Week of August 26

Life is good right now but I'm sad it's starting to get cooler outside. I'm not looking forward to planning all our activities indoors soon. Aubrey is now at the age that she loves going outside and exploring and logan could spend all day at the park (as long as we had snacks). So I will be sad when I cant take them outside as much. This week Aubrey has been sick so it's been a hard week, it's hard seeing her so had and I can't do that much for her. She also fell off the bed again, it was right by the wall so she got stuck but she fell head first at hit her head on the bed frame. I felt so bad, I can't believe I let that happen. Today when we were at grandmas she started climbing up the stairs, she's getting so big. Logan is so cute he has now started memorizing the books we read him. I just love my two beautiful babies so much. I just hope I can give them everything they need plus more. Often I think of what I hope they will think of me when they get older when they look back to their childhood. I hope they think, my mom always did her best, in her marriage, in spending time with us, in teaching us and in taking care of us and herself. I really want what's best for them.

Love my little ones week of August 20, 2012

I just love love love my wonderful, beautiful, perfect children. It's 12:38am Saturday morning and I was just checking on them, I love watching them sleep. We just recently put Aubrey in her crib that's in Logan's room. She still usually sleeps in our bed for a few hours (depending on how tired I am) but she sleeps most the night in a crib next to Logan.

I have loved these almost nine months with Aubrey and it hurts a little to know she's getting bigger so fast. She has been and is the most wonderful baby. I can remember when I was pregnant with her and that I loved her even before she was born, I can remember seeing her for the first time and falling in love even more and thinking she was the most beautiful baby. she's so happy and has the most beautiful spirit.

I love watching Logan and Aubrey discover new things. This week Logan has mastered taking caps off things so today I went into the washroom and Logan had my very expensive foundation all over himself (he looked very beautiful). This week Aubrey will crawl on something and pull herself up and stand for a while. It's all fun and I'm so happy I get to stay home and discover every moment with them.

6th Year Wedding Anniversary

This Saturday Shawn and I celebrated 6 years of marriage. It's fun to think about where we have been in the past 6 years. I can honestly say I'm so happy and I feel so lucky to have an amazing family. For our anniversary we left Logan and Aubrey with my mom and we went rafting down the river then went for dinner. It was really fun having most the afternoon with Shawn it felt like we were on vacation.

Aubrey and Logan are growing up

Aubrey now has developed an opinion about most things and now screams at me when she wants something. She is still so wonderful but she used to be happy just sitting in my lap and she does still like me caring her around but if I'm sitting still she would rather be crawling and exploring. She also now has started to pull herself up on furniture. She's so cute I love her so much! On friday she also played in the sand and water at the beach for the first time.

Logan is also changing, he's starting to say full sentences more and now has the disire to dress and undress himself which before he would refuse to try.

Happy Birthday to Me

So today is my Birthday I am 26 years old. It's 12:15am and I think I was born at 5:00am so it's not really my birthday yet but close enough. I was thinking about what my mom was going through at this time 26 years ago and how she was feeling but now having babies of my own I know the experience is horrible and yet so so beautiful. I was also thinking about what I was doing last year, I was working and pregnant. I took the week off work and got to spend the week with Logan. My relationship with Shawn was struggling because I was upset about putting Logan in daycare and I blamed him for having to go back to work. I am happy to say Shawn and I are doing really well, I know I'm really happy and very much in love. When it's my birthday (or any special occasion) I always think about how my mom made me feel like the most important person and naturally I thought that Shawn should also do the same. Shawn does make me feel special but he doesn't do anything extra on my birthday. I usually don't get a present (might get a card) we will do something only if I plan it. So anyway I always feel very disappointed. I'm tired of being disappointed, why should I expect others to serve me. It's going to be hard but this year I want to focus on all the things I'm grateful for and making sure those people who make my life so wonderful know it after being with me on my birthday. I will always remember the first Birthday Shawn and I spent together it was Shawn's birthday and we had been dating only a month and we were eating dinner with his family and Shawn says "the best gift I could ever get was Amy". I was so horrified at the time but it's a really special memory. Today I want to do 26 (if not more) nice deeds for other people, family friends and strangers. I will let you know how I do.

Love,

Amy Beth

It's 12:00am on August 14. Yesterday (my birthday) I went to the beach with my sisters and they were all really sweet, Amanda made me a cake and Ashley and Amber gave me a card. I had a goal to do 26 nice things for people, I did a few nice things but did not reach 26. I also very sadly did not accomplish my goal to not be upset with Shawn. He left this morning at 7:00am and didn't get home until close to 7:00pm. I was just upset he didn't call me to let me know he would be getting home late but I guess I shouldn't be that surprised.

August Long weekend

On Friday I took Logan to Calaway Park with Laura and her boys. That was a lot of fun, I just love Laura and I'm sad that I never see her and her boys are so sweet. On the August long weekend we usually go camping but this year it just didn't work out so we spent the weekend in Chestermere at mom and dads. Sunday night was nice we had dinner then stayed the night when all the kids were in bed Shawn and I sat on the dock for a few minutes just looking at the water and the stars. It was really nice I don't get that oportunity to do things like that with Shawn very often. On Monday we played outside, just Manning's and us were there for most the day then Darryl and the kids came for the evening and Amber stayed home to get a few things done. It's really cute because Logan and Abigail get along really well and they love spending time together, so that was fun watching them. The only issue is Logan has been having a hard time expressing what he is feeling and gets upset very easily so its hard knowing what to do for him so it's hard to be places with lots of people.

Not that important but I thought it was cute, I took Aubrey and Logan to the store and for the first time Aubrey stay in the cart.