Winter Glistens with Sparkly Snow

So this has been quite the year, and I have been a BAD BAD blogger!!!

I will update this week--- but for tonight, its snowing, my bug is snuggled in bed, the fire is roasting and I am SO thankful for everything I have.....especially this wiggly little baby girl in my belly!!

Here is Aydan and his "Rae" as he calls Mason!!

{ Music On My Mind }

So you ever just hear a song and don't care where you are, that you just want to get up and sing and dance??! Oh boy that is the way that I am feeling now thank -you to Kelle Hampton for always finding such good songs that just take me away!!! I love it!!






So much is it just a way to feel so many emotions at the same time....when you are happy it makes you want to break out the funky music that makes you want to open the sunroof, roll down the windows, and belt it like you are Aretha Franklin or something.....Then you have your sad songs (yes ladies you know where I am going with this) that when your high school boyfriend broke up with you you just had to lock yourself in your room and cry it out to every sad love song that there ever was.....and then you have the soul....my favorite.....I mean you can just feel it pull at your heart in a raw way that you can't explain!!





So today the sun is shining I am almost done with work and I am going to break into the happy dance in my car for my 45 minute ride home and just be happy as the sun is shining and I am going home to my two boys that I love endlessly!!

My Boy Melts My Heart

Awwwwww sigh of sweet relief of the love that I feel that surrounds me when I am with little monkey.....he just elates me with so much happiness!! I am just sitting here wishing I could spend all my time with him everyday as we just have so much fun together!!

This is all that I can think of right now:

Thats it for today......the sun is shining and I have an amazing family.....life does not get any better!!

Milestones

Soooooo I have been in the dumps a little bit lately....it has become a reality that having another baby is just going to take alot longer than we ever anticipated. We are right around the corner of trying for a full year......I have my good days and bad days with it, today is a bad day hence why I find the need to maybe get it off my chest to help me enjoy my day better!! I think its getting really hard now because pretty much everyone around me is pregnant and some of them are getting prepared for their little ones to make their grand entrance and I have yet to still not even become pregnant, when we started trying before some got pregnant.




I know I should not dwell on what I don't have and focus on what I do have, but some days that isn't always easy, as some of you may know your own personal heartaches have to be accounted for, just because you do have a great life doesn't mean you can't be sad sometimes.



OK ENOUGH of my own personal pity party, time to move on to something SO VERY amazing......Aydan. He is no longer going to be technically a baby, in a short time he is going be the big 2!!! I can't believe how fast time goes, I wish it would chug along rather than steam full speed ahead

From this

to this

Sweet & Stuff .......dun dun dun.....Rough & Tough

ha ha he's still an angel, just such a big boy now

We have been preparing for his Monkey Jungle Birthday set to happen in only just 3 more weeks!! I can't believe it, I am so excited to have everyone over to celebrate the birth of my sweet boy. I am so excited to see his face light up with the new swing set we got him and when he sees all his cousins and little friends that he just loves dearly. Nothing makes my heart flutter more than watch my little man's face light up with joy, it is such an exhilarating feeling.......

We got alot of Ideas from some great minds....here; everything was just so cute!!

So the invitations have been made and sent out yesterday all thanks to my wonderful husband Mike getting them to the post office for me!! He's just so sweet to do his part. My cupcake stand came in yesterday...big enough to hold 48 cupcakes. We will be aiming for those delightful Betty Crocker jungle animal cupcakes and two Monkey cakes!!

So for an update of how this turned out .......

So here are the cupcakes all displayed in the jungle glory!! 

This was Aydan's Special Cake just for him.... I actually made him two since I had some much batter!! It was just as fun eating it as it was making it all!!  

My little fluffy red head getting to enjoy it! ..... (I am writing/updating this a year later and its amazing to look back and his baby features and this think how fast time has already gone by)

What do you think? Can I pass for Betty Crocker someday???

Celebrating Yet Another Year

So be that it may that I have to get another year older...... Funny thing is I am more OK  with it than I thought that I would be with being in the last year of my 20's......yes yes I am 29 today!!! I guess the thought is I am going to live it up for this last year of my 20's.....learn new things if I can, do as much as I can and yes friends maybe get a date in with my hubby for the first time since Aydan was born!!

Hmmmm life without my son.....could never imagine it, that life is only a distant memory, but a good with that. But this chapter of my life being mommy I love on both good days and bad. I just really love this chapter of my life and growing now with my little man is just amazing in every way!! I feel so very lucky to have everything that I do at this age.........

