Lincoln-9 Months

Lincs 9 month pics were a challenge. He is such a little monkey and of course, will not sit still for anything. I was really frustrated at first but figured candids are just as cute and that's all I'm going to get! My cousin made a bunch of cute hats for me and Lincoln would NOT wear a hat at all. I was so sad. They are the cutest hats ever! Well, this is the result of our Masterpiece that day. As always, so see more, go to http://srwportraits.blogspot.com/

Another Quote

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love becomes a part of us. -Helen Keller-

Grandpa Base

These pics were taken during Christmas Break. Base LOVES his grand babies! I mean L.O.V.E.S them. He doesn't get to see Lincoln very much cuz we do live a long ways away. But when I walked in the room and he had two babies on his lap, how could I resist? These are pretty dang cute.

I love how Lincs looks a little intense in this one! HA HA HA HA HA!!!! Cutest, fatest face EVER.

Him

We all have those thoughts. The ones of inadequacy, insecurity, undeserving and feeling like you go unknown and unloved.  No one is exempt from them. I don't think we are suppose to be. This is how we CAN learn compassion  and kindness. All of us will feel all of these at some point in our lives. I feel a lot of them right now. However, there is one little person that makes me feel the opposite when I see his little face. He IS my constant reminder that I have a VERY loving Heavenly Father that has my best interest at heart and though at times I feel alone and unsure of what I should be doing in life, He is there next to me. This little boy is in my life at THIS time for a reason. I don't know why, but I FEEL it.

He may wake me up in the mornings by pulling my hair, but he sure is hard to stay mad at...

Oh that little face just makes me GIGGLE!

A Thought

Awareness born of love is the only force that can bring healing and renewal. Out of our love for another person, we become more willing to let our old identities wither and fall away, and enter a dark night of the soul, so that we may stand naked once more in the presence of the great mystery that lies at the core of our being. This is how love ripens us -by warming us from within, inspiring us to break out of our shell, and lighting our way through the dark passage to new birth. ~John Welwood

I found this quote on a blog I am currently stalking. This woman is EXTREMLY inspiring and I truly admire her. I love good, deep quotes and this one was filling.

I love beautiful sunsets like this one...

Christmas Morning

Christmas morning comes TOO early at the Ward house. I think they get up at like 6am. Not fun. I am not a morning person and even though it was Lincoln's first Christmas, I was still in no mood to wake up that early. That morning FLEW by so fast! Presents were being tossed right left and center at warp speed. It was sad cuz it went by too fast and my sister in law and I were saying how we never got to see what anyone else got.

Lincoln didn't wake up with us when everyone else did (lucky!) so we of course started with out him. However, I heard something in the back room and then heard him bawling. When I went in there, I couldn't find him. I started to panic! Where in the crap could he have vanished too. I knew we had left him in here. Yet another reason to not wake up that early when your brain still doesn't work-you just can't THINK! So some how he had fallen off the bed and was in between the bed and the nightstand. He was almost under the bed. I felt so bad I almost started to cry. It only took Lincoln being picked up to stop crying though.

He didn't care too much about his new toys but he seemed to like his cousin Graycee's new toy that made a lot of noise. I was too tired to take any pics at all, so Jory did but they were pretty blown out so I didn't post them. But these are the only pics I took that day. What a horrible mother!

Oh he is so cute I can't stand it sometimes!