Quilts from Ganny

My Grandma has been making quilts for all of her great-grand kids and I was excited to get 2 in the mail yesterday for Stockton and Baby Boy. Stockton's has tractors and Baby Boy's is a cowboy theme. She even equipped us with matching crib sheets and pillow cases! :) I never thought a 15 month old boy could be so excited about a blanket, but he DEFINITLEY was! Here are some pics of his reactions...

Here is his smile right after taking it out the box.


He just ran right over and laid down on it!


He couldnt stop smiling, touching, and pointing at all the tractors.

He even loved his baby brother's cowboy quilt. I hope he doesnt get too attached to it in the next few months.

After the initial excitement wore off he still just laid on the blankets and watched TV. Him and Mack even had fun playing in the empty box.

Thank you Ganny for helping to get him in touch with his Oklahoma heritage!!

Happy Easter

Yes, I know I posted alot of Easter pics, but last year I didnt get one picture of him in his Easter outfit before he pooped all over his white pants so I thought I had to make up for it this year. We had a really fun Easter at my sister's house this year. Here is the run down...

Stockton's candy addiction started on Easter this year. I am not a big Easter basket person, I told myself that I wouldnt do them for my kids. We never had candy or Easter baskets, but had a blast just coloring and hunting the good ol fashioned hard boiled eggs, so why would my kids need more than that? But on Easter morning Stockton was very interested in his cousins' baskets so I just threw the Easter bunny his Grandma Bonnie got him with a few plastic eggs filled with candy into his basket and thought we would just see what he would do. He somehow automatically knew that their was candy in the eggs and went straight for them. Things got worse when his Weema arrived with his very own Easter basket packed full of chocolate, candy, and even his very own Zhu zhu pet. It has been a downward spiral of sugar addiction ever since...

We just knew after a morning of scouring for plastice, candy filled eggs that he would just be all over hunting eggs in the yard. He seemed very excited at first, but then decided it was much more fun to chase his cousins around the yard and just play...

Another Boy!

I have been a very unmotivated blogger lately, dont ask me why, probably just lazy. I did want to document that we are very excited to be having another BOY!! I love the idea of having 2 little playmates so close in age. Everyday I get more and more anxious to know what he will be like, if he will look just like Stockton or totally different. If he is going to be an easy baby like Stockton has been or a wild and crazy one.

At first, I didnt think being pregnant was nearly as exciting the 2nd time around because I'm not reading about the development every single week and soaking up every bit of information about pregnancy that I possibly could. I already kind of knew what to expect when it came to pregnancy. Although, now that we are getting closer and we have the identity of another little boy, I am starting to think it is MORE exciting this time around. I know everything that we have to look forward to rather than just being blindly being excited about the uncertainty of having a baby. I can't wait to cuddle a precious little newborn again and be melted by every new facial expression. I can't wait to watch two children grow and progress and learn to be siblings and love each other. I have been worried about being able to love another child as much as I love Stockton, but I am already starting to see how your love multiplies rather than divides. This new chapter in our lives can't come fast enough!!

Stockton-The First Year

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Thank you baby boy for the best year of my life. You truly are my little miracle.

BiRtHdAy BoY part 2

We had Stockton's birthday party the Saturday after his actual birthday so that Troy's family could come down and celebrate with us. I think it turned out really fun for everyone. We grilled hamburgers, had a pinata for the kids, opened presents, and of course had cake.

We got one of the string pinatas so that Stockton could at least try and participate and so we didnt have small children swinging a bat in the middle of our living room. He got to go first, but after that the other kids pretty much took over. I think he enjoys being a part of the "cousin chaos" even if it is just watching from the sidelines.

He scoured through everyone's candy to pick and choose what he wanted. As you can see, he went straight for whistles. He loves blowing whistles and Daddy's duck calls.

I think he ended up with a good amount of candy of his own.

Next, we moved on to presents. I didnt get many good pictures of him opening them because he was swarmed by all of his cousins "helping" him. :) He didnt show too much interest in anything, probably because he just enjoys sitting back and watching the "cousin chaos". But once they brought out his 4-wheeler from his cousins Chaunie and Marissa (and their boyfriends) he absolutely LOVED it!

We had to take it away from him to take it out of the box and he did not like that at all. We didnt get a picture of him actually crying, but his patience was very, very thin waiting to get it back.

My very kind and talented friend, Cami, made him this birthday banner. It turned out so cute! It will be a fun banner to use for his birthday each year. Thanks Cami!

Another friend made his birthday cake for him and it turned out AWESOME! It was excactly what I had in mind! Thanks Jordan, you have a great talent!

Stockton thought the cake looked pretty fun, too. He couldnt wait to get his hands on it!

It was so cute when we all started singing Happy Birthday. As you can tell from the next 2 pictures, Stockton got the most embarrassed smile on his face. It was so funny. Right at the end, the embarrassed smile turned into total fear. I think if the song would have been any longer he would have burst into tears. He must have gotten his mother's shy gene.
I think he felt a little weird about everything standing around staring at him eat his cake.But that didnt stop him from diving right in.

It didnt take long for it to turn into a community cousin cake. Luckily no one was sick or I think they would have spread it to everyone. :)

Dad decided that he needed a little help

Doesnt it look like he thoroughly enjoyed it??

I thought it was a perfect party for a perfect little boy!

I had to post these 2 pictures because I thought it was funny how Stockton has the exact same look on his face as Me and Troy. He is our little Mini Me.