Cute baby boy

Something worth blogging

It's Sunday and I'm reading a book in dead silence on the couch while Bret is catching up on others' blogs. Then, I hear this beautiful song playing on the computer. After a second or two I have to ask who is singing... Bret says "shhhh" so I start to get really curious as I am waiting for my turn to watch what he is watching. So I go back to my book until the song is done playing. When I ask for my turn Bret is rendered speechless and I see huge crocodile tears streaming down his face. (Awe, real men aren't afraid to cry). He even cried the second time he watched it with me. He got the following story and video off of Josh Rogers blog. This is truly something worth spreading so please feel free to post the story on your blog for friends and family. Read the story first and then watch the video. (ps. tissue is a must)

There was this young man and his father...

The son asked his father, 'Dad, will you take part in a marathon with me?'. The father, despite having a heart condition, said 'Yes'.
They went on to complete the marathon together.

Father and son went on to join other marathons, the father always saying 'Yes' to his son's request of going through the race together.

One day the son made a suggestion - 'Dad, let's do the Ironman together.' Again, his father said, 'Yes'.

For those who don't know, Ironman is the toughest triathlon of all. The race encompasses three endurance events of a 2.4 mile (3.86 kilometer) ocean swim, followed by a 112 mile (180.2 kilometer) bike ride, and ending with a 26.2 mile (42.195 kilometer) marathon along the coast of the Big Island. The father and son went on to complete the race together.



You can read more about the Hoyt Team on their website.

{un}Planned Parenthood

We aren't as Brave as you guys are thinking... We were actually kind of terrified when we found out about our second baby. However, we are getting more and more excited about the sequel even though we would have preferred to wait a lot longer but we are ALL about adventures!

So our family went to my ultrasound together. They were able to determine my due date which was great because not knowing is frustrating. Our due date is March 2nd which puts me at 6 wks and 4 days. Because I had an emergency c-section with KB we will have a planned c-section with our second. Bret has a week off of school the last week of February so we will probably try to deliver on Friday february 20th so he can be home with the baby for the first week. It's a long ways a way so we plan on taking things one day at a time. I've already started having morning sickness so I'm just trying to take it easy and stay positive. I could really go for some ice cream right now. Haha!

Baby #2

ps. Bret wanted me to make sure everyone knows we are only have ONE baby and not twins!

Marker 7

Kingston is going to be 7 months old tomorrow so here are 7 things about KB.
1. He has two bottom teeth.
2. His hair grows in a Mohawk
3. His favorite thing to do is chase Je Suis around our house.
4. He crawls on all 4
5. He weighs 16lbs
6. He loves watermelon and Cheerios
7. He is gonna be a big brother!

Sun, Water, Swim, Repeat

I didn't swim too much last year because I was pregnant and pukey the whole summer so KB and I try to go once a day this year. He is so cute in the pool! He kicks his feet and just floats around in his floaty. Anything to alleviates the heat.

Attention Blogaholics:

2 new blogs to peruse.

photography blog {still trying to make time to add recent shoots. I'm about 6 months behind}

Peek at Boo {so I can post about girl stuff as much as I want without distracting from the fam"

Blog at it...

Happy Father's Day!

I know I'm a week late. It's just that I'm still kind of in shock that I'm actually a Father now. I think it was Reed who said in one of his e-mails "Can you believe that Bret is actually responsible for another human life?" Well, the answer to that is No. I cannot beleive it.
Anyways, last Sunday morning I heard Becki get out of bed early. She NEVER gets out of bed early so I knew something was up. I didn't want to ruin anything so I just stayed in bed. A few minutes later she brought in my beautiful baby boy with this little sign around his neck. How precious is that? Then she brought me breakfast in bed: cinnamon rolls, fruit, and milk. The tray was actually a small box. Upon closer inspection of the box I noticed that it was a gift- a wireless keyboard and wireless mouse for my new little laptop that I got a couple weeks ago. So cool.

Then when I finally did get out of bed I saw this down the hallway...Ties! They were everwhere. I love thick, ugly, wide, fat, old-school polyester ties. Becki got me a box of like 30 or so.

