Happy New Year!

Wow what an amazing year this has been. 2011 You have been challenging, beautiful, and have given me a beautiful gift.

This year has been pretty active for us.  We welcomed our 1st child.  He came sooner than we thought. An Emergency c-section. But he was okay after a little while, and we came home to start learning how to be a family.

  Introducing.....Baby Bear!

Our new little man in the NICU

Papa Bear saying goodnight in the NICU

The first morning home

fell asleep in Papa's arms

Our first time going out to eat.

Caity Bear brought her family out to California for a small Vaca and took Baby Bears photo. Wow she is good.

Baby Bear and I spent a few months without Papa while he attended Staff academy. It was lonely, and Mama Bear questioned her sanity a few times when Baby Bear kept her up all day and all night. But she had some amazing friends who supported her, and helped her out.

Mama and Baby Bear took a 20 hour road trip with Baby Bear to Gwampa and Gwamma Bears house deep in the Mountains of Idaho for a few weeks.  Caity Bear took Baby Bear's pictures since he was 4 months old, and she did a great job!

Finally Papa Bear came home, and we started to get ready for our big move this summer. We were lucky enough to find a great home. And then began the chaos of the move.  The Military did a great job this time. We had two great companies who packed us and moved us. They took a while to get it done, but they took time and care with our belongings. It was such a great experience.

Baby Bear has been our entire world this last year. Nothing else has even come close to how amazing out little man is to us.  He has mastered crawling, he is in the process of mastering climbing, and is a master at cruising around on furniture. He is the biggest flirt you will ever meet. He knows how to work a crowd, and loves it.  Every time we go out into town, he flirts it up with all the girls. Just the other day we were at Home Depot and he had this sweet little old lady just swooning over him. She was talking to him and he would tilt his head to the side and smile at her while looking at her from the side.  He is such a crack up. Mama Bear sure has her hands full with this little guy!!

But he sure is amazing.

We had a fun time dressing up for Halloween

And even have taken a few pictures with funny faces

Working in the Garage with Papa

We also fit in the diaper bag. lol

Papa this doesn't go on my head!!

Go Chargers!!!

ha ha ha ha

Bhwa ha ha ha

Mama's weak moment

1st time playing at the beach

Yah I am handsome and I know it

Ummm Baby Bear you have something on your face!

It's not so much on your head, but more every where else

Our first Thanksgiving as a family

Stellar hair Baby Bear

Alert the presses....We have a bear on the run!

Awesome Hair little man!

Baby Bear sure loves his lasagna

Christmas Eve lunch with family

Christmas day

Our first Christmas as a family

Rockin the glasses

Feeding the ducks!

Hangin with Gwampa Bear

Bear Stew

We have had a great year, and we are so excited for all the amazing things that will happen in 2012.

We love you all, and are so thankful you are a part of our life.

Happy New Year!!

Mama, Papa, and Baby Bear!

Real Classy Part 2

Wow who would have thought that my little ole blog would have been able to create all this commotion. I was unaware that me having my own opinion was such a wrong thing. I must say though that the comments have got a little out of hand.  So let me verify here a little because as it appears....most of you did not read what I actually said.

   I do support breastfeeding. I do support breastfeeding in public (with a cover, or somewhat covered) I do not however think that creating such a protest, or rather the Nurse-In is necessary. I personally think it is tacky. I do not think that it gets the point across that these women were trying to accomplish.  I feel that it is taking a child and using it to make a point. I would never do that to my child.  But hey if that is what someone feels is the right thing to do....so be it. That is your right to be able to express yourself.  My amazing husband fights for your freedom to be able to do so.  I never think that doing something LIKE the Nurse-In is ever the answer to really get your point across.

   Now I wanted to reply to a few people that made some statements.......

    I am not bitter that my son has eating problems and therefore could never latch. Am I sad because I could  not actually breastfeed him? Of Course. Do I wish that I could do that instead of pumping all the time? Of course!!! Am I jealous of other mothers who can? No not at all. I am able to feed my son with the same healthy milk.  And because I pump....I am able to produce 54 oz a day.  That is a lot more than most people can produce. And because of this.....I have been able to feed a sweet little baby boy in Utah who was born at 26 weeks and lived. He has had a lot of roadblocks over the last year, but he is doing great!! And I love that I can help him.

   So let's all recap here.....Breastfeeding.......good!! Breastfeeding in public.....fine!!! 
           Using your child to get your point and beliefs across....I do not believe in.    So that about sums it up....

Oh wait......and for the Granola Girls comment......that is my off sense of humor that my mother and I would joke about when I was younger if we had let our legs go a few days without a good mowing...we would be granola girls.  That also stems from seeing women on T.V. growing up who were the hippie type yelling about something, burning something in protest, and had hair coming out of their armpits that was longer than the hair on their head. That is a granola girl. Not the women nursing in Target. I had stated in my blog that when I first started reading it.....I had WONDERED if they were granola girls. And that is about it. I did not say they are. So ya...that's all folks.

   If you would like to comment on this....that is fine. But I ask that you keep the language clean.....That you not attack me or anyone else on here......and that you be kind. It is possible for a person to voice an opinion and not be a jerk, or vicious. If you post something that is hurtful to others or rude......it will not be published. If you disagree with me, that is fine.....I am open to discussion and your views.

    XoXo-Mama Bear