3rd Trimester

Well today marks the first day of my 3rd trimester! We are in the home stretch now....and can I emphasize the word "STRETCH!"

I went to the doctor and everything is still looking good. Dr. Callison said that history usually repeats itself and I will probably be a week late again. One website compared the baby's size to a Chinese cabbage.
I don't know? This baby feels a little bigger than that to me!?!?

Tyler loves to give the baby hugs... and kisses!Tyler also went to see the doctor this week for his 2 year visit and everything is looking good for him. He thought Dr. Jeff was going to check "his baby." Too cute!

Mike and I are going to enjoy an evening out ALONE!! Our church is providing day care for "Parent's Night Out" and we are so excited! We are going to get some steak and hopefully a yummy chocolate dessert!!

We hope you all have a good weekend!

-Brianna

Happy Valentine's Day

Here's a Valentine Kiss just for you!!

Mmmmuuaaaaahhhhh!!!!

-Love, Tyler

What's all that White Stuff?

This is the second time we have seen snow in Alabama! This is the first time it has "stuck" though.

Mike said there was ice on his truck this morning, but when I went out I only saw snow. Good thing because I think we left our ice scrapers in Michigan!

I took these pictures around 11am, you think the snow would have melted, but it's cold out there!!

Guess we won't be playing outside today, Tyler's slide is covered in snow!

-Brianna

Getting Caught Up!

Well I've been trying to get caught up on some of my scrapbooking so you will be seeing a lot of old photos on my pages in the next few months. These are from 4th of July 2004!

I loved doing this page of my Grandparents! I think this is the best picture I have of them.

I get a scrap night with "the girls" tomorrow night! Can't wait to have some scraptime that's not interruped by a little two year old!

-Brianna

Play-Doh Fun

Tyler got a Play-Doh set for Christmas so we got it out a few days ago. I was a little scared that he wasn't old enough for it, but he did so well and loved it! He only tried to eat it once :).

His favorite thing was to make spaghetti, he squeezed that thing all by himself!

The minute I opened up the container the smell brought back so many memories. It was fun to share the Play-Doh experience with my own son.

Who know's maybe soon we will get out the finger paints?!?!?

-Brianna

100 Days!

Do you see the baby ticker at the top?? It says I only have 100 days to go!! Can you believe it? Mike and I were just realizing this weekend that we only have 3 months left before this baby gets here....well for me a little over 3 months I'm sure.

This baby sure is active! Seems like he/she wakes up when I want to go to sleep though.

Tyler is very aware of my growing belly. He definitely knows that there is a baby in there and gives it hugs and kisses all the time. Last night he even fed the baby with some of his play food and then pretended to give it a drink. Too cute!

Doctor appointments have been going well. I had the glucose test last week and everything came back normal so that's a blessing! I don't know if I could give up chocolate! My weight gain seems to be good and hopefully I won't be gaining as much as I did with Tyler.

This cartoon pretty much describes me lately! I guess I'm not the only one...that's comforting!

-Brianna

Scrap Update

Are you wondering if I've been keeping up on my challenge?? Well the answer is yes! I can hardly believe it myself, but I've been scrapbooking a layout a day for the month of January. I have less than a week to go!

Last Saturday I went to an all day crop in Tennessee with the SIS girls! It was so much fun and I enjoyed a day dedicated to scrapbooking and girl time! Leah took a real good picture of the 5 of us who went together from our local scrap group.

We got a bag full of goodies at the crop.

And I bought a few goodies too!

We played two scrapbooking "games." The first one is Round Robin. I sat down at a table with 4 other girls and we start scrapbooking with a picture and some paper and work on the layout for 5 minutes and then pass it to the person next to us who has 5 minutes to put their touch on it. And it goes around the whole table until it comes back to you. I loved doing it!

Here how my layout ended up.

We also played another game where we picked out a picture and another lady picked out 3 to 5 scrapbooking products that we could use and then we added one other product to it. I then had 20 minutes to complete a layout.

I really like how this turned out.

Jamie and I are now scrapbook accountability partners! We met a week ago and discussed our goals for this year. We are working week by week to keep a handle on our picture organization and getting "caught up" with scrapbook projects. I love having a goal to work towards each week and feeling like my hobby has a purpose!

Here are a couple of my favorite pages I have done this past week.

I did these two a couple weeks ago.

You can see more in my scrapbook folder to the right or on my SIS profile.

I hope I didn't overload you with scappiness! :)

-Brianna

Birthday Fun

Well we had a great birthday with Tyler yesterday.

Grandpa Bob, Grandma Angie, Jordan, and even Tyler's little friend Hailey came over for presents and cake. Yes, he got spoiled with more presents!

One of the favorites from the night was this camera. He kept going up to every one saying "cheese." Maybe he will take after his Aunt Shell and be a photographer. He sure does like to click that button.

My friend Jamie gave me a great idea for this present and it was another favorite with Tyler and Hailey! It is a microphone that plays music and they both were taking turns singing to it.

I'm sure we will have some video of Tyler singing with this soon! It's too cute!

Then it was time for birthday cake!!

(Which Tyler helped bake earlier that day)

I'm this many....TWO! Which he proudly pronounces "tttoooo!"

After singing we let Tyler try to blow out the candle.

Big breath and....BLOW!!!

He did it!! All by himself! And he was proud too.

It was a great 2nd birthday.

Tyler missed his Grandma's, and Grandpa, and Aunts, and Uncles that couldn't be with him this year, but he sure did enjoy all the phone calls.

Thanks guys!

Happy Birthday Tyler!!!

Tyler is 2 years old today!!

We are having the festivities later tonight...cake and presents!! I'll post pictures tomorrow!

Bubbles and a Bear Coat

Bubbles, bubbles, and more bubbles! Tyler loves bubbles! Anytime we are outside he usually has bubbles in his hands.

We were in the store yesterday and I was looking in the toy section (for b-day ideas), and I saw a bunch of cute bubble toys. Well Tyler saw them too. He screamed for those bubbles the next 10 minutes. Maybe it's an obsession??

He even got this cute bubble lawnmower from Aunt Shell and (soon to be uncle) Chris. Bubbles and a lawnmower in one, can't get any better than that!

I was trying out some different settings on my camera and just had to take some pictures of Tyler in his cute bear coat.


When he knows it's time to go he asks to put his "bbeerrr cooatt" on. Then after it's on (with the hood up) he runs to the mirror to look at himself and touch the little ears on top. Sometimes he even growls at himself. Too cute!

He also has to give us bear hugs when he's wearing it!

Happy Friday!

-Brianna