A special note for my honey...

You are strong and good
You are kind and quick to laugh
You are their hero.

You sacrifice
You play
You hug and kiss
You teach and lead


Daddy, papa, father, padre, sir, ...
there are so many ways to name you...

but there is only one you.
They are lucky to have you.
I am lucky to have you.

You are the one person on this earth that loves our babies as much as I do.
All three of them.

You get it.


I watch you with them...playing on the floor with them like only a daddy can...mom's too much of a sissy...I watch you brush their hair out of their eyes with a tenderness I've never seen out of you...this special tender touch is reserved only for them. I see the light shining in their eyes as they look at you in a mixture of laughter, love, and a little bit of awe.

I see that light refelected in your own eyes...often welling with emotion as you watch them growing up...

...helping Britt with her homework...
...Baylee molding herself into you with one of her hugs...
...sitting with Travis watching racecars on tv...

My heart aches for my child self...never having had many "daddy" moments...but I feel so thankful to God that he gave our babies you. They are so lucky...as are we...but, then again, you know that just as well as me.

You get it.



Happy Father's Day, Eric...I truly love you with all my heart

p.s. please forgive my lack of pictures of Travis...for some unknown, odd reason, this dumb thing won't let me upload any more pictures...i'm so frusterated...and I'm so sorry to my poor baby...I didn't forget him :o(

Almost 2 months....oops!

Hey ya'll!

Wow...I can't believe it's been so long since I've updated! Well, when you have 3 kids to take care of and love and cuddle and snuggle, and be driven crazy from...time gets away from you,

ya know?

Well, the biggest news on the homefront is sad, in a way...kinda the end of an era...

Get ready...

It's big news...

I just want you to be sure your ready for this little nuggett of information...

Eric had a vasectomy.

:o(

I know, I know...thousands of guys do it every year and we're (well, he's) in his mid 30's now, and we have a beautiful (emphasis on the ful...as in full) family, yadda, yadda, yadda...

So why do I feel so sad?

I know I'll get over it...but every time I think that we'll never have another baby...ugh. I'm one of those women that are either very crazy...or very lucky...but I loved being pregnant. It was pretty easy on me...I didn't get very sick at all, yes, my ankles did swell up like two gigantic over-stuffed sausages when I was with Travis, and my 21 hour labor and delivery with Baylee wasn't terribly pleasant, and the heartburn, my goodness, the heartburn...but all in all...the good things about being pregnant (aside from the miraculous end result!) totally outweighed the bad. I mean, like a 100,000,000 times over.

Oh well...moving right along...

Summer's here (almost)! Yay!!!

We opened up the pool the other day and boy is it ever nice to jump in on a hot day! After getting home from the gym and being all hot and sweaty...yeah baby! Oh, and Britt and I went to get new swimsuits...I was still wearing the one I had from before we were married...7 YEARS AGO!!!! So, needless to say...it was time! I got a really cute tank-kini thing with a halter top and little riveted holes cut out of it and Britt got a cute multi colored brown-ish orange-ish thing. Very cute! It actually wasn't as bad as it had been in previous years...thank you very much Conditioning Center at the Lebanon YMCA!!! I still have a ways to go till I get to my goal...but I can definately see a difference.

Well, this is getting pretty long...so I'll wrap it up...and let me end on the note of my ever-so-famous last words...

I'll try to update more often.

Yeah, I know...

:o)