Country Girl Through and Through

I LOVE country Music! I think I must have been 13 years old when my love for it really began. I have a good friend that I've know since I was 9 who really introduced me to it. I use to tease her for liking it, but now...I am such a fan too.
I love Wednesday nights at the tillamook county fair. They always have such a great country singer come. One year they had Terry Clark, another year they had SheDaisy, and this year they had Phil Vassar!!!!! It was so much fun. I've been counting down the days for a few months now...going to his website and making myself familiar with his music again. Honestly, I KNEW EVERY SONG! I did kind of feel silly that I could sing almost every song, word for word...but it made it more fun too:) Peyton loved it! Logan...he was a little bored, but this mommy was in her heaven. I love music, I love country, I love Phil Vassar's music, and I LOVE concerts! I had such a wonderful time. I left about 30 minutes early because my kiddos were READY for bed. But as soon as I got home, I opened my windows and my back door and I listened to the rest of the concert from my back porch! It really was a way fun night.



















Peyton was trying to sing a long with the songs...it was so cute!

And I thought I loved you then

Does anyone else feel like Life just keeps getting busier and crazier? I feel as though as soon as Jason and I slow down with our lives....tons of things shot our way. I am very much a quality time kind of person when it comes to my relationship with Jason. I am not this way with my friends. I really am not a high mantience friend at all. My best friend in the entire world, (other then Jason) and I only talk like MAYBE once a month but we cherish and love each other so much. My relationship with Jason is different...I really need that quality time with him. It is super duper important to me.
5 nights a week, I am alone. Really, when I got married, I never thought that I would say that. I am so thankful for Jason's job and I am so thankful for what a hard worker Jason is but lets face it, I get lonely at night. I put the kids to bed at night, every night, by myself. I don't mind it for the most part. I remind myself all the time that this is just a season of our lives, and that someday, I will have every night with Jason. With that in mind, my poor Jason has to deal with little old me when it comes to his nights off. I want ALL of those nights! I know that is super selfish of me but I just feel like with those being my ONLY two nights with my man, I want them to be just us! I am sure a lot of our "couple" friends notice this because we NEVER have company over....like EVER!!!!! But I have the hardest time giving up my two nights with Jason. I am working on it ya'll.
Jason and I did get a little break together for our anniversary and it was AMAZING!!! I am so in love with that man. He is so much fun...FULL of ideas and so very romantic. He truly is a man of character, he has such devotion to be a good husband and an amazing daddy, he is way thoughtful, and the way I have seen him just growing in leaps and bounds in his spiritual life, well, I really don't have words for that. His relationship with the Lord is so important to him and it shows in his everyday life. For our anniversary, first he surprised me with a BUNCH of beautiful flowers in the kitchen after he got home from work and then he surprised me with another beautiful diamond wedding band. It looks so beautiful together. We rekindled our love that weekend. Went to wild waves, a drive in movie, out to dinner at apple bee's, and we shopped at walmart(we LOVE that store).
I still can't believe that I could possibly be more in love with Jason today then the day I married him but it is so true. Both of these songs(Love) and (RUN)are sooooo me and Jason and every time I hear them I just think of us. My love story is one that I could have only dreamed of and then I don't even think it would have been as good as it has been. I am so happy and overwhelmed that I can say that about my marriage and the love of my life. But it is true. Jason really does complete me in every way and I couldn't be happier or more content. I wouldn't trade my life for anything...even his stinkin' night shift is all worth it...as long as I can have him.

Our Wonderful BUSY July!!!!

We have had the most fun this July! I wanted to share a few of our outings! We went to the zoo! It was Logan and Peyton's first time and they both LOVED IT!!!!!!! We parked a little ways away from the zoo and road a school bus over. Logan was so excited..."I can't believe it...I get to ride a bus to the zoo." He had such excitement in his eyes. We really had a wonderful family day. Full of laughs, frozen ice drinks, monkeys(and I'm not just talking about Logie;), and lots of learning. Logan loved the Bats the most. I was so surprised. He use to be way scared of them...but he loved watching them eat bananas.
We also headed to MY favorite beach and enjoyed the sand hill. Peyton loved breaking down the sand castles that Logie and Daddy were making and she really wanted to climb up that sand hill by herself. She is very independent my Pey Pey. Logan loved rolling down the hill and running in the sand.
July was such a wonderful busy month for our family. Enjoy all the pics.

ahh...my sweet Logan. My life would be so boring without him in it.

