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LYLES CORRINE IS ONE

2012-01-26T21:57:00.000-08:00

january 21st 2012 we, along with about 30 other loved ones celebrated our precious baby as she turned a whole year old!

we decided to have a brunch, we had to plan around nap time of course. since january is so gloomy and dark, we had a "you are my sunshine" theme! i have probably sung LC that song a million times since she has been born and while i was pregnant. also i love yellow and sunshines are HAPPY!

we ate entirely too much sugar, laughed and loved on our butter bean.

thank you Lord for such a happy healthy baby girl! :)

thanks to my friend and amazing artist, jennifer ferguson for the invites!!!

the birthday girl wakes up from her nap!

always with a smile on her face :)

foooooood!

donut kabobs!

i love this piece of milk glass. it was landons grandmothers

mmmmmm...nothing healthy here

my fav was the cheese grits. my mom is known for them.

i think i am going to leave this happy guy up until he falls down!

CAKE! from "Oh my Ganache" Bakery

chocolate milk was a HIT!

i made these from paint sample colors! so easy

one blessed little girl

bored from opening gifts so she became one

i dog!!!

staring at her candle... i was so nervous for some reason!!! oh and that thing on her head... pretend its a crown! did not turn out like we had planned ha!

her grandmother, mimi made the little sunshine cake!

first taste of sugar in her whole little life.... :(

uhhhh o!!!

uhhhhh o'er!!!

she didnt get too far past the icing!

this is susan & JD! she is a dear friend, also the photographer of all of these photos, thanks susan!

nephew chipper (he is having a blast) mims, aunt tammy & uncle jeff!

sweet Bobbitts :)

random fun with random family on our make-shift photo wall!

she loves her uncle/aunt mo&wo!

Andy, Catherine & Stephen

my parents and a sleepy birthday girl!

tia!

Carrs!

butter bean and family ;)

grands with nonnie!

walking with tia!

LC LOVES rams :)

Mondue made her a pony boy!

one of LCs favorites, Maddie!

her expression 90% of the time! ooooowwwww

i love this little girl!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LYLES CORRINE!

happy birthday paps!!!

2012-01-01T18:51:00.000-08:00

this year for my dads birthday, we surprised him...sorta.

after planning this special meal we had to spoil the secret because the dumb hospital changed his surgery date and we thought it would be that night. it wasnt and we ruined the surprise anyways...oh well it was still great.

growing up, Ruby Chinese was our families very favorite place to eat. every holiday, every birthday any special occasion we were eating at the big round table at Rubys, spinning the lazy susan around with entirely too much food on it. we even got to go into the kitchen as children and watch mr. phat cook and make our own birthday cakes :)

when Paul, the owner decided to move to Dallas....we were soooo sad :(

mr. phat went to work at 2stix, it wasnt the same. he has since retired and is quite old.

my sister got the great idea of getting mr. phat to come and make dinner for paps birthday!!!

after working with several people and being told the he is a very messy cook and would destroy the kitchen, 2stix allowed him to cook anything we wanted there!

we picked the menu, set up early and had a ball :)

this was left over from someones bday!

they had these zodiac placemats at Rubys so i hunted them down here in memphis so it could be as close to the real thing as possible!

bad pic, #dark #iphone but here is the chef!!!! & the birthday boy!

sizzling rice soup

egg rolls

moo shu beef

party people

sooo much food, way too much

mongolian beef & there was more, princess prawns, dumplings oh my.

just SOME of the take home boxes!

too full for cake, no one ate it but angel did flip the numbers around!

happy birthday Jesus :)

2012-01-01T18:22:00.000-08:00

Lyles Corrine's 1st Christmas!!!

still no walking.

loves to walk while squeeizng your index fingers, she will even run.

words:

dada, dog, oshean? (sounds bad) ooooooooooo, uh oh, i know(once, got it on video!)
tucker...yes, my grandmothers dogs name. wierd i know! still doesnt say mama, but we can say tucker!?
she loves to mock silly sounds you make to her
peek-a-boo is always loved
she says "more" all the time through sign language!
she knows how to show you her ears, nose and mouth
points at everything

loves to crawl super fast.

laughs at wegman.

first christmas gift- cabbage patch named coretta corrine from tia (chi)

here is a little christmas in pictures!

home :)

first santa photo!

stockings

some of the men... lance, jeff, keith and my nephew chip!!

