Where do I begin????

Ok so Wow what a day! I have a whirlwind of emotions right now. I dont even know where to begin this post but I know i have worked up a big story and i am keeping precious readers waiting (haha) Well a prelude to this story would be the fact that 2 weeks ago i locked Will in the car while loading up at Sams (on Getwell) I was being the overprotective mom locking the car while putting Will in his seat (so nobody could jump in on the other side and get me and my little man) long story short I shut the door and everything was in the car including Will. Some nice people stopped to help me and Joey came and unlocked the door. Total crisis lasting less than 30 minutes. I was suprisingly calm (since it was not 100+ degrees outside) Ok so that is Lock Out #1

Onto Lock Out #2....
So before I get into this very long blog let me tell you about Lysa Terkeurst. She is an amazing Christian women who came to speak to all the women of Hope Pres. She was fabulous both nights (I will post more on her later to prevent a mile long blog) BUT the pics above are in part thanks to her. I created a little scrapbook page with my favorite Bible Verse from her talk, then I took a little trip to the christian bookstore after Lock out #2 today and picked up a Womens(MOM) Devotional Bible (NIV), a journal to write about my journey to know the Bible better ( a new years resolution),some awesome bangles with verses on them, a book and Praise Baby cd for Will, another little book about getting closer to God and the the love dare cards from the movie fireproof (and no we are not having marrital issues but being parents can definitely take away from the alone time that use to exist so I thought this was a great way to get/stay on track and in tune with one another). I think that is all I bought but anyways BACK to the story at hand. So after listening to Lysa today I headed out to the car to load up which required WAY more today seeing as I had my camera gear (I was asked to take pics of the event to post on the churchs site), a purse and a diaperbag, I NEVER carry this much!!! So as always i put Will in the car without realizing the key fob to my car must have fallen out of my hand into his carseat under him (my actual keys were still in purse i had warmed car this am so they were seperate). So I dunno if his butt locked the door or if I did it without even thinking about it but as I waved bye to my sis in law and was shutting the door I had the heart dropping feeling that i had done it again which was quickly overlooked by the oh no i didnt I have my key fob and besides i didnt hit the lock button...Well boy was I WRONG because when I went to open his door I had that awful feeling again...it was locked! So after yelling a bad word that starts with S and ends with T at the top of my lungs in the church parking lot (Lord I apologize) I realized I was alone again..until I flagged a nice young lady named Misty/Missy/Mitsy down, I was a little frantic so i cant really remember the details. But she was gracious enough to let me use her cell phone (bc again all my things were locked in the car with Will). And again Joey came to bail us out. In the end Will was fine yet again but this time I was so much more upset. I really couldnt tell you if it was because I had done it again, I was worried for him or if I was embarassed at the thought that people I know may come out and see me and think what a horrible mother I am and then BAM Lysa and Gods words hit me like a ton of bricks...A) who cares what people think of me I know I am doing the best I can and I am fine with that (not so fine with locking my kid in the car but you get my point) and B) God knew I was gonna do this a long time ago and he allowed it so I should just believe in him and he will see me through and then I thought about what Lysa said about her daughters gymnastics injury and it all made sense. God was looking out for us and who knows maybe he was saving us from something worse???? The interstate was backed up on the way home and I assumed it was due to a wreck and then I thought wow Gods plan who knows where we might have been if Lock out #2 hadnt happened??? So although I hope a weekely lock out is not Gods plan for me I am thankful for the experience to hear him speak to me today in the Church parking lot! After my adventures in the christian bookstore I popped in the praise baby cd and cried the whole way home. I can say that my heart is a lot more open now and I look forward to seeing what God has in store for me this year because today has opened my door! I also found that Lysa has a blogspot (see blogs I'm following) and you can google proverbs31ministry and get daily devotionals emailed to ya.Thats about all the excitement I can post about right now but I will def blog later :) Hope the story was worth the suspense ladies!

