This is called a lazy post...

How to perform a lazy post...

Step 1: Go to a friend's blog.

Step 2: Rip off the cute pictures of your kid with their kid.

Step 3: Post them on your blog.

I at least put them in a different order...

Jake and Mattie looking cute.

Mattie making sure Jake knows who is in control. Notice who is driving! :)

All photography credit goes to the photographer of the year, Miss Ginny Vietti. Check out her blog, Vietti-Ville.

Easter Sunday and Thanks!

Thanks for all the kind words coming from my last post. I hope it wasn't too depressing...I really feel that way and I feel like most of the females I know struggle with this so I thought it was time to talk about it. (Men don't seem to suffer in this realm as much as women, but I know there are some that do. My husband is just NOT one of those people. Thank God for him!)

So on a happier note, here are pics from the Easter egg hunt at church on Sunday...too cute! Jacob was a pro at hunting for eggs, putting them in the basket and then opening them to find his suprise. He was ALL about the surprise inside! :) How did he know there should be a surprise inside? Because we hunted eggs on Friday with some older kids and he witnessed them doing this and realized the goodness he should be looking for!

It begins NOW

Friday night I went out with some friends and we began talking about how we hate ourselves on some level. Most women I know tend to do this...we are never pretty enough or skinny enough, etc. Why do we do this to oursleves? As for the women I was with on Friday night...we all resolved it was part of our upbringing and how we have learned to view ourselves, but we want to know HOW we undo these thoughts/things...how do we begin to unwire these thoughts. All I can conclude is that it BEGINS NOW! This thought came after I began looking at the pictures of myself from Easter with my son. I started hating on myself and thinking how horrible that I look. And suddenly all I could think was...IT BEGINS NOW!!! STOP, STOP, STOP!!!! Don't I have something more to offer then just how I look? Don't I have a soul that is worth getting to know? I am worth something and bring something to the table so if my hair looks bad and my face looks fat does it REALLY MATTER???? NO IT DOESN'T MATTER! Today I have won the battle...tomorrow is a new day...we shall see...can I really unwire all this mess in my mind?

My Favorite View

Hat Day

The other day we tried on hats in Michaels.

Here is Jacob being adorable in his...

Here is mommy wearing a donkey hat making her best donkey face. Honestly, this picture still makes me crack up! I really do think I look like a donkey...

The Adventures of Jacob and the Dust Buster

Jacob loves to vacuum so much that we decided to give him the dust buster so that he could actually move around with it. (The vacuum cleaner is big and cumbersome and he works very hard to try to vacuum with it.) Here is the result of us giving him the dust buster. This video is about a minute long, but he really did this for about 10 minutes.

This is what happens when the dust buster battery goes dead...Jacob gets very, very sad. Turn down your volume before watching. You have been warned! (And for all you judgemental parents out there, yes, I did try to distract him with a million other things...he was NOT having it so I decided to video him instead.)

Snow in Dallas

You won't believe it because we couldn't believe it...Dallas got 12 inches of snow a few weeks back. Below are the pics of it in all of its glory.

Jacob walking in the snow...

Our house after the beautiful snow.

Jake looking out the front door window at the snow.

Jake putting on his dad's shoes. Wait, what does this have to do with snow? Absolutely nothing...I just loved this picture and it got dropped into the mix.

Jake walking in the snow and my annoying "mom voice" in the background.

Jacob LOVED the snow so much so that every time we took him in to warm up he had a complete meltdown and would cry. It was cute.

Good Idea or Not?

Finger painting...good idea or not? It was listed as a good activity for 16 months old...or so I thought. Hmmmm...we will wait until he is a bit older to try this one again!

All over his arms:

ALL in his hair:

Fun little moments with Dad and Jacob

Just love these and wanted to share them!

So I just got done with my monthly cry...

Don't be alarmed I wasn't crying because something serious happened...it was because of a sad story on American Idol. Yep, that is right, American Idol made me cry. Don't knock it...there was a really touching story during the LA tryouts. Can anyone guess which story touched me?

Oh yea...and for good measure here is the man. This is his alter-ego, He-Man. Well, really what happened was that we were at his 15 month doc appt and they always have me strip him down to just his diaper. So while we were waiting for the doc to come in I wrapped a scarf around him to keep him warm. I thought it was hilarious and demanded a photo!

For more recent pics of Jacob go to Vietti-Ville and check out our pajama play date! Thanks Viettis for a great time!

What is so funny?

New Product...Jake in a basket

Jake in a basket is now available in both English and Spanish.

Deep Freeze in Texas

Blog postings stalled due to the deep freeze in Texas. Okay, not really, I have just been lazy. But to kick us off for 2010 I wanted to give a tribute to my sweet parents. Check out my beautiful mom in her wedding dress and my cool dad in front of his car (I think he was in high school). I love old photos...ahem....I mean photos of my parents from a past time.