Full House

Our house was packed full of family last week! It was so nice to have Deric's family here for most of the week. But lets be honest....they only came to see the Princess! Amelia loved all of the attention and now her daddy and I are suffering the aftermaths of it! She NEVER wants to be left alone... if she can't see me she cries! So thanks Grandma Linda, Aunt Kim, Nick, Nikohl, and Nathan for spoiling our girl rotten and then leaving! HA

Kohl and Amelia

The gang got here on a Saturday, July 30 and stayed until Thursday, August 4th. We mostly stayed indoors and   relaxed! It was so HOT here! Saturday after they got in a snagged up Amelia we headed out for pizza at "Mellow Mushroom". We love that place! That night we just stayed home and enjoyed visiting! We hadn't seen any of Deric's family since April so we had a lot to get caught up on!

family bonding time!

Sunday we all got up and went to Church. This was the first time we went to this church. We have been trying to find a church that we love. The church is minutes...  I mean like 2 minutes from our house. We can see it from our entrance to the neighborhood! We had a really nice family invite us to join them and their sunday school class. He works with Deric at J.B.Hunt. It was really nice and they showed us all around. Amelia was a SWEET girl during the whole service.  She will be needing to go to the nursery soon though... she is into everything these days!

Kohl's dress I made!

Nick and Amelia

Nate being silly!

 After church we came home and I made lunch. After lunch we made a target run with my SIL and the kids. We were getting stir crazy and needed to get out! We had time to kill before our evening photo shoot! Yes, my wonderful friend, Candace, took all the kid's photos for us. I wanted to get their photos done since all four grandkids were together. Nick, the oldest, is headed to boot camp at the end of the month. He is joining the Navy. We are so proud of him!

Nate needed a hair cut before the photo shoot!

Funny story.... I didn't dress Amelia in her outfit before we left the house well because you know... she is 6 month old. I tried on the outfits and got the matching bow (of course). Packed up the diaper bag and out the door we went all 8 of us! Well, I guess because I had baby and diaper bag and figured we had everything we were good. OH how wrong was I!! We got all the way to the park which was about 20 minutes away and guess what I forgot. Yep, Ameila's outfits! GRRRR, I was fired up!  She wasn't even in a outfit that matched her cousins and we were doing our family pics too! So I ran home and Candace took pics of the other kids!! GOSH.... I was mad!

 But I got back in a timely manner because i sped the whole way there wasn't a lick of traffic.  And our photos I am sure turned out pretty cute! I can't wait to see Candace's. This one below are ones Deric snapped.

Monday, Deric took half a day so we could all hang out. We had lunch at our "Five Guys"... yummy.  We  did go to "Fast Lanes" to let the kids play arcade games and laser tag that night. That was a lot of fun! We had a lot of fun! We had family game night too! We had a blast and got a little rowdy a couple of times!

Tuesday, Deric took another 1/2 day and came home at lunch time. That morning I took everyone to "Jump Zone".Nate and Kohl LOVED that place! It was a good way for them to run and burn out of energy but stay indoors! Amelia had a great time too! She LOVED watching all the kids run around.

We came home and had lunch at the house because we went out for dinner that night. Dinner was our birthday celebration for Linda and Deric. It was the first time in years that Deric and his mom saw each other  for their birthdays!

Wednesday morning I did  Linda, Kim's and Kohls hair at the shop. We met Deric for lunch at Chick-fli-a about noon.  I had to work that afternoon so they got to babysit for a couple of hours! Deric came home and they hung out. I picked up a cheesecake from "Copeland"s" on my way home from work..... yummy! We celebrated the birthdays yet again that night!

Thursday was Linda's actual birthday but also the day they were leaving. They weren't leaving until late afternoon so we did get to have lunch before they headed out. They take two days to travel because it is a 12 hour drive.

This photo cracks me up... Amelia loved and I mean LOVED Kohl!

 I am pretty sure you see the theme going on here in the photos...... everyone trying to get their hands on Amelia! She was eating it all up! Spoiled Rotten!

It was so nice having family around! Amelia was a little fussy while they were here but I think it was because she isn't use to that much activity around the house! She wasn't hurting for any attention that is for sure! I have had a hard time getting her back into our normal routine, but that is what happens! :)

Happy Birthday, Deric

Yesterday was Deric's 29th birthday!  I can't believe this was his last birthday in his 20s! It seems just like yesterday he was celebrating his 18th birthday! Yes, we were "dating" then! I met Deric just a few weeks/months before his 18th birthday! Crazy, we have know each other for 10 years! Doesn't seem like it has been that long!
We celebrated his day with lunch at "Chili's" and a movie. We went to see "Horrible Bosses". I thought it was so funny!

It was nice to get out just the two of us. We have only gone on one other "date" since baby girl was born. We need to make more of a habit of going out on dates!



Deric decided he wanted a Dyson for his birthday gift. I mean this man LOVES to vacuum! I couldn't be luckier uh? :) He has been talking about a Dyson for years now.. really years! He noticed they were on sale a few weeks ago at Macy's. But we don't have a Macy's (BOO) but Bed, Bath, and Beyond was happy to honor the sale price Macy's had! YAY!

Is Deric more excited about the dyson or the underwear commercial in the background? You be the judge! HA

I did get a  strawberry cheesecake earlier this week from "Coplands". It was my MIL's bday this past Thursday, so we celebrated both birthdays then. The cheesecake was so yummy! It was nice having the chance to celebrate both Deric and Linda's birthdays this year!

 Deric ~ I hope you had a great day celebrating your 29th birthday! I am so thankful for everything you do for us and so very proud to call you my husband. You are a such wonderful man and of course now daddy! Your girls adore you more than you will ever know! I am glad I have gotten to celebrate the past 10 birthdays with you, and can not wait to celebrate many many more with you! Next year will be weird... 30! We are getting old! Maybe we will go all out for your birthday, but that isn't how your roll. I love that you are happy just spending time at home and very low key! I love you more everyday. Happy Birthday., Babe!

we have even older photos but no digital cameras then! 

Crazy looking back at those photos! In 10 years you went from a teenager to adult to husband and now dad!

Big Stuff

Baby Amelia is now on the move!! She has been trying to crawl for weeks now! She can get a few little "steps" in while she is up on all fours. Tonight she mastered the belly crawl! It cracks us up! She does however get up on all fours and rocks back and fourth! She is getting to be so big!

Here is another video of Amelia giving me "sugars" so sweet!  

We did have Deric's mom, sister, niece and nephews here this past week. We had so much fun! I will post about their visit later. Deric's mom had her birthday yesterday! Happy Birthday! And tomorrow is Deric's birthday!!! We don't have much planned for it. I know we will just enjoy a whole weekend with the three of us!

Birthday Boy!

Our first baby is 6 years old today! He may be a little hairy and have really smelly breathe but we still love him!

 This was the very first day we had Divot! After his first bath!!!

 Sweet Boy chewing on me!

Still my all time favorite photo of Div-Bone!

 this was the summer of 07

 Halloween of 08

 summer of 09 with his cute haircut

this was 2011 right after we got our new camera

Amelia has really started to love the pups and Divot is "more than happy"! He has adjusted to baby sister really well. He is always near her. I saw all the time I don't really need a baby monitor because Divot comes and gets me all the time!

I think he is a great big brother

 Hahaha she was giving some birthday love this morning!

Divot you are still our sweet boy and I love you so much! I knew you would be a trooper when baby was born! You love her just like the rest of us! Happy 6th Birthday to our sweet boy!!!