LC, her aunt Tammy and her grandmother Mimi!

land and my bro... they special.

sisters :)

yes, my mom plastic wrapped the high chair.

first present from her aunt tia (pronounced chia)

wo and mo. yes, that is her foot!

me and virginia...his name is chris i have always called him virginia

yes, will is holding up his 7th grade football picture!

my beauiful cousins and uncle. they live in california except ali moved to australia a couple days after this! love them :)

4 generations :)

SO thankful for so many blessings!!!!!!!!!

as for new years...

it is a different feeling sitting on the couch watching the ball drop...well almost drop! i believe landon and i were in the bed before 10:00! it was neat to not feel so much like a looser for not doing anything fun because we had a precious sleeping baby in the next room. not that i am planning on doing nothing every new years eve, just one of those "firsts" we are getting used to!

giving thanks 2011

2012-01-01T17:58:00.001-08:00

i cant believe how many blessings God has given us.
we have the sweetest little gift this holiday.
Lyles Corrine almost did not make it when she was just a wee 3 day old. so blessed to have her precious smiley self that is so healthy now!
thank you Jesus for your abundance of love and blessings.

this year was so fun. we always do thanksgiving farm style! it always seems to be perfect weather, not too cold and we all just play, eat, ride 4-wheelers or horses or simply rock on the porch. i am a terrible writer but i blog so i can have this to look back on because i do not scrap book etc. soooo... here are some photos, i like them better.

g-paps & g-baby

g-patty & g-baby

Wyatts tree

planted september 2009

nonnie playing with g-baby

(dooodle-dooooooodle do) ;)

dada & uncle Lance :)

mondue made this for LCs first Thanksgiving :)

my mom took some pics of us for a christmas card :)

i was proud of both baby & baby daddy. they were so cooperative :)

we redneck people use a deer carcase as a back drop ;)

beautiful meal at mimi's and keiths

we celebrated landons birthday as well :)

hehe

tis the season!!!!!

2011-11-19T18:59:00.001-08:00

i am so excited about the holidays!!!!!!

thanksgiving will be spent with my family in oxford, then dinner with landons family in olive branch!

we are so blessed.

lyles corrine is growing so fast! landon was working all day so we had a girls night :)

we shopped of course then had a date at the crape maker. during our shopping she got a little fussy and said "mama, mama!!!" i was so happy. she has said mama before but not directly towards me like she did tonight. all we hear is dada!

she is still crawling all over the place, pulls up on everything and tries her best to walk. "uh o" is her favorite thing to say.

yesterday we celebrated landons birthday. we went to boscos in midtown, his favorite burger. our friends the carrs and the lawsons came to join us! i was so worried lc would be fuusy bc we have done so well with her 8:00ish bed time, but she did great!

landon turned 28 :)

i can not express how much he means to me. we met in 1998 and have been best friends ever since. he is the greatest daddy & husband. lc and i are 2 lucky girls!!! we make very frequent trips to target. lately lc cries when we leave, landon loves it ;)

daddys girl for sure!

lc will be 10 months this tuesday.

she is still 21 lbs.

eating lots of different foods!

6 teeth, 4 on top, 2 on bottom!

sleeps from 8 at night until at least 8 in the morning, loves sleep like me!

usually has 2 naps a day.

landons birthday card :)

boscos!

girls night

trying on clothes at baby gap, our favorite!

almost 9 months, my goodness!

2011-10-13T19:31:00.000-07:00

today we went in for our (almost) 9month check-up!

LC is:

20.13 lbs

29 inches long

and a pillar of health!!!

it is so amazing to watch a child grow and learn.

i LOVE to hear her laugh, it makes all worries fade.

thank you Lord for an amazing adventure of raising Lyles Corrine!

Lyles Corrine-- Firsts!!!

2011-09-28T13:16:00.000-07:00

so one of the main reasons i am blogging is to be able to have this to look back at later in life. i am not a scrapbooker nor do i journal, but i do take pictures! i plan to blog lots more now that i have LC and am getting into the mommy mode. after 8 months of baby everything, i feel like i can do some things that i want to do or have needed to do for a while now!

i am going to be blogging randomly about "first things" that LC does or gets to experience!

this past august we got to go to Las Vegas! this was a lot of "firsts" for her.... airplane, monorail, casino(yuk), taxi, market and more! i was SOOOOO nervous about her flying because it was a long flight, no connections thank goodness and she does not sleep in peoples laps very well. she did not have her own seat because she is under 2 so we just handed her around. she did GREAT!!!! i prayed and prayed she would do ok and she did not even cry...no not once. i guess its so similar to riding in a car as soon as we took off she was OUT!

we went along with my parents and sister :)

gone....yep, just like the lady across the aisle. ha!

so when we landed at the Las Vegas airport, she was SOOOO excited... landon put her in this seat in front of the slot machine.

and this is probably one of the funniest pictures i own... they got caught!!!! you cant even be around those machines unless you are 21 and i was not even supposed to take the picture! ooops... :)

i LOVE their faces here

first...what do you call these things? flat escalators??

watching the train come up!

first limo ride! too bad the AC was broken, it felt like 150 degrees in that thing!

first of MANY trips to market!

my parents kept her everynight to give us a little break! this night we went out adventuring the streets...crazies in las vegas.

landon stole the camera!

angel and i LOVE these little leather bracelets we found these several years ago and we get another one each time we go back. i even got LC a tiny pink one with her name on it!

grossness... scary snakes!

i love my sister :)

and my husband. he is amazing.

my cousins ali & chris live in LA and drove out to see us!

