The end of the year of 2011 is close. I am happy about this. 2011 has been one of the hardest years I have experienced in a long time. I am ready for change and ready for some new beginnings. On a brighter note, the past few weeks have went by fast. I was able to experience Thanksgiving with my Dad, sister and brother. I was then able to celebrate the birthdays of my son who turned one and my husband (and his brother). Then it was the Christmas time and I was blessed to spend it with all of my children at home. My sweet little man, who turned 1 on Dec 7th, still had no teeth on his birthday. I was able to call him "Toothless" until Dec 26th that is. I got up and checked his sweet baby teeth on Christmas hoping that maybe we would get those teeth on Christmas as we had all been singing that all Lexington wanted for Christmas was his teeth (any teeth no just his two front teeth). However, he didn't have them that morning. Late on the 26th around 9pm, I checked his mouth again and there it was, a sweet little tooth on the top right hand side of his mouth. Something to celebrate for sure.
Now, I get to look forward to 2012, and starting out the new year in court. I hope after that point life will get easier and the uncertainties in our life will start to unfold so the Lord will send us where we should be, whether it be here in Arkansas, out in Arizona or up to Massachusetts. There is just so many loose ends in my life right now that I really need to be able to know what is going on with each before I can know where we are going or what we are doing. I hate not knowing but I love an adventure, so I am trying to look it all as just that, an adventure.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Lexington turns 1
On Wednesday, December 7, 2011, this week, we celebrated the 1st birthday of my baby boy, Lexington, part of the reason for starting this blog. It started off as what should have been the most perfect day. We woke to snow on the ground, roofs, and cars, but roads were clear. Lexington even slept in not waking until close to 9 when I finally woke him up, afraid he would sleep the day away. Our very happy peaceful morning was soon interupted by anger and resent, and stomach in knots due to issues with Aaron and Ron, and the discussion of court on Tuesday, Dec 13th. It wasn't until much later that I was able to come back to concentrating on celebrating my sweek little man and his very big birthday...his first. I must admit that through all this, I had almost forgotten another very special man in my life, my husband, for he and Lexington share the same birthday. By midmorning, I had remembered Ben and wished him a happy birthday.
On his actual birthday, I got Lexington a Happy Birthday Singamajig and a small piano. We bought mini carrot cupcakes and let him blow out his candle as well as eat his cake. Lexington was so sweet in eating his cupcake, he carefully ate all the frosting off the top with little pincher bites. He would pinch the icing, put it in his mount, then pinch some more and eat again. After all the frosting was off, he crammed the whole mini cupcake into his mouth. I had to get a picture, then like a good mom, I dug it out of his mouth, broke it in half and let him cram half of it back in, too funny to watch him eat it since he still has no teeth.
We celebrated his birthday with a big party on Saturday. His cake was amazing, not quite what I had pictured, but still super cute. I also picked Ben up a cake to celebrate him as well. Needless to say, not many people wanted cake so we still have a ton left over in our fridge, Cake anyone? LOL. I stayed up late the night before his party putting some of the finishing touches on his menu. I only left one thing off and I was too tired to include it and there just wasn't enough time on Saturday to fit it in. I made deviled eggs, a chipped beef with green onions and olives cheese ball served with wheat thins, and pinwheels made with flour tortillas, some of which were cream chese with olives and green onions, ham and white american cheese and turkey with cheddar cheese, on the sweet side, I made homemade carmel corn, fairly simple and tasted great but took arm strength, rice crispy treats, a tastefully simple key lime cheese ball with twisty grahams and homemade white fudge dipped oreos. I had water bottles with personalized labels made that said Lex is 1 and I made lemonade. Then of course there was the cake which was a white cake with the best buttercream icing I have ever had and a raspberry filling and citrus sherbert. We had a wonderful turn out. Ben's parents came, along with his sister Julia and her daughter Lindy, his brother Dan, his wife and two sons, sister Laura her husband and their daughter, my friend Ashley, her mom Theresa, and Ashley's daughter Courtney (Lex's BFF), Sarah, David and Landon Henderson, Crystal, Britt and Bryson Newton, Phillip, Destiny, Jude and Josie Jackson, Kyla, Mike, Ethan, Aubreyann, and Desi Henderson, Betty Ann and John Edwards and Cammi, Dave and Amy Gericke. (Hoping I didn't leave anyone out). It was mass chaos at its finest. I also had Brian Meeks and Pauline Murphy onsite doing photography. The party was centered around the photography and I hope that all my guests were able to get pictures. I know the mid range kids had a blast dressing up with the various props and such. I am waiting to see the pictures. Again, Lex had his own smash cake but proceded to eat it much the way he ate his cupcake, picking the icing off and it eating it one pinch at a time. The girl who decorated his personal cake for some reason did black piping around the base so by the time he was done, he had black everywhere, smeared all over his face, in his hair, in his ears, everywhere.
My only disappointment was that I wanted to put together a time capsule for Lexington, something for him to open on his 18th birthday. Unfortunately, not a lot of people went with the time capsule idea and we got more toys and gifts than we did donations to the time capsule. Since we haven't sealed it yet, we are hoping to have a few last minute stragglers out there.
On his actual birthday, I got Lexington a Happy Birthday Singamajig and a small piano. We bought mini carrot cupcakes and let him blow out his candle as well as eat his cake. Lexington was so sweet in eating his cupcake, he carefully ate all the frosting off the top with little pincher bites. He would pinch the icing, put it in his mount, then pinch some more and eat again. After all the frosting was off, he crammed the whole mini cupcake into his mouth. I had to get a picture, then like a good mom, I dug it out of his mouth, broke it in half and let him cram half of it back in, too funny to watch him eat it since he still has no teeth.
