February Random

Valentines Day is in February and we usually waste money on flowers, candy, going out to eat, balloons, etc. Well this year Chantz and I decided that we would finally take our very overdue Honeymoon. I had just started a new job when we got married so we only got to go downtown for the weekend after we got married since I didn't have vacation:( Soon after that we had Dalton and never got the chance to actually take a vacation just the two of us. Soooo.....
Chantz and I will be going on a 5 day cruise to the Carribean in April which will be a little after our two year anniversary.:):) We both cannot wait and I think Chantz is dieing of anxiety because he can hardly wait to go on his first cruise:) Even though I have been on two previously with my family, this will be my first time on Carnival cruise lines and it will be our first vacation just the two of us so we are both thrilled and very anxious. We also booked a Royal Swim with the dolphins in Cozumel while we're there. I know Chantz is a little worried because he thinks everything is "an animal and can attack at any second" but I have done a dolphin encounter where you are standing in the water and they come and kiss you and these dolphins are VERY trained. I know this will be a once in a lifetime experience to get to actually SWIM with them and it will be something that we will never forget. I am so blessed that we are finally going to be able to get away from all the craziness of our everyday lives with work, school, house projects and so much more and just share our love for each other. Dalton will be staying with my Dad and step mom while we're gone which is going to be VERY hard for both of us but I already told them we will be calling every port we come into:):) I know he will have a blast over there because they spoil him rotten and let him do whatever he wants with no rules but we will miss him.

Since we're on the subject of Valentines Day....we all went to eat at Wings N More a couple of nights before Valentines Day and Dalton and Chantz were playing games while I was waiting for all of our food to come to the table.

Dalton is SO awesome at playing those games with the claw that wins the stuffed animals:) and he won Mommy a little I Love You Monkey. He came up and said "Eee go Mommy" and gave me the little monkey along with a Dalton hug and kiss:):):) It was one of the sweetest moments of my life. I feel like I keep thinking oh no if he keeps growing he's not going to be my sweet little baby anymore but the more he grows the sweeter he gets and he says things that make you feel SO loved.

After that we went to the store to get his friends at his babysitters some Valentines cards. We let Dalton walk down the aisle and pick out which ones he wanted for them and he picked Sponge Bob. He had a hard time deciding between "kit kat" his new favorite thing (no Chantz won't let us get one) "bootball" and "ponge bob". When we got home he sat on the counter and helped me write out his valentines to his friends so he could bring them the next day to Miss Laura's house.

Then of course it was time to do what I'm always doing....HOMEWORK. Well this time Dalton decided he wanted to help me do my math homework. When a cute little face like the one below comes up to me and sits next to me and is talking to me about the calculator it is VERY hard to actually do homework because all I want to do it play with him.

So we did what we do best.....PLAY AND ACT GOOFY TOGETHER:):):)

Hey, we counted to 5 okay?? So we were learning numbers still in the midst of acting silly;)

Later that week in more preparation for Valentines we put out all the decorations and we even drew some hearts on our chalkboard. I drew all the hearts and then Dalton helped color some pretty pink and white ribbon lines on the bottom:0) I don't have pictures of all our valentines decorations but I did take one of us with our drawings.

Some of these pictures are going to look crazy and out of whack because of the clothes we're wearing some of them we're in sweaters and bundled up and some we're in shorts and tee shirts. I know it looks crazy, but unfortunately down here in Houston, TX that's how the weather has been lately. How we've been managing to stay healthy during all this is beyond me.

Dalton's new favorite things to eat are "gapes". He was yelling at Poppy the other day when he was at nana and poppys because he wanted the grapes and poppy is a little hard of hearing (even though he doesn't want to admit it) and so he couldn't understand what he wanted and Dalton finally YELLED "GAPES!!!" and pointed to the fake grapes in the bowl on nana's table hahaha. It was really funny and nana was cracking up.

I was doing homework while Chantz took these pictures of him sitting on the couch but he said it was adorable. He said he gave Dalton the plate with grapes on it and Dalton went and walked over to the couch, put the plate down, helped himself up on the couch, then sat there eating them and went to change the channel which ended up on Diego so that he could eat his snack while watching his show. It amazes me how smart he is and how he knows EXACTLY what to do and how to do everything we do.

New Years Week

We had a wonderful New Years. We spent the day relaxing and cleaning for a fresh start in 2010 with clutter haha. That evening we went over to my Aunt Carol's house and ate some chicken wings and chips and dips and just had fun lighting some fireworks and watching football. Uncle Robert was there and so was Uncle's Ronnie's brother Michael with his wife Robin and their three kids.
Dalton had such a fun time playing with all of the kids. Since everyone was much older they were all poping firecrackers so Dalton stayed inside while they did those because he doesn't like them.

Right before the ball dropped in New York we went over to my Grandma's house because that's kind of been a tradition for me ever since I was small to go and see the ball drop at Nana's house. Nana and Papa and Uncle Robert watched with us while poor Ramsey Uncle Robert's dog was hiding in the closet from the fireworks.