LC's first time to meet them :) she cant take her eyes off virginia (chris) ;)

plenty more firsts to come!

xoxo

jennie

tuesdays gone

2011-09-27T20:55:00.000-07:00

random title, but i love that song tuesday's gone! and its late tuesday night :)

so thankful that LC went to bed with no issues tonight. she has been a great....super....fabulous sleeper since about 8 weeks. im talking like 12 hours without a peep.

as soon as she started pulling up, she noticed we would leave the room and she was not having it! we usually start the night time ritual of bath, pajamas, bottle then rock around 7:30. she usued to be in be by 8:15 or so, but nooooow its 11:15 or so! she just pulls up and sings, screams, yells, slaps, falls... you know all things that an 8 month old does! i have recently thought to use those extra hours to pray for her. my mom has always been so amazing with her prayer life. she said that she started praying for the person we would marry and our future as soon as we were born. pretty amazing...i dont event think past next week most of the time! kind of wierd to think about praying for her husband, but its a neat feeling. i also pray about the personality she will develop, her manners, high school, her health, peer pressure etc. i am thankful for those moments to stop and be still as i am rocking her to sleep. i know that one day i will miss her fussy little tiny self.

today was a busy day and she did not nap much at all, therefore that is why she went directly to sleep after her last feeding! PTL!!!

oh yea, i have started using coupons way more than i used to. well i am basically from not at all to i used 4 today at target!!! woohoo, i felt so good saving that little extra money. if i could only get my printer to print right. anyone have any good websites or places they like to get coupons from? someone told me about toatallytarget.com and its really good.

landon, LC & i went to the collierville square (love the sq.) to meet up with some of my dearest friends, Lindsey and Susan.

we all have little sweet babies and were pretty much all pregnant at the same time! not too long ago we were sitting at yolos (weekly ususally) discussing what it will be like one day when we have babies....well here we are! i love these girls very much and here are a couple pictures we took!

sweet susan & baby todd... i mean JD ;) #lookslikehisdaddy

lindsey & baby preston :)

and LC of course!

have a blessed week

xoxo

jennie

updating ;)

2011-09-25T18:34:00.000-07:00

HEY!!!!

fabulous weekend.
landon is finished with overnight! wooohooooo. so thankful it was only for 2 weeks.

saturday morning i spent time photographing some of my favorite people, the bobitts and the hulls.

we pranced all around downtown collierville freezing memories!

afterwards, i spent the afternoon with family watching football and eating fun snacks (pics of course) that evening, while landon kept lyles corrine, i went to my friend angela's house to a tastefully simple party. we basically sat around, talked and ate food! yummy food too.

sunday is always my favorite day of the week. we spend the morning with the orchard kids before we go to worship service. we LOVE our church, the orchard fellowship. God is moving mountains and the church is growing super fast. we look forward to raising our daughter there around such amazing people with huge hearts for Christ. we are starting a new series on family. today was all about forgiveness. it was awesome to get down on our knees and be one on one with God about all the nitty gritty stuff. the pastor, Sam Shaw, is real and speaks the Word of God. so greatful. we are also in a commuity group full of wonderful people with similar desires to raise our families to love God and encourage one another while we live our lives for Christ!

landon, lc & i took a couple pictures late this afternoon before the tornado sirens went off. i am terrrrrified of tornados!!! landon and i survived the tornado in Pontotoc co. in 2001. our car was in the center of the tunnel and we should NOT be alive, God had other plans. i am glad :)

looking forward to a great week. more photo shoots, lots of laundry, making more baby food, workouts, and loving on my sweet baby girl!

here are some pics of some food we had this weekend

yummmmmy string cheese rolled in eggroll wrappers :))

so easy, just moisten the edges with water while you fold them up

put them in oil, about half and inch for 1 min. on each side

the jalapeno cheese gives them the perfect bite :)

they are delicious!!! thanks pinterest.

this is one of our favorite dips. sausage, cream cheese and rotel

we used reduced fat ingredients and it tastes just as good.

tonight we had shrimp and grits!

blackened shrimp with herbs & spices, serve over cheese grits.

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our audience while cooking... the naked banana nibbler and her friend duncan the pug.

her favorite- plain ole bananas, added a little water

can you believe that 4 bananas made all this food!!?

so much cheaper.

my sweet 8 month old

she LOVEs her bear dog :)

baby food fun

2011-09-19T20:41:00.000-07:00

some things in life think are so difficult and i work up all this unnecessary anxiety over the whole process. making baby food was one of them. i have always planned on making all LC's food but really dreaded starting and low and behold its EASY!

just like folding and unfolding our stroller, it looks and can be so difficult if you dont know how to do it, but its the simplest thing ever. reminds me of people who refuse to get the iphone or any smart phone because its confusing...all ya gotta do is try and learn!

i love making her baby food and playing around with different combos to see what she likes. i want her to have a good variety of healthy colors. i was a picky eater as a child and was not good at trying things that did not look tasty! i hope she will love her veggies.

tonight we steamed up some broccoli, cauliflower and carrots. they come together a lot in the grocery, i figured maybe they would be ok pureed all together!?

