Busy baby

Stockton is a busy, busy boy! He is into everything! He had figured out how to open my cabinets and always is trying to get into the bath room to stand next to the tub, or next to a chair in the living room or anything else that could possibly hurt him he is there. He loves the sand box and usually has to have a quick taste of it before he gets out. He love to push cars and tractors all over the floor too. He is getting so many teeth all at once. His first tooth he broke was the top side tooth no joke. He now has the matching tooth on the other side. Still no bottom or top teeth but you can feel them coming in. He is drooling ALL THE TIME while we wait for the teeth to come in. All of the sudden he has this adorable personality. He has always been sweet but now he cracks me up all the time. He knows what he likes and he yells at his brothers if they take his stuff away. I can't believe he is almost 1!

Year ago today

This was just about a hour before I had the worst moment of my life. When the dr. came in the room and told us that Tyson's appendix had burst then I had a hard time hearing much else he was saying. My first thought was to starting prayer. I prayed that God would allow me to keep my little guy. I was so scared that he was going to die (I didn't know then how often this does happen and that really he was going to be ok) and I started to think of my life without him. Ty had been my buddy his whole life and I keep thinking of how inadequate of a mother I had been to him. I hated seeing him and pain and then more tears flowed as I thought of me telling him that whole day that he needs to quit being dramatic and eat something. I thought about how I had left him on my bed to watch TV alone for a hour or so and how if I had known I would have held him all day. I think until the day I die I will feel bad about that day.

A year later Tyson is doing great! He had had some problems with some scarring in his large intestine from the surgery causing some constipation problems but we got those figured out. These pictures remind me of all of those crazy feelings I felt that weekend for my little guy. I am SO glad that's over and even though I learned a lot from it I hope I NEVER have to do something like that again!

Pumpkins

I need to get better pictures then these because I have a lot more pumpkins then this but pumpkins are one of the few things that really turned out in my garden this year! I have a lot of raspberries that are green right now and I'm worried they will freeze before they are good but other then that we have had a ruff go with my garden. I waited too long to pick my corn and a lot of it was gross when I got to it. I'm guessing next year will be worse for it too- oh well! I like to garden though and my boys love to grow pumpkins!

Ty gave this one to his teacher. I thought the little face he made was so cute!

It's electric!

Man I love that kid

Bear Lake 2011!

Have I mentioned that I love my new camera? Because I really love my new camera! I wish I knew photoshop better and more then that had time to use it. We were able to go to bear lake with my family on Labor day weekend. With Bryan's crazy schedule with school he wasn't able to come so I went with out him. My family and my uncle Kevin's family and uncle Dan's kids (some) were there so it was a great time to see everyone! The lake is really really high and there were a lot of people and very little beach but we still had fun. Because of the amount of people it was hard to use my dad's new jet ski but my older boys had a ride or two. We mostly had good treats and played in the sand. Stockton even loved it! I hope we can go to the beach more next summer.

Stockton

Blake

Ty- I'm not sure how the sand go on him like that

Ty with "buddy Papa" on his new jet ski. The thing is sweet but with the amount of people in the lake is was hard to really to do much. Ty and I went for a ride on it though.

I was glad Blake went for a ride because he was really scared to go.

Stockton sat in this chair a lot drinking his caprisun for a lot time.

Blake loved the sand

I need to edit this photo with the shadow in Stockton's face but even without that I really love this picture. This beauty of my camera though is we took like 20 pictures in a row and my dad got them to smile.

Mom loves her boys

I love my camera

I really wanted a camera that wouldn't take so long in between pictures so I could fire off a lot of shots at once. My new camera in the right light can do 3 pictures a second. Even when it's not light and the flash wants to go off it's really fast. I am finally getting some good pictures of my kids together because I can sit and take like 25 pictures and get one really good one.

Tyson

Stockton loves to eat grass.

All ready for church

Blake and his cousins Laycee and Luke.

I'm starting to bathe my boys all at once more often. Especially now Bryan is in school and I feel like a widow. It's easier to get the baby started and then get the other boys in.

28

I had my 28th birthday the other day. The older I get the more my birthday is really like any other day but my boys made it special for me this year. Bryan had a class right at noon so I took the boys myself out to lunch. I was proud of myself for being able to handle it by myself with all three along. Later the family went out to dinner at Texas roadhouse and Bryan told them it was my birthday so they made me sit on that stupid saddle. They wheel out this saddle and it sits you up high and they girl announces how old you are and everyone has to yell YEE HAW! I was extremely embarrassed. I hate stuff like that. Lucky for me Ty got on it with me. Later we had cake.

The day before my birthday Ty came running outside with a gift bag and wanted to give me my present from him early. He had made this little heart himself and wanted me to have it. I love it. It's my favorite thing.

Water turn

No one loves our water turn like Stockton. He gets mad if you are holding him and wants to get down and splash. We finally saved enough money from them that we have earned back what is costs to use them. Even though it really isn't worth the amount of time it takes to do it my kids and family love it so much it's worth doing. If we could finally get some shade in our backyard I bet it will really save us a lot!

Blake's first day!

On my birthday Blake started his first day of preschool, and Ty was at kindergarten. It was a very enjoyable 1 1/2. He loves preschool and talks about it all the time. He is mad when it isn't preschool day. I love my buddy.