happy valentine's day peeps. so here things are normal but busy.  blake will be 11 on feb.25th and i think this year we are going to skip a big party. it gets harder every year to buy him a gift he will love and i'm so trying not to do a gift card. i love them and he does too; i just want to pick him out a personal gift as long as possible :) he will be in honors math next year and i'm super scared lol. i am so bad at math i think he will be teaching me. who am i kidding i know he will be. he got glasses a couple of weeks ago and he already looks like a doctor hehe.

liam is moody. i'm thinking and hoping this is a phase. if i cook something for dinner he doesn't like he goes running to his room in tears and then throws a tantrum. he gets upset about everything. phase phase phase. if i say it enough it might come true.

sawyer is sweet sawyer :) still a cute punkin head :)

i'm going to paste my facebook status from earlier. give a little thought to congenital heart defects. so prevalent in our children and yet so not talked about/researched/and sadly not funded enough. like barely funded at all. 

I rarely talk about this because it’s so difficult to relive but on this Valentine’s Day I want to mention my son Blake’s heart. He was born with several congenital heart defects and had open heart surgery when he was only 2. If you have a moment please pay attention to the following facts:

*Congenital heart defects are America’s and every country’s #1 birth defect. Nearly one of every 100 babies is born with a CHD.
*Congenital heart defects are the #1 cause of birth defect related deaths.
*Congenital heart defects are the leading cause of all infant deaths in the United States.
*Each year approximately 40,000 babies are born in the United States with a congenital heart defect. Thousands of them will not reach their first birthday and thousands more die before they reach adulthood.

***In the United States, twice as many children die from congenital heart defects each year than from all forms of childhood cancer combined, yet funding for pediatric cancer research is five times higher than funding for CHD.
***Only one penny of every dollar donated to the American Heart Association goes towards congenital heart defect research.

Let's support and love little hearts everywhere ♥

http://www.marchofdimes.com/baby/birthdefects_congenitalheart.html
http://www.childrensheartfoundation.org/about-chf/fact-sheets
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/heartdefects/facts.html