here is the mix after blending:

i love my ninja!

you can add water, breast milk or formula to get it to the right consistency for your baby

these are my little freezer friends...$10 @ babies r us.

the food cost me around 2 to 3 dollars and it made 6 full 2oz little jars :)

saves lots of moooolah!!!!!

this is for sure NOT her favorite combo! i wouldnt like it either, kinda smells bad ;) but she ate it while gagging a little!

we will try something else next time! the dogs may have a nice topping to their food for a few days!

xoxo-jennie

daily

2011-09-19T20:23:00.000-07:00

happy monday :)

lately i have been going back to the verse col 3:23, thanks to Kristi Boxx ( you will see why in a sec) Kristi is an amazing person. she has a heart of GOLD and she is an amazing athlete...she will be a tennis pro very soon. She is finishing up her degree in nutrition and we were discussing a lot about health and fitness one night. i mentioned to her that i need motivation and advise on how to get back in shape. this girl dont play around.... ;) i have texts every single morning and throughout the day with words of encouragement and accountability with my work out schedule and journey.

here is a pic of our txts the other day:

i just love this girl. she was even in SC all last week playing in many tournaments and never failed to encourage me. i want to be like her when i grow up!!!

anyway.... this verse has stayed with me and i have tried to recite it frequently throughout the day. this applies to me in ways that may sound silly, but the little things like LAUNDRY!!!! i hate putting away lanundry. but i am thankful that i have clothes and a washing machine! even in those little things, working at everything with ALL my heart as if we are working for the LORD! can you imagine how much better life/the world would be if we all did every thing to the absolute best of our ability and didn't waist any time!?

at times i have the idea that when i am helping someone out or anything i am doing that i am working for man. for example... landon and i are the group leaders for a class in the children's department at our church during the first service. although we LOVE doing it, there have been some mornings where i thought sleeping in would be nice, or i gotta go help out for the other teachers etc. those are "working for men" thoughts!!! i am am working for the Lord! in ALL things, not just in church, you are to work at it with all your heart as working for the Lord in everything. :)

this is one of my husbands VERY favorite verses-

"Work hard and become a leader, be lazy and become a slave" proverbs 12:24

lets all give 100&10% for the Lord and become leaders for HIM!

weeeeeeeeeekend :)

2011-09-16T13:54:00.000-07:00

this has been one crazy week! landon has been working overnight and it has affected all of us. lyles corrine decided she was not going to sleep if her da-da was not home. lawd have mercy...

she has been crawling all over the place, faster than i can keep up! can not imagine when she starts walking! i love every minute of it, although it is nice to sit for a minute and catch up things i have been wanting to do (blog)! also, my friends maranda & jennifer are starting to blog this week also ;O yay!!!! lyles corrine has gone to spend the weekend with her g-paps and g-patti! i miss her already, but ready for a little break and some sleep. all i need now is someone to come clean my blinds, floorboards and well just the whole house would be nice! tomorrow will consist of sleep, cooper young festival and date with my love, excited! hope everyone has a tremendous weekend!!!!

here is a pic of lunch today...notice how tired my poor hubs is!

back & bloggin!

2011-09-15T23:17:00.001-07:00

Ahhh!!! I can blog from my phone! :)) WoW it's been well about a year now! Man, I'm good. Im going to make a goal of at least one blog a week! How in the world does one catch up from being away that long!??Let's fast forwad for now, Lyles Corrine was born January 21st 2011! She is almost 8 months and her constant smile brings me so much joy and happiness :)) I will be blogging soon!!!!!! Stay tuned :)Love&Hugs & pics to come!

xoxo~ Jennie

ALMOST THERE!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-11-29T17:59:00.000-08:00

check up today!!

everything is going so amazingly smooth. God has been so good to landon and i. what a perfect time to celebrate thanksgiving.

today i am 31 weeks and 2 days. lyles corrine is a whooping 4.7 lbs!!! measuring around 32.4 weeks.

lots of movements and i am loving it! she is already head down and waiting for the pearly gates to open (cervix) ;)

here is a peek at my sweet girl!

thankful.

2010-11-03T12:32:00.000-07:00

today i am feeling very thankful.

since this is already November (wow) i just wanted to begin thanksgiving early.

here are some random things that i take for granted everyday that i am so thankful for!!!

-my husband has a job that allows him to come home to me every night

-shelter, so many people dont have the comfort of a cozy living room with a couch or even bed

-internet, boy have i enjoyed it these last couple of months

-my pups...they bring me so much joy

-house shoes, i love them!

-trees. so amazing how they change with the seasons. God is good

-heat....cant wait to use our fire place burr.

-vaccume cleaners, random but how nice to have ;)

-the ability to walk. the past 5 months i have had to use a wheelchair or "hoover around" everywhere i have gone. wow, i have never realized how much of a gift that it is to simply walk around on a daily basis.

-panera bread. i love their soup and pretty much everything.

-doctors. without doctors and technology, i would probably not be able to have children

-sunshine :) it seems to make everything better!!!

