Lindsey's 1st Birthday!

Holy Cow Lindsey is ONE! A year ago I was soooooo swollen and ready to get her out of me! We have come a long way in a year! We started out in the NICU, went to the first three months of hell, to easy sailing! So far Lindsey has been a blast to raise. When she looks up at you with those big brown eyes and smiles o my heart just melts! There is nothing better than watching her push her little Lion in the yard turn around clap and smile! O I love her!

Here are a few pics from her party! (I downloaded them in the right order this time) My family and Jay's family came all the way to OK to celebrate her big day! She loved all the attention! We are so blessed to have a family that loves us sooo much! Lindsey would have never gotten here in one piece without them! We are eternally greatful!

Now for the pics!!!!!!!!!

This is the shirt mom made her! I do not know when she had time but I loved it!!

Lindsey was sick two or three days before her party. I kept her home from school and got things ready for the party. I gave her a peach to chew on to keep her busy. We had to take a bath after the peaches! She loved em though.

After the peaches quit working I gave her puffs. She decided they tasted better off the floor.

I could not wait till the party to give Pootie her gift from us! She loved it! She puts oe hand on the steering wheel and one on the door! She is ready to drive! 

So there are pics of her smiling but I could not see them when I was downloading the pics! I swear she loves it though!

I LOVED the cake! It was sooooo yummy! I made those flower pots and cookies. Trust me they look better in the picture than they did in real life! 

This is Lindsey's 1st cake EVER! I was a nervous wreck! If you know me you know my baby does not eat junk!!!! #2 will be at her next birthday and no sooner!

This is the aftermath!!! Jay and I had to give her a bath! There was cake EVERYWHERE! She was so happy though.

Notice the outfit change!!! Lindsey got so much loot! Thank you to all who gave her something! We are so blessed and thankful. 

The end of the party! She was soooooo tired! She loves her pony though. She sticks all kinds of things in the basket! 

The party was great! We had a great time with all our family and friends. We even picked up some random neighborhood kid! Stay tuned for the next post 1st haircut!

Texas Here We Come!

Wow, I seem to always start a blog with "it has been too long" and really it has. We just got back from Texas! Jay's brother Cody married one of the sweetest girls, Bekah! Their wedding was on Jay's parents' ranch. The wedding was gorgeous and the weather was perfect! We could not have asked for anything better.

I uploaded some pictures from the weekend! They are backwards since I forgot that I need to load the pics from back to front instead of front to back! O well! Lindsey looked so cute in the dress mom and Clair made!



This is the end of the night! Lindsey was so tired! She was a trooper! She held up in the hot sun, pictures, wedding, and a reception! I have such a good baby!

This is Addy! She is one of Jay's frinds little girl! Love her!

This was after the wedding! I came up to the house to feed Pootie before the reception! What you can not tell is I sat her down on the ground to run and get the camera and she was sreaming with big ole tears! As soon as I turned on the camera the biggest smile came on! She is such a ham!

Mr. and Mrs. Dunks! I love it!

Pretty sure she is a Doll Baby! Mom and Clair did such a good job! Pootie loves to stand! Getting her to sit is a chore!

Could that bow get any bigger?

Aunt Amy and Lindsey!

Some friends of ours let us borrow this Lion. Lindsey loves it! She pushed that thing all over John and Patti's! She would chase Spooke, the cat, with it! She thought Spooke was the greatest! She ate his ears and tail! Spooke was a trooper! He just sat there and took it. I think it has something to do with Amy carrying him around like a baby when he was a kitten!

Amy and Staci! Love those two! We had so much fun! I can not wait for graduation!!!!!!

So, I got this dress at a re-sale shop for no more than 10 bucks! What a great steal! She looked so cute! I am pretty sure her bow cost more than the dress!

The happy soon to be Mr. and Mrs.! Lindsey loved her uncle Cody!

It takes a wedding for me to get family pictures!!!

This may be my Christmas card picture! I love it!!!! We are a pretty stinkin cute family! It may have to do with the doll baby putting out all that cuteness!

Lindsey's first boots!!!!! I had to buy them 2 sizes too big to fit over those healthy legs! She could barely walk in em'! I have a feeling 1st b-day pics will be taken with these boots!

Finally, the beginning!!! The car ride was sooooooo much better! She slept sort of! Most of the time she played and we sang! She loved the Austin traffic! She would hand me that dog and make me chew on it and growl! She thought that was too funy!

