Blog Friends

I wanted to just give a quick thanks to those of you who responded to my blog button swap post over the weekend. I've added all the buttons to my sidebar and in an effort to send some blog love your way, I thought I would spotlight each of you in this post.

Laura is a new blog friend and she shares my love for yellow labs. Her yellow lab, Cody, is so cute! Please stop by her blog and say hello!

  I've been following Catie for quite a while now. I love reading about her sweet little boy Gus and her new little girl on the way. :-)

Emily is a new blog friend. I love reading about her sweet family and her inspiration in running. I wish I was as motivated as she is. :-)

I've been following Jennifer for a little while now. Her little girl Tenley is around the same age as my Jackson. I love reading all about her sweet family. :-)

Melissa, at Bless this Voignier Nest, is such a sweet blog friend. I love reading about her 3 beautiful children, her fur-baby and feather-baby. :-)

Courtney is a new blog friend who I can't wait to get to know better. Her little boy Preston is just about a week older than my Jackson. She has a beautiful family. Stop by her blog and say hi.

Shannon is one of my favorite blog friends. She has a sweet little girl, Taylor, who turns 1 tomorrow! She and her family just moved into a beautiful home and she's been posting some pictures of each room as she decorates them. Definitely stop by her blog and check it out.

Stephanie at Buttons and Blows, is such a sweet blog friend.  I love reading about her 2 beautiful children. I highly recommend you go to her blog and read her story about her son Ian. It is such a miraculous story.

    Again, thank you to all who offered to swap blog buttons. I hope this can be beneficial to all of us and will help us meet some new friends. :-)   If anyone else would like to swap blog buttons, please feel free to send me an e-mail @ AmyRS81@aol.com.  :-)  

How To Make a Blog Button

After my blog button swap post over the weekend, I had several of you ask about how to make a blog button. Because I'm not the best at trying to explain how to do this, I found another blog that had a tutorial using PicMonkey (a free photo editing software) and Photobucket (also free). I used these 2 websites to make everything for my blog. So here is a step by step way to make a blog button. If you still need help or have any questions, please feel free to ask me. I'd be happy to help.

I'll leave you with one of my favorite pictures from the weekend. I have so many pictures to share with you  this week. We had such a fun weekend. We celebrated my nephew Mason's 1st birthday Saturday, 2 of my nieces birthdays Saturday evening and we went Apple picking today at Eckerts. I'm sad the weekend is almost over. I hope you all had a great weekend as well. ☺

Blog Button Swap!

I often think about offering sponsors on my blog, however, I'm not sure I have enough traffic or followers to really do that yet. So I thought one way to do it would be to offer a Blog Button Swap at no charge. 

If you would be interested in Swapping Blog Buttons (I put your button on my sidebar and you would then put my button on your sidebar) please feel free to e-mail me at AmyRS81@aol.com. ☺

Here's my blog button for anyone interested. If you are interested and don't have a button, just let me know and I can make something up for you.

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Jackson's 48 and 49 Week Pictures! {And his 1 year Photo Book}

Here are Jackson's 48 and 49 Week Pictures. He's growing and getting so big! I can't believe we are only 2 weeks away from his 1 yr. birthday! 

Jackson is doing great! He's trying a lot of new foods and has liked everything I've given him. (Fettuccine, meatballs, scrambled eggs, pancakes and waffles) He's still eating baby food and is still taking about 3-4 six oz. bottles a day and 1 eight oz. bottle before bed. He weighed 23 lbs. 8 ozs. at the Dr. on Monday. He's sleeping through the night pretty regularly now! Yay! He's got 8 teeth (4 on top and 4 on bottom) He's wearing 18 and 24 month clothes. He loves playing with his toys (blocks, books, little people and cars to name a few) and watching pretty much anything on Disney Jr. or Nick Jr. :-) We're getting excited about his 1st birthday party, which will be on his actual birthday this year. I'm getting the invitations ready to go out this weekend! :-) 

I also just finished up Jackson's 1 year photo book that I made for his party. I plan on making a more detailed scrapbook for him, but this will be okay for something for the guests to look at at his party.

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Jackson Lately via Instagram

I've taken several cute instagram photos of Jackson, (who else?) in the last week or so. 

If you are on instagram, please feel free to follow me here.

Jackson watching t.v. with not 1 of his blankies, but 3! We have 4 of these Carters brand blankets that I used when he was an infant. He got really attached to them over the last few months and now we don't leave home without one. They are really light weight, so they make a good blankie. ♥

Jackson asleep in his car seat after a long day of church, lunch and shopping!

Jackson sitting in the big bird chair at the Dr. office Monday morning. We were waiting in an exam room for the Dr. to come check him out. They weighed him while we were there and he weighed 23 lbs. 8 ozs. He ended up having a double ear infection and croup on top of a runny nose and cough. I'm so glad I took him in. He's on an antibiotic and they gave him a dose of steroids for the croup, which worked wonders. He seems to be feeling much better now. :-)

Jackson and Libby in the car on the way to Grandma's house last night.

Jackson playing  with an old remote control at Grandma's. The love of the remote control starts so young, Ha!

And last but not least, Jackson and Mommy, stopping to get a picture together. Jackson doesn't look too thrilled, LOL.

I hope you're all having a great week! Only 1 more day left after today! I'm so excited about the 3 day weekend coming up. :-) We have my sweet Nephew Mason's 1st B-day party on Sat. afternoon, another birthday party Sat. night for 2 of my Nieces and then we may be going Apple Picking on Monday. :-)

Wordless Wednesday!

 I do have one word for these pictures... T-R-O-U-B-L-E!!

It seems like almost every time I get onto him about doing something he's not supposed to do, this is the look I get. He almost always looks back at me with this little smile on his face! Its hard to get too mad at him because its so darn cute!

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I Can't Believe Its October Already!

And I can't believe my baby is going to be one this month!

My how time flies!

It just doesn't seem possible that its been almost a year already! I'm feeling quite emotional over it. Its a bittersweet feeling for sure. I can remember hearing mom's talk about how sad they were when they had to pack up their child's baby clothes and I thought that seemed a little silly, but I know now just how emotional that can be.

It seems as though they are a baby for such a short time and no matter how much we try and stop and take it all in, it goes by in a flash and its all just a memory. 

I am excited though, for what we have to look forward to in this next year with Jackson. His first real words, going and doing fun things and him really getting into it and getting excited about things. Taking him on his first vacation. I'm looking forward to it all!! 

So its a bittersweet feeling for me. I'm sad he won't be a baby anymore, but I'm so excited for all that we have to look forward to. He's such a sweet boy and I'm just so happy to have him in our lives. We are beyond blessed.