Great Giveaway for a Great Cause!

Melissa and Nathan at www.themiddlethatcounts.com adopted their son Iliya from Russia and are raising money to help bring a new brother or sister into his life!  They are doing a GREAT Giveaway on their blog to help raise money - unless you've been through it yourself, you probably have no idea how expensive adoption is!! Just click on the link to give them your love and support! They are giving away lots of great prizes - just click on this link to check it out:  http://themiddlethatcounts.com/?page_id=2370 !!

I'm sure they would appreciate your thoughts and prayers!!!

Blog Hop

I'm *trying* to participate in Jenna's blog hop but I'm not doing a very good job so far!  I've read several new blogs and still haven't commented??  What's wrong w/ me?  ;)

Anywho.....got some somewhat good news today - I have an interview on Wednesday for a job at my #2 choice of hospitals so I'm hoping it will go well!  If I get that job, it would mean I would have TWO part-time jobs for a few months (plus being a full-time SAHM) while taking online classes.  So much for my life being easier!!!

We went to the zoo on Friday.  The night before, Easton decided to give "crying it out" one more try (okay - I decided) and was up for around 2 hours in the middle of the night.  This is the result:

Maybe he'll listen to his mother from now on!  ;)

And, we're back............

So, big changes here! We recently decided after lots of "Mommy Guilt" that it would be best for me to be at home with the boys (rather than paying almost half of my salary to a baby-sitter) while working part-time in the evenings/at night. So....I gave my notice at work back in April. Luckily, they asked me to stay on part-time (mainly from home) in the interim so I've been doing that while looking for a job at a hospital (which is NOT going well.) So, I'm hoping this big life change will inspire me to get back on the blog wagon but we'll have to see. I really want to do it since I'm not good at updating baby books or scrapbooking or anything like that. So, we'll see!

So far this summer we've been having quite a bit of fun. We've had several trips to the zoo. Easton and Zachary rode the Merry-Go-Round for the first time....Brady's a seasoned pro....

The train ride is always a big hit....

And poor Daddy gets to pull the wagon up and down and all around the hot, hilly Cincinnati Zoo!

Which has led to a lot of this....

Quite a bit of this.....

As well as some of this.... We've spent some quality time in the backyard.....

And Brady's been taking swimming lessons....which means Zachary wants to also so we're working on finding him a class....he tagged along last time and got in the pool and floated by himself!!! Quite a big feat for Zachy!

All this activity and Easton still doesn't sleep well! What's up with that kid? He certainly didn't inherit this "problem" from me!!!

A Day of Blog Silence for Cohen

This sweet baby boy is being laid to rest today. He was born on Monday, June 7, 2010 and fought very hard, enduring several surgeries and setbacks until he lost his battle on Friday, June 18, 2010. Please pray for his heartbroken parents, family and friends.