We celebrated his birthday with a big party on Saturday. His cake was amazing, not quite what I had pictured, but still super cute. I also picked Ben up a cake to celebrate him as well. Needless to say, not many people wanted cake so we still have a ton left over in our fridge, Cake anyone? LOL. I stayed up late the night before his party putting some of the finishing touches on his menu. I only left one thing off and I was too tired to include it and there just wasn't enough time on Saturday to fit it in. I made deviled eggs, a chipped beef with green onions and olives cheese ball served with wheat thins, and pinwheels made with flour tortillas, some of which were cream chese with olives and green onions, ham and white american cheese and turkey with cheddar cheese, on the sweet side, I made homemade carmel corn, fairly simple and tasted great but took arm strength, rice crispy treats, a tastefully simple key lime cheese ball with twisty grahams and homemade white fudge dipped oreos. I had water bottles with personalized labels made that said Lex is 1 and I made lemonade. Then of course there was the cake which was a white cake with the best buttercream icing I have ever had and a raspberry filling and citrus sherbert. We had a wonderful turn out. Ben's parents came, along with his sister Julia and her daughter Lindy, his brother Dan, his wife and two sons, sister Laura her husband and their daughter, my friend Ashley, her mom Theresa, and Ashley's daughter Courtney (Lex's BFF), Sarah, David and Landon Henderson, Crystal, Britt and Bryson Newton, Phillip, Destiny, Jude and Josie Jackson, Kyla, Mike, Ethan, Aubreyann, and Desi Henderson, Betty Ann and John Edwards and Cammi, Dave and Amy Gericke. (Hoping I didn't leave anyone out). It was mass chaos at its finest. I also had Brian Meeks and Pauline Murphy onsite doing photography. The party was centered around the photography and I hope that all my guests were able to get pictures. I know the mid range kids had a blast dressing up with the various props and such. I am waiting to see the pictures. Again, Lex had his own smash cake but proceded to eat it much the way he ate his cupcake, picking the icing off and it eating it one pinch at a time. The girl who decorated his personal cake for some reason did black piping around the base so by the time he was done, he had black everywhere, smeared all over his face, in his hair, in his ears, everywhere.
My only disappointment was that I wanted to put together a time capsule for Lexington, something for him to open on his 18th birthday. Unfortunately, not a lot of people went with the time capsule idea and we got more toys and gifts than we did donations to the time capsule. Since we haven't sealed it yet, we are hoping to have a few last minute stragglers out there.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Lexington 1st Birthday Party
On Wednesday, December 7, 2011, this week, we celebrated the 1st birthday of my baby boy, Lexington, part of the reason for starting this blog. It started off as what should have been the most perfect day. We woke to snow on the ground, roofs, and cars, but roads were clear. Lexington even slept in not waking until close to 9 when I finally woke him up, afraid he would sleep the day away. Our very happy peaceful morning was soon interupted by anger and resent, and stomach in knots due to issues with Aaron and Ron, and the discussion of court on Tuesday, Dec 13th. It wasn't until much later that I was able to come back to concentrating on celebrating my sweek little man and his very big birthday...his first. I must admit that through all this, I had almost forgotten another very special man in my life, my husband, for he and Lexington share the same birthday. By midmorning, I had remembered Ben and wished him a happy birthday.
On his actual birthday, I got Lexington a Happy Birthday Singamajig and a small piano. We bought mini carrot cupcakes and let him blow out his candle as well as eat his cake. Lexington was so sweet in eating his cupcake, he carefully ate all the frosting off the top with little pincher bites. He would pinch the icing, put it in his mount, then pinch some more and eat again. After all the frosting was off, he
On his actual birthday, I got Lexington a Happy Birthday Singamajig and a small piano. We bought mini carrot cupcakes and let him blow out his candle as well as eat his cake. Lexington was so sweet in eating his cupcake, he carefully ate all the frosting off the top with little pincher bites. He would pinch the icing, put it in his mount, then pinch some more and eat again. After all the frosting was off, he
Sunday, December 4, 2011
so....
Today is December 4th. That means thankfully there are only 27 more days in this awful year. 2011 has been a rough year. There has been very little good and a lot of hard times and bad things happen. I only hope that 2012 will bring gladder tidings. How can so many hard times and bad things happen to one family/individual? I guess I should be happy (and I am) that my family seems to have it's health. That is the only positive I can think of right now. We are not even all together as my oldest son has left me to go live with his father. Other positive of 2011 was being able to go visit my father. I was able to stay home with Lexington for the majority of his first year, so I was able to experience many of his first milestones which was another "good" for 2011.I tried being positive and thankful for the month of November and I do have many things in my life to be thankful for yet there has just been so much stress and hardships for our family this year, it's a wonder we have all made it through. Some how, some way, 2012 has to be a better year than the one we are currently in. My positives to look forward to in 2012, the possibility of moving closer to family. Hopes and prayers that Aaron will move home at the end of the school year in 2012. That putting Garrett in a sleep clinic will help shed some light on some of his "problems". Being less than 6 months away from having my masters by the end of 2012. Hopefully getting to travel to experience the Polar Express,as well as Disney(Land or World - I am not picky), and family too! I do have paper I should be working on for my final in my first class for my master program. I have to do a press release and a 2 page memo, but I can't bring myself to work on it. Lexington turns 1 on Wednesday and I have a house that I have to get cleaned, and yet I can't bring myself to do that too. It has been so long since I have written and I felt a need to write and now I feel a need to head to bed. I hope tomorrow to get my paper finished (as it is due by midnight) as well as make enough progress in my "office" to get my Christmas tree and decorations up. I still have several decorations I need to "create" before Saturday for Lexington's party as well as start on making food and looking up recipes. It's going to be another fun filled busy week. Wish me lots of luck!!
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