Lilly time

Abigail could not have been more excited about sharing her room with a friend!

This was the screaming contest invented by mine truely, let me tell you it was a delight to listen to these two out scream each other!!!

every now and then poor Lilly would just collapse and rest like this, first it freaked me and the Bit out but we figured it out , we had just worn her baby butt out!!!

Lilly's first successful 'peddi' we were so proud!!!

Well just some more fun photos of my sweet girl and one of her best buddies little Lilly. My friend Madeline at work had an early appointment so I got to watch these two girls in action for a blast of a morning. Here's some proof!

craft time

Well we've been killing time these days getting into all kinds of mischief. Little miss priss has proven herself very talented w/ the stickers and glue department. She loves to get messy and paint lovely nemo pictures to show her daddy as soon as he comes home. Mommy got a little crazy w/ the Halloween crafts and couldn't resist her "pink thinking cap" that she puts on now for the occassion. Such a sweet little cowgirl.

Six years and growing strong

Well 6 years it's been since Brian and I started this journey together and what a ride it's been!!! There's no one in the whole world I can imagine sharing these moments with more than him. A truely special guy with a crazy quirky side that never leaves me bored. Always able to produce the unexpected and make me smile...how could I not want to spend the rest of my life with this man!? Six years in and we are so much more in love every day that goes by. We have grand plans to travel the world (of course...once we sell our house!) eat lots of sweet goodies together and spitting out some more sweet children are a few of the many things on our marital ta-do-list! I love all of our memories together through the years. From taking our first magical cruise together, lazy days w/ Tuggle and Estella and sooooo much stuff in that tiny appartment, buying our first home w/ the bedroom tub! and sleeping on the floor for 6 weeks cause a bed wouldn't fit, surviving deployment and remembering the sweetest 3 am reunion in the city where it all started, our very abrupt decision to start trying for a family ( I still laugh thinking how you sat up to chuck my pills in the garbage can), to having our first daughter together and what an experience that was and still is! To just sharing the day to day ups and downs together. Jobs, 'pooh pooh payee', fish tanks and just hanging out in our tree house here watching the seasons change. Some bitter sweet but always we've made it through knowing our SNL date nights w/ chocolate chip cookies and milk to get back to always kept us perservering. He keeps the mundane exciting and and he always carrys a smile through the hard times. We love God together and are growing closer to Him and each other as we navigate this crazy life. The only other person in the world who can be as entertained for as long as I can just watching our daughter eat a meal or play with a 'baww'. The only one who appreciates her as much as me, who adores her as much as me. I'm so thankful for that, we have that in common too. I guess you were right hunny, we do have a few things in common. :) I must say I am loving every minute of it with my sweet hubby!! Happy anniversary baby!!

The proof is in the Sue...I mean Shoe

Had to run down and grab the camera this morning, yeah she slept w/ them on.

Yeah, that's right, she is for absolute certain her Aunti Sue's niece. This isn't the first time by any means but it's just the first time I took time to photograph it. She is sooooo a shoe woman already. Ya know, I never really got it but certain women (my sister Sue is one) who are born w/ a deep love and yearning for shoes. You pick the shoes then the outfit based on the shoes. Some times I'll tell Abigail to go get dressed and she strips down to her birthday suit but she'll have on a nice pair of strappy shoes and she announces.."all weady". From the time she started walking and could get to her dresser she loves to dig around her bottom drawer where I keep shoes and try on the prissiest pair in there. Recently her Mi-Mi pulled out a pair of red sparkly mary janes that took literally days to remove from her feet (yes, we did remove them for bath time at least). The funny thing is they are about 2 sizes too small and her toes absolutely curl inside of them and she doesn't care. Beauty is pain I guess. I mean, I'm more of the 'keep a pair of comfy sneakers for 10 yrs' kind of girl so she didn't get it from me. When Brian finally was able to pry them off her stinky feet for a bath her toes were all red and squished w/ lines and scratches from being too small. She didn't care, she slept in them for nap and bedtime and was sooooo happy to show them off. I still let her scoot around the house in them, we have to insist now on removal at bedtime though. I don't want her feet to look like those Chinese woman who contort their feet to fit in those awful high heeled shoes. But genetics are funny. Somewhere we have a very similar picture of my sister, couldn't be older then 5 or 6 sitting on the side of a bed w/ her shiny new mary janes and her pajamas on. My mom tells the story that it wasn't worth the battle and it was just too cute so she allowed her to go to bed w/ them on. The shoe blood runs deep in their veins I reckon. We'll just have to send her shopping w/ Sue on her frequent flyer shoe cards when she's older.

