Sunday, December 11, 2011

My Babies

Lately, we have been having to get creative to get Lucas to bed.  Sometimes he pretends like he is a baby and will go into his "crib."  I guess we are taking this role play to the next level.  Samuel is now getting in on it too.

My baby feeding my big baby a bottle ; )

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Happy Birthday Brian

Brian turned the big 2-7 over the weekend.  Life has been so crazy lately that we did not actually get to devote an entire day to him.  I feel guilty about that but I know that he always appreciates what we do for him.  

He is the most wonderful husband in the world.  I love him more today than I did on our wedding day.  The way he responds to challanges is amazing.  He is not as impulsive as me.  He is such a good leader.  Over the last few months he has been away from us working so hard to make this move easier.  I am so greatful to him and all of the sacrifices that he has made to get us where we are today.  The boys look up to him so much and love it when they get good quality play time. 



We also celebrated Pawpaw Weatherford's birthday (its the same day as Brian's.)  We went to Norman for the inspection and we were able to have a nice dinner with Brian's parents and then some dessert back at home.  The boys love spending time with Pawpaw.  They love hearing his funny stories and playing cars with him. 


Happy Birthday Daddy and Pawpaw!  We love you both so much!


Thursday, December 1, 2011

Fall Pictures

My wonderful friend Dawn took some time out of her busy schedule to have a photo session for our family.  It was originally supposed to be a family photo shoot but Brian was out of town that day.  So, it turned into a kids only shoot (which is totally fine with me because they are obviously too much cuteness as it is...ha.)  Here is a little sneak peek of my little guys.






Thank you so much Dawn!  These are priceless memories that we will always cherish!

Monday, November 28, 2011

Thanksgiving 2011

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend with all of the people that we love.  I am so sad that I never took my camera out at the Laurent Family Thanksgiving.  I guess that we were just having too much fun ; )  We did have a great day though and finally got a family picture that included every single family member!  I cannot wait to see if we got even one that everyone was looking.

Thursday evening we left town and headed to meet the Weatherfords in Branson.  We stayed in a beautiful cabin that had a screened porch, fishing pond, and a playground.  It was so nice to have a relaxing weekend before the move kicks into full gear.


Angry Birds helped to keep the kiddos happy on Saturday when it rained the entire day.



This was the best family picture we could get...I think that both boys are tired of the camera in their faces.  They are beginning to avoid it...uh oh.

Our family with "Rudolf"
We are so thankful to God for all he has done in our lives.  We are blessed with such amazing family and friends.  Happy Thanksgiving!



Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Sign by the "X"

Today the Weatherford's signed by the "X."  The contract is signed and we will begin the rollercoaster ride of inspections and more.  We are already picking out paint colors, pricing out carpet, and dreaming of having a more stable place to live. 

We drove to Norman about two weeks ago to check out the neighborhoods.  We had plotted houses that we were interested in on a map and then spent the afternoon scoping them out from the outside.  We were able to cross of about half of the houses due to the neighorboods they were in.  With Brian being gone for twenty-four hours at a time, living somewhere that I don't feel safe isn't an option for us. 

The following weekend we went house hunting with our realtor.  The first house that we saw ended up being the one to beat.  It was a charming ranch style home with wood floors and a huge back yard.  After being a little disappointed with the houses that followed we drove to a neighborhood about 6 miles outside of town.  Then we fell in love...with a house.  Brian and I could both tell that this was the one.  We went and saw one more and then had to go back to our favorite just to make sure.  It fit all of the things we were looking for and more.

We had not planned on making an offer at all that weekend.  But, this one was too good to pass up.  It has about 1.5 acres of land for our little guys to explore and the house is very well maintained.  

If everything goes according to plan we will be moving the week after Christmas.  We are giving thanks to God for all of His blessings.  Please pray that everything goes smoothly with this transition.  I cannot wait to share the next chapter of our life.

Here are a few pictures of the house:
View from the front




Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Start Date

Brian's start date for Norman Fire Department is January 3rd, 2012.  With that news, we kicked off our relocation work.  We are doing a ton of research on houses, churches, schools, etc.  We are going to Norman this weekend for our first official day of house hunting.  Ideally, we would love to move to Norman before Brian starts work, but we may have to hang back in Tulsa for a little while if we can't find a good place in the next 5 weeks or so.  Five Weeks!!!  Exciting and scary at the same time!

Right after we found out that Brian got the job!  I am so blessed to have such a hard working husband. 
Here are a few pictures of the kiddos.  They have both been sick off and on since the whole hospital visit that we had in October.  We have had a lot of laying on the couch watching TV days.
Samuel has eczema and it really bothers him around his diaper area...can you tell?



Samuel enjoys feeding himself.  Sometimes that is the only way that I can get him to eat.  He probably only gets about 50% of the food into his mouth, but that is better than nothing.

My boys playing in their boat.


Monday, November 7, 2011

Big News!

The Weatherford Family is moving to Norman!
Noman Fire Department is hiring twelve new fire fighters and Brian is one of those twelve!!!  We recieved the news last week and could not be more excited about it.  Its going to be an exciting adventure that we are so thankful for.  Moving from our family, friends and home is not going to be easy.  We are so sad to leave.  But, God has given us this opportunity and it was a perfect fit for us.  Mamaw and Pawpaw will be close and we have a few friends that we will also get to be closer to. We appreciate all of the prayers and support that we have recieved over the last year or so.  What a blessing it has been to have so many people who love us.

Monday, October 31, 2011

Our First Halloween

This was our first real Halloween.  The last two years Lucas has been really sick.  So, we didn't hold our breath about getting to participate again this year.  Thankfully, we got our sickness out of the way two weeks ago and we were all healthy tonight.  Brian had to work overtime but I know that he would have loved to see our little guys have so much fun.




 My little Nemo
 Belle assisting Nemo with his top fin.
 Nemo was removed when Lucas realized he couldn't run very fast.  I'm pretty sure that most of the kids were exhausted from the pre-trick-or-treating running that happened.
This is how he looked when we reached the end.  He was pooped.  He plopped himself down into the wagon and waited to be pulled back to the house.  His favorite part of the night was getting to knock on the doors.  He would wait for a crowd of kids to leave a house so he could be the one to do the knocking.  He definitely took it all in.  He was on slow motion for most of the night just looking at all of the jack-o-lanterns and other decorations.  I'm so glad that he got to go this year. 

Our new favorites

Samuel and Lucas each have a new favorite.  Get ready for these two exciting events in the Weatherford home.  They are going to blow your mind.


Samuel officially has a poop corner!  Basically, if you find him in this corner...run!  (oh, the exciting life of a momma.)


Lucas' new favorite food is cereal with milk.  He has always eaten cereal dry and drank a cup of milk with it.  But lately, he has been devouring his new big boy food.  I guess this goes along with all of his new big boy bathroom habits he has learned.  We started potty training back in March and Lucas reverted back to having accidents about a month later.  So, we completely stopped the training and went back to diapers.  We started again this week and it went so well.  It is totally different than last time.  He is so much more mature, he has so much more vocabulary and he was much more ready.  I am so proud of him.  He is doing so well.  He is wearing underwear all day with the exception of sleeping and he is waking up with a dry pull-up every time.  Thank goodness its going better this time.  He is getting to be such a big boy!

Sunday, October 23, 2011

The Owl and other random happenings

Cars Joke:
Last night when the storm came through Lucas asked what the lightning was.  I said, "its lightning."  He said, "nope, its The King."


 I feel like I have graduated recently from elementary level of train knowledge to at least intermediate level.  I have struggled since Lucas' last birthday to make a decent train track for these kids.  Finally, after almost a year I managed to put a track together that I was actually proud of.  In fact, I was so proud I took a picture just so I could blog about it.  Small step for some...HUGE step for me.


This is Samuel's rash that showed up a few days after all of the fever/seizure fun that we had.  So now we know that the culprit was a nasty virus.


Recently Lucas has been really into owls.  We go hunting for owls in my room with a flashlight.  The other night he woke up around midnight screaming a terrifying scream.  This hasn't happened in months so it really caught me off guard.  I jumped out of bed to see what was going on.  When I went into the boy's room Lucas was holding his hand as if it was hurt.  I asked him what was wrong.  He said,
"it bit me." 
Immediately I thought that there was some creepy crawly thing in his bed. 
I said "what bit you?" 
He said "The owl." 
Me: "What?  The owl bit you?" 
Lucas:  "Yeah, the owl."
So, I picked him up and brought him in our room so I could look at it.  He had a mosquito bite on his hand from earlier that day.  I guess that it started to bother him and somehow he imagined it was an owl.  The only thing that I can think of is that when we were camping there was an owl at the wildlife center.  We kept telling the kids to get their fingers out of the cage (for obvious reasons.)  Oops, it must have made him a little nervous around owls.

Samuel's First Birthday Party

Samuel had his first birthday party about two weeks ago.  Life has been so crazy that I am just now getting around to blogging about it.  This happy little man wasn't feeling well for his party and actually slept through a good portion of it.  He ended up having a pretty serious ear infection.  But, he seemed to take it all in stride and he enjoyed all of the family and the attention.


We had a car themed party.  He loves to push around trucks, tractors and cars.   






 We our family from Altus, OKC and Tulsa here to celebrate.  Thank you all so much for coming.  We are so glad that we got to celebrate with everyone!
For lunch we did "build your own pizzas."  Overall it was pretty successful.  A double oven would have made it a little easier for this size of a crowd. 


 Samuel did enjoy the cake.  But, Lucas did have to help a little with the leftovers on Samuel's tray.



 One of the biggest hits of the day was face painting.   Lucas' turned into tattooing.  His says "I love Mom."  I'm so proud ; )
Happy Birthday Samuel.  We love you so much and we cannot wait to see how much you grow and change this year!