An Attempt to Catch Up

Hello!  Happy Fall! Happy Halloween! Happy Thanksgiving! Merry Christmas! And, Happy New Year!!!   Am I behind? Maybe a just a bit.  

Hi. My name is Katie Lassiter and I am a digital image hoarder.

My laptop memory is full.  My iphone memory is full.  My 8 gig (YES! 8 GIG!) memory card in my Canon is full.

Thus, for the last several months I have been paralyzed, unable to function due to fear of losing and forgetting the images I have done nothing with and being too overwhelmed by the volume to know how to move forward.  Does anyone else have this problem?  I doubt it.

So... moving forward.  Remember those pictures from the beach I was going to post back in October? Alas, here they are. From our trip in September.  Most of these are strait out of the camera. I feel that editing is no longer in my future if I want to make any progress here....

Allow me to fill everyone in on what has been going on lately and I will then try to do some catch up posts with pictures.  Fingers crossed.

As for the biggest news in our lives, we are expecting baby number 2 in June!! We are very excited and the sex will be determined on January 30th!  I think it is another boy, but you never know! Everyone else is saying girl. We will see.  

My parents have made the much anticipated move to Montgomery as my mom started her new job with the state department of education on January second.  We are thrilled they are here!

But no worries Florence people.  They are keeping their house in Muscle Shoals and will be living some in both places.  Florence will always be home, you know?  Or Muscle Shoals... North Alabama. Tri Cities... whatever.

I turn 30 on Monday.  That's right, thirty!  I am not sad about it or anything.. I am actually excited.  I think most people look at their thirties with great fondness and I expect this decade of life to be wonderful!  However, between getting old and being pregnant, I need to blog all these memories down before my memory leaves me completely.

I have been doing some thinking about my twenties and what all happened in my life over this past decade.  It was a lot.  A lot of stuff happened.... A lot of big stuff. Major life changes.  I am thinking the thirties may find me a little more settled.  I am tired, after all.  Then again, maybe that's just from being pregnant.  It all runs together.

Little Punkin has been keeping me busy!  I have so much fun with him and just love watching him.

  

Here I will interject to talk about the beach pictures you are seeing.  Yes, the picture above is Charles pooping in the ocean.  He couldn't be stopped.  We tried.  Right there in the surf.  Perfect. Not at all embarrassing.

Here is Pete trying to rescue Matt from the ocean.

The last evening that we were in Fort Morgan, Ben, Mason, and I all stayed out on the beach for a while.

Mason found this giant pile of sand and thought it was his job to throw it all in the not-so-nearby puddle.

So, handful by handful, he moved the sand.

Throwing it all into this large "puddle."

I bet the child made 50 trips before I finally convinced him that he had done enough.

Then he relaxed.

He is a hard worker like his Daddy.

So, in conclusion.  I have finally posted the beach pictures. Yay!  I will try to come back.  We will see how that goes.  Happy Valentine's Day in advance!

Fort Morgan Part 1

Well, the weather couldn't be any more perfect and Mason and I are outside in the backyard.  Mason is mowing the grass and digging with his heavy equipment and so I thought I'd take a minute to get caught up on here. 

In September, we were privileged to take a trip to Fort Morgan, AL for Mason's first trip to the beach (where he was actually aware that he was there).  I could not wait for him to see the sand and ocean for the very first time!

He was elated, as I suspected he would be.  

We were accompanied by my mom and dad, Matt, and three large dogs.  My sister wasn't able to come since she was saving up her vacation for a dream trip to Hawaii!

So, I'll just let these pictures speak for themselves.  Maybe you think I should have narrowed them down to a few favorites... well, I did.  These are the FEW favorites from the FIRST HALF of day one. Do you think I have a digital image hoarding issue?  Well, I do.  

In the picture above, mom thought that Mason was coming to see her and give her a hug.  In reality, he was coming to pull her out of her chair so he could sit in it.  He loves chairs that are his size.  Especially if someone else is already occupying it.

After he successfully coated himself in sand, we decided to head to the house for nap time.

The rinsing was definitely necessary.  

Dad stayed at the house so Mason could nap and we brought out the dogs.  It was so neat to be able to bring the dogs out on the beach!  

As you will see in the photos that follow, they LOVED it!

When we returned home from that chaos, we found someone sleeping peacefully...

I hope to be back soon with the rest of the "favorites" from Day One!