Busy Body!!

Oh my goodness!! I think when Farrah turned five months she became miss busy body. I tell my mom and James' mom how busy she is and they just smile like they don't believe me...that is until they saw her and held her this week. Both mom's said to me how busy she is now. I know!! I was watching Farrah the other day and was noticing that she is always moving. Even when she is still she has something moving. I was holding her the other night and we were just chillin and she could not sit still! She has her feet moving or her hands going...non stop. Just to think how she started out with no prenatal care and how healthy and active she is just blesses my heart. God truly had His hands on her and protected her the entire nine months.

This weekend my grandfather came to town so Farrah got to meet her only living Great-Grand Pa. I think he was pretty impressed with her. She was playing in the floor while we had dinner and Papa was watching her and he turned to me and asked "Can I pinch her to make her cry?" I told him if she wanted to hear her scream. Papa was amazed how happy she is. On the way home I was thinking how amazing it is at my age (and I'm not THAT old) to have three living grandparents and for Farrah to have gotten to meet all of them. And how healthy they all are. All of my grandparents are all very independent, they still drive and live on their own. I pray Farrah gets to an age where she will remember her Great-Grandparents being healthy and independent.

Four generation picture of the Caroland's.



One last note. Farrah's personality is really starting to come out. I was shopping with my mom and sister on Saturday and Farrah has learned how to take her bows off and she is very proud of herself! I was getting on to her because she knows what she is doing and I finally gave up and took the bow off. You know what she did? Smiled big as Dallas. She is so proud of herself! Of course mom and Shawna did not help at all because they kept laughing at her so then she started putting on a show.

I still don't have the words on how happy and blessed we are by Farrah. She is an absolute joy!!

Swinging Good Time!!

Last night we saw James' parents and grandma. We had a wonderful time with them. Ever since our oldest niece was born Jim and Jean have had this little kiddy swing and for years I've watched all my nieces grow up playing in this swing and I could not help myself wonder when my own children would play in this swing. There have been many laughs from this swing. Last night I put my own daughter in the swing for the first time and it was everything I imagined. She LOVED it. She is an outside girl anyway and she sat in the swing and she hung on and smiled the entire time. If the mosquito's would not have been so bad I think she would have napped in it.



Farrah got to see her Great-Grandma last night to and they were fun to watch together last night. Grandma played patty cake with Farrah's feet last night and Farrah thought this was pretty funny. Sitting there last night watching Great-Grandma with Farrah just makes me realize that our grandparents aren't going to be around forever. We are very blessed to have three grandparents still living. I want more than anything for Farrah to know her Great-grandparents. All of our grandparents have and always will mean the world to us. We have so many great memories with them and I can't wait til Farrah gets to make those great memories with her own grandparents.

Farrah has met two out of three grandparents and they are crazy about her. A couple of weekends we went and saw my Meme. My parents walked in without us and the first thing Meme said was "Where is MY baby". This just makes me smile. If you don't know I have the greatest Meme ever!! I can't even put it into words how amazing the lady is. All I have to say is that if you ever get to meet her you will be truly blessed! Matter of fact both of our grandmother's are amazing women of Christ and have taught us and love us both like only a grandmother could.

Here is Great-grandma playing patty cake with Farrah's feet.



We also got to see James' Uncle Jerry and Aunt Jodie last night. Aunt Jodie had seen Farrah before but Uncle Jerry had not. Farrah became a big fan of Uncle Jerry last night. Anytime Farrah would start fussing Jerry would take her outside and just talk to her. He was telling her stories about when James was a little boy. Jerry gave Farrah to Jodie so she could play with her and Farrah got so upset and Jerry took her back and Farrah was happy again. I think Jerry liked this!

Last night we were driving home and James was telling me that he was closest to his Uncle Jerry. He was the one who took him hunting for the first time, he helped coached his little league baseball games and Jerry went to EVERY football game for James. So for James to see Farrah making a connection with his Uncle Jerry was pretty special for him to.

Uncle Jerry feeding Farrah

Family, Friends and Fun!!

