What is my deal!

People I need some ideas of other ways you cheer yourself up instead of ice cream and chocolate! My sister and her family are leaving for 3 weeks to go on a fun road trip and I am stuck all alone in Texas for those long 3 weeks with no chance of a vacation or break for us. See we are saving up for a big Lamoreaux family to-do next year, where ever that may be, and we are also trying to save for a new car SO that leaves no funds for anything exciting like a vacation! (sorry to all those English whizzes that are cringing at my use of the comma.... I hope you can forgive me!)

I suppose I should look on the bright side. I can go to the lake and go sailing with my Father in law, who has a super nice sail boat. That means we can swim in the lake and other fun things. Although I am a huge wimp about lakes and my baby and it super stresses me out. So maybe we will just go to their pool:D I can borrow Amy's van and go to the zoo, just me and Leland, that means if we over heat we can head out and not have too many people disappointed in the short trip. I think I will also have Brian take a few days off for while Amy is gone so we can do some fun things as a family. Maybe take in some kid movies and other fun things.

But I have been in this funk for so long its hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel. Guess I just need to keep pluggin along. As for my son he is a natural born sailor. These last pictures are from our 4th that we spent out on the lake. Mimi is so good to take him to the front of the boat where he kept her busy by pointing to all the doggies that were on the other boats.

The above picture is the epic battle of all three of us trying to get his shirt off to keep him cooler because he has to wear a life jacket and those suckers are hot! As you can see below we only succeeded in getting his shorts off... That shirt was NOT coming off.

I super love this picture!

Remember that nest? and other randomness...

It held 3 babies! They were so cute and fluffy! All of them grew up and flew away with in a matter of weeks I think it was 3 or 4 weeks (I imagine its because they no longer fit in the tiny nest their parents built:D)

Leland has acquired a pair of real boots thanks to a family friend who is so kind to us to share their hand me downs! :D

Our fun back yard complete with my wonderful swing. Its nice if the evening cools off enough or there is a storm rolling in. Its a good place to meditate... and of course when Leland is splashing its a good way to stay cool.

I bought this cheap sprinkler head at wal-mart for like 2 dollars and Leland loves it. I have to admit that I am just confused as to why he doesn't like being out in the rain if he can handle a sprinkler. The other day we were leaving him with Amy and he was standing out by our car and her van waiting to get in and it started raining Leland promptly shoved Amy out of the way and climbed into the car. We all had a good laugh... well except for Leland.

I bought it to put under the trampoline... I know all you other moms out there are gasping right now. How could she do that its going to make jumping so much more dangerous yadda yadda yadda... Truth be told its safer than him getting heat stroke... But guess what he doesn't like being on the trampoline when its wet so we just run in the sprinkler. I am sure you are all jealous of me weed boarder its pretty awesome if I do say so myself. And its the reason that Brian got a weed eater for fathers day!

I LOVE TEXAS STORMS.... but I HATE THE TEXAS HEAT....

I guess I will just have to deal if I want the storms though huh?

This is my friends kiddo... We swap babysitting because Q is only 3 months younger than Leland and we are both poor so it helps to have someone willing to do it for free:D He never takes a pacifier but Leland had one so he helped himself and I thought it was darling. He is also wearing my glasses again too cute! Q is super petite so Leland scares the pie out of him, so when I watch him it mostly consists of Q following me around... I have the cutest shadow ever!

We Love the Zoo

I love this kids smile... its infectious and he really does look awesome! I am so glad that Z loves me. I love him! He told me on Sunday as he cuddled in and asked me to scratch his hair (rub his head) that he was sure I was his aunt because he loved me so much. He can always make me smile.

These two girlies had a good time together....

Which forced poor E to hang with Leland... Someday they will be best of friends and Amy and I will be in trouble!

