Oh dear blog

I promise I have not forgotten you. I have been revisting the land of sleep deprivation and have had the time to pay attention to you. I do promise that you will be attended to again soon. :)

The Party

The party is done and over so now I can write about it. I could not before as it was a surprise party for Mom. She does get online now and then leading to her occasionally reading my blog. With much stealthness and white lies (thank you Aunt Carolyn!!!), we pulled it off. Mom thought they were all coming out my way to go out to dinner for her birthday and that Aunt Carolyn had the ice cream thus why they had to stop by my house. Not only was the party a surprise, but there were family members in town that Mom did not know were here...Uncle Melvin and Aunt Jane in from Deland, and my sister, Pam, flew in for about a day so she could be here. In addition to the surprise party, we had a surprise card shower. What this meant is that I contacted as many people as I could from Mom's address book and asked them to send her a birthday card in care of my house. I also asked them to let others know so we ended up with about 70 cards. I am still getting a few a week later. Lastly, the party entailed my first venture in cake decorating since taking classes right before Logan was born and I mean, right before. I think my last one was 2 weeks before he was born. Thanks to my sister for helping me with the cakes.

I did not get many pictures as I was running around doing all sorts of stuff, but this shows the flowers she got, a few balloons...oh and Morgan favorite redheaded cousin, Ty.

Pictures of the cake- two tiered vanilla with strawberry filling and vanilla frosting (Morgan picked out the flavors)

My blog has been lacking in pictures of my children the past few entries. Here is a cute one of Logan where I realized his eye color matches our couch. My friend, Janet, thinks he will keep his eye color and wondered where it came from as Troy and I are in the brown/hazel range. I have a paper that has information about my biological parents on it and apparently, all of my immediate relatives had blue eyes. Not sure where my hazel ones came from. Also, my grandfathers on both sides were over 6 feet tall so maybe that is where the kids get their height from??

Not sure how well this will show online, but check out the funky details in Logan's eyes. Very interesting looking and some times the photos are just amazing.

I did update my picture of the kids on the sidebar. Figured Logan is 5 months old so I should. Looks like Morgan will have her first sick day home from school tomorrow. She has a cold or something that has brought on a runny nose and very fussy child for the past few days. Fingers crossed it clears up soon. Kind of a bummer as I heard rumor there was going to be a firetruck at school tomorrow.

Football!!

Not much for today other than to say

Go Bucs!

Wahoo, Seminoles won their first game and Manatee won their game. Fingers crossed we wrap up a winning weekend with the Bucs.

No pictures, but an entry anyway

I am listening to Logan over the monitor as he tries to get himself to sleep. It is something we have needed to work on for a long time and he did well the past two nights. Well...last night he was so worn out from screaming all the way home from MOPS that he went to sleep very easily. Fingers crossed that we get the self soothing down and his bedtime routine becomes much shorter.

So no pictures this time. Not that I do not have any new ones, but I have so much stuff to get done right now. Typical household stuff like never ending laundry (add a baby that spits up a lot to the family and you also add endless laundry) and emptying out the dishwasher. We are also doing the moving sale at Mom's one more time tomorrow. Then there is the cake. I took cake decorating classes right before Logan was born so I need to make use of what I learned. I decided I am going to make Mom's birthday cake. I will have to get started tomorrow on the flowers so I can stay on track. I will get some pictures up from the whole thing at a later date. Add on top that Troy will be gone all next week and once again, we are on hurricane watch. Oh well, keeps life exciting. :)

Well, Logan is starting to fuss a bit more. Might need to go check on him. That is it for now...

Yeah, I'm still here

It seems like it has been forever since I have been on here. Things have been busy in our house. My nephew was here for a visit, Morgan started school along with all the other things that normally are going on. I guess I will do the update as I go through some of the pictures I have posted....

Nothing like starting off with a naked baby picture! I had to do one of Logan as I have them of Morgan at about the same age and on the playmat. Gotta have something to embarass them with in their teen years. :)

Logan and Morgan both have been doing well. It is great to see her really show interest in him and try to play with him. She still likes to tell people that he is very, very fragile and that he is too little when we say he wants some of her food. We have started him on rice cereal and he loves it! He also got some squash yesterday. At first he was not sure about it, but soon thought it was good. I like this picture of the two together. Is it forseeing the future as she puts him in a slight head lock???

So this is the best first day of school picture I got of Morgan. She was supposed to start on a Tuesday, but school was cancelled in anticipation of a hurricane that ended up going further south. She has had a bump or two when it comes to drop off. When I took her yesterday, she did fine so I think it will be good. The teacher said she is playing with others and nothing bad to report. We got our first thing home yesterday that she did in school...a paper firetruck she glued and colored.

I love this outfit on her. The colors look so good and her flip flops are so cute.

On to Nick's visit. He was here for about a week and half. He stayed with us for most of the time and it was definitely something else. Morgan's "mines" came out a lot and Nick had to get used to not only a 2 1/2 year old, but a baby as well. I think the baby was easier for him at times. He really liked holding Logan and carrying him around. He even helped hold him during bed time. Here are the two boys.

We all got together for Uncle Louis' birthday and had to get a picture of all the cousins as it is not often that all of them (Nick) are together.

You can only ask so much of a 4 month old. :)

One of the things that Morgan and Nick did was make pizzas for dinner one night. We also went kite flying, swimming at Grammy's, bowling, to MOSI and to Brandon for Build a Bear, shopping and riding on the merry go round.

Mom's birthday is in September, but Nick will not be here for it so he made a cake for her while he was here. He did good with the decorating and made good use of all the cake decorating tips I got when I took my classes.

Last, but definitely not least, congratulations to my cousin, Mary, who got engaged a few weeks ago. We are so happy and excited for her!