November 7th

This is my FAVORITE pic of Taylor when he was a newborn (sorry hubby I cropped you out if it). This is from Gus' cell phone when Tay was 10 days old and I was stranded on the couch. Monday, my 1st day back to work Gus sent me this pic on my cell and said "Hi Mommy" and it made me smile, my heart lept, then I cried hahaha!

I just love the face he is making!!!

 

Steak-a-versary

December 30th is our Steak-a-versary and Gus took me out to CHOMP for some yummy Filet Mignon! What is a steak-a-versary you ask? Well it's the anniversary of the night Gus proposed and we had the BEST steak ever at LA Prime. So every year Gus likes to plan a steak dinner to celebrate another year passing since we were engaged. Taylor stayed with Ray and Christi for a while while we got out and had a nice nursing free dinner and a beer!

 

Ready for Daycare!

Today is Taylors first day of daycare and he is having a wonderful time! We are so blessed to have him in daycare at one of the schools that my company owns in Brea.  Which means I know every person that works there and the CEO's grandaughter and Superintendant's grandaughter both attend that campus so he is in great hands!  We spent all day yesterday getting his things together and labeling everything for him.  He has a special school blanket, swaddler, and crib set.  He slept from 10pm-6am and when Gus and I went in to wake him this morning he was all smiles in his crib happy to wake up and see us and get the day started.  Gus came with us this morning and set his crib up with I signed him in and gave them his schedule.  Tay's on a pretty strict schedule and they will follow it everyday which eases my mind a lot as well.  He's all set up to go there!  I called in at noon and they said he is doing great and napping really well, that's my little man!

Getting a "man"acure

Taylor's crib set for school

All our stuff packed up and ready to go

Being back to work today has got me going thru many emotions, mainly sadness from missing my boy.  I wish I could be home with him still but those bills won't pay themselves so here I am at my desk looking at all the wonderful smiling pictures and videos I have of my darling boy.

Happy Birthday to Me!

This arrived today at my office, what a way to be welcomed back to work ~ ok it really was my bday present from the boys but it still made me smile!

2-Month Appointment

We had our 2-month appointment Monday afternoon and my little guy weighs 12 lbs!!! My little hunky chunk got 3 shots and he must have my tolerance for pain because he only cried at the initial pricks and then calmed himself down. He wasn’t even whimpering when I picked him off the table, what a trooper!

Please Pray for KP

Miss Kalea is in the hospital with bronchitis, a UTI and maybe pneumonia. She has been there since Christmas night and today April was told she will be there at least till the 1st. Pray for that baby girl, for her mommy and her brothers Van and Brody who are both fighting an ear infection at home. It’s killing me that I can’t go be with April everyday, hopefully Friday I can go see her while my MIL watches Tay for a bit. Thank you for your prayers for the Shafer family!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve we drove out to AZ to spend the holiday with Gus’ family (traveling pics to come later). Maiza had the most beautiful decorations and yummy cake pops for us. We had a nice dinner and the kids got to open 1 gift, and so did we. Mike and Maiza gave us a “new to you” camera. They had just bought a new one and gave us their old new one so we can have good pics of Taylor as he grows up the next few years! The pics here are still from the old camera, and new pics and Christmas day will be a while because we don’t have the cord to upload them yet, hopefully this week. We ate a really nice dinner, set off fireworks and visited long in to the night.  We had a really fun time and that night also marked the 1st night Taylor slept thru the night, WOO HOO!!!

Maiza had a kitchen tree (above), my new favorite thing!  It had all kitchen and food themed ornaments and the red garland is mini cupcake wrappers, so freaking cute!!!!

 

Duet

Tay loves to sing with me! 

Christmas Eve Eve

Thursday night we hosted a mini Christmas celebration with my side of the family before we left for AZ.  Grandad, Mom, Dad, Ray and family all came over for dinner and presents.  We had a fun time laughing and opening toys with the boys.  Ray texted me the other night and said I won for best Christmas present for Ryle, his new remote control car!  My Fav of the night was my new paci's for Tay, a little more Dallas love in the house!

 

Birthday Weekend

I had a really fun birthday weekend! Saturday we went to Becky's for her holiday baking party and taylor was all smiles for all the ladies! I prebaked my cookies so I could just hang out with the girls and came home with lots of yummy treats! Thank you Beck for a wonderful time!

 

After the baking party The 3 of us traveled up to Mike and Aprils so the boys could go to a rock show together and April and I could hang out with all the kiddos! Taylor and Kalea had the same jammies on so we had to have a photo shoot! We spent the night and Tay slept the longest he has ever slept - 6 hours! But we paid for it last night with him being awake for - 5 hours!!! We'll get this straight one day :)

 

Sunday we had a few people over to watch football and eat all those cookies! So it was my actualy birthday but we didn't do it up at all, just watched TV, talked, ate and played with the kids! Kaylee got to meet Taylor finally and she was in love with him! She even told her mom that she wanted a baby brother for Christmas :)

 

Thank you so much for all the Birthday love and a wonderful weekend!!!