-freedom to worship my savior. seems like a given, but not in every country.

i am thankful.

we all have our obvious friends, family, etc.

but what are you thankful for???

think of all the little things.

the daily blessings :)

not a post with no pic so here are some fun little books from nursery and some mo belly!

3rd trimester!!!

happy birthday patti!!!!!!!!!!

2010-11-01T19:34:00.000-07:00

today is my mothers 58th birthday.

i love her dearly. she is amazing!!!! she means the world to my entire family. she is our go to for everything. thank you mama for being you & all you do.

here is a couple from today venture to the zoo.

you are a beautiful mother!!!!

26.5!!!

2010-10-28T15:11:00.000-07:00

today was another fabulous dr's visit.

other than the dreaded glucose test, we got to see our little sweet cheeks & it was amazing!!!

her plump lips and squishy nose make me want to just squeeeeeze her!!!!

we have about 9 different pictures thanks to ms shirly our fav ultrasound lady.

seeing her move, yawn and licking her lips was so unreal!!! she is already 2.9lbs. and perfectly healthy :)

i have not quite been released to "normal" activity, except she told me i am now allowed to do dishes...yippee! hopefully after 28 weeks ill be allowed to at least go out for a walk.

i have been so blessed with family & friends being so helpful & wonderful.

its so hard to take it easy and not do much when i am so excited and i feel so good.

God is amazing and his grace falls like rain.

SO THANKFUL.

not such great quality but here are 2 images:

a sleepy side face :)

a little half giggle face!

this ones's my fav.

25.2

2010-10-18T12:48:00.000-07:00

today has been a quiet restful morning.

its a bit hard to realize that my baby inside of me is the size of an eggplant!!! she is 2 lbs, yahoo ;))

so my mom came up this past friday and what a lovely day we had. cleaning, eating, shopping... oh my we have done so good as far as buying clothes etc. girls clothes are so stinking cute and i could blow a ton of money on them, but we havent. that afternoon we went to old navy, they had a crazy sale!!! we got the cutest stuff for dirt cheap! like a pair of purple striped pair of leggins with lace for .48 cents! we increased her clothes collection quite a bit, cute stuff too!

our stroller came in a couple days ago and we were like 2 kids on christmas morning!! we are so excited to stroll her around in her sweet new yellow stroller. we went with the uppa baby vista and its so cool! we push it all around the house. amanda, landon has to have practice time each day ;) its all becoming so real. we are so ready... all the nursery needs is a baby and smelly diapers and it will be complete!

this past weekend was so fun! landon was off and we just played and loved every minute of it! saturday morning we started off with starbucks (always) then we rode around to some yard sales. we are not ones to buy a lot of junk, we just dig for diamonds in the ruff. saturday i found one. its a beautiful little cameo necklace with a chain small enough for a little girl. i loooove cameo's and this one belonged to an older lady there and she said it was between 50 & 6o years old, $10....i was so excited!!! then we moved on to a fabulous estate sale, so sad and neat at the same time. it just feels wrong digging through someones house, but this lady was stellar. her house was amazing, filled with funky goods. she had exquisite taste. we continued "piddlin" the rest of the day and ended it off watching the ole miss game, they lost but didnt do too bad!

sunday my parents and angel came up for church and brunch at owen brennans...yum!

service was so good at church. we have been attending a new church plant called the orchard and we love it! sunday was all about why are you alive? basically we are here on earth to glorify him. why do we have the job we do? why do different situations in life occur? to glorify him. life is a journey of glorifying him! this was great for me to hear.

last night was a bad eating night, oh and lunch was too. landon and i made homemade oooey gooey rice crispy treats! they were so yummy. i only like them homemade. today begins hardly any sugar....like none. i already want yo-lo's and a resses cup and pie &...............

this morning i made a quick trip to fresh market. dinner will consist of butter, garlic & thyme rotisserie chicken, asparagus and strawberry salad! i still cant do a lot of cooking, this will be easy prep, although my dr. is slowly allowing me to do a little more each check-up!!

i have been missing photography sooooo bad!!! i am spending the weekend in oxford so maybe i will be able to get some friends to pose around for me somehow!

lyles corrine has been kung fu fighting in utero lately. its so fun to see my stomach moving all around. cerclage is still exactly where it is supposed to be and baby is good! :))

going back to dr. the 28th for ultrasound, yay!

here is another nursery & belly pic :)

love kids books. the wow book is a begginer sign language book for babies, its so cool! cant wait to teach her! the book end is a sock monkey jack in the box :)

whew...what will i look like in 2 more months!!!

24

2010-10-09T11:37:00.000-07:00

T- testing of my faith

W- worry not. wait on God

E- each day is so important

N- never doubt God is there with you

T- tears

Y- yearn for Gods comfort

F- family= love

O- outstanding. my husband is outstanding. thank you God.

