9 month Check Up Appointment

Well yesterday was Connor's 9 month doctors appointment and it went really well!!! We learned a few valuable lessons (which we usually do at these apts)!

Lesson 1:
  Connor is on his way to being amazing!! According to the doc only 50 % of 9 month olds can crawl and Connor was actually crawling at 8 months old!!! So daddy and mommy were very proud of him!!! The doc seemed even more impressed that he is pulling himself up and taking steps along the couch!!!

Lesson 2:
This lesson goes with lesson one...it's punishment! We are now supposed to start telling him no...and if he continues to do it we're supposed to put him in timeout!!! I would have never thought!!! But we are going to try to put his cute little adorable self in timeout (his crib) after only one warning!!! So far today it's worked really well!!!

Lesson 3:
Connor is pretty much off the bottle...he sometimes get's one during the day if he get's super fussy and maybe one at night..but other than that he doesn't and he really doesnt need one during those times either! Soo thats amazing in itself...and once again the doc seemed VERY impressed! Also baby food is out now! Our doc said the earlier you can get them off of it the better! He would like him to start eating anything he can swallow (he does have some teeth but not quite enough for him to chew things)....SOOO mommy spent the entire day making him homeade food (just combined lots of things and threw it in the processor and froze it!) This was actually fun for me..I enjoyed it! So for lunch today he had homeade mashed potatos with roast beef and corn!

Homeade taters, with roast beef and creamy corn

The left side is macaroni and cheese with peas and corn, and the right side is strawberry and peaches smoothie



these were just a few of my ideas!!! I can't wait to make some more!!!

There were also some things we learned about our little guy at this appointment! He weights 16.11 lbs and is 28 inches long!!! When we saw his weight we thought OMG he's under...but according to the doc at this age they measure their nutrishen on if their height is increasing which his has considerably (he was 23 in last time I believe)! We were excited to hear that...I guess we will just have a skinny lil guy on our hands :) oh well!

Sooo we learned lot's, got some good pointers and shed a few tears (he had to get 2 shots and a finger prick)! It was a good appointment!

Here's some picks of him the day after his doctor's appointment...We are having a lazy day so I let him just chill naked!

So in other news...we have had lot's happen in the York family lately...the most dramatic was that I lost my job at the church. I don't really know what I did wrong..I mean to be told that your the most dependable person they've ever had and then to be told in the same sitting that "it's just not working" is really confusing. I guess I can only believe that God had something better in store for me. I am currently looking for a new job and have one that I'm really hoping I will get!!! Soo keep praying for me!

    Other than that big shocker...we have been pretty good. Just been relaxing and hanging out with family. This weekend is our nieces birthday so we are pretty excited about that. We had to say goodbye to Scott's sister last weekend, she's moving to California, so that was sad but we know that's where she wanted to go. OOH and a fun bit of information...we decided to save money we'd cut chevy (our yorkie) ourselves...



AND...............I think he turned out pretty good...we have to finish doing the top of his head but his body looks pretty darn good!!!



Lol well that's our little update for the week! I hope you enjoyed the pictures and updates about his doc apt! We love keeping everyone informed on how he's growing and all the fun little things about our life!

Love,

Scott n Brittnee

So last night I made chicken parmesan for dinner and I gotta tell ya it was delicious!!! I have finally got cooking chicken down to a perfection! I have always been too scared (thinking it wasn't done enough so I over cood it and then it's tough). However...not anymore because I've got it down! The last couple weeks I've been in a baking and cooking mood. I cooked over 2 dozen cookies last week so the hubs would have something to take to work, and made meals at least 3 times during the week... (we're only home for dinner and that's pretty good for us since we're a cereal and sandwhich kinda household a lot of the time)

Here's my parmesan...ooohhh provolone cheese sooooo good!!!





I'm thinking about adding a recipe portion to the blog...I'm not the most amazing cook, however I have lot's of yummy recipes that I'd like to start attempting so I thought..hey why not blog about my fascination right???

So here's to attempting to cook actual dinners more often and then sharing it with all of you guys!!!


On a different note..a couple days ago I put Connor in his bed to lay down for a nap and imagine my suprise to walk in to check on him and find him standing up hovering over his crib bar....it scared the CRAP out of me! I freaked out...I mean seriously freaked out. I knew he was beginning to pull himself up but I guess I didnt think he could do it in his crib....so needless to say his crib has been lowered so that we don't take the chance of him trying to play superman and flying over his crib!
   All these little things are making me realize how big he's getting!!! In two days he'll oficially be 9 months old...which means he'll turn 1 in 3 months!!! (Also means I'll turn 25 in three months...scary that's halfway to 50) So any good ideas on what to do for a 1 year olds birthday party??? It's in September so it will still be pretty hot but I dont want to do anything like chucky cheese (too many kids and a bit expensive)...so I was thinking possibly like a bbq type thing..but I need a cute theme! I'm considering a super hero part...all the kiddos and adults can come in there super hero costumes...how cute would that be...maybe even get like a Hulk cake made (that's daddy's favorite). Ahhhh I'm sooo pumped...but not totally decided on it (I haven't even mentioned it to my hubby yet) so any other ideas would be greatly appreciated!!!


