mama + baby + bowling = fun

Last night I had the privilege of going bowling with my beautiful family and my bestest best friend Abigail... and while I won't show you all of the tons of pics we took, here are a few of me wearing Elijah while we bowled and played dance dance revolution haha

Update on my Aunt Judy/ Home from our mini vacation :)

Well, today we got home from our mini vacation. For those who don't know, Derek had some training in MS this week and the kids and I rode along and spent a few days in MS with him. We had fun but we're tired of driving now :) Overall the trip was great, lots of relaxing time and time to chat with each other and enjoy each other's company. The kids did wonderfully, and Kyley didn't want to come home LOL Elijah also got his second tooth while we were there!!!

On to other things...

My aunt Judy is now out of ICU and doing well. The first few days were rough, she was in a lot of pain, but they are now talking like she'll go home on Sunday! Praise the Lord!

My aunt's surgery...

My aunt had some very invasive surgery this morning, so I wanted to post an update for those of you who were interested and had asked me to let them know how she was.

As of 11:15 this morning she was out of surgery and in recovery, and it appears that everything went well. She will be in ICU for a day or two and probably a regular room after that til everything is clear.

Continue to pray for her, this will be a long recovery as it was major abdominal surgery and they also cut her aorta (was planned, not an accident just fyi) so she has a lot of healing to do.

Thanks for all your prayers!

At 11 months and 5 days old...

so today Elijah is 11 months and 5 days old....





and he FINALLY has a tooth!

Officially Freaking out!!!!

Ok someone please tell me it's ok to be nervous, even when you're giving it all to God????

March 4th

Today is a special day :)

9 years ago today- I met Derek for the first time, to spare you all the details, we were on a triple date, him with his then g/f , me with my then b/f and my best friend and her "date".

I could go into so much detail about it, but it's really useless information unless you're one of us, so I'll stop with that.

Then,

8 years ago today, Derek and I were both baptized. I vividly remember the day I gave my life to Christ several months before, and this was a huge step for me. What awesome testimony it is that even though at the time we were just friends, I shared this beautiful moment with my husband.

God did some amazing things in our lives before we were married, and He continues to do them now, and I can't wait to see what He has in store for us in the future!

To my wonderful husband, happy day I met you :)



and in case any of you want to know what he looked like when we met... :)

Prayers!!!

Oh please please pray for this sweet family!!!!

http://www.thegledhillfamily.blogspot.com/


I can't imagine what they are going through today!

Soccer, and silly boys :)

This week, we signed Kyley up for her first soccer season! Derek and I are so excited to get to go watch her play!
and the other pictures are what happens when Daddy's give their son's girl scout cookies before bed... they get HYPER!!!

Snow!!!

So today, March 1st... it snowed ... ok so that sounds likes no big deal, but here in Montgomery, that's a BIG deal!!! Here are a few pics of our "snow day" Hope you enjoy!

hey, it's Monday!

Wow, this week has been BUSSSSSSSSSSSSY!!!!

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

What better day to get all the stuff off your chest that you DID NOT do this week!!!

so without further ado...

I did NOT let my 4 yr old try on her dance outfit for her recital in MAY and proceed to take, oh a bazillion pictures cause she loves to pose...


and I did NOT get all excited on Wednesday night to see Angie because I knew that the very next morning she'd be having a baby!
and because of this I did NOT rub her cute little baby belly anytime I could because I wouldn't get to after this night :)

Wednesday night we did NOT stay out incredibly late at Will and Angie's because there was NOT a second tornado warning for the evening as we were driving up to their house to drop Angie off... nah we go to bed ON TIME!

Wednesday night I did NOT stay up til 2 am doing laundry so my husband could have clean khaki pants and then get up at 5 am to get everyone ready for the day on Thursday!

Thursday morning I did NOT send my 4 yr old to work with daddy so that Elijah and I could spend the morning at the hospital with Will and Angie awaiting the much anticipated arrival of Molly!

I did NOT go get her at lunch and then proceed to go BACK to the hospital so Kyley could meet her :)


I also would NEVER put my sleeping baby in the little bassinet that Molly is supposed to sleep in so that I could love on her a few minutes.


and I did NOT get all giddy when Angie said I could dress her up and take pictures of her!!! and these are NOT a few of those pictures :) She was about 8 hours old!



Friday after Celebrate Recovery, I did NOT with the help of my bestest best friend take some of the girls to see Angie and Molly at the hospital :)
While we were there, I did not simply LOVE that Elijah gave her a kiss (she was yawning, not crying)


and I did NOT just adore this photo...


and I did NOT also ask Angie to take a pic with us since she'd JUST had a baby... who really wants to be on camera after that? I wouldn't be that rude would I? nah not me!