We have funky bugs in Texas

I can never get these to upload right but the above picture happened after Amy realized I was letting him cry it out on the ground that could be dirty:D

Leland often has little melt downs when he is tired and or too hot... I believe we could file this one away under both of those titles:D Amy had to get him out of it as I was too frustrated to even deal. Its a good thing I live so close to my sweet sister who Leland lovingly refers to as Mom most of the time. She swears its because he hears all his cousins calling her mom and I swear its cause he loves her more:D

Z needed to cool off... this seemed like a good way!

Yes I rode a Camel. They are not comfortable. I would much rather ride a horse and I am scared of horses... they are beautiful and lovely from a distance but up close they make me nervous... I suppose I am not so much afraid of them since I have ridden them but I have a healthy respect for them!

I asked the guy if it would hold me... he looked nervous... hey I mean I wanted to not give the poor camel back issues forever. He assured me it would be fine.

This is a hit... too bad it costs $5 dollars a pop. Too much to do every time but cheap enough to do once:D

They moved the Elephants inside to their new exhibit...

We really like the Elephants... we just wish the exhibit was already open!

We sure have some darling children!

Poster Child

For Mt. Dew... admit it, its cute... No I don't let him drink it. but he loves my hat:D

So Behind

Do you ever feel like blogging has become a chore? Yeah I am there I am so behind that its right up there with cleaning out the garage and guest room, hanging curtains and decluttering:D! So much has happened these last few months most of them not super important but I will take what I have pictures of and blog about it some day. We went sailing for the 4th of July, Leland mind you had a 102.9 fever (yeah I win the good mom award) he loved every minute of being on that boat even though it lasted till 10:45p.m. and he didn't nap at all that day. Turns out he could have fifths disease. YAY but its common and should go quickly we are on day 3 of the rash and it usually hangs around for 5 or 6 days so hopefully his cute little face will be looking beautiful again soon. Brian had a birthday and in two months our littlest will have his birthday. He is going to be 3. I cannot believe it. The one thing I really want to remember is his love of his yegos (legos) catalog that he "reads" while he gets his diaper changed or is just laying on the floor. I will try to get a picture of this as it is darling. I think for him it is as good as owning all those things in there because when he sees it he says My Yegos! and runs over to it. I will get to posting today. Our summer is getting hotter so I will have more time indoors to post. Mainly and sadly because lil Leland got his mama's genes and he over heats at the drop of a hat.... and since the last two summers I have nearly given my baby full blown heat stroke I think this summer we will take it easy.... and figure out fun indoor activities... any mom's have any advice?

Just for you Dinks

That way you don't have to scroll down:D

My baby officially is fabulous! I love him more than anything!

Curiouser and Curiouser (TMI possibility)

SO my body has decided it really is broken and to show me that it decided to start shedding the lining a week after it had already shed the lining. I went in for a sonogram and discovered (thankfully) that my lining is super thin and there is no good reason for it to be shedding again this early. I say thankfully because there was concern that it could be the start of something nastier like a miscarriage. So yes I can handle a little emotional stress whereas that would have been a HUGE emotional stress. SO in order to stop the bleeding I go on birth control... and given the number of women I know who in the past year have used it and gotten pregnant I won't say its impossible for me in the near future to bring #2 kiddo into the world I will just say it will at least be a month before I have to worry. I suppose this was good for me. I learned a few things this week. The first is when you think you could be starting into a miscarriage but don't actually know the stress of it will cause you to have really freaky dreams... and second I learned that Brian really think we should be back on hormones (once of course we get this figured out) so I guess we have some praying to do as a couple to see what way we want to proceed. It is a really hard thing and those who have taken clomid totally get that. Its hard on you and your body, and your marriage and you child, so it should not be taken lightly. Anywho if I have been a tad bit testy lately I apologize its been a stressful week of waiting and not knowing whats going on. Since people always ask how long we have been trying I thought I would just jot it down. I figured out that we felt like we were ready to have another kiddo around Leland's first birthday and have been trying ever since. So come September it will be 2 years. Not as long as some people but long enough for me.:D

On that super happy note... I leave you with this.... Hope it made you smile... it makes me smile:D