what get around.

I really enjoy taking pictures of the kids now that the weather is so nice!

You are getting so big, sitting up really well now. You even get on all fours and "rock & roll" Ha... you always rock back and forth then roll over its so cute! Not long and you will be crawling! You are going from sitting to crawl position..

You still aren't digging the baby food so I have given up. We have officially started to feed you "big people" food.

You have tried:

grilled cheese

pinto beans

bbq chicken

waffles

chucks of avocado

clementines

bananas

rice

veggie straws

berries

and any type of crackers...

I am trying more everyday as you get more used to gumming your food..

We have had lots of visitors this month, Aunt Cassie, Aunt Heather and Aunt Jessi came to see up.. Of course you got spoiled!

You are sleeping MUCH better these past weeks, oh and mommy is SO happy!

You are going from about 7 to 3am and then again until about 6:30 or 7am!! You have also been taking longer naps:)

I have started adding rice cereal to a bottle at night ( this is the only way you will eat baby cereal)

You are still nursing well but are very distracted! Ha, you have to check out every noise..

You love being outside, being held and love lots and lots of attention!

You have started to say "momma" I LOVE IT!!! You are my first child to say momma as the first word~ thank you baby boy!

You are so curious, you love watching your brother play cars and trains and sing and dance. He makes you laugh and even tries to get you to play with him! Anytime you cry he is at your side saying "baby its K mommy comin" I love your closeness and pray each day that you and Logan will be best buds!

Time goes so quick, Im thankful each day for you and this adorable smile... Excited for month 9, maybe you will be walking by my next post!

Mason is 7 months!

Happy 7 months.. Wow and what a month it has been.  You started off on the rough road. You came down with the stomach bug about 4 weeks ago, which ended with a not so pleasant stay in the hospital. You were kept for observation and fluids.  I will post on that later. Then a week after that you had an ear infection.. Glad to report you are all better!

You are so big now, you have learned how to sit up all by yourself. You are loving this new freedom and so is mommy. I believe by the end of this month you might just be crawling. I know most would say oh no I don't like that stage but honestly I will love it and I think you will too. You are so strong willed and determined. I say you in the crib the other day to change Logan, when I came back you were on your knees chewing the side of the crib!!! Guess it's time to lower it =)

I love this picture, you make this face a ton and it makes me laugh every time..

Things you are doing:

sitting up

rolling all over the floor

eating your piggies!

playing with toys

picking up your little puffs off of you highchair and putting in your mouth

laughing at your brother and sisters

blowing raspberries

eating table foods { you are refusing baby food now}

You are playing more by yourself, you tend to be more content that you can sit up. You laugh all the time, and love to watch Mickey or your brother play.

You are still nursing great and are on a pretty good schedule.

You are eating lots of finger foods like yogurt melts, puffs, Cheerios, cheese..

You have been going to KDO at church since I have been working and you love it. It has been good for the both of us.

We recently had some really nice weather, you really enjoy being outside =)

Your sleeping is getting much much better. You tend to take two naps now and the afternoon one usually last 2 hours, this makes me sooooo happy!!

Your getting so big so fast.. I love you baby!

Funny things...

I always mean to write down the funny things my kids say and do so I do don't forget, well then I forget!! Ha... so Im determined to do a better job of writing them down so I can remember forever!

Tonight on the way home from church it was just me and Audrey in the car. She was talking all kinds of randomness and then she goes into animal sounds {generally this is only done when Logan is with us}.. Mom a cow says moo, a horse says naw, a dog goes ruff, ect... then she says hey mom a giraffe says ------ there was silence.. I said um hunny I don't think they make a sound, she proceeded to say "Ya I know that's why I was quite"!!! She is so silly!

Logan has recently been hooked on all the Toy Story movies, I mean he will beg for it as soon as he wakes up in the mornings. Its so sweet he calls it Buzz! But now that we have watched it a billion times =) ... I don't say that lightly! He now will actually get the parts and laugh.. he tells me " oh mom that is so bunny!" ~ which means funny! I absolutely love this stage!

picture of the day

Rosalyn is all about drawing these days, everyday its a new one. I love all of her art. She always tells me that she wants to be an art teacher when she grows up! I think she is pretty good =)

Ashes Ashes we all fall down!

snow days

Well we are going on our 8th or 9th snow day so far, wow we have NEVER had this much snow. Last week the kids were out Tues-Friday. This week we were suppose to get 4-6in and woke up to about 10 and it kept snowing all day we have about 20 or more inches... I love it.. It is so beautiful outside and last week Ben was home all week with us.. Everything in town has closed even the bank which is a huge deal. Walmart is open but all the home offices and a lot of the warehouses are shut down... I love how this weather forces us to be a family and let nothing from the outside crazyiness of life get in the way! ~ well at least for a while..

So we have been up to a lot the past few weeks, when we haven't been snowed in. We have been baking goodies like crazy.. we have made thick and chewy chocolate chip cookies, brownies, peanut butter,oatmeal cookies, peanut butter chocolate bars and sugar cookies. They are all homemade and just yummy.. Probably not a good thing since Ive only been to the gym 2 times in the past 2 weeks!!