P.S. If anyone wants a copy of the bible verse let me know (see pic above)

Snow Day

We had a fun 5 minutes in the snow haha! It was so cold I was afraid the snow would melt on him and get him soaked so I didnt waste anytime get in get out (back into the warm house that is) But in that 5 minutes I was able to get some pretty good pics of my lil man enjoying the snow. He couldve dtayed out there all day had I let him. Jude was excited he was outside too he was going crazy running across the yard and Will was just smiling. All in all it was a good day.
Oh and yesterday he also took his first big boy bath in the the bath tub. He loved that too. I only filled it up to his waist line and I sat by the side of the bath of course but he felt so free you could tell and I dumped all his toys in their and he was having the time of his life. As soon as I upload the pics I will post them!
Oh and dont forget to Vote for Will in the Beautiful Baby Contest the link is-http://www.facebook.com/#/photo.php?pid=3156926&id=31656313617 just become a fan of their page and click like under his pic. Voting ends Jan 15 at noon. Thanks for your support!

One more post while the house is Quiet

I know that I am more than a little behind on this but after reading a few blogs of the moms in my FTM group i wanted to start giving this a try. Each month they give an update of what their little ones have been up to and I just love reading them bc since they are a few months younger than Will i do the "typical" oooh and awww i remember those days. I do typically post milestones in individual posts nut i though an overall post was fun to and since it is the new year.....

So far in January Will has:
- taken his crawling to a new level which would be the super speed level ( he gets this from his best bud Jax. I am afraid he will NEVER be as fast as that little guy though he is the definition of gone in 60 sec lol)
-Bulked up his vocabulary he typically says Da Da the occasional Ma Maand of course the Heeeeeyyyy (that is my fave bc he ususally smiles with it) and today he said Car (it sounded like Ka) he was looking at the dogs so I am not sure what he thought he was saying but it was just too cute!
-this is nothing new but the amount of him doing it definitely is he pulls up on everything but yesterday this included the dog kennel the coon trap (yes he actually crawled on top of it oh and it was pre trapped critter we are still waiting on that part so no germs)guess he wanted to join in on the fun.
- and to my surprise he actually started to try to open cabinets yesterday-good thing they are already child proof.
-I believe we may also be working on another tooth bc his hands are always in his mouth. I keep investigationg but i dont see anything yet. I have been tryin gto get a pic of all 4 toothers but so far i have been unsuccessful so we shall see??

I think that recaps the first week of 2010 We go for our 9 month check up towards the end of the month so who knows what he will do by then. But I think I hear a little man calling my name now (as well as a critter upstairs so I am gonna go out on a limb and say he didnt make it to the critter cage :(so i gotta go!

So I am addicted

ok so is anyone else having the problem after they upload pics that its just a bunch of text and not showing pics where you can write under them anymore? Ugh this is very annoying of well I took all the pics yesterday with my new camera and I love the way it works! I can use it in so many more lighting conditions with better results I dont have a full reciew yet bc I am still getiing to know the camera and well i havent even got to use it outside since its frigid! My opinion so far though is this it is great but you def need to know more about what your doing it is VERY sensitive. It takes a lot more pictures a lot faster and while most of them turn out fine I have noticed a few more blurry pics than I did when using the rebel. I contribute this to myself for lacking the knowledge and to the fact that the camera is just a lot more sensitive (which is good i just have to get that working in my favor) I am actually taking some pics today and this weekend for a couple of friends of mine and I am doing a "sort of shoot" next week (more details to come onthis but I am REALLY excited about this one). Anyways thats really about it right now. I have began to feel bad blogging during the day bc Will is awake so Ive decided when I wake up early and the whole house is asleep(xcept me and the racoon in the attic who is hopefully being called to the trap we set by the yummy veggies)I will blog then!

Beautiful Baby Contest

Ok calling all bloggers I just entered Will into the Methodist Healthcare Photo contest. It runs through Jan 15th and the baby with the most votes wins so all you facebookers all you do is join the methodist healthcare facebook page and click the like button under Wills pic I have enclosed a link if it works I am not very good at getting links to work on my page. Anyways I just thought it was a fun little thing to do and I believe it is for children 2 and under so all you moms out there shoudl totally enter your little ones and tell everyone you know to vote for them :)Thanks ahead of time if you decide to take the time to vote!

link:http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/photo.php?pid=3156926&id=31656313617

Will's First Day at MDO

So I think my only saving grace of not having a total mommy breakdown at Wills first day of MDO is the fact that I was totally exhausted from working all night!!! I was sad and did get a little teary eyed once i got home and I was all alone in the house (i am never all alone in the house). The next thing I knew I was waking up from my glorious 4 hour slumber and it was 1pm so I went ahead and went and picked him up and guess what....He survived lol! The ladies said he did fabulous for his first day and he was such a good boy :0 So far so good I am glad he had a good time and I am glad I got some sleep!

