4 months old is kind of a big deal around here!

 I love all of his little expressions!
when a little boy turns four months old his world completely changes! He is suddenly big enough to ride in his stroller...no car seat attached..

He can even eat from a spoon!

He might even have a tooth (or two) starting to play a game of peek a boo...(it is so strange, some days I can see his little pearly whites others days I can't!)

and he might have a little  more personality

Yesterday was Jett's four month check up he was nearly 18 pounds and 25.5 inches long...short and fat just the way we like em'! :)

xoxoxo

My Madre 50th Birthday Bash!!

this weekend my mom had a surprise party of a lifetime! My Pops gave her a weekend with all of her children!

Baby Matilda and Jett with his auntie Savannah

We had WAY too much fun! Seriously a perfect weekend! In fact I didn't get on the plane home with my husband this morning! Jett and I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to spend the week getting reacquainted with Oregon again!
I was home sick for Oregon and the people in it :)

xoxoxo

who do you think this chunk of love looks more like?????

Jett's Dad is on the left and Jett's Mom(s) are on the right (I  can't tell which one is me :) 

A Lady told me how darling Jett is then she examined me  a little closer and said 

"hmmm......he must look like his Dad." 

sooo funny....slightly offending! We got her vote what's yours?

xoxoxo

Make your words "sweet" because your going to "eat" them

When we take a family photo it look something like these....Not exactly Christmas card material! hehe

Kyler trying to perfect'  mine and Jett's  signature kissy face...ya, it was a nice effort on his part
(I kind of feel like the picture above are kind of a facade, we all look way to cheerful :)

Two weeks ago I told Candi that I will and I quote "NEVER go back to my old eating habits!"  I am changed women and I have worked much to hard to drop the weight to give it up for a box of Oreos or HoHo's. Or so I thought........

Then I came home from a glorious 10 day vacations that started out in my favorite little mountain town in Oregon and ended outside of Las Vegas Nevada. Where I just may have caught up on four months of sleep and Jett was never set down for more then a second. I also did something that I swore I would never do....I put Jett in bed with us and have nearly every night since.

I came home and the honey moon was over. The glamorous week I experienced the week before was completely off set with a whole lot of tears and frustration. I suppose I was naive enough to think that we would come home and be back to our old routine.......no such luck...

So around 2:00 p.m. on Thursday I broke. In a matter of ten minutes I ate more then a normal person would eat in a week and haven't really slowed down since. I went from 147.2 to 149.4 in the matter of minutes days. I think an intervention is in order. This eating craze is getting much to expensive ;) 

But luckily today was just about perfect. My sweet baby boy is finally asleep and luckily for my man I am not near as grumpy :) Heck I definitely wouldn't wanted to be around me all last week.....maybe I will make dinner every night this week and wear my new s-e-x-y boots to make up for it (they are seriously so cute, when I wear them I don't even feel like I need to put make up on... ;)

xoxoxo

A little of this a little of that and a whole lot of time.

Early Monday morning I hopped on the scale crossing all of my fingers and toes that I hadn't put on ten pounds from the hefty piece of carrot cake I ate the night before (that is definitely not on the program.) Much to my amazement and delight the scale read 149.0!! I Literally jumped up for joy.....in the process I may have broken my scale.....I immediately called my Mom and a few of my sisters to share the wonderful news....My nephew Donminic answered the phone and informed me that his Mom was taking a shower, I told him as soon as his Mom was out tell her Auntie Cait called to tell her 149.0...she would know exactly what that meant :) It meant that I am one pound less then I was last October when I found out I was expecting, it meant that am a mere 14 pounds away from my goal weight, It means that I am well on my way to accomplishing a goal I had made for myself nearly five years ago. It means I have found a diet  lifestyle plan that actually works for me!

So naturally I wanted to  celebrated! And talked Kyler into paying for  me to get my hair done/fixed.....it needed it and I mean it needed it really, really bad!! The last time I had it  done was September..... of 09'!

On a little heavier note:

This week has been one of those weeks where i have been doing a lot of reflecting....I will write about that later. My lovely twin sister and her sweet husband lost their baby and the boy I was in love with when I was in Junior high passed away. What a comfort it is to have the gospel, I am so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father and for our Savior Jesus Christ because in time everything really will be okay. I love that.

xoxoxo

take some pictures with your kiddos :)

Have you ever noticed that Moms never seem to have any pictures with their children? I suppose it is because they are either the photographer or feel so insecure that they avoid the camera like the plague! The last 12 weeks I have been doing both. But I don't want to ever forget where I was at this incredible time in my life so I bit the bullet yet again and turned on photo-booth. The picture quality is grainy, my bangs look weird and I have dark bags under my eyes that no amount of concealer can hide, but I love that I have a picture of me and my sweet little boy! I think for women sometimes it is hard to see ourselves without critiquing our appearance but I guarantee 20 years from now when we look back we will be thinking we look pretty dang fine and will be grateful we have pictures like this, dark eye circles and all. So for all you mommies out their, today is the day to hand over your camera and smile (or you can do a dorky kissy face like I always do, it is really just personal preference! ha)

I thought I was losing my hair because of nursing.......that might not be the case.....