Caleb's Halloween Pictures

At last, here they are!

Halloween Pictures

I get to pick up Caleb's Halloween pictures today. I am so excited!! It's crummy you have to wait 2 weeks to pick them up, but it's worth it.

I was walking through Walmart the other day and saw the cutest Santa outfit for babies. Of course I had to get one! I can't wait to put Caleb in it and take pictures! So much fun!

Pumpkin Patch Pictures

Caleb's school had Pumpkin Patch pictures yesterday, so here they are! I had been wanting to take him to a real pumpkin patch for pictures, but with it being cold, spitting up on our warm outfits, and being sick we haven't made it. This will have to do for this year.

For Post's Sake

Wow! I haven't posted on here since Wednesday! I have been so busy lately.

It has really been eating at me lately how busy we are all of the stinkin time! We have something almost every night of the week, every week. I keep trying to find ways to cut back, but it is so hard. When I look back, I can't even remember what we have been doing...where has all of our time gone?

My number one priority now is Caleb and spending time with him. It is frustrating at the end of the day to look back and realize that we didn't even have much time to play with him.

I am so tired of the busy life that we all lead!

Next Blog

If you have clicked on the "Next Blog" button on a Blogger screen, you may have noticed that most of the blogs you see are in other languages. It makes me really wish I could read other languages. Or that I would have at least paid a little more attention in the 4 years of Spanish that I had in high school.

Becky's Great Taco Soup

My friend Becky made some awesome Taco soup last night for LIFE Group! She posted the recipe on her blog, so I thought I would post it on mine also for all my blog readers to take advantage of also. You will love it!!

2 pounds ground beef, browned and drained
Then add:
(28 oz) can diced tomatoes with juice
can rotel tomatoes
2 cans ranch style beans,
undrainedcan kernal corn (drained)
packet hidden valley ranch dresing mix
packet taco seasoning mix
1 cup water
16 oz. velveeta

Simmer about 30 minutes. Serve with fritos and sour cream.

You Know that Cute Froggy Footy Outfit...

that Caleb was wearing a few posts ago? Well, he had a blowout in it this weekend, and I have been trying all weekend to get the stains out. It is such a darn cute outfit, and now it may be ruined. Makes me sick. I'm going to keep trying to do everything I can to get the stains out though. Wish me luck!

Car Trouble and a Ride with Daddy

My car wouldn't start this morning. It has only happened a few times, but it is the worst feeling when you get in the car to go to work, and your car does not start. I normally do not build in much extra time into my commute to work (especially now with Caleb...wait, makes me think I should add in extra time since you never know what will happen with him), so when something like this happens, I get worried that I am going to be late to work.

Since my car wasn't working, Chris had to come back home to pick me and Caleb up to take us to church. Even in the midst of being frustrated about my car, it was so nice to have Chris taking us to church.

I love family. I love the feeling that there is someone who is there that cares about you and wants to help you. I love being that person for my other family members. It makes me feel so comforted knowing that I can call my husband or my other family members about anything and that they will jump at the chance to help. This afternoon my dad is picking Caleb and me up from church and is coming over to look at my car.

What would I do without family?

I would go crazy!

My Little Froggy

Caleb has this really cute footy outfit that looks like a frog that he slept in Thursday night. He had been really fussy all evening, and then when it was time to go to bed, he decided he would act adorable, so Chris and I had a few minutes of fun playing with our froggy before he went to bed. Enjoy!

Too Early for This

It is 10 a.m. and my brain is already fried and I have a headache. I have a caffeine free Dr. Pepper with me, but I may have to go get something with caffeine.

Caleb at the Fair

Ok, finally!! Here are the pictures of Caleb at the fair. Not great pictures. Oh well. I can't wait to take even cooler pictures next year with my new camera and when he is old enough to sit up and we can take silly fair pictures.

Interesting fact...over the past few days when I have typed the word fair, I have spelled it fiar every time. How weird is that? I guess my fingers have a mind of their own.

Pictures of Fair

I have been trying to get the pictures uploaded to Blogger, but it isn't working. I'll get the pictures up here as soon as it starts working right.

Clustr Maps

I downloaded the map over on the left side of this page the other day, and it has been interesting to see where all of the people in the world are that are checking out my blog. I saw this on Larry James' blog and thought it was neat, so I thought I would give it a try. When I checked it yesterday, there were just the dots in the US. But today when I looked at it, there were dots in other countries. How cool!

