New Words

so my baby boy is growing up so fast its sad! he has been learning more words like, hot dog, and oh no, and his new favorite is oh gosh, its so funny, i dropped some salad out of the fridge and merrick came running in and stared at the salad everywhere and looks and me and says " ooooh gosh" it made me laugh. he loves his books right now and hes getting better with learning new animal sounds. he currently loves to climb on the chairs at the table and sit like a big boy but it makes me crazy because he doesnt pay attention very often so i have to really watch him so he doesnt fall off. he started the terrible twos when he turned one and as he gets closer to 18 months the fits are getting worse!!! yesterday i had to put him in 2 time outs by noon!!! but hes is also very lovey and likes to give kisses. johnny is ready to have baby number 2, and im not ready yet but maybe after merrick turns 2 i will consider it! merrick is just such a handful and looking back i didnt have the most pleasant pregnancy so i deffinately need more time!!! so theres my update!

updating and Tennesee

ok so i havent posted anything for a while so now i am going to update everything that had been going on first off merrick is still growing to fast! his new thing is saying please and thank you and its so stinkin cute i love it. he also loves to dance and sing and of course say hi to everybody he also calls people so if you ever get a weird phone call from me it was probably merrick. lol. he is also learning to eat with a spoon and so far he has done really well its just really messy! he is alot of fun but his fits and tantrums are not! but i love him regardless of course!
johnny went to nashville for his mine rescue national competition this month, i was so jealouse! so we are going to plan a family trip back the and of course make our way to memphis where the one and only Elvis Presley lived! if you dont already know, johnny is a huge Elvis fan! so im excited for that, but in the meantime he brought back some awsome pictures! the resort he stayed at was huge! i forgot how big it was exactly but it was huge! he also went to the BB king blues club and to a restraunt that was in an aquarium, i have pictures of that too!
after johnny got back from Nashville we went camping for Labor Day weekend, it was really hot and there was alot of bees but other than that merrick had a blast in the dirt and riding in the Razor. it was fun to hang out with friends around the fire, but i was deffinately raeady for a shower by the end of the trip!
im going to put a could random photos on here to, one is funny...johnny was weed wacking all of our weeds and it was with this machine thing that is different than a regular weed wacker, but anyways...it would shoot the sticks and stuff up at him so he put on his paint ball mask! he looked like a dork so i took a picture! theres a could pictures of merrick too. one is with his football slippers, one he just looked to cute to not take a picture, and the other, he likes to throw the pillows off the couch on the floor and then lay on them while a plays with toys. its funny and cute so we took a picture of that. so now that you have read the novel i just wrote, im finally done!

Another first hair cut!

ok so merrick already attempted to have one first hair cut but all he let katie cut off was one curl so it didnt really count but the other day i took him because his hair was getting so long! so he got his first hair cut and now he doesnt look like my baby he looks like a little toddler boy, hes so stinkin cute though i love it! he did so good, he didnt cry or anything i was so happy and proud of him!

Fun Day!

so this past weekend was alot of fun for our little family, so i figured i would share it. with this stinkin hot weather you dont want to go outside or stay inside so we decided to go out and do some stuff. we went to the motocross races because our friend ty races and he took 1st and 2nd he did and awsome job! merrick loved watching all of the motorcycles and just kinda hung out in his stroller and enjoyed the ride as we hauled him everywhere, afterward we decided to go to the lake since merrick had never been there, everybody was going to go and it ended up just being me johnny and merrick but it was still alot of fun, i forgot my camera or i would have pictures :( but we took merrick out on his little tube and at first he hated it, but then he warmed up to it and loved it! after that everybody had a big BBQ and we played horse shoes and hung out and visited. it was a very nice day and i love spending time with my little family and our friends...very good weekend.

updating

ok so i havent posted anything for a little bit. there isnt much new that i can share but over the past couple weeks we have been pretty busy. johnny was on his 2 week vacation so we got to spend some time together, we went golfing... yes me the most uncoordinated person when it comes to sports...i golfed! not well though but i did hit the ball!!! we went camping and thats always fun as long as its not for a long time a couple days was nice. merrick got to ride on a forewheeler and that made his day! he loved it! and he got to play in the dirt so thats makes any boy happy, and we had a deer go right through our camp! me and johnny also had our 2 year anniversary! two years already it went by so fast. we went upstate and did some fun things and had a fun day. but now hes back to work so im adjusting to him not being here all day. overall things are good and hopefully just going to keep getting better.