• An adoring husband that always puts up with me. He is supportive, loving, his own comedian.....and most of all he is my best friend that I can confide in. There is nothing better in this world than having someone you love so much standing right beside you and while they are you can feel how much their love surrounds you.
• An extrordinary son......who amazes me everyday!! He is so smart and inquizative, the amount of curiosity that I see in him is just astounding. He is everything that I dreamed of....even on a bad day!! I love that feeling of knowing he needs me, that he depends on me to teach him as much as I can and show him how much I love him each and everyday!!

My love and inspiration for everyday:

Goals

So I seem to always set goals for myself......but I find myself mystified by the fact that I can never seem to keep to them. I think that I am still like that 5 year old that set out to build a sandcastle and two hours later you find that I have a bucket of shells because I have journeyed that far off course.....




Is it that the goals that I set for myself are unattainable or am I that much of a Matilda mind that I can't stay in one place for too long!!



Ok so here goes for a goal..... I am desperate to get to my goal of some day achieving professional photographer status.....or at least VERY good Amateur!! Giggle Giggle .....



Goal #1: Sit down and read my manual from top to bottom, forward to backwards and again....repeat again!!

(If you know me then you know I never follow directions..... I make up everything as I go along which can be a good thing and a bad thing in its self!!)



Goal #2: Switch from Jpeg to Raw......maybe that might be a leap for me.....but then again taking chances are always a good thing right!!



Ok and lastly I am going to have to follow through with this!! Good luck to me right!! I will just have to pretend that my manual is like a good James Patterson novel....we will get there ;)

Playing Catch up in the Cold

I haven't posted now in two weeks.  I am already bad at blogging ha ha!! This has been such a whirlwind of two weeks time. You just don't even realize how fast time goes by, its scary in a way, makes you wonder why it has to be. I feel as though a lifetime here still isn't long enough.....though the days that I am waiting for something, that is just another story because then it has been a life time that you feel like you have been waiting!! Ha ha!!

Love Filled Weekend

This was a great weekend. We had great friends over for a Valentines Day Celebration.......it always feels so good to have a home to welcome everyone into and catch up and share laughs. All the kids played and  you would have thought a bomb went off with all the toys in the living room  as I feel happens everyday when Aydan plays. I just love having a house full of people, it gives you a sense of warmth and security.

I could not keep my hands off these ALL day!!! 

The most adorable cookies that Jenn and Emily made.....I love that we got to keep the extras, and so does Mike with his never ending sweet tooth!

We enjoyed everyones homemade goodness that was brought to the table, you would have thought we were never going to cook again with the amount of food that we had. I had a wonderful surprise to find out that my friend Molly and Patrick got engaged....couldn't be more happy for them, who doesn't just adore and love weddings....I wish I could get married to Mike over and over!!

Our Next Day was all about Aydan!!! Valentines Day itself......we began the morning with some Yummy french toast that I dyed to be pink!! I just love being festive for the holidays.....all of them!!

There is nothing better than spending a nice cold days with the two that you love the most....I am thankful to have the both of them! 

We finally got Aydan on his sled for the very first time!! He didn't want to get out of it. Then again I can't say that I would want to get up when someone is taking me for a thrilling ride all through out the icy wonderland in the backyard.

The little red sled that could......need I say more

Settled in and ready to go!!! 

I love the excitement that he had as he continuously signed for "more"!! 

In now for a cozy retreat......though he went unwillingly

And the little munchkin showing how he can hop like a frog like mommy can

Ok so I am thinking that I should certainly just give a slight background on Me and my sweet family who I just absolutely adore....My husband and I have been together for over 7 years now........

This is from our wedding on Old Silver Beach in Falmouth Ma

October 8, 2006

I ask him all the time if we can do it again.......

and Now we  have this beautiful little miracle that was born May 19, 2008.....his name is Aydan Joseph and he calles me mommy!! 

He melts my heart in every way imaginable, anyone who is a parent I am sure can relate with their little one. It is such an indescribable feeling.....

Here  are some recent pics of him!! 

This was the cover of his Christmas card....believe it or not he is in the bathtub for this....I needed something quick as I as super late getting cards out this year!

Always one who is up for helping his daddy....and Pop he followed them all around the yard "helping" split wood, he is just so proud when he can help with small chores...though he thinks that they are big....

this was actually a day I was doing photos for friend's daughter....I couldn't help but to catch him being cute in the act!! 

This little man is my reason, as well as Mike my husband.......they have both made realize my purpose and I know just what to do with my life when I am with them!!

This will be my first time EVER blogging, I am sure I will mess it up up, but just like my life its mine to make mistakes and fix when they happen!!