Supposed To...

I'm supposed to be cleaning the house right now. Yep. Keyword there "SUPPOSED". I'm not. Obviously. I got the Master Bathroom done, and some laundry done. I'm waiting on the towels to finish drying and I think I'll call it a day!

I'm also supposed to be making 4 Chicken Potpies for some families in the neighborhood that I'm in a Freezer Dinner Exchange group. I've got to give them out next week, so I figure I can wait a little longer! (I'm such a procrastinator!)

Did you look at the pictures of Keagan's birthday? Aren't they just so FREAKING adorable? I love how he lifted up the little dish and tried to lick it clean! He seriously ate the whole thing! Besides what he got in his hair, and all over himself, and the high chair. The rest went in his tummy! He got a tummy ache later, but I'm pretty sure he thought it was worth it. Too much sugar is never a good thing, but seeing the joy on his face while he ate that cake was priceless!

We are trying to potty train Hayden right now. He'll go pee on the potty everytime, but not poop. Then he was in the tub one morning and started freaking out that he had pooped in the tub (it was more like he farted and a little came out). We put him right on the potty and he went. We celebrated that more than Christmas! He called his grandparent's. He got 3 stickers. He talked about it for days! Then, he wouldn't do it anymore. He spent a day at my parent's house, and was in pull-ups the whole time. No accident! Even pooped on the potty, by himself. But as soon as he came home, no such luck. He just won't do it for us. I don't know what the deal is! I've tried everything. Do any of you (4 readers, haha) have any advice? I just want my kid out of diapers before the next one gets here! AH!

Pictures from Keagan's birthday

Randomness

I'm pretty sure that there is nothing in this world better than being able to settle into a nice bubble bath

with a game of Suduko,

a cup of pebble ice,

and silence! (Ok, maybe there are a FEW things that are better...) A bubble bath can cure almost anything! I'm tota

lly convinced of it! Locking myself in the bathroom and having just a few minutes to myself is awesome! And when Stewart is kind enough to let me stay in there for as long as I want? Well, I'm in heaven!

I've got these AWESOME projects I've been working on, but they're for a friend for her baby shower, and I can't put pictures up here until I've given them to her. Oh, and I have to FINISH one! I guess it'd be good to do that soon, since her shower is Saturday... I'm really excited for them though. Stewart made me promise to not give them to her early, because as soon as I finished some of them, I wanted to run them to her house right away!

I've been getting this urge to create A LOT! The problem is, I don't do it. I just don't want to try something and not have it work out the way I envisioned it. You know what I mean? I've got to do something though, because it's killing me to come up with ideas and not do them! Then I forget them and I never do them! I'm going to make something... I just don't know what yet! I found this great blog called 1 Month 2 Win It. I want to enter something in it, just to see if I can get picked, then if I do, I'll have an excuse to make more stuff! You should check it out! It's intimidating seeing what these women come up with in just 1 week, but it's also so inspiring!

Keagan's First Birthday!

We celebrated Keagan's first birthday on Saturday. It was a lot of fun! He wasn't interested at all in the gifts. In fact, he drank milk and crawled anywhere, but around the presents! So different from Hayden's 1st birthday party!

Keagan DID LOVE his cake though! A local grocery store makes free cakes for 1st birthday's, so he had his own little cake. He dug into it like it was going to get up and run away. He ate all of it! And smeared a bunch of it all over his face, body, hair, and highchair. I undressed him before he got to eat cake, which was a really smart move! He got to take a bath in the tub after he finished and didn't like that so much!

It was a lot of fun to see everyone that came and to celebrate making it a whole year with him! I always say that 1st birthday's aren't for the kids, but for the parents. It's celebrating making it a WHOLE YEAR without a manual or instructions! His birthday isn't until Wednesday, but weekends are so much better for family and everyone else! It was a lot of fun.

I'll try to upload some pictures later!

Maternity Pictures!

My super cute friend, Jessica, took maternity pictures for me the other day! She's so sweet! She's really good too. She did our family pictures in the Fall and they look amazing, and these turned out way good too! Next time she'll need a better model (anyone but me)!

I've gotten LOTS bigger since these were taken! It's crazy what a few weeks will do!

Welcome!

We are the Stout's! Welcome to our blog! I'm going to try to keep this blog pretty updated so that at the end of the year, I can have a nice little journal to print up! So, hopefully there will be lots of pictures, and lots of stories.