June???

I seriously feel like I looked up and it was June. What happened to the last part of May?? Needless to say, things have been quite busy at our house lately. Here are some pics to show you what we have been up to!

We took a walk with our sweet neighbors, Lauren and Kelsey, to the golf course one gorgeous evening. Lauren is 4 and Kelsey is 2 and they are just precious. Jackson thinks Lauren is his girlfriend. It's really cute. Here are all four kiddos!




Everybody loves Renzi! His lap is the place to be!



Look at these sweet brothers. This was at lunch at Jackson's favorite lunch spot, The Bagel Shop. This makes me very happy because it was my favorite place to eat in high school and college and I was so sad when it closed down. It has been back open for a few years now and I like to think that because I ate there basically every day when I was pregnant with Jackson, that is why he loves it so much. I mean, I practically overdosed him on bagels while he was in the womb!



Jackson fell asleep one night in our bed while we had a babysitter one night. We took this picture because we couldn't believe how LONG Jackson looks! What a tall drink of water!



Here is my Walker Bear on his first boat ride last weekend at the lake! I am beyond happy to report that he LOVED the boat ride and did so well that we anchored and stayed out for quite a while! Yay!



Isn't this a funny pic? Renzi took it of Jackson and I swimming in the lake with Walker just chilling on the boat.



Jackson loves to go fishing while we are at the lake and we recently bought him his very own fishing pole and he rocks it! Look at this catfish that he caught all on his own! Pretty impressive! He wanted me to cook it for dinner that night. Ummm. No thank you.



And I love love love love love this pic of my boys and I! I am so beyond blessed to be their momma.


Besides the beginning of summer and the lake and swimming and playing I have been busy working a lot more than usual. My annual Youth Leadership Oklahoma trip starts this Sunday and I will be on a bus with 50 of our state's top high school Juniors from Sunday to Friday of next week. We will be traveling across our great state and meeting some of our state's leaders, visiting businesses, museums and really getting to know what Oklahoma is all about. I love my job and am so blessed to be able to do most of my work from home and I am excited to take this trip for my 6th year this year. I am, though, going to miss my babies and my hubby terribly! 6 days is a long time to be away from them, but I know they are in good hands with their daddy. 
If you want to follow us next week on our trip you can do so on twitter: YLOKYLOK, like us on Facebook: Youth Leadership Oklahoma, and read our blog www.youthleadershipoklahoma.blogspot.com. Our intern, Bryce,  will be blogging nightly so you can read all about our adventures!
Until next time!

With love,
Lee Anne

Things are growing here!

Thought I would share some pics of two things that are growing here at our house...

The garden...and baby Walker!

The garden, I am happy to report is doing so well! So far so good! Jackson painted the beds all by himself. We have pumpkins, spinach, carrots, sqauah, zucchini, jalepenos, sweet peppers, cucumber and blueberries growing in this bed.




We started out with some plants and some seeds. The carrots and spinach were seeds and I am happy to report that they are sprouting! This is big news people considering I can barely keep a house plant alive.



In this bed there are tomatoes, rosemary, cilantro, oregano, basil and lavender. Please take note of the blue paint on our brown fence. The baby woke up from a nap and I went inside to get him and left Jackson outside with the paint. Bad idea. Oh well!



And speaking of the baby...guess who is 3 months old?

Here is Walker at one month...




And at two months...



And at three months! Sweet boy! At his GI appointment last week he was 15 lbs and 24.5 inches long. Growing, growing!

He is just so stinking cute, and that smile! Oh Lordy be. I am a puddle of mush every time he smiles.



I am loving, loving on this baby!


-Lee Anne

My People

Happy Monday!!

Here are some pics from the past week.....


Ummm...seriously?!!! Could you just DIE from the cuteness that is this picture??? Walker Stone...YOU ARE THE CUTEST!



Here is my cutie Jackson apparently striking a pose on his way into the Chesapeake Arena with Renzi last Monday. They went to the Thunder/Lakers game in the 2nd round of the playoffs. Thunder won! By 30! Whoo hoo!



Guess who loves the Bumbo??? This guy! I think he likes to be sitting up like a big boy. This was Friday and he was sitting in the kitchen just chatting away with me while I made dinner. LOVE!