(doesn't she look great though?)

On the way home from the hospital I did NOT stop at Sonic for a slush and cheesesticks while chatting with Brittani....

and while we were NOT there, the car did NOT stop working and wouldn't crank.

I did NOT proceed to call Abigail and ask her to come pick up me, Brittani, and both of my kids (with carseats) and drive us home in her tiny little car. nahhhhh not me!

and I did NOT call the tow truck and have them tow my truck home at almost midnight that night!

I did NOT have my brother fix the problem and give the truck a tune up and oil change the next day and then RUSH him to finish when we were late for a birthday party!!!

at said party the kids did NOT have so much fun because it was NOT at gymboree!



I did NOT take mostly pictures of Elijah because he was sitting still and all the pictures of Kyley I got were NOT blurry because she was moving so incredibly fast because she was having so much fun.




and I did NOT just fall in LOVE with this photo...

Happy BIRTH day Molly!!!

Welcome to the world sweet little Molly!!!



Molly Eulogia Elizabeth Rus was born yesterday (Feb 19,2009) at 8:15 am

She weighed in at 6 lb 10 oz and is 18 3/4 inches long :)

she's adorable and looks just like a mini version of her big brother when he was born :) yay!!!!!

We love you Molly!

A messy boy and some pretty flowers :) aka Wordless Wednesday

Free Therapy :)

I love Monday's... how many times can I say that?

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.


I so did NOT get all excited about Valentine's day that I was wanting to give everyone their gifts way back early in the week, but I refrained

I most certainly did NOT enjoy every minute of getting to buy lunch for my MIL and BIL and my bestest friend on Sunday. That rarely happens and I love being able to bless them!

I also did NOT teach a lesson Friday night with only an illustration to go from. God works like that sometimes :)

I also did NOT love the sermon sunday morning because God gave me another lesson from it LOL Don't worry I will NOT be blogging about it later!!!!

I did NOT almost have a meltdown last night after seeing Mckmama's valentine wedding photos because I do NOT have to shoot a wedding in 4 months and I'm NOT already stressing out about not being good enough. *sigh*

However I am NOT also so excited about this wedding because we do NOT already have rooms booked that are NOT at a resort that is also NOT on the beach!!!!!!!!! yay!!!

And because this said wedding that I am NOT shooting is just a hop skip and a jump away from some of our awesome friends, Carl and Jennifer, we will NOT be going to visit them that weekend as well!!!!!!!!! yay!!!!!!!

I did NOT plan to make a draft of this post earlier in the week so I wouldn't forget not me's and I did NOT forget to write said draft and I did NOT forget half of the things I thought were hilarious to write on here... oh well... not me!!!

And lastly.... I did NOT find out last night that Laura and Adam are most likely coming in JULY and I did NOT get all excited and already start making plans, that would be crazy of me!!!!

Some of my favorite people and what they do :)

Apparently, my son thinks it's fun to sit IN his plate instead of eat it...




But he also loves to snuggle with his daddy :)



and my sweet girl :) She thinks she's grown now, and she likes to make her own lunch :)
This is her and her first peanut butter sandwich she made :)


The day before this, Derek was home from work and apparently she made her own sandwich without him knowing, it consisted of bread, mayo, and pickles... what a lunch huh?

Holy Cow is it Monday already?

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.


I love this day of the week, I love a free therapy session! Time to spill all the things I did NOT do ! yay!!!!

I most certainly did NOT sleep most of the week and let my sweet sweet husband take care of the kids while he was home because I have the most awful case of pink eye and a sinus infection... NOT ME!

I did NOT care less that the house was trashed and the kids ate whatever they wanted really because I just wanted to sleep... yeah, not me!

I did NOT laugh everytime someone at church wednesday asked me if Derek had beat me haha yeah so not me!

I did NOT seriously enjoy CRY this friday, we had a lot of kids and it was great!

I did NOT just think about coming home Sunday night and pitch a fit about how nasty the house is... even though it's my fault because I slept all week mostly.... yeah I wouldn't do that.

I am so NOT posting this a few hours early just so I can go to bed in a few with my darling son who is NOT finally sleeping alone for the first time all week and I just wanna go snuggle with him withOUT being used as a human pacifier

One thing after another...

If I don't update regularly this week, just know I'm out of commission. I have a sinus infection, a throat infection AND pink eye and I"m on a lot of meds. Trying to rest as much as possible!