Catching up... EASTER

Well my sweet goal of blogging regularly was a little harder than I thought.. lol.. I am trying I really am!!! haha... well We are finally in our new place here and Love it. It was a little adjustment this week going from a 4 level split to a one level place where there is no dishwasher but we are honestly really starting to fall in love already which is great! We had a lot of good times and a lot of stressful times this week but to always get us through it is our sweet baby boy! One day I really should stop calling him my baby.. LOL... anyways here are a few things that kept us entertained while having the stress of moving...

Zack loved to help pack, and label EVERYTHING! He was great at putting things in boxes and taking them out! It was super fun...lol... he Loves his new COWBOY BOOTS and is still in love with shoes lately though its been daddy's workboots? What a knucklehead!!!
So while being out here in M Town, we have grown to really like it. There is a slower pace feeling of being out here and it has been really nice.... a few things we've been up to have been very camera worthy.... (this is what I came home to the other day...LOL)


YOU CAN NEVER BE TO SAFE IN THOSE JUMPEROOS

we also have learned to remove clothing, all parts including a diaper...

reading on our own....

and the sweet songs of Zack's ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM 100000 times a day just will never get old around here!!!!

So this is what our sweet family has been up to lately... Now yesterday was a really fun day... being Easter and all.... The men went to Priesthood and so Grandma had a whole afternoons worth of fun for the grandkids....
When we first got out to the farm Gramma Cynth had already made some WICKED batter for cupcakes that as the kids got to layer them they were the coolest looking cupcakes EVER and SUPER BRIGHT!

Next was off to the basement to have an EASTER LESSON from Grandma Harris. She is always so fun to be around but we are always constantly learning too... I said to my sister I think I am learning more about Christ then the kids are... haha..
Then off to upstairs to go on an egg hunt. In the eggs were money and for the end prize we all got to go up town to the BLUE GOOSE
for some delicious ICE CREAM...

Zack loves ice cream with grandma!!!
What a fun time we had out there thank you so much to Grandma...
Happy EASTER everyone!!! Will be posting really soon! I have a really EXCITING shoot to post here soon can't wait to SHARE!!!!
oh right and here is my new photography buddy.... super excited!

Well we MADE it!

We are finally in! We have made the move the old house is cleaned (thanks to my sweet mother in law) and the new house all ready to rock (thanks to my mother). I just can't express how much I love family. They are always there to help they are always there to lend a helping hand and to get your through anything! Aren't they fabulous!
Anyways well we are here, we are here in good ol Magrath! We certainly don't feel like HOME quite yet but we are getting there... Yesterday we went and got a few groceries because we have been living on fast food and hot dogs for the last 2 weeks so we thought we probably should have a real piece of fruit in this house somewhere...lol...
I will post some pics of the new place soon. I really use the word "new" lightly.. haha... it will be an awesome little place to live! Zack is adjusting... gets a little emotional at times just not knowing what the heck is going on or why we are here but he loves the fact that he gets to see his grandma and his cousins like everyday... That is a sweet memory for him I am excited to have! Well I just wanted to post and say we are in, we did it, we survived the move... we didn't even think about divorce... haha.. we had a few stressful days and I said to Ken, "are we gonna make it through this move or what?" haha we just had to sit there and laugh... It all went good and we are getting all settled in! Pictures to come of the new place... we just need to get a few pics on the wall! LOL!
M

4 Fun Fabulous DAYS..

Well wow... what a crazy weekend and start of week. We are in the fun process of moving and boy its been a BLAST...lol NOT... I am not a huge fan of moving now... haha, I was the one who told Ken, I'll do it, it will be fine.. Well plans are changing around like crazy but I'm sure its all for the good!
Well here is our life in a nutshell... first we will start with why we are all moving away from our wonderful little abode here in Lethy!!! Ken graduated this year and got hired on with Sunlife and we were offered a fabulous position which will require us to move sooner or later. Its a 3 year training program, our first year we found out is here in Lethbridge and then our other years could possibly be Boston or Ireland! It will be a super fun adventure but have required us to be grown ups and make a few decisions. So we decided to put our house on the market like April mayish and see what happens... well we had a realtor come look at it and see what we could get and in a matter of one week we were signing papers and just like that our sweet little home was SOLD. We definitely got what we wanted for $$$ but its still hard to leave this fabulous home, and friends and family we have made here in Lethbridge.
Well we decided that if our second year was in Boston we would rent in Magrath until we go just to help save up some money as Boston is the 2ND most expensive place to live in the USA right now.
So anyways... low and behold look what we are doing all in one month.... moving back to my hometown, MAGRATH. Something I never thought we'd EVER be doing. LOL... I love my little Magrath dont get me wrong... I just never thought we as a family would be moving back there. We have so many emotions, nervous, excited, worried, happy, sad to be leaving here too... So anyways we are in the process of moving as we have to be out on April 1st.
As we were looking for somewhere to just rent out in Magrath we found a few opportunities ( one possiblity was shackin up with the parents haha... ) but then another opportunity just presented itself and we couldn't be more thrilled....
A house of our own again... lol it may be old and it may not be built my trusty husband and father but I will live there! lol.. its actually really cute. I can see the potential. It definately needs a little TLC but I can't wait to make it our home! (It's just temporary I have to keep telling myself.)
Anyways... so for that long story wow sorry everyone if you don't like to read blogs you just basically read our life just to tell about this little story....
So among all this packing and moving and having such a big helper (he really is, he loves to help put things in boxes although he also loves to take them out. But he does love to help!LOL, being 7 months preggers and still trying to be a mom and wife... ( I may be slipping in those areas at this time) we have been getting a little sick, me in particular.
So Saturday day Ken said to me Mandy I am taking Zack to Magrath to do some stuff when I get back I want you to have seen a doctor and have a solution to this cold that you can not even breathe.... So off to a walk in I went.. they did absolutely nothing for me so they told me to go to EMERG... EMERG??? what the heck I hate the hospital but I knew Ken would give me that guilty feeling if I came home without seeing a doctor so there I sat in Emerg for 2 whole long hours without my baby to keep me entertained. Finally when I got in she listened and was about to do an x-ray when I asked if I could skip the x-ray. She then said we should put me on a ventilator and see if that helps... OH MY GOSH... i am so glad I went down there I actually took one good breath in and it felt SOOO GOOD to breathe!!! loL! so home I went with a ventilator and it has sure made life a little easier for me (what a poor sap I am... LOL)
Anyways, then last night we had another trip to the hospital... haha... Zack was up all night coughing and hacking and gagging and I thought what if he has the same as me? So down we went again at 12 am. Poor little Gaffer... We then had to get the poor little guy and xray and wait FOREVER it seemed. I was so relieved to hear he didn't have the pneumonia too but that he just has A LOT of gunk in his poor chest. I hate sickness I hate being sick and more than that I hate the HOSPITAL.. lol.. they are great people but I would rather be in my comfy bed sleeping my heart away... I hope we all feel better as this move is just this Friday and Saturday... so fun! Although I think I have everything ready to go I am going to be SOOO EXCITED to just get out there and start our life in our sweet new home! Please come visit if you can and we'll show you the SIGHTS of good ol MAGRATH!
M