How lucky am I??!! Look at my handsome boys. And no, they don't look a THING like their dad at all. Ha!



Sweet brothers. Oh, and I promise Walker isn't being tortured in this picture.



Holding hands. Flipping so precious.



Momma and her baby boy! This was Saturday night...we had ordered pizza and were lounging around by the pool. Such a happy night!



And here is me and my little ones. I love every hair on their little heads!



Hope everyone has a great week!

-Lee Anne

My Letter to Isaiah-Two Years Later

Dear Isaiah,
My precious baby boy.

Where do I even begin?


Two years ago today you passed away. Two years ago today, our life was turned upside down in ways I can not even begin to explain. But...two years ago today, you met your Maker...Our precious Lord and Savior.

The past two years without you have been a whirlwind of emotions. I still feel that sometimes it seems like you were just here with us and other times it seems like a lifetime ago. It is still so hard for me to believe that you are gone.

You have a new baby brother now. His name is Walker and he is our newest blessing. But...you already know all of this...I know you had a hand in bringing him to us. And I know you are watching down on us all now, proud to be a big brother to him. He will never ever replace you as you will forever be in our hearts and on our minds. He looks so much like a mixture of your brother and you and I am so thankful for that. I need to see you in him....and I do. Such beautiful boys I have.

I promise to tell Walker all about you. Your big brother already tells him so many things about his little brother Isaiah. Every night and before every meal when he says his prayers he always thanks God for you. My prayer is that he will always do this. I promise to always tell him how brave you are. How smart you are. How loving and faithful you always are.

We do miss you my precious Zayah...every single day. But...I am so thankful that the pain of losing you doesn't sting as bad as it used to. Believe me, there are still days when it cuts me like a knife when I think about it, but the pain has lessened. I think more about the good times and less about the bad.

I have moved forward in my grieving in that I would like to refer to May 17th not as the day that you died, but as your "Glory Day." The day that you got to go to Heaven with our Glorious God. What a glorious day that must have been for you!

I love you always and forever my precious baby boy. I miss you. But, I find comfort in knowing that you are with our Maker and living a most glorious life.

I'll see you again someday my love,

Love always and forever,
Mommy.

May 13th

Today is a big day over here at the Stone house!

Today is our 6th wedding anniversary! Look how young we look!



It happens to also be Mother's Day! I am so blessed to be Jackson James Stone's momma!



I am also blessed to be Isaiah Lee Stone's momma!



And, I am equally blessed to be Walker Seth Stone's momma!



What a blessed momma I am to have these three baby boys.

And I am so forever grateful to be married to the best man. Renzi, I didn't think it was possible to love you more than I did on our wedding day....but each year I love you more and more. You make me the happiest girl on earth and I thank God for placing you in my life. Thank you for loving me for me, thank you for challenging me, thank you for protecting me, and thank you for the three most precious sons. I love you infinity times infinity.

-Lee Anne

Precious moment!

Ummmmm....

My babies are the cutest.

The end.(click on the video to play!)

-Lee Anne

The Stone Family Garden

Hello from Walker Stone....This little cutie's tummy continues to get better and better each day. His smiles literally melt my heart into mush. Then Jackson comes around and loves on his brother and my heart gets even mushier.




We had a good weekend at our house....

Renzi and I went to a Kentucky Derby party...and I got to wear a hat! It was loads of fun.





And....we also did something that I thought we would never do...

We now have a vegetable garden in our backyard!!!

Renzi and one of his friends literally built these two flats or boxes for us to have our own veggie garden! They worked so incredibly hard and the results are amazing!



Here is our corner box for the taller plants.



We are going to plant the veggie seeds/plants this evening. So far we have cucumbers, squash, zucchini, tomatoes, bean sprouts, spinach, jalapenos, rosemary, cilantro, basil, raspberries and strawberries! I seriously can't wait to see what happens. I have high hopes!!!

Jackson and I are going to paint/decorate the wood so I will post after pictures in the next few days. Jackson is also excited to have a new chore on his chore chart which will be watering the plants/veggies.

Wow. I feel so...Domestic? Farmlike? Organic? Hahahahaha!!!

Wish us luck!

-Lee Anne