what a difference a year makes

most of you know that myers and sienna were born on the same day, same hospital, same doctor. myers is about 6 hours older than sienna. here they are on their first birthday.

i wish i wasn't in the middle of this picture because it's so cute!

a fun weekend

last weekend we went to atlanta to see seth play against the braves. on friday night we stayed with the elkins at jordan's parents condo. evey was so funny!! she wanted to pretend she was a baby like myers. on saturday morning we went to the aquarium with the elkins, the tuminellos and chad and allie. i would highly recommend it to anyone. it was great. click here to see pics, since we left our camera at home. on saturday night we met up with the mikkelsons and watched seth play. myers got some kind of bad cold, so we had to leave early and sit in the freaknic traffic(apparently freaknic is a huge event. i had never heard of it.). poor matt had to miss the end of the "first no hitter in rockies history"! apparently this is a big deal. we were able to get one pic of myers and seth and casey tuminello sent me a pic she took of our fam at the aquarium in front of the jellyfish, or as i like to call them "man of wars." thanks casey! on sunday we went to the game again and went to dinner with the mikkelsons.

poor myers was so sick with swollen yucky eyes and a runny nose:(

the first birthday

well, my baby's first birthday has come and gone. i absolutely cannot believe he is one. i thought i would be more sad that i am, but i think it's because he is so fun at this age that i can't wish him back to being a baby. but this year has gone by way too fast. it's so hard to remember back before he was born. i can't imagine not knowing him. i feel like i know him better than i know myself. i know his schedule, what he likes, doesn't like, what his sweet little feet and hands look like, how he likes to sleep, his favorite things, what makes him happy, everything. he's absolutely perfect. i can't believe i was chosen to raise him. his personality is so loving and sweet. he's easy going. he just goes along with whatever. he has made my life way better than i could ever imagine it could be, and it just keeps getting better.

on his real birthday i took off work, and matt and i took him to Sal and Mookies for pizza and ice cream. we had his party on april 10th(the weekend of the masters) and it was a golf party. we had a great time. p.s. birthdays are kind of a big deal to me!! here are some pics.

the birthday boy

the food

the cake (made by Casey Tuminello!! She is so good! And this cake actually tasted good. Usually fondant cakes don't taste good, but she makes her fondant out of marshmallows, so it was delicious. i didn't eat any at the party, but i finished off the leftovers the week after.)

the favor bags

family pic

walker, reid and mary abbott in their party hats. they waited so patiently for myers to stand up and smile for a pic. it never happened. sweet reid stood there with his best smile for about 10 pics.

taelyn and her boyfriend "mita matt"

the birthday boy with uncle marcus

opening presents

happy birthday to you!

he LOVES cake!

it's officially...

the birthday week!!

i cannot believe it's actually here! on this day one year ago i was so upset because dr. travelstead told me i was going to have to wait another week to have him because "he wasn't ready". well he decided he was too ready. anyway, the birthday party plans are under way. i've gone a little overboard, but i'm so excited about the party. i'll give you a hint about the theme. it's on the weekend of the masters.

easter egg hunt

on saturday we went to the madison easter egg hunt at strawberry park. matt and i had a lot of fun. myers didn't understand what we were doing. he didn't understand why he couldn't get the eggs until they said go. then when they finally said go he got one egg and didn't care about getting any more. he sat in the easter bunny's lap and it was so pretty outside we got some cute pics of him.

ch ch ch changes

we've had a few changes around the ginn house lately.

first, as most of you know we haven't sold our house in hernando. so until we do, we get to live in our lovely "rental". we try to do the best we can with what we've got here in our rental, but space is limited. we joke because our landlord uses our "florida room" (as she calls it) as a selling point of the house. the room is far from a floriday room. it's basically jus an enclosed room with vinyl siding. definitely nothing fancy. we turned our floriday room into a playroom this past weekend because myers' toys were overtaking our living room. it's still a work in progress, but it's getting there.

Secondly, we recovered our kitched table chairs. right before we got married we bought a table from a thrift store. i love the table, but the chairs needed to be recovered. two and a half years later, we finally did it.

before

after

myers has had some major changes too.

first, he has worn jeans for the first time, and he looks so cute in them. i went and bought him another pair because they were so cute. he looks like such a big boy in them.

he has also started a new school. it's been a big transition. matt has had to leave him bawling crying while the he is clinging to him. this morning i dropped him off, and he didn't cry when i left, so hopefully he is adjusting to it.

excuses, excuses, excuses

i could come up with at least 20 excuses as to why i haven't blogged in two months. my internet was down, we've been busy, our computer is missing about 10 keys and it's really hard to type-just to name a few. but, truthfully i'm not a writer, and i hate to write. i only did this blog because i knew i wouldn't write in a baby book, and i know it would give me some accountability. anyway, i'm back.