Simplicity

Tanner and Levi making burgers on Labor Day! The meat was fresh from the butcher at Sprouts and let me just say they were delicious! Ohh and did you notice Tanner's lack of hair!! I think he looks really good with no hair...but now he's growing his hair out because he likes Graham's hair..lol!

Baby Graham on the swings at Eureka park ! It was his first time ever on the swings and he loved it!!! He was content to stay there all day :)

Baby Graham is a mini me and this is a cutsie pic of him from his view of the world on the floor!

This is Preston dressed for church! He loves Nursery now and he gets excited when we say, " Preston do you want to go to Nursery?" He smiles and says "YEAH!!"

So, lately our life has been crazy and hectic but we're still breathing and getting from day to day in one piece!! Little Graham is 7 months old and is working on the crawling thing! He has 2 teeth that came in on his cousin, Kirsten's 8th birthday :) That was one long night, but he is the first of his cousins to get teeth! You know when he's in pain because it doesn't happen often, but when it does it's serious :) He is our happy smiling boy. Tanner calls him our cookie dough boy :)

Preston is growing up every day and is one clever boy!! Everyday I can understand something new he is trying to tell me..like I decoded how he said I love you and now it melts my heart when I tell him "I love you" and he says it back to me. Preston loves helping Graham and calls him "G." When we are getting ready to go and Graham is sleeping, he'll say "G" and he'll know that we still have to get G! Pretty cutsie. He also loves giving hugs and kisses and is super sweet.

Tanner is trying to finish up his Real Estate stuff and is trying to prepare to take his exam. Pretty exciting to have my own real estate agent be my husband :) That'll be great!!

I am working and trying to SIMPLIFY our lives so we can be ready when we want to move! I am really working on SIMPLICITY and loving my life instead of filling it up with crazy things. I can't think of any crazy stories at the moment, but when I do, I'll post them :)

Laziness

So, lately I've been really wanting to update my blog but laziness has overcome the moments that are free!! Our family has grown and we are loving it! Little Graham is a precious little guy who is always smiling and laughing. He loves Preston and will do whatever he has to to watch what Preston is doing. Preston loves his baby brother, too. Preston's love may sometimes be viewed as some hard loving....like swinging his swing really high, as they both laugh or turning Graham's johnny jump up round and round! Once Graham can move, he'll be trying his hardest to keep up with Preston. I definitely have my hands full right now!
Tanner has been working on his real estate license and finished all his classes and is studying for the big state exam and getting everything in place for that and working full-time! I've been doing the homemaker thing and realize that there's no rest for the weary :) It's fun and rewarding.
Meanwhile, we are working on getting preapproved for a home loan so we can really start looking for a house. Our apartment lease goes up in February and we don't want to renew, so....we have about 6 months..YIKES!! I am so excited and cannot wait!!!
I don't have any pictures to post because they are all on my external harddrive and we're getting ready to go to a surprise 60th birthday party for my dad...so I'll have to post some pics tomorrow after church!
My sister-in-law Brendi really made me want to keep up better with my blog since I've been loving reading her blog and she has 3 kids so I can definitely keep up too with writing since I only have 2 at the moment! SO...THANKS BRENDI!
Keep checking back and I'll be hoping to keep you updated!!

Random Pictures

Here are some random pictures from the past couple of months like New Year's Eve, Snow days in Denton, and Sunday afternoons for you to enjoy! My pregnancy update is at the bottom :)

The snow was so deep that Preston kept getting stuck in it and at one point he just sat there until I came and helped him out! We got 12.5 inches of snow!!

When Tanner got home from work we went out and played in the snow and sledded with one of our cookie sheets and Preston loved it! It was great...it was late but since the sky was white and the snow was white it felt like 5 pm instead of 7 pm when it is normally dark!

Preston sitting on unfinished snow man...he hated coming inside and would have stayed outside all day if I would have let him...but since it was so deep I had a hard time keeping balance walking in the snow and being pregnant so poor guy...he didn't have a great playmate to play with!!

Lately Preston loves wearing Tanner's hats! Here he is riding his little truck from Santa and in his PJs and Daddy's camo hat!!

Tanner and Preston were so exhausted from church that they both fell asleep on our bed!! So sweet!

I came home from a candle party at my Mom's house to Preston eating popcorn at the table in his diaper! Too cute!

Carissa and Preston in their PJs on New Years Eve...they were playing on Preston's big boy bed in what will be Graham's room. Carissa is 8-9 months older than Preston...but they love playing together!

So, tomorrow I have my next doctor's appointment and it is highly likely that if my blood pressure is high and if I have too high of protein levels....that they'll induce me to avoid me going preecclampsic...which is exactly what happened with Preston and I am having the same exact symptoms as with Preston. Needless to say, Tanner and I have been trying to prepare for our little man to come and have been very anxious because we don't know what will come tomorrow. Tanner gave me a blessing and I was told that Heavenly Father has known since the beginning when Graham is supposed to come and that He has a plan and both Graham and I will be healthy and strong and I just need to have faith. So, I decided to update my blog so I am not thinking about it so much!