First Beach Trip 2009

About two weeks ago Jenni and I drug our kids down to the beach to enjoy the absolutely fabulous weather. It was sooooo nice! 80 degrees with the slightest little breeze, it really was perfect. If it weren't for the church kid sale I'm sure that we would have stayed a few more days. Malachi enjoyed his pool, even if he had a 104.7 temp the day before. Poor kid. Apparently he had the flu, but that didn't stop us from having a good time. He thinks sand is food, which is funny. I had to stop him from eating too much. Jenni and I were just glad to get away for a few days and enjoy the beach!

Wayyyy behind...

Malachi is ten months old now. Crawling around EVERYWHERE! He has learned a new trick. He can wave bye-bye. We think its the cutest thing in the world, but of course we are the parents, haha. He is also clapping and standing by himself. I am not ready for him to walk yet. We are not encouraging it. I am sure it will happen on its own. I don't want to have to be running around after him any sooner than I have to! These pictures were taken at church last Sunday. Everybody loved his little tie :) Malachi and Kip are so cute together with their red hair.

Marc and I are doing well. We hired a babysitter for two days a week to help up out with Malachi while we work. It is harder than one would think to get any work done with a ten month old around. This way I can get all of my work done while she is here and can concentrate on Malachi on other days. We love Miss Erin!

9 Months Old

Malachi is 9 months now. He is crawling everywhere and getting into everything. He has also cut his top two teeth so well will have to be careful when breast feeding! :)

Cosette is finally here!

I got to witness my second live birth on Friday. There is nothing like watching a baby being born. It is so amazing to me. What is more amazing is how well Jenni did...8lbs 14oz and she only pushed for 21 minutes! Cosette is healthy, beautiful, and already sleeping longer through the night than Malachi does at 8 months. Lets just say that I am going to do things much differently on night time feedings with my next baby. On a happy note, Malachi is crawling now. Last night Malachi and I were playing in his play room. I was on one side of the room and he was on the other. He just got up on all fours and crawled across the room like he had been doing it forever. Crazy kid. He has been laying flat on his belly for the past few months just looking like superman, I thought he was never going to crawl. I guess it is time to put the baby gates up. I have not been looking forward to the running around after my kid stage. It is fun to watch them grow up and learn new things though.

Blessed with more than enough!

Christmas is officially over and Marc is putting together his I pod speakers as we speak (thanks mom). I can't help but be overwhelmed with the amount of gifts that we got this year. Malachi has enough toys to last an entire year. God has truly blessed our family in more ways that I could ever imagine. Not so much the gifts this year as it is spending time with our families. Marc and I are truly blessed to have a large, loving family on both sides. We are blessed to have a family of our own now. I simply do not know how we used to live without our Malachi. We just got done putting him down for the night a little bit ago. We just stand there and stare, Marc whispers "I love him." It makes my heart melt. What a blessing Malachi has been to our lives. There is nothing like Christmas to remind you of what really matters in life...family. Thank you Lord for the things that you have given us, Love, Joy, Peace and Happiness.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth

Malachi cut both of his teeth last week. We have had an enjoyable time with this whole teething thing. I was so happy to finally see the things that have been causing grief. Hopefully Malachi will choose to be a good little boy and not bite mommy while breast feeding! Malachi had his 6 month pictures done. He was actually 7 months, but we had to re-schedule twice becuase he was sick. Here is the link http://www.darrahphoto.com/jdewberry-6mos/index.htm

Cookie Swap Hell...

Our church held there annual cookie swap yesterday. I was so excited this year, I was not going to try and do some fancy, nasty tasting cookie. I got Grandma Dell's good old fashion Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. How hard can it be, right? Wrong. I decided to make the dough the night before so that I could go to church and just come home make the cookies and be at the swap at 3. Well I got home and put in my first batch of cookies. To my dismay they came out looking like this...

Flat as an ironing board! I kept looking at my cookies and looking at the recipe. I had doubled the recipe so I thought that maybe I had put too much butter. I thought maybe I cooked them too long??? So, I cooked another batch...that turned out exactly the same. Then it dawned on me. I had used baking soda instead of baking powder!

It is amazing that 1tsp of something can ruin and entire batch of cookies! I was so mad. I tried adding baking powder to my dough and re-cooking them. That did not work. I was forced to make an entire new batch of cookies. I only had semi-sweet morsels for the second batch so they weren't as tasty, but at least I was going to the cookie swap with cookies. 30 minutes late and all.


I did save the cookie dough from the first batch because the cookies did taste great, they just didn't rise, lol. There were a lot of great cookies at the swap this year. I had a great time despite my occurrences earlier in the day.