Picture Post

OMG I am the luckiest girl in the world!!!!

Let me just start off by saying that I am so excited. Joey came home tonight and surprised me with this lovely duo I have pictured above. Well ok so I kinda mentioned some shoots coming up and that I really wanted the eos 40d so I was pretty sure I was getting that but the lens...WHOA that was a shocker. It is awesome and its suppose to be really good for indoor shooting which is a weak spot of mine ( the flash makes everything look so generic but no flash is blurry????) My new camera is currently charging so I havent played with it yet BUT I did put the lens on my current rebel xti and WOW it is awesome! I feel a big date in my future (with the manuals to both my new toy...HA)Oh and I almost forgot it comes with classes...YEAH! I am now goin gto have 36hrs of training under my belt. I have been searching for a class for a while and now its here. So a full review will come as I get use to how my new toys work cant wait to post pics!!!!

Oh Yeah I almost forgot to tell you

Ok so I had "Im a bad mom moment I dont know what the count is at now" today so after a successful shopping trip to Sams today I loaded the groceries Will and myself in the yukon. Or should I say I loaded Will in the usual way meaning I unlocked and open his door and then lock the rest of the doors so some crazy doesnt try to get us while I am strapping him in then I shut his door (with my keys on the side of his carseat) and proceeded to put some of the last groceries in the front passenger seat. Then I shut that door and went back to Wills door to open it and get the keys and to my suprise....the door was LOCKED! In fact ALL the doors were locked :( So tryng not to panic since it wasnt a million degrees outside and his dvd was on i took a deep breath and said to myself "its ok hes not in danger" and then I realize i have to walk away from my car to get help bc my phone is in the car well then I FREAKED there was no way I was leaving my babies side even if he was giggling through the window at me! So a nice truck of non scary people drove by and I waived them down. The nice lady let me use her phone to call the hubby and say come quick! And they even stayed with me till Joey got there. I was very fortunate that everything worked out. Will started to get fussy right at the end and right when Joey got there and unlocked the door Will puked everywhere so talk about some timing. He is fine but I was a little rattled I mean reall I try to be super safe and instead I was super stupid so mext time the keys will stay on me! But I am so thankful for those nice people it makes you feel good to know that there are still nice peoplein this crazy world. Well thats about it for now! Just thought Id share my mega mess up today.

New Years Resolutions

Ok so now that it is officially 2010 I have come up with a few resolutions for myself. 2009 was the best year I have had by far, I shared a 2nd wedding anniversary with the love of my life, we brought a son into this world and we are very fortunate to both have jobs that keep a roof over our heads. It cant get better than that can it?!?! Ok well here goes....
1.) I want to turn this blog into a sort of "scrapbook" to detail Will's childhood. A lot of moms I know (blogs I read) are set up this way and I think it is kind of like the "baby book" now a days, So I plan on posting more scrapbooky collages etc and more of Wills everyday life. With that being said I also want to try and PUT DOWN the IPHONE. In todays techno savy world you cant go anywhere without seeing people with phones up there you know what and well I am so one of those people so I want to try to only use it when Will is asleep so please pray for me that that goes well lol.
2.) ok let me start out by saying these are in no particular order because church and GOD definitely do NOT come after blogging it is just 5 am and well my brain is a little crazy right now. So anyways back to resolution number 2 I want to get more involved in church and read the BIBLE this year. When I became catholic prior to getting married (in 07) i felt really in tune with the church and well now not so much. Since becoming catholic we have actually began going to Hope Pres. (crazy huh) but we really enjoy it and I have also become part of a New Moms Group there and I love it, they really are a great group of ladies! I want to find more things to get involved in with Hope I am sure there are tons of things avaiable I just need to open my eyes and my heart!
3.) I really want to make a name for myself in the photography world. I have been doing pics on the side no for a few months and i would love to find a class and really dive in so we will see how that goes.
4.) Now that I am on night weekends at work I want to become a better wife. Once you have a child it is easy to get caught up in the new mommy role which dont get me wrong I LOVE but you shouldnt lose sight of the other roles you play (i.e. wife) so I hope to start having routine date nights now that I do not work every weekend day.
Those are the top things I can think of right now I am sure that I am missing some (oh yeah like lose a million pounds)
I hope that everyone can stick to their new years resolutions i know I will be trying to stick to mine!
Happy New Year to all may 2010 be a blessed year for EVERYONE!!