U- understanding is not always necessary

R- read. Gods word is our daily bread.

today marks the beginning of an end. the major danger zone for my pregnancy was 18 weeks until 24 weeks.

today, i am 24 weeks.

i feel so incredibly blessed right now. God has taught me so much during this time. the battle is not over. today is just one step closer to viability for lyles corrine.

as the smells of the holidays feel the air, pumkin spice latte being a fav, i feel comfort.

i have felt a peace the past couple of weeks. i know that God has a plan for our family and i do feel that it will soon be a family of 3!

each day i take some time just sitting in the nursery. rocking prayerfully and listening to the silence. one of my favorite things about the nursery is that there are two windows facing the street with a beautiful view of our huge oak trees in the yard. God can speak and be so present in so many different ways. gazing into his beautiful creativity of trees, sun & usually a squirrel or two.

the kicks are getting stronger, i looooooove feeling her wiggle around. i just wonder what she is thinking each time she moves her little body. i cant help but to stop whatever i am doing or thinking each time i feel her and i just smile with a heart full of thankfulness!

its pretty unbelievable to imagine that there is a living person inside of me! i know its true its just one of those things thats hard for me to actually process sometimes.

lately my days consist of sitting in the sun with bear & wegman. love to check the mail each day ;) my amazing family is here pretty much every other day if not more. i always look forward to my target trips. visits with my lady friends are also so great. our last one consisted of brunch on the patio at the asbells from 11 to about 3, such a blessing to sit around and talk it up with some amazing Godly friends who are so encouraging and supportive. and yes, i have an iphone and i check facebook too often. i really wanted to post that i currently like it in my wheelchair, (my purse) but i didnt ;)

i also love watching all my plants grow. i loove plants, flowers etc. being with them everyday, well we have become friends!

guess i have learned to "smell the roses"!

i can not wait to be able to bring our little lady home to her house who is anxiously waiting on her!!!

since this is a celebratory post, i added a couple extra pics!

hope you enjoy & remember to allow God to teach you and use you everyday He blesses you with!!!!!

ok so on top left, that is a precious pillow angel, my sister made me! to the right is a picture of the print i have hanging above the book shelf. a couple of my dear friends had a star registered in Wyatt's name. so when you are looking at orion, to the left there is Wyatt Landon Lee. a sweet special star looking over you!

next row starts with my curtains! i loooove them.

in the middle is a baby's prayer that was in my moms nursery when she was little!

to the right and the 1st one on the bottom are pics of the mirror above the changing table!

the last one is just a couple of lc's future friends :)

here is a little belly for ya!

until next time.

love.

quick lyles corrine update

2010-09-30T13:15:00.000-07:00

so.... dr's visit today could not have been better!!!!

baby LC is moving around great, perfect heartbeat and weighing in at 1.4lbs!

my cervix is measuring at a great length, actually a little longer than my last check, which is really good!

so thankful and excited!

next check-up entails a glucose test....im so nervous about that!!

she was squirming all around this time so no pic :(

ill post the pic from 18 weeks for now!

nesting

2010-09-28T11:24:00.000-07:00

22.3!!!! this is doctor visit week! yahoo. we go every other thursday to see our little bean and her little surroundings! its been an awesome week so far, landons OFF! we somehow never get sick of spending time together (since 8th grade) and i dont like to share him on his vacations! its so nice being married to your soul mate/best friend. tonight he will go watch chip, our nephew play football. i guess ill live while he is gone ;)

we are doing some serious nesting this week. goodwill has been blessed with lots of good stuff, in my opinion! my mom shared a verse with me from isaiah 30:21-22.

" Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it." ²² Then you will defile your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, "Away with you!"

i have a lot of stuff. stuff stresses me OUT!!! there are so many people who have so little and i have been blessed....so here's to the giving away!!! we are going to be welcoming a new life in the next couple of months and i want to detox my environment. i am feeling rejuvenated already! if anyone wants to go celebrate, firebirds has the best creme brulee cheesecake in the universe. always a reason to celebrate right! :))

nursery is 95% complete. still waiting on the curtains i ordered from anthropologie that have been on back order forevvvver. they are worth the wait ;) ive also ordered a pretty ruffle linen crib skirt that will be here in november. i can not wait to rock LC in her sweet nursery.

this weather is so amazing! its in the 70's & sky full of sun @ least the dogs got to go for a walk!

on to todays pic:

sorry...another iphone pic. so handy

this is a pillow that my dear sister made me. she is ever so crafty & talented, much like my grandmother.

notice the rug has the same flowers, very much a coincidence.

i love my sister and so excited for her and LC to be bff.

what a fun aunt she will have :)

i love you angela dee

journey of patience

2010-09-24T11:43:00.000-07:00

i get nauseated at the thought of blogging at times because i am sooo terrible at keeping up. i WILL do better! i WiLL! so much to catch up on... so ill be brief as i fill you with months past & present.

ive realllly been missing photography, just had to throw that in there. since my last post, i have gotten pregnant (yay).

this pregnancy has been a bit different, well a lot different. after loosing wyatt august 31st of 2009, because of an incompetent cervix, my doctor suggested doing a cervical cerclage. at 13 weeks, i got "sown up". since the end of july i have been VERY limited on my activity. i am not allowed to do any exercise, housework, cleaning, etc. at first, yes i thought it would be nice. NO, do not wish for bed rest of any sort. soooo many people think it would be so wonderful, as i did.

