Whats up Heather?

WELL lets see...
1. I just wanted to say...it makes me sick when people have children and their main priority and ambition in life is to get HIGH...I have deleted these dumb people from my personal space pages and I am still working on that. Get with the program. What are you teaching your kids? I guess I dont get the hype. I have never tried any drug, besides anything legally prescribed by my dr...and I wouldnt. And my ambition in life is to be the best wife and mother, god serving woman I can be. Makes me sick.
2. I am so baby hungry right now. Hunter is getting so big, we are potty training and the other day he was sitting on his potty that sits on the big toilet and I just wanted to cry. He looked so big. And he is getting so big. I love him so much, baby please stay my baby forever. I feel like if I blink he will be 18. But we are going to feed our hunger within the next few weeks because we are going to start trying for another wee one! And I am so excited. I love kids, I always wanted a big family...and that probably wont happen since I was Delvin hungry and with his age I dont think it would be fair to have 10 kids and have him miss out on retirement that he works so hard for!!! But we will have 3-maybe 4...who knows.
3. Speaking of potty training-Hunter went poopie in the potty! He hasnt peed yet, but we are still working on it. But he did go poopie and was so excited when we did the potty dance and song...and he got a cookie. He loved it. Im trying to make it really exciting for him. We sing songs and do silly things to try and get him to be content to stay on the potty. He is SO darn cute. And just melts me with his silliness!
4. My cars transmission is bad...Yea there was a recall and I found out too late appearantly, but whatever. So instead of putting the money up which could be 3-4k for a new transmission on it we decided that we were going to go ahead and get me a big mommy vehicle that we planned on getting next year anyway since we were going to have another baby by then and we always seem to need the room with extra people and luggage for trips. So anyway we are looking for a big suv or mini van. I am really excited. It will suck having a car payment again, but it was inevitable.
5. Still looking for ahouse. and I really hope we find one by the end of this summer. I am so ready and want to be out of our house hopefully by Aug or Sept. I really am lucky to have a nice house now...but its different when its not your own...and I am not really crazy about the layout or the backyard. I love the big deck and its been great for get togethers and nice nights outside eating some bbq..BUT its not really workign with a kid. Hunter scares me to death when he gets up by the stairs to the balcony and the deck...Im afraid he iwll fall off. I just wnat a great flat backyard to put a swingset in and his other toys and let him play without worrying if he is going to fall and break something. He is quick so I cant depend on just running after him anymore.
6. Delvins mom still hasnt had surgery yet, butthat will be this week and hopefully all goes well, so keep us in your prayers.

Update on life

Well things are pretty good here. Delvin has been working pretty hard. We have had to make afew trips to witchita falls and are making another at the end of the month so he can do some work. I love going with him because I havent seen my friend Ann since the day we left the hospital with Hunter and Imiss her terribly. She just loves Hunter and I see how it feels her heart to have him tear up her stuff when we are over there! She has such a good heart.
Hunter is getting big...14.5 months and so smart and sweet. He knows which buttons to push and he loves to push them.
I am good, getting caught up on my scrapbooking stuff and enjoying my life as mommy and wife. I love my family so much, they make life just worth it. Started workign out, just trying to lose a few lbs before we get prego again. and Ill keep it up so that maybe I will have a better chance of a vbac...we are planning on trying for another baby in June most likely. maybe end of may! lol.
We are also looking for a house! Yes! We are finally buying a hosue this year. We have been married for almost 2 yrs and we have been back and forth on this...but we are ready to settle in one place. We were planning on moving to Kansas but its just not an option at this time...If it becomes an option at a later time than we will look at that possibility. But Delvin told me he is ok with settling here because this is our home...But I dont care, my home is where my husband is. So we are looking. My mother in law is having health issues right now, we are trying to talk her into moving in with us down here because we really feel it would be the best thing for all of us. And I would love for her to be here to watch Hunter grow as well as her other grandchildren. She will have such a great support system...and we are ok with moving to the country to make her feel more comfortable but close enough where delvin can easily commute. So please keep her and us in your prayers. She is stubborn and not easy to convince but we love her! lol.
We are headed to Oklahoma this weekend to see mycousin play some football. Cant wait miss them so much too.
Well I better get off here and get back to cleaning! Hope everyone is well....

