These are the moments I live for!!!

The following pictures are of the moments i live for in this life and they are what gets me out of bed every morning!

1- Spending Time with Paul & Max in the outdoors!

2- Max at the Lake He is such an easy going kid and loves the water!

3- Max getting wind blown, another one of his favorites!

4-The Beautiful Scenery at Navajo Lake only a short ways away but we rarely see!!

5- Duck Creek Pass, I had not been there for so long i had forgotten how beautiful it was! I am Determined to have a cabin there some day!!

6-king road trips with my Sexy Husband!

7-Swimming with Max!!

8- Watching the loves of my life enjoy the fire works together on the 4th of July!

9-Coming home to find Max asleep in Grandpas arms, something Max never does with me and i am a little jealous but somehow becuase they are so adorable and sweet it makes everything okay!

Max, Max & You Guessed it More Max!!!!

Max and I have been having lots of photo sessions lately and i have manipulated some to hang on my wall in my new house (pictures of house soon to follow) Anyway here are alotof Pictures but only a select few of all the ones i have taken lately. Max is getting so big and he is so adorable and fun these days! He now Says "MAMA" and does copy cat, he pulls himself up to stand and crawls like crazy, and he walks around the coffee table but is still pretty wobbly!! Anyway enjoy the pictures i figured it had been way to long since i posted pictures of my cute little boy so this post is all about Max!!!
Look at that cute smile!!!

I thought this picture was hillarious! I guess I just caught his face at the right moment, I promise this face is not a common occurance! Anyway it Cracked me up!!!

He is just so innocently adorable!!!

Here is one I manpulated I love how it turnd out and I love when he get so excited like this!!

This one is my favorite he is going to look good in a football jersey when he gets older! All the girls are going to swoon!! He is so Handsome and Happy in this one I can't help but get all warm and fuzzy and full of pride inside when I look at his face!!!

This one is another favorite, it is Classic!!! (at least I think so!)

SOOOOOOO CUTE!!!

I love this one he is so serious!

Look everyone I can stand up and I got there all by myself!!! P.S. he has been doing this for a while I have just been a bad blogger lately and I am just now posting it!!

Max has another new tooth it is coming in on top, right where his cleft was so it is coming in crooked and at an angle. Personally I think it is adorable but I know to everyone else he is probably kinda goofy looking. But to me it adds to his character and tells a story about what he has already been through in this short 9 months of life!!

Would you look at those eyes!!! And those cheeks!! I could just squeeze him all day!!

This is his new thing now that he has a palate he always sucks the sides of his upper lip in and makes a sucking sound it is so cute and so funny!!

Handsome Handsome Boy!!!

And Here is that adorable smile I have grown to love so much, he has his dads cheeks, see how they ball up just under the eyes! I miss his first smile it will always be in my heart and I will always remember it, but this smile is the best replacement I could have ever imagined. I couldn't have made it better myself!! And the post of Max comes to an end i hope you liked it, sorry I have been so bad about posting my little one I will try to do better!!!

Picture Perfect Hobby!!!

So i have a new hobby and i have to say i am rather enjoying being creative with it and trying out fun new materials and shapes etc. There is more to come but here are a few i have done so far. i am thinking about trying to sell some at a craft fair coming up or maybe even on tip junkie so tell me what you think! The first two i made for myself to put in my house but now that we are remodeling we are limited on wall space so i am not sure they will get used in this house!

The Second Two i made for my friend Katie who is moving into her first house with her boyfriend and is so excited about decorating her house for the first time! (i kinda like hers better than mine!)

This one i used a print and i really like the way it turned out!

Here is the print up close it is kinda light but in actuality it is a darker green on the white! Stupid Flash!

Tip Junkie's Going DOT COM Birthday Bash!!!

Okay so i love this site and they are havng huge give aways all week and i am determined to win something. this site has inspired so many ideas i have had and is so much fun to look at, i search it on a daily basis just to put a smile on my face. I guess you could say it is my stress relieving hobby! So Check it out!

Loving Two Boys With All I Have Is The Best Decision I Ever Made!!

Max had his first swimming adventure last week. The day before his surgery Paul and I decided he deserved a little fun in the sun before the next few weeks of misery and pain he had coming, so thanks to our friend Sharon we were able to take him swimming for a while he loves the water and had so much fun playing with Daddy.
Here he is just loving life in the water!

Paul was so cute with him, he is such an amazing dad, Max is so lucky! I never thought i would find a man who would be as amazing father as Paul has turned out to be. I love seeing the two of them together and seeing the bond between them, and the look in Paul's eyes when he sees Max. Thanks Grandma Jones for raisng such a wonderful man who is such an amazing dad and husband, oh and for the good looks that got passed down from Paul to Max they are both so Handsome!

