Miss Misplacement

In high school at the end of the year, my journalism teacher would hand out personal awards, reflecting a characteristic of you. Guess what I recieved, yup, Miss Misplacement. It was funny, but now I finally know how true it is.

Between juggling a 5 year old and a newborn and all the items required to fly said children to our home and back (and leaving one behind-sadness), I somehow misplaced my camera. Yes, my beautiful camera. That I have had less than 6 months. The one that Jesse let me have instead of treating himself to an XBOX360 (which was the same price). Sadness has come over our household. Christopher will make a cute face and I will reach for a camera that isn't there. moment of silence please............................

Seriously I am just sick over this. Of all the things out of the back pack I was carrying that I could've lost, why oh why did I have to lose this? I have one last phone number to call, to be put on a list next to my lost item, that they will probably never really check. I am just praying(and have been since I realized that it was missing) that whoever found it would have the conscience to take it to the lost and found. I really don't deserve (and we really can't afford) another camera if this doesn't turn up. But we have to document Colton and Christophers childhoods, so for me it is really unthinkable to go without a camera. I just feel incredibly guilty and just mad at myself over this.

Sorry it has been a couple weeks since I have blogged (my goal is to blog at a minimum once a week), it has just been hard since I have no new pictures to post and it reminds me of my camera stress! Ug.
Hope your weeks are going better!

Just more pics!

So I've had t re-learn how to do everything one-handed again, including typing, so forgive my errors! Not much happening this week except a little spring rain with puddles that Colton and I thought needed to be jumped in, giving Christopher a baby faux-hawk (cause with all that hair, why not!?), and Colton doing his impression of "the Thing". Sorry I don't have time to come up with a really clever blog. I'm getting ready (emotionally and physically) to take Colton to his dad's for the summer this weekend. Colton, Christopher and I are flying. We have a 2 1/2 hour lay-over in Salt Lake. um, please pray for sanity! Hope everyone is doing well. As always, there are more pictures of us if you click on 2007 on the left side!

Check ups and a booster

Yesterday Colton and Christopher had their checkups and I am proud to say that both of my children have been fed well and are growing at a positive rate according to the National Center for Health Statistics. But the big news of the day was Colton getting his kindergarten booster shots. He was really nervous and took it pretty well. I think it was harder for me to hold him down while having flashbacks of him and his first shots as an infant! After a few tears and big hug, he bucked up and happily munched on his gummies he chose from the Candy Masterpiece! And afterwards, he told just about every person we ran into about how he got "TWO IN EACH ARM" (said in a deep, menacing voice). He also said how the shots pumped up his muscles (hence the muscleman poses in the pictures below)! He's my brave boy and now he's allowed in the public school system!

Christopher's Stats:
Length- 21 1/2 inches (1/2 inch growth)
Weight- 8 lbs 6 oz (1 lb 2 oz gained)

Colton's Stats:
Height- 43.5 inches (56.61%)
Weight- 42 lbs (56.02%)

Christopher working on his neck muscles

More pictures posted

I don't have the time or mental capacity to blog anything clever these days, but I did add about 30 more pictures to our family website. Click on "2007" under "pictures of us" on the left to check them out. Here is a preview:

Great weather and Grandpa Doug

Christopher

Making smores in the backyardChristopher's DedicationBlue soap in, on, and all over the bathtub

Welcome Christopher James!

Welcome to the world Christopher James Atchley!

Born: April 22, 2007 10:37 am
Weight: 7 lbs 4 oz
Length: 21 inches

Proud Mama

Happy Birthday!

Christopher's Spa treatment

Proud Big Brother

For more pictures go to our Family Website or his first photo from the hospital.

Jackie and the Girls

So no baby yet. Grumble. If I don't go by Tuesday, my midwife is going to get things going for me. I like to say it is because we birth large babies in our family (which is true, 9 and 10 pounders), but it really comes down to my patience!

So on another note, I never posted anything about when Jackie and the girls came down for their Spring Break. It whirlwind of Big Sky Bagel, lounging in our pj's all day, giggling and the children's museum just before they zipped back home! It went way too fast (like it always does) and I pray this baby makes his debut soon so that it work for Jackie to visit me again! I am spoiled! It was too much fun! I didn't pick up the camera like I should have, so I only have pictures of the Children's Museum! Enjoy!

Our cheesy attempt at taking a picture of ourselves!

Ms. Banker ShelbyShae

Ahhhhhhh!Colton

37 weeks and a Big Brother

Here is a picture of me at 37 weeks. Ug. That's all I have to say!

Colton had his big brother class on Tuesday. It was pretty cute and he was excited. He says that he is ready for the baby to be here now.... hmmm, so am I!

Listening to a story about being a big brotherPutting a diaper on a baby. He says that he will change all the poopy diapers. Hmmm... we'll see!

Clean, warm baby
Showing him all of the buttons on the bed. Why do I feel that this was something they could've done without!

Graduation to big brotherhood. I think he's ready!

Don't blame me

I have spent at least an hour trying to get stupid pictures on this site and I am now giving up! I will try again tomorrow, unless I am in the hospital having a child (yeeeeee haaaaaaaw!) For some reason it just won't put the pictures up. I'll try making them smaller and post then. Good night!!!

Anticipation

So if you check back here and are wondering if we have welcomed our little guy yet, I'm sorry! I apologize for slacking for so long. We have been remodeling the basement (a never-ending project), Jackie and her girls visited us for their spring break, and just daily craziness has prevented me from keeping up with my blog! Last week I posed for some local artists to include Sharie Babb and jess Messer-King. It was a lot of fun and I got some great, artistic pictures of my pregnancy! Here are a few pictures from that.
Baby update: We went in at 1:30 a.m until 4:30 a.m. last thursday (thank you Rachel M. for watching Colton!) with contractions every 3-5 minutes! Unfortunately they weren't going anywhere and they sent us home dilated at only 1 cm. I am definitely ready for this baby to join us out here, but Jesse's family doesn't get here until Wednesday, so I guess we'll wait 'til then!

Happy Birthday Ash! (uh... two days late!)

Happy Birthday to my niece Ashlee Ranae, who on March 28th turned 13 years old!!! From a cutie to a beauty, she is fun, silly and just a blast to be around! It has been amazing to see her grow from a spunky little girl (nickname: Ashlee Bubbles) to a mature, loving (dare I say it) teenager!!! I love her so much and can't wait to see the wonderful things that God has in store for her! Happy Birthday Ashlee, I hope the best for you and I love you so much!

Colton's Perspective

Colton got a kid camera for his birthday, so I thought that I would share some of the pictures that he has taken. It is interesting some of the things that he takes!

Party, Party, Party!

Although Colton's birthday isn't until April 2, the Circus was in town and I had the great idea of Mcdonalds, then the Circus. Between getting to a packed McD's (thankfully a b-day party was just getting over), hard-as-a-rock frozen ice cream cake, and losing Colton after the Circus, we survived. (Colton was found on the platform getting set up for the elephant rides for the next show. I think he wanted to be first in line!) It was a long day, but turned out to be a lot of fun! Here are the highlights in photos:

Riding on the elephant
Can we say "Ex-awwwww-sted"?

SST: My first Steve Maddens

So they are basically jazzed up slippers, but they are velvety and sparkly, so they count as sassy shoes!!! It will take me a while to work up to Angela's 3 inch heel Steve Madden's, but I am glad that he creates a variety of styles! Oh, and did I mention... $5.99 at Ross's, oh yeah!!!

P.S. Please ignore the weird sock indents on my ankles, I had just taken off my socks and they are getting slightly puffy these days!!!

Joy (delivered by a man in a brown truck!)

It's here! It's here! Hooooraaayyy! (Kinda feel silly now for being such a big whiner!)
So here are the first pictures from my new camera! Bear with me, they are taken without really knowing my camera, no filters or external lenses and without enhancing with photoshop! I think they are already an improvement compared to the ones taken with our camcorder!
Expect many pictures in my blogs!!!!!!

Colton playing at Giant Springs

Colton snuggled in his blanket
Jesse when we stopped by his office today to show him my new toy!