Another Year

I made a New Years Resolution to blog more often. Yeah, it really worked out.

Anyways but I am going to start doing it now, better late than never right?

Josh Turned a Year old Jan. 25th I cannot believe my little tiny baby is 1 year old already, he is walking, and trying to start talking. He says, momma, dadda, lj, and shakes his head no and ocassionaly we hear things that sound like Dog, and Cookie. And we are working on saying Na-Na for grandma.

Landon is still working for Weatherford and work has finally picked up it was really really slow there for a while and we were quite worried about finances

I just went back to school the middle of January and finally declared my major as an Elementary School Teacher. At the latest I'll be graduating in May of 2013 with my BA! I sure cannot wait.

Here are some pictures of what has happened since November :-)

Monkey's 1st Birthday

Thanksgiving

We took some handsome pictures

Christmas!!



My vent for the time being

First I want to say if you don't agree with me,,, awesome that's your opinon but these are mine and I am sick of holding them back and I am about to explode!!!!!

First... I am a formula feeding, disposible diaper, here is a taste of my food, sleep in my bed, not going to hold you 24/7 mommy.

I tried breastfeeding, it was not for me. It's hard, very hard, and I tried but it was not what worked for my family and I, because... I like my sleep to much, does that make me a bad mommy????

I was scheduled to be enduced 1 week before my due date, not for medical reasons but because I was done and needed to make sure that my husband would make it to our sons birth. Was I enduced? NO! Josh came on his own two days before. But apparrently this makes me a bad mom.

We DO NOT EAT ORGANIC!!! sorry but I was raised on non-organic and I turned out just fine, nice and healthy with no allergies!!!!

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I LOVE my cousin and am sooooo sick and tired of hearing people talk about her like she doesnt exist or is not there. She has made mistakes, she knows this but remember... ITS HER LIFE NOT YOURS....ITS HER BODY NOT YOURS.... so, before you go talking s*&# on her, look in the mirror and take a look at yourself!

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I am so sick of hearing people complain that they dont have money...then complain when they have to work...well in order to have money you have to work.

Also, what bugs the crap out of me is when people are struggling financially but, the woman (who it is 9/10) refuses to go out and get a job, because they want to be home with the kids. This bugs me more when the family is taking assistance...I  understand some people need assistance...I actually applyed for it when Landon and I were having issues.... People need it when both are working. However....DO NOT i repeat DO NOT complain to me when you are broke and cannot afford to go out and do something because you are too lazy to get up off your butt and get a job!!!!!!! McDonalds is hiring and well quite frankly, your children's health and making sure they have food on the table comes before your going out and buying toys.

for example, right now, Landon and I are tight on money right now, so I am in the process of looking for a job to help it not be so tight every month. When things get better I will go back to being a stay at home mom and student.

Updates...

It's been 2 months since my last update.

So what has happened??? how about pictures?

we actually have 2 teeth now!!!

went to our first hs football game

burned our hand

didnt want to wake up

and dressed up for halloween :)

Woah...

I cannot believe that it has almost been 7 mo. since my little boy came into this world. He will be 7 months old on August 25th 2010 at 4:19pm.

He is my little ball of energy!!!

Our milestones so far include, Smiling, Rolling over, holding our own bottle, sittin up for short periods of time, putting weight on our legs, squeling, laughing, giggles, knowing who mom, grandma, grandpa, dad, etc. is, and just in the last few weeks our little man has become an "inchworm" he is now offically MOBILE!!!!!!!! sooooo scary.

We love our baby food, we dont like green beans or peas, but we love everything else!!! We really love sweet potatos!!! We have moved up to Stage 2 foods and love Apple and Blackberries, and Oatmeal with Banana!!

I cannot wait to see how much he grows in the next few months he was only 13lbs 6.5oz at his last dr. appointment, but 27.5 inches long!

If i was patient enough I would upload some pictures!

The last 3 months

The last three months have been a rollercoaster ride. When Landon told me he wanted a divorce my whole world shattered into a million pieces!! I was a hollow shell... If you saw me just after Mike passed away... I was THAT bad. I just had a hard time and began working and getting things ready to go to Idaho to stay there and go to school.

Over the last three months I fully believe there was a higher power involved, Landon and I are back together, We just moved back in with each other Sunday night. It is still hard knowing he has the power to knock me down to that point.

Josh will be 6 months on Sunday, we are blessing him into the LDS church. My family will be here and so I'll have to get pictures!!

Josh is growing fast, he got sick so we had to take him in and at last check about a month ago he weighed in at 12lbs 3 oz.... so he still had not broke the double birth weight. We have started veggies and fruits and he LOVES them!!!!! He is trying so hard to sit up on his own, he giggles histarically at animals, smiles, rolls ALL over the place, scoots, holds his own bottle and best of all... we are ALMOST sleeping for a FULL night in our OWN bed!!! YAY!!!!

Escaping Aunt Kristen and Mommy!

My Sad Face

I LOVE squeky hunting with Grandma and Grandpa

Peaches are MmMm Good!

Cousin Rhett (10 Days) Joshua (5mo 1 day)

This is my Happy Face!!!

a not so happy ending

this last week has been hard for me. I found out thursday that my husband wants a divorce. it came out of the blue and i am shattered I am holding on by one single thread and his name is Joshua Michael. Landon may have broken my heart but he gave me the best gift ever a little piece of him named Joshua... this little boy is my world and my strength and I will do whatever it takes for him!!

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It has been a long few weeks.

We Finally have a new place that we are pretty much moved into we just have to make the jump from sleeping at my mom's to sleeping there, which will happen as soon as the bed is put together tomorrow night probably...might happen more like Monday ha ha ha.

It's been almost three months since Joshua was born, and he is growing up so fast, he is FINALLY starting to chunk out a little bit... and I am not feeding him on my schedule anymore I am letting him tell me when he wants to eat which is every 3 to 4 hours and is now up to 2.5 to 3.5 oz a feeding. He sleeps from 11 to 5 every night so I get around 6 hours of sleep a night then he crashes again till 7. But that is with him sleeping with me, which is coming to an end as soon as I get a baby monitor!! That could get fun and I could be REALLY tired when that happens.

Here are some pictures from the last few weeks.

This is Josh in his wagon he got from the Easter Bunny (Grandma and Grandpa A.) with his Elk piggy bank and his play bow.

Joshua loves the fire!!!! I am in SOOOO Much trouble when he gets mobile...His daddy was/is a pyro too!!