Sydneys Newborn photo shoot

When Sydney was 9 days old our friend Sheri Douglas came over and did some newborn photos for us. She did such an amazing job and we had a great time!! I got a little carried away when posting the photos because I couldn't decide on a few that I loved so I posted a bunch that I loved!! All the photos are so wonderful and I truly love them all. We are lucky to have a friend who is so talented and willing to come and do the photos at our home. I hope you enjoy all the photos as much as we do. Thanks Sheri, they are amazing!

Miss Sydney Reese

So as you all may know on Nov 12 ,2010 Jeff and I welcomed our second child, a baby girl, Sydney Reese into our family! She was born via c-section at 8:08 am England time weighing in at 7lbs 14oz and 20 inches long.

It was much easier this time around not having to go through labor. Sydney came out perfect and healthy in every way and Jeff and I couldnt be more blessed to have another healthy baby in our family! She was born with quite a bit of hair and looks just like Landon did! Our house has become a crazy house and we feel like we are taking crazy pills at times. We are starting to get a sleep routine down which will help tremendously!

Landon is doing great! He is such a good big brother and is so gentle with Sydney. He really surprised us! He is a great helper with disposing of dirty diapers and he even tries to "shhhhh shhhh" Sydney when she is crying. He is too cute.

I am doing fine and recovery is going well. It was hard in the beginning not being able to pick up or hold Landon and not do my normal routine at the house but Jeff really stepped up and did everything for me. He is soooooo awesome!!

Things are finally calming down and Sydney has grown so much. At her 2 week apt she was weighing in at a whopping 8lbs 10oz! Shes a good eater and becoming a good sleeper. Sorry for the late blog but hey, late is better than never! Enjoy the photos!










She weighed exactly the same as Landon!







Our first family photo.


Jeff getting Landons portable DVD player set up. Its a life saver!

Pumpkin patch 2010

Our trip to the pumpkin patch was an adventure this year. Landon wasn't in the best mood but we made the best of it and got some pretty good photos. We took his Halloween costume to get some pictures in. As you can see I was about 36 weeks pregnant and Landon did not want to smile for the camera.He was an angry monkey! Thanks to Auntie Kara for sending Ethans costume. I hope you enjoy!

Got our pumpkin and our monkey!

What? England has sunshine?

I know by the our very pasty skin you wouldn't think the sun rays even touched England but on the rare occasion in the summer it does. This was one of those days so I let Landon and the animals out to enjoy the sunshine. This summer was devoted to anything that would keep our minds off missing Daddy.

One small step for Landon...

Before Jeff left for deployment, we were trying so hard to get Landon to walk. Exactly one week AFTER Jeff left...Landon decided it was time! One day he just let go of the couch and took off across the room and hasn't stopped yet! For the first few days he would walk with his hands in the air by his head, but it wasn't even a week before he was running! We were sad that Daddy wasn't there to see but I did get video that I was able to send to him downrange so he could share in our excitement!

Its not "goodbye"... its "See you soon!"

Wow! It has been a while since our last post! It was a very busy summer for the Searcy family. Jeff deployed April 28 for Afghanistan and Landon and I caught our first hop on a KC-135 out of England to McConnell AFB in Kansas. It wasnt too bad just VERY loud. My Dad met us in Kansas and we drove to OK and stayed with him for a week. Im going to post little bits of our summer for the next few weeks. I have too many pictures to do at once.

Starting with deployment pictures....April 28,2010. It was hard to hold it together especially since I was about 10 weeks pregnant at the time. It was even harder to send him off but that's our life.






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