6 Years and Counting!

I typically make Emily a card for our anniversary, but instead, I’m blogging it!  I’ve been married to the love of my life for 6 whole years now. It all started out here:

1 year later she was already pregnant with Lily and life couldn’t get any better, or so I thought.

Then came Lily.  She turned our life upside down in the most perfect way.

Just two years into our marriage, and we just kept falling more and more in love…still haven’t stopped.

Then came Michael.  That kid can melt your heart in an instant with his perfect little inflections and expressions.

I can’t seem to find a 3rd anniversary picture, but I assure you.  We were still smiling (though quite exhausted from a 3 week old, hence the lack of pictures)

By year 4 we were just spoiled rotten with like the perfect life ever.  Look at that smile.  I’m so glad our kids have Emily’s smile.

P.S.  My Emily, I love your freckles…

Last year I celebrated 5 years with my beautiful bride.  Adam was well on his way, we had a new house and well, could it get any better?

Then came Adam to prove that yes, it in fact can get better.  That boy smiles like it’s his job.

Then fast-forward to now.  This is us.  Ben and Emily Lemmon.  Married for 6 years.  I can’t wait until I can fill this blog with 50 years of beautiful memories together.  (Well, 44 years from now I doubt we’ll be using blogs, but you get the point ).

Sleep-training

This little guy

has been making me lose sleep in a big way.

He looks so cute and innocent

and acts so tired!

But then he’s up, two hours after I put him down for bed. And then three hours after that. And then two hours after that. And again. And again.

Yeah, I don’t know what’s up with that either.

So a few days ago I started sleep training. Like clockwork, he was up at 10:30 looking for a snack. I picked him up, soothed him without nursing him until he calmed down, and put him back down. And he screamed like I had poked him with a pin or something. Repeat about 12 times until he finally stays calm and falls back asleep. I did nurse him at 1:30 (another of his self-designated feeding times) because it had been 6 hours since I nursed him last. But then he was up again at 3. And at 4. And 5. And 6. Oh boy.

It’s gotten a little bit better each night. Last night he slept six hours straight without waking up, and then another 4. Which would have been awesome, had I been able to sleep the same amount of time. But nope. Last night I was woken twice by this guy:

Yes. Twice.

And once by her:

So I was still up about 5 times. Grrrr.

It has to get better, right?

At least they’re all really cute.

A few snapshots

Besides being really bad at blogging the last 6 months or so, I’ve also stopped taking pictures as regularly as I once was. But I do have a few favorite pictures from the last year or so that I really want to share. It’s quite the random assortment; hope you enjoy!

 

 

 

The poor baby acne stage… but I love his first smiles!!

 

I just love my sisters hair here.

 

 

 

Family Picture

It’s been a few millennia since I posted, so I’m breaking out of my shell with a nice family picture. Excuse the sunburns – I’m still very happy with how this turned out. For the record, Lily initiated the hand-holding herself. Such a poser.

And I’ll top it off with a close-up of Adam. He’s really good at close-ups.

Adam Jacob Lemmon

It’s amazing how you can be instantly in love with someone you just met.  Adam Jacob Lemmon joined our family on November 23rd 2011, weighing in at 7 lbs. 9 oz.  He is nothing but cute. 

Looking into his eyes we already see the connection, the potential, and the love as he stares at us with those beautiful brown eyes.

Adam has made our family so much better and brighter.  Lily and Michael can’t get enough of him and neither can we.

This is the start of something big.  Something wonderful.  Something miraculous.

 

 

Welcome to the world baby boy.  We love you.

Beautiful Fall and Beautiful Kids

Quick apology for being so bad at blogging lately! I’ll try to get better. Hopefully with Adam on the way I can be inspired again to take the time to do it. In any case, I just wanted to post a few pictures I took recently of my cute little kiddos. I love this time of year for taking fun pictures. It’s so easy to get the kids to play in beautifully colored leaves and have a smile on their faces the whole time.

I just love my kids!