God has taught me so much through this experience. i would like to share with you along the (rest) of the way what i have learned!

when i first became pregnant, i lived minute by minute in fear.

is my baby going to make it?

will i make it full term?

can i live through another loss?

why me?

after weeks and months of stress, sadness & fear, i realized i was not being who God wanted me to be. My hair was falling out, my thoughts and actions were doing nothing but giving the devil a foothold to pull me down. this was no way for me to carry on. not only was i hurting God, i was hurting my husband, family and my unborn child.

trusting God means giving Him my EVERYTHING. that incluldes my pregnancy. each day is a blessing. daily prayer, thanksgiving, reading scripture has transformed me from a "hot mess" to basically someone who has no clue what the future holds, but i do know that God has a plan for me, and his plan is perfect. this life was given to me and i am not in control. there are many verses that i have loved lately, one of my favorites is :

"my soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me." psalm 63:8

i am currently 21.6 weeks pregnant. praying every single day that i make it to at least 32 weeks.

will i COPE with this modified bed rest and waist my time away or will i CONQUER this precious time and grow as a person in every way?

my husband, family & friends have been SO incredible.

cleaning, cooking, taking me to target to ride in the hover around etc.

i am blessed.

i continue to crave marinara sauce and always chocolate, therefore my pregnancy continues.

uggghh i could just eat all day. not good when exercise is not allowed.

i have recently began to feel little LC move all around in my belly. there are no words to explain how it feels, so amazing, yet not real all at the same time!

every wednesday, there is a nurse who comes to my house to give me a shot to help prevent preterm labor. hate the shots, but she listens to her heart beat and i LoVe it!

my goal is to conquer everyday and be thankful for ALL of my blessings.

until next post, which will be sOOn :) i will add a picture of some item in the nursery, oh and we are expecting a little girl, Lyles Corrine Lee! anytime in December or January would be great for her to make her appearance :)

ok.. not the greatest quality, this was taken with my iphone at random. i am limited on going up and down the steps, so this will do for now! this is one of my favorite things in the nursery. its a long narrow quilt that was my moms. it was somewhat of my inspiration for colors etc. to me it feels calm, sweet, innocent with a funky flare as its draped over the yellow iron bed! more pics to come :)

HOT SUMMER!!!

2010-06-15T07:52:00.000-07:00

wow its warm outside.

i have been so blessed with many shoots lately!

family has been in brazil since the end of May, so glad ive had something to keep me busy from wondering how much fun they are having without me! ;)

spent the day yesterday with my favorite nephew chip. we went to see karate kid & LOvEd it!!! reminded me of my karate days, ha!

here are a couple of my favorite recent pics! enjoy & God bless!

2010-04-30T20:51:00.000-07:00

wow. we will pretend that my last blog was waaaaay more recent than OCTOBER :0

im terrible.

so much has gone on since then. where do i begin!!!!! well God is good and he always will be, HE has carried us through so much and we are still walking with Him as life can be so difficult at times.

spring time has brought lots of joys. how i love flowers, sunshine and dog walks.

we recently had a booth at one of my favorite events of the year, DOUBLE DECKER!!!

i am posting one of my fav pics i had there. its ajax bar.

theses and many other prints are for sale at the kaleidoscope (next to ajax)

hope everyone is doing marvelous.

looking forward to blogging more frequently.

much love <3

jennie

love love loved my weekend

2009-10-19T15:29:00.000-07:00

this weekend my sweet-0-pie landon and i went 7 hours south to pascagoula, MS! my brother and his wife reside there....i love them and wish they were closer :(( but we had a fabulous visit and laughter was for sure a refreshing cure all for the time being! landon and will, my brother woke up way before the sun to prepare for a fishing day in the cold beauty of the bayou. melissa and i on the other hand had planned to join, but glad we decided to go way later in the day. we also woke up very early and drove .8 of a mile to the ocean, kinda beachy area. i wanted to share a couple of my favorite photos of them. i am so fortunate to have a brother who i adore, respect, and kinda look like who married a wonderful, giggly, sweet, photogenic woman, who i also kinda look like, go figure! landon an i also drove to "nawlins" and spent the day sunday....more photos to come! <3

i <3 sundays

2009-10-04T17:12:00.000-07:00

today was a wonderful day. waking up to the sound of rain is always so peaceful to me, if only i could stay in bed! after a blessed day at church this morning, i drove down and had a wonderful afternoon with my parents and sister. of course i snuck in a couple photos!

"Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Chris with an undying love!" eph. 6:24

God bless u,

jennie

extremely overdue!!!

