Randomness

I have been waiting to write a new post until I have something exciting to write about, but instead I thought I would blog about anything and everything that is on my mind today.

I spent last week celebrating my "birthday week" as my dad calls it. I went out to eat, went shopping, got some great gifts from some of my favorite people, flowers from Jeff, and an iPhone 4s from my parents! I love, love, love my birthday!

We had a great weekend. Jeff's whole family was in town for a benefit for Chris and Shayla to help them pay for cancer treatment. They are blessed with amazing colleagues who organized the benefit. Please take a minute to pray for Shayla today and tomorrow. She has surgery tomorrow morning at 9:00. Her blog address is shaylashelburne.weebly.com. You can read about her cancer fight in more detail there. Meanwhile, my lucky parents were at game 6 of the ALCS. I am not that big of a baseball fan, but it was hard to contain my jealousy while watching the game from my living room. After everyone left we spent the rest of the weekend relaxing and being together with just the 4 of us. Time with my precious little family of 4 is the highlight of my week.

The rest of this blog post is just an excuse to show of the latest pictures of my precious babies. Mickade turned 5 months yesterday. We took his 5 month picture but he was not in the mood to smile, which is weird since he is the happiest baby I have ever seen. His nickname is Little Boy Full of Joy. Yesterday the joy was not there, but the picture is still cute.

Brylan has decided she needs to be a photographer as well as a vet when she grows up. She walks around taking tons of pictures with my camera. I never know what I am going to find when I decide to go through my pictures. Here is some of her best work.

Still life photography is a favorite of hers...

But she is starting to take photos of human subjects as well...

It is so fun watching your kids begin to interact, but today the little photographer decided to photograph her subject right after he woke up. The way his expressions change with each picture is so funny.

I have some funny videos of the kids to upload later, but this crazy windy weather is slowing my internet down! I don't want to end this post without a picture of Brylan so here is a lovely one of her in her daddy's boots.

Shayla's Cancer Fight

Recently, my family was shocked and devastated to learn that the lump my sister-in-law, Shayla Shelburne, found in her breast was cancerous. We couldn't believe it. She is a 31 year old momma of a 3 year old and wife. She is healthy and takes good care of herself. It is just something you never expect to happen to someone so young.  Shayla and her husband Chris (Jeff's older brother) immediately began seeing various doctors to try to come up with a plan to fight this cancer. Throughout this ordeal, Shayla has been amazing. She has been positive and her faith has never wavered. She has been strong and gone about her normal life. After I read her latest blog post, I just had to share it with as many people as I could. Her faith amazes me and the words she says are a lesson for everyone, in every one of our lives, no matter where we are and what we are going through. You can read her story and see the example of her amazing faith at shaylashelburne.weebly.com. Please take a minute to pray for Shayla, Chris, and Brenley. This is just the beginning of this journey and the road will be long, but with faith and prayer Shayla will come through it stronger than when she started it. She is constantly on my heart and in my prayers and I hope she will now be in yours too and that you will be as inspired and amazed by her faith as I am.

The Shelburne Family- Shayla is in the red jacket.

Adventures in Mommyhood

This year marks my third year of working part time and I decided this is the year that we are going to be more scheduled and productive. For example,Tuesday is ALWAYS Chick Fil A Day. Here a some pictures from Superhero night.

Mickade and Gma at Superhero night. Yes people, that is my Grandma. I hope I got her genes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Every other Wednesday is library day. I am also reinstating Thursday Baking Day...an old favorite of ours. Monday we went to the zoo. Mickade was really enthusiastic about the trip as you can see by his expression.

Bry with the snakes. Photography is not one of my talents.

I wanted a picture of both of my angels, but at this point Kade was FINALLY asleep so I didn't want to take him out!

Not that excited about the zoo...it was naptime!

My little storyteller even tells me stories while I am taking pictures. This one was about the lion.

 I have even gotten pretty crafty lately. I did some amazing things with leopard print and houndstooth wrapping paper to the entertainment center in our living room and yesterday I made a Halloween wreath with my mom, sister in law, and my special helper Brylan. My college roomie and sweet friend Amie Turnage, the craftiest girl I know, will be so proud to know a little of her skills rubbed off on me.

We have good days and bad days, exciting days and laid back days, but I wouldn't trade a single hour with these two amazing little people. I am so blessed!