Disclaimer

Ok so after posting pics of Christmas this year i kind of got sad :( although I have Tons of pics to remember Wills first Christmas i feel that i dont have any of the pictures i wanted (family pic, grandparent pics etc)....darn stomach bug it really takes the spirit out of ya! And worst of all I dont have ANY pics from my Dads family Christmas (you see this is the day that Will finally got the bug and well we almost took a trip down to the ED but i was pretty hell bent on that idea for a number of reasons, but luckily i was able to keep him hydrated at home!)so needless to say I am kinda bummed but that just means I will have to pull mega picture duty next holiday season lol!

A Few Holiday Pics (to go with previous post)

The After Christmas Post

So what a whirlwind this holiday season has been! We had a GREAT first Christmas with Will! He loved every minute of it and I cant wait to upload pics on here! He did ok with presents, once he would get a piece of paper off he would rather eat it than open it any further. He did love his Santa presents though by his loud squeal of delight! the only downside to Christmas this year was the one gift Santa could have left at the North Pole and that would be the STOMACH BUG! I got on Christmas Eve while in church luckily a phenergan kept the emesis away (I HATE throwing up) but i still had the aches and chills etc. Then about 2 hours after my symptoms started Joeys started puking his guts up. Christmas Day was better and we went to more of our 5 Christmas' and then wouldnt you know it saturday afternoon while shopping our poor pitiful Will got the bug. Now it was awful enough to ecperience it myself and with Joey but to see my little man feel so crappy (literally) was just awful he couldnt keep hardly anything down. Today he was doing much better so i decided it would be ok to leave him with Daddy while i headed off to work. And that comment is not to say that Daddy cant care for our sick child but it s more due to the fact that the smell alone of stool makes him gag so i hope Will doesnt have to bad of a blow out while I am not there bc i dont know how that would be handled lol. Other than the bug the holidays were so much fun. I feel as though I didnt get to do as much cheesy mom stuff this year so next year i will definitely have to play catch up. I had a cookie plate but no cookies and im not sure what all pics i have but we will see and I am sure next year will be even better!

I love this (a little too much)

DaDa...What?!?!?!

Digital Scrapbooking

Ok so Yeah I DID IT! After trying to figure it out for quite some time I finally had time to sit down today and dive into this digital scrapbooking world and...I love it. It wasnt as comlicated as I thought it was going to be but it is still a little hard so my header was my first step and I think it looks pretty good. I wish i had figured this out a little sooner bc i sooo wouldve been able to creat the CUTEST Christmas cards but oh well atleast i am getting an early start on next year and well there is always Wills Birthday invites right???? Well I am so pleased that I just had to blog about my success (ok brag a little lol) and it only took about an hour (which is probably a really long time for what i did but compared to the last time I jazzed up my blog it was nothing. I am really sad though I switched layout templates and it took my pretty font away from my blog titles do and of my fancy blog owners know how i can fix it?? Ok so gotta go little hands are taking over my computer!!!!! I linkjed the title of this blog to the wevsite i found the FREE digi scrapbook kit for anyone looking to get into this stuff!

Almost Forgot Zoo Lights

Zoo Lights was bunches of fun but very cold. I think we kept Will bundled pretty good though he had no complaints. He was good with Santa for the second time around. Its events like these that get me excited for each year he gets older because i cant wait to see the enjoyment he will get from times like these! Just thought i would share some pics. Oh and it was not real snow it was soap but in the pics it looks like snow!

December Pictures