Hunters Birthday, In Laws Visit and LIFE.

I am heart broken. My baby boy is turning 1 tomorrow. And I spent the whole year freezing every moment bad or good in my head so I wouldnt forget it, and I dont know where the heck it went. The year went by SO fast. But everyday he wins my heart even more than the day before. He is so smart, funny and sweet. He LOVES to dance, talk..talks alot!..walking all over the place now...even trying to run! I keep telling him slow down...and not just with the running...He copies everything we do, repeats what we say. Loves to cuddle with me. He brings so much joy in my life. I am getting a bit of baby fever...missing being pregnant, missing holding a new born baby. Hunter is just so dang independent. I know he will always need me but sometimes he wants to do it all himself. But that baby fever will hopefully be cured when baby number 2 comes along! For now I am just enjoying the one on one time with Hunter.

Delvins parents came in on Jan 22nd. We had such a great visit with them. The day they came in, we took them to Pappadeux YUM! ...we had the best service EVER! Seriously, we have had great service but this was the best. Great waitor that we will be requesting next time. The next day we took them out to the stockyards. We just walked around, bought a few souveniors...I got my print that I wanted ...(The Cowboy 10 commandments, which is just the commandments written like a texan would say it!) Then went down to Billy bobs. They had a good time. We went before 5, so we were able to take Hunter in with us. He was really diggin all the lights, but kinda getting fussy since it was his nap time towards the end. Saturday was Hunters birthday party. We had to have the week before his actaul birthday since Delvin was on call. We had a GOOD time! It was packed from wall to wall with people and kids (25 kids) UNfortunately, the weather kept us from having it outside like we hoped (the weather was so pretty all week, of course the day of, freezing cold!) But we had fun, it worked out. Hunter got too much stuff, but thats ok. Thats the fun of being little! We had family stay late up until 2 am!!! Delvin made a brisket and YOU KNOW it was DELICIOUS! So we ate, hung out, the guy played some poker and we just sat around talking. Unfortunately, the next morning Delvins parents had to head back to Kansas, so we got up and said good bye to them. Hunter really enjoyed his grandparents being here. Grandpa Curtis just gave him all kinds of attention so of course he was eating that up! Grandpa would take him outside to play alot. Sunday we just sat around lazy and watching movie after movie.

Monday we had temps drop big time, and we had ice come in the next few days. Yuck, I hate when the weather is like that. You cant do anything. Our friends Heather, Mark and their daughter came to stay the night, we just cooked and watched a movie. Delvin and I got out to go to the store and blockbuster...and it was horrible. Very slick, and we were sliding because of people not driving right or paying attention. Very scary! So anyway, its melted but there are still spots. Our backyard is still kind of white.

Well we are looking at houses. We are going to be buying a house this year, YES finally! I think Delvin has had to search his heart on if we need to be here or if we need to be in Kansas. And here is where we need to be. We have great support here. Delvin has a great, stable job (not many can say that these days) We have made a life together here now. so we need to be here. We LOVE the area that we are in right now, we just want our own house and something that makes more sense for us to expand our family...oh and something without the stairs getting up to the house. We do love this house, but what a pain.

We have found a few houses that are really standing out to us. One is over 3k sq ft, 4 bedrooms, 3 bath 3 living rooms, a game room, big kitchen and living, 2 pantries and a laundry room, plus a workshop connected to the 2 car garage and its only 1 story!!! YEA!!! But its a lil more than we want to pay for a house! So we are hoping it will go down some more. But it would be perfect, we could have a room for each of our kids, a play room for them, delvin will have an office again and we will have a guest room, plus a room to accomodate the pool table/game room. Oh and this one has a wet bar.
Then there is another that we love, 4600 sq ft, 5 bed, 8 bathrooms (yea I am not joking, and I dont understand it either, they are all full bath too!) big kitchen and living, 2 extra rooms for office and play room laundry room and pantry, And its on an acre. That would really be perfect...have all that we would have with the other house and then some...nobody would ever have to wait for a bathroom! The downfall is that we dont really want a 2 story and this one is a 3 story. But its really neat and a DEAL for this house. So we will see. Wish us luck!

I better get back to dinner! Later!

OUR PHOTOGRAPHER ROCKS

She is so awesome! She takes amazing pics. I have written about her in many post before but this session really touched close to my heart for 2 reasons. 1...my baby is almost 1. What a year. He is so big. And 2. I collect portraits of the little kids like this you know black and white with like a red rose or whatever....or they are dressed like big people...anyway so how neat is it that I have my own collection of Hunter! Love it! And there are tons more coming, but this is a sneak peak I was given today!

I did it.

Its been a little bit since I have written, we have really been super busy! It seems like even when were just sitting around the house, we are busy...I am cleaning and were playing with Hunter, and Delvins working...and we try to kick back and watch some movies, but by the time we can its at 9 at night after I have given Hunter a bath and put him to bed. Delvin has been on a crazy on call schedule...that takes up some weekends and sometimes a week at a time! But we have made time to get in some time with friends and family. This chick I went to high school with and I kind of connected. We didnt really talk much in high school, but through myspace we have become friends now, I also went to middle school with her husband. She has a daughter, Hayden, who Hunter loves...she is just a few months older than Hunter. Anyway her and I and the kids hang out at least once a week, but we have a little mommy baby group with some other friends of ours that get together every week. We have such a good time, it rotates between my house and another girls since we have the room. But anyway we eat lunch and the babies play and they are all like within a month of each other. It really is good for Hunter and I. It gives me social time that I dont get with a job, and I think the interraction is good for Hunter so that he isnt always wantting to be up my butt, and he wont be afraid of school and sports. And he is so much like me, he will talk to anyone, go to anyone....he doesnt care! LMAO. But anyway, we really enjoy it.

Delvin and I have seen a few good movies the past few weeks. My parents have kept Hunter a few sundays to spend some time with him, so that gives us the chance to get out and do that. Which was our favorite thing to do before we had Hunter. We have seen Marley & me, and Gran Torino. Great movies. Both of them are my new favorites for sure!

I have kept one of my old cheerleaders the past 2 weekends. She is so sweet and reminds me of myself. I love her and her family. Very good people with great hearts. But anyway, her mother has fabulous hair, and mine isnt so fabulous anymore, just boring and not really doing anything for me anymore. So I got the number to her stylist. And sat on it for a few days debating what I should do. I have been having major migraines that havent gotten better and I have been slipping into a bit of a depression of my looks because I cant get my hair to do anything, my last lady messed it up bad. and I just couldnt get out of this funk...so I went in and CUT IT OFF! We cut about a foot off! Its definetely shorter. But it looks amazing. I feel so beautiful now. When I saw the finished product I almost cried because its the best stlye I have EVER had. It looks great and I feel great. And I think I lost about 10 lbs! lol.

Hunters birthday is fast approaching and his party faster. He is walking better and better. That boy has me wrapped around his finger. He now hugs me and pats my back and saw awww....lol, cause thats what I do to him! lol. His party is mickey mouse themed. I love Mickey mouse, it was my childhood fave and I thought it would be perfect. My father and mother in law are coming into town the 21st...and leaving the 26th. So we are excited. We miss them. And I dont know how to express how much it means to us that they will be coming in for his birthday. Especially since they couldnt be here for his birth. I guess it really got to me because everyone was having their babies and their familes and in laws would be there and I would watch baby story and same thing...and we didnt have anyone here from Delvins family...and I just got really emotional because we would have liked them to be.And things were such a mess at that time...it was hard. So this is going to be a celebration indeed!

Anyway, I am going to bed...goodnight!