Aggie did really well considering this was his first encounter with fireworks. We didn't have him yet on the fourth of july so we didn't know how he would do but he did amazing!!!

We had so much to be thankful for this year and some of our big highlights and memories for the year were.....closing on our house in February, Celebrating Dalton's first birthday in May, Celebrating my First Mothers Day, Adding Aggie to our family, Mommy going back to school to finish her degree, and celebrating all of our first holidays in our new home. Some of Dalton's accomplishments this year were walking, eating with silverware on his own, really talking, running, jumping, throwing, climbing, kicking, and so much more. It's so crazy to me to imagine how he was at the end of 2008 to the end of 2009. He was such a small baby at only 7 months and now he is my big boy toddler at 19 months. He has accomplished so much and I am so proud of him. Dalton you are one of the smartest little boys I know and it just awes me over and over at your will to learn and do everything you see and say everything you hear. We love you honey and look forward to another new year with you and all the many things we know you will learn in 2010.

After New Years it was hard for me to want to go back to work because I had stayed home with Dalton all that week prior to it. I had been home with him for a week and a half and it was soooo hard to leave him even though I know he loves playing at Miss Laura's house during the day.

We had fun making cinnamon rolls and this was Dalton's first time to eat them. From the pictures you can see he got the icing EVERYWHERE and wouldn't let go of the cinnamon rolls. At the end I asked him to give it to me so he shoved the whole thing in his mouth and his cheeks were sooo puffy haha.

We baked lots of things including, cake balls, cookies, oreo balls, cinnamon rolls, cakes, and biscuts. We had so much fun playing in the kitchen and Dalton really liked helping me cook every meal for that week.

He especially loved eating all of the DOUGH. I know I know you're not supposed to let your 19 month old eat raw cookie dough but I couldn't get it from him in time and then once he tasted it boom it was done. I had to hurry and make the cookies and put them in the oven before he could get them:)

We had so much fun playing with all of his new toys that he got for Christmas too. He is at the best age and I so wish I could be with him allday everyday. It is tons and tons of fun playing with him and listening to him tell me all about his toys and how they work and what he thinks of them:)

I had one of the best weeks of my life the last week in 2009 being home with him. It was such a great way to end the year.

I know 2010 has so much in store for our family and we are so excited to see how the year is going to unfold:):)

Christmas At Pops House

The morning after Christmas we went with Gigi and Paul to visit Aunt Stephanie, Uncle Randy, Kade, Kole, Kyelar and Stevi and Brandon all at Pop's house.
On the way there during the ride Gigi was trying to teach Dalton how to say "Cranky Randy" to his Uncle Randy and Dalton learned how to say them seperate but not together but he did say it to him when we got there haha.

The kids had such a great time playing together. Dalton decided to bring his elmo doctor kit which is something he got for Christmas from us and was something I really didn't think he would even want but he used to like Elmo so I went ahead and bought it. Now since then he's carried it around everywhere and says "ehmo".

Kade just cracks me up everytime that we are spending time with them because he's so protective of Dalton. He's the best big brother and watches out for his little brother and sister great and it's so cute that he does it for Dalton too:)

Kole is 9 months older than Dalton and Dalton is 5 months older than Kyelar so it's really cute to see them all play together. I love when they all use their baby language and they can all understand each other but us adults have NO IDEA what they're saying haha.

Kyelar got a play cell phone for Christmas and Dalton and Kole were making phone calls to their girlfriends on there.

Gigi went outside to smoke and that was it Dalton was going outside no matter what any of us said ha. Well of course when one goes they all fall in line. Then Kade wanted to go so then Kole wanted to go and we wanted Kyelar to go too so she wasn't left out and before you know it we were all outside lol.

Of course the little boys wanted to go and see the cows that were in the one pasture next to Pop's house.

Uncle Randy told them to stay away though because there was a mean bull with them who was having some anger issues earlier that morning and he didn't want them getting hurt. We all went to eat at this yummy place that I can't remember the name of. When we were done we came back to Pop's house and opened presents.

This is what we got Kole for Christmas. This little boy LOVES horses and anything that has to do with them. Well since Randy and Stephanie's house is like Toys R Us lol we remembered we hadn't seen one of these over there so we knew he would like it. Well we were right HE LOVED IT.

Kole rode his horse all around the house until he was so pooped that he ploped down on the floor.

We love coming to Pop's house because this is where Dalton started walking. He just loves Pop and we thought it was awesome how he waited and waited and waited until we went to go see Pop with him for the first time and that's when he chose to walk. He loves sitting on his chair with him but we have to watch if he pushes the buttons and messes things up.

Kade had some game system that I can't remember what he told me it was but it was so neat. I know it wasn't a psp because I asked him that and he said no it's some new game thing they have for younger kids and he got a new game from Stevi and Brandon that was sponge Bob. Hmmm Dalton's favorite so Dalton watched sponge bob run around and kept saying "ponge bob" as Kade was playing.

