My Idea of a Perfect Day!

We had the perfect day I swear! We got up at 7:45 am Saturday and took our time getting ready! We left the apartment at 10 am and headed to Newport OR. Along the way we stopped at our favorite Mennonite Bakery. The best homemade goodies in the world and she only opens on Fridays and Saturdays. We ate her yummy homemade donuts in the most idyllic place, a beautiful gazebo, rocking in the most comfortable rockers surrounded by the smells of a working farm (no manure I swear, only flowers and fruit trees) and a cool breeze coming off the mountains. We left there sometime before noon and made our way to Newport and then on to a little tiny town called Depoe Bay, OR. We had lunch on the boardwalk then took our time wandering the little town, walking along the coast, and shopping in the cute little stores. Before we left we toured the city's whaling museum and spotted whales spouting just off the coast. As we made our way home we stopped at Heceta Beach snuggled between two large cliffs that block the constant breeze of the coast. Mason was able to wiggle his toes in the sand for the first time! Our evening was spent at RL and Joanne's place watching U of O trounce Washington. I could not have wished for a more perfect day!

Lunch at the Chowder Bowl, mmmm!


Mic loves the ocean, if he can help it we will probably always live close to the water!

There was a really strong breeze in Depoe Bay, it kept the tempature perfect!

He didn't grunt or cry so we are thinking he liked the beach

Mason's little friend Maeli (RL and Joanne's lil girl) she is exactly 3 weeks younger than Mason, how cute are these two.

Welcome Lil Benjamin!!!

Yeah I have been wanting to post about my new nephew for 3 weeks, but I wanted to have pictures to add to the post so I have been patiently nagging everyone in my family!! Little Ephraim is a BIG brother, and from what Cami says he is loving having a baby in the house!

Look at that cute cheeser, he is one proud brother!

You can tell they are going to be great buddies!
I talked to lil Ephraim today and he told me my sister hasn't been going to church, because she has to say home with the baby. So I told him to call her a Sinner... you would think I taught that little boy a bad word!!! He said it over and over and over, and it wasn't quite sinner it was more like son-her! Next time I will try a bad word and see how that goes! (Sorry mom its just too funny!!!)

He's got wheels and he is going places!

Bubble beards!!! Those are the best!

To binky or not to binky...

Its been another week of sameness... and I have to be grateful for normalcy! Mason and I are working on building a routine, and basically, he still rules the roost! I love the time we spend together and I am getting better at juggling this whole mom thing. I no longer feed him every hour just because he grunts, I don't change him just because he threw up on his outfit, and I allow strangers to hold him (within reason) when we are out.

Again here are some pictures of us and things we have done lately!

We started the binky this week. Can you see him holding it in?

My little bed hog, I need to hide the camera from Micah, I hate these early morning pictures



We decided to head to Cottage Grove and go to the a little country fair! It was very little and full of very unique individuals who probably smoke a lot of pot and make a conscious choice to not bath. Micah thought it was ridiculous and I of course loved it! I really wanted to do the pony ride for me not Mase! I had to settle for pictures instead. Next year Mason and I are all over it!

This was the game area, there really wasn't much.

I love this little train, they have one in Star Valley for the 24th, this one looks a little more safe! (probably because its top speed was 5 mph, in the valley its the faster the better)

I love this pic (I had to take it all stealth like) this poor kid was the only kid on the train and he looked tortured as his mom took pictures of him. Poor kid: overbearing mother, chubby, curly red hair... I bet he has a great personality!

Grin and bare it... Grin and bare it!

Poor Mason, now that he smiles we are constantly in his face with the camera. We wonder if he constantly is thinking that we are the biggest Dorks he knows! We have been going to the movies alot lately 2-3 a week... Mason does so good and its a great way to really get out of the heat. Here is our life this past week in a few photos!

This chair has saved my life. Mason loves the vibrations, and I take him with me all over the house as I go through my day.

Mason goes through these stages as he wakes up, its too funny! If you look closely you can see he is still asleep.

He starts to stretch and yawn...

And then he starts grunting; this is Mason mid grunt

Micah holding Mason at the end of a movie

Micah made me promise to post this... every morning this is what he wakes up to! He is such a lucky man!

Mason is 6 weeks old!!!!

We made it 6 weeks and Mason is still growing and healthy!!! We aren't bad parents! I was sure we needed to adopt pets, before we had children to make sure we could care for another living thing, but Mason decided to grace us with his presence before we got around to the pet thing! I can't tell you how relieved I am that things have gone smooth so far, translation: I haven't called my mother crying, yet!

