emailing the station

Well, I called up to the station this morning and this really nice guy said that he has been told to tell anyone with questions about the KISS FM baby contest to email the promotions department. So... that's what I'm doing. 

Hopefully there was just some sort of mistake and that Eli can be added. If not, I will continue to have a knot in my stomach and probably eat the other half of this giant cookie, and maybe they will tell us what didn't work so we know for next time.

hmm...

sad news :(

well I checked the contest website and Eli's picture wasn't on there... it said if a picture wasn't on there then they didn't receive the picture or the paperwork or both. We sent in everything but apparently something didn't work. They don't give you any confirmation so you just hope they get it. Thank you for wanting to vote for our cute and kissable baby! Goodbye $5,000... hahaha... 

well...

I did it. I entered Eli into 106.1 Kiss FM's Most Kissable Baby Contest. Many people told me that it would be such a good idea for us to do that, I agreed, and well, we did it!

Voting starts tomorrow. I have no clue how this works except for a lot of voting must be done in order for him to win. I can't even imagine how many people entered their cute kiddos in the contest, so I'm sure the first round will be the toughest to get through! I think there are 4 rounds, so after this initial floodgate of cute babies, they will be narrowed down to the top 100. 

So, this first round will be a "who knows more people" type thing because I doubt most Kiss FM listeners will scroll through the countless numbers of babies and only decide on one! You can vote one time per email per day I believe. 

The winner gets $5,000! Isn't that awesome? 

Picking the picture was insanely difficult. I know it probably doesn't matter because seriously, all of those pictures were so cute, but we decided on the one that he is sitting on the bench kind of looking off to the left. I will post the pic when I get it... it's not on this computer because...

Wes bought me a new computer!!!!!!! Isn't that so awesome?! He got me a macbook and I love it! He bought a refurbished one, which is cheaper than a brand new one... he's a smart cookie!

So I have now entered the world of the Apple computers. haha... our other computer is almost dead. Not quite completely dead. I mean, you can do some stuff on there really quickly if you be sure and save it before it shuts down again. (which is also why there was a lack of blogging this week)

ok. Voting for Eli starts tomorrow. I'll post the link when I get it. I'm kind of nervous! Isn't that weird? I know it's a contest of cute kids and who knows who, but I'm still nervous! haha... the hardest thing is going to get people to vote every day for each round. ...we'll see! 

My husband's favorite things

Please go check out JJs Photography and leave him a comment to tell him how amazing these pictures are!!

I got tagged! So, here we go!

Wes loves...

his family (and making weird faces in pictures)
his dad's studio in Abilene, Castle Sound
eating dessert
going on vacation
doing Blue Steel
wearing Diesel jeans
his friends
playing guitar

and being a dad :)
I tag Ashley, Susan, Darby, and Taren. :)

My little pumpkin

ugghhh... there are SO many photos to choose from! Here are some of our favorites, and yes... I know... there are A LOT! enjoy friends! :)

And thank you SO much Jeff Johnson for taking these pics! You are amazing friend!

the midnight hours

oh my gosh! We had the BEST time yesterday at the Arboretum! Eli looked adorable, but when does not look adorable? But Jeff's camera is so awesome because it caught all the fine details and just captured the color so well! We took pictures for over an hour and Eli did great! He let us know that he was finished by crawling off the "set" haha... literally!

After we finished we all went to eat and Jeff was loading the pictures onto his computer and we got a little preview. ...my heart was seriously overflowing! So many of those photos were just too sweet for words and I cannot wait to see them again! So Jeff- hurry up! :)

Now I would like to end on that note except that when we put Eli down for bed, we thought our day was over.

wrong.

For some reason Eli woke up around midnight. Honestly he usually wakes up once during the night because he somehow gets himself sitting up and is too sleepy to figure out he needs to lay back down. So Wes or I just go in, lay him back down, and he goes right back to sleep.

Last night however that was SO not the case! This child was up crying and sleeping crying and sleeping for over an hour! We could not figure out what was wrong with him. I don't know if he just was over stimulated or what. We checked him out, nothing looked different on his body, he wasn't running fever, we changed his diaper... just nothing seemed out of place.

Finally much later we gave him some formula, stuck him in bed with us (which he usually doesn't like now) and he went back to sleep. Now he's up, crawling around and playing like last night didn't even happen! Isn't that weird? I still have no idea what was up but he's like new this morning!

Friends and Food

Yesterday was such a fun day because Eli and I got to go on a play date with Catherine and Makayla! We went downtown to the park when I got off work because Cat had the day off for Fair Day! She now teaches at a different school but we used to work together and I miss her! :)

Her daughter is almost a year and a half and is like a perfect little pixie! She's so tiny and beautiful and just toddles around everywhere! Eli did his thing and sat there on the blanket and chewed on all of her cute pink toys!

We had so much fun, especially when Makayla decided to drink my tea and focus on the lemon and pretend that she had a camera/cell phone! beyond adorable...

I'm so excited about today because Eli is going to have some pictures taken at the pumpkin patch! He has those cute new outfits my mom got him and Jeff is so excited to take the pictures! It's going to be super fun so of course I'll share the goods once he emails them to me!

Eli has now learned to clap! It is so adorable! I don't know if you've ever seen Robbie Seay in concert but when he claps after a song he kind of sticks his arms almost straight out infront of him and does a little clap. Well, Eli claps just like that along with adding some spirit fingers in between! haha... really cute...

And since we're well into the 9 month mark he's been trying some new foods, none of which he has liked so far. But, I'm pretty persistent and I know it takes more than one time to like something new. Today was "chicken vegetable dinner" and it smelled kind of like turkey and dressing. weird, I know. well, I'm pretty sure this picture says it all.

Oh I forgot! Yesterday after the park, we came home and it was time for him to eat and take a nap. Well he had been asleep for about an hour and I heard him wake up and start fussing a bit, so I went and got him, brought him back to the living room, and he fell back asleep on my stomach on the couch for another hour. It was so sweet... and I just loved every moment of that even more because I was watching Oprah. I was watching it because it was about a mom who had accidentally left her daughter in the car all day and she ended up dying from the heat. awful. I know. But it was such a good reminder to really slow down and be present in all of life's moments.