Blogger fail...

As mentioned in previous posts my computer has some type of virus. I don't really know but I'm seriously slacking in the blogging department so I have spent the past 3 hours getting caught up using my iPad! But, now that I've found the blogger app I'm hoping I'll do better! Anyways....

Today is our last Friday of this school year! Ahhh!!! I just can't believe I've finished my first year of teaching! It's crazy!! Also, we had some great news today- ALL of the 8th graders passed the LEAP! Hallelujah, praise Jesus! I was/am so happy! So, technically the kids have 4 days of school left & I have 5! And I'm going to a PAID workshop in June that's only 4 days total & I get a free retina display iPad, case & keyboard! Yep, great things happening around here!! I am super excited about the next school year but I can't wait to spend this Summer with my sweet baby boy & wonderful husband! I have some fun projects for Beckham and I to do thanks to Pinterest, plus I have already started planning his first Birthday party!

 Yes, in just 57 days (hubby informed me tonight of the count) our baby will be 1 year old. Ugh it makes me so sad to think about him already being a year! My gosh where has the time gone? People really don't lie when they say it flies by. Anyways I plan on thoroughly enjoying the next 57 days while my baby is still less than a year old!

Here's a photo dump of our life lately!

OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT BECKHAM IS WALKING! Yes, at just 9 months old he started walking! It was the craziest thing, he'd take a few steps here and there but the night before Butch came home from Alaska he really started walking, and thank goodness I was face-timing with him so he got to see it all as it was happening! So, yeah it's official, Beckham is seriously trying to to grow up way too fast. I mean come on, crawling at 4 months, walking at 9; he's trying to kill me! 

His first bobo. A big old goose egg because he thinks he's grown & can do grown-up things, like jump off the bed.....yeah, long story.

Walking

Climbing

Swimming

Eating dirt

Being sweet! (5/17/13 10 mo old)

1st Family Vaca

I had been wanting to do something as a family since the day Beckham was born but it just wasn't the right timing so I somewhat gave up and then, Butch surprised me & planned an entire trip by himself! I was beyond excited!! So, we went to the Caldwell Zoo in Tyler, Texas. It really was perfect because it's only about 2 hours away and we didn't really know how Beckham would do in the car for that long, but he did great!! He literally slept the whole way there & back! We left when I got home from work on Friday and stayed the whole weekend with the only real plan to go to the zoo so our schedule was pretty open. Butch had the hotel and everything already set up, all I did was pack our stuff & get in the car- it was awesome! We didn't get to Tyler unil around 8 on Friday so we just hung out in the room and unpacked everything. I never realized how much equipment it takes with a baby now! We had all of the food supplies, pack n play & not to mention clothes, which naturally, I overpacked! I tried realllllllly hard not to forget anything. So, Saturday we got up and (Beckham didn't sleep very well, btw. He was not feeling the pack n play, even after I brought his big fluffy blanket from home) anyways we went to Panera Bread for lunch. It was so cute- he was sitting up in a high chair like a big boy & was seriously checking out every girl that walked by! He's definitely going to be a ladies man! Butch thought it was hilarious! But, he did so good eating real food at the table & everything! We got to the zoo around 2:00 and had a great time. He didn't really like the stroller at first, but he got used to it pretty fast and did so good! The weather was absolutely perfect. Naturally, I did forget something; the memory card to my camera- ugh! thank God for iphones. We left around 6:00 because he was ready for a nap & couldn't rest with all of the excitement of the zoo. However, when we got back to the room he, of course, didn't want to nap. So, I walked over and got us some frozen yogurt and we just relaxed for a little bit then got cleaned up to go eat supper. Butch saw this seafood place called Breakers, so we went there. It was delicious & Beckham, again did great at supper! We stopped by Target then headed back to the room. Sunday, we didn't really have anything planned so we just played it by ear.... Got some lunch, went shopping at a few stores, then the mall, then headed home. All in all it was a great weekend! I am very lucky and sometimes forget how truly blessed I am!

Feeding the fish & ducks

Gift shop with Daddy

Parking lot of the hotel he needed to stretch his legs & the shorts came off after a diaper change lol

While in Tyler, I happen to notice we were on Beckham Ave (perfect?)

Where did April go?

Seriously, where did the month of April go? I'm going to try to summarize our month...

Beckham had his first Easter pictures with baby lambs!! It was so cute and he actually liked them! They were a little more scared of him than the other way around! Anyways I thought the lambs would be something different and I was so pleased with the pics! He's so stinkin cute with his one little tooth! Mary (with Creative Imaging) even had me get in one shot, which turned out to be my first professional picture with my baby-so it doesn't really matter than I'm so not dressed for pics- oh well! I keep begging Butch to do some family pictures but he's not real into it so, we'll see! 

I was so pleased with Beckham's Easter basket!! I ordered the basket from etsy and fund the other things at various places. His basket has eggs & cute bunnies on each side of his name, that you can't see and was filled with the following: a floaty thing for the pool this summer, LSU bottles, a nuk sippy cup, blue peeps, easter bunny sock monkey, my first easter chick stuffed animal, cotton candy, baseball toy & Noah's ark plastic eggs! I was/am so in love with it! The basket isn't too baby-ish and is multicolored so it'll go with any outfit and he can use it for years to come, at least that's the argument I told myself for paying $55 for it. 

Over Spring break my sweet boy & wonderful hubby played nurse & took care of me while I was recovering from having all 4 wisdom teeth pulled. It was not fun but thank God my Mom came or a few days and helped with Beckham so I literally slept about 48 hours straight!

Grami and Pop got Beckham bunnies for Easter- they don't have names yet. We've considered Pete & Repete or Pootie head & Looski (those are Beckham's crazy nicknames) but nothing has stuck!