Anywase, thanks for listening!

Love,
Scott and Brittnee

Connor's Growing Up!!!

Soo updates on Connor and things you should know:

• He crawls like a little champion! He's a little speed demon! He loves chasing daddy around the house..you have to watch him though because when daddy goes to water the yard I'll follow him right out the door if you let me try!!! (which I wont because theres a step there and I'm scared he'll bust his face)
• He's a growing machine. He eats, and eats, and eats!!! All this kid does is lick his chops like he's hungry...and yet he's still soooo scrawny!!! His grams fed him string cheese and banana slices the other day, so he can pretty much eat anything now, thanks to those little teeth that keep popping up in his mouth..... 
• He has teeth!!! (had to do this one next since I led into in in number 2). He has two bottom teeth but I think he's getting another one in currently!!!
• He LOVES, LOVES, LOVES bath time or swim time! His grams takes him swimming somtimes, and he loves swimming at his grandma n papas house in Dallas too!!! They both have little floats for him to play in, and in the bath he has his rubber duckies which he loves!!!
• He still loves the outdoors, and gets cranky if he's kept inside...which is quite a bit now because it's soo dang hot here in Texas!
• He STARTED DAY CARE!!! :( this one makes me excited but also very sad! He goes to my sisters daycare (Shes the assistant director) so I know he's being well taken care off...and he enjoys being there, so they all say! But I miss my little boy...
• He can now pull himself up on things!!! This little boy started out preemie..so he was so far behind for so many months but our little fighter has stuck himself right with the gang (and somewhat ahead)! We are soo excited, we are going to baby proof the house because his daddy thinks it's only a matter of time before he starts walking!!! (which is soo scary to me...in 3 months he'll turn 1 years old, and now he's close to walking...my little boo is growing up sooo fast, I just need him to slow down a little bit)!!!

Sooo there's a few updates on our little boo, and what he enjoys doing, and how he's growing up!

Here are some pictures of the things he can do now!!!

Look Guys I can pull myself up and reach things I'm not supposed to get!!!

Look at me, I can play with big toys now :)

"And I can stand up"

I hope ya'll enjoy them!!

Love,

Scott and Brittnee



Perfect Little Family

I've been thinking for a while now, where my life could have gone...and what I would be doing now if I hadn't met Scott...

I'd imagine I'd be a nurse somewhere, working every day doing something that I absolutely did not love, with no life, no spouse, and no child. And sure I think I'd be making a lot of money, probably living in a nice apartment..or maybe owned a home somewhere in the Dallas area. I'd probably have a small group of friends that I got to hang out with quite a bit...I'd imagine that it'd be an ok life.....

And then I think about my life as it is now....and well it's pretty much perfect.
    I mean sure we have some issues...we're newly married so we have a lot of struggles...learning to live with each other, financially, and how to be a good parent. BUT...I cannot imagine how empty my life would be without my two guys in it. I love my husband with every thing in me...and my son, gosh I can't even put it into words the amount of joy and love that I have for that little boy. He makes me smile at least 50 times a day. When I wake him up in the morning and he's curled into his little ball position in the very corner of his crib my heart explodes with happiness. I am so glad that I chose to be this person instead of the person that other people may have wanted me to be. I know that the family that i have now is so special and irreplaceable that I can truly say I am so happy with where life has taken me. I know that we will never be able to have a lot of luxuries..and to some people they don't understand how someone could be ok with living a life without a lot of money, but when you have something so spectacular to look forward to every day..it begins to be really easy to understand it.

I love my husband, and we have a beautiful baby boy that is growing and changing every day. I dropped him off at his 2nd day of daycare this morning and I just kind of stared at him...thinking how great is my life! I know this may have seemed random...but sometimes you just get taken back in life by something so little that makes the big picture seem so wonderful. I think this was one of those times.

I know I've been sappy and silly and maybe this will be the one post that everyone skips over and doesn't read but I felt like sharing my joy with family and maybe the few friends that read our blog.

To my husband and son...I love you both so much!

Love,
Brittnee

Our Weekend

Well, our weekend got off to a slow start...we attempted to have a garage sale Saturday...key word there is attempted!!! We had about a total of 4 people come by and buy..we got lucky however because the few people we did have they bought large amounts of things or some of our larger items so we profited pretty good! Today we decided to put it back up but we did it the lazy way...
   Haha, we are sitting in the house with our big front window open and our front door open so we can monitor from the air conditioning! This worked out really well especially with Connor! It's too hot for his little self!!!

