I Accept, Maria!

Maria posed a challenge called Project 365, where you are to post one picture everyday for a year. I am going to try my best to stick with this challenge.
Here is my first contribution.

I am not sure if Trevor realized what he had done, but while coloring this morning, he drew a pretty good bubble letter E! When I asked him about it he said he was drawing a "part of the moon"...I can see how he gets that.

Hmmm...

I logged on a while back and made a Christmas post and just now realized it isn't here. I probably did something stupid. Anyway here are some pics from Christmas time-ish :)

Trevor modeling the new paint job on Steve's bike...

"Come on Mom. No more pictures!"
Playing the new guitar he got from Grammy.

Coloring on his new easel. He loves this thing. It's double sided and the other side is a magnetic dry erase board.

Testing out the new bunk bed with Daddy.

Trevor had a great Christmas! He got everything he asked for (which was only a guitar, drums, and piano) and WAY more. We just had a nice relaxing day at home but then both woke up sick the next day.

For New Year's Eve, we watched Paul Blart:Mall Cop. Trevor was totally into it. We ordered pizza and Steve and I rang in the New Year with him kicking my butt at SkipBo...don't worry, I got him back a couple days later.

I know I say it all the time, but one of my resolutions is to keep up with posting more often. At least 3 times a month is what I am shooting for.

Over A Month...

I am finally back after month long hiatus. I really didn't mean to leave the blog for that long. I am just lazy when it comes to uploading pics. Here are just a few from the past month.
Trevor got a big boy bike and he LOVES riding it. Once the big boy bike came out, there was a strict helmet rule. SO I took him to the store and let him pick a helmet.

We had a good Thanksgiving at a friends house.I didn't take pics because all the kids were running all over the place all night. This is what 6 hours of playing did to Trevor.

I let Trevor take the reigns when it came to decorating the Christmas tree this year. He put on every ornament as high as he could reach, then told me where to put each of the higher ones. I think it turned out perfect and he was so proud of himself.

December 4th, today, we got our first snowfall that stuck and it is still snowing as I write this.

Trevor had to wake up to use the bathroom and I had every intention of having him go back to sleep. When he noticed the snow, there was no hope to get that kid back in bed. He was sooo excited! He was singing about snow and wanted to go throw snowballs. He learned about snowballs from Spongebob, so that makes it even more exciting to him!

I know I say it all the time, but I will really try to keep this updated more often. Bye for now!

Happy Halloween!

Trevor helped Steve pull "the brains" out of his pumpkin.

The pumpkin I carved for Trevor.

Steve's finished product.
Trevor and Serenity getting ready to go into the mall for trick or treating (the day before Halloween).

Steve had to work until 8:30pm on Halloween night so Trevor and I went out with some friends, who's dad was also out of town. So we made it a mommy and me night. The kids had a good time.

Halloween evening waiting for his friends to get here.

Walking down to "Uncle Damon and Aunt Dana's" house. This is my favorite picture from the night.
Ethan, Trevor and Serenity....Trouble times 3! :)

"Hey mom...that guy just gave me candy!"

Trevor's 3rd Birthday!

SO I am finally back with a blog update!
Trevor is 3! YAY! Well, not so sure that is a good thing. As he has gotten closer to 3, he has gotten a bigger attitude. Just ask Grammy! We had a good visit with her, although Trevor drove her crazy :)
Here are some pics from Trevor's birthday.

Posing with his guitar cake...

Maybe the blue frosting wasn't such a good idea after all...

One of his many presents...

Trevor with his friends Ethan, Kirke, and Serenity playing cars on his new car rug.

This is his "I'm 3 and I'm cool" look...

He was so happy to get his soccer ball and net. He braved the unusually chilly weather we had to go outside and try them out.

He was having tons of fun kicking the ball away from daddy.

After nap time and some more football, it was time to break out the big present...the Wii! He is having tons of fun playing it.

Trevor and Grammy. By this point Grammy was pretty worn out and ready to get back to everyday life at home.

So Trevor decided to tuck Grammy in bed and say goodbye for now...

Grammy's visit went by pretty quick and I didn't get as many pics as I would have liked. I forgot my camera when we went to Chuck E. Cheese's and kept forgetting to buy batteries. We had a good time though and wish she could have stayed longer.

Uncle Al will be here on Friday to visit before he has to take off for Uganda. We also plan on going to Fiddlesticks Farms. It is a huge corn maze, pumpkin patch, everything "fall" that you can think of.

And I will try to keep up on the blog a little better from now on.

A GREAT Weekend!

I am finally feeling better and I am so glad! We had a great weekend and looking back I would not have wanted to miss a second of it.
First, here is the picture I promised of Trevor wearing his "Best Friends" bracelet that I made him with what I could find laying around the house.


Sometimes he thinks he is some kind of super hero or something and dresses like this and thinks it is super cool. I was thinking more along the lines of super freak :) Note the upside down glasses squishing his nose...

On Saturday we took Trevor to a new playground in town at the new sports complex. It was completely empty so we had the whole place to ourselves. We quickly found out why-it was blazing hot. We only stayed for about 45 minutes. Trevor's favorite thing by far was climbing this rock wall. No matter what, he kept going back to it.
A little break for a "cheese" shot! (Sorry about the quality of the pic...I just realized I accidentally saved it on film grain mode.)
Today we went to church and Trevor was soooo excited to "go to school" that as soon as I got him up he was ready to get dressed and help pack his backpack, he was mad when I told him we weren't leaving for a few hours. After church we decided to keep our activities inside due to the heat and we took Trevor bowling for the first time. He had a blast! Here are Trevor and Steve waiting to see how many pins Trevor is going to knock down.

Here he is ready to go! You will have to excuse the pink ball-it is the one the guy gave me and I didn't want to be picky and ask for a different color. Trevor didn't seem to mind; he was just happy to be bowling! And aren't bowling shoes on a person that small just adorable?!
Doesn't he look like he had a good time?! He was upset to be done but I told him we can go again very soon and that seemed to make it better. I think I will take him again and let him bowl all by himself.After bowling it was time to head over to Steve's office and gym. Right inside the doors there is this big, old firehouse switchboard. It never fails that if we go by, Trevor has to pick up every phone and say "Hello, hello?! 911! Emergency!" and today he added "Moderation"....yeah, not sure what that was supposed to mean! :)
Then we rounded the corner and came upon this beast....since Maria posted her spider pics, I figured why not post mine?! I took the picture to show Steve because he walked there right before us and didn't say anything, so I wanted him to see what he walked by.We had quite a weekend! And we plan on doing some more fun stuff next weekend before my surgery. I am scheduled for Tuesday, September 1. I am praying to stay healthy until then so I can just get it over with. We have to drive up on Wednesday for the pre-op and then I should be good to go for Tuesday. Though it is a very common procedure, please keep us in your prayers, especially that I can just be able to get it done and over with. And it is going to be a tough few days for Trevor with me probably being in pain and not wanting to talk much. Thankfully, Steve is able to take leave and be home that week to help with Trevor.
So this got super long, but I hope you enjoy the pictures! Until next time.....

Over a Month...

I know it's already been over a month since I put anything on here. I have been having some issues that you all probably already know about. I am finally starting to feel better, thank God. I was feeling pretty lousy for a while and spent a week on the couch, mostly feeling like a crappy mom since I couldn't do anything. But things are looking up and I am feeling a little better everyday.
Trevor has been a pretty good little trooper through it all though and I am thankful that he behaved as well as he did for that long without much attention. He is quite the character and he challenges me everyday, usually several times a day :) But overall he is a pretty good kid. Everyday he says something so off the wall that he has me cracking up. I always wish I could rewind and record. His newest and sweetest thing for the last 3 days is saying that I am his best friend....so sweet. We watched Dora this morning and it was Friendship Day and Dora gave him a bracelet so he looked at me and said, "Mommy, you my best friend! Make me a bracelet!" So I did. I have a pic of him wearing it and I will get it on here tomorrow at some point. Right now I need to get to bed. Just wanted to do a quick update in case anyone is still checking this thing!