Stevi and Brandon had bought all of the kids these little light up things and knowing how Dalton is you can guess that that is all he wanted to play with for the remainder of our stay there. (I mean besides his "bootball" that is permanetly attached to him lol)

We all went back outside because the kids wanted to go back out there and Dalton played with Coonie, Pops dog.

The cows came back over and Uncle Randy had to steer the kids away from them again.

We all had fun walking around and letting the kids run together. That is one thing that really made me want land now it's not like you have to say no don't go into the street because the street is WAY far away so you just have to keep a close eye but not hover over them.

There were these shells all over Pop's land and I kept asking Chantz what are those.

Well.....those were pecans. Chantz was picking them up and putting them in his hand with a rock and cracking them. I didn't know how to do that so I was just waiting for him to crack them so I could eat them haha.

I had never had fresh pecans that had just fallen right off of a tree like that before but let me tell you they were DELICIOUS!!!

We were trying super super super hard to get a picture of the four of them walking holding hands towards pops house but unfortunately when you have three under the age of three it's a little hard to do that.

Kade was great in helping us try to make them do it but Kyelar and Dalton wanted to go the other way and Kole was so scared of Coonie getting him that he didn't want to do it period. I think the one that we got was pretty good though with the circumstances:):)

There is kind of like a tradition in Chantz's family that every boy has been pictured on this tractor that's in front of Pop's house. We decided to get all of the kiddos on there for a pic.

This one we did have success with:):):) They may not all be smiling but everyone is looking at the camera and they all look adorable!!!

Dalton was more interested in playing football outside than anything. It was really sweet how him and Kyelar wanted to play it together:)

One thing that did kind of shock me was he wasn't very open to sharing with them and he always shares at his babysitters house so I don't understand where this was coming from.

It was very hard to take pictures of him because he was so into taking off running with his football. The cutest thing and I am glad I kind of got a picture of it is when he take off with the ball he pulls it up to either side alternating if that makes sense so he will be running and jerk it to the left and then jerk the football to the right and act like he's running for the gold medal:)

It's super cute in person and I'm going to have to get videos of him doing it becuase his face is just priceless.

Originally we were going to buy Keylar these pink and camo ugg boots for Christmas but we didn't know her size. She already had some tan ones that she was wearing that day which were SOOOO CUTE!!!
She also for the FIRST Time ever since she's been born came over to me and hugged me without me even asking her. I was sitting there on the floor talking and I feel someone come over and put their arm around me and I thought it was Dalton, but when I looked up it was the little princess:):)

I was super excited to take pictures this day because I officially got my new camera and Chantz had bought me the sd card for Christmas so I actually got to use it:):) I can not believe that the one he got is a 4GB and the one I had on the other camera was a 1GB and held already over 2000 pictures and still had room. With this one I won't need a new one until Dalton's like in elementary lol. Thank you Chantz. He did very special things for me this year for Christmas.

He bought me the necklace that I really really really wanted and was pretty sure I wasn't getting. It was an "ornament" on the tree though and didn't get it until all of my other presents were already opened. It's the heart with diamonds from Helzberg but it has the mother holding her baby inside the heart and I really wanted it when I saw it. I'm not really that into jewelry and usually only wear my ring but this year I really wanted some nice jewelry that I could wear everyday so I got my necklace that I wear EVEYRDAY!!!

Speaking of Jewelry....while we were at Pop's I opened my present from Stevi and Brandon and it was a charm. Well I had asked for a charm bracelet from Chantz (that I had been asking for a while for) and didn't get one.
So I said Chantz see I even got a charm I really need a bracelet now.

He tells me ok well maybe next year and Stevi said well mom told me you had one I'm so sorry.

So we all went back to our house to open presents from Gigi and Paul. They had gotten Dalton an easel and we didn't want to have to sit in the car with that the whole way home lol.

I go to open my presents and look at what Dalton's holding....a James Avery bag.

I look inside and there is two charms and then I'm really upset because I still can't use them. Well I look in the other little bag and it's a....CHARM BRACELET!!! I was so excited that I had finally gotten one and I could now use all of the charms I had gotten.

We were having a charm engraved for Gigi for Christmas however it didn't get done in time because there was a deadling due to the overwhelming amount of people purchasing charms.

Thankfully her pictures did come in on time though. Dalton had so much fun opening her presents because they were wrapped in Dora the Explorer paper.

And then when he saw what they were he was thrilled and had to show her who every single person was in the pictures.

The other funny thing that happened while opening presents was Dalton was hiding under the tree and Gigi went to go underneathe to find him and she ended up getting stuck trying to find him and get a picutre and he came out the other way behind the chair. Brandon was laughing so hard at her laying under the tree and said get a picture of Gina under the tree trying to get a picture of him when he 's not even under there anymore hahaha. It was really funny and we were all laughing really hard.

We all had such a good time and a great Christmas and it was so wonderful spending so much time with our families:):):)