one year old!!

Happy 1st birthday Leyton Christian!

It's so crazy to think that this time last year, we were introduced to our little buddy, our new best friend.. our Leyton!  Last year on my birthday, I spent the day in a lot of pain anticipating the arrival of my little present.  It's hard to compare this year and last.. which one was better.  They were both wonderful, for different reasons.  On March 6th of last year, to finally meet our Leyton.. was such a dream, but this year.. to celebrate a whole year of being a part of our lives, that was.. perfect!

I think he'll appreciate having his own birthday.. :)  He made it 38 minutes into March 6th so that he could have his own day.  And I'm so glad he did.  We had a wonderful day of celebrating his birth!  I will have tons more pictures to come.. we partied.  We partied real hard.  That boy is not a shy kid, with all of his friends, or with a massive chocolate cake with his name on it. (that was so fun!)  He got some awesome presents, and overall it was a great success!  

Stayed tuned for pictures.  But for now..

baby Jude is here!

The wait is over.. on Tuesday morning, March 1st, Lisa had a baby boy!  Jude Davidson Kirkpatrick.. 8 lbs, 7 oz and quite perfect.  Landon is loving his little baby and the family is doing so great.  We loved being able to be with them for a few days!  Look at the little munchkin..

Check out more wonderful updates on Jude's blog.. rzababy.tumblr.com/

the boys.

Leyton had so much fun playing with his cousin Landon.. loving all the boy cousins!  They are 2 cute boys in their PJs :)

Leyton apparently didn't want to be the lion. :)

walking + a train table

My boy walks!  and walks and walks and walks... all over the place!  I know everyone says it, but it's true.. I really can't believe this day is here.  Not just the day he walks but the day my baby boy isn't such a baby anymore!   If I were to give it an official day, it'd be Sunday February 20th.  He went from talking a few steps every once in a while to full blown walking.  Here's a video of Leyton walking a little distance.

In 5 short days, he will be 1!  His birthday week has officially started.. and what a good week it will be.  Starting with tomorrow morning's road trip to meet his new cousin in Des Moines!  Can't wait to meet him/her..  ahhhh!!!

We also wanted to give Leyton his present from his mom & dad a little early.. and get his train table set up!  He doesn't really appreciate it all yet.. he's still pretty young for a lot of the little toys.  But it's more of a just a fun table to stand up to and play on.. and suck on all the little trains.  I thought it would be such a great idea if I set it up all by myself (what?!).. it was a good idea in theory, but after a few screws and re-screws, we finally got it all set up.

Not sure why I don't have a final product shot, but I'll show ya soon..

Can't wait for this wondering double birthday week!  (triple with the birth of baby Kirk!)  

thank you...

.. for all your prayers!  The conference on Saturday went so well.  I knew it would.. God is so good!  Of course I was nervous all morning until I spoke, but once I got up there.. I really enjoyed it.  I soaked it all in and just enjoyed the time to share what the good Lord has been teaching me and to share what Heidi meant to me.  I thoroughly enjoyed hearing the other speakers as well!  My mom rocks and did awesome.. I am so lucky to have her as my mom!  It was so encouraging to see young women loving being in God's presence.  A couple photos from that day..

my dear friend, Hilary.

and my mommy!

 

my Valentines love.

To catch up a little.. here's some photos from our Valentines Day this year.  I told Luke that day.. I really don't care what we do, Valentines Day really isn't a big deal, we don't need to celebrate, no big deal.  Not true, all a lie.  I'd like to say I don't care, but any excuse to celebrate being in love.. I'm in.  That day, he told me had a plan for us.  I was thrilled.. thinking we were going to ditch the baby and go out.  ditch is a strong word.. But we didn't, which was even better!  See, it's a rare thing these days to just be together as a mini fam.. to just hang out.  So Luke came home with food for an amazing meal and we hung out!  We spent some time with the little man, then put him to bed and made a wonderful meal together.  Something about cooking, hanging out, drinking a little wine and watching Bachelor together was just perfect.  Thank you my love!

Luke walked in and said, "shhh, sign this card for Leyton."  :) And there's one for Mommy.. thanks buddy.

 He's apparently not feeling the lovey feelings right now..

mr. light brite

Yesterday we moved!  I know, we're crazy.  We moved in with my parents in Stillwater.. we're excited but also very sad to leave Leyton's wonderful Prosser grandparents.  We were so incredibly blessed to live with them, have the space we did and get to hang out with them!  Leyton learned a lot from them.. one of which is a good high-five from Grandpa B.  He couldn't be more proud :)

One toy he will miss is the hit toy of the 80's.. the light brite!  I did love these things, but Leyton just doesn't appreciate it.  He just messes up the pieces and tries to eat them.  Just doesn't work that way, little man!