Once again, we miss our friends a family that are so far away! We would not have such a beautiful little girl without you!

The Meanest Mom!

I am such a mean mom! I can not help but laugh! She was so tired!

WOW where have we been??

O wow it has been a while! So sorry! We have decided to give you a picture journey of the past few weeks! Please keep all arms and legs in at all times and enjoy the ride.

Here is our darling angel enjoying the cookies her MIMI sent her for V-day! She LOVES them! We now give her, her cookies naked and before a bath! She gets them everywhere!

I could not figure out how to flip the pic but she is crawling on all fours! She does not do it very often at the house due to no carpet! She is awesome at army crawling on the tile!

Lindsey was sleeping so good one night after I got off work! So I decided to get the camera and take a picture of her! She decided to wake up and say hello! Look how big her eyes are! I think I was up that night at midnight and 4 am! I won't do that again!

We took a trip to Stillwater, OK and ate at Eskimo Joe's! Lindsey loved it! There were so many bright colors to see and people to look at! We had an hour wait and she sat in my lap so content. Once we got to the table she ate her baby food while we ate our greasy burger and fries! She was such a good baby! P.S. the high chair was the nastiest thing I have ever seen!

Aren't I cool!

Jay decided to FINALLY be cool and wear my over sized sun glasses! I think he looks hott!
Lindsey could care less!

Ok, so the face may not be the best but . . . Lindsey is now crawling through her exersaucer! She gets so mad she yells at it till she gets through and then looks up at you like, are you not gonna applaud and give me kisses! So, of course I do and then she crawls through it again! She is such a diva!

We love our Elephants and monkeys!!!!

Pootie is making sure the hippo moves to the Jungle beat duh du dunna duh dunna. Ok so that is the song on her monkey thing! She loves to pull herself up on it!

Pootie can now stand all by herself! She is such a big 9 month old! She loves to pull herself up on mommy's pants and the dishwasher!

Well, we hope you enjoyed the ride! Please exit to your left!

We love you guys and miss you terribly! We promise to update more!

WOW I need to be better!

What a Saturday we are having! Lindsey is playing with her monkey ball thingy and talking up a storm! I just watched her pull herself up to her feet and then fall immedisatly down! She can pull herself to her knees but the feet wow!!!! Every morning this past week Jay and I have woken up to Lindsey standing on her knees with a huge smile ready to greet our sleepy faces! She is just a blessing to see in the morning! God really has blessed us!

Lindsey is starting to crawl on her knees. . . . she still prefers the belly and army crawl! I like the army crawl cause it mops my floor!

In some exciting news we are in the process of changeing her formula to a cheaper brand! I was a little over zealous in the beginning and the puking got worse! So we are taking it slow and hopefully in the next week or two we will be buying a 9 dollar can of formula not a 25 dollar can!

Lindsey is eating jarred baby food now!!!!! This has been a blessing! The days that I am not able to cook she can now have something other than cereal! I would prefer her to have homemade but working 12's sometimes gets in the way!

I think she has a tooth ready to poke through! She has been extra crabby, exspecially at night. I can feel it through the gum. i just wish it would make it's first appearance and ease her pain!

Well we are heading to Stillwater today so I promise pictures soon!!!! We love all of ya'll and miss you terribly!

Didn't want ya'll to miss out!

Here are some pictures to update you on Lindsey's day! We did not want you to miss one moment of her life!

This was disgusting! Enjoy the update! Love ya'll!

Yeah for healthy babies!

Well, we had a week of a healthy baby! She is sleeping through the night again and the coughing spells are down to their original number! Our little angel is once again an angel! This week we were able to go to the park again before the cold spell came to torture again! I am not so sure how much she likes the park yet but I love it! We rode the slide twice on Thursday! The first time she was all smiles the second time it scarded the pee out of her! Her daddy then decided it was too dangerous for the slide! She still wont let me put her in the toddler swing but she will swing with me on the tire swing! I took her too a book store also this week! She loved all the new things to see! I sat her down for just a second and she was eating the books before I new what was happening!

I am trying to find some fun indoor things to do with Pootie now that I am keping her home two days a week! I found a gymnatic class for babies but of course it is when I am working! So maybe I can change my schedule around! She gets so bored in the house and I hate sitting her in front of the tv even if it is Baby Einstein!

Well, we love our amazing family and miss ya'll tons!