I Heart Christmas Cards.....

 I honestly get so excited when I start to see them arrive!   I feel like it is an opportunity to reconnect with all my friends and I love pictures. My favorite ones are the photo cards and Shutterfly has the best!

I love Shutterfly and have been nothing but pleased with their product.  I am not a scrapbooker and have order lots of their photobooks that are super easy to make.  Sara and I also make calendars for the grandparents every year and have order a few other need photo projects from them too.

I am thrilled to order my holiday cards from them this year because they have an even bigger selection, I haven't decided which one since there are so many to choose from!

They have actual Christmas cards that are folded and open with a photo on the front!   

  

 Or they have the traditional...and my all time favorite original photo card that is flat :)

Check it out, I can't wait to see yours!!  

·         Christmas cards to http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-cards

·         holiday cards to http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/holiday-cards

·         Christmas photo cards to http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-photo-cards

You wanna know the best part of Shutterfly and their amazing Holiday cards???? If you blog about them you can receive 50 free cards from Shutterfly!!! Go here for details! I do really love my shutterfly stuff and I have bought but I like it even better when I can get it for free!

Happy Shopping!

Pictures, Pictures, Pictures

It has been a busy few month. We have spent a lot of time trying to enjoy the fall and get outside. Brayden is growing so much and learning so quickly. In the past month Brayden has learned to crawl, pull himself up, and walk along the furniture. It is never a dull moment around here. Brayden has also started sleeping through the night, (YEA!) and I feel like a new person. We are having so much fun and everyday are more and more thankful for our amazing little man!!

Remedy for a bad day!

Far too long and lots of first

Clearly I am proving that I am not a good blogger. I really want to be, but I am just not good at this. Anyway there is so much to catch up on.

I went back to work and Brayden had a hard time adjusting. He decided to no longer take a bottle and would not eat and cry for Sara everyday. After a couple of weeks and lots of different bottles he decided it was ok, and he started taking a bottle from Sara. YEA! It has been so great having Sara watch him, it makes going back to work part time easier.

Brayden continues to grow and learn so fast. He is an amazing boy and I feel so blessed he is ours. In the last 7 weeks since I have last blogged Brayden tried rice cereal. But it gave him a tummy aches so we are going to try again at six months. For now we still get up every 3-4 hours. A week after he was 4 months he got 2 teeth in 18 hours, a few days later he found he can sit up by himself, he then learned he can roll over both ways and he "found his feet", he went on his first family vacation, and I believe he is going to be crawling in the next few weeks. He can get up on his knees and hands and rock. He also can scoot across the room. He is awesome and I am blown away by how amazing he is and how much a can love him. Here are some photos of the last few weeks. Enjoy!!!!

He's getting so big!

Brayden is now 3 months old and I can't believe how much he changes every week.  He is so much fun and that big smile he gives me every morning could melt hearts.  It has been a big month for us.  We have moved into our new home that we love and finally have room to spread out in, Brayden has started sleeping in his big boy bed, and I go back to work tomorrow. UGH!  I love teaching and I am excited, but I want to take Brayden along with me.  The good news is that I only work from 8-12 and family will be watching him every day, and for that I am so blessed and thankful.

Yes, you can have a pony!!  This face has me wrapped around his finger

Tummy time makes me so tired ( This is how I found him during tummy time)

Happy Boy

So Strong

3 months

Here's to you Beth and everyone else!

It has been more than 4 weeks since my last post, and I am sorry.  This blog thing really isn't for me.  I want to keep up and entertain everyone and share my little man, but I just don't love doing it.  I love to look at everyone else's blogs and  am annoyed when they don't update more frequently, but I don't return the favor.  I feel guilt everyday that I don't do it, but not enough to just do it! :-)  Well, by personal request I was asked to update the blog and that is what has gotten me into high gear.  

Brayden changes so much everyday and I feel so blessed that I have been able to stay home with him over the last 9 weeks and I still have 6 more before I go back to work part time.  It has been a huge blessing to be able to make the transition and I am excited to still be teaching 6th grade, but now at a Christian School. WOOHOO!!  I will miss Quartz Hill and the amazing staff and principal, but being home with Brayden is soooo much better!!!

We went in for his two month check up yesterday and got his vaccinations.  I think it is harder on me then him.  He did well and was a little fussy yesterday, but that just meant I got to cuddle him even more and give him lots of kisses.  I love it.  He weighed 14lb 4oz (94 percentile) and was 25 in long(98 percentile). Such a big boy!!  

I know pictures are so much better than my jabbering, so here you go........ (sorry they are in order newest to oldest_

2 months old 14lb 4 oz

Baptism 5/23

1 Month Old 12lb 4 oz

Mother's Day

Where has the time gone?

1 day old

1 week old

Beautiful Boy

First bath 

Nice and Clean

Our little man is 3 weeks old today.  I have no idea how he got so old so fast, it still feels like yesterday that I was pleading for him to come out.  Now we can't imagine life without him.  It has definitely been a busy few weeks.  We welcomed Brayden, started to get settled at home, had to move and now for the past week we hangout together eating, sleeping, pooping, and crying while we are living at my parents waiting to hear on a house we have put an offer in on.  

He is a great little man and is about the sweetest guy in the world, just like his daddy.  He is getting bigger and bigger every day.  Last Tuesday and the pediatrician he weighed 10 pounds 12 ounces.  I think I am giving him cream.  We also got to start giving him baths which we all enjoy.  Jason and I are having so much fun being parents and can't imagine life before him.  God truly has blesses us more than we ever could have imagined.  

He's Here!!

Jill and Jason are happily enjoying their first night with their son. So Jill asked me (her sister) to update the blog for everyone. So Auntie Sara is pleased to announce the birth of Brayden Scott Voss. He was born this afternoon at 4:16 and was 9 lbs. 9 oz. and 21.5 inches long.

Jill and Jason got a call from the hospital around 3:30 am telling them they finally had a room ready for them! They tried inducing her but things were not progressing too much. Then when they broke her water his heart rate dropped and they weren't too pleased with that and she was still only dialated to around 4 cm yet. So they decided to go ahead with a c-section. Turns out it was a good choice. Little Brayden was face up instead of face down and had the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck twice! Plus he was a pretty big boy, the doctor said a c-section was the best choice! Jill and Brayden are both doing well.

I'm sure Jill and Jason will have much more details and pictures once they are all back home and settled again, but here are a few pictures of their new little boy!