4th of july

this 4th of july weekend was a lot of fun, we went camping up to bear creek campground, and my pretty much aunt and uncle re-newed their vows. they aren't really my aunt and uncle but we have always considered them that.it was neat to watch them do that and my dad did the ceremony so it was nice. i was a little concerned about hwo merrick would do because previous camping trips were more stressful than fun, but everything went great and he had a blast exploring and getting dirty. there were warnings about bears in that area i guess there had been problems there so i was freaked out mostly at night, i didnt want to stay by the fire because i always thought there was a bear in the trees and it was going to attack me. it was scary. i took my camera and i forgot to get pictures but i did get one before we went camping 4th of july but yoiu cant see his face but his outfit was cute so you can kinda see that and i got a picture of him lounging in the chair while we were packing up to head home. overall it was a really fun weekend.

March of Dimes

so heres the deal. i was contacted by March of Dimes, and what i have to do is called doing time for march of dimes. basically i will get locked into a room on August 4th 2009 for a while, but its for a good cause, but theres more to it. i have been set with a bail of $1000 and thats what i need to raise in donations to go toward babies born premature, with birtn defects, and low birth weight. all donations will aid in research to give all babies a healthy start in life. i decided to do this because being a mom myself just makes me realize how thankful i am to have a healthy baby boy, and i know that not always the case. i currently have a friend that is going through having her baby boy be premature and when this opportunity was right in front of me, i could pass it up. so im looking for people to help me out with donations. you can donate at www.jailandbail.marchofdimes.com/brittanydonan
you can mail your donations to me just contact me at 435-650-3829 for my mailing address
or you can donate in person just give me a call. all donations are 100% tax deductible and its going toward a great cause, so if you can help and would like to please do!

nor more bottle

well when merrick turned one i decided that i would need to start weaning him off of his bottle but i hated trying to take it away from him because he loved it soooo much and he was so cute when he would get all excited while i was making it, well i started giving him his cuppy too so he would start to get more used to it, and after a few weeks of giving the cuppy more than his bottle he gave up the bottle and is just as happy with his cuppy! hes such a good baby he didnt really cry about it or anything, but he did get bit by a spider on his cheek so that has made him not happy but its getting better so im happy for that!

little chin little chin

so i just posted but i forgot a couple things, so johnny decides that he wanted to shave off his goatee which suprised me, but i think its because merrick doesnt like to give him kisses he always rubs his face after when he does, and he will give me more kisses than johnny, so i told him to just trim it little by little in case he doesnt like it but he came out of the bathroom with a baby face! i really like it and he does to but honestly i never realized how little his chin was, i told him it reminded me of when we very first started dating and he had no facial hair at all so it funny i love it! merrick gives him lots of kisses now but i told him that if he was going to have a baby face then he needs to not let it get so pokey because right now its kind of like sand paper, but thats ok. he gets all sefl consious like it doesnt look good so it makes me laugh.
our friends hayden and kylie got married yesterday they have been together for like 7 years so its about time, but it was so much fun we danced our booties off all night it was a blast im so happy for them! we almost didnt make it to the ceremony, we walked in right as kylie made it up the aisle so everybody was standing so we just had to sneek in, and we did! johnny likes to say that im the one that makes us late but its completely the other way around im always ready and waiting for him, he always thinks he need 5 min to get ready but he takes much more time than that, so im just making the record clear that i can get myslef and merrick ready and be on time, so thats why we were late, but just by like 2 min. ok so i think im done updating!!!

picture overload

so i decided i need to post some pictures they are just random things i want to share. i will kinda tell you about why i took the picture or what was going on. so merrick loves suckers but idont give them to him very often because he makes the biggest mess but my aunt gave him probably the messiest suckers ever for his birthday so i decided to let him have some of one because they are big i didnt think he would need a whole one, but he was a mess in like 2 seconds and he was so proud of it so i had to take some pictures and of course he gives me his CHEESE!!! grin.i love it
Merrick loves to escape from me when he gets out of the bath tub because hes "free" so one night after his bath he was running fromme with his towel still on his head and it made me laugh he walked all over the house with it on so i had to take a picture.

so my little monkey loves to crawl on the couch and run around and what not but he likes to sit up there and watch movies and he always lounges back and crosses his feet so i got a picture of that and then johnnys mom gave him some batman jammies so i dressed him in them one night and had to take a picture and then he fell asleep on the couch and had a nap. he had never done that before so of course i think its the cutest thing ever. his jammies look a little small but they arent he was just laying weird.
and last but not least merrick got a little girraffe baby pool for his birthday and we finally had nice weather to put it up so today we did that and played in the water it was so much fun to do something as a family adn merrick had a blast but it wore him out for sure. but of course i took pictures, and he got to wear his cute little swim shorts!


today was alot of fun for us and merrick but he still managed to throw a fit in there and we have ahd to start doing time out, and suprisingly he stays there till we get him but he stands there and screams at us then stops until we look at him and then he starts the fit again and then he takes a nap afterward, i guess it takes alot of energy to throw those fits. so theres my picture overload!