Lincoln just got over his first ever cold. He was sick for about 24 hours with a runny nose and slight fever... it was pretty intense! He is so sweet because even when he had a temp of 100 degrees (the highest it ever got) he was still the smileyest baby you ever did see. He's really a happy baby and Zion and I keep saying that if all babies were this awesome we would have a couple hundred of 'em. (move over Duggar Family!!! lol)

Please help me out and go vote on Lincoln's picture on the Great American Photo Contest, if he wins we could get $2,500 and that wouldn't hurt. =) Click on the link below to go to the site, then click the vote button. You'll have to go through a couple of screens of offers, but if you scroll down you can skip the offers so there's no purchase neccessary. Thanks in advance for all the votes!!! (If you REALLY wanna help us out you can vote once a day!!!!!)

http://www.greatamericanphotocontest.com/photo-contest-entry.aspx?id=1203661

Zion and I took Janessa and Link to the park today. (It was the first time Ness has gotten to be with him in a few weeks since she was so sick. Thankfully she was cleared by the doctor this morning with a clean bill of health.) We met Jariah, Becca, Brandon and Ben at the Ada park to celebrate the perfect 70 degree weather!!!! It was alot of fun and so nice to get outside and enjoy the beautiful, though somewhat breezy, spring day.

*Shameless Plug*

If you live in the Lima area,

go to www.Loveandlearntoys.com to register your child for an event at Love and Learn in the Lima Mall!

More classes and parties are being added all the time!!

You can also now order from the website,

more products being added soon!

*End Shameless Plug*

Does anyone else find the M&M commercial where the big M&M is eating regular sized M&M's disturbing? It really bothers me.

ROFL!!!!!! Zion just chnaged Link's diaper and when he was ready to put on the new diaper he somehow (as only Zion could....) got the wrong one (the dirty one) and stuck his hand right in it!! LOL Nothing like a fistfull of poo to end your night!!! I started laughing as soon as he shouted, "Oh No!!" so Linky was cracking up, too. Too funny!

On an separate note....

Zion and I hosted his first ever event at Love and Learn on Saturday. We had 3 American Doll Tea Parties. They all went pretty well and the girls in attendance all seemed to have alot of fun. (For those of you who are wondering, Zion is the new events coordinator for Love and Learn... it's his own business separate from Love and Learn but he hosts the parties at the store and primarily uses things that Love and Learn offers for sale as the themes of the events.) I helped him out since this was his first one and I have helped out with them in the past. The craft was kinda hard for the girls, we had them make a paper fan, but they all turned out okay with a little help from us. We had "Felicity" serving the tea and giving a little history lesson as well as helping out with the craft.... it was really a friend from church named Rachel who will be helping us out with some of the events.

Please pray for Janessa. She has HSP which has led to atypical pneumonia. She is already doing better today than she was yesterday but she has been fighting this and influenza for a couple weeks already and we want her back to healthy!! Your prayers are very much appreciated. =)

I had my 6 week post-pregnancy Doctors visit today. Dr. Scott said everything looks great and I can start working out all I want to now, he just warned me not to overdo it if I start having pain or anything. I'm very happy because I have been wanting to do crunches for weeks now but I was a little apprehensive to do that without consent from my Doctor first!!

I want to get back down to my pre-pregnancy weight like tomorrow... I have 16 pounds to go, I can lose that in a day, right??? I miss my clothes really bad, right now I have just 1 jean skirt and 1 dress skirt that fit. That's not enough... especially since I have an entire closet full of hardly worn, adorable winter clothes that are too tight!!!

So tomorrow I am going to start doing a pregnancy/ post-pregnancy exercise video that Becca loaned me while I was expecting. Once I can do that I'll move onto something harder until I trim the fat and can wear my clothes!! (Maybe I'll down to an even smaller size and get all new clothes! Wouldn't that be fun?!!)

On a separate note, Lincoln is now approximately 12 pounds. (I weighed him at my appointment.) He's getting cuter all the time (looking more and more "Holsapple".... haha) and has really kissable little cheeks. He's really Daddy's boy and likes Zion to hold him more than just about anything, especially late at night when he's getting really tired (Like now). Zion has to walk around and bounce with him for him to settle down. I have tried to do the same thing with him because Zion's back starts hurting after a while and Link doesn't stand for it. Only Daddy will do. =) Lucky for me. ;)

Also, he is going to be a piano player... we were listening to some classical music and he was moving his fingers like he was playing already. On top of that, he's a genius and is already talking... we're just sure of it. We were all laying on our bed last evening and Zion and I kept saying "Hi" in high pitched voices over and over again cause it make Lincoln smile so much, plus he kept moving his mouth trying to make the same facial expressions we were and it was just adorable, then after about 5 minutes he said, "hi". He's so awesome. I don't know why we waited so long to have one!!! We'll probably become rich and famous since he's like a prodigy with talking so young and being a concert pianist and all.