Thanksgiving, 6months old, and so many things going on around here.

I can't believe I missed my little Blakey's 6 month post. :(
But hey, I'm here now.

Blakely is now 6 months old, An entire half a year. I can't hardly believe it. She's truly getting so big. Sitting up like a champ these days, laughing constantly and smiling all the time. She's been having some troubles with some teething lately but still not teeth have popped through. They are so close we just know it.
Blake you weigh about 17-1/2 to 18 lbs at 6 months. You eat 4 ounces with cereal in it every 4 hours. You started baby food and its no surprise to us that you love it.
You are rocking on your knees and acting like you want to learn to crawl so bad. I bet in a few months you will be on your way wherever you want to go.
You still have no hair. But that's OK because this mama has about 50 different headbands, bows, and hats that I put you in. That's probably why your hair won't grow :)
You love your big brother. You literally laugh out loud when he comes near you.
You have a smile that can light up a room and you are such a happy wonderful little blessing.

Thanksgiving was nice this year. We went over to my husbands family's house and saw all of his family. We had fun visiting and watching the kids play. The food was wonderful! After that we went to my aunt and uncles house to meet my entire family. We at with them as well and had a great time there too. We are blessed to have such great families.

The Sunday after Thanksgiving we went over to my husband's grandparents house to get the entertainment center that his grandpa made us. ITS GORGEOUS!! No joke guys. He is such a talented man to be able to make things like this. I will post a picture soon. I'm at work so I can't from here but I promise a picture post to go along with all of the things I'm talking about is soon to come.
My parents also bought us a soft leather auto-man coffee table as well. It is so pretty in our living room with our new entertainment center.
We rearranged things and also put up all the Christmas decorations. It looks so pretty. I just love this time of year.

I'll also put up pics of all our fun Christmas decor.

We are keeping busy with our little ones. Cooper has been having a little bit of a listening problem. It irritates the daylights out of his dad and I but then he comes over and hugs you and says "I wuv you mommy". Just like Cupids arrow. That's all he has to say. Its hard to be so frustrated but at the same time think he's absolutely adorable. He still goes to time out, don't get me wrong.
He is hilarious though these days. Saying things that just blow us away. He is so funny and has such a great personality.

Julian and I are doing good also. We have date night tonight to go see the twilight movie. I'M SO EXCITED!

Tata for now!

Halloween and a robbery... Yes I said robbery.

First and foremost I would like to start with these adorable pictures of my little loves.

Cooper and Blakely were Mickey and Minnie for Halloween. Oh my goodness were they cute!

The weekend before Halloween we took the kids to visit my family. Every year we do a junior league fun run called the Monster Dash. Its really cute, the kids all dress up and we do a mile jog/walk with them. After the fun run there is a costume contest. We met up with mom, dad, my brother and sis in law and my two nieces to do this.
The adults can enter in a 5k, so my Brother, Husband and Sis in law all did that.
My sister in law got 5th place over all. WOOHOO. Go Jamie!


The kids loved the fun run, even though it was cold. We didn't win the costume contest, but we still had a great time. My moms friends little twins actually won the costume contest. They were just precious.

We spent the rest of the weekend enjoying family time.



Halloween, we met over at my friends house and ate dinner and did trick or treating in her neighborhood with all our kids. There were 4 families and all our little ones. Cooper was so cute. He would walk up to the door and hold out his hand like "Hand me the candy, come on already". I kept telling him to say trick or treat but he would only repeat me walking up to the house, not when we were at the door. :) He wouldn't even hold up the basket he had all his candy in, just his little hand extended and ready for the candy. So funny.
Blakely just rode around happy and content with her bf Bella.





These were just two really cute pics I took of B this week. Love her to tiny little pieces!