Our weeks are blending together, and we are amazed to see our son, (can I just tell you that is the weirdest thing to say), grow and change right before our eyes. Seriously, he is like a weed on miracle grow!

I finally got him smiling, not his best, but hey its on film!

He and Mic have a special relationship (it's called pick on Momma)

I think it's neat to measure his growth by a basketball

He looks so annoyed

We have almost matching robes, poor kid matching with his Mama

A little grin up close and personal.

Bath time and Nap time

Bath time is Mason's favorite time it just took us a while to learn how exactly he likes his bathes. They have to be more than just warm and I have to fill the tub all the way to the top. If his little legs can float, his hands can splash and the water goes over his belly he is happy. We are having so much fun just figuring out what Mason likes and what really pisses him off. He still doesn't cry (Micah is worried that something is wrong with him, some one tell my husband how lucky we are) the last time he did was when they snipped his tongue! At night our little guy is so funny, he is the loudest sleeper! He grunts, sighs, and farts all night long! Micah hasn't had a good night sleep yet.


Mason used daddy's bath water first

Can you see how content he is

He can't sleep unless he has his arms out from his body

Swaddling does not work it just really pisses him off

Sorry its taken me so long to update our blog... we have been just watching our little guy grow and forgetting to take the pictures to prove it! Mason is doing so good he sleeps 5-6 hrs at night, he only cries when he is really pissed and will stop the second he gets picked up (honestly, I think he has only cried 7-8 times since he was born), and he is gaining weight and getting more and more alert. WE LOVE BEING PARENTS!!!

Drive to the Coast and other adventures...

Well, we have had an eventful last couple of days... on Thursday poor Mason was circumcised, had his tongue snipped, and had his foot bled. Poor little man was not the happiest camper... although he didn't cry once during the circumcision. I was so proud! Micah and I decided to both go in with him. I think Micah was really curious as to what his parents had put him through(he claims he was there for comfort) I thought the sooner I could nurse him the better he would be; plus, the faster we could leave. My precious son also decided to pee all over me when they weighed him (his aim is so good he made it mostly down the front of my shirt)... there is a reason why the nurses have the parents participate, it's to use us as human shields!

On a much funner note we decided to take a drive to the coast on Saturday and it was wonderful. Mason loves the car so much he only woke once in 5 hours to eat! In all the pics he was even sound asleep. We love the Oregon coast. It was so beautiful, and I can't wait till next summer when we can explore with little man!

Before the doctors appointment (it looks like he knows whats coming)

Our visitors...

We were so lucky to have my parents and little sister come to visit and also Micah's brother Charles and his wife Kellie and their little boys. It was so nice to just enjoy family and rest. I haven't seen my family in almost a year and mics family we just saw for the first time in April. Family can be a such a blessing and I think it took us being with out our familys to realize it. I took tons of pics but of course I totally spaced taking pics of Kellie and Charles with Mason and Kellie's battery died. We are just going to have to visit them soon!

My Boys...

My Son is just like his daddy, he is already trying to emulate everything daddy does...ok so anybody can eat, sleep ,and poop! Our baby is growing and changing so much and so quickly. I have to laugh because when we go out I always hear comment about how little he is and I think "no he is not he is growing"!


I love the sass in his little face!


Daddy and Mason taking a nap together

Alone at last...

We brought Mason home on Monday afternoon, it was so scary to be alone with him... Micah and I came up with so many what "if scenerios" the nurses had to make us leave. Ok I was so ready to get home I hadn't been able to sleep (and the Nurses doing their hourly checks sure didn't help to sooth)! I was so excited to get home until I got wheeled to the doors and dropped off at he car, it hit me its just us... we are responsible for this little boys future, its up to us to help him become a good person, and alot of what he will make of this life will be directly connected to the examples we set for him. No wonder I cried the whole way home!

So far it hasn't been so hard, I just don't get alot of sleep. He is a good baby he isn't real spitty or whinny as long as he his fed, changed and warm he is good. Motherhood agrees with me and so much of what I never understood about moms I am finally getting.

This is Nurse Rhonda she was the best and took such good care of our little family!

Micah and Mason... daddy doesn't look exhausted does he?

Mason is happiest sleeping skin to skin with either of, sorry I refused to be photographed for obvious reasons.

Our handsome little man!!