Lonely....so lonely

So Stephen is in Toronto for the next three days doing some training for work, and I'm extremely jealous....but mostly I'm just lonely.  For a split second i thought FREEDOM!!  Three days to do whatever I want, when I want.   But then as I drove away after dropping him off at the airport I just felt lonely.   And now I'm just delaying going to bed because I hate sleeping alone.  I contemplated buying a ticket and just flying out there myself.  I'd LOVE to visit Toronto.  Unfortunately I'd have to rob a bank in order to fly there.  Seriously....$800 Westjet???  Isn't that a bit much?  Good grief.  So now I'm stuck in the frozen, but slowly thawing, Edmonton....alone.  Good thing Bails is here with me.  That's what we call Balian in case you were wondering. 

Stephen was not excited about this trip.  I don't know why.  He was a little nervous about flying, even though he's done it before.  It probably didn't help that I told him about a story I captioned the night before where part of the airplane roof blew off while 36,000 feet in the air.  No one died though, so it's all good.  He also was sad that I wouldn't be there with him.  We like each other, what can I say.  And me and Bails are both deathly ill, so he felt bad leaving us.  But I hope he tries to enjoy it....just a little bit. So I hope you're having a great time hun, livin' it up for both of us.  I'm there in spirit.  And remember to bring us home a souvenir!

Now an upday for our almost 4-month-old.  HE'S STILL SO CUTE!!!  I just can't stand how cute he is.  He melts my heart everytime he smiles.  Stephen and I just can't get over how adorable he is.  He can do no wrong in our eyes.  We got an official laugh out of him the other day.  It was hilarious.  I think it almost scared him a little bit.  haha  I wish I got it on camera.  He's starting to grab at his toys and play with them.  He's drooling like crazy!   He goes to bed around 8 and sleeps until about 4am, then feeds and back to bed until 9.  He's about 16 pounds.  He's a chunker.  He really is just such a happy baby.  He totally interacts with us and reacts to all our smiles and ridiculous baby talk.  I can't even imagine my life with Balian.  Yup, I said it.  I'm THAT cliche mom.  I don't even care, because it's true.  So here's some pictures of the cutest boy in the world. 

See...I told you he's the cutest boy in the world

I got a new program for editing.  I wish our eyes were really that color.

Cute matching cousins!  They love each other. 

He always gives daddy the biggest smiles.  I love this picture.  I love my boys

BAH!

He kinda loves me.  Check out our matching squinty eyes.  We're definitely related.

Oh Mister Bails

 

UN-Freakin' Believable
My husband has a flaw....I know...I can hardly believe it myself.  But it's a pretty serious flaw...and lately a very expensive flaw.  Luckily he has his sugar mama to pick up the slack.  My husband loses things....like A LOT. 

I can't even count how many debit cards we've had since we've been married.  He'll lose his, so I'll give him mine.  Then he'll lose mine so we make a trip to the bank where we're on a first-name basis.  We repeat this every couple of months.

He lost his wedding ring.  YUP!!  his wedding ring!!!  Isn't that supposed to have like sentimental meaning or something??  Anyway, I bought him a new one.  I actually like the second one better, and so does Stephen.

But this latest stunt really packed a punch...right in the gut.  It hurt.  A lot.  Stephen lost his iphone like two weeks ago.  THANKFULLY we found it.  We really dodged a bullet there...or did we.  NOPE we didn't, because he lost it again.  And this time it's for real gone.  I'm sure you're asking, why don't you just use the "find my iphone" app. GREAT question.  Because my lovely husband didn't quite get around to that...even though we've had the phones for three months, and even though he's already lost it one.  Suckadoo!!

So because I'm an amazing wife I stayed calm and collected through this whole experience of tearing the house apart...a couple of times.  Trust me, it is NOT in this house.  Secretly I still think it is though.  There's also a very good chance it's in one of the ailes at Costco.  But apparently only bad people shop at Costco because nobody turned it in.  Well, unfortunately Stephen NEEDS a phone for work.  And even I will agree that you can't go back to a 'normal' phone after having an iphone.  So off to southgate we went today to purchase a new iphone....full price.  Ouch.  It stung a little. 

Oh well, I'm over it.  Stephen owes me for life basically for not ripping his head off, and he now has the option of wearing at all times one of the following. 