another attempt...

Ok here is yet another attempt to be a blogging mom... haha. I am inspired by my sweet sister in law to do this.. I read hers everyday and think gosh I wish I could do that... well here we go AGAIN... haha. I promise I will try this time. I would like to do be able to have some kind of remembrance of our family... haha... Zack is growing so fast and doing so many fun things that I need to be better at writing them down. So like I said this is my attempt to do better... a pledge... here we go again..

WOW.....

Ok I really stink at this blog... I am so busy trying to keep Zack going, working, and doing photos and then keeping up the otherblog... gosh... anyways I will really try and be better at posting to this blog too! I am working on a bunch of photos of our family every month I will touch up about 30 photos that I love and then at the end of the year do a little slideshow... this is what i did this year for our pictures and LOVE it! Sooo.. this is my new goal for this year! SO EXCITED! Anyways I will be posting pictures very soon as is looks like January is coming to an end... crazy!!!

New GOAL

Okay so I have a little goal I am going to get out there so I can either have someone do it with me haha or just at least bug me to do it... anyways... Ken and I went to edmonton this last weekend for a little family getaway... while we were driving I kept saying ken, I know i've forgotten something... he's like well what? kept going on and on and on like that I know I forgot something... so we get to Calgary and I was like AAAHHH I FORGOT MY CAMERA..... balls i was so mad.. anyways kenny was like this is good... you can just relax and enjoy our lil family... and you know what it was super fun... but I felt like something was missing... so.. my new birthday wish is to get a new little olympus( i know, I'm normally a canon girl....) but.... olympus stylus 6000 its waterproof point and click and its adorable and takes great little pictures for the oops I forgot my camera moments... and it goes underwater, and in extremely cold temperatures as well! anyways... so I want that for my birthday because I want to start the 365 day project. Basically what you do is take a picture everyday of something you did or what happened that day ( i believe anyways?) I'm kinda making it up because I have heard about it but I think I'll just kind do my own twist! LOL! anyways... I am going to do that and this is what this blog will be about the everyday picture! Then at the end of they year I will have a sweet little scrapbook of our baby boy and our family! Anyways if anyone wants to join me we could push each other along and remind all of us to do it? Its a great way to capture those moments we may otherwise forget! anyways.... let me know I'm super PUMPED!
M

Slacker...

Wow what a horrible blogger I've been.... so silly... but life really does get away on you sometimes... Zack is almost walking and he is crazy as ever so keeping up to him all day is a chore in itself! Anyways not alot happening here in our small corner of the world. Kenny and I are really enjoying the break from school! Kenny is working full time with Jenex and really enjoying that! I am still doing pictures.... its so silly but I am really really falling in love with what I do! Its a hard choice for me whether to go  back to work in the fall or not... I could do this everyday all day I think! I LOVE IT! so thats what I have been up to.. and Zack attack... well he is a crawling machiene.. he is turning into such a stink... but in a good way.. he makes me laugh probably once every 10 min.. haha today..for example he was nursing and he bit me... yeah he bit me... I never thought the day would come but it did and so I've heard other mums say when they bite to push him into you.... so he can't breath.... so he bit and the first time I just pulled him off in shock of what he just did to me, but then the next time he bit I pushed him in, I held him there for a bit I thought not to long but for a while.... and when he came off from flailing his arms around he just looked up at me and laughed and laughed and giggled and how do you not laugh at that... its not funny by the way but it was soo cute at the same time... there was nothing more than to laugh... anyways.. he  is the light of my life... he is so fun and funny... and such a little joy to have around.. He is trying to master this walking business... he's been taking steps lately... 9 months, gulp im going to have my hands full! but anyways we are doing great just letting you know i haven't fallen off the face of the earth.... ive been busy on my other blog check er out http://kmbakerphotography10.blogspot.com

Till next time...

Mands