HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

I promise tonight I am going to take pictures of Cash Baby the Teddy Bear and Miss Fairy Madison! This Halloween is going to be so much fun because Madie is finally old enough to understand special holidays. Well, off to bed for me since I just got home from work, but I hope everyone has a FABULOUS Halloween, and I can't wait to see yall's pictures!

Madie's favorite toy!

I'm starting to think Madie believes Cash is her toy.

Life is not about the pictures you take...

...but the memories you make!This summer has been full of fun activities and events that I could easily post 100's of pictures of to show how much fun we had.... but I've not been great about taking those 100's of pictures. But what lacks in photos is of great abundance in memories. This summer has been like no other summer in the past, and no other summer will ever be quite like this. This summer I got to watch Madie become the best big sister a little brother could ask for, Cody become the master of burps in the middle of the night while I've been at work, and I've had the privilege of again watching the miracle of a first smile, a first laugh, and...........

THE first night both kiddos have slept through the night!

While the family is away...

...while Cody is here:

...and the kiddos are having a blast not missing me one bit over at the Woolmans...

I am at work all week, reminded every single moment just how much I love being a mommy and wife. And when I am not at work being reminded that, I am at home missing being a mommy and wife like CRAZY!

This weekend without my family has made me realize just how true it is that "you don't know what you got till it's gone."

"I wanna share my bllllaaaaaank-it!"

THE blanket... The blanket Miss Madison will share with nobody... The blanket that *heaven forbid* either Cody or I hardly touch and we get abruptly shoved away...

Oh how I love this precious little girl and sweet baby boy!

Guess who, too!

(excuse the fact that this picture looks a bit like a baby mug shot)

Coiwn-tacs, coiwn-tacs...

I can't believe how all the sudden Madie is so into imaginative play! Today she was pulling "things" *insert: absolutely nothing* out of the camera case and giving them to me, then taking them away from me and putting them back in the case. She then pulled out Cody's parents' two labs "Sarah and Allie" *insert again: absolutely nothing* and gave them to me, and I thought I would play with her, and eat them. Oooops, that didn't go over too well. After I told her "mmmmm, yummy" she got quite devastated, almost started crying, and kept repeating "oh NO." Luckily I hadn't swallowed them yet, and was able to spit them out into her hand to save the day.

Later on she came up to me with one of her purses after I told her we need to get ready, and she started pulling out "lips" and "eyes," then she noticed I still had my glasses on, so she pulled out "coiwn-tacs."

Well, I have to go right now, Madie is over at the "kitchen" *aka: our living room end table* mixing me up a batch of "candy" to eat for lunch. 

This girl may be quite imaginative, but I have to say she has EXCELLENT taste in lunch cuisine!

Guess which baby?

If you already know who it is, don't ruin for the other 2 people that read my blog.....

Madie and Weston are starting to look more and more alike. Last night I found a picture of Madie and Lilly at the hospital when Lilly was born, so Madie was just over a month old, and it was CRAZY how much our two kiddos look alike! So, I thought a fun little game was in order. Winners get a high five. 

*And for those of you out of state, you'll get a virtual high five!*

How am I expected to get anything done?

With a cutie pie like this that loves to snuggle up!

June 18th is the day..... NOT!

On Thursday morning, June 18 we were supposed to call the hospital at 6 a.m. to see what time we were to go in to have our little guy. That night I hardly slept a wink (I think Cody might have gotten a few more minutes of sleep than me, but not by much) in anticipation of what it would be like to just walk into a hospital and have a baby. Well, even scheduled inductions I guess still follow by the old rule of "expect the unexpected." I called at 6:05 (I didn't want to seem anxious or anything) and told them I was scheduled to have a baby that day, to which the lady on the other line replied "I don't have you scheduled for an induction today." So..... to make a long story short, we didn't have a baby that day! It all worked out for the best, though, because Friday we went in and we WERE scheduled, and I slept great the night before, and the labor and delivery went great.

Happy Birthday to ME!

This year I hit the quarter century mark, and what better way to celebrate that half of my twenties are now over than with 2 kiddos in a double stroller. For those of you who know me, I'm sure you're laughing right now because I SWORE I would never have a double stroller. But, I tend to say crazy things regarding parenthood, such as "we aren't having children for a few years" to which Madie answered "haha, try a few months instead!" Anyways, I love my new stroller my mom got me, and it is a jogger- so I can use it to get back in shape.

We also had a great birthday dinner at Red Lobster- oh how I love their cheese biscuits! Madie loved looking at the lobster tank and called them "monsters."

Perfection!

Weston Cash Burns was born June 19, 2009 weighing 7 lbs. 4 oz. and 19 1/2 inches long. I may be a little partial, but I think he is absolutely perfect! Final belly shot the morning we had our little guy Daddy and his early Father's Day present Holding my little guy right after they wrapped him up Having a bottle just before we left the hospital

Madie holding her little brother with Daddy's help