The Jack Bauer man bag....very fashionable if you as me...not to mention practical

The always popular and never out of style fanny pack

Or last but not least the hipster cell phone case.  Love it.

Best of luck to you hun!!

Balian Two Months!!!

Soooooo I'm definitely behind on this post.  Balian is NOW two months and 12 days, but I really wanted to record his two month mark.  Balian has changed so much!  Some things about Balian:

*He still likes to sleep on his stomach the most....even though I'm not supposed to do that
*He is now sleeping 6-8 hours at night. 
*He's still eating about every three hours, but now he's eating like TWICE as much!!  Good thing I'm built like a cow...or according to my pediatrician, a moose.  I've really lucked out with the whole breast feeding think I think.
*At his two month check-up he was in the 50th percentile for both his weight and height and 15th percentile for his head....which I kinda find weird.  All this time I thought he had a rather large head....maybe his chubby cheeks just make it seem larger than it really is. 
*He LOVES his tummy time and is getting so strong.  He pushes up so that his whole chest is off the floor and then rests on his elbows and just looks all around.  It's the cutest thing.
*He loves showers and swimming...especially with cousin Malin.
*He loves kisses...the open mouth kind
*He loves watching the tv.  No matter where he is in the room he will stretch and contort his body in order to catch a glimpse of what we're watching. 

He's still such an awesome baby.  He cries when he's hungry, and whimpers when he's tired.  It doesn't get much easier than that.  He is such a joy to have in our family, and I can't imagine our lives without him.  We love you so much Balian!

All these pictures are from my iphone, so sorry for the not so great quality.

Mama's little heartbreaker

He's actually 2 months and one week here.  Close enough. 

I love this picture.

 

Does he look like his daddy???

Or his mommy???

Good Times

Well, it's that time of year again around here...anniversary time!!!  I can't believe we've been married four years, and that next year means it's been FIVE YEARS!!!  That's so crazy!  Our anniversary is February 17th, but don't kid yourself...I don't get spoiled with Valentine's Day and our anniversary.  That was made abundantly clear to me when we decided to get married on the 17th.  If stephen had his way we would have been married in May, but I didn't want to wait that long.  I won that decision, but I lose out on Valentine's Day as a result.  I've learned to accept it. 

I couldn't have asked for a better guy to be married to.  Stephen is absolutely my best friend.  I know I can talk to Stephen about anything.  He knows me better than I think I know myself sometimes.  It's actually kinda creepy.  He always teases me by asking me a question and then answering it EXACTLY how I would....voice and all.  I'm really predictable I guess.  I don't think I could have married a more fun person.  Stephen is hilarious.  The witty comments that come out of his mouth never cease to amaze me.  I can honestly say I don't think a day has gone by in our marriage without me laughing. 

We have a perfect marriage.  We've never ever had an argument.  Can you believe it???  BAH!!  Neither can I.  Juuuuuuust kidding. We've definitely had our "moments", but it always resolves itself and we're better for it.  Sooooooooooo cliche I know, but I honestly don't know what I would do without Stephen in my life.  He is everything to me.  He is the most amazing husband, and a wonderful father.  I can't wait to share the rest of our lives together

this is us the night we got engaged at the YSA halloween dance.

This was one of our engagment photos.  love it. haha

Our wedding day.  I love this picture.  I don't think I've ever felt prettier than I was on my wedding day.

Our 1st Anniversary.  We went to Banff for the weekend.  On our way to the gondola here.

As close as I could find for our 3rd Anniversary.  Totally skipped pictures with the 2nd.  oops

 Stephen with our baby boy.  I love watching him with Balian

My maternity pictures.  This is how Stephen and I are most of the time...laughing

And of course our precious baby boy.  We got some good genes, the two of us.  We make ridiculously cute babies

Happy anniversary hun!!  I love you more than you'll ever know.  Thanks for four amazing years.  I can't wait for many more to come.

White Tuxedo

On Sunday February 6 Balian James Terence McKee was blessed.  Shayla hemmed a good 4 to 5 inches of his pants the day before, but it was worth it.  He has the shortest little legs....no thanks to me. He looked so handsome in his little white tux though.  Stephen was super nervous the morning of.  He said he had a "spiritual readers block".  Haha  so funny.  He gave an awesome blessing though and of course had me bawling by the end.  I don't know what he was so nervous about because he gave a beautiful blessing.  My friend Julie was able to record it with her sweet shorthand skills, and I'm so glad I have it recorded to look back at and reread and that Balian will be able to read it when he's older.  I'm pretty sure we hold the ward record for how many men were in the blessing circle as well :)  I'm not even sure what the final count was but there was at least 10.  The baby blessing the week before us had three!  HAH!!  Awesome. 