We went and bought him this floaty thing with a shade on top so his scar wouldn't get any sun, but it didn't cooperate with the wind and the shade kept falling down then catching the wind and blowing Max across the pool. He looks way cute in it though even if it was a big fat failure.

Mommy and Max! I just can't get over his squishiness i want to squeeze him all day every day!

I am using Max as my shield to protect you all from my not so swimsuit ready sexy body! Be careful girls if your husbands see this picture they may want to come runnin my way so they can see this sexy piece of woman in a bathing suit! Thanks Max for being my armor i think your chubbiness is so much more adorable than my own.

And we are done with the fun and onto the not so fun surgery day :( The morning of Max's Surgery he was the the happiest little boy ever, even happier than normal which if you know Max is hard to imagine, so it made it even harder than usual to let the nurse take him away (isn't that so sad i can use the word usual so casually in a sentence where i am talking about a nurse taking my son away from me, it breaks my heart.) I can't imagine what he was thinking it must be so sad for him with looking back at me bawling my eyes out as the nurse carries him through the double doors ( I am crying just writing this) and he is happy as a clam then he all of the sudden falls asleep and wakes up to me again bawling but now he wakes up to a whole new face and mouth which has to be so incredibly uncomfortable/odd feeling and also painful and feel so different and wierd to him especially with his palate being swollen to 5 times its normal size. He must think is this a nightmare or did my mom & dad really just put me through this and let me fall asleep and wake up in this much pain, and with all of these needles in me and machines hooked up to me, he must think "I thought my mommy loved me so much, so why is this happening to me while she is just standing there watching and doing nothing to help me." I know one day he will understand that Paul and I did this for his benefit and his benefit only so he could lead a normal amazing life and be the wonderful man I know he will become. (p.s. I know that there are a lot worse things out there that parents and children are going through than having a cleft but I just need to get this all out for all to hear (I just read my sisters keeper, these surgeries with Max were hard enough for me i can't imagine going through something like that. If you have not read it I highly reccomend it minus the excessive use of the "F" word) Anyway where I was going with this is that it breaks my heart to put him through this and have him be so sad for a week afterward when he is normally so happy and content, BUT I do know it is for the best.

He loved this Toy and played with it the majority of the morning!

I just love his smile and his "Sweet Spirit"(inside joke) ha ha :) he is the best son ever!

"Dad why are you taking pictures of me in this funny dress you put me in! Last time I wore a dress like this i woke up with a new mouth and so sad, are you up to something?"

I just love this picture his eyes mesmerize me every day they are so stunning and handsome!

This one cracked me up so i couldn't resist putting it up for all to see how adorable he is!

Paul trying to calm Max down. After not eating for 12 hours i would be cranky too!

We finally found something that made him happy after the elmo and cookie monster toy lost its appeal, and he cried from starvation for a bit. He loved this car and being pushed in it he thought he was so fancy and would flirt with the nurses every time we cruised past the nurses station. I think we will buy him one when he is done recovering after all he has been through he deserves it!

Look at my new set of wheels dad!

"Yeah i know Nurse Tammy you totally want a ride! But maybe some other time I would rather take my mom first." (I am creating an illusion for myself that this is what he will say someday when he has to choose between me and a hot nurse to take for a ride in his new car.)

After surgery he was so sad and his mouth was filled with blood for hours on end, he just kept drooling dyed red saliva and crying the saddest wimpering cry ever!

So Sad!

Daddy & Max post surgery Paul is so good with him and is so much more sympathetic and loving than i am. I must take after my mom in the lack of sympathy department. Paul took such good care of him and was so tender & loving with Max, he was by his side consolling him every step of the way while I was an emotional wreck!

Paul fell asleep with him on the couch in Max's room in the peds ICU, they are so adorable and I really hope the old saying "Like father like son" holds true to Paul & Max, that would make me the happiest most lucky mom and wife in the world! P.S. when we got home Paul came down with a horrible case of bronchitis and it was all me in taking care of Max it was rough but Paul was so amazing even being as sick as he was and helped out wherever he could!

Laundry Baskets have Multiple Uses!!

Before Max's Surgery Last friday (sorry pictures of his surgery and the days prior are coming soon) i walked in my parents bedroom looking for him and found him in this predicament (spell Check) i thought it was the cutest thing ever. He somehow crawled into my parents closet, managed his way into their laundry basket and crawled back out of the closet while still in the laundry basket. i can't wait for him to be fully recovered so he is back to himself and happy again. It is breaking my heart to see my happy little boy so sad and in pain. Paul and I Love him so much and he brightens our life in so many ways. Thanks Max for being so adorable and happy!