A true "Jonah week"

Well you know those weeks that just....need to be done? Last week was one of those weeks! What started w/ a completely pooey weekend at work that totally made mommy me feel just drunk tired both emotionally and physically. Just one of those slam busy, short staff and add a demised baby delivery and it was just plain sucky. Sunday night I thought it was better when Madeline made the unit fresh fried green tomatoes which I delved into after a nice family delivery. Have to learn how to make those by the way!! Monday just couldn't sleep, couldn't sleep Monday night. Tuesday more fun started, halfway through my hot dog I noticed that my back tooth, my very expensive dental crown was gone. I had swallowed the dern thing! I called Brian and he came home so I could rush to the dentist. "Yup it's gone", he said, "and it's 600 dollars to replace......unless you can find it". So being the motivated cheap penny pusher I am, I rushed to local pharmacies to find some Ipicac. I knew from many viewings of Anne of Green Gables as a child that it was an old remedy for inducing vomiting. And....yeah, lets just say it works very well! Unfortunately after vomiting for several hours and an unsuccessful attempt to recover the lost tooth I countered it with some Phenergan to stop the maddness and sleep. Luckily Abigail took a nice long nap for the duration of the sickies and Brian came home just in time to rescue me to bed.

The week pressed on a little better with hair do's and application of a new acrylic tooth so I didn't have a hole in the back of my mouth. But Friday started with a bang again. We were scooting out for a birthday present and in my tired mommy rush I banged my toe into a wall trying to get around the Bit at an unsafe speed. Thinking I was just hormonal and tired I tried to get out anyway and take Abigail to our planned airport date to "watssss pwanes" but didn't last long before we had to return home to ice and elevate. One look at my toe after we got back confirmed it. Poop! I think I broke the dern thing. Add a fresh sinus bug and head ache to the mix and I couldn't wobble around L&D that night. They weren't happy w/ me calling out but I needed to just chill for one night anyway.

Things are better. We got through the weekend. Despite a yellow jacket sting and some cellulitits on Brian we are starting this week out fresh and determined! A short interrupted sleep yesterday thinking we were getting a couple showings on our house got our hopes up , but to no avail. We are still waiting. Things sure feel tight and frustrating some times. But at the end of the day, I still thank God for the sweetest little princess chatting away our silence and quieting our thoughts and a sweet hubby to cuddle up to at the end of the day. We keep waiting, working cleaning (!) and one of these days it'll all come together. God will provide and we will move on. Till then we keep laughing at these hurdles, it's all you can do. Come on...Ipicac and a broken toe who does that!?!?!? Crying only gives you a nasty headache! Lots of prayer and patience and loving the noise of the snorring man on the pillow beside me gives me peace and a smile to sleep with!

"Happy Birddday Jorrnan"

Yeah! Jordyn's one!! We had a blast Saturday with our good buddies Heidi and Dave and celebrating little Jordyn's first birthday. Man she's grown up fast! Abigail was thrilled to be a part of the party. She wouldn't go to sleep Friday night she was so excited about it. She kept picking her head up off my chest trying to rock her to sleep and asking me "mommy, Jornan have cake?!, paryee hats!! pink parryee hats?? clown noses and Jo-Jo's?? " It was so sweet. You don't realize what all a 2 yr old can retain but she knew full well what a birthday party was and would it be just like hers? I love that she remembered those little details I try to make special for her! :) She was all about the party and her adorable friend on her big day. It's funny, Jordyn really doesn't get Abigail yet but boy does Abigail love her! She got to play w/ some older kids all day on Jordyn's swings and "laadowww" and slide. I know she loved being in the heart of the action and Bri and I loved that she was old enough to sit back w/ our friends and watch her go off on her own. (course the broken toe thing kept mommy from supervising close up like I wanted to....maybe that's a good thing). It was a great party w/ good ole burgers and friends and beautiful weather to enjoy it all in. It's so much fun to watch our small group morph and change as we all grow up together. Two years ago our group events would have been a lot faster paced and crazier but we all laughed Saturday as we admitted we liked slowing down together and supporting each other w/ growing families....and bellies (5 girls are pregnant with their first babies!) God's been so good to our group and we are just loving life together.

wa-wa date

Last week amidst the chaos the Bit and I took a breather and got in some swim time w/ the Grooshooshkis. My good buddy Madeline has a membership to the YMCA and treated us to a guest pass so we could swim. It was heavenly to kick back and watch the kids play together in the warm pool w/ the most beautiful mountain view! Lilly, Zabien and Abigail had a blast together. Zabe was adorable trying his 5 yr old hardest to get these two 2 yr olds to play with him. Abigail learned fast to just go with it when he hoisted her up and drug her into the fountain w/ him. :) Go Zabe! And Lilly had to be reminded only a couple times that she would indeed sink if she continued to walk towards mommy in the deep in. Madeline and I both turned at the same time just in time to see her baby head disappear under the water as she took just enough steps to be under the surface. Oops! We scooped her up fast though, nice job lifegaurd! All in all a nice afternoon. We will seriously consider making that a regular play spot once we can afford it. Abigail is just too good at swimming and too into water to not allow her a regular place to play in it.