You can't really see his Easter outfit but this is the only picture I have on my phone & my laptop decided to die on me. Boo! Easter brought the usual cold snap & horrible weather so, it was cold & rainy all day. But, Beckham really didn't care about hunting eggs anyways, so it turned out fine!

We finished off the month of April by visiting Yaya and Grumpy!! They remodeled their house & it's finally done, or livable lol it looks awesome & will be amazing when it's completed!

Sweet boy napping at Yaya's and eating Swiss cake rolls-which he LOVED btw!

So, our April was pretty awesome. We stayed busy, obviously, because it came & went in the blink of an eye! I am trying HARD to savor these precious moments with Beckham but it is so hard! It seems like he is growing at warp speed & I am missing everything!!!!! Side note- he I'd trying HARD TO WALK, yes at 9 months! Ugh!!! Hell on wheels! I am so lucky to be his Mommy!

Shaving Cream Eggs

I saw this on Pinterest and thought it would be a fun way to dye Easter eggs this year. Plus, my Mom also said it was 'a great sensory activity'. So, we attempted the shaving cream eggs! It was so fun and they actually turned out pretty cute!

You basically just put down a sheet of wax paper, squirt about a palm full of shaving cream (we used the cheap stuff), put a couple of drops of food coloring on top of the shaving cream, swirled it around with a toothpick & then rolled the eggs in the cream. It was realllllllly messy but so fun & Beckham loved it! Well, he actually didn't know what to think about it but I'm pretty sure he was loving it! ;) Grami is in the below pics & I played photographer-as usual!

We let the eggs dry for about 15 minutes and just wiped off the excess with a paper towel. For some reason I forgot to take an after picture but they pretty much looked like the above picture just a little bit lighter. Of course Beckham was covered in red dye for a day or so but it completely came out of his clothes- I was shocked!!

Anyways, we are definitely going to do this again next year! We also dyed some with vinegar and all that but this was a fun alternative to the tradition! Happy Easter!!

A Good Read

I am in the process of choosing my Summer reader for the upcoming Eighth graders and I think I may have found a winner! Variant by Robison Wells. I started it Friday evening after work and finished it Saturday evening. It was a great read and although it is considered Young Adult; I would recommend it to all ages! I didn't know until I was finished that it is Book 1 of a series. I'm not sure how many are in the series, and since this one just came out last Monday, there's no telling how long it will be until Book 2 comes out. Anyways you can find it here for around $10. I'm thinking this will be the choice and I am eager to see what my future students think of it! Hopefully they'll make it into a movie and we can take a field trip! :)

March Photo Dump

 best snuggler ever!

 teeth

 Beckham's first Easter basket

 beautiful weather!

 Daddy feeding Beckham in his high chair for the first time!

Got my wisdom teeth pulled yesterday he's such a good nurse :) plus my wonderful husband and Mama of course!

Savoring the Sweet Stuff

As I try to fulfill my New Year's resolution (blogging once a month, minimum), I feel like it's more about quality than quantity when it comes to these blog posts. My whole purpose of this is to one day, be able to look back and savor the sweet moments I had with not only my son, but me whole family. It is so hard to focus on life's simple pleasures in this fast pace world we live in. So, today as I sit at my computer I just want to vent a little and and express how truly blessed I am.

Satisfaction has never come easy to me and I admit that. I try to be happy in the moment but most of the time I am thinking about ten other things I need to do or am working towards. However, here lately I have really been trying to stop and 'smell the roses'.

Right now we are currently looking for our forever house. I tend to fall in love with every house we see, at that time, and then a week later, I am over it completely. But, last night Butch and I were talking and he really made me realize that we don't need to settle. We have a house right now that is just fine. And as the saying goes, "The grass is green where you water it." So, I have come to the realization that we need to just water this grass until we either find the perfect piece of land to build or the perfect house, in the perfect location. Because, as I've said before, I am not moving again! The next house we live in, I will die in! I am so sick of moving, and I am not doing it again with a baby or possibly two depending on the time frame.

Also, I am somewhat stressing over this post partum body size. Beckham is now 8 months old and I still have about 20lbs to lose. As summer fast approaches I am not happy with this size and I seriously need some motivation. I am thinking once it warms up some I can start swimming or playing outside with Beckham, but somethings got to give. However, this is another thing I am never satisfied with. I look back at pictures when I was my smallest and would kill to be that size again, but I know at that time I still wasn't happy with my body. But in reality, I have a husband that loves the size I am (he thought I was too skinny before...whatever) and this body just created a life. So, I refuse to put too much pressure on myself. And that's that! :)

Beckham.... my favorite subject. He is beyond perfect. He is the constant in my life by far. I know that when I am having a bad day, he always makes me feel better. He is growing up so fast; I can't even keep up! You know when people tell you to enjoy every moment with your babies because you'll blink and they'll be grown. UMM...I have tried really hard not to blink and it's just not working. He was crawling at 5 1/2 months, and almost immediately started pulling up. Now, at 8 months old he can stand for a few seconds on his own and I just KNOW it won't be long before he is walking. (Which can't hurt the whole losing weight thing!)

Easter 2013

 

Butch.... definitely my second favorite subject. He is so good to Beckham and I. He is such a great Daddy and husband and I don't thank him enough for all that he does. I tend to get on his case about hunting and fishing so much when he's home, but it's only because I love him so much and always want to be around him when he's here! But, that's not fair to him because he is working for 21 days straight and when he's home he needs time to himself too. It is such a double edged sword but I am trying really hard to let him go and do his thing and not nag so much. Anyways- Beckham and I are incredibly blessed to have a man in our lives that works so selflessly. He could easily find an OK job around here but he does what he does to make a better life for us! What more could you ask for in a man?

Anyways, I am going to sit back and savor the sweet stuff; because, after all my life is pretty sweet!