Owen is 1!

Owen turned 1 in October! it has taken me a while to post the pictures, sorry. i have been so busy. also it was not an easy birthday for me. i was sad because he was turning 1. his first year of life was difficult for me but i think i have worked through it and am now able to accept that is is healthy and normal. I had a very hard time believeing that he wa okay early on because when i was pregnant i was in a car accident and it caused me to have PTSD. i was so worried that the accident had caused some kind of major damage to him, and then i ended up having him a month early. I am happy to say it has been a 8 months since i had a panic attack, and i feel like i am happy again. I can enjoy owen and not worry about him so much. i cant begin to tell you haow good it is to play with your child and not worry if the way he moves his arm is normal, or the way he moves his head is normal, or was that sound he made normal and so on. i wanted him to have the most perfect birthday and i feel like HE had a great time. he got lots of presents, and he had his own cake which he destroyed! he had a great 1st birthday. i feel so blessed to have owen and i am so incredibly thankful that God protected him. He is the most amazing easy going baby. he is always happy and has the most insanly gorgeous eyes. we are so lucky to have him.

Flying J

My cousin Adam and his wife Trina and their new baby Cy were in town. we got to hang out quite a bit and it was so nice to see Cy for the first time. we love him so much! so the pictures of baby Cy are above and there is one picture of Owen and his first girlfriend ,Gracie, too. WE took the kids to the flying J. for those of you who dont know what that is, it is a western dinner show. My, sort of aunt and uncle, own it and perform in it. so that is why the babies have cowboy hats on too. so cute!

Fall in Ruidoso

Every year, in the fall, we take the kids up to the ski area and take pictures. We took some food up there and had a picnic. it was freezing but so much fun. the pictures of scarlett are some of my favorite ones. when we tell her to show us her mad face we get the look that you see in the pictutre above. and in the picture where she is standing a little strange, that is her posing, which she does for every picture now. i tell her to just stand still and smile but she does not have time to listen to that with all of her posing ideas running through her head. thus we have posing pictures constantly! i love her imagination and humor!

This is how we cling to our guns and religion!

My dad got scarlett a 22 for her birthday. it is pink. i am sure that some people will have a problem with this, but i dont care. i was raised around guns, i know gun safty, and i turned out just fine. my kids will be raised around guns and they will know gun safty, and they will be better for it. hunting is not a bad thing. if people did not hunt and eat meat, there would be no human race today. so thank God that people killed animals and ate them. if the new president of the united states wants to take them away, he is going to have a hard time taking them away. But good luck to him.

Tyrone, Dora and Diego

These are scarlett's pet turtles. we have to see them daily. they live at my mom's house because we have no place to put them. but now they are hibernating, and scarlett tells EVERYONE that they will be back in june. but for right now they have to sleep for a long time.