a quick moment.

I just have to post this, then I will get to the Christmas post.

I have been thinking alot lately.
A friend of mine just had her 4 week old babe pass away from SIDS. I can hardly believe it. I know all about it, as a new mother it is the thing that you are most terrified of, but I have never known anyone to actually suffer from it. We were pretty paranoid about it with both boys but I just cant believe it is real. I mean, seriously, I cant believe that it still exists. I cant even imagine what she is going through or her pain. Please, I cant even think of it.
So, I have been thinking about how the miracle of life, is truly a miracle. The whole process is unbelievable and I dont really feel like I have been through it twice. It feel so surreal.



Like: Wow was I really that huge?

And how did they know that this was the moment to start breathing?

And they are this perfect being....

And I cant believe how blessed we are to have Dexter and Quade, happy, healthy and here with us. That we have the opportunity to raise these sweet spirits. They each bless our lives in so many different ways. It is amazing to me.

Bounce Back...

So I totally failed to blog about my Roommate Reunion! It was SO much fun! I cant believe that we were ever freshmen... Lets bounce back to the beginning of November. I took Quade with me and Dex stayed with Matt. We all flew to Brittany's house in Ohio. These are the gals.

Brittany, Amanda, Beth and Me.

Quade and this little pup bonded. It was a love/hate relationship.

It was so funnny, instead of rocking out to loud music in the car like we were known for... we were all singing nursery hymns to keep the babes happy in the car. Wow, how times have changed.

Ohio is beautiful. We went to German town, talk about beautiful architecture!  And ate at Schmidt's Sausage House.... other then poor Ellie getting fermented orange juice, it was delicious. 

It was cold! we had these babes all bundled up.

Beth and I are the only 2 with babes so far, so Ellie and Quade we besties by the time the weekend was over.

Amanda and Quade had a few great moments. Hopefully this got her womb ticking,

Us at the airport. Where we were delayed for forever. Quade was awful on the flight!  In his defense he did break 4 teeth while we were there (had no idea till the last day) but oh man was he bad. My arms were so sore the next day from holding that squirly child.

Oh dont worry, we were not the only one that had an adventure that weekend. Matt and Dex stayed in dallas with my family and had their own fun! That included lots of feeding the birds.

 Lots of golfing. I am pretty sure they know Dex by name at the PGA Super Store.

And a trip to the rodeo. What, they went with out me? Dex was in love. They had free pony rides, so yes, he rode them 5, count them FIVE times. 

Plus he caught a chicken at the petting zoo. Matt said the look on his face was priceless, he could not believe he actually caught it. The chicken let out a loud squawk and dex dropped it, then went chasing right after it to pick it up again.   

The little guy.

Oh that face... Well our little Quade is a little sick right now and it breaks my heart! As I was sitting with him in the hot steam to help his cough and breathing, sweating, I was just thinking how this year had sped by. Where have I been? I feel like I blinked and now this little guy is almost one. Quade is almost ONE! 

Quade has said his first word. Whoa. What does it say about us, when both of our kids first word was WHOA. Yikes, I thought we really cut down on that word. His little face is so cute when he says it! He also knows what a doggie says. How to clap. How to wave. He is so close to being a full time walker. He still only takes 4-5 steps at a time but walks everywhere as long as he can hold on to something. Plus his hair is getting so long! He just picks up on things so fast, we can hardly keep up!

We hope our little Quade feels better soon! 

  

Trip to Utah.

So we took a last min trip to Utah. We decided to drive and let me tell you how much fun that was... It actually was pretty fun. The boys did better then we though, but not great... and Matt and I listened to the hunger games, which was really fun. We did hit a snow storm in Albuquerque which was not fun, but Dexter loved it. I think Quade just thought was cold. We had so much fun hanging out with family and running around our old stomping grounds.  

The boys and their dashing winter gear.

Then we went to Temple Square on probably the coldest night we were there.

We are so glad that Kent and Liz were about to come with us! We heart the Lyons.

We took a break from the cold and went into the Visitors Center. When Dexter saw the Christus, he goes " Wow big Jees." Meaning, big Jesus. We were dying laughing! He was also obsessed with riding the horses (actually the life sized wise men riding camels) We has to tell dex they were really mean to get him to let the idea go.

The walk back to the car was pretty funny, Dex kept dropping cow or fake falling, he thought it was so funny.

And we saw real life Reindeer!

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Oh the joys of a bubble gun! 

Everyone got chased.

These dashing boys at church.

Oh Santa.

And these beauties were the treat from Santa. Thanks alot Santa.