Momma's Day

I'm so lucky to be a MOMMA this year!!!  Well, I feel lucky to be Harper's Momma!

I had a great day getting to celebrate with my Mom and my Sister...along with our families.
Harper got me a very sweet gift and my parents got us a joint Mother's/Father's Day gift! :) So sweet.

crazy cousin love

the ABSOLUTE best gift I've ever been given.

Mommas and babies

my precious baby doll

Oh, AND Harper decided to finally quit the 'elephant crawl' and go full on crawling!! We have a crawler in the house! What a WONDERFUL gift for Brian and I to get to see her finally do it - instead of at the sitter's home first! :)


Hoping all the Mom's felt special today, the Moms-to-Be felt excited for what is to come today, and the hopeful Mom's felt some type of comfort in today.

I can TRULY say, there's nothing like a Mother's Love.

Birthday!

So, a few Fridays ago {4/20} I celebrated my LAST year in my twenties! Ahh! So hard to believe!

We celebrated all weekend long, aren't I lucky?!

On Friday night, my school had our annual Spring Carnival. Brian, Harper, and I strolled around for the entire time. My sister and her boys, and my Mom and Dad also came out to play, so it was a good time! My past and current students were excited to meet Harper!  Then we finished off the night with some yummy Chik-Fil-A and a milkshake all before 7:30 so that we could get Harper in the bath and off to bed. Ooh, the life of a Mom! :)

Saturday I got to see my friend Jennifer for her bridal shower and hubby took me shopping on some birthday money for new clothes!

On Saturday night, my sweet hubby planned a fun night! He asked my parents to babysit Harper so we could go out! They graciously offered to come to our house so they would be able to put Harper down for bed and we could stay out longer, YAY!!
He invited our life group to go and we went to a Hibachi Grill - Asuka. LOVE that place and haven't been able to go since they babe came!  It was SO much fun not being on too much of a time limit and just hanging out. I had an absolute blast!!





On Sunday, our family celebrated with a yummy lunch Mom made and homemade Raspberry Chocolate Cheesecake. YUM!

he loves this chair!

colby helping

??these are out of order...but this was later that night - she loves to climb on you if you're on the floor!

me and my baby!

29, here I come!

The Elephant in the Room

Have ya'll seen this? I'm sure you have...



You all know that I was unfortunately unable to BF for a long period of time.  But that doesn't mean I do or don't wish I could have or I don't wish something different.  Mothers do what they need to do to be BEST for their child.

So, with that said, I never experienced the whole "attachment" that BF supposedly makes you and your newborn. I feel very close to my child and I DO NOT think our relationship will hurt because I wasn't able to nurse. Period.

And I've mentioned before, since becoming a mother I am very much so LESS judgemental than I was before. To each is own; do what is best for your child in your own eyes.

What BOTHERS me is the title. REALLY? It's as if this woman, and women who are ABLE to nurse, can have this superiority over others. That's what bothers me. Because, I think in every day world, some people do act like that.

Here's the online article - take a look.  I LOVE the last paragraph.  And I love the comment about the child walking up to Mom and saying, "Hey Mom, I'm hungry".

Anyways, I'd love your comments - what do you think about the article?!?! {nothing personal towards me, please!}

Fun with the Cuzzies

The other day, I decided to bring my camera over to Mom's. My sister and I dressed the kids up nice to head out to lunch at my parent's country club.  Here are the pics that entailed....completely out of order?!?! {oh, and the Ice Cream Truck made an appearance, too...}

GG and GDaddy

angel. baby.

love this little profile

Derby!!

Woo Hoo! I feel so lost in bloggy land! My baby is growing fast, the end of school is killin' me, and getting a nasty stomach bug {and sharing it with Harper} has worn me out!

I'm super behind on posting - but my new rule is no computer until 8:00pm after H goes to bed, and well, I'm ready for bed now! ha!

Anyways, we celebrated the Derby at Keeneland this past weekend! It was super great! Our girl was amazing. We were there for about 4 1/2 hours and she was perfect! She took 2 naps, ate her meals out there, and hung with the crowd!  We went with some of our friends, but, I was bad and basically only took pictures of my girl. SORRY!

It was fabulous even if our Derby pick didn't win!

you can't see, but my hat is monogrammed :)

I finally found a horse clip-on...just in time!

sis's family