 I'm so grateful that I was able to marry a worthy priesthood holder that is able to preside over our household and give me and our children blessings.  Stephen is always so in tune with the Spirit.  So many times he's had the 'thought' or 'feeling' that we need to do something, and Balian's blessing was no exceptiong.  Everything was meant perfectly for our little boy. 

We were pretty exhausted and not on the ball enough to remember to get a picture while we were all still in our Sunday best, so I just took pictures of the little one.  How cute is he in his littl tux though?!  And he was even smiling!  What a cute little munchkin.

He's so flippin cute!!  I can't get over it. 

A Little Late...

I realized the other day I haven't posted pictures of Balian's nursey!!  I had to be creative with decorating the room, but we actually lucked out and had two rooms available for the baby...one a greenish color that would work for a baby boy and one a bright orange color for a little girl.  If you saw the orange room you would be VERY happy we had a boy.  Forever I wanted white furnishings, but I could never find a set or separate pieces that looked good together.  So we landed a steal of a deal at Sears during baby days, and I actually LOVE the set we got.  I did some modge podge of some frames and letters and numbers to hang on the wall, as well his name in block letters.  It was so fun to put it all together and see the final picture.  It's probably my favorite room in the whole house now!!

I  LOVE my glider.  So comfy 

I do have pictures to put in the frames...just haven't got around to it.

Closer up of the bedding.  I love it, and I got such a good deal on it!!!

And just the cutest little man posing for the camera.  SO CUTE!!

CHRISTMAS!!!!

I know it's waaaaaaay late, but I still wanted to write about our Christmas this year.  Christmas day WAS Balian's due date.......I'm sooo glad he decided to come early.  Secretly I think it would have been kind of cool to have a baby on Christmas Day....but I'm sure that Balian would have cursed the day he was born for the rest of his life if that happened.  This year we had Christmas in Edmonton with all of Stephen's family.  Everyone lives in Edmonton except for his sister, and she came up from St. George, so the whole fam damily was here.  Good times.  It was super fun, loud, full of food, fights and fatigue. 

Christmas Eve is always something I look forward to when we spend Christmas with the McKees.  There's a plethora of sandwich fixins, anything and everything you want for a sandwich, with all the accompanying side dishes.   Soooooooo good.  I ate waaaaay too much.  And I didn't even have the excuse of being pregnant anymore.  Dangit.  We attempted a nativity renactment this year.  It was probably the most condensed nativity I've ever witnessed, but so cute.

Christmas Eve night Balian and I went to bed around 11....only to be awakened by Stephen around 1 A.M.  Thanks hun.  haha  He couldn't sleep, so we decided just to open our presents then.  Our Christmas was pretyy low key this year due to our delightful child being born.  I got Stephen a chef's jacket to match the one he got me for my birthday and a digital picture frame for his desk at work and a panini grill.  We very much enjoy paninis.  Mmmmmm  Stephen got me some new lulu lemon gear...love it!! and the Hunger Games series.....also love that!!!  And Balian got a giant stuffed monkey.  so cute.  

We went over to McKees after that to see what everyone else got and open our gifts from his parents.  We got a butt load of kitchen gear which was soooo nice, and Balian got a sweet bumbo chair and a cute little sled.  It will be so fun to use with him next year.  We hung out and had breakfast, but I was totally wasted, so we went home to sleep and enjoy the rest of Christmas Day with our new little family.  We had an awesome Christmas.  I can't wait to start having our own little family Christmas and start our own traditions.  We've already got a few good ones in mind.  I love Christmas and the spirit that it brings into our lives.  Everyone just seems happier during this time of year, and I like that.  It's always sad when it's over, but now I can't wait until next year!!!  Here's a few pictures.  I didn't take many.  I took more video this year.  

Stockings hung by the fireplace

Ya....I had Balian five days after this picture

 The spread.  Mmmmm

 Cute cousins

 Cutest Christmas babe ever!!