Way over due

Well...over a year has lapsed since my last post and needless to say a ton has changed. We welcomed our second little man into the work on October 13th, 2012. Branson Emery Padgett. He is the sweetest and most smiley baby anyone could ask for! Having two has been a challenge and the past few months have been an adjustment period. Dawson has been working part time at SSFD which makes for very long stretches of time apart. So being here for 48 hrs multiple days in a row alone has been rough. Thankfully the weather is getting nicer and the boys are getting easier to do things with.
I will try and be better about keeping this blog up to date!

Already over

As always I am posting late, but here are a few pictures and stories from the holidays....
       Dawson had to work Christmas Eve so Josiah and I went and spent it with my dad's side of the family. None of them had met Josiah and I thought it would be great to see them. Early Christmas morning we went and met Dawson, my sister Helen and her husband and two little boys, and the rest of my family bright and early at my parents. It was a fun morning filled with yummy coffee, boys playing with trains, sleeping babies, and family memories.
     About lunch time we headed home real fast to shower and grab a few things before we went to Dawson's grandmothers to celebrate with his side. Cousins, Aunts, and Uncles were there as the snow began to come down. We are very blessed to have both sides of the family here in town and this year I feel that we did a pretty good job of dividing the time between the two. About 4 o'clock Josiah had had a super long few days (I say Josiah but what I really mean is I :) ) and we called it a day by heading home to enjoy the snow and warmth of our own home.
We were blessed beyond words this past year. We had a lot of challenges but also a lot of accomplishments as well. We became parents, celebrated our first anniversary, I graduated college, and Dawson got on with Forsyth just to name a few things.

Josiah and Dawson watching Derek restring Dawsons guitar

First thing Christmas morning at Mia and Pops house, looking at the tree

Going through his first stocking

Playing, well getting ready to eat a new toy :)

After his morning nap

Playing with Mia and Sugar on the floor

 Its amazing to me how he is with my parents dogs, Sugar and Dodger. He loves them! And whenever we are there they will come up and just let him pull and slap and push them. And when he cries one of them is right there to see what is wrong. So cute!

On the front porch when the snow really started to come down

Trying to figure our what was going on

Watching the snow

New years came and we had several friends over. We made dinner and margaritas and played Skip-bo till the peach dropped. We were so happy to be able to spend time with friends from out of town as well as friends that we consider family. A few to many margritas a late night, and almost 6 month old is a rough combo so needless to say it took a few days for me to catch up on the sleep.

Sorry for such a long post and I am going to try to be more diligent about posting this year.

Hope your year has begun with laughter and encouragement!! Until next time...

Another year away

Merry Christmas everyone! Well a little late I know but still. Hope it was great to everyone. I have plenty of sweet Christmas pictures to share which will be posted later but I wanted to say thank you to all who were thinking and praying for me about the interview. I got the job and I start on the 6th of January!! I am so excited about how perfect of a fit this is for our family. It is weekend hours and I can let them know my availability a month in advance. Pray is a powerful thing.
Dawson is still loving station 1 and everyone on his shift has been very welcoming to us. Josiah was so amazed by the snow we had on Christmas day and loved seeing everyone! He is so social and would rather be around people than with me alone or sleeping. So we are just now attempting to get back to a routine. Merry late Christmas again and a Happy New Year if Im not back on here before then!

Lately

I know, I know. I have been pretty bad about updating on here. But! I have good reason. It is the holidays and I have been busy making presents for myself and for others to give. So I think I am excused. Anyway, we have had a rough few weeks but hopefully on are the down hill part. From cars needing repairs and bank accounts getting low, we have gotten to be very settled home bodies. Josiah has been sick for the past few days so I have had the privilege of learning how to take care of a screaming, runny nose, feverish little boy. Needless to say sleep around here has not been happening. So exhausted and stressed I go in for an interview tomorrow at Primrose Cottage. I am going in for the wedding director position. It would be perfect for my schedule and would get my foot in the door for actually planing events myself. So pray for Josiahs little body to feel better and that I do well tomorrow and that they like me and all that good stuff :) Here are a few pictures of one of my latest projects as well as a few of Josiah and Dawson. Until next time...

This is how my sick little man likes to spend his morning

I took an old quilt from my moms and cut it up into stockings! Super easy and turned out pretty cute.

All of our stocking on the mantle. 