She even spelled out "daddy" in ties just to add that extra special touch. Yeah, that's a lot of ties! My collection is no where near Mark's or our cousin J Train's, but this will give me a great start.

Becki also got me the book Mark was telling me about called "Young Bucks." I got the mail when Becki was gone last week visiting her family and I accidentally opened it. Oops. :) It's written by Troy Dunn who is the inspiration to Becki's business name "whippy cake." It's about how to raise your kids to be millionaires. I'm excited to read it. Mark, I'll have to let you borrow it when I'm done! Thank you so much baby girl! You made my first Father's Day unforgetable.

Good Eats

My boy messy slurping lunch down.

Kingston, King, Kb

A special post for those who need their Kb fix. Take note...
King has started posing for the camera at 6 months.




He twist out of his swing onto the floor so he can crawl around and get to stuff.

He crawls himself into places he can't get out of. So frustrating!
"Aunt Carli, don't tickle me"

Girls make boys cry...

Doesn't it look like the girls went to town on the boys with the guns?
Lol, well what really happened is the boys beat each other up with guns and then the girls took the guns awayKingston is a puppy boy, He Loves them. This is Missi's dog Pixie

Come Play

My mommy came to play... and so did my dad and Missi and her 4 kids and Mike , KellyAnn and their 2 kids. We met up at Peter Piper Pizza!
Man, Hanging out with family is AWESOME!
Don't leave your kids with strangers, they will feed them chocolate. lol, seriously though my mom and Carli got him hooked on eating adult food.

Chaos and Madness

This is Elsie Jane. She had her blessing on June 8th so EVERYONE came to visit at Kory's house the day before.
As you can see we take simming very seriously. You btter behave or you'll get thrown out! Bum!
Kingston LOVEs to watch...
But HATES the cold water...
The coolest twin in the world!
So random, this is Anita playing by herself in the corner of the yard by herself. So adorable!

When my mom got here she took Kingston over night along with Carli and when I got him back he could not get enough solid foods in his hands. Now I have a little munch monster in my hands.
Peculiar baby- he doesn't really put things in his mouth, he just touches and feels with his hands.
children playing "freeze" on the trampoline.
goggle cuties.

Super!

You are so beautiful... to ME! The official cover for Breaking Dawn. Also, MTV has posted a new clip from Twilight HERE. I hope that when husbands across the world see this clip they will start to realize that it is not JUST for chics. Hello? Action, vampires. fighting. geeze! All the cool guys are gonna buy their lady Breaking Dawn on August 2nd and then to Twilight the movie on December 12th.

You're gonna stab me with what now?

Trying new things is not always good... like a spring loaded biopsy gun. Yikes! For all of you who were asking my biopsy, it was easy breezy. Of course the first thing I saw when I walked in was the giant foot long needle on the counter and for a second I was ok with leaving the mystery tumor unsolved. This odd looking device takes a punch sample of tissue for the lab to examine. The gun is loud but not too painful after the numbing stuff.
The technician and the radiologist were AMAZING and totally put my mind at ease about the gun. They talked everything out with me which made me feel a little less vulnerable on the table.

Britta was way too nice to me. She found a babysitter for me [THANX Burgess!] and drove me to and from my appointment.
She also took me to get my nails done in my NEW favorite color {hard to get} and then to Lunch. Yummmm! Kabuki!
THEN she took me to Target to get a new Sporty [which I might never take off because nice and snug, silky and pink] and ice packs. Ooo Yah! When she had to go to work :( Kasha came and watched king [no lifting over 5lbs]. Kasha, You are so great!

So, the soonest I might hear any results would be Friday. Even though the lump is pretty big at 3cm the radiologist said she would be really surprised if it was anything of concern since i have perfect health in my family and since I am so young. So i don't really care too much about finding out anytime soon. I will update you all when i find something out though.

ps. I think going to the dentist is way worse than getting a core biopsy.

oh yah! this is happening.

I re-uploaded the link so it should work now...

From now on every youtube video this kid puts out is going on our blog.



i need one for my house!