Monday, September 22, 2008

Vacation Day 2

Matt and I had a one bedroom cabin that can sleep four. A couch/bed and a bedroom. Chloe slept in a pack'n'play in the bedroom. Matt and I had the luxurious couch that turned into a hospital bed. Did I say hospital bed? A hospital bed is more comfortable than what we slept on. Anyways, Cooper was in another pack'n'play in the living area with us. He usually wakes up and poops around 7:00am. I could hear him grunting, squirming and kicking so I opted to get up. I changed him, grabbed my camera and headed out the door and around the park.

That is the lake in the middle of the trees. It was covered in fog, but just about everything was. It was really pretty.
The big yellow dot on the left is the sun. I was trying to play with it, but it sure does rise fast when you want it to go slow.
More fog.
This is my nephew, Nathan. He and the other kids, brought their bikes with them. I think they rode those bikes every minute of the day. This picture of him was taken at 7:55am. He was hiding.
Matt's sister and the brother just under him went for a run. I really wanted to go, but I'm still working on normalcy in the middle/upper region of my body.

This is Tiffany, she is the second oldest grandchild and the oldest niece in the family. I watched Chloe interact with her and Chloe loves her to death. I could tell Tiff loved her too. It was cute.

So the kids are up, most by 6:00am and the gopher thought he'd get a little house work done. I have never seen a live gopher before!! Growing up, they were all dead, killed by the trap my dad would set. This one here had no fear. Have you ever seen a live gopher?

This is Micah, Nathan's little brother. He's just a few weeks younger than Chloe. He loves dirt, especially the mounds created by our little gopher friends.
Here's five of the nine grandkids. This is all of the boys minus Coop. The tallest boy is Tyler. He's Tiffany's brother and the oldest of the grandchildren. All of the boys look up to him, literally and metaphorically.


No one worry, Mama has arrived. She gave all the boys a little magnifying thingy. She comes prepared when there are going to be kids; she's a Grandma.

This is Tim, Matt's youngest brother. He's the father of Nathan and Micah.

This is my babies daddy.



This is our baby, one of them. The lighting on these two pictures is bad. I'm still learning about sun location. Anyways, Coop's bald head was getting some sun, so we grabbed the nearest hat which just happened to be Tiff's princess hat. Wouldn't he make a beautiful girl? HAH, I just realized I have one of those already, but Coop would make a cute girl, pink would be his color.

Where's Chloe? She got up a little after 8:00am and at 9:00am she asked Matt if she could go "nigh, nigh." She slept for 3.5 hours and then wanted to go to bed that night around 8:00pm. She had been napless for almost 3 days and was exhausted. She slept so well, I was a proud momma.

That pretty much sums up the morning. After all the adults had their morning coffee everyone was ready to go. It's basically zone defense all weekend, but each parent is in man on man mode unless you have three children then it's back to zone D.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

We're BAAACK!

What a great weekend I had with the family. Last year wasn't that great for me. I was pregnant with Cooper and things were still uncertain. He also caused me to have morning, afternoon and night sickness. So this year, I was looking forward to walking, playing and taking pictures with my new lens.

We arrived at Keystone State Park on Thursday afternoon.



We rent out two one bedroom cabins and a three bedroom. It's perfect. If the family continues to grow we are going to have to expand our rentals.

Papa was able to get lots of Cooper lovin'. Cooper was able to share his cuddly, smiley and sleep on anyone side with whom ever held him.
This is Matt's mom, otherwise known to Chloe as Mama. The first thing Chloe would say in the morning, "Mama, Papa arrrre you? Arrrrre you Mama, Papa?" She wouldn't eat or drink anything until we left our cabin to find them.
Once everyone has arrived, we take family pictures.

Matt's brother is in the far background and his youngest brother and sister are holding the cameras.


They are attempting to get a picture of all the grandkids with Mama and Papa. This is usually the breaking point for the kids. It was for Chloe. She refused to let go of her silky. But in her defense she was napless and had just hit her head on the concrete.
After the pictures were taken and every child was good and angry, we started dinner. The kids played and the adults maintained their safety.
The first morning is next.... stay tuned.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Vacation

We are off to the lake for a little R&R.

It's the Knox Family Reunion, so I will be out of the 'loop' for a few days. I'm really looking forward to spending some time with the whole family and with Matt.

On our way out to the lake, I will be picking up a new lens for my camera!! WAhoo!! I think I'm almost more excited about that than I am about anything else. ;)

Last year, I was pregnant with Cooper and wasn't feeling very well, so this year will be much better. I only have to deal with abnormally large rock hard boobs. It's better than nausea I guess.

This is what Chloe looked like this time last year.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Our New 'Lifestyle'

When you accept Jesus to come into your life and be the leader, it's a life changing moment; hopefully. You go from living one life to living another, in a sense. You walk differently, talk differently and act differently. People will wonder, "What is different about him/her?"
I accepted Christ in high school at FCA camp, so since I have tried to live a Christ-centered life the best I can.

It's a whole new life.

The day was Saturday, September 13, 2008 at approximately 5:00pm cst....

She came into our lives and changed it forever. Yes folks, we are mini-van owners. (dramatic drumming, gasping, passing out, weeping, gnashing of teeth)

I'm not going to excuse our decision, I'm not going to explain in detail as to why we chose this vehicle over others that have crossed our path and purred at us.

I am only going to say, "I love my mini. You don't have to pray for me. I promise I still have Jesus in my heart."

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Chloe as a Tiger/ Cat

Chloe was watching "Reading Rainbow" and they were showing tigers playing with their trainers. At one point, the tigers began licking their paws. I look over at Chloe and I see her licking her 'paw.' I said, "Are you licking your paw like the tiger?"

"YAHHH!" She says all fired up.

So I had her re-enact what tigers say and how they lick their paws.





She's all over the place b/c she wants to see herself in the screen.

Monday, September 15, 2008

SNL

I didn't watch SNL, but saw part of this clip. It's kind of scary how good Tina Fey is at being Palin!! She even has the northern accent!! Too funny, the two of them.


Saturday, September 13, 2008

A Journal Entry...

A year ago today this is what I wrote in my journal that I keep for Matt...

9-13-07 Thurs. 11:30pm

Well, tonight has been an emotional night. We had to run to the ER b/c I was bleeding. We were told everything looks fine as of now, but that it can change. They did an U/S and we could see the baby and it had a heartbeat, bu they said to not get our hopes up. I'm scared b/c if I lose it they have to do a terrible procedure and I'm sad b/c we saw it and it just got more real. Before the U/S it was sad, but now if something goes wrong it'll hurt more. Now we wait and pray.
What more can we do? Sad thing... Nothing.
But I love you so much Matt.
Megan

Weird how looking back I can see and still feel what I felt a year ago. I look behind me and I see the little body that I thought I would never meet, lying in bed, sucking his thumb, not knowing the wiser.

I don't mean to stir emotions in people, sorry if I did. I love you all. And I love you my Cooper Bug.