Newborn Pictures

 

Life is funny sometimes- okay- a lot of time. God has plans for all of us that are never MY plans. Newborn pictures are super important and special to me, and so when our photographer got the flu and couldn't take the pictures I was devastated. So, I asked around, PANICKED, and then my mom reminded me that our sweet friend Donna takes amazing pictures of the boys, and we should ask her.

WHAT A BLESSING! It was the best day. We headed out to her house to play, take pictures, and spend time with one of our favorite couples. Here are some of my favorites (since I cant put up all 400 of them. =)

sweet boy

"someone hold me..." "someone let me go!"

 

Tyler with his life verse... so sweet

 

I love both the posed and the natural look. This time is going to go by WAY TOO FAST. There are days already when Ethan pulls his hand away from me wanting to do something BY MYSELF and I realize how quickly its going to be when he can do EVERYTHING by himself.

caught red handed

love this face... always so serious

 As I watch the time slip away I have been spending more time on my knees in prayer. Often times, however, I dont have the right words or words at all when I pray. I just picture my boys and all I can ask is that God soften their hearts and give them souls that LONG after Him. At the end of the day I just want me boys to be madly in love with God.

if i could i would kiss on him all day

I am not always going to be there to kiss the boo boos away... and if their hearts long after  Christ than they will find hope and comfort in a loving and gracious father.

i hope they still little as long possible!

you want to kiss this face too dont you?

We are blessed- beyond words. On days when both are crying or screaming (or both) and my back hurts, and I still have work to do, and I havent eaten all day, I stop and remind myself what GIFTS these 2 are. They are simply on loan to me.. and I take that responsibly seriously and hope that God will continue to direct our hearts as parents so that our boys will walk with us as try to seek out God.

Haircut

Well I have one more notch in the "lessons learned" list of mommyhood. Ethan's hair has been so cute with the curls. but slowly the curls are starting to get out of control and some parts had gone straight.. it was becoming a mess. I didnt want to cut the curls so I just "trimmed" it a little bit. Well Ethan went to bed that night and when he woke up - IT WAS A HOT MESS! I dont know what I was thinking. So we headed to Cool Cuts to get it fixed. Bryan and the hairdresser were both  said "OH DEAR!"

He did really well- Blues Clues on the tv and on the ipod so we were good. I cried the entire way home because he looked so big!

Tyler won't get his hair cut till he's 12!!