twilight

I just finished the twilight saga. I am currently reading the interesting addition to the saga, midnight sun, based on edwards point of view. I am completely blown away that I have found an interest in this saga. I am not really a reader. I mean, I like to read, but I have my interest and even though I am intelligent, always was a good student, I just have my limits on what I want to spend my time reading! I am much more of a crafty hands on type of person. And YES I would rather see the movie than read the book. And I have to admit that Twilight didnt seem at all appealing to me when I saw previews so I didnt care to see it. I just thought it was some dumb teeny bopper movie and that was that. I remember going to blockbuster with Delvin and hes liek I heard it was really good, lets give it a try. A try I said...couldnt hurt...the worst that could happen is that I wont like it and I could tear away from it and work on my scrapbooks. But I liked it, I couldnt turn away. Yes the movie is about teen love. BUT...Its not just that, there is much more meaning in it for me. The measures...the love. Kind of reminds me of my life with Delvin. In a different sense of course, neither of us our vampires of course but...in real life as god fearing christians that were bound to be together. It was set in Gods plan...but it wasnt easy.
So I saw the movie, and I saw it again...and then I started the books...watching the movie on an off in between with anyone I could draw into this special life of imagination. I have lost sleep, being up until 2 30-sometimes 3 30 reading ...craving more of the story. I have never felt that way about books! (I have to stay up late because thats when Hunter is sleeping!) But its been so relaxing...like Im dreaming as Im reading, wierd huh!? So I finished it...and now Im sad. I cant wiat til the author finishes midnight sun which is a book from book 1...based from Edwards point of view. Interesting mind he has...how he loves bella. Sometimes I wish that I could get into Delvins head. See what he is thinking...how he feels...Being married I have learned to pick up on things...but I wish I knew all of it. lol. Just thinking about the series and the love they had makes me want to cry. Its so good. So if you havent seen it, you should. And the second movie, a new moon will be out in nov....11-20-09 and I cant wait. Definetely wont be able to wait for this movie to come out to video!

Feb

Well I havent written in a while, seems I have been busy I guess!

Valentines weekend we went with some friends to Red River, New Mexico and stayed in a nice cabin. It was such an awesome trip. So beautiful. The snow was so plentiful and white that it was almost blinding. We were surrounded by mountains...a view that was amazing. We had a great hill in the back yard that we spend most of our time on. We sled down it and the guys raced and tried different tricks. Even Hunter went sledding down the hill with his daddy. He didnt cry, he didnt laugh either, he kinda just had this look on his face like what the heck did you just do to me! Plus Delvin was afraid of going into the river (we still had space before that could happen, but this is when we were first out there and had only went down a few times, plus he was trying to be extra careful with Hunter...) So he put his feet down and a bunch of snow went up in their face, so I dont think Hunter liked that. But he did enjoy being out in the snow..just sitting next to me watching everyone else sled! Delvin went snowmobiling one day for a 3.5 hour tour...And he really enjoyed that. We would love to go back. We just had such a good time. But what a long drive! Totally worth it though.

Things have been pretty good otherwise. Delvin's just been busy working, and Hunter and I have been chugging along...He is so smart and amazes me each day. He is getting really good about his tantrums. He knows the word NO and he doesnt like it. But gotta teach him! He loves green veggies...yes green beans and broccoli...if he could live on those he would...

I got a call today, found out that I will get to be a cheer coach for the same team again! I am very excited to hear that, because I got really close to some of my girls....and their parents/football coaches. I was also told that I am being nominated for a cheerleading commissioner. Which basically means that I will be 1 of 3 that will be over the whole cheerleading deal. Primarily over the jr league. Its exciting for me to even be nominated for the position but the head commisioner said she thought of me immediately, I did such a good job last year, plus I know what I am doing from experience of being an actual cheerleader so she wanted to nominate me. So that made me feel really good. I am thinking about bringing in an assistant this year, especially if I get the commissioner position...just in case I have to be late to practice helping out other teams...and plus Id love to do more things with the girls this year, like sleepovers and so on.

Well its coming up on a year that memaw has been gone. Her birthday is on the 9th and she passed on the 18th...So I have been thinking about that pretty heavily. I cant believe a year has passed...and its been a hard one...I think this is going to be ahard month for everyone...so keep us in your thoughts!
Ill post pics from red river soon.

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!