Logan is the funniest boy. The conversations we have together, just crack me up!! He is so interested in a relationship with Jesus and how to get to heaven. Especially after his great papa charlie passed away. He will tell you the whole story, "papa's heart couldn't take it anymore and he is in heaven with jesus now...but he won't raise again like Jesus because he isn't all powerful like Jesus." He has told this story ALOT the passed few weeks.
Last week Logan was grounded all week from going anywhere fun....On Thursday he go to go to papa's shop with him and he was very excited. He yelled at the top of his lungs..." Papa...I was in time out for TWO weeks...and now I am not anymore."
Tonight I was praying with Logan before bed....as I was leaving his room after a sweet little kiss, he asked me..."Mommy...is "amen" Jesus last name? because we always say...in Jesus name...Amen." The child listens to every detail I tell ya.
Last week Logan didn't want to wear his shoes across the rocks...Jason told him he should or it will hurt his feet...he turned and said, "No daddy....I don't need shoes...I'm an Africa boy."
My brother Zach was struggling with kidney stones...I went to pick logan up from my parents and Logan had to inform me of this,"uncle zach has kidney stones in his tummy again...he woke up last night with issues." (picture a three year old talking SUPER fast saying this to me.) So funny.

Meet OUR newest family member

Now, I know you were thinking we got a dog:) NOPE:):) I am so not there for a dog yet! But we did get a TRAMPOLINE!!!! I've wanted one since I was a little girl and thankfully my hot hubby has a love for them too! We saved up our money all Summer long and we finally got one!! We ALL love it! And the enclosurse is so great too! Perfect for both of my little ones!!!
















































Thank you Jason and Rechelle for putting it together!!!!!!:):):) The kids are in heaven!

All Dried up

FYI this blog may contain TMIF(To Much Information) for some of you. Sorry Dad:) But what do you expect. When I had my ovary removed I loved showing my scare off and if they would have given me my ovary in a plastic ziploc bag for keeps, I probably would have kept that in my purse to show off too:)

It's official! Peyton is officially weaned and I am officially empty! When Peyton turned 11 months I decided it was time! Jason and I get to go away this weekend for our anniversary and my parents will have our kiddos over night for two nights(Heaven help them). I figured that would be a perfect time to set my goal to have Peyton weaned. I, of course didn't wanna try and wean her over this weekend while my parents had her. Could you imagine? They never would have offered to have my kids again! I would have to pawn them off on my poor mother in law instead;)
So I had this routine set out. When I started weaning Peyton, she was nursing like 4- 6 times a day. Totally going through the night without it but she was loving it during the day. So I cut her back to two times a day for a few days and then to one feeding for a few days. My goal was to stop nursing her by the 15th but I ended a couple of days sooner because frankly, it was harder only let her have it one time a day because she wanted it more. I figured the best thing to do was to totally stop all together. So I did. And the next few days were really really hard. Peyton was way fussy over it and not a fan of mommy's "bright idea." And I, of course, was in pain, for various reasons...wink, wink.. And this time around(never experienced this with Logan at all) I had insomnia last week...ALL WEEK LONG. I couldn't fall asleep until like 3 or 4 am in the morning. Thank goodness my friend shared with me that she had the same thing happen when she weaned one of her children and that is was hormomal! PRAISE THE LORD because this Chica is one who needs SAAAALLLEEEP:)
Well today I am officially back to normal....Peyton has adjusted just fine and I am feeling wonderful!! My smaller shirts are even fitting again! A wonderful thing. Weaning Peyton(as it was with Logan) was so hard for me emotionally. It just means she is that much more growing out of the baby stage and soon to be a toodler. At the same time, my freedom is a nice thing as well. I am at a happy medium with it all.

This was so me this afternoon!

Do you ever just have one of these days? I was so there today.