New Camera

This is a picture of our new camera that we got last night. (Lindsay, is it like yours? It has the dial on the top that looks like yours, so I thought it might be the same one.) I am so glad to have a digital camera again! With Caleb growing up so fast, it's been crummy having to deal with a film camera and missing some shots. But now I have a new camera and I can go picture crazy again of my little boy! Hopefully this one will last us longer that a year and a half like my last one did. I'm going to take much better care of it this time though. I've learned my lesson about just throwing it in my purse all of the time.

I still haven't gotten my film camera pictures developed, so as soon as I do, I will post the fair pictures of Caleb on here.

Fair Update

We had a ton of fun at the fair last night, and Caleb was great! It was sensory overload for him, so he stayed awake most of the time and thus was pooped out and slept really well last night. Caleb normally gets pretty fussy around 7:30-8:00 each night, but since there was so much to distract him, he didn't have time to get fussy. Does the state fair have season passes for babies? It's tempting to want to take him every night if he'll be that happy every night!

When I get my pictures developed (I feel so retro saying that I am going to get film developed...my digital camera is broken right now) , I will scan one and post it on here. We got a picture of Caleb with Big Tex, so hopefully it turned out good. I was going to take fun baby pictures all over the fair, but my retro film camera's battery went out. Bummer.

Peace out! (Dedicated to Chris!)

Goin' to the Fair

My parents and I are going to the fair tonight...and we're taking Caleb along for the ride! We'll have to take lots of pictures of his first fair experience...sitting in a car, petting animals in the petting zoo, riding the ferris wheel, eating a corny dog...all of the fun fair things! Actually three months old is a little young for all that, but he will get to ride around to see all of the sights. It should be a lovely cool evening for the fair. I am looking forward to it!

What is the deal?

I have had a cold or have felt bad for over a month now. I am really looking forward to the day that I do not have to get up with Caleb for a feeding in the middle of the night anymore. It is completely wearing me out. I used to never be sick at all, but now that I am so stinkin' tired all of the time, I just can't stay well.

Caleb has slept great...sometimes sleeping from 8:30 p.m. to 6 a.m., but this week things have changed. All of a sudden he is waking up multiple times during the night which he never used to do. A book I have says to wean babies from the pacifier by 4 months, but right now that is the only thing that will get him back to sleep at night. I worry that this is going to be a problem and that he is going to keep this up for awhile.

Any suggestions from the moms out there?

Songs I Sing to Caleb

• ABC's
• Row Row Row Your Boat
• Jesus Loves Me
• Jesus Loves the Little Children
• I've got the Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy Down in My Heart
• The B-I-B-L-E
• Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelu, Halleluiah; Praise Ye The Lord!
• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
• Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Sweetest Name I know
• I Love you Lord
• Seek Ye First
• Majesty
• I am a C-H-R-I-S-T-I-A-N
• Jesus Christ is the Lord of Lords, Lord of all the Earth; Singing Halleluiah, Halleluiah
• Do You Know the Muffin Man
• London Bridge
• Yankee Doodle
  
  That is a pretty good list of what we sing. I know there are at least a few more that we sing as well as songs I have made up about Caleb. I also like to count for him and do math problems. He is going to be such a dork! :) Just look at his mom and dad...he doesn't stand a chance of being cool! hehe

Songs from Childhood

Each day as I am taking Caleb to school and then going home in the afternoon, I sing him songs from my childhood. I want Caleb to not only know the songs from his generation, but from my generation and generations of the past also. I am always trying to think of new songs to sing that I may have forgotten all about.

What songs do you remember singing as a child? Church songs? Traditional songs?

Thanks for your help!

That Darn Blogger!

I have been trying to change the look of my blog so that it isn't just a normal looking blog. What I dont get is why Blogger has to make things so hard. You would think when you set up the blog, it would just ask you questions about what color, font, size, background color, etc. you want and then just do it for you. But nooooo! It has to make you go into the html code in order to change it.

I have a book here on html code that I have pretty much read, so that has been helpful, but it is still like finding a needle in a haystack to try to find the certain line/word, etc. that you want to change.

But am I going to give up? No Way Jose! I am going to master this thing someday. Just one step at a time.

It Breaks My Heart...

about the Amish girls that were shot yesterday. It is hard for me to wrap my mind around this seemingly senseless act of horrific violence. There have been so many of these sorts of incidents lately...so many that president Bush and the government are starting to question what can be done about this sort of thing. I can't imagine how anyone could mistreat kids, so this kind of thing is completely unthinkable. I pray for our great country. May God be with us all.