2009-09-17T21:18:00.000-07:00

wow!!! this is many months behind!!! so many photographs taken since.... where should i begin????? this has been a difficult yet wonderful year so far. i have never considered myself a good writer or storyteller! so, bare with me and ill be brief. i now truely know how it feels to be held. never been closer to God, so how can i complain? not complaining, just learning more about God's grace and mercies. in march i lost one of my favorites, my dog winston. no clue he was sick, taking him in for a check up only to find out he was covered in cancer and had to be put down the same day. :(( although winston is totally irreplaceable, we got a new dog not long after. wegman, a great dane :0 he is fabulous. fyi- we love dogs. ;)

on april 5th this year, i took a home pregnancy test, really for no reason and out of TOTAL shock and excitement all at once, saw a + on the little white stick. wow, 8 test later i sorta started to believe it, well not really! we were so thrilled and found out it was a little boy and we named him wyatt landon. july of this year landon lost both of his precious grandparents within 7 days of each other. not having a clue why, we grieved and trusted God.

August 27th at 2:30 in the morning, my water broke. i was absolutely scared to death and had no idea what to do, what to think, pray or even say. because of an incopotant cervix, i went into labor and had to deliver wyatt on August 31st. he was the most precious baby i have ever seen much less held. he was absolutely perfect in every way. being only 21 weeks gestational age, wyatt did not have the lung development to survive. we were broken totally. why? why would God bless us with a baby only to take him away. we still do not know and may never know. we have a peace that passes all understanding and feel his presence with us every step daily. we have already seen miracles happen during this loss.. God's plan is perfect and we are not. we will patiently wait until we reunite with Wyatt as he is in the safe hands of Jesus. we will get over this mountain because we know that we can do all things through His strength.

here are a couple of my favorite shots since april

i hope you enjoy and God bless you

jennie

my precious baby Wyatt Landon holding his daddys finger

sunflare fabulosity

this is my sweet weggles (wegman) still a puppy, getting bigger and bigger!

sweetest couples, their suprise 50th wedding/anniversary! so much love here.

my mother in law and her husband keith at the wedding in june, so happy :)

thieir invitaion and rings...

cutest thing, austin pete williams

"big Jim" glows while watching mimi get ready for her wedding ceremony.

love him, this is evan...this pic reminds me of how God watches over us. this is evans earthly father watching over him as he grows and learns.

dont you just LoVe that face!

greenbrier...in the smokey mountains, what a wonderful place to sit and worship God.

tree of "hope" in greenbrier

my sweet niece Fe, she had fun that day at the dog park, her mother on the other hand did not afterwards!

Wyatts memorial

my precious father

this is my friend sumer and her mother, both from egypt and have the same tatoos representing their faith

my beautiful friend meredith holding wegman at 3 months old.

sumer, dan and baby JR

friend angela on a downtown shoot!

navy pier in chicago

elizabeth, isnt she beautimous!

driving down 385

julie b. love her so.

blue bonnets for my mother, houston tx

lindsey carr

2009-04-06T19:57:00.000-07:00

this is my new fren lindsey...isnt she beautimous!!! poor thing thought we were going for coffee. it was me, her (great subject) my photog fren susan (designsbyprater.com) and perfect weather, of course we are going to take pics!!! we had a blast and she worked it! she's a natural! here are a couple shots from the afternoon. enjoy.

peace.

picture day with mrs. ferguson

2009-01-29T20:44:00.001-08:00

pippy came to play!

2009-01-29T19:01:00.000-08:00

so today i was off!! yay...so pippy (jennifer) came to visit me and we had a ball!!! we started off by going to the park for pics, we FrOzE. it was in the 30's and extremely chilli. Then we went to the coffee shop (my fav. thing to do). here are a couple of my favorite pics of the day!

enjoy!

photo fun... ;)

2009-01-22T11:41:00.000-08:00

one of these days i hope to do nothing but photography, its a love i have that grows and grows!!! susan and I love to just go exploring with our cams and recently that is exactly what we did! We met some wonderful friends and "subjects"! Amanda and Evan, they are adorable and the camera LoVeS them!!! Susan and I also took several (hundreds) of pics of one another as well!! We sacrificed the feeling in our legs, hands, nose and ears! It was a blast! An all day blast that is! These are a couple pics from the day!

enjoy, peace out.

2008-12-23T19:43:00.000-08:00

I hope you all remember that Jesus is the reason for the Season!!!

take some time and relax, enjoy your family and be thankful!!!

love me some christmas time!!!

2008-12-17T15:36:00.000-08:00

my odd collection that i LoVe!!!

2008-11-23T12:18:00.001-08:00

some of my favs...

2008-11-23T11:39:00.000-08:00

my friend flavio on the beach in brazil.

Paula is no longer his love forever.....

2008-11-22T21:43:00.000-08:00

puppy love...

bear ate our watermelon!!!!!!!!

2008-10-26T13:36:00.000-07:00

pics

2008-10-21T21:48:00.000-07:00

today was my first day ever to blog! i will be learning more hopefully! its way past my bed time....so till next time!!!!
love and best dishes yall! hehe! :)

2008-10-21T08:07:00.000-07:00

land and i this fall!