My Silly Handsome Boy

The day Autumn Grace was born

 The day our little girl was born!  Autumn Grace 10/10/11

 Mommy and Autumn snuggling

 The Big Brother!

 Our Sweet Girl!  6lbs 18inches

 Her first manicure

Aidan was in love with her from the moment he saw her.  So happy!

My little guy

Here are a few shots of Aidan taken while visiting my parents in the summer of 2011!

Playing catch up with the blog!  Will start with super fun maternity pictures that we took while I was pregnant with Autumn!  My mom took these photos and I was really happy with them!

The New Look...

Back to the blogging world! It has been so long but in my defense I have been super busy having a baby...and my ever active 4 year old. We are still living in Knoxville, TN though I feel a change may be coming soon. We love living here. East TN is so beautiful and family friendly. We have made so many wonderful friends and would honestly love to stay here. Time will tell I guess. I'm going to jump back into blogging about my kids, my new obsession Pinterest and my attempts of being crafty! So much going on...so here we go!

Autumn Grace

Autumn Grace, a photo by embee918 on Flickr.

Our Baby Girl

I'm Back!!

After a LONG time away I am back with my new and updated blog! Yay!  More to come!!

Pregnant...

Yep.  I am.

So nervous! So excited! So scared!

We made the decision to take the IUD out and that was done on November 30th.  I expected it to take a few months to get my body back to normal...and then a few months to "try" and even then I wasn't sure it was going to happen.

It happened much faster than that! The second month in fact! Yikes!

We are beyond thrilled! Due to my history we are with a high risk Perinatal practice and while it is more testing and monitoring that I really want...I'm going with it!

So cross your fingers for us!  This is still new but I gave up on the "don't tell anyone until 12 weeks thing" long ago.  We have told our family and our close friends and now my blog!

Cross your fingers for us that all goes okay...I do know that there is nothing that I can do about it either way so I am just relaxing and enjoying it.  This will be our last so I want to savor every moment!

Potty Training...

We have been struggling with potty training Aidan.  He has just had no interest at all.  I have tried EVERYTHING, treats, charts, stickers, surprises, stars, books, big boy underwear, no underwear, pull ups no pull ups, singing you name it I've done it.  On Thursday I picked him up from school we went home and I took his pants off and showed him the toilet, lifted the lid and put a stool in front of the potty.  He didn't like to sit on the potty.  I told him I wasn't going to ask...if he needed to go pee pee here is the potty and I left him alone to run around naked and pull on his thing. :)

LOW and BEHOLD...he started using the potty, standing up on the stool.  He will go in, pee and yell I'm a big boy now.  We whoop and holler and make a huge deal out of it with high fives and hugs.  No candy, no toys...no gimmicks.  I have to chuckle because there are SO many books out there that parents depend on and I learned a LONG time ago that my child does not fit into that category.  He does his own thing in his own time and I am proud of him for that. It's challenging but I love that he is so confident and has some ability to make "decisions."  Of course this can be problematic too but we will work through it.

So...we are almost there.  We have had 3 days of pee pee in the potty with only diapers at night and just a couple of accidents.  I am thrilled.

Now...how do I keep his hand out of his pants....

Happy Birthday Daddy...

I can't believe that it is already the middle of November. Where has the time gone? Last week was a blur. My husband's birthday was on November 11...and his aunt who meant the world to him passed away that morning. We had a little party for JR...just Aidan and I. We made a giant cookie cake and Aidan decorated it with a TON of frosting glops and sprinkles GALORE. It was cute. Aidan is at the stage where he LOVES birthdays and he loves parties. We had to get Daddy a party hat and balloons. We had a fun time though and had a nice dinner at home. We have gotten so lax in the eating in front of the TV stuff so we have a new rule that dinner is served in the dining room with a properly set table, no TV! Family dinner. Aidan lasts about 5 minutes but it is important that we start this now.
Fall is here in East TN...it has been teasing with a few cool days and then highs in the 70s. It is nice though and I love the seasons...the true seasons and could not imagine living someplace without them.


Here are a couple of pictures of the "Birthday Party" :)  I should mention that we are going through a stage (well...Aidan is) where he hates to wear pants so he mostly takes them off and I really don't care when we are home.  It's when we are out that it is an issue...