Nothing New

Sorry it has been a while everyone. Things have been how you say "on edge" around here lately. We have come to the sad realization that it is time for me to start working again. Only a few days a week but none the less I am very sad. Actually, beyond sad. But it is what needs to be done and my husband has had no luck finding anything part time. I know a lot of people are in a similar if not harder position. So I am trying to have a good attitude about it. Josiah will be fine. And things will be less stressful at home. At least that is what I keep telling myself. Either way prayers are appreciated and any words of wisdom are as well.
Josiah had his 4 month check up about a week and a half ago and grew 3 in! Pretty ridiculous if you ask me. The nurse measured his length and head circumference twice to make sure she didn't do it wrong. He is rolling over mainly in his crib, and loves standing up :) Hasn't gotten to where he enjoys sitting up yet but we are working on that one. I don't think he is interested in it actually. Just wants to go straight to standing.
Thanksgiving is here and every year I am disappointed at how warm it is!! When I think of Christmas and Thanksgiving I think of cute jackets, scarves, boots, and that cold bite in the air. I also think about taking walks down to the lake at my parents house and my nose getting so cold and runny. Funny the things that seasons make you think about. Last week I was remembering the smell of a dirty locker room before a basketball game and the nervousness I feel before we went out to play. I really miss it actually.
I have been busy making Christmas presents and different things with the awesome sewing machine my mom gave me a few weeks ago! After Christmas I will post a few pictures (cant yet because don't wanna give anything away) :)
Until next time....

Fall Shower

The shower had a great turn out and I think everyone enjoyed themselves! It got a little chilly at times, but the hot apple cider and tea I think helped take the bite away. The morning started out with me making quiche for the first time in my life. I was a little nervous, probably should have practiced but it turned out. After the quiche was in the oven and Josiah was down for his morning nap, my neighbor who is NEVER home, and who's house is an eye sore, decided to show up and start doing yard work at 10 am with a mower without a muffler!! Can you feel my stress level rising? I tried everything to get his attention from across the fence and since I had Josiah asleep in the house and the monitor doesn't reach that far I had to settle until he was awake to go and ask him to take a break from 2-4 pm. While I was waiting to go speak to him, Josiah was sleeping, quiches were baking, I was still without a shower, my door bell rings. Who else but Jehovah witnesses here to tell me that I am going to hell. So standing there at 10:45, still in my pj's, yelling over the noise from next door I, as kindly as I could, got rid of them as fast as possible before I blew a gasket. My sweet friend Rebecca came early to help me set everything up and do last minute things for me and I had her jump the fence and see how long my neighbor was going to be working outside like that. She got him to agree to stop before 2, which is when the shower began, and was such a help to me the entire day. From helping me set the table to carrying the chair outside for Elizabeth to making the baked brie last minute so that I could finally bathe.
The shower in my opinion turned out very cute! My sister Helen was sweet enough to bring a little table she has for her little boys over for all of the kids to site and play at. The weather was perfect I think. Not to cold but cold enough.
Elizabeth is due mid December and looks so great! I havent been able to see her lately because of busy schedules and illness but I am so happy that I was able to host the shower for her.
I thought it was really cool how alot of the presents she received here home made. From blankets and burp cloths to the little wash cloth duckies.
Here are a few pictures, there are so many I want to post but I have already gone on way to long! Enjoy!

One of the center pieces

Before the kids took what they wanted off of it to play with :)

Elizabeth and her daughter Emma

                   Rebecca and Amber, couldn't have done it without them!

                           Going to town on a lemon cupcake!

A few of the kids at the kids table

                                My nephew Wellington playing in the house

                            My amazing sister Helen and her youngest Fielding

Outside work

So the long awaited baby shower is tomorrow and my sweet husband has graciously been running around with me and for me for the past two days as I go get odds and ends, tables and chairs, and try to clean the yard as best I can. Did I mention that while I was trying to clean it up two weeks ago I got poison ivy ALL over my body!!!!!! Never having had this before lets just say I was miserable! I guess its just the pregnancy hormones still working their way out. Anyway, all that to say that I have not been in the mood to go pull weeds and move dirt lately. So Dawson is doing it for me  :) He cut down two tress two weeks ago and after he cut them he decided he was done for the day haha so they have been cut up laying all over the back yard. On top of the construction site that has been my drive way for the past month.
So I was taking a break from the inside cleaning to play with Josiah before he goes down for a nap and I look out the window and there is Dawson sitting in a rocking chair next to a huge fire he has built back in the fire pit. :) Can you blame him though? I know he will get everything done for me, he always has and he does it with such a great attitude. I need to not freak out and cut him some slack. Even as I type he has started on moving the trees. ah what a funny sweet husband I have.
O man this is going to be a long day :)