a day in the life of grayden and mommy

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

~6:30am daddy wakes up with Grayden to feed and change
~6:45am story time with daddy, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" was his choice!
~7:00am daddy brings Grayden to snuggle in bed with mommy just like we do every morning

~7:30 Grayden falls asleep and mommy watches tv in the bedroom, normally I watch the today show but the MJ thing is really not my thing so this particular morning I watched some infomercials….my weakness…I almost bought a Tan Towel… so i thought i better change the channel to Saved by the Bell (it was the episode when they were in Hawaii, my favorite!)
~8:00 I get up and get going
~9:00 I check on Grayden, he's still sleeping!! I check some blogs and watch the recent 'secret life' episode online…it was a tear jerker.

~11:00he finally wakes up and he’s HUNGRY!! Has a bottle, diaper change and gets dressed for the day! ~11:15 chills in his swing while mom finishes up getting ready
~11:30 head out the door to meet up with a friend for a stroller walk. but first make a stop at the cemetery to visit big brother Brenham’s grave site who was due to arrive a year ago today.

~12:00 pm we go for our stroller walk, as long as we were moving Grayden was sleeping!

~2:00 head home from our walk and visit
~2:15 time to eat, and change diaper again
~2:45 we snuggle on the couch and relax together.
~3:20 Grayden falls asleep on my chest…love it! ~4:20 decide I need to get off the couch so I move Grayden to the floor; he wakes up when I do so. Put him under his play mat and he chills while I make a pasta salad for the family party we have tonight.
~4:35 decided he didn’t really like playing on the floor so much and would much rather be worn in mom’s Hotsling ~5:00 we finish making the pasta salad and wait for daddy to come home!

5:15 daddy’s home! he feeds him, changes him to get ready for the party and spends some time snuggling
6:15 we leave for the party!
6:20-9:00 had a great time at the pool party, nice conversation, great weather, and delicious food, Grayden slept, ate and had an emergency diaper change (thanks Grammie!) followed by a clothing change
9:00 home watching the Tiger’s game9:30 boys are asleep on the chair….awww




~11:30 Grayden has his last bottle, diaper change and into his pj’s and swaddeled up for the night.

What a great day being his mommy :)

Hope you had fun following along on our day!

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blog hop

blog hop theme: my favorite photo and caption
it was very tricky to pick just ONE favorite picture but I did :)
"don't forget my name"
(i know....lame....but its late and its all I got now!)

MckLinky Blog Hop

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proud to be an American

Monday, July 6, 2009

our holiday weekend was jam-packed full of fun, but then again every day is fun now with Grayden in our family :)
We spent the majority of the weekend at my parents cottage. We went on lots of boat rides, ate a lot!, went tubing, went for a stroller ride and just relaxed with the family!







On Saturday we went to Wild Chef and Grayden loved watching the chef prepare our food and entertain us at the same time


after we finished dinner we headed to the fireworks, again Grayden did really well and slept during the loudest booms!



Sunday we went to church and then headed back out to the lake to finish up our weekend!

Hope everyone else had a great, safe weekend as well! What did you do?

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Happy 4th of July!

Saturday, July 4, 2009


I hope everyone has a fun, safe weekend celebrating our country's Independence!

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Couple of Prayer Request

I have received a couple emails asking for URGENT prayer requests for two sick little girls Rebekah and Kate.....
I am passing the requests on to all you blog readers because I know prayer works...please pray for both of them.

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Happy Birthday Mindy

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Tuesday was Mindy's 22nd birthday. To celebrate our family went to Craigs Cruisers to eat there yummy buffet and have a 'friendly' (meaning- I am surprised we didn't get thrown out!) competition on the go carts!


as you can see I am in the lead here in the blue car! With Kyle in the red car, Mindy in the yellow and Robb way back there in the left green and my dad was spun out at this point I believe! Lisa was on Grayden duty and my mom was the photographer!

Mindy, I hope you had a great birthday and I am so thankful that God blessed our family by adding you as a part of our family 22 years ago! He knew the day you were born that you would have a special part of my life and others too!

now stop crying!!! ;) just kidding! love ya!

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what a beautiful ride

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Grayden and I were jamming to the radio this morning just like we always do when we are in the car. And on a rare occasion I switched the dial to the country station because I just wasn't in the mood to listen to the carpet cleaning commercials and hearing about where I should get my oil changed in between the songs I listen to on my regular station.

The song "Life Aint't Always Beautiful" by Gary Allen came on and as I was singing along I thought about how true so many of those words are in life.


Life isn't always what we dream it will be.

I remember going through my teenage years dreaming about my future. And in those dreams I would marry the man of my dream, have a beautiful wedding, get pregnant and give birth to lots of babies that look just like us and all live happily ever after in the huge house we built. Never did these plans include burying our first born, fighting for my life for 7 months, having surgery after surgery, a kidney transplant and walking the difficult road to become parents again.


Even though life didn't go EXACTLY as planned and the road to get here was difficult. I could not be any happier than I am right now. Our journey was long, hard and painful but I wouldn't change it. It all paid off 100 times over because now as I type this I am snuggling our precious son who I can't imagine life without. He is worth all it! Everything I've endured...it's all ok now because we have him.
Life ain't always beautiful
But it's a beautiful ride! Just like the song says.

See! isn't he SO worth it?


And getting back to my revised blog title I added at the bottom "He made something beautiful out of our suffering". I adapted that little line from the song "Resurrection" by Nicol Sponberg
Her words say 'Make something beautiful out of all this suffering'. I prayed that prayer many times in this past year and he answered my plea in the most perfect way!!
Grayden is our 'something beautiful!'



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Need a laugh?

Monday, June 29, 2009




I can't stop laughing!!

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King of the World

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

This year's father's day was the best ever! I was looking so forward to being able to celebrate ALL the special fathers in my life! My dad, my dad in law, my baby's dad, his birthdad and most of all my Heavenly dad! I spent a lot of time thanking Him this father's day, for loving me so much and giving me this abundant life!

There is a song that is sung my the group Point of Grace called "King of the World" about a girl dancing with her daddy. I love that song but the when I hear the words I think of my Heavenly Father dancing me around until "my feet don't ever touch down"
Now, I do get an occasional dance in with my dad :)


but I long for the day when I get to heaven to celebrate and dance with my Heavenly Father every single day! He is the King of the World"

But until then I am enjoying every second God has given me to watch my husband be a daddy to our wonderful boys.

(I love the gentle way he holds our boys!)
He is better than I ever imagined he would be and as a result a better husband! I couldn't ask for more! He is the best! I couldn't wait to see Robb experience fatherhood and never did I imagine it would be this amazing! We love you!

Pictures of our day on Father's day*they are so handsome*






I got this idea from another blog I read and thought it was so cute!! I plan to take their picture like this every year on fathers day!



Hope all you dad's out there had a great day on Sunday and for those men/husbands that have yet to experience it....it's worth the wait and we pray for you as you wait!

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