Another Year Older....Ugh!

Today is my birthday....I have mixed feelings about it. Birthdays aren't as great as they used to be. I liked the days where I ate cake, ice cream and had my party at the skating rink. Those days are long gone. Instead, this my excitement......Matt thought that I was 26, he even wrote "Happy 26th Birthday" on my card. I am NOT 26, but I will take it! We went out to eat and had to rush home to get Walker in bed on time. For my birthday gift I got a mattress.....yes, a mattress. We are offically an old, boring married couple. Sigh. Honestly, I look at Walker and know that nothing else in the world matters. He is best gift that I could have ever received. He is such a sweet, precious little boy. He brings us such joy! Walker sleeping 11 hours last night was pretty great too!!

How could you not love this face?

Bring on 2010!

I cannot believe that it is already 2010! It seems like just the other day I was hanging out with all of my girls in our apartment at Baylor, but that was actually 5 years ago. Life has changed so much in just 5 years...I married the love of my life, bought a house, got pregnant, sold a house, bought another house and welcomed sweet little Walker to the world and then got pregnant again....JUST KIDDING!! I bet that scared some of you! 2009 was the best year yet and I can hardly wait to see what the good Lord has in store for us in 2010.

On a side note, I got a awesome new camera for Christmas, so that I can document Walker's every move. My other camera just wasn't cuttin' it. I have already taken so many pictures of the little guy. Everytime I pull the camera out he glares at me....he will probably grow up being scared of bright lights. Enjoy the pictures! Happy 2010!

The Day Dad Took Walker to See Santa

I had made several attempts during the Christmas season to get Walker to see Santa. We ran into several issues....forgot my camera, a 4 hour wait, Santa was on a break and lastly Matt didn't want to wait in the short line with 4 families in front of us. Yes, it took 5 trips before he successfully met the "big guy". Since Matt didn't want to wait in the short line of a few families he promised me that he would take Walker to sit on Santa's lap the following weekend, the weekend before Christmas. I told him he was crazy, but he insisted! Well, Matt ended up taking Walker and gave me a sob story about waiting in line for 2 and a half hours. He, of course, got loads of sympathy from my mom and I until we found out a week later that he had actually gone Christmas shopping and only waited in line for 25 minutes. Anyway, we got some classic pictures! Walker was so upset the whole time. Maybe because someone (we won't say who) put his hat on backwards and it was covering his eyes and the tag was itching his forehead. In truth, I am so happy to have a wonderful husband who is an amazing dad. Walker is a blessed little boy!

Why is the reindeer facing the wrong direction?

Charlie Brown Christmas Tree

It is true...I am just now blogging about our Christmas happenings. I am so behind and life has been crazy lately! So do you remember the pictures of our gorgeous Christmas tree from the post below....in case you don't here is a reminder...

Doesn't it look great?! Well, get a good look because that is the tree in it's prime. Things went down hill, way down hill hours after this. After "securely" tying the tree to the top of our car we headed back to Dallas. We had a stop several times and tighten the ropes and Matt had me periodically checking to make sure that the tree was still on top of the car. Like we wouldn't know if a huge Christmas tree flew off of our car. After arriving home and finding that the tree having lost about half of the pine needles, we cleared a place for it in our living room. Matt was trying to get the tree in the stand, but it wouldn't cooperate. It kept falling every time we let go of it...not a good thing! Matt was frustrated and dragged the tree back outside to "fix" the problem. Meanwhile, I was upstairs playing with Walker. I came back downstairs to find this....(minus the decorations. Believe it or not the decorations help tremendously!)

I feel over laughing. Matt had trimmed off the bottom branches and left us with half of a Christmas tree!! The tree skirt hides another large portion of the trunk. Needless to say, we immediately moved the tree to another room and went to Lowe's to purchase a new tree. Everyone who came to our home during the month of December had plenty to comments! Here is a picture of the new tree.

2 Months Old

Walker had his 2 month appointment yesterday. We both survived the shots! I was so nervous! He slept a big portion of the day and wouldn't let me put him down. It was such a good excuse just to hold my baby and not get anything else done all day.

Here are his latest stats:

Weight: 13 pounds 10 ounces - 90th percentile!! This would explain why he is wearing 3-6 month clothes

Length: 24 inches - 80th percentile

Head: 15 1/2 - 30th percentile

Walker has grown like crazy! The doctor asked me yesterday if I feed him based on hunger cues or all day just to pacify him. Seriously!? I know that he looks like he eats all day, but I feed based on hunger cues, the little fella just loves to eat! Look at how much Walker has grown and changed in just one month!

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