We also got our house cleaned! And by cleaned I mean dusted, vacummed, swept, mopped!!! And laundry is getting done tonight!!! That's pretty exciting!!! Nothing ever get's done around here...Especially now that I work full time. I feel like I come home make dinner, hand out with Connor and Scott then the baby goes to bed and we do about n hr later! Yup...that's my life! Sad and boring I know...but I love it!

We got some videos for ya'll!!!! Here ya go!

Connor Crawling...Kiddo get's around FAST now!



Connor Getting Stuck in his Walker....while makin a dirty diaper :)

That's all for now!

Love,

Scott and Brittnee

Our Pictures!!!

So a couple weeks ago we did a family photo session with Tara Hayes. Here's the outcome! She did a wonderful job capturing the real us...the giggling, playfullness, and happiness!!! Thanks so much Tara!

Here's a few of my favorite. The rest of them are on Facebook! Here ya go guys!



We finally have some picutres to hang up...other than wedding pics! i'm soo excited!

Have a Great Weekend!

Love,

Scott and Brittnee

Terrified!!!

So on this whim of an idea yesterday I decided that if I didn't make a hair apointment to chop my hair off that I would chicken out and not do it! Sooo.....I called, well I should have known that it may not be a good idea when they told me my lady wasn't going to be working after 4pm...but stupidly I went ahead and scheduled one with a different lady...

FIRST OF ALL...who the heck cuts almost 7 inches off with a NEW lady!!! What was I thinking it could have gone sooo terribly wrong!!! She washed it first and, ya know I think they do this so your relaxed and not awake enough to tell them they did a horrible job!!! haha but anywase, so she starts cutting it off and I soon realize that she has made it about 2 inches shorter than I wanted it..which is crazy because I even showed her a picture and we discusses...exact words " So you want it to be a little above the shoulder" YES that's exactly what I wanted!!!!
  hmmmmmmmm.........well not exactly the length I wanted but it's too LATE now! So then she cuts it all one length (the picture clearly had layers) and I start BAWLING like a baby!! I looked like a twelve year old with a bad chili bowl hair cut... I've never had the guts to say anything to my hair stylists in the past because well they just were never this bad I guess....But after I calmed myself down I told her what I thought I looked like and showed her the picture again...She said " Oh...gosh....I can fix this" Then she resorts to layering the crap out of my hair so that I don't look like a 12 year old boy with a chili bowl hair cut from the 90s.

FINALLY...she's done and she spins me around with a very nervous look on her face and says " I think your gonna like this...it's much more mature looking." I looked...AND I did finally like it! It was exactly the cut I wanted (minus being a little shorter thatn what I wanted)! Great cut...had some drama but hey it was memorable!!!

HAHA Funny story...thought that I should share!!! She was actually very nice and wasn't going to let me leave her chair until it was what I wanted it to be! Good conversation and great hair wash! I'd go back lol!

Here's the pictures...sorry they are the same as FB but I haven't had time to take better ones.

I like to call it a mommy look...it's mommy easy (meaning I don't have a lot of time usually to fix it and this took about 10 min all together) and my son can't yank it out of my head anymore which is a HUGE bonus!!!

Anywase, hope you guys have a great day! We are getting the rest of our family pics today so I'll upload them soon!!!

Love,
Brittnee



Day Dreaming

First of this is ALL BRITTNEE....

I am sitting here in the last 2 hours of work, and I can think about are these

Homeade cheesy and beef enchiladas...I made these a while back and uggghhh for some reason today I can't stop thinking about them! Their a family recipe...authentic and deliciouso!!! Man if they weren't sooo much work and my husband didn't hate making them I'd have them for dinner...

ooooohhhh well............. guess I'll just keep dreaming about them :)

Love,
Brittnee

Boo to Hackers!!!

Well...someone hacked into our account so I had to delete our entire blog and start a new one! Ugg this week has been a whirlwind with this dang thing! First I had to make a new web address because our's stopped working and then this...the person who hacked into it put all sorts of vulgar things on our posts..it was desturbing.

So anywase, hopefull this time around we won't have to deal with any of that! Luckily I had enough down time to make a whole new one..only sad thing is that the old posts and pictures are all gone :(

In recent news, Scott's job may possibly be going down to M-Thrus working longer hours but they'd be off on Fridays!!! That's so exciting I hope it happens because that would mean less daycare!!! Also some big news...I'm chopping my hair off todat at 5! I'll make sure to post pictures so you can see the end result. My lady wasn't there today after 4 so let's hope this new lady can fill her shoes or I might be one sad person with a bad hair do! hehe!

I had written this long funny post about memorial day that I don't think everyone had seen yet with a video of Connor crawling..but it's gone! i'm going to try to take a better video of him tonight...and also upload some pictures of him swimming so I can update the new blog with cuteness!!!!

Anywase, that's all for now!

Love
Scott and Brittnee