Saturday, April 30, 2011

A Sneak Peek. . . .

 

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This Friday night I had the privilege of taking Megan’s senior portraits. It was so much fun, and I cannot wait to show the rest when they are finished!

Friday, April 29, 2011

Bethany visits

 

 

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Wednesday, my sister Bethany came over for a visit, and stayed until Friday afternoon. She and Daniel had some auntie-nephew time. She read to him, and attempted to change one diaper. Smile I had a hard time convincing her to do more.

We had a nice visit together, and I am glad that she stayed with us.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

mid day visit.

Today I went by the Roanoke Weiner Stand and got Dennis some lunch to bring by. I usually go by his work once a week or so to see him or eat lunch, etc. with Daniel. We miss him during the day sometimes. I feel fortunate that we can visit him at his job, and that he is not in a new location every hour. IMG_1533

I didn’t take any pictures of our visit, but this is Dennis buckling Daniel back in after we were done.

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LATER……………………….. Judy came by to make a meatloaf for tonight’s dinner.

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I propped Daniel up in his Bumbo seat so that he could spend some quality time with her while I did a quick run through in the house to get ready for company.

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In this picture I noticed that Daniel looked a little…. weird. and when I zoomed in……………………..

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I noticed he was cross eyed examining this toy! Smile We caught him doing this other day on camera, but I accidentally erased it, so I am glad I got another “cross eyed” shot.

Daniel has been a JOY to be around for the past two weeks. He is able to control his head a lot better, sleeping through the night (8:30 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. and then naps solid until around 10:30 a.m. and is back down for a 3hr+ nap at 1:30)

I wished he didn’t sleep so much, but I am going to enjoy it while I can, I am certain some day I will miss it.

I think that colic is GONE, and that he might have allergies?!?! His little eyes were puffy and red all afternoon.

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Our Easter Sunday. . .

 

Dennis’ family came in this weekend to celebrate Easter Sunday with us. After church we all gathered at Paul & Jill’s house for dinner. IMG_1411

Paul is teaching Dennis how to tie a tie after we had a little issue this morning with Dennis’ suit tie not being pre- tied like we thought. It was a good lesson taught by Paul.

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And then of course, I had to take some pictures of my newest favorite little person.

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Him and his dad sat on the porch and enjoyed the warm Sunday afternoon.

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Grandpa Richie had some snuggle time.

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Hope you all had a wonderful Ressurection Sunday celebrating our risen Savior!!

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

my wishes for him…

 

I was having a conversation with Daniel today while I was doing some laundry. . . . 

 

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He sat with me while I folded a PILE of Dennis’ whites. I explained to him that he needs to find a good wife that enjoys folding his underwear. You know, when he can actually wear underwear.

 

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He agreed.

and then it hit me. . . . .

I always thought a daddy teaches the boy the essentials about how to be a man and the mommy teaches the daughter how to be a woman. But. . . it hit me that I am teaching my son what he should look for in a wife. I am not saying that I am the perfect wife but I do things the way that I do them because I obviously believe that it’s the best way to do things. (hence, the wife vs. mother-in-law competition)

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So, naturally, I want Daniel to be able to come home from work and have a wife there to greet him with a child on her hip, one tugging on her pants, and one in the crib. I want him to be respected and honored. I want him to listen and love his wife as Christ loved the Church.

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But until then, I will model for him what it looks like as I labor for and love his daddy.

My boys……

 

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These are my boys. My two most favoritest boys ever.

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Dennis has been working a weird shift this week. (3am-12pm) so we have seen a lot of ‘daddy’ this week. It’s been a nice change in routine. However, it is really hard to do things around the house when all I want to do is spend time cuddling my man and our little guy.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Happy Birthday Sweet Ava

 

 

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This evening, Dennis and I celebrated with Ava as she turned another year older. We enjoyed some ice cream and spending some time with our church family.

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Crystal made this beautiful cake for her birthday! How creative and fun!!

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Daniel was happy, and Dennis was too. He likes his banana splits!

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I am a little bit in love with Daniel’s face in this picture.

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Monday, April 18, 2011

Meeting great grandparents. .

Dennis, Daniel, and I met my aunt Kelly at my grandparents house today for lunch and for them to meet Daniel. It was a nice afternoon.

 

below is Daniel’s great-great grandmother, Virginia. this is my great grandmother, my father’s grandmother, and my grandfather’s mother. Confused yet?!?!? She just celebrated her 90th birthday.

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below is grannma “Sheryll” When Greg & I were kids, we called her Sheryll. We think Daniel will call her grannyshirley! Winking smile Daniel liked her. He would just grin just listening to her talk.

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This is Daniel’s great grandfather, my grandfather, my father’s father.

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and below is Daniel taking a little break with his dad who fell asleep on the floor. Nice supervision, there Dennis. ;)

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They were all getting ready to say goodbye.

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This is the view from their front porch. I have MANY MANY MANY childhood memories here.

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We also went to visit Grandma Chesnut, but I didn’t get any decent pictures, so I just left them out. Afterwards Dennis and I grabbed some dinner in Clifton and headed home for our nightly routine.

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