Be back soon...

I ended up flying with Hubs to Oregon and surprising all of our family! I will be back on Sunday and as soon as I have time I will post a great video and some pictures. I have missed blogging (although it has been nice to not worry about!) and have only been able to a little, but I will get back to all of you who have asked questions and there have been alot of blogs I have wanted to post on. So see ya soon!

Going on a walk, finally!

Hubs is out of town for the weekend, and we needed to get out of the house! The high temps have been in the 40s and it has been sunny! Mac did really good, but poor guy either had the sun in his face or the cold wind!

I loved is blue hat and winter suit on him with his big blue eyes!

ZONKED!

Mr. McCoy zonked when I was holding him like this! Too Cute!

His poor little hands are purple!

Hubs is leaving out of town for a couple of days, and I can't seem to shake this headache I have had since Monday! I don't know what I am going to do without helpful husband!

Good Boy!

Every time I look at this picture I can imagine him saying...

"OK I'll be a good boy Mommy!"

Sorry I have been posting so much, I think I am almost caught up on posting. I have been trying to spread out my posts so that there is something new everyday.

Mommy and her Little Man!

"C" stopped by to see us today! And she wanted some pictures of the two of us, so she picked up my camera and started shooting, it was fun! Mac was really tired and fighting a nap and so he was not very photogenic! (Also, not loving my hair, I really need to get it redone!)

Mac Week by Week...

The dreaded carseat...

Mac HATES being in his carseat as you can see! It makes it very hard to go anyplace, because he is ususally crying in it, except when he is fine with the way it is moving! I love these pictures because he looks so cute throwing a fit!

Mac is just too cute...

Mac is really starting to coo/talk when he is smiling and we are loving it! This is long so it may bore most of you, but it is mostly for the fam anyway!

ENJOY!

2 MONTHS...

These are Mac's 2 month pictures.

(I think that they turned out way better than his 1 month ones, which I will post soon.)

Mac is...

** is smiling and cooing

**is sticking his right fist in his mouth all the time

**holding his head up really well

**kicking his feet like crazy

**starting to actually enjoy his little play gym

**and the doctor said that he is perfect

Mac had his 2 month check-up today and he had to get 3 shots! He screamed when he got them, but as soon as we picked him up he stopped crying. We gave him some Tylenol and he zonked in his crib without a fight when we got home!

2 Month Stats:
(2/15/2008)

Height: 23 1/2 (75th percentile)
Weight: 12 lbs 4 oz (75th)

My Cute Valentine!!

This little guy is the LOVE of my life!

Happy Heart Day...

...to all of my family and friends,

including my blogging friends!!!

But most importantly,

Happy Day of LOVE

to my two sweethearts...

My wonderful, amazing husband, whom I love to kiss, snuggle and just love to be around!

I Love YOU Hubs!!

And the little man I spend most of my time with, whom I also love to kiss and snuggle with and just love to be around! My beautiful Son!!

I Love YOU Mac!!

MY Life...

life isn't a destination - it's a journey. we all come upon unexpected curves & turning points, mountaintops & valleys. everything that happens to us shapes who we are becoming. and in the adventure of each day, we discover the best in ourselves.

-anonymous.

I loved this quote when I found it! I instantly related because of our adventure in becoming parents.

I have been asked by a friend if I wished I could go back and change the fact that we couldn't have kids. And I knew my answer right away.

NO!

I love the people Hubs and I have become, as INDIVIDUALS and as ETERNAL COMPANIONS. I think we are and will be better PARENTS. We also have the opportunity to feel true COMPASSION and EMPATHY towards those who have gone through similar trials. We can TEACH, HELP and be shoulders to cry on. I feel so much closer to the SAVIOR and I have felt his LOVE every step of the way. We have been blessed with the most amazing MIRACLE of ADOPTION. We have been blessed with Mac!

So NO, I wouldn't change a thing!

As I always say, "Blessings come through trials!"

And I truly have a testimony of that!

I'm baaaaack!

Well I think my sanity got all nice and thawed out yesterday in the 47 degree weather! Loved it! Kindof a short vacation but it helped! I still ended up looking at most of your blogs a few times still. I just didnt worry about leaving comments or posting myself.

So here is what we have been up to, or mostly me I guess...

---I chopped my hair! I am loving it short again, but it isnt exactly how I would like it. So hopefully soon I can get to Great Falls and have "C" fix it for me and maybe even color it so that I am not so gray. When I went to got it cut (at some local salon here in Helena) the girl cutting my hair kept on commenting on my gray hair, I couldn't believe it. She asked me "if the texture of my hair has changed because of all my gray hair." Then I had shown her pictures of me with my last hair cut and she commented on how much darker my hair was in the picture (which is just what happens with my hair in pictures) and then she said "oh it must be the gray hair that is making it look lighter now." OK..OK..I have alot of gray hair for not being quite 30 years old! But give me a break lady!

