A VERY happy Mother!!!

On the Saturday before Mother's day, a delivery man brought some VERY VERY beautiful flowers to me from my 2 sweet little boys...(and one amazing big one)...Thank You Babe!

I wasn't home when they arrived, but they were waiting for me on our wood stove, and Coleton met me at the door, and he hugged me and said "Happy Mothers day"....I love how he runs to the door and jumps up and wraps his arms tight around my neck when I have been gone and he is bubbling with excitement because he just cannot wait to see me. I am guessing it won't be too long before that goes away. I am really going to miss the way I can do no wrong in his eyes...that is except when I tell him he has to come inside or cannot have candy.

When I look at the picture, I can almost smell them again. They smelled WONDERFUL! They lasted about a week, and made me smile every time that I looked at them. Coleton liked them too, and he would keep taking one out and saying "smell it mommy, SMELL IT, PLEEEEASE!"

LOVE...

Ok, well life as normal is CRAZY, and I am in the Wedding season....So I am really behind in the blog, so I will start with yesterday, and work my way backwards as I can. I will be out of town tonight at a Photography Seminar which I am looking forward to.

After a cancellation, I got a quick chance to do a session with Brooke and Scott..........They are so darn easy to photograph...You guys are beautiful! Here are a couple....more from that session later. It is strange to see my little brother all grown up.....OK everyone, I promise, more to come about the last month and a half of our lives very SOON!!!!

New Post............

Coming soon...Sorry about the wait guys!...me

Healthy Babies...

Things are looking better...soon, hopefully next week we will have another vehicle running and there will be no more dragging the boys out of bed at 5:45 to take Nick to work in the morning so that I have the car for Photography shoots during the day. I am not sure we would have survived this one vehicle thing if it weren't for Cheryl letting us borrow her car when I had shoots in far away places in the evenings and couldn't be around to pick Nick up from work. Thank you VERY VERY much!!!

I am thankful that God has healed our bodies and brought spring to air out our home. We're healthy now, and just working to pay off Xander:) Maybe by the time he is three we'll own him!

Coleton got his first cut on his face...well more like a big scrape. He was playing with the boys next and thought he was more capable of catching himself when he jumped out of a swing. Instead he hit the ground face first. They are older than he is, but he sees how they play and thinks he can do everything they do, or he at least trys.

Maybe, we can get healthy!!!

Ummmmmmmmmmmm, well as many people know we have been sick often this winter....well actually pretty much continuously. I think that since Xander was born 5 months ago, one or more if us has had something going on.

We would like to tell Mother Nature that we welcome her......

I know I am not alone with my desire to open up the windows, and doors, and let some spring in:)

We are so ready for playing outside, and I have a bunch of couples that really want it to get nice so that they can take their engagement pictures!!!

I am going to have to take some pics of the boys this weekend and hopefully some outside next week!!! In the mean time, here are some not as recent one...







By the way, LEGOS were one of the best things that were ever created!!! Coleton and Daddy love building towers, he wants one that touches the ceiling, but we don't have enough yet. .......And Uncle Scott, Did you teach him this goofy smile??? I am sure that smile looks just like your funny one in that picture!!!

......911

A squad was at our house this Morning at a little after 6 this morning.........It was a normal morning; we took Nick to work, and had gotten home and I was going to change both boys diapers. I had put Xander on our bed and Coleton always climbs up the end of the bed to lay beside Xander. We have done this hundreds of times. He climbed up the end and just fell off the side. I was fully involved in changing Xander, and saw him falling, but it happened so quick and I couldn't get him before he fell. He landed funny on his head...It was loud when he hit the floor...he screamed, then nothing.... I picked him up and he kinda had his head cocked to the left and he had a glazed over look. It WAS the SCARIEST moment of my life. He wouldn't talk or respond. NOTHING, but his eyes were open. I talked to him and tried to get him to do something...So I ran into the kitchen and grabbed the phone and called 911. By the time I got off the phone with the 911 operator, he started talking to me a little, And moving a little. Then he just kept saying I bumped my noggin, I bumped my noggin.

When the squad got here he was just laying on our bed on his side. I was afraid to move him or let him move in case he had really hurt his neck. I told him to sit still until the "Doctor" came to check on him.

So they were checking him out, and by the time they were finished, Coleton's new best friend Jennica(EMT), the "Doctor" was getting hug after hug from Coleton who was smiling and flirting and back to himself. He had his arms around her neck, hands in her hair We decided that he was fine although she offered to transport him to the hospital, which I kindly declined since he was acting fine. Then she said about three times, "how about I just transport him back to the firehouse with me so he can amuse us"...and then she said, bring him by and your camera today, I work till 6pm. He can come play on the firetruck, it will be fun! So, since they left all I have heard is "Mommy, Can I get dressed and go see the fire trucks?" "Mommy, Hey, Mommy, can we PLEAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSE go see the firetrucks" So, I guess we will be seeing firetrucks this afternoon between Doctor appointments.

I think I was involved in a 911 call as a child when me and Erin were playing with the phone one time. After I thought about it,until today, I have never called 911 for help.

So, add this to the fact that I have been feeling very sick, sore throat, achy, and had a Migraine the past two days. Thank you Nick for taking over when I went to bed on Wednesday at 6:00... My headache is feeling much better this morning, but I still need to make sure that I don't have strep throat.

Add to this that..........Wednesday night Xander's eye started seeping but wasn't red. I called the doctors office, and they said see how it is tomorrow. Well this morning it was sealed shut, and it made him very cranky. So, I need to see the Doctor, Xander needs to see the Doctor, and Coleton fell off the bed....Great Day....:(

I am incredibly thankful that Coleton seems to be fine...........and so glad that kids are resilient.

Blizzard...............

Well ,it looks like we will be able to go sledding again when this calms down. Dad and Syd...hows Tuesday looking for you;) We have some drifts that are better than 3 feet deep now, and this will definately be loads of fun. If we plopped Coleton into that, he would just dissappear.

So, here are a few more from last week...

....Grandma Barnhart with Xane...

And, some of Papa Boo with the boys,(for those of you that don't know, papa boo got the boo from hiding Coleton under his big hat or pulling his hat over his eyes and playing peekaboo with him; Coleton called him Papa Boo and it stuck)

Hopefully there will be some more posts today... Maybe some of Xander from birth till now and same with Coleton...well see how it goes...lol