Roses at the Pumpkin Patch!

Last Friday the four of us spent the day at a local pumpkin patch. We all had a BLAST! Camden enjoyed riding a pony, playing on inflatable slides, riding a train, and a carriage pulled by a TRACTOR! He was an angel the entire time and slept great on the way home. Hadley is always a happy girl when she gets to hang out outside. Nothing in the world makes Aaron and I happier than seeing our kids so happy and having so much fun. We were very thankful for such a fun relaxing day together!

Right Now......

Aaron is the rock of our family and works so incredibly hard to provide for us. He works a million hours a week to make our life, present and future, so fabulous. No one in the world makes Camden and Hadley (or me!)laugh and smile the way Aaron can. I thank God for him every day!



Camden is two and a half and silly as ever! He talks constantly about ghosts, dinosaurs, and robots. He is still our sweet little cuddle bug, and rocks as a big brother. Watching him interact with Hadley makes me so happy to see all the love he has for her. she will certainly be well protected! He is talking more and more every day and his imagination is amazing to watch and hear about. Camden potty trained pretty much on his own about a month ago. He just started back at MDO and we just love his teacher, Ms. Sylvia. They got to paint at craft time on Thursday and she wrote on his note that he wanted to paint all day....I believe that! He is a very artistic little guy, and loves nothing more than drawing and listening to music. I so look forward to seeing where life takes our little man, just not too fast!



Hadley is three months old and sweet as can be! She is a LOT like Camden was as a baby. Very cuddly, very smiley, and LOVES to be held all day (even the same ways Camden did). She has been sleeping through the night ever since she was five weeks old, which leaves me feeling refreshed and ready for each new and busy day! Hadley loves her blankies and pacifiers and falls asleep on her own while watching her mobile. She is SUCH an easy baby! :)



I am just loving life as a stay-at-home mommy. I feel incredibly blessed to be able to spend so much time with my little ones. I also get to see Aaron much more now because we used to work opposite shifts. I am such a proud mommy and wife and could not be any happier!

Thanks be to God!

Let me tell you a little about my baby girl

Hadley is quite a mommy's girl! and I am just soaking it all in, since I know she won't be this way forever. There are very few times when she is fussing that it takes anything more than me holding her to solve the problem. My best friend, Ellen, always talks about how she looks so incredibly happy and content in my arms and I just LOVE that!



She is a VERY talkative baby. Every time she sneezes she lets out a big sigh afterwards....every. single. time. So cute! She is always up for a chat. All you have to do is say hi to Hadley and she is talking right back to you in the sweetest little girl voice I've ever heard. Her voice is already soo much more feminine than Camden's was, as it should be.



Her hands are one of my favorite things about her. She has long fingers and they are always looking so cute. When she is concentrating on anything, such as eating, they are stiff in the cutest little mannerisms.

I am so incredibly thankful to be Hadley's mommy!

This girl is all smiles!

Hadley started smiling when she was five weeks old and hasn't stopped since! There is nothing wrong in the world when this sweet little baby girl smiles at me.

One month already!!!!!

I can NOT believe that our sweet Hadley's one month birthday has already come and gone! I thought time flew by with one child and it is going twice as fast with two! She is so sweet and we are all thankful that she is in our lives'. Camden is always concerned that I am going to leave her everywhere we go.....to the point that there are occaisonally tears if he thinks I am forgetting her. I am so relieved and thankful that the transition of going from one child to two has been so easy. Camden welcomed his baby sister with open arms and we have yet to have any issues. He does occaisonally pretend to be a baby, but it is very cute and not out of control. I certainly do not mind having to "tiny babies" to rock :)

A Sweet Soul

Two years ago I met one of the best friends I have ever had. It was purely by chance that we met, but I treasure our friendship more than she will ever know. As a new mom I was coming into my own in this world as the person I had always dreamed of being, a mom at last! I always knew I wanted to be a mommy; it is the only thing I was ever passionate about. Then as my son was placed in my arms, I was the happiest girl in the world. But, then what, I had thought about how I would love and hug on my babies for the past twenty-two years, but there is so much more to being a mom and parent than that. Karen has taught me so much about all of the extra steps and the backbone pieces involved in rearing children. Everything from singing more to making sure they say their prayers every night to being the very best advocate I can be for them. She is always there for me when I need a laugh or an open ear. I don't even think she knows what all I have learned from her, but I certainly do and I thank God that she is in my life each day.

Babies Don't Keep

Mother, O Mother, come shake out your cloth,
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
Hang out the washing, make up the bed,
Sew on a button and butter the bread.

Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I’ve grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue,
Lullabye, rockabye, lullabye loo.
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo

The shopping’s not done and there’s nothing for stew
And out in the yard there’s a hullabaloo
But I’m playing Kanga and this is my Roo
Look! Aren’t his eyes the most wonderful hue?
Lullabye, rockaby lullabye loo.

The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow
But children grow up as I’ve learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep!
I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep.

by Ruth Hulburt Hamilton