Sunday, October 28, 2007
Yea! It's fall
I love this season. I love the trees changing color, the decorations, the air being a bit crisp, football and knowing that Christmas is just around the corner:) This year our mums outside our house were absolutely gorgeous, so I wanted to get some fall pictures of the boys. So, Darcy came over with her new super-duper camera and took them for us. They turned out so good. Here are a few of my favorites...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Where do I begin
Have you missed us? I don't even know where to begin telling you what has been going on in the Replogle household over the last month. So I will just talk about everyone.
Greg's work has slowed down lately so he has been home more. It has been so wonderful spending time with him. Last week he was home every night for dinner. So since he has been home more, we have had more chances to hang out with our friends. Everyone has been overall happier...daddy is just life of the party...who wants to hang out with boring ole mommy all day. This past Saturday we took the boys (along with my cousin, Alyssa) to this pumpkin farm (which Jett calls penguins, hilarious). It was so much fun. Jett of course had a blast running everywhere and Bray just sat back, relax, looking like "whatever":) We went on a horse-wagon ride and a tractor ride. Jarrett kept screaming in delight. Picture below. It was a great family day.
I have started going to a MOTTT's (mothers of tots to teens) group once a week. I love it. Love it. Love it. It has been so good for me and so uplifting. We are discussing being a positive mom...and being one of a two year old, a baby who won't sleep, a husband (that is usually gone a lot)...it's been good:) I always walk out encouraged and determined to be a better mom and wife. I am once again teaching the elementry class at church (it was a nice break, but good to be back with the kids) and I am starting to sing back up for one of the worship bands. I have also had this revelation of how God can use me as a stay-at-home mom. I was really struggling with my purpose in life (I love being a mom, but just frustrated with not much contact with the outside world). I realized that I can do so much from home to bless others. Whether it's watching someone elses kids during the day, having people come to my home to encourage and bless them, visiting people, etc...and of course the most important, raising my children. I've stopped nursing (which I know all you men-folk are like, "hey thanks for the update":) But it is a sad day, my baby just isn't a baby anymore...but more sad because, crap there goes another birth control. We were like on four, three know makes me nervous. I'm joking - kinda:)
Jett. I can't believe he is almost 2 1/2. He is always on the go and if he is not the center of attention, he will find a way to be (and succeeds by either doing or saying something really funny or getting into trouble). He really is a great little boy, I can't image life without him. We have been trying to potty train...ask me if we have had progress...I'm shaking my head. We've tried on and off for awhile. Finally last week I thought we were getting somewhere, but then we had a huge oops while at MOTTT's (he pooed on the floor and then was stepping in it) so since that, we have back slid a bit. Any suggestions, I'll take advice.
Brayden...a.k.a...one happy little cowboy. He turned 8 months this week and what a joy he has been. He is totally rolling over now, clapping his hands, talking gibberish all day, playing with toys well and I can see him crawling in the next month. He is finally sleeping through the night again. Between getting sick and teeth we had a rough couple of months in the sleep department. But, now we are back to 12 hours at night, except for a few middle of the night screams time to time (teething is a killer).
Greg's work has slowed down lately so he has been home more. It has been so wonderful spending time with him. Last week he was home every night for dinner. So since he has been home more, we have had more chances to hang out with our friends. Everyone has been overall happier...daddy is just life of the party...who wants to hang out with boring ole mommy all day. This past Saturday we took the boys (along with my cousin, Alyssa) to this pumpkin farm (which Jett calls penguins, hilarious). It was so much fun. Jett of course had a blast running everywhere and Bray just sat back, relax, looking like "whatever":) We went on a horse-wagon ride and a tractor ride. Jarrett kept screaming in delight. Picture below. It was a great family day.I have started going to a MOTTT's (mothers of tots to teens) group once a week. I love it. Love it. Love it. It has been so good for me and so uplifting. We are discussing being a positive mom...and being one of a two year old, a baby who won't sleep, a husband (that is usually gone a lot)...it's been good:) I always walk out encouraged and determined to be a better mom and wife. I am once again teaching the elementry class at church (it was a nice break, but good to be back with the kids) and I am starting to sing back up for one of the worship bands. I have also had this revelation of how God can use me as a stay-at-home mom. I was really struggling with my purpose in life (I love being a mom, but just frustrated with not much contact with the outside world). I realized that I can do so much from home to bless others. Whether it's watching someone elses kids during the day, having people come to my home to encourage and bless them, visiting people, etc...and of course the most important, raising my children. I've stopped nursing (which I know all you men-folk are like, "hey thanks for the update":) But it is a sad day, my baby just isn't a baby anymore...but more sad because, crap there goes another birth control. We were like on four, three know makes me nervous. I'm joking - kinda:)Jett. I can't believe he is almost 2 1/2. He is always on the go and if he is not the center of attention, he will find a way to be (and succeeds by either doing or saying something really funny or getting into trouble). He really is a great little boy, I can't image life without him. We have been trying to potty train...ask me if we have had progress...I'm shaking my head. We've tried on and off for awhile. Finally last week I thought we were getting somewhere, but then we had a huge oops while at MOTTT's (he pooed on the floor and then was stepping in it) so since that, we have back slid a bit. Any suggestions, I'll take advice. Brayden...a.k.a...one happy little cowboy. He turned 8 months this week and what a joy he has been. He is totally rolling over now, clapping his hands, talking gibberish all day, playing with toys well and I can see him crawling in the next month. He is finally sleeping through the night again. Between getting sick and teeth we had a rough couple of months in the sleep department. But, now we are back to 12 hours at night, except for a few middle of the night screams time to time (teething is a killer). Also, Samson turned 5 this week. I would show you a picture of him too, but since the boys, he no longer is camera worthy anymore I guess, because I can't find any:)
So that is the short version of our lives lately. We are glad to be back.
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Don't forget about us
In case you forgot what we look like in the last month, here ya go. Don't worry, we didn't have another kid...it's Adie:) So we have been missing because our computer took a major dump. We have only had it for over a year and now it has no desire to do anything...way to go Dell. So my wonderful husband brought home his computer from work so I can have some touch with the outside world...and it feels nice:)So the last month has been so crazy. Brayden got sick and then took on a mild pneumonia. And on top of that he got a tooth, it was a very painful couple weeks for all. Then I got sick from being run down, so I got strep throat, a cold and then flu symptons. Luckliy, Greg was home for a few days in a row to help out with the boys.
Darcy and I had a garage sale for all the stuff that was in her dad's attic (where picture above came from). We were so overwhelmed at first. He brought a huge trailer full of boxes that were full of items upon items. We had a good laugh because it was mostly Greg's mom's things and we didn't realize how many heart shaped items she had until we had them all together. The world was in a shortage of heart shaped shelves because they belonged to the beautiful Linda Replogle:) Until the garage sale...now they belong to a man that came and bought them all at once...yep, you read it right:)
Well, I can't promise when the next post will be, but please don't forget about us.
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