4 month checkup

Brody had his 4 month checkup and vaccinations today. the shots are never fun....but i love seeing how much hes grown since the last visit. Hes still in the 97th percentile for height and the 90th for weight! such a big boy! he weighs 18 lbs 6 oz and is 28 inches long.

BABY ANDREW IS HERE!!

Today i was reminded of the miracle of birth..... its definitely something that no matter how much you THINK you understand it before you give birth yourself, its something that is SO much more amazing after you have had a child. I went to visit natalie today in the hospital. This morning around 3 a.m., she gave birth to Andrew Ray Snuffin. What a sweet baby! It makes me SO excited to know that natalie has now entered mommyhood! It is by far the most amazing experience i think a woman can have....and i am so excited that natalie has now started this amazing journey!! words cant descibe what i felt today, watching one of my closest friends with her sweet little boy....only because i know how much she is going to fall in love with him! Congrats Natalie and Gary!!! Welcome to the wonderful world of being a parent....theres NOTHING like it!

A Gift from God

I am overwhelmed by God's blessings. He finds the craziest ways to bless us sometimes! our hardwood floors were put into our house last week. when we went to look at them i thought they looked a little lighter than what i had picked out. we didnt think anything of it, until our builder called and told us they had put the wrong floors in our house! our builder told us that the people would probably offer us some money, so they wouldnt have to pull the floors up and replace them. I told brian it would have to be a pretty big amount for me not to get the floors replaced. i like the floors that they put down...but it just made me a little mad that it wasnt what i had originally chosen. They gave us $4500 to keep the floors in!! I feel like the Lord had them put the wrong floors in, just to bless us with this extra money! Ive never been so happy about somebody making a mistake:) I think the Lord just loves to bless his children!

Big Step for Mommy

Today i took a big step...i finally sent brody to the nursery during church. i know some of you are thinking...."hes 4 months old, he should have been in the nursery weeks ago!" well, i havent been ready for that....i guess until today. Until about a month ago brody did great in the service...he usually slept through the whole thing. but hes passing that "sleepy baby" stage. if there is anything going on around him he wants to be awake and watching! we have a little room at church for nursing moms to take their babies to during the service. its got a one way glass where we can sit with our baby and watch the service. so for about the past month or two brody would make it through the worship time, being very quiet, and about the time the preaching would start, he would begin to get unhappy, so i would just go and sit with him in that room. But, its been getting harder and harder to concentrate on the service while im dealing with him too. So today, like always, his eyes popped wide open as soon as the preaching began, so off we headed to the nursery. i hadnt planned on taking him today, but it just happened! before i knew it i was dropping him off! they said he did really well though! so i guess this is a new part of his little life....nursery on sundays! my little boy is growing up....or I guess maybe mommy is!

Never ending battle

Brody and i are having a battle....over whether or not he is going to suck his fingers. im pretty sure that no child of a dental hygienist should suck their fingers! theres hardly a time that he isnt shoving his hands in his mouth, and hes finally found his fingers. the funny part is that hes been sucking his 2 middle fingers just like parker did when he was little! im not sure whos going to win this battle.....he thinks its so funny when you pull his fingers out of his mouth. he just laughs and puts them right back in there!

Blondie

when i got brody out of the bath yesterday, the sun was shining in just right.....i could see a head full of very blonde hair coming up under his dark hair (that has been falling out and has left him quite bald:) it looks like we are going to have a little blondie:) just like his mommy when she was little!

house update

i feel like the house progress is creeping along at this point! Everything is completely done except for hardwoods and carpet....but its still going to be 2 weeks before we move in. we are SO excited! im so ready to be organized again! half of our stuff is in storage and the other half is all over the place here at mom and dads. brian has been working so hard over the past few months to get everything ready for the horses to be able to move in too.....putting up fencing, building barns, seeding and fertilizing the pastures, pulling up trees....the list goes on and on. its been such hard work...but im so proud of him for everything hes done out there! it looks amazing! hopefully the horses will be able to be out there soon. i cant wait to sit on my back porch and look out and see them! ive had horses since i was 13 and they have never been on the same property as me...so im pretty excited:) heres a few new pictures.....the view from the barns looking at one of the pastures and the back of the house.....and that gorgeous stream is off the back of the land.