After we did our trick or treating we ended up leaving our friends a little past Cooper's bedtime. It was about 8:30. We drove home (1 mile) and I went to put Cooper in bed. My husband had remembered that we had forgotten to get some money out for our house cleaner. He decided to run over to the ATM one block from our house. This is not something we ever really do. We don't carry cash around and we never ever go get money out of ATM's after dark. But we knew the next day we wouldn't have time before work so he just ran over there. He drove home (a straight easy 30 second drive, our house is on the main street of our neighborhood, so we are a straight shot for the busy intersection with the ATM). He pulled into our driveway and as he started to climb out of his truck a man in a hoodie came running at him pointing a gun and yelling at him to "Give him his f-ing wallet". The F word was flowing rampid out of the guys mouth from what my husband tells me.
The man started yelling at Julian to give him the wallet. Julian thought it was a joke or something. I mean its Halloween night 9:00, kids just stopped trick or treating, we live on a very busy road. He tried to see the guys face and this really pissed the guy off and that's when he realized that it was real. The guy got really mad and started yelling at him to back up and throw the wallet. So Julian backed up to our garage door and threw the walled at the guy. The man backed up and jumped in his black dodge truck and drove off.
Julian watched them drive off but couldn't get the license number. :(
He came in the front door and just stood there in front of me looking shocked and said "Oh my gosh, babe I just got robbed." I said "What"!! and he said "Yes right here in our yard, right by our front door!!!".
I got up quickly with Blake in my arms and said "Oh my gosh, call the police now".
Three police cars showed up to our house within 3 minutes. I was shaking. Oh my gosh, they could have shot my husband. They could have forced him in the door of the house and been here with my babies. So many Could have's were running through my head. Two of the officers sped off once they had the description of the vehicle to try to find them. One stayed with us until about 10:45.

I still can't believe someone would do this. And for what? 20 OR 30 dollars. Really!!!
To top off the night, after the police officer left our house. Most likely some mean kids came up on our front porch and stole the pumpkins Cooper and Blakely finger painted. Good Lordy! Is this a joke. Evil mean hateful people are surround us in this world and you truly do have to watch your back. Julian still doesn't recall seeing anyone following him home. We do live so close to the ATM so it would be hard to know if someone was but still, he is bothered by the fact that he wasn't as aware of his surroundings as he should have been. I thank God that he's alright and that nothing else happened.

Cooper worked hard on his pumpkin. Mean kids!


It was definitely a Halloween we will never forget.

So tonight when you lock your front door and hold your babies close, remember that we are the ones. The parents are the ones who have a huge responsibility to teach our children compassion for others. We teach them love and respect for human life and for the things each person works hard for. We teach them kindness to strangers, love and belief in God. We teach them to be the wonderful person they "Should" grow up to be. To know better than to have hate in their heart and scare or hurt or steel from others.

These two little loves mean way to much to me to be having angry unhappy people threaten or scare us like that at our own home. Not ok!


Its a scary world we live in and it can happen to you. Never feel like you are excluded. Just be aware and safe especially when you have your kids out in public. You just never know.

I think its going to take us a little while to get over this. We live in a nice town, with wonderful neighbors and people surrounding us. This was just a random act of ugliness that happened to us. The officers said it was not common for our area at all. But it just showed us to be more cautious.

I do hope all of you had a wonderful Halloween. I' m loving seeing all the adorable costumes you guys put your little ones in :)

my little pumpkin

Things are changing and sickness is setting in.

Well I can't believe its been over 3 weeks since my last post. Blake is sleeping better now. Thanks for all your wonderful and helpful comments on the sleep issues.

Late last month I lost my absolutely wonderful Grandpa Griffin. He is my only living grandpa left. My moms dad. He was such a wonderful man. Truly as our family called him "A Saint". He was so supportive, loving and kind to each and every one of his 5 children and his 9 grand kids. He suffered from cancer and fought hard. He always had a way of bouncing back when he started to get sick. But a couple months ago he got very sick and just couldn't come out of it. My sweet grandma took the most amazing care of him. She was truly so wonderful, everything a wife should be in sickness and in health. My grandparents had a love that could only be explained as storybook. It was truly inspiring and I pray for her daily that she is with peace knowing my grandpa is in a better place.
I took Blakely with me to California for the funeral. She has never been on a plane. We had a 2 hour plane ride and a layover and then another 1-1/2 plane ride and she was an absolute angel the entire time. She truly is such a good baby. Everyone in our family just loved her. None of them have gotten to meet her yet since we live so far from them. The funeral was beautiful and such a great reminder of the celebration of his great life. It was so nice seeing my family, no matter what the reason was for going. I have such a wonderful family.
Cooper stayed with daddy for some special man time. He had a great time going to the park and tagging along wherever daddy went.
I didn't hardly take my camera out the entire time I was there. But I should have because all of my family on my moms side was together. There is a lot of us.
But I did take a few pictures one night while we were all at my uncles.

My cousin Amanda, Aunt Pattie, Aunt Valerie, Aunt Shirley.

My aunt Patti and Blake.
Aunt Laura, My mom and Blake
Blakely before the funeral.


The kids are doing good. For the most part at least. We have had quite a few sickly moments around our house lately. Cooper got Strep and Croup all in the same week and had to go to the children's hospital for some special medicine and breathing treatments due to a spasm in his air passage that was causing him to have troubles breathing. It was all brought on by the croup. Poor kid. I hate seeing him feel bad like that. That was a week ago and now he's finally on the mend, still stopped up but getting better. Blake has had a sore throat and could possibly be teething. She has been in a terrible mood for about 3 days now. She is normally the most easy tempered happy baby ever!

On another note, I have doing tons of fun little projects around the house. The colors I'm choosing haven't worked out quite the way I wanted so far but I'm learning to do these things and will make more the perfect color when I get it all down.
I've made some wreaths, a yarn wreath, a wooden wreath for the door with painted numbers on it, and some shelf decor for my room. I'm working on some other art projects right now but I'm not ready to share them yet.

Bad angle but here is the yarn wreath.
Some shelves we added to our room. I painted the C a bright color because the room needed it. The little heart below is on burlap and was so easy to make. I bought the tiny wreath from hobby lobby and made felt flowers and hot glued them on.


I made this wreath this past weekend. It didn't quite turn out like I wanted it to but I like it either way.
Cooper is talking like an adult with a tiny little kid voice. We carry on easy conversation these days. He makes me laugh constantly. His new big thing to say is "Oh my goodness". Its hilarious. He comes into the room while I'm changing Blake's dirty diaper and says "Uh oh mama, blakey poo poo." He'll walk closer to get a peak and say "Oh my goodness". Haha.
He tells me about his day and who he played with and what they did. He repeats shows like Dora. You never know what will come out of his little mouth.
He weighs a small 25 lbs and is tall for his age, I can't remember the actual inches but he was in the 70Th percentile for height. He still wears a tiny size 5 shoe and 2t clothes that are still a bit big.
Cooper is going to be Mickey for Halloween. :)


Blakely is getting so big. She is trying to sit up, with the help of mommy and daddy. She rolls everywhere and talks to us constantly. Its a loud funny AAAAHHHHHH. Blake is happy all the time, truly she is. She sleeps pretty good now for the most part. She loves watching her big brother.
She takes her paci out of her mouth and turns it sideways and gnaws on the ring around it ferociously. Its so funny. She shakes her head like she's going to tear it apart. Then suddenly she'll just put it back in her mouth. Now if only she could reach for it in her crib and stick it in her mouth.
Blake is 15 lbs and is also tall for her age. They didn't get it from me, I'm only 5' 2".
She is wearing size 3-6 months, closer to the 6 month size. Her pj's actual are almost 6-9 months. She is wearing size 2 shoes. But her feet are so thin they never stay on. Except for her little winter boots she has. Which it just started to get cold so we don't get to wear them much.
I've been trying to take an extra lot of pictures of her lately because I realized how many we have of Cooper up to 5 months and let me tell you. Its a lot! So we have some extra Blake shots on here.







All in all we are doing good. I hope and pray that this winter we don't have sickly kids a lot. Two is so different than one when you work full time and they aren't sick at the same time. Not to mention how horrible it is to have to be so helpless and watch them hurt.
Lately we joke that we should just move into the pediatricians office.

Oh and I never posted Cooper's birthday party pics. Wow this post is long with tons of pics. That's what happens when you miss 4 weeks. I posted a few of us the day of his birthday, then some of his party with his friends and some of our home party.