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we are trying to get drake out and having new experiences, some are successes while other are complete failures.

drake is very eager to start driving so i thought hey why not give him a shot......

i placed him in the car and realized that the look on his face meant no good, so i decided to give him an illusion of driving :)

he seemed pleased enough, and the other kids looked quite jealous of his ride :)

we also recently took him to the park and he looked pleased to swing......

apparently we were wrong!

I'll keep you guys posted on our next adventures.....i'm sure we are going to have many :)

here is a video for your enjoyment....

my boy and my puppy know how to play nice together.

Just wanted to send out a message to all the friends and family......Drake and the rest of us miss you all!!

defiant till the end

so drake got in a little of a tissy fit.... he was very upset to not be in my arms, though i insisted that he sit in his boppy until i was done with the dishes. Well inbetween screams i would hear something scoot across the counter. i would turn and the boppy chair would be a few more inches to the right. I scooted him back and he protested again and continued to push himself closer to the edge. (in his mind it was my arms or death :) ) so about 20 minutes went by and it suddenly stopped, i turn to see if he came to his senses... no he just got tired from his death attempt and slept.

I have it all fixed now, you can leave a comment, hope you do!

We would love to hear from each and everyone of you!

talk soon!

THE JOY OF DRAKE

I know i haven't updated in a very long time, thank you for taking over the responsibility of it mother. but i thought it was necessary that i make an attempt now. So the greatest joy truly is having drake....never would of believed it a year ago, butdrake is my pride and joy and i couldn't live without him. He is a very demanding baby, but try to show me one that isn't. he has come into this world at a wooping 9 pnds 4 oz and has grown an incredible amount in the past 2 and 1/2 months. He is determined to be strong, just yesterday i placed him against the back of the couch, and he reached his arms over and started to do squats for about 15 minutes. :) he also will be laying on his back and i grab his hands and he will pull himself up into a sit. i'm sure he will be running around in no time! for thosewho know me and skylar, you know that we were still not very prepared to have a child, but as soon as we saw him, we instantly were prepared and excited for the adventure ahead of us.hopefully we can learn from our mistakes and guide him, and find out the secrets of our parentsfinding out all of our secrets, so we can do the same :) yes pat, you have taught me that ishould check batteries in alarms, mom i learned that the side of the house is a safe place(mom call and ask what i used to do, others do not think anything horrible just embarrasing) ,dad i learned that car keys need to be hidden. Thank you to things i did, i now know what to do to prevent my kids from it. Like i said i have a lot of adventures ahead of me, and am positive the wool will be pulled over my eyes a few times, hopefully when that happensskylar will catch it and vise versa.

THE HOLIDAYS

being that it was the first year that either holiday was celebrated with just the three of us, there is many things that have slipped our memory that are fairly important. For thanks-giving......we forgot to fill our propane. (side note: where we live we run our whole house on propane) So we had to get pretty creative with our methods of cooking, first we tried to boil the potatoes in this contraption called a "galloping gourmet", and i mind you it is not suppose to have a lot of water in it, then an hour later i check the potatoes and they were still raw...so i was starting to get discouraged. I decided to come back to them and started on my pudding pie. i put the mix in the saucepan and then the water and started to heat it,then i decided to look at the box......it said cold mix instructions....uh oh.... i look back at my pot and it was turning into a strange clump that i swore was a choclate version ofblubber. needless to say...no pie! these TWO things i was in charge of i couldn't do!!! Skylar was in charge of the stuffing and the turkey. He was very confident and very sure of himself, which left me feeling i would be the only failure. he sauteed the veggies in the turkey pan, then made the rest of the stuffing. We decided to try and put it in the turkey to cook (never again). he then injected the turkey with chicken broth, mind you we have never done this and got creative. So he puts the turkey in and i am left feeling horrible, i gota menstrual moment and i dumped all the water out in the sink, put the potatoes in a bowl and cooked them in the microwave. I had no idea how long to cook them so i guessed....i guessedwrong....they were still not done. so i threw the potatoes in the garbage, collapsed and cried... yes i cried. Skylar came to my side and he said, "i don't care what we eat as longas i am here with you on the holidays" then he held me and let me cry it out. so i was feelingbetter. Few hours later the turkey was done. we pulled it out and it looked great.....but we were fooled, the stuffing was complete mush in some parts and dry in others. but by this pointi also didn't care and was happy he was with me. so we ate and enjoyed our time together. aholiday i won't forget.

now christmas....so we were getting a tree in the begining of december from my mother and pat, but do to unseen events they were postponed. So i had to think....what can i do for a tree, and this is what icame up with! a tree made of lights. it was quite cute i thought. then we ended going to utah for skylars grandmas funeral, and show of our son for the first time to many of the family.so it was a bitter sweet trip. then when returning, once again we had too much stuff and two dogs and one baby. we wedge everything in....INCLUDING THE DOGS!!! poor dogs had just as miserable a trip as any of us. The drive is much too long, in much too little space. but we got home safe and sound. a few days after christmas arrived and i love this holiday. we have to admit, it didn't feel to much like christmas....but this is why i believe we felt this way we aren't with family like we have our whole life and we are no longer the kids....so it is no longer a huge excitment, instead we now give drake the joy, though he doesn't understand yet. i still loved the day because it is also skylars birthday....he is now 21 and legal to get a gun! yes his excitment was for the fact of getting a gun and not being legal to drink. all and all i had a great holiday and hope that they are all just as memerable as this year.