Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Let's be honest...

Thanks for all of your awesome comments! It makes my day to know that people still care! Anyway, I was chatting with my great friend Amber T., and we were talking about how sometimes we feel like blogging can become a competition. Not really intentionally, but I think we sometimes make our lives out to be prefect--especially when we only post pieces of what has been going on. After that I decided that I wouldn't blog anymore because I didn't want anyone to get the impression that things are always perfect here at the Tuletts! After that decision I felt bad for not keeping up with friends and family through blogging, so instead I decided to post both the fun and the not-so-fun. This may not make sense to anyone, but I really want to be more realistic and honest in my journaling, because let's face it, life can be hard!!!

Fun thing: Reid and Link are so cute together. Link doesn't really laugh out loud much, and the only person that can really get a belly laugh out of him is his big bro. So, if we are driving somewhere, and Link starts to get fussy I just tell Reid to make him laugh, and all is well!

Not-so-fun: Link doesn't sleep. At all. I have tried all of the tricks, (babywise can kiss my sleepless behind) but this kid wants me every 2-3 hours. I love him to death, but at 2am I am rethinking the number of kids I want. Reid has also decided to get up at 4 everyday, so one of us usually goes and sleeps on his floor until he settles down. Needless to say, I still feel like I have a newborn, and it doesn't help that everyone I talk to brags about how their baby slept through the night at one week. It's usually the first thing they say when I tell them Link's not a great sleeper. It's so helpful I could scream.

There you go! The good, the bad and the ugly!

Monday, October 26, 2009

We're Back!

After a long vacation from blogging we are finally back. I kind of decided I didn't want to blog anymore, so I just thought I would let it go, but then I realized how much I enjoy reading all of your blogs that I thought there might be some people out there that enjoy seeing what we're up to as well. I'm not going to go into all we have done in the last few months, but here is a little snippet, and then I'll start posting recent stuff.

Reid and his favorite cousin, Audrey got to hang out this summer, and I think this is the CUTEST PICTURE EVER (that's why I'm shouting in all caps).

We went home to Washington this summer, and took the ferry to Friday Harbor. It's so beautiful there. I miss it so much sometimes!


We got to be the ones to send our nephew, Daniel off on his mission!

My little Linkers is 6 months old now, and he is tiny. He's only in the 9th percentile for both height and weight. He looks like Reid did at 3 months. He sure is a sweetheart though. Love this guy!

Katrina came back and brought Cheryse for a visit as well. This was our second trip to the Hogle Zoo this summer!

We also had our great friends the Meynders stop by for a fun visit. Don't mind how terrible I look in this picture, I hadn't showered yet that day. (Yikes!)

Mr. Reidster is getting big so fast. He'll be three next month, and he's talking like he's all grown up. One of these days I'm going to need to start writing down some of the hilarious things he says...just look at that sass he's giving me!

Little Linkers in the stroller!