This weekend was busy!! We started out on Friday with a pool party for our college ministry. James and I will help out again this year with the newly married. We had a great time just visiting and eating. Two things I do best! Then on Saturday we headed to Lamesa. I had cousins in town from Houston that I hadn't seen in over two years. They had heard all about Farrah and really wanted to meet her so Farrah and I headed to Lamesa to see my Meme and cousins. We had a great time and of course Farrah put on a show for them. She smiled the entire time and they were amazed that she is this happy all the time. Meme, which is Farrah's great-grandmother, was very excited to see her. I think Meme was surprised how big Farrah has gotten.

Then Sunday we just had a day of rest and it was great! We really needed that. We took Farrah to swim and this time she loved it! The last couple of times she cried and I was worried about this because both of our families love the water and I want Farrah to love the water as much as we do.

My cousin Nita. Hopefully someday soon we will get to meet her two grandchildren!! We are trying to plan for the end of the year to take a trip and go see Nita and her family in Houston.



The best Meme ever!!




Like my bikini? Posing with my friend Madison.

5 Months!!

Farrah Nichole you are growing up WAY to fast!! Our lives have completely changed the last five months and it couldn't be better. Let's see what you're up to these days!

You sleep an average of 12 hours every night!! I put you down around 9pm and you wake up around 9-9:30am. You have your mommy VERY spoiled!!

You take good naps for me still. Anywhere from two to three hours.

You are NOT a fan of cereal. You cry when you eat it. (It's really pretty cute)

You weigh 13 pounds! And almost 25 inches long. You are long and lean ;) Just like you Aunt Shawna.

You are in your last package of size 1 diapers and on the verge of size 2 diapers.

You are still wearing size 0-3. I can even still put some newborn size's on you!

You are the happiest baby I have ever seen.

You bring a lot of attention! I can't go anywhere and not get stopped to look at this beautiful baby girl.

You are turning over like a champ!

You have figured out how to "love". You take two handfuls of whatever you can get your hands on like hair, my face and give wide open mouth "kisses"!! I love this!!

You laugh so much more and a lot easier. I can look at you and get a belly laugh from you. Precious!!

Your so funny when you sleep. You have your blanket wrapped around your head and your feet propped up on you bumper pads. I will come and get you out of bed and you love playing with me. I say your name and tickle your legs and your head is wrapped in your blanket and you start to laugh and then you pull the blanket off and smile and laugh!

This is how I found you this morning.



Five Month's today!

I Love Sunday Morning's

Our church started having services on Saturday night a couple of months ago and we are hooked! It's so nice being able to sleep in and just enjoy the day at a slow pace. There is no makeup and no shower til noon. Farrah is the funnest to watch. She LOVES her exersaucer and will stay there for an hour pushing on everything that makes music and chewing on everything that she can. This thing has so many things to do on it. She will have a hold on one toy and try to turn around and grab something with the other hand. She "talks" to all of her toys and gets so excited.

I tried this new "do" on Farrah and she looks way to big with her hair like that. I'm not ready for this look yet!

Family pictures!

The whole gang!


Mom and Dad


My brother Lance and his family. Lance, LaJuana, Lucas and Annika


My family.


My sister's family. Lance, Shawna, Reagan, Katie and Brincent


The grand kids


The photographer is Tiffany Dau. She does a great job and is VERY affordable!

Happy 4th!

Our first July 4th as a family was sure fun!

All ready for the parade!










My favorite tradition of July 4th is with James. The summer we bought our house, on July 4th we climbed on the roof to watch all the fireworks going on around us. I would take two wine glasses and two cans of Dr. Pepper and we would sit there for hours on our roof top watching and talking. Talking about our favorite childhood memories of Fourth of July. So every year we take our wine glasses and our favorite drink, James is Dr. Pepper and mine is Sprite and again we sit there under the stars and talk about our childhood. We were sitting there tonight and talking about our first summer in this house and what great times we have had here and one day when Farrah is old enough she will get to join us on the roof top to watch fireworks!!