---Two super nice ladies (Bishop's wife and good friend) from our Ward threw me a baby shower this week. It was alot of fun and Mac loved all of the attention. He just got passed from one lady to another without a single peep from him. By the time the shower was over and he got passed back to me it had been nearly 5 hours since he had eatin last and as soon as I picked him up I think he realized that he was hungry and only got reminded of that because he knew I was the one who feeds him, and he started crying! I got alot of great clothes that range from 6-18 months. A couple packages of Huggies and a super cute Sit-to-stand Learning Walker. Everyone was so generous!

---I finally got some Thank You cards mailed. I ran out of cards so I didnt get them all mailed out. I ordered some cute picture thank you's from WalMart for the shower and I ordered extra to help finish up the rest of my other thank yous from all the packages we have gotten in the mail. The only think I was totally bummed about that I didnt realize was that I think I used the same picture that I used for his birth announcments so some of you will see the same picture twice in the mail.

---Speaking of Birth Announcements...I finally got my idea and it only took about 15 minutes to come up with. Now the hard part is getting them all put together. They are about half way done I am just waiting for my pictures to come into WalMart and I have to cut a few more things and then tie alot of ribbons. I even have addressed all the envelopes. I am hoping to get them mailed out by this coming weekend. After I mail them out I will post a picture of them.

---After Mac not taking any good naps all weekend, he is at the moment working on a 2 hour nap already. YAHOO!!

---We had our YW New Beginnings last night and it turned out so good, but I am glad that it is over with!

---I was trying to come up with something for Hubs, but poor guy is just doing the same thing he is always doing. Get up go teach Seminary, go to work, come home and help me, eat , study his lesson and back to bed. I think he really does need a vacation!

---I am tired of the spell check not working on here, but glad to know that it is blogger and not just me!

What Mac has been up to...

Taking baths to make sure he is smelling nice and clean!

Working on his tummy time! Although he doesnt like it much and usually all he does is turn his head from side to side instead of trying to lift it.

Relaxin!

And playing!

8 WEEKS (last friday)

These are the only pictures I got of Mac at 8 weeks. He is smiling so much more now and even coos a little. He won't really smile for anyone but me and sometimes for Daddy. I guess that is because I am the one who is entertaining him all day. Hubs weighed him yesterday and the scale shows him at 12.6 pounds, I was shocked because I was thinking he was only about 10 1/2 pounds. We will know for sure when he has his 2 month check-up on Friday. He is also finally getting his baby acne and his poor face is no longer baby soft, it makes me sad. I am sure hoping that it goes away soon.

Make sure you click on the close ups of his face to make the picture larger, so you can see his eyes. They look like a Lunar Eclipse. I love them. People are always commenting on his red hair and eyes.

Silly Mac!!

sleepy!

Just this last week...

This is just some handsome-ness from this last week! Isnt he the cutest! In some of these pictures his hair looks really red, I love it! Hubs really liked the dark flannel shirt, he kept calling him "Little Montanian". I know, I know...I am not in any of them! I am still having a hard time getting Hubs to pick up the camera and take a picture of Mac and I, unless I ask. Oh well!

What we have been up to...

~I got to go on a Girls Night Out with some of the girls my age from our Stake. We ate dinner at Chiles (which just opened up!) and then went and saw 27 dresses. I liked the movie alot more than I thought I would.

~We went to an EQ activity at the Bishop's house. It was a game night! It was so much fun! Hubs just played pool with the other guys who hate playing games. And I was having a blast playing all sorts of games with about 20 people from our ward. Mac had fun being passed around, but actually slept most of the time.

~We went to an awesome Temple Fireside for our Stake. The Billings, Montana Temple President and his wife spoke. It was so wonderful and made me very emotional thinking about in a couple of months when we get to take Mac to the Temple to be sealed to us!

~The rest of the week Mac and I were stranded at home, inside! It was too cold and icy to go anywhere! I am totally sick of the winter, I am so ready for it to thaw into Spring.

~I have also been trying to talk Hubs into letting me and Mac come to Oregon for a visit! But he is not letting up! He just doesnt want to be away from both of us for that long!

~I have been trying to work on Invitations for our YW New Beginnings and also trying to finish writing my Thank You cards. And I have been trying to come up with something for Mac's birth announcements, it is stressing me out!

That's all I can think of for the moment!

ENJOY!!

I havent been able to get the spell check to work on